Wood flooring that's environmentally friendly (1)
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This is a multipart post, in N stages. Part four: Case
Personally, I Preferred Airlock As A VP Choice [Political Science (fiction)] (47)
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Yes, yes, we get it already: the Republican Prez/Veep ticket looks just like Colonel Tigh and President Roslin from Battlestar Galactica. In what is either a sign that BSG has achieved cultural critical mass or that at least one of the two Republican nominees to office is actually an alcoholic robot, the similarities between the two pairs seemed to be one of the most common commentaries about McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for Vice President ...
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Gangles said:
Tigh/Roslin? How 'bout Obama/Adama.
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aaron said:
I just registered tighroslin08.com ;-)
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Stolee said:
This is rather LOL-worthy. I love being a nerd.
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Matt Pierson said:
hahahahahaha
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Michaelk said:
Actually, if McCain's a Cylon that really explains a lot.
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Alexander Williams said:
You know, if Palin's the Roslin of the ticket, that might mean some bad guys'll go out the airlock and she's willing to connive and manipulate without limit. I might back this after all.
Inside India's CAPTCHA Solving Economy (10)
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Anti-Globalism points out an analysis of India's CAPTCHA-solving industry posted at ZDNet. It begins: "No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of data processing while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHAs, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major CAPTCHA solving companies. The consolidation, logically leading to increased bargaining power, ...
Inside India's CAPTCHA Solving Economy (4)
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Anti-Globalism points out an analysis of India's CAPTCHA-solving industry posted at ZDNet. It begins: "No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of data processing while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHAs, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major CAPTCHA solving companies. The consolidation, logically leading to increased bargaining power, ...
Krispy Kreme cheddar bacon cheeseburgers at the Google cafeteria (17)
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Filed under: Fast FoodMy mother has a term for any food product that she deems unhealthy. She calls it an "instant coronary." It can refer to anything from a mound of onion rings to a big, juicy steak. When I first saw this picture, I immediately heard her voice in my head, labeling these Krispy Kreme cheddar bacon cheeseburgers as such. I've seen other instances in which a Krispy Kreme is used as a bun ...
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Chad said:
Shared also for "wildly available". Slashfood has the worst editors of any blog ever.
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Steve said:
not so sure about this one, but if google blessed it, must be good...
Get your Blogger following fix (in Reader) (66)
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Our friends on the Blogger team just lauched Following. Blogger users can now "follow" blogs they like, given them an easy way keep up with their favorite blogs, and allowing authors to see who their readership is. Better yet, followed blogs also show up in your Reader account, in their own folder. That way you can get the full power of Reader's tagging, sharing and starring without having to maintain two separate reading lists. Of ...
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Jeff said:
Sounds to me like an easy way for people not familiar with RSS and Feed Readers to subscribe to blogs - nothing really interesting to me (I already know how to subscribe to blogs in Google Reader!)
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Dominik said:
Uh.
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HejGustav said:
Old?
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wille said:
Någon som fått detta än?
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JohnMcG said:
But can you "fake follow?"
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Dustin DeKoekkoek said:
Really wish they could would implement this with blogs outside of Blogger
Show off your Followers (42)
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(Important Note: The Following feature will be rolled out to all over the next few weeks, so if you don’t see it right away, don’t worry. It’s coming soon.) Would you like to know who enjoys reading your blog? Or stay updated with your favorite blogs right from your Blogger dashboard? You can do those things and more with Blogger’s new Following feature. By following your blog, your readers tell you and the world that ...
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MiramarMike said:
"Connecting the bits", I think that's Google's main thrust this year
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JohnWRoachIII said:
Google is edging closer and closer to becoming a massive social network.
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nikan said:
Pretty important addition with lots of implications. Got to blog about it.
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挂拉 said:
快来follow我吧～
The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farms (17)
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DesScorp writes "The Times reports on the problems of adding wind farms to the power grid. Because of the grid's old design, it can't handle the various spikes that wind farms sometimes have, and there's no efficient way to currently move massive amounts of that power from one section of the country to the other. Further complicating things is the fact that under current laws, power grid regulation is a state matter, and the Federal ...
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Glenn Batuyong said:
"...The dirty little secret of clean energy is that while generating it is easier, moving it to market is not..."
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Eric said:
So let's get off our asses and build the transmission grid. Not that hard, just takes a goddamned leader.
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Maarek Stele said:
What?! Unexpected complications and costs to a new Green initiative? Impossible!
“I found a camera…” (25)
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You might have seen irenicdonna’s message in your travel through the Flickrverse. “I found a camera, 2 months ago, which I handed in to the police. It’s not been claimed so they’ve now given it to me. It’s a nice camera and I certainly don’t mind keeping it but I as the photos include a stag night and then some European travel I thought they might be somebodies honeymoon photos.” With direction from the Help ...
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twilight fairy said:
amazing composite of perseverance & the 2.0
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Michael said:
clay shirky has material for his next edition.
