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Mysteries of time, and the multiverse - Los Angeles Times
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"In his studies of entropy and the irreversibility of time, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll is exploring the idea that our universe is part of a larger structure." - Alejandro S. via Bookmarklet
Like this idea. I've never really understood why physicists believe that everything started with the Big Bang. "What was before that?" seems to get answered: "Nothing". That's hard to get your mind around. This idea of the multiverse answers that question somewhat ("what was before the multiverse?"...) - Hutch Carpenter
Interesting piece. I'm surprised there's no mention of p-branes; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... - Mark Trapp
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جون میده واسه سایت بنگاه ماشین :دی , وری نایس , تنک یو - milad
خیلی قشنگه.خسته باشی جوون - Maryamss
زنده باشی پهلووون ! ها ؟ :دی - Vashka
خوشگله. دستت درد نكنه جوون - mhmazidi
چشات خوشگل می بینه دکتر . اسمایلی هاگ و هاگدانه ! - Vashka
بازم ميگم : تيره است - monire
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Paula Deen Is Trying to Kill Us, Part 4: Bacon, Doughnut, Egg Burger | A Hamburger Today
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wow. that one's not even one donut sliced in half but two donuts... - edythe
*hide* - Tsega D
"The beef comes from 100% arteriosclerotic cows." - Karim
she may be trying to kill us with that - RAPatton
We need a Bury button! No! Get it away from me!! - john conroy
See, I've loved Paula Deen ever since I heard her say "That's music to a cracker's ears" as she bit into a home made pork rind on (inter)national TV. But I think this is just her take on a burger that is served in a restaurant outside Atlanta, GA. - Cecily Walker
I fell in love with her when I first heard "Dont be afraid of buttah naw hahaha" and tossed two sticks of butter in a small sauce pan of cheese LOL How can you NOT love her ;) - Mona N via fftogo
I feel sick even looking at this - Duncan Riley
if you think that's bad, some of her other concoctions are seriously a bajiliion times worse... ie: deep fried butter balls and butter cheese soup :| - Mona N
I am going to force feed this to all my Elitist Friends! ;-) - Igor The Troll
I WANT IT. - DSaad69
Agoooooooooooooooooooooooo ! :p - Vashka
oh shit... I am hungry! - opium
I wish i could bite it :D - Farzad
Troll feeding time! Eat and become big Trolls, so you can take over the world and declare Trolldom! lol - Igor The Troll
Do you people realize those are donuts...? Not one donut in half but two. And it's Krispy Kreme.... Seriously, that will kill you lol - Mona N
ROFLMAO Mona, I think they think its a bagel... - Igor The Troll
Its even better deep fried in beer batter ;) - Earl E Morningwood
Add some Strawberry ice cream as toppings on the burger! lol - Igor The Troll
This might gross some of you guys out but I've had deep fried pickles, deep fried boiled egg, and deep fried Snickers... so I shouldn't be talking haha - Mona N
deep-fried snickers sounds good... - edythe
You bad! But I ate Dog in Laos! ;-( - Igor The Troll
God bless Paula Deen. It takes a lot of butter to hold all that sugar together. - Cyndy
Also, since it's called the Lady's Brunch Burger, I can only assume that's served at Lady & Sons in Savannah. I'm going to be all over that like white on rice if I get my wish for a trip back next year. - Cyndy
I'm having chest pains looking at this picture. - Vince DeGeorge
Is the egg triple-fried? </reddwarf> - Cyvros/fyc
Jim Gaffigan joked about such a creation in one of his bits. The ham sandwich with a donut and a cheeseburger. The Donut Ham Hamburger. It was a joke, but he pointed out that someone out there thought it would be a great idea. - James Ferguson
@James: I can see this turning into some twisted variation of Rule 34: "If you can imagine it, there's a recipe of it." - Cyvros/fyc
I can feel my arteries clogging just by looking at that picture. - Mark Wilson
Holy crap, I've been seeing this picture on my Friendfeed stream for some time now but never paid much attention to it for some reason, not sure why, and just now realized it's a Luther burger with an egg, I was thinking it was an Egg McMuffin/breakfast sandwich kind of thing. By the way, I did make myself a Luther burger (without the egg, thank god), and it was quite good! Seriously. I prefer regular burgers, but it's good. - Vincent X
