Yeah, gonna have to go with Alice in Chains' Unplugged, myself.
- Otto
Hmm...Nirvana Unplugged is just audio bliss!
- Carlton Hackett
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense. Does that count?
- polyergos
Sorry, but are you serious? Daft Punk has very good stagecraft based on the YT videos I've seen, but isn't their music programed? I mean do they play live synth or just tweak the mix on their Macs?
- Adrian
So far there's three votes for Alice in Chains. Can I declare them the winner?
- Joshua Schnell
I'm a big fan of the Jay-Z Unplugged album, but then he was backed by The Roots. I have a pretty bad ass Stevie Wonder live album and an Aretha live album that'll sharpen your knives, too.
- Derrick
Depeche Mode - Touring The Angel: Live In Milan
- Adrian
Steel Pluse - Living Legacy is my favorite live album
- Chris Heath
sheesh J.Deakins - instead of answering her question all you did was prove how to get blocked as a spammer. And to answer her question, Daft Punk is good but I would have to put Led Zepplin's BBC concert at the top of that list.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
I actually prefer Homework, listening to it from the first track to the last.
- Ryan Shepherd
Neal- there's a live Kid A album? News to me. (one of the best studio albums for sure)
- Sarah Lane
How can Daft Punk "Alive" be the greatest LIVE album ever? it's all samples and loops! Aside from a few tweaks, their just playing back their own record. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate what Daft Punk does, but I think you're missing the whole concept of live albums. You should really take the time to listen to more live albums before making such a bold statement.
- alanoakes
This thread looks like it had potential at the start... then it looks like it got hijacked or something.
- Gus
Alanoakes, I have listened to a lot of live albums, and I'm usually not a huge fan. I'm entitled to my own opinion, right? I also said tentative.
- Sarah Lane
Best album ever, Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits
- Eric Carter
"Alive" is great. I love Burning Spear "Live in Paris" [reggae]
- Steve de Mena
That's a good call in my opinion Sarah, although Peter Frampton's "Frampton Comes Alive!" has been argued the greatest live album also and I would agree it's also up there..
- Troy Adam Skillen
For me: Van Morrison - Live at the Grand Opera Belfast
- Asgeir
Okay, so it's a dvd, but I vote for Van Halen: Live Without A Net
- Mellyboo
++ Mellissa. That is an excellent concert vid. Eddie's solo always gives me the goose bumps.
- Josh Haley
How can you forget Queen - Live At Wembley Stadium?
- alphaxion
i have seen it before . Huh , break time for me now ...
- zeaz
I think its the new FAIL whale. don't know why they changed it. #fixreplies
- Swatkind
I always thought someone should create a digg-esque site where people could submit their images and people voted on the most clever. Bet it would be hilarious!!!
- Mike Bracco
It's been around for a while. There's this and the "Failerpillar" image. The only recent addition to the stable I can recall is an "over capacity" message that includes a giant bird.
- Ryan
Does anyone know the artist behind these pics. Has someone written an article about them?
- Mike Bracco
Come on. Jay Rosen clearly debunked this silly notion a while back. ne does not have to have a full manifesto in Twitter. Write the "headline" for said manifesto, and provide the link to where the meat of the matter is, usually on a blog. There should be no change.
- Noah Gray
Pushing too much content out of the stream onto other sites (like a blog) makes the conversation a lot more stilted and hard to follow.
- Tristan Seligmann
I think Twitter's brevity is useful. There are other resources that do long-form messages better. If one regularly tweets more than 140 characters at a time, why not start a blog?
- John (bird whisperer)
The SMS function gave Twitter its edge and set it aside from everything else by making it easy for anyone with a cell phone. Take that away and Twitter is just another blogging platform. Isn't blogging dead anyway?
- alanoakes
The better question is SHOULD twitter break the 140 ch. limit? What makes anyone think it would be better were that limit removed?
- Sheryl
The 140 character SMS limit needs to go just as badly as the Twitter one.
- Tristan Seligmann
wouldn't that make the SMS feature rather useless?
