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Me too! I submitted a problem ticket for this. I am having the same problem with the work around solution too. - Debbie

I like the option to spend some $ Well done. - Bjorn Weisser

Oh-oh--nameboy.com has fallen over from the traffic. - Ken Horovatin from twhirl

Absofreakinglutely brilliant!!! I can't believe the awesomeness of the first six days. If it continues at this rate I'm going to have to up my meds. - anniebinns

FriendFeed is slowly discovering all the links that I've been collecting for my future blog post, “We are all color blind.” - Amit Patel

This appeals to be in a bizarre fashion. - Jerry Welch

"Note that the above optical density is for a human lens of about 5 mm thickness. The optical density is proportional to the thickness of the lens. As will become apparent below, smaller animals have better ultraviolet visibility than humans because of their thinner lens. Larger animals have even less sensitivity in the ultraviolet and even blue regions for the same reason." - bob

And the fourth color look like pea soup? ;-) - Jim Norris

Yeah but I'm guessing the lens blocks UV A for a reason, which has something to do with keeping your retinas from being fried. Just a guess though ;-) - Karim

How would we process the data, though? (For that matter, how do X-chromosome heterozygous tetrachomats process the data?) Our retina and visual pipeline is pretty set up for trichromacy. - ⓞnor

nor, that's interesting, where could I learn more about "our retina and visual pipeline is pretty set up for trichromacy"? - Jason Wehmhoener

j1m probably has some more technical references, but I very highly recommend reading http://www.handprint.com/HP... if you are at all into geeking out about the fundamentals of color. From http://www.handprint.com/HP...: "Evolution could arrive at a more complex visual system, but it would require modifying a visual cortex specialized to receive and interpret the three cone outputs; adding a fourth cone would mean reengineering the brain as well." - ⓞnor

So has anyone had these new lenses installed? I thought that was a relatively common procedure. Maybe they use uv blocking replacements? - Paul Buchheit

I've heard of experiments where people (probably Army "volunteers") had their vision extended into near-UV, but with the predicted retina-burning results. - Gabe

Cataract surgery and the use of replacement intraocular lenses has been around for a while. I am not sure, but I am under the impression that originally people were encouraged to wear sunglasses or UV-blocking lenses to block UV, though lately the replacement lenses seem to block UV (see http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi...). This is to prevent retinal damage. - Karim

There is a fascinating article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science... that confirms my suspicions that UV looks like the color white under a black light: whiter than white, tinged with blue or violet. If you have ever seen someone's clothes or teeth glowing under a blacklight, you might have an idea what being able to see into the near UV is like. - Karim

I am not of the opinion that a fourth cone would require re-engineering the brain, so much as it might involve co-opting the existing channels. UV might be perceived as a change in brightness (luminance) rather than a new color (chroma). - Karim

paul, egnor: the studies that this article refers to involved people who had their lense in one eye replaced. One of the investigators is himself akaphic and can see UV: http://starklab.slu.edu/humanUV... Karim's link is good too. - Sanjeev Singh

@Karim, the problem is that the perception of brightness will continue to be needed for (a drum roll) actual brightness. - j1m

:-D good point, j1m. i guess i am thinking of UV looking "unnaturally" bright, glowing, the way the color white does under a blacklight. so the perception of UV would be of things being radioactive ;-) just a guess, mind you... - Karim

I think you might actually need to have one normal eye to see uv light: you'd need to compare the differences between the eyes and if your UV eye sees a whitish blue that the normal eye doesn't, then it's UV. - Sanjeev Singh

Well, think about how you see violet -- you don't need a violet-sensitive and a non-violet-sensitive eye, just a violet-sensitive cone, whose signal can be compared to a few non-violet-sensitive cones a few microns away from it. - j1m

From the sound of it, there is no UV cone, it's just that the regular cones are uv sensitive (though the blue more so), which is why it looks like a bluish white. - Paul Buchheit

Ed, there seems to be something wrong with the twurl link. Cannot access - Gabi Bucataru

Gabi, just remove the dash from the end of the link - Nathan Ridley from twhirl

Nevermind, Ed. It is the "-" at the end of the "y" that messed things up. Thanks for the link! - Gabi Bucataru

Ed thanks for sharing...the spilling the soda part got me again. - Owen O'Malley

Brilliant thanks ed - i am a tigger... - Rob Wilson from Alert Thingy

When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. --- Sorry to hear of Randy's passing -- - Ron Rink

Cant add anything, i too am a tigger - Frann Leach

Thanks for posting this. I needed to see this today. - Robin McConnell from twhirl

