Considering that these trains are typically less than top notch russian machines it wouldn´t surprise me if something unexpectedly non-aerodynamic stuck out underneath of the trains sometimes which would make the girl just disappear.
- Thomas Bøhm
I feared that comment, zhinzher:) Although I assumed from the title, I would say the same even if it was a Norwegian train. The stupidest place to do this would be in front of magneto trains in Japan though;)
- Thomas Bøhm
These idiots should take a look at ogrish, rotten, or something like that, and then think about it a little bit. You only have 1 life, after it's game over. Dumbs....
- TiTi
my friend : " DAMN. THEY NEED TO MAKE BETTER VIDEO GAMES in that country"
- Caroline
Kol lives in the UK and can't listen to his favorite Pandora station any more and really misses it. If we all listen to it and tag the songs we hear, on last.fm with "kol pandora" then he can stream it from there. So start listening on Pandora & tagging on last.fm for him. http://www.pandora.com/...
- April Russo (app103)
It's not the kind of stuff I have been listening to in more recent days, but it is definitely in the taste of the "former me" so I am rather enjoying it.
- April Russo (app103)
It's switched to A Day in the Life, and now I see why critics said Julian Lennon needed to get his own style after he released Valotte.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Can't he just get a paid subscription and listen?
- Mark Wilson
They allow paid accounts outside the US? I thought Pandora didn't do that and paid accounts only gave extra listening and no ads to people within the US.
- April Russo (app103)
From what I know about Kol, from the things he has posted here on friendfeed, I don't think he really can afford it at this time, which is why I am trying to recreate his Pandora station on last.fm for him. But this isn't something I can do alone, for the station to be publicly streamable for free. I am currently going through the list of artists and songs he originally seeded it with, as well as any songs he thumbed up and tagging them to build it faster.
- April Russo (app103)
This is very kind of you. There is no service at all for Pandora outside the US due to licensing issues, paid or otherwise. As for Last.fm, it's free for me, though I've seen a Subscriber button but no no idea what you get for it. I think it's for a select few countries.
- Kol Tregaskes
I am a last.fm subscriber. I can stream any station, anyone's favorites, anyone's playlists. Plus I can see who has visited my profile recently.
- April Russo (app103)
I've seen Last.fm mention limits on playlists but never investigated it further.
- Kol Tregaskes
That's why the tagging idea is better. There is no maximum number of songs or artists that can be included in a public tag station. For playlists it is capped at around 200.
- April Russo (app103)
I always thought the subscriber option was for specific countries, I've never been limited (or been aware of being limited) to what I listen to on Last.fm. From the page Mark posted it says the subscriber option gives me uninterrupted radio listening: already have that, ad-free browsing and streaming: yep got that, recent visitors: don't have that but not worried, black logo: not worried either.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ads in streams on last.fm? Never heard one before and never see an ad on the site, even before I subscribed. ;-)
- April Russo (app103)
This is what I get on pandora.com: "We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. We will continue to work diligently to realize the vision of a truly global Pandora, but for the time being we are required to restrict its use. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative."
- Kol Tregaskes
April, exactly, so I wouldn't but the subscriber option anyway, I don't see any bonus to it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
But the issue isn't subscribing to last.fm which you can listen to for free...the issue is pandora, which you are cut off from. Which is why the need for recreating a streamable station on last.fm.
- April Russo (app103)
April, I realise that, I'm just wondering why there is a subscriber option at all? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Scott, hehe, I don't get many people with a rating higher than Low anyway. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I became a paid last.fm subscriber for ethical reasons. I get a lot of free music from them...downloads...and I know the unsigned artists I am downloading their stuff get a bit of money for each download and stream. The way I figure it, I am supporting a service that helps unknown unsigned artists get discovered and actually pays them for it. I like to think the money I paid is going to support that aspect of the service.
- April Russo (app103)
"The organization, which oversees track and field internationally, has asked the South African athletics federation to conduct a gender verification exam on the nation's running sensation, Caster Semenya, who Wednesday won the 800-meter event at the World Championships in Berlin."
