Glen Campbell

Oh that looks tasty. - Mathew A. Koeneker

You can tell what Im thinking about - Shevonne Polastre

The garbage products I will no longer buy from Apple include ones in which I am forced to stand in line over an hour to purchase, have battery lives so short you will be required to purchase additional power chargers for home, office, car, boat, etc, and that after 2 weeks of using them (and honestly, really enjoying it so far except the hideously long backup times) demand factory restores. Those garbage Apple products. - Pete Delucchi

I said this? I'm a complete iPhone zombie now. Love the thing. Go figure. - Pete Delucchi

I've never had any problems with an Apple product that I bought. Now that is only two, an 30GB iPod Video (had since spring 2006) and the Macbook Pro I just bought. - Mathew Ballard

This puts a lot more pressure on FF users. You are actually a source of happiness in the world. I promise to do my best. - todd

Well. There you are then. - Glen Campbell

I am a happy chappy mostly - Ian May

"The happiness of an individual is associated with the happiness of people up to three degrees removed in the social network. Happiness, in other words, is not merely a function of individual experience or individual choice but is also a property of groups of people." - todd

happiness is contagious, research finds .. a tweet from nicefishfilms today .. http://www.latimes.com/news/sc... - Gregory Lent

I wonder if there is a flip-side to this ... pissy, cranky, depressed, etc. will also ripple through the socnets - Nadine Schaeffer

Print to PDF and then print it from another computer - Glen Campbell

I second Glen - Shevonne Polastre

No thanks. - Trish R

Oh hell no. - Anika Malone

Oooh.. this and dart board for Xmas would be a great gift! - Chris W

Perfect stocking stuffer, or Secret Santa gifts! - Derrick

White Elephant gift!!! GREAT Idea! - Chris W

If I gave that to anyone around where I live, they would treasure it and think it was a serious gift. - Trish R

lookit all you haters... i obviously missed the election wars - Trish Haley

LOL - Anna Haro

She should just walk around with a rifle like that all the time, it's sure to bump her ratings. - Jason Wehmhoener

"Pre-drilled hole for hanging"... why does that point make me laugh? - Johnny Worthington

Put it on a dart board and I'd buy one. - Cecily

WANT!!! wait... is that Tina Fey? - AJ Batac

+5 cecily - tiffany

Waste of paper much? - Amanda H.

Oh, Per.........leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze - Ian May

I sense a dartboard target... - anna

Pre-drilled hole for hanging - for using a dart board? - Ian May

Do NOT want - BeeLing

@Ian ...don't you mean: "pre-drilled-baby-drilled"... .LOLz - .LAG

Bwah! Totally getting this for this year's White Elephant party. - Ayşe E.

Where's the moose? - Adriana

Well, I was looking for new covers for my dartboard. - Steven Perez

No. Not at all. - Chris Baskind

Yes - Johnny Worthington

Do you mean when setting up a domain or when typing a URL in the address bar? I try to set it up so either will work because so many people still don't know that www.whatever.com doesn't necessarily go to whatever.com. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

friendfeed doesn't use it anymore - AJ Batac

Yes. - Glen Campbell

I know... It just doesn't look right to me :( - Johnny Worthington

Both. - Ian May

@ajbatac I try not to use WWW anymore. - Czar

All of my sites are no-www Class B: http://no-www.org/faq.php?q=cl... - donato

Nope, I redirect www to no-www. - Andrew Trinh

LOL, nice Andrew. :P I'm not there... yet. Wait, you mean you make www.domain.com redirect to domain.com... I must be tired. I originally read that as you redirect www. to no-www.org. Hahaha. :) - donato

Nay. - Mona N.

