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“On a recent afternoon deep in the Amazon's rain forest, members of the Surui tribe, which made contact with the outside world less than 40 years ago, could not resist the urge known to modern man - they googled themselves.” - Amit Patel
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How do you make decisions about society when comparing benefits present generations to future generations? Example: what if you do nothing about global warming, but put it in the bank, and have lots of money later to fix things up? - Amit Patel
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Here's what I need: Fast, works on existing directories (no iPhoto style import), easy to delete photos I don't want, simple color correction + cropping, and very fast. Very nice to have would be the ability to upload to Smugmug or Google, basic video stuff (time crop), video re-encoding (my camera saves videos as mjpeg for some reason). - Paul Buchheit
Aperture is the primary professional, and most excellent application for OSX. It is worth the money, it is not iPhoto. It is easy to use, and you are likely to not want to use anything else. - Steve Pribut
I don't need anything fancy, just fast and able to handle a good number of photos. Picasa is pretty close -- I wish they would just make a Mac version (and improve the color correction and video abilities). - Paul Buchheit
I only know of, aperture, lightroom, photon & the apps that comes with phanfare.com, flickr & smugmug - Zee from WeDoCreative
Aperture is really cool because you can make batch changes to a set of photos, make branches, and undo across restarts, among other things. It requires importing though, which sounds like you wouldn't want. - Chris White
Closest to meeting all of your requirements used to be iView. Not sure if that's still true. I bailed on it after Microsoft bought it and renamed it Expression Media. http://www.microsoft.com/expre.... I use Aperture now. - Jack Baty
Files can remain in the directory in which they reside. They do not have to be imported into the library, although that makes it easier for backup. A free trial might is available at: http://www.apple.com/aperture/... . It more than adequately meets your criteria for photos, but does not deal with video, which it will back up to your chosen directory. You can readily move them, put them on an external HD, etc. Lightroom is an alternative. - Steve Pribut
I switch to my Windows machine and use Picasa for photos. - Amit Patel
I haven't used it but ShoeBox got a good MacWorld rating: http://www.kavasoft.com/Shoebo... - Billy Shipp
The problem with a lot of these photo organizers is that they want to own your world, but that's not what I want. I'm going to upload the photos to one or two places, copy them to other computers, etc. Having them stuck in some weird system on one computer is not ok. That's why working with the actual filesystem directory structure is important. - Paul Buchheit
Why not just use the Leopard file system + Preview? Is it because of speed? Preview supports cropping and color correction. The new finder features, like coverflow and pressing the spacebar for a preview are handy too. I put the Picasa Uploader in my dock so I can easily upload photos, although I wish Picasa would accept images dragged onto the dock icon. - Chris White
how about using expandrive and hosting all your photos on on a separate server and then using one of the many photo editors to edit them on your desktop? - Zee from WeDoCreative
or might be a little too slow - depends - Zee from WeDoCreative
I'll be interested to know what you settle on. - Bruce Lewis
Chris, I don't have Leopard -- can you delete from inside of Preview? - Paul Buchheit
I don't think you can delete from the app called Preview, but I only use that for cropping and color correction. Coverflow, which lets you flip through your images does let you delete via Command-Delete. The default app for images is Preview, so if you want to crop / color correct, just double-click. Leopard is suppose to be faster for image display in the Finder, although I haven't seen any speed comparisons. - Chris White
Chris, do all these programs retain metadata for edited photos? Most important, the EXIF date the photos were taken? - Bruce Lewis
Bruce, I'm pretty sure both Aperture and Preview maintain EXIF data, although I haven't tested that. - Chris White
I love Lightroom. - Jason Wehmhoener
man, it sounds like we're looking for the same thing. iPhoto sucks. - Brett Kelly
iView is what professional photojournalists use. I would have a look at that if I were you. I'm pretty sure MS is still keeping the Mac version of it. - Gabe Schaffer