- April Russo (app103)
from Bookmarklet
There is something that all the hormone shots in the world won't change, and even in transgender cases is not changed, and it is something that is quite obvious. And this image and the other one on the page both show a good shot of it, so it should be easy to tell. (I used to impress people by almost always guessing correctly when they did those "guy or girl" shows on tv, and I based my guess one one single factor)
- April Russo (app103)
I have a David Bowie song stuck in my head. i think it's rebel rebel.
- Mike Nencetti
Is it just me, or is this incredibly insulting and demeaning?
- Derrick
I am curious about other people's knowledge of human anatomy and their perceptions of what is "feminine". I don't mean for this to be the least bit demeaning. My guess may surprise some, which is why I am withholding it, for now.
- April Russo (app103)
I agree with Derrick. There are a lot of women out there who are not feminine and a lot of men who have feminine characteristics. You can't guess things like that based on a photograph. If athletics federations have issues and need to do blood testing, they can do that, but I think it's insulting for everyone else to make "guesses".
- Rochelle
I think the members of these ruling bodies in athletics should be required to take and pass a damn art class.
- April Russo (app103)
I haven't seen anywhere WHY she is being tested. What makes anyone think they need to test her chromosomal makeup? Also, why do they keep saying gender? It's sex.
- Ayşe E.
Ayse, from what I heard on NPR this morning, other competitors requested the testing because of how muscular she looks. The other women say it's not fair for a man to be competing in a race for women.
- Rochelle
I watched her race yesterday, and she won by a wide margin. And I agree, it's not fair for a man to compete against women. If you see the numbers, man are around 1.5 seconds faster than women on a race.
- Alejandro
Not just you derrick. I thought that when I saw it in the news last night.
- Anna Lynn M.
April, from studying the photo, I'd say female because there's no bulge in those very snug running pants. They fit like a woman's pants fit, not like a man's, in the crotchular region. But yes, on just a quick glance, I can see why people would question.
- Ladybug Heather
My guess is female, based on the arms, in particular the upper arm length in proportion to the lower arm length.
- April Russo (app103)
And the accusations against her are just a bunch of whining jealous sore losers.
- April Russo (app103)
I'm uneasy at the way they have handled the situation, any investigation in this case should not be of public interest and could have been done with less fuss, if she turned out to be a man then it could be a story but if she is a woman (and I believe she is) this is unnecessarily humiliating.
- M F
I'm uneasy because, like most things, gender gets really complicated once you get down to rigid details. e.g. the Polish sprinter Stella Walsh mentioned in the article who had both male and female genitalia. What hormones course through your veins and shape your development is just as unrelated to gender as what sort of sexual partner you prefer.
- Wirehead
I love it how they use the fact that she's fast as a reason to doubt she's female. Specially because last year she was running 2m11s and now she's 15 seconds faster. They implying that last year she was a woman and now somehow she's a 15second faster man? Couldn't it be that with training she's getting better? After all, she was in some remote village and now is training in a proper facility.
- Ricardo Vidal
Oh, and while we're at it. Let's check if Usain Bolt isn't somehow alien. He's also come out of nowhere and is kicking ass, big time.
- Ricardo Vidal
So what if a person is intersex? Has both parts.. What to go by then?
- Rodfather
This is so fucked. In the other pic in the article the chick running next to her looks the same with the following exceptions: 1) long hair 2) earrings 3) skin color. What kind of shit is this doing to the woman's psyche? I know I'd be pretty fucked up if I had to prove I am I woman.
- EricaJoy
Hmm, interesting that there have been incidences in the past of men competing as women. She looks similar to the others running next to her, except for her legs. The others too are quite muscular in their upper bodies. Her hips seem a little narrower than the others' too. Why don't they just do gender checks on all athletes at this level then...
