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Interesting, I recognized this right away as work by Scott Hansen, but no where along the lines of reblogs did I see attribution.
So… reblogged for the sake of attribution :)
(via timoni: shelbot: browneyes: dropped by lebienlemal) - http://dailyc.com/post...
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Physics WIN - http://twitpic.com/508qo
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awesome
- Alfredo
I want to do that on my exercise balls.
- Admiral Anika
How many tries (and broken bones) did that take?
- Johnny Worthington
Homygorsh
- Martha
First animated gif that didn't make me cringe or want to hide it. cool. :) also, i won't be trying that on my exercise ball anytime soon.
- ♥patricia♥
I just don't know how you figure out you can do that.
- CAJ, somewhere else
I'm sure if I tried it I would be in traction right now.
- Kevin Pedraja
Really Awsome!
- Piero Tagliapietra
Amazing ..
- johnpiercy
süper :)
- Göksel Şirin
O_o
- Bluesun 2600
THAT IS CRAZY AWESOME!
- Chieze Okoye
wow. gotta reshare that!
- Ňicķ
very cool...perfect landing too
- Jeffrey Marsh
Are you serious? No way!
- Andrew Trinh
I seriously just bought one of these today. but I'm with pea♥ fierce as a woozle. no attempts for me.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
wow that is sweet
- (jeff)isageek
Dude!
- BEX
Usually stomping on balls makes me uncomfortable, but this is pretty awesome.
- Phronk
I expect this move to be all the rage in Rhythmic Gymnastics in the next Olympics.
- Jeanine W.
Very impressive :0
- Adval
boy, if you messed that up it could really put a damper on your day. Some doof needs to try it and put up their fail-flip on youtube. Absolutely amazing, though.
- Rick Cogley
totally awesome!!! wow! how fun!
- Susan Beebe
Was waiting for the neck snapping moment....was pleasantly surprised
- Toby Graham
If I taught Physics, I'd show this to my students for open discussion
- Bwana ☠
wow
- Gökmen Karasu
wtf :))
- Batu
Thought he was going to munch it, clearly, he's not human.
- Will Higgins™
How many times did he try that until he got it right?
- Louis Gray
Not sure how many - but my guess would be that this guy is a competitive gymnast (based on the body and the setting) - things like this often come easy (when you have trained for a dozen years to develop muscle, balance and body awareness),
- Brian Sullivan
holy wow
- Mattb4rd
easy? If you're Jesus maybe.
- Mattb4rd
Haha thats awesome!
- Nicholas James
I would love to see the out takes on this
- Josh Haley
I really would like to try it
- Marcello Del Bono
Otherwise known as the orthopedist's full employment act.
- Tom Landini
win
- Jeremiah Owyang
ZZZOMG! That is such a PHYSICS WIN. A new way to use an exercise ball!
- Sean
It was amazing when he did it once, but how does he do it non-stop over and over? I lost count already.
- Josh Haley
yeah and how does he teleport back to where he started?
- Alfredo
bah to science, +many for physical fitness, :O
- chaz2b
hogeeee! fugeee! fugaaa!
- Ken Okabe
WOW! Even I am impressed.
- Shawn Whitmire
I can't get enough of this. Of course it should carry the "don't try this at home disclaimer". I'm sure they could run a whole episode of Amerca's Funniest Home Videos of people trying to do this.
- Mark Krynsky
Awesome !
- DAL
wow
- orionstarr
Is it possible that there are some hidden cables here? His form seems too perfect as his feet swing around at the end.
- Brian Sloane
nope. no cables
- Alfredo
Youtube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Andrew C
nice.
- Alfredo
I'd like to see the blooper reel
- Abbas Haider Ali
i wanna try, it's awesome!
- tibetsong
I am going to try this next time I go to the gym wish me luck heha.
- Jason
Next time I 'm at the gym, I'm gonna give this a try! :)
- burdr
burdr, did you try it out?? 8^)
- Chieze Okoye
The sequel: http://friendfeed.com/nathanc...
- Nathan Chase
This thread was discussed on the FFundercats (http://www.ffundercats.com/2009...)
- Josh Haley
Damn, that guy knows his arse from his angular momentum.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
BTW no longer on YouTube. Bummer.
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
Eating French food with @VendrTV from a truck! Not a roach coach -- an escargot mobile, if you will. http://twitpic.com/6y4uc
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Shortcovers now available in the Android Market! Find us under "Reference" (Dear Google: please add a Book category!)
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Know what feels good after being sucker-punched by Internet Bad Boy @kevinrose? A Fat Tire Amber Ale. Wonder what KR's drinking...warm milk?
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This is getting good. Where's my popcorn and ale to enjoy while checking out the Thursday night fights.
- Steven "Doc" Combs
Reading people's thoughts on the replies issue. We're considering alternatives. Thanks for your feedback.
Peter Efland, Marko Saric, Guillaume Foutry and 165 other people liked this
We would be happy to provide feedback in advance next time.
- Louis Gray
IMHO you wouldn't stir such a tempest if you'd do a better job explaining things (or requesting feedback in advance—you could use Friendfeed for that and get lots of comments).
- Glen Mistletoe
Thank goodness you responded when you did - the frothy mob outside was about finished building the gallows!
- Brett Kelly
at the rate that #fixreplies tweets are coming down the pipe they'd be nuts to not re-think their decision and/or explanation
- Chris Heath
Nice to know you're listening!
- Michael Fidler
You should ask for people's thoughts first.
- Michael McKean
I reckon removing the feature was a good things. Has left holes though, that probably shoulda been filled first.
- Tim
Louis: sorry, until Twitter fixes how it treats early adopters I'm not giving Twitter free consulting. Only suckers would do that. We helped build Twitter and then it stabs us in the back. That's not making me willing to provide free consulting. Don't know why you'd do that.
