Now is not the time for hand-wringing or finger pointing, which has already begun. Now is the time to dig in and start rebuilding for the future. We must figure out how to reorganize and restructure ourselves so that we can once again command the confidence and respect of not only the members of our own party, but voters of all stripes.
- Robert Bluey
Finally, I can talk on the cell in the shower.
- Geoff Schultz
Fun fact: as long as you dry out the device before you power it back on, water won't ruin most electronic devices. I once forgot my cell phone in the washing machine, luckily it was off. I took the battery out (*important*), baked it at 125 degrees for about 10 minutes and it was good as new.
- Steve Spalding
trying to decide which is better, waterproofing my laptop or baking at 125...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I saw this on Tekzilla #42 as well. It's pretty freaking AMAZING. Especially seeing things fully functional while submerged underwater. (I don't think it's a spray though)
- Louie
1. They automatically resize my browser 2. Takes FOREVER to load 3. SO unintuitive. When I see the "loading 24%" bar? I hit the little "x" on the tab. UGH
- Mona Nomura
Mona N, symptoms of bad flash sites, sans maybe the loading bar. Plenty of those on non flash sites too.
- Mo Kargas
That resizes my browser and there're tons of graphics are flying around? Link please.
- Mona Nomura
Keh? I meant there's plenty of loading bars on non-flash sites
- Mo Kargas
Oh, miscommunication. I was listing the instances, which immediately make me go DO NOT WANT :)
- Mona Nomura
4. They often don't support standard functions like copy, paste, print and back. They almost always have terrible usability. I don't mind flash, but not for whole sites. Usually you can create the same functionality with CSS / DHTML and / or Javascript which are much lighter and let the browser do its thing.
- David Sim
Ugh, that is THE worst. When you hit back, while browsing through a pages of items and it kicks you back to the homepage. WHY is taht ok? Seriously.
- Mona Nomura
Yep....flash still sucks. I run a Flash blocker. If I go to your site and all I see is a bigass square with a nifty little play button in teh center for me to activate flash...well...I'm hitting C-w
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Deep linking doesn't work (applies for frames and some ajax-pages, too)
- Jemm
Move to Europe and Asia. They tend to favor Flash out there ;)
- Mona Nomura
funny thing...i was talking to a photographer who need a website. she kept asking about flash and i kept telling her i don't know flash. Eventually she decided to go a different direction (without me) because she wanted a full flash site. I just didn't get it.
- Justin Korn
Heh. I've been a Flash BITCHR since it came out. Waaaaaay back in the day, they were changing the code every 3 days. As soon as you got something built, you had to convince the client to download the updated plugin. "Didn't I just do that? Does it do that every time? Why would people visiting my site want to have to install a plugin just to see my site?"
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
And while I'm at it, waaaay back in those days, QuickTime was a monster at the things Flash was struggling to do. Again, the plugin requirement issue, even harder to convince the 99.999999% PC user base to install an Apple plugin. Man, I had all these cool QTVR navigation buttons, all slick and such, but alas, QTVR, we hardly knew ye.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Justin, I think a lot of artist types think flash looks nice, so that must mean the site is gonna be awesome. Chris, I have been a flash hater for quite a while. It has gotten better than back in the day, but it's still guilty until proven innocent in my book.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
AGREED re: plug-in!!!!! Imagine, if the client has no idea how to install the plug-in, are average consumer going to know how? I'm with David who stated, CSS / DHTML suffices. Loads SO much quicker! RE: QT, we've come a LONG way. wow.
- Mona Nomura
Flash = FAIL, If you provide alternate regular site = Semi-FAIL.
- Mitchell Tsai
I can not see how the software is a deceiding factor in the usability. When deeplinking is not needed (and navigation is clear enough to prevent the browser button to do bad things (it's a browser problem, not flash's)) you can make great stuff with Flash. There are just as much bad sites in html, xml, ajax, ruby on rails and what have you then there are in Flash. Okay. I admit. I am from Europe. I like the experience vs just information :)
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
There's more bad sites in 'al dente html' even. +1 Ruud
- Mo Kargas
Some sites need a good experience for the widest possible audience while other sites need a specific experience for a very select audience. When the second is true then Flash / Silverlight is completely appropriate.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
@Mo Kargas: that's simply because there are more sites made with HTML, it's like saying there's more coffee drinkers in the US vs the UK. It's not the number that counts, it's the percentage.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I just want to keep hitting like on this one. Most Flash sites break the stuff I use all the time; tabbing to controls, the scroll wheel, keyboard shortcuts like ' to jump to links, etc etc.