Still using iView for now. It sounds like the newer Expression Media has had less than positive reviews. I have over 30,000 pictures in various catalogs and it works nicely. It did take a while to figure out a workflow that works for me but I had somewhat of an advantage since I had to design filesystem layouts previously. Extensis is an another option. If you care about IPTC or GPS EXIF, some hackery will be required as the different tools have different levels of support. - Jauder Ho
i like both aperture and lightroom. lightroom gives me better-looking photos though aperture is a little easier to use. at least i find that to be the case - Cee Bee
@Paul could you please share your requirements with us? Blindly suggesting an app without knowing your exact needs is pretty pointless. I use Adobe Bridge for workflow automation, meta management and multi client asset organization but I bet it won't be a good match for you. So please share your functional requirements. - Berk D. Demir via twhirl
I use Lightroom, and that's what I'd recommend. If you don't want to spend any money, you might want to check out blueMarine (http://bluemarine.tidalwave.it...). I've only played around with it for a few minutes, but I see it has potential, and it seems like it'd be just fine for the items you mentioned. - Donato
@Donato Cool.. I haven't seen this before.. :) @Paul I was looking for something like this in the past. What I wanted was a photo browsing application with Tagging and the ability to browse what you already have. I've ended up settling for Lightroom, but it's still sort of an overkill and it's RAW features are not useful for an amateur photographer like me. I'm really interested in what you find out from these comments heheh. - Chris Chua
Maybe I need to write my own. Does AIR have the necessary capabilities for this kind of thing? - Paul Buchheit
Sure, you could write it in AIR, but I haven't heard anything yet that convinces me you can't just use the leopard finder for what you want. - Chris White
Adobe Bridge - Bjorn Tipling
chris - i agree. Leopard finder and photoshop are the best solution until Google brings Picasa to Mac - Jared Radosevich
Chris, does the leopard finder show the photo full size, or do I have to open a separate program for that? Also, I don't have leopard. - Paul Buchheit
Also using Adobe Bridge. Love it. - cartoongoddess
@Chris, you can Delete from Preview. @Paul: you can't show the photo full size in finder, you'd need to open with a separate program. - David Vasileff
I use Xee, http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee... it aspires to be what Paul is looking for I think, but it doesn't do color correction, but you can hotkey to an editor of your choice, including Preview, which does color correction. Xee is free and there's source code available, too. - David Vasileff
we might see a mac version of picasa this year. Adobe elements is a $100 alternative to iPhoto. I have used it. Works good but a very heavy tool. - pankaj
David, how do you delete in Preview? Do you need more than one document open? - Chris White
I mentioned blueMarine the other day, but just found http://www.photonator.com/ a few minutes ago - then remembered your query and posted 'er back here. You're not subscribed to me, but that doesn't mean that I can't help. ;) - l0ckergn0me
Chris, Preview Edit menu has move selected image to trash menu item or command-delete shortcut. it deletes and closes the window if you have a single image open. - David Vasileff
Picasa is the only reason I still turn my PC on... Are they going to make a Mac version any time soon? Otherwise it's time to write one. - Eugene
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Paul Kedrosky: Dow Jones Returns by President Since 1929
Friday at 1:21 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"chart of Dow Jones index returns by U.S. president since Herbert Hoover" - Simon via Bookmarklet
I question how much impact presidents have on our macro economy. I'm a Bill Clinton voter, but I think much of the stock market performance during his tenure is the dot com boom. Without that, I'd guess his numbers fall in the mid-range. We're getting smacked right now by the housing bubble and skyrocketing oil prices. I don't look to Bush re: housing bubble or oil prices. Growing global oil demand + OPEC constraints more the culprit. - Hutch Carpenter
One of the comments on Paul's blog suggests redoing the chart by factoring in the fluctuations of the US dollar vs other currencies: "From a European's perspective, the Dow has fallen from 11,000 to 7,000 during Bush's presidency." - Simon