- Robert Scoble
I volunteer to be your community manager for a month free. If I'm effective at communicating ahead of swarms like this, you can hire me and pay me retroactively. Because seriously? You really need someone to communicate with your users in real time.
- Karoli
I hope "considering alternatives" is a euphemism for "we'll have it back right stat, sorry!"
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
@scobleizer; "stabs us in the back" A bit over the top perhaps?
- Jordan Brock
Jordon: it absolutely is NOT over the top. When they recommend someone who has only been on Twitter a week or two as a recommended follower they are stabbing users who put a lot more time into the service directly in the back. I have about 1,000 days on Twitter and have put thousands of hours into the service. The way Twitter treats its users is deplorable.
- Robert Scoble
Jordan, Mr. Scoble has a propensity for the dramatic. :)
- Brett Kelly
Well since it was just a "small setting update" the simplest alternative should be to just undo the change, right?
- Ken Sheppardson
Brett: when you put thousands of hours into something and you get stabbed in the back by the owners of that thing you see how it feels.
- Robert Scoble
In the meantime, Twitter can get the celebrities to help out with its community problems. I'm not working for free and anyone who does for a company that stabs its users in the back is a sucker.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I can offer my services for free all day to Twitter. I know they won't take me up on it as they aren't interested in what I have to say and their track record proves that.
- Louis Gray
I'm really curious to know what kind of stats that were tracked to make this decision. Both @al3x and @dougw are hinting that there wasn't a significant number of people "using this feature", which I am extremely skeptical of. Would tracking the number of times I click out to a profile that I'm not following be enough? It is impossible for them to track whether I personally received value from a tweet even if I didn't click through, right?
- Lee Adkins
"The way Twitter treats its users is deplorable" What other instances justify this statement?
- Angus Burton
@ev Don't you have more important things to focus on? ie., affiliate marketers who don't disclose what they're doing, follow bots, and all of the spam and manipulation that's ruining twitter?.
- Michael Fidler
Louis, I think @ev is listening to you and other Internet celebs, but not nobodies like me.
- Vinko
Vinko, I'm no Internet celebrity, and I don't believe I've been addressed by him ever, so he has an odd way of "listening".
- Louis Gray
It's an echo chamber
- dedlam
You can't go asking your customers about every checkbox and option. Knowing which is what makes a good decision maker.
- Ryan Stanley
Sure you can, when it's a feature change that enough users expect to have. It's not disabling a checkbox, it's disabling community discovery.
- Karoli
Karoli, here here!!
- Vinko
Twitter is clearly listening, and responding quickly and in public. Now, they need to roll back the change
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Twitter knows all the geeks moved to FF. I doubt Oprah considers it a feature change.
- Ryan Stanley
wow what a conversation.
- Dustin
+1 to dedlam :)
- Jordan Brock
Twitter will "consider alternatives" until #fixreplies starts trending back down, which will happen over the next 24 hrs or so. Then they'll look to see if there's any dip in the user number or sign-up rates. There won't be, as nobody's actually willing to leave Twitter over this and new users who've accepted the default setting don't know this option was there, so this will be the last word on the subject you'll see from ev.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, that's true today and not true in the future. Twitter's continued decision to ignore user feedback and input and make arbitrary decisions will ultimately result in someone creating the next shiny thing. It happened with other services/sites and it will again.
- Karoli
Karoli: That'll happen either way.
- Ken Sheppardson
There must be a strategy around this, right? They wouldn't just arbitrarily do this. What would be the next feature they implement to make this redundant?
- Gregg Scott
Hmm. So, Ev is "Reading people's thoughts." wouldn't it be better if he talked and listened.
- Michael Markman
Michael: Thought reading must be something they're testing internally. Probably part of Twitter Pro.
- Ken Sheppardson
Could be the move that pushes more people over the FF wall. I've not considered this move until now, but now.....
- Debi Jones
@scobleizer, i thought the point of using twitter was because you want to not because you want fame and a pat on the back from evan for "helping". shame on you, that's the biggest douchery i've heard in quite some time.
- Snipergirl
Leather is an astute reader! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Snipergirl: that's BS. If you are in the media business the size of your audience allows you to build a business. Before the recommended follower list Mashable, GigaOm, and TechCrunch had smaller audiences than I did on Twitter. Now they have far bigger ones and people who don't do many tweets at all are rewarded while the rest of us suckers are left in the back of the bus. If I just...
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- Robert Scoble
The simple alternative is to make is a user preference. Even better would be groups, and then to apply said preference to groups.
- Barney Craggs
@scobleizer if it's a business to you then vote with your feet and go to a different service and stop whining about evan not paying you enough attention!
- Snipergirl
Snipergirl: that's exactly what I've done. But, sorry, I've put thousands of hours in and 904 days into Twitter. When a service treats someone who has put far less work into it better than me, I deserve to whine a little bit and anyone who says I don't isn't worth listening to. Let's put it this way. I see on LinkedIn that you are a hospital worker. What if you put in the time, do a...
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- Robert Scoble
Not entirely sure I agree with Robert, but I'll say this: it is incredibly frustrating when sites you use as intensely as Facebook and Twitter ignore the intelligent users. I won't say intelligent = early adopters, and I won't even say that it precludes the celebrities, but it is extremely tiring offering "feedback" when you're treated as just one voice. Clearly, CEO's are out of touch and don't understand us; yet, running a [sufficiently large] site by total democracy trends towards the stupid. #fixreplies
- tollie williams
Matt: I get what you're trying to say, but, here's another way to look at it. Twitter has signaled to the world that there's no way you'll ever been seen as a "top tier" person. Take me out of it. No matter how many hours you spend, no matter how popular you'll get, you won't be treated the same way as one of their personal friends and/or celebrities that they want to feature. To me that sucks. It is not a meritocracy. It's a closed society and that's everything I work against.
