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awesome! - Deepak Sarda

Commander Pike looks so young! - Thaths

"Rand’s particular intellectual contribution, the thing that makes her so popular and so American, is the way she managed to mass market elitism — to convince so many people, especially young people, that they could be geniuses without being in any concrete way distinguished. Or, rather, that they could distinguish themselves by the ardor of their commitment to Rand’s teaching. The very form of her novels makes the same point: they are as cartoonish and sexed-up as any best seller, yet they are constantly suggesting that the reader who appreciates them is one of the elect." - Thaths from Bookmarklet

A great article. The cultural and political factors are a major reason why it'll be very hard for any other region to compete with Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley Doomsayers have no sense of history. - Piaw Na

When I hang out in Silicon Valley, I see teams and groups from entirely different parts of the world. That's not true almost anywhere else in the world. - Piaw Na

A universal electrical AC voltage/amps and plug is my biggest gripe with electronics. I almost wish someone like Google would enter this market and set some sane standards. - Ashwin Nanjappa

Standardized plugs are unlikely to happen. At least in the next 20 years. Countries have too much invested in power generation and distribution infrastructure to be able to change the voltage and/or plugs everywhere. - Thaths

Thaths: Sigh, I can only dream. At the very least, I wish laptop manufacturers would standardize their adapter jacks. - Ashwin Nanjappa

Awesome! How is the hardware? Moto software was never that good, but I was in awe of their hardware engineers while I worked there. - Ashwin Nanjappa

Rodfather - well yes, but networked smart phones like the iPhone or Android family aren't really idling for very long. Even excluding background tasks, these phones tend to be busy all the time connecting to the Web, being used for gaming etc. That makes me wonder about the usability of having a huge processor tied to not very good battery technology. - Balaji Dutt

Interesting article from Business Week. A recent study found that those laid off by Boeing were better off psychologically than those who remained with the company. This was mainly because of a combination of survivor guilt and continued stress about being in an insecure position. - Michael Still

Getting laid off at Netscape was the best thing that happened to me that year. I took the rest of the year off and traveled leisurely in SE Asia. - Thaths

Every day it is becoming more and more obvious how cynical and evil this lyin' piece of #&($ is - Thaths

Congratulations and enjoy your gifts to yourself! - Anika

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!! - rowlikeagirl

I have the official radio series CDs myself. I love the nerdliness of how this software engineer is distributing the diffs in patch form. - Thaths

I can't see the y-axis. Did the traffic double? I have this one image in my photo stream (http://www.flickr.com/photos...) that gets waaay more hits than the rest of my photos. I was never able to explain it. Now I suspect it is because of some pervs out there. I'm going to make that photo private. - Thaths

look at at the search strings used to reach the picture. Guaranteed to have many combinations of children, bath, bathe, water, swim - EricaJoy from IM

oh and yeah, traffic doubled. - EricaJoy

I'm so impressed by the strides that Ubuntu keeps making with each release. With Ubuntu Linux finally arrives on the desktop for real. My dad has been using Ubuntu exclusively for the last year and he is very happy. That is some pretty strong endorsement because he was very unhappy with XP. - Thaths

my dad is using Ubuntu on my laptop for a long time. He never complains. - Melita

I'm told that Karmic Koala's release is meant to coincide with the Windows 7 release. The ubuntu roadmaps consistently talk about Canonical's plans to shake Microsoft's market a bit. - Bharat Shetty

You forgot British Victorian morals for all that ails our society - Thaths

These days it would be the Hindutva also! - Bharat Shetty

"This is the first installment in a five-part series offering a first-person account by David Rohde of his seven months as a captive of the Taliban in Pakistan. Mr. Rohde, a New York Times reporter, was kidnapped with two Afghan colleagues on Nov. 10, 2008, as they traveled to an interview with a Taliban commander outside of Kabul, Afghanistan." - Thaths from Bookmarklet

Hmmm. I wonder if Obama will be represented by a Nobel Prize medel in Doonesbury. - Thaths

I used this tool: http://douweosinga.com/project.... I need to visit Africa and Asia :) - Shannon Jiménez

Uh, no Thaths, but I haven't been to any countries in those continents. - Shannon Jiménez

This was an AMAZING movie... it is more of a documentary of some stunning images that have been put together. The images are very very trippy. A great stoner film. Anyone know of other movies like this one? - Bindu Reddy from Likaholix

What is that image on the left? i don't recall that being part of the film. - Thaths

If you liked Baraka, you'll like the Qatsi trilogy. - Thaths

I read that as 'Librarians' and wondered why usually shushing librarians were yelling. - Thaths

debating libertarians is a lost cause. - Piaw Na

criswo@gmail.com Please Please Please!!!!!! - Wo

Thanks! - Ravi Shekhar S.

"Before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once free-wheeling, fashion-forward, and super awesome." - Thaths from Bookmarklet

made with real girl scouts! wow, don't see that too often anymore :) - Sir Shuping

*bump* because this still makes me laugh - Laura id stubbed ub.

Tell Americans to sacrifice? That's just crazy talk. - Piaw Na

Telling them they are The Greatest Nation on Earth for past sacrifices, OTOH... - Thaths

"Harpold is a grandmother of triplets who bought one box of Zyrtec-D cold medicine for her husband at a Rockville pharmacy. Less than seven days later, she bought a box of Mucinex-D cold medicine for her adult daughter at a Clinton pharmacy, thereby purchasing 3.6 grams total of pseudoephedrine in a week’s time. Those two purchases put her in violation of Indiana law 35-48-4-14.7, which restricts the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, or PSE, products to no more than 3.0 grams within any seven-day period. When the police came knocking at the door of Harpold’s Parke County residence on July 30, she was arrested on a Vermillion County warrant for a class-C misdemeanor, which carries a sentence of up to 60 days in jail and up to a $500 fine." - bob from Bookmarklet

If that's true, Gabe, then it's a classic example of Wyland's Law: "Anything that can automatically be done *for* you, can automatically be done *to* you." - Glen Campbell, B.A.

The Auto Rickshaw is a popular means of transport in Khartoum. - Thaths from Bookmarklet

An unusually thoughtful selection. - Piaw Na

You've heard of Alan E. :) - Piaw Na

Superb 23-volume collection of music from Ethiopian. A little bit of Jazz, a little bit of Rock'n Roll, a little bit of Blues and a little bit of Swing. I've been OD-ing on this music for the last ... - Thaths

Why have the shot then? - Thaths

What are they asking for? :-) - Ashwin Nanjappa

@ashwin: They say they *could* ask for things like "character certificate" from the police, proof of insurance and even "letter of employment from employer including details about how long you are taking a leave for". I suspect they don't really want all of those, but could throw those as roadblocks if they get an application from an undesirable. - Thaths

You doing this as performance art (like the Yes Men)? Or are you seriously stoked about Windows 7? - Thaths

I'm doing it like...well I don't want to give it away. :) See work email. - EricaJoy from IM

"Speakers at the United Nations are supposed to deliver their speeches in one of the organization's six official languages: English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese. U.N. interpreters then translate the lecture into the other five languages. If the speaker doesn't use an official language—either as a political statement or because he doesn't know one—the speaker has to bring along his own interpreter." - Thaths from Bookmarklet

Peninsula (MTV), but it's close enough - Roshan Vyas

Los Gatos. - Thaths