kris brower

Play Haley Off Keyboard Cat

2009-06-01T14:09:28Z

Posted via email from kbrower's posterous

Untitled

2009-04-21T19:52:49Z

Recipe Puppy is the #1 bookmark on http://delicious.com

Posted via email from kbrower's posterous

Untitled

2009-04-21T19:50:59Z

Recipe Puppy is the #1 bookmark on http://delicious.com/

Posted via email from kbrower's posterous

Amazon Filler Item Finder on TV a few more times

2007-11-27T15:22:35Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I have had a web site be on TV before, but never in the USA. My site was recently on MyFox Philly briefly in a segment about Cyber Monday and saving money online. Here is a link to the page that has the article and the video clip!

Update: It was on TV again! Also Terri’s consumer blog mentioned that my website was in Consumer Report’s Shop smart magazine.

Facebook Apps: PHP Invite Code

2007-08-29T12:51:36Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

One thing I needed when making my second facebook application is a simple way for users to invite your friends. I found a few examples, but none of them were really what I was looking for. This code uses the ajax multiple friend select box(<fb:multi-friend-input>) for inviting friends instead of a long list or a random list of all your friends. You will need facebook.php and facebookapi_php5_restlib.php from facebook_client.tar.gz. If you want to see this invite code in action add the need numbers application. Here is the code:

<?php

/////////////////////////////////////////////
// These are the variables you need to change
/////////////////////////////////////////////

// your app api key
$appapikey = ‘changeme’;
// your app secret
$appsecret = ‘changeme’;
// your callback url
$appcallbackurl = ‘http://website.tld/’;
// your facebook url of this page
$inviteurl = ‘http://app.facebook.com/app/invite.php’;

/////////////////////////////////////////////
// This is the beginning of the section which includes and set up the php5 rest lib
/////////////////////////////////////////////

require_once ‘facebook.php’;

$facebook = new Facebook($appapikey, $appsecret);
$user = $facebook->require_login();

//catch the exception that gets thrown if the cookie has an invalid session_key in it
try {
if (!$facebook->api_client->users_isAppAdded()) {
$facebook->redirect($facebook->get_add_url());
}
} catch (Exception $ex) {
//this will clear cookies for your application and redirect them to a login prompt
$facebook->set_user(null, null);
$facebook->redirect($appcallbackurl);
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////
// These are the variables may want to change
/////////////////////////////////////////////
// The title of your Invite message
$title = ‘You have been invited’;
// The body of your Invite message
$text = ‘<fb:name uid=”‘.$user.’” firstnameonly=”true” /> invited you to join this app. <fb:pronoun uid=”‘.$user.’” /> wants you to join.<fb:req-choice url=”‘.$facebook->get_add_url().’” label=”Add it” />’;
// The logo associated with your invite message
$logo = ‘http://website.com/logo.gif’;
// Success message for when invites succeeded
$iworked = ‘<fb:success><fb:message>Your invitations have been sent</fb:message></fb:success>’;
// Error message for when all invites have been used
$ierror = ‘<fb:error><fb:message>You are out of invites, try again tomorrow</fb:message></fb:error>’;

/////////////////////////////////////////////
// This is the beginning of the section that processes the invites
/////////////////////////////////////////////
if ($_POST[’ids’]) {
// Invite the friends that were selected.
$friends = array();
foreach ($_POST[’ids’] as $value) {
if (count($friends) < 10) {
$friends[count($friends)] = $value;
}
}
$tail = ‘&canvas’;
$url = $facebook->api_client->notifications_sendRequest($friends, $title, $text, $logo, true);

if(!$url){
// If the maximum number of invites has been reached
$facebook->redirect($inviteurl.”?i=1″);
exit;
}else{
$facebook->redirect($url.$tail);
exit;
}
}

if ($_GET[’sent’] == 1) {
// Display a message letting the user know invitations have been successfully sent.
echo $iworked;
}

if($i==”1″){
// Error message for when all invites have been used
echo $ierror;
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////
// This is the beginning of the actual invite form
/////////////////////////////////////////////
echo ‘<div style=”margin:20px”>
<h2>Invite some Friends</h2>
<form action=”‘.$inviteurl.’” method=”post”><fb:multi-friend-input width=”350px” border_color=”#8496ba” /><input type=”submit” value=”Invite” /></form>
</div>’;

?>

Why Reddit is better than Digg for normal people submitting articles

2007-08-20T08:14:36Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

So Henry Social Network User has written a brilliant article on his blog. The problem is that no one goes to his blog, and no one will read his article. Henry has a plan. He is a regular user of a few social networks and goes out and submits his to the two he uses the most, digg and reddit. With Digg and Reddit his site thrown in with many other bad, useless, and spammy submissions. In both cases there are users scanning the new submissions.

