Two seconds 
Seth Godin via Seth's Blog on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
Sometimes, busy people need to remind themselves (and us) how busy they are by shaving off the last two seconds of what would otherwise be a pleasant interaction.
At a restaurant yesterday, the maitre d, who is paid to be busy, looked up our name in the reservations book and then said, "over there against the wall," while he pointed. He repeated this approach with at least th
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MarioPaint Composer Builds Your Digital Mario Opus [Featured Download]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
Windows/Mac: Freeware application MarioPaint Composer is a remake of the old-school Mario Paint game for the Super NES, but this one runs on your desktop. More specifically, it mimics the music generator feature o
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Is Microsoft trying to capture photography market?
Robert Scoble via Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogge on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
This week Thomas Hawk (my favorite “Flickr-famous” photographer) and me will join a bunch of others on Microsoft’s campus up in Redmond, Washington, to attend a pro photography summit that Microsoft
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Moving back to Google Docs from Buzzword
Nathaniel Payne via nerdflood on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
I’ve been flirting with Buzzword since just prior to its acquisition by Adobe and inclusion into their online office suite. The interface is gorgeous and the amount of functionality is astounding for an online document editor. However, all that sparkle comes with a cost. Every time I go to Buzzword to work on one of my documents, it takes two
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NASA Shows Off Fireworks In Space [July 4th]
Elaine Chow via Gizmodo on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
Before we completely bid adieu to our nation's birthday, we here at Gizmodo would like to give one more shout out to the fourth of July. Seems like even the stars in the sky can't resist putting up a display for good ol' American freedom. These red-white-and-blue pictures
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Flying Priest Found Dead in the Atlantic, God Positioning System Still Missing [Rip]
jesusdiaz via Gizmodo on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
Father de Carli, the flying priest who got lost last April, has been found dead in the middle of the Atlantic. In an effort to r
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John McCain: ‘I hate the bloggers’
John Amato via Crooks and Liars on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
John McCain, Town Hall Meeting, Merrimack, NH 12/29/07
Hey right wing bloggers. I think he’s talking about you too.
JOHN MCCAIN: “Now we’ve
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CS3 and Web 2.0 Icon Generator on Adobe AIR
ryanstewart via Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet A on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
I came across this cool little application built on AIR that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon. They seem to have gotten the fonts correct so you can pick your color, type in a couple of charact
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Did Delicious Lose Its Chance To Be FriendFeed?
Allen Stern via CenterNetworks - on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
If you are an early adopter in the Internet space or a social media junkie then most likely you've been playing with FriendFeed. I am not going to debate here whether
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You Just Dont Get It
Mark Cuban via Blog Maverick on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
I just want to put it out there to save everyone and anyone who deals with me time. If at any point in time you utter the words "Just Don't Get It" or "Just Doesn't Get It" in any conversation with me, I will not do business with you.If you try to justify your business, idea, proposal or whatever and in the course of conversation you utter these words, you have just proven to me that you a
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Hello New Social App. Why Should I Use You?
Matt Balara via /Message on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
by Matt Balara, Hamburg Germany
My first post on the /message left a little confusion in its wake. I didn't introduce myself, so many thought Stowe wrote it. David Cushman did it right in
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Friendfeed v. Twitter: Half The Followers In Five Months
Michael Arrington via TechCrunch on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
Twitter is still far larger than its much younger competitor Friendfeed in aggregate terms. But an interesting trend is developing - many longtime Twitter users are noticing that the number of fo
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U.S. Travelers Lose 12,000 Laptops Every Week [Public Service Announcement]
Elaine Chow via Gizmodo on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
All you travelers coming home tomorrow from your wild and crazy Independence Day weekend vacations, don't be one of 12,000 people who lose their laptops at airports every week. That's right, that ain't no typo—12,000 dudes and dudettes somehow manage to misplace their portable
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Windows Update Getting Updated: Will Be Faster, Less Sucky [Windows Update]
matt buchanan via Gizmodo on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
Have you ever searched for new updates with Windows Update in Vista? It's slow as balls, no matter how beefy your machine is. But! Windows Update is getting an, um, update that will make it run a lot faster—scan times are down almost 20 percent. If you have automatic updates turned off, obvious
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Can You Build A Business On Browser Extensions?
Fred via A VC on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
This is something I've been pondering a bit lately. Certainly there are some notable successes with browser extensions:
- StumbleUpon - one of the most popular Firefox extensions was sold to eBay last year for a price in the neighborhood of $50mm- Clipmarks - another popular Firefox exten
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Send Messages That Self-Destruct With Privnote
Corvida via ReadWriteWeb on Sun, 06 Jul. 2008
Sending private messages through back channels is nothing new. We do it all the time with emails and direct messages on multiple services. However, sometimes information is just too sensitive to keep around once it's been sent. Wouldn't it be great to have messages self-destruct after
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Keep a Record Of All Things You Do On the Computer & the Web
Amit Agarwal via Digital Inspiration on Sat, 05 Jul. 2008
There are so many things you do on the computer at the same time.
You watch videos on YouTube, reply to emails, write Word documents, upload photos, listen to MP3 music, play games, read blogs, chat with friends
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