I take pride in the fact that I'm a gal who doesn't deny herself the yummier things in life; HOWEVER, this is just wrong. Seriously. Does this really look appetizing to anyone? (pregnant people and ganja smokers excluded) - Anna Haro
The egg ruins it for me, doesn't make it look appetizing at all. And two full Krispy Kremes seems way too much. But remove the egg, maybe less bacon, and only one doughnut sliced in half, and I'm alright with that. - Vincent X
I've been eating uppity leafy fancy stuff all weekend. Drinking only from flutes and like... glasses. I can really use a good Porter in a bottle or a wheat on tap with some tater tots and that burger right about now - Mona N via fftogo
Hahah. Nice. - Vincent X
I have to try one of those before I die...and that would probably do me in !! - Nick
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awesome idea Jeremiah! Ooooh I WANT this feature bad!! - Susan Beebe
firstly , time stamps are needed, secondly 'likes on multiple same URI could be difficult. I may Like an entry from a friend's del.ious entry or maybe from another person who actually posts the URI on FF. How can this mapped out ? A visual map normally has one start point/seed and then spawns outwards to various nodes and then branches even more. - Peter Dawson
heres a classic e.g of a like in multiple places from the same user but different URI http://friendfeed.com/e/3359b0... and the other URI http://friendfeed.com/e/1f03e8... - Peter Dawson
Exactly how do you determine who or what an influencer is? This is less obvious than it appears. I've seen "big names" retweet ideas of someone with a lower social profile. The original idea came from person A but person B has a larger social network. So, who is the influencer here, the person who came up with the idea or the person who told all of their friends? If it is person B, doesn't that discount the substantial influence person A had on them? You're privileging social capital over creative capital. - Liz
+1 for Liz's comment - Corvida via twhirl
+2 for Liz - Hutch Carpenter
This would be another tool for creating elites. Is that really what we want? - Chris Baskind
A brand manager's wet dream. - Sprague D
Chris: good point. But my curious side really want to know how all this stuff is really happening! - Susan Beebe
I like the idea of charting how information moves virally to see who the influencers are. Hopefully, this would let you see who infuences the so called "elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change". - Mathew A. Koeneker via fftogo
Ohhh, that would be awesome. I'd love to sit back and watch an idea spread. - Summer
Mathew, all these ""elite", "a-lister", "agent-of-change" are actually pretty mch just with large Social capital. not the creative capital ( +3 goes to Liz !!). This AM, I saw a lot of chatter on Lumosity, to me this was wickedly old in terms of tech tech. http://friendfeed.com/e/8f63f3... however, when looking back onto FF you will find Leo Laporte posting it and many peeps then repurposing that twit/post via many methods, digg, rooms etc. - Peter Dawson
@spragued please no more brands and managers for them - silpol
To respond to those: The influencer could start at the source node (creative capital) as well as those who are sneezers (spread to many others) it can serve the purpose of both. - Jeremiah Owyang
It could look like Digg's swarm ... that would be pretty cool - David Weiner
"Sneezers?" You mean ideas are like boogers? - Steven Buehler via twhirl
Steven...Read Seth Godin's work, yeah it's like boogers ;) - Jeremiah Owyang
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Cause geeks often look at the world logically and listen to George Carlin. :-) - Robert Scoble
The gods don't scale. - Jack Carlson
side effect of asking lots of tough questions, you start to get some answers that make sense. - Nathan Eckenrode
As a fellow geek we better be sure we're right, because if we are wrong it's gonna be bad. - Blackopsmanners
Blackopsmanners: my idea of hell is being forced to sit next to Jesse Helms for eternity. Of course HIS idea of hell is probably sitting next to me. So, who is in hell? - Robert Scoble
Geeks are generally tech freaks and when you see item after item made by man changing the way your life is lived then it becomes pretty easy to accept that man invented god not the other way around. - Jeff Jones
Geeks are more educated and the more education a person has, the more likely they are to look at our world logically, and choose atheism. - Granteezy via fftogo
