Aaron deMello - Comments

Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

hahahahhahahahahahlkasdaasdfsdfasllhahahahahahahaha - Alfredo

t-bills, anyone? - Anthony Citrano

Hahaha - Rodfather

oh. my. god. - Onur Gündüz

:) - ardiba

OH THE HUMANITY!! - Jeffrey Canton

مزیدی - Mil∂d

You rat bastard, Moskovitz. *applies mindbleach* - Steven Perez

there's actually some tongue skin contact there. i dont think this is a joke - Melissa Maskevich

Damn you! - Alejandro

Who puts pepperoni rings on sashimi? - Johnny Worthington

somebody make it stop.... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

DEAR GOD! - Michael Forian

It's whale mating season, apparently. - Will Higgins™

OH GAWD - nfan12 from Alert Thingy

oh the huge manatees!! - BEX

Oh, look at that: a new mental scar! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

WEEEEEEEEEEEE - Anna Haro

Testing the myth that male saliva can cure gynecomastia. - Mattb4rd

Like the lady at SurvivalPhrases.com says in at least one Japanese lesson, "There is NO excuse..." - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

The hippos! - nfan12 from Alert Thingy

NO NO NO NO! - Mathew™ one of a kind

This is the worst thing I've seen all year. - Aaron deMello

ROFL - Abbas Haider Ali

So I just now decided to show my mom how awesome FriendFeed is... - Josh Haley

cleaning out his belly button lint - sofarsoShawn

changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank - sofarsoShawn

Horrible! Where can I find more pics? - Jemm

Unsee! Unsee! I've never seen sumo do that and I live in Japan!!! - Rick Cogley

No, no, no!!!!! - Alistair (alpinefolk)

whadahuh?????? - Live4Emma (L4S)

4p gays? - 阿石

ugly！ - junrxu

Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:) - Akiva Moskovitz

you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch... - sofarsoShawn

QALITY IS JOB ONE. - Sparky

the Boob Meme is timeless: and this is A LOT of BOOB - sofarsoShawn

omg! - Midori

Corporate later decided they needed to be more specific about what constitutes a 'morale event'. - Akiva Moskovitz

PLEASE! TAKE THIS DOWN~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - nfan12 from Alert Thingy

Oh, is that you in the picture, nfan12? - Rochelle

Did they re-write the policy to include or exclude A Rust Issue in the morale event category? - Sparky

OMG!!! That is just wrong... LOL - Drew Lucas

Boys will be girls. - david beckwith

شت - کاغذ رنگی

Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy. - Akiva Moskovitz

damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it - William Harryman

Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ? - Paul

Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes. - Sparky

Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard! - Akiva Moskovitz

Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections! - Akiva Moskovitz

makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying? - sofarsoShawn

this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong. - Peter Ghosh

Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed. - Sparky

i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't. - joey

Sparky, including another bed? - Akiva Moskovitz

ahahahahahaha - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Oy vey! - Rubin Sfadj

The hand gently caressing Mr. Moobs belly button is a nice touch. A+, would click again. - Sparky

OMG! this keeps on appearing! - nfan12 from twhirl

SPARKY, THAT'S NOT MOOBS, YOU JERK. IT'S MOORS. IT'S A MISPRINT. - Akiva Moskovitz

My typo, my bad. *grasps Akiva's moor apologetically* - Sparky

is this a gay marriage argument? - Noah David Simon

No, it's just an argument. - Sparky

for what? genocide? - Noah David Simon

Feminine hygeine products. - Sparky

for men? they look like they are having a good time. l want a contract for nipple licking. now! - Noah David Simon

[looks innocent] - Akiva Moskovitz

What's sad is that this is the best of the best of the day for me. - Alex Scoble

It's actually an ancient Japanese tradition... - Rick Cogley

I'm going to miss you guys...hhehehehehee - sofarsoShawn

uhh.... - Eric Berlin

do not like - Chris Hofmann

They're just four guys and they're havin' a good time, havin' a good time, havin' a good time... - Akiva Moskovitz

What is wrong with that? It looks like Akiva has damn good taste! - Sparky

(taste, like the one guy is doing to the other) - Sparky

((HELP!)) - Sparky

(((too bad this won't get bumped again))) - Sparky

:blocks Akiva: :blocks Akiva again: :blocks Akiva again: . . . - John Craft

[courtsies] - Akiva Moskovitz

x_x - Anna Haro

What if he lactates? - Morton Fox

What in the heck are you people still doing in here? - Akiva Moskovitz

o_O - Pert

I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed? - Noah David Simon

oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao - Chris Hofmann

pop :) - Alfredo

Noah, or maybe it's not politically-motivated at all. Maybe it's just a really weird photograph. - Akiva Moskovitz

the guy on the right has a jelly roll. on his neck. ew. - Rick Cogley

This has to be some kind of animal house style frat hazing stunt. It disturbs me deeply, yet it is indelible. - Mattb4rd

OH YEAH THIS - Akiva Moskovitz

What the Hell? It's Back! - Rob Haas

I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses. - Akiva Moskovitz

oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk - Noah David Simon

I hate you. - Shey, Jamaican of FF

*trips over the power cord* - Josh Haley

Noooo not again - Simon Wicks

WHO DID IT? - Shey, Jamaican of FF

What? - Josh Haley

JEJFNOEJSNONONONO MY EYES - Neal Jansons

WHAT NO - Akiva Moskovitz

Rochelle! Make him stop! - Janet

::::BARF:::: - Adi

WHO BUMPED THIS? - Sparky

Well, you just did. - joey

AW!!!!!! - Rob Haas

Woah, I never noticed that 'thumb' sticking up in the bottom center of the photo before. - Akiva Moskovitz

That's no thumb... - Mike Nayyar

I just detected a great disturbance in FriendFeed, as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. - Akiva Moskovitz

Okay, maybe a few hundred voices. - Akiva Moskovitz

Oh, I just thought of an explanation: midichlorians! - Mike Nayyar

That is sooo sexy. :) - Diego Barros 

WAT. - Karl Knechtel

Every time I see this pop up I die a little bit inside. Then I masturbate . - Sparky

AUGHHHH DAMN YOU SPARKY - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Sparky masturbating is like your grandmother watching that episode of The Little Rascals where they put on a play. Uh. What? - Akiva Moskovitz

And then the credits roll and everyone feels better. - Sparky

Next week, on a very special episode of Family Ties... - Akiva Moskovitz

Aaaaaaaaaaand Sparky takes it to a new level. - Josh Haley

Josh, welcome to Sparkletown. - Akiva Moskovitz

This is Sparkletown? - Mike Nayyar

WHO RUNS SPARKLETOWN? SPARRRRRRRRKY RUNS SPARKLETOWN. - Akiva Moskovitz

Hiro's most recent time travel journey did not lead him to Ando as he had expected. - Dennis O'Neil

KAO. - ocde.cn

Oh, that's a thumb...? - Rochelle

A THUMB?! I'm aborting my masturbation regime *immediately*. - Sparky

But what is he trying to contain with his hand?! - Akiva Moskovitz

hey! how'd you get hold of my vacation pix? - Nathan Rein

He's not trying - he's succeeding at containing our protagonists pannus. - Sparky

This thing always comes back and makes me laugh. - Derek Coward

Damn .. this thing is back? - Mattb4rd

Who pulled this thing back in the open!? - Michael Forian

Son of a bisque - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

HIDE! - David Cook

Make it stop! - Brian Bufalo

It hates us - Mattb4rd

HAAAAAAAAAAAY LOOK WHO'S BACK - Akiva Moskovitz

Some evil soul could start a "last comment wins" -contest in this thread... - Jemm

I believe you just did... - sofarsoShawn

This pic makes the baby Jesus cry... - Christian (Simply X)

oh noe zombies can be killed with a headshot...but what about this pic...it resurrects again and again - Chris Hofmann

gah - samantha

MY TURN - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

STOP IT!!! - Alejandro

OH FFS! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

lol bump bump bump - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

WAIT WHAT WHY - Akiva Moskovitz

Nipplicious! - Internet's Tad

this photo warms the cockles of my... cockles. - Nathan Rein

I love the texture on his belly. Yes, this has bumped so many times I'm noticing textures. - Sparky

dear god, it will never die... - holly

die die die die - mjc

A part of me will never want it to die... - Mike Nayyar

Oh great, not what I needed to see right before bed. Thanks. ;) - adf

"My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...damn right!...." - sofarsoShawn

حلال - Noah David Simon

Gah! Get out of my best of day!!!! - Carmen

What? - Rochelle

Participants were heard to say; "Om nom nom nom om nom nom nom nom om om nom nom nom" - Mattb4rd

Spring is SPRUNG. - Akiva Moskovitz

Oh man. Goodbye, morning wood. - Mike Nayyar

But hello morning... err morning... err what is this? WHHAT???A?A?A?A??AA? - Sparky

the image, whatever. what gets me is that 80+ people clicked the like button on this. - Mark Bockenstedt

NOOOOOOH NOT THIS HORROR AGAIN!!! - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan. - Akiva Moskovitz

Now that I have liked it, I am hiding it. - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty

I wish there was a way to categorize posts so I don't have to see this first thing in the morning :) - petar vucetin

I wish there was a way I could make this everyone's avatar for a day. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva - you might not be able to make it everyones avatar, but you and I could certainly make it happen for ourselves. - Sparky

^(*^)%%! - Rochelle

GUESS WHOSE NIPPLES EXCRETE SWINE FLU MEDICINE - Akiva Moskovitz

He is the last great hope for mankind. - Mike Nayyar

The last great grope. - Akiva Moskovitz

Are you sure it's not a last great gulp? - Sparky

is this a gay marriage argument or swine flu? - Noah David Simon

Because awesomeness always floats to the top - Josh Haley

OMG HOT .. TM Mona :) - Mattb4rd

Looking at this makes me feel dirty. Safe for work though....not sure it should be. - sean808080

:DDDDDDDD - Rochelle

GUESS WHO'S ALSO NOT WEARING PANTS - Akiva Moskovitz

My money is on the dude in the back - Mike Nayyar

After seeing this image (again) I certainly am not wearing pants. - Sparky

Damn you all! Why does this image keep coming up over and over again? - Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty from fftogo

Because Friendfeed is a dangerous place Vijay... - Sparky

Where is the darn hide button? - Louis Gray

I bet he's made of Wagyu beef. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

No one realizes, that's actually a woman. - Mike Nayyar

two months and still going strong, ouch - mike "glemak" dunn

THIS IS THE LICK THAT NEVER ENDS IT JUST GOES ON AND ON MY FRIENDS - Akiva Moskovitz

WHAT THIS AGAIN? YES. AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. JUST HOW YOU LIKE IT. - Sparky

Remember, you go in a clockwise motion - Mike Nayyar

The only thing interesting on this entire site. - levinsontodd

I wish there was a delete button for my brain... - Jeff

Mike, except in the southern hemisphere where you go in a counter-clockwise motion. - Akiva Moskovitz

This thread never dies.... - anna sauce

oh gawd - hellonm

yes, is sorta yucky but funny lol - David Gross from email

LEAVE ME ALONE!!! - Alejandro

Here's my topless picture. - Akiva Moskovitz

I think Akiva just won the game. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Dammit. You just made me lose the game. - Akiva Moskovitz

YOU DID IT TO YOURSELF - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

This picture is why I can't FF at work. :P ;) - Internet's Tad

This picture is what stops FriendFeed from becoming mainstream. - Akiva Moskovitz

ROCHELLE! How long can he keep this up? - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family. - Internet's Tad

Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu - Noah David Simon

bump - Noah David Simon

GUESS WHAT'S BACK UP - Akiva Moskovitz

Behind the scnenes footage of the mastery of a BassMouse mix. - Josh Haley

Although there are DJs that scoff at this method. - Josh Haley

GUESS WHO'S ACQUIRING TWITTER - Mike Nayyar

BSOD! BSOD! Cmon Windows..... Argh!!! - Danny Minick

:D - Bec Rowe @d0tski from twhirl

Well, good morning to you, too! - Rochelle

THIS IS NOT A GOOD MORNING. THIS IS A GREAT MORNING. - Sparky

Why do Iget the feeling that this thread will last as long as Friendfeed exists. - Paul from twhirl

Oh. - Akiva Moskovitz

hahahah :-) bu ne lan - hussoloji

prop8 humor is a lot more sustainable online then it is in California - Noah David Simon

You know, he has very nice glasses. I think I want frames like his. - Sparky

keep the dialog flying. this thread lasts longer then legislative law without an election. gay marriage is a joke - Noah David Simon

This is the thread that never ends. - Internet's Tad

WHY GOD WHY - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Every time you don't bump this, another Joss Whedon show gets cancelled. - Akiva Moskovitz

A man this happy can't be responsible for Firefly's death :( - Sparky

55% of Americans Support Carrie Prejean, Including Barack Obama - http://ff.im/2OGF4 - Noah David Simon

The other 45% support this photo. - Sparky

Guess how Obama plans to save social security - Mike Nayyar

Noooooooooooooooo, how have i still failed to hide this picture after so long!? - Simon Wicks

sorry, displacement activity cause of google downtime - esther ♥ ♫

WolframAlpha doesn't know what to do with this. - Josh Haley

But you and I do. Oh boy do we. - Akiva Moskovitz

"Love on Areolae Atoll." - Christopher Harley

what in the world???!!! - Basil Jackson from twhirl

OMFG! That's my brother - Shane

are you serious - Basil Jackson from twhirl

Every trendy topic needs to have an entry on this post. You know, for search purposes. - Josh Haley

Thanks for bumping this - Will Higgins™

Also, note that, after all this time, we finally have over 100 people liking this. Go Team Slightly Uncomfortable Pleasures! - Akiva Moskovitz

You are evil, Akiva. :-D - Steven Perez from IM

Hiding this now and forever. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

The gif that keeps on giving. - Mattb4rd

I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history. - Akiva Moskovitz

WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME - Neal Jansons from IM

U - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

U? - Noah David Simon

Akiva - I refuse to hide this. It's like getting rickrolled, it sucks but it brings back all the humor from past experiences. - Jimminy

I like pizza - Noah David Simon

I feel the need to gouge out my eyes. - Chuck Adams

It's 'Best of Day' once more...Shooby doo lang lang - Josh Haley

Pheer. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

why does this post not die? Akiva! You have made the most persistent FF post ever. - anna sauce

I can't imagine how this is sticking around...! - Jordan Hofker

It's the herpes thread of Friendfeed. - Paul from twhirl

Paul, you say that like it's a bad thing. - Akiva Moskovitz

Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving. - Sparky

I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.' - Akiva Moskovitz

I look at it and think, "Not again." - Steven Perez from IM

...NOM NOM! - sofarsoShawn

Actually Akiva, I'm getting a kick out of how this thread has just taken on a life of it's own. - Paul from twhirl