- clarke thomas
agree with Larry, Pandora works much better on my iMac for some reason
- alanoakes
Last,fm is good,but it didn't work well sometime.It only show up the songs I listened yesterday,I can't figure out why.
- Steve Chou
I too have problem with #Last.fm I had not been able to get it to recognize the USB iMic that I have connected to my Mac for my external speakers. It used to work until one of the recent updates.
- Vinko
"Starbucks could fire back that not all of its coffee costs four bucks, or that extra cents help pay for health care for baristas. (A 12-ounce cup of brew starts at $1.40 at Starbucks, a penny more than the average McDonald's brew price. A small McDonald's latte costs $1.99 compared with $2.45 to $3.15 at Starbucks.)"
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
Haha, I saw one of those billboards in Seattle and laughed. I don't expect McDonalds' espressos to make a dent in Starbucks' sales, and I'm sure they don't expect it either. People buy Starbucks because it's Starbucks.
- David Wilson
McD coffee is vile whatever the price.
- Sally Church
I seldom buy coffee out, but that is because I am mostly at home, and make coffee at home each morning. When I got to visit a client I usually take a thermal mug of it with me. If I do go to Starbucks I almost always buy a regular $1.80 venti. I want coffee, not a mug of foam or flavored gloop. As for McDonalds, I don't eat the junk they make out is food, so I'm not likely to go in there for cofee either.
- Ian May
Oh, BTW, I don't think Starbucks coffee is anything particularly special, but it's quite acceptable, and it could be a whole lot worse. Most corporate food and drink outlets are much more mediocre than Starbucks is.
- Ian May
i'd pay $4 for a mcdonalds coffee over starbucks any day.
- alanoakes
This reminds me of where ads are heading according to the movie 'Idiocracy'. Also you don't have to go to _either_ McD or SB! Go to a real coffee shop.
- Boris Gordon
McD's coffee is surprisingly adequate
- Andrew Smith
McD devestated starbucks when they upgraded their coffee. they figured out that a lot of people used to go to starbucks and mcd while driving to work. now you can just go to one place, and it is good enough. I personally know people who get to work faster (wake up later), and only drink McD's coffee now because of what this type of marketing. it maters.
- paulm
It's a good job people aren't like me. I never did buy a coffee when I drove to an office. I always made a pot at home, and saved enough in a week, to buy good coffee beans for the next week! Same with breakfast, and I wouldn't eat in McD if it was the only place in town. The worst of the fast food junk ever.
- Ian May
mcd coffee is good, learned that from long roadtrips across america and there are lots more mcd's than sb's, but i like sb's for computer work while away from home, wouldn't want to hang in mcd's -- too bight, noisy, kids, they smell bad like cheap burgerz.
- Dave Winer
I agree, McD coffee isn't bad, and if you're in the middle of nowhere (say, on a long drive down I-5) you can do much worse than McD coffee.
- Tudor Bosman
Gas station coffee and coffee from other fast food chains are usually worse.
- Tudor Bosman
I don't know about America, but here we have "McCafés" which actually do a pretty good coffee.
- Bryce Roney
Someone I was doing work for a few weeks back, asked me if I'd like a coffee, and I said yes, and he came back with some from Dunkin' Donuts. It was really awful crap, like hot water, but with a mild stewed taste. I don't eat fast food, so I don't know what it's like in other places but this was truly yuck.
- Ian May
They don't need to as I for one will never get coffee at McDonalds.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Starbuck's coffee is awful, IMO. McDonald's coffee is good. Panera's coffee is better. My own brew, at home, is the best. :) (Oh, and the free coffee at work is almost as bad as Starbuck's! But it's $4 less than Starbuck's, so it's slightly better!)
- Kenneth LeFebvre
Starbucks is pretty bad, haven't tried McDonalds, but my favorite so far is Cambridge Coffee, too bad they only have one store left.
- xero
I'd love to see variations of this ad gain popularity. "Spending $300 on a handbag is really stupid." "Paying $180 for $1.37 of material is pretty lame." "Paying $600 for a wristwatch is uber-stupid" and so on. Then again, I'm pretty un-brand conscious (cynics would amend that to "unfashion-conscious" or worse "unconscious when it comes to style"), so take that all with a few grains of salt :P
- Adam Lasnik
Who goes to Starbucks for coffee? I for there for Frappucinos.