- Robert Scoble
The real problem is like this: Twitter was made for broadcasting and was never meant to be a convesational platform. Even friendfeed does the comments half baked. There are no comments for comments.
- Nitin Nanivadekar
The only feedback users contribute (that matters) is what they buy or use. If you don't like Twitter, leave.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Gattoo seriously, wouldn't this conversation be a LOT easier with threading and a respond feature?
- Jason Nunnelley
I don't know about meritocracies or closed societies, but i do know that the main way I find new people to follow on twitter is by seeing who the people I already follow are talking to...and if they say something of interest to me in a reply to them, I want to check that person out. If all I see are replies to people I already follow, I won't find anyone knew unless I pay much closer...
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- Shawna Benson
Gattoo: I disagree with that at least in part. The thing that always excited me about this media is that it's two way. You talk, I respond. But Twitter has biased its business toward the serving of celebrities who mostly use Twitter to broadcast and less to those who try to use it to have conversations with people. That's their right. It's my right to whine about it, though. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Shawna: yup. I think Twitter wants to push people like you to use search instead of the "@ replies" tab.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: that's a problem -- why would I search on something I don't even know to search for unless someone mentions it? Let's say person A tells person B something about daffodils and I find that interesting enough to go check out person B and start following them based on who they are, who they talk to, etc. Now, 'daffodils' aren't normally something I go randomly searching for info...
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- Shawna Benson
@scobleizer It's possible you give them far too much credit. I doubt they've any plan beyond limiting feed size.
- Jason Nunnelley
Shawna: I mean you can search for someone who uses your name. I do that on Seesmic Desktop and here on friendfeed and it regularly catches people who both use @scobleizer as well as people who just say "scoble" etc. Then I can go off and check them out, just the same as if I used the @mentions page.
- Robert Scoble
Jason: you're right. Twitter's team sure seems like they don't think things out and take the easy road most times. The recommended follower list is just one example of that. They could have done something really magical, but instead they did something half assed. They should have just hired Guy Kawasaki to do an AllTop page for it. That would have been better than what we got.
- Robert Scoble
"we've learned most people want to see when someone they follow replies to another person they follow [...] [h]owever, receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don't follow in your timeline is undesirable" so despite what we apparently learned that people want we've decided to scrap it anyway. Interesting use of the word "learned" there.
- Mark H
The simple way of looking at it for me seems to be- when they say it's what most people are telling them to do, it's actually them telling most people what to do.
- Iain Baker
Scoble: You deserve a couple hundred thousand followers, for sure. I joined Twitter bc I read a post you wrote in '07. I hadn't looked at your follower count in a while; figured for sure you had at least been rotated in Suggest Users by now. That just makes me dislike the Suggested Users crap even more. ... The question here, I guess, is: did you do something so bad that Twitter/Ev/Jack/Biz can not forgive you?
- john erik metcalf
Scoble: Actually, even if you did, it would still be bullshit. What is this, Texas politics? Good ol' boy system. They need to figure out a better way, obviously things are getting very unequal.
- john erik metcalf
I don't know, Scoble, I'm going to take a different angle. Did Ev ever ask you to spend "thousands of hours" and 900+ days on Twitter? If so, then I'd say you've got a gripe. Otherwise, you did it voluntarily for your benefit, and frankly, Ev doesn't owe you anything; he provided a service for free, you used the hell out of it (profiting along the way, I don't doubt). It sounds like...
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- Bob M. Montgomery
I already miss what my followees are saying to other people. I've been using Tweetree for awhile now, because it would display the tweet to which my followee is replying (unless it was a protected tweet). With the new change, that aspect doesn't work, and Tweetree's entire platform is practically destroyed...
- Qrystal MqKenzie
If there's one good thing about this, it's that I can probably follow more people: I used to not follow someone if all they do is reply to people without giving context of what they're talking about. Maybe they'll make it so the visibility of @replies to people I'm not following is set on a per-user basis... which would be great, because some of my followees were SO GOOD at giving context, it's a major loss to no longer be able to see their @replies to people I don't follow!
- Qrystal MqKenzie
Qrystal: I feel the same way, except now it's a huge hassle for me to actually find all the people I should be following.
- Guan Yang
Bryan, this is about a setting being removed that was not the default setting. If you had changed the default setting to this setting you would see every tweet by the people you were following (the default was and still is to hide the @'s to people you're not following). The change is now there is no choice that setting has been removed and anyone who set that setting is now back to the default (which it seems you've always been on).
- Chris Heath
@scobleizer please clarify: are you saying that "stab in the back" = "not being on the recommended list"?
- Michael Markman
I'm still trying to figure out why Scoble is so upset. While it's noble for him to have helped pioneer the service and offer input on making it better, I don't see how that equates to Twitter somehow owing him any type of allegiance. Also, people seem to have forgotten that Twitter is an independent entity, responsible only to its investors (ultimately) and, as such, they are free to...
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- Brett Kelly
@Brett your suggestion that people go elsewhere to find a similar Twitter service is what makes the free market so interesting and exciting. While Twitter cannot be everything to everyone, every decision Twitter makes affects their future success. Look at what happened to MySpace and the rise of Facebook or Ford compared to Honda. If Twitter leaves enough room, someone else will come...
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- Damond Nollan
from email
Michael: no. He's said in the past that he would asked to be removed if he was placed on the list. Thought I can see Scoble's frustration, I agree with Brett on this one.
- Angus Burton
I haven't read this thread in its entirety, so I apologize in advance if I repeat anyone else's position. Two thoughts: 1) If the powers that be at Twitter were simply concerned with reducing the noise in our streams, why not simply change the default setting of the @ replies to not show all, while keeping the option available? Instead, they change the default behavior and remove the...
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- Phil Essing
I wonder if Ev has made it over to friendfeed to read this. I can see Robert's points. It would have been cool if more 'meritorious' tweeps were added to the recommendeds. But when the average non-techie person signs up to Twitter they probably find it more attractive to follow P-Diddy and Ellen than to follow someone they've never heard of, regardless of how much valuable content they've added to the service. That being said, Twitter needs to adjust they're listening ears.
