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"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

fascinating - Rahul Deodhar

"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

I've aggregated my set of completely slanted news articles here: http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/c... - bill giltner

It's bad times...... - yanchao

Ever ask someone you don't know really well - how's business? I stopped asking because the vast majority of the time all I've heard is "not bad" or "good". All around me I see signs that things aren't good. - Wayne Schulz

Wayne, I ask all the time, and I've been getting "not very good" or "things are slow" from cab drivers and shopkeepers, so while in general that is the response you'll get, it's not the one I'm getting lately. - Chris White

The semantic web is really interesting. But I think it will take some time before it "happens". I've been using the semantic interest network Twine for awhile...quite cool, although the semantics are still a bit rough at the edges. - Patrik Johansson

Hate it. - Sweyn via twhirl

Two things that I don't like. One is the Windows-y look and feel of the subscriptions area. The other: I used to rely on the colour in order to differentiate between read and unread articles, but now that they've lightened the blue, it's harder for me to do that. Instead, I have to rely on the boldness of the article's title. I guess it will take some getting used to. - Paul Grav

I'm with paul on that one, I used the colored backgrounds a lot - the font highlight needs more focus, i think it gets tired going through 150 feeds etc. - Joelle Nebbe

Why is it offensive? - Sofia Gkiousou

"who labelled the provocative billboard "appalling" and said it demeaned the holiness and meaning of Christmas." Oh give me a break! - Sofia Gkiousou

"So they pull up behind a state trooper to ask for his help in getting to the hospital. Do they get his help? They do not. They get a ticket instead, for $100, and have to wait while the cop finishes the ticket he was already writing for someone else. And after this woman in labor and her husband have been made to cool their heels and have been slapped with a $100 dollar ticket -- after all that -- the trooper tops it off by asking Jennifer Davis, the woman in question, to prove she was pregnant." - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet

Bad time to run into a black and white thinker. - Internet Strategist

Reading the original story, it seems to me that the cop was an ass, but these people were also rather stupid. She wanted to give birth 30 miles away, but when she went into labor they didn't set out to drive until her contractions were 5 minutes apart EVEN THOUGH IT WAS RUSH HOUR. They took their time arranging things, had they hurried then they would probably not have been in a panic on the highway. They are all irate now, but these people could have avoided all their problems by planning for things. - Joelle Nebbe

I really like Peoplebrowsr and think it fills the gaps so many people have been whinging about. - Nicola Quinn

No breakthrough:( - YaDuMMeR

It's very nice. Kinda reminds me of TweetDeck in the presentation. Now they just need to expand to some more of the social services. - R. Alexander Spoerer

But I do not like the new Reader - Threepwood

some themes can be added just as what had been done with Gmail. - pestwave

Missing the old google reader. We had just gotten to know eachother well. We were vibing. - Ebm

I think #3 is the #1 problem :-) - sixbit

Nothing says "I am stupid and have personal issues" like having most of your body tattooed. - Robert Miller

The pentagram on the forehead is a nice touch. - Mike Doeff

omg a bow tie tattoo on a guy with a huge pentagram on his forehead wtf - Toby Graham

right next to Larry and Sergey - Bob

What I like about S60 phones is their ability to sync with Lotus Notes (what I use at work). So, I think I will stay with Nokia. - Olivier CASTETS

@sociosophy I install apps on my S60, but not nearly as often as on my iphone or android phone. but thats besides the point, i'm a mobile developer, and my point is the the average person who has a Nokia doesn't even bother with the PC Suite or Ovi. - sixbit

So far, the commenters on my site _don't_ want Twitter and FriendFeed to go mainstream. Do you want to keep these technologies to yourself? - Louis Gray

i dont think it is a "we dont want it to go mainsteam" it is more of a "the technology isnt quite ready for it to go mainsteam, we couldnt handle all our friends and family and colleagues nattering on our feeds, we can barely handle the information flow at the moment". We need better filtering, a better way to have several spheres in parallel on these services. - Joelle Nebbe

(translating my previous comment in pragmatic speech:) I am happy to have all that crowd happily segragated on facebook sending each other quizzes, i dont want them coming on my FF and twitter. I love them to bits but they are, well, embarrassing! I don't want "what peanut character are you" on my friendfeed, and it will come with the mainstream - Joelle Nebbe

"i linked to it as well in the related links section of the post. great stuff. thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment" - Fred Wilson

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

It's actually slightly misleading as it just does a site:sfgate.com on Google. When I first saw it I thought that it would send you to their site using OpenSearch or something. Searching Google is probably better though since most sites don't have good search of their own. - Paul Buchheit

Many big sites have a search box like this one. http://skitch.com/zest/7w88/ro... - Larry Hudson

Judging by http://googleblog.blogspot.com... it's "when [Google] detect[s] a high probability that a user wants more refined search results within a specific site. Like the rest of [Google's] snippets, the sites that display the site search box are chosen algorithmically based on metrics that measure how useful the search box is to users." Not that that explains much of the how. - Scott from Canada