Ravindr.

"We’re often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example,..."

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:58:25 +0100

“We’re often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta. For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years. We realize this situation puzzles some people, particularly those who subscribe to the traditional definition of “beta” software as not being yet ready for prime time.”

- Official Google Blog: Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)

“Traditional definition”? You mean the meaning?

This is a good trick. “Oh, you think I stole your wallet, do you? Well, I suppose you could say that if you subscribe to the traditional definition of stealing as taking stuff that isn’t yours.”

"When we switched from AM to FM the audience came with us,” he said. “Technology always..."

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:11:00 +0100

““When we switched from AM to FM the audience came with us,” he said. “Technology always moves people on.””

- Clive Dickens, chief operating officer at Absolute Radio

Shame they didn’t come with you when you changed your name from Virgin, really, isn’t it?

"I choose, for my State and my family, more “freedom” to progress, all the way..."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:46:00 +0100

“I choose, for my State and my family, more “freedom” to progress, all the way around… so that Alaska may progress.”

- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

Freedom to progress, all the way around. Around the country. Around the schedules of Fox News. Around the remaining Republican-governed states, from speaking opportunity to speaking opportunity…

"We took government out of the dairy business and put it back into private-sector hands – where it..."

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:20:00 +0100

“We took government out of the dairy business and put it back into private-sector hands – where it should be.”

- Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

Freudian slip or sinister arch-libertarian conspiracy?

ffffound: Holy Week - The Big Picture - Boston.com

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:26:17 +0100

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Holy Week - The Big Picture - Boston.com

"There were unconfirmed reports that Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT..."

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:39:00 +0100

“There were unconfirmed reports that Mohammad Asgari, who was responsible for the security of the IT network in Iran’s interior ministry, was killed yesterday in a suspicious car accident in Tehran. Asgari had reportedly leaked evidence that the elections were rigged to alter the votes from the provinces. Asgari was said to have leaked information that showed Mousavi had won almost 19m votes, and should therefore be president.”

- Iran protests: Fifth day of unrest as regime cracks down on critics | World news | guardian.co.uk

Um, crikey.

"It is me in the photograph. But it has been modified. The picture is not authentic. This is..."

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:21:00 +0100

““It is me in the photograph. But it has been modified. The picture is not authentic. This is absolutely insolent interference in my privacy. Besides, there is nothing wrong or compromising. It was a private holiday in closed premises, not outside on a beach.””

- Mirek Topolanek

Translation: I didn’t do it. And even if I did it’s none of your business. And even if it is there’s nothing wrong with it.

"This is beyond question the single most aggressive public act by a serving cabinet minister against..."

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:45:00 +0100

“This is beyond question the single most aggressive public act by a serving cabinet minister against his leader since Michael Heseltine walked out of the Thatcher cabinet over Westland in 1986. In the history of Labour governments it can only be compared with Nye Bevan’s departure from the Attlee government over prescription charges in 1951.”

- Brown’s regiment is finished now. In days he will be gone | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | The Guardian

"This isn’t a coup. It’s the despairing defection of a swathe of opinion that was vital..."

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:38:00 +0100

“This isn’t a coup. It’s the despairing defection of a swathe of opinion that was vital to Labour’s electoral success and which is now in search of a new political project. Whether that project remains within the Labour party only time will tell.”

- The reshuffle and election results: have your say | Martin Kettle | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

ntkg: Legalize Gay

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:06:54 +0100

ntkg:

Legalize Gay

"Gordon Brown talks much about his Presbyterian past, but he has a story to tell - about personal..."

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

“

Gordon Brown talks much about his Presbyterian past, but he has a story to tell - about personal morality, a sense of justice and a belief in the power of politics that does, at its best, appeal to the “better angels of our nature”, as he put it on his first day in Downing Street. The nation needs someone who answers this description to lead it now, just as Labour needs to find someone who is able to set out a case for progressive government. Political reform can no longer be put aside as an abstract idea, of appeal to dreamers but not to voters who face the harder realities of life. The public is calling furiously for a better system. People want an honest parliament. They want leaders who are prepared to act. They loathe the old system, and many of the people who are part of it.

The tragedy for Mr Brown and his party is that his chance to change it has gone.

”

- The Guardian: Gordon Brown: Labour’s Dilemma

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"If I wanted to read a write-up of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champions League..."

Sat, 30 May 2009 15:03:09 +0100

“If I wanted to read a write-up of how Manchester United fared last night in the Champions League Cup, I might open up a British newspaper. If I was looking for something that bordered on truthful news, I’m not entirely sure it’d be the first pack of clips I’d pick up.”

- Robert Gibbs

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"IAN Thorpe’s mystery male friend and housemate has been unmasked - he is Brazilian swimmer..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:39:53 +0100

“IAN Thorpe’s mystery male friend and housemate has been unmasked - he is Brazilian swimmer Daniel Mendes. Mendes and Thorpe were photographed sunning themselves and playing in the surf at Fernando de Noronha in Brazil last week, where they were visiting Mendes’ family. The pictures were distributed worldwide but the identity of the man with Thorpe remained a mystery until they turned up in Australia.”

- Meet Ian Thorpe’s swimmer friend, Daniel Mendes | Celebrity | News.com.au
Another example of the don’t-quite-out-them school of reporting.

"I never traveled further North than old Van Courtland Park and never further South than the..."

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:12:46 +0100

“I never traveled further North than old Van Courtland Park
and never further South than the aquarium
I’ve seen the charm of Jersey City, but first let me remark
I saw it from the empire state solarium”

- “Lets Take A Walk Around The Block” - Harold Arlen

trying Omegle.com

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:27:43 +0100

Connecting to server...
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You: hi!
Stranger: Hey dude
You: this is quite weird
Stranger: I'm gay
Stranger: btw
You: no way, me too
You: even weirder.
Stranger: male or female though?
You: male
You: you?
Stranger: ah you see
Stranger: theres the difference
Stranger: female
You: ah! but this is great, because - don't laugh - I'm always complaining that I don't know any lesbians
Stranger: well now you do
Stranger: wait....
Stranger: Mark
Stranger: is that you babe
Stranger: Oh my god
Stranger: where have you been?
You: ha! no, not Mark!
Stranger: Ive missed you
You: shit, maybe I should have played along
Stranger: Come home babe
You: er..
You: OK
Stranger: I can't live without you
You: sorry
You: babay
You: I'll come home
Stranger: *pulls gun from pants*
Stranger: Its over
Your conversational partner has disconnected.

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