On Digg people dutifully mark the spam as spam and digg up his article. He gets a few diggs, but unfortunately everyone who dugg his article is just a normal person. What he really needed was a digg from a power users that help get most of the submissions upgraded to the front page. Instead of reaching thousands of people, his page is lost below the spam with a few diggs and a few hits. People can sort the new section by total diggs, but there are pages in pages of bot/spammer dugg crap. What he really should have done was waited until he saw one of the top users digging up new submissions and then submitted it.(ugh) The second option is to just submit to reddit, wait til it reaches the front page, then realize he is also on digg’s front page.

When he submits to reddit he has a better shot. The one obstacle is the intial mod up/down. As long as a bot isn’t modding down all new submissions except the bots submissions, chances are he will get enough users to read his article to make sure his site stays in the positives. As long as his site stays above 0 it will appear in the new section. Luckily more people like his article than dislike it and it makes a slow climb. His article only gets upmodded to about 15, but a good number of people see it and he is happy. At least reddit gave Henry a chance.

Neither site does it perfectly but reddit does submissions far better.

In the last few weeks I have submitted a few things to reddit and digg. The submissions to digg got a few diggs at best and very little traffic in every case(less than 5). The submissions to reddit were varied. One submission was upmodded to 15 and recieved about 100 unique visitors. One stayed at 1 and recieved 100 visitors. One was downmodded to 0 but still recieved 15 visitors.

Things that could kill you but probably won’t

2007-08-17T21:07:37Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

Golden Poison Frog

“Its alkaloid poison, batrachotoxin, prevents nerves from transmitting impulses, leaving the muscles in an inactive state of contraction. This can lead to heart failure or fibrillation. It also lasts long after the frog has left the area; chickens and dogs have died from contact with a paper towel on which a frog had walked.[citation needed] One wild adult terribilis (meaning, ‘the terrible’) has enough poison to kill up to 100 adult humans, or up to 20,000 mice [1]. However, this poison is lost in captive-bred and raised frogs due to a lack of certain items in its diet, currently unknown, although new research has hinted that a beetle from the family Melyridae may be the key ingredient responsible for the frog’s lethal poison.” (source)

Electric Eel

“Electric eel have three abdominal pairs of organs that produce electricity. They are the Main Organ, the Hunter’s Organ, and the Sachs’ Organ. These organs take up 4/5 of its body. Only the front 1/5 contains the vital organs.[citation needed] These organs are made of electrocytes lined up in series. The electrocytes are lined up so the current flows through them and produces an electrical charge. When the eel locates its prey, the brain sends a signal through the nervous system to the electric cells. This opens the ion channel, allowing positively-charged sodium to flow through, reversing the charges momentarily. By doing that it creates electricity, and fires it at its prey. The electric eel generates its characteristic electrical pulse in a manner similar to a battery, in which stacked plates produce an electrical charge. In the electric eel, some 5,000 to 6,000 stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 500 volts and 1 ampere of current (500 watts). The organs give the electric eel the ability to generate two types of electric organ discharges (EODs), low voltage and high voltage. The shock is deadly for an adult human and a large electric eel can shock a horse to death.” (source)

Alligator

There were 351 known alligator attacks from 1948 - 2005 in Florida of which 16 were fatal. (source)

Cassowary

“The 2004 edition of the Guinness World Records lists the cassowary as the world’s most dangerous bird. Normally cassowaries are very shy but when disturbed can lash out dangerously with their powerful legs. During World War II American and Australian troops stationed in New Guinea were warned to steer clear of the birds. They are capable of inflicting fatal injuries to an adult human. Usually, attacks are the result of provocation. Wounded or cornered birds are particularly dangerous. Cassowaries, deftly using their surroundings to conceal their movements, have been known to out-flank organized groups of human predators. Cassowaries are considered to be one of the most dangerous animals to keep in zoos, based on the frequency and severity of injuries incurred by zookeepers.” (source)

Bears

“There were about 52 recorded deaths due to black bears between 1900 and 2003 and about 50 deaths due to brown bears and about 5 due to polar bears in the same period. The most recent data is the most reliable and complete, but does not necessarily include all of the fatal attacks that have occurred in North America.” (source)

Cone Snail

“The bright colours and patterns of cone snails have led inquisitive people to pick them up and hold them in their hand for a while. This is not a safe thing to do, because the snail may fire its harpoon in self-defense. The “sting” of many of the smaller cone species is no worse than that of a bee or hornet sting, but in the case of a few of the larger tropical species, handling the snail can have tragic consequences. About 30 human deaths have been recorded from cone snail envenomation. One species, the Geography cone, Conus geographus, is also known colloquially as the “cigarette snail,” in the belief that the victim will have only enough time to smoke a cigarette before perishing. Especially in the case of these larger species of cone snail, the harpoon can penetrate gloves or even wetsuits.” (source)

