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I'm blown away by friends and acquaintances who put so much effort into exercise and are unwilling to change their diet. Cutting out sugar and flour, for example, will lead to greater weight loss than jogging an hour a day (for the average American male).

Average caloric intake from sweeteners alone: 152.4 lbs/yr / 365 days/yr * 453.6 g/lb * 4 calories/g = 757 calories

Average calories burned in an hour of jogging for an average-weight male: 728 calories

http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/exercise/sm00109

Haas Unica: the lost successor to Helvetica, no longer available because of licensing issues, but subtly refined by the same foundry after decades of experience with the original in an attempt to create the ultimate sans serif.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bauldoff/2389110985/

Univers + Helvetica = Unica

Also recently came across the excellent (CC-licensed) Fugue set.

http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/

LeadNuke is a streamlined process that helps you find, track, and follow-through with news articles, blog posts, and RSS feeds from your industry, turning them into meaningful sales leads.

This is a petty response whose potential value is completely obscured by the author's self-importance and condescension.

Wrote a bit about my recreational CentOS install: http://todd.is/nginx-php-and-wordpress-migrating-from-lightt...

It seemed like a disruptive flow to me too, until I asked for zip without showing any other address fields. On change, the address and prepopulated city and state fields slid down above it and address got focus.

Visited the location to sign up for the $199/yr my buddy paid. "That promotion [wasn't] currently running," but I got a call two days later saying that it was back on.

It's a shame to delay a customer like me who'll wait for the better price, but I bet you lose a lot of low-hanging fruit if you make the better price available permanently.

Without the system, eventually everyone gets the better price. And though slightly inconvenienced, I ended up joining for $199/yr.

1. Use (or make better use of) a grid layout.

2. Vary the type less. I count 3 fonts (excluding Firebug logo type) in too many sizes.

3. The 6 feature/functions (inspect, log, etc.) aren't doing much for me, and the bullets could be condensed. Firebug is awesome -- no need for fluff like Get the information you need to get it done with Firebug.

The notion of value offering is very different from value taking. Value offering coincides with abundance mentality; value taking coincides with scarcity mentality. When you are value offering, you really want to help the other person. You want to present them with the truth and honestly evaluate how you could meet their needs, rather than manipulating and micromanaging to get your end of the deal. You create a win-win situation.

Also, sounds like someone has had some experience with pickup.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nikkigraziano

Inside Facebook does this too.

For those who run NoScript or disable it:

http://panopticlick.eff.org/

Every database application I create is already online. A more descriptive headline would help.

Listing each cloud's contents in a vertical list will make them easier to read/digest.

It's nice that it's made for App Engine, but that doesn't deserve more prominence than your walk-through link.

I've been wearing Vibram Five Fingers and running on the fore- and mid-foot for about two years.

Running barefoot and landing on your heel jars your entire body (knees in particular) and isn't sustainable for long distances. Cavemen certainly didn't run this way, and we haven't evolved fast enough for our optimal mechanism to be any different.

There's plenty of evidence that humans have evolved to be better long-distance runners than any other animal. The amount of impact energy returned by our tendons is highest, and human ultrarunners can go over 50 miles in one sitting.

For a couple weeks, my calves screamed and my feet were sore as they strengthened. Then after a month I started to get used to running on the balls of my feet. After two months, I felt totally comfortable with the new style.

Also, my trouble with Illiotibial Band Syndrome disappeared within two weeks of starting to run barefoot.