- Rick Cogley
The Olympics at some point did institute gender checks, but the process was pretty bad. At one point all contestants had to parade naked in front of a panel of judges (male and female). That didn't go over well. Genetic testing I think was just getting attention, so they decided to go with XY testing, and devastated a few women who had grown up as female but turned out to be XY with no one knowing. I can't really remember the rest of it or find an article about it. x.x
- Heather
Yeah, Heather, that would likely open a huge ugly can of worms. It's probably psychologically "trying" to say the least for the runner or anyone accused of not being their gender!
- Rick Cogley
and the fun/pain of people who are XX in some cells & XY in other cells. Lots of crazy genetics in the real world. The article summed it up nicely - nature is a mess, we try to box it into male/female.
- Mitchell Tsai
I say if you're willing to get your penis cut off so you can compete in women's sports, then you deserve to win. If you call it winning. They should leave this chick alone.
- Lo is a Quitter
It does happen though, sometimes dudes compete as women. I saw it on Futurama.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Not even the best transexual in the world can menstruate so the question is, when was her last PAP smear. That should solve it with no need for further testing.
- Miss Elle
Liked for the thread. +1 MF, Ricardo, Heather, Mitchell.
- Louis Simoneau
Mitchell raises an interesting issue with the possibility of both XX and XY.
- John E. Bredehoft
I support Scott. I know there are ways to solve these doubts. Preliminary checks, then confirmation tests are done by the track and field controlling authorities of every country.
- Wins Fern
It is rude and demeaning to go about it this way (and Andrea made me laugh because of her Futurama reference)
- WorldofHiglet
@MiniMage -- I'm aware that working out can cause you to stop menstruating if you are female, but if she has EVER menstruated I think it pretty much ends the, "Is she really female?" question right there.
- Miss Elle
This entry is relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I agree that they've gone about this in rather horrible fashion, but I'm also sympathetic to chromosomally/physiologically/hormonally "typical" female athletes. I suppose we could get rid of male/female distinctions in track and field, but then typical XX females without any sexual differentiation abnormalities might as...
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- Christopher A Carr
Is it easy to tell if someone has EVER menstruated? I mean, one can check for a uterus, but I don't imagine we all have menses clicker counters installed.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
She should have medical records, no? A gynecologist who she sees annually? Unless we (and by "we" I mean the sports auditing world) are now going to call doctors' professionalism and credibility into question, too.
- Miss Elle
I would think the team has doctors, in which case someone is already calling them into question. My mind did scream a bit at the idea of going into someone's medical records, but I'm sure you had an intention that didn't involve invasion of privacy,
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
This is pretty interesting. I haven't checked into how credible it is. It discusses the differences between male and female skeletons and reminds me that I have boy fingers (my index finger is not longer than my ring finger). I imagine a boy can have girl arms & legs, if I can have boy fingers. http://www.secondtype.com/skeleto...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
What I heard on the news is that this may be a sort of hermaphrodite, with internal testicles that are producing testosterone, and external female genitalia. Now wouldn't that give a whole new meaning to the last name, 'Semen'ya?
- Bradley Farless
When I was a kid, this is what was allowed in my house. Salt was used *only* for baking. I miss making my dressings, rubs and sauces with this, but haven't seen it in a store in almost 10 years!
- Captain Bubbles
from Bookmarklet
I'm sure you could mail-order it. Heck you can mail order almost anything these days.
- Christian (Simply X)
Never had it. What does it taste like?
- Rick Cogley
It's just a bunch of dry herbs. I can't really describe the taste. It just adds a zest to the food. Have you had Mrs. Dash? It's like that but flavorful and way lest chemical-y tasting.
- Captain Bubbles
For a salty salt with less sodium, I've started using Morton's "Lite Salt" -- 35% sodium chloride, 65% potassium chloride. There's another brand out there, NoSalt, that's 100% potassium chloride, but I understand the transition can be a bit rough, so I'm going the Lite Salt route first, NoSalt later.
- Andrew Badera
Hey you guys check out Celtic Sea Salt hand harvested RAW NATURAL UNREFINED salt with the natural balance of minerals, not just sodium chloride or potassium chloride, more info here http://www.celticseasalt.com/About_C... Why leave what is natural?
