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"My process of interviewing people is I do not interview people," said the cheerful Hustwit. "I'm trying to get them to forget that they're being interviewed." Also, signs of increased interactivity: "Are you a robot?" [via glass]

In a perfect world their jobs would depend on their accuracy rather than their ability to produce entertaining content. [via long now]

"Indeed, these days posting words, photos, and videos online is sort of like getting tattoos. Think ahead, because they're going to be around forever whether you want them or not."

"It would have been a lot cheaper if we had a policy where the CEO of any sufficiently large investment bank was paid $100 million per year direct from the U.S. Treasury. In return for this guaranteed payout, he or she would forgo any numbers-based compensation..."

"The Federal Government now controls what were -- up until last month -- vast private assets. These are extreme -- truly radical -- changes to how our society functions. Does anyone have any disagreement with any of it or is anyone alarmed by what the consequences are -- not the economic consequences but the consequences of so radically changing how things function so fundamentally and so quickly?"

Lawrence Lessig gives one of his trademark presentations about Palin's experience compared with past Vice Presidents.

A startup that wants to help people raise money for their projects. (via Waxy, who's on the board.)

Oregon's Peter Defazio on the bailout.

Robert Reich rants about the bailout. And he's right.

Representative Marcy Kaptur from Ohio on the bailout: "Real reform now, or nothing."

Nice update of the Washington Post tax plan comparison graph that went around a while back, weighted by population.

"Mount your iPhone or iPod touch as a wireless drive on any Mac, Windows, or Linux computer." Cool, I've been wanting this feature for the iPhone. [via ckohtz]

"Start expressing fuel efficiency as gallons per mile (gpm) for some standard (meaningful) distance. We prefer gallons per 10,000 miles because it makes clear that seemingly small mpg improvements are valuable."

looks better than parallels for running a single Windows app on OSX. (though I can't get this beta version to run.)

Marc Hedlund just started a blog for his personal finance startup