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Jun 13, 20092 notes
Weekend Maintenance

bitly:

We’ll be conducting maintenance on our database servers on Saturday, June 13th, 2009 at 4AM Eastern.  During this period of time all redirects will continue to function normally, however shortening will be temporarily unavailable.  The maintenance window should last less than one hour.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Frack!! So much for the illegal, after-hours URL-shortening party / rave that I had planned for tonight. Now I’ve got to let 12,000 people know about the last-minute cancellation.

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Jun 9, 2009
Tiller and the Ticking Bomb Scenario → rollingstone.com

retropolitics:

A gun-toting religious fanatic, swept up after a brazen act of terrorism in a church calls reporters from prison claiming knowledge of a forthcoming campaign of mass murder.

Forget the politics of abortion for a second, this is the quintessential “ticking time bomb scenario” that advocates of torture always use to justify going medieval on jihadis.

The chief suspect in the murder of Dr. George Tiller, Scott Roeder, called AP from jail this weekend with this dire warning:

“I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal.”

So how about in Hannity?

Should we break out the waterboard before these terrorists strike again in the Homeland?

-Tim Dickinson, National Affairs Daily

Jun 9, 2009
Play
Jun 4, 2009
Search Evolution

thegongshow:

In light of Google Squared launching today and all the buzz over M$FT’s Bing, I was delighted by @marcoarment’s tweet today where he said: “Want to see where real innovation needs to be made in web search? Pick a product you need to buy. Search Google for ‘[product name] review’.”

Product reviews are totally broken on Google. I’d love to compile a list of other broken searches on Google. Here’s my start, and please add in either comments or ReBlogs or dashboard answers or emails to me. I’ll aggregate the results and repost later.

- Purchasing tickets for anything
- Finding old concerts
- Finding *good* lawyers
- Finding currently-hiring job openings
- Finding an apartment for rent
- Finding flights (optimal route and optimal price)
- Finding a niche B&B
- Anything regarding SEO

Maybe of these have become dominant vertical search categories, but I feel like Google is copping out by not trying to address these in their main search offering.

Got some others to add?

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