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Critics Say Google Invades Privacy With New Service - NYTimes.com

E-mail, it turns out, can hold many secrets, from the names of personal physicians and illicit lovers to the identities of whistle-blowers and antigovernment activists. And Google, so recently a hero to many people for threatening to leave China after hacking attempts against the Gmail accounts of human rights activists, now finds itself being pilloried as a clumsy violator of privacy.

Hmm... I like Buzz, personally. I think they just should've made it easier to turn it off in the first place.

Lucky (Suerte) - Jason Mraz & Ximena Sariñana

I love these songs which are half English / half Spanish. When you're used to the original, it's nice to hear another version.

And it helps if you speak at least a bit of Spanish, too.

It's simpler than you think...

“How do you get those uneven edges in your illustrations?”
“I draw them, unevenly.”

“What’s the best way to get this to look like it’s cut out of paper?”
“Cut it out of paper.”

“What typeface are you using? It looks so much like handwriting.”
“That’s my handwriting.”

Frank Chimero's blog is great.

The NYT Knows... about the Apple Tablet

I'm kind of surprised, actually, how confident their language is:

It will run all the applications of the iPhone and iPod Touch, have a persistent wireless connection over 3G cellphone networks and Wi-Fi, and will be built with a 10-inch color display, allowing newspapers, magazines and book publishers to deliver their products with an eye to the design that had grabbed readers in print.

"It will." Okay... I guess we'll find out tomorrow.

Live Twitter results on Google

Looking for @TEDtalks on Google, I got my first look at the real-time stream:

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Also, I noticed a new "Updates" link under More Options that'll give you (what seem to be only) Twitter updates (at the moment).

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What the fudge! Ice cream

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Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

google thinks I'm awesome!

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(Seen in Google's new search interface experiment.)