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Reads like the way to cure narcissism.
PayPal told us we are "in violation of PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy regarding (...) financial support to Wikileaks" and took our account. http://twitter.com/#!/wauland/status/10987193778569216
Unemployed people have talents like everybode else and someone should come up with an idea or program to collect, develop and channel those. I can't speak for other countries, but here in germany I see a lot of stuff that could be done if one could mobilize them.
Highly recommended:
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea... (2006)
http://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_bring_on_the_revol... (2010)
I just noticed this on last.fm, you may want to add z-index: 9999; to your "popOver" styles to fix problems where sites give their logos a z-index. Also, I'm missing a close/cancel button. Lastly, adding support for last.fm's format ("Saturday 22 January 2011") would be sweet.
So is there already a hn spreadsheet up somewhere where one could find a, say, rails mentor? :)
I was shocked to see that, when you are on paypal.com and click to register a new account, it routes you through some dubious ad network. Scary shit.
Saw this behaviour on another rather large site the other day, can't recall the URL though.
I'd wager that the average NoScript user has at least two machines, so the total number of NoScript users is probably less than 2.7 million. (http://blog.brandonbloom.name/2010/06/noscript-add-on-instal...)
If there is no competition, it is probably not a big enough market.
And it goes on. It's aimed at micropreneural business models but perhaps you can take some valuable insight from it.
Q&A Sites seem to be the answer of the problems that forums and wikis suffer from.
It took me about a week to feel really comfortable with it, but now I'm really glad I didn't give up. I still learn new shortcuts every other week.