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I'm totally stoked! - Phil G

I'm most interested in the dashboard and the improvements in the process for creating and managing posts... - Taylor Davidson

Keyboard shortcuts for comment moderation and managing are fantastic! - LoreArtifex

Looking awesome! - Robert Scoble

Maryam cries at Obamercial. Robert cries at software. That sounds about right. - Michael Markman

+1 Michael! soo true! :) both are very lovable! - Susan Beebe

I would love it if I could combine this with my telescope to click an item, scope moves into position, to see it live. - jcunwired

@Joe the Plumber: I believe you can, if you have a supported telescope: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/help... - Craig Eddy

Yep, thanks Craig, was just reading that section. Now I need a more powerful field PC. Very excited though! - jcunwired

Thanks for posting! (I caught the end of it on TV) - Dan Hsiao

McCain was quite funny too. At the end especially when introducing Obama next =) - Davide D'Incau

This is fabulous! "That was a tough primary you had there, John." And thanks for posting McCain's too - about to watch. - Carla Thompson

This is excellent! I wish we had the same kind of moments in French politics! - Antoine Bertier

OMG... the AIG zinger... - Cyndy

the idea of this during a campaign just seemed bizarre to me... - Taylor Davidson

where is the McCain video from the Al Smith dinner? - John Blanton from twhirl

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Chris Baskind

I love the quote that the problems with the housing market have been eight times harder on McCain ha! - Joe Dawson

Good humoured banter. Nice to see the candidates with a sense of humour during the campaign. - Chris Nixon

Its great to think that after the division between candidates, parties and America in the past months, this sort of event could occur. I loved it! Both were great, and we needed a refreshing moment to sit back and realize that at the end of the day, one of the more crucial aspects to life is the ability to laugh. - jcunwired

McCain was the best I have *ever* seen him. Won't change my vote, of course, but the McCain in this video is a lot more like the one we used to see before the 2000 elections. - Chris Baskind

both were pretty funny....but i think obama won the standup debate :) - don loeb

McCain was hilarious. As an Obama supporter, I am glad he wasn't that good during all of his other speeches ;) - Bret Taylor

One of my favorite lines was "Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is that Barack is actually Swahili for 'that one'. And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president." - Bret Taylor

Agree with Bret. McCain's comedic timing was a lot better than Obama's - Deepak Singh

This is really cool! FUNNY!!!!!!! thanks for sharing!! :) - Susan Beebe

Amen, @Chris B. If only the whole campaign were this funny and civil. - Heidi Moon

Hehe. Roast. Conjures up funny images to people here in the UK. - Slippy "WildBeard" Lane

They were both hilarious! Their writers need to work in comedy :) I thought Obama was the funniest, but then I am an Obama fan so may be biased. - Sheila Taylor

Swahili for "That One". Too funny. - Clay Newton

"Contrary to rumors, I was not born in a manger! I was actually born on Krypton...." - j1m

Funny, McCain was good as well. Can you imagine having that in France?...Not really! - alice ayel

Dear american friends: should Barack Obama lose the election, can we have him ? - dario

@Dario only if the international community will also accept an American intellectual diaspora as well. - Jason Carreira

@alice, maybe not the 2002 election, but a roast between Sarko and Séngolène would have been interesting. - James Williams

ha ha! that's funny - Susan Beebe

bad. so bad. - ♥patricia♥

Ha. I love that "the Scarlet Letter" is given as a helper clue. High school English is so much easier to remember than the alphabet. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

LOL...that's so wrong. - Admiral Anika

Reminds me of the Hollywood Henderson quote before Super Bowl XIII when asked about how smart Terry Bradshaw was..."He couldn't spell CAT if you spotted him the 'C' and the 'T'..." - Live4Emma (L4S)

lol - Shawn aka ringking

I solved it but won't spoil it for you... tricky! - Jemm

I could barely solve this puzzle and I'm not blonde :P - imabonehead

@Mona I thought you are brunette but now... - A.T.

