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guessing it's not through an official relationship w/ sfgate as their own search is powered by yahoo. - James Miao

Probably there are more conditions: 1) the query is navigational (e.g.: [youtube]); 2) the query is popular; 3) there are many query refinements (e.g.: [youtube u2]) - Ionut

@Joelle, ah but we're starting to see the "Everything must be free" philosophy come back around and bite us all in the ass. Google needs to move more ads, they need you to stick around their page longer. Just wait until Google misses an earnings call... - mikepk

again?! - Private Sanjeev

The advantage of a pickle is that it is preserved. That way it can be eaten well after the harvest. - Gabe

I should add that I use pickles all the time. - Gabe

I wanted to see this when it came out... but it didn't stay in the theaters very long. Please report back with whether it was worth renting. - Michael Leggett

apparently it is pants. was absolutely panned by the critics over here. plus i'm still smarting from HCs contribution to the star wars debacle... - Alex Gawley

@Alex, even if HC was the most gifted actor to walk the earth (which he isn't, for the record), nothing could have saved the giant turd that was Episodes 1, 2 and 3. - Ninjitsu Jason Huebel

"How did the citizenship rumor get started? Ironically, it began when the Obama campaign tried to debunk some other conspiracies. After Obama locked up the nomination in early June, low-level talk radio and blog chatter peddled rumors that Obama's real middle name was Muhammad, that his father was not really Barack Obama, and that he was not really born in Hawaii. The campaign released a facsimile of Obama's certificate of live birth. Requested from the state in 2007, the certificate reported that Obama was, indeed, born in Honolulu at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961. The certificate was a bullet that didn't put down the horse." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Ha! The sheeple that think Obama was born in America are probably the same ones that think Bush had nothing to do with 9/11, the US landed on the moon, and the government isn't hiding extraterrestrials. - Gabe

I'm at a loss to tell the difference between young earth creationists and "truthers" and the loony Obama conspiracy folks. I guess there has to be room for excessively gullible people in a society. - Jeff Jones

"As for social disruption, Hanauer gave a quick summary of what he meant: —If everyone thinks it’s a great idea, it probably sucks. —If people understand it, you’re too late. —If people don’t like it and don’t understand it, it probably still sucks. So entrepreneurship is a dangerous field, he said. “The difference between being an idiot and being a genius is very, very thin.”" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

I found it on Friendfeed. - Jason Wehmhoener

Amazon was the first real real e-commerce business? Really? I get the feeling he doesn't understand why his own product succeeded. Amazon integrated user generated content and community into product recommendations. That's what made them different. There were many large bookstores on the net before Amazon. - todd

"You can now initiate payments via twitter. For example, tweeting "p @ev $1 because twitter is fun" would send $1 from your Tipjoy account to @ev." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

@Gregory I couldn't agree more - Ivan Kirigin

Gregory is right on the money. - Sean McBride

"Watching her take the pistol from her belt, unbutton her jeans and slip into bed I somehow couldn’t quite equate the woman in my arms with the bodies I had seen in the local morgue, their heads shattered by gunshots at close range, murders she confessed to having committed. High on a combination of the heady tropical climate, local rum, grade A cocaine and in the arms of nubile 22-year-old, fantasy and reality became blurred. It felt like I was living in a Quentin Tarantino movie." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"“When I killed the first person, I was afraid, I was scared. I killed the first person just to see if I could. But there is an obligation to kill. If you don’t, they kill you. That’s why the first was very hard, because the person I killed was kneeling down begging, crying and saying, ‘Don’t kill me. I have children.’ That’s why it was difficult and sad. But if you don’t kill that person, someone else from the AUC will kill you. After the killing, you keep trembling. You can’t eat or talk to anyone. I was at home, but I kept imagining the person begging not to be killed. I shut myself inside, but with time I forgot everything. The superiors always say, ‘Don’t worry, that was just the first time. When you kill the second one, it will all be OK.’ But you keep trembling. “The second time is only a bit easier, but as they say here, ‘If you can kill one, you can kill many more.’" - bob

You've got to admit, there's really no profession sexier than assassin! - Gabe

"Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers." -Jim Finkle, Reuters - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

This has been going around for a while. Scary indeed. This raises a whole host of issues about abusing the power of "trust" that people develop inside monocultures. In this case, both the Facebook and Windows monocultures, but it would apply equally elsewhere as well. The very conditions make us feel safe (as users, as developers) within closed systems are also vectors for increased risk. - DeWitt Clinton

Continuing in my hunger for all things SSD. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

This is the ssd I've been waiting for. - Scott Ludwig

Here's a video demo of Micron's new SSD PCIe card: http://friendfeed.com/e/b3c3ae... - imabonehead

"He came off as more bearish than Roubini last night in this latest Charlie Rose interview, and advocates only putting on "bi-modal" trades where you use a small percentage of capital to place "black swan" type option bets on out of the money strikes, so to speak. But he has kept lots of dry powder, 80%-90% in cash and equivalents, at the remainder in risky investments. He does not like "medium risk" investments, because they probably are higher risk than you think." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Greed and lust make the world go round. :) - Chris White

fear and greed .. it is just that they have become suicidal, so simple selfishness dictates that we become a bit more selfless .. it is gradual, will play out the rest of our lives, but we will see a big jump in the next three or four years, sort of like the late 60's early 70's started so many of the memes we now are perfecting, ecology, recycling, gender and race equality, healthy food, mass communications. etc etc ... - Gregory Lent

The first photograph ever taken. - Stuart Forsyth via Bookmarklet

The way this doesn't seem to faze the Venitians is amazing. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet

Cool, but very sad as well. Venice will be gone very soon :( - Juan Pablo González

@JPG: Why ? I thought the flood protection barrier will be in place by 2011. Or have Venetians heard that before ? - Andy C

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