- Michael C. Harris
so can I assume that most of the flash haters don't mind it if it's used sparingly for small aspects of the site that are non-essential but also hard to implement using other technologies like javascript? Like Flickr's slideshow, for instance?
- Ben Reierson
Websites made entirely out of Flash do suck. The major reason is that even though they may be visually appealing but the usability is poor (e.g., cannot navigate without a mouse), accessibility is also poor, and are generally not parse-able by search engine (is changing).
- imabonehead
Flash usage is often a triumph of "design" over function but because its ubiquity and relative stability in many cases it is the only way to guarantee near universality and longevity of media content delivery over the web. It is a failure of browser and media delivery standards that force many content providers into this.
- Brian Sullivan
Freaking Ditto on that. My computer ain't that fantastic running on Mozilla firefox(which takes a ton of memory on my computer) if a page is flash everywhere!
- Shawn aka ringking
@briansullivan - a good point. While many folks will say use HTML / Ajax / CSS to do something the reality is that there are often many more hacks, special cases and workarounds required to do it... and blaming it all on IE isn't accurate. The specifications of these technologies are often ambiguous and incomplete while the feature set is inadequate. Using Flash / Silverlight can alleviate almost all of that issue. Again... not when your goal is the largest audience but when you know your users it is ok.
- Soulhuntre
Flash is almost always the wrong choice for an interface, unless you have a captive, locked-down audience, or you're doing something so complicated that other approaches will be super-slow and fragile. I install extensions in my browser to improve my experience, and if your site renders them useless, I just hit the back button.
- Roger Benningfield
I detest full flash web pages with all of my heart and soul. I say we boycott them!
- Geoff Schultz
It's a reference to a reference to http://www.flickr.com/photos... (airborne cats). The original set contains many jumping cats, as well as a cool assortment of Japanese "creative English" phrases :)
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
I am growing weary for the growing number of posts seeking to deconstruct the web's latest buzzwords to prove they are being used incorrectly - I don't care if a social media "community" is not the same concept as a "community" in early 19th century America
We can all agree that meaning of words change -- but it is still useful to have a common understanding of what a word now means even if its different from before
- Brian Sullivan
@brian very much agree - i am all for constructive discussion and critical analysis I just feel like some find they don't have a whole lot of positive value to add to the conversation so they begin looking for things to tear down so that they too can be an expert
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
@marco - Well said. I do however, enjoy any discussion regarding changing linguistics and the construct of community.
- michael sean wright
@nice fish tyx - I do as well - in fact I love any kind of discussion that challenges CW or critically discusses ideas
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
"horseless carriage" and "web" probably different meanings, too
- Mark Dykeman
that explains the weird looks lately when i tell people i love surfing the horseless carriage ; p
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
While the etymology of new terms and meanings is helpful for newcomers to the net and having a repository of them as a reference would be cool (an ever changing wiki often based upon keystroke errors would be kind of dorky funny), in order to take away some of the intimidation factor the terms have for people, I try to liken it to a toy that only has instructions in a language you do not know. Best to play with it to figure out what everything really means. I agree, repeated analysis is tiresome.
- Boo
@mark @rasheen *making hand washing motion and walking away* "I'm out!"
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Remember the old Tired/Wired sidebar in Wired magazines? That kind of talk is accelerating. If you want to ride the wave of it you need to be here on FriendFeed.
- Tad
Perhaps that's why I like FriendFeed so much: it reminds me of those great, early days when NNTP was the center of the web and HTTP was just a gleam in CERN's eye.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Or "which email address of yours should I send this to?"
- Barak B
Akiva, I think you are onto something there. Someone once told me, you can never get a PhD if you read usenet. I am starting to think the same applies with social media.
- Rob Diana
Some of us still bemoan The Long September.
- Ernie Oporto
Barak, or people drunk-buying goofy domains and attaching a catch-all forwarder there for a five-minute throw-away joke. A year later when the renewal notice comes up, they're confused.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Ernie, indeed we do. I'd give up the <center> tag and all that followed it to get back to those days.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This sounds like my grandfather talking about the good ole days... sorry, too much bloody good in today's internet compared to fidonet days :P
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
One day folks, you'll all be dead. And I'll be doing this "longing for way back then" thing :P
- Yuvi
The internet started going downhill when the <blink> tag was introduced.