Uh oh... does "strawberry blonde" still count as blonde? - Ladybug Heather

My mom's fave blonde joke: The blonde picked out a puzzle and took it home. Five weeks later, after working on it with only the shortest of breaks for eating and drinking, she emerged from her apartment. Disheveled but triumphant, she ran to the doorman to tell about her success. "I put together the puzzle! It only took me five weeks, but the box said two to four YEARS!" - Ladybug Heather

ROFL this is the first crossword puzzle I solved 100% thanks Mona! - Gaby K. Slezák

She's *certainly* doing it for the lulz. - Eric Geller

Wha--Oh, I get it! lulz. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

Absolutely wonderful. I am so pissed I did not think of that. - MG Siegler

WD :-D - Majento

Wow I knew there had to be some word play in there somewhere.. LOL - Ken

D'oh! - Mona Nomura

oh come on... don't insult homer... and that other guy... what have they done to deserve that? - Joshua Schnell

ya mean John Wayne? - CW™

hahahahahahaha - Joe Pierce

I like both of those first two, but hate the third. I think the mix is improper, unless you're just going with the BRAINDEAD + COWBOY motif, then I getcha. - Pete Delucchi

You may not like sugar; You may not like egg whites; but you will love meringue? - David HC Soul

HS is cute and well-intentioned, and JW is a hero and also well-intentioned. There's an evilness to GWB that isn't captured in this, the part that called on Rove to win his elections,or Cheney to open Guantanamo. - Dave Winer

I wouldn't insult Homer like that. It's wrong. So wrong. - Kevin Singarayar

right, bart's IQ is way higher than bush could ever dream of having. - Hayk H.

That'll be the day! - Jason

Kwyjibo! - mal

It would work if you subtract Mother Teresa. - Dave Winer

That is an insult to both Homer and especially John Wayne - ThePicMan

I agree with ThePicMan. I like Homer and John Wayne. Bush is diablo. - Andrew Speers

True! - Apostolos Papadopoulos

I would love to see FriendFeed get to the point where there is such a wide expanse of tools around it. - Vishwas Narendra

Vishwas, there are several tools right now, probably around 10. The problem is that the FriendFeed experience is significantly different than typical microblogging. - Rob Diana

Robert: you should checkout the list I've made. There are like 150 Twitter services in there and still counting - http://bit.ly/1SGWZD. - Nir Ben Yona

Rob, I understand that FriendFeed is not a pure microblogging service. But since FriendFeed does a lot more than twitter, shouldn't there be more room for tools around it, rather than less? - Vishwas Narendra

Well, when something has more functionality, it is typically harder to create an application to capture that. Twitter is functionally fairly simple, so you can create an application in a short amount of time. - Rob Diana

In general, when something has more functionality, I would assume that it has more integration points. I do see your point, though. More functionality in the service probably means that the value of an external tool is lower. - Vishwas Narendra

cute-things-swearing always work - Marko Bon

just had french vanilla coffee mixed w/ Hot Chocolate ftw! - Anthony Farrior

LOL at "Hey, make me a sandwich!" http://unicornburger.com/images... - stretta from twhirl

I told Jason this morning I need a new coffee maker. He said no. He narrowly escaped death. - Cyndy

I believe I said "Can't you just use Folger's Crystals" ;) - Jason Carreira

Folger's Crystals?! Cyndy! FIRE HIM! ;) - Mona Nomura

Hahah it was a joke... she does have a nice french press pot she could use... - Jason Carreira

so true, so true - Sarah Perez

My beloved Rancilio Sylvia espresso machine is the best investment I ever made, in my career, my relationship, my finances ... you can pry it from my cold dead hands, maybe, with a crow bar. - Nadine Schaeffer

The French press does exactly one cup at a time. Insufficient. - Cyndy

Cyndy, you need a bigger French press. I have one that makes 8 cups of coffee. - Trish R

lol rick :) - Mathieu Ayel

Trish, I'm guessing that our concept of cup size is different. http://www.greatbigstuff.com/mug... - Cyndy

I miss coffee :( - ·[▪_▪]·

That pimp has seized all my friends..and coworkers, but me!! - Terence

@Rick, that's Freedom Press to you, comrade. - Ayşe E.

taping this to lolhusband's coffee stash for a giggle in the morning. - Stephanie_Thankful

There needs to be one of these with a Diet Coke can - Jason Carreira

Jason speaks wisdom - Josh Haley

hahahhaahhaa - Anna Haro

Perfect - nice find. - Cale Bruckner from twhirl

This link Matthew left up there is HILARIOUS.http://unicornburger.com/images... - Mona Nomura

It is so much more effective with the clips... Wouldn't it be great if they allowed multimedia in the debates? - Clare Dibble

This is how every debatable issue should be remixed. Without memory, and thankfully we have written media and "now" internet to help us out in this domain, humans would be reduced to ad swallowing, nay-saying consumers with an attention span of an earthworm. - Nenad Nikolic from twhirl