I put this pic on reddit, please vote! http://tr.im/lAof - Martin Sliacky

We need to keep this alive. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Ok, that's it...LOL [hide] - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

Rasheen, he will be missed. - Sparky

Not this again. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

wait that's too much nipple and it looks kinda like breast-feeding....good thing this is not facebook! - Freddie Benjamin

Freddie, they'd probably let it stay as long as they were also holocaust deniers. - Akiva Moskovitz

What holocaust? - Sparky

The ditch diggers' holocaust, Sparky. - Akiva Moskovitz

DAMN ROBOTS! - Sparky

*sigh* - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Disgusting - Marcos Vicente

[courtsies] - Akiva Moskovitz

The lick that keeps on giving. Where's the "hide" feature? God, this just keeps on popping up. - Rick Cogley

YAATTAAAAAAAAAA!!! - Josh Haley

bump - Noah David Simon

Is this a catholic priest/altar boy retreat? Yeah, I know. I can haz tiketz to Hell? - Mattb4rd

!!!!!!!!!!!! - Rochelle

I haven't seen this picture in a few days. There, that's better. - Sprague D

HELLO SOFARSOSHAWN - Rochelle

IS THIS WHAT SHE IS EATING? - Sparky

HAAAAAAAAAAAY MY OLD PALS - Akiva Moskovitz

Ocean of emotion. - Christopher Harley

NOT AGAIN. - Steven Perez from IM

My emotion is: confused. - Sparky

Hello again, gentlemen. - Rochelle

http://ff.im/2YZ06 - Janet

Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is. - Brent - Loving Life

I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work! - Sprague D

The one in the back is Leather Donut. - Sparky

This photo is better than Star Wars. - Akiva Moskovitz

+1 Akiva - Sparky

YES!!!!! - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

There is more excitement here than LOTR. - Pete Delucchi

IT'S THREE AND A HALF HOURS LONG AND ALL THEY DO IS LICK - Akiva Moskovitz

this thread needs at least 1000 comments imo. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

ISN'T THAT THE SELLING POINT AKIVA? - Sparky

This photo makes Sparky want to go Up. - Akiva Moskovitz

Oh no, it's at the top of the page again. - Tom Landini

Every time this appears in my stream, I want to let out a cheer. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

FLICKCHART DECISION: WHO DO YOU WANT LICKING YOUR NIPPLE - Mike Nayyar

They haven't moved in such a long time now. Must be comfortable. - Josh Haley

The guy on the right. Less stubble. - Roger Benningfield

HOW IS FLABBY FORMMED? - Josh Haley

WHAT THE HELL IT IS - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Josh, Sparky's cooking. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BURN - Akiva Moskovitz

DO ANYBODY HAVE NIPPLES? - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Went several days without seeing this! I knew it was to good to be true! - Paul from twhirl

We'll never let you down, Paul. - Akiva Moskovitz

My eyes are burning! Awwwwwwwwwwwwww! - darnell

All I can say is... WTF? - Bradley Farless

funky pic! - sickandtired

Ahaha! - Tanath

this does NOT taste like happy! - ed fry

I'm telling you Akiva, if FriendFeed exists a hundred years from now this thread will continue to appear. - Paul from twhirl

So I un-liked, but can't hide! Argh. - anna sauce

i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)... - mike "glemak" dunn

Yeah I think I'll live :) - anna sauce

Didn't Tad have a Version of This? - Brent - Loving Life

SILENCE - Josh Haley

OH GOD NOT AGAIN - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Ha ha! Inapropriate. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

LULZ - "Joey"

one of the guys is fingering the lickee's navel. Hot or not? - Mattb4rd

Bliss. Madam, would you like some sum0 with your pr0n? - Rick Cogley

Paging Mr. Dobalina, Mr. Bob Dobalina. - Akiva Moskovitz

*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :( - Steven Perez from IM

It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle. - Sparky

Now I'm even more depressed. - Steven Perez from IM

o rly? - David Gross from email

damn it, it's still here. - Alejandro

MY EYES! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

wow, it keeps going and going and going and going... can it beat the record or has it already? - David Gross from email

This is far from the record. We have another 900 to go to catch up with the "last word" thread. - Sparky

DO NOT WANT. - veo

OK, WANT. - veo

Pushover. - Sparky

I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose.. - David Gross from email

well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken? - ed fry

I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;) - Alejandro

ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!" - Rick Cogley

What about in 1337speak? - Sparky

MMMMMMMMMMMM! Taste like sake! - Paul from twhirl

Lacking sweat glands, this is the only way Kyle could cool his body temperature down. - Akiva Moskovitz

Tough titty said the kiddy, but the milk's still good. (i'm sorry) - Internet's Tad

MY MILKSHAKE BRINGS ALL THE BOYS TO THE YARD - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Everytime I see this picture I die a little inside... - Jorge Escobar

MILK MILK LEMONADE AROUND THE CORNER FUDGE IS MADE - Akiva Moskovitz

Jorge: That's the point. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

covers eyes ....asks will this never end???? - martha

@Paul, @Akiva, @Tad - *shudder* *shudder* *shudder* !! :-) - Rick Cogley

there are four men. you need four @s. do you include yourself? - Noah David Simon

NO - Caroline

OH GOD WHY DID I LOOK AT HIS FEED MY EYES. - Caroline

wtf? - Tyler Gillies

Is that white stuff coming out of the one guy's ear? :P - Tanath

eww - David Gross from email

Not again! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Woah. I've never seen this post before. - Akiva Moskovitz

That is because you are old and fat. <secret handshake /> - Sparky

Why does this remind me of the strange neighbor that mowed his lawn once a week wearing nothing but a towel? - Brent - Loving Life

I LIKE COOKIES - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

haggis - stop that now ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

It keeps going and going and going.... - David Gross from email

I know of a cat who'd be totally down with meeting those guys. - sofarsoShawn

And this one is? - Akiva Moskovitz

Wow this won't die. - matthew john ernisse

Nor would we want it to. - Sparky

Why the hell is this back! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Gawd. Quit bumping this! - Internet's Tad

this is the thread that never ends. it goes on and on my friends - Tyler Gillies from email

Four old friends. I wonder whatever became of them. - Sprague D

Didn't they cover that in The Big Chill? - Akiva Moskovitz

I dont know, its just four guys on the beach.. :o) - David Gross from email

Four great guys on a beach. - Sparky

And they're just havin' a good time, havin' a good time. - Akiva Moskovitz

Don't stop me, don't stop me, don't stop me...hey Hey HEY! - Josh Haley

My iPhone how downloaded this image 100's of times now. That is an excellent use of AT&Ts network. - Sparky

The gift that keeps on giving - Rodfather

Don't worry, Taro. It will be your turn tomorrow! - Rick Cogley

I keep mixing the thumb and the belly button confused. - Sparky

@_@" - netrider11

give me my twitter account back or the nipples get it - Noah David Simon

How do we format the drive in FF where this picture resides? Or Amazon S3 bucket? - Jorge Escobar

After weeks of being stranded on a desert island the food ran out. Kyle offered himself as sustenance to the other castaways. - Paul from twhirl

Come, now; none of those guys have been missing any meals. - Neal Jansons from IM

This still makes me laugh everytime it gets bumped back up. - Simon Wicks

Why do you think the food ran out? - Paul from twhirl

Good morning.. Whats for breakfast? lol - David Gross from email

There is no end..... LOL - martha

MAKE IT STOP - Alejandro

It's like the song that never ends.. - David Gross from email

ok ? this is kinda grose - courtney rose

Grouse? - Sparky

Dont stop believin / Hold on to the feelin - Christopher Harley

And, somehow, this hasn't turned anyone gay, yet. Go figure. - Sprague D

how do u know?! - Nathan Rein

Haggis was asking for this........ - Simon Wicks

Yay! I mean NO! Wait, Yay! I CAN'T DECIDE! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

closed?! - Simon Wicks

You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz

And fax cat - Simon Wicks

I'm so disturbed by how much this guy looks like he's about to... erm... - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Gotta wonder where that hand is. - Akiva Moskovitz

OMG Akiva, I just got it... friends, feeding. It truly is the emblem of FriendFeed! - Sprague D

OMG this one came up again...LOL...I don't even know what to say... - Bill Heslin

o hi - Will Higgins™

will a nuclear holocaust will make this thread stop? - Noah David Simon

LET'S START A NUCLEAR WAR AT THE GAY BAR GAY BAR - Akiva Moskovitz

you know, just about the time I get this thing out of my minds eye... It pops back up. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

at least it is the nipples they are licking - Noah David Simon

hmm.. breastfeeding pic? lol - David Gross from email

I think it's more of a breast buffet David lol - Bill Heslin

Bill, a buffet? o rly? - David Gross from email

A man buffet. - Rochelle

ewww .. plenty to go round I guess - Zax Stevens

RT @AbbieNormal4207 @car4dave you are not going to happy until that image is burned into my brain are you???? LMAO - David Gross from email

we now have a homo erotic competitor http://ff.im/3M0xy introducing Neal and Elmo - Noah David Simon

Nothing can compete with this, Noah. - Josh Haley

I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward. - Mark Krynsky

Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it! - Christopher Harley

OK. - Steven Perez

OK? THIS IS GREAT! - Sparky

This is the 500th comment in this thread and my 20,000th comment overall. WHOO TWO GREAT MILESTONES THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER. - Akiva Moskovitz

You were watching this thread to make that happen. I can tell. - Sparky

Hahahaha.. congrats Akiva, and of course it was *this* thread. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Actually, no, it just happened to pop up so I decided to grab it while the grabbing was good. - Akiva Moskovitz

[courtsies] - Akiva Moskovitz

[clumsily gropes Akiva] - Sparky

Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

THIS is the first thing I see here this morning? - l0ckergn0me

Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30! - Akiva Moskovitz

I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....* - WorldofHiglet

As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas. - ♥patricia♥

I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly... - Live4Emma (L4S)

I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :) - Jemm

congratulations akiva :o) - David Gross from email

Well done on your use of the 20,000th comment, sir. A worthy cause, indeed. - Josh Haley

slurp - Noah David Simon

Nothing like moob hairs stuck in your throat. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

+1 ffoatse - Tyler Gillies from email

Akiva, I think you should start a FriendFeed room based on this pic. - Paul from twhirl

FriendFeed itself is the room I've created based on this pic. - Akiva Moskovitz

hihihihi! - Rochelle

it's a nice day for a stroll on thee beach.. - David Gross from email

I DON'T LIKE SAND THOUGH. - Sparky

Then what's that in your vagina today, Sparky? - Akiva Moskovitz

^^^^ Sparkles - Christopher Harley

^^^^ Me! - Sparky

NEVER FORGET - Akiva Moskovitz

Why? *sobs* - Janet

bahahahaha - Geoff Schultz

This is the pic/thread FriendFeed should use as an example for the Hide -function. - Jemm

MOOBIES - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Amazing, this keeps coming up :) and grossing me out every time - petar vucetin

Oooops, there it was again :) - Baard @ Pixum

Akiva, I could not forget THAT picture lol - David Gross from email

yaoi wowwie. - Joe Silence is not dead

3.5 months later and it's still popping up! Akiva, you've created a monster! - Tanath

I know, it's epic - Neal Jansons from IM

Huzzah! Beach blanket barf-off! - Akiva Moskovitz

Where? Can I bring Skype? - Sparky

Every time this pops back up I think I can hear these guys screaming NNNNOOOO not again - we will never live this down - an object lesson :D - martha

Why! - Joe Pierce

Wow they doing that for 15 months? LOL - David Gross from email

From 03/01/2009 and this still pops up on the first page of my home feed! Akiva what have you done sir!? :P - Nicholas Kreidberg

Who ARE those four frolicking on the beach? - David Gross from email

They are the four bearmen of the apocalypse. - Sparky

rofl - Neal Jansons from IM

*durrf* - Sparky

Some day My prince will come .... - Brent - Loving Life

NIPPLES - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

TIDDIES - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Still great, after all this time. - anna sauce

7 hours since anna's comment? This needs a bump. - Jordan Hofker

Heck - even 7 minutes without a bump is too long Jordan. - Sparky

Tonight, we dine - IN HELL - Mike Nayyar

Mike, you'd have to wait, only 2 can dine at a time.. - David Gross from email

They're coming to rescue you! http://ff.im/41AnA - Christopher Harley

I'M ON TOP OF THE BOY, MA! ON TOP OF THE BOY! - Akiva Moskovitz

Man, this thing just keeps on resurfacing... :-( - cmiper

Let's end this awful Monday with some class! - Jorge Escobar

What kind of class? I'm not good at tests. - Sparky

You have no class, either, Sparky. - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm like FORTRAN. - Sparky

More like LISP. - Akiva Moskovitz

Yeth Thir! - Sparky

I laugh every time i see it hahaha - Geoff Schultz

Awwwwwww - Baard @ Pixum

IS IT TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING FOR THIS? I HOPE NOT. - Sparky

It IS too early in the morning for this sparky lol - David Gross from email

This post is a rather sparky lol. - Rochelle

THere should be an option to make this post sticky at the top of Friendfeed - Aaman (Clone of FF)

There is Aaman - just keep commenting! - Sparky

Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea. - Toby Graham

There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business. - Sparky

The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on. - felicious

The four horsemen of the beachocalypse - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Sayeth guy-who-waits: If only this were Total Recall. - Rick Cogley

Be-Bumpity-Bump-BUM-BUM-BUM-BUMP. - Christopher Harley

and grind - Mattb4rd

This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~ - Akiva Moskovitz

Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened. - Jason Nunnelley

I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!! - Jimminy from twhirl

Oh, there's nothing random going on here. - Christopher Harley

Yay, so there is no Randomness that's even better, I think. - Jimminy

Versatile. Irresistable comfort. Ergonomic. - Akiva Moskovitz

You ROCK :D - martha

What about their rocks? - Sparky

STOP IT ALREADY!!!!' - Caroline

Stop what? [innocent look] - Akiva Moskovitz

losing. will. to. live. - Joe Silence is not dead

2 hours without a bump? Clock in night crew! - Christopher Harley

mission accepted - Tyler Gillies

It's still daytime here in Japan. But to these guys, the night is young. - Rick Cogley

nothing like a stroll on the beach on a friday morning :o) at least it stopped raining.. - David Gross from email

If I stumble, they're going to eat me alive! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

They don't look like they would eat you alive. Lick you perhaps. - Sparky

Dear disturbing pic of chubby nipple lickers... Please go away. - J. Abdul-Qahhar

GO AWAY - Alejandro

I am getting tired of seeing this pic.. - David Gross from email

neither i am. - Orçun the Nucro

Tastes like marzipan. - Christopher Harley

This is the last time this photo will appear in FriendFeed. - Akiva Moskovitz

Happy saturday on the beach! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR - Brent - Loving Life

Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied. - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-) - Sprague D

I hope you didn't. - Mladen Srdić

600th! - Christopher Harley

oh for goodness sake! - Jim Hearts FF

Tis bumped for Jim's sake of goodness. All Hail, Jim! - Christopher Harley

Only 156 licks. I mean likes. 600 Comments. Wow. - Mattb4rd

Good morning :o) - David Gross from email

LOL - Toby Graham

It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs' - ImJustCreative

up +607 - sG

I really do not need to see this on a Monday morning.. lol - David Gross

Oh, David, you do! - Christopher Harley

1000 comments or bust!!!! Can we do it? - Paul

YES WE CAN! - Noah David Simon

Yes we can? - Jordan Hofker

Every time I see this photo, I leave FF for a couple hours. THANKS FOR MAKING ME GO BACK TO WORK - Jered Hofker

No problem! - Jordan Hofker

*bump* ;-) - Jason Huebel

*dump* - Sparky

Baaaaarely. - Jordan Hofker

*sage nod* - Sparky

*bumped for comic relief* - Jimminy

THANK YOU JAMES - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Michael would have liked this one.. - David Gross from email

MJ is the Fifth to this party. - Christopher Harley

Chris H: That gives me an idea. - Jimminy

I'm scared of any idea conjured by this pic and my comment. - Christopher Harley

Chris: This is what the idea was nothing to scary. http://friendfeed.com/jimminy... - Jimminy

This again. - Sparky

Sparky is present 83 times in this thread. Can we get notice of number 100? - Christopher Harley

Sparky? - Noah David Simon

Are you trying to accuse me of artificially bumping this monstrosity? I would never! - Sparky

Lunchtime :o) - David Gross from email

As the Grunts say in Halo, "Ok Ok, I'll share the nipple!" - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

There's a whale RIGHT THERE!!! - Steven Perez

DYSP - Akiva Moskovitz

THERE'S A WHALE RIGHT THERE! - Christopher Harley

bahahahaha - Geoff Schultz

I'd rather be on the beach.. - David Gross from email

What the hell? - Ethan

I agree with Christopher, definitely a whale right there. - Ethan

NEEEEEEEPLES! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

LEEECKING! - Sparky

And thus ends Pride Weekend. - Akiva Moskovitz

I don't think pride is ever over for these guys. - Sparky

The morning has broken - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Good Morning Everybody :o) - David Gross from email

Sup DAWG its MOOB WEEK ON FF!!! "wait what its mob week not moob week?" - Geoff Schultz

thts just NASTY! - TenyJ Williams

Commenting in epic post! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

You know, I could sure go for a beach vacation. - Sparky

sorry had to do this - 6 is my favorite number and I turn 50 this year :) - Janet

To add to what Janet said, "6=5+1". - Jimminy

*Bump* - Jimminy

two bumps actually - Mattb4rd

#manipple - Christopher Harley

AAAHHHEEEEEE! - martha

Ack! Not again! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Happy Friday! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

After many shots and beers the party took an unusaul twist.... - Paul from BuddyFeed

Why hasn't this been bumped in so long? - Sparky

I'm guessing the hangovers that lingered yesterday. - Jimminy

Dontya just hate Mondays? - David Gross from email

I thought I had seen this for the last time. But I had to see it, so now I bump it back to the top :P - Ethan

NIPPLES! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

This is a BEAST!!!! - Jimminy

That moment was saved forever. http://img.skitch.com/2009070... - Christopher Harley

Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot. - Rick Cogley

Thank goodness it's not 666 any more. - Sparky

As my final act before going to sleep. *bump* ;-) - Jason Huebel

good night everybody :o) - David Gross from email

So tempted to hide it, but it's funny! >.< - Tanath

#sorrymeme - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

@chumworth check out THESE nipples lol - David Gross from email

The guy in the back not licking is like "haha I'm in the picture" - Jordan Hofker

Jordan, 'I'm just happy to be here!' - Akiva Moskovitz

wow, how many times do i have to "Hide" this before it sticks? - Joe Silence is not dead

this is back again? - Lokei Atikus™®

And again, and again. - Sparky

Is this supposed to turn me on? Cuz it's not. But I AM laughing ...again. - Brad Williamson

If this turns you on you should seek medical help. Or at least seek these guys on a beach. - Sparky

I would say it's things like this that make me love FF, but you guys might get the wrong idea? - Jered Hofker

Two months later and my eyes still haven't recovered from this...THING! - Adrian Scicluna

I don't think it's a thing so much as an abomination - Brent - Loving Life

Abominations are things. Just...bad things. - Neal Jansons from IM

The MOOBS of HELL rise once more. - Jimminy

Good night everybody #hive - David Gross from email

Hive? - Sparky

yes sparky #hive or http://hivemindmovie.com/ - David Gross from email

To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D - Danny Minick

Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends. - Sparky

I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm.. - David Gross from email

What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames. - Jordan Hofker

Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-) - darnell from BuddyFeed

I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha - Bradley Farless

ah-CHOO! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oopsie..... - Baard @ Pixum from iPhone

I thought about commenting to bring this back to the top, but then I decided not to... - Internet's Tad

Who in the hell posted this thing?! - Akiva Moskovitz

At least it's Friday - Jorge Escobar

This thread will never die. - Ethan

ever... - Jenny Morman

#suckit - Nathan Rein

#lickit - Mattb4rd

paint it! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

thank god it's friday, my boss is a bitch.. - David Gross from email

I want laughing asian man to be my boss. Or my bitch. Wait. CONFUSLZED - Sparky

bump - Noah David Simon

I am so happy in the Hive! Follow @HiveMindMovie and love forever! #Hive - David Gross from email

OMG EPIC. Nipple Spam! - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

*hides it AGAIN* - Joe Silence is not dead

I shall never die! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Seriously. Whoever posted this should be banned from FriendFeed for LIFE. - Akiva Moskovitz

I'm too lazy to come up with a witty reason to bump this. - Sparky

Akiva, they shouldn't be banned because I think they must be retired. - Jimminy

It's fadi.... Ooops I guess not. :) - Jimminy

Who is Doug Trench? See http://tinyurl.com/HMDTrench @HiveMindMovie #hive - David Gross from email

When Sumo's fall in love---#wrong - Bret Rowe

it beats Bruno - Tyler Gillies

@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream.. - David Gross from email

Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs. - Jimminy

will this ever die? - sean percival

Please never put a hold on the comments for this. How shall it be bumped, then? - Josh Haley

This must always get into the top of my feed at least once a day. - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that... more... - David Gross from email

who cares about the 14 year old girl Sarkozy was pointing at http://ff.im/56ANm - Noah David Simon

I love you moobs. - Jimminy

Sometimes love comes around. :3 - Danny Minick

It is too early in the morning for this.. - David Gross from email

It's never too early in the morning for this. - Sparky

aaahhhhhh my eyes my eyes it's too early :O - martha

Just thought I'd swing by... - Ian May

mother's milk LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

eww lol - David Gross from email

This might be a good one to close comments on. That way it'd stop coming back. - Kenton

Akiva, what say ye? - Jorge Escobar

It can't be closed it is the immortal moobies. - Jimminy

My lips like sugar? - Danny Minick

This thread makes me want Friendfeed to have an option for large threads to load 10 of x comments, rather than load x more comments. - Sparky

I definitely agree, Sparky, but I'd like both, "View x more comments - View last 10 comments" is what I'd love to see. - Jimminy

Perhaps have it show up just after the 'x more comments' if x > 25 or something. - Sparky

Well, what do we have here? - Mladen Srdić

I'm feeling lucky... - Jorge Escobar

Are you feeling lucky Jorge? LOL - David Gross from email

Think about random slurping sounds. - Mattb4rd

Mooooooove'n back up to the top. - Geoff Schultz

wow~ long commnet need shrink it - HealingBrush

narf! - Noah David Simon

Noah, post Troll Boobs here LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

This image always helps me get lucky. - Sparky

It's "Bump Friday" - Paul from BuddyFeed

speaking of nipples - Noah David Simon

This is my high school senior photo, by the way. - Akiva Moskovitz

Your plastic surgery since has been a smashing sucsess. - Sparky

It's a nice day for a romp on the beach.. #hive - David Gross from email

*bump* - Ronald

LOL, I didn't realize there were Moskovitzes with Asian ancestry. ;) - Victor Ganata

Akiva, what you doing drinking Milk? LOL - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Bumped for Steve 'Fat Balls' Perez. - Akiva Moskovitz

yeap, first place in google, for Akiva LOL http://images.google.com/images... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

A legacy. I has it. - Akiva Moskovitz

You lose, Akiva - WorldofHiglet

oh hai - Geoff Schultz

This started in March? Feels like forever - Aaman (Clone of FF)

@Aaman: Let's keep it going into Winter, when this summerly picture will provide us with warmth. - CannonGod

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy T_T - Jered Hofker

Jered: because he cares. - Sparky

Ok, I know I need sleep now, because this is kind of hot. o_O - Jimminy

Hahahahahaha!!! I just did a seach for "Obama" on Friendfeed, and this is the second item that shows up. - Victor Ganata

:-)) - Anna Haro

Man there isnt enough time in the day, it's that time already.. How about a dip in the ocean before bedtime.. - David Gross from email

oh hai! - Geoff Schultz

WHY DOES IT KEEP COMING BACK!!!! GA!!!! - Mathew™ one of a kind

Better yet, *why not*? It's so awesome it has to stick around. - Jordan Hofker

These guys need to get there own Sprite commercial. :D - Jimminy

I want to win a MacBook! http://tinyurl.com/HMPrizes @HiveMindMovie #Hive<http://twitter.com/home...> - David Gross from email

Wow, nipple lick got spammed! - Rochelle

Wow, David Gross, why do you keep spamming this thread, this is the third or fourth time you have done such. - Jimminy

Here's some Monty Python SPAM http://www.youtube.com/watch... :o) - David Gross from email

everytime someone posts I get an email so sometimes I post something different.. that was only my second #hive post.. - David Gross from email

It is not like this is a serious thread LOL - David Gross from email

this is a super serious thread - Geoff Schultz

I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent. - David Gross from email

gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox. - David Gross from email

*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected. - David Gross from email

all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots? - Noah David Simon

THE THREAD IS 12% BETTER NOW. - Sparky

I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers - Noah David Simon

This thread is hereby closed. - Akiva Moskovitz

Nooooooooo - don't close it! - Sparky

You mean old man! - Christopher Harley

Leave it open!!!! - Christian (Simply X)

If you close it, I can just see the thousand reshares that will ensue. FF will soon stand for Fat Asian Feed. - Victor Ganata

Wouldn't that be FAF? - Sparky

Just a reminder, tomorrow is "Lick A Man Boobs Friday." So everyone go out and find a guy who want's his man boobs licked. - Paul from BuddyFeed

How you close a thread? doya have to delete the post? - David Gross from email

@David only Akiva can. Bump. - Jorge Escobar

I posted this http://friendfeed.com/kmeelah... about this thread, and no-one saw it... - Kamilah Gill

LONG LIVE THE MEME THAT IS THIS. - Sparky

You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for! - Rick Cogley

wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o) - David Gross from email

It's already Friday in Japan. - Rick Cogley

Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter.. - David Gross from email

Titty Ham, mmm!!! - Jimminy

David - yeah, you can get an early start. - Rick Cogley

Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread. - David Gross from email

the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide." - Scott of Two Countries

It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!) - Ian May

DUNG! DUNG! - Akiva Moskovitz

I mean, the Law & Order noise. - Akiva Moskovitz

DOINK DOINK - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

heh. Back again. I have no clever saying this time. - Danny Minick

This is clever on its own. - Sparky

Nipples. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

2/4 are wearing glasses - sofarsoShawn

The resurrection of the nipple lickers. - Deepti

meat balls - Noah David Simon

Personally, I'm starting to love this thread...despite the pic at the top. lol - Christian (Simply X)

میلاد - M.S

میلاد - Arash Irani

LOL, just looking through my likes to show my dad something - Toby Graham

Woah. Forgot all about this. - Akiva Moskovitz

ALWAYS! - Sparky

you lose - WorldofHiglet

On this day of frost in Alaska, time for some summery love:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

you're right, Amanda, I shouldn't have googled that phrase! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

two-fer - Aaman (Clone of FF)

I count a four-fer there. - Sparky

Nothing says cool and refreshing on a hot summer day then licking man titties. - Paul from BuddyFeed

Here some Antisemitism Milk on Wikipedia! I hope you like the Beast! http://www.igorthetroll.com/blog... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"? - Rick Cogley

For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture. - Matthew DeVries

I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture. - Jimminy

Tit theme? - Sparky

*cough* - Simon Wicks

I still love this stupid post. Call me sick. - Christian (Simply X)

You're sick. - Akiva Moskovitz

Imagine if Scoble introduced this pic/thread to the new gaggle of his Friendfeed Followers - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Thank you, Akiva! :D I take that as a complement every time I hear it. lol - Christian (Simply X)

This picture in this post shows what can happen when something escapes from the lab into the wild. - Spidra Webster

I AM A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva, Noooooooooooooooooooooo! - Danny Minick

Don't make me say it again. - WorldofHiglet

slurp - Noah David Simon

double slurp - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

:( - Danny Minick

You mean :) right Danny? - Sparky

By replying to your comment, I am only reviving this thread. :( - Danny Minick

Has u seen mah bukkit? - Bec Rowe @d0tski

No, I haz not seen seen yur bukkit... I thought this thread was closed.. - David Gross from email

omg 666 - mike "glemak" dunn

ah sean - of course my bad, for me it was 666 but i block a ton of folks ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

interesting. - Josh Haley

I just shoved a rodent in my ass. I can't get it out. call an ambulance - Noah David Simon

Or call these guys. They seem like they could help. - Sparky

PARTY'S OVER, BOYS. BREASTFEEDING ISN'T ALLOWED ON FACEBOOK. - Akiva Moskovitz

LOL - OMG, that's so true it hurts...... - Matthew DeVries

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - andy brudtkuhl

SAY GOODBYE TO THIS WONDERFUL PICTURE - Jordan Hofker

There's more stuff to be all "NOOO" about right now, Dave.... - Kamilah Gill

That looks like breast feeding: BANNED!!!! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

This gets its own Fan Page. - Christopher Harley

This thread must have been part of the deal...It has to be..This can never die...lol - Bill Heslin

Whenever Facebook buys a competitor it often causes spontaneous man-titty licking. - Mattb4rd

This needs to be bumped. Especially today and for so many reasons. - Jason Huebel

Welcome facebookers - this is Friendfeed - Aaman (Clone of FF)

this is like the goatse of friendfeed - Nathan Rein

Friendfeed will never die as long as this thread remains open - can someone please also cross-post it to Facebook? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Come join us, and we'll do THIS to you. Whenever you want. - Rick Cogley