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Satyajit Grover said:
Flickr has some great stories like this :)
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parkylondon said:
Aww, the power of social media...
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RTPeat said:
Great story about the lengths someone on Flickr went to to reunite a lost camera with its owner.
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On | 43 Folders (76)
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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring to web
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greenergrad said:
ooooooh.
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Aaron said:
i got to start using this.
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q burns abstract message said:
I'm leaping on the bandwagon. As more than half my work day is spent on Firefox, this add-on is a bit revolutionary for me. Stoked to use it as part of my workflow for the first time tomorrow.
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ABrad45 said:
Quicksilver for Firefox :D
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Michael said:
mind = blown.
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Prashant said:
I need this...
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Meromo said:
Quicksilver for the web..hmmm...
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Dedalus said:
Just watch the video. I don't like the rtf-mail features. TXT only all the way!
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schisamo said:
Install this NOW! Best thing to happen to Firefox since tabbed browsing.
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Philip said:
if you are a firefox/gmail/google calendar user... this add on is a must.takes a few minutes to learn (click the link to the tutorial) but really worth it.
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llopis said:
Wow! Maybe the biggest change in the browser for me since GMarks!
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Eric said:
WOWOWOW
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Nicolas Untz said:
This looks really neat.
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Denver said:
This is amazing. Also, why do people type so loudly in these videos?
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Daniel Bachhuber said:
Holy bejeebas. Here comes the full power of the internet. Or phase two, at least.
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Doogie said:
watch the video. OMG. It'll be a while until I can pick my jaw back up off the floor. The Mozilla Labs RSS feed just made into my Google Reader Feed list because I WANT to know when this project goes gold.
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Geoff said:
Ok... this one is really cool!
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dmkanter said:
user generated mashup. love the idea!
Ubiquity: Firefox Gets its Quicksilver On (64)
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Aza’s Thoughts » Ubiquity In Depth Take a few minutes this week to look at the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox. So far, I’ve spent just enough time with it to have my mind blown by the Quicksilver-like interface it wants to bring to web browsing. Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo. And, like our favorite OS X launcher, Ubiquity also has an ambitious mission: to move beyond onesie-twosie key shortcuts by using user-extensible ...
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ABrad45 said:
Quicksilver for Firefox :D
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q burns abstract message said:
I'm leaping on the bandwagon. As more than half my work day is spent on Firefox, this add-on is a bit revolutionary for me. Stoked to use it as part of my workflow for the first time tomorrow.
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Michael said:
mind = blown.
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Dedalus said:
Just watch the video. I don't like the rtf-mail features. TXT only all the way!
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Meromo said:
Quicksilver for the web..hmmm...
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Prashant said:
I need this...
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Denver said:
This is amazing. Also, why do people type so loudly in these videos?
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Eric said:
WOWOWOW
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Doogie said:
watch the video. OMG. It'll be a while until I can pick my jaw back up off the floor. The Mozilla Labs RSS feed just made into my Google Reader Feed list because I WANT to know when this project goes gold.
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Daniel Bachhuber said:
Holy bejeebas. Here comes the full power of the internet. Or phase two, at least.
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schisamo said:
Install this NOW! Best thing to happen to Firefox since tabbed browsing.
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llopis said:
Wow! Maybe the biggest change in the browser for me since GMarks!
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined? (43)
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I have to confess that one of the social networking tools I find most valuable is Goodreads. (It's a close second to Twitter, and way ahead of Facebook, Friendfeed, or Dopplr.) Unlike twitter, where I follow hundreds of people (possible because of twitter's minimalism) and am followed by thousands, on Goodreads, I follow and am followed by a small circle of friends and people whose taste in books I trust. As someone who loves books, ...
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Eric said:
I miss AllConsuming.
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That Kid from Omaha said:
Amen.
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Eric said:
I like the people behind the LibraryThing company and subscribe to their business blog, but I don't use their service. Shelfari is a rip off of LibraryThing, but now has the weight of Amazon behind so it becomes more interesting to me. I buy most of my books from Chapters Indigo and I've poked around the community portion of their website, but wasn't impressed. What I do use is the Visual Bookshelf application in Facebook and I wish Chapters and others would stop trying to re-invent social components and plug-in to the Facebook platform.
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It's 2008: The housing market is a mess, new home construction is half the level of four years ago and remodeling sales are down. It's a pretty crummy time to be in the building supply industry. But not for EcoTimber. The Richmond firm, a national leader in...Shared by Eric (5)Contribute commentpanopticist (16) permalink
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By Dion Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsMark Lucovsky of the Google AJAX APIs team has written up a detailed article on how the 2008 U.S. Election site was created and implemented.A myriad of the AJAX APIs are used here. The election news comes from:A News Search: http://ajax.googl... channel search for the YouTube tab: http://ajax.googl..., a Custom Search Engine was created for the blog search: