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FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
..и ещё раз помыла голову, Adam Spring, Kevin Mohr and 110 other people liked this
Welcome, Ben!
- Kevin Fox
Right on! Congrats, Ben.
- Micah
Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him!
- Jason Shellen
Watch out, there's a duck over there! ;)
- alieb
from iPhone
Data storage and scalability rock. :)
- Louis Gray
Ben's feed is here: http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell
- Bret Taylor
Congrats, Ben! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah Ben!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris...
- MG Siegler
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Woohoo! Another Googler :)
- Tim Hoeck
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
you're building a friendfeed army there :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congrats
- Özkan Altuner
Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine.
- Mike Reynolds
gratz Ben!
- timepilot
Welcome Bret!
- Michael_techie
So, Facebook...?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers.
- beersage
Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting.
- Ken Sheppardson
Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into
- Glenn Slaven
Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme?
- Vezquex
I don't know.. but it is awesome! :)
- Tim Hoeck
Wow, looks like somebody bumped this!
- Kevin Fox
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
OH HAI!
- Eric
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
SteVe C, AJ Batac :), Brent and 254 other people liked this
You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret
- Ahsan Ali
Cool
- Nimaa
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
That's a cool feature
- Xitong Liu
FWIW this isn't working for me any longer. Perhaps that has something to do with my Gmail settings though.
- Mark J
Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I still get them.
- AJ Batac :)
I get these every day.
- CW✔
FriendFeed API v2: Real-time, OAuth, file attachments, and more - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
A. T., Bojan Babic, Taras Brizitsky and 202 other people liked this
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
OAuth? Sweet. Thanks a lot for all the new good stuff in the API: can't wait to use it.
- Mark Trapp
very nice. great work!
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Yet another reason to like Bret. :-)
- Jesse Stay
nice!
- Daniel Rust
good job guys, I bet devs are jumping high right now
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Sweet, congrats!
- Ivan Zuzak
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Thanks God it is New API.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
from iPod
Nice progress here with this release!
- Micah
I love it!
- friday night
Why is wget questionable?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
cool : )
- Gurkan Oluc
Good work, look forward to seeing what developers can create
- Joe Dawson
doublepluslike
- Vezquex
curl FTW.
- Jeremy Kunz
This is great, FriendFeed team. Good job.
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
thank you;) waiting for the release :) loving clone
- abdellah
from FriendFeed API Example
Yay subscribers exposed!
- EricaJoy
Finally OAuth, I had a hard time memorizing my remote key.
- Hugh Isaacs II
This is indeed very cool, anybody started on a c# version?
- Jesper Lind
A Better Understanding of Stoplights | design(dot)fr - http://design.fr/product...
brain lobe, aysu, Yusuf Gençer and 16 other people liked this
it's time to accelerate ,readdddddddy....go!
- 段估唔拉
we have stoplights with numbers showing how many seconds of green/red light left.
- Kirill Bolgarov
John may see a lot of people ignoring them - then he is probably riding a lot of red trucks with sirens blazing -- they often ignore them. ;-) I don't see a lot of people in Canada ignoring them
- Brian Sullivan
FriendFeed did WHAT?! - http://pikchur.com/t30
Zu from AOD, Ahmet Yükseltürk, John Jarvis and 176 other people liked this
A picture is worth a thousand words and this is no exception. Well "said" Rah.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
About the only laugh I've had today. Thanks Rah! I needed that.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
this picture rocks
- Violet Mae Lim
Amen.
- Yolanda
++ Rasheen.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Totally excellent!
- Warren Butler
lol, I know right
- Wayne Sutton
The iconic Rahsheen face. Good for a number of occasions.
- Hutch Carpenter
Yes...definitely applies for various occasions :)
- Rah-PM 2012
That's the face :)
- Micah
Hahaha
- Rodfather
that picture kills me LOL! :D
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
What's weird is he's wearing a shirt!
- anna sauce
lollllllllllllllllllllll
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
If RahRah is wearing a shirt, hell must be freezing over!
- imabonehead
Rah needs to do a video like I did.
- Outsanity
best avatar eva!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Love that expression man :D
- Praveen Vasudev
ahahahah :D
- Sinan İŞLER
ahaha excellent expression!
- Jacque
*bump* This is so perfect.
- Andrew Smith
hey man this is really perfect =)
- Ahmet UZUN
Retitled: 2 Social Networks and a cup, reax
- Christopher Galtenberg
from iPhone
I gave this a "like" yesterday, but every time I scroll past it I have to laugh all over again! Great shot!
- Mark J
Love it! Great face!!
- Mitchell Tsai
Jejeje
- Stalyn☂
They took the 50 mil and went to San Mateo without us.....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
...but I LOVE this pic!!!!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Seriously - it makes me LOL everytime I see it!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
lets remember it, what did happen that day :)
- alperyz
*sigh*
- Joe The Sausage
WIN
- Roberto Bonini
Wait, what? LOL
- Rah-PM 2012
Will still be a classic remembered 500 years from now.
- Micah
yep. :)
- Abhishek
PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage « Ming-Ming Cheng （程明明） - http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/cmm...
kartik vaithyanathan, Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™, qub and 18 other people liked this
Graphics research is amazing. This project: sketch and label something you want a photo of, then the system finds photos on the web, cuts out the parts that it wants, and composes everything together. Watch the video too.
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Graphics programmers have the best demos. Hands down.
- no name
The site is down at the moment, but here's a direct link to the video: http://vimeo.com/6496886
- Ben Darnell
This made me wonder once more how things spread through the social web. When I posted this the site was up! Then it got on gizmodo, reddit, etc. and the site went down. :(
- Amit Patel
Ming-Ming Cheng just received a Google China Fellowship:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010...
- Jenny Zhou
it's amazing
- Yicong Liang
crazy good!
- Private Sanjeev
I downloaded the client, but it doesn't appear to work and has an expiration date of "1 Jan 2011" :(.
- Private Sanjeev
LIVE-FRIENDFEED REVIEW: TWILIGHT
SAM, Faraz Mullick, Jimminy, CoG of FF and 26 other people liked this
Ok, peeps, babby is sleeping, pizza has been consumed and vodka is on standby. Got the movie queued and ready to rock.
- Steven Perez
0:00:20 - BAMBI! WATCH OUT FOR GODZILLA!!!
- Steven Perez
dude, take it off of X4 speed!
- Vicarbott
One minute in, and we begin with a small, defenseless animal being eviscerated off-screen. Yep, this is going to be chock full of romance.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Wait, she's gonna miss the heat of Phoenix?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Forks?!? The town is named Forks?!? In a vampire movie?!?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
5:15 - Adults using slang. My brain hurts already.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Nice truck, though.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Adults can get down with da lingo?!
- Shevonne
Sadly, no, foxy lady. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
I like the way this movie is setting up the various characters who are going to end up as pizza pockets.
- Steven Perez
from IM
8:40 - And in walk in the vamps. You can tell because they're the pretty ones.
- Steven Perez
from IM
9:40 - This must be the hero. He mopes most majestically.
- Steven Perez
from IM
"totally gorgeous, obviously" - yeah, in that whole Robert Smith all-life-is-pain kinda way. *gag*
- Steven Perez
from IM
this is vintage FF right here.
- Vicarbott
That look he's giving her? Wondering what blood type she is.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I know what he's thinking - "don'tlookatmyteeth don'tlookatmyteeth don'tlookatmyteeth don'tlookatmyteeth"
- Steven Perez
from IM
"OHGODSHE'SLOOKINGATMYTEETH!!!!" *runs away*
- Steven Perez
from IM
He mumbles so dreamily. *deep schoolgirl sigh* [/a little sarcasm]
- Steven Perez
from IM
No, creepy stalker guy, she doesn't remember you.
- Steven Perez
from IM
"Are there any cute guys?" "Well, there's this one guy who's really cute when he's all mopey ..."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Confront him. Right. Cuz that's what you do with someone you're not interested in.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Wow. He disappears. Maybe he's off killing deer.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Whoops. My bad. He's off killing longshoremen, instead.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Da union ain't gonna like that.
- Steven Perez
from IM
SAFE!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Yes, ice often happens in cold weather places, little one. It's called "winter". I know, something they don't have in Arizona.
- Steven Perez
from IM
16:28 - Don't these guys ever shut up?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Here we go ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
They have an eternity to shut up
- Shevonne
"Hi, I'm Edward, and I'll be your mopey vampire hero in this movie ..."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Don't look in the microscope!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Eternal youth at his command, and his first conversational gambit is about the weather?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
*wondering if the microscope is supposed to be some kind of phallic symbol*
- Steven Perez
from IM
*pout pout* I'm a emo girl with permanent worried eyebrows. My lab partner is really hot but looks really pale and he can stop suvs with his hand. *pout pout*
- Josh Haley
Yep, definitely a phallic symbol.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Did these kids go to the Anakin Skywalker School of Not Really Emoting?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
"Did your eyes just change?" "Errrrrrr ..." *runs away*
- Steven Perez
from IM
21:15 - "OMG I'M IN LOVE WITH SUPERBOY!!!"
- Steven Perez
from IM
And he totally saved her truck, too. What a dreamboat.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And here comes smarmy vampire doctor. Must have been an off-week on the soaps.
- Steven Perez
from IM
"Your vitals look good. Mind if I check by biting your neck and draining your blood?"
- Steven Perez
from IM
Wow. Mopey and a bad liar. He's definitely the hero.
- Steven Perez
from IM
25 minutes in, and I'm wondering when Blade is going to show up and start offing the cast.
- Steven Perez
from IM
OK, I need a brain break from all this emotional turmoil. Back in ten.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Ah, the things you guys miss when I go make me some tea. I came up with this awesome alternate timeline where Blade and Buffy show up and start killing off the town, just like AVP2. Actually, that movie sucked worse, but hey, I'm only half an hour into TWILIGHT. C'mon, mopey emo kids, don't let me down!!! Suck harder than AVP2!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
aaaaaaaand, picking it up from the hospital ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
In the greenhouse now. They're having a fight. I think. I can't tell cuz they still have the same expressions on their faces all the time.
- Steven Perez
from IM
hahaha
- Shevonne
I can't wait until you get to the "THIS IS THE SKIN OF A MONSTER!" scene. :D It's my favorite.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Seriously, so far, this is the slowest vampire movie I've ever seen. And that includes the 1931 version of DRACULA.
- Steven Perez
from IM
This may save me from having to watch the movie.
- Just Katie
I'm beginning to wonder if I accidentally got a SMALLVILLE episode by mistake ... oh, wait, there's the Superman reference.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Don't feel bad, the books move even MORE slowly. Honestly, someone needs to buy Stephenie Meyer some classes on pacing and plot-building.
- Hookuh Tinypants
It is slow until, for just a few minutes, it's not. Then it's over. The visuals were pretty neat, though, and I enjoyed the music. Definitely wasn't worth $22.99 for a two-disc set.
- Ladyepiphanybug
Holy cow. I'm starting to feel that dull buzzing that indicates brain damage. Usually happens when I find myself watching some teen soap opera by mistake.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Heather: soooooooo, ... you're telling me that the one fight scene from the trailer is pretty much all the action?!? Cuz if that's true, I'm gonna reach for the KILL BILL set and review that instead. :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
rofl I KNEW IT!
- Erin @queenofspain
Erin: It was the booze! I swear!!! :D
- Steven Perez
from IM
35:00 - FINALLY! Creepy stalker guy (I think) buys it - off-screen. WTF?!? Did Nickelodeon fund this movie?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
I just watched the movie earlier today. I could have saved myself 2 hours and some change by just waiting and reading this. Oh well, live and learn. :)
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
O. M. G. They're trying on dresses?!? Did I pick up the E! network by mistake?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Of course, the local tribe knows all about the vampires. Duh. Why do you think there are no vampires in Native American lore? CUZ THEY KILLED THEM ALL.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Lessee: doesn't like sunlight, eyes change colors, mopey whiney emo mood swings, lousy driver, ... and now telepathy. It's so obvious. Mopey Dude is a mutant. He probably blew in from the Xavier School.
- Steven Perez
from IM
SPECIAL DIET?!?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
Right, "special diet" - the Adkins diet from hell. Fill up on all the A-negative you want, but stay away from the bread!
- Steven Perez
from IM
(Steven, have you read the books? Who would be the mortal enemies of vampires?)
- Ladyepiphanybug
OK, now he's a stalker.
- Steven Perez
from IM
(Nope.)
- Steven Perez
from IM
(Wait ... books?!? Plural?!?!?!?)
- Steven Perez
from IM
(Four of 'em, and a fifth online somewhere.)
- Ladyepiphanybug
GEEZ! FINALLY! Almost an hour into the film and she finally figures it out. She's a regular Lois Lane, this one.
- Steven Perez
from IM
(FOUR?!? Are they plotted as slowly as this movie?!?)
- Steven Perez
from IM
OK, pop quiz: you've just found out that the dreamy mope in your class is a vampire. Do you (a) stock up on silver and garlic and wait to ambush him and his clan or (b) go off into the woods to interrogate him all alone? If you chose (b), then this movie is for you!
- Steven Perez
from IM
(c) Ask him to turn me into a vampire
- Shevonne
(d) wait for the Daywalker to show and save this movie.
- Steven Perez
from IM
(e) Go Buffy the Vampire Slayer on him and wait for Angel, a real vampire. haha
- Shevonne
Great. Now he's the Flash.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Wait, so now he's a sparkly unicorn?!?
- Steven Perez
from IM
He's the world's most dangerous predator?!? Now I wish that an actual Predator would show up and school his mopey ass.
- Steven Perez
from IM
OK, that's it. I give up. No mas.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Seriously, this movie hurt my brain. The dialogue must have been written by the same 7th-grade lunch table thespians that George Lucas used to write the "romantic" scenes in ATTACK OF THE CLONES. I wasn't expecting anything Whedonesque, but geez, watching this movie was like watching a CW teen drama on Ritalin.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Oy. I'm gonna go crack open that bottle of 120 proof vodka and watch a pre-1999 John Woo movie to cleanse the palate. Congratulations, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN; you're still the best vampire movie from the last 18 months.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Oh, and Leather Donut? You were right, dude: ASS.
- Steven Perez
from IM
You really reviewed this? Give me another Shiner Bock...
- Joel Robert Perez
As you can see, I only made it half-way through, but that's because I couldn't breathe because I was laughing too much. :D
- Steven Perez
Yep...that baseball scene was.......was.........WAS...................KKKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!
- Joel Robert Perez
LOVE
- Hookuh Tinypants
I am so copying this down for posterity once they burn this joint down. :) This is the thread that kicked off the Tex-Mex Movie Reviews with Haggis.
- Steven Perez
This is a great idea >> you should hold weekly movie reviews :P
- Angelo Rodrigues
I TOTALLY SHOULD! Maybe I can find someone to do them with me! :D
- Steven Perez
Every time a new Twilight movie comes out, I get the urge to finish the review. Then I sober up.
- Steven Perez
Leo Laporte Gets a New Tricycle - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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metalerik, Willem (@wim66) ☠, Vesa Kauppinen and 25 other people liked this
Does it fold up or anything funky like that?
- Andrew Leahey
Wow you were moving pretty good. How does it turn?
- Harvey Johnson
.................. That.............. Is............... AWESOME!!!
- Johnny
Is this what they call re-inventing the wheel? Apart from the 'front' (steer) wheel being at the back, this design/concept has been a round for a very long time.
- Kevin J Hatton
Kevin, the Terratrike, a tadpole-type (the other one is "delta") tricycle steers in the front (Ackerman steering), not in the back, only Leo hasn't figured out yet how to adjust it properly and screw down the handlebars. This model is too small for him, as he'll soon be bound to discover, but there are other brands on the market, of bigger size and far better quality.
- ianf ⌘
Thanks for the info ianf⌘, it is good to know that this wasn't truly representative of this new design.
- Kevin J Hatton
Well, Leo's mouth-agape reaction was typical, representative of the initial awe one feels while riding a recumbent trike. It's like being in the fairground "radio cars" of the fifties. But he's quite mistaken that he is "very low to the ground." This is average height for such trikes, with eyes on the same level as in fast convertibles; there are competition trikes with 20 degree seat...
more...
- ianf ⌘
It is NOT too small for him and in fact was custom sized for him from the factory. He rides it daily and loves it.
- Jeff Yonker
How To use Dropbox to organize your startup's documents - http://blog.revenueloan.com/2011...
Brandon Titus and Cliff Gerrish liked this
jquery 1.3 breaks the bfcache because it binds the onunload event. This makes the back button slower and more annoying. See https://developer.mozilla.org/En... for more info on the bfcache.
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http://groups.google.com/group... for some discussion (including a reply from John Resig)
- Benjamin Golub
So is the bfcache part of the reason that Firefox tends to use so much memory?
- Robert Felty
I don't know why Firefox uses so much memory, but the bfcache is a good thing, and people should avoid breaking it.
- Paul Buchheit
Odd, the issue trail seems to suggest this was only added to address problems in IE and Firefox 2, but Resig is reluctant to remove it for other browsers due to tidiness issues? Seems like there's a part of the story missing.
- Mark Trapp
The point of the bfcache is that the page is left intact so that it can be restored very fast. This practice of doing manual de-allocation on page unload is insane -- it's sadly necessary for IE, but is not something that we should be doing for non-broken browsers.
- Paul Buchheit
Here is one way to fix it: $.event.remove(window, "unload"), but I don't know if jquery1.3 is depending on this event. For now, I may just stick with 1.2.1.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks for the fix Paul, we're still using 1.2.6, which appears to have the problem, too. Nobody's complained about it yet, but this is probably going to be a larger issue for us in the near future.
- Mark Trapp
Has anyone found a workaround for this yet? E.g. is there a way to use jQuery without breaking bfcache so that browsers can 'remember' form values?
- Alex Black
Snapshots from South Korea: Patbingsu, a Popular Shaved Ice Dessert | Serious Eats - http://www.seriouseats.com/2009...
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"Patbingsu, a shaved ice-based dessert loaded with sweet toppings such as chopped fruit, condensed milk, fruit syrup, and red beans, is so popular in South Korea that you can find it at most fast food restaurants in addition to cafes and bakeries. One of my friends even highly recommended the version from KFC ("My family went there all the time during our trip to Seoul!"). Although I wouldn't have been opposed to breaking my patbingsu virgnity at KFC, it was probably for the best that Dan Gray brought us to Ongdalsaem, a cafe in a traditional Korean house, instead."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Reminds me of Filipino halo-halo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Although when I've had it, it was more like an ice cream parfait in a tall glass where the ice cream was layered with red beans, coconut strings or coconut jelly cubes, and various other fruit, and evaporated milk. It tastes a lot better than how I am describing it. :)
- Cheryl Jones
Forgot to mention there is shaved ice in halo-halo, too. BTW, just saw an article on the foodblog at Amazon about a similar Japanese dessert called kakigori (which I never knew about until now): http://www.aldenteblog.com/2009... .
- Cheryl Jones
刚从大连回来，就发现Friendfeed被墙:( 翻墙过来先上两张图片，献给各位Friendfeed上的朋友，也献给Friendfeed，大家一起战斗，#fuckgfw
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第一张让我想起了经典的六人行
- R093r-
金石滩?
- ThenWang
棒槌岛海边，今天海水蛮冷。
- K.D.
我到现在还不敢相信这是真的……早上还到处说，早就给盯上了，要封早就封了……
- yagami
那两天过来的就是无毛，我封的都晚了，他们是来做最后的验证的。
- xia
问题是这上面的东西，连很多新闻网站回复的一半都不及，哪有那么敏感……
- yagami
没有人知道原因，抱着侥幸的心理，是不是gfw间歇性抽搐？
- K.D.
GFW不会错的，没有主观指使，不会抽风到封掉无辜的网站
- yagami
ff已经非常收敛了，只有讨论，没有媒体大声广播，不知道碰到gfw哪根筋了？
- K.D.
他们冠冕堂皇地说你这是恐怖分子交流的渠道，你就没有办法。
- yagami
因为这里聚集了一堆，对裆部不满的人
- R093r-
"啊,您在克格勃具体干什么?" "我们负责揪出那些对国家不满的家伙" "您的意思是….还有人比较满意?" "这些人不归我们管.管他们的是纪委"
- Baiyssy
为了不折腾，强烈要求一刀剪断海底光缆
- kelvin
这样确实阻碍了优秀的服务传到国内，要说ff对裆部真的有什么“危害”，大概也就是“言论自由”这一码子事了，friendfeed本质上是一个朋友之间分享内容，互相交流的地方...
- K.D.
强烈要求所有主干网出口必须通过链接朝鲜internet网实现国际联通，减少GFW技术上的难题和经费的不足。
- kelvin
主要这些网站都不归他们控制，他们没法去服务器机房做文章。只能用GFW了，这不是GFW的职责所在吗？
- R093r-
墙了也好 墙了就不用再担心哪天会被墙了
- Newton
减少了信息过量带来的思想负担
- kelvin
今天晚上21:50分许,鑫诺三号卫星(125.0°E)转发器发生故障,国内部分区域的有线电视用户出现黑屏与错误讯息.http://www.cnbeta.com/article...
- kelvin
一个刚上来两天，建立了一个手工小组，马上成了光杆司令的大妈上来留个脚印。
- Carloe Stamp
ls不要泄气，经常上来关注翻墙的方法更新，和gfw最新tm的动态，相信ff中文群组会有光复的一天：）
- K.D.
玩FF的不会翻墙的很少了吧？
- R093r-
是这样，不过封了对新用户加入，以及一些正常的活动都有阻碍，最关键的是可能大家心理上对ff这样优秀的服务被墙难以接受，把无辜的人们变成被“孤立”的群体，这是无理的！
- K.D.
大家心理上对ff这样优秀的服务被墙难以接受，把无辜的人们变成被“孤立”的群体，这是无理的！ <------说得太好了
- yagami
经历重重障碍上来看到这个图，我是泪流满脸，百感交集，苦中作乐，乐不思蜀啊
- 疯狂的糯米
喜欢第一张的人体三脚架
- 我是真砂！
不能屈服，不能让它们得逞
- K.D.
呵呵，那我们就在有限的范围内，找到更多的“正常”访问/使用ff的方法
- K.D.
我甚至觉得可以基于第二张图片做出一个FF主题了，感觉非常漂亮啊
- Rat2
早上打开gmail，gmail chat里收到ff上的更新，还以为ff解封了，结果上ff发现还是要翻墙。看来除了翻墙、fftogo，也可以用邮件访问、使用ff，我们不会屈服于一堵破墙。
- abe
@abe 除了翻墙，其它好的访问方法我们在google群组里讨论/分享：） @Rat2 | Ratoo 要大图的话DM我：）
- K.D.
OK，Rat2:) btw，我以为你知道怎么做主题：））0
- K.D.
@K.D. 明白:)
- abe
很漂亮，很漂亮:-)
- yezi
呃
- K.D.
哼
- 我是真砂！
K.D最近干吗了？
- 硕少
靠驾照吧。
- Aang
These are all done in Pencil.
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Brent - Yes I am, Jeff (Team マクダジ ), Behnam B and 269 other people liked this
Impressive
- M F
Great work!
- Neya
I'm sorry but this is unbelievable:) I'll give credit to the artist upon more convincing proof! The photogenic look of the tiger and lion really helps the artist's case though:)
- Roney Smith
I'm with Roney... I find this hard to believe... or maybe I'm just jealous that I can't even get stick people right!
- Jasmin Smith
I don't believe it. Too amazing.
- Rah-PM 2012
I'm with Rah
- Shey
Only the lion looks like its drawn
- embee
The bear and rhino look drawn, too.
- Chris Charabaruk
very very talented. Wow they look like B&W pics you know photography.
- Gabriella Sannino
These are amazing, were they done by you?
- Angelo Rodrigues
Nice photographs
- Rafael Robayna
@michael, if they weren't drawn by you, at least tell us who the artist is and the link
- LouCypher
Link please?
- Jason Wehmhoener
wow
- Carolyn Chan
being slightly skeptical, i'm going to say these were done with pencil by a printer of some sorts... #justsayin
- Enrique Gutierrez
they're beautiful, but skeptical as well
- Jennifer Van Grove
Would need to see higher quality images to see if they are pencil or not - too many jpg artifacts to tell.
- Luke Addison
from twhirl
Stupefied.
- Parth Awasthi
Wow!! Yeah it's pretty amazing what they can draw with a pencil nowadays, deviantART has lots of great pencil art.
- Kol Tregaskes
Michael, who is the artist?
- Kol Tregaskes
wow, cool!
- Sarah Perez
I'm really happy everyone liked these. They're my most liked entry to date, Thanks! There also seems to be some question about whether these are actually Pencil Drawings.I can assure you that they are.When I get home, I should have the links. I have more drawings, too.
- Michael Fidler
from fftogo
O_O WOW...Stunning
- Anna Haro
Wow, these are stunning!!
- Susan Beebe
Yes, especially the tiger. Reminds me of that "Tiger, tiger burning bright."
- Melanie Reed
Alright, Mike - I believe you. These are awesome. Good job!
- Enrique Gutierrez
HOLY CRAP.
- Chieze Okoye
no way!
- Mister Groonk
Thanks Enrique, I'll post some more soon. They are a little more obvious than these ones. As Luke points out; without being able to look closely it's impossible to tell. He's right; but up close it's more obvious. I'll upload the originals to Picasa later, and then you'll be able to zoom in with any photo viewer and see for yourselves. I can't believe how many people liked these. A few people have reposted them already. Thanks!
- Michael Fidler
Absolutely awesome, Michael. You are extremely talented. Everyone should repost these pix and help to make you famous. You should be doing this full time - you obviously have some passion for this. Bravo.
- Chris Loft
These are really beautiful, Michael. Do you sell them?
- Shannon Jiménez
Chris, I would love to say they're mine, but it's not true. I've had them for a while, but I'll find the artists names. It will just require a little backtracking. Besides, they deserve the credit; all I did was find them:-)
- Michael Fidler
Cut the bullshit! :) Photos are very good.
- Burçak Çubukçu
I draw alot in pencil, but they are amazing, the best for me is the girl, that is the most photo-like one. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I agree Rob, the girl is amazing. My favorite by far! Wait until you see it close up! It's really had to tell, even up close!
- Michael Fidler
Burçak Çubukçu If these were photographs, they would be very good. As Pencil Drawings,(which they are), they're amazing.
- Michael Fidler
Wow, amazingly realistic
- Threepwood
@Michael Fidler did you draw them? How can you so sure?
- Burçak Çubukçu
That is my pencil drawing :) http://picasaweb.google.com/Burcak...
- Burçak Çubukçu
dont look like it
- Prakash
@ Michael Fidler don't push so hard :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
@Burçak Çubukçu I can't tell if your serious now or just kidding around. I hope your just having fun! If you are serious, I've never given you a reason to question my integrity, nor do I ever intend to. However, the second set is up now, so judge them for yourself, but don't judge me! http://ff.im/1BJh5 BTW, I messed up and reposted the shot of the women again. Oh well. Hope you like them:-)
- Michael Fidler
@Michael: try deviantART, not Picasa, to submit your artworks
- LouCypher
WOW "I can't believe it's in pencil"
- The Real sofarsoShawn
LouCypher, I know it well, but I don't see why I would want to do that. I hope everyone knows by now that they're not mine? I'm sorry, but I can't say it any clearer than that.
- Michael Fidler
nah, i don't believe it is done in pencil. i am sure it is photoshopped :)
- hasin hayder
These would be great even for photos.
- Sullivan
i'm not able to comprehend
- Varun Shenoy
More comments here: http://www.bannination.com/comment...
- donato
I'm finding this both interesting and humorous at the same time. There's a separate message board where this post is being discussed and it has another forty comments on it already. I think its great how this has created some lively discussion, considering that when I posted this I was doubtful if anyone would even like it. When I went to sleep last night there was only had 3 or 4 likes...
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- Michael Fidler
Very interesting. I would like to see them up close and in person...just to make sure. Bill said it's real and possible. Your 2nd set of picts look like pencil. Nice work in finding these!
- LaFern Cusack
Kol, I can't thank you enough! Kol found another post which helps to prove that these are done in pencil. I had my doubts about a few of them because I collected them from several different sites over time, but the site Kol found has done a great job pulling together an impressive collection of these drawings and more. Take a look - http://www.flickzzz.com/2009...
- Michael Fidler
Actually there are more than what this site shows. There's an entire set with the cats(little cats), which I have, and there's a new portrait set.
- Michael Fidler
Found your post here, Michael. :-) I tried my best to find the artists.
- Kol Tregaskes
Amazing and very very very good.... Very impressive ...
- Linda Zeek-Bobinski
fake. http://lenscratch.blogspot.com/2009... Even if your not claiming to be the artist, these are photographs, well except the woman, thats pencil
- james foor
Yeah we know, thanks though, James. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Excellent pictures - how long did it take you to scan the photographs into Photoshop and then edit them? The only pencil that has come into contact with these "drawings" is the Photoshop pencil. A tip - stop trying to fool people into thinking you are a "real" artist, because all you are doing is cheapening proper artist's works whom have spent hours creating real pictures as opposed to a few minutes on a graphics editing package.
- The Wimp
A bell does ring here. And I am remembering why I was so attracted to the tiger...and the lion for that matter. These are exact replicas of prints I had in our bedroom when I lived in Dallas. I had bought the prints (in color) at a department store,
- Melanie Reed
Actually, I have learned quite a bit about these drawing since I made this post. Not only have I discovered all of the artists, but I've learned more about how they are created. They are always copied from a photograph or painting, but usually a photograph. It is extremely time consuming and detail orientated work. There are many other artists besides the ones featured here who practice...
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- Michael Fidler
Most of them have portfolio's on deviantart.com and their work is truly amazing even if they are copies of other artists work. I suppose with this level of detail, they have to start with something. Nevertheless, I'm still in awe of their talent. Melanie, the animal prints you refer to are from a very well renowned photographer. The originals are B&W I'll look it up later but I do have...
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- Michael Fidler
wow; they're unbelieavably beautiful.
- liladreams
Has anyone ever corrected the record and pointed out, with the exception of the Charlize Theron drawing, that these are indeed photos by Alexander Von Reiswitz?
- erik weisz
Erik, thank you for bringing this up again, but I think I already mentioned something about this in my prior comment. However, since it appears that you only signed up to friendfeed to leave a single comment, (ok, why?) I will try to summarize what I wrote previously. In brief, I learned after doing a little research that all photo-realistic drawings like the ones that I shared here,...
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- Michael Fidler
Awesome
- الکامپ
I can assure you that what are claimed to be drawings of animals, in your post here, are photos. I used a website to that allows you to do an comparison of the Von Reiswitz photos and the images you have posted here. There are no differences. Every hair matches up. As a pencil artist myself I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to get that kind of accuracy and have it look...
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- erik weisz
but... it has to be real, i saw it on the internet
- Iphigenie
Eric, it doesn't matter to me if you just joined, and I apologize if I made you think otherwise. If you have any questions regarding friendfeed, please feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them. At this point, I would be happy if we could find someone who is an image analysis expert, and finally point this thing to rest. Every time that I look into this, all I find is a...
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- Michael Fidler
the site spammed above must all be done in pencil too, right, thats why you posted it?
- Iphigenie
I'm amazed that people are still posting these photographs of animals and calling them pencil drawings. This is at least the third case I can remember (and there are probably more) of this happening. The myth about them being drawings was debunked long ago. It's also funny that whenever they get posted the person posting them doesn't make it clear that they aren't the artist, exactly as you have done.
- canadianmaple09
@canadianmaple09 I posted these back in March, 2009 when I was beginning to use FF regularly. I ran them through TinEye hoping to find their source, but it returned no results. When I ran through again yesterday, TinEye returned over four pages of results. If I had it to do over again, would I? Yes
- Michael Fidler
The people you refer do don't join "just to slam" someone, they are concerned members of the online art community that want to see real art appreciated and fake art or photos being passed off as drawings revealed for what they really are. Artists such as Brian Duey, Armin Mersmann, Paul Lung, Zindy Nielsen,and many others do not receive the appreciation they deserve because of scams like this.
- canadianmaple09
canadianmaple09, the worthiness of your motives notwithstanding (and they are worthy, definitely) you could definitely have approached Michael completely differently by say, giving him the benefit of the doubt rather than attacking in a highly accusatory tone.
- Chieze Okoye
When you've seen these same pictures posted multiple times by people that just find them on the internet and claim they are pencil drawings, when it has already been established on multiple occasions that they are not, the "benefit of the doubt" approach seems a little too generous. People post these images and claim they're drawings to get views for their own site or blog or page or whatever it is they post it on. It's wrong and it needs to be stopped.
- canadianmaple09
I can understand that, but you should also keep in mind that everyone is not as well-versed in the issue as you are. All I'm saying is that you would probably be more effective in this case if you weren't setting this up as a us-vs.-them, "must destroy with the validity my argument!" attitude when talking to a guy who's been actively having a discussion on the issue in what seems to me (having been around when he first posted the images and the follow up thread and what not) to be good faith.
- Chieze Okoye
Look at his first comment here. People clearly thought he drew them. He doesn't set the record straight. He also claims that they "are actually pencil drawings" and that "I have more drawings too." Later he claims that you need to look at them closer to see they are drawings and that he will "post the originals". Once again, this makes it sound like they are his. This follows the same...
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- canadianmaple09
Greg and Chieze, thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. @canadianmaoles09, for what it’s worth, I share your concerns about giving proper attribution when sharing also. However, I admit that I'm more conscious of it now than I was at the time of this post. Nevertheless, I have never taken credit for anybody's work here other than my own!
- Michael Fidler
BTW, I didn't realize it before, but I just noticed that you're new here too. I hope you like it so far and spend more time here. IMO, friendfeed is still the best thing around!
- Michael Fidler
I would probably qualify as an image analysis expert, but there's no way to prove that online. One thing we can do is look at color. Even though the images are black and white,they're actually RGB images, meaning they contain cyan magenta and yellow. If you look at the image of the rhino you have posted then look at the photo of the rhino at the photographer's site you can see they both...
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- erik weisz
Here's proof that even as a Zoology professor and father of 2 (Josh was still unplanned), you can look like James Bond! And while riding a city bus no less!
agirlnamedxine, Corinne L, imabonehead and 24 other people liked this
He looks more like Felix Leiter.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
That's really cool.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
عکسی از نوید و بچه هاش هنگام فرار از شرکتش
- Mil∂d
What Mil∂d said.
- Percival
That's awesome.
- Carmen wBabby
Or Obi Wan Kenobi from Episode I.
- The original Kevin
yup.
- vijay
Dad!
- Josh Haley
Peter Fonda look-a-like
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
That was a great era for the Dad. I'll upload one of mine too
- anna sauce
Bump for Spidra
- Josh Haley
YAY!
- Spidra Webster
This was taken on a bus on Maui, 1968, Morgan and Sean in tow, from Kahului to Napili Bay. It was my parents' first vacation (from O'ahu). [this info fed to me just now from my mom]
- Josh Haley
Paul Buchheit's blog should have a line at the top, saying, "Dude, I invented friggin' GMail. Have you heard of it?"
Bruce Lewis, Yolanda, Aaron Hood and 33 other people liked this
Oh my God. That is so hilarious.
- niniane
Get a clue dude!
- Susan Beebe
YES
- Josh Haley
I second that. (huh. I had already Liked this and remember doing so, but which year was it?)
- Micah
Or maybe at the beginning of the Comments section, just as a warning not to say anything too awfully stupid. ;-)
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
From FestivusFeed! :)
- Que Sarah Sarah
ha! for those wondering how @dens let me slip thru the cracks to get the chance to wrk at foursquare! http://twitpic.com/1suxgz @dens' take
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Auto Facial Attractiveness Enhancement Engine - http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer...
Carrie Thomson, natasha william, Suresh S and 127 other people liked this
This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Facial discrimination?
- Jason
Impressive.
- j1m
Can I get one for the body as well as the face?
- Dion Almaer
Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it.
- Brady Brim-DeForest
It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :)
- Lindsay
@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?).
- Lindsay
Right one looks more dumb...
- philsmirnov
Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips.
- FFing Enigma
@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird.
- Lindsay
They are different women! Blame Paul! : )
- Erhan Erdoğan
impressive
- accexine
Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing.
- FFing Enigma
That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software.
- Jim Goldstein
from twhirl
I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty.
- arty
This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be!
- Claude Betancourt
Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)"
- Charlie Anzman
Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;)
- Joe Beda
without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference.
- Zee.
Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :)
- felix
I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...)
- Rui Pires
+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
do i sense another manga-style meme starting?
- anna sauce
So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.)
- Kevin Fox
The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di
- xero
stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential".
- xero
I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people!
- Benedikt Koehler
Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this?
- xero
@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :)
- A. T.
I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse
- Dave Q
@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A
- Jason
this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people.
- Apostolos Tsompanopoulos
Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles.
- Hayes Haugen
Chris' comment is sooo tempting
- Charlie Anzman
This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed.
- Spidra Webster
I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?!
- ambidextrous
it's long gone.
- Joe The Sausage
It's down :(
- Burcu Dogan
cannot open this link,404 is there~
- 阿石
Our Sailing Trip- The Stats: 5.5 years, 32,800+ Miles, 24 Countries, 160 Nights at Sea - S/V Billabong Blog (or our interactive lifestream map http://ff.im/4Nbtx) BlurbBits - http://svbillabong.blogspot.com/
WarLord, Bruce Lewis, The Real sofarsoShawn and 17 other people liked this
BTW we usually only travel at 5 knots (5.8 mph) .. so that is over 5500 hours at Sea. Our longest non-stop leg was 24 DAYS. (non stop = no land, nobody else, nothing ... 24/7).
- Chris Myles
Petr, Thanks for suggestion. I actually use the blogger supplied search because it displays the results with the expanded post text on a new page. The BlurbBits mapping map utility that I wrote searches the post text to build a popup maps of each posts location AND adds it to the "Geo Blogs on this page" map. Try different searches (like Awesome) and the map will change. The new Search...
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- Chris Myles
Sounds like a great adventure!
- Anika
sure :] ... well have a deep blue calm waters ! :] .. what prompted such a magnificient voyage feat? ..so, now my question - how did you get labels cloud on your