Tudor Bosman - Comments

Services

Discussion

Comments

10 this week, 359 all time

Likes

14 this week, 437 all time

See both

Subscriptions

Rooms

Tudor Bosman's Comments - View full feed

Subscribe to Tudor Bosman

Hao Chen posted a message

“GoDaddy calling customers apologizing for the .ME crazyness yesterday.”

7 hours ago - Link

Mike Fruchter, Bjorn Tipling, Tad Donaghe, Tim Hoeck and 2 other people liked this

"Apologizing to customers" is an understatement when you just lost domains like share.me, tech.me, grab.me :-( - AJ Batac

Where did you hear about that, Hao? - Lindsay Donaghe

I got a call. - Hao Chen

Me too. No more meme.me for me :( - Tudor Bosman

that whole .me registration process was an f'ing disaster, i'm still pissed - adolfo foronda

Karen Padham Taylor posted a link

BoredStop.com - World's Shortest International Bridge

yesterday at 9:05 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Satya, Dincer Keskinpala, Turker Keskinpala, Bindu Reddy and 17 other people liked this

just like the falls... we have the big island and the big falls - Stewart Rogers

Stewart you must be Canadian too =) - Karen Padham Taylor

Show 4 more comments

Not true; you lucky Canadians get both islands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z... - Tudor Bosman

"My wife's mad at me; she made me sleep in Canada last night." - Sprague D

@Tudor Bummer. - Anne Bouey

i posted this photo a couple of weeks back, but the place i got it from didn't describe where it was. i wonder how much that piece of property is worth. looks lovely - Cee Bee

yeah... now we have a stronger dollar, both islands and the better side of the falls - Stewart Rogers

Wikipedia denies it: A popular tale among local guides is that the bigger part of Zavikon is in Canada, while the smaller part is in the United States, and the foot bridge between them is the "shortest international bridge in the world". However, this is not true as both islands are Canadian Territory. So, Citation needed :) - Nikhil Dandekar

Where does the border patrol agent live? - Turker Keskinpala

Jeanette Martinez posted a link

Conference Bike

Wednesday at 4:24 pm - Link

Anne Bouey liked this

holy crap - Jeanette Martinez

Google had one, I never used it though. - Tudor Bosman

Dan Hsiao posted a link

California High Speed Rail Authority Interactive Map

Monday at 10:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Steve Craft, Emily Miller, Joel Franusic, Nice Fish Films and 6 other people liked this

They've been talking about doing this forever, right? Do you think it'll get built anytime soon? - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet

We can only hope... and vote in November... - Ross Miller

Show 4 more comments

Dude! 2030?!?!?!?!? - Jini

@Jini: 2020. The system should be in service in 2020, and become "commercially self-sustainable" in 2030, when it would cross 100M passengers/year. From the text of proposition 1 (which you should vote for in November): "At a minimum, the entire 700-mile system described in the High-Speed Rail Authority’s Business Plan should be constructed and in revenue service by 2020." See http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/... - Tudor Bosman

Construction should start in 2010, and 10 years to build a California-wide train system is a long time, but not unreasonable. Of course, judging by how long it took for BART service to be extended to the San Francisco airport after the project was approved, I'd say 2050 is a more realistic opening date... - Tudor Bosman

I'd pay extra to not have to go through Fresno. - Jim Norris

Sonoma County votes "Yes", Marin County votes "No". Marin is delaying me from accessing SF via smart public transport. Get your "Yes" vote on, Marin! - Andrew Meyer

i just really like the site! great visualization at work here. - Nice Fish Films

Nothing good ever starts from Fresno. - Steve Craft

Chris Baskind posted a message

“Of these two, which do you check first at the start of your day -- email, or Friendfeed?”

