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1. idiots... they might as well have walked stright to the police station and turned themselves in. - Matt   - 12/12/2008

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1. this whole "outrage" was ridiculous. anyone who though Motrin's commercial was offensive or insensitive is a crybaby and should go stand in the corner. - Matt   - 11/18/2008
2. i sometimes wonder if these people could find the corner! life is to short. - MageThufer   - 12/13/2008

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1. Yeah, that looks pretty dangerous. And straight out of The Running Man. - Dave   - 11/16/2008
2. I can't help but be reminded of this blast from the not too distant past... http://www.shyftr.com/item/?id=8750367 lol - Matt   - 11/17/2008

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1. I can't wait for 3.1... i sure hope the add-on developers heed this call (could this be the harbinger of an earlier than expected release?) - Matt   - 11/14/2008

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1. grrrr.... this game is addictive! Needless to say I am under the impression that this game's impossible badge is likely to elude me for some time to come... - Matt   - 11/14/2008

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1. I knew there was something I liked about him. - Matt   - 11/12/2008

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1. Only $4 Billion. A valuation plenty of publicly traded companies would love to have. - Dave   - 11/12/2008
2. Only? I think $4BB for a company that burns through money faster than the US Mint's de-circulation department is pretty nice... - Matt   - 11/12/2008
3. Was a joke. It's still a huge valuation. - Dave   - 11/12/2008

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1. Ooooooh... this news is almost as good as my morning coffee! I will be checking this out and updating with my report. (I do love Coda.) - Matt   - 11/12/2008

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1. I have still never seen a Virgin plane in my life...am I missing something? I guess I don't ever make it over to their side of the airport. Southwest/JetBlue ftw? - briansolomon   - 11/10/2008
2. lol... come to think of it, me neither... only on TV and stuff... hmmmm.... conspiracy perhaps? - Matt   - 11/10/2008

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1. I wonder if that hurt? Looks like it did!
   Oh yes that's right it did hurt all 4 hours of it! - Sarah   - 11/10/2008
2. but i'm guessing it was worth it... it's a pretty badass tattoo. - Matt   - 11/10/2008
3. ouch... nice but ouch! - MageThufer   - 12/13/2008

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1. wow. what an enormous accomplishment. - Dave   - 11/09/2008
2. wtg Apple. - Matt   - 11/09/2008
3. iPhone nano, please. - briansolomon   - 11/10/2008

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1. A huge increase in "use", possibly... a huge increase in "user-base", I doubt. Basically, the people who are already AT FriendFeed might sporadically activate this feature, but this will not "reach across the aisle" so to speak... If you ask Twitter why IM is not coming back they will tell you flat out, not that many people used it... so what makes FriendFeed think they will be any different? (FriendFeed different than Twitter?? ... oh lord, nobody tell the giant herd-of-lame that participated in those "TwitOut"s where they would all go to FriendFeed for the day and pretend it was even half as cool as Twitter...) (Sure, maybe a larger PERCENTAGE of their users will use it.. but they have a pittance of the amount of users that Twitter has... so perhaps all the IM users from Twitter* are comfortably settled into FriendFeed and they will ALL use it.... but I'm gonna go ahead and doubt it.)
   
   *I used IM on Twitter when it was alive and I am anything but comfortably settled into FriendFeed... (though I wish I would have been, so I could now be cool and "quit" FriendFeed... but oh well.) - Matt   - 11/08/2008
2. I was a Twitter junkie, until they axed IM. The updates seem stuttery without it, and then it disrupts my workflow, with IM everything just clicked along smoothly for me.
   
   I can definitely see how I can make more use of Ff with IM now. - thattalldude   - 11/08/2008
3. @thattalldude I loved the IM at Twitter, too... And unfortunately IMIfied is really sparse and unreliable, most of the AIR Apps are a much better option but I don't want to open an entire application just for Twitter... I miss having IM on Twitter for all the reasons you said... (i'd pay a small fee to have it back even) - Matt   - 11/08/2008

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1. From the article linked to within this one ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27560168/ )... "When Daniel Skripka started to find downtown Minneapolis too expensive, he checked out the suburbs, and settled on Chaska, which has a municipal wireless Internet network that costs him $18 per month."
   
