Ben Darnell

Saves money and gas. - Ashish

awesome! - Susan Beebe

A definite step in the right direction -to do something about environment, good to see a company do just that. - Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa

I did not noticed that this was originally posted in december 2008. - Ashish

Funny, I don't remember a Billy Idol muppet from when I was a kid... - Ben Darnell

Daylight savings time kills. One more reason to get rid of it. - Ben Darnell

I'd always wondered exactly how lightning "found" the tallest conductive object to strike. This slow-motion video shows how a lot of paths extend from the cloud (too quickly to be seen with the naked eye) before it settles on one path for the main strike. - Ben Darnell

"REST is Newtonian physics. XMPP Data Services: Quantum Mechanics & General Relativity" - ⓞnor

Paul - "polling doesn't scale" is definitely a generalization. But, at least in the case of FriendFeed's API, it does present opportunities for incomplete/non-contiguous data streams, which may be problematic for some API consumers. We've been discussing this on the API google group :) - Patrick Lightbody

OMG! BEN! :) - Jenna Bilotta

I'd rather pay directly for the media I consume instead of paying indirectly through advertising (which costs attention now and money later as a sort of tax whenever I buy an advertised product). Overcoming the difference between free and non-free is difficult, though (on both technical and psychological levels). - Ben Darnell

The foldable displays video is really neat, even if it is totally impractical as demonstrated with the fixed projector. I wonder if it would be feasible to make a wearable projector for something like this? - Ben Darnell

Bert and Ernie have been doing this for years: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ben Darnell