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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

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

nicely done, do you mind if I translate this post into chinese and let more see it? - pestwave

"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

Easier way! Wish it be an alternative to service like paypal. - K.D.

Nikos, it appears that you can set the visibility. I'm experimenting with it right now. http://bit.ly/BH5n Seems like an interesting concept but I wonder how much one can actually earn. It looks like top sites have gotten just over $100. But I did see Techcrunch with $629. - Jauder Ho

"You could go to Google. Or you could stay here and get straight to your answers." -Yahoo - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

:D , also, http://search.yahoo.com/search... - Hassan Ibraheem

Um ... I guess this is kind of the same boat as an ad for American Airlines when I search for United, maybe ... - Alex Power

heh, yeah, wow it was freezing the day I left! But less smog :) - Adam Lasnik

"Timebanking is a great concept. However, amazingly, the IRS also considers 'time banking' tax evasion. Apparently, if someone does something for you as a favor, you're supposed to log it as 'income' with wages charged at 'fair-market-price'!" - Danielle Fong

My Christmas present for Jed! - Jess Lee

Yeah, I really got to stop heading straight for the Friend Zone all the time. But I doubt I'll change anytime soon. - Victor Ganata

What a goddamn fucking waste of resources if this is really true. Unless you're proposing that Ann Dunham was not actually Obama's mother or that she was not an American citizen at the time she gave birth, it doesn't matter at all where Obama was born. Even if you are somehow proposing that for whatever reason, Hawaii is not really a state. I hope these people get fined onerously for filing such a ridiculous case. - Victor Ganata

"There are probably in thousands of potential greentech companies that could achieve profitability on 10 - 100 million. Probably the best example here is solar, as many companies already have achieved profitability, but there are tons of opportunities in fuels, materials, building technology, vehicle technology, water supply, agriculture, construction, data centers, refrigeration, industrial processes, road construction, and so on. There might exist companies you'd need to pump a billion into, but why attempt it?" - Danielle Fong

yes - Vezquex இ via IM

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

Intel's MLC SSDs kick some serious ass, but Samsungs are a good alternative. - Gabe

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

"I don't like the idea of properties, which strikes me as creating unnecessary ambiguity about what you're actually doing1. But, I do love not having to type as much boilerplate code. " -Will Larson. I agree with the sentiment -- elimination of boilerplate code seems like a pretty reasonable criteria for evaluating a language or language feature, and @decorators of all flavors can help with this. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

The great thing about C# property syntax is that they look like fields, but they are not the same as public mutable fields, because you can change the behavior down the road to do things like make immutable copies on get, validate values, or disable writes entirely, all without changing the semantics for the caller. Python has this too with property() and I use it all the time. - DeWitt Clinton

@DeWitt: So true. It's wonderful to have the *option* now in modern languages. In the cases where I've needed them, I've really appreciated getters/setters (and indexers, and default properties, and etc.). - Joshua Allen

I am that way about people changing (or not supporting) urls indefinitely. I think people iteratively implement technologies. It's easy to throw up an RSS feed, but it takes thought into tuning it to your app. What feeds do you use to access delicious.com, btw? (we can talk offline if you want) Our "default" feed at the moment is RSS 1.0 which I don't think supports GUID, but our RSS2 uses them... and I verified just now that they are unique enough and we don't plan on changing them any time ... ever? - Dave Dash

"Sufficiently perfect" was supposed to be a joke, but I didn't make my humor unmistakable enough. (None of this is meant as a slight on either Gabe or Dave; I'm just in a silly mood tonight.) - Bruce Lewis

I think it's mainly that stream-oriented processing of feeds is so different from normal web development, where the only history that reallly matters is not breaking links (and even then you can change urls if you leave redirects behind). Also, for a while the dominant consumers of feeds were snapshot-oriented (e.g. My Yahoo, igoogle), so there was little incentive to get GUIDs right. It's getting better, though. We're not seeing as many cases of GUID abuse now as we did in the early days of Google Reader. - Ben Darnell

"SimulationCraft is a tool to explore combat mechanics in the popular MMO RPG World of Warcraft (tm). It is a multi-player event driven simulator written in C++ that models raid damage and threat generation." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Google Code, WoW, event driven simulators, C++. What's not to like? - DeWitt Clinton

"Why are you focusing on acquisitions? There are profitable companies that remain private, like 37signals (plus ones you never hear about because there's no point in talking about how much money you make) and also IPO, which is rare but potentially huge. Google alone is worth $86B, at that IPO was only 4 years ago, so your "$10B in the past 5 years" number is clearly incomplete." - Paul Buchheit

It was surprisingly easy to add thumbnails to my site feed -- does anyone know what the generally-accepted max height/width is? - Tom Stocky

@Benjamin: The spec page also mentions that if multiple thumbnails are included it's assumed that they're in order of importance. It's not clear that having multiple (biggest to smallest) is the best way to deal with potential size constraints. Have you come across anything about max size? Does FriendFeed have a max size for thumbnails? - Tom Stocky

Tom: these numbers could change but at the moment if you keep the thumbnails below 525 by 175 px it will display in FriendFeed. Alternatively you don't need to provide a width/height if you only have one piece of media. - Benjamin Golub

Wait, we didn't get the memo...;) - Josh Haley

What a crew! - Ray Chen

I'm not in the picture. I took it...... .... .... . .(I'm the waiter) :D - AJ Batac