The first picture posted to Akiva's FB page. Seems about right. :D - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Oh. Dear. God. - Mark "DerBingle" J

oh that damn fat kid! Why does he always show up in my feed! - Geoff Schultz

mmm.. MILK! Its good for you! ; ) http://bit.ly/a9Fs - David Gross

Tandem Nursing: It's easier than you think! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?" - Spidra Webster

It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails... - Aaman (Clone of FF)

I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again! - Mark "DerBingle" J

Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan... - sofarsoShawn

domo *arigato*<http://www.google.com/search...>for the milk.. :o) - David Gross from email

Zombie thread! - Sparky from iPhone

Does sumo pr0n violate the Facebook TOS? Muahhaahhaaaaaaa! - Rick Cogley

DO ANYBODY NO WHY THIS KEEPS GETTING BUMPED? - Mark "DerBingle" J

NO, I DON'T NO. - Sparky

You use the phrase 'good work' so loosely there. - Sparky

How does this not have over 1000 comments yet? - Josh Haley

I think we should use this thread for the next ffundercats chatroom. - Josh Haley

... ...? - Mark "DerBingle" J

That would be great! - Matthew DeVries

The way you do it is post the next show, post a link to here, and then lock commenting. - Matthew DeVries

wow, those guys are still on the beach? - David Gross

People are getting lazy...1000 comments by September or you all lose the game! - Josh Haley

Wait, there was a game? I thought we were just bumping this to add to the overall absurdist trauma in the collective psyche? - Neal Jansons from IM

I haven't seen moobs in a while, I was beginning to forget what they look like. - Jimminy

Nice Glasses. - Ian May

Why hasn't this been bumped in over a day? *bump* - Jimminy

Rumor is that this isn't bumping up anymore so I'm trying it out. - Rochelle

:( - Akiva Moskovitz

It bumped - Matthew DeVries

:-) - Jordan Hofker

MOOBIES!!!! Wait wut was I doing? - Jimminy

The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party. - Matthew DeVries

He said tea party. - Mattb4rd

Can't unsee this. - Matt Hilton

Yes you can unsee this. You just need to cheesegrater your eyes and the memory cortex of your brain. - Sparky

Come here and I'll show you. - Sparky

but waiter I didn't order the man boobies today - Noah David Simon

How does this work, again? - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Cool. Stir handles this post without crashing, giving it an edge over other Friendfeed apps. - Rob Haas

That. is. awesome. This post has now become a benchmark by which to measure the abilities of applications. - Victor Ganata

And some people think this post is worthless. It has worth, I tell you. Worth!@ - Akiva Moskovitz

You should really go through and moderate the off-topic posts Akiva - Matthew DeVries

LOL MDV - Josh Haley

>.< - Danny Minick

ALMOST TO 1,000 - Sparky

Oh good lord, now people are going to posting that Dragon Ball Z quote. - Matthew DeVries

9000?!?! (sorry I had to) - Neal Jansons from IM

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Matthew DeVries

Seriously? This is going to go to over 9000? Will FF survive that long? - Mark "DerBingle" J

Has Robert Scoble liked this yet?:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Somehow I missed this bumping back up to the top. I'm glad I clicked through to see it again. Poor Akiva! - Ladybug Heather

Why p[oor Akiiva? She will be famous for this one :o) - David Gross from email

LMAO!!! David, Akiva is a lady? - Jimminy

When will this ever leave my feed :( haha - Nicholas James

NEVAH!!! - Jason Huebel from iPhone

ALWAYS!!! - Sparky

Jimminy, I guess I just assumed.. Akiva is usually a woman's name in Hebrew.. - David Gross from email

David, huh? Tell that to Rabbi Akiva (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) which is where the name comes from. - Rochelle

Akiva's a boy! He's not a girl! He's a boy! - Christopher Harley

LMAO, I'm surprised, that David never this belief sooner here. - Jimminy

Wishful thinking, perhaps. - Akiva Moskovitz

Why are my private beach photos on Akiva's feed? - Mike Nayyar from iPhone

Mike, I think it's because Akiva felt like sharing a picture of the back of his head, like always.(guy on the far right) - Jimminy

Totally can't be me, Jimminy. No kippah. - Akiva Moskovitz

I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady. - Jimminy

Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada. - Akiva Moskovitz

Oh, and thanks! You sly dog, you! - Akiva Moskovitz

I say again. WTH! - Give 'Em DBizness

Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French? - Jimminy

I don't think even Canadians know that difference. - Akiva Moskovitz

Leave Canada out of this. - Sparky from iPhone

Canada is cold a lot - Ian May

"When you do it, rub his belly. He likes that." - Rick Cogley

*punches veo in the antennae* - Sparky

If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps - Mattb4rd

Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." - David Gross from email

close to a 1000 on this one - sean percival

1000 TONIGHT! - Christopher Harley

You guys so crazy, I'm going to get 1000 - Jimminy

ummm....? - Marissa

I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also. - Jimminy

If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!? - WorldofHiglet

I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian. - Jason Huebel

This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it. - Jimminy

Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do. - Sparky

It keeps on going and going and going.... - David Gross from email

In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride. - Johnny Worthington

I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine." - Matt Stoddard

It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach. - Josh Haley

Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he? - Travis Koger

Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing... - Mark "DerBingle" J

BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM. - Sparky

@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand. - Travis Koger

Bump for documentation. - Josh Haley

Let's do the bump - Ian May

You're hurting the Google http://ff.im/7KPH3 - Christopher Harley

ipod, apple, mac, Steve Jobs - Josh Haley

Is there any thread on FF that has more comments than this one? - Spidra Webster

Scoble had one where he was offering money. - Akiva Moskovitz

Yes, Spidra http://friendfeed.com/search... It's part of an elite club.... - Kamilah Gill

They're Baaaccckkk LOL - martha

The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it. - Christopher Harley

moobs - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Comment number nine hundred and eighty something. - Christopher Harley

992 in total. - अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das

You Lie! - Aaman (Clone of FF)

that's disturbing... - CherryBazaar Photography

Hoo boy, now I gotta wake up to ill-advised family photos and sumo pr0n both (cross post from ill-advised family photos). - Rick Cogley

Comment number nine hundred and ninety something. - Christopher Harley

956 - AJ Batac

What AJ? - Jimminy

I love Moobs. - Jimminy

I cheated and stole 1000 because the moobs are so amazing. - Jimminy

I GOT 1000th COMMENT! - Sparky

I HATE FF EVEN MORE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - veo

Oh wait, 999 more. I failed. Oh well, I got 1002-1003. THAT MAKES ME 2 AND 3 BETTER. - Sparky

LOL, Akiva or someone is deleting comments, so it's at 999 now. LOL - Jimminy

I get 1000 again. - Jimminy

Because the post should never hit *1000* - Jimminy

999 - veo

1000! Horray! - veo

this photo .. will this ever disappear from the Web? :s - Sardar Mohkim Khan

Really sorry, my finger slipped and I bumped this - Johnny Worthington

LIES. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Oh whew! For a moment I thought this was gone forever... but I FOUND IT! - Mark "DerBingle" J

I think it is a little cold to be playing on the beach.. - David Gross from email

OMG, this is back?! - Sparky

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!" - Nicholas Kreidberg

YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB - Josh Haley

bu nelan böyle - abdulrezzak kapıkolları

I second that. - Ian May

Motion? Yeah, this picture would be better as an animated gif. - Jordan Hofker

This thread bumps more often than I do. - Sparky

AGAIN?!?! - Andru Edwards

Of course it's coming up again. It's our favorite quadrology of happy Asian men. - Sparky

Happy Birthday Bump! - Josh Haley

lol, i love when this shows up. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

This doesn't show up, this show's you up. - Sparky

Leaked: OS X 10.7 Default Wallpaper - Danny Minick

It's still here! (Breathes a heartfelt sigh of relief!) - Mark "DerBingle" J

Happy Birthday, Mark Vandenberg! http://ff.im/96VuI - Josh Haley

Woah, this just appeared and my first instinct was to click Like. - Akiva Moskovitz

Excellent instincts. - Josh Haley

Akiva has the instincts of the chosen people. - Sparky

Oh, you must mean the Google Wave users. - Josh Haley

Clearly. The Way of Google has taught Akiva well much as it has taught the jolly Asian man as shown by his cheery demeanor. - Sparky

He's happy alright. - Jordan Hofker

Jordan - does our Jolly friend need to appear again in the Gamer Lounge? I think he does. - Sparky

hahaha oh wow - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

"This is getting on my tits", he said - Ian May

That means you like it, right? - Jordan Hofker

How could you not like it? - Sparky

Good morning everybody :o) - David Gross from email

You gotta be kidding. - Mine Ekim

Yes, he's kidding. - Christopher Harley from iPhone

THIS IMAGE IS NEVER KIDDING. - Sparky

mmm.. yummy :o) - David Gross from email

OMG Why?!?! - SmallCapVoice

Because it's awesome! - Sparky

It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this. - Andru Edwards

Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME! - Sparky

This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^ - Danny Minick

You have nothing to fear - I never look away. - Sparky

Saturday fun - Aaman (Clone of FF)

Opps... my finger slipped - Johnny Worthington

AGAIN!! - Bhowmik Shah

Here's another cool pic :o) http://ff.im/9x6Qo - David Gross from email

I love when this rolls up. It's my favorite. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

NOOOO!!! - Joe Silence is not dead

please let this die! ;-) - pea

Eeeek! HIDE! - April Buchheit

This will never die. Never. - Victor Ganata

This photo IS FriendFeed .. om om om nom om om mmm om nom mmmmm - Mattb4rd

جاپونی های همجنس باز - آرش خان

Sirhan K. - Jimminy

(ôآرش ، مثل پاپ به من می رسد ؛ - David Gross from email

Ahhhh...mammaries :-)) - Anna Haro

I really wish I could 'like' this again... - Sparky

Me, too, Sparky. Oh look, inadvertent bump. - Ayşe E.

clean your glasses. - Ian May

I APPROVE OF THIS. - veo

*If* the Tech people have all left (as if) ...*then* where have they gone? - JSNFLMNG

Bump for the good times. - Mark Krynsky

this has got to be the hottest pic on the internet.. - David Gross from email

#iGottaCrush on this thread. I love when it comes up. I always try to like it again. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

>.< CURSE YOU MONIQUE! - Danny Minick

How the EFF does this keep getting bumped?! Is there no limit?! - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

We certainly hope there isn't a limit... - Sparky

Thinking of Josh *bump* - Spidra Webster

There's a UFO in this picture ;o) - sofarsoShawn

Sadly it's behind the main focus of the photo. - Sparky

looks like a nice day on the beach :o) - David Gross from email

Welcome back, asian nipple lickers! - Jason Huebel

Who here hasn't licked a asian nipple or 2? - Matthew DeVries

This guy. - Jordan Hofker

On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread. - Matthew DeVries

I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately. - Akiva Moskovitz

ah - now that's the way I like to start the week! - bear (aka Mike Taylor)

This is how I always start my week. - Sparky

Licking asian nipples? I suppose that's one way to make your Monday brighter. - Jason Huebel

Not this again :D - Gunny doesn't side-hug™

The other week I googled my name, and this was one of the images that came up. I tired again this week, but it wasn't there. - Mike Nencetti

What an honor Mike. I wish Google would associate me with greatness like this. - Sparky

oohh nipples :o) - David Gross from email

jihad - Noah David Simon

Happy Wednesday! - Sparky

what a day.. at least tomorrow is friday.. :) - David Gross from email

I just opened my laptop to show my mom a picture of Audrey and she saw this. She said "Is that man in the middle supposed to be Akiva?" - Rochelle

He wishes - Johnny Worthington

+100 rochelle! - Jorge Escobar from IM

*dead* - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva himself takes post# 1K69 baby! - Matthew DeVries

Wow, this just keeps rollin'! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

It sure has some rolls. - Sparky

good night everybody :o) - David Gross from email

Sweet dreams, dear friends. :-) - Anna Haro

Friday, lunch time, in this side of the world :))) - MobilAdam

yes, lunchtime here too.. this pic looks like a Happy Halloween from Hawaii card.. lol :o) - David Gross from email

I still want to know where I can get those snazzy red frames. - Sparky

@Sparky - http://www.zennioptical.com - Mattb4rd

Happy Halloweenie guys :o) - David Gross from email

well played, David Gross. - Vezquex: God of FF

A Jack O'Mantern - Spidra Webster

Nice. - Jay Cuthrell

((. )( .)) - Spidra Webster

What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs. - Sparky

SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!! - Andru Edwards

I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE. - Sparky

Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch.. - David Gross from email

I'm jealous of so much more! - Sparky from iPhone

Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach. - David Gross from email

I'm betting 95 on that beach... - Sparky

exactly what's the origin of this meme? Anyone? #smlask - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML

The origin is the meme of fun...just fun...and a perfect meme it has been.... - Bill Heslin

Good night Sparky :o) - David Gross from email

miodio - vtanner

Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.) - Akiva Moskovitz from iPhone

Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it. - Akiva Moskovitz from iPhone

Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread? - Travis Koger

If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer? - Eivind

Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten - Matthew DeVries

Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread. - Victor Ganata

How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P - Tanath

He's talking about the iPhone. - Josh Haley

actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail. - David Gross from email

Isn't it a wonderful day :)) - MobilAdam from fftogo

wow, I cant believe it's midnight already.. g'nite everybody :o) - David Gross from email

Come on, stop it. =) - Flavio Santos

No, don't stop it. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Nothing will stop this. NOTHING! - Sparky

I think this photo will live on even if Friendfeed is gone. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Oh, this. Also, I lost the game. 2 for 1! - veo

DAMNIT VEO, NOW I LOST THE GAME TOO! - Sparky

I WIN! (and lose) - veo

And again we have won. And lost. - Sparky

MOOBIES, HOW I WILL MISS THEE! - Jimminy

And another Monday finally comes to an end... - David Gross from email

NIPPLES - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

LICKING NIPPLES NO LESS - Sparky

*bump* just cuz - Jason Huebel

GNAH! MY EYES! - Jeremy (cropmarks)

Ah... the good stuff in life just lasts forever, doesn't it? - Ladybug Heather

indeed it does - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

What is the white thing behind the back guys neck? - Sparky

Damn you. - Andru Edwards

I miss the 'ol fun summer days. - Anna Haro

I wish FriendFeed - Aaman (Clone of FF)

this - Kyle Johnson

Good night everybody :o) - David Gross from email

Good morning everyone :)) - MobilAdam

up - denizoktar

Happy Sunday! - Kyle Johnson

This image makes *any* day happy! - Sparky

yes, isn't it a lovely Sunday afternoon? :o) - David Gross from email

Quite lovely, yes, although a bit nippish. - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Gaysian love is beautiful! - Kyle Johnson

