<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Bill Gates Just May Be Cooler Than Steve Jobs : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/business/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>46274</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46274/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Just May Be Cooler Than Steve Jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least in this video he is. Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft to spend full time on his <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">immense</a> <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.gatesfoundation.org/default.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">charity.</a>]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>343</score><crdate>1/7/2008 1:51:45 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-07T13:51:45+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67046</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67046/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world's largest software company.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>67</score><crdate>6/28/2008 3:30:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-28T15:30:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13289</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/13289/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Annoyed With Apple Ads]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is hilarious. Bill Gates during an interview avoids discussing the Apple ad campaign.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>3</score><crdate>3/16/2007 12:03:08 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-16T00:03:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>7691</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/7691/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates on the future of DRM]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just love this quote:<br/><div class='qp pad d'><i>Seeing the look on Gates&#8217; face when he walked into the room and every single one of us had a Mac open on the desk in front of us - Niall Kennedy had also set up a makeshift wifi network using an Airport</i></div>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>49</score><crdate>12/15/2006 12:34:06 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-15T12:34:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14885</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14885/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Tribute to Bill Gates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Courtesy of The late show with David Letterman]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>-13</score><crdate>4/1/2007 10:04:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-01T22:04:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>31027</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/31027/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates meets Pie]]></title><description><![CDATA[In response to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/30961/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">the post by misswinkle</a>.  The evil man getting hit in the face with a pie.  Actually, make that three pies...]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>76</score><crdate>8/10/2007 5:50:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-10T17:50:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6831</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/6831/1/</url><title><![CDATA[All of Bill Gates wealth must be spent within 50 years of death]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation may not retain any of his money beyond 50 years. All must be spent on charity.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>14</score><crdate>12/2/2006 11:19:56 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-12-02T23:19:56+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>3317</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/3317/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Steve Jobs For Newsweek: I&#8217;m Not Impressed by Zune]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is trying its luck in digital music market with a portable player, which will be available in November.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>10</score><crdate>10/16/2006 12:57:10 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-16T00:57:10+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>23848</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23848/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Switch Gates]]></title><description><![CDATA[Parody on the Apple commercials <br/><br/>starring Mr.Bill Gates!]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>43</score><crdate>6/14/2007 4:42:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-14T16:42:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>56777</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/56777/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The $2 Bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier.<br/><br/>Hilarity and Asshatery ensue.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>296</score><crdate>4/2/2008 3:04:48 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-02T15:04:48+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>17233</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17233/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Read this rediculous letter...]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the letter Jack Thompson wrote to Bill Gates accusing him of being responsible for half a dozen events including the VA shooting.<br/><br/>This was after he appeared on this show <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/crime/l/16925/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/crime/l/16925/1/</a></div>]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>71</score><crdate>4/20/2007 5:04:41 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-20T17:04:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75865</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/75865/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld Take 2]]></title><description><![CDATA[Um. yeah.<br/><br/>Second installment of Windows' new marketing thing.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>142</score><crdate>9/12/2008 2:10:05 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-12T02:10:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>66836</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/66836/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Cleans Out His Desk After 30 Years of Innovation]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than three decades after launching Microsoft, Gates this week sets his sights on philanthropy full-time]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>158</score><crdate>6/26/2008 3:05:46 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-26T15:05:46+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57938</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/57938/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Cents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Cents&quot; is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.  Site also has a video with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>518</score><crdate>4/11/2008 10:54:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-11T22:54:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58229</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/58229/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Users petition to keep Windows XP]]></title><description><![CDATA[On June 30th, Micro$oft will pull Windows XP from store shelves.  A bunch of people are kidding themselves that teh Gatesman will listen to their online petition.<br/><br/>Get ready for Vista everywhere you look.<br/><br/>Meh...I still use Windows 2000 at home.]]></description><comments>17</comments><score>234</score><crdate>4/14/2008 3:57:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-14T15:57:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5267</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5267/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gates, Saudi prince among 4 Seasons buyers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The group would acquire the outstanding limited voting shares of Four Seasons for $82 per share in cash, which represents a 28.4-percent premium to the company's closing share price on Friday.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>15</score><crdate>11/6/2006 2:55:09 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-06T14:55:09+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54656</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/54656/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A great viral video by Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[This has been going around the web today, a video of a giant spool of cable crashing through a plate glass door.<br/><br/>It's actually advertising Microsoft's new VOIP service, where you don't need to install any new cables.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>113</score><crdate>3/17/2008 9:56:11 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-17T21:56:11+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45914</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45914/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Priceless Question Posed To Bill Gates]]></title><description><![CDATA[During an interview at a restaurant with Charlie Rose, a man asks Bill Gates a priceless question.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>453</score><crdate>1/3/2008 12:55:18 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T12:55:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39856</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39856/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The rare early works of Bill Watterson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's a collection of rare early Bill &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot; Watterson's toons from The Kenyon Collegian, his college paper from Kenyon, Ohio. They're a little edgier than the Calvin and Hobbes strips (but not as funny)]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>369</score><crdate>10/28/2007 8:37:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-28T20:37:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9485</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9485/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates iz in ur 'puter, editin ur wiki]]></title><description><![CDATA[Microsoft is under fire for hiring a blogger to edit articles about rival document formats in Wikipedia.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>134</score><crdate>1/24/2007 1:48:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-24T13:48:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43664</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/43664/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent.&quot;<br/><br/>This blog summarizes the bill and links to the full text.]]></description><comments>27</comments><score>287</score><crdate>12/9/2007 5:16:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>