- Jason Carreira
No, now it is what is your Twitter id, or better what is your FF id? LOL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
No. The Internet went downhill when they released the AOHellers.
- Cyndy
Um, yeah. The internet was much better without Wikipedia, blogging, news sites, online video, The Onion, mp3s, the IMDb, webcomics, instant messaging, and social networks. Much better when all you could do was post to Usenet and read instructions for building a Macquarium.
- Brent Newhall
Lol wut? The internet is millions of times more amazing now than it ever has been. There may be a higher percentage of idiots now, but that shouldn't stop you from appreciating how nice we have it.
- Tad
I don't know about you all, but the internet is constantly getting better for me. I use it more now than I ever did before. And that's *because* everyone else is on it. I swear, I would not trade in this for the days of the blink tag.
- felix
Notice I wrote 'Much of the Internet' and not 'The Internet'. Also, considering the chronological context of the statement, you can't really say that things that hadn't been invented yet could go downhill. Those things started going downhill at much later dates.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Ah, those were the days. Creating a geocities webpage with midi files and blinking gifs and chatting on ICQ with a dial-up connection.
- Trish R
I think the best days of internet were the ones when only a handful scientists could reach it, and it was not polluted with content. C'mon, get real. If the amount of content grows, then the useless 80% grows bigger too. 80% of the internet always was useless. It's just now it means a couple million sites, and not 800.
- Roland Hesz
Gotta agree with Brent - while I definitely miss the old days in many ways, overall I am thrilled that it has so permeated global culture and connected so many minds. It's certainly increased the shit level but all in all it's made the world a better place by making the recently-impossible possible.
- Anthony Citrano
I don't give out my phone number, only my email :)
- Mona Nomura
agree with Mona and thinks the internet is the best thing invented it makes accessing things much easier then it was when everything was in tomes the size of a small house especially since i used large print
- Cecil Sandus
Have you guys had a Life before you found the "fountain of youth"? Will you still have a life if one day you discover it was all a myth?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I do not like Mona! I do not like her playing Jewish! I am an Israeli and having her disrespect me and Noah is insulting! Japanese chicks like Israelis but if she cannot show respect then it is not good!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I haven't been to many concerts, but the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich, for the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, with all that space for them to do an incredible light show... it was breathtaking
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Caril Hiaasen, author of wacko novels, had this opinion piece in the Miami Herals. Yes, it is editorial. It is also one-sided, shallow, and almost hysterical. He ignores the lessons of our neighbors Texas, Mississippi, and Alabama where oil and gas drilling exists with pristine beaches while adding substantially to the State revenue. He does not choose to understand the value of natural gas as a substitute for oil. He ignores the fact that we already have plenty of tankers passing along our coasts and instead brings up a boogyman from 1969. He closes by calling anyone with a different idea a "sucker". I will refrain from name calling.
- Frank Derfler
from Bookmarklet
Akiva is one of the hottest babes I know in real life. Sadly that doesn't say much for my social life.
- Sparky
This isn't the first time Akiva has been mistaken to be female here on FF. When Lindsay asked for a list of great women to subscribe to, someone suggested Akiva as well. Maybe we've stumbled across his/her secret identity!
- Tad
Akiva is definitely a male Hebrew name. Nothing unisex about it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Holy crap Akiva sorry for getting this long freaking convo about your gender. I loved your original comment that I linked to before everybody got mean too you. Lol
- Cody Heitschmidt
from fftogo
Don't sweat it, Cody; it's nothing I probably haven't earned somehow or another!
- Akiva Moskovitz
+1 for akiva being an awesome part of my friendfeed experience +2 for him being mistaken for a girl and +5 for him spelling avatar
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
this is funny... I thought Akiva was a guy, then read the headline and started blushing thinking I had got it wrong after all!
- Sally Church
from fftogo
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource... The famed "Song of Deborah," in chapter 5, exults in the breaking of the Canaanite stranglehold over much of the country: "So may all Your enemies perish, 0 Lord," is Deborah's parting shot, though the true Jewish victory went even deeper than the destruction of Sisera and his chariots. According to the Talmud, Rabbi...