Monday at 1:54 am - Link

Yolanda, Sonciary Honnoll, Rob Kramer, Susan Beebe and 14 other people liked this

email... honestly ;) wait I lied. I check FF while waiting for my email to load - Mona N via fftogo

E-mail. Here's the process: http://www.louisgray.com/live/... - Louis Gray

Show 47 more comments

Dammit, Louis, you've blogged your workflow. I'm awed. ;-) - Chris Baskind

I've started checking my SNs before my email. Not sure why, because it's more fun? - jjprojects

ff - Duncan Riley

Email. I use the Mail App, so it is more prevalent on my screen. However, if I were to be using web-based email like I used to, I would almost certainly glance over FriendFeed first. - James Mowery

LG, your organization and the articulation of the flow is impeccable haha - Mona N via fftogo

i do both simultaneously :D - c010depunkk via twhirl

Socialthing, Friendfeed, Email. Why socialthing - I actually find it easier to read posts and sort through them without the comments etc. Then I use the best of features and rooms in friendfeed to read the more interesting stuff with comments and leave my own. - Mick Adams

Twitter used to be the very first thing I checked. Now it's Friendfeed/Facebook, then Twitter, then forums, then news sites and (sometimes) e-mail. - Jamie Clark

I suppose we could risk introducing a mid-conversation followup here: are you out of bed yet when you check? - Chris Baskind

email, if I start on FFeed too quickly, I don't do anything else - Michael W. May via twhirl

Guilty of that. Checking when still yawning in bed. *blush* - Patricia Hanrahan

:) whichever loads first! - edythe

Email.. else I'll never get to that.. - Winston Teo

@Chris I'm out of bed, but I am not always dressed. ;) - Jamie Clark

email immediately followed by FF and then on to Google Reader. - Scott Jarkoff

email, then ff - Alex Plank

I open a set of tabs at once: email, friendfeed, y!finance, techmeme, huffpo - Mark Interrante

Whichever loads first -- Thunderbird or Firefox :) - Alex Hussein Kapranoff

email, email, reader, ff - Erica Baker

I also have a set of tabs I open every morning, but usually read email first. Spam. It's what for breakfast. - Trish Robinson

email. - Stewart Rogers

email -> reader -> ff - Graham Garland

still email - AJ Kohn

E-mail, definitely. Followed almost immediately by FriendFeed. I haven't read a single feed since Feedly stopped working for me. - Akiva Moskovitz

FF - Marco

Still E-Mail. - Matthias Schwenk

E-Mail -- Google Reader -- Twitter (there is less to look at for me) -- FriendFeed - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl

Sadly, when I wake up, I don't even get out of bed. I pull the iPhone off the nightstand and check e-mail. Then I hit FF, followed by techmeme. Then... coffee. :) - Kevin C. Tofel

FriendFeed is my home page - first thing I see when the browser loads. Then email. - Hutch Carpenter

I have not checked my email yet today :) - Eugene

For me it's email, Google Reader, Twitter, FriendFeed. Then I get up. No wonder I'm often late to leave the house! - Martin Bryant

In order: E-mail, Twitter, High-priority RSS feeds, then FF - Aaron B. Hockley

Email, Reddit, Hacker News/News.YC, FriendFeed - Rudolf Olah

Techmeme,Twitter,FriendFeed,email - Igor Poltavskiy

Email then friendfeed then greader - Ricardo Vidal

I have a bookmarks folder in Firefox with everything I open at the beginning of the day. The first thing I do in the morning is click "open all in tabs" in that folder. The usual stuff is in there -- Google personalized homepage, FF, Reader, mail, calendar (for both home and work); generally, I go through my home email first (just a few messages, usually), then FF, then work email, then Reader and miscellaneous other futzing around. - Tudor Bosman

Google reader is my first stop! - Geoff Schultz

Email is far more critical - Sarah Perez

Friendfeed first and next I'll check email. - Czar D.J. Peterman

friendfeed - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Email first. Hard habit to break ;) - Yung-Hui Lim

email is the first check of the day - mostly because some system notifications and alerts appear there and I want to know how my day is going to be :-) - Kevin Cearns via twhirl

google reader then ff. Only check email occasionally an then usually on iPhone - Brad Davis Seal

I have a weasel answer: both. I usually roll over, grab my iPhone, and have a quick look around as I'm waking up. I check my sites and site comments first, but FF always comes before email. Once I'm up and in front of my desktop, ready to actual work, I do email. I won't touch FF again until I have my workflow for the day. - Chris Baskind

Always e-mail.....because I have to check the status of things, and see where things stand with the tasks for the day and projects for the week... FF is pretty close after - the_IT_factor

both. 1st I open Thunderbird, then I open Firefox. Friendfeed is one of my 7 homepages there. - Cat Laine via twhirl

email then FF - Susan Beebe

FriendFeed. Email is a little boring these days, more of a responsibility than a surprise. - Steve Isaacs

gmail, outlook, ff, fb - wash, rinse, repeat - Sonciary Honnoll

email - Tyler

Erica Baker posted a message

“So you go to a wedding and the bride and groom have a slideshow running at the reception. On the table you find a note at your chair with instructions on how to add photos to the slideshow real time from your cell phone camera. A) What is your reaction? B) Is there a service that does this?”