- Rob H.
Heh! Funny and true words! :) (and you'd be proud of me, in that context, for going to the famed Yongsan market in Korea -- 9 floors of heavily discounted electronics -- and buying nada... zip... zilch!.)
- Adam Lasnik
@Adam you're man from our league -- fashion/style/brand/etc is lame excuse for unfounded greed
- Отборнейший бред
I do like their egg mcmuffins, but there coffee is awful. Starbucks should shoot back with a big green billboad that says McDonald's Coffee tastes like ass. Personally these days I'm making my coffee at home though rather than buying either.
- Thomas Hawk
It all comes down to what you like. Buying coffee at McDonald's is like drinking a Coors or Bud. Sure it'll do in a pinch, but if you really like good beer you're going to drink something with flavor. Since Starbuck's has become the McDonalds of coffee that argument may not hold much water, but that's how I see it. You get what you pay for.
- Rob Fahrni
In the past year Starbucks bought Clover which makes a unique coffeemaker designed for light roasted, usually quite unique coffees. They had previously been mostly in independent cafes but have now been added to many Starbucks. Very good coffee (if not cheap). Also there is a world of truly good coffee - akin to fine aged French wine - McD is cheap boxed wine in comparison.
- Shannon Clark
Ryo, I'm not saying that Starbucks is find wine (though their Clover coffees are quite good) but am more referring to the "Third Wave" coffee movement here in the US (Blue Bottle, Ritual Roasters, Four Barrel Coffee in SF; Intelligentsia Coffee in Chicago & LA, Stumptown in Portland etc). Which are cafes which typically import their own beans, roast them themselves, and prepare them with extremely high levels of skill (often matching machines & techniques carefully to the beans)
- Shannon Clark
Check out the band's Facebook. Im trying out Reverbnation's new app, you can listen to tracks, download tracks, view upcoming shows and sign up for mailing list. Pretty cool. Take a listen and become a friend
- alanoakes
from Bookmarklet
Those are so different it depends on your mood. Only you can choose. For me, Americanos if I am in a hurry and don't have time to steam milk. I've never bought one from Starbucks
- Mattb4rd
Robert, yes, the latest BlackBerry devices do video. Haven't used that feature much so I'm not sure if it would work well with Qik or not.
- Gregory Pittman
from fftogo
if it has video capabilities i'm sure they are working on it - the more troubling thing for them is that phone that starts with a lowercase "i" -- it has no video encoder so they are working on one but will apple let them into the app store is the question...
- MG Siegler
Are they going to be able to release that iPhone version any time soon? I've only been able to see find one person who's actually testing the alpha.
- Brandon Titus
yeah i'm waiting for the iphone app. I think as a mobile ap developer, the baseline will be do you have an iphone version
- Sean Scott
from Alert Thingy
@brandon and @sean, see my comment above
- MG Siegler
You're right, the App Store rules are definitely inhibiting the release. But I'm really mad that they have a giant icon on their site that says "Qik now on the iPhone!" when they haven't released it or said anything about a potential release time.
- Brandon Titus
daniel the qik intern says they are still 'evaluating' an iphone 3g app...
- Morgan
Yeah, I think that do. 99x doesnt really have any updates either, so maybe it's just wishful thinking on their part for a free SMS program.
- Aaron Myers
So what happens when you SMS twitter from an unrecognised device? Does it text back instructions on how to join?
- Andy Murdoch
I'm pretty sure it does, Andy. At least...they'd be fools not to.
- Ben Parr
no more traffic now everyone else has gone else where
- Toby Weston
from twhirl
I just read this and did a little bit of sick in my mouth.
- Chris Nixon
Ya know - if Twitter got rid of all the spammers - I bet their services would actually work....
- George Smith
Yeah, I think a lot more of us are looking at FF, etc. I'm only posting on Twitter via Ping... not checking there.