I think it has a lot to do with rarely humbling oneself enough to admit that they don't, "know it all" or "have all the answers". It's generally about humility, which geeks tend to have very little of. - Trevor Carpenter
I cannot disagree more Trevor. Atheists are the ones saying "we don't have all the answers". Deity based religions certainly claim to do so. - Jeff Jones
Trevor: Jeff is right. I used to be very religious. I found that most of the people who were religious were not humble at all and weren't able to look at the world without having any answers. Our minds are very strong pattern recognizers. It takes a lot of humility to turn off the pattern recognizer and just accept you don't have the answers. But, this is why I call myself an agnostic. I'm not certain there is not a God. Just like I'm not certain there is one, either. - Robert Scoble
To Jeff and Robert. I certainly can understand what you are saying. However, I separate out the religious from the genuine Christian. The majority of the "religious", including many who clam Christianity, are far from humble. They are generally far from God too. I would not say that those who are legitamately close to God claim to to know it all. In fact, they would say that God knows it all, and we can't know it all. My statement about geeks not being humble is more poking fun than anything else. - Trevor Carpenter
I'm a card-carrying member of a deity based religion as Jeff calls it. Christian is what I am and I certainly don't claim to have all the answers. In fact, I have very few. That's why I need/desire the deity. Right? Sadly, there is an unfortunate number of folks on both (many?) sides of this argument who give their own group a bad rap. I'm just trying to not be one of them. The way I see it, God is the one who created the patterns we're recognizing so I'll accept that He has the answers I need. - Lisa L. Seifert
Trevor: I was in a church of people all of whom considered themselves as "genuine Christian." Part of the problem is that religious people assume they really know what makes someone a "real believer." - Robert Scoble
Thank you, Lisa. - Trevor Carpenter
Lisa: the thing is, anyone who professes to "believe" has already put something in their pattern recognizer that simply isn't there. Or, have you really seen God? But I'm going to beg out of this. I learned in the 1990s that these conversations never convince anyone and just piss people off. So, "Hide" is earned, have fun. - Robert Scoble
Robert. Sure, I know what you're saying. No belief system is worth anything if it in fact doesn't claim to be the "right" way. Without taking this too far...I'm coming from a traditionally reformed, Bible believing worldview. All that to say, Lisa is right. Even those on my team have harmed your view of true Christianity. - Trevor Carpenter
just think of a computer software program that has a certain set of rules....if then statements, etc....then think of DNA and explain...then who set the rules? randomly appeared? - Pokai
You're welcome, Trevor. (For what?) Robert: I'm sad that you're hiding the conversation. Nobody's pissed off. (Yet??) And I'm certainly not reading that anyone is trying to convince anyone of anything. I'm simply seeing different opinions here. And I like that. As far as seeing God: not in the way I'm assuming you mean. But I see the God-Effect everywhere, not to be confused with the Scoble Effect. ;-) Ocean, Wind, my own body-muscles, bones, blood, organs, blah, blah, blah. Standard argument. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
I'm with Scoble on this one, hide earned! - Granteezy
thanks lisa, I think we should whip Scoble into the posted 60 foot monster wave (by Mitchell Tsai) and see what happens to his belief system....then he can tell us what happened to George Carlin :) - Pokai
Because few deities are open source. - Craig Thomler
I am of the view that historically and currently that Established Religions are a cause of a lot of Evil in the world and that has always been a major switch off for me about any Church. - David W
pokai, i know you ended with a set of rhetorical questions but what i'm inferring from your tone is that you're drawing a tangent that can't be supported. no one necessarily had to set rules for DNA for them to assemble randomly based upon thermodynamic stability. and then for them to interact with other molecules... - Kambiz Kamrani
because they don't like the fact that there is something they cannot explain? or maybe because they don't like the fact that there is something that is (could be) controlling them? - Timo Zimmermann via twhirl
