Brandon Titus

*sigh* - abacab

"Short commodities. Shilling saw the commodity crash coming because too many had embraced the idea that commodities were an asset class. At the peak, "everyone who can be sucked in, can be sucked in." Shilling particularly likes copper on the downside. "There is almost nothing manufactured that does not contain copper. No cartels on the supply side. It is predominantly produced in developing countries. What do the copper producers do when prices go down? Against their own interests, they produce more! Copper could go to $1 a pound."" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

I wonder if anyone on Friendfeed has mastered the art, science and craft of short selling. To what degree could successful decision rules be automated. - Sean McBride

Automated trading systems, especially for short selling -- I would love to know about the state of the art. Guess I'll have to research it myself. :) - Sean McBride

"Nearly 5,000 people joined the online campaign which urged members to "get them steel toes ready" for a day of booting this week. The website appears to have been inspired by a recent episode of the cartoon South Park, in which a young character called Cartman describes people with red hair as evil and soulless. Dozens of children left messages on the page claiming to have carried out attacks on "National Kick a Ginger Day" on Thursday, and a girl in Alberta, Canada claimed that she and her 13-year-old sister were punched and kicked by pupils at their school." - RAPatton

:( That's awful. - Carmen

Gingerism is a big deal in the UK. My brother, sister, mother and nephew are all red heads - RAPatton

Awesome !! Twhirl on steroids. TweetDeck enables users to split their main feed (All Tweets) into topic or group specific columns allowing a broader overview of tweets. The default columns can contain All Tweets from your timeline, @replies directed to you and direct messages. The GROUP, SEARCH and REPLIES buttons then allow the user to make up additional columns populated from the live tweet information. Once created these additional columns will automatically update allowing the user to keep track of a twitter threads far easier. - SnakeDoc

this App is Not Support Farsi Language - Ata

Twetdeck does not support to tradional Chinese, 繁體中文,too. But it has good link of twitpic and other service, including "search" of twitter. - borghrose via Alert Thingy

"For the Viper Room's new owner, Harry Morton, the path to the future at the Sunset Strip club runs through the past. No, onetime co-owner Johnny Depp is not coming back, but an act Depp helped bring to the club in the 1990s via his friend Christina Applegate will: the Pussycat Dolls. The burlesque-inspired troupe, not to be confused with the pop group of the same name, is effectively taking over the recently remodeled club every Friday and Saturday night for a year starting this weekend. ... In other words, Morton still wants a bit of rock sleaze, but with a healthy side of Vegas-style sizzle. "The Pussycat Dolls show exposes the Viper Room to a new target market," he said. "The punk rock market is one market, but there are many different niches. It drives the customer in [because] it's a cabaret-style show. . . . There's a lot of hot girls."" - RAPatton via Bookmarklet

"Drilling a quarter-mile into solid rock was simple, said Maureen Burnley, the seminary’s executive vice president, compared with persuading government officials and agencies that had the authority to say no — or to simply do nothing and stop all progress. “We had to answer to 10 agencies,” Ms. Burnley said. “It took three times as long as it should have. The left and the right hand did not know what the other was doing.” Ms. Burnley and Mr. Frawley were members of a small team that has installed seven geothermal wells at the seminary, which occupies most of a full city block between Ninth and 10th Avenues and 20th and 21st Streets. They intend to drill 15 more. The wells are a source of energy because the water is 65 degrees year-round, so it is being used to cool seminary buildings in the summer and heat them in the winter. Once all 22 wells are running, the seminary will shut down its boilers. By replacing fuel oil with geothermal energy, the seminary will reduce its annual carbon dioxide emissions by 1 - RAPatton

Cast Dean Stockwell as M and you'd have a winner. - James Williams (willia4)

Your friend directeur :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

I think a lot of noise comes from FOF related to the most popular members. I was able to tailor my feed by unsubbing from some of the "stars" and joining tech-oriented rooms like Apps, Goodie Room, RWW: Future of Tech and Stack Overflow feed. You can make FF what you want it to be. - Sprague D

Overall, I think it's for the better. More users may mean more 'fine tuning' but the humor now being injected here as well as the diversity of users has made the experience better for me - Charlie Anzman

One could make the argument that searching for RSS is as useful as searching for HTML or word processing. It just quietly does its job. - Louis Gray

One could also make the argument that they're kind of related. - Amyloo

Editorial focusing on Guantánamo Bay. From the page: "Americans have watched in horror as President Bush has trampled on the Bill of Rights and the balance of power. The list of abuses that President-elect Barack Obama must address is long: once again require the government to get warrants to eavesdrop on Americans; undo scores of executive orders and bill-signing statements that have undermined the powers of Congress; strip out the unnecessary invasions of privacy embedded in the Patriot Act; block new F.B.I. investigative guidelines straight out of J. Edgar Hoover’s playbook." - Donna Mugavero via Bookmarklet

Twitter is in the moment but FriendFeed is not. - Kevin

Hopefully this will solve this "I'm not sure what Like means" question :) - Paul Buchheit

I think ratings would be cool as Netflix uses. There are five stars that range from "hated it" to "really liked it". based on the rating, the item would move closer to the top of postings. - Valley

I still think it should read "Interesting" - xero