Where possible, I try to make www and non-www go to the same place. However, some of my domains have non-www subdomains. - Morton Fox

If you're targeting an innovator, early adopter or even early majority crowd, then non www might be best, but you'll want www for any site targeting late majority and laggards. Also, pick one and stick with it - consistency is the key IMO. - AJ Kohn

Yup - Andrew Smith

mohomed=genieyclo started on the net at three years of age - Gregory Lent

I generally support both. Seems like putting the work on me takes it off the clients, which is always a win. - matthew john ernisse

When possible, I try to redirect www to non-www. But for some reason Google App Engine doesn't support naked domains anymore, so I'm forced to redirect the naked domain to www. Lame. - Guillermo Esteves

I don't mean to be all 'GET OFF MY LAWN' but what happened to the good old days where you had to type in 'www'... www.here.com = 'where'.'who'.'type'... I'm gonna grab some pudding - Johnny Worthington

I don't - rampantheart

no i usually just type the address without the www - (jeff)isageek

now i have to research what the difference is .. - Gregory Lent

No, and I wish it would go away. I make sure my sites redirect to cut it out. I wonder how much time is wasted by so many people typing and saying those three useless letters. - Nathan Howell

not in most cases... most will do it anyway in browsers for you.. so just typing robsellen.com for example http:// gets added anyway, on some sites, I have had to put www. too. rare tho now. :o) - Rob Sellen

Gregory, www.whatever.com is just another subdomain like blog.whatever.com, so in theory it can point to a separate site than whatever.com - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I make www redirect to the site that doesn't have www at the beginning. You can do it in your apache config. - Jason Huebel

God, I must be insane, I have mine redirecting the other way - Johnny Worthington

Johnny, that's what yahoo, facebook and google do too ;) - AJ Batac

We're not using it at work that much these days. However, my users, God bless them, will almost invariably start typing "www.," if I tell them to go to worksite.whateverourdomainis.edu. - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

Sometimes. One good reason to use www prefix is to prevent cookies set on main website domain (foo.com) from affecting subdomains (blog.foo.com or testing.foo.com). Been there, done that. - andrei_c

You should keep what ever Google has listed for your site. As Tina mentions, they are considered two different addresses. And who actually types the www? I just type sitename in address bar and hit cmd(or ctrl)+enter. - Andrew Smith

Andrew, you can use Google Webmaster Tools to tell them to index it with or without the www. - Guillermo Esteves

For one of them I do. - Mathew Ballard

I'll clarify. I recently reverted to using www. as a domain prefix because I can use a CNAME to reference a different host. With the raw domain name, I have to hard-code the IP address; if I have to move a domain to a different server, I just change the CNAME and don't have to keep track of all the IP addresses. I'm not sure if it's worth it however. One thing for sure, I *never* allow both the raw domain and the www.+ prefix; that's bad for SEO, for cookie-handling, and it doesn't work well with Wordpress. - Glen Campbell

Wait, you mean.... OMG, THAT'S NOT HIM? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

I preferred evil Scoble in Mission Impossible 3 - Mark Bean

Personally, I loved him in Boogie Nights. Especialy when he was trying to get into Dirk Diggler's pants. - Mark Wilson

I enjoyed his performance in 'Along Came Polly'. "Let it rain!" (while shooting a basketball that clanks off the rim) - Mike Doeff

Awww... Scoble and Forrest and a hooker just helped save Afghanistan! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Early career geek cred in Twister tho'. An under-rated performance. - Threepwood

good movie. good way to spend a couple of hours. - Morgan Haley

MAGNOLIA - Josh Haley

josh: hellz yes - Morgan Haley

Capote! - Logical Extremes

I was a big fan of his work in Empire Falls. Miniseries on HBO. Very good. - Aaron Krug

OMG wish there was a love link instead....almost spit out my beer which would have been very bad! - Joel Atetoomuch Martinez

I think Scoble was at his best in 'So I Married an Axe Murderer.' His later films were all derivative. - Ladybug Heather

and he tore it up as the widower-gasoline-huffer in Love Liza : http://piurl.com/sCC - Carlos Ayala

lol you guys are nuts - Monique

What about my nuts? - Mark Wilson

Magically delicious? Oh, that's your lucky charms. Sorry. I'm constantly confusing those. - Ladybug Heather

this is such a funny thread. I'm never going to be able to look at that actor again. Thanks guys. - anna