@ Robert, I think it's unfair to paint whole groups of people as one things or another: muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists, Agnostics, et. al which is probably what bothers me most about these discussions. Not the facts of what's right or wrong, but rather the debate normally centers around painting a wide brush across an over-generalized groups of people. see "why are geeks often atheist?" I know a lot of smart people who believe a lot of different things ... - David Adewumi
I think the questions of humility/uncertainty vs. "we know whats best" views of religion can correspond well to the tech world...there are entrepreneurs looking for what has been the missing, the algebraic X, the unknown that hasnt been built yet or thought of (think of major advances like RSS or SNs a la twitter or friend feed...and then there was the aol way of thinking where they thought they could comprehend entirely the social aspects of the web in a closed platform...geek doesnt always = athiest - joshuabacker
One reason the I am turned off by religion is that each one tends to believe that their version is the only version. Some even to the point of professing to kill others that do not believe the way they do. There is very little tolerance of other points of view. Most Christian religions profess tolerance of others and I'm sure their are some groups that do practice this, but I find significant hypocrisy with most religious institutions between what they preach and how the really act. - Jeff P. Henderson
ok kambiz, interesting, but what makes the same genetic material become a frog, dog or human? - Pokai
@Pokai, Mutation. - Jeff P. Henderson
Lisa, I was simply thankful for your comments. They were spot on. - Trevor Carpenter
I really loved this part of the article:The absence of proof does not mean there is no proof at all; but it does give a strong reason to doubt if there is any. Geeks have conditioned themselves to think logically, just as the religious have been conditioned to replace logic with trust in what they are told. What can be extracted from this is that geeks are not atheists simply because they may know "more" but also because they choose to think differently (whether or not they think superiorly is a question for another debate). - Lisa L. Seifert
I agree david. I wonder why intelligence is their defense. - Pokai
pokai, Jeff nails it. but let me clarify one thing -- the same genetic material doesn't necessarily exist in a frog, dog, or human. a frog has a different genome (set of genes) from a dog and a human. these different genes arose through mutations during various biological processes like DNA replication, and gamete production. they are continually evolving by way of natural selection. the frog, dog, human, share a common vertebrate ancestor but they all have diverged from that point into separate species. - Kambiz Kamrani
Continued from previous post: I liked that part for the reminder to keep thinking. I don't ever want to be conditioned to think one thing only whether I'm wearing my Christian hat, my geek hat, my caretaker hat, etc. I don't think we can generalize either way. I agree with David - and with Jeff regarding hypocrisy. It's one reason I hesitate to enter into discussion of beliefs. I know I'm being lumped right now by some of you; but I'd rather try to state my own point of view than sit back and be lumped. - Lisa L. Seifert
I unhid this for a second just to see what direction it went in. I'm hiding again. Some things haven't changed in 10 years, I see. Sigh. See, I used to participate in every religious thread in Visual Basic Programmer's Journal's CompuServe forum (after moving them to that magazine's "OffRamp" which is where we moved stuff that went off topic). The conversations always degenerated just like this one has into calling the other side names. No one ever learns anything. So, Lisa, sorry. I'm getting older I guess - Robert Scoble
than you kamrani and jeff for your clarification, - Pokai
Bye, Robert... Does this mean you won't come to the parties I host at the Ritz once I move to HMB?? ;-) I'm sure I'll get the chance to discuss greater issues such as religion with you at some time when there will be no name-calling. :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
i think scoble just faked hiding, but he is still reading...funny how scoble made the first comment on this post... - Pokai
Oh, no. Do not doubt. Scoble is THE hider. :-) Eventually, he may look back, but he is the best of the hiders. I hide because he has inspired me to do so... Seriously. I always forget about it until he evangelizes it. Then I hide again. - Lisa L. Seifert