Lightning

“In the United States from 1980 through 1995, a total of 1318 deaths were attributed to lightning, (average: 82 deaths per year {range: 53-100 deaths}). Of the 1318 persons who died, 1125 (85%) were male, and 896 (68%) were aged 15-44 years. The annual death rate from lightning was highest among persons aged 15-19 years (6 deaths per 10,000,000 population; crude rate: 3 per 10,000,000). The greatest number of deaths attributable to lightning occurred in Florida and Texas (145 and 91, respectively), but New Mexico, Arizona, Arkansas, and Mississippi had the highest rates (10.0, 9.0, 9.0, and 9.0, respectively).” (source)

Dendrocnide moroides

“Contact with the leaves or twigs causes the hollow silica-tipped hairs to penetrate the skin. The sting causes a painful stinging sensation which can last for days or even months and the injured area becomes covered with small red spots joining together to form a red, swollen mass. The sting is known to have killed one human, and it can also kill dogs and horses.” (source)

Sharks

From 1990 to 2006 there have been 936 shark attacks worldwide of which 98 have been fatal. That is 58.5 attacks a year and 6.125 fatal attacks a year.(source)

Box Jellyfish

“Chironex fleckeri appear to avoid human beings when they are close to them and so can be said to avoid stinging humans. Their sting is incredibly powerful and extensive stings can be rapidly fatal. The sting produces excruciating pain accompanied by an intense burning sensation (one victim famously described the pain as “like having a bucket of fire poured over you”[citation needed]), and the venom has multiple effects attacking the nervous system, heart and skin at the same time. While an appreciable amount of venom (about ten feet or three metres of tentacle) needs to be delivered in order to have a fatal effect on an adult human, the potently neurotoxic venom is extremely quick to act. Fatalities have been observed as little as four minutes after envenomation, notably quicker than any snake, insect or spider and prompting its description as the world’s deadliest venomous animal. Although an antivenom exists, treating a patient in time can be difficult or impossible.”(source)

For some more information you might want to check out the following links:

10 Things the USA does better than Australia

2007-08-11T16:30:06Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I thought I would do a follow up post to 9 things Australia does better than the USA. These are a few things I noticed after spending a semester in Australia.

10. No legal Prostitution
9. We don’t have a government sponsored internet filter yet
8. Food(Vegemite, meat pies, sausage rolls, …. yum?)
7. Television(Neighbors…)
6. School uniforms are not required in public K-12 schools
5. The jellyfish here don’t kill you
4. The police need a reason to stop and test you for drugs/alcohol
3. Alcohol is cheap(the cheapest handle of liquor or a case of beer is ~$10 here and ~$30 in Australia)
2. Gambling is not ubiquitous
1. No Water Restrictions(drought is not an excuse)

Website Updates

2007-08-11T15:45:33Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I just updated and fixed a few websites. The buy.com filler item finder was not working, but not it is. The problem was that the location of the datafee changed. This was all I had to do to fix the problem:

Find export.buyservices.com/DataFeed and replace with affiliate.datafeed.buyservices.com

I also updated the ebay sort by total price so that you can select whatever country you like. I am not sure if unicode will work in the search yet though. Anything that can be encoded in a url should work.

Get the Best Price on eBay

2007-08-02T14:24:47Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

The other day I was trying to buy a usb cable for my new lg env phone. After going to the verizon store and realizing they wanted to charge me $30 I got on ebay. A quick search yielded some good deals, but I wanted the best deal. The problem was that the sellers shipping costs were not factored into the sort by price, so the best deal was not necessarily on the top. I couldn’t find anything other than a firefox extension to do this for me, so I decided to write some quick code using the eBay API to sort by total price(w/ shipping included). The result is the eBay Sort by Total Price Search.

9 Things Australia does better than the USA

2007-07-10T14:27:38Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

After spending six months in Australia these are some things I noticed that Australia does that I wish the USA did

9. All alcoholic beverages at the bottle shop(liquor store) are labeled with how many standard drinks it contains
8. You do not need to pay 40k a year to go to the best University in Australia
7. Tips are built in to the price
6. Gun control laws are more strict
5. The ubiquitous beer does not taste like piss
4. They operate on a trade surplus
3. Sweet Chilli Sauce
2. It does not cost money to receive calls/texts on a cell phone
1. They round to the nearest 5 cents(no pennies)

Apple Iphone Store Models

2007-07-02T15:28:59Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I had some downtime and I decided to head over to my local Apple Store in Ardmore, PA. They had about a dozen Iphones sitting out for anyone to play with. The Iphone did not disappoint, but I would not buy it for any more than $200. The interesting part of the experience was that the phone was fully functional. There were pictures and phone numbers that were a mere email away from potential stalkers and pranksters. I am tempted to publish the number of the Iphone I tried out, but I am a paranoid. Imagine the fun that could be had by calling the people in the Apple Store. All I know is the next time I am going to make a long distance call, I am going to the Apple Store.

