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    Image of Magister Magister
    11/06/09

    In reply to Another Google Heir Is Born: Larry Page's Son
    Congratulations to the proud parents!
    Now their life will never be the same. #larrypage
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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    This doesn't feel that invasive or weird to me. I went to mine and can't really tell how I would ever find it useful though. #google
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    11/05/09

    In reply to A Top Googler's Ominous Radio Fight
    If they really wanted to get at her, they would have suggested a search for "marissa mayer laugh". #marissamayer
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    Image of random_play random_play
    11/05/09

    In reply to A Top Googler's Ominous Radio Fight
    If you want to see the goods, everyone knows you have to search on marissa mayer cupcakes. #marissamayer
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    Image of Moonshine Mike Moonshine Mike
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    Is it time to change the name of "fleshbot" to something less innocuous? #google
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    Image of BaconCat BaconCat
    11/05/09

    @Moonshine Mike: hahaha! Fleshbot is so random and great! It taught me I'm turned on by a lot more things than I thought I was. #google
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    Image of m4ximusprim3 m4ximusprim3
    11/05/09

    In reply to A Top Googler's Ominous Radio Fight
    This thread is worthless without pics.

    See? The internet can do it too! #marissamayer
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    Image of Moonshine Mike Moonshine Mike
    11/05/09

    @m4ximusprim3: I blame Ryan i I get fired for searching the internet for these pics. #marissamayer
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    Let's just hope they never merge with Facebook. (On the other hand there'd be huge taxpayer savings, since we could shut down the CIA as redundant.) #google
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    11/05/09

    @Peter Feld: the CIA already owns a stake in Facebook: [www.guardian.co.uk]
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    Edited by britneyspearstears at 11/05/09 2:53 PM britneyspearstears was starred britneyspearstears was unstarred
    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    11/05/09

    @britneyspearstears: Good article, thanks. #google
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    Image of britneyspearstears britneyspearstears
    11/05/09

    @hilikusopus: You're very welcome. I had to look pretty deep into my email archives for that one--glad I found it. Thanks for the encouragement. #google
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    Google doesn't quite know all. It certainly doesn't know about that one time with me and the showgirls and the stolen champagne in Asunción . . . Well, maybe it knows now. #google
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/05/09

    @Smitros:

    Whatever google doesn't know about me is either recorded by the guy in the silver hyundai with the really long lens, or I blurt out here. #google
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    11/05/09

    In reply to Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier (and Mine)
    That redacted product blur is juuuuust long enough to read "Fleshlight." The cover up is always worse than the crime, Mr. Tate! #google
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    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    11/05/09

    @Unsolicited Advice: Heh, I was deciding what to blur while in Photoshop and that one only showed a serial number, so I blurred because, ya, who knows what freaky shit I've looked up on Google Shopping.

    After I published, I clicked through, and turns out it was former Gawker Media editor Will Leitch's book. $81 fracking dollars, used!

    [www.google.com]

    (I just realized, the more I talk, the more you'll assume it was a sex toy. CONFIRMED.) #google
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/05/09

    @Ryan Tate: Used? Ewwww. #google
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    Image of themediatrix themediatrix
    11/06/09

    @Smitros: how have I never hearted you? #google
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    11/06/09

    @themediatrix:
    Perhaps because you somehow sensed that, like my fellow Aurora, Illinois natives Wayne and Garth, I'm not worthy. #google
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/05/09

    In reply to A Top Googler's Ominous Radio Fight
    Mayer should have known better than to go on the show, but, to be fair, she is right only 80% of the time. #marissamayer
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    Image of mary002 mary002
    11/04/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    I grew up in Aughton and 'Argleton' is about where the end of our garden was, where for some reason someone had built a huge conservatory/shed in front of a small summerhouse bower. Has Google detected all the time I spent in the imaginary worlds of books and made it a place?
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    On the other hand, mapping credit where it's due...