- Jesse Newhart
Phil: that was the setting. It used to be an option to turn on all replies from friends, now there are not at reply options at all. If you had made the settings change, you're back to the default.
- Chris Heath
Jesse: I have to suggest that the average person would probably prefer to follow someone that actually shares their interests, and beliefs, likes and dislikes. Thus the whole recommended users list on any site is bullshit, and completely worthless. In the absence of a personally worthwhile recommendation, the average non-tech would probably prefer to follow typical pop stars (Brittney,...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Phil: The network I've built since 2007 was largely built exactly with the optional feature that they just removed. I don't mean to sound hysterical or overly dramatic, but the change eliminated something that was fundamental to how I used twitter. It is a free service, they can do as they see fit, it's just a less useful free service to me than it once was.
- motownmutt
All the discussion here on FF is neat... but should it be over here too/instead? http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter... (personally, I won't be asking for the 'replies' to come back but... to each their own)
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay: I find that Getsatisfaction.com never lives up to its name. I can't think of an issue I've posted or looked into where the company in question posted something. I've found several companies who reirect all their support questions to there, apparently as a convenient black hole.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Brett: Twitter being a free service and held by private investors do not make it immune to the desires of its user base which are the source of its (theoretical) future earnings potential. The less it chooses to work with its user base, and the more it makes decisions that alienate them, the more likely it it that they bail (as HUGE numbers already do withing 30,60,90days of account...
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- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Rob: There are 11 members of Twitter on GetSatisfaction and < 60,000 customers in the system. So, not perfect but it is a trending area and support does read things there. As a side note, that area has over 10,000 support topics... imagine the insanity of a phone support IVR menu that would take 12 hours to delineate all those "issues" :-)
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay: No one from twitter support supports a damn thing, unless you're oprah, or brittney or aplusk. Not on getsatisfaction and not anywhere.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Jay: I have never seen anyone from any company answer any question about anything on getsatisfaction.com. This includes WAY more companies that I've looked into than twitter. I never expected anyone from twitter to answer, but I've sure as hell expected someone from ping.fm to answer when that's where their support link took me,
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Update from Twitter - "...we're making a change such that any updates beginning with @username (that are not explicitly created by clicking on the reply icon) will be seen by everyone following that account. This will bring back some serendipity and discovery and we can do this very soon" And they've started designing a new feature which will "give folks far more control over what they...
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- Sharon McPherson
Rob: I'm not trying to change your mind... just to give you an idea of the scope of what "support" would entail. Of the 11 Twitter employees on GetSatisfaction they have collectively produced 1045 responses as of the count today on their staff page.
- Jay Cuthrell
When I last looked their last response had been over three months prior to the date i was looking. I would welcome my mind being changed, but you're trying to change it on two subjects I don't have much faith in a) twitter support in general, and b) getsatisfaction's overall effectiveness. Links may change my mind.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Chris Heath: It seems I wrongly assumed that the @ replies were set to all by default, likely because I chose that setting a long time ago. Thanks. However, that truly begs the question as to why the folks at Twitter decided to remove the option.
- Phil Essing
motownmutt: Like I said, I do understand the frustration caused by this feature removal, a frustration which I share. That being said, I'm not going to lose any sleep as a result.
- Phil Essing
i'm going to say this fully knowing the fan boy charges i will open myself up to - u can see how concerned i am about that possibility (yawn) - from my perspective scoble has a valid point (Louis is also welcome to offer help to a service he values btw) - about this time last year a myriad of similar conversations were taking place here as twitter crashed MULTIPLE times a day - i cant...
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- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I am actually fine with the change because one can always go the persons page to find who he/she has replied to and it makes your page less cluttered. There is always some trade off but i am fine. I am waiting for more options from twitter in the future.
- ashish
Funny take on this - http://cli.gs/dumb
- Brian Kelley
I love the twitter product, but am growing more disgusted by the twitter management team. There is zero user input solicitation and this latest event #fixreplies is a classic mistake of product mgrs who fail to engage their customer base to get valuable feedback on the design prior to go live; instead, twitter mgmt is releasing features that are not vetting by their user base - huge...
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- Susan Beebe
waves at Evan Williams. Hey Ev!
- Thomas Hawk
Evan, perhaps with the next major functional change you might consider inviting ideas of your users; a good example of how this can work is presented by SalesForce.com: 'Idea Exchange' http://ideas.salesforce.com/ (no suprise SalesForce.com is good in gathering and using feedback from their customers; being a CRM company ;-) )
- Jeroen De Miranda
Scoble, you are a follow-blocker, and as such, you laid the groundwork for the devs putting in this nerf. There are quite a few thin-skinned A-listers who hate seeing back-talk in the @ tabs. this accommodated their wailing. It's wrong and should be put back. People who are vain enough to want to broadcast to followers have to accept that they will hear from the public, and often critically. Otherwise, go on a private AIM or FB chat.
- Prokofy Neva
Prokofy: bullshit. If you are a jerk you don't deserve to mess up my experience. You can keep commenting on your own place and I'll still see it anyway. Everyone I know searches on their last name. But I absolutely won't back down from your bullying and change my opinions. I will keep blocking people who are jerks and who are spammers. That's the only way we can keep our community from destroying itself over time. You are NOT entitled to get in my face, sorry.
- Robert Scoble
well, this whole conversation could never have happened on Twitter. I do appreciate the attention and awareness of the entire Friendfeed team, but for me the essential feature is the threaded comments.
- Peter Efland
The next generation of The Next Generation - http://www.veronicabelmont.com/2009...
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I like your Natalie Portman choice!
- BASEnet
OK, no more Star Trek posts for a while! LOL. Make sure to leave comments on the post if you agree/disagree!
- Veronica
@veronicabelmont Those are pretty good choices for a new TNG
- Chuck Baggett
from PeopleBrowsr
I missed your Dune comment on Patrick Stewart but Yikes you are totally right! Matthew Fox as Riker would either be genius or disastrous. But it would certainly be interesting. I'm all for it! But what about Wesley and possibly Guinan? They were both official cast members at one time or another.
- Joe Pierce
Ok I'll chime in. Amy Adams is too young. Matthew Fox is too whiny. I can't take Cuba Gooding Jr seriously.
- Rodfather
This is the one downside of FF... I like the comments to be on the blog post sometimes! I can't get the FF plugin to look right in the comments, so now comments are all over the place :/
- Veronica
Great choices!
- Jess Lee
@rodfather Amy Adams seems like a good choice to me. And @leatherdonut It's Natalie Portman, so I think I can overlook it. Great choices!
- Michael Fidler
great list!
- (jeff)isageek
Good list............although I think it would be good to take on the challenge of who should play Picard..........
- Kevin J Hatton
Yeah, sure, let's destroy The Next Generation, too. While we're at it, let's go ahead and make young, hip versions of all my favorite sci fi--Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Flash Gordon....oh, crap. Too late.
- Fleagle
Fleagle, I just want you to know that I read that in my head with the voice of Comic Book Guy.
- Veronica
"Worst.Remake.Ever."
- Fleagle
Then I guess you really wouldn't like my idea about a new TV series starring young Spock, in which he goes to live with the human side of his family on Earth and solves crimes using his keen intellect and logic!! "And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for this meddling Vulcan!"
- Veronica
Encyclopedia Brown = Spock?
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Gunny, that's crazy! This is a totally original idea!
- Veronica
In that case, Veronica, I like it. :)
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
I kid, of course. Haven't seen the new movie yet, but I just hope it's as least as good as the Star Wars prequels.....okay, I can't type that one with a straight face.
- Fleagle
Veronica: That sound a lot better then what is on tv right now, lol
- Fee501st
I like your Spock idea, though I think it begs to be shot in a mock reality show format. I imagine Spock's confessionals would be priceless...
- Thomas
Found Shit » Figurines : Funny, Bizarre, Amazing Pictures & Videos - http://www.foundshit.com/tag...
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Tenderly Felted Chicken
- Christopher Harley
from Bookmarklet
Why does this make me think of Howard the Duck?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Why am I thinking this is sexy? I must have almost completely lost it.
- Morton Fox
WTF LOL
- Mona Nomura
That chicken does have a nice ass
- Lindsey is Fierce!
That is creepy.
- Lindsay
When I first saw you on the cutting board...
- Christopher Harley
LMFAO@Lindsey
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
なんだか、とてもグロテスクに映る。丸のチキンを人の形に見えるように立たせただけといえば、それだけのものなんだけど。このキモチ悪さはなんだろう。
- Sakurai.Catshop
from fftogo
Google Translate returns this for Sakurai.Catshop's quote: "Feeling, reflected in a very grotesque. It only had to stand in the way people see the whole chicken, what I'm for it. Why would this be bad KIMOCHI." You may have beaten out both Lindsey and Morton.
- Christopher Harley
That's to funny
- YoYo_P
WANT
- Steve C
Eww :(
- Zed Darkman
Bay Area residents tend to have peculiar ideas about burritos, which they regard as monstrous things wrapped in tinfoil, and filled with what would seem to be the contents of an entire margarita-mill dinner, including grilled meat, rice, beans, guacamole, tomatoes, salsa, sour cream, orange cheese, and probably a lot of other things that neither... - http://ernie.tumblr.com/post...
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#twitterpornnames Mine: Princess Morningside. More like an anime character :( [name of first pet and name of the street where I grew up]
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I would be Bucky Roosevelt.
- josh neff, geek at large
I'd get Puppy Rosemont
- ÉllbeeÇee
Solo Pine. Me thinks some guy should get that one.
- Jeanine W.
I would be Tao Main. Sounds like a bad Chinese food dish.
- Simon MacDonald
Topsy Carsvale - I must be very highclass with a name like that :D
- WorldofHiglet
Pigg Michaelchuck. I'd do me.
- Phronk
Impressive. From now on, you shall be referred to as, Princess Morningside. So say you all... :)
- Mike Shields
#twitterpornnames Sasquatch Shady Knoll -- I... I'm really not quite sure what to make of that...
- Aaron the Librarian
hey be careful - this appears to be a scam! now the bad people have your first pet and street which can be used for security questions -- read this - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Allen Stern
Um, the "porn name" thing predates Twitter by...oh, at least a decade. I seriously doubt this is some sort of identity theft scam.
- josh neff, geek at large
Jeremy Ashorne- so very gay for pay.
- Pete, Enabling Force
#twitterpornnames Lady Margaret. No really. Lady = our first schnauzer. Margaret Court = old street. Good dominatrix name?
- Librarienne
Seems appropriate since I haven't stopped listening to The Cure since they closed Coachella. Plus it's Friday ... ♫ http://blip.fm/profile...
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20 Unusual and Creative Packaging Designs - http://www.toxel.com/inspira...
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Justin Yost, Barron Fujimoto, tinypants - Hagitha of FF and 5 other people liked this
Simpsons Mock Apple - Watch before they take it down! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Richard ¿digame? Walker, mjc, Jack Lhasa and 101 other people liked this
Funny stuff. Did anyone notice that Steve Mobs knew his customer by name?
- Phil Boiarski
3:05 minutes of PURE genius.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Agreed, pure genius.
- xero
Longer clip http://www.youtube.com/watch... omg This is EPIC. I'm sorry I missed the episode.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
the full episde is on hulu http://www.hulu.com/watch...
- Jay Martinez
I thought that was hilarious, especially Bart's co-opting of "Steve Mob"'s speech. Brilliant.
