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I know it says "everyone", but for any male: a top quality shaving cream to try for while. I used to think Edge, Barbasol, etc was good enough and the boutique ones were for snobs and no difference. Then I tried a few. Like night and day difference in closeness and after shaving comfort. You will not go back.

Not even that expensive considering you can use less per shave because of the quality. The two best I have ever used are both fairly affordable and don't even need a bowl/brush:

men-u Shaving Cream: http://www.men-uusa.com/men-ushavingcream33oz.aspx

Kiehl's Ultimate Brushless Shave Cream: http://www.kiehls.com/on/demandware.store/Sites-kiehls_us-Si...

Wow. Just Wow.

For years all of this was in the back of my mind as being capable but my not wanting to think like a conspiracy crackpot just dismissed the thought as it couldn't be possible. A conspiracy takes a lot of co-operation from within large corporations who must also remain it a secret. Surely someone would have a conscious and leak it? Or one of companies we all look up to as a modern example of do-good company would say "Hell NO" to the attempt and then let the world know what was attempted. Guess that was eventually proven true with Snowden (a real hero imo), just shocked they were able to operate to the scale they did for so long before a Snowden came along.

In my mind, this is not so much a shock to me regarding the NSA as well as the current evil government we have had in place. Doesn't take a genius to realize the president lies to our face on TV about trivial issues/promises, so expected for top secret stuff.

What is the BIG stomach churning shock to me is the very companies that we have come to know that are multi-billion dollar conglomerates providing service/products for millions for every day use has been a part of it. A part of this secret web while all the while proclaiming privacy for it users. I guess at end of day profits still rule the roost. "Just do this for us, turn a blind eye, and you get to go on making your billions". I wonder how many CEO's knew of all this. Gates? Zuckerburg? Etc etc.

I feel like I have no outs now. There are no alternatives to current establishment of companies that make our lives easier. Should we all wipe our PC's and use Linux, sell our phones and use Ubuntu Phone, not pay for SSL certs anymore (another mafia), etc?

I am really surprised in all these Google Reader threads I have not seen mention of the free, self-hosted and perfectly simple RSSLounge. I been using it for three years now and even donated.

Development has stalled on this one though but the developer has a new RSS project with more social stuff. It is called Selfoss and is at http://selfoss.aditu.de/ .

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I have been a big fan of and user of Opera since it had banner ads in the free version. It has been a long time as my preferred default browser for home and work PC's. I'd even have it on my iPad if I could.

But when I first heard this rumor over the weekend I felt in shock (and sick). I hate Facebook along with its smug a-hole founder. Never even had an account (although I do feel I missed out on some old connections and such but refused to be a part of FB). From a business standpoint I guess it makes sense. FB would get a mature, fast and feature rich browser (One they could data mine to no end, including emails).

But the very last version of Opera that was released, shall this buyout happen, will also be the last version I ever use. Opera has a very clear and good privacy statement. I trust Opera. But Facebook, forget it!

In past few days I have spent time downloading and trying pretty much every other popular browsers. From Chrome to PaleMoon. I could live with one of them but nothing really compelling for me. They all have already been uninstalled and am done trying. Opera would be surely missed.

I tried to wear a compression shirt for Golf once and it was the worst round of my life. I literally ripped the thing off at the 11th hole.

The thing about compression garments that I learned a good lesson that day is they restrict movement. Reason I guess you don't see any pro golfers use them or NBA players.

Interesting. Thanks

Just use Iron.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron...

I have been an everyday RSS user for a few years now. Jumped around trying Bloglines, a few desktop clients, Google Reader, some unknown smaller sites, etc over that time. Finally I found my perfect aggregator and have been using it daily for about 8 months now. I even took it upon myself to donate a few bucks to developer.

Simple, free and open source: http://rsslounge.aditu.de/ Only catch is it requires your own host/webserver with PHP/SQL and a quick installation. But well worth it for me as I just dropped it onto one of my websites.

The Best. Been a big fan of Opera browser for a long time now. There was a minor speed bump of bugs when 10.x first came out but starting at 10.10 it has been top notch. Once you learn all of Opera's nuances using any other browser feels outdated and not as well thought out for a user. Speed is right there with Chrome, built in mail/rss and now with the 11.x extensions there is no more excuses to try it.

The little browser that could.

Same here.

Love it now to where other browsers feel boring. Opera takes a bit of commitment in the beginning because it isn't as "popular thing to use" but once you LEARN how humbly powerful it is (browsing speed wise AND feature set), you sort of end up catching yourself going back to it more and more to where you use it for most of the time. Many small features I take for granted now with Opera others don't have or you need some sort of extension to get (or they end up copying later).

Also, the times of running into sites not compatible with Opera are so far and few between now thanks to the growth of browser wars. It happens once in while, sure... It happens in Chrome too. BUT no other browser has a the simple though out ability to right-click the broken webpage and allow you to select to open it in another browser on your system. That to me is "friendly" and shows Opera has a open philosophy.

