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Archive for June 2010

  • @jewelia Glad you convinced me to sign up for Twitter when you did, I barely got a decent username. in reply to jewelia #
  • @jewelia Hmm, I was all set to upgrade to iOS 4 until I saw your post… maybe I'll wait for some reports to filter in. in reply to jewelia #
  • @tessalau I posted the "what motivates us" video a while ago. It's one of my favorites. in reply to tessalau #
  • Watching documentary on Fairchild Eight and the birth of Silicon Valley at #chm #
  • "In China, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. Unfortunately, in the US, Britney Spears is Britney Spears." –Thomas Friedman, NY Times #
  • @jboutelle Odd, I've never had Gmail crash in Chrome on my Mac. in reply to jboutelle #
  • Google launches HTML5 developer site: http://html5rocks.com/ #
  • @jeffbigham Usually not, since it seems most Twitter clients don't remove deleted tweets. in reply to jeffbigham #
  • @jeffbigham But I just deleted a tweet with a URL that Echofon shortened, even though it didn't have to, then reposted it on twitter.com. #

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  • @jeffbigham @drjpierce Biggest risk to Android is fragmentation across versions, not handsets. http://bit.ly/bTI9I8 in reply to jeffbigham #
  • Jeff Johnson speaks tonight about the psychological basis of UI design rules in Mountain View: http://bit.ly/cGlZ8j #
  • @Manas @lnhaynes Technically, Highway Gothic is a slight variation of the Federal Highway Adminstration fonts used on Interstate hwy signs. in reply to Manas #
  • Okay folks, http://www.google.com is back to a normal white background. You may resume your regular lives. #
  • In CA, :) to see Props 16 and 17 defeated, despite PG&E and Mercury Insurance pouring millions of $ to pass. Some props can't be bought. #
  • And I will never buy any auto insurance from Mercury. That's not how I want to see my insurance dollars spent. #
  • "Yo dawg I heard you like books, so we put iBooks in your iBook, so you can read while you read" http://bit.ly/9FBKal /via @jnash #

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  • A man in Russia has been building his own subway since 1984. He intends to run cars in it that carry 3-4 people each. http://bit.ly/9gLky7 #
  • Just watched District 9 on DVD. Surprisingly positive tone. Highly recommended, if you haven't seen it already. #
  • @ayman It's a sign! The prawns have infected us. What did you think? in reply to ayman #
  • At Computer History Museum to commemorate Plato, one of the first interactive online systems, created 50 yrs ago. #chm #
  • Lots of teens worked on PLATO in its heyday. The system would prevent them from logging on after 10pm. #chm #
  • PLATO didn't have a mouse because students (their target audience) often had problems with motor skills. It had a touch screen instead. #chm #
  • Ray Ozzie: a reason PLATO isn't better known is that it wasn't well tied into the research community. It was focused on doing not publishing #
  • At #asianartmuseum with fellow Googlers for a special exhibit on Shanghai and the qipao #
  • @edchi @landay While it's true that qipao are originally Manchu, not Han Chinese, it's like saying hot dogs are German, not American. in reply to edchi #
  • Is the Net making us smarter (@cshirky) http://jr.ly/zeex or dumber (Carr)? http://jr.ly/zeey (via @mathewi @smc90 @edchi) #
  • @tessalau To clear the autocomplete of a textbox, type letter to show autocomplete, highlight the one to delete, press Shift+Del. in reply to tessalau #

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