Channel 4 here in the UK also showed a documentary about these a few years ago called 'The Caspian Sea Monster', with footage of these flying, no idea if its available anywhere online - Zoe
ghp1989, heu1993, hip1997, hal2001, wth2005, har2009 - igor
"In 1989 a great tradition started with GHP (Galactic Hacker Party), which continued four years later in 1993 with HEU (Hacking at the End of the Universe), HIP (Hacking In Progress) in 1997, HAL (Hacking At large) in 2001 and finally WTH (What The Hack) in 2005. We want to continue this tradition in 2009 with another great outdour hacker event." - Adnan
"I would probably start with a cursory examination of distributed algorithms. Knowing a bit about quorum protocols, byzantine fault-tolerance, etc. will help you to identify the parts of these distributed systems which are implementing these features. Once you can recognize these bits you will be able to do a bit of critical analysis of the designers choice within the possible solution space. As others have mentioned, DHTs are another area to look at. I would suggest you start by understanding the basic canon: Chord, Kademlia, and Pastry. Once you see how these work start poking through citeseer to see papers that reference these works for subtle improvements or solutions to various facets of how and why the basic algorithms can fail. Most of the DHT work can be broadly categorized as being either about storage or communication/coordination. Examine some of the survey papers in the literature (citeseer and google for these) to get a feel for the various characteristics, problem space,..." - Jim McCoy
Well, it certainly was very Joss-like! Loved Nathan's song :) And Felicia you were great. And I've loved the whole thing. But, well, you know....sometimes I don't want Joss to remind me that life is harsh and we're all dust. Just sayin' - WorldofHiglet
Ok, for those who reading this here... THIS MAY BE A LITTLE SPOILERISH ........ That was cruel. I'm a Joss-fan, so I should be used to this, but, it was really, really, really cruel. But congratz on not dropping any clues about the end on all those interviews Felicia! ... and yeah, GREAT job as always! 10 minute standing ovation on ComicCon just may have turned into 1 hour standing ovation... or at least until people's hands are able to applaud. - Dani Figueiredo
And I love you, and Nathan, and Neil... but I'm really not a fan of the Whedon brothers and Maurissa right now. It will pass, and by tomorrow I'll love them again. But right now, I hate them. I really do. *ok, off to watch it again, more crying ahead...* - Dani Figueiredo
Great Job!! To avoid the spoil I'll say it was jaw dropping. - Jack
what a sad, sad, sad ending! :( Great show tho! :) - Alexis Lozano
This was great, Felicia. I can only hope that a high-quality, high-buzz example like this helps to kick off the (IMO inevitable) discovery that it IS possible to make, share, and yet get a return on Net media. (this model not being the only one...let 1000 flowers bloom!) I think Dr. Horrible's "Master Plan" says it well, and I both agree and wish all of you the best. - Ken Kennedy
Such a sad ending, but I enjoyed it greatly! Amazing performances alround. I hope there shall be sequals! - Robert Kloosterhuis via twhirl
I'll get in SO MUCH trouble if I watch this before my wife gets back! (Don't know which if us is the bigger fan...) - Travis Seitler
Still have bits of spork in my leg from the ending. ;) - David Monroe via twhirl
It's been a long time since I saw anything this brilliant and hilarious. I laughed out loud several times. You did a great job! - Tim Hengeveld
Can't wait until it's available for download. This was awesome!!! - JMS
I just bought Dr. Horrible as a season pass on iTunes! Who knew all of you could sing so well? - J. Phil
i loved every moment of this, the ending was amazing. I didn't see any of it coming. - felix
Outstanding. This went from my favorite show of the year, straight to my list of all-time greats. It must feel pretty great to be able to move people so deeply. The thing I love so much about both the performances and the story is that the characters became exactly what they had to, the story developed the only way it could to make sense, and yet it all came as a complete surprise. Wow. It couldn't have worked without you. - XDpaul
“Want to know why the future of FriendFeed is a search engine? Try this search. http://friendfeed.com/search?q... I get more great blog post ideas and find more valuable information from this search than anyplace else on the web today.”