- Paul Otto
I am spending a lot less time actually posting on Twitter. Right now I bounce posts starting at Ping.fm -> BrightKite -> Twitter Haven't seen a whale in a while.
- Robert Gonzalez
Does this have any correlation to Pivotal Labs doing work for Twitter? If anyone knows how to scale RoR, it's PL.
- AJ Kohn
and pownce's load times are significantly improved... what's next?
- Frankie Warren
I thought someone did post something yesterday saying that Twitter had managed to make some improvements recently.
- a runcible MiniMage
maybe it's not crashing, but it still doesn't have IM support back yet.
- Ben Reierson
Twutter seens ti be dead, used to be getting a few hundred updates an hour now only getting like 10-15.
- Andrew Fielding
I think people are starting to use it less and less. Like me, i guess...
- Saul Mora
from twhirl
They allow for more update requests again now. Its back to 70 per hour where as it has been 20 or something for a while now. Things are looking up at last :)
- Simon Wicks
...but twitters downtime is its business model! Remember friendster?
- Vipin Chamakkala
I agree with others I think people are using it less because of the summer months, and maybe their infrastructure is better after their big $15 million dollar injection
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
@Simon, where did you see that the API requests is set to 70 again? According to their status page it's still at 20.
- John Barker
It's definitely not the FriendFeed effect, Twitter is still growing. Turns out they actually are doing stuff to fix the service. See: http://venturebeat.com/2008...
- Nicholas Molnar
@John Barker tweet deck (the twitter application) twittered about it, so im just going from them
- Simon Wicks
From tweetdeck: 'Twitter API limit is now upto 100 per hour, this will make all 3rd party twitter API apps run smoothly ' http://twitter.com/tweetde...
- Simon Wicks
"The speed limit was repealed in 1995 when crude oil dipped to $17 a barrel and gasoline cost $1.10 a gallon ... this Fourth of July weekend, gasoline averaged $4.10 a gallon nationwide, with oil hovering around $145 a barrel. " - Wow, that puts it in perspective.
- Gary Bacon II
I read an article before which said at $4/gallon, every 5 MPH over 60 MPH essentially adds 20 cents to the price of gas.
- Scott Watermasysk
Funny thread comment re: the constitution in there. I can hear Jimmy Carter's energy crisis speech now..."by 1981 this nation will be free of it's dependence on foreign oil..." Er, I think not.
- BISQ
In the words of Sammy Haggar, "I can't drive 55."
- alanoakes
Is 55 some magic number? None of the changes in engine technology or whatever in the past 30 years affects that point of efficiency? Just curious and a little surprised.
- felix
55 is actually a magic number, felix. Actually 60mph. In wind tunnel tests, most cars' fuel efficiency drops off severely over 60mph.
- Phil Glockner
Not new friend requests - people are getting added to my friends list without notice. I've pared it down to 127 again. Let's see if it goes back up. Weird.
- Leo Laporte
I think when you mentioned it on your show over the weekend a lot of us joined. That's when I did and added you as a friend. Although I noticed it not only logs what your friends do, but the friends of your friends. Great site for getting things out there tho.
- Raymond C
from twhirl
Yes. It happens here, too. I think it's due to the Facebook FriendFeed application. Are you using that?
- Robert Scoble
You can change that in the settings, Raymond C, getting updates of friends of friends that is... I turned it off. Too much noise.
- rykos
I don't mind it that much.. I am off work for the summer as I drive school bus. It just gives me more to do between martial arts classes.
- Raymond C
from twhirl
i noticed it too. i've been receiving posts lately from people i haven't subscribed to. the messages weren't shared by friends either.
- alanoakes
@scobleizer - yep. I am using the Facebook FF app. So people can use it to put themselves on my Friends list? Or is it a bug? The people who appear are quite random - some of them haven't even configured FF, which makes me think it's a bug.
- Leo Laporte
Leo - here is what the FriendFeed FAQ says - "Yes, FriendFeed works with Facebook. You can connect your Facebook account to your FriendFeed account by adding the FriendFeed Facebook application. Your friends will automatically be kept in sync, and you can put your FriendFeed on your profile and in your Facebook mini-feed. The easiest way to connect your FriendFeed and Facebook accounts is to click the Facebook link on your account settings page."
- Atul Arora
I've noticed some friend recommendations, where I see notes from people I follow follow. Perhaps thats it (they do say XX is a friend of Leo Laporte" etc
- Dom Barnes
@Leo - If its auto adding people to your facebook you might want to send a message to the tech team at FF and let them know, also CC it to Facebook. Sounds like a bug to me.
- Raymond C
When I joined up to FF a couple of days ago, you were noted as popular along with a bunch of other people, and I was encouraged to add you (as a friend?).
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
@Leo per Scoble that is a feature of the Facebook app. Ultimately I uninstalled it so that I could keep my friends list manageable.
- Steve Rubel
Trying to access the settings on Facebook I am getting a page load error that the connection was interrupted!
- Joe Dawson
When does social networking apps cross over to being intrusive and counter productive ? What is the tipping point ? Classic e.g above :)-
- Peter Dawson
They 'seeded' the service similarly for any new user - smart at "that" phase
- Mrinal Desai
Does this mean... we're not really friends?
- brad sucks
Leo, our Facebook integration auto-friends as new friends from Facebook join. I am working to make that (a) an option, and (b) add notifications. Sorry for the confusing UI.
- Bret Taylor
"In this day and age there is no possibility of a draft. Even if WWIII came along (which will never happen either), the nukes would be in the air before packing my bags and heading for Mexico."
- alanoakes
Hulk was great. Nag: If Roth was "on loan from the British Royal Navy," why was he wearing an Army dress uniform?
- Kevin Hessel
Ed Norton is quality, I am hoping to take my children to see this at the weekend!
- Joe Dawson
Mmm... Sick Avengers... That sounds like The Toxic Avenger with vomit.
- Richard Klein
I stayed through the credits of Hulk, once Tony Stark walked in. Didn't want to miss it as I did Iron Man. Didn't come though
- Barry Reicherter
from twhirl
I like it a lot. Tony Stark walked in BEFORE the credits when I saw it on Friday @ the Arclight in Sherman oaks
- Melody Mooney
Money is hardly the issue. If only it were that simple :)
- Bwana ☠
true, but makes the whole "save twitter" cause more even dramatic :)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Um, didn't some recent VC's just pump $15million into the "twitterfund". This all seems a bit silly..
- Brad McCrorey
Save your money. Twitter has already gotten more in venture capital than what you're going to give them.
- Morton Fox
Er, why? Twitter has $15 million; let's let them use that first before we start donating. If they need money they'll let us users know.
- dgw
This seems so shady. Firstly, how does the money even get to Twitter? Secondly, is it legal to donate? Thirdly, money's not the problem. Fourthly, just why?
- Eric Florenzano
I don't think it's shady so much as silly and ill-advised.
- Brad McCrorey
I've said this already on some blogs asking about Twitter monetization model and this looks to address the same issue - Twitter may not have the monetization model but apparently they have enough money to finance some good development (or refactoring) so the money definitely is not going to fix the problem for them. Just another attempt to bring more attention to Twitter downtime? Not enough, really?
- Svetlana Gladkova
Twitter just received 15mil USD recently and is "working" to "fix" their multitude of problems; however throwing more money at this fledgling company will not be the silver bullet they need. (dis-like button still needed!! -- better yet VOTING stars)
- Susan Beebe
twitter received 15 mil in VCF. If that can't fix their scaling issues, I can't justify donating an extra dollar. They might as well be charging a subscription fee to it's users (I can see the light bulbs going off over their heads...no, guys!)
- alanoakes
Twitter has already admitted they have plenty of money. This doesn't make sense to me either.
- Shey
You can give it to me and my "I Can't Cope With Twitter Down" fund.
- Rudy Amid
from twhirl
Friendfeed does have microblogging in a way. When you share something, you can just type in a message without adding a link.
- Morton Fox
Jaiku has working IM support, which has so far been rock solid for me. Twitter minus IM is far less useful, IMHO. http://johndalton.jaiku.com/
- John Dalton