Ben Vaughan

too funny. kills 3 birds with one bike..cuts grass, exercise and no pollution lol - Heather

plus it kills birds?? that's not nice. ;-) - Ňicķ

Ha! - Mitchell Tsai

Seriously considering building one of these, but I suspect I should add some kind of guards behind the blades. I'm a little clumsy to ride that as-is. - ha3rvey (That One)

I think that's a great idea. It doesn't look like it would be very difficult to build. - Corie "Viper" Jones

Looks like it has a functioning brake and derailleur as well - no reverse though -- maybe a big negative - Brian Sullivan

On further examination -- no cable to the derailleur - Brian Sullivan

love it! i'd totally take it on some sweet jumps - Bento

Heck yes! - Corie "Viper" Jones

I'd love one. - Cyndy

wouldn't work. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ

I still won't do it. - l0ckergn0me

I'm pretty sure I could get the same results by putting my foot in the garbage disposal whilst balancing a sledgehammer on my chin. I gotta get one of those! - XDpaul

I totally want one! Be green *and* exercise, what's not to like! - zoblue (Zulema ❤'s you)

Nice find Corie! I was on vacation from FriendFeed when this came out... - Mitchell Tsai

great ideas I never thought of doing that before might be cool to mix and match a pretty picture and one of these other alternitives - Charles Rice via twhirl

I'll stick with your nightime shot of the Whitehouse (currently parked on the big design display) and the Ester Dyson shot (on the MBPro). Thanks btw for open sourcing your photos! :) - Gerald Buckley

Great find... just got started on the GTD path, so this + your last WorkTV segment were very timely. THX again - Jericho

Active Desktop FTW. I've put myself together a tabbed page via Yahoo! UI tab view library, with things like Airset, remember the milk, various igoogle gadgets inc password generator, a tab with another set of tabs inside it for webmin for various servers, a tab for phpMyAdmin, one for site company wiki, one for company trac server, one for a tiddlywiki 'scratchpad'. All of this accessible with just two keys (WIN + D) = productivity++. - Mat

Great idea! - Ronald

If it's any consolation, it doesn't work on Vista (for me) either. - Vez ৩

I was almost getting excited. Bah! - Flemming Funch

That was my reaction too - and I am genuinely surprised, because I was under the impression that a great majority of Google developers use Macs. Perhaps they are all running XP in Parallels? - Jonathan Beckett

So...Google made a Second life? PS Home? Er.... Hmmm..... - Bwana McCall

Ok, judging by the avatars available...I'm not welcome unless I have an afro :/ - Bwana McCall

I still can't resist trying it on a PC, but do get a Mac version soon Google Lively! - Sudha Jamthe

Anyone figure out how to get it to work with Parallels? - Mark McKay

Bwana: you can change your hair. :) - Steve Lynch via Alert Thingy

@jonathan beckett: If this were true, why isn't there not even a official tool for simply syncing iCal with Gcal ? I don't think so. And the mac devs only write programs to make money. That's the way i see it, and the reason why i switched back to win. Sorry. - Ryo

Ryo, I know you're subscribed to me, but... that was a grossly inaccurate statement you might want to retract or back up with solid facts. I have hundreds of free (and open source) Mac apps on my system. They didn't get developed out of thin air. - l0ckergn0me

@l0ckergn0me: The fact is i was looking for a functioning free tool for syncing iCal to gcal... nothing. I was looking for a free alternative to textexpander...nothing. I found that instantly for Win. (google free download, and Texter at lifehacker). There is a lack of free (and especially open source) Software on Mac. Just look at the software directorys. I had a mac (and still have) for many years, so it's simply experience. Maybe you are looking for other software than me, but I saw no code. - Ryo

Ryo - Plaxo. Which, for whatever it's worth, is available for OS X and Windows. Can't get much more free than that - with options to spare. There are plenty of alternatives to Textexpander - I've seen 'em, and I've recommended 'em. I just stuck with Textexpander because I got 'er on a discount in one of those bundle deals. Lack of free software?! Are you *REALLY* going to go down that path with me, Ryo? :) Really? REALLY!? - l0ckergn0me

