marilyn

Including a message to Kevin Rose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So5yDtITswY

Have you looked into outsourcing some your advertising space to a service like http://buysellads.com ?

Read the book, Easy Way to Quite Smoking by Allan Carr. http://www.amazon.ca/Easy-Way-Stop-Smoking-Kit/dp/1905555008 It worked for me, my partner, and several of our friends.

I had double billing problems with serverpronto.

I use and quite like the SyntaxHighlighter for wordpress http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/

The best bit to get out of many of these guys is that each of us needs to find our service to others. What can you do to benefit and serve other people? When you find the answer to this question, you will be led to both success, and meaning.

Dragon's Den (Canada & UK) & SharkTank for the pitch/investment side of business, though not exclusively tech focused.

I really like what Ranker has going on, and have been keeping my eye on them.

Ranker employs the social ranking within lists, so the crowd decides what goes to the top of each list, while List Central does social rankings on lists compared to other lists. List Central also allows for private lists, so there can be both fun and useful lists.

Another major difference is that List Central is bootstrapped and Ranker has found Angel funding.

Chatroulette could allow users to flag the perverts, and also give users the ability to request "Please don't show me perverts". I don't see this as a difficult problem for them to solve if they wanted to.

Watch for any of Dr. Daniel G. Amen's programs on PBS or read his books (Magnificent Mind at Any Age, Change your Brain, Change your Life, etc.). I've found the knowledge he shares to be incredibly useful, and practical.

I would love it if LC could be a 80K/year site in 10 years!

I'm expecting there to be considerable effort involved in user acquisition, which is an area I'm not terribly experience with. If anyone has advice in this arena, I'm all ears!

Clickable: http://listcentral.me

The RIAA and MPAA do need to revamp their business model if they want to evolve into the future with the rest of us.

I often wonder why the movie and music industries don't embrace torrent technology. I would definitely pay a reasonable monthly fee to access legitimate and legal trackers that they manage. It's really win-win as far as I can see. Watch what you want when you wants, and the distributions costs drop to next to nothing.

To add to this line of thought, charging per video made would be the way to go. You could limit the free version not only with the downloading and branding options, but also with the length the of the video (eg. max length of free video 30 seconds).

> 1. Women still lag in almost everything that matters (engineering, entrepreneurship, science, math)

The assumption that engineering, entrepreneurship, science, math are everything that matters, is seriously problematic, and is likely at the core of the genuine gender inequality that gets the feminists upset.

Also as a human, it seems to me that humans have an inferiority complex underlying that superiority complex

The civility on HN is unparallelled. This community, with pg's guidance has done an amazing job of fostering a thoughtful community for intelligent discussion. Suster's arguments all focus around one particular discussion in which emotions ran a little higher than usual, and are not, in my opinion, representative of the community as a whole.

As for Suster's suggestions, the first one would be a mistake. There are many situations when a throw away account is warranted, such as asking for anonymous advice on a tricky work situation, or submitting a controversial article.

For the second suggestion, it already exits. Once a user reaches a certain karma level s/he has the ability to down-vote comments.

For the last, an RSS feed on a user's "threads" page would likely be useful to those who wanted to be notified on updated conversations they are participating in.

Maybe using something like Fit Day to help track your diet, and how you feel could help. http://www.fitday.com/ I believe they have nice graphs and things that you can use to see patterns.

http://www.launchly.com/ is doing #2 I believe

Listening to Baroque music might: http://brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com/2007/04/baroque-music-help...

+1 for number 3. I would be so much further along in my career if I had been exposed to the LAMP stack when I entered school instead of when I left.

Apparently you only needed $40,000 to be happy in 2004. http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2004/08/01/you-only-need-40000...

SlickEdit has been a long time friend.

cash4books.com seems to be available

I want to say cheesey things like "The only thing certain is uncertainty" and talk about the pangs of Hamlet, but instead I'll offer this bit of advice from Colin Powell I recall from previous HN threads:

Part I:"Use the formula P=40 to 70, in which P stands for the probability of success and the numbers indicate the percentage of information acquired."

Part II:"Once the information is in the 40 to 70 range, go with your gut."

From lesson #15 in this presentation about Colin Powell on Leadership (http://www.slideshare.net/guesta3e206/colin-powells-leadersh...)

I'm a web developer too, and have a similar set up, with a debian dev machine (it's actually a small Linode VPS), and I connect from my PC via ssh. I also use SlickEdit to work on the remote files via sftp, which I find to be super useful.

One interesting tidbit about Etsy is that the most successful sellers are the ones selling supplies to the crafters.

As an aside, if you are in the market for an external hard drive, this is the most beautiful one I have ever seen: http://www.etsy.com/listing/47397822/walnut-and-maple-wood-e... (I'm not affiliated with that seller in anyway, I just dig his product).

This site is for a crowd that spends a good amount of time watching stock tickers. If anyone other than hackers would appreciate a no nonsense interface, it would be the finance crowd.

Beautiful design, and neat concept. I think you are on to something good. Keep it up! If only I had a yard, I'd be signing up!

Obama's arguments here remind me of Noam Chomsky's thoughts on sports:

Sports keeps people from worrying about things that matter to their lives that they might have some idea of doing something about. And in fact it’s striking to see the intelligence that’s used by ordinary people in sports [as opposed to political and social issues].

So much chatter to distract us from the important issues of the day.