Ahh Jimminy.. You've been spared from seeing Schumaker Batman films I see. Yeah, he put nipples on the batsuit (and Robin's) for Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and also made WAY too big a deal about the codpieces. I still want to hunt him down and punch him in the throat for those two films.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I only came across this whole WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS thing today. Hi-larious.
- Andrew C
That's what I got for paying $299 to buy their entire history _ever_ from Apple. Put iTunes on shuffle, and there's a good chance it will hit DM.
- Louis Gray
Louis Gray has good taste in music :)
- Adam Singer
WOW great music, Louis. It's like you went through some of my iTunes library and stole it. :P
- Molly, "sorry"
Louis, how do I get that entire history collection?
- Jesse Stay
I can dig some house, but when it comes to electronic I always slant towards the more experimental/IDM-type stuff... Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, etc - hence my: http://friendfeed.com/got-mem...
- Nathan Chase
Justice and Daft Punk are about as "house" as I get... but the name-givers seem to dub them as "electro"...
- Nathan Chase
You're the electronic kind of guy, I see... Let me suggest a little change: Prefab Sprout "Let's change the world with music". It also has that 80's feeling that you seem to like but it's a little bit more poppy.
- Jordi Soler
i work at trabant coffee in pioneer square (www.trabantcoffee.com). upstairs is actually just a bunch of big empty rooms, they haven't put tables or anything up there yet because the stairs aren't "up to code." it's a really cool space though!
- Alexis Hope
Once the stairs are updated that sounds like it'd be the *perfect* kind of spot to rent out to groups. Parties, meetings, all kinds of stuff....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That looks like a very interesting space! I love the "ghost eyes" to the right of you :) (your left)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Yes - and she was damn cute in person too! The picture just reminded me. :P
- Chrimmus Tad
I'll have a medium-strength soy latte please! Got any chocolate cake?
- Mellissa Claus
People order drinks as "medium-strength"?
- Rochelle
It's in between a single-shot and a double-shot, I think?
- Mellissa Claus
we only make double shots, so how about a split double? and i only have banana-nut muffins left today! :P
- Alexis Hope
Mellissa, interesting! I'm a native Seattleite so I'm a big coffee nerd and I've never heard of that.
- Rochelle
I don't know, it could just be my local coffee shop placating my strange request? I got a really strong one once that I could barely drink, so the next time I asked for it "not too strong", and they clarified "Medium-strength?", and it was perfect. So that's what I ask for now :o)
- Mellissa Claus
It's morning on the Right Coast. I'll take some coffee. Any specials I should know about?
- CAJ, somewhere else
Today: Tanzania Karmaro Micro-Lot, Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, Honduras El Mazano C.O.E. #3. All coffees roasted by 49th Parallel (www.49thparallelcoffeeroasters.com). All coffees brewed by the cup on our Clover machine! :)
- Alexis Hope
from iPhone
Alexis, are you mostly in Pioneer Square or mostly on 45th?
- Rochelle
*shrug* Well it is what, 8/9 years old? Don't use it :)
- Mo Kargas
No choice at work, and Lindsay won't let me bump off this bootcamp partition just yet.
- Chrimmus Tad
Sorry- that F6 message is my biggest peeve from Windows XP. It shows up right at the start when you try to install it (the only thing more frustrating than using it).
- Matt Mastracci
I'm still using XP... mostly 'cuz I haven't bought a new computer for 5 years... I'm just waiting until the perfect OS comes out! (I'm sure it'll happen any day now...)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
I'm still using XP because I still haven't upgraded my Dell (still needs video card and bigger power supply, without which I can't run Windows 7). I still need to switch hard drives with the old Gateway so I can install Ubuntu on the bigger hard drive.
- Dennis Jernberg
actually, I don't mind the "press F6" message because it means if you have a storage controller that isn't directly supported by the reference drivers but the manufacturer has produced drivers, you can use them to access that storage - it's incredibly forward thinking. I'm still using XP because it has the best level of support for gaming without having massive problems that would make...