Create your very own custom Fabric Belt

2007-05-08T03:15:11Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

So my sister is back from school and looking to make some money. Luckily she knows how to make fabric belts and she has a brother(me) that knows how to make websites. So head over to DesignYourBelt.com to have my sister make you a unique custom fabric belt.

How many backlinks does getting Dugg get you?

2007-02-07T04:52:17Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

Two days ago Google released a new feature in their webmaster tools which display who is linking to your website. It was interesting to see that two of my posts which were recently on digg.com had several times more backlinks than my home page.

Home Page - 0 diggs - 531 backlinks
Top 100 Duplicate Digg Comments - 1931 diggs - 4478 backlinks
Digg User Comment Statistics - 1180 diggs - 2416 backlinks

From my very limited data set it seems like you get over as twice as many backlinks as there are diggs. I am willing to bet this is on the low side because these posts were very digg specific and not to as much interest to non-digg users. If anyone has any else has a page that got dugg recently(and didn’t have a series-of-tubes-load of backlinks beforehand) please let me know and I will post the data here.

What is a Myspace User like?

2007-02-03T03:39:54Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

Myspace users are mostly young, but there are fairly large communities of 69 year olds and 100+ year olds:

How many friends do myspace users have, you ask? The younger they are the more friends the have(they then lose those friends over time):

What sign are myspace users?

Who knew Leo’s had such a hard time making friends?

Google Onpage Search Results Analysis

2007-02-02T21:20:56Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I did some analysis of Google’s search results based only on the way Google display’s its results. The analysis is based on the first ~800 well formed unique searchs in search data that AOL released(here is a list I made of the first 5000 well formed queries). I initially was going to do this analysis on “competitive queries”, but I could not find a long list of completive keywords, so I decided to do it on more random search queries. I posted all of the relevant graphs of my analysis on swivel(and you can download the dataset there). Here are the graphs I found most interesting.

This shows the average number of bold tags in the title of each search result(Each result has a title which is also the external link to the actual page. When the search query or any parts of the search query appear in this title, google automatically bolds it). It seems like this is a very important factor in getting ranked well in Google. Unlike some of the other results this trend was consistent for the first 90 search results.

A shorter description(in words) correlates with better ranking

A shorter title(in words) correlates with better ranking as well

This graph looks at the percent chance there is a “…” at the end of the description indicating that there is more to the description that was clipped. Surprisingly not having the “…” correlates with a better ranking.

A lower page size correlates with better rank for the first 20 search results.

Last here is a graph of the depth of a page.(ie google.com has a depth of 0, google.com/adsense has depth 1, … etc) After the first few results it does not seem like there is very much correlation between depth of the page and ranking.

Google: If you don’t like it…sign out

2007-02-02T19:00:35Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I think google just gave some pretty strange advice in their recent blog post.

”If you don’t want to see personalized results, just sign out of your Google Account.”

Last time I checked you could turn that feature off without signing out of your account. That would be a pretty annoying way of turning a feature off.

What happens when you get dugg by Kevin Rose?

2007-02-02T09:33:36Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

Kevin Rose digg’s your site, it will make it to the front page of digg if it is not there already. Unfortunately, the effect of being on Kevin Rose’s dugg page is lost in the massive amount of traffic you recieve from the digg front page. Luckily I had the unique experience of having Kevin digg my post 21 days after it reached the front page. Anyway I saw about 100 visitor increase…a little disappointing.

Here is a screenshot of the traffic increase:

Netflix Data Statistics

2007-02-01T11:32:52Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I found some interesting analysis of the netflix prize dataset, but it was not exactly what I was looking for. I downloaded the dataset, and decided to do some analysis myself. I went with what I though was the easy route by installing pyflix, which in hindsight might not have been the fastest approach(pyflix took about 90 minutes to install after I figured out how to install NumPy in Ubuntu). Here are the results of my analysis of movie ratings over time.

The first graph shows the average rating of movies over release year. The average movie rating is not an average of each movie’s average rating, but instead an average of all the ratings of movies released in a given year.

This shows the average number of rating per movie by year which can be used as a basic measure of popularity.

The last graph shows the number of movies in the Netflix dataset by release year.

Why Did Google Buy Youtube?

2007-01-25T19:21:27Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

It seems like one of the major reasons is that they just wanted to improve their video search. With youtube included in the search results people might actually start using the google video search.

Number of Word Occurances in State of the Union Addresses

2007-01-25T06:53:59Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

So I am now working at Swivel part time finding, compiling, and uploading interesting data. My new coworker Seema had the idea to graph the occurances of certain words in State of the Union Addresses over time. Here are two of the most interesting graphs.

The Effect of Age of Search Engine Rankings

2007-01-24T23:57:10Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

I did some analysis on the effect of age of domain names on search engine ranking. I ran the 300 top searchs according to wordtracker through google, msn, and yahoo. I checked the age of each site according to Archive.org and here are the results. I just wish I had done months instead of years. It seems thatmsn is much more accepting of new websites than google or yahoo. It was interesting to see that although many new sites are in the top 100 results in google and yahoo not very many of them were ranking well.

