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Kevin Fox
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd - http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd...
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
1950s Inspired Retro Philco PC Looks Incredible | Apartment Therapy Unplggd
Holy smokes that's pretty. - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet
Wow, that's awesome - Neal Krummell
"huh, for some reason I'm left with the thought of: microsoft's answer to the iMac crossed with a toaster oven (what is that dial for anyway?)" --Coworker - Neal Krummell
DeWitt Clinton
Sigh. Someone signed up for a Facebook account with my email address and the "if you think this is an error" link does nothing.
What's interesting is that Facebook doesn't make you wait until you confirm your email address before you can start using the account. So I'm seeing her add friends, get messages, etc. The "if you are receiving this in error" link in the email takes you to a "Report Abuse" page, which has a button that does nothing but return you to the Report Abuse page. - DeWitt Clinton
Spectacular fail. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone
People have signed up for so many services using my email addresses. I'm amazed by how many services don't require confirmation of the email account — including banks!! I'm getting people's bank statements and the bank ignores my protests. - Amit Patel
Reported the link not working correctly as a bug. Let me know which email address of yours it was and I'll try to get it sorted out. - David Recordon
Thanks for looking into this, @David. The email address they signed up with is 'dewitt' at gmail, which I don't use myself, but it forwards to my normal account. But the real bug isn't the Report Abuse form, of course. Why not verify email addresses before enabling the new account? - DeWitt Clinton
The link is now fixed. - David Recordon
Rock on. Thanks, David! - DeWitt Clinton
David, this problem is back. I received another sign up email (this one to a different address). When I clicked on the "If you are receiving this in error " link I got the following message: "The confirmation link you have entered has expired or has been copied incorrectly. Please copy and paste the full link you received in the confirmation mail. If this still doesn't work, you can... more... - DeWitt Clinton
Keith Coleman
Official Gmail Blog: One button to merge all duplicate contacts - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Official Gmail Blog: One button to merge all duplicate contacts
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This makes Gmail contacts sync (e.g. to phone) work way better. - Keith Coleman from Bookmarklet
I can't believe how many duplicates I had. At least 80 people with 2-20 duplicates each! - Kevin Fox
Works quick and effortlessly .. - johnpiercy
Worked great - Benjamin Golub
This is super great! Waited for this for long time. - Bryan Tsai
Does work great, however I'm proud of myself that I've kept my contacts so organized! I only have 1 dupe. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Been wanting this forever... thanks! (121 dupes found. Merged. Tried again. Found 1 more dupe...) - Dan Hsiao
YES. Thank Og! - Archangel ωαřмaiden
Yes -very much needed - near 1500 dupes here - Jesse Stay
DeWitt Clinton
2009 has been a good year for languages. Clojure 1.0, Go, C# 4.0 beta, Python 3.0 (and Unladen Swallow).
Looking forward to C++0x, Java 7, and ECMAScript 5 in 2010. - DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt Clinton
Introducing the newest Google Web Elements: Translate, Reader, and Orkut Share, plus a host of new features: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Via @jscud (http://twitter.com/jscud), the engineer behind the launch. - DeWitt Clinton
Joel Webber
#GWT 2.0 finally shipped. Tired but happy.
GWT foreva! You never forget your first...eng team that is. - EricaJoy
DeWitt Clinton
Technically speaking, what makes Google Chrome fast? - http://blog.chromium.org/2009...
Derek Collison
The Hangover (Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray] - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
The Hangover (Unrated Edition) [Blu-ray]
Gary Burd
I switched to Chrome on OS X. It's fast. http://dev.chromium.org/getting...
agreed but doesn't (yet) do as much as Firefox - Thomas Power
Been using it for months. It's getting pretty good. - Sean O'Connor
adblock? when it is as good as ff, i am there - Gregory Lent
I tried to switch from FF a couple weeks ago but it still seemed buggy to me. I couldn't get the bookmark manager to run and I couldn't reorder the icons on my bookmark toolbar which in FF is simple drag and drop. - Ed Millard
There are still a few little hitches here and there, but it's really coming together overall. The only reason I open Safari these days is to run Wave (there is still an irritating scroll-hitching bug in Chrome that affects Wave; I'm sure it'll go away soon). Oh, and I'll take fast over adblock any day :) - Joel Webber
I've been running it as my main browser for a few months now. Works great and I wouldn't go back to the others. - Diego Barros 
Bret Taylor
A clock made out of browser scrollbars - http://toki-woki.net/p...
