"The opposition lawmakers then used at least one sledgehammer and crowbars to tear through the doors, only to be thwarted by piles of furniture thrown up as a second line of defense. ... Members of the opposition party were sprayed with fire extinguishers from inside as they tried to enter a parliamentary committee room." Now that's politics.
- Casey Muller
"Bloglines will be down from 12/05/08 9PM PST to 12/06/08 9AM PST." 24 hours of downtime? Is that really acceptable for a web service of their size? And is that a fail house-in-a-box?
- Casey Muller
It's only half as bad as you think. 9PM to 9AM
- Benjamin Golub
"Besides their impressive resumes and political star-power, a few of President-elect Barack Obama’s top cabinet choices have something else in common — hoop dreams."
- Casey Muller
My two takeaways from this photo collection are that Obama can go right even though he's a lefty (assuming he made that layup), and he should definitely wear sunglasses as Diplomat-in-Chief for the intimidation factor.
- Casey Muller
Such wondeful photos and they make me realize that I want a president who is not only smarter but more atheltic than most people......
- Michael Muller
rumor has it that W. is actually pretty athletic. He can bench press some improbably high sum...
- Ryan
"Exactly two years ago, SurveyUSA completed interviews with 600 voters in every state (30,000 total interviews), asking them how they would vote in a 2008 Presidential Election between John McCain and Barack Obama."
- Casey Muller
"Q: Why do you think [the DRE 700 has captured 100% of the vote in districts that use electronic voting machines]? A: I think the people who have used electronic voting machines before are just more comfortable having one as their president."
- Casey Muller
Obama Undertakes Presidential Internship To Ease Concerns About His Lack Of Experience | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/content...
"... we launch Labs for Google Apps, a place for us to deliver cool new experimental features to our Google Apps enterprise users. ... We also intend to eventually open up this platform to all App Engine developers, so that new and existing software vendors can build easy-to-consume software for the million-plus businesses using Google Apps today." Great move by GAE.
- Casey Muller
"[Michelle] asked her big brother to check [Obama] out on the court... As they played at a local gym, Robinson discovered the new boyfriend was a smooth athlete who -- fittingly -- tended to fake right and go left. Obama displayed none of the trash-talking or selfishness that often comes with pick-up ball. His quiet confidence, his team-first attitude -- Robinson liked all of that. But there was something even better.
'I was like, all right, this guy's going to pass the basketball to me every time because I'm Michelle's brother,' he recalled. 'He didn't. He just played. It was great.'"
- Casey Muller
Casey's grandfather, a lifelong basketball nut, was over the moon about this article when I gave it to him to read.
- Michael Muller
This is the disturbing, pessimistic, Argentinian advice on surviving after an economic disaster that Jon Perlow and I were talking about during lunch
- Casey Muller
His final advice: if SHTF, consider moving out of the country. He should have mentioned that before all the other survivalist stuff! A sobering read about life in Argentina, nonetheless.
- Private Sanjeev
"In our new, experimental real-time view, comments and posts will appear at the top of your feed as quickly as they arrive."
- Casey Muller
sorry- didn't mean to delete the comment you're referring to, Kevin - was about to move it to the feedback room
- Robin Barooah
(restored comment) and -- nice as it is already, may I politely suggest using a solid background shade for the speech bubbles instead of an outline. The visual noise of all those horizontal lines is breaking my head.
- Robin Barooah
I saw this exhibit in London a few years ago, it's incredible. With google maps links it's even better. (I'm also loving Big Picture's new j and k keyboard shortcuts to move up and down.)
- Casey Muller
"We've added new methods that allow you to quickly find who has shared a given URL on FriendFeed."
- Casey Muller
In addition to being one of the most useful additions to our API since our initial launch, this post contains Casey's now infamous closing line "Remember, you can spell "happy" without "api", but only just barely!"
- Bret Taylor
"Good news today for people who like to use FriendFeed from the comfort of their favorite desktop or mobile client (like twhirl or Alert Thingy)... we've added to our API the ability to subscribe and unsubscribe from friends and rooms."
- Casey Muller