- Ian Hilley
You guys are missing the point. I'm not looking salt. I have lots of different kinds of salt. It's the mixture of seasonings that makes this worthwhile.
- Captain Bubbles
No, but I've only been inside a grocery store once since this post and I know they wouldn't carry it.
- Captain Bubbles
I can get Spike's at Meijer's around these parts. I used to like it quite a bit, but have since switched to doing my own spice combos.
- Michael W. May
As someone following about 1900 people, I gotta say: my home feed is spinning like a top today. Where was everybody two months ago? =( Sorry, I know that sounded mean and bitter and I don't mean it that way. I just feel like my favorite bar put up a notice that it might (or might not, who knows!) be closing at the end of the year...
Facebook would be crazy not to provide an alternative venue. FriendFeed *is* the future of social. Zuckerberg is not that stupid that he won't understand this.
- Meryn Stol
My concern, Meryn, is that FB will try to merge this userbase into the existing FB infrastructure. As much as I truly enjoy my interactions with FFers, the FB platform will make it almost impossible for me to do so. It'd be like my favorite bar deciding to start hosting children's birthday parties during happy hour. The two don't mesh. If they opt to keep FF up as a guinea pig site, separate from FB.com, I'm actually AOK with that. I'll be a guinea pig.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina Lets hope it turns out that way, I've been here for only 2 months and LO!=(
- अभिषेक(Abhishek) Das
Tina. Zuckerberg does recognize this new way of being social. Why else would they have offered to acquire Twitter, and why else have they been copying features from FriendFeed. They've just introduced site-wide search through all public timelines. It's Zuckerberg's dream to make people behave on Facebook like they do on Twitter and FriendFeed. He knows that this will eventually be much bigger than the model Facebook started out with.
- Meryn Stol
Zuckerberg knows Facebook is lacking. That's the only possible explanation for the growth of Twitter. Do you think Zuckerberg wants his site to be "lacking"?
- Meryn Stol
@Meryn, the point some of us are trying to make is that there isn't a one-size-fits-all behavior model. I behave differently here and on Facebook, _on purpose_. I have different social networks in the two places, and I won't be merging them. Everybody and their grandmother seems to think that I want to have my dad, my co-workers, my RL friends, my online friends, and a bunch of Django...
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- Ken Kennedy
In a thread started by Scoble, Ian Betteridge brought up the idea of a "Facebook Conversations" area. The FriendFeed site would become just that. I personally don't think that if Facebook had managed to acquire Twitter, they had tried to kill it. Zuckerberg is envious of Twitter's growth. It's the growth of a new social graph, based on asymmetric relationships and public updates. Zuckerberg wants to get into that game.
- Meryn Stol
There's no way they would've shut Twitter down if they'd bought it. Twitter is a brand name with national media attention. Lacking in tech, but still recognized. FriendFeed is exactly the opposite: some really beefy, usable, one of a kind tech that hasn't broken into the national spotlight. It's the dream acquisition, one where you can cherry pick all the really shiny parts without...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Wow, Tina - you just said a lot and nailed it.
- phil baumann
Tina, my point is, that because they wanted to buy Twitter (for 500MM!!), they see value in their model. Because their technology perse doesn't amount to much. Since the offer was refused, I think Zuckerberg now looks into options to go into this space themselves. I think they gonna try to compete with Twitter now. Again, see public timelines, site-wide search, pages with "fans", etc.
- Meryn Stol
It really is a shame, the biggest downside is the huge disconnect between the two platforms, FriendFeed is about letting users aggregate, comment on and share content from and with services all over the Internet, even services of the user's own design. FaceBook is a giant closed sandbox that wants to consume everything and then lock everyone into it. That nature alone is what makes me sad about this, even if the platform stays the same that attitude is going to eventually leak in (I fear) and spoil the fun.
