Brian Sullivan

I am not sure if Google's Chromebook leasing/renting/upgrade strategy will work or not (I think not) but one thing is for sure. They are making a bold move to generate a revenue stream completely different from their search based advertising (I have often called them a one trick pony because that seemed like all they could do). - Brian Sullivan

don't think it has anything to do with Verizon, 190 other countries miss out as well. Most new Google services are US only, movie rentals, music cloud, google voice etc dunno exactly why? - sofarsoShawn

"Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)’s Web Services cloud- computing unit was used by hackers in last month’s attack against Sony Corp. (6758)’s online entertainment systems, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Hackers using an alias signed up to rent a server through Amazon’s EC2 service and launched the attack from there, said the person, who requested anonymity because the information is confidential. The account has been shut down, the person said. " - Brian Sullivan

Not a surprise. - Brian Sullivan

"Moving sale -- 429 Broadway Ave. 9:30am to 3:30pm Saturday May 14. Rain date Saturday May 28. " - Brian Sullivan

The rain finally came - so I can justify my lack of activity. - Brian Sullivan

"Pornography was found in a raid of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan last week that led to his death, a source familiar with the materials said. The material was sexually explicit, the source said." - Brian Sullivan

Porn was sexually explicit? You don't say! - Brian Sullivan

You would have thought they might skip 13 and gone directly to 14. ;-) - Brian Sullivan

1 may be the saddest number but what about 13? - Brian Sullivan

I wonder why 14 is also missing from that elevator; and why in the world does it start with -1? ETA - Just noticed it's missing 4, too. That's weird - COMPLICATED MR. NOODLE

"An elevator in a residential apartment building in Shanghai. Floor numbers 4, 13 and 14 are missing, and there is a button for the "negative first floor"." - Brian Sullivan

"Tetraphobia, fear of the number 4. In Korea, China and Japan, as well as in many other East-Asian and some Southeast-Asian countries, it is not uncommon for buildings (including offices, apartments, hotels) to lack floors with numbers that include the digit 4" - Brian Sullivan

"The conspiracy-mongering of our time takes my breath away. Maybe humanity has always been this paranoid, but the advent of 24/7 media rubs it in. When I probed members of my Facebook community for their reactions to Osama bin Laden’s death, the second response echoed many more: “hoax.”" - Brian Sullivan

Bill? The religious threads often infuriate me as well but I find most of the participants otherwise intelligent, well rounded, and yes rational people so blocking is not something I would consider there. - Brian Sullivan

"The world's largest rock tunnel boring machine, nicknamed Big Becky, is scheduled to make a breakthrough deep below Niagara Falls on Friday, four years late and half a billion dollars over budget." - Brian Sullivan

"More parents in Alberta need to use booster seats for children aged four to nine, a new poll suggests. Safe Kids Canada released a poll Wednesday that suggests only 30 per cent of parents in the province use the larger car seats." - Brian Sullivan

it's the law here. in Texas. where the barbarians rule the land. i don't think you can take your kids off booster seats while riding in a car here until age 8. - Big Joe Silenced

New stuff no matter how disruptive causes evolution of existing technology in a never ending cycle. Despite the gandiose pronouncements very little technology actually dies -- it just morphs slowly into something else. - Brian Sullivan

thats the predatory nature of the beast... Google Vs Yahoo, FB vs Google. Techcrunch vs GigaOm.. whereever there are humans involved the beast will always come out and thats the real world too !! - Peter Dawson

@Peter: so all these people using competing platforms are imaginary? right. - Big Joe Silenced

The minute they say something is THE "xxx" killer, I stop reading. The "yyy" is dead articles are also no go for me. Lack of imagination. - amygeek

My son wore something like these until 10 months -- we had take them off 'cause he started to walk with them on. - Brian Sullivan

