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"FXI hasn’t set pricing yet for the Cotton Candy, but expects it to cost considerably less than $200 per unit. That’s not bad for a full-fledged computing device the size of a cigarette lighter." - zytzagoo from Bookmarklet

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"Social networks exist to sell you crap. The icky feeling you get when your friend starts to talk to you about Amway, or when you spot someone passing out business cards at a birthday party, is the entire driving force behind a site like Facebook. Because their collection methods are kind of primitive, these sites have to coax you into doing as much of your social interaction as possible while logged in, so they can see it. It's as if an ad agency built a nationwide chain of pubs and night clubs in the hopes that people would spend all their time there, rigging the place with microphones and cameras to keep abreast of the latest trends (and staffing it, of course, with that Mormon bartender). We're used to talking about how disturbing this in the context of privacy, but it's worth pointing out how weirdly unsocial it is, too. How are you supposed to feel at home when you know a place is full of one-way mirrors? We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent... more... - zytzagoo from Bookmarklet

Tre ženijal: "Urbonas, who has worked at an amusement park, stated that the goal of his concept roller coaster is to take lives "with elegance and euphoria"." - zytzagoo

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"In the information business, the conflict of interest is looming at every corner. All the time, someone is trying to buy you with something. It could be a product, “exclusive” access, the transcript of legal depositions, a heads-up to a report. Everything. The more vulnerable (or hungry, or ambitious) a writer is, the better target he’ll be for the corrupters." - zytzagoo

"How do people's names differ around the world, and what are the implications of those differences on the design of forms, databases, ontologies, etc. for the Web?" - zytzagoo