"Single malt whiskies have always held a treasured place in my heart. Ever since illicitly cracking open my father's musty wooden drinks cabinet, at an age when I shouldn't have been drinking anything stronger than a weak shandy, to decanter some of his prized Scotch, I've been fascinated by their smoky aromas and fierce taste. As an adult, my first experience of single malts came at university, when some friends and I acquired a bottle of Laphroaig, one of the peatiest and strongest Scotch whiskies." - RAPatton

I doubt I could learn to love whisky frankly. - Nation Hahn

Laphroaig FTW - Glen Campbell

"When nosing a single malt, make sure not to dive in too far because you will just get a hit from the alcohol rather than the whisky's delicate aromas. Spinning the glass will help release its aroma." While good advice, sniffing it with your nose will still deaden your senses due to the alcohol. You need to hold your nose up to the glass, and breathe in through your mouth, not your nose. You'll get the scent and you won't deaden your schnoz. Also, Bourbon4Life. - Mark Trapp

No way, Jose. Taste like cold medicine. But I do love hearing whisky drinkers talk about whisky. They make it sound so sexy. - Anika Malone

Now, I am lusting for some, and stupid backward South Carolina's liquor stores close at 7pm and it's almost 8.... - Ian May

I must say I am liking the new look. - (jeff)isageek

I can't decide - Pinksy

Clean, simple, the Google trademarks. (It's also looking a lot like Zoho) - Gary Burge

I think I prefer the new look, seems cleaner. - Robert Nelson

Needs a few Greasemonkey tweaks but overall it's better. - richrecruiter

looks cleaner but less usable to quickly scan things, due to the far lower contrast (no more blue highlight and menu background). Everything blends together on my screen. Will get used to it, i guess. The typography does not look harmonious, they ought to tweak font sizes and spacing a bit. - Joelle Nebbe

too much white! I would have loved to see it go in a different direction. - vijay

i got confused. i meant to like this one. looks cleaner for sure. i LOVE helvetireader script though. it kills - Cee Bee

+1 for Helvetireader! Lots of space and clean to the max. - vijay

I haven't seen the new gReader.. but you know what still looks gorgeous? Feedly. ;) - Phil Glockner

I don't like it yet. It feels sharp and poorly spaced. But I'll get used to it. - Glen Turpin

I like it. If you were new to reader this would be an easier interface to use, IMO. - Clay Newton

Me like, very sleek. - Kol Tregaskes

pretty much the only reason i use google reader instead of another web service is that it used to be fast (not anymore) and the social feed websites integrate with it. - Joelle Nebbe

It's too early to tell, Sarah. It does look -- *brighter* - Jorge Escobar

I like it, just hope a redesign means that they bring in themes. - Zach Chisholm

Any idea how to decollapse the navigation pane back again? I don't say a way to undo the evil that I did. - todd

I was expecting something drastic so I'm a little disappointed. Seems like more of the same with a little cleanup. Nothing offensive and certainly no major changes that make it bad. - Kenton

I'm inclined to say that the new Google Reader is much superior to the old GR. - Jamelle

Love the feature upgrades, style is a little stark for me. - Kamath ॐ

Disagree. I was so used to the previous version. But that's because I live there. - Louis Gray

I actually didn't like it when I signed in after getting home. Perhaps I was far too used to the previous look? It's practically always open in another tab. But I'm getting used to it, and it's not too bad.. - deepikaur

I like it, but I want to hide the "Friends shared items" from the sidebar. That's the one feature I don't use. - Larry Hudson

Like, but I also want to see which blogs you put in the B, C, and D-list, Sarah. :) - Matt Cutts

Looks sweet, but appears to show less articles on the screen at once. - Mike Reynolds

like the new google reader and i like sarah too - Zee.

