Piaw Na

It's all the megapixels ! - Mo Kargas

The Olympus lines are getting smaller, and I love it. - Amit Morson

The 880 actually looks a little big as well. Might be a deal-breaker for me. But it's such a great camera otherwise. Sigh... - Jake

"We're losing for the same reason that there are still people who object to images on Web pages, much less Flash and Javascript." - Adewale Oshineye

"Here at the BBC, it's no secret that there was serious talk amongst management and some programmers about completely eliminating Perl internally. We couldn't... The fact that Ruby on Rails doesn't scale has helped." - ⓞnor

As a long-time Perl fan, this isn't a real 'Like'-- but the points are valid. - Josh

Perl dropped 0.86% and C went up by 1.31%. Really? PHP% up by 0.25%? Is this for real? Just makes me think that either I'm out of touch or these numbers are. - Robert Konigsberg

"So there you have it. If you want to achieve 50 years of almost continuous growth, you now know what you have to do: abolish management and get rid of all the employees." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

What's interesting is that they were sustainably this way for 50 years. My theory is that this can only happen if you grow slowly (i.e., not at VC-funded rates) - Piaw Na

off-topic: If you change the authorised = false to true in the URL, you don't have to register to read the article. Just a time and hassle saver if anyone's interested. :} - vijay

"So with the U.S. economy in a recession, Google is ratcheting back spending and cutting new projects. "We have to behave as though we don't know" what's going to happen, says Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt. The company will curtail the "dark matter," he says, projects that "haven't really caught on and aren't that exciting." He says the company is "not going to give" an engineer 20 people to work with on certain experimental projects anymore. "When the cycle comes back," he says, "we will be able to fund his brilliant vision."" - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet

"""Employees say they're unsure which products will make the cut.""" Yep. - Jon McAlister

growing larger .. must be some understanding of corporate scaling now that many have done it - Gregory Lent

OMG,really? - suso

It's a digital edit, but still very cool. - Tanath

It's obviously not digital because Bruce Lee's moves are impervious to photoshopping effects. - Derek Ward

Mitsubishi UFJ paid $8.1M to its top 14 executives. Morgan Stanley's CEO alone took home 5 times that amount -- $41.4M. - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

GM's CEO makes 16x the CEO of Toyota. And look where it got them... - Mike Brzozowski

In the case of C-level executives, paying less gets you more. Salary of Warren Buffet: $100,000/year. Bill Gates also worked for a ridiculously low sum of $300k, back during the hey-day of Microsoft - Piaw Na

Specifically this is related to the CEOs for banks, the auto industry, brokerships and mortgage insurance companies, but I'm sure there are many smaller examples that we just haven't heard about on the news yet... - Lindsay Donaghe

They structure their escape plan/parachute before they come forward asking for our help. - Steve Frick

I like Rasheen's solution. Seriously believe part of this is an old boy network mentality. CEO's I have met are either out of the loop or have too many yes men and poor advisors pecking about. - jlt

"Many Americans have abandoned their love of getting behind the wheel during the last year, and opted to hop on buses instead, according to a study released this week. Inter-city bus service jumped 9.8 percent between the fourth quarters of 2007 and 2008, the highest growth rate in more than 40 years." - Steven Perez via Bookmarklet

I'll believe it when I see it. - Piaw Na

"The first divorce directly related to the September 11th terrorist attacks has been filed in New York. It appears a guy with an office on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Centre spent the morning at his girlfriend's apartment with his phone turned off. He wasn't watching TV either. When he turned his phone back on at about 11am, it rang immediately. It was his hysterical wife, "Are you OK? Where are you?" He said, "What do you mean? I'm in my office of course!"" - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

oh WOW - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/a... - Simon

...oops? - Emily Miller

"The basic idea - from Buro Vormkrijgers - is genius: each minute the right side scores a point, and each hour the left side scores a point. The effect is that the score is the time." - ⓞnor via Bookmarklet

want - j1m

A dude at work is trying to build his own version. He thinks he can do it smaller and lighter, mostly because the parts have gotten better. - ⓞnor

I am reminded of a phrase my high school U.S. history teacher used to repeat all the time: "I didn't dick you. You dicked yourself." Talk radio, like the Republican party, will become a regional past-time. - Victor Ganata

This was a talk by Dan Ariely, author of "Predictably Irrational" (http://tinyurl.com/6kn3l9). He was also one of my favorite (and insanely smart) professors from MIT -- one of those people where every time I'm heard him speak, I've gotten smarter. He's now a professor of behavioral economics at Duke and has a blog at http://predictablyirrational.c... - Tom Stocky

site - Gregory Lent

Hm, hard to say for sure, but it looks like WordPress based on "page_id" in the querystring ... - Tom Stocky

Probably. :-) - Kol Tregaskes via twhirl

sharing is caring! :) - (jeff)isageek

I think some of the over sharing issue could be limited by the reader. I've been coding my own reader and designed it to ignore duplicate links. Since I subscribe to louis gray's blog any items from my shared feeds do not get in my reader since they are duplicates. I don't see why in other readers they can't auto mark read duplicate links from shared feeds. - Shawn McCollum

