Universal Pees On Our Rug With The Big Lebowski 10th Anniversary Edition [The Dude Abides] (19)
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On Sept. 9, Universal will release an amazing 10th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Big Lebowski that's packed inside of a mini-bowling ball. A goddamn bowling ball. And it'll have all-new bonus features, which I hope/suspect is filled with John Goodman screaming various permutations "fuck" a lot. For only $24. Why so cheap? Because it's only on DVD. WTF, Universal? Where the hell is the Blu-ray edition? How can you ask us to buy it ...
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Joe said:
Best. Movie. Ever.
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Fourbin said:
THE DUDE ABIDES. I am so buying this.
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J. James B said:
need.
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Hadyn said:
You're out of your element Donny
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James said:
Oh I've just got to get this.
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G. said:
Fucking Awesome!
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Alex said:
HOLY SHIT!
Three tips for “company blogging” (35)
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This is my personal blog. I don’t run my draft posts by Google’s PR or legal team, other than maybe 2-3 times when I thought a post might have legal implications. But I have learned a few hard-won lessons. So, when someone recently asked me for tips about talking to the public, I couldn’t resist. Whether you blog for the company officially or unofficially, here are my top three rules of thumb: Don’t make hard ...
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Deeter said:
Matt's advice may seem simple but it isn't, primarily because it goes against the grain of "blogging". A blogger quickly learns that he/she has to be REAL. This means saying more than the reader expects, opening the golden doors of your inner sanctum (office) and sharing things as if they were a trusted friend. But, as Matt said, that is dangerous if your rep is linked to a corporation. In my opinion, that is one of the reasons why most "company blogs" fall flat and become, as Doug Karr once put it... "clogs".
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Joe said:
Very good advice from Matt. When I was actively blogging while at Microsoft this captures my thinking at the time.
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Young said:
Don't post when you're angry!!
7 Astounding Yet True Facts About Say Anything... (1)
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Last weekend, Seattlest revisited the other Shorewood High School for our 20-year reunion. And it's been 20 years since Lloyd Dobler and Diane Court left Lakeside High, so on our flight to Milwaukee, we got reacquainted with Cameron Crowe's Say Anything.... Singles gets the Seattle-centric attention, but Say Anything... is the movie where Seattle first caught our eye, several years before we actually moved to the land of the Gas 'n' Sip. FACT: Seattle landmarks ...
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Joe said:
Obvious, but interesting: your idea of a good high school movie is defined by when you went to high school.
Might Office be where Microsoft gets socked with Chinese antitrust charges? (3)
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Back in June, there were more than a few stories about PC makers in China getting ready to sue Microsoft for alleged antitrust violations pertaining to Windows. Microsoft and China’s State Intellectual Property Office — the latter being the source of the original round of stories — both claimed the initial reports were inaccurate. But according to a new story from the August 15 edition of the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft still might not be ...
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Joe said:
Antitrust in China? Could this be pushback for all of the piracy bluster?
Friday Afternoon Time Suck (2)
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Starbucks at the Olympic Sculpture Park (2)
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This past weekend saw another performance by the group PDL (I Slogged about their last performance here.) Again, I missed it, but I have heard from some folks who were there. Did you have the opportunity to see the installation by PDL this Sunday at the Olympic Sculpture Park? It was fantastic. If you did not, I would be happy to tell you more about it. If you did, I'd love to hear your thoughts, ...
Stuck in the middle, politically (5)
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A very interesting graph of the estimated ideological positions of US voters, senators, and representatives shows that members of Congress are much more liberal and conservative than are US voters, who fall somewhere in the middle. (via 3qd) (link)
Photos of Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion. What an odd house. Half (21)
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Photos of Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion. What an odd house. Half of it is bathrooms & an indoor pool and looks like it was designed by Homer Simpson. (link)
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Jake said:
Aw, boo! The pics don't seem to be loading right now.
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Gavin said:
OMG. You must click through. This is what happens when you have too much money and get punched in the head for a living.
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Joe said:
It is like a modern day Graceland. Wow. The server seems to be having some issues though...
The Disadvantages of an Elite Education, nutshelled: you have no idea (31)
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The Disadvantages of an Elite Education, nutshelled: you have no idea how most of the rest of the world works. The first disadvantage of an elite education, as I learned in my kitchen that day, is that it makes you incapable of talking to people who aren't like you. Elite schools pride themselves on their diversity, but that diversity is almost entirely a matter of ethnicity and race. With respect to class, these schools are ...
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Eduo said:
At the same time, because these schools tend to cultivate liberal attitudes, they leave their students in the paradoxical position of wanting to advocate on behalf of the working class while being unable to hold a simple conversation with anyone in it.
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Gisele said:
bastante interessante. bastante verificável, também.
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David said:
It's unfortunate that is is often the case. That said, my elite education informs me that this can be remedied, but not by the often shallow conceptions of "community service" that come at these institutions, but through repeated immersive exposure to these communities.
Protocol Buffers: Our open source data interchange format (19)
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Posted by Chris DiBona, Open Source Programs ManagerToday we have something special for all you coders: we're releasing one of our most widely-used internal development tools. We call it "Protocol Buffers." It's the way we encode almost any sort of structured information which needs to be passed across the network or stored on disk. We thought Protocol Buffers might be useful to other people, too, so we've decided to release it as open source software. ...
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Dana said:
Hoorah for Protocol Buffers.
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pmuellr said:
binary data structures. Not bad, but not sure when I'd use it at this point. support for C++ but not C. Sad.
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senpi said:
bob?
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Ed's NextInstinct said:
Is Dan Raine and team in? ;~)
Spore + Porn = Sporn (1)
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A Beginners Guide To Sporn "Since the Spore demo's release, it's become a bukkake wave sweeping the web: comedy pornographic images via Spore. Spornography - aka "Sporn". Has it reached a climax yet? We don't know, but we think it's as good a time as any to stop and survey the lie of the land. And, yes, it's sticky." Most of the videos have been deleted already; get them while they're... uh... hot? Also: Reverse ...
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Joe said:
I really wanted to play with the Spore creature editor but it requires the latest version of OSX. This is the only reason to upgrade I've seen so far.
“HDR”, and Why I Don’t Do It (1)
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High-dynamic-range – HDR – is an image-processing technique that's been gaining popularity over the last few years. HDR can be used to create some amazing, impactful, stunning images. For some eye-popping examples, see this page, which is just one page of many that are linked from this HDR roundup. I haven't created anything amazing with HDR, but I utilized HDR in whipping this image together, just for this post... Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55/2.8 @ ...
Eight Years of Wrongness (3)
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Warren Buffett is quoted saying that his favorite holding period for a stock is "forever". I'm not ready to go quite that far - and in practice neither does he - but I do subscribe to a long term investing philosophy generally. For example, I bought my first MSFT shares back in the early 90's. Like most holders that decade, I did very well. Then came this one, which has been an absolute disaster. It's ...
I've got Your Number (1)
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If I've seen it once (1), I've seen it one hundred (100) times: lawyers spelling out numbers then following them with the Arabic digits in parentheses. Why would anyone do that? I've heard some suggest it makes things clearer. My guess is the only reason they do that, is they've always done it that way. I want to know who's really going to confuse "one hundred" or "100" if either one is written by itself? ...
The Million Dollar Long Bet (1)
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Originally posted in ct2 Warren Buffett recently bet an ambitious hedge fund operator $1 million that they won't beat the returns of S&P 500 after their extremely hefty fees are accounted for. Buffett claims investors will do as well with a no-load index fund over the ten years of the bet. He has long been critical of the performance claims of hedge funds, and his bet is intended to put his money where his mouth ...
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