Try it

Such a great post.

I have played live medium stakes poker in Vegas for 14 years now. Have witnessed the boom firsthand. Before the poker tv "boom" it used to be sort of embarrassing when family and friends from back home would ask about poker and what not because it always had a negative mystique about it. During the boom everyone was all of a sudden interested and wanted to listen about how exciting it must be. But the boom completely skewed reality and perspectives unlike anything I have ever seen, even compared to the housing boom.

I can't count how many times in past 7 years I'd be at table full of early 20 somethings claiming they are or am thinking about going "pro" (quiting job/college for poker FT). For every Tom Dwan type of story there are probably 1000x the stories similar or WORSE to the Washington Post article. It was never my business so I never made it my biz, but I used to be sad seeing so many talented/bright and charismatic kids be so lost and throwing away years chasing the rush and shot at being famous. Gambling, in any form, takes a very special tough minded character to do in long run since, like matt says, the losing streaks will come. I have told my wife one thing I wish I could erase from my mind would be poker. And I am a long-term winner! It just wears you down and matt mentioning how most can't fathom the emotional swings is true. It becomes worse the more early success one has because the resulting crash will be harder.

The smoke and mirrors of poker created by TV is FAR from real. Away from the lights and camera while they hype most of these guys up is mostly a collection of low lives grinding 60hrs a week on their asses just to pay the bills. Many of the big names the world has come to know have also gone broke at times. Not always because of poker but it just harbors other bad habits.

Anyway, enough of that. I do want to say Matt that during it time I was an avid follower of your blog. I could always tell you were one of the more grounded and mature young players that was having success and always knew you wouldn't let your head get too big. Sorry it took a tragedy of that magnitude to get you out but in the end it was probably best.

SO excited. I continue to be impressed with Opera corp in 2010. They fumbled a bit with inital 10.x release but recovered in a big way with 10.5x and now this one is the Best Opera EVER. This one even beats out Iron Browser in Peacemaker benchmark for me, which has been a very formidable opponent until now..

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I have been a huge Opera fan since its early incarnations (even paid for it when it wasn't free). Also participate in beta testing, etc. But the release of 10.x left sour taste in my mouth as it was buggy too often for me. Suffering from countless "last few elements loading" issues, broken web sites and most important a beatdown in js and page-loading tests I have done (and seen elsewhere) from the more agile upstarts of Chrome and Firefox releases as they tried to one up each other. Even IE8 tested faster at times for me in loading pages I frequented.

But ever since they released the "teaser" of this new Opera right before Xmas 2009 I have been stoked and actively following its development and testing just about every new snapshot/beta they put out.

I've tried other browsers with extensions and such but none of them seem to feel as complete and as integrated as Opera. Hence why I still use it despite my ventures into Chrome/FF and even Safari (chrome is really nice as well and would be my default had Opera not gotten the hint).

Anyway, I am enthusiastically downloading the 10.5 release right now. A very large thanks to all the Opera developers for their efforts into this amazing release in short time. Everyone should try it.

For several years now, one of many common things I do for my client networks as well as friends/family has been to put them onto OpenDNS. They have been speedy, stable and FREE from the beginning during a time when you had to pay for most 3rd party DNS services. They also offer amazing controls like easy content blocking for free compared to hardware devices that charge good money to do the same for business networks.

If you don't like it, like me, it is simple; use an anonymous proxy. Or use google scraper: http://www.scroogle.org/

Interesting? You obviously haven't played much poker in a casino environment. Now it doesn't apply to everyone obviously, but by and large the most shady, degenerate low lives I have ever met in my life collectively have come from my hours at poker. And most of the conversations involve shallow discussion of hands by ego maniacs or complaints of beats.

What this author (promoter) seems to either forget or ignore is that gambling, and poker in particular, is synonymous with hustlers, criminals and two-bit cheats.

I like to think of HN as being as far away from that atrocity of 2+2 as I can. Can't believe a simple poker article brings mention of that cesspool.

Anyway, Loved your blog back in the day Matt.

I ordered two of these Sept August 1st and STILL have not received it. Emailing them got no response either. People are apparently getting theirs though as there are plenty of posts/reviews. I can't remember last time I waiting this long for something I ordered. Look forward to it though as it will be my first telescope.

I was actually just driving around Vegas the other day noticing and pointing to a friend just the ridiculous amount of "for lease" signs one sees.

...How to kick another 7 year olds a$$.

MMA has ruined america. There are more "tough guys" walking around now it seems with everyone so quick to want to fight. Like an advanced civilization taking a step back to more primitive ways. Now instead of team sports and learning that the whole is greater than the parts, we have 7 year olds with muscles and ego. And if you don't like it.. want to fight?

TheBat for 10 years now.

This guy is a tool. I stopped reading once I read this blanket assumptive statement: People who love computers overwhelmingly prefer to use a Mac today

Really? Did he go door to door? Because he missed my house and MANY other people I know..