- josh neff, geek at large
hahaha ROTFL LMAO haha
- Apostolos Papadopoulos
The bill...lol. Nice gift from Mapple
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
I'm guessing the bill is in reference to those first bills sent out on the iPhone from ATT, a la iJustine's.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
LOVE
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
that's a hoot!
- MikeAmundsen
lmfao what the Simpson episode... best one ever
- Farhad Jafari
soooooo awesome! Triple like!
- Tim Hoeck
best episode ever
- randulo
A great episode, I was sad when it ended :(
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
hulu ftw, you guys!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Hulu is great, but I hate these 2009 Dodge Ram ads. I hate them more than I can express in words.
- Phil G
wow! Microsoft must have paid a fortune for this! :D
- Nikos Anagnostou
Thanks for the Hulu link. The YouTube ones have been removed.
- Mitchell Tsai
Mona, use Hulu - no chance of a takedown: http://www.hulu.com/watch...
- l0ckergn0me
Apple jokes: C+, Rest of the episode: F, Hulu on the other hand: Solid A+
- James Hull
Ugh... they took her down :/
- Michael Forian
I haven't watched The Simpsons in years -- that was a pretty funny episode. :)
- Brad Butner
from twhirl
I also saw it here... if it's still there http://www.viddler.com/explore...
- Dave Q
I saw that on DailyMotion
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iPhone Cupcakes: so. much. win. - http://laughingsquid.com/iphone-...
Clay Newton, Faizar, Carolyn Chan and 164 other people liked this
Yum!
- Orli Yakuel
Mmmmmm...
- Anna Haro
om nom nom
- imabonehead
Only one thing to do: I'm going to throw one at you.
- Eric Kerr
Do you clean up your messes, Eric?
- Mona Nomura
iyum!
- Zee.
makes me hungry just to see them. Should be mounted on springs so they wiggle!
- Bill Thompson
from twhirl
Shut your hatches, haters! These cupcakes are awesome.
- Mona Nomura
How's the battery life on those cupcakes/
- Michael Markman
yeah - do they jiggle when you press on them?
- Zee.
I bet Caryl could make these easy.
- Will Higgins™
the iphone is soooo del.icio.us!
- (jeff)isageek
Geez, how much do those cost? ;-)
- Jordan Hofker
Ingenious. They look delicious too!
- sean808080
ummm.. little to far on the iphone thing. Next is the knitted Iphone.
- CW™
Awesome! Do want.
- Stellina
I don't own an iPhone but I would like to try to make these.
- Melissa
Christopher, I bet the knitted iPhone already exists somewhere. Or crocheted. Check Craft: magazine.
- Kamilah Gill
i soooo want that ipod icon cupcake in the corner.
- (jeff)isageek
World Record: Non Blinking Woman - http://www.veryfunnyads.com/index...
ha3rvey (needs soup), Jeff P. Henderson, Ronald and 29 other people liked this
O RLY?
- Josh Haley
+1 Josh
- ::Kristen::
Josh wins internets.
- David Young
It's a great commercial. Watch the whole thing.
- Josh Haley
I did. I felt my eyes start to water half way through. Funny stuff though.
- David Young
That's great!
- Barron Fujimoto
chocolates ftw!
- TheBuzzMachine
Liked on account of the music that plays when she bites the chocolate. Claude Debussy ftw!
- Colby Olson
bad breath
- Noah David Simon
i like!! it's quite unique compared to many of the boring US commericals.
- imabonehead
looking forward to drilling in Florida, Alaska and also possibly the future Vice President if she is looking to divorce
- Noah David Simon
In case you haven't noticed, I'm Asian - duh - But I MUST admit. Asians are THE worst. drivers. EVER. w t f
Forrest Cox, Benton, Charlie Anzman and 17 other people liked this
amm.... without getting into details.. they have competition :)
- Naor Mark
Asian women! Why is that?
- ·[▪_▪]·
Oh, I've encountered worse.
- Morton Fox
Go driving on any given day down I-95 or US-1 in Miami. Ethnicity is not a factor...it's just THE WORST drivers ever.
- Candace
Well Japanese people are good drivers (really)
- Mona Nomura
Egyptians.... Off their heads.
- Zee.
Have you ever driven in Collin County, Texas?
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
Try Vietnamese or Cambodians in So. Calif....OMG WTF?! dude, pick a damn lane and stay in it!
- Susan Beebe
I'm Asian too. But I am a decent driver since 16 ;-)
- AJ Batac
There are roads... in Collin County, Texas? (Kidding, folks!)
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you've gotta try Russia one day - you will learn in first hand why famous writer Gogol said there two troubles in Russia, roads and idiots...
- A.T.
Susan, imagine gray-haired ladies who peer out through the steering wheel in their Cadillacs. Or some knucklehead straddling two lanes in a Hummer pulling a boat talking on his cellphone with a rottweiler in his lap.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
right. Looks like the world is full of bad drivers. got that :)
- Riccardo Cambiassi
You're Asian? ; )
- Chris Brogan
hey! i take offense to that! most people in the West would not survive driving the roads in developing nations :)
- ~C4Chaos
Dude, I almost got hit. Like, three times, By different drivers! And all I was getting was coffee!!
- Mona Nomura
I used to live in Collin county. They are bad there too
- Charles
Old people are worse.