Haven't seen it yet, as I use Feedly. - Grant Bierman

I like that I can now find the "Add Subscription" button without scouring the left-hand pane for 5 minutes - Craig Eddy

Still using Google Reader with http://helvetireader - Mark Bean

schweeet! ♥ it! - AJ Batac

@Mark - very cool link. Thanks! - Phil Glockner

no like. I'm a change resistant old man - Threepwood

It's seems much snappier! - Pras Sarkar

Works for me. An improvement. - Sean McBride

I think I can definitely get used to it. - Deborah Fitchett

Oh I remember Google Reader. That thing I gave up around 7 months ago or so when FriendFeed came on the scene. - Thomas Hawk

me like! :) - matthew hunt

WANT....so bad. But I'll some carrots instead. *sniff* - Anika Malone

ew - anna

Dude! Your Evil! Shit I need to go make some now. Crap. Crinkle frys too.. - Chris W

Chris is is the crinkle fries that seal it, huh? - Anika Malone

I'll probably end up eating light for dinner...soup and maybe half a sandwich, but a guy can dream, right? Unless you're anna. ;) - Derrick

Oh good lordy....My heart just stopped..... - Katie

It's my mission to bring fries to the FF forefront a la bacon and LOLcats. Fries are a true winner. - Derrick

eek! - Matt Musgrave

instant heart attack - Shey

Anika, crunchy crinkle fries FOR THE WIN! Notice I wrote it out.. Abbreviation didn't cut it. - Chris W

if you're gonna die, die with your chili fries on! - Morgan Haley

DO IT DO IT DO IT - Rochelle

become one of us.... - Glen Campbell

Join our cult. - Sparky

WalMart is supposed to have it for 99 bucks - Outsanity

?? for reals?? I don't see it on the website [citation needed] - Josh Haley

1) it's only 4GB and 2) it's still a rumor according to http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/... - Josh Haley

I don't have the iPhone but I enjoy the iPod touch. I don't like depending on a really bad battery in my cell phone that's why I went with the touch. Also I can't have anything small, I need lots of storage space, I couldn't find a iPhone with 32gb of space. My touch is a 32GB, but honestly I really want a iPhone or touch with 80 or 120GB. - Colide81 (James)

the only thing i would offer is that apple is the devil and too controlling. but their products and accessories are sexier than jessica alba in a thong. so it's your call (pun intended). my boss has an iphone and it's pretty smooth, but then again, he's in league with satan from what I have seen. happy shopping lemming boy - Morgan Haley

Con: If you're on the go a lot and frequently not near somewhere you can charge it, like the car, home, or office, the battery will die. Otherwise, enjoy! I'm using mine now, btw. - Pete Delucchi

Yep Pete just said my point better then me. If they put a better battery in then I'd buy it in heart beat, but ofcourse there's still the issue of storage size. - Colide81 (James)

how much time are we talking about Pete? (battery) - Josh Haley

I've heard mixed things on the battery. I've never had an issue with mine at all. Of course, I'm not doing hardcore hours-long GPS tracking or non-stop talking or anything. Just regular use. - Rochelle

DAMMIT HALEYS... Get thee iPhones post haste! - Johnny Worthington

LOL I'm hard core. I can make my touch last for about 4 hours when I'm on the net and listening to something at the same time. If I watch a video I turn the wifi off to extend battery life. - Colide81 (James)

the battery lasts 45 minutes. then it dies. then you have to fly to china to get a new unit. every time. consider this before buying. oh, and your kids will get ukus if you buy one. for eels. - Morgan Haley

Josh have you thought how you plan to use it? For me the touch was better cause of the storge, and I knew I didn't need the 3G with me so bad that I had to get a iPhone. - Colide81 (James)

Of for Pete's sake, just go get it! - Jim Jannotti

If you use it all day long like it's a laptop, it only lasts a few hours. For normal phone use, a day or so. If you don't touch it, maybe you could go a few days, but why bother then? - Pete Delucchi

DO EET! - Lindsey

Also no cut and paste on either the touch or iPhone. Apple may add it in the future but it's not at the top of the list. Where as my blackberry has cut/copy & paste. - Colide81 (James)

But if I had to choose based on design and ease of use between my blackberry and a iPhone I'd choose the iPhone despite no copy and paste. - Colide81 (James)

Well I have to go my iPod touch is nagging me that I am running out of battery life. Though I was listening to a podcast and played a game so that helped to drain the battery - Colide81 (James)

I sold my soul recently too and bought an iphone.. I keep running the battery dry every day :S Must stop touching shiney shiney.. - alphaxion

Jim, you have no idea!! I am dying to. - Josh Haley

Josh DON'T DO IT! ...........................There someone had to say it. - Chris W

josh, i'll give you a free bread maker if you DONT do it - Morgan Haley

Wait, Chris, this is all your doing in the first place! :p - Josh Haley

Morgan, SHUT IT! - Josh Haley

no copy and paste???? That's not good, James, that's just not good. - Josh Haley

No video capabilities either, Josh. - Anika Malone

Lack of copy/paste sucks beach balls, and is it at all possible for me to highlight and type over large amounts of text? I had lots of reasons why Mini and iPhone should not be joined, but when the opportunity to have an iPhone without indentured servitude (bka an AT&T contract), it took me only weeks to cave. It's fun tech. - MiɳiMagɘ (AlwaysMiniMage)

full disclosure - the company i work for does work for one of the automakers and has done work for the auto manufacturers alliance in the past - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

So they borrow the money today and declare BK on Tuesday? No thanks... - Mark VandenBerg

Well since we have such connections to the banks.. why don't we just give them a loan through the banks??? - Chris W

Thank you. And as much as I don't like this, they've been given loans before and have repaid them before they were due. People need to educate themselves and not buy into the media stupidity. - Anika Malone

here's the deal - i'm not thrilled about the whole situation either and the free marketer inside of me says - let them go through the pain, we know it will suck but it will be better on the other side - the rest of me says - you can't implement pure theory which is why we are not a pure capitalistic society with a completely unfettered free market - we recognize we must make trade offs between our values and economic expediency - in this case I think the situation warrants action - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I just wish, with all this bailout crap going on, people would stop talking bad about marxism/socialism/whatever. Admit that pure capitalism doesn't work, that way we all know where we stand and things will make a lot more sense. - ♫ Rahsheen ™ ★

agree @anika - and they need to STOP saying we are bailing them out on the backs of our kids for goodness freaking sake - its a LOAN - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

i totally agree @rasheen - I am and will likely always be a HUGE advocate for making sure that we always keep as close to the capitalistic side of the spectrum because i truly believe that it provides the best outcomes on balance - that said we have never been a purely capitalistic society because we have always realized that there are some things that do need to be done by the gov - even adam smith believed that - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

and it's an L-O-A-N that they may not be able to pay back. should we still make it? - tiffany

@tiffany personally I think we should because the potential harms of inaction far outweigh the potential harms of giving the loans. Do I think that not giving them the loans, letting them fall into bankruptcy, hundreds of thousands possibly millions of US workers lose their jobs EVENTUALLY provide the best economic outcome? Yes. Do i think its a worthwhile trade off? No. - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Marco, people will still purchase a car whether or not GM/Ford/Chrysler exist. The other companies left will increase production due to an increase in demand. An increase in production involves increasing the workforce and increasing the amount of parts produced by vendors. Many of the jobs eliminated by one company will be offered by another. - Mark VandenBerg

If they loaned me $7 billion I could survive until 2012 and pay it back. Really. - Glen Campbell

The problem being of course is that it is not a loan -- not in any normal prudent sense of the word. Loans are provided to those with collateral -- it assumes that what you have as collateral is worth enough to cover the loan. Worth implies that someone will be being to pay that amount for the assets. Those conditions do no exist here. - Brian Sullivan

According to the Senate hearing today: The market capitalization of the Detroit 3 combined is around $6 Billion. They are asking for several multiples of that. Kinda like getting $1 Million for a house worth $200K. And people are okay with this? - Mark VandenBerg

@mark a very succinct explanation of the macro level shifts in production and employment that are likely to occur - if that's all there was to worry about I'd be all for letting them go without the loans but there are a ton of considerations at the micro level that concern me - over a period of many many years i have no doubt that things would happen just as you've said but its how many years and what kind of damage we cause during that time that leads me to support the loans - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@brian how do you figure? i fully realize that the scale we are talking about is dramatically different but I can walk into my bank right now and get approved for a loan of several thousand dollar with nothing but the threat of harming my credit rating to serve as collateral - credit card are nothing more than mechanisms for providing access to rolling unsecured loans as well - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@glenn done $7 billion it is - come by first thing monday and we'll draw up the paperwork - remember, you said by 2012 now - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Marco -- I seriously doubt that -- you are saying with no asset as collateral you bank will loan you $200,000 plus? -- can anybody else here do that? No bank I have ever heard of will do that. - Brian Sullivan

Yes, it's a loan. But, and this a a big but, IT'S A BAD LOAN. It's a loan to companies not making it, and not showing any signs of getting to a place where they can make it. The nation would be better served handing out the (most recently) 34 Billion dollars we are talking about in the form of vouchers for "Big 3" produced vehicles to tax payers, so that they get an in flux of cash and a lot of us get new, US produced cars. At least we'd be getting SOMETHING for our billions. - Brian Norwood

These people just last week flew in, supposedly "hat in hand", to ask for money in their Gulfstreams. Clearly we are dealing with people who don't get it, and haven't got it for a while. - Brian Norwood

lmao no that's why i said thousands vs hundreds of thousands - but to my knowledge they haven't come to a decision on whether or not these will simply be unsecured loans or whether they will require something in return for them so it may be a moot point - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Brian, that's not a bad idea, but it will still reduce competition, and reduce the pressure on American auto makers to increase quality and make the best product for the money. If they're practically guaranteed that $34B in revenue, which isn't going to foreign companies, they will have less incentive to try to compete with those foreign companies. - klecu

@mark according to this http://tinyurl.com/6zjcjd in august of this year GM and Ford alone were worth a combined $17 billion - still depressing given their sales revenues - with all of the recent problems they may very well be at a combined $6 billion - but again traditional lending practices have little bearing on the factors that make me reluctantly supportive - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@brian - ok let me make sure I am understanding you -are you saying that the only reason (or even the dominant one) that US automakers have been forced to ask for these loans is because they have done nothing over the past several years to try and restructure themselves? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Well I said hundreds of thousands (and even that is probably at least a couple of orders of magnitude off) to get back to scale of what is being asked here. The few thousand loan is a easy -- the bank has already pre-cleared you as having the assets to support such a loan The big 3 have a capitalization value of 6-10 billion, they have liabilities of 60+ billion. Not sure what the breakup/bankruptcy value is -- but nowhere near enough to cover the liabilities. This "loan" will have a near zero effect. - Brian Sullivan

it is a handout if it is a loan at conditions no other business can get. - Joelle Nebbe

The only way out from under the liabilities is bankruptcy. It is not like the loan will allow them to instantly become competitive again. Even if they start producing "better" cars tomorrow it will be years before they gain the confidence of buyers back. They will be back in six months for more .. and so on and so on. - Brian Sullivan

was just giving you crap on the hundreds of thousands thing - look i don't disagree with anything you are saying - on paper it might be horrible but there are a myriad of other problems that aren't being taken into account. Would you agree that - on paper - every government regulation or involvement of any kind in the marketplace comes at the expense of the optimum economic benefit that can be derived on paper? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

@brian i have to agree with the auto companies on this one - you think sales are down now? just wait until one of them files for bankruptcy. Would you buy a car from a company in bankruptcy? Knowing that at some point you may need to call in the warranty or replace a part specific to that car that was made by a company that is indicating they may cease to exist in the near future? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I am not totally sure what you are getting at -- I am not against government regulation. I am just saying that calling this handout a "loan" is a perversion meant to pull the wool over the public's eyes. - Brian Sullivan