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+2 for tweet,+1 for nick - Jemm

congrats - Anika

Thanks folks! :-) - FallStreet

Big congrats! - FFing Enigma

Nice one! - Sally Church

Congratulations! It sounds as if hand-to-hand combat was not needed:) - Roney Smith

Oh, and BTW Choicepoint also acts as a private investigator to the govt.(via Wikipedia) - FallStreet

There is much wrong with the credit industry, from LIBOR based rates to using the FICO scores to calculate creditworthiness. Not sure what the fix will be, but an ideology shift is required. - Sally - Skyrimmin' It

One small thing you can do is ... opt out from receiving pre-approved offers at https://www.optoutprescreen.com/. Seems legit. Not sure if it'll stop those banks who already have your info and keep sending you new offers (or the same) every f#$%ing week. - priyang

@priyang yep! I have signedup for that but it still does not eliminate all the junk. And the information trail goes beyond just the credit rating companies. Did you know that the insurance companies share a lot of information via choicepoint? The real problem is the lack of accountability of your own data. I have no clue where all my sensitive information is recorded and further propagated. I feel that isnt right! - FallStreet

i was a victim of id theft...it took 8 months of my time and money to clean it up. - .LAG liked that

@.LAG shucks! that really sucks! So what did you have to do in order to clean it up?How did you find out about it? Did you have to spend a lot of money as well? 8 months is agonizing amount of frustration man... sorry to hear that. - FallStreet

sucks! When my car was broken into, they took the jack. PAMFs. - Yolanda

The jack? THAT SUCKS! - Ha3rvey (F please!)

We've started taking the insurance and registration out of our cars when we park them overnight. The big thing in Dallas now is stealing paperwork. These guys are &#%$heads. - Ha3rvey (F please!)

that sucks man. mine was broken into last month too. - AJ Batac (/-_-)

Aw, sorry to hear that. - Brent Newhall

For some reason, I was having a string of tire issues too. Even had the donut on the car and the little bastards still took the jack. I think they might have been pissed because there wasn't anything worth stealing. :) - Yolanda

Sorry to hear that, Akshay. My car had been broken into twice before I moved to a different part of town. First time they stole nearly $1,300 worth of audio equipment. Second time they just took my cheap Sony head unit. Probably out of spite. - Akiva

You know my last tag was "JAVA 1" yeah! seriously that IS my last name. Well, on the bright side in a few months hopefully I can register a shiny new toy with a tag "Dr. JAVA" :-D and this time I am gonna WELD it to my car -- I dont care if it drops in value. I cant afford to have that tag stolen! :-) - FallStreet

Car thieves should be caned. - Ha3rvey (F please!)

Talking about car thieve b*s: a friend of mine stays in dowtown Baltimore. These a*@#$%es stole the car muffler and since they knew that the muffler would be soon replaced with a brand new one -- came right back and stole it AGAIN the next week!! - FallStreet

Now *that* is evil, Akshay. Rat bastards! - Yolanda

Too bad your stereo was already stolen...otherwise you could have set it up to play "na na naa naa naaaaa naaaaaa, ha ha haa haa haaaaa haaaaaa" in Cartman voice 2 minutes after someone breaks in to steal something. - priyang

Hello class :) - Nir Ben Yona from twhirl

Hi Jorge - I don't know you, but our interests brought us into this conversation - thanks Social Media! - Steve Isaacs

Okay guys you're at the cutting edge right now, here on FriendFeed. The blog used to enable the conversation via comments, but this sucked. So Twitter then enabled conversation in real-time, but also sucked because the conversation stream couldn't be tracked easily. But now friendfeed enables conversations, real-time threaded topics, and also sharing of media, social bookmarking, links and more. So this is where its at, and this is where we are all best connected. We can communicate better and faster here. - john conroy

oh sugar -- 4 hours ago!! - john conroy

Well said, John. - Steve Isaacs

My students are fairly resistant to SM though I plan to inflict it upon them yet again this year. Any suggestions for getting them excited about micro-blogging and social sharing would be appreciated. I will say that I've learned so much participating on FFd, Digg, Plurk, etc. that I otherwise wouldn't have encountered. THANK YOU! - Kimberly J

maybe start with explaining them how they can use networking to cheat within the classes.. than they might get really interested ;) Good luck with the project.. - Jaap Willem