- Drew Z
was your attention on the mobile screen, or the world around you? ;)
- tagami
ugh, tagami... good point LOL
- Mona Nomura
Can't blame us Asians... It's genetic. ;)
- Reuben Thum
from twhirl
@Mona: Yeah, we know you are Asian because of that thread about pick up lines. Wasn't it something like "You got back for an Asian!" :-)
- Jeremy Brooks
In Australia it's Volvo drivers who wear hats and have fish sticker... very specific I know but no less true :)
- Johnny Worthington
@mona: then it's coffee, it drags bad drivers. Or sleepy addicted ones ;)
- Riccardo Cambiassi
Jeremy: =| I don't remember that.. @John: We have the luxury car drivers (with leather seats) and "PETA" bumper stickers. Um, leather? Animal? WTF
- Mona Nomura
@Mona That really doesn't suprise me... which makes me sad :(
- Johnny Worthington
funny you posted this Mona, i almost went postal with roadrage this morning bcuz of a female driver doing her makeup on the 405 in traffic! (her ethnicity withheld to protect the innocent) :)
- Jericho
You're getting it all wrong - we're the bad drivers for not knowing how to drive like an Asian. It's all about perspective. ;) (I lived in both Bangkok, Thailand, and Jakarta, Indonesia for several years - I know completely what you mean)
- Jesse Stay
I think I'm going to replace the license plate cover of my Mom's car to say 'I may be slow, but I'm in front of you'
- Rodfather
Well with the female asian drivers, at least they look cute doing it.
- Shawn aka ringking
don't know about the driving part, but they certainly make good passengers
- James Fridley
Asian mothers are the worst.
- Andrew Trinh
lol! my aunty drove a scooter for 10 + years without a license and DIDN'T get caught!
- Jay
My mother-in-law is French Canadian and has everyone beat. rolled her car at a 4 way stop. no other vehicles present. She has NEVER explained that one.
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Google drops Bluetooth, GTalkService APIs from Android 1.0 - http://www.computerworld.com/action...
Barron Fujimoto, Richard ¿digame? Walker, Scott Jarkoff and 5 other people liked this
Bluetooth I don't care about (frankly) but GTalk? Really?
- Mona Nomura
from Bookmarklet
i'm getting one pre-order from tmobile in Sept 17!
- Pokai
i KNEW it!! I'm still deciding between Dream and the iPhone... Premature 1st gen OS or Premature 2nd gen OS... hmmmm decisions, decisions ;)
- Mona Nomura
got to say that I wanted to keep the bluetooth. Got a great bluetooth keyboard that I would love to use with the Android phone (when it comes out).
- James Fridley
But isn't it (Bluetooth) a battery drainer, James?
- Mona Nomura
yes an no, currently I still use my Dell x51v for conferences and if I have to take a charger with me. Much smaller impact than taking a full laptop. Really hope to do that same function with the next device I buy so bluetooth is important. My guess would be that it would drain less than say GPS would...
- James Fridley
If they squeezed A2DP in there they'd be a serious step ahead of Apple. I use a Jabra BT620S stereo Bluetooth headset and the fact I need a dongle to listen to music on my iPhone even though it has Bluetooth built in still kills me.
- Brooks Bishop
James: What I don't understand is, Android and iPhones are supposed to be 'smart phones' and targeted towards business users. Yet the hardware, default software, and ESPECIALLY battery life are utterly useless... It's SO baffling to me :| Would you even use GPS on your Android handset?
- Mona Nomura
Brooks: You listen to music on your iPhone?! =O That's like battery drainage #1, no? @Matt: rofl!
- Mona Nomura
@James GPS is only receive though.
- Kevin L
Bluetooth keyboard support would be nice too.
- Rodfather
klecu: what do you mean by 'only receive'? @Rodfather: really? i like touchscreen... my iPhone typing is ridiculously fast haha
- Mona Nomura
It would be nice to have the option. A plain serial device support would also let you use a bluetooth GPS receiver too if you want a better signal. Using a Bluetooth keyboard would be nice if you need a real keyboard in case you need to make a blog post. This keyboard is great. It folds up to be fairly compact. Too bad it's not made anymore. http://www.amazon.com/iGO-Sto...
- Rodfather
Matt: GTalk is the kicker for me :| @Rodfather: I used to have one of those for my Palm ;) @Matt: There are already location based Social Networking sites integrated with GPS in beta. The one that interests me most, is a consumer review site like Yelp, that has geo tagging. Pretty neat :)
- Mona Nomura
while battery life is certainly an issue, using my crystal ball I would expect that battery tech and power generation (or even wireless charging) will be a sooner than later conversation. This would make both bluetooth and gps possible. Maybe I am just dreaming....
- James Fridley
I guess when it comes to it, maybe I am after the wrong thing. Maybe I just need a UMPC that I can add a sim chip to?
- James Fridley
OMG James, wireless charging = best. idea. EVER and ixnay on the umpc... Apple's tablet FTW! @Matt: I'm not a fan Yelp (SF), since it grew too large and now needs to be taken with a grain of salt :( They've also been caught taking bribes... yikes. Though I'm not a fan of location based Social Sites, Yellowpages is what's appealing to me the most. Wow, I can't believe how exciting technology is, seriously.
- Mona Nomura
The Fujitsu U810 has been great for me for both work and home. These days it's all about <$500 netbooks though.
- Rodfather
Drops BT? That sucks bc of the "law" out here in CA.
- Brandon
perhaps it makes sense to only have wifi ... bt is not cheap, open (anyone know who gets most of the royalties in the bt patent pool?) & is not secure in a cost effective way ... alternative & related issue - comparing USB to say FW not just 1394 (for example)
- Wes Schadenfreud
The article says the bluetooth API won't be available to developers in the first release, but will be in a future release. But BT headsets will work. Anyone using OpenMoko?
- Barron Fujimoto
Standard devices like BT headsets will still work. Android still contains a Bluetooh stack, but only BT device drivers supplied as part of the base platform will be allowed in the first release.
- DGentry
People! Japanese people DO NOT make sushi at home. 1. it's too much effort and 2. it tastes better in restaurants. Don't ask how to make it!
Nick Austad, Russellreno, Todd Jordan and 17 other people liked this
Japanese people only cook PB&J at home. Then they cut it into little bits and eat with chopsticks. And they only drink sake from big giant porcelain urns.