"Newt Gingrich has jumped into the presidential race. But to hear him tell it, the game is rigged. President Obama, Gingrich told Fox News’ Sean Hannity Wednesday evening, “can’t afford to run in a fair election. If he was on an equal playing field, he’d lose.”" - Brian Sullivan

"“I know how to get the whole country to resemble Texas,” he said. “President Obama knows how to get the whole country to resemble Detroit.” Is this the same Texas that's facing a huge fiscal crisis right now? - Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)

Alrighty then. - Brian Sullivan

I wonder if Osama tweeted? - sofarsoShawn

My son did exactly the same thing at this age - controlled falling down the stairs - scared the shit out of his mother and I. - Brian Sullivan

He managed to execute this technique and survive (he also managed to walk with his feet bolted together but that is another story). - Brian Sullivan

For me as well but the down seems deeper and deeper and the up is less and less prevalent. - Brian Sullivan

For me, it's the other way around. I'm finding my online life more pleasurable than my "real" one. :( - Shevonne

Derrick's recent departure (or maybe it is just a hiatus?) is just one more missing voice of sanity. - Brian Sullivan

Just no pleasing us is there? - Brian Sullivan

I think so. I didn't like these races with much overtaking. Specialy today. There is also 4 driver finished the race with Vettel in 1 lap. Others were behind 1 lap, 2 lap and 3, and 5... - MafiaX

"The August, 1948 issue of Sunset magazine advertised "a truly radioactive soil" for your crops, which would remain in your soil for 20 years ("quite harmless") and increase yields by 20 percent." - Brian Sullivan

In retrospect I guess this product was not a good idea? - Brian Sullivan

"The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of the entire night sky stitched together from 37,440 exposures. Large in size and scope, it portrays a world far beyond the one beneath our feet and reveals our familiar Milky Way with unfamiliar clarity. When we look upon this image, we are in fact peering back in time, as much of the light—having traveled such vast distances—predates civilization itself." - Brian Sullivan

"Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, one of the commissioners who approved the deal said she would join Comcast to oversee its government affairs office." - Brian Sullivan

yes, and they get ignored like speed limit signs. - Big Joe Silenced

"In the latter book, he argues that “contrary to the plain sense of the very Bible that they profess to revere and live by, [Christian fundamentalists] have made [Jesus] into the greatest American Idol of all” by misinterpreting metaphorical myths as historical facts." - Brian Sullivan

Gah! - Spidra Webster

Too bad deer don't eat snakes. - Kristin

Snakes may eat deer though. - Brian Sullivan

:( - Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart

My wife's cousin has spent most of her working career as a researcher and now editor on this multi-volume opus. - Brian Sullivan

They are nearing publishing volume 9 of an anticipated 18 volumes. - Brian Sullivan

Do you carry this on or check it? - Brian Sullivan

The TSA Playtime Party Kit - Big Joe Silenced

Can't click through the link here at work, but is that all Pyrex/glassware? Best toys you can get, IMO. - Hookuh Tinypants

Apparently pyrexxx - http://www.pyrexxx.com/ - Brian Sullivan

I seriously thought both the name of the location and the sign on the truck were p'shopped (http://ff.im/DadwA). It turns out to be a truth stranger than fiction moment. - Brian Sullivan

For anyone that hasn't seen the other posting -- the case you see in the picture is for a "travelling kit"(http://ff.im/DakIr) - Brian Sullivan

"Businessman and possible Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says Osama bin Laden would not have been tracked down and killed without the use of enhanced interrogation methods against terrorism captives in U.S. military prisons." - Brian Sullivan

Having to endure him continually pop up in news stories is torture on its own. - Brian Sullivan

Hmm...since he's an expert on torture, can we see the outtakes from The Apprentice? - John E. Bredehoft

"Dealing with the Justice Department's ad investigation apparently won't be cheap. In its SEC filing, Google said its management decided earlier this month to set aside $500 million to cover a possible settlement." - Brian Sullivan

Google wouldn't really cheat would it? - Brian Sullivan

^HA - sofarsoShawn