This shows how McCain was wrong, but doesn't show how Obama is right. The same thing could be done that shows how Obama was wrong about the surge and the connections between Iraq and Afghanistan. This is just as useless as any other debate fallacy, because it's completely one sided. Except it does it with multimedia. To that end, stop patting yourselves on the back. You look stupid. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Mark: Everyone makes mistakes, but McCain refuses to acknowledge his mistakes. He has bought so much of his own "maverick" PR that he lives in his own fantasy world, where everything can be referenced to war and where its OK for an air-head like Sarah Palin to be one step away from leading our nation. McCain is dangerous and he simply should not be allowed to assume the leadership of this country by repeating one lie or half-truth after another. - Rob McNair-Huff

Republicans always do that. When you say their guy fucked up, they accuse your guy of doing the same thing. It's totally predictable. They must teach it in the first day of Republican Orientation. - Dave Winer

As does Obama. Has he yet said he was wrong about the surge? The same things can all be said about Obama, and a simple YouTube video could prove that, too, but my guess it'd be called "swiftboating," which is apparently the defense you use when you're a Democrat and a video shows your candidate in a bad light. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

See what I mean? :-) - Dave Winer

lol - Cee Bee

@Mark: Because the surge was a bandaid that didn't get us much closer to getting out. Obama has said the surge has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. It doesn't mean the surge was the right thing to do. The bailout might be successful in many ways, but it still doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. - AJ Kohn

@Mark - okay...why don't you make a video then instead of huffing and puffing? If you only 'talk the talk' but can't 'walk the walk', well, then, I'm afraid you are the one who looks stupid. - Steve just Steve

mark...of course obama said he was wrong. he said, 'the surge exceeded beyond my expectations.' remember mccain said that like 4 times during the debate and obama said, 'yep, i said it.' - Admiral Anika

dave, the thing is that most of us have been raised knowing that two wrongs don't a make a right. many hardcore GOP partisans clearly weren't. - Admiral Anika

Note that the surge, as successful as it's been, has still not won us the war. - Victor Ganata

Believe it or not, I'd be willing to vote Republican if they just ran better candidates. In this case the ticket is not only not strong (McCain), it is extremely weak (Palin), and they are running against a competent and smart ticket in Obama/Biden. But what frustrates me is Republicans who keep defending a weak ticket simply because of party affiliation. Republicans *should* be pissed as hell right now; but rather than lashing out at their opponents, they should fix the problem with their own candidates. - DeWitt Clinton

I agree DeWitt. Ironically, I would have considered McCain in 2000, but this isn't the same guy. I thought Kerry was weak too. Leagues better than Bush, but still weak. But Obama? The first time I have been excited... maybe ever. :) - Dion Almaer

DeWitt, totally agree. I have voted Republican, but always in lesser-of-two-evils mode. Obama is the first Presidential vote that I make in my life without such a reservation. - Dave Winer

@Steve: re-read my original comment and try that accusation again. I said "his is just as useless as any other debate fallacy, because it's completely one sided." Look, it's not like I ask you folks to read an entire Federalist paper or something long and complicated. Just a couple sentences to read before you try to argue with me. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@faboo: Saying it succeeded beyond his wildest expectations and admitting he was wrong are not the same thing. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@AJ: If you don't understand why the surge was the right thing to do (and should have been done from the beginning, as McCain wanted), then your understanding of foreign policy and conflict strategy is far too limited to participate in this debate. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Mark: *chuckle* So are you going to explain why the surge was the right thing to do or simply insult me? I mean ... really, this is your debate tactic? Also, that's not even the argument! You've missed it entirely. The argument was about not admitting error as a proxy to one-sided political dialog - of which I provided a cogent answer and analogy. You chose to argue the point of the actual surge instead. That's another topic. - AJ Kohn

Defenders of the Iraq War are unable to explain why it has made sense for Americans to dump several trillions of dollars down the drain in Iraq with the effect of installing a Muslim fundamentalist regime in that nation that is closely allied with Iran. This is the stupidest foreign policy blunder in American history. The "surge" is neither here nor there in making this disaster go... more... - Sean McBride

The surge is a tactic, not a strategy, no matter what McCain says. And while it has decreased violence, that doesn't mean we've succeeded. We're still no closer to winning the war. If we can't withdraw those troops without the whole place caving in, then ultimately we've failed. - Victor Ganata

Victor -- McCain has made it clear that he doesn't understand the distinctions between tactics and strategy. - Sean McBride

Could everyone please make an effort to stay respectful and kind? When that doesn't happen people start calling for an end to all political discussion, which would be bad. When that happens the mainstream media get to frame every issue. - Bruce Lewis

