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I was about to submit this myself - one of the most interesting Google 20% projects I've come across in a long time. If you don't look through the whole website, at least skim thei…

Reminds me of this chain email I've received many times http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/cambridge.asp The most interesting part of reading this article was learning of the …

I was actually just at a Verizon store and got a chance to see both Kin devices in person. I wasn't expecting to be blown away by any means, but I was amazed at how bad they were. …

This was submitted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1410917 , but I wanted to comment to mention that it automatically refreshes with good pictures.

The automatic updating is really nice. I'd like to see this around for more events. Also, almost.at was mentioned here a long time ago, and it's another great tool for live events …

Definitely a huge improvement over the stock Android player. Another player worth checking out is Cubed (an exponent "3") http://jkontherun.com/2010/03/30/android-music-player-cube…

Using "mplayer -vo caca MovieName.avi" to play a video file in a Linux terminal is awesome - even if maybe it doesn't quite belong in an article about Windows tricks.

Just installed it. The background animation is a nice touch, although there's a bit of choppiness at first. It can be disabled if it's an issue, so I don't see it being a problem. …

If you were curious about what this looks like in IE8 http://i41.tinypic.com/24eatud.png

I've missed Vimperator https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891 since moving primarily to Chrome. It's so nice to not have to go back and forth to the mouse when coding …

The cost of devices themselves are so heavily subsidized by the carriers, that unless the data plan was significantly cheaper than a full smartphone, I would have a hard time seein…

I can only speak for myself, but I definitely use task switching all the time. I spent a lot of time with a Nokia N810 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N810 before I had a smartp…

I'm reminded of an incident a few years back when Monster sent a cease and desist letter to Blue Jeans Cable. The CEO wrote them a response that was pretty well publicized: http://…

I have been using Qik happily over the default Droid video camera for awhile. One of the best Android apps I've used. I have heard their iPhone versions are great too, especially s…

Until pretty recently, the top google result on my name for years was this 1997 haiku contest: http://orangecow.org/pythonet/haiku.html It's interesting to me that this showed up o…