- Internet's Tad
It's also a very rare treat for most Japanese people
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
Used to be, Eric.. like in the 80's LOL
- Mona Nomura
Unless you're a sushi chef. I lost my first girlfriend in college to a sushi chef. How do you compete with a guy who wakes up at 5 am to search out amazing food?
- Mitchell Tsai
no diggity.
- Zee.
it's cheaper in restaurants too. try Sushiland :) although it's not as authentic.
- ~C4Chaos
i'm black and my husband's romanian/hungarian, but we used to have nigiri sushi at home and just the rice alone is time consuming. we thought, 'no way in hell are people in japan doing this every night', so now we have sashimi and other regular japanese foods all the time.
- Admiral Anika
but are born with ninja skills. watch out!
- Rodfather
wait a min.... i've made sushi and it wasn't all that hard. (but of course it was veggie... no fancy rare fish)
- Ňicķ
Sushi at home = Do Not Want! The only thing we make at home are 1. oinari (tofu pocket sushit) 2. temaki (handrolls) 3. battera (saba pressed sushi) NO California rolls!
- Mona Nomura
My mom likes to make cut rolls. I like to eat sashimi fresh from the grocery store. Sushi is too much work.
- Mitchell Tsai
tamaki isn't sushi? (in the broad american sense of the word)
- Ňicķ
Temaki or handrolls we do at home, are not the temakis you see at sushi restaurants. We actually have 'temaki' parties, where the neta (sashimi), nori (seaweed), shari (sushi rice), are out on a table and we all make our own :)
- Mona Nomura
Spam (with scrambled egg) musubi ftw.
- Arlan Koizumi
I've made some good sushi at home but only because I love "cooking" and I love sushi.. just to try... but yeah, my pathetic efforts have never come remotely close to the great sushi restaurant experience.
- Anthony Citrano
We have the temaki parties as well. This probably looks like the ones you have too: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Barron Fujimoto
This is what I've always thought 'home' sushi was. Inari and futomaki. Has egg, mushroom, cucumber, and other ingredients. Still takes time to make. The brown, scrotum looking thing is inari. Called them footballs as kids. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Rodfather
ah well Mona, i guess that's what i was talking about. I think in general, most americans would consider that (handrolls) as sushi (in the gringo sense of the word) and would love for you to show them how to do just that much... not necessarily "real" sushi
- Ňicķ
We do sushi at home. Well, vegetarian sushi. It's often easier than eating out with food-allergic kids.
- Cyndy
Not do... did... it's too much work... @Cyndy thought it wasn't too much work because I had to do all the prep and she got to come in and just do the rolling / eating.
- Jason Carreira
It is WAY too much effort. And it doesn't taste the same at home
- Mona Nomura
Australian sushi rolls are so simple and easy to make at home - and very cheap when you are on that 'killer' budget
- Chris Loft
What in the Sam's Hill are Australian Sushi Rolls, dare I ask
- Mona Nomura
And oddly enough, my caucasian father used to make sushi all the time when I lived there.
- Nick Austad
from twhirl
Temaki parties sound like a hell of a lot of fun. Hmm... *plans next dinner party*
- Stellina
Stellina: They most definitely are! I don't know where you live, but Japanese supermarkets sell a lot of fresh sashimi :)
- Mona Nomura
It doesn't seem like sashimi would be that hard to make.. or nigiri for that matter... sashimi is all about having a good piece of fish and cutting it well, right? We have "sashimi grade" fish at our grocery store... I've been tempted to try it. The first sushi I had that I actually liked was some fresh salmon and tuna that a friend cut into cubes for me. I had had a bad first experience with sushi years before but that made me decide I loved it.
- Lindsay
Well it takes YEARS to perfect the kniving skills to properly cut the fish, years to learn how to properly cook and flavor the rice, and nigiri making? Takes at least 3-5 years to perfect. It's an art, a profession, a craft, in my culture :)
- Mona Nomura
From having been at various times heavily into temari, kumihimo, seed-bead work and Aikido, I've noticed that almost everything the Japanese do is turned into a craft at least and an Art at most. The attention to detail is astounding and so is the (traditional) amount of repetition and honing needed to consider yourself graduated to any recognized level of expertise. It's an endearing if intimidating quality of the culture.
- Lindsay
i wouldn't suggest anyone try to make sushi rice at home. that's labor intensive and my husband decided to do it while i pregnant, which meant the mirin smells killed me, ergo i almost had to kill 'him'. thankfully, after a small island's worth of rice he gave up.
- Admiral Anika
30 Creepiest Clouds On Earth -AWESOME - http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/feature...
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Randall Haney, J. Abdul-Qahhar, Neill Adamson and 82 other people liked this
Am I the only one baffled as to why they called it "Creepy"?
- Mona Nomura
Cuz clouds ain't 'sposed to do that...LOL. Combine these with those funky trees from earlier and we can make real life super mario bros
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
UFOs run!
- AJ Batac
I read a book a while back saying that aliens spy on us from the clouds... I wouldn't be surprised.
- Michael Forian
Can they... really see us??? :(
- Mona Nomura
"They" are watching you right now. Get your hands away from there. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
these are some amazing images... :-)
- Moksh Juneja
from twhirl
i need a 'love' button for this
- Geoff K
Mmmmmmmm, lenticular
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
I wonder if the "contrail" conspiracy nuts will decide these are proof of something?
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Those aren't creepy; they're stunning.
- Ayşe E.
Mammus clouds are also cool, and are also often mistaken for UFO's - in this case because, unlike most clouds, mammus pods don't have wispy edges. http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropsh...
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
i see one pic .fuji and the clouds like that above it
- Arash
thats awsome
- Arash
New Miyazaki film wows Japan - Yahoo! News - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
Barron Fujimoto, Melissa, RAPatton and edythe liked this
I'm a big fan. Can't wait.
- Ňicķ
from Bookmarklet
:)
- edythe
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