    Google maps has no problem with my favorite towns:

    Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll..., Wales

    Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapoka..., New Zealand, nor

    Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahin..., Thailand (Bangkok, or "Krungthepmahanakorn," for short) #googlemaps
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    If Roubini ever invites you up to his pudenda-prettified loft, you can impress people with the pronunciation of the first one (and yes, smartass Welsh are invited to correct me):

    Khan Fair Pookh Gan Gikh Go Ger Ish Wrin Dro Bo Khan De See Lee Oh Go Go Gokh #googlemaps
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    Image of dros dros
    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    To make a 'll', put the tip of your tongue on the front of your palate and blow.
    Same 'ch' as in 'Loch Lomond'

    It's the made up name of a train station (and Pringle sweater outlet) and you say it:

    Thlan-vair Pooll Goo-een Gheell Goh Gher Ur Khu-eern Droh-Booll, Llahn-Tee Silly-Oh, Go! Go! Go-ch. #googlemaps
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    Uncle_Billy_Slumming promoted this comment dros was starred dros was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @dros:

    How do you say smartass in Welsh? :)

    If you want to get technical though, it is the name of the town. A sign with the town's name does reside at the train station according to the most reliable of online sources. Even more exact, it refers to the church (see photo).

    Dying to find out what a "Llantysilio" might be...
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Here's the foto:

    [en.wikipedia.org] #googlemaps
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

    Here we go:

    "LLANTYSILIO - This comes from the words "llan" meaning "parish" and St. Tysilio. "

    [members.virtualtourist.com] #googlemaps
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    Image of Accidental Billionaire Accidental Billionaire
    11/03/09

    In reply to Did Mrs. Google's Company Curl Into the Googleplex To Die?
    Fact is, Sergey wanted to tap a nice Biotech student. Med/Bio students can be hot with the most pernicious attitudes. Real uptight and impossible to work with.

    She should be playing with test tubes somewhere. But instead she's the personal blow up doll for Brin. Drill away!

    Edit: I hope I don't get PI's tracking me down because of this. CEO's get pretty pissed when you make jokes about who they're banging that decade.
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    Edited by Accidental Billionaire at 11/03/09 7:08 PM Accidental Billionaire was starred Accidental Billionaire was unstarred
    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
    False maps have consequences! I'm tellin' you, if you find an old Hastings Map in an antique bookstore, DON'T FOLLOW IT! Here's why, from an old blog entry somewhere.

    The Hastings Guide was devised by a Lansford Hastings to inspire emigrants to come to California in the 1840's rather than taking the Oregon Trail. He owned land in the former state and wished to sell plenty of it to settlers, which he could not do were they to head north of his holdings. The Guide promised a shortcut of some three or four hundred miles were the weary traveler to take a southern route pioneered by Fremont, called the Hastings Cut-Off, leaving the Ft Hall road south and west of the Great Salt Lake.

    This became maybe the most influential and historically significant travel guide since Marco Polo, as you can judge by the name given to one group of pioneers who took the advice of Mr Lansford Hastings - the Donner Party.     #googlemaps
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    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: #googlemaps
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    Ryan Tate was starred Ryan Tate was unstarred
    Image of Ryan Tate Ryan Tate
    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: Don't follow it, that is, unless you are you traveling on foot and like eating people.

    So, we can assume some Googler has land in this area and is trying to create a mass emigration perhaps from nearby Scotland? #googlemaps
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    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: Don't follow it, that is, unless you are you traveling on foot and like eating people.

    So, we can assume some Googler has land in this area and is trying to create a mass emigration perhaps from nearby Scotland? #googlemaps
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    11/03/09

    @Ryan Tate: You know where the most copies on record of the Hastings Guide were found? Why, within the private library of Jeffrey Dahmer, of course. #googlemaps
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @Tremonius: It's a mapmaker eat mapmaker world. #googlemaps
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/03/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: [strangemaps.wordpress.com] #googlemaps
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    11/03/09

    @raincoaster:

    It would be more fun to print this out and read it in bed on a stormy night than read it on the computer... but even so... great stuff! #googlemaps
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    Image of cocodevaux cocodevaux
    11/03/09

    In reply to Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?

    they should have gone with the classic preschool move... #googlemaps
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