DISQUS

Wrong url on cix.com

Too cute. Love it :)

That's the secret to any social app... subscribing to the right people. You have to be ready to unsubscribe if they noise is overwhelming the signal.

Actually.. I don't use the API at all in any of those scripts.

I've yet to successfully be able to write anything interesting using public APIs only. They're always so limited.

While I completely agree that most long tail markets will not have enough traffic to justify their existence, the guy is smoking something if he thinks storage/bandwidth will be a problem.

Storage is cheap, cheap, cheap and only gets cheaper. Bandwidth not as much, but now traffic no bandwidth.

Doctor Strange Love

(again, don't want the prize, I already have it :) )

Being John Malkovich

I have the movie, so I don't want to be entered in the draw :)

I find it's the commenting feature that I like most.

They are sitting on a goldmine though. They're inches from becoming a very competitive news aggregator.

There's so much metadata about what people are sharing and liking that they can do things with.

interesting idea... a wordpress plugin to reimport meta comments from delicious/digg/ff back into WP.

thanks dcadenas :)

awesome awesome awesome

Best Buy will usually tell people to use credit cards instead of debit because of that issue.

You can (and should) call your bank to increase the limit temporarily when you're doing something like buying a car or buying an engagement ring (both things I've done with my debit card).

http://friendfeed.com/engtech

http://friendfeed.com/engtech

http://friendfeed.com/engtech

what's interesting is that friendfeed outputs RSS

I just set up a test blog to see what happens if I try to go from friendfeed to tumblr (and maybe overcome the 5 feed limit tumblr added)

Tell me about it.

People often sign up for accounts using the wrong email address -- mine (my personal address).

Trying to get out of that is next to impossible. I've been able to cancel orders, transfer money, cancel business trips and even turn down housing offers because people don't enter the correct email address.

I've been avoiding this one because of all the negative reviews.

I still play D&D once a week :)

(actually didn't start until pretty late in life... had the rule books but never found a good DM as a kid)

Important life lessons I've learned from D&D:

The most logical result of invulnerability is to become a complete asshole because no one else can do anything about it. Superman? It would never happen.

All it takes is one chaotic evil guy in the party and next thing you know everyone's trying to use "eat the evidence" to cover up the accidental murder of the town guards. This applies to cube dwelling office politics in a way I don't want to think about right now.

re: Operation. The modern day equivalent is trying to give your cat a pill.

Try using http://www.googlealert.com as the source instead of Technorati. It'll work better because it's looking for the words anywhere on the page -- not some specific kind of tagging format.

I wish the "real" Google Alerts supported RSS.

the graphic novel is a big load of crap as well

McAir makes a lot of sense, you can get 4 GB USB keys for a reasonable price, so why do you need a DVD drive?

(other than to play DVDs :) )

it really is no work required

i haven't logged into it since i signed up :)

Juno was good, but not as good as the trailer made it out to be.

I don't think that adult sites will have any problem surviving.

I don't think the internet would have reached the massive popularity it now has if it wasn't for the allure of 'free porn'.

That's the one industry that's really cutting edge when it comes to finding new ways to use and abuse technology.

Selling sex is the oldest industry and it still hasn't gone anywhere even though the same product can be had for free elsewhere.

RSS feeds: I usually have about 100+ unread
Games: usually have an xbox/nintendo ds/pc game on the go
Books: usually have 1-2 library books sitting around the house
Movies/TVs: my fiancé is a big time movie buff, so this is always an option