July 11 at 3:49 pm - Link

Jeanette Martinez, Michael J Cohen, Kaia, Vaughn and 4 other people liked this

Hey, I want to go to a wedding chat, drink, dance and generally have a good time... Happy to wish the bride and groom as well.. but taking pictures and posting them.. that sounds like work to me :) - Bindu Reddy

If you build it they will come. - Russellreno

Show 8 more comments

C) How long until the truly embarassing pictures start? - Tudor Bosman

I tried something like this at the first Google Testing Conference. We created a flickr group: http://flickr.com/groups/googl... and set up a flickr slideshow that played through all the photos in the group. We did occasionally have to restart it though. - Adewale Oshineye

why would anyone at the wedding want to see my cell phone camera photos? they are unlikely to be related to the bride and groom - peter

a) Cool, lemme take and add some photos b) Not that I know of - Adam Kazwell

A) Wow, I knew these guys were geeks B) Probably a way to do it using RSS and a public posting address (not sure if flickr allows such a setup) - Rahsheen Porter via NoiseRiver

A) Frakkin' awesome; B) If there isn't, there oughta be. - George Kelly

a.) awesome idea b.) not that I know of! - lisa-k

interesting. you'll have to try it to see if it would work. I bet it depends on the social makeup of the guests - if your family and pals are a bunch of geeks, you're set! - Bruce Williams

Thanks for the feedback all! How about if you s/wedding/birthday party - Erica Baker

I can do this with .Mac - Michael J Cohen via twhirl

I think Goatse Man would make a surprise appearance. :-) - Ryan Paul

Bindu Reddy posted an entry on A really small start-up

First Day, First Post :)

July 11 at 12:27 pm - Link

Atul Arora, Charlie Anzman, Sanjeev Singh, Ian and 26 other people liked this

First day at our start-up :) - Bindu Reddy

Awesome, good luck :) - Hao Chen

Show 7 more comments

Congrats and best wishes!!! - Kevin Fox

Congratulations, good luck! - Tudor Bosman

Good luck! - Erica Baker

post your idea to FF; you get great feedback quickly - peter

Good Luck! - Vivek Sundaram

Thanks for the wishes... @peter, not sure the idea matters as long as you pick a big and interesting space. We are kicking around a couple right now but no matter what we pick, I am sure there is someone somewhere already doing it :)) I think the devil is all in the details and execution... esp. when it comes to consumer start-ups. - Bindu Reddy

sure you still get great feedback from the friendfeed crowd. see my post on the greeting cards idea; great quality feedback and fast! - peter

Good luck!!! Very curious to see what you come up with. I am sure you got the better desk :) - Deepak

Good luck and look forward to future updates of a life in the day of a start up :) - Sally Church

Best of luck!! - Brian White

Tudor Bosman posted a link

5 Famous Sci-Fi Weapons That They're Actually Building | Cracked.com

July 11 at 11:04 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

They had me at "lethal frisbee". - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

Dylan Parker posted a message on Twitter

“Throwing in the AVCHD towel. Just ordered a Flip Mino off Ebay. No HD, but I'm thinking we'll actually use it.”

July 10 at 1:42 pm - Link

We got a Flip a while back, and the "we actually use it" feature is one of the best things about it. - Laurence Gonsalves

Any recommendation for decent AVCHD editing software that's not horribly slow when editing 1080i HD? Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 works, but it is unusably slow (and I have a quad-core CPU at home (overclocked Q6600) and 2GB of RAM). - Tudor Bosman

Other options (convert to MPEG-2 and back? what codecs should I use?) are also welcome. - Tudor Bosman

@laurence Good to hear. So many moments have been lost because I would just cringe thinking about the conversion, editing, export etc. - Dylan Parker

@Tudor In the end I was using Voltaic (yes I forked over the cash) to do the conversions for me and then the latest iMovie app for editing/export. I found the iMovie import pretty unreliable hence the Voltaic purchase. My camera is the Sony HDR-CX7 and I'm thinking of just giving it to a relative. - Dylan Parker

Rachel L Fisher had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“New Kittens: http://www.flickr.com/photos/p... & http://www.flickr.com/photos/p...”