I'm thankful for Friendfeed, my Friendfeeding peeps, and rebumped crap like this photo. Happy FFanksgiving everyone! - Kevin Fox

I haven't seen those tits in months - Noah David Simon

Neither had I. - Sparky

Nagyon kedves ember melle, nem? - David Gross from email

Look... Its not funny any more ahahahahahahahahaaha stop it! - J. Abdul-Qahhar

I just realized that I never Liked this. For shame! Corrected now. - Kamilah Gill

Kamilah has redeemed herself thusly. - Sparky

This truly is the post that will not die. - Lindsay

herkese iyi geceler (time to learn some Turkish) - MobilAdam

de MERDE! Quelle ROBERTS j'ai Tringle, il faut me branler! (and some frank-a-is) - sofarsoShawn

The more times I see this, the less I'm inclined to believe that Akiva really is sorry! - Mark "DerBingle" J

I choose you, Nipple-Licker! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

disgusting :s - ★ Soner Gönül

I don't know what's going on over here (http://friendfeed.com/chinese...) but they've got you guys beat. - Akiva Moskovitz

disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public) - Kyle Johnson

this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol. - Bora Mesut PALAS

I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-) - Jason Huebel

I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF. - Kamilah Gill

This is *just* what my Friday needed. - aden

Kamilah, that's possible but, for some reason, they link to this post, too. - Akiva Moskovitz

Probably comparing thread lengths just like you just did. - Kamilah Gill

Yay, it's back! That other thread is great too, the mix of languages is neat to see - Lo

Seems awfully cold for them to be out on the beach like that today. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I think that they're generating their own heat. - Akiva Moskovitz

Strength (and warmth) in numbers! - Sparky

HAPPY HANUKKAH! - Kyle Johnson

I can't get enough of that wonderful Duff! - Chris, Taskerrific Guy

Sean McBride

Douglas Hopkins queried me about the sources of my "intelligence" -- following are a few folks I pay attention to in trying to figure out what is going on in the world:

February 23 - Comment - Like - Share

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1. Aaron David Miller 2. Andrew Bacevich 3. Andrew Sullivan 4. Anthony Sampson 5. Anthony Zinni 6. Arnaud de Borchgrave 7. Avraham Burg 8. Brent Scowcroft 9. Chris Hedges 10. Craig Unger 11. Daniel Yergin 12. David Bromwich 13. Eric Margolis 14. Fred Kaplan 15. Gershom Gorenberg 16. Glenn Greenwald 17. Greg Mitchell 18. Jacob Heilbrunn 19. James Bamford 20. James Fallows 21. James Galbraith 22. Jane Mayer 23. Jeff Huber 24. Jeremy Scahill 25. Jim Kunstler 26. Jim Lobe 27. John Mearsheimer 28. Joseph Stiglitz 29. Kevin Phillips 30. Lawrence Wilkerson 31. M.J. Rosenberg 32. Michael Lind 33. Michelle Goldberg 34. Naomi Klein 35. Patrick Lang 36. Philip Weiss 37. Ray Kurzweil 38. Ray McGovern 39. Robert Dreyfuss 40. Robert Malley 41. Roger Morris 42. Samantha Power 43. Stephen Walt 44. Steve Clemons 45. Thom Hartmann 46. Tim Berners-Lee 47. Tim O'Reilly 48. Zbigniew Brzezinski - Sean McBride

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Thanks for that impressive list; are they all bloggers or systematically available on the web? I only recognize about 10 of them. Kurzweill, by the way, is brilliant but too deeply in love with himself to be useful any longer on anything but hardware. I'll sift through the rest, however, I do enjoy your fascinating flow of their ideas. - Douglas Hopkins

Douglas -- most of their best stuff is captured in books via Amazon. Some of them are bloggers. Obviously I don't agree with all of them on everything, but they all have a gift for provoking interesting conversations on important issues. - Sean McBride

When I started reading #1 and saw the name Aaron my heart leaped for a moment. - Aaron deMello

Aaron -- I wish you would post more. - Sean McBride

Aaron, such a compliment you receive from Sean McBride. If I may: "leapt" not leaped. - Douglas Hopkins

You know what's funny Doug - I wrote "leapt" first but it looked wrong, so I "corrected" it. My strict British education and grammar is failing me! Sean - I need to post more too. Just a bit concerned given what I do for a living to post my actual thoughts on these subjects. Such is the paradox of being social on the web. - Aaron deMello

Interesting class of words: English irregular past tenses ending in ''t'': burnt, dreamt, knelt , leapt, learnt, spelt, spilt and spoilt. - Sean McBride

Many of the people who know most about some of the subjects being discussed on the net are forbidden by the laws of their respective countries from sharing what they know. - Sean McBride

Absolutely. Not only by the law, but also by confidentiality agreements, and of course security classifications. I'd love for chief architect of China's Golden Shield to blog about it, but that's not going to happen. - Aaron deMello

I once had a big argument with my children. I used learnt and they thought I was wrong and it was learned. Both are right. Sean, I saw your tweet and came here. I am glad I did. - Dorai

Dorai -- also be apprised that split infinitives are legit. :) It took me quite a while to overcome my pseudo-pedantic conditioning on that hoary rule. - Sean McBride

Just read again "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"! - Dimitar Vesselinov

Dan Hsiao

Pizza Hut's new name and logo

July 12 from email - Comment - Like - Share

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wow - Paul Buchheit

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Jabba? - Sam Harrelson

Really? - ashish

Butt? - Jeff P. Henderson from iPhone

Honestly I think it sucks! - Jeff P. Henderson from iPhone

I'm confused. It looks like the Hut is wearing a web-2.0 style fedora. - Ginger Makela Riker

odd branding decision. why drop the pizza out of the name? - Bill Kinney

@ginger, the hut's hat is more or less the same as the one from the previous logo: http://walkba.alsa.org/images... - Dan Hsiao

Is this for their entire brand now? I heard it was just for an upscale version of Pizza Hut they were testing. - Mark Trapp

They're promoting their pastas more, and probably want to extend the food offerings further. They've offered pastas and desserts and such in Asia for a few years now. Seemed to work out well there. (Not to say that I like the change... I think I'll continue calling it Pizza Hut) - Dan Hsiao

I shall continue calling it "Pizza the Hut" :) - Paul Buchheit

This was from a pizza box from a plain 'ole Pizza Hut (er, "The Hut") that I wouldn't consider upscale, except for the fact that it's across the street from a ginormous Whole Foods. - Dan Hsiao

Ah, okay. I found a story from last month (URL: http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstoc...) that says they're rebranding the boxes and "some" signage, but not everything. Yum has never been good at rebranding (they also own Kentucky Fried Chicken/KFC/Kentucky Grilled Chicken or whatever they call it this week). - Mark Trapp

Too bad they dropped "Pizza" from it; Pizza the Hut would've been awesome. Maybe they didn't want to get sued by Mel Brooks. - Brian Chang

Mark, that makes sense. A nickname of sorts... - Bill Kinney

I like Papa Johns better. - Dallas Cao

Zachary's is the best. Get in your car and drive. :) - Cristo

I LOVE Zachary's, but it's a bit too far. Patxi's is a reasonable drive, but still not all that convenient. - Dan Hsiao

Patxi's is the poor (or lazy) man's Zachary's. It's okay, but there's always a little romance missing. - Cristo

Agreed. It's not quite as good, but it's a helluva lot closer for me. Are there any good non-chain thin crust pizza places around the bay area? The only place I've been that is remotely comparable to good NY pizza is Pizza Antica in Santana Row. - Dan Hsiao

Delfino Pizza is pretty good. They just opened in PacHeights. - Cristo

+ - Will Higgins™

that's all kinds of crazy - still can't get over syfy - BEX

Same disgusting taste. Papa John's FTW - LANjackal

It's not a name change but "additional branding" for some markets. Pizza Hut is still Pizza Hut http://www.facebook.com/PizzaHu... - Rajiv Doshi

Hopefully slave girls in gold bikinis cannot be far behind, along with Rancor battles for evening entertainment. - Kevin Fox

When I went to KFC a few weeks ago they insisted on calling themselves 'Kentucky Grilled Chicken' but they still use the KFC initials. Perhaps it's now Kentucky Fgrilled Chicken, with a silent F? - Kevin Fox

I am waiting on the first person to fall off the roof trying to paint Jabba on the Logo.. - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

This isn't nearly as bad as, say, Tropicana's failed re-branding, but I still don't like it. - G. Sigh

Grotesque. - Aaron deMello

+1 Sam for Jabba comment. - Mike Reynolds

+1 Mark. Yum! sucks at rebranding. I saw this logo over the weekend and thought it was a mistake. What. The. FRUIT! were they thinking?!? - Bill Sodeman

They changed it awhile ago. And I noticed they released a new iPhone app - Johnny

Bill: I think they would drop the Pizza from Pizza Hut to communicate that the Hut is not just pizza anymore. Probably aligned with product diversification - Johnny

hmm, that's interesting. Not against it, since they have been diversifying for the past couple years at least. EDIT: read comments. Oh, it's just a nickname/partial change. I'm a fan of it for that. Pizza the Hut would have been pretty humorous, though, lol. - Chieze Okoye

Ha, yeah. I think the partial change makes it even more confusing. - Johnny

looks more like a hat... - John Wang

I shall continue not eating there - andy brudtkuhl

it looks like a fedora. I would eat there but their store coverage is pitful. - Rudolf Olah

The first thing I thought of was Jabba, Jabba the hut, so much for new branding. - Dan Morrill AKA Techwag

eat with us twice a week and become our name? kind of stupid move by them, assuming this story is true....i, like many of you, first thought of Jabba....not good. - Morgan Haley

Well Dan, have you seen most of the folks eating there? jabba is not to far from the truth :D - Moved to Facebook from fftogo

I've always called it 'Pizza Slut' which sounds better than 'The Hut' - Morgan Haley

"Hut" means "hat" in German. Good luck in Germany if that's really the new name... with "pizza" at least you can guess it's not a clothing store. - Philipp Lenssen

Haha, I always said that if they stopped serving pizza, they'd be called "Hut", and now it's finally happened. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. - Tyson Key

Seriously? Yikes. - edythe from iPhone

@Morgan: That's what my niece's friends called her when she worked there. - April Russo (app103)

Ah, stupidity abounds. Yeah, still not buying their pizza. - Jennifer Dittrich

I don't understand this random rebranding thing... - Vince DeGeorge

+1 Vince - Tyson Key

The placement of "the" is just aweful - Shawn Hickman

@Shawn - it is actually one of the few things I like. In my head, I add "Pizza" to "the Hut," and it reminds me of Spaceballs. - Jennifer Dittrich

hey! our family has been calling Pizza Hut "the hut" for years! i think i need to see a royalty check here! - MikeAmundsen

I vote that they change it to "Piazsta Hut" just to satisfy both those that wanted it to be called "Pizza Hut", and those that wanted it to be called "Pasta Hut" in their poll. ;) - Tyson Key

They should think about serving Italian food there. It's all the rage. - John Hardy

Jennifer: If it reminds you of SpaceBalls then it can't be wrong:) - Shawn Hickman

It has a very "fat" sort of feeling. I feel like I'm putting on pounds just looking at it. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

Tyson, one could argue that they never *started* serving pizza. That said, the image above the logo-type looks like a fedora. Pizza Hat? - Kevin Pedraja

Heh, I see what you mean now about it looking like a hat. - Tyson Key

And it's a sassy red hat, too. - Bill Sodeman

First thing I thought was - "The Hut stole Carmen Sandiego's hat!" - Paul OFlaherty

Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego.... 's hat! - Bill Sodeman

Sean McBride

RT @Wolfram_Alpha Get detailed comparisons of countries quickly with Wolfram|Alpha: http://www08.wolframalpha.com/input... #wolframalpha

June 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Looks like the comparison is getting better, now covering more aspects than when Alpha was released. - François Dongier

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FD -- Wolfram has established a strong beachhead for computational semantics, and it will be all onward and upward from here. The possibilities are endless -- an exciting prospect. - Sean McBride

Funny how almost nobody is talking about WA any more. Nice to see you are still following it. - Aaron deMello

Wolfram Alpha is still a product that is well ahead of its time -- the world at large will eventually catch up. (And WA still needs to fill in many knowledge blocks to make its value apparent to the masses.) - Sean McBride

I'm impressed by his Bauer speech, http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009..., which is clearly ahead of mass discussions. - François Dongier

Great Stephen Wolfram speech and historical survey of the quest over thousands of years to build knowledge systems (and the ultimate knowledge system). Everyone with an interest in this field should take the trouble to read and digest it carefully. - Sean McBride

US Politics: Darryl

Michael Scheuer on Fox: America's only hope is for another terrorist attack | Crooks and Liars - http://crooksandliars.com/david-n...

July 1 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

If it happens it's clear who will be financing it. - Todd Hoff

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File under false flag ops, and consider the implications for 9/11. If 9/11 Part II does occur, we'll have some leading suspects. - Sean McBride

What a moron. - Aaron deMello

Doesn't everyone on Fox have the 'moron' box checked? - jcunwired

I wondering how this isn't treason? - Todd Hoff

From comment: "The only way to protect ourselves effectively is to be attacked. But if we're not attacked, we're not protected?!?!" - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Oh my god: Beck sounds saner than this guy. I repeat: BECK sounds SANER THAN THIS GUY. Holy fuck. - teh Dork Knight aka Kenny

Is everyone here fully aware that we still haven't a clue about who were the paymasters behind 9/11? In fact, the 9/11 Commission absurdly attempted to dismiss that question as a matter of no consequence. - Sean McBride

video: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Joe Silence is not dead

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Friendfeed themes rock, Helvetica rocks. Great new Friendfeed feature.

June 30 - Comment - Like - Share

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Where is it? - Aaron deMello

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Aaron: Friendfeed > settings > Theme: > Helvetica - Sean McBride

http://friendfeed.com/setting... - jcunwired

Now: if Friendfeed would only massively upgrade its search functionality, with an emphasis on data mining search results in a variety of ways. And provide list view: the ability to hide all comments and to present posts one post per line, in multiple columns. - Sean McBride

Holy jeebus that is cool! NICE. Search is hard Sean, the real-timers aren't going to figure it out on their own. - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

Iran: We foiled Israeli-linked election day bomb plot | Iran news | Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com/servlet...