Google Analytics Full Referrer URL

2007-01-16T00:19:58Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

One thing that really annoys me with some vistor tracking software is that it truncates the referring url at the query string.(ie someforum.com/post.php?id=354353 show up as just someforum.com/post.php) This makes it a huge hassle to find the specific referring page that your users are coming from.

Google Analytics is a good example of tracking software that does this. In the actual javascript you can see the line of the code that truncates the url:

if (k.indexOf("?") > -1) k=k.substring(0,k.indexOf("?"));

Removing this line and hosting the javascript locally would be one solution to the problem. Google does allow you to host the javascript locally, but the line in question is below this commnent in the code:

//-- **** Don't modify below this point ***

If you are daring feel free to ignore that line and modify the code anyway. I am going to use the next method.

Another solution/hack to this problem was posted by Reuben Yau. It basically throws the full referring url into the page section of the google analytics data. Here is the official use of this feature. Reuben’s method calls for moving the analytics code in the head and calling the urchintracker a second time when the body is loaded. My modification is to keep the code in the where it is, and call the urchintracker a second time with the refferer url as the page. I also created a second profile in google analytics so the rest of my analytics statistics are not affected. It looks something like this:

<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
_uacct = "UA-367787-7";
urchinTracker();
_uacct = "UA-367787-11";
urchinTracker(document.referrer);
</script>

I really think google should create an option for google analytics to avoid all this nonsense.

Top 90 Most Dugg Comments

2007-01-15T10:06:57Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

Here are some more statistics… This one is an update of this digg.

