You can also do that "?" in Google Reader (if you use it) - AJ Batac
Thank you Paul! (I undo more than I do ....) - Charlie Anzman
thinking, whether its technically possible to more undo than doing! :) - Jigar Mehta
Still waiting on the "unsend" feature.... - Alex Cook
Charlie captured my editing style pretty well also. It is possible, at least by my count. Type something, undo it, type it again, undo it, retype it and then actually send/post/submit/publish it. You've really only *done* it once, and undone something else twice. See? :) - Todd McKinney
cool! Does that mean I can UNSEND a message now? I keep waiting for them to add that... - Tim Hoeck
I wish. Unsend would probably be my top feature request at this point. It's a little tricky, but definitely doable (requires a small delivery delay obviously, but an extra 15 seconds is not big deal for email). - Paul Buchheit
totally agree on unsend. holy shit that feature would have saved me from alienating most of my friends (i think... sniff.... yeah, its not the BO) - tommy payne
"Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages – Java, C++, or Python." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet
And for ex-Googlers, come check out the version that we open sourced. All the awesome from before, but cleaned up and even tighter (see the Java apis now). - DeWitt Clinton
Of all the things to go open source since I've been at Google, this ranks near or at the very top of my list of favorites. A huge congrats to Kenton and everybody involved for pulling it off. May your data serialize efficiently and extensibly forevermore! - DeWitt Clinton
Thrift includes a whole RPC framework (including thread managers and so on). Protocol buffers are just a serialization mechanism. Otherwise, the differences are mostly in the details of the way things like versioning are handled. - ⓞnor
This will be a photograph in the top 10 of many future lists. - Andrew Baron
Explanation: "In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework." - Andrew Baron
Wow, 153 people 'liked this" so far and almost 30 comments. - Andrew Baron
Absolutely incredible shot! Then again some of the best shots on the web come from NASA, National Geographic, Discovery and, of course, Hawk :) - Charlie Anzman
Not to be too cynical but that shot seems to good to be true -- I wonder if there is more processing going on than the text seems to admit. - Brian Sullivan
I'm going to side with Brian here. What is right: Comet McNaught was that bright in WA (I use to live there), but I checked my attempted pics, they predate this by over a week. I'm sure the comet was only that bright for less than a week. Second, the main Australia Day fireworks occur in Perth City...which isn't near a beach . Maybe it's Leighton Beach with Fremantle to the left...but it doesn't seem right. I did check the weather records though, there was a storm that night, and it's in the right direction - Duncan Riley
I do hope it is real though...and I forgot how wonderful the environment there is - Duncan Riley
Duncan, last year both Fremantle and I believe Hillarys held their own fireworks for Australia Day. I myself was trying to guess the location this morning. Being a regular on Leighton beach though it doesn't look familiar so I was thinking it may have been taken to the north of Hillarys. It also made me very nostalgic for Perth :) - Penny
At 257 likes, the #1 most liked post of all time on FriendFeed (at least #1 of the past 30 days of my friends, and more than any other I can remember...). Antti Kemppainen Photography - Here's Antti's original picture http://jkemppainen.com/antti/i... Antti's e-mail is kemppaisantti@gmail.com, and you can scroll through Antti's other photos. - Mitchell Tsai
They definitely paid a visit to my neighbors. Go Texas! - Carla Thompson
Wow, Colorado is significantly lower than all the others. Any ideas why? - Jim Norris
This was posted separately and there was quite a bit of discussion about it. The Coloradans basically said that outdoor physical activity is a major part of the culture there. - ⓞnor
I say the thin air squeezes the fat out of them. - Steve Craft
Mean elevation: CO 6800ft, UT 6100ft, NM 5692ft, MT 3396ft, MS 300ft... - ⓞnor
This is obese - I don't even want to see "overweight." Colorado is the only state where it's not a granted that 1 out of 5 is obese (though by the looks of things, the average is 1 out of 4). Does this include children? Pre-edit: clicked on the article - the overweight numbers are amazing. I'm certainly in these categories - I must disclose. - Vince DeGeorge
cool chart - looks like our primary home (ct) is #3 & secondary (vt) is #5 :) - mike "glemak" dunn
Like we always said back in Arkansas, thank god for Mississippi and Louisiana or we'd always finish last! - Jesse Hattabaugh
I loved visiting Japan, where people seem to be healthily thin. It's very sad the changes since I was in high school. At a pediatric obesity presentation at Stanford, they showed a slideshow of obesity/state over the past 25 years, and it was really sad to see the whole country become fatter & fatter. An Economist issue from the past year shows that it's a worldwide trend - poor & rich countries... People were so much thinner when I was in high school. :-( - Mitchell Tsai
For comparison, this morning I flew a 767 with 40 tons of freight 3100 miles and burned 10,000 gallons of fuel. That comes out to around 12.4 ton-miles per gallon. - Chris Johnson
So, hopping a freight is going to be the new hip thing? How does this compare to passenger trains? - ⓞnor
Since the 436mpg number is total ton-miles divided by total gallons of fuel used by the industry, a gallon of diesel can haul a ton of freight far more than 436 miles. - Gabe Schaffer
Wow, that wikipedia page is very interesting -- cars, trains, planes, and buses are surprisingly similar, though the passenger number for buses seems kind of low. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... - Paul Buchheit
Passenger trains are much less efficient than freight because they have to expend a lot of energy going faster and providing power for lights and A/C. Still, trains are the most efficient form of passenger transport (2100 BTU/passenger mile vs. 3182 for airplanes) in this country. - Gabe Schaffer
Wikipedia says vanpools and motorcycles are both more efficient than rail. (I wonder how many passenger-miles per gallon a zeppelin gets...) Maybe a lot of cities run near-empty buses along many routes, and that pushes down the occupancy (and efficiency) numbers? - ⓞnor
I suspect that vanpools are so efficient because they just use a full van to transport a bunch of people from point A to point B rather, so they are generally full and have direct routes. - Gabe Schaffer
I think this is simply the SSL certificate data. - Claudio Cicali
Most SSL sites (such as Gmail) don't show this. This is the first I've seen it, in fact. What is it called and how much does it cost? - Paul Buchheit
You need to buy an Extended Validation SSL cert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...). Looks like VeriSign sells them for $1,500 per year and Thawte for $900. They aren't cheap. - David Recordon
btw Paul - while i've got you here & you're not flooded with comments...is there no way to link to a particular post here on ff? - Zee from WeDoCreative
that's not regular SSL that's SSL-EV ... SSL with Enchanced Validation ... it's more expensive then a single SSL cert .. read this link for more info http://is.gd/LIs - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl
Zee, click on "More" then "Link to this entry" - Paul Buchheit
David - thanks for the info. I have always wondered about the green bar in FF3 but never bothered to find out if it was a different type of SSL certificate. - Atul Arora
Paul, thanks a million - and there was me thinking it something you overlooked... :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
@paul, you may read this http://tinyurl.com/4qttny first, to know what's the different between "green button" and "blue button" (green: paypal etc. blue: gmail etc). u definitly need to pay much for the "green button" - kukoo
@David @Paul sorry for the double post just saw the question and knew the answer .. should've scrolled around first ... sorry - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.... EV certs are just another scam from VeriSign, as far as I can tell. They're sold as an anti-phishing tool, but mostly they seem like a non-solution driven mostly by the need for CAs to extract more revenue from large customers. - ⓞnor
No, EV certs are just another scam from VeriSign because their regular certs are useless for determining that somebody is who they say they are. In other words, you'll pay hundreds of dollars for a cert for friendfeed.com, but they're pretty likely to give somebody else a cert for fiendfeed.com. The only way to combat this is to pay for an EV cert because their regular verification is almost a no-op. - Gabe Schaffer
@nor - Interestingly Google/Amazon dont use EV in the couple of examples I tried but eBay/Paypal do. - Atul Arora
It appears that GoDaddy has them for $400/year if you buy a 2 year cert. - Paul Buchheit
Well, a regular cert more or less says you're talking to the DNS owners of the domain listed in your address bar. Which is a service that ought to be worth about 5 cents. This one says... that you're talking with the organization that is generally known by that name? What *does* stop me from getting a business license for Fiend Feed, Inc. and so on? At some level it seems to be chasing "authenticity" which really means "will pay a bunch of money and/or fill out a bunch of annoying paperwork". - ⓞnor
What I really want is "is widely and unambiguously recognized by the community as the entity associated with that name". Where "the community" is... some big trust network centered on you and people you know? - ⓞnor
this is still far from regular idi... I mean casual consumer :) they shall say how much you are INSURED on your login when you come to this site, and insurance expressed in money, with sum signed by issuer into server side SSL certificate - only then you know for how much you are protected :) names are like talk - cheap :) - silpol
"Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display. Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small light emitting diodes (LEDs), helping turn his prototype contact lenses into a sophisticated personal display - the tiniest one possible." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
that can't be good for one's health. fascinating though - Cee Bee
How would it be bad for your health Cee Bee? Maybe it might screw with your vision some, but what else would it affect? - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
It would be the a great heads up display, but I don't know if you would be able to track eye movement to select things on the display. The gyroscopes on the lens would have to be almost nano. - RAPatton
i'm not sure but placing some electronic object of that sort directly over one's retina may have its side effects. then again, i've been on this laptop for the past 6 hours and my balls are frying - Cee Bee
I'm totally ready for augmented reality, but I think i'll let other guinea pigs work out the kinks in the system first... - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
hmm, not a fan of this nor of a cattle prod being plugged into the back of my head. though something like "The Thirteenth Floor" would work - clarke thomas
@Phil: That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the photo. I want! - Jeremy Brooks
Very interesting. Gartner predicts that human augmentation will evolve over the next 10 years to the point where it will be feasible to enhance the performance or sensory abilities of healthy individuals. In other words, medical techniques such as sensory transference, direct brain interfaces, and nerve mapping will be used not just to restore physical deficiencies, but to enhance healthy people beyond “normal”. - Alan Cheslow
Whoa... cool. But really, heads up display, blah blah blah... i want my eyes to glow in the dark. Then I'll really be able to fight crime with my intimidating stare! - felix
I tried an earlier version of this kind of thing during a visit to a lab at the UW in Seattle. My eyes ached in a really strange way afterwards; I mean acute pain. I don't like the display as prosthetic, because of this experience. - terra210
I'd be happy with augmented reality embedded in my glasses... I'm not much of a contacts guy anyway. - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
I can finally hook up Friendfeed right into my eyeballs! - Hao Chen
Next step would be flashing contacts like those aftermarket lights underneath cars. - Earl E Morningwood via fftogo
Should give these away with Kraftwerk's-Man Machine Music. Way cool-I want some. - Mark Forman
You know those "spinner" hubs/tires that some folks have on their car wheels? How about "spinner" contacts? Hopefully invisible from the user's point of view, but folks looking at you see spinning in your eyes. based on this article, you could even attach little outward-facing LED lights to the spinners... - Bruce Williams
Just add a tiny wireless receiver, and you'll get special promotions of chips and nylon socks flashed on you contact lenses when you walk past Walmart. - Dewald Pretorius
Now if it can be a camera and take a frame every time I blink I'm in. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas: If you're blinking, you're going to get a bunch of dark photos :P - Eric Florenzano
i look forward to the day when my contact lens overlords control all that i survey - Ranjit Mathoda
"Why are you staring into space and chuckling to yourself", asks my wife. "Oh, just checking my email, got some funny ones today", I reply. - Nick Lewis
My two questionable cents: (1) power supply and (2) cooling. Much like current artificial eyes, but way harder to solve. - 9000
"Regardless of mouse weight and diet, resveratrol worked wonders. At two years of age, or the mouse equivalent of senescence, the mice were more coordinated than their non-dosed counterparts. Their bones were thicker and stronger, their eyes free of cataracts, their hearts beating strong. At the cellular level, tissues displayed gene-level changes almost identical to those produced by caloric restriction.
The mitochondria of resveratrol-taking mice also proved healthy. Mitochondrial degeneration has been implicated in a variety of diseases, leading some researchers to believe that heart disease, cancer and dementia -- all the so-called diseases of aging -- have a common root.
"The mice had tremendous health benefits from taking resveratrol," said de Cabo. "If any of those parameters translate to humans, it will be tremendous."
When Sinclair and de Cabo's mice started taking resveratrol they were one year old, roughly equivalent to 35 human years. The success suggests that the drug's benefits could be en" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
The best known perpetrator of this is Comcast, a major US ISP. Comcast forges packets to stop computers communicating when their networks are overloaded. They selectively do this to certain programs and it's very hard to detect. - Jon McAlister via Bookmarklet
"Tests showed that after six weeks, the T-cells of the 15 worm recipients began to produce lower levels of chemicals associated with inflammatory response, indicating that their immune systems were more suppressed than those of the 15 placebo recipients. Despite playing host to small numbers of parasites, worm recipients reported little discomfort.
Trial participants raved about their allergy symptoms disappearing. Word about the study soon appeared online among chronic allergy sufferers, and a Yahoo group on “helminthic therapy” sprung up.
“Many of the people who were given a placebo have requested worms, and many of the people with worms have elected to keep them,” Dr. Pritchard said." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
I saw this yesterday. As a sufferer from allergies, my current reaction is: no no no! Un-like! Especially when he says “The itch when they cross through your skin is indescribable.” My allergies aren't bad enough to sign up for an experiment :) - Jennie Lin
it seems to be a good news day for beneficial medical discoveries and innovations. - edythe
I can't figure out which timewaster rhymes with "hash pot". I got all the other ones (Myspace, youtube, etc.) Do either of you know? Is "sticky media" Wikipedia? - Kim
I kind of wish MeeTimer was compatible with Firefox 3. I also like the title better than LeechBlock - because it puts the onus on ME (rather than the sites I like). As I see it, FF and Twitter aren't the problem for most of us - it's our own time management and habits online (which each of us needs to master!) :) - melmcbride
Leechblock works great. Sorry Friendfeed, you're just way too interesting! - Jason Wehmhoener
To go beyond touch and create touchless 3D device control interface, Nokia decided to use Ultrasonic Transducers (USTs), arrayed around the perimeter of the display. - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
Sign Language for the cell phone market...interesting idea! - Susan Beebe
"The current marketing-based approach is fatally flawed, Crompton says. His work debunks the popularly held "foot-in-the-door" mantra (change your light bulb today, and you'll move to a walkable neighborhood and sell your car before you know it!), with documented psychological research revealing little evidence to support that individuals will continue to move up the sustainability ladder. Instead, actually, "There is some evidence that … individuals rest on their laurels," Crompton says: consumers often make some small steps and stop." - Jason Wehmhoener via Bookmarklet
When it makes economic sense, people will change. It's really that simple. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Article opens with a straw man argument. No rational Green thinks eco-consumerism is a discrete solution. I think he's right about greenwashing and green fatigue, though. - Chris Baskind
As best as I can tell, this (and a bunch of the other new Draft features) were done by Blogger East in the Cambridge office. Looking forward to sitting next to them come August. - Mihai Parparita
Cambridge is soon to be overflowing with awesome. :) - Erica Baker
Mihai, tell them to add a comment spam filter. Even something basic like blocking a certain user ID or a comment that is posted over and over again. Two days ago, I had to delete 130 identical spam comments. I don't like moderating comments because it diminishes the value of a "live" blog. - Ionut
Yeah, I agree with Ionut. Anything to help with comment spam control would be great. Every now and then some spammer likes to go and flood every post on my blog with comments containing nothing but linked keywords (usually in Chinese or Italian). I don't know whether to be pleased by the fact that rel=nofollow makes this mostly pointless, or even more annoyed that the spammers continue with this behavior in spite of that fact. - Laurence Gonsalves
huh, that's odd, I was under the impression that you were the Senior Executive Vice *Group* Director of VP Coordination & Vision... did you not allocate your synergies properly and get demoted?? - felix
"Senior Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" and "Deputy Senior VP of Strategic Synergy" Fantastic! SEVP of VPCP and DSVP of SS... - Mitchell Tsai
Ah! Interesting :) The funniest is that these guys don't even wear shoes at work, and play with thier bicycles in the office - directeur via NoiseRiver
ok pauls title is really wacky - "Sr. Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" - like wtf does that mean ? SERIOUSLY !! btw what does "VP" stand for ? - Peter Dawson
Scott Adams (?): "If it's more than two words, it's not a career" - Philipp Lenssen
I want Senior Fetchit Boy reporting the Staff Photographer. - Russellreno
These are beyond fantastic. Can I be your Human Branding Liaison? - Ginger Makela
I know a guy who runs a 600-person company, and walks around the offices barefoot! Not even sandals. My brother works there - Rhythm & Hues Studios - http://rhythm.com - Mitchell Tsai
Another company I helped rented a house at the beach - rather than a traditional office. Lot of fun having meetings there. They took surfing breaks for lunch. - Mitchell Tsai
I think i need to include those in full in all posts from now on - MG Siegler
longest title i've ever seen - you could have thrown in an acronym! - Allen Stern
You need a staff librarian. No, really, you do. I'm available, and like most librarians, I work cheap. - Cecily Walker
Did you guys steal these titles from Yahoo? - Eric Eldon
Is Ana still the "Chief Miscellaneous Officer" or does she go by a different title these days? Also, I'd like to know the other FFers' titles. - April Buchheit
Did you get to make up your own? The coolest title I've seen has been for a Microsoft employee - Professional Geek (before he worked there his title was Amateur Geek) - Craig Thomler
I actually have an outstanding diplomatic relations issue with wyoming. Who would I talk to about that? - J. Phil
So Bret, what's your title ? (This kind of culture is the kind that spawns neat stuff. Always has, always will. Keep it up!) - Charlie Anzman
Mine is "Supreme Allied Commander." I was always jealous of NATO. - Bret Taylor
I'm a little scared that some people don't seem to realize it's a joke. - Alan Cheslow
And here I was soo confused thinking Bret was the CEO! hehehe (ok he really is guys!!) - Susan Beebe
I just noticed Casey has Asian strategy in Wyoming? yo what?! - that's funny! - Susan Beebe
Do you have any Master Squirrel Hearders (project mgrs) yet?? that's my specialty - Susan Beebe
I really want a title too. If I bring all the Mommybloggers over...I better get one dammit - Erin Kotecki Vest
So is Casey's job to reach out to those parts of the world that twitter works? - Nancy Babyak
I got mine this morning: "Kevin Fox - Comptroller Third-Class, Tiger Team V" We are so going to kick Tiger Team III's ass at this year's interoffolympics!!! - Kevin Fox
haha! I wish more work places were like this. - Tsega D
I'd like to be the senior vice associate president of all things that the senior executive vice director of vp coordination and vision doesn't see. - Robert Scoble
Nice job title Paul! Did you try to max out the characters that would fit? :) - Alex Barbara
Saw this when the guy left a comment on one of my items. I guess "block" is an OK way to deal with this sort of thing for now. - Mihai Parparita
Proactively blocked. This is already the second one - the first was an English mortgage-ad or so, posted to a German discussion. So not subtle. - sebmos
