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OK, now that you say it's the Weather Network, I recognize it. I didn't think it was AT&T, but that's the only thing I could think of.

I've been doing this for a while. It's a great tip, but definitely increases the amount of available toolbar real estate.

As for your sites, I can't get them all, but I can get most of them:

- Friend Feed
- Twitter
- ???
- Gaming World
- Something Awful
- ???
- Some kind of stock ticker?
- TD Bank
- Google Calendar
- Google Docs
- Gmail
- Gmail again
- ???
- Facebook
- BLANK!
- Reddit
- Yelp??
- AT&T...in Canada?

I have noticed, that, actually. To be fair, though, live theatre is one thing that Edmonton genuinely does well, so I suppose it's not surprising that Edmonton-based Fringe plays did well.

It is great with javascript and AJAX, that much I've noticed. I may make it my default browser after a few of the kinks are worked out.

Mommy is going to call you up every Sunday and ask why you haven't called her this week. You're screwed.

Have you come across many bugs, yet? I've noticed that it doesn't play very well with Flash (and, despite being designed so that only the affected tab crashes, rather then the whole browser, Chrome likes to die when I try to play Flash games).

Erm...subjective, I mean.

The ratings in the Journal are distributed fairly similar to those in See, so I'd lean toward saying that there are a lot of good plays this year. Of course, I've also heard some incredibly negative word-of-mouth surrounding plays that have received very good reviews, so I suppose it's all relative.

That's pretty cool. Definitely a usefully little device when you're traveling, especially if you're camping and don't have a car charger for your mp3 player.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that I don't want to know...

Random comment, but, do you really need to include your del.icio.us feed in your feedburner feed, if you're sharing all of those share stories here? I get all of your shared links twice in my feed reader. I don't know how you have your feed setup, so I don't know if you can actually turn that off or not...

I'm sure there is at least some degree of truth in it, it's a strange sort of irony that new immigrants tend to be more conservative than most people in their adopted country, despite the fact that they're often leaving a country that is oppressive and "backward." It just seems like an attempt at passing the blame to "those damn immigrants."

You read SEOmoz? Even I hardly ever read SEOmoz, and it's part of my job...

Let's blame violence against one minority group on the actions of other minority groups. Yeah...that's healthy. Obviously, I don't condone the homophobic violence, but blaming it on "illiberal" immigrants sounds, to me, like a weird sort of racism disguised as liberalism.

Also, apparently I forgot how to spell "throw." Would you mind going through and editing my stupid typos?

I'm on the same page as you. I have a lot of junk that I need to get rid of. Of course, I look through the boxes of stuff I never use and either (A) become sentimental/nostalgic and decide that I simply can't through away such a "meaningful" item, or (B) convince myself that, even though I haven't touched the item in question in months (or years), now that I've remembered I have it, I'll surely begin to use it and, as a result, should keep it.

One day, I'm going to be merciless and brutal and just toss it all.

As far as embarrassing journals, if you're never going to look at them again, I'd toss them, unless you think you'll feel the need to pass them on to some hypothetical future generation of Farrell's ("Here you go, nephew, read all about your uncle's life. Don't make the same mistakes I did!").

One of the bullets is: "Spending more money on Meth than on bills."

What if I just don't have that many bills?

It's the Daily Mail. Do you really expect good reporting, or even reporting that makes sense?

WHAT??!?!?! A parade full of...of...the gays? Surely, you jest...

I hate you.

I miss the monkey, sometimes. But, Ellis has pretty much continued the same level of internet mindfuck at warrenellis.com, so it's all good.

I think Aaron is right, more or less, about the "heroic morality." The grittier heroes you talk about are more anti-heroes (who are generally more interesting, as things are a lot more grey in their worlds).

Could a sniper as a hero work? I don't know. I think people have been trained to think of snipers and others who work in a somewhat clandestine manner as cowardly. This isn't necessarily a fair assessment, but it's a common one.

Besides, reading about/watching a guy sit perched out waiting for bad guys to turn up in his line of site doesn't sound like the most gripping of story lines.

1. Cell phone
2. Communication
3. Allow our customers to tell us what they need, instead of trying to tell them what they need.
4. Are we talking about money? Plastic. Are we talking about bags at the grocery store? Neither, I use reusable ones (well, when I remember...).
5. Hard to say. Probably not.

I think you're definitely onto something here, Matt. It's pretty obvious, when you actually stop and think about it. I mean, branding can work wonders, but when it comes to conversions, the way to get them is to go after the people who are already your fans. You don't create new fans by shoving stuff in front of there face, you do it by treating your existing fans well enough that they will go beyond mere fans/customers and become brand evangelists for you.

It's hard to say which version of the 4 Cs is "best," but I'm pleased that all of them include "Customers" and "Communications." To me, those are the two most important things (and, I think your list includes them, too, even if you didn't name them directly).