@Victor: I've gone ahead and set your comments to hidden from here on out, since you can't be bothered to look up the difference between strategy and tactic. @AJ: My prior statement stands. Again, I'm tired of folks who don't understand their world speaking as if they were experts on everything. Maybe i'll see you both in November when I unblock everyone. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Mark: (If you see this) I'm sorry you don't wish to have a real debate. Done appropriately, it is the way we gain better understanding of topics and of each other. I'll take up the strategy v tactic though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Now, in my mind the surge (adding more troops on the ground) was a means to an end (pacifying insurgents/security) to achieve the objective (Iraqi autonomy). Perhaps you see it differently? - AJ Kohn

I've been involved in several discussions and "debates" with Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins now in which he has made statements which are factually false, and then quickly retreated when the factual errors were pointed out to him. He is aligned with a group of neoconservatives and religious fundamentalists in the room Conservative Oasis in which this kind of behavior is the norm -- they can't defend their ideas in fair, open and democratic debate. They always retreat after two or three exchanges. - Sean McBride

You can never get promoters of the "surge" to talk about the costs and benefits of the Iraq War policy as a whole -- their minds go into lockdown mode the instant the issue is raised. They are unable to think strategically. Bush 43 and the neocons are spending trillions of dollars to secure Iran's control over Iraq. Massive fail. They have essentially wasted American resources and lives to promote Muslim fundamentalism in the Middle East. - Sean McBride

Mark - I'm with just about everyone else here. I need facts, or at least some modicum of explanation as to your logic, rather than repeated sound bites. In that regard, please hide all of my comments as well. No need to unblock in November, but I will leave that up to you. - jcunwired

If you can't effectively defend your beliefs in fair and open debate, and subject them to fact checking, reality checking and rigorous logical analysis, there is a good possibility that your beliefs are wrong. Fair and open debate is the heart and soul of any healthy and functioning democracy. True believers who can't handle debates usually are strongly attracted to authoritarian and totalitarian political systems. - Sean McBride

"Debate" by blocking: Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins, Jay Tannenbaum, Akiva Moskovitz, Soulhuntre, Mark Tefft -- sorry if I left anyone out. One issue seems to unite them: an emotional commitment to neoconservative military aggression in the Mideast. They stand to the right of even the Bush 43 administration. Neoconservatism is more a religious cult than a rational political philosophy. - Sean McBride

I try not to box people into labels. I can only say that, in this instance, Mark chose to insult and then not engage in debate. I'm sure it's difficult for many conservatives on FF who get called names by other 'left' leaning folks. I make an effort not to do that. I would think it would be a nice change to find true debate instead. So, running away from it seems odd. - AJ Kohn

I've seen Hopkins do this three or four times now, and his political allies in Conservative Oasis do the same thing many times as well, so I have drawn the logical and reasonable conclusion -- they hold emotional beliefs that they can't defend against exercises in reality-checking. This is the same political group that promised us that the Iraq War would be a cakewalk and cost Americans... more... - Sean McBride

Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins is a *self-admitted* shit-stirrer (see http://rizzn.com/blog...) with a pathological habit of saying stupid things he can't defend. Take a block from him as a high compliment. - Karim

Being a contrarian is fine, but you've got to be a smart contrarian. If you keep losing chess games after three or four moves, and then out of frustration send the chess pieces flying and refuse to play any more games, you aren't much of a player, contrarian or otherwise. - Sean McBride

Wow that's scary! - Ken Goyette

What's weird is that there are so many similarities: 1. They were both contest models 2. Both were speaking about foreign affairs 3. Both were accused of being a sex symbol. 4. Both were flailing *really* bad - Andrew Baron

I can hardly believe that she's that bad. - Joshua Oehler

When she wasn't competing in Beauty Pagents, what corner was she working? Jeez! When it comes to make up sometimes less is more. - Paul from twhirl

I posted this on Scripting News. http://bit.ly/iMri3 - Dave Winer

The debates will expose her to the world. - Russellreno

Awesome Dave! - Andrew Baron

Is this some kind of trick nominating her as the VP candidate, really is it? - Ken Goyette

@Russellreno The debates will be less dangerous for her I think because they can prepare their answers or not answer the question. Hard to go up against a tuff news anchor though. - Andrew Baron

I believe that some people don't have maps. - Andrew Baron

Andrew - Good point. Still, she will repeat herself many many times. - Russellreno

Because remember, she said "No" to the Bridge to Nowhere... - Helen Sventitsky

This makes Palin look smarter, actually - Dave Hodson

@Dave Hodson yea, pretty much anything will help Sarah Palin look smarter. - Andrew Baron

Oh....WOW. P. Diddy was right. They are buggin the f*ck out - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I woke up this morning wondering if this was from my dreams but then I logged in and found that no, this is the world I live in. - Andrew Baron

If we didn't have a total moron as prime minister I'd laugh. Now I just feel afraid. Very afraid. - Henk de Kruyff