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  • calamityjake  I think you're right--the combination of Google News and Digg might be a good one. The Google News algorithm works quite well, but adding a bit of humanity to the process might make the results more interesting/useful. Plus, without being integrated into something big (Google, NY Times, MSNBC, CNN, maybe Yahoo is still relevant enough), Digg has a pretty clear ceiling on its usefulness. Once anyone with a google login can play, the data will get a lot more interesting. Google already does something Diggish on its search pages--results that get clicked on are valued higher than those that don't--but a more explicit voting system might be worth instituting there, too.
  • • 2 days ago
    •   Digg this: Google to gobble Digg?
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  • calamityjake  I have never seen Miller's Crossing! Onto my netflix queue it goes. They also left off Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which if you're gonna put dumb comedies on the list is a pretty glaring omission. But, as you say, the omissions are basically the whole point.
  • • 1 week ago
    •   I’m pretty upset they omitted Starship Troopers.
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  • calamityjake  A) It is a cropped image of molten lava, which I picked because it matches the color scheme. I don't love it, but it's an improvement over the old design. D) I will probably move again some other August, but hopefully not for a few more years. And I will never, NEVER, do it myself, no matter how much it costs.
  • • 1 week ago
    •   Nobody cares about my other posts, however.
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  • calamityjake  But I was an english major --I should really have read most of the "literature" on this list, if not the popular trash that made it on because it sold a lot of copies (looking at you, Da Vinci Code). I guess that's what retirement is for.
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   100 best reads of the past 25 years
    •   Hello World
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  • calamityjake  Um, dude, I think this *is* satire. Maybe the fact that the linked site is saccharine, inane, and obviously stupid should have tipped you off. You didn't happen to take the whole "Apple is suing to shut the site down" thing seriously, did you?
  • • 2 weeks ago
    •   This site inspired me
    •   The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
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