June 18 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"The Iranian Intelligence Ministry on Thursday claimed to have foiled an Israeli-linked terror plot to plant bombs in mosques and other crowded places in Teheran during last week's presidential election." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

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Who knows what to make of this - so many angles, so many agendas. - Aaron deMello

Let's see what evidence is produced to support the charges. We do know that neoconservatives are officially on the record in endorsing efforts to destabilize Iran through covert ops. - Sean McBride

ha. classic stuff. if your leadership is on the ropes, invoke a hated "other." sow fear in the populace. create a "state of siege" that convinces folks that changing leaders ow would be a terrible idea. blah, blah. - MikeAmundsen

Mike -- if no evidence is forthcoming to support the charges, then your explanation fits the situation. But the Jerusalem Post felt the story important enough to report without editorial comment. - Sean McBride

Not comparing, but in Israel people like Libermann and even Bibi talks all the time about the Iranian danger (which I do not under estimate) but try to use it to justify everything they do or do not do. Cannot go out of the territories because of the Iranian danger, cannot focus on real problems we have because of....... and so on. Its less theatrical here but similar tactic. Agree with Mike. - Roni Segoly

It's interesting how little cross-communication goes on among Friendfeed users on many topics: more than a dozen Friendfeeders have independently posted links to this story on Friendfeed. - Sean McBride

But FF isn't Digg. I post things for my feed. Now setting up an automatic room that could merge all comments in as well as being a separate channel would have some value. - Todd Hoff

Todd -- it would be nice in FF to be able to click on a button for any post and to generate a page which nicely organizes all the FF posts and discussion about links mentioned in the post. - Sean McBride

That would be nice. - Todd Hoff

@Sean: sorry i wandered off. i see it like this: if you have a threat and successfully stop it, what is the value of exposing the threat? esp. at this time in Iran? note i am not saying this is not a credible claim, what i am asserting is that - at this time - the story meets a domestic need. - MikeAmundsen

Mike: the charges meet a domestic need, indeed -- but they may also be believable to the Iranian public, because Israel has made so many public and strident threats to attack Iran over the last year or two. Lebanon has also made several charges about Israeli spy rings operating on Lebanese soil during recent weeks -- the story is still unfolding. So far there has not been much in the... more... - Sean McBride

@Sean: yep, i hear ya. i'm not making any judgement about the veracity of the charge, just timing and presentation. looking forward to the details. btw - i've not heard much about how the CIA is working the crisis, either. betcha lots of folks working overtime on that one. - MikeAmundsen

Sean McBride

Phoenix crop circle may predict end of the world - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...

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"Crop circle experts believe the latest pattern to be discovered, a phoenix rising from the flames in Wiltshire, may give a warning about the end of the world." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

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Three questions: who is constructing these things, how are they constructing them, and why are they constructing them. Who, how and why. - Sean McBride

Except, y'know, for that whole "2012 = end of the world" thing being debunked... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Ladybug Heather

I don't know but they are really cool. Also interesting that the Phoenix is referred to as that "Arab bird" by Shakespeare. - Todd Hoff

Ladybug -- yes: the end of the world interpretations are bunkum. But I am still curious about the who, how and why behind these amazing structures. - Sean McBride

Yeah, I'm very curious as to the artist behind them. Some of them are very beautiful! - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

someone has WAY too much time on their hands. - Joe Silence is not dead

Science fiction scenario: an MIT geek sitting at a computer at a classified government agency is scrawling these computer-generated designs on the ground by means of a classified directed-energy technology via satellite on behalf of a fanciful or mischievous Masonic project. - Sean McBride

What I can't envision: the creation of these structures by people on the ground. It doesn't seem possible. - Sean McBride

It seems to me that it would be possible for current spy satellite technology to easily identify the source of these crop circles. Surely the American intel community knows the truth. - Sean McBride

Not if they do it from under the ground :-) - Todd Hoff

When I look at some of these crop circles, I feel a tingle up my spine -- *something* special is there in the geometric patterns -- but I am not sure what. They feel like the manifestion of a higher intelligence, of an advanced symbol system or language. If human beings are behind them, "clever" doesn't begin to cover it. - Sean McBride

RefD -- if I had infinite time on my hands, I couldn't build these things, and I don't know anyone who could. - Sean McBride

@sean I can't remember the exact source, but I have watched a video where some people (think amateur mythbusters) demonstrated on record that they could create arbitrary crop designs in under a half an hour, and faster if working not alone. - Michael Bravo

this stuff was debunked back in the 90s. - Joe Silence is not dead

Spy satellites don't work in real time, Sean. - Alex Scoble

Any pointers to the debunkings? I recently saw a solid documentary on the subject on The Discovery Channel (?) in which efforts to replicate these structures within the time frames they usually appear failed. The documentary concluded that there is no good explanation for this phenomenon. - Sean McBride

Alex -- for how long can our current spy satellite technology survey a given area? - Sean McBride

One could easily debunk crop circles with a single video: record a group of human beings replicating one of the more complex patterns within a set period of time. Is the video out there? - Sean McBride

I don't have any solid opinion about crop circles (they are intriguing to me, too), but if someone is sending messages, why not just write something like "u r all going to die lol" instead of mysterious symbols. - Jemm

Perhaps they simply enjoy playing games. - Sean McBride

there are "Crop circle experts"?!? - William Harryman

and UFO experts and psychic surgery experts and flat Earth experts... - Joe Silence is not dead

RefD -- any pointers to the debunkings? A simple video would do the trick. - Sean McBride

i haven't bothered with this twaddle in about 15 years, so my best guess is try Google. - Joe Silence is not dead

Amazingly complex crop circles can be made with a board a piece of rope and a ball of twine. The guys that do it have their own website: http://www.circlemakers.org/ - Robert Hafer

I already checked Google: I couldn't turn up any definitive debunkings, like the video I mentioned. - Sean McBride

sorry, CBFed to work at this. i do like some of these as works of art, however. - Joe Silence is not dead

Sean, for long enough to take one shot. Physics prevents the satellites from fixing on one spot on the earth for more than a split second. The energy that it would require to rotate the satellite to keep it pointed at one spot on the earth would make the satellite and thus the camera vibrate enough that it would degrade the resolution to the point of uselessness. - Alex Scoble

Alex -- a digression: do you have any pointers to documents on the latest spy satellite technology that a layman could understand? I imagine there must be considerable R&D dedicated towards monitoring regions from above for extended periods of time. Drones could probably perform a similar function on a smaller scale. - Sean McBride

As art, some of them are stunning. - Sean McBride

Solid debunking pointer, Robert. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... (It's usually best to go to Wikipedia first, and Google second.) - Sean McBride

No, I don't, but you can read up on the technology used for the Hubble and extrapolate from there, since from what I understand it's quite similar. - Alex Scoble

I would submit that nobody outside of the government or manufacturers or satellites used by our spy agencies can make any accurate claims as to their capabilities. And, I doubt they will be talking about it :) - jcunwired

Physics is physics, JC... - Alex Scoble

Alex: this info is ten years old: "Private analysts believe that a new generation of spy satellites planned by the U.S. government's secretive National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) will consist of smaller, more numerous satellites than the current generation of "spies in the sky." ... According to John E. Pike, space policy director at the private Federation of American Scientists, the... more... - Sean McBride

Haha, crop circle expert. That's rich! - Jon Anderson

Riiiight Alex. - jcunwired

Notice how "real time" is in quotes. - Alex Scoble

Ok -- Googling "real-time battle surveillance" will get one directly into the latest developments on overhead video spy technology -- a hot topic. According to John Pike (a respectable authority), some of it is satellite-based. UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) are the most mentioned technology. - Sean McBride

Alex -- I'm fairly certain that "real-time" means real-time literally. Browse around. ("Real-time battle surveillance" is in quotes, not "real-time" -- just looked back.) - Sean McBride

Who? Groups of people who want to make something cool. How? Rope, planks of wood, GPS, adn laptops to work around GPS randomness. (Take three or more GPS inputs, bung details into spreadsheet, get much more accurate results, start flattening corn according to The Grand Plan.) Why? To make something cool. Imagine spending all night being part of making something like this, and then seeing it all over the papers - cool :) - Andy Bold

UAVs in the form of blimps are being tested right now for real-time surveillance. - Aaron deMello

Aaron -- wouldn't a high priority be placed on making these craft as inconspicuous and invisible as possible? When I think blimp, I think of a large visible slow or stationary object that is easy to sight and shoot down. Perhaps these are special blimps. - Sean McBride

Blimps are being considered because they are slow and can linger over a target. Being UAV, it's OK if they are shot down. - Robert Hafer

Good luck in finding a farmer to let you crush his crops out of the goodness of his heart. There must have been compensation paid to him at some point if your looking for clues, or else the culprits would be facing some vandalism charges. Farmers don't react favorably to damaging their hard work. - Robert Kenney

Well, if all the crop circles are human-made, it's a tribute to the wonderfully eccentric imagination of the Brits. Who else would expend so much effort in creating sometimes spectacular environmental art without needing personal recogniton. - Sean McBride

Sean McBride

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : 40 National Orgs. Tell Congress, "Freeze Military Aid to Israel Until Israel Freezes Settlements" - http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article...

June 16 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Wow. - Aaron deMello

Long overdue. - Cole Jolley

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Like unto others as you would like to be liked unto you.

June 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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Awkward! - Aaron deMello

You are right Aaron. Is there a better way of saying it? - Todd Hoff

"Like unto others as you yourself would like to be liked" ? - Todd Hoff

Sean McBride

@aarondemello What is the best wine you've ever tasted?

June 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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Probably the 2003 Romanée St. Vivant, from Domaine de la Romanée Conti. Close followups were the 2001 and 2003 Clos de Bèze from Armand Rousseau. I like my wines younger, I could list some older stuff that I've enjoyed but the above three are my faves. - Aaron deMello

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Ouch -- a mere $800 or so for a bottle of your fave? - Sean McBride

The crime is that the wine is grossly underpriced today. Not saying that I'm a buyer in this economic climate, but the 2003 DRCs, to me, are among the greatest wines ever made and represent tremendous drinking and long-term (15-20 year) investment value. Having said that, my very most favorite wines in terms of drinking pleasure with no guilt, are the magical zinfandels made my Mike Officer at Carlisle Winery in the Russian River. He's a real-deal modern-day American wine genius, an ex-programmer. - Aaron deMello

At under $50 a bottle, Mike's zinfandel creation may be doable. - Sean McBride

Truly astonishing wines, all that is great about America and its one truly unique varietal in a bottle of wine. Massive, powerful, audacious yet balanced, and eminently enjoyable. People forget the agricultural richness of California, I love the place! Especially with Conan running shit over there. LOL. - Aaron deMello

Aaron -- you should be doing Orson Welles-style commercials for Mike's product. :) - Sean McBride

LOL, he makes too little wine to warrant me drunkenly slurring on YouTube to shill his wares. - Aaron deMello

1970 Chateau Margaux - jcunwired

M Coz Meritage from Cosentino Wineries. - Alex Scoble

Baron Philippe de Rothschild Cabernet Sauvignon - Shevonne

Sean McBride

Official Google Research Blog: Large-scale graph computing at Google (Pregel) - http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009...

June 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"If you squint the right way, you will notice that graphs are everywhere. For example, social networks, popularized by Web 2.0, are graphs that describe relationships among people. Transportation routes create a graph of physical connections among geographical locations. Paths of disease outbreaks form a graph, as do games among soccer teams, computer network topologies, and citations among scientific papers. Perhaps the most pervasive graph is the web itself, where documents are vertices and links are edges. Mining the web has become an important branch of information technology, and at least one major Internet company has been founded upon this graph." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

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Time to build the graph of all graphs -- the graph which integrates all other graphs. - Sean McBride

That's practically the web you're describing. Too bad the IP zealots don't believe in linking everything together, which was TBL's original vision of the web. Now what we actually have is a million stand alone webs. - Aaron deMello

Aaron: 1. I grabbed the link from your Twitter feed. 2. I've been squinting at the world this way for quite some time. 3. Now it's time to reknit together in a GGG (Giant Global Graph) what has been splintered. 4. Semantic science, the science of sciences, is the way to go. - Sean McBride

Agree on all counts. The GoogleGods are way ahead in this race. Its all so obvious when you look back. TBL "invents" the web. The web is a graph. The graph needs to be indexed. There is no index in TBL's vision. Enter Google. - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

Semantic science: the science of how everything in the universe is connected.

June 16 - Comment - Like - Share

I like it, but I would say the meaning of why everything is connected. Or "how" everything is connected explains "why" they are connected i.e. the links themselves are the reasoning. - Aaron deMello

When I think "why," I tend to think of ultimate why, which we will probably never know -- there are always levels of reality just beyond our grasp that are influencing (or totally controlling) our current understanding of reality. But I see what you mean. "Why" within our current best understanding of the symbol systems which describe reality as we know it so far. - Sean McBride

Yes, why as in what the decision was behind the connection. For the semantic interpretation to be effective, the decision to link two distinct entities needs to be self-evident by the link itself. - Aaron deMello

Austin Hill

@Akoha team saved a cat hit by a car today at our offsite. Team project is going to be finding owner, home or humane way to help

June 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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This is really amazing! - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

The latest bin Laden tape sounds like yet another fake -- he has almost certainly been dead for years. So: who would be motivated to create these fake tapes and to promote a "long war" between the United States and Islam?

June 4 - Comment - Like - Share

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The phrase "long war" is straight from the neoconservative propaganda handbook. - Sean McBride

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I was watching a movie the other day in which the protagonist says: If it makes sense, it's fabricated. The timing of these 'tapes', 'announcements' - and they're so pathetic, transparent and self-defeating - has always been suspicious. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

If the bin Laden tapes are fake, as they strongly appear to be, then one must inevitably ask what other events associated with this entire propaganda campaign and psychological op are also fake. - Sean McBride

In all probability, no one will find out. What I'm interested in is - what is the underlying agenda ? - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

Well, neoconservatives shout their agenda to the heavens -- that is hardly a well-kept secret. :) They march in lockstep with Likud Greater Israelists. I do think that many of the true facts concerning 9/11 will begin to leak and tumble out at the some point -- there is tremendous pressure just beneath the surface of public discourse to push the truth out. The event was much too large and consequential to consign to a memory hole. - Sean McBride

Well, the military-industrial complex has profited to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars. There is one non-ideological and non-religious motive in play -- war profiteering. One should look for links between the MIC and neocon outfits like AEI and JINSA. - Sean McBride

Or maybe we're wrong, and there's no _one_ person or organization behind this whole thing. Maybe it was just an opportunity many parties exploited for their own ends, causing more chaos in turn. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

In the old days, mysteries remained unsolved for lack of information. Today, we have too much information; I doubt if anyone can sift through what is real and what is not. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

If you're trying to identify the culprits behind this entire op, the first best place to look: those who were the ringleaders in exploiting it. - Sean McBride

Who makes the tapes? The Talibani version of the Jerky Boys. - Aaron deMello

I still don't see any proof here of how you can call anything a fake except for your assumption that it is. Maybe sometimes a horse is a horse or, more appropriate, an ass is an ass. Bin Ladin wants/wanted attention, so if he is alive, and I see no proof he is not, he is attention mongering ass. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

Aaron -- ha! Probably too close to the truth. I don't know any serious person who takes these tapes seriously. - Sean McBride

Ahsan -- quite a few very bright people have tried to sift through all the data on 9/11 in a strictly logical way. For instance, take a look at the work of David Ray Griffin (search Amazon.com). We don't have all or most of the answers, but many false assertions have been thoroughly debunked. A leading member of 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, recently dismissed the proceedings of the Commission as mostly a pile of malarkey -- which was obvious to many of us from the get-go. - Sean McBride

Aaron deMello

Judge Tosses Telecom Spy Suits http://www.wired.com/threatl... for participation in once-secret electronic eavesdropping program.

June 3 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker upheld summer legislation protecting the companies from the lawsuits. The legislation, which then-Sen. Barack Obama voted for, also granted the government the authority to monitor American’s telecommunications without warrants if the subject was communicating with somebody overseas suspected of terrorism. - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

The Coming Superbrain (The Future of Artificial Intelligence) - NYTimes.com (John Markoff) - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

May 23 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"In Dr. Kurzweil’s telling, rapidly increasing computing power in concert with cyborg humans would then reach a point when machine intelligence not only surpassed human intelligence but took over the process of technological invention, with unpredictable consequences. Profiled in the documentary “Transcendent Man,” which had its premier last month at the TriBeCa Film Festival, and with his own Singularity movie due later this year, Dr. Kurzweil has become a one-man marketing machine for the concept of post-humanism. He is the co-founder of Singularity University, a school supported by Google that will open in June with a grand goal — to “assemble, educate and inspire a cadre of leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies and apply, focus and guide these tools to address humanity’s grand challenges.”" - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

Funny, I just posted this on FB. Largely a fluff piece but its good for the general population to read this stuff. - Aaron deMello

AI for the masses. - Sean McBride

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Wolfram Alpha Approaches 100 Million Queries - http://mashable.com/2009...

May 23 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

98% of which returned no result. "Does not compute, Dave!" - Aaron deMello

True that. But my enthusiasm remains undiminished -- I see the potential; I see where this is going. - Sean McBride

LOL. I just like to make jokes. It needs a lot of work, but its an amazing start for a specific type of computational reasoning. Its going to be wrong 100x more than right, but we (they) will learn a lot along the way. - Aaron deMello

Charlie Anzman

No doubt, this is gonna be interesting

May 9 - Comment - Like - Share

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I keep hearing that, but why? Isn't it just another search engine? I'll admit that I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to it, but that's what it looks like. - Derek Coward

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Derek - It launches in abt a week and is expected to be very different than Google ... and not an out-of-the-box fail (ugh ... Cuil :). Numerous reviews around the web by people that saw the preview. Most thought it was pretty interesting. With all due respect to the founder, they could have picked a better name ?? - Charlie Anzman

Like HAL. - DGentry

The live countdown is on! http://blog.wolframalpha.com/2009... - Charlie Anzman

Derek -- it's much more than just another search engine -- it's a computational knowledge engine, for real. It has a long way to go to fulfill it's full potential, but Stephen Wolfram has established an important beachhead. - Sean McBride

watching and commenting: http://ff.im/2W4Zp - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Since nobody's seen it yet, I wouldn't get too excited. What they are trying to do is difficult not only technically, but from a social sciences standpoint. I'm not so sure people search to find computationally-generatable results. - Aaron deMello

Actually Aaron - People are seeing it and commenting here and on Twitter #Wolfram - Charlie Anzman

Just trying to save humanity from Skynet, Charlie. - Aaron deMello

So far, seeing some not-so-good comments around the 'sphere'. We'll see. BTW .. The URL to test is http://www.wolfram-alpha.com/input... - Charlie Anzman

Wolfram is an industry & academic tool, so all those Googlers will be pretty at a loss. But that's fine. I can see myself using this every day for work. - CannonGod

Oh great, just what we need. Demons and vampires battling all over the place. - Slappy Line

For scientists it's going to be immensely useful; I can see myself using it daily instead of getting frustrated with Google. For the average Googler, less so. - Sally Church

With all due respect to Wolfram and his team ... I keep saying Wolfman . - Charlie Anzman

I haven't heard too many details about it, but I know people are excited. What makes it so fantastic? - Adriana

Best thing to do is go there. It's different. Not apparently meant to be a Google killer and has a way to go but interesting. Not an out-of-the-box FAIL like Cuil was (and still is) http://www.wolframalpha.com/ - Charlie Anzman

Google is aimed at finding websites - this is aimed at finding information. Very different. People judge all search engines in comparison to not only google but their habits built around google. New search engines tend to be disliked because people are familiar with the behavior of google, even when the behavior is inadequate. Inadequacies in the system become things we expect, because... more... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

We all have been googlized. - ashish

I wanted to like it but I haven't found much use to it on a daily basis. - Manuel Mas

MG Siegler

Facebook’s Valuation Heading North Again. Up To $10 Billion Now. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...

May 22 from TechCrunch - Comment - Like - Share

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Facebook has no valuation until they 1) get acquired or 2) go public - Cristo

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$10 Billion?? - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Isn't this a little absurd? Have they even made any money yet? - Kevin Whalen

Kevin - no, but I heard they saved a ton of money on car insurance by switching to Geico - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

You remember what Bebo's valuation was right? $800 million, because that's what AOL acquired them for. - Cristo

Jeff - Or was it that they stayed at a Holiday Inn last night? - Kevin Whalen

Stuff like this makes me sure that bubble 2.0 is closer than we think. - AJ Kohn

+1 AJ - Kevin Whalen

++AJ - Cristo

Kevin, Facecbook is running at $500M+ per year with a 100% annual growth rate with very meager attempts at monetization. Not something to sniff at. - Aaron deMello

Considering that the market for the humble hot dog just jumped to reports of +$2B in the wake of the SaraLee/Kraft lawsuit -- ask yourself how many hot dogs you throw down your pie hole in a year. Now consider what you paid for them. Now ask youself how many times a week you interact with Facebook in some way. Sure, some people don't eat meat and some people don't do the Facebook thing. But speaking generally, that $5 for a wiener gets pried from your pockets at least a few times a year. - Jay Cuthrell

Creative financing for sure - totally bloated numbers ... - Susan Beebe

Mmmm bloated on hot dogs... - Jay Cuthrell

Sean McBride

I.B.M. Unveils Software to Find Trends in Vast Data Sets - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...

May 21 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"New software from I.B.M. can suck up huge volumes of data from many sources and quickly identify correlations within it. The company says it expects the software to be useful in analyzing finance, health care and even space weather." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

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"“For us, there is no chance in the world that you can think about storing data and analyzing it tomorrow,” Mr. Thidé said. “There is no tomorrow. We need a smart system that can give you hints about what is happening out there right now.”" - Sean McBride

Gonna be super huge -- no end of the possibilities and uses. - Sean McBride

"Instead of creating separate large databases to track things like currency movements, stock trading patterns and housing data, the System S software can meld all of that information together. In addition, it could theoretically then layer on databases that tracked current events, like news headlines on the Internet or weather fluctuations, to try to gauge how such factors interplay with the financial data." - Sean McBride

Guessing the NSA will be looking them up in the morning. - Dave Hodson

Big Blue is expecting their stream computing initiative to be their next multi-billion dollar segment. Viz is a great way to sell it. - Aaron deMello

Every major corporation and government agency on the planet might be interested in tapping into this service. Potentially a stupendous business opportunity. - Sean McBride

This is awesome, too bad it's already out there and called Microsoft Analysis Services. - xero

xero -- how do System S and MAS match up featurewise? - Sean McBride

Microsoft Analysis Services is just an OLAP service. Systems S is hardcore stream processing / complex event processing for massive quantities of data in real time... it collapses the mining paradigm and overlays it on stream processing. For similar platforms check out StreamBase. The hard core nerds should join the Complex Event Processing group on LInkedIn. - Aaron deMello

Great info, Aaron. - Sean McBride

Didn't realize it was doing it on the stream as it came across, that's pretty awesome. - xero

Todd Hoff

It seems I'm not supposed to buy a new fridge from MAYTAG/AMANA/WHIRLPOOL or JENN-AIR because they have little bitty compressors and sucky service. So what refrigerator should I buy?

May 17 - Comment - Like - Share

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We have an older Amana which has worked fine, but apparently the new ones have smaller compressors which seem to break and then it's over. I was wondering if there's some other awesome fridge I just don't know about. - Todd Hoff

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Refrigerators have followed the same path as cars. A "high tech" fridge is one with lots of junk added like TVs, remote control, writing pads etc. Cars became high tech if they had an ipod dock. When I think high tech I think innovation in basic technology, not silly appendages. - Todd Hoff

I like my GE Profile - Aaron deMello

sub zero even if its from craigslist or ebay. They still serviced mine free after 10 years - Mrsth

Kitchenaid/Friggidaire? - Alex Scoble

I've got my eye on Costco's kitchenaid side by side stainless with water/ ice dispenser for about $1k - Mrsth

Sean McBride

Washington Watch: Ex-AIPACer: There is no military option in Iran | Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com/servlet...

May 20 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

"There is no viable military option for dealing the Iranian nuclear threat, and efforts by the Israeli government and its supporters to link that threat to progress in peace with the Palestinians and Syria are "nonsense" and an obstacle to the Arab-Israeli and international cooperation essential to changing Iranian behavior. That's the conclusion of Keith Weissman, the Iran expert formerly at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), speaking publicly for the first time since the government dropped espionage charges against him and his colleague, Steve Rosen, earlier this month." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

The mind boggles at the possibilities: trading a US-Israel "solution" to the Iran nuclear threat for a two-state permanent solution for Palestine backed by Saudi, Jordan, Egypt, Syria. Basically everyone except Iran. - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

Yahoo Placemaker: Extract Location Data from Any Text - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...

May 20 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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ReadWriteWeb rocks, I say, it rocks. It has its finger on the pulse of the most strategic tech trends. - Sean McBride

I'm ashamed I don't have them in my feed. WIll fix that today. - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

Searching for answers, Microsoft set to intro "Kumo" search engine : Scientific American Blog - http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog...

May 20 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

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"In the market for yet another way to navigate cyberspace? Just days after physicist Stephan Wolfram took his Wolfram|Alpha "computational knowledge engine" live, word is that Microsoft next week will debut a revamped version of its flagging Live.com search engine, the No. 3 Web navigator behind Google and Yahoo. Microsoft will take the wraps off of "Kumo"—the codename of its new, improved search engine—at the D: All Things Digital technology conference next week in Carlsbad, Calif., the Wall Street Journal reports. (Here's a low-res image of the new search engine, that CNET ran and reports was captured by someone who stumbled across it online while using Microsoft Live Search in the Internet Explorer 8 browser. It looks very different than the Live.com search results page pictured to the left.)" - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

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Is this based on PowerSet? - Aaron deMello

Yes. - Sean McBride

Impressive turnaround time for MSFT with that acquisition. Good for them! - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

Clinton calls on Israel to halt 'any kind' of settlement activity - http://www.haaretz.com/hasen...

May 20 from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share

"U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a hard line against settlement construction in the territories Wednesday, including a call to freeze building for natural growth. Her statement came in contrast to the general terms U.S. President Barack Obama expressed about the issue to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the week. ..." - Sean McBride

I'd like to see mommy reinforce that by cutting off their allowance. - Aaron deMello

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Governments "contracting out" cyber-attacks to criminal networks - http://www.itbusiness.ca/it...

May 21 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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Mercenary botnets are the future of cyberwar... inherently unattributable, I see lots of Agency dollars flowing into China, Russia, and Eastern Europe for stuff like this. - Aaron deMello

Sean McBride

#nml[The Bourne Ultimatum /2007 /IMDB-rating 8.2/10 /200905]

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Or: #nml:rating[The Bourne Ultimatum /movie; 2007; IMDB; 8.3/10; 200905] - Sean McBride

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#nml:rating[*rateditem /**category; *rateditemdate; *rater; *rating; *ratingdate] NML default format for ratings. Tags with double asterisks are optional. - Sean McBride

#nml[The Bourne Ultimatum /2007 /Netflix-rating 4.3/5 /200905] - Sean McBride

What are you doing here? - Aaron deMello

Feeling out the best simple markup conventions for describing movies (or anything). - Sean McBride

Here's mine based on the hreview micro format: #hreview: Rating: 4 Summary: Parish Publick House haz good beer and good food. Reviewer: self Visit Date: March 28, 2009 org: Parish Publick House Food Eaten: beer, onion rings, bacon burger Address: Santa Cruz Description: more text - Todd Hoff

Aaah... got it. Semantically describing movies is about as hard as getting a robot to reason with a naughty child. That kind of heavy lifting I'll save for after the Singularity. - Aaron deMello

Aaron -- I keep sensing that semantic markup is on the verge of crystallizing in a natural, organic, universal and ubiquitous way, but I may be delusional. :) It's in the air.... - Sean McBride

Spring does crazy things to people! Its going to take the world a generation to mark up content, but I do think that if they start with the tough ones - music and movies - the rest will be a lot easier (textbooks, non-fiction, fiction, etc.) - Aaron deMello

Travel guides would be a nice easy one to start with. - Aaron deMello

Todd -- is that #hreview format machine-readable and machine-parsable from within a Friendfeed comment? - Sean McBride

I think I could parse it Sean. The #hreview: would index into a required and optional keyword list. The keyword syntax is keyword: The value is whatever is between keywords. That's easy to splat into an associative array. I would try not terminating it explicitly and just read ahead a little to see if there where any keywords found. I selected this approach because it's natural for the user, but harder to parse. Embeddable widgets would be better: http://ff.im/2NHhP - Todd Hoff

Todd -- this is how I would mark up your review: #nml:review[/restaurant Parish Publick House /rating 4 /review haz good beer and good food /reviewer self /visit-date March 28, 2009 /address Santa Cruz /food-eaten beer, onion ring, bacon burger /description *description] Slot name/value pairs can be placed in any order. I find this a bit easier for human beings to read/parse -- the... more... - Sean McBride

To me Sean it looks like it's markup and that's what I'm trying to avoid. The least structure possible while still being parsable. - Todd Hoff

I like to be able to easily and clearly identify formal semantic objects embedded in plain and natural text, without the markup being too noisy or verbose. There is room for many semantic approaches that can intermingle -- it is a trivial matter to translate or convert most formal semantic markup schemes to most others, once one unambiguously articulates the conventions and rules. - Sean McBride

Todd -- I really like the direction you are going here: http://friendfeed.com/toddh... I think there is going to be a huge future in developing tools for supporting the on-the-fly creation of formal semantic statements on social media platforms like Friendfeed. Twitter hashtags are the first primitive stirrings along that front -- there is a long way to go. - Sean McBride

"The least structure possible while still being parsable" -- a worthy goal. - Sean McBride

From what I can tell Sean there's nothing that allows this yet. I took a look at greasemonkey but I became more confused the more I looked :-) Hopefully there's someone smarter out there. Microformats as a layer above the client would be useful. - Todd Hoff

You're psychically channeling something which doesn't exit yet but which is on the verge of physically manifesting. :) - Sean McBride

Sean, I asked this before I believe, but why not just count on natural language parsing? There are many ambiguous sentence out, but the aggregate will probably be able to make sense of. There must be countless of occurrences of a pattern like "[actor name], who also stars in [movie name]" inside reviews. All these kind of little phrases (and the mass occurrence of certain ones) can be used to help estimate the fact that this is an important semantic relationship. - Meryn Stol

I also mentioned this before, but have you have studied "Controlled English" or "Controlled Natural Language" in general? I really don't care for "computer-speak". I'd rather use a subset of English. - Meryn Stol

Meryn -- have you studied natural language processing issues in depth? It is an enormously difficult problem, one which we have barely scratched the surface of solving after decades of intensive research and the expenditure of many millions of dollars. Someday the nut will be cracked. In the meantime, simple semantic markup provides quick and easy shortcuts for pushing along the development of the Semantic Web. - Sean McBride

Meryn: how many accurate semantic statements can you extract from this article using state-of-the-art NLP sofware vs. your human mind? "The Echo Nest Teams Up With Spotify" http://sev.prnewswire.com/music... - Sean McBride

Meryn we could all switch to Loglan, but I agree with Sean, it's very difficult to extract deep data from text. Even when I write something as simple as a movie review and try to envision how I would parse the semantics and we are a long ways a way. So we need signs and portents. - Todd Hoff

Sean, controlled english does too. That's my point. And applying heuristics (for example: regular expressions) to normal text databases does too. I'd rather crowdsource the heuristics than crowdsource all the facts. - Meryn Stol

Signs and portents; clues and cues.Standardized markup. - Sean McBride

" Spotify, the music streaming service, " suppose this phrase occurs many times over the web, this probably indicates some sort of relationships.... Amazon has some kind of algorithm running on books discovering "statistically unlikely phrases"... These kind of algorithms I'm talking about. - Meryn Stol

Point is, I'm having the idea of crowdsourcing heuristics in mind... And I think that will beat crowdsourcing facts. I'm not talking about strong AI. - Meryn Stol

Could you give an example Meryn? - Todd Hoff

Well, there's no running example I know of, but it's mainly answering Sean's question: "ow many accurate semantic statements can you extract from this article" or "this group of articles". At this moment, I'm not even sure what kind of relationships I'm looking for, but suppose the challenge is to "mine" employment information. We see "Jim Lucchese, CEO of The Echo Nest" and "Andreas... more... - Meryn Stol

Those rules I thought up just now could be crowdsourced. Anyone with a bit of regex knowledge can participate and test their queries on live data. People could rate queries, compare queries which purport to do the same things (which is more accurate, or faster?), etc. - Meryn Stol

The problem is regexes can only handle context free grammars. For a human to write only in a regular language would be difficult. - Todd Hoff

I didn't say it's possible to extract any knowledge using regexes, but I think that for most triples a human can come up with (it's kind of artificial to think this way anyway) there is a way to think up a regular expression (or other kind of parsing code, regexes are quite limited with what you could do compared to a full parser) that can get this data from a *percentage* of relevant... more... - Meryn Stol

Meryn: I was able to quickly extract 15 semantic statements from the article (among many, many more). "/c" is an abbreviation for "/category": {1. Argos Management /c The Echo Nest investor 2. Commonwealth Capital Ventures /c The Echo Nest investor 3. San Francisco Music Tech Summit /2009 /attendee Spotify 4. San Francisco Music Tech Summit /2009 /attendee The Echo Nest 5. Spotify /c... more... - Sean McBride

#nml:movie[The Bourne Ultimatum; 2007 /IMDB-rating 8.2/10 /200905] - Sean McBride

8.2/10? What does that even mean? :) - Nathan Chase

Sean, I don't know. But if you try to describe the "heuristic" you have applied to extract this data, software might be able to do it. One thing I think you should understand is that it's not necessary to be able to extract knowledge from any page: There's so much written on the web that you can mine data where it's easy. Something ambiguously "encoded" in one article, can be written down very explicitly in another. - Meryn Stol

Meryn -- if there existed a piece of software that could extract in a consistent and reliable way substantial semantic facts from this natural language text, or any other natural language text, don't you think we would have all heard of it? It would be an enormously valuable product. The truth is, doing this kind of thing involves incredible complexity -- some of the best minds on the... more... - Sean McBride

Sean, I asked *you* to provide the heuristics, the algorithms you used, or better said, you would *say* you used, because you probably didn't. But people tend to rationalize their choices afterwards. If you can explain for each item you extracted why you did so, some of these explanations might be translatable (by a human!) to a small computer program. You can put that as a module into... more... - Meryn Stol

For an example of a (half-baked) algorithm, check my comment directly after Todd asked me for an example. - Meryn Stol

Again, I want to be clear that it does not have to be a goal to extract all possible facts from one piece of content. It's better to extract the facts where it's the easiest. For some of the facts listed, there might be tens, hundreds or even thousands of sources to derive it from. - Meryn Stol

Meryn -- run this text through whatever semantic analyzer you have at hand, and please post the output. Thanks. - Sean McBride

Nathan -- 8.2 of 10 points means that many IMDb users think that The Bourne Ultimatum is an exceptionally strong movie. - Sean McBride

I don't have any semantic analyzer at hand. Just read what I say, carefully. You're a pretty smart guy, I think you'll understand. - Meryn Stol

Also, if you don't know what crowdsourcing is, please look it up. Otherwise you really don't know what I'm suggesting. - Meryn Stol

Meryn -- when you ask me (or anyone) to explain the heuristics and cognitive processes by which they extract semantic meaning from natural language texts, you are addressing perhaps the most difficult problem in linguistics, artificial intelligence and natural language understanding. So far no one has been able to figure these processes out in a definitive way. Many of these mental operations appear to be unconscious -- not accessible to the conscious mind. - Sean McBride

Just tell me *why* you chose what you chose. Think about it. Maybe for 9 out of 10 facts your answer in the end is still: "I really don't have a clue why I chosen that", well, then this is not useful. Maybe 1 out of 10 results in a usable heuristic. I propose a heuristic in this thread, the "A, B of C"-pattern, with some constraints on what A, B and C can represent. Read back. :) - Meryn Stol

Meryn -- show me the code! Show me the output! :) Everything else on this topic is jibberjabber. - Sean McBride

Sean, I don't think that really does justice to what I wrote in my comments. I'll leave it at that I think... - Meryn Stol

Meryn -- I am simply requesting an example of a piece of software that can extract some semantic content from this text (or any other natural language text). It seems like a reasonable request to me. - Sean McBride

Sean, I don't know if you know, but countless of "vertical" search engines do this very thing, to index properties of products for example. That's the beauty of vertical search: They use specialized code for the problem domain. That's totally different than domain-generic code. Also, what's the upcoming Google Squared, which goes a step further because I think it's domain generic. - Meryn Stol

Oh and this is just in the news: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - Meryn Stol

Meryn -- give me an example of a specific vertical search engine that will extract semantic content from this text, along with the output. The Yahoo Placemaker project looks promising, but that kind of semantic processing represents only a minuscule percentage of the cognitive activities in play when understanding natural language texts. - Sean McBride

Sean, I'm not talking about "understanding natural language texts". Why do you think a computer needs to understand natural language to build up huge numbers of *correct* triples? It doesn't have to understand a thing! Read back. - Meryn Stol

Most of the text can remain totally opaque to the computer. As long as the computer can recognize *some* data, it's enough. In fact, it doesn't matter if the computer can't read one bit of one or thousands of articles at all: It just won't just *those* specific articles. It just goes on with the next, and looks for some easily parseable stuff there. - Meryn Stol

Wow. Much ado about nothing. The best example is Google's use of brute-force pattern matching to translate text into various languages. There is no reason to have sophisticated AI, because for pure information, that is context-less data, we can communicate in a simplified language consistently. This to me is the real problem. Vernacular, slang, and casual phrases have all slipped even into scientific papers. - Aaron deMello

The challenge then becomes disambiguation, which I think will be solved long before any of the much harder problems in NLP & AI. - Aaron deMello

If you guys haven't seen it, dig up the paper on how Google Translate works. Its breathtaking in its scale, and with scale came simplicity. - Aaron deMello

Another assay at this: #nml:movierating[/movie The Bourne Ultimatum /moviedate 2007 /rater IMDB /rating 8.2 of 10 /ratingdate 200905] - Sean McBride

Robert Scoble

How do you get credibility with me? Point me to the best sushi restaurant I have ever been to. Rob Shore. You are the man!

May 20 - Comment - Like - Share

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OK, so go have an Italian breakfast tomorrow :D - jcunwired

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Are you a traditional or sushi nouveau lover? In the latter case, you gotta try O Ya and Uni next time you are in Boston. - Simeon Simeonov

I kinda dug Hana Zen. :/ - Sean Oliver

1) Teppay, Houston TX.http://www.igougo.com/dining-... - Neil Simon

2) Matsuhisa, Beverly Hills, CA. http://matsuhisa.com - Neil Simon

Great! My wife loves sushi and she's in NY this week; I'll let her know about Yasuda. - Andrés David Aparicio

Robert: if you ever find yourself in Rochester, NY, well--we can't compete to SF sushi, but I promise you the best sushi in Rochester--my treat. House of Sushi- 101 East street. - Larry Roth

One of the tiny, tiny, tiny restaurant/cafe's in Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. Hands down the best you will ever eat. A father owns one, and his son runs the one next door. A matter of taste as to which one is the best. - Jordan Brock

So you have been to all of the best sushi restaurants in the country? and you want us to match our list with your list? why don't you share which ones you feel are the best? - Bobby Kircher

I'm not sure there is anything but "the best you will ever eat" in Tokyo. Every place I ever went to was incredible, and the smallest of them were usually the very best. - jcunwired

@Bobby: Robert is talking about a previous post where he asked for restaurant options in NY and Rob Shore suggested a great one. - Andrés David Aparicio

Been to Nishino in Seattle? - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Yasuda is awesome. saw Martha Stewart there the night before she went into lockdown. Also right across the street, down in the basement of the building is a place called Sakagura. Not so much sushi, but great little Japanese plates, and a really large sake selection... In SF, try Ryoko's. Sit at the bar and order from the special board. I haven't found much better in the city. - John Stanford

Jeff: yes, doesn't compare. - Robert Scoble

@Larry I would assert that Edoya on Buffalo Road in Rochester is better than Golden Port/House of Sushi... Also, if you are in SF, Hama-ko (108 Carl St) is fantastic. - matthew john ernisse

Well I am in Tokyo this week, so I am rocking good Sushi left and right :). - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Amura in Orlando FL, Vizen in Sarasota FL -- my two favorite sushi joints. - Jonathan Brown

In New York: Yasuda, Sasabune, Masa (if you want to drop big paper). Those are the very best on the East Coast, each with their own quirks. - Aaron deMello

No. Next time you are in San Diego (the ONLY place to be, btw... don't know why the hell I'm in Jersey), go to Sushi Ota in Pacific Beach --> http://www.yelp.com/biz... - Pete

*jealous of Jeff* - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF

fuku sushi, newmarket, auckland is pretty good, but it is really just a cafe, not a "restaurant", for a sushi bar, try tanuki's cave, downtown auckland - Paul Tudor

paul - fukme Sushi ? ;) - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

wow. Google indexed this pretty quick. I typed "rob shore sushi" and this was the top link - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

The one mentioned above in LA is good but only by local standards. Tokyo's fish market is a famous tourist attraction, but the highest quality fish never goes there. Kyubei, most regards as best in tokyo tries too hard too scale - they use too much formulas and source that defeat the real purpose of sushi: Freshness and raw skill. Kenjo in Hong Kong is by far the winner with a huge margin. (disclosure: master kenjo didn't charge me for one of the meals last time I left HK.) - Tim Lai

robert, posts from a fishmarket in Japan? you need to expand your venue ;) - bob phillips

yeah Jeff, don't you just love that name???, the owner does not speak english that well, so the irony is lost on him - Paul Tudor

Jeff, you thinking of holding up a sushi restaurant on the beach? :) - jcunwired

if your that much of an aficionado, the mecca for sushi lovers is the Tsukiji market. After that, you can head over to Kobe for some Matsusakaya steak (after a brief stopover at Akihabara to oogle the latest Japanese tech toys) - Serge

Blue Ribbon has excellent Sushi in NY - Bill Zaccardi

@TimLai where in HK is kenjo? thats quite a statement, now you've got me curious and I would like to try next time i'm over there ;) - Serge

drunken shrimp in a chinese restaurant in tokyo. pyrex bowl of sake. shrimp dance. chops head . get the gaijin presentation. - bob phillips

For sushi, visit us in Tokyo. Go to Sukiyabashi Jiro in Ginza or Roppongi. There is no better. - Eric Hamilton

I've been to the fish market. Maybe it was too early for my brain, but it was good, but not amazing - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

The best sushi restaurant is here in Hawaii; it's Sansei Restaurant, there is 1 here on the Big Island and 1 on Oahu. - Sandra

Try Wasabi's, State St., Charleson, SC - LeighaB

Robert:if you dont like this one I pay you the trip :-)) http://www.bellagio.com/restaur... - Johni Fisher

I'm partial to Shiro's in Seattle (http://www.shiros.com/). おまかせ - Hiro Asari

Robert, Enjoy your time in the Big Apple! If you come to Gothenburg, Sweden, visit Sushibiten. My favorite in USA: Arang in Troy, Ohio. - Martin Lindeskog

@Serge 30 Miden Ave (cross road Mody Road), Ground Floor, Tsim Sha Tsui, HK tel:2369-8307 - Tim Lai

www.sushiofgari.com in NY. Am surprised no one has mentioned it. Above the rest. - William Mougayar

Been away and just saw this - so glad you enjoyed it! - Rob Shore

Todd Hoff

"If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers." --- Joseph Wood Krutch

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Sigh. - Ladybug Heather

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A developer wants to build a house in the woods, an environmentalist already HAS a house in the woods. --Dennis Miller - Matthew DeVries

Those are always replaceable. And for me the point isn't that development is bad, we certainly need development. The fascinating point is how the two different creations are viewed so differently. I hadn't really thought about it that way before. - Todd Hoff

I'm going to teach my CTO to say that to his underlings when he refuses to commit their code and rewrites it instead. LOL. - Aaron deMello

Wow, your CTO is someone I would not like to work with. That's way outside ethical coding practices. - Todd Hoff

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