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- Noah David Simon
I have stopped assuming gender until otherwise enlightened.
- Cyndy
I have pictures of him in a dress :^)
- Nathan Howell
Akiva and I enjoyed an interesting exchange about foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur (we're both fans of both methods), and then we stumbled into a few differences about Mideast politics and their impact on American politics. By the way, Noah, fascinating insights into the origins of the name "Akiva" -- I see it's weighted with a great deal of history. (And: I am...
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- Sean McBride
Mona, do not try to be Jewish! Do not try to be Israeli. You are not! We know Japanese chicks like us Israelis, but if you cannot show me and Noah respect, no thanks!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
You guys are absolutely insane. I like it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Noah: "Rabbi Akiva later becomes one of the rabbis martyred by the Romans for supporting the Bar Kochba rebellion in 135 CE." http://tinyurl.com/59hukp Is this the same Akiva?
- Sean McBride
Noah: another footnote: in the movie Exodus (1960, starring Paul Newman), the head of the terrorist organization (Irgun) which bombs the King David Hotel is named Akiva. No doubt that Akiva was named after the Akiva who supported the Bar Kochba rebellion against the Romans. http://tinyurl.com/5gdwy7 Congratulations for injecting a scholarly note into the proceedings. :)
- Sean McBride
Isn't Akiva to Hebrew like Alex is to English?
- Nick Mutton
Nick - do you have a url/pointer? Perhaps Akiva could explain what was in his mind when he chose the name and whether or not it carried any ideological content.
- Sean McBride
Print this out at work. Pass it around.. Stick it on the bumper of your SUV.. It's on Drudge now and millions of eyes per hour are soaking it in...
- #alaskareport
twitter is social media abuse (@jack @Biz n @EV is under the influence of the leftist bigots of aMANdaChapel PurpleCar and eMailOurMilitary) - http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/2008...
http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/search... this is history, but the reason I made panopticons was to show how twitter was not an appropriate place to solicit people to write to the troops. I am trying to save the lives of people who make the ultimate sacrifice. eMOM idiots liked harassing military personnel.
- Noah David Simon
you are welcome to your political opinions, but leave the boys in Iraq alone to do their job. This whole twitter censure stuff started because I showed eMOM that they were wrong. They never forgave me for it and instead did a "Fast Company" and decided to destroy my reputation.
- Noah David Simon
Panopticons was designed to show the people who were involved in defending eMOM. It showed how easy it would be for a terrorist to get communication access to military personnel. Rather then admit that they were wrong and were endangering our soldiers they began a personal attack that lasted for months. It is still going on now. my twitter account was just deleted months after panopticons
- Noah David Simon
they are a bunch of big egos... they thought they were doing the right thing and didn't like me telling them otherwise. PurpleCar is lower then shit. She wasn't doing it for the soldiers... she was doing it to brag about doing it. It was one of the ladies charity thingies. Stupid sorority shit... and I will not stand for it.
- Noah David Simon
“Amanda Chapel” and Brian Connolly pop up on various blogs defending and attacking at will — with legal threats thrown in for good measure.
- Geraldine Copywright
Jews are people but can we call Jews a race? Jewish people come from a Hebrew race! Semantics?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Race is a human concept. It is artificial and reflects a segment that does not exist. It only exists in respect to our dignity. Mark Davidson does not have any respect for Jews. He is a racist. thanks for the thumbs up Beth
- Noah David Simon
No, better than that! Should we be calling all people who disagree with us racists and fascists? Do we not live in the same society as other people and desire peace?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
read the link. a label is relative to dignity when put into the spectrum of bigotry. there is no meter of hatred. it is the context and intent. Mark Davidson's intent was to sabotage with malicious and egregious reasoning.