@Jeff "One reason the I am turned off by religion is that each one tends to believe that their version is the only version. Some even to the point of professing to kill others that do not believe the way they do." Now replace 'religion' with (culture, style of government, monetary system, nation, state, language, et. al) and you will see this is not an effective argument. See current war in Iraq/Afghanistan for an example. Is that really about religion? - David Adewumi
Up to this point, I can't find one person, on either side of the discussion calling anyone a name. Where are the name-callers? (excluding Lisa's, "Scoble is THE hider.") - Trevor Carpenter
This is a misconception - Alan Wilensky via twhirl
wow, I step away for a night, and look what I miss! - Andrew Badera
FWIW, I was born, christened, raised Roman Catholic. I was even an altar boy, but that was mostly due to the boredom I experienced, sitting in the pews. I don't claim to have all the answers -- I lean more towards labeling myself an agnost than atheist these days -- but I know, quite for certain, that organized religions don't have it any more right than I do. - Andrew Badera
Nobel physics Stephen Hawking: No need the God model - Igor Poltavskiy
Creators of religions (or any influential belief system) are interesting (perhaps as much for their pathologies as anything else). Followers of belief systems created by others are not interesting, at least in that aspect of their lives that is organized around a script that they didn't create. They are sleep walkers. - Sean McBride
First, not all deity-based religions claim to be the right and only way. In fact, Judaism is based on the idea that it is right for Jews and probably not right for anyone else. It's partially because of this sense of exclusivity that probably fuels Antisemitism. Also, when a lot of people say 'religion', they usually mean just Christianity because it's all they know. It's unfair to other religions to be so blindly grouped. - Akiva Moskovitz
I was raised in a Christian household and definitely see HUGE problems with Religion and the "Church" at large. In fact, I am so bothered, I stopped going to church as a result and am routinely offended by the all non-sense/crap espoused by religious groups and church organizations. I believe God exists. I have no unbelief in this regard as I have personally experienced some wonderful spiritual events (2 miracles in fact - 1 documented by dental x-rays). I see tons of fallacies with religion - very sad. - Susan Beebe
Akiva - ethnic nationalist ideologies -- particularly messianic ethnic nationalist ideologies -- are by definition exclusionary, polarizing and a trigger of violent conflict with ethnic outsiders. Universalist religions like Christianity, Islam and Buddhism are largely attempts to overcome the problems and limitations of ethnic nationalism. - Sean McBride
On my good days I'm an agnostic, my bad days an atheist. On the whole all religions try to describe the same thing, make sense of our world and how we should conduct ourselves. I remember being at my Grandmother's funeral (Catholic) and thinking that the words (return to Christ etc) were so comforting ... and it was then that I thought they were wrong. Those words are designed to be comforting and that was by human design IMO. Seek god in your own way and live accordingly - see Stranger in a Strange Land. - AJ Kohn
Where do you get those statistics that geeks are typically athiest? Faith takes courage and conviction. I am a Christian as are many of the riders I know. - Dave Ploch
Sean, last I checked, 'universalism' isn't achieved by oppression, forced conversions, or the outright murdering of people of differing beliefs. Furthermore, Buddhism shouldn't be grouped with Islam and Christianity because Buddhism isn't a proselytizing religion. In fact, I would say that Buddhism and Judaism are more universalist than Christianity and Islam for this very reason. They say, 'You do your thing and we'll do ours.' Not, 'You do our thing or we're coming after you.' - Akiva Moskovitz
Faith mentality: don't question me, don't challenge me, believe and do what I say. Hacker mentality: question everything, challenge everything. Guess which mindset produces the more interesting creative work. - Sean McBride
Akiva: Judaism (especially in its Zionist mode) is an ethnic nationalist ideology or cult organized around the interests of a particular ethnic group. Ethnic nationalism is the direct antithesis of universalism. Buddhism bears little meaningful resemblance to Judaism or religious Zionism. Christianity and Islam have committed many crimes over the ages, that is true. Aggressive fanaticism and intolerance seem to be central features of nearly all monotheistic/Abrahamic cults. - Sean McBride
I don't want to seem ignorant or prejudiced, but is Judaism not highly non-universalist? Laws against marrying non-Jews etc. - Alexander Carlill
Alexander, the best way I can put it is how a Rabbi once put it to me: 'It's better to be a righteous non-Jew than to be a non-righteous Jew.' In other words, Judaism prefers people to follow a different religion that is better suited to them rather than be forced to become Jewish. To me, that's more universal. Live and let live. - Akiva Moskovitz
Sean, and there it is. I'm ringing the bell. - Akiva Moskovitz
Alexander: Judaism is intensely ethnocentric at the core, but various currents in the Jewish tradition have tried to move in a more universalist direction -- Reform Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, secular Jewish movements (how about Einstein?), etc. Notice how much of the Old Testament revolves around wars between "Israel" and other ethnic/nationalist groups ("the nations") -- it's the dominant motif of much of the Bible. - Sean McBride
Akiva: I see. I'm going to stick with atheism for the foreseeable future, but I think I'm relatively righteous... Thanks for the info. - Alexander Carlill
Alexander, oops, yep. I should've written 'a different religion, agnosticism, or atheism.' I did not in any way mean to imply that only religious people can be righteous. The two, sadly, are sometimes mutually exclusive which is something Judaism seeks to avoid. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva -- to which branch of Judaism are you referring? Some factions are incredibly intolerant; others are the soul of tolerance. Some of Israel's chief rabbis have made public statements that are extremely intolerant towards various ethnic and religious groups (including towards other Jewish religious factions). One finds the same problems in the Christian and Muslims worlds -- fundamentalist voices of intolerance often drown out more reasonable voices. See, for instance, John Hagee on Roman Catholicism. - Sean McBride
Sean, how about not hijacking this post to yet again aggressively espouse your opinions on Judaism (and Israel)? - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva -- has the discussion suddenly become too sensitive for you in some way? You sound like you'd like to censor it. Let me ask again: which branch of Judaism are you referring to here? Orthodox? Conservative? Reform? Reconstructionist? Seems like a perfectly reasonable question. Also, a great deal of Christian fundamentalism in America revolves around Israel, does it not? Bush reportedly started a disastrous war in Iraq largely because of his religious beliefs. Iran may be next. - Sean McBride
Sean, it's very clear that you have a bone to pick and you can chase me around FriendFeed until your Keds fall apart but I am not going to feed your hunger. Thus, reasonable or not, I am not answering your questions. You seem only to be interested in answers that can fuel your soapbox, anyway. If this makes you feel superior or victorious, that's fine. That's a delusion I will lose no sleep over. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva -- you haven't replied in a rational way to a single particular point I've raised here -- your responses have been emotional. And this is very typical behavior for religionists of all kinds -- they have difficulty handling a rational discussion about non-rational beliefs. Judaism is a very complex subject -- the tradition includes numerous competing and contradictory factions. Overgeneralizing about Judaism, Christianity and Islam is an intellectual error, in my opinion. - Sean McBride
Actually, my responses have been very rational. I'm just addressing your motives and not your points. You just can't seem to understand the fact that you are not entitled to someone's answers just because you ask them questions. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva -- you're addressing motives, and not the substantive points being addressed in this thread? That is not how reasonable people conduct rational discussions and debates. If you can't handle logical, factual and civil challenges to your beliefs, probably public discussion forums aren't a favorable medium for you. :) For others here, I will simply reiterate: there are several strains of Judaism, some extremely intolerant, some very tolerant. This is a fact known to any serious student of world religions. - Sean McBride