- matthew john ernisse
What Tina said is one of my concerns. I'm not sure the way I use FriendFeed is compatible with the likely future of the technology at Facebook. The core technologies will probably be broken off and integrated into Facebook pages, and once that is done Facebook will have little reason to support a separate FriendFeed site.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Meryn, I agree that all of those features you mentioned will almost certainly exist. Unfortunately, they will exist *within the confines* of FaceBook and almost certainly not on as a separate, external site i.e. FriendFeed.com (because really, it doesn't make any sense to duplicate the functionality between two separate platforms). Even if FaceBook breaks down the wall around their...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yes Tina, you nailed it. Meryn, I don't think Facebook can ever be what FF is even with (and especially with) more openness unless they allow pseudonymous and multiple accounts, and I'm not holding my breath.
- LogEx
from iPhone
Tina, why don't you think Zuckerberg doesn't want Facebook to be also appealing to you? The rise of Twitter and FriendFeed both signal Facebook's current offering doesn't cut it for many. Why wouldn't he try to be self-critical and try to offer a better package? If he does not, he'll lose the people to the company who does... It's not like no-one can build a new FriendFeed. Twitter of...
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- Meryn Stol
Meryn, I wish I could affirm everything you're saying but Tina is probably right. Friendfeed WAS the future of social networking. Not anymore. This is exactly what FB wanted.
- Jim Hearts FF
++Tina for that comparison up there.
- Kamilah Gill
I think the only way FB could become like FF is if it became...well...FF.
- phil baumann
Phil, and are we not seeing signs of that happening? Commenting, likes, site-wide search.... And now an acquisition.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn, no one wants FaceBook to be appealing to me. The staff at FaceBook wants it to appeal to the majority of users, and the current majority of users obviously like FaceBook for what it is now. That doesn't mean they won't add some of FriendFeed's technology (like search, which is apparently already going through the mill), but the overall concept of 'FaceBook' will still focus on...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
"The staff at FaceBook wants it to appeal to the majority of users, and the current majority of users obviously like FaceBook for what it is now" - Except for all the people who are much more engaged with Twitter now. I think Zuckerberg has Twitter envy.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn - yes, but I see two major problem areas: 1) Facebook's culture is just different from FF. 2) So far FB is pretty closed - there's something different about the kind of sharing that transpires in a public environment like FF versus the more private garden of FB. If FB can break out of the wall, then it may get closer to FF (not just adopting and usurping FF features as they've been doing for a while).
- phil baumann
Meryn, Facebook and FriendFeed have opposing philosophies. Facebook starts from the position that you are an IRL person and have some close contacts (family and friends) that you trust and want to share with, then you branch out and share with more people, perhaps limiting what the wider circle sees. FriendFeed works more like a public gathering place, you start with people getting...
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- LogEx
LE: There have been enough signs that Zuckerberg wants Facebook to evolve. They still have to cater to their existing user base of course. It's just like Microsoft now going into cloud services. They won't kill the desktop version of Office. There's still high customer demand. Still they want to have just as good of a cloud offering as Google Apps or Zoho Office. Why? They know this is...
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- Meryn Stol
By the way, sorry Tina for messing up your thread. You''d probably wanted to have some sympathy here instead of an elaborate discussion on the future of the social networking industry. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Nah, I'm always up for discussion =) I still believe, unfortunately, that FF will be cannibalized for tech and staff and the overall feel of FaceBook will not change appreciably for the better. Adding more features does not equal becoming a better service when some of the existing features are convoluted, annoying, unusable, etc.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I think we mainly differ in our impression of Zuckerberg's smarts. I think he has bought FF to be able to compete with Twitter, because he doesn't need to compete in the classic social networking space (e.g. real-life, mutual friendships). He has no serious competition there. The fact that he bought a company instead of trying to do it with his own team signals he understands Facebook in total wasn't smart enough to do it themselves. That in turn, says much about his intelligence - at least for me.