July 10 at 3:13 pm - Link

Anne Bouey, Dan Hsiao, Bret Taylor, Tudor Bosman and Amir Gharaat liked this

Are they coming by the FFGIWHQ tonight? - Tudor Bosman

Rachel L Fisher posted a link

Harry Potter Spoiler Alert - FFFFOUND!

July 9 at 9:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jeanette Martinez, Karen Padham Taylor, Benjamin Golub, Ross Miller and 5 other people liked this

Previously: http://img.moonbuggy.org/erin-... - Tudor Bosman

Tudor - that one is awesome too! you would think someone would read those before putting them up. - Rachel L Fisher

Adam Kazwell shared an item on Google Reader

In what was probably the weirdest soccer match finish ever, Barbados

July 9 at 1:31 pm - Link

Turker Keskinpala and Tudor Bosman liked this

The law of unintended consequences in action. - Tudor Bosman

That's an awesome story, but it doesn't make any sense that Grenada would then try the same 'own goal' tactic. If they succeed, they lose. If they don't succeed, they still have an even chance of winning. The only logic for their behavior would be spite: wanting to lose in order to make sure the opponent can't advance either. - Kevin Fox

The only way Barbados would qualify for the final is if they won by at least a 2 goal difference. Grenada would qualify if they won, tied, or lost by a 1 goal difference. So Grenada attacked their own goal to bring the score to 3-2 and ensure that they lose by only 1 goal. - Tudor Bosman

Ahh. The excerpt didn't make it clear that it was an either-or. The Snopes page goes into more detail. Now it makes sense. - Kevin Fox

Thomas Hawk posted a link

Cops Target Photographers - News - Miami New Times - Miami New Times

July 9 at 11:32 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

MiniMage, joubert berger, Rodfather, Grant Bierman and 33 other people liked this

The incident is one of at least four that have occurred in Miami-Dade County over the past year in which photographers have ended up arrested, handcuffed, threatened, intimidated, or accused of being a terrorist. (I spent 16 hours in jail as a result of one of them.) Taken together, they raise the question of whether the First Amendment means anything anymore. "Officers do not have the right to seize cameras, look at the images, or delete the images," says Oregon attorney Bert Krages, who wrote The Legal Handbook for Photographers: The Rights and Liabilities of Making Images. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

I keep hearing of these incidents - Noah David Simon

Show 11 more comments

Of course, if they delete pictures you can get them back. Take the card out and don't take any more pictures on it. When you get home there are any number of recovery programs that will recover the photos. Sometimes it's just easier to back down and show them you're deleting the pictures, then restore them when you get home and tell your story. Otherwise, the whole camera might get impounded and you'll never get the photos back. - Kevin Fox

You would think that there was enough other crime to deal with in Florida without cops wasting their time bullying photographers? - Brian Sullivan

Wish I could say this surprised me. I'd buy the fact that he was upholding security measures if his issue were that the photographer was photographing a sensitive area ... but this guy got caught probably doing something that's in direct violation of the rules of his shift. Or maybe he was worried that the picture made his ass look big ... which it does. - Cathy Brooks

This makes me want to spend a weekend taking pictures in Miami. With a thousand or so of my closest camera-toting friends. - Chris Baskind

Things like this greatly frustrate me. It's beginning to sound a lot like a police state around here. - Geoff Schultz

Is the ACLU taking a position or action on this issue? - Bruce Williams

Kevin, is there a program you use for this? I didn't know you could recover pics from a card. I thought once they were gone, they were gone for good. - David Cook

WHY?? WHY?? WHY?? lame-O - Susan Beebe

@David: if you haven't taken other pictures (or written to the card in other ways) after the deletion, recovery is easy. I've successfully used a free tool called PhotoRec in the past. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki... - Tudor Bosman

This is a shame. They were talking about this on TWIP a few weeks back and the guy actually stood up to the police. I believe they are gathering a bunch of Photographers to that spot in LA so they can all take pictures where they guy was asked to stop. - Matt Donders