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- alphaxion
From the blog post: "In a keynote to GDC Austin, two Blizzard developer pulled back the curtains on some aspects of World of Warcraft that players might not consider much, and dropped an interesting tidbit about how the series evolved from RTS to MMO." Some interesting numbers follow.
- Stephen Mack
from Bookmarklet
So, this has to be in the top 5 worldwide in terms of data center resources.
- Stephen Mack
4600 staffers? How can that be? Does blizzard really employ ~5000 people?
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
I believe they outsource their data center staffing to AT&T, so I bet that's counting non-Blizzard employees.
- Stephen Mack
I'm not sure about "top 5". 1. Google. 2. Yahoo. 3. Amazon. 4. ???. 5. Blizzard. Really?
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
This is a staggering feat, nonetheless. The thing that amazes me is how relatively few "worlds" they have (I don't know the proper term). I would guess it's in the dozens, so say, you've got to maintain shared state over about 1,000 machines, simultaneously. That's a huge task, and very difficult to do with realtime constraints.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Do you mean Realms? http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/realmst... (that's just the U.S. list -- 241 in the U.S. alone; the majority of the approx. 8 million players are not in the U.S.). Somewhere it was revealed that each realm has separate server machines to handle each of the four major continents in the game, plus additional servers for battlegrounds and raids/dungeons (which are...
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- Stephen Mack
Back when I played EverQuest, each "world server" was really a simplified way of saying a server cluster: each realm was made up of several dozen separate machines. Granted, the state of computing is a lot different than it was in 2001, but I wouldn't be surprised if each "continent server" was actually at least a rack of systems working in concert. It's a tremendous amount of...
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- Mark Trapp
Realms are often called shards by holdovers from the Ultima Online era.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Mark, I agree with you. Since they reveal 20k machines and it's probably 1k realms worldwide, it's probably 20 machines per realm. If I had to guess, probably 16 live and 4 hot spares. Separately: Their billing system doesn't get credit consider its complexity. They support multiple periods of billing at different rates, bill for more than 20 different currencies, often roll out...
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- Stephen Mack
You think about, on top of all the computing power, they need to bring in power, cooling, backup, and so on: it's a lot of stuff that requires a lot of people.
- Mark Trapp
@Stephen, no significant downtime for 5 years? Really? Wow, max respect for the Blizzard infra team. Even Twitter's experienced significant downtimes in the past year :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
I meant for their billing system. The game itself has had outages, mostly in the form of maintenance and updates taking longer than expected. Dome servers are worse than others, but generally the game is up. They issue credits for significant outages.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
@Stephen, ah I see. Still, that does deserve respect. Cheers for the WoW billing team, then :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
"In extracts published by GQ magazine, Latimer writes in his book Speech Less: Tale of a White House Survivor: "He came in one day to rehearse a speech, fuming. 'This is a dangerous world,' he said for no apparent reason, 'and this cat [Obama] isn't remotely qualified to handle it. This guy has no clue, I promise you'." Of Palin, then Governor of Alaska and the vice-presidential nominee for his own Republican party, Bush allegedly said: "I'm trying to remember if I've met her before. What is she, the governor of Guam?" During the presidential campaign Bush believed that Hillary Clinton would win the Democratic nomination, but he didn't think much of her as chief executive either, according to Latimer, who served as a speechwriter for the last 22 months of Bush's term. "Wait till her fat keister is sitting at this desk," he said, using slang for backside. (ANI)"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
First it was the "pictures" and worrying I was sending them to Twitter instead of pictures of my son or some other such innocent stuffs. Now...it's sending certain "messages" and hitting send before I check to make sure it's not going to my mom...yikes...
- Nurse Katie
Do what everyone else does: have a second "naughty" Twitter account.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Nah...these pictures aren't meant to be sent....I just gotta unload them onto the 'puter
- Nurse Katie
I've come to the conclusion that getting past racism is impossible because those that have the power to do something about it are too busy denying it exists to actually stamp it out of existence. Either that or they don't care...or they're racists. Racism will have to die over time as new generations grow up and take over.