- Meryn Stol
I don't think it's really an issue of Zuckerberg's smarts. Obviously it takes smarts to build such a popular service. The question is what he wants to do with FriendFeed, and whether what he wants is the same as what the FF user base wants. Even if the FB interface improves with the addition of FF technology, it still may not approach the open-ended conversation model of FF.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Zuckerberg has had years to open up his walled garden. That simple step would have catapulted FB from networking to social media. If every FB user's URL facebook.com/UserName were viewable from anywhere online without a logon including the accompanying status updates, links, photos, etc. : POOF he would have trumped Twitter for material content and FF for user base. That was all he had...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, indeed. And whether it was stupidity or malevolence, now he pays the price in the form of Twitter, and many people calling Facebook "dead" or "irrelevant". You think he likes that?
- Meryn Stol
Actually, your argument doesn't really hold because he has to deal with the user expectation that their updates posted to FB are private. What I mean is that indeed he has in some ways missed the boat... But I think that he really wants to catch up. It was worth 500MM to him to own Twitter, and 50MM to be more competitive with them.
- Meryn Stol
Best I recall (and I don't pay all that much attention to this type of news so I could be wrong), FaceBook was still WAY larger than Twitter. More importantly, FB has an up and running monetization strategy while Twitter's is... Well, they're working on it. People might call it dead or irrelevant but it's still the biggest game in town for the type of service it offers (which is much...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, I don't know if you know, but they already ask that question now... It's just that they won't turn over their existing users that easy. It's all what you used to. On top of that, many people can use Twitter and FriendFeed in public mode because they have Facebook as their private space. That's why I think Facebook would do best to offer up an extra timeline which is always public. Hence why I brought up Ian's idea of "Facebook Coversations" (near the top of this thread).
- Meryn Stol
Yes, I'm aware that they ask the question now, it's buried in their privacy mess. How many of their millions of users actually know that the question is there, that the option is there?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yup, so I think they will change that. I'm sure that the FF team can learn them a thing or two about simplicity. Again, the acquisition signals that they did not think they could compete with Twitter on their own. Zuckerberg explicitly praises the elegance and simplicity of Friendfeed in the press release. Now, he can have them at his table regularly.
- Meryn Stol
i've been getting my ass kicked by 2 babies - I wanted to be on here more I swear!!!! ; )
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Wow, nice thread, read the full thing! Very interesting points by Logical Extremes & Meryn (Tina too of course) Just wanted to know by this comment (as I'm not fully fluent): what was the exact point of the post? That you might stop using FF? I wasn't totally sure from the direction the discussion took. Where was everybody? I was into some cyber-depression and now kicking at it again ;p
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
i cant even keep track of 150 1900....my brain hurts just thinking about it. ouch!
- echostreamer
Zu, the original post was mainly me musing that there are so many new people on FF that joined after the buyout news and wondering what would have happened if they'd joined a few months ago. Would there have been a buyout? The discussion turned to thoughts on FB in general and I'm ok with that: turns of discussion makes things interesting =). Echo, I make no effort to keep track of all...
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Oh, how interesting! So buyout meant subs from everywhere I suppose, from unknown peeps... have you been 'spammed' in any way? I, too, is wondering about that now that you mentioned it, people subbed to me in masses during my leave of absence and was wondering why. I'll look into those buyout news as I don't have any details on the case yet but obviously, the buyer being FB is big news. Thanks for the reply there, you've always been one of my favorite users, give the poor n00bs a chance! 9)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I wish breakfast would be made an attractive woman who brings it to me in bed, but then never gets eaten because ... Um ... more important things come up
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Likewise. I've found that fully-cooked bacon you can buy in stores now helps a lot though :)
- Andrew Badera
"What does the Google Chrome logo hide? These two unofficial interpretations are by Chihiro Yayoi, from the Chrome logo challenge."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
After all, the company that makes it is called "Organix." And they have a "No junk promise." And they say that there's "reduced salt" and "reduced fat." Wait, what? I didn't know carrots had fat or salt. In fact, they don't. That's because "Carrot Stix" are not, in fact, carrot sticks. They're cheezy-poofs: deep fried powdered corn/potato snacks, dusted with "powdered carrots." They are not, in fact, carrots. They're not even food.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
from Bookmarklet
Dave: As a fan of both, I'd say TBL is a hell of a lot easier to "get" than MD
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.