Of course, this is also a good reason to get an Eye-Fi card. By the time you delete the photo it may already be posted to your flickr account! - Kevin Fox

wow those are some seriously disturbing stories. - Chris Jones via twhirl

Reminds me of my story last year in San Antonio - I had basically chosen to not get arrested by capitulating to a big, threatening cop with obvious anger issues... a reporter friend of mine at a major daily told me, when I relayed the story to him the next morning, that it wasn't really a story unless I got arrested. I mean it's getting that common, and that's sick. Story here: http://www.cosmictap.com/an-ac... - Anthony Citrano

I think there is safety in numbers and maybe someone in the group could photograph the incident. @TWIPPHOTO has a poll this week asking is you shoot photos alone or with others. - Bob

Gary Burd posted a message

“Unexpected meeting”

July 8 at 2:01 pm - via mail2ff - Link

Joe Dawson, George The Writer, Benjamin Golub, Hutch Carpenter and 33 other people liked this

Nice shirt Gary! - Ross Miller

Another one, where we're doing the "FriendFeed Gang Sign" is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/s... - Robert Scoble

Show 7 more comments

اوووه عکس دوست من :)))) اون چپیه , پرسپولیسیه معروف , رابرت اسکوبل :دی - Milad

Ha! That's great! - Brent Newhall

So that's a good reason not to get a friendfeed shirt then? - Jason Carreira

This was unexpected. I went to Crossroads for lunch and and an errand. I thought I saw Robert Scoble and went over to say hello. It turns out that he was at Crossroads with a bunch of other people for a FriendFeed lunch. It was a good day to wear my FriendFeed shirt. - Gary Burd

Great to meet you today Gary. Funny how sometimes the planets align. Scoble has a tendency to make things like that happen :) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Of all the food courts in all the malls in the world... - Alan Cheslow

Neat meetup, "gang sign" idea and you guys are THE FriendFeed gangstas! - Susan Beebe

Really funny. I didn't even realize Scoble was back in town. - Mike Koss via twhirl

I would love a friendfeed shirt!!! - Tony

Tony (and others): http://www.cafepress.com/frien... - Tudor Bosman

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“Maybe it's just me, but the ads in Gmail are very amusing. Guess what topic triggered these ads.”

July 8 at 7:18 pm - Link

April Buchheit, David Clements, Alex Barbara, Trevor and 27 other people liked this

Hard drive cloning? Wait, no, image cloning! - Mark Trapp

Bootstrap - AJ Batac

Show 23 more comments

genetically modified suspender cloning for sheep - Nick

meat - Allen Stern

Hello Dolly commemorative pants - Nick

I got as far as "diapers for baby twins," but am a little stymied working the "Love Ewe" into that. The first cloned animal was a sheep, but that's a bit of a stretch... - Karim

how to get umbilical cord blood stain out of suspenders - edythe

a set of twin sheepskin trousers - Nick

Something Java-related, talking about Thread.suspend() and Object.clone()? - Tudor Bosman

Court suspends injunction against cloning? I know not as funny, but probably more realistic. - klecu

Ha, that's nothing! I have a single email with sidebar ads for "How do I Astral Project?", "Gites for rent Pyrenees", "Aromatase Problems?", "Auditing for Lotus Notes", and "Glog yourself every day" among others. Gites? Aromatase? Glog? - Gabe Schaffer

Giant Embryos!! - George The Writer

ads in Gmail (opposite to rest of Google assets) always made me vomitizing - just few strings of Russian, and there is already some preaching on right sold me... feedback to Gmail team that their relevancy is not only worst, but also drives me away, as well requests to skip certain topics - obviously were ignored - Google goes slowly down Yahoo road - silpol

cloning a partition / HDD? - Susan Beebe

I've long concluded that the ads in gmail are included for our merriment to boost Google's brand appeal. They can't be for revenue, can they? - Michael Markman

Haha interesting ads! Sometimes gmail ads are crazy.. - Saad Kamal

Gmail ads are the number one complaint I get from my friends. I wish we would just shut them off. Gmail has value far beyond ad revenue. - Josh

You're friends are crazy Josh :). The ads always brighten my day... - Paul Buchheit

Gmail ads are fun. And sometimes even useful =) Anyway, as long as it doesn't flash Flash at me, I don't care much - Alex

@joshwills Your friends need to install the Firefox addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... CustomizeGoogle. For amusement, though, i leave Gmail ads on! - John Lam

Holy crap! Strapless suspenders for men with no butt or hips? I'll take five. - Tyler