What do you think people in power could do about it? I think it's so insidious. I'm not "a racist" but I still have dumb racist thoughts or knee-jerk reactions. That makes me think that in another situation or with another upbringing where such impulses were encouraged I'd be as racist as anyone.
- s t e v e
Basically, I think it exists because we let it. Sure, people seem disgusted and stuff like that when they see racism in action, but most people don't really do anything about it. Even something as simple as telling a friend/colleague that that racist joke wasn't cool. We let it slide for the most part. Is everyone going to suddenly start doing something about racism? Nope.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
We need a strong republican to stand up and say that people are behaving in a racist way. Unfortunately, once they do that, they will probably be tarred and feathered. They spend their time denying racism (even when it is super apparent) - pandering to people who hate obama because he's black but don't want to admit to being racist, they either don't care because it keeps them in office, or they agree with racist statements.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I say strong republican but what I mean is, someone they respect as a leader.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
It is fascinating that we humans are so advanced technologically with iPods and iPhones and super-cameras and all sorts of things, yet on social issues we are trailing our technological advancements by at least a few centuries.... As you said, it's slow progress, and it may take a few more generations before it gets "cycled out" of the system.
- 1001 noisy cameras
I think part of the big problem is the refusal of a lot of people to see forms of racism that aren't as blatant as segregation was. The think that as long as it isn't THAT bad, it can't be all that bad. A lot of people who don't consider themselves racist, still engage in passive racism - either by omission or ignorance.
- Jennifer Dittrich
In my experience, a lot of people have convinced themselves they're not racist. They genuinely believe they aren't. Even when it's pointed out to them, they still deny it and then become defensive and project the blame on the accuser, claiming that minorities always use the "race card" when they don't like something. In my opinion, blaming "the race card" every time someone claims racism is also racist.
- Trish R
I'm confused why moderate Republicans don't even speak against it. One would think they would want to distance themselves from the nutjobs, who are more and more becoming the image of the party.
- Rodfather
Trish++ about the race card. I'm sick of hearing the phrase at this point and you definitely hit the nail on the head in saying excessive use of the term is racist (Oh boy, I wonder what can of worms that opens up). Rod, I don't understand that either. There are some very intelligent people who I might disagree with politically, but I would think we'd be on the same page regarding all this racist stuff. Surprising that's not the case.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm not sure getting past racist thought what we should be focusing on. Instead, we should be working on power relations and racist actions. What I mean is I think almost everyone has prejudiced/racist thoughts from time to time, but that's a personal struggle that should be handled by the individual. Society should be concentrating on actions/practices, say if someone's racism carries...
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- cecily
Or, in short, you ain't got to like me. Just get out of my way while I try to get sh*t done.
- cecily
++ Rasheen - most of the conservatives/libertarians I'm friends with, are thankfully much more aware of racism, and this confuses them as well. I attribute it to the us vs. "the other" mentality that has been brewing for so long. If those pesky liberals are trying to do A, then it seems like the core of the conservative movement is going to take the position B - it is either wrong, unnecessary, or morally reprehensible to consider.
- Jennifer Dittrich
That's exactly right, Cecily. I don't really care if we all love each other unconditionally, regardless of race. I care about the outcomes resulting from the action of racist thought. We can't expect to actually change everyone's mind.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Reminds me of Driving Miss Daisy where she claims she's progressive, but didn't invite Hoke to sit with her to hear MLK Jr.
- Rodfather
Rah, how much, in your estimation, do you think the whole political correctness movement can be blamed for the still lingering racism?
- Rene Wirtz
And you know, I'd be perfectly happy if, instead of denying racism exists, people who don't necessarily agree with a position would just step back and think to themselves "OK, I don't agree with this person, but it doesn't invalidate their experience."
- cecily
It was only after I got singled out for mistreatment for being a white guy with a pair of Indian girls that I realized that racism is a lot more complicated and a lot less solved than people would like to think.
- Wirehead
That's a good question, Rene. Not sure I have a good answer for it right now though. I'd have to think on that one :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I'm very outspoken when I hear someone make a joke or generalization about another race. My junior year roommate is black and I asked her A LOT of questions. Also, a lot of inner city schools are just as segregated as they were pre Brown v. Board.
- Lis Miller
There are still a lot of young people who are racist. I guess they were wrong when they said kids never listen to their parents.
- Victor Ganata
Political Correctness, IMO, should have been about recognizing privilege and striving toward equal opportunity (another emotionally charged term nowadays) for everyone willing to do the work. Because PC is widely perceived as a means to control thought and action (and, by extension, wealth), I think there is a backlash coming from the privileged class.
- vicster is...
IMHO, with everyone tiptoeing around each other's feelings, racism has been swept under the rug and a lot of people were under the impression that out of sight meant out of mind.
- Rene Wirtz
That's correct, Rene. Not talking about it doesn't make it go away. This is how people who focus on simply not noticing or pointing out differences are part of the problem, not the solution.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
These days I only hear the term "politically correct" from people who are trying to justify their decision to be rude and unthinking by pouring scorn on those who want to be mindful of how words and other 'small' things have a big impact.
- Deborah Fitchett
Same here, Deborah. It seems to always be used as a pejorative term.
- s t e v e
The whole PC thing was definitely abused and misused to a point
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Rasheen its a complex problem. I had a friend once to whom I tried to explain that the only reason his subordinate workers (some of whom were of another color) were laughing at his class and race jokes is that they were uncomfortable about losing their jobs if they didn't. That this behavior predates our present day perverse acceptance of certain derrogatories being acceptable "in...
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- Melanie Reed
There is behavior that needs to change on both sides of the divide.
- Melanie Reed
Respectfully, I disagree with you: Racism dies on the day you and I, each one in his or her turn, realizes we have a common Father.
- Melanie Reed
Talking about eradicating racism is like explaining what a yellow circle tastes like. I'd love to try and stamp it out, but the people who need to confront their issues the most are the ones who truly feel that their actions and thoughts aren't racist.
- Derrick
@Derrick: bingo! Denial is not just a river in Africa!
- Rene Wirtz
Rasheen, That we have a common Father? He created me no better than you... and no worse. He expects us to get along. Differences that should have been a delight have become a suspicion and behavior that irritates that does no one any good. That is why the responsibility is individual.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, that comment about a "common father" is one of the reasons racism will always exist. Not everyone believes the same and faith is a personal choice. Dictating to other people that racism will cease to exist if they believe as you do simply throws gasoline on an already raging fire.
- Trish R
from iPhone
I guess you could say we all have common ancestral parents, in an evolutionary sense. :->
- Kurt Starnes
Trish, its not so much a matter of belief (though for my part there is that) but it is a sure hope that recogninzing the truth, of making the last ascent over the last hill to find that He is there and has been there all along despite any bad behavior others may have heaped on His name is the only answer to our resolving our differences. Differences based on pride of difference, of one...
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- Melanie Reed
Not to derail or anything, but Melanie - that's your truth. And it's great that you have it, don't get me wrong. But to say that it's a universal truth is evidence of the kind of wilful blindness around racism that we're talking about in this thread. Just because I can't believe what you believe doesn't make your belief any more right.
- cecily
Thank you Trish and Cecily - and I mean no disrespect to you, Melanie.
- Kurt Starnes
So long as there are multiple races, there will be racism. There are cultural differences that will always exist in some form, and they should be celebrated. The best we can do is to not allow ourselves to fall into the trap that mere acknowledgment of cultural differences is evil. It's RACIAL PREJUDICE (refusing to hire someone based on their race) and BIGOTRY (belief in genetic superiority over another race) that are the true evils.
- Mattb4rd
Cecily and Trish, I appreciate that. The only reason I know I am no better than you or no worse is because of Him...and not because someone told me I must think this way. I would not have responded to an enforcement policy at work or at school because that would not have touched my heart. It would have only touched my fear. But He can touch my heart...and that is where racism or any disrespect for another's sanctity starts.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, I appreciate your comments. I think fear and insecurity also contribute to a lot of problems we have in accepting each other's differences as just those: differences, not faults or deficiencies.