<th></th> <th>comment</th> <th>user</th> <th>+/-</th> <th></th>

1	Let’s set a new record, bitches. Digg me down.	choicetoes	1184	link to digg?
2	I don’t get it. Every time I click that link, it comes right back to here. But when I hover over it, the link is different…</p> Lemme try it in IE… Nope! GODDAMNIT! Lemme download Opera and try there. brb	JorgeGonzalez	1070	link to digg?
3	I’m shocked. He’s tempted death many, many times on TV. I thought he was immune.	tslack	905	link to digg?
4	I live on Digg man, for about 6 to 7 hours a day usually.</p> By the way, digg up my comment, it’ll make me feel special…infact feel free to comment on my comment, I’ll be checking in periodically.	EbenieRosa	904	link to digg?
5	Yes, that was very cool of Kevin but you are way, way to excited. Please turn in your man card at the front desk.	captinherb	881	link to digg?
6	http://duggmirror.com/tech_news/DuggMirror_We_all_use_it_every_day_Time_to_show_it_some_love_by_digging/	RomulusX86	791	link to digg?
7	Everyone knows that the format with the unusual sounding name thats technically superior but harder to manufacture will always, always loose the format war: VHS vs Betamax, HD-DVD vs Blu-ray</p> Blue-ray was pretty much dead before and this will be the final blow. Seriously, what the fuck are they smoking? HD-DVD has a name that tells the average consumer what they’re getting: DVD (something they know and trust) and HD (like the TV they just bought) - its a no-fucking-brainer the name practically sells itself. What the fuck is Blu-ray? some pretentious crap that cant even spell the word blue right, who gives a fuck what colour laser it uses what the absolute fuck does that have to do with shipping units? I really do not understand how Sony could be so incompetent, if they had hired me 2 years ago I could have saved them so much trouble.	somebitches2	780	link to digg?
8	“Bought from this guy because of his rating NEVER AGAIN! Sad Xmas for my kid now!” … and the item? “Boston Legal - Season 1 (2006, DVD)” I have a feeling that, if this kid wanted Boston Legal on DVD for Christmas, he’s old enough to understand that mommy and daddy got ripped off by the bad man on ebay.	axel2k	766	link to digg?
9	even their cake probably has bugs in it	jiminoc	764	link to digg?
10	maybe he died or something and they havent found him yet.	strikerK	726	link to digg?
11	I have a complaint/annoyance. How hard would it be to structure the page so that it uses up the browser window. Right now, the page is coded for a very specific browser window size. Anything bigger, you get big empty side bars, anything less, you have to use the horizontal scroll bar. Slashdot (for example, not trolling) always fills up the browser window. I’m only browsing with a 19″ LCD, I’m sure its even more of a problem/waste for folks with the newer widescreen LCDs.	mwales	710	link to digg?
12	So which one are you trying to endorse? Your title says “vote stephen not chuck” but then you say “don’t let stephen win” After analyzing the results I come to the conclusion that you’re fucking retarded.	hagnar	708	link to digg?
13	No, it was the 15-year-old girl that sucked.	PatrickFisher	650	link to digg?
14	AW MAN! Now that means I have to come to work in a ballerina suit. (Why did I make that bet?!)	Ninjab3ar	637	link to digg?
15	God I hope they approve of it. It’s about time Caucasian people can be proud of their heritage, just as the African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, etc. all are able to without anyone raising an eyebrow.	roastedbagel	631	link to digg?
16	LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNSSSSSSSS	ifonly	602	link to digg?
17	The dude should have goatse’d him. We all know how well hilarity ensues after that…..	Phocion55	597</p>	link to digg?
18	How dare you tell me how fast I should digg? Jerk.	theotherme	593	link to digg?
19	Not cool Kevin, not cool at all.	johnvm	584	link to digg?
20	The Goatse image might actually improve most of the MySpace pages out there.	Malakin	582</p>	link to digg?
21	Maybe… it’s Apple’s drive to make the world a happier place?</p> :) rather than	danielgilbert	581	link to digg?
22	any company that would intentionally allow a customer to spend more than they can afford to deserves a strong kick in the nuts. the kind that makes your stomach turn.	kevbryant	578	link to digg?
23	I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords.	Signalis	572	link to digg?
24	It was a nice gesture from the IE7 team. I guess developers don’t take these “browser wars” as seriously as the users do.	latova	565	link to digg?
25	i really like how if you press the thumbs up multiple times you can give people +8 comments.	anthony1124	563	link to digg?
26	It’s not that they thought you were a terrorist; they were just Nintendo fans.	jpyun	557</p>	link to digg?
27	A Transformer, eh? I wonder what Megatron and his ilk have against eBay. They must be auctioning energon at amazingly low prices.	KyleRayner	549	link to digg?
28	Three years later and Vista is only a shadow of its former self.	Zolk	543	link to digg?
29	he doesn’t know how to download the internets	TaeK	527</p>	link to digg?
30	Oh man, this reminds me of a good story. </p> So back in college some buds and I were heading to the movies and as we’re walking across the parking lot we see this shiny new pickup truck taking up four spaces, right near the entrance. As we were walking there from a Wendy’s and we had to throw our drinks away anyway, we decided to grace the guy’s windshield with them. Guy deserved it, etc.. we proceeded into the movie and forgot about it. So after the movie we come out, and I guess the dude works there or something because the pickup is still there.. only by now somebody had lifted two of the trashcans from the front of the theater and upended them into the guy’s bed. Actually I guess it had to be several somebodies because both cans were still in the truck, and they were way too heavy for one person to manage. Trash everywhere, I mean it was epic. I almost wanted to hang around to see the idiot’s reaction when he walked out and saw it. Parking lot justice!	Chompy	519	link to digg?
31	go fuck yourself and die.	ButtholeSurfer	519	link to digg?
32	Apple does it.. they’re making the world a happier place. Microsoft does it.. they’re freaking morons.	SniperX	515	link to digg?