superb! - ashish
That's awesome but completely locked up my iPhone. I should've known better than to try it in a browser without scrollbars... - Tony Ruscoe
Matt Cutts
If you're a web developer, you'll want to check out the new Closure web tools that Google released: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Very impressive. My first test of Closure here: http://u.go2.me/3WK - Mike Koss
Bret Taylor
Yes, indeed. - Ozkan Altuner
It'll never catch on. - Mistletoe Glen
"Why would anyone join Google now? Search is DONE." <-- me in 2002. (I joined Google 3 years later) - Tudor Bosman
just googled it. nice site. - Mike Nencetti
I don't know, they might be able to go mainstream someday if they just change their goofy name and boring home page. They need a Flash intro or something. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
@Bruce, Flash intro would be nice, right. They have to use the web2.0 stuff, too. - Ozkan Altuner
COOKIE! - Joel Webber
nomnomnomnom - Ruchira S. Datta
Just show me the way of eating a cookie, monster! - Ozkan Altuner
DeWitt Clinton
Introducing Closure Tools from Google - the Closure Compiler, the Closure Library, and Closure Templates: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Satisfying one of @paul's longest-standing requests! - DeWitt Clinton
Gary Burd
Red Lake
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My house faces East. - Hayes Haugen
I can see Cap Hill to the SW. Do we have line of site between our houses? - Gary Burd
There's a slight ridge between me and the lake so no. Can you see the Man Spire of St Joseph's or the Lady Dome of Holy Names? - Hayes Haugen
I think dome is visible halfway between the two clumps of tall buildings. I am guessing that spire is in front of the tall building on the right. Zoom in all the way and let me know what you think. - Gary Burd
I think so. They are on the same street which is roughly parallel to the bridge. I'm going to go climb up on the spire and shoot my laser pointer your way. Give me 10.... - Hayes Haugen
I have the binoculars ready. - Gary Burd
I will take a picture tommorow night with tripod and telephoto lens. - Gary Burd
Probably no vis: http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens... ...maybe you can try from your office during your day job? - Hayes Haugen
perfect colors... - Kubilay Onur Güngör
Bret Taylor
Watching the Oregon - USC game. The Ducks look pretty awesome so far.
Rare to see SC smacked like that and -- from the vantage point of this UO fan -- pleasurable. - Christopher A Carr
So what are your thoughts on Cal and Stanford this year, Bret? Cal got toasted by both USC and Oregon, but has won elsewhere. - Louis Gray
Louis: hopefully going to be a good game. Two great running backs, defenses that are inconsistent. It is really hard to predict given how inconsistent both teams have been, though. - Bret Taylor
Evidently the University of Oregon PK Ducks Pro Team are not well liked by Stanford message board guys...some good comedy there. :-) - Christopher A Carr
Scott Ludwig
Simon
Where there's a will there's a row | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/world...
"In 26 out of 27 European Union countries, Mr Buffett’s plans [to leave most of his fortune to charity] would not just be shocking, but illegal. The exception is Britain." - Simon from Bookmarklet
Oh my, that's crazy. - Amit Patel
"In continental Europe a big part of an estate (often around half) is reserved for the surviving children of the deceased and must be equally divided between them. ... Finally, “clawback” laws in many countries stop parents from dodging forced heirship by giving assets away while they are still alive. This applies to gifts made in the last years of life (two years in Austria, ten in Germany), or much longer: in some countries, no time limit applies." - Paul Buchheit
I bet the Europeans think it's crazy that we reserve half for the IRS :) - Private Sanjeev
I thought only millionaires had to reserve half for the IRS. - Gabe
As of 2009, it's 45% for estates valued at over $3.5MM, with exemptions for small businesses and farmers. It affects less than 1% of the US population at present. It's set to revert to $1M in 2011, but there's pretty much no chance that Congress will let that actually happen. - Joel Webber
@Sanjeev: In Europe the inheritance tax rates vary, but can be similar to the US, and the exemption limits are often much lower: "[2007] France if you are inheriting from a spouse you receive up to €76,000 tax free. Anything above this limit is taxed at between 5 and 40 per cent, depending on the size of the gift. But the rate for non-relatives is a hefty 60 per cent, with no... more... - Simon
@Simon: Interesting -- I had no idea it was that high. It's also telling that, as the Economist article suggests, (continental) European law seems to strongly favor blood relatives (especially children) over the wishes of the deceased. I'm not sure which is preferable, but it's an interesting dichotomy. - Joel Webber
Brett Slatkin
Improved Bash History - http://langui.sh/2009...
In the beginning was the Bourne shell. "No no no, you've got to do better than that." - Daniel Dulitz from iPhone
Matt Cutts
Anyone notice the Halloween easter egg in Google's robots.txt file? http://www.google.com/robots...
DeWitt Clinton
Google Maps Navigation (Beta) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Google Maps Navigation (Beta)
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A funny Youtube comment http://www.youtube.com/watch...: "Damn it, i thought he was gonna say, "And since you probalby wondering about this, yes, i'm a robot" :D - Jérôme Flipo
Benjamin Golub
Very disappointed with Sprint - http://www.benjamingolub.com/e...
That's unfortunate. - Anne Bouey
I had a very similar problem with SprintPCS and I had been a customer for 7 years. - matthew john ernisse
I wish Google Voice allowed transferring your existing cell number to them. Then calls would go straight there.. edit: Oh cool followed Gary's link and it'll come eventually. - Rodfather
@Rodfather, you can set it up so that your phone redirects to your GV voicemail now, and some other stuff - http://www.google.com/support... (edit: doh, I read the blog post just now :P ) - mjc
Nice Gary, thanks for the link. - Benjamin Golub
Ivan Kirigin
Is that real? - Paul Buchheit
It's funny - but there are a lot of these - http://gov.ca.gov/pdf... - Tim Tyler
Make sure you check out the second link in the original post, as well. - Eric Borisch
Bret Taylor
Use Google Voice with your existing number - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Awesome! Thanks for the heads up! - Piaw Na
Yay! - Shea from iPhone
What? Wow! - Anthony K. Valley © from iPhone
Still want to know when it will come to the UK though. - Travis Koger from iPhone
I like this very much. - Kevin Fox
"Note: Sprint is currently rolling out the ability to enable free call forwarding. Until that is completed, this feature may not work or you may be charged every time someone leaves a voicemail." I'll give it a shot and see what happens. - Benjamin Golub
Yeah, I'm going to need to look into T-Mobile's call forwarding rate. I'm sure there will be one. - 1x29
Sweeeeeeeeeet! - David Cook
How about using Google voice in Canada? - Shey, Jamaican of FF from iPhone
Yeah, how about that? - Jan Ole Peek
Karen Wickre
Wonderful post by Sergey Brin on his journey to America, and his gratitude to those who helped along the way. http://too.blogspot.com/2009...
"It is impossible for me to overstate the opportunity this country has given me. In many ways, the fortune I have enjoyed with Google exemplifies the American dream, but to me that is just the tip of the iceberg. Reflecting upon my life, I have many basic freedoms that my parents did not -- the ability to pursue my interests in school and university, the choices in jobs, the freedom to live in the place of my choosing, and ultimately the ability to pursue my own enterprise." - τorƍue
Tom Stocky
The Science of Retweets on Twitter - http://www.briansolis.com/2009...
The Science of Retweets on Twitter
The Science of Retweets on Twitter
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"You don’t spread ideas just because they are 'good;' you spread them because of some other trigger or set of triggers has been pulled in your brain. We can now compare millions of viral ideas to uncover the building blocks of contagiousness." - Tom Stocky from Bookmarklet
Louis Gray
Chrome Nears 5% Market Share - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
competition drives innovation. it's a cool browser, especially for netbooks - Sascha Pallenberg
Chrome rocks! - Adrian Scicluna
Bret Taylor
April Buchheit
"But still, my blood runs Friendfeed Blue"
Thank you, Johnny. - April Buchheit from iPhone
:) - Josh Haley
Mine too April, glad to have an "inside source" say it though. Apparently, my FF Blue bleeds more than most though: http://ff.im/ag8yj - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
that may indicate oxygen deficiency - Mike Chelen
Dion Almaer
“IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition released! Free and open-source. http://www.jetbrains.org/display... cool!” awesome. If only they did this years back!
Karen Wickre
From the 'plex this a.m. - I'm feeling hungry. And robotic.
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cupcake and donut. - Matt Cutts
Where is that? I missed it when I was there last week. - Jesse Stay
Hmmm, is this a 'you are what you picture' moment? ;-) - iconic88
@Jesse It's in front of Building 44 (across Charleston from main campus). - EricaJoy
Erica, I'll have to look for it next time - Jesse Stay
I'd like to hug the Android <3 - Vedrana Janković
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