- Trish R
unfortunately, racism will not die out, ever, because there will always be people in the ethnocentric stage of development and values (racial identity over national or global identity, my values group over any larger identity with others, etc) -- BUT, we can reduce the hate with better education
- William Harryman
Rahsheen ...thanks for starting this thread.
- .LAG liked that
I forget where I read it years ago... Someone talked about racism really not shifting/improving until each generation died.
- Mitchell Tsai
It's natural to be more comfortable with some people than others; some talk about a progression of trust/identification - family, tribe, town, county, state, country, world. Even Nationalism has produced some yucky awful stuff. Racism's better for me since the days when I had things thrown at my car because I was Chinese.
- Mitchell Tsai
In a London hostel, I met a pretty Scandinavian woman who called me "China boy". Was weird how I left...some good...some bad. She was trying to be friendly, but had very heavy racist-superior stuff going on. I maybe felt better about that she was up-front about it, rather than trying to be "polite" and just not-speak-to-me or ignore me. Was a funny kind of situation. Kind of like when you're talking with someone who (a) wants to connect (b) but also wants to name-drop and look impressive.
- Mitchell Tsai
Coach: if "Racism will have to die over time as new generations grow up and take over." why is the generation that worked so long for civil rights for blacks in the US the same generation I hear making remarks about "the Hispanics have taken over?" As Steve Lawson remarked, it still takes effort to catch the racist thoughts that arise unbidden so they don't control our behavior in...
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- Polly Potter
Not sure about that first part, but I definitely don't think racism can be legislated away, either. Once those people who are unable to control their actions in relation to their thoughts die, racism will die a little as well. I live in a primarily conservative area within a conservative state. These people did not vote for Obama and many of them barely tolerate minorities. Most of their kids pick up on their intolerance and see through their faulty reasoning.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
@Rahsheen - parents perpetuating intolerance is, IMHO, the root of the problem. Kids pick up on almost everything parents say and do, and some decent parents may not even be aware of the subtlety of their own intolerance. I've made an effort in raising my own Daughter to show that all people of different races and classes are the same and it has made a difference in her perspective. While race is a huge problem, so is the prejudice between/among classes, IMHO.
- Kurt Starnes
Agreed, Kurt. I think the solutions to all of these are similar, though. There will always be some element that will try to breed hate, whether it be parents or hate groups or whatever. As time goes on, though, I believe these elements will get weaker and weaker.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
"Microblogging service Tumblr is introducing a few new features today. My favorite is the Tumblr Wire, which is replacing the popular page. Tumblr Wire is a discovery page that shows a constantly-updating stream of images moving across a grid. Each image links to a Tumblog that was updated recently."
- Iván Abrego
good coder = bad designer, so if a good platform had a new good design, that means that platform started to make money =)
- siniradam
"BAGHDAD – The Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush in protest was freed from prison on Tuesday and, unrepentant, he harshly condemned the U.S. presence in his country and accused authorities of torturing him. Muntadhar al-Zeidi's stunning act of protest in December made him a hero for many in and outside Iraq. It struck a chord with millions in the Arab and Muslim worlds who have been captivated and angered by daily images of destruction and grieving since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. But nine months later, there was little public outpouring of support for him, a sign of how things have changed."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
"I find myself, every once in a while, sitting on my home page on the Web with nothing to do. Well, not nothing to do, but not wanting to do any of those things. Instead of doing more work, or just aimlessly surfing news sites, I want to find or do something interesting. Increasingly, to find those things, I’m turning to one of a few resources. These are tools for finding what other people are reading and finding interesting stories about popular ideas and issues, and making sure I’m always caught up on what people care about – but only the interesting stuff. Things like Digg and Reddit don’t do it for me for the most part – they tend to be full of oddities rather than stories that are genuinely interesting. They ARE, however, included in a few of the tools below, in case you’re a fan."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
I just tried "ill cookies" and http://www.breitbart.com/article... showed up near the top. "Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos has overturned, spilling the cookies still in their plastic sleeves into the median and roadway." - don't know if that helps or hinders.