Luckly for Mac users,Google lively sucks! - Chris Qie via twhirl

I view this as a feature, not an oversight. - Chris Baskind

I'm not really feelin' the imagery invoked by this title... - Rah™

Waiting for countless Moby Dick references. Go. - Shawn Farner

@rahsheen - agreed. switched it to "Twitter draws closer to harpooning the Fail Whale" - MG Siegler

i've definitely enjoyed the increased uptime. but they shouldn't even announce progress until we can reliably go back say ten pages into older tweets. I'm also frustrated by the never ending error messages from my twitter clients (twhirl on my pc and twitterific on my mac) saying i've exceeded 70 requests per hour. nevertheless, i am a bit excited that constant downtime may be a thing of the past. - mike

@mike - yeah i thought it was a bit early to trumpet a success at first too (mission: accomplished anyone?) but then again those are some pretty solid numbers and twitter did kick ass yesterday with its 30 minute maintenance in a two hour window. - MG Siegler

All they need to do is move their offices to Nantucket. - Jonathan Beckett

Great title! Twitter does need to stop blowing so badly. - wrecks

Does this improvement correlate to the addition of Pivotal Labs to the Twitter team? - AJ Kohn

Explanation: "In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework." - Andrew Baron

wow indeed - Michael W. May via twhirl

مثل ساحل لاست میمونه :دی - Mil∂d

wow, Greattttttt - Zahra HB

That is an amazing image - Kreg Steppe

It's worth being subscribed to friendfeed for that photo alone. I wouldn't have found it if you hadn't been a friend of Scobleizer. - James Robertson

Dude. - l0ckergn0me

So becoming my wallpaper. - Ben Parr

Very nice wallpaper for dual monitors setups! - Éric Senterre

What a spectacular photo !!!!! - Nellie Root

echoing what james robertson said......worth being here for that photo alone. amazing. - carlotta fancypants

I am setting this up as a dual monitor type display between my two work systems! - Joe Dawson

that is unbelievable. astoundingly awesome - Paul Rj Muller

Wow! That's amazing! - Marcus Beagley

That is gorgeous! Check this out: http://www.jeffmccord.org/when... - Jeff McCord via twhirl

thanks for sharing, great photo - sean percival

Amazing! - Jiri Fencl via Alert Thingy

Incredible! Thanks Andrew for finding such a beautiful shot. Lovely to wake to up to such beauty on FriendFeed... - Mitchell Tsai

Oldie but a goodie! - Steve Rubel

Breathtaking. - James Mowery via twhirl

Amazing. Thanks - Parvez Halim

Wow ... this is incredible - Nick O'Neill

Mind-blowing! - David Fendley

this is really kewl...!! - Peter Dawson

Wow - Aaron Myers

very hip, I've seen this photo before (might have been on APOD) - Michael Kowalchik

sometimes good photography gives me goosebumps! - Phillip Jeffrey

great image - Pete Delucchi

incredible image - johnpiercy via twhirl

Wow, 153 people 'liked this" so far and almost 30 comments. - Andrew Baron

Absolutely incredible shot! Then again some of the best shots on the web come from NASA, National Geographic, Discovery and, of course, Hawk :) - Charlie Anzman

Not to be too cynical but that shot seems to good to be true -- I wonder if there is more processing going on than the text seems to admit. - Brian Sullivan

I'm enamored with that lightning. - Jason Toney

ahhh good one - Dobromir Hadzhiev

I'm going to side with Brian here. What is right: Comet McNaught was that bright in WA (I use to live there), but I checked my attempted pics, they predate this by over a week. I'm sure the comet was only that bright for less than a week. Second, the main Australia Day fireworks occur in Perth City...which isn't near a beach . Maybe it's Leighton Beach with Fremantle to the left...but it doesn't seem right. I did check the weather records though, there was a storm that night, and it's in the right direction - Duncan Riley