- Noah David Simon
Noah maybe you right maybe you reading too much out of the discussion you had with him. Maybe I am naive, but I will not judge a man until I see it with my own eyes! It is the same I will not judge all Palestinians to be anti Israel because some of them come to Israel and kill my brothers.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Igor.... I never met the man. the text is all I experienced. same as you. please note the aggressive behavior to solidify his subject. note that I am trying to avoid the argument with him. that I am trying to be his friend in the twitter; he is definitely an aggressor and badger. he isn't asking out of naivety, he has an axe to grind like Mel Gibson. his point isn't original either... it is common Stalinistic rhetoric, he is grandstanding for his friends. you should know better. this was a circus
- Noah David Simon
Igor... I told you this dude was a aMANdaChapel Drone! take my word for it. there is no way to cater to these Anti-Zionists. You can't fit in with them.... they hate you for who you are. please believe me in the future. Igor... you think I just am crazy? I had your exact opinions on September 10th 2001
- Noah David Simon
and yes... he is very close with @aMANdaCHAPEL. he might even BE @aMANdaCHAPEL (partly)... he is in the inner circle. I have surveillanced NAZIS for years Igor. Please understand the history goes way back. During September 11th I ran one of the most pro-Zionist defenses against accusations of Israeli involvement during 911. I have an online history.... these people have had many aliases... but they are dangerous
- Noah David Simon
Here Amnda Chapel refers to the Tower of Babel as Ebonics! Ebonics linguistically is applied to Black people! Are Semites Black? Is Amanda Chapel - Brian Connolly Aryan? http://twitter.com/amandac...
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
I don't get what you are saying. Ebonics? All language is a fabrication (social agreement between parties), but what does that have to do with us? I don't speak the tongue of bullshit or Ebonics and I don't have a twitter account
- Noah David Simon
no... @aMANdaChapel is a Stalinist... her tyranny is philosophical not genetic.
- Noah David Simon
I would like to agree with you there, but I smell Fascism! Brian Connolly is just using Left as a front! You need to look through the gaze! @technosailor is Left but he is not Fascist even though he comes out as so at times! Big difference my brother!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
if you would judge a family by it's past Igor then I would be a Socialist with your opinions. my father was one of the most active and vocal people in the 60's. he made the front page of the NYTimes for masturbating on the flag in a theatre piece. Am I responsible for my father's youth? Do I agree with his opinions? no. Obviously I don't. I fight with my father every day. Even now.
- Noah David Simon
using twitter to defend my twitter accounts from censure of @AmandaChapel @mailourmilitary and @purplecar. Other then that I have no reason to ever want to be involved with the twitterwhore fascists. it is about right and wrong. they do not have a right to arbitrarily delete accounts because some - http://twitter.com/NoahDav...
I'm using twitter to defend my twitter accounts from censure of @AmandaChapel @mailourmilitary and @purplecar. Other then that I have no reason to ever want to be involved with the twitterwhore fascists. it is about right and wrong. they do not have a right to arbitrarily delete accounts because someone claims they are being stalked. on twitter and friendfeed we are all stalkers. this is just plain wrong. twitter's problems go beyond infra-structural
- Noah David Simon
Noah maybe you should start from beginning so people can understand what is this about and how it got started.
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Noah I recommend you support all the issues in parts! You have MailOurMilitary who you do not support because of their methodology and because they marketing stand! You have Purplecar and how friends who want to help the American soldiers in Iraq by sending them emails. You have AmandaChapel which is a PR firm! Now you have Twitter developers who deleted your Twitter accounts!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
My recommendation, is not to paint all people involved with the same brush!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Noah can you tell us why you so vehemently object to MailOurMilitary?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/search... this is history, but the reason I made panopticons was to show how twitter was not an appropriate place to solicit people to write to the troops. I am trying to save the lives of people who make the ultimate sacrifice. eMOM idiots liked harassing military personnel.
- Noah David Simon
you are welcome to your political opinions, but leave the boys in Iraq alone to do their job. This whole twitter censure stuff started because I showed eMOM that they were wrong. They never forgave me for it and instead did a "Fast Company" and decided to destroy my reputation.
- Noah David Simon
Panopticons was designed to show the people who were involved in defending eMOM. It showed how easy it would be for a terrorist to get communication access to military personnel. Rather then admit that they were wrong and were endangering our soldiers then began a personal attack that lasted for months. It is still going on now.
- Noah David Simon
Yes your arguments against MailOurMilitary aka eMoms are very valid! Without the USA military checking the content of the messages their is national security risks! Can you tell us when was eMoms formed it looks fairly new, a few months old! What clearance do they have from the USA military? Who is behind the company? Is it a registered non for profit entity?
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
they are a bunch of big egos... they thought they were doing the right thing and didn't like me telling them otherwise. PurpleCar is lower then shit. She wasn't doing it for the soldiers... she was doing it to brag about doing it. It was one of the ladies charity thingies. Stupid sorority shit... and I will not stand for it.
- Noah David Simon