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CERN video: How The Grid will revolutionize computing

Comment in Videos (5 diggs, 2 replies) - on 06/02/2008
At 3 minutes and 43 seconds into the video, you can watch what one physicist is typing into the grid: "a-/-s-/-l? w-h-a-t- - a-r-e- -y-o-u- -w-e-a-r-i-n-g-?" (see comment)
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How To Solve A Rubik's Cube!

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/09/2008
Step one: Buy cube, already solved Step two: Turn on camera, and observe wrist watch Step three: Scramble the hell out of the cube, on camera Step four: Observe wrist watch again, and then stop the camera Step five: Edit the video to play backward … (see comment)
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How To Solve A Rubik's Cube!

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 02/09/2008
Six minutes for a 3x3 cube? wow, that sux. Six minutes for a 3x3x3 cube. Not bad. (see comment)
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How To Solve A Rubik's Cube!

Comment in News (2 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/09/2008
a nowbie is someone who lives in the moment. (see comment)
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Microsoft to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion

Comment in News (68 diggs, 0 replies) - on 02/01/2008
They actually only bid a penny, but that damn eBay shipping and handling is deadly. (see comment)
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Digg Users Send Message To Elite Whiners

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/27/2008
Awesome use of Pipes. But it should be called "Digg minus whiners minus ads". Great mash up; I'm going to read Digg that way from now on - Digg's making too much money off my eyeballs. [/sarcasm] (see comment)
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Wisdom and folly: IE8's super standards mode cuts both ways

Comment in News (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/26/2008
Folks, yer lookin' at this all wrong! The right answer that all web developers should support is that IE 8 should plan to *break the web*, with announcements that it will happen on 1/1/09 (or whatever)... so that we could have another Y2K-type event. … (see comment)
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Cramer: You Had Your Chance With Apple (stock)

Comment in Videos (0 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/24/2008
When a company pays a dividend, that is equivalent to the company saying to the investor that the investor should invest this money elsewhere. "Here's some of your money back, we have invested in all the high-return projects, and worked our way down the … (see comment)
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Steve Jobs tells off fan, calls her "rude"

Comment in News (6 diggs, 0 replies) - on 01/17/2008
I think she thinks a little too much of herself. "I didn't say my name". She's a nobody who thinks she's a somebody, talking to a somebody (Steve) who said "That would be rude" (not "you're rude"). So who's rude again? (see comment)
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Digg: Your Feedback on the New Comments System

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 01/17/2008
The problem (I call this a bug) that I have seen causes people to post to the wrong discussion. Here's how to duplicate it: - From the digg home page, open discussions from multiple stories in multiple tabs (without logging in). - Go to the first tab t … (see comment)
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Classic! Real Estate description caught in Google Cache

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 01/15/2008
Digg wouldn't allow me to link directly to the Google Cache but it's here: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:3c_GXxMwwOYJ: ... … (see comment)
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The Future of Web Startups

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/05/2007
We could have done without the slur at the end. [/sarcasm] (see comment)
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The Future of Web Startups

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/05/2007
I have problem with my monitor - it's got up-side-down pixels. The guy at Geek Squad told me that it's probably $200 to get it fixed. Can anyone help? (see comment)
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The Future of Web Startups

Comment in News (1 digg, 0 replies) - on 10/05/2007
Not to mention, Paul Graham does NOT take the extra time necessary to shorten his blabbering. If you can say it in 10 words, why use 100? (see comment)
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Cat Door hacked to keep cats carrying mice out

Comment in News (4 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/04/2007
Duh. This is exactly what a hack is. You're wrong, and you need to learn a little history from '50's to present, to understand where the word hack comes from, and what it means. (see comment)
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img tag hack to detect browsers

Comment in News (-1 diggs, 1 reply) - on 10/03/2007
oh cmon.. see they had all these pictures of how it works.. and it said that i was running all these different browsers... get it? kinda like a joke??! (see comment)
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img tag hack to detect browsers

Comment in News (-7 diggs, 1 reply) - on 10/03/2007
This clearly doesn't work, either. I am looking at the page, and it shows that I am running on IE6 in one image, Firefox in another, Opera in a third, Safari, Camino, and Konqueror in the other ones. [/sarcasm] (see comment)
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Yahoo's "new" search: don't look now, but Yahoo is on the rise

Comment in News (5 diggs, 0 replies) - on 10/03/2007
Sounds like Yahoo won this battle. Other than you, who ELSE IN THE WORLD wants to see your webpage when they search for your first name???? (see comment)
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Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Default Wallpaper Chosen - What do you think?

Comment in News (2 diggs, 1 reply) - on 09/23/2007
The problem is that brown just plain sucks. Ubuntu developers should do something about that really soon. With so many colors to choose from is hard to understand why they're sticking with brown, for me it's very it's very unpleasant on the eyes, SPECIALL … (see comment)
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