   ... I would like to see a lot more municipal internet providers like this... I used to live near Chaska (in Shakopee), but we did not have municipal wireless for $18 a month, lol... I think the government owes us one of two things... A.) access to municipal boradband in the home (including voip service for telephony) or B.) stricter regulation of enterprise service providers to ensure that the telecom monopolies get broken up. With the exception of the few massive metropolitan areas the whole of the country is forced into a single choice for far too many utilities... Broadband, sanitation, electricity, etc... for a country that is founded on an economic system that thrives on competition it sure seems strange to me how the things we actually *NEED* to survive and participate in society give us absolutely no choice... if i have to pay my earned money for something I would like to be able to demand a choice. (I'm talking to you Comcast, X-Cell energy, Waste Management... the axis of evil as far as I'm concerned.) Imagine being forced to use a specific search engine based on the region of the country in which you lived (California gets Google, Colorado gets Ask, New York gets Yahoo, etc.) ... it would be unacceptable and consumers would refuse to allow it... by and large consumers in this country have totally forgotten that THEY are in charge, not the corporations... tsk tsk tsk. Capitalism relies on consumer choice to drive competition in order to be a true success. What has happened around here is a travesty.
   
   p.s. DSL is not broadband... Qwest being allowed to call it Broadband is just another example (along with the anti-trust violations illustrated above) of how federal laws that have been set up to protect consumers are spit upon and ignored by big-business with no consequence. - Matt   - 11/08/2008

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1. Didn't IBM sell their consumer hardware business to Lenova a while back? Maybe they compete in the server market where IBM has fantastic products. But for the most part, these days IBM is a services company. - Dave   - 11/08/2008
2. ok.. sure, the "never has" aspect is arguable... but the reality is that IBM in it's current state (the state pointed out by Dave) does NOT compete with Apple... the two companies could not be more different. although, be warned, this headline is pretty much link bait because the "story" is not new, it's 25 years old... so don't expect Paczkowski to bring you any dirt this time around... just another pathetic swipe at a deal that gives Papermaster a position he is not only very qualified for but has obviously earned... if IBM wanted to keep him so bad they should have made sure he was in a position that he would never want to leave... you treat your employees badly and they will leave you, the end. Even if he had left IBM for a direct competitor I would say the same thing. Boo-hoo for IBM. - Matt   - 11/08/2008

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1. sweeeet.... (and Twhirl is supposedly XMPP enabled now so this should make that app a LOT more interesting...) - Matt   - 11/07/2008

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1. Howard Stern is starting to show his age... hehehe... The truth is, Howard Stern is not a fan of MySpace because he can't charge you to view his MySpace page... it has nothing to do with time management and everything to do with Howard being an aging relic in a world that is moving beyond his comprehension. It's almost sad... he could be very popular online (resulting in more success offline... but, i guess it turns out he's a moron... oh well... his loss... I'm fine with getting my "radio" programs from Leo Laporte. ) - Matt   - 11/06/2008

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1. For this picture to have been taken from the ground here on Earth is nothing short of amazing! - Matt   - 11/06/2008

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1. Holy cow. 17 terabits per seconds. Pretty exciting to think about the kinds of services that could be pushed through that kind of bandwidth - Dave   - 11/06/2008
2. Very impressive... Corning sure has set itself up to become a big player in the future of the net... then again, we knew this would be the case mid last year when they announced their ability to create a fiber optic that could turn corners... (this, of course, being what makes Verizon's FiOS service possible.) - Matt   - 11/06/2008

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1. I thought the "hologram" was stupid and unprofessional... it looks like garbage: choppy visuals with a ghastly blue halo around the individual... i think we have all seen enough digital video overlay work to know better than to actually call this "technology" a hologram... wolf blitzer did NOT see the woman (or Will.I.Am for that matter) standing there like we saw it... that was done in real-time-post-production (oxymoron, i know.. but that's what i want to call it) using nothing more than a digital overlay of video on video... John King did the same thing with Cambell Brown at the desk when he brought up the Capitol Building and showed the congressional race graphs... it was just a 3d graphic laid on top of the live video feed, not a magical hologram. People are so gullible it almost makes my stomach hurt. - Matt   - 11/05/2008

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1. Remember to check this widgets page. We add the occasional goodie in there (like the "Pocket Toolbar Button" that I used to both pocket this page and leave this comment! ... get yours here: http://www.shyftr.com/embeds/?pocket ) - Matt   - 11/05/2008