Ah, more smug responses with implied insults. Gotta love the Internet. - Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva -- a simple question: is Judaism a monolithic tradition (as you have implied), or is it a diverse and self-contradictory tradition? Do the ultra-Orthodox agree with Reform Jews? Do the ultra-Orthodox even agree with one another? (They do not.) No wonder geeks and hackers for the most part try to steer clear of religious squabbling and wars! -- it tends to be a real energy-waster. - Sean McBride
Akiva: I wasn't accusing you of implying anything, merely commenting on my own situation. So no need to apologise. - Alexander Carlill
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been using it since the download day. no problems here, and I use a decent number of plugins. - Rob Diana
I've been using it since Download Day and haven't had any problems with it at all. - Kevin Bondelli
I started using it full time when it hit RC2. It's terrific. Faster than Safari. I limit the extensions I use though to a handful. - Steve Rubel
i have noticed that some links that should cause ff to launch make it hang. i have to kill the process and run FF first, THEN click the link(s) - Eric Ortega via twhirl
Using it since early beta. Hogs memory, still. Crashes when loading Flash sometimes (that's a developer problem). Renders really well. 8/10 with IE 7 scoring 5. - Mo Jawhari
Thanks Rob, Kevin, and Steve, that's enough to sway me forward. downloading now. - Jeremiah Owyang
I've used it exclusively for about a month; testing life solely with a browser / no client apps. Using a ton of extensions. Experiencing a handful of daily crashes on a PC with it. Otherwise, it's fantastic for me. - Kevin C. Tofel
Switched from Safari since release. I use maybe a half-dozen extensions. I find it slower than Safari. Causes my MacBook Air to shutdown the second core occasionally. Never happens with Safari. Still haven't switched back though. - Jack Baty
I'm still waiting. i want all my plugins to be ready to go when i upgrade. I installed one of the late betas and it seemed good -- but having two firefox installs send a couple things (like password manager) a bit screwy - john conroy
OBSERVATIONS: It kept all of my bookmarks, so far so good - Jeremiah Owyang
Observation: The download went smoothly, on this PC I'm using vista. - Jeremiah Owyang
Aren't you off? ;-) - Steve Rubel
Been using it since the pre-alphas - certainly far less bugs now. :D Thankfully, I haven't gotten too much of the crashing Flash problem. - Cyvros/fyc
I've absolutely loathed Firefox until this new version. Been running it in place of Opera since beta 3, I think, and it's been quite good. No crashes since RC1 for me. (Adding that I'm using it on several Vista machines; 64- and 32-bit.) - Akiva Moskovitz
just using the normal set of plug-ins ff3 is crashing on me 4 or 5 times a day. now i'm trying to figure out which plug-in is craping the ff3 bed. - sean808080 via twhirl
crashes 5-10 x daily and always at the worst times. - LPH
I have no problems with Vista, been very reliable for quite some time. - Jeremiah Owyang
FF3 has problems with the keyboard control using Windows XP - sometimes I cannot enter text, especially in the URL-bar. In both, Windows and Mac OS X the application terminates sometimes without notification in advance. In addition, FF3 sucks a lot of resources out of my old iBook. Safari is much faster here... - Ansgar Wollnik
+ 1 Jeremiah (I am on XP though)... I am loving FF3 - awesome!! - Susan Beebe
There are some issues with crashing that seem to be related to Flash on OSX and I've seen a few others mention it. Hopefully they fix the issue soon, I do love the new improvements. Especially the Mac-likeness. - Daniel Smith
Some of Addons arent working (As expected), youtube is kinda slower - Jassim
I started using FF3 when it was in Beta. Public version is more stable IMHO. I like the overall experience of FF3. The one issue I have had in Mac OSX is that sometimes when you paste a URL in the address bar, it won't refresh and go to the site. Just sits there and does nothing. All of my favorite plugins and add ons are up and running now, which is good. - Grant Griffiths via twhirl
Only a few crashes, which is almost a tradition with Firefox. Surprisingly, Opera is now more stable in Ubuntu. It used to be the other way around. - Alejandro S.
