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Facebook built my Feedreader

I have always asserted that Facebook’s most valuable asset was its event stream (which you can see by clicking ‘home’ from within Facebook). It shows you what’s happening in your network. The other day I complained about having to block more...

Sarah Palin, as interpreted by William Shatner

On “This Week in Sarah Palin”, Sarah Palin’s extremely odd final speech as the governor of Alaska Sunday was interpreted by Master Thespian William Shatner for Conan O’Brien last night.  Genius.  You’re the man, Bill.  With the loss of...

The Open Debate on Chinese Internet Proliferation

Statistics lauding the growth of the Internet in China have become so commonplace as to inspire yawns, despite breathless press reports of hundreds of millions of Chinese going online and signing up for the ‘net.  With the Chinese Government declaring that...

MSFT vs GOOG: The New Cold War?

When I was a child growing up in the suburbs of Vancouver, we conducted regular drills to rehearse for what we believed was the inevitability of a nuclear assault at the hands of an evil Communist empire half a world away.  This was the height of the cold war, and as...

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-13

That's it. Moving to #MediaTemple from #Dreamhost @ mediatemple.net … follow me! use discount code "kirupa07" and ianbell.com as referer # Yet another weekly outage on my private server @ ianbell.com … you absolutely fucking suck, #Dreamhost....

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-12

Delicious Irony! El Nino predicted to bring warm dry weather to Vancouver during 2010 Olympics: http://bit.ly/FWsBp #

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-11

@Wigggedout Trip starts with U2's Where the streets have no name and ends 7 hrs later with Nick Drake's Pink Moon … unless I go faster 🙂 in reply to Wigggedout # making playlists for a long motorcycle ride next week.. Daytona 675 FTW. # @gigaom: Android...

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-10

@missrogue Support your Canadian brethren! http://www.tshirtmonster.ca/ in reply to missrogue # @ddonat We're IN! Tell us when and where. 🙂 in reply to ddonat # @ddonat If you are compelled to hack somebody's solution to make it work, then it must be good...

Twitter Updates for 2009-07-10

@missrogue Support your Canadian brethren! http://www.tshirtmonster.ca/ in reply to missrogue # @ddonat We're IN! Tell us when and where. 🙂 in reply to ddonat # @ddonat If you are compelled to hack somebody's solution to make it work, then it must be good...

Joe Sakic: The end of the franchise player?

We kind of knew it was coming, but the retirement of Number 19 still comes as a bit of a shock.  Joe Sakic averaged more than a point per game through his entire 20-year NHL career, even in the last season where he only managed 15 games due to constant back pain. ...