33	It’s a picture of the internet.	corywingerter	513	link to digg?
34	I hope he likes the heat.	Calypsoaf	506	link to digg?
35	Thank god. What a stupid show…	GoatBnn	504	link to digg?
36	Pens dont run out. They get lost.</p> No one in the history of the universe has actually used up all the ink in a pen.	alephsmith	489	link to digg?
37	It’s obviously a thermal detonator.	sockpuppets	487	link to digg?
38	I can see it now…</p> next week “Digg Headquarters receives 10,000 letters addressed to Kevin Rose.”	Yashar	487	link to digg?
39	Something tells me this is the first time anyone has ever made him actually man up to his responsibilities. Doesn’t seem he likes it to much.	Decimit	486	link to digg?
40	Price = “as much as we fucking want”	otheruser	485	link to digg?
41	That’s not funny and no tech support for you!	MorningCoder	485	link to digg?
42	Also noted, the TSA refused to allow the woman to bring the child on board the plane, citing that there were more than 4 ounces of liquid in the baby and the baby was not properly wrapped in a sealed, clear plastic bag.	venir	477	link to digg?
43	RTFA? “SC Wrote: Hello, Roger. I just came across your metal orb on the internet. I know what it is. First, take note of the fact that a second interior sphere exists within, and that it is space roughly 1/2 inch from the outer walls. That is clue #1. Second, the welded metal cap on the outside is clue #2. The circular structures between the inner and outer tanks is clue #3.</p> The inner sphere was spaced from the outer sphere for insulation. The welded cap is where a hard vacuum was pulled with a vacuum pump and the cap welded on to prevent leakage. This forms a cryogenic storage device known as a Dewer flask. The sphere is a cryogenic storage tank that uses a vacuum insulated jacket to prevent the warming of the material stored inside. The circular structures are spacers that keep the inner tank from hitting the outer tank. Now, the clamp with the Phillips screw is a grounding point where this crygenic tank would have been fastened to a larger assembly. If you examine the underside of the clamp, you may be able to identify some small quantity of copper there, where the grounding cable would have been pulled free. The handle is the mounting point for the tank, and is also referred to as a hard point. The X-ray images show serpentine plumbing that winds about and comes back near the interior surface- this is a clue that the tank was meant to function in microgravity. Gas bubbles would tend to cluster in the center and fluids would stick to the interior. The fittings with the wire or metal rod sticking out are pretty typical air fittings meant to connect to pressure lines. One set would provide pressure into the core of the tank (see the metal cylindrical structure in the X-rays) and the others would allow material to be drawn out of the tank. Usually, the lines themselves would be stainless steel braid exterior lines; often they would also be vacuum insulated. It is very likely that this is titanium. This is clearly the cryogenic storage tank for a spacecraft. It would have held either liquid helium for cooling a sensor or it would have contained liquid nitrogen for the same purpose, as well as use as a pressurized gas propellant. Many satellites will use LN2 as the material for small thrusters, as it boils into a vapor and provides reaction for movement or orientation control. I seriously doubt if this was a fuel tank, bcause the amount of fuel or oxidizer is might have carried is small. However, it clearly has undergone reentry. It might have done so inside the body of a larger craft, which would prevent a great deal of heat damage. Being buffeted by the outer shell or debris, as well as the high pressure shock waves on reentry, is what collapsed the surface and dented it in. So what you have is a cryogenic storage tank from a spacecraft that reentered the atmosphere- once again, most likely used for liquid nitrogen or helium. I am a fairly regular guest with Art Bell myself and recognized the structure of the tank immediately. I have worked for years in aerospace and debris from space vehicles often contains odd or unusual shaped objects. This is due to the conditions under which they must function, and the limits on space and mass that any spacecraft designer has to work with.”	Terc	476	link to digg?
44	He could at least wait until they release Vista.	fraggle34	473	link to digg?
45	Hi. I’m a Sony BMG paying-customer…. And I’m a ROOTKIT!	WaterDragon	470	link to digg?
46	“Evolution has nothing to do with man made death traps.”</p> Tell that to my magnetic footed ducks.	sockpuppets	469	link to digg?
47	Microsoft is paying an infinite number of monkeys to mod down an infinite number of firefox comments.	crilen007	467	link to digg?
48	The note reads:</p> Dear person, I’m sorry I put a dent in your car. I didn’t want to but, I did when I tryed to park next to you. I am not leaving my information because you chose to use two spaces and I just wanted to park in one. The scratches are because I used a towel that had sand on it to try to clean the dent/paint off. Beaches are fun. Please look your car over for the dent and scratches and each time you see them remember not to park in two spaces. - Sorry !!!	Jeffrey903	464	link to digg?
49	Ha! I put in my IP (127.0.0.1) and it didn’t even register! Advanced technology my ass.	aldenhg	464	link to digg?
50	I’m burying this as spam come on people this person has been a member for 4 days, has ads on their site, and has submitted 5 stories_all_adsense/money_related_ http://digg.com/users/geekcapital/submitted Don’t click the ads on the page, obviously they only want to make money.	techpimp	461	link to digg?
51	The sad thing is that people still think that the “top” diggers contribute something to this site that the other 700,000 users are incapable of submitting. Never mind the fact that there are only so many news sources or funny YouTube videos, and never mind the fact that each stories is usually submitted several dozen times over, and that the one that eventually makes it to the front page (by a “top” digger) doesn’t have a better title/description than the other attempts at the same link. The reason “top” diggers get to the front page is because “top” diggers have a shitload of friends that digg up their submissions. It has nothing to do with the quality of their submissions or the amount of their submissions (a completely worthless point, since there are almost a million damn users on Digg). People need to stop thinking that these people bring ANYTHING worthwhile to Digg, and the guys behind Digg need to stop giving these fuckers slack. This asshole should’ve been banned permanently.	ilyag	456	link to digg?