and just you wait until FF begins introducing a "relevancy" filter for searches that sort by "interestingness" (i.e. comments, likes, etc.). Once they come out with their ranking algorithm which correlates time/immediacy with rank (comments/likes) and once more content begins to pool here they will have a search engine more powerful than Google. This is powerful search stuff. - Thomas Hawk
As long as enough people are talking and blogging about photography, it works. Any archivists on FF, or records managers on FF? - David Kemper
That's the thing David. Google will still excel at obscure search. But if you want to see interesting things about Photography or the iPhone or Obama or alcohol or your favorite company or more general search, social filtering will provide a superior experience to Google or Yahoo or MSFT. It's amazing how good search is now at FF and they *are not even using the social metadata yet!* Just you wait until they let their algorithm loose on the world for that. - Thomas Hawk
No doubt FF is going to be a very useful and fruitful search engine. However they still need to improve the speed of indexing. Search results are far behind the latest entries. - atzmon
Now maybe MSFT is actually watching FF. But I don't get the sense that they are. Or Yahoo. But it blows me away that MSFT would pay $100 million for Powerset, a company's whose search technology I've tried and sucks, while ignoring the power in search that is FF. Filtering search by what the general population likes and even more by what your social circle likes is the future of search. - Thomas Hawk
atzmon, that will come in time. What we have today is proof of concept. Everything else is just time. Why does Flickr have the best image search on the internet today? Because of social meta data and ranking. Why is it that Yahoo could never capitalize on this for web search when they had a 3 year head start on everyone else with delicious, flickr, upcoming. etc? - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, I ahve began using FF search as the main Searchlet. google is so web1.0 kindish. My only pain point is that FF does not yeild results for term that is part of the comment content. It is only taking main URI /txt - Peter Dawson
atzmon - i haven't found that to be the case - my searches are returning results that have threads minutes old - ff is a great example of social grid search & how its starting to replace traditional search imho - nice thread thomas :) - mike "glemak" dunn
think about this. As *good* as search is today at FF. they have not even released their "relevancy" feature yet which coordinates rank (comments/likes) with most recent. It will be even more powerful once they do this and I bet that they are working on this right now. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas, one of the first things that caught my attention about FF in the first place was its potential in the search area. I'm willing to give them all the time they need because I'm sure it's going to pay off for me as a user. While we're on the subject, they do have a few basic features to implement, like a bit of morphology. Try searching for 'tactic' and 'tactics', compare the results you get. - atzmon
I agree with Thomas. The potential is certainly there. But to be truly useful, it needs a much wider range of users. The interests currently represented here are relatively narrow. - Dan Kaplan
Agree, though not sure if they want to be seen as a search engine. - tomio geron
Love Thomas Hawk's remarks about relevancy and interestingness search algorithms, and concur with Dan Kaplan about the need for a much larger user base to make the search results truly worthwhile. - Sean McBride
tomio, they may not yet. In the same way that I'm sure Flickr didn't want to be seen as a "search engine" either. FF has to first and foremost present itself as a community and as a useful social aggregation tool. Search is the byproduct -- but search is where monetization takes place most powerfully. Dan, depth of content will come with time. Same as what happened with Flickr. - Thomas Hawk
Pretty soon, Friendfeed will even be able to cook your eggs and butter your toast. - Shawn Farner
Good point Shawn and a good reminder that BREAKFAST IS FOR WINNERS!!! - Thomas Hawk
Social search is clearly an important monetization opportunity for any aggregator - John McCrea
I'm tremendously amused that the first thing when I do the search is "Why I think Thomas Hawk is a Great Photographer" - David Thomas
It's in the future, but not in the far future. Had a long talk yesterday with Evan P about that yesterday. I don't want to speak for him, but I want a simpler protocol to connect two instances (and obviousy it would be great if FF federated). I don't think there are yet any identi.ca users following someone on another service, but that's the obvious benchmark. - Dave Winer
I'm interested in the fail-over scenario. If a server goes down, will I notice as an end user? - Bwana McCall
Aww, so timely, it's our 4th wedding anniversary today. This is the song we played at our reception when our flower girls & ring bearer were announced at their entrance to the reception. Thanks for posting a good memory for me :) - TheMacMommy via twhirl
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