Here is a link to the social web technologies class blog at UMBC http://socialwebtechnologies.blogspot.com/ I would say starting a group class blog is a great idea -- get your students on friendfeed, flickr, twitter and stuff! They will love it! - FallStreet

oh dear god, when will it end?? - Anthony Citrano

holy Heath ledger sighting at the olympics! - Morgan

Why soooo serious?? - Daynah

Reminds me of my grandfather. He makes these kinds of faces all the time. He has Alzheimer's. - Jeanette Bosman

a little captions can't hurt, of course. http://img244.imageshack.us/img244... - Alvin Woon

Yep! Thats Dubya, arite! @Alvin thats awesome! seriously this is turning into a caption contest! - FallStreet

+1 Jeanette LOL - AJ Batac (/-_-)

/me speechless - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

+10 Alvin. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

there are no words... - vicster

That's pretty cool that the president got to meet Bill Gates, though. - DeWitt Clinton

Brillaint alvin!!! - Roberto Bonini

for clarification, I didnt shop that :). A friend of mine point me to the link. - Alvin Woon

Sorry to say this, but I have to: at least our crown prince Willem Alexander looks slightly intelligent when he's enthousiastic about somebody's Olympic medal. - Ton Zijp

Bush has ADHD Please show some respect for the Retarded person! lmao - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Is he giving the "old white man's" gang sign or indicating his IQ (3 fingers and a zero=30) - Jack&Cleo

where's his flag pin! - Nathan Rein

At least Dubya is aware of his current approval rating. - Marvin Smith

Bush reminds me of my ex's alcoholic father... - Rahsheen the Dream

God, I hate him. - Ayşe E.

ahaha Jason that was very funny. Now just be aware the Secret Service may be visiting all your asses shortly. - Nathan Rein

dang, it's hard to imagine how they could be more goofy and unappealing in a photo - Mark Schulz

Hey guys keep an eye on @amandachapel on Twitter I think the new persona is not Brian Connolly the Failed PR blogger but some usa government watch group! Watch your Asses! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

If you use a Mac, Fluid has a nice little slideshow plugin that works for sites like GIS. http://fluidapp.com is the site, http://www.viddler.com/explore... is the video demo. - Mark Trapp

Mark this is fantastic! Thanks for the pointer! - FallStreet

No problem! Fluid is a brilliant app. - Mark Trapp

on windows...there is also a simmilar option in the form of an addon for firefox called piclens. link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... and the demo at http://piclens.com/demo - Ankit Bhatia

@ankit PicLens also works on the Mac. I've been using it for a while now, and it's wonderful! ;) - Kevin Hessel

I think it's not the legal issue because there are quite many image search engines that provide slide show (or similar) functionality. - Daniel Schildt

@Daniel. Which ones? They might be too small for site owners to go after, so might be getting away with it. None of the 4 major search engines: Google, Live, Yahoo, Ask have image slideshows for this reason. - Nikhil Dandekar

@Ankit - Yup piclens totally rocks, i've been using it for youtube for a few weeks :) - Krishna Gade

Thanks Benedikt. Should I wait a long time for calculations? Nothing's happening so far on Mac OS X/Safari 3.0.4 or Firefox 3.0.1 - Mitchell Tsai

Hmm, it's the same java applet as here http://prefuse.org/gallery... I guess I should really look for a flash/air based solution :( - Benedikt Koehler

This is very cool, thanks! When will we be able to radial graph our own usernames? - Hao Chen

Benedikt: That java applet fails to run for me on Mac/Safari. Are you using a PC? - Mitchell Tsai

Yes, I'm using a PC. But I think, I do the visuals in Flash. But I have to learn ActionScript first, so don't expect any results before tomorrow ;-) - Benedikt Koehler

Igor, there always is some amount of redundany in any network. So you could unsubscribe from quite a number of people on FF and still get their updates as Friend-of-a-Friend-updates. You could even create new proxy users that subscribe to different circles of people (e.g. work/family) and by (un)subscribing these proxies change your FF experience. - Benedikt Koehler

I'd like to see this, but alas I am on Mac OS X running Firefox 3. - Andrew Trinh

Andrew, I'm sorry. But I'm working on a Flash version right now. - Benedikt Koehler