- Micah Wittman
haha. i would have enjoyed being part of the cookie cleanup crew.
- Alexis Hope
it was sad good bye to firefox a while ago
- imran
I've tried to go back to Firefox so I can use userscripts but I just can't stay away from the speed and slimness of Chrome. Everything looks and feels kindof off when I try anything else.
- metalerik
I am currently running v4 dev channel and I can tell you it is even faster again than v3.0. Chrome absolutely rocks the speed!
- Travis Koger
looking forward to when they have it for the Mac.
- Thomas Hawk
Still says Chrome 3.0.x is up to date. Hmmmmmm
- Roberto Bonini
And they still have yet to integrate Google Bookmarks. Seriously, that's the only thing holding me back from using Chrome full-time, they have no good way for me to use my online-bookmarks-of-choice, even though it's their own bloody product. Oh, and lack of proper addons. No AdBlock = No Thanks.
- Otto
Otto, v4 gives you add ons and bookmark sync, unfortunately not using Google Bookmarks.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
What is "bookmark sync"? If it's just copying my bookmarks between computers, then I have no use for it. I don't want local copies of bookmarks, I want my bookmarks live, synced from the internet, residing in memory until I close the browser. Hell, the Google Toolbar for Firefox has this. What's the holdup?
- Otto
Agreed with otto. Until there is plugins like Adblock it won't make me change full time.
- Wei-Yen Tan
from fftogo
Otto, your bookmarks will be stored in Google Docs if you are using version 4 sync. Google docs will become your bookmarks manager.
- Eugene Teng
Palm Pre is to Apple iPhone as Goole Chrome is to Mozilla Firefox. Its all about the add-ons/Apps
- Paul P Miller
Google Chrome is my favorite browser as well.
- Deb Sivard
And... I love it when I use a Windows computer, but no Mac? Come on! I am not a fan of Chromium, for some reason. IDK.
- Zachary TG
My default browser just got better. Nice. Keep at it Google-Chrome-folks!
- Matt Penning
I switched to Chrome from Firefox full-time not long ago. I also had to switch from the dev channel to the beta one, but otherwise, I haven't looked back. I have to use Firefox for some specific things, like online banking, but Chrome's so much cleaner and faster than anything else.
- James Myatt
I keep getting sucked into safari by using me.com which is more characters than .mac ..syncing my info across the cloud to all devices on there for a while now. I'd like to see a few more features or even developers opening it up a bit more.
- Tyson
from BuddyFeed
Eugene: I don't use Google Docs much, and if I did, it seems like a poor place to put my bookmarks. I have a thousand or so bookmarks in Google Bookmarks already. It easily integrates with my Firefox installation. Why would I want to switch to a lesser, half-baked, solution? Again, this new Bookmarks Sync feature in Chrome is crap. It's a reason for me to NOT use it. They redeveloped the wheel, for no reason, and gave it corners in the process.
- Otto
"British standup comic Eddie Izzard has completed 43 marathons in seven weeks as part of a grueling charity run. The 47-year-old performer finished his 1,100 mile (1,770 kilometer) odyssey across Britain on Tuesday when he staggered across the finish line at London's rain-soaked Trafalgar Square."
- William Harryman
from Bookmarklet
100 FriendFeed Picture Groups & 3 Video Groups [Last updated 9/16/09 2:47 am EDT - most of the room counts are from 8/10/09] - http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
Also, here are ~50 people at FriendFeed with cool pics (remember to check their likes & comments) http://ff.im/Bd3Lhttp://ff.im/BqOL This page was motivated by Thomas Hawk's "What is your most viewed set on Flickr? Mine is my my 10 faves or more set" discussion (5/24/08) http://friendfeed.com/e... I finally made myself a "Picture Rooms" list. :-)
- Mitchell Tsai
I saw the short clip, but some audience members stood up and applauded, was this ovation and applause for Taylor, Kanye, or Beyonce?
- mandyvan
from iPhone
It was most definitely for Taylor and to help break the awkward silence.
- Josh Haley