I do hope it is real though...and I forgot how wonderful the environment there is - Duncan Riley

Now the wallpaper on my iMac - ☛ Adam Helweh ☚

Duncan, last year both Fremantle and I believe Hillarys held their own fireworks for Australia Day. I myself was trying to guess the location this morning. Being a regular on Leighton beach though it doesn't look familiar so I was thinking it may have been taken to the north of Hillarys. It also made me very nostalgic for Perth :) - Penny

wow, just wow - Mark Douglass

Amazing shot! - Timo Heuer

Unbelievable! - fbrunel

This is for sure a record post for me! 333 people liked this! - Andrew Baron

Congrats Andrew... this is truly a unique share!! thanks! :o) - Susan Beebe

Though I like the picture, I do agree with Brian Sullivan :( - directeur via NoiseRiver

Crazy looking - didn't even notice the comet until reading the site... - George Smith

Kick ass photo. - David Risley

smoke on the water - Harry Myhre

At 302 likes, the #1 most liked post of all time on FriendFeed. Antti Kemppainen Photography - Here's Antti's original picture http://jkemppainen.com/antti/i... Antti's e-mail is kemppaisantti@gmail.com, and you can scroll through Antti's other photos. - Mitchell Tsai

just incredible! - Geoff K

An absolutely stunning shot. - Brandon Wood

Still lovin this shot days later. :D - Andrew Baron

amazing. I guess the timing for this shot couldn't be better - Dan V

I forget which Greek philosopher said it, but "Right timing is everything is most important." - Scott Kitchen

registered as well - Naor

ericortega is on there - Eric Ortega via twhirl

It's PHP based, which disappoints me for some reason. But the code looks pretty clean. - Fred Yankowski

I'm there - mwsmedia - Matthew Wayne Selznick via twhirl

Port it to python :) http://laconi.ca/ - Bwana McCall

Open source and Twitter? I think I smell awesome. - possible248

and i thought that pownce will benefit ...(from twitter whale) - Naor

I hope this works - Alejandro S.

Time to test another site. - Eric_T

Why built another website? There already is Pownce, Jaiku, and Plurk. - Andrew Bashore via twhirl

How long before @SteveRubel declares FF dead and identi.ca the new google? ;D - Gez

I'm just curious how the distributed part works, how do I connect my install of laconica with yours? So that I can see your feed on the friends timeline of my install. Or is that not how it is supposed to work? - Frans

Does anyone have an answer to Fran's question? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

This is the spec for OpenMicroBlogging: http://openmicroblogging.org/ I don't think it works like that, Frans. The idea behind it, as far as my understanding goes, is that there's a protocol to allow you to write to identi.ca's data store, and eventually identi.ca will support other microblogging services that use the OMB protocol, but it's not federation. - Mark Trapp

I'm pretty sure everyone's wishing, out of thin air, something that identi.ca is not. All it's really doing is implementing a standard like REST, JSON, or whatever; it's just standardizing the fields so you don't have to guess or rely on a specific API for each microblogging service. I guess you could federate based off of it being interoperable, but it's nowhere near that. For one, identi.ca is the first service that I know of that even implements OMB. - Mark Trapp

fd - Justin Coleman via twhirl

Bwana - You do a good job explaining the potential on your blog. Thanks - Charlie Anzman

Suppose you have an account on server A and you want to follow somebody who created an account on server B. You can subscribe to the remote user, and your server (A) will contact server B to set up a remote sub. After that when the user on server B posts an item, it's also posted back to your server. Sync/decentralization is handled on a user-by-user basis. - Ken Sheppardson