- Mark Davidson
Oh it is a good movie, but if you don't find the humor in it, that doesn't mean you don't 'get it'. Coen brother's movies are hit and miss with me. Some are worth watching while some are boring as hell.
- Captain Bubbles
In a sense, yes. My art has been commended as being strongly vaginal which bothers some men. The word itself makes some men uncomfortable. Vagina.
- Mark Davidson
I didn't "get it" the first time I watched it, either. Watch it again in a few months. It's now in my top five favorite movies. Full of quotable lines such as those offered up here already. :-) I think it also has the dubious title of the movie with the most instances of the "F" word.
- Jenny R.
I think Reservoir Dogs has 5x as many f-bombs. I don't know even know the point of that movie because of it. LOL
- Captain Bubbles
Really? I guess that means Scarface is a more compelling movie because I can at least explain what that was about. [DISCLAIMER: I *hated* Reservoir Dogs because of the gratuitous f-bombs.]
- Captain Bubbles
I love the Coen brothers and hate The Big Lebowski.
- Derrick
The Eff word is the Swiss Army Knife of words.
- Mark Davidson
@jenny: nice clip - although none of them really feels gratuitous in context. also, i always forget Scoble was in it.
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony: lol. Your comment took me a moment.
- Mark Davidson
It's the carpet man... it ties the room together.
- Emilio_M
I love the Big Lebowski and can't stand Raising Arizona.
- Jim Hearts FF
I don't like Lebowski either (though the Coens are among my favorite living filmmakers). Mulholland Drive on the other hand, is in my all-time top five.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It's about the rug. It really pulled the room together. And they pissed on it. That's just uncalled for. Really.
- Morgan Haley
"Our goal was garden-fresh eggs ― blue- or buff-shelled ones with deep yellow yolks, tender whites, and rich flavor. So we installed a coop in a corner of Sunset’s test garden, then bought six baby chicks whom we named Alana, Ophelia, Charlotte, Honey, Carmelita, and Ruby. Even before they were old enough to lay, our flock brought unexpected delights: their antics as tiny cheeping fluff balls; their distinct personalities as squawky adolescents; the way their soft clucking made the garden seem more alive."
- Derrick
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But we soon learned that there’s much more to keeping chickens than providing them shelter and food. Unlike with kids, you can’t discipline a chicken. They knocked over their food dishes seemingly for sport and nibbled junk food ― straw, wood shavings, bits of string. (We learned to keep such materials out of their pen.) Cleaning out their coop and filling and hauling 8-gallon...
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- Derrick
I would love to live in an area where I could raise chickens. Eggs are probably one of my favorite all time foods, and the thought of fresh eggs every day is awesome.
- Derrick
derrick, you'd be surprised. a lot of cities allow chickens.
- tiffany
I imagine they'd be cool in Austin, right? NOT THAT I'M SAYING ANYTHING. Or am I? *le sigh*
- Derrick
Derrick your area is zoned for chickens. I know a few people in ER who have chickens. Lots of people over here have chickens, too. There's a person on the other side of Huntington who has pigs.
- Captain Bubbles
Especially right outside the city, near the lake. :-)
- Trish R
Anika, we don't have the real estate, though. We're in a duplex, but we have no real discernible yard.
- Derrick
Anika, I heard your comment in the voice of the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld, LOL.
- Trish R
My great aunt has some chickens. I went over the other day and actually saw a tiny baby chick being borned! It was awesome.. just kicking off the shell and saying hello.
- Yolanda
Trish, that's exactly how it sounded in my head as I typed it.
- Captain Bubbles
Chickens are mean. They'll also eat cooked chicken. Cannibals!!!!!