The only thing I'm not so sure about is the viral effect. In the pictures, Hutch shows many degrees, but I tend to think it only travels two degrees: to your friends and the friends of your friends who commented on or liked it. If a FOAF liked/commented it, it wouldn't show up in the FOAFOAF's feed. Err..did that make any sense? - Hao Chen

+1 for Hutch! - Mona Nomura

FF traffic to isn't really viral per se but it does create loyal subscribers... - Anthony Farrior

Hao - good observation. I was thinking of people outside your network sharing, and their subscribers seeing that. But perhaps the diagram could be clearer on things. Leave a comment on the knol! - Hutch Carpenter

Thanks Mona - Hutch Carpenter

Anthony - exposure of the blog post is viral. You can get a blog post in front of many more people than just those subscribe to your blog or your FriendFeed. - Hutch Carpenter

Nice Hutch - Using it as an example for a friend who's also doing one today - Charlie Anzman

Hutch - This is the 1st FF Knol, and the 1st FF Author of a Knol! You are a trail blazer. - Russellreno

I'm sure Hutch is right for those blogging about social media and new technology that early adopters love. But I'm still on the fence about whether it's a worthy time spend if you're blogging about other topics. - Robert Seidman

Thanks guys. Robert - I expect over time that broader subject discussion will occur here. There's no core reason social media has to dominate discussions here. We could be discussing the merits of NASCAR's engine specs. - Hutch Carpenter

Hao - I remember one more thing about my viral "rings". With the FOAF feature, you see content from a person to whom you don't subscribe. You then subscribe to that person, and your Like or comment makes it visible to your social graph on FriendFeed. Technically, adding a FAOF as one of your new subscriptions moves you into the blogger's 1st level ring. I skipped showing that step. - Hutch Carpenter

If you live in the US? - Yuvi

@Yuvi ..copy and paste from the site itself; MOO is based in London, but delivers the things you make anywhere in the world - Candace

Yeah, they're base in the UK not US. The code should work regardless of where you live. I've bought some cards before and they're really cool. They just recently started offering "real business-card sized" cards too, which is awesome. - Her Lindsay-ness

Like this post if you will use the code so more people can find out about it. :) - Her Lindsay-ness

Wrong (and monstrously stupid) on my part. I assumed it was another one of the cool-sites-in-the-US-that-make-really-cool-things but make shipping cost more than the product itself. Not their fault though - just their problem. - Yuvi

Not sure about using the "little" cards - wouldn't they just get lost in a stack? Glad to know we can MOO regular cards now, curious what users or recipients of the little ones think. - anniebinns

@anniebinns - the original moo cards (the little ones) are really more like "calling" cards than "business" cards. I wouldn't probably use them for business but for friends, family, people I met at parties and other stuff like that. People have found all sorts of amazing non-standard uses for them though. Browse the pool (http://www.flickr.com/groups...) and this: http://www.moo.com/ideas.... I've seen them used as game pieces and coupons/tickets and several other things. They're neat. - Her Lindsay-ness

It's so appropriate mate. Would have been a sin if YOU of all people didn't make the snag. Not that we doubted!! My middle son was giving odds you were first to tweet from AU! - Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct

yea, a boy and his toys pure bliss - JuneM

Anyone else notice the odd symbolism of the woman eating the apple in the background? - Andrew Nesbitt from twhirl

I thought that Ed just staged that as well (lol) - Jeff Madison

Mark - that's my view as well. Love it when you can get a good conversation brewing. If FriendFeed has the right stuff for that, embrace it. - Hutch Carpenter

It seems having a good title to your blog posting is key to getting the discussion going. Here you see the discussion before you read the posting. The discussion is what determines whether you read the blog - Marion Vermazen

Marion - that's a good point. Discussions "advertise" that something is interesting. Likes do that as well, but the comments really drive toward the interactive nature of FriendFeed. - Hutch Carpenter

*side note: Be one with your geek status. It is the zen way. ohmmmmm - Mona Nomura

Mona...no...not a geek...nooooo! OK, I guess I am. - Hutch Carpenter

You go Hutch :) - Charlie Anzman

I am still waiting for comments to happen on a post on ff but my blog and twitter feeds still get comments - Ralph Whitbeck

It's like AA: "Hi, I'm Chris Brogan, and I'm really f-ing sick of Twitter not working." Everyone: "Hi, Chris!" - Louis Gray

Yep. I've had two days now on FF exclusively and I occasionally poke my head back into Twitter to see if it's up. Another day or two of this and who knows... - Kevin Cearns

Yeah, it's hard to believe they are having this many problems. I'm a developer and I konw it's tough sometimes... but seriiously figure something out here since they have a great opportunity... - Adrian Nadeau

