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Complete coffee snob here, but I also like to think that I can find the happy medium between crazy/exquisite and important. Here are my pointers: 1. The most important factor is fr…

Really? We're talking about an article that claims Monsanto is, "responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes?" In the very first sentence! Sorry, I don't care how relevant or…

AKA: Quadrocopters - Flying Robots Deliver Themselves To You! With all the crazy scamming I've experienced on places like Craigslist, I can't imagine there wouldn't be some jerk th…

Thanks for posting. Something about this rubs me the wrong way, so I read it a couple times to help me formulate my feedback. I think the problem I have with this is that I can't c…

Thanks KE! This was my initial reaction as well. Sometimes it's nice to apply abstraction in order to grease the wheels of reason, but abstraction has a nasty double edge. ("Owner …

For those who thought they would be OK with streaming-only or DVD-only Netflix: Congratulations on your price hike!

See also: Angies List.

We had (and used) both services, but the price hike caused us to reevaluate all of our media expenses. Cancelled all Netflix and our cable. Retained Xbox Live (and internets, of co…

I am brushing up on my atrophied/outdated code-fu. Years in business will do that to you, but start-up here I come.

Agreed - this was also my favorite part of the post.

Good point. Where else do they provide the backend?

Good testimony. The comments seem like a pretty smooth way for Google to: -(As the writer identifies) try not to seem like a monopoly -try to simultaneously reassure investors. It …

When I read about FB Timeline (and watched the trailer), I was concurrently impressed and uneasy. Impressed because it's an elegant way to deal with a problem that didn't exist unt…