I'm sure Laconica looks very much like Twitter did two years ago when it was just starting out. Simple SQL tables on the back end, basic UI functionality, no API, etc. Twitter's had two years to work on this full time, and they haven't been worried at all about building a distributed network. I'm all for open source, but I'm skeptical. It's not obvious to me that a community-based effort can catch and pass a venture-funded, full-time team with two years of operational experience. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, you highlight two huge misconceptions of this hype: 1) it's not federated yet. It's not even close to federated. and 2) it's not a community project. To make changes you either a) have to get identi.ca to buy into it and push it to http://identi.ca, or b) fork the project and run your own instance. This isn't the power of the internet working against the machine. This is a locked-in cathedral style development. Only one party has access to the final release (the server on which identi.ca resides) - Mark Trapp

Yay Mark! Yes, yes, yes. While anyone can GET the source code, any major changes have to come from a main hub for separate instances to work together. There's always this misconception of Open Source that it's this completely democratic process and anyone can just do whatever they want. - Cyndy

Exactly, Cyndy! You have a huge problem open sourcing a software-as-a-service, especially one that needs to interact with all other copies of itself: there is no way to run a bazaar style development without compromising the security of the main distribution points. It REQUIRES a single development team controlling the project scope and direction. Maybe the guys that run identi.ca are the next Linus Torvalds or the next rms or esr, but the law of very large numbers suggests they probably aren't. - Mark Trapp

What does that mean for everyone else? The exact same scenario as Twitter. One development team who contributes the vast bulk of the code that makes it into the final release. You're still at the mercy of the design decisions they make, and the preliminary reports about the nature of the code does not bode well. - Mark Trapp

It seems very slow - Greg

I definatly think that Identi.ca is extremely slow in loading - Chacha via twhirl

AKA this is not a big deal :) This is the argument I was trying to make earlier but couldn't. This isn't a revolution, it's just a company using everyone else to try and improve their Twitter clone. - Shawn Farner via twhirl

After the server move (if your DNS has caught up), the speeds have improved. It's day 2. I'm treating it as such. - Bwana McCall

I'm confused. Where in my article or in these comments is anyone calling this the next big thing? Why are there so many quick to shoot it down? Seems like a lot of assumptions are being made. - Bwana McCall

If you want more details of the architecture, join the identica room where this has already been discussed - http://friendfeed.com/e/fb158b... - Bwana McCall

i'm not a fan of being forced to accept creative commons licensing where my content is concerned. - Wolfsbayne

Mark, I give you a +10. I felt like I was spitting into the wind on this one. - Cyndy

Bwana, I'm quick to shoot it down because a PHP app with a database back-end is going to end up as the same mess as Twitter. Adding the shiny "open source" tag doesn't make it any cooler OR more stable. It just makes Dave Winer happy to jump on the bus. - Cyndy

@wolfsbayne you aren't being forced- you don't _have_ to use the service, CC is part of the feature set of the service- some people prefer freedom of content- and as always you still have the freedom of choice. - Nailed Jello

You're assuming way too much. My article's tone was simply to watch it because it's the first major effort that I know of that's open sourced and is testing the waters of OpenMicroBlogging. The point is not whether it'll fail or not, the point is that is taking a different direction. I stated many times that I don't believe open source or federation will automatically equal success. It's ok to use it and not be gung ho that it's going to kill anything. - Bwana McCall

And yes if Dave Winer is happy, it'll get attention. Whether that's right or wrong is irrelevant to my point. - Bwana McCall

hey scoble where where those taken? - shoemoney

Scoble visited to the original hp offices today, you even can watch the video http://qik.com/video/118677 - Gustavo Munoz via twhirl

I use my HP11c almost daily. - Victor Ryden

Wasn't sinclair 1st out the gate with a hand calculatorusing ? - Dennis Howlett via twhirl

showmoney: yeah, this is Bill and Dave's offices in Palo Alto, CA (HP's headquarters). They've kept the offices just as they were when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard occupied them. - Robert Scoble

Isn't it a bit creepy that these offices are kept like shrines? - Frank McPherson

Frank: no. They are historical offices. If they could be moved they'd be sitting in the Smithsonian. - Robert Scoble