Wow. John Ziegler is incredibly rude and vulgar. - Robert Felty

I disagree with the characterization "Nate Silver embarrasses creator", though. The guy is completely shameless and therefore impossible to embarrass. - Ruchira S. Datta

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

omg, i don't like it, i love it! daily i get people asking me questions that i answer with a google query... can't wait to use this haha - Dan Bedford

I need a ubiquity script for this :) - Eitan Burcat

My life is complete. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

The trick: "You need to give people the freedom to spend and the freedom to make mistakes," says Takeo Fukui, Honda's 61-year-old president. "If management oversight is too strong, then it's difficult to innovate." - Rob Schonberger

The motto "to be a company that society wants to exist" brings to mind Kevin Kelly's recent post on the near future and whether we can create a vision of collective betterment that motivates people instead of galvanizing them with fear of others: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/... - Keith Pelczarski

I also liked their motto: "To be a company that society wants to exist." - Davide D'Incau

"And immediately, I thought of the sun. Happened like that. Overnight I became a sun-worshipper. Well, not overnight, you can't see the sun at night. But first thing the next morning, I became a sun-worshipper. Several reasons. First of all, I can see the sun, okay? Unlike some other gods I could mention, I can actually see the sun. I'm big on that. If I can see something, I don't know, it kind of helps the credibility along, you know? So everyday I can see the sun, as it gives me everything I need; heat, light, food, flowers in the park, reflections on the lake, an occasional skin cancer, but hey. At least there are no crucifixions, and we're not setting people on fire simply because they don't agree with us." 4F302++ - (@){ via Bookmarklet

"Back in the old days (pre-1980s), the term systemic risk did not refer to contagion of illiquidity within the financial sector alone. Back then, when the real economy was much more important than low margin, unglamorous banking, it was understood that the really scary systemic risk was the risk of contagion of illiquidity from the financial sector to the real economy of trade in real goods and real services. When central bankers back in the old days argued that banks were “special” – and therefore demanded higher capital, strict limits on leverage, tight constraints on business activity, and superior integrity of management – it was because they appreciated the harm that a bank failure would have in undermining the supply chain for business in the real economy for real people causing real joblessness and real hunger if any bank along the chain should be unable to perform" - Peng-Toh via Bookmarklet

even though my politics run left, I would love to see rational people like Schwarzenegger and Jindal take charge of the GOP. Leaving it a broken shamble of irrational haters will probably bite us in the ass big time in the future. - Victor Ganata

Yes, but that's not how Rush Limbaugh sees it. And you can bet it's the Limbaugh-listening wing of the party that's in ascendancy. - Piaw Na

I have no doubt that Limbaugh wants to bite us all in the ass in the future. :) - Victor Ganata

"Summers was deservedly castigated, but not for the right reasons. He claimed to be giving a comprehensive list of reasons why there weren't more women reaching the top jobs in the sciences. Yet Summers, an economist, left one out: Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States. This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet

This is by far one of my favorite articles about Science. As a society, we need to reward making things better than shoveling money around from one end of the table to the other and having some of that money spill into your lap. - Piaw Na

unless they are really passionate about science, the brightest mind are going into other careers. Men or women. Science careers arent paid very well, and, worse, the work organisation nowadays is highly inflexible and hierarchical - not something that suits the typical science mind. But the sexism in science was strong - when I was a physics student doing my masters there was not a single women professor in my institution, or its sister institution. And industry jobs were often not friendly to women either, with the excuse that men on the factory floor would not respect a woman.I noticed that and went into web development instead of doing a phd. - Joelle Nebbe

This feed doesn't seem to be available as an (audio) podcast - j1m

@nor, nice find. - Chris White

Agreed, good find. Here's the transcript of obama's address: http://change.gov/newsroom/ent.... Not as long or substantive as FDRs, but then again obama isn't president yet. I hope he can live up his promises once in office. - Evan Parker

"Ah, management is always quick to scapegoat the unions whenever something goes wrong. While I don't always agree with everything the unions do, I rather like my decent living wage on a 40-hour work week with weekends off! The small business I work for may not have a union but the examples set by the unions have helped us all. While my employer isn't required to provide us healthcare they realize that a healthy employee is a productive employee. If we had universal healthcare, a large part of the auto industry's costs would disappear. It's quite sad that unions have been continually demonized over the last few decades. Membership has been declining and so have wages for the average (non-union) worker. We now make, on average, $2000/year less than when Bush took office (while some CEOs make 500 times their lowest paid worker). I would posit to you that the domestic auto industry's problems stem more from bad management decisions than from giving their workers an honest living. For..." - Oliver Ortega Chua

My reply was long enough; maybe I should've started a new blog post! lol - Oliver Ortega Chua

"Michelle Rhee, the hard-charging chancellor of the Washington public schools, thinks teacher tenure may be great for adults, those who go into teaching to get summer vacations and great health insurance, for instance. But it hurts children, she says, by making incompetent instructors harder to fire. So Ms. Rhee has proposed spectacular raises of as much as $40,000, financed by private foundations, for teachers willing to give up tenure." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet