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2) It takes place in DC and I love the city gets a show. My city!! - Amani

3) Seems like a unique premise with some strong female leads as well. I like how they got the girl with TSA to join up. She looks like she was the girl in 'Save the Last Dance'. - Amani

4) I will watch Episode 2 during dinner and report back more thoughts/feelings. - Amani

I have to agree I am really liking Lie to Me - Justin Yost

I got hip to it too, Amani. I've watched all three eps on Hulu. - Derrick

Alright, epsiode 2 is done. I love how they use real life people's faces to draw a parallel to the characters lying in the show. Hilarious. Poor Bill Clinton and Marion Jones. LMAO. - Amani

Episode 3 was very well done. I like how his daughter is getting more involved in the storyline. Interested military case as well. Let's hope they can keep the momentum going. - Amani

I love the show too. last year, I read a great book by a professor named paul ekman called 'telling lies' (http://is.gd/j8DC) and if he's not involved in this show, I have to believe the writers are consulting this guy's canon of research on lying and deception, because the shows so far play like scenarios described in the book. - .LAG liked that

tim roth rules ! - ben barren

I'm really enjoying it, as well. It also helps that the dad of the kids I nanny for is a cameraman on the show;) - Lis Miller

Very nice epsiode this past week. enjoyed it. I love the stories behind the scenes with the leading lady and her husband. Let's see how they continue to develop. So far so good with this show. Momentum is still strong. - Amani

I really like it. It's got a great concept. - Aaron Hood

I like the show and all, but it's just not that good. It is entirely a repurposed Bones / House clone. The smarmy slightly outside of the lines genius boss and his band of predictably flawed merry men. It's funny how the solution to every single problem is telling someone how you know they're lying. I realize its the main point of the show but done 15 times an episode it loses its effect. - Richard Lawler

Richard, that's exactly how I feel about it! I like it slightly better than you seem to, but you hit the niggling points that I've had about it right on the head. - Chieze Okoye

lol - you could make a case for a lot of services stealing off each other. If it's a good idea and adds to the user experience, it would be stupid not to. What's lame is to become defensive over a service. Competition is good. - Shawn Farner

@Shawn to a point I can agree with you but the addition of 'Like' to Facebook is a blatant rip-off. If they had taken the idea and made it better something or did it differently then I would have no problem with it but in this case ... LAME! - Steven Hodson

@Steven - I am happy to see Like added. God knows I've looked for it a million times previously - Dave Hodson

What gets me is the implementation on Facebook is almost identical to FriendFeed - Kevin L

No one was jumping all over Strands for using similar features. The difference is, the party in question is Facebook and it is trendy to crap on Facebook. I don't even think it matters - Facebook is a closed off network and FriendFeed is relatively open. If Facebook implements an "everyone" feed, then you can start to worry. - Shawn Farner

Amen, Shawn. - Anika

I have decided, I'll never 'Like' on Facebook - Varun Mahajan

I agree... I think sites can and should add the features that add value to their site. FF was an evolutionary step from sites before it, many features it has are elsewhere. I think that to chastise FB for these would mean to support Amazon's One-Click patent... - felix from Disqus

How lame was it when Microsoft copied Apple? Not very lame in retrospect. There's another way of looking at it though; leaders need followers. or imitation bla,bla,bla. I used the like feature yesterday without thinking it was new. I'm so used to doing it here, I didn't think about it. There's a huge difference between what's posted here, and what's posted on Facebook. Here, "like" my family pictures. I don't think so! - Michael Fidler

Or are we finding that these social platforms are beginning to merge in function and capabilities? - Robert Worstell

Mark Zuckerberg never ever felt ashamed for 'stealing ideas'. The thing is: ethics never made anyone a billionaire :-) - Burak "cyrus" Bayburtlu

@ Burak that is absolutely correct. - Jamelle

didn't friendfeed borrow facebook's newsfeed idea to begin with? - Travis Parsons

@Travis yup, as did just about every other social networking site. most of this stuff is incredibly easy to duplicate. - Adam Ostrow

Is it really lame to improve your product? Come on and stop being fanboys. - Clay Newton

@Clay - I am not a Facebook or anything else fanboy and improving one's product is one thing but at least have some kind of originality - is that so much to expect from companies living off of VC money and paper valuations? - Steven Hodson

@Burak .. you are absolutely correct which is rather disappointing really - Steven Hodson

I don't even see how the way Facebook has implemented the like feature even adds to their service. Items I like don't even show up in my feed for my followers to see. - Kevin Whalen from BuddyFeed

We went from 64F (daytime) to 22F (nighttime) and snow in one day here this week (mountains of western Virginia, USA). - jcunwired

Jody, cold to colder. Still, snow would be pretty cool. - Duncan Riley

Holy moly that's hot. - Anika

OMG. - Penny

Peaked at 45.5, now dropped to 44.7 - Mo Kargas

i would take it right now. looking at -8ºC/17F her in St. Louis...and the snow is still coming down. looking at 5 inches today alone. that's a pretty good accumulation for us here. - cjmart

that's nuts! - Glenn Slaven

I thought we were doing it tough with a high of 43.2 - Duncan Riley

Thanks Duncan. I've had products killed by flaming like this, some of it even came from competitors, who apologized years later when people turned around and did the same to them. We have these great communication tools but they can be used to really damage people. Like I said I give this guy some credit for using his real name, because he hurts himself a lot more than he hurts me. - Dave Winer

Dave, don't worry about it. Someone who brings up your past like it was a problem obviously is a bit jealous. Remember, those who can do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach just bitch about everybody else. He also didn't notice that you did not bring up the outliner, I believe Hutch brought it up recently. - Rob Diana

Rob, I do worry about it because like I said, I've seen the damage it can do. And he's not bringing up "my past" -- there's no substance in his post. You bought into the bullshit. Don't do that Rob. If someone throws up a bunch of garbage at someone, with no links and no specific assertions, don't accept it. And even if there are links and assertions, be careful because there are always two sides, at least. - Dave Winer

Some of the things people say on the Internet are appalling. What was the point of this post, seriously. What a jerk. - Mona Nomura

Dave, by past I meant blogging, RSS and everything else you have done. He just has an axe to grind. Some people can't respect people who are successful. I did not buy into his bullshit at all. You have my utmost respect. - Rob Diana

I complety understand Dave. I, for one, don't care about "sensationalism". When you talk about "code", just show me the code. - directeur

It amazes me how much effort people put into ripping into others! I know emotions run high sometimes but haters need to get a life. Seriously. - WorldofHiglet

I hope we can get somewhere. I want to try the Instant Outlining project again. I think the FriendFeed users might form a good core community. But it's going to have to be focused on the software and users, not politics. It's not really very political. Only for people who want to get in the way. This one isn't really threatening anyone's business, unlike RSS, which definitely did. - Dave Winer

Dave, I have followed you for years, since I stumbled on your Amusing Rants. I looked on as you invented - or played pivotal roles in the development of - outlining (for me an absolutely crucial piece of software functionality), blogging, rss, podcasting, xml-rpc and the rest. I even met you briefly at Boston MacWorld Expo 1996. Never mind whether instant outlining is or is not the progenitor of Twitter (which I don't think you suggested): this guy with his Abusing Rant doesn't know what he's talking about. - Tim Ostler

BAN THIS SICK FILTH - hellonm

Think of the children! - Yolanda