52	I )think) i have the same problem	dj_sea2005	456	link to digg?
53	Man you apple kids just cant take any negative press against apple can you?	manifestdata	455	link to digg?
54	Now we need a video.	TheDiggMan	451</p>	link to digg?
55	My New Year’s Resolution: 1600×1200.	jsaxton86	447	link to digg?
56	I wonder if this means Matt reads Digg……..</p> Hi Matt.	martinj88	447	link to digg?
57	Besides the glaring audio synch issue, and the fact that their findings aren’t surprising, I was glad to see something like this. Though I was really disappointed that the store that fixed the problem for free seemed to get the least amount of air time.	raabco	445	link to digg?
58	Dad?	CHENEYTHEDICK	443	link to digg?
59	Anyone who doesn’t vote for Colbert is a terrorist.	zeldafan	442	link to digg?
60	Seller was easy to deal with and a complete dumbass!!!! AAAA+++	calebhawk	442</p>	link to digg?
61	maybe he got hacked?</p> anyway i doubt the people will get their money back, paypal will make up some bs so they cant.	firepowered	440	link to digg?
62	She should sue the school board until they bleed. The nude sculpture was in a museum. What control does the teacher have over what the museum displays? And how is a nude sculpture harmful to children? Oh, it’s in Texas. I guess that figures.	grendelboogie	438	link to digg?
63	How about ‘One Read Post’? Here’s my post, now anyone care to Digg me up?	sanman	438	link to digg?
64	this is a comment on digg about a digg submission which links to a digg blog with an article about comments left on digg…</p> you guys are way too into this whole digg thing	khag7	436	link to digg?
65	Much like everyone else in prison, they figure out after they’re in there for an extended period of time that they don’t like it. Either they beg for leniency or find Jesus. Looks like fatty here is playing the “mommy” card and asking for help. You kill a homeless guy, you deserve to sit in a jail cell for 23 hours out of the day for 20+ years.	sinner0423	435	link to digg?
66	In Soviet Russia bank give money to you!	lastthingusee	429	link to digg?
67	Poor Guy? Poor Girl. The guy is dead, but that girl has to live with the fact that she was so ugly it could literally kill.	chenyu768	425	link to digg?
68	This video will show the true rendering power of the PS3	WalterDirt	424	link to digg?
69	http://duggmirror.com/playable_web_games/How_to_Keep_Diggers_Busy_for_Hours/	eplawless	424	link to digg?
70	I can’t think of a more deserving site.	VanceXT	421	link to digg?
71	I don’t understand. It’s just a circle, it seems. Is Digg borked today?	JorgeGonzalez	420	link to digg?
72	I hope you post a video!	an7agonist	417	link to digg?
73	This is the price of bad parenting. Dont play with the penal system for parenting.	stinknugget	417	link to digg?
74	Thanks for the spam!	thenativeraver	417	link to digg?
75	In unrelated news eBay user “RIAA” became the winner bidder on item 56756856, LQQK MINT Soviet Submarine WITH TORPEDOS! NR!!	sockpuppets	417	link to digg?
76	The parents were charged with child desertion, but the dog was charged with child dessertion.	PatrickFisher	417	link to digg?
77	Um, yeah, 7.1 is no longer supported, but 7.5 is… might want to actually look into this before you start posting things…</p> http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1	innominate	415	link to digg?
78	Oh man…. I can’t wait to screw my friends over with this!	Jooced	414	link to digg?
79	I’m the target demographic for the iPhone. I’m a Mac user already, I have some money to buy an iPhone, I am an iPod user, I’m ready to get rid of my current cell phone. Seems simple, right? Well, I won’t be buying one, and to me this is the number one and only real failing of the iPhone: Cingular. I simply cannot use the Cingular network because here in D.C. they have the worst coverage of all carriers. I am really, really upset the iPhone is not a more open device so I can choose the carrier. I mean, seriously Apple: I want to give you $600! Why did you do this exclusive deal with Cingular?!??!	stealthboy	414	link to digg?
80	Wow, that teacher is an ignorant dick, you have a right to be pissed.	Roger	411</p>	link to digg?
81	The two tricky parts are: e^ (i * pi) = -1 The Riemann sum of 1/(2^x) from 1 to infinity = 1</p> So it simplifies to: 0.002 + (-1) + 1 = 0.002	Nichevo	411	link to digg?
82	So is this the “can’t beat them, so ban them!” solution?	xose	410	link to digg?
83	I’m in ur shirtz, blockin’ ur popups!!	jdb252	410	link to digg?
84	Actually, if you click the thumbs up rapidly, you can give more than one digg up. Didn’t test with the digg down.</p> Me thinks it’s a coding issue as well.	iamcanman	409	link to digg?
85	Nice cleavage	aa3000	408	link to digg?
86	I can fix it….But I don’t want to and I’m sick of people asking me!……..That felt better.	gwill11	408	link to digg?
87	Bwahahahahahaha! Karma is a bitch isn’t it!	fuzzybunny1701	407	link to digg?
88	Bennybertow is correct. If this is accurate, then the guy’s brother must simply have a slutty bluetooth phone, that will just go around and pair with anything.	kent1146	403</p>	link to digg?
89	“Teen says jail is “Too hard”"</p> Deal with it, bitch.	coolian	401	link to digg?
90	This is unwelcome. Digggames.com is NOT a viable threat to digg’s legitimate business interests. Again, I repeat this is not welcome, nor needed. Kevin, you need to fix this.	Saintlink	401	link to digg?

Digg Comment Data

2007-01-14T21:25:41Z

Originally published at krisbrower.com. You can comment here or there.

Some people were interested in downloading a copy of the digg.com comment data used in these 2 posts. So I fixed a few bugs in my spider code and now the data is over a gigabyte uncompressed and contains over 4 million comments. The compressed file is about 340MB. I know a lot of people offered to host the data, but I only have one host at the moment. If you would like to mirror it just post a comment or send me an email with the link.

Mirrors:
File Vault.us