I didn't know Emeril Lagasse had a Slashdot account... nor that he had any interest in geography.

I'm not in DC, but I've never found this to be the case unless all you care about is one single narrow issue. Blogs always spring up to beat some particular horse to death, but I haven't seen them do much actual news gathering.

If you really believed this to be true, you should've at least provided a link to one of your area' blogs that covers a wide range of local news without relying on stories originating with either the local newspapers, local news radio, or local television news reporting.

Are all those apples being raised in a walled garden?

Google has a very small product line - it's hard to see how they can fill a store, unless they're going to be carrying a lot of "partner" (competitor's) Android phones. And, at this point in time, most of those partners are probably not that comfortable in their relationship with Google.

I guess you had to be there, eh?

I still want to see three viable rendering engines competing in the browser world - and that's what we currently have.

I know there are a few people who live and die with Opera, but it didn't have enough market share to make any meaningful difference - its switch to WebKit is irrelevant to most of us.

From TFA (ignore my sig this time around...):

"Specifically, it is the company that got a hold on the python.co.uk domain 13 years ago. At that time we weren't looking a lot at trademark issues, and so we didn't get that domain."

And it was probably the only good Shockwave app ever - Snowcraft.

Yes, because in pre-agreement times the police forces of adjoining countries never had any means of communicating.

I don't think there's much danger of most European police forces involved in a "hot pursuit" crossing the border into the UK.

I think my absolute favorite thing about camping is the smell of perking coffee on the camp fire, first thing in the morning.

Ha! There was a great old Saturday Night Live parody of the old Folgers Crystals ads (in those, they'd supposedly replace some swank restaurant's coffee with Folgers instant coffee and use a hidden camera to catch all the customers reactions). The bit was "We're at Cedars-Saini hospital, where we've just secretly replaced the blood with Folgers Crystals..."

I take issue with your statement "Google has no understanding of what privacy is". They understand it perfectly well, and know that it gets in the way of their business model.

In those circumstances I'd rather just think about Ali McGraw.

he's on a motorcycle.