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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Post 35078
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- Grateful Palate
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  - http://www.gratefulpalate.com/?p=Category_11
  - - awesome
    - bacon
    - best
    - christmas
    - club
    - delivery
    - gift
    - monthly
    - zomg
  - Posted by vito
  - at half past ten in the morning.
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Post 35074
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- qcjeph: Postmodern Image Macros
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  - HTML page
  - http://qcjeph.livejournal.com/86739.html
  - - image_macros
    - lolcats
    - postmodernism
    - wtf
  - Posted by vito
  - at half past five in the evening.
Monday, November 26th, 2007
Post 35052
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- <vito> "I can't figure out this whole timestamp thing. I can't figure out the date format."
  <vito> "I don't understand how dates work."
  <vito> Telling you guys things I hear devs say isn't violating NDA, right?
  <bai> well we're hardly planning on stealing your company's inherited stupidity and using it for our own personal gains
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  - - irc_quote
    - dates
    - developers
    - overheard
    - timestamps
    - work
  - Posted by vito
  - at half past two in the afternoon.
Post 35051
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- “So what I'm advocating is a game-changing, post-revolution environmentalism. Don't waste resources, sure. But if we're spending resources to shift the status quo - feeding pandas into a wood-chipper to send a colony to the Moon, if that's the kind of engine that we invent and that's what it takes - then I'm behind it.”
- — Matt Webb
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  - http://interconnected.org/home/2007/11/11/i_read_the_space
  - - engine
    - flight
    - future
    - moon
    - pandas
    - power
    - quotation
    - space
    - travel
  - Posted by vito
  - at quarter past two in the afternoon.
Post 35045
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- YouTube - Amazing Liquid
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  - - cornstarch
    - vibrations
    - wtf
    - xkcd
  - Posted by vito
  - at quarter of one in the morning.
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Post 35020
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
Post 34990
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- <vito> were all the bloggers down on the ipod when it first came out?
  <vito> or did we not have blogs back then
  <vito> I remember Slashdot being down on it
  <luser> don't recall, you're right about slashdot being down on it
  <luser> "iPoop... iCry. I was so hoping for something more."
  <luser> "Great just what the world needs, another freaking MP3 player. Go Steve! Where's the Newton?!"
  <vito> BusinessWeek called the Kindle the iPod of books and I think everyone's forgetting that the original iPod was kinda assy, and the current rev, several years later, is orgasmic or whatever. I think the Kindle is the first-gen iPod of ebooks. It'll jumpstart the market just like the original iPod did.
  <vito> Everyone's comparing iPod of books to the current rev, which is dumb.
  <luser> "hey - heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up? or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm?"
  <vito> haha
  <luser> way to be prescient, albeit completely wrong
  <luser> "$400 for an Mp3 Player! I'd call it the Cube 2.0 as it wont sell, and be killed off in a short time...and it's not really functional."
  <luser> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
  <luser> One of the "Top Five Worst Tech Gifts to get for Christmas in 2001" - TechTarget
  <vito> the original ipod?
  <luser> apparently
  <vito> that's classic
  <luser> so yeah, i think you're right
  <luser> people forget that it took some time for the ipod to take off
  <luser> they didn't break 5M units sold in a quarter till like 4 years later
  <luser> yeah
  <luser> ok, like 3 years i guess
  <luser> first data point is Q1 2002
  <luser> but they don't break 10M total sales till Q1 2005
  <luser> then they sell like 80 million in the next 2 years
  <luser> also i don't know that kindle will necessarily be the next ipod
  <luser> but it's certainly too early to write it off based on the first model
  <luser> especially since i'm sure amazon has lots of money to continue development
  <vito> well, I think the whole sony reader is a portable book, kindle is a portable bookstore thing is important. I don't think Sony is going to make an ebook walkman, and you've got Apple with the wifi music store now.
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    - amazon
    - apple
    - ebook
    - future
    - history
    - ipod
    - kindle
    - prognostication
    - reader
    - sales
    - sony
  - Posted by vito
  - at half past three in the afternoon.
Post 34988
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- “A few years ago, the company I work for decided that I was such a good programmer that I had to stop doing it immediately. I was now to tell other programmers what to do, using all the social delicacy and interpersonal self-confidence I'd built up over two decades sitting in a dark room and staring at a monitor.”
- — Greg Knauss
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  - http://blog.eod.com/post/18462877
  - - management
    - programmers
    - quotation
  - Posted by vito
  - at half past three in the afternoon.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
Post 34965
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- “I'm in a faraway place. But I'm all right because you're coming to rescue me.”
- — Princess Peach
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  - http://project.ioni.st/post/1818#quote_1818
  - - absence_makes_the_heart_grow_fonder
    - love
    - quotation
    - romance
  - Posted by vito
  - at quarter past eleven in the morning.
Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Post 34928
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- “I have, to some degree, underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a check written.”
- — Nicholas Negroponte
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  - http://laptopmag.com/Features/OLPC-XO-We-Gave-1-Got-1-to-Africa.htm
  - - business
    - international
    - olpc
    - quotation
  - Posted by vito
  - at half past ten at night.