using the portable versions and can't get links from thunderbird open in new tab. always open in new window. anybody know the solution? - Matthias Henze
Only other issue is the lack of a way to combine open FF windows into one like you can with Safari. - Grant Griffiths via twhirl
Yes - About a week after launch. It crashes too often. But I still love it. - Russellreno
@jowyang, Yes and it's stable for me. - Czar Derek Peterman
Yes I have. I've been using Firefox 3 since its RC days. Bugs? Where? I haven't had any problems. - Corvida
I've used it since the first BETA, so I've used the buggy versions. This version has not crashed on my since the first day. It's far superior, far better on the memory, and less likely to crash. - Ben Parr
Downloaded on the day of the launch on my mac; a couple of days later on office PC. Safari still remains my primary browser on Mac; Firefox was always the choice on Windows despite the crashes which are pretty much consistent even after the upgrade. - Parth Awasthi
My friends regularly say about FF3 bugs:( - Igor Poltavskiy
Having problems with ff 3 and gmail. Ff keeps crashing when ever I open gmail - Martin Liechti via fftogo
Using it since early betas. Very slid, very fast, very few bugs. - Patrick Jordan
being using it since beta1, it's been getting better and better, ver3 is nothing like ver2, never made me look back - Dobromir Hadzhiev
problems with Gmail - jonathan
yea i got problems with gmail too. Also once in a while the url bar doesn't work - Josiah Lau via twhirl
It crashes more for me than FF2 does. Might be new extensions, though. - Sarah Perez
@Sarah yeah any issues I've had are with the extensions. FF3 is running sweet and fast - Shey
I'm getting a little mixed results. I've been a long time corporate IE user, and FF3 has some nice features. It looks like some of my early "stops" are repaired and the browser does seem faster in most situations. - ChangeForge via twhirl
Tried it out. Crashed for me quite a bit even after removing extensions 1 by 1. Back to the latest 2.x.x for now. I have been using Firefox since v.0.7 - OpenAllNight
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that one of the creamy coral and orange roses is beautiful. - edythe
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calm & quiet - Alberto via Bookmarklet
the absolute isolation,epitome of beauty - raheleh
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The comments at the blog are interesting. - Alejandro S.
The only point I would make is that the right to vote is not actually a right - Michael W. May via twhirl
What do you mean, the right to vote is not actually a right? Of course it is!! - Mark O'Neill
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The whole karma thing bugs me. Turns microblogging into a competitive sport. - Hutch Carpenter
The threading is really nice, but for some people the simplicity of twitter is much more appealing. - Rob Diana
Look at what's happening on identi.ca. The race for the most amount of followers. Same difference if you ask me. - Bwana McCall
I haven't found Plurk to be usable. The sideways scrolling, the constant "You have an update!" notifications: it gives me a headache. - Mark Trapp
i tried plurk -- a little too bubblegum for me to be honest. plus the karma points make me feel like i'm in some competition. - Cee Bee
I enjoy the threaded conversations while I'm there. Really really easy to have conversations. It took me a week to get used to the timeline, but when I did, I could see the value. It's a totally different animal from Twitter. (literally) - Bwana McCall
I haven't used Plurk THAT much, but it seems to be carving out its niche as a chatty, lightweight application. There's clearly a group of people who really like it. It won't appeal to everyone, but I think it will find its own audience, probably at the expense of Twitter or FriendFeed. Shrug. If nothing else, it shows that people are interested in conversations, just as they have been for the past 20+ years. I will probably be an occasional user at best, but it probably wasn't designed for me either. - Mark Dykeman