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- Shannon Bauman
"This is the most awesome, disgusting thing I have ever made. I reeked of salty bacon and salami, which I found out is actually quite alluring to guys. If you ever need a date, I highly recommend wearing a meat dress. I badly wanted to go to a vegan restaurant in it. Or walk through the park and make dog friends."
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
While I give her props for her creativity and dedication to the project, I do wish I could kick her really hard . Why isn't there a dislike button?!
- Becca
"The only metrics that entrepreneurs should invest energy in collecting are those that help them make decisions. Unfortunately, the majority of data available in off-the-shelf analytics packages are what I call Vanity Metrics. They might make you feel good, but they don’t offer clear guidance for what to do."
- Lasse Johnsen
from Bookmarklet
here we are, nerd humor on monday morning
- simone righini
Matt, you should conduct an experiment how much are they prepared to pay for that exchange? Start with $1000, and go down from there... who knows, you could be stumbling over a viable new business model?
- ianf ⌘
Incidentally, regarding your new site. The "excellent Thesis theme" may indeed be excellent, but the template doesn't scale well. Bump up text size a couple of steps, and you'll soon discover that the main text column doesn't fit on a 13-15" laptop screen, needs to be sideways-scrolled for reading on a line-by-line basis. Considering it's all text, I don't see how this could be justified in this day and age of accessible Internet.
- ianf ⌘
I step away from Twitter for like 2 hours and the emergency comes and is resolved before I return. Talk about immediacy. Sometimes not being current is a good thing.
- Peggy Dolane
it is my view, and believe, that Google Street View cars should be taking the measure of wi-fi field strength and networks present as they go .... are they doing it ?
- pb:
"It is a little-known fact that the only book Eminem read as a child was the dictionary. He pored over it, searching for words that rhymed with each other that could later be pulled out of the bag during the freestyle rap "battles" that provided his education in hip-hop. The years spent studying the English language lie at the core of his technical brilliance. They turned him into the greatest rapper of his time. But they did so at a personal cost: for Eminem could be uncharitably described as an anorak. His life starts and ends with music. He writes constantly, scrawling lines on sheets of notepaper in a crabby handwriting. When he's not composing new verse, or messing around in a studio, he'll be listening to hip-hop. "The guy's a studio rat," says producer Terry Simaan, the owner of Oh Trey 9, one of the Detroit's most influential hip-hop labels. "If he feels like it, he'll spend 12, 15 hours a day in a studio." "
- bob
from Bookmarklet
"spend 12, 15 hours" Pfff. Some FFers post for 15 hours then polish off another 4hrs of comments, then a few likes as a night cap.
- Micah
one of my favorite quotes about Hendrix is that he would wake up, and immediately, before anything, even food, start playing. I've been thinking about it a lot as more and more people tell me about that 'outliers' book.
- paulm
For all who are getting annoyed answering the same “How this happen” question, Andre Montejorge designed couple of funny and practical slings, aiming to save you the wording, but still illustrating the accident in a comic way.
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
Will need iPhone & iPod Touch added.
- Tinfoil 2.0
This evolution should also show when controllers went wireless (xbox for me). This sent gamers from the floor/chair in front of the TV to on the couch with feet on the coffee table and was one of the happiest days of the last ten years for me (pathetic, but true).
- Bryan Power
I love bacon. I love chocolate. I once tried chocolate with bacon in it, and I almost vomited. Like actually. I assume the same would go for bacon and ice cream...
- Clay B.
The waiter at Oliveto didn't recommend this dessert when we inquired about it at the Whole Hog Dinner there last year. The meal we had there was on of the best I've ever had, definitely in the top 10 (and we had things like brains and ears), and I felt the waiter didn't steer us wrong. I love bacon, I love ice cream, but not together.
- Sarah
It would probably be even better if it were maple swirl ice cream. While it's still soft, gently stir maple syrup into the ice cream then pop it back in the freezer to harden.
- April
I like bacon. I like ice cream. This? Thanks but no.
- Jim the Blatant
I like both too (although I eat rather more bacon than I ever do ice cream). Together it doesn't appeal. I don't like sweet and salty together.
- Ian May
So terrorists can plug in their bombs????
- Brian Johns
You say that as if user experience was somehow a potential consideration of the people who make airports and airplane rides. Do you think it might be? I don't see many signs.
- j1m
I can name 2 newspapers I read in Alaska. The Fairbanks Daily Newsminer and the Anchorage Daily News. That was 4 fricking years ago and I can still name them.
- EricaJoy
There are no words...I mean like gee...she's all like...WTF
- Rahsheen the Dream
(A) Honesty: "I read the Wasilia Moosehumper, but usually just have time for Family Circus and Dear Abbey". (B) Lying: "I read the Journal, Harper's, the Economist, and the Harvard Law Review". (C) Cluelessness: "Um. All of them."
- Steve Weis
Couric: "What about blogs, do you keep up with any blogs?" Palin: "Yes, I read any of the ones put in front of me. I read all of them Katie."
- Jason Shellen
Why are you all so hard on her? She said she reads most, all, and any put in front of her. Oh, and a vast variety of sources. How can you argue with that?! I mean, personally, I've only read a "bunch," so she has me beat - I think.
- Vince DeGeorge
I read a bunch too. Google News. Memeorandum. FriendFeed. Between the three all the world's newspapers come into my view. But at least I could tell you something about them. How can we get her to go away? Please make it stop. I really hope this helps the Republican Party purge themselves of all the Religious Right jerks who've destroyed that party in the past 20 years.
- Robert Scoble
I can't name a newspaper I read cause I don't read newspapers. I get all my news from the screen in front of me or a little bit from the TV.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I think the important thing to remember is we are not 'picking on her', we are trying to hold her to the high standard the office she is applying for demands...
- Johnny
Why does it feel like, the worse Palin appears, the more likely she's actually going to get voted into office? Oh, I remember now. That's what happened in the 2004 election.
- Victor Ganata
I tell you one thing, she has really made me appreciate Hillary...
- Vince DeGeorge
She should NOT have said she "reads them all". WTF kinda answer is that. I'm trying not to be on the Palin hater bandwagon, but she just won't work with me...
- Rahsheen the Dream
she reads "all of 'em. any of 'em." she's very entertaining! god bless her
- Cee Bee
Alright, that's it - Palin has officially entered "un-parody-able" territory. Any joke about how uninformed she is only pales in comparison to the reality of how uninformed she is. SNL has got nothing on this Katie Couric footage.
- Adam Kazwell
Gonna say it again... Principle from South Park
- Johnny
good god help us. This is it. I'm utterly disgusted at the joke that McCain and his campaign have made out of our election process and our government as a whole with this woman (sure, there are people there I'm sure who don't like her, but this nonsense was allowed to happen).
- Chieze Okoye
I saw this mentioned this weekend, but I agree. It's cruel to put her in this position. She clearly isn't knowledgeable enough to answer these questions. She also clearly freezes up when challenged. They had to have some clue these were traits of her's before putting her up there.
- Andrew
more shit...this has got to go AWAY now dammit!! this is sooo stuoooopid!
- Susan Beebe
this is a totally different stage than she's used to. they might not have known she would be like this under these conditions. <trying to give benefit of the doubt>
- Jon Price
So you think she could name a newspaper and not get in trouble? Saying you read them all is a polite reply without picking favorites.
- Dan Nimtz
from twhirl
No, say "I'm not gonna give them free advertising", say anything that doesn't sound totally random and moronic
- Rahsheen the Dream
she gave the same exact answer W gave, except he also tossed in 'the Google'.
- Anika
What's the shortest book in the world? The Sarah Palin book of Political Philosophy
- Ivan Pope
from twhirl
Not judging perspective, but Bush was proud not to listen to news and katrina happened under his nose. They had to basically put a You Tube style of clips in front of him so he could figure out what was happening. I am very concerned about someone who doesn't expose themselves to news that doesn't filter through their handlers. They should not be so easily controlled.
- Eric - Feed of Dreams
Dan: "get in trouble"??? with who? even if she said National Review Online, Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, she still would have covered her ass on the right-wing side. Hell, I'm not running for anything (yet) and read those all the time. I wouldn't even expect her to read them everyday, but at least be able to list something.
- Anika
I just brought myself to watch this clip. My God. Seriously? Seriously? Are they for reals? Seriously? How Katie didn't just stop the strolling and say point blank "Please, just name one newspaper you read.", I'll never know. Although, the look on her face was awesome. Your face said it out loud Katie.
- Yolanda
I'm sick of giving her the benefit of the doubt. She's had how long to prepare and CAN'T NAME A SINGLE NEWSPAPER IN THE US?? Any other position where she's this clearly mismatched (scratch that, unqualified) for the role, ANY OTHER POSITION, and she would have been laughed out of the room. This is completely ridiculous.
- Chieze Okoye
w. Sadly Tina Fey's excellent parody is straight up. She doesn't need to presenhy wouldst a caricature, just the real thing... she get into trouble for naming a newspaper. That's ridiculou
- Tim Wolters
from twhirl
Ok, we all agree. Not smart. Perhaps the title should be: "Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Doesn't Read." What would your alternate video title be?
- Jason Shellen
"I think the Onion has some great insight" But seriously, say WSJ, NYT, Washington Times - heck you'd even get points for USA Today.
- AJ Kohn
If she says 1 particular newspaper, then people will drill down on that paper and assume that is the only place she gets her information from... and if she says 1 newspaper, the moment she has an opinion about something all media will be able to link it to one newspaper and its potential biases. She answered the question strategically here. I don't mind the answer.
- Mike
She is totally in touch with the "microcosm of America" -- who actually reads newspapers or magazine anymore anyway? Reading is for lefty wimps.
- Pete D
c'mon, she pretty much said she only reads what is put in front of her (at this point by Republican party handlers), which to me is actually worse than not saying "all of 'em" or "getting in trouble" for name dropping the wrong ones. basically it says she reads only what someone tells her too. I could never support someone that has this little curiosity about the world.
- Jon Price
I think a bird that makes on a newspaper could name it.
- Steve Rubel
I think it's amazing that people are actually trying to explain this away. Seriously, you guys?
- Chieze Okoye
Wow, people still use newspapers to keep in touch with what's going on in the world?
- Michael Pick
from twhirl
WOW! Did she name names after this clip? Or was this the end of the question ?
- Sumit Chachra
C'mon, people, she reads all of them! Any of them!
- Dror Shimshowitz
the hilarity just doesn't stop. fun fact: sarah palin got her degree in... journalism!
- Leonard
Thinking that PT Barnum is wishing he could charge for the spectacle coming up on Thursday. Wow.
- Casey
Is this the best America can do for the job of Vice President?
- Sarah Leary