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They should be embarassed about asking you to give your password over the phone.

I get a blank page for some reason, even after enabling everything with NoScript.

I think you overestimate CS students.

It doesn't matter what you sell. What matters is how you sell it.

Case in point, Joe Ades with his vegetable peelers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCUct4NlxE0

Going to all this trouble to create accounts and upvote, then making empty blogspam-like comments... seems like a waste.

I think more and more people will rely on Google for navigational queries.

"Hey you should really check out this awesomestuff.sfdj website"

"I'll look at it when I get home."

... later in the day:

"Hmmm was it awesomestuff.com or awesomestuff.me ..."

"Let's ask Google for a link to awesomestuff"

There is a confirmation step mentioned, you could choose an alternate identity then or generate a random one just for this site.

I've watched a couple episodes of that, was quite entertaining. I remember the Greek title on a Japanese series caught my eye.

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They can get considerably less data if you don't have Javascript enabled.

How about on the internet? If you can't find 5 prospective users online, then quite likely you don't have a market.

I wonder if this concept could somehow be applied at a microscopic level.

There's a whole lot more of these actually. Here are a couple off the top of my head:

  - Meta refresh tags could be one.

  - Creating a form on-the-fly and submitting it via Javascript.

I'd say it's a fairly clearly-stated argument.

I'm a premium user on Newsblur and higly recommend it. I've tried about a dozen RSS readers and it's the one I like best so far.

I'm not a big fan of the original-site-view myself but I suppose it can come in handy sometimes. The addition of the API is quite welcome, opens up a lot of new possibilities.

Anyway, give Samuel some money so he can keep working on Newsblur, it's awesome.

And after you connect with your FB or Twitter, it asks you again for an email/password combo.

For those that don't know Werner, he's the kind of guy that says "It's not a significant bullet" after getting shot with a pellet gun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXqc8TQ15w

I've recently enjoyed several episodes of the Vanguard series. There are full episodes of the first 3 seasons available on YouTube:

http://current.com/shows/vanguard/

http://www.youtube.com/show?p=8NtSYAZY9Y8&s=3

On a similar note, The Vice Guide to Travel:

http://www.vbs.tv/watch/the-vice-guide-to-travel

Adam Curtis is the creator of various interesting pieces. Some of his documentaries are mentioned in this thread:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

I've also enjoyed many of Werner Herzog's films.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog#Filmography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounters_at_the_End_of_the_Wo...

The Yes Men are quite entertaining.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yes_Men_Fix_the_World

http://theyesmenfixtheworld.com/

Man on Wire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire

Cocaine Cowboys.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine_cowboys

Tumblr also has some other awesome features you may not have noticed.

My favourite is tag pages only up to 15. So if you have 300 items under a given tag, you can only sort of see 225 (at 15 items per page).

Why are we comparing everything to a ponzi-scheme lately?

"The essence of that critique is that Amazon is just buying customers, and that once it runs out of the money to do so the Ponzi scheme will collapse."

That makes no sense if you ask me.

How about Dirty Jobs? It covers so many niches.

Well yeah that's sort of obvious. Frankly, I'm surprised that so many people will readily equate their lactose-intolerance to dairy being somehow evil.

Do cows only make milk for our enjoyment?

Do all the shops you've included provide a datafeed for affiliates?

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_Linux

"Cooperative Linux, abbreviated as coLinux, is software which allows Microsoft Windows and the Linux kernel to run simultaneously in parallel on the same machine."

If you'll allow me to pull a quote from the article, I think it would be interesting to discuss. Satoshi said this in the thread where he was introducting Bitcoin at the Cryptography mailing list:

"I actually did this kind of backwards. I had to write all the code before I could convince myself that I could solve every problem, then I wrote the paper. I think I will be able to release the code sooner than I could write a detailed spec."

http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg099...

By the way, if you only want to look at one or two projects, Open Transactions and Ripple are the most interesting imho.

I remember they were planning some sort of digital currency but it seems I've confused it with Liberty Reserve. I first got involved with e-gold and other digital currencies 6-7 years ago and with so many of them coming and going, I guess my memory is a little hazy on the area.

Good catch.

Indeed, this is not what I expected. I expected something with a web GUI. Then I remembered I've already seen this:

http://www.springwise.com/food_beverage/delmioorto/

You choose what to grow with a GUI, someone grows it for you, picks it and delivers it to you.

Why do I have to enable websockets on Firefox 4? Perhaps using a websocket library that is compatible with older browsers might be a good idea.

It's called Eagleland Osmosis.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EaglelandOsmosis