DISQUS

Good call Seth. When I really started getting into Twitter I'd take a few hours every now and then to go through the people I was following and clear out the clutter. Haven't done it in a while and have really noticed the negative impact on the quality of my stream. Thanks for posting this and showing us that just dropping everyone isn't going to the be the end of your social world. If they're quality people you'll probably reconnect with them.

The other great way to get a job at a startup, start a startup! I've always wanted to be my own boss but rather than trying to work my way up a ladder I figured I'd start my own company and see where it takes me. This way, I've already achieved the being my own boss goal. Now to work on being my own boss AND being successful!

Yeah, if we took the City of Boston and moved everyone into one massive building we could use the rest of the land for farming and public parks so I definitely see how density is a good thing, when done right.

Well facebook has a huge advantage over myspace in that half of myspace traffic is spam (70% of my stats are made up) so it doesn't really matter that myspace gets more visitors than facebook because myspace visitors are less valuable than facebook visitors.

What's up with comparing facebook to livejournal though? LJ was never even close to as big as facebook is now. Tons of people understand the word facebook and it's truly become a brand and a necessity for young adults.

Still, I agree with this post, facebook should sell soon. Ad revenue will go down eventually as more and more users start to ignore the ads.

As this event took place on city property, it's quite wrong for them to kick her out. If it was on private property, then go right ahead but she had every right to be there if it's on public property.

@Sarah, our world is real bad right now. Neither McCain nor Obama have the American public anywhere close to the top of their priorities. They are rich elitist politicians who are working for the benefit of their major donors, not the public. Vote for a 3rd party if you're trying to vote for someone who is closer to and cares more about the average American.

If oil companies did own the roads they would act as a corporation naturally does, which means they'd attempt to squeeze as much profit out of these roads as possible. I'd imagine they would quickly ban non-motorized traffic or attempt to force us to pay tolls (it's in their best interests to minimize non-motorized traffic in order to maximize their customer base). No way they would just let bicyclists, pedestrians, roller-bladers, skateboarders and others use their valuable assets for free.

You're right that larger scales allow for greater efficiency, however processes on a larger scale also create a wider window for corruption to seep through. As the process becomes more efficient, there are more opportunities for someone to throw a wrench in the line and ask for some grease to fix it. I've seen tons and tons of instances of it here in Massachusetts from the Big Dig with its countless issues to the Mass Pike, which was supposed to shut down years ago, to the MBTA which has the highest paid public official and one of the worst track records.

In essence, that is the problem with large scale processes, they require large amounts of capital and the most likely way that large amounts of capital accumulates in one place is through some corrupt mean. The essence of economics is that one party takes advantage of an inefficient transaction or an ignorant party and as a result profits. If the world was fair, we wouldn't have markets nor money and everyone would simply trade with one another for what they need.

A free market is a great solution for we are far away from having a free market. However, the big issue with a free market is everything has to be reset; otherwise, the rich will attempt to bypass the free market in order to maintain their current wealth. The free market was restricted to protect the public from rich tyrants but now restrictions are constantly put in place to protect the rich tyrants from the public!

Right now, if we set up a free market for roads your long-term concern would become very, very valid. The rich (whether real people or fake people, e.g. corporations) would seize up the roads and would immediately go about hiring lobbyists, lawyers, contractors, security, analysts and anyone else who could help them keep their roads and sell them to us as they wish.

I like the concept, let's take it a bit further and have the federal government get out of the governing business too. Have the federal government deed over all of its property to the states where the property is located and allow those states to deal with costs however they want. We could even keep military bases in a few states rather than in each and pay fees to those states for holding our military. Each state could run itself however it chooses, though we'd maintain a bare minimum of federal institutions (congress, judicial) to enable all 50 states to interact with each other and if need be act as one, a united states of america if you will.

If we completely privatized roads, what would happen to bicyclists when the oil corporations buy up all the roads and ban un-motorized vehicles? The problem is not public vs. private, the problem is big vs. small. Small, local units (decentralized power) are way more efficient than big, unwieldy behemoths looking to centralize power in their own hands.

Down with big government and big business, up with us.

Great post. I recently joined the ranks of the uninsured as even with Cobra health insurance would be way too expensive considering my successfully unemployed status! Thanks for the list.

John McCain's, err I mean Colonel Tigh's acting was insanely good this episode. I just want to know how he could have been a Cylon for so long, it means their ability to look human goes further back than we thought.

Overall a great episode that didn't waste any time getting right back into it. I was glad to see the fire fight off the bat too so I could then focus on the story line after getting my action fix.

Picking up a 24" Soyo from Office Max was the best $300 I've ever spent. My productivity went up, not just from the monitor size but also because it forced me to move my TV out of my room (space limitations). Now, my big monitor helps me get things done quicker and better and I watch way less TV (and even when I get the urge for video I just watch on my big nice monitor).

Win-win right there.

I agree Zoli, the biggest problem is identification. However, once identification is solved, then voting twice is easier to get a handle on (make sure ID doesn't vote twice) and there'll always be fraud attempts. At least with a web-based voting platform we could potentially release the vote tallies to the public in real-time to show there was no fraud.

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This is kinda funny...I've been doing something like the GTD process pretty much my whole life. I usually don't organize anything until I absolutely need to and then I take all the various stuff I've got scattered around, organize it and then a few months later everything is scattered about again!