When you blame someone, you are saying they have power. Someone who's to blame for all your problems is pretty powerful. - Amit Patel
Yes, I agree. Beyond general amusement value, I doubt that the graph is actually useful -- particularly since for each presidency there are so many other factors at play, such as the economic policies of the preceding president. - Simon
I agree there is a strong correlation between the fall of the dollar, the fall of the stock and real estate markets, and the rise in oil prices. I don't believe it is oil that caused the other problems though, but currently more of the other way around. Capital tends to move from markets that are receding to markets that are advancing. - Chris White
Consider that before 2001, we hadn't spent a trillion dollars on the Iraq war, didn't have radio and tv ads for interest-only loans every 10 minutes, and it was rare for institutional investors (e.g. large mutual funds) to buy commodity futures and hold them (by continually rolling them over) as part of a long term investment strategy. - Chris White
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Virtual fencing - A new way of corralling cattle is being tested in New Mexico
Friday at 3:50 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"One question for Ear-a-round is whether it can be made cheaper than fencing. At $600 a cow, that is not obviously yet so. Dr Rus, however, is working on getting the price of the hardware down to the $100 that farmers will pay. Meanwhile Dr Anderson is about to start working out how many cows actually need to be fitted with Ear-a-rounds to control an entire herd. He hopes that, by identifying a herd’s leaders and fitting out them alone, this number can be reduced to a handful." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Just like people. - Paul Buchheit
"OLPC" after this? One laptop per cow? : ) - Erhan Erdogan
Just like shopping carts. - Amit Patel
That's just calling out for a good WiFi hotspot caption, but I've got nothing. - Ken Sheppardson
Of course, once you put this thing on the head of a herd leader all the other cows will laugh at him. Maybe it can be concealed under a top-hat. - Ethan Jewett via twhirl
Oh. I pictured virtual cows mooing 'en garde!' - Andy Wibbels
This is less sophisticated technology than an iPhone. I'm sure with an AT&T subsidy they can get the cost to $199 per cow (with 2 year contract). Seriously, though, this has other implications -- changes in movement could be provide diagnostics for cattle illness (moving slowly, not roaming as far, etc.), or telemetry could be added (temperature, heartbeat)... whole "cattle drives" could be conducted over the web... at least until the hackers break in and steer your herd onto an interstate... :-D - Karim
Paul - lol "just like people." so there are cow "influentials?" - Karim
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But by carefully conserving water with the specially designed low-impact toilet I had installed, I can take comfort in the knowledge that I did what I could do to delay this inevitable global death-age by as many as several nanoseconds. Together, we can make an unbelievably negligible difference. - bob
I am still following the "golden" rule of flushing. When it's yellow, let it mellow. When it's brown, flush it down. Also, purchased a front loading set (washer & dryer) from Samsung last year. Uses considerably less water and electricity than conventional laundry sets. Have had no problems up to now (knock on particle board). - Les
What happens to all the water you don't use? It just runs down the river back into the ocean. - Amit Patel
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Thursday at 9:05 pm - Link
I refuse to like this largely because I did _not_ like those things. I couldn't eat more than 2 bites. - Erica Baker
Hey, I wouldn't even take 1 bite. But I still like ridiculousity. - Amit Patel
indulge yourself into cholesterol stream :) - silpol
a KK Original Glazed only has 5mg of dietary cholesterol, not that big a deal, and "only" 200 calories. The bacon cheddar cheeseburger filling is quite a bit more nutritionally questionable than the doughnut. (On the other hand, it contains actual nutrients, which the doughnut doesn't.) - ⓞnor
Sugar's a nutrient, right? The brain runs on sugar. I have no problem with the donut or the bacon cheeseburger. I just don't like mixing sweets with non-sweets. - Amit Patel
Voodoo Dougnuts here in Portland has a bacon doughnut, but I can never bring myself to buy one... - Frederic
