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lol, romney doesn't even register when compared to fb: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney,+facebook&grap... red=fb, blue= romney The reason this is relevant in the discussio…

Agreed. According to one of Google's own services, google+ is pretty much dead: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=google+plus&graph=wee... compare with fb: http://www.google.com/t…

I can relate to the friends "who feel sorry" bit. They don't seem to understand that different people value stuff in different ways. If you want inspiration to make the best of lim…

I agree. But this case does raise an issue for NaCl (which I hope will become reality one day) where you have the granularity to mess with cache hits.

No. When you apply pressure on ice it becomes liquid. In other words: water doesn't lift things by freezing if that requires an amount of energy larger than what is needed to chang…

Part of me wishes this is reverse psychology. The rest of me hopes nobody will fall for it.

For the logo: Y but can't get the "Y" 100% right.

(where the hell is the bookmark button??) It's the little star icon at the right inside the address textbox. If it's yellow it means the url is already bookmarked.

It's cotton and linen.

Fast-forward to the point of actual space colonization. Should mental stability be a factor in survival in space I can imagine that it'll introduce a rather strong darwinistic filt…

The Mitsubishi check? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/06/12-money-shots/ Since this kind of money can disturb a bank (a bank lends a multiple of what it has floating) wouldn't it be…

This just in: "Stephen Hawking on Higgs: 'Discovery has lost me $100'" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18708626

In December 2000, Hawking bet Gordon Kane $100 that the Higgs Boson will be discovered at the Fermilab Tevatron . Since the funding dried up for the Tevatron and the first hints fo…

I guess the FB cookies in your browser is a simplified version of the token. It's used to identify you not only on FB but also on other sites that load their javascript for comment…

yes, I don't know about code but it's available in the form of an article that is detailed enough to implement it in any system.

This is a very good explanation. But it also points out that the permission system is not really helping when you want background info on what's going on - you and I know this info…

Esoteric keywords in google work brilliant for my sites. Then came social and I added the +1 button because of the nature of circles in g+. Birds of a feather flock together, so +1…

The structure to link relevant content is already there. Same with the site's search engine. I work with namespaces, titles and content and local search does the job. The issue at …

when users hover over a +1 button, they will see recommendations for other great content on your site. Which was not why I became an early adopter of the +1 button and put it on si…

Or combine it with other non-invasive techniques like this one: http://spluch.blogspot.com/2007/09/face-scan-can-spot-geneti... and this one: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/amp…

With audio fingerprinting the content provider must provide a way to fingerprint its own audio and have access to fingerprints of the internet's audio/video. This means a partnersh…

Pretty much all DRM content has unique patterns. Want to prohibit videos of the Starcraft game? Simple search for a few sentences like "more vespene gas" and "require more minerals…