LOL - Chris is frustrated like the rest of us!! twitter outages are sooo annoyingly old hat it is become the laughing stock of all social media sites...sad! - Susan Beebe

Yeah, me too re twitter not working. I'm liking friendfeed more and more too. It works. - jjprojects

Funny how we're all here, though, eh? I mean, really. Nuts. - Chris Brogan

I only *really* like FriendFeed when Twitter *really* isn't working. - Ryan MF

Entirely f-ing sick of it. Went to my first tweet-up last night, and was really stoked to get up this morning and play/talk/interact/etc. -- FAIL :| - Brad McCrorey

explain to me how Twitter is better that FF on any dimension. - ron k jeffries

Hi I'm Peter and I am a twitter Addict - I have not been on twitter for the day. Oh Lord, grant me the serenity to know that twitter is undependable and give me the strength to find other platforms to sustain my daily life one day at a time !! - Peter Dawson

Just as we need a backup but not identical laptop, we need a backup, but not identical Twitter. - Attila Csordas

I think I have to eat crow, I said FF couldn't possibly be a Twitter killer...but this is ridiculous, and I'm starting to see that is very realistic that we all end up on FF and just post here - Jennifer Van Grove from twhirl

I need that link for the importer from twitter to friendfeed - Brad McCrorey

ohhh... there's an importer for twitter to friendfeed? yes please.. - Sean McDonald from Alert Thingy

If ff had DMs and mobile version, it might be a good alternative that actually works. - jjprojects

Time for a one week boycott - Todd Cochrane from twhirl

Wow. I hadn't thought about DMs. That's a good point. FF doesn't facilitate that. Does it? - Chris Brogan

Since I mostly use twitter via twhirl or IM, it really has not been noticeable. Maybe Twitter should only allow historical information through the API, not the web interface and be done with it. - Jauder Ho

No. No DMs on FF. - Jennifer Leggio

If FF had all the traffic that twitter gets, would it be any more stable - Seth Gottlieb

This is nuts that you're all here. Is there a follow-back automagically for FF yet? I'm um, a little behind. - Chris Brogan

Here's the T-->FF link - I just did it, works great. http://internetducttape.com/2008... - anniebinns

Seth - someone asked that earlier and the response was that its aggregating more content than Twitter now and that yes, it's still stable. Not sure I buy it. FF is great but it's not yet the solution we need. - Jennifer Leggio

I can stand the outages with FriendFeed doing it's thing. I have no doubts in my mind that Twitter will clean up its act soon as it continues to expand. - Ryne Nelson

How do you "like" a comment? What Seth Gottlieb said. It's like Apple always bragging about having no viruses. If they were as ubiquitous as PCs chances are they'd have a few more viruses. (I know, not the same thing: an Apple's an Apple; a PC's a ... any number of brands.) - Robert Stribley

@ ron k jeffries: Really? You can't think of at least *one* way Twitter is better on your own? How about the lack of the @ function, or any individual notification of replies to your content. Just a few days ago I made a comment on Twitter (actually about the Twitter vs FF debate), Scoble replied on FriendFeed, and a discussion sprung up around it on FF that I couldn't participate in because I wasn't glued to FF at the time. If it were on Twitter I would have received a notification on my cell immediately. - Ryan MF

This is becoming a seriously long thread/ decent conversation. ftw. - jjprojects

Really hard to follow discussions on here - Jennifer Leggio

I just blogged about this, too. But you know that, because you're watching FriendFeed. - Chris Brogan

Hi everybody...this is amazing! wow, I am seeing more and more of my twitter buddies over here!! yeah!!! @smbeebe loves you guys! ;-) - Susan Beebe

it is very true that it is hard to keep up with conversations here over time... and once you are subscribed to quite a few people, you're really combing -- through new posts, through friends of friends... unless you are "glued," as Ryan MF said - edythe

@edythe big trick with FF is to learn the hide feature fast - Philip Evans from twhirl

It would be nice if FF comments had paragraphs. FF is extremely aggressive at caching where it is possible to observe variances between the web and API interface. On a different note, I wish FriendFeed was called something else or had a different acronym. FF = FriendFeed = Firefox in different contexts. - Jauder Ho

You'd think that they would have really fixed things by now. This constant tinkering is a joke. It is like putting a band-aid on a gaping wound. It just isn't working! - Jacob Burke

I just wish FF was a bit more threaded in discussion, instead of just a single thread under first post - Philip Evans from twhirl

nicely put - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Well, with Twitter down, I get more work done! :) - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio

Or maybe God's way of saying,"Get your asses to work!" :) - Mark Forman