- Katy S
Katy, have you HAD cooked chicken? NOM. :) This article here at Sunset talked about holding them as chicks so that they get used to people and to being handled.
- Derrick
My mom has six chickens and we get all the eggs we can eat (with 3 kids, that's a lot). I have the best of both worlds, no effort and great eggs. Then again, I do exercise her horses and loan out my husband for grunt work.
- Heather Solos
I'm amused to see this topic on friendfeed :-)
- Richard A.
Oh, I think chickens are hilarious, even if they can be mean. I took some pics of baby chicks just the other day. I saw them at the farm supply store when I went to get kibble for my kitties. And yes, cooked chicken is yummy!!!! This was my favorite picture just for the clip art on the sign: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Katy S
I want chickens one day, for the eggs. Akiva's not so fond of the idea but we'll work on that.
- Rochelle
Raising chickens can be a real handful. We had a coop full of them that came with the rental when we lived in Cabo San Lucas, and it was a lot of work. Also, the rooster waking us up at five every morning didn't help. :D
- Steven Perez
I wish I didn't hate chickens. Or that chickens didn't hate me.
- Alix Whitmire
This article was good, because if you just want eggs, as I do, you don't need roosters. And the hens just lay and lay. Interesting read, for sure.
- Derrick
Derrick, I think I'm scarred for life by the rooster on our farm when I was a kid who was as tall as me and hated me (and hurt me pretty bad once). Chicks are awesomely cute, though. :)
- Alix Whitmire
My relatives kept chickens in their yard. Their fridge was always full of eggs.
- Morton Fox
Mona, I have a huge domestic side to me (have you not seen my food pics?). I can't wait to live somewhere I can have three or four hens for fresh eggs (and just think of the resulting cookies, cakes, and brownies...)
- Derrick
Dude - you would totally love the bay area, farmer's markets galore!
- Mona Nomura
Some friends have chickens, but they have a huge property. The yolk is humongous though.
- Rodfather
Derrick - totally irrelevant, but wanna try out for The Amazing Race together? Casting's coming up!
- Mona Nomura
I can't imagine raising chickens in a suburban area. Together, they make a lot of noise and with shared fences, the neighbors would probably get annoyed.
- Rodfather
OMG, Mona, I love that show, but I'm SO not sporting...lol
- Derrick
I have THE WORST hand eye coordination and can't walk up a flight of stairs w/out running out of breath, but we'd be BAD ASS as a duo. I just looked on that site and Big Brother auditions are coming up too - we should TOTALLY do it LOL
- Mona Nomura
My sister has a dream of using her chicken sheds in the back of hte yard for real chickens. To me, it seems unpleasant. killing them, walking in shit, etc.
- anna sauce
I don't want to kill them, Anna, I just want fresh eggs.
- Derrick
And chicken crap helps make great compost. I get a bucket of it from a neighbor every 3 or 4 months.
- Captain Bubbles
As a young pup , I worked for a commercial chicken grower, Each house had 50,000 plus each of the little cheeping fuz balls. Like a golden yellow carpet with black dots. all moving. Ahh those were the days.
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You can install bug zappers above the coop. Apparently bugs are really good for chickens and result in very tasty eggs.
- Benjamin Golub
They were trying to convince me to get 3 or 4 chickens. I don't think I eat that many eggs. I mean, I could make 3 eggs for a breakfast burrito, but do I want to eat a breakfast burrito everyday? No.
- Captain Bubbles
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- Andrew Badera
Well someone who could assist in shopping the company to investors, doing all of the legwork involved to put the company out in front of them - would be nice to have someone who can do that on behalf of the company.
- Nathan Chase
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- Tristan Seligmann
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- Christopher Harley
Question, and it actually relates to the original post!: ok do I really have to read the epic "325 comments" threads in their entirety? I can read really fast, but damn, that is just too many coments to go thru! Suggestions? What is the reasonable amount of comments one should read, i.e. FF cutoff for ridiculously long threads? Thoughts? We need consensus for this important topic. thanks
- Susan Beebe
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- Mark Davidson
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