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fondue··on [dead]
I don't see why she's being singled out; blogs on the left were using target graphics as well.
fondue··on How do companies like this get funding?
Years ago all of my older relatives and in-laws were wearing copper bracelets because they did something 'magnetic' or 'electric' to help their arthritis. It was no use trying to convince them otherwise. :(
fondue··on Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the “dihydrogen monoxide” petition
They did something similar on 'The Man Show' a few years back; they got women to sign a petition to end 'Women's Suffrage'.

Someone else thought this would make a great point and put their effort up on youtube; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uPcthZL2RE

fondue··on Wi-Fi Makes Trees Sick, Study Says
The solution is pretty obvious; wrap the trees in tinfoil.
fondue··on What Will Apple Buy with Its $51 Billion?
Must they buy something with their $51 Billion?
fondue··on John Carmack on government
I recalled it from having lived through the last couple of decades but since you insist, I googled for "Iraq Trained Terrorists" and found 2.2million links.

Heres one. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/00...

Heres another. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/03/25/1017004766310.html

One more. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/14...

I don't know how partisan these articles or newspapers/publishers are, but you asked for citing.

Oh, here's another one, PBS this time. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gunning/interv...

Feel free to upvote my prior post, thanks.

fondue··on John Carmack on government
At the risk of being shot by the land owner or whomever else has a stake in you not doing that.
fondue··on John Carmack on government
Iraq trained them and offered rewards to families whom had a son or father carry out jihad against the United States.
fondue··on How Meg Whitman Failed Her Way to the Top at eBay
It's as if there's a concerted effort to post these hit pieces against Whitman on HN. Yesterday it was how she destroyed HP's culture, today it's 'failing her way to the top at eBay'. What's on for tomorrow? Raping puppies? Grinding up newborns to make baby oil? Drinking the blood of young girls so she can maintain her youth?
fondue··on Opt-out of RapLeaf
I see. Don't all ad networks do this anyway? It seems like a giant waste of energy to pursue each one and opt out as you could be doing that for the rest of your life. Wouldn't it be better to block their cookies or images in your browser?
fondue··on Opt-out of RapLeaf
Gee thanks, who is rapleaf and why would I want to opt out of something I've never joined or even read about up until this very moment?

I'm assuming, from reading their page, they are some kind of person-tracking outfit for advertisers. Pretty much the same thing that Google, Microsoft, and any other advertiser does on the internet. How are they more different or more evil?

fondue··on New York City Installs 1 Million Square Feet of Cool Roofs
So, what happens in the winter when you want that ambient heat?
fondue··on From 0 to 450k, an App Store Success Story - With Charts and Numbers
Your story is very inspirational and makes me want to get back to work on my simple game!

Are you looking to bring this to the Android market, and if you do, would you consider the 'free but with ads' style that is being offered by Angry Birds producer Rovio?

fondue··on The New Yorker, or how *not* to set up a paywall
Line 762;

lbl_txt+=' We apologize for any confusion and are working to streamline the process. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/registration?intcid=digita... style=color:#000000; target="_blank">Learn more here.</a>)</p>';

I don't get it.

fondue··on How We're Wrecking Our Feet With Every Step We Take
Funny, I had nearly an identical experience and this was before learning about the vibrams or this 'issue'.
fondue··on Hundreds Register for New Facebook Website (2004)
Hundreds!

Who would want to use something like this? I mean, there are message boards everywhere.

fondue··on Blackhat SEO games Reddit, blogs about it
"I’m absolutely stoked that my post made it onto two of my favourite sites- HackaDay.com and TheRegister."

Congratulations, you've now made it here, too.

fondue··on Samsung Galaxy S sales surpass five million
I've got one, it cost me a penny (plus a two year contract to T-Mobile, which I would have got anyway).
fondue··on Oracle Stewartship to increase use of Java? [pdf, survey]
Actual link is here;

http://www.jaspersoft.com/sites/default/files/Jaspersoft_Sur...

fondue··on Which country has the best brains?
I'm disappointed this wasn't some tongue-in-cheek zombie guide.
fondue··on The Greatest Elevator Pitch You’ve Ever Seen
I'm glad I went here, first., and saved myself the time.
fondue··on Verizon iPhone is coming
Point number 7, over and over ...
fondue··on Poll: Are you using SSDs?
I would like to think of a clever follow up, but 'ditto'. I keep my 1TB hard drive as a long-term storage solution but otherwise all productivity has been moved to the SSD and boot times are in seconds.
fondue··on Google Contacts Beta
Dear Google,

Enable sorting by last name or else this is a complete failure.

Love, Fondue

fondue··on The Mathematics of Boneless Pork Rectums
No, another argument for people getting to know their food better. Last year I made curry'd chicken gizzards and hearts. I had trouble finding the parts as most butchers dispose of them. I found some frozen in a small market near our town and prepared and cooked them for the family. Unfortunately, none of the family would join me in my meal so I ate them by myself.

Chewy, a bit cartilaginous, but not bad. I guess if you braise them long enough they become quite tender. I saved the remainder and had them later over the span of a month.

It was a fun experiment but I've not the guts to go after many of the other parts that most people pass over like the lungs and brain.

fondue··on HP Slate video shows all that's wrong with Windows 7 on tablets
I have no idea why they didn't go with the new Windows Phone OS as it seems more suited in so many ways. I can only speculate some vendors were already writing software to run over top the old OS.
fondue··on The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie (patio11)
I'm certain I'm not the only one who paged down looking for his comment.
fondue··on Challenge: Make a game, sell 1 copy by Oct 31st
Part of me wants to accept the challenge as I have a simple game sketched-out but another part of knows that I'll end up with the ability to post an app to the app store and $25 poorer and no game to show for it.
fondue··on James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle
“All of the senior people at Sun got screwed compensation-wise. Their job titles may have been the same, but their ability to decide anything was just gone.”

Probably the best thing to happen as the decision makers managed to decide Sun to the selling block.

fondue··on Extreme Netflix? Some Users Have Rated 50,000 Movies
I agree. In fact, I think the Tivo option of one, two, or three thumbs up or down is perfect as some movies are better than average and some are what I call my top ten. Better than average gets one thumb and top ten gets three. If I can't decided it gets two. :)
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