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Why must the alphabet have a "canonical" order? It seems like the alphabet has an order for recitation purposes and for convenience when ordering things. Recitation seems unnecessa…

Maybe Chrome needs to change the name of their browser.

If you end up using vim, here's my vimrc file. It's got soft tabs enabled, a color distinction between soft tabs and hard tabs, and keyboard shortcuts for creating and removing com…

This actually might not be a custom product. The website that is hosting this map could be using the Google Maps API with their own map of China. Would you call the special Google …

Unless 30% drop out during the second month.

Allowing a terminal or window manager to manage terminal sessions often feels more natural. However, screen is awesome when combined with ssh. Being able to resume an ssh session e…

"The response that I try to lob into these discussions, reduced to its crudest form, is: Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of one of the largest web sites on the planet, and his web site …

Hasn't this been around for a while now? Are there new features now or something?

Cool site. You should add some tiles where the edges seamlessly repeat so there is no blank space between the end of one tile edge and the beginning of another.

Oddly, most introverts I know have a problem with much of the "my tribe is better than your tribe" stuff in our society. Is this article meant to be satire? It's strange that this …

He may have hurt the reputation of Amazon, but not through his crime. Publicizing vulnerabilities in Amazon's ranking system is what may hurt Amazon's reputation. The "crime" of me…

California is progressive because they have banned non-hands-free cellular phones while driving, banned text messaging while driving, banned the sale of alcohol after 2am, banned g…

Was it really necessary to patent the built-in battery design? That doesn't really seem original enough to warrant a patent.

What is the difference between Raymond's proposed non-restrictive open source software licensing plan and unleashing software into the public domain? It seems like the authors of s…

It seems like you are not arguing against circular navigation in general, but specifically the navigation on songza. Your problem with the unpredictability of the menus in the song…

There are builds of Chromium for Linux. It's just in pre-alpha and lack everything except for very basic functionality (no tabs yet). So far, the omnibar works, pages render well, …

I find using key modifiers for mouse actions awkward sometimes. Middle clicking or clicking both buttons simultaneously also opens links in new tabs.

Health and useful work that brings enjoyment.

I have a 64GB SSD in my laptop and I love it. Upon a clean Ubuntu install my system booted in 28 seconds. After tweaking my system some I got my boot time down to 12 seconds. I tri…

The DMCA seems to legally broaden the intellectual property rights of mega-corporations in nasty ways. The RIAA, MPAA, and many electronics corporations frequently abuse these righ…

Opera 9 seems to render this much faster than Firefox 3 on Linux, but it's still not nearly as fast as Chrome on Vista.

Where will the advertisements go?

It depends on how you are counting "majority." According to w3schools, IE6 & IE7 combined make up 46% of browsers right now and Firefox makes up 44%. If IE had taken Opera & Firefo…

The background color of the logo is gray in IE6 and the Add Game page is messed up in IE6 also. Although, I can't blame you if you aren't planning to support IE6. Also the OpenID b…