I guess that is one way to reduce headcount at Google! - J. Phil
But how do I get a good donut burger here in the bay area? - j1m
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YouTube - Spore Advanced Creature Creation
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Advanced creature creation techniques from Maxis. - Adam Helweh via Bookmarklet
doesn't it bother you that EA owns all rights on the creatures you create and they even have the right to modify and monetize them (but you don't)? - Gaby Benkwitz
No, I guess it doesn't bother me. - Amit Patel
Only the ones you choose to share on Sporepedia. If you choose not to share anything they can't touch it. - Michael Narciso
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what you want is something i've been crying for, for years & its data poritablity - sam via twhirl
Yeah, but I want automagic data portability. I want it to go on in the background. I don't even want to know it's there. I just want to click a button to sign up for a service and be done with it. Or better yet, have my IA sign up for the services it figures I'd be interested in, and then just show me the best content from said services. - Tad Donaghe
Tad: join our sect. I'll be your guru there! :) http://friendfeed.com/rooms/da... - directeur via NoiseRiver
Go go social graph. - Eric Florenzano
Again directeur - I support the movement, I'm just bored by it. Just make it work. ;) The internets is for dumping awesome into the truck of utility. - Tad Donaghe
Tad, I myself already using some of its techs in my products :) If you're a dev do so too, if not pass the message :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
One thing I was wondering along this same vein, are there ajax widgets or something that you could put on your blog/site and allow people to subscribe/follow/digg/stumble/whatever you in one click? Must I visit the actual site every time? - Rahsheen Porter
I'd LOVE That Rahsheen! That'd be an excellent intermediate step. I think too many sites are still too worried about attention focusing. They WANT you to visit their site to stroke their ego, ads, etc - Tad Donaghe
I don't see why something like this doesn't exist for all social sites. You are adding the person so that you can interact with them at a later time on that service, so they shouldn't care if you hit the site to add them as a "friend." The "+friend" buttons on Digg work exactly how I want, I would just rather them be on MY site and work for every social network. - Rahsheen Porter
I was just twitter-moaning the same thing when I saw this in FF, some of you want leaps and bounds, I'd be happy if I could just join a new network and have all my accounts/contacts automagically connected - Scott Bannon via twhirl
actually, it seemed like swurl did that automatically... - edythe
Ya, we do, check us out http://www.swurl.com/ We try to do as much magic as we can for you, computers are suppose to be smart aren't they? - Ryan Sit
i was just about to say, I dig that swurl and feedly just kind of did that. I haven't gotten on board with feedly yet but I like the concept. Find me. Don't make me find myself. - Jason Toney
it is my hope to built it... and then "they" will come :) - Larry via twhirl
I want a FireFox plugin that auto logs me in to all the websites I use. I think that would do a lot of good. It seems like this would be possible but no one has written one! - Stefan Hayden
I still think this is like asking GM to make your key fit in a Toyota, cause you only want to carry one key. Most of these services are competitors. No (successful) business makes it easier for you to move to a competitor. - Brian Norwood
Brian, one of the reasons I don't use more web services is exactly because I'm sick of signing up for them and manually re-adding all my friends. If sites want us to use them they can either better make it brain dead simple or offer a service so compelling that we're willing to do the hard stuff. For many competitors who don't offer something that much different, an auto-subscription thing that I'm talking about would allow them to attract many more users. - Tad Donaghe
Tad, I don't dispute the truth of your statement, or deny I suffer from sign-up fatigued as well. I'm just saying it doesn't fit any business model I've ever seen to help you easily move to a competitor. What we need is a third party service who keeps track of our info and our friends, then custom shoe horns that stuff into each new service that pops up. THAT would be handy. Open ID is too passive. What we need is a sign up SERVICE. - Brian Norwood
would love to be able to import all my flickr contacts, have them match up with FF accounts where possible and create imaginary friends for the rest which would be replaced by their actual accounts as they joined over time. - Thomas Hawk
Right Thomas - and you ought to be able to do that just by clicking a single button that says "Import my contacts." Or at the very least have a single button and a drop down - Import -> Flickr - Tad Donaghe
I really like swurl, haven't messed with feedly yet, but even with swurl I had to manually input all of my account names/URL's/etc. to bring everything together. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't automagic either. Brian mentioned OpenID as too passive, I disagree with that and think user data could be expanded to contain the social network connections you have, then when you join a new service with your OpenID that service could automagically grab everything for you in the background. I'm not pushing for OpenID as the answer, just saying that's one possibility that wouldn't be overwhelming to achieve. - Scott Bannon via twhirl
I was really impressed with how well swurl worked. - Jason Wehmhoener
concur on swurl doing that automatically via each service - doubt i'll live in it like tend to in ff but it is a cool environment - mike "glemak" dunn
I'm probably the only one who uses rather different sets of “friends” on each network. - Amit Patel
Isn't this what gnip is supposed to do? Also, about swurl -- I would say it's been working a LOT of magic, it added a TON of friends of mine on different services. Ryan - Could you consider some bulk-editing tools for the friends tab? Like "mute all people not on swurl", for example? - J. Phil
Agreed that swurl is fantastic behind the scenes once you enter in your account names/url's for each service... what I'd like to see though is a hubbed identity source so that when you join a new service you don't have to enter your FF username, your Twitter username, your FB feed url and etc. Just let me click "join" and find me--and my connections--everywhere. - Scott Bannon via twhirl
Also, if it gets too magical, you get a service like spokeo. It's kinda scary. - J. Phil
But the point of new social networks is to shed all your stupid non-friends! - ⓞnor
I still want people to be able to add me without leaving my website. Isn't that what AJAX is for, after all? - Rahsheen Porter
How about being able to sign up for disparate services/sites here on FF and automatically have all subscriptions updated in said service and automatically have said service's content spewed out here in FF? I want FF to be my primary hub for all things internets. - Tad Donaghe
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“In a study published today in Cell Metabolism, mice given resveratrol -- the first of an eagerly-anticipated class of longevity drugs -- enjoyed dramatically improved health, even when they started taking the drug late in life.” - Amit Patel
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Regular biological evolution evolves the _values_ of the genes often, but rarely the _methods_ (crossover, mutation, chromosomes, sexual reproduction, etc.). What if machine evolution was able to evolve both its own genes and the structural properties of - Amit Patel
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"Sometimes I wish I were a kid again, who can only think of how things are rather than about how things will be later. " - RAPatton
I agree, 12% seems low. - RAPatton
"Nexting." I like that term. I compulsively next an entire week, then get paralyzingly overwhelmed at the plethora of things I have to do, and wind up only accomplishing 10% of what I planned out. I'm interested to see what strategies work for you over the next few weeks/months. Oh God, did I just next not nexting? - Mark Trapp
I think it is much more healthy to spend time thinking about the future than the past. Myself I am more of an eat whatever is around when I am hungry person like your husband. But my lack of planning means I miss out on activities and later regret the lack of planning. - Brian Sullivan
"I clapped my hands over my ears and chanted, 'NA NA NA NA NA NA,' until I realized I was driving, and turned the radio volume down instead." :D - possible248
Thinking about the future can be dangerous if it takes you away from enjoying the here and now. I sometimes can't relax and enjoy what's going on right this second because of obsessively contemplating what's going on later... - Jason Kaneshiro
Be Here Now. - Jason Wehmhoener
Yoda had a lecture about always looking to the future, of course if would have planned ahead a little more we could have avoided that whole Empire thing - RAPatton
Your description of how your husband thinks about eating vs. you is classic. Exactly describes my wife and me. Cereal for dinner? Not a problem! - Hutch Carpenter
I think you're onto something: it's often a lot more relaxing to just stop and breathe and stop thinking about the future. - j1m
I think I'm a NEXT-er and a LAST-er. The future and the past both seem more important than the now usually does. - Wm Scott Rees
Yoda was a terrorist. - Amit Patel
@Amit Patel Yeah, he was the mastermind behind blowing up the death stars and runs a terrorist training camp on Dagobah - RAPatton
Isn't thinking about the future what's supposed to get us to drive Priuses and save for retirement? Americans seem to be accused alternately of being short-sighted and of being unable to focus on the moment. Maybe it's all about being smart about what to next and how much. For example, if you did plan your meals (or a default choice) on paper a week ahead of time, it might free you from having to think about it as much. Not that I could bring myself to do that. - ⓞnor
I like the friendfeed comment widget on your blog. - Shakeel Mahate
as my mind is just about ready to explode on some of those issues, thanks for linking it so I can get my mind back! ;) - Nicole Simon
Shakeel, Glenn Slaven built the WP FF comment plugin. Works super slick: http://blog.slaven.net.au/word... - Ginger Makela
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June 30 at 9:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Big, big news for a lot of companies and sites out there. - MG Siegler via Bookmarklet
When I was the PM for crawling/indexing at Google in 2003 (if I recall correctly), the barrier to indexing Flash was that Flash was organized in "frames", and frame transitions were implemented in a Turing-complete programming language (ActionScript), which meant that you could not tell which frames were visible (or even reachable) within a movie. To spam a page with keywords, you could put a bunch of unreachable frames within a Flash movie. I am curious how they are dealing with this issue. - Bret Taylor
This is big news for SEO. I'd like to see how it actually pans out and what the engines (cough - Google) says about it. Where's Matt Cutts when you need him? - AJ Kohn
This sounds awesome. According to the article, we'll be seeing a lot more flash: "This may be an even more significant announcement for businesses that have considered building Flash websites, but didn’t want to sacrifice their search rankings — now, if Google and Yahoo live up to their promises, no one will have to make that choice, removing one of Flash’s big drawbacks." - j1m
@Bret - we're checking up on that question. definitely a good one. - MG Siegler
A new breed of Flash SEO specialists will surely rise from this. - Mark Krynsky
I've been wanting more Flash sites. i hate the back button working correctly, and being able to grab images off a site. I also really dislike sites that use a scrollbar, but instead prefer fixed sized sites that simply scale larger when resized. Plus, most html sites don't have cool loading screens, with interesting music. Now that I don't listen to the radio as much, without Flash, where would I get new music ideas from? - Chris White
This is huge for web designers as well. For a long time many have been pushing their clients away from all Flash sites based on SEO concerns. - Shey
Most modern Flash design now puts text in external xml files/databases rather than the .swf itself. Similar to ajax, it's tough to know what "state" the flash movie is in as Bret mentions. Anyway... bring back the flash intro splash screens ftw! - Andrew Smith
@Bret That's a great question. Is it possible they'll start look at the AS code or some other way of reading dynamic text fields? - Shey
Haha, Chris. Do you also hate sacrificing a misguided design aesthetic for usability? I wish more Flash developers availed themselves of the tools Flash provides to make their flash apps more usable and accessible. - Mark Trapp
Ugh. - Amit Patel
@Bret: my guess is that it'll be fairly easy to trick the indexer into indexing spam that's never visible. - Amit Patel
FriendFeed needs a "don't like" button. - Nick Lothian
Nick, isn't that button called "hide"? - J. Phil
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"More than a thousand wildfires — including a massive, stubborn blaze in the Big Sur region — were burning early Monday in Northern California and there was no relief in sight for weary firefighters. " - l.m.orchard
The yellow/orange sunsets and ash falling from the sky are starting to feel "normal". - Jason Wehmhoener
I wonder if we should've had more clear cut logging. More mudslides, fewer fires? - Amit Patel
The fires would have been less severe if they had happened more frequently in previous (wetter) years. Since we seem to be unskilled at regular controlled burns, we must need another way to clear underbrush. I'm picturing a big outdoor vacuum cleaner/weedwacker combo thingie. - Jason Wehmhoener
Can something like that really become normal? (the ash, not the forest flobie.) - Abby Martin
"Forest Flobie" ROFL. The ash? It's obviously not normal, but then again, it has been that way every day for a couple weeks now, and I don't expect it to end soon. It does become less ominous, so in that way I guess I'm acclimatizing to it. - Jason Wehmhoener
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Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
June 29 at 7:47 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
Some people are already buying up land along the projected North Pole shipping lane. - Mitchell Tsai
I'm gonna build a house there. Prime real estate. - Philip Ryan Johnson via fftogo
*sigh* I wish people would take this matter seriously. Buying up land? Shipping routes? How about a little sense of panic or something like that. *sigh* - Tsega D
You think buying land isn't serious? I think it's a good sign that people accept the reality of global warming. - Amit Patel
Amit: Buying land is opportunistic. Not something I would do even if I had the money. - Tsega D
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Plants Migrate North As Temperatures Rise, Forest Species Move To Cooler Higher Altitudes Because Of Global Warming - CBS News
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"Faced with global warming, plants are heading for the hills. A study of 171 forest species in Western Europe shows that most of them are shifting their favored locations to higher, cooler spots." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
I moved into the hills too. - Amit Patel
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Working at Google vs. working at Microsoft; read the comments too. - Amit Patel
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The premium version of gmail allows you to add your own authentication, to make it more secure. - Amit Patel
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“How happy you are is influenced by your social links to people you've never heard of and never met.” Not sure if this is causation or correlation. - Amit Patel
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Hello, world.
Hello, world.
June 25 at 10:12 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Awww... - Hutch Carpenter
Congratulations! - Turker Keskinpala
Yeah!!! Congratulations. - Charlie Anzman
Mark is a good name if you're taking suggestions :) - Mark Krynsky
Stunning. Congrats Paul and family! Long day I bet. Hope all is well. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
wow! hello baby! congratulations! - browneyes
congrats - Aaron Myers
Congratulations! : ) - Jess Lee
Mazel Tov! Thanks for sharing! All the best! - Larry Kless
awwwwwwww.. so cute and cuddly !! Con'grats !! - Peter Dawson
Now that is beautiful..... - Chris Reed
"Maşallah. Allah analı babalı büyütsün." : ) That's our default congratulation for new babies. : ) - Erhan Erdogan
life is amazing...thanks for sharing. - Pokai
恭喜恭喜! - liuyuntian
Congratulations - Francois "Shoob" Lamotte
Congratulations to you and family - Varun Mahajan
Welcome to the Father's Club! - Andrej
Congratulations, Paul, and to your wife! What a cutie.:-) - Cathryn Hrudicka
Congrats :) - Roland Hesz via twhirl
wow..new life.. :) - Jaycai
Congratulations. Wish all of you the absolute best. - Tsega D
Congratulations!!! - Vic Podcaster
Congrats Paul All the best to all the family - Dom Barnes via twhirl
Mazel Tov! Thanks for sharing! Life inexorably rolls on and it is a great thing to see the next generation. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
"Hello World" -- cute phrase to use :) - RAPatton
Yaaaaaahhhh! IS this the 1st FriendFeed birth?!?!? - john conroy
hello! - Mitchell Tsai
I second Clare's comment. - Robert Felty
Mozel Tov on the newest Friendfeeder! - Mike Fruchter
world = [f.kiss for f in friendfeed.users] - directeur
congrats paul & family! - Natala Menezes
Congratulations April & Paul! Just two days ago you told me you currently have 1.9 children. I assumed April still had something like three more weeks to go :) All the best for your growing family! - Mustafa K. Isik
Yes, at the time it was supposed to be another couple of weeks, but our kids tend to arrive extra early (The first was born at 25.7 weeks, and this one at 34 -- full term is 40). - Paul Buchheit
Thanks everyone! - Paul Buchheit
hello thomas! - Amit Patel
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Cathleen Rittereiser posted a message
June 27 at 6:25 pm - Link
i go back and forth between tabs - my tab, "the" friends tab, my friends' tabs (via the URL), and my and my friends' "/discussion" and/or "/comments" and/or "/likes" tabs. - edythe
I have a hard time understanding how people are following conversations unless that's what I'm doing by making a comment back to you - Cathleen Rittereiser
Cathleen: yep, that's how it works. If the conversation is interesting, it keeps bubbling back up to the top. Otherwise, it fades away into the previous pages. - Jason Wehmhoener
If you like/comment on something, you can click on your discussion page tomorrow & see what happened on the discussion after you left... It's like having a personalized newspaper. - Mitchell Tsai
When I first started using Friendfeed, I used AlertThingy, but now I run Friendfeed from an SSB using Fluid (http://fluidapp.com). All of the third-party implementations of Friendfeed are missing major features, making them less than ideal. I block out portions of time to use Friendfeed while doing other things, like watching TV, checking my Feeds, or waiting on other things. If something happens while I'm not actively FFing, I learn to just let it go rather than get constantly reminded like with Twitter. - Mark Trapp
Friendfeed is very much centered around the conversations that are happening now with people you're following, rather than always playing catchup like with Twitter and RSS. Most of the third party apps seem to attack Friendfeed like they do Twitter, and it doesn't work. - Mark Trapp
That's some deep meta workflow there Mark. I like it. :-) - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I never liked Twitter's page, use Twitterific. The contrary here - I really really like the .com. It's great, I keep a tab open at all times. Unless I don't want to be distracted by my addiction to it. - (steve isaacs)
I always have the website open as a tab in FeedDemon - Steven Hodson
If you like sidebars, this is a very worthy app: http://mysocial247.com/ - Vince DeGeorge
I follow FF from my Google Homepage - Bryan Clark
I have FF configured as an account in Twhirl .. - Joe Magennis
Hey this is all great advice. I just finished reading Webware's newbie's guide to FriendFeed and that helped too. I'll find the link and share it. - Cathleen Rittereiser via fftogo
Here's the Newbie's guide to FriendFeed from Webware http://is.gd/HI1 - Cathleen Rittereiser
I don't use the feed. I block all tweets on FF. I visit the FF page once or twice a day and scan. - Amit Patel
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American Psycho: Business Card Scene
June 13 at 2:54 am - Link
Kevin, I'm going to need a watermark on my business cards... - Paul Buchheit
I have such a hard time deciding whether this movie is satirical or serious. I keep fluctuating between the two. - Jonathan Nguyen
It makes one feel a bit leery of handing out business cards, if only for a second :-) - Ranjit Mathoda
now i also feel bad about handing out my moo cards! ;) - Dieter Schwarz
Looks like I need new cards. :) Mine have never made anyone sweat. - Harvey Simmons
this has to be one of the greatest scenes ever! - Morgan via twhirl
Loved this scene in the book. But couldn't watch the film actually. Don't know why - I didn't like it after reading the book. But this scene is just great! - Anton Nekipelov
Hardly Working's NSFW spoof in this scene: http://www.collegehumor.com/vi... - Ryan Kaisoglus
best scene ever. I'm voting for satire here. The fact that all 3 cards pretty much look the same and they are getting worked up about subtle coloring... can't be serious. - Tsega D
yeah easily one of my favorite scenes ever. when i saw american psycho in theaters i was maybe the only person laughing throughout the whole thing. many people walked out. - MG Siegler
I got so worked up about this scene, I went and bought some cards from Smythson. They were beautiful, but the per-card cost was so high, I didn't like to hand them out. Oh - and they look *nothing* alike. Two are in serif, two in sans, for God's sake. Even the corporate marque is different, and each card has a different margin. - Mat Morrison
this movie is so underrated it's an outrage. the fact that I can't tell with certainty if this movie is satire or not gives it loads of respect in my book. christian bale should've got serious award consideration too. -