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killa. - Mohomed=genieyclo

Is this anything more than putting Darwin on an ugly box? - Simon Lucy

Hmm, complete with fans louder than hairdryers and jumbo jets (from what I've heard about it)? I'll take two! ;) - Tyson Key

Ronald keepin' that pimp hand strong. - April Buchheit

+1 April - Mark Wilson

Where's my money? Why aren't you out there ho-ing? - Aaron Hood

I always wondered about that... - Emily Miller via Bookmarklet

Oh dear, where is this food factory? - Robert Konigsberg

Heh, the first is probably merely chicken-flavoured. - Tanath

Anyone have one of these? Can you get it to upload from open wifi networks or only your own? - Benjamin Golub

@Shawn: I would think opening up the API is not going to make a big difference to your company; it just allows you to reach into the long tail of various kinds of uses that you either didn't think of or it's not worth implementing or it's some specialized use inside a business. For an example, cheap GPS phones can be used with accutracking.com, software that originally let delivery truck businesses track their trucks on a map. But that business is too small for the phone companies to spend much time on. - Amit Patel

I'd want to send photos directly to my own server using standard protocols. My server might be findable via DNS or by scanning the local net for a known MAC address (my laptop, my phone). I'd want to configure it by dropping text files onto the SD. Generally, I want to use the basic service of SD->wifi->server flexibly and without depending on (or giving my photos to) your company. But I agree with Amit. I don't expect all my wants to be worthwhile for you, and I don't want to wait until they are. - seth

"Officials at Stuyvesant High School told parents that they want to install metal detectors, but not because of concern that students are bringing weapons to school. The prestigious public high school simply wants to catch students who are breaking the Department of Education's ban on cellphones and are using them to text each other test answers. Principal Stanley Teitel said that the scanners would hopefully be installed during finals week in January. In the past, students at high schools that have metal detectors installed to combat them from bringing weapons in have griped about having their cell phones taken away, while students magnet schools like Stuyvesant can sneak them in unchallenged." - Dan Hsiao

"After a weekend of marathon talks between Citigroup executives and top federal officials, the parties late Sunday night nailed down a package in which the government will help protect the company from its riskiest assets. Under the plan, Citigroup and the government have identified a pool of about $306 billion in troubled assets. ... The plan would essentially put the government in the position of insuring a slice of Citigroup's balance sheet. That means taxpayers will be on the hook if Citigroup's massive portfolios of mortgage, credit cards, commercial real-estate and big corporate loans continue to sour. ... In addition, the Treasury Department also will inject $20 billion of fresh capital into Citigroup. That comes on top of the $25 billion infusion that Citigroup recently received as part of the the broader U.S. banking-industry bailout." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Jess: see http://friendfeed.com/e/3200bc... :) - Aviv

free market FAIL - Gabe

This comment left from inside Facebook. I don't know why I turned this off. Hey, I can add some friends, too. Some dropped out. Heheh. - Robert Scoble

The Facebook UI fails. It is not user-intuitive and really does not present relevant information to the user. I had a friend request hanging for a couple of days (long enough for said friend to ask why I was not accepting) as I really just did not see the request indicator. Somewhere along the way, "Keep It Simple Stupid" was beat over the head by "Flash, Razzle, and Dazzle". - Robert Miller

I've noticed that Facebook's JavaScript-based "application bar" fails to preserve state in a consistent manner, if you add an "application" to it whilst a page is loaded in one tab/window, and another page is loaded in another tab/window. Pretty grating. - Tyson Key

O_O... coool - Jαmes Cooρer

Sorry, I got them all beat, my workstation is better, http://friendfeed.com/e/7eb04f... - David Lynch

oh so many people likled it... woooah :) - Timo Heuer

"So how did Facebook help a 23 year old candidate in a district that was more than 80% age 35 and older? Parents." - fshamsi

"Since silver has fallen off a cliff and even its best producers have cratered, silver investors and speculators are feeling tremendous anxiety. Me too, this crisis situation is just unreal. Like so many things in these crazy markets, today’s horrific silver environment would’ve seemed impossible not too many months ago. So this week I decided to take a look at silver in crisis and see what insights we could glean." - Aviv via Bookmarklet

accept my friends request already :) - Ryan

We are watching a movie on Playstation now. My Xbox fans are so loud I never like using it. - Robert Scoble

Well tell them to go home, then! - WorldofHiglet

"At a board meeting yesterday, the Ludlum Elementary School in Hempstead — which was probably not named for The Bourne Identity author Robert Ludlum — was officially renamed Barack Obama Elementary School. We know people are excited about Obama and all, but aren't they jumping the gun a little bit? Maybe wait until he's actually the president?" - Dan Hsiao

If Obama somehow turns out to be a catastrophic failure, they'll wish they'd waited awhile. - Brian Chang

Not just more expensive, 20x more expensive (don't forget when calculating that gold is measured in troy ounces (12 to a pound) while fluids are measured in fluid ounces which are 16 to a pound (at a density of water). More: http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/per... - Kevin Fox

Agreed - Sofia Gkiousou

The cockeye.com list shows scorpion venom at the expensive end, but there are places you can get a dose for free with overnight delivery. - seth

"BringIt made the connection between the huge online gambling market and the exploding online gaming community, and has created a site where gamers can challenge one another with cash on the barrelhead." - fshamsi

Any info on Bringit's funding? - Cains

(For those non bay area natives, Oakland is 50 miles away from Sunnyvale) - Kevin Fox

Hey, at least it didn't go through Memphis! - Cyrus Lendvay

I once inquired at the Post Office as to why my movies were taking two days to get back to the Netflix facility 14 miles from my home. The reply? All mail in the northeast goes first to a routing facility in Boston (i'm in southwest CT). - Ryan Kaisoglus

The subject is a Hungarian model,.Eniko Mihalik, born in 1988. - Stephen Mack

Wow. Reminds me of the Dove Evolution video (youtube it). - Peter Butler

"One person who famously opposed Hillary’s presidential bid thinks she’d make a great secretary of state. “She’s smart and tough, a lot better than any of the old hacks like Holbrooke, Albright, etc.,” says David Geffen. “Barack Obama is going to run policy, and Hillary will be an effective communicator. It also takes Bill out of the game. It completely turns him into an ally — and probably a help to both of them. I think Obama is very smart to get as many smart people into the room as he can, to bring in Rahm and keep Lieberman and get Hillary into the cabinet. It brings an enormous amount of good will his way, and he’s going to need every ounce of it, given the wars and financial catastrophe America is facing. It’s getting bleaker every day. There are many, many, many more bubbles to burst.”" - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet

"A screencast for OpenCongress.org, an open source, collaborative website that helps citizens keep track of everything happening in Congress." - Chris Messina via Mento

GREAT Idea. Resharing here in the US Politics room: http://friendfeed.com/e/7e80ed... - Mohomed=genieyclo

why does clicking on this not work on the iPhone? I just get YouTube's homepage. - Michael Leggett

"Last week, President-elect Obama appointed Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, and Susan Crawford, who teaches communications and Internet law at the University of Michigan, to co-chair his FCC transition team. In preparation for his incoming administration, the two, both seasoned Net Neutrality advocates, will be tasked with providing information on U.S. government Internet and telecom policies, along with advising on budgetary and personnel matters. This is clearly good news for Net advocates, and as it happens, it could also be good news for online gamers. The Wharton professor is a hardcore World of Warcraft player, a member of two guilds..." - Dan Hsiao via Bookmarklet

I wonder what class he plays. - Jess Lee

Jess: there's a link from the "about" page of his blog (http://werblog.com/about/) to his character's armory page: http://www.wowarmory.com/chara... - he's a level 70 tauren shaman (he probably hasn't started playing WotLK yet). - Tudor Bosman

His gear is pretty good. He's a raider! - Jess Lee

"I got a chance to play a near-complete version of it today; it looks great. Fans of the series will recognize the SimCity 3000 look and feel, but the addition of touch screen controls makes sense for things like zoning (creating a certain type of building zone). Using the multi-touch capabilities of the iPhone to do things like zooming in and out of your city also makes the game a good fit for the device." - Steve Isaacs via Bookmarklet

@andrei - have some potentially promising news about the qik app as well, more on that later. - MG Siegler

i'm afraid my 4yro will diss a DS after playing games on my iTouch - jerobins

Coincidentally, I just saw this scribbled in a bathroom at MIT. - Mihai Parparita

"A man faces a domestic battery charge after allegedly hitting his girlfriend with a sandwich as she was driving on Interstate 95 on Friday. Police said the 19-year-old man became angry and hit the woman in the arm and face with a sandwich, knocking her glasses off. The victim nearly lost control of the car because she couldn't see the road and the man then allegedly ripped off the rear-view mirror and used it to shatter the windshield. The man was freed on $7,500 bail. Police haven't said what type of sandwich was involved." - Ana via Bookmarklet

Or a knuckle sandwich? - Robert Haas

"Police haven't said what type of sandwich was involved." <--brilliant piece of reporting. Thanks AP! - Jini