The best thing about Sarah Palin | Culture Making (2)
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I'll take this ANY day, over "that's beyond my pay grade to answer with any specificity"
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise | The Register (23)
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This week, the promise was broken. It lasted less than six months. Now that Internet Explorer IE8 beta 2 is released, we know that many, if not most, pages viewed in IE8 will not be shown in standards mode by default. The dirty secret is buried deep down in the «Compatibility view» configuration panel, where the «Display intranet sites in Compatibility View» box is checked by default. Thus, by default, intranet pages are not viewed ...
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phillip said:
WTF Microsoft
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Dan said:
It doesn't surprise me at all, MS backing down on a promise. What's o wrong is the "broken page" icon for standards websites. WTH?
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Billy said:
Are you kidding me?
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ewbrown said:
I am sad to say that I am not surprised by this.
McCain to Name Running Mate on Friday (6)
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Speculation about who John McCain would name as his running mate focused on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin after reports circulated early Friday that two short-listers — Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty — were out out of the running.
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ewbrown said:
The lastest reports say that neither Mitt Romney nor Tim Pawlenty are McCain’s pick. Add to that the news that a charter aircraft flew from Anchorage, Alaska to Dayton, Ohio where McCain will be announcing his choice, and it looks very likely that Sarah Palin will be on the ticket in November.
FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol: Fetch updates from feeds faster (70)
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When you add a web site like Flickr or Google Reader to FriendFeed, FriendFeed's servers constantly download your feed from the service to get your updates as quickly as possible. FriendFeed's user base has grown quite a bit since launch, and our servers now download millions of feeds from over 43 services every hour. One of the limitations of this approach is that it is difficult to get updates from services quickly without FriendFeed's crawler ...
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Paul Goggin said:
interesting and probably needed approach for the any site that actually serves data up for me - I'm such a pig.
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Chris Wetherell said:
A better proposal than relying on conditional GETs. (Why? Less overall polling.) Neat.
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pmuellr said:
Interesting. Wonder if we could use this in Jazz? Think so.
Conservative Democrats Peeling Away From Obama (2)
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Barack Obama’s recent decline in the polls to the point of an exact tie with John McCain last week can be explained largely by some defection from conservative Democrats.
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ewbrown said:
This is bad news for the Democratic nominee. Has the blind enthusiasm for Obama begun to fade?
Google Now Searching For Synonyms (6)
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Top Ten Moments of the Beijing Olympics (1)
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Starting with the magnificent spectacle that was the opening ceremony, the 2008 Olympic Games have produced a host of golden moments, here are our top ten with links to view them.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/at-loss-for-words.html (65)
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Have you ever been stumped in finding the right words to search for? Back when I was planning my wedding, I had a list of wedding songs in mind, but the problem was that I couldn't remember any of the artist names or song titles. So I started typing into the Google search box parts of the lyrics that I did remember -- and like magic, I saw suggestions with the artist name and song ...
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Brandon said:
Sweet! Google Suggest has graduated. Congrats! :P
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Donnie Berkholz said:
This feature is amazing! I've used it for a while and I'm psyched to see it move to the main page. That will make it easier to combine with the still-Labs feature of keyboard shortcuts.
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pneal said:
always thought it was the small things that counted... can you spot the differences without reading the explanation?
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Devlin D said:
I've had this product set as my homepage for about 3 years and have raved about it since. Glad to see this thing finally get it's due. Great job to everyone that worked on this.
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ewbrown said:
I like Google Suggest, but I am not sure I would want to see it every time I visit the Google homepage. If I need a search query auto-completed, I typically use the Google toolbar. Hopefully, Google will provide a way to disable the suggestions for those who prefer not to see them.
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Eddie said:
yay jennifer!
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Linden said:
Awesome! I love the auto-complete feature for email addresses in Gmail, so I'm glad this labs item has graduated!
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Željko Filipin said:
Google Suggest will be "graduating" from Labs and available by default on the Google.com homepage.
Just How Long Has Biden Been a Senator? (1)
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Gay Patriot points it out: I suppose as the weekend passes, I may have more to say about presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama’s choice of Delaware’s senior Senator as his running mate. For the moment, I will echo Bruce’s point that it does seem a lot like George W. Bush’s choice of Dick Cheney in 2000, an older political veteran with foreign policy experience from a small state that was already a lock for their ...
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ewbrown said:
This is a great example of why we need term limits for Congress.
A Joe of His Own? (1)
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A McCain-Lieberman ticket may have a better prospect of winning than the more conventional alternatives.
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ewbrown said:
Would John McCain selecting Joe Lieberman as his running mate give Republicans a better chance at winning in November? Bill Kristol thinks so, but I tend to disagree.
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing (153) permalink
Blink, and you might have missed it. Google's now doing synonym searching. It's something they quietly noted in a past Google blog post and one that comes up again today in a post that covers how Google uses experiments to improve the search interface. Click to continue reading...