Nothing's perfect :-) - Francine Hardaway

So, Paul, what's the answer?? - Nick

Baby stuff, nothing very interesting (or related to the ads). - Paul Buchheit

@paul and @jlam-- my girlfriend was pretty pissed (and I was slightly concerned) when Gmail showed her an ad for fungal cream on the web clips bar. I could do without the hassle. :) - Josh

2001: "don't be evil" 2008: "don't be reminding girlfriends about their yeast infections" - Karim

LOL @ JOSH's comment hahahhahahahahhahaha - Mona N

Gmail ads aren't entertaining enough. Heaven knows they aren't useful. And they appear completely at the wrong time -- when you're reading a message, even though the time they might possibly be useful is when you're writing one. But ads that update as you type... too weird. :-( - Daniel Dulitz

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Airline "security" tazer bracelet ad (skip to 3:00)

July 8 at 1:35 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Brandon Titus, Benjamin Golub, Karen Padham Taylor, Anne Bouey and 7 other people liked this

I can't decide if this is satire or real, though leaning towards real :( - Paul Buchheit

Last line of security, first line of stupidity! - Nenad Nikolic via Alert Thingy

Show 14 more comments

haha, will the bracelet strap be strong enough to prevent the knife-wielding terrorist from just cutting it off before taking over the plane? haha, or perhaps slipping a piece of material between the bracelet and the skin? - bob

That's why the next version will be surgically implanted... - Paul Buchheit

This can't be real, can it? It said terrorists could easily gain entry to the cockpit using plastic explosives, how would they get that on board? - Arthur Guy

I believe that this is a real proposal going around right now. Pretty creepy stuff! - Patrick Lightbody

How is this more convenient to the passenger? And where do they get the idea that most people would opt for this? This is crazy! Do NOT like. - Clare Dibble

Yes, it's real. Here's the company conducting the research: http://www.lamperdlesslethal.c... - Ken Sheppardson

@paul looks like this is no joke rather closer to reality (yet in R&D but who knows how much money they have to roll it out quicker than we can think) http://tinyurl.com/5bwhna - silpol

dis-like. - Madsimian

It would be a lot more fun if passengers had the ability to taser each other. - Kevin D. White

So, would my 5 year old daughter have to wear one too? - Vince DeGeorge

I think this is outlandish even in the (otherwise totally crazy) aviation security world. On the other hand, maybe they've found the solution to the problem of children crying during the whole flight in the row right behind mine... - Tudor Bosman

@silpol: To be fair, the Washington Times sensationalizes the story. It is based on a letter from a low-ranking DHS official to a Lamperd Less Lethal representative. IMO, that letter is just saying "I don't have the guts to tell this guy to f* off, so let him try to move through the wheels of bureaucracy". - Tudor Bosman

Also, the article talks about the bracelet being used as "a physical restraining device, but also as a method of interrogation". I couldn't find any reference to interrogation in the cited letter but this: "a mobile base read/write emitter/interrogator station", which clearly refers to the technical meaning of "interrogator" (a device that probes / asks / queries / "interrogates" another device for various bits of data). - Tudor Bosman

for my years in electronics/computers i've never heard interrogation as engineering term, but knew it enough from (distant) military past - this looks to me like classical "boiling frog alive with pan open" case... naturally, i don't dispute your right to have different opinion - silpol

@silpol: Google for "RFID interrogator" - Tudor Bosman

Do not underestimate the stupidity of people and the stubbornness of some of them! What if he makes it through the bureaucratic wheels? - Eugene

When they were assigning roles for the arrest scene, how come the dude with the beard became the criminal? - Robert Konigsberg

Jason Calacanis posted a link

Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair has himself Waterboarded concludes it is torture

July 2 at 8:52 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

fijidaddy, Carlos Ayala, Tudor Bosman, Brian and 19 other people liked this

filed under "one brave mofo!" Maybe Bush should experience waterboarding so he can prove it is not torture? - Jason Calacanis via Bookmarklet

@Jason Calacanis - agreed, I'd love to see the press conference after he was waterboarded to see his composure. "It was no big deal, like a massage. I set an appointment for another one next week!" - Damien Franco

Show 2 more comments

Christopher Hitchens is one of my heroes. The guy is just spot on almost constantly. - Akiva Moskovitz

Thats nothing compared to this advert of Waterboarding -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - AJ Batac

That's an excellent piece. It is also a strong reminder of the importance of good writers putting themselves out there and relaying the experience to the rest of us. - Thomas Brox Røst

He didn't last long at all. I doubt anyone the military was doing this to would be so kindly set upon the board and have the directions for their torture explained to them so nicely either. - Yolanda

Previous self-waterboarding experiment (and a great and engrossing read): http://boards.straightdope.com... - Tudor Bosman

bob posted a link

abc7news.com: Convicted murderer Hans Reiser leads police to Nina's remains 7/07/08

July 8 at 1:36 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Anne Bouey and Jeremy Hylton liked this

ABC News has confirmed that authorities are in the process of recovering Nina Reiser's remains from Redwood Regional Park, east of Skyline Boulevard. The body was found in a bag, buried deep in a ravine. The bag was well concealed and could have been easily overlooked. Authorities had a forensic anthropologist on scene to help recover the body. - bob via Bookmarklet

Sources tell ABC News that a deal was struck with Reiser that would reduce his conviction from first-degree murder to second-degree murder. The lesser charge means Reiser could receive a sentence of 15 years to life, instead of the previous 25 years to life. - bob

Show 3 more comments

aha, so he did do it. - j1m

I don't understand why the DA's office would agree to giving him a deal; he was already convicted of first degree. - Tudor Bosman

Tudor: perhaps for the family of the deceased, for closure? - Bret Taylor

Yeah I think they were specifically buying the knowledge. A lot of people think it's really worth something to know. - j1m

were they in /lost+found? - Jim Norris

@Jim: so offside... but funny at the same time. - nadim

Leeann Bent had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“I mean no one's gonna eat your eyes”

July 7 at 11:29 am - Link

We're at an impasse here, maybe we should compromise: / If you open up the doors / We'll all come inside and eat your brains. - Tudor Bosman

my cats love eyeballs, and they're not even zombie cats! - Jeanette Martinez

j1m posted a link

Coding Horror: Investing in a Quality Programming Chair

July 6 at 10:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Atul Arora, Alberto Fernandez, Mark Forman, Glenn Slaven and 7 other people liked this

I like it, it looks like an alien - j1m via Bookmarklet

his post is such link bait to get him amazon referrers. Can he link every chair in one post? Kind of ridiculous. - Stefan Hayden

Show 10 more comments

I was always tempted by the Microsphere integrated workstation idea, but I guess they're out of business now. Oddly, my current programming chair isn't on this list... - ⓞnor

I do miss my Steelcase Leap from Google. By the way, does anyone know of a local Bay Area store / showroom where I could try the Herman-Miller Mirra, various Steelcase chairs, and hopefully the HumanScale Liberty as well? - Tudor Bosman

Unfortunately vendors seem sort of disjoint, you might have to visit several. The Chair Place (531 Bryant, SF) looks sort of fun to visit, but they don't seem to carry any Herman Miller or Steelcase. - ⓞnor

Design Within Reach has Mirra and Liberty, but no steelcase. there's a store in palo alto and santana row - David Vasileff

There's also a DWR in SF on Alameda and Potrero. I actually prefer the Eames chairs, but they don't have all the fancy adjustments. Just simple and elegant (and expensive). You can get these from DWR, but they don't list all the models on the website. - Chris White

DWR is also fun for the whole "*this* costs *that* much??!" gawking value. - ⓞnor

I ordered my Celle from officedesigns.com - not to provide advertising, but they were cheap, good selection and free shipping (and no tax, I believe). I remember vaguely having an issue with them not really sure about when they were going to get it back in stock and a little yelling after awhile, but they came through. - felix

Also, somebody in the comments said that tables are a ripoff and you should only buy expensive chairs. I just bought my 3rd swerve two-track table and I love these desks. The surface is perfect for programming. - Chris White

wait, you program on the surface of your desk? i literally just plunk my monitors on the front of it use the space behind them to stack up old coffee cups. Hmm, you're going to tell me I should arm-mount my monitors, aren't you? - j1m

I am definitely a believer in table-free computing. Well, I have a coffee table which is good for stacking up mugs and feet. But I hear some people like to use dead tree reference manuals. - ⓞnor

srsly? - j1m

4 reals, old people r weird - ⓞnor

Ya rly. - Anne Bouey

Rachel L Fisher had a new status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN! (and Happy Birthday USA too!)”

July 4 at 9:49 am - Link

Ross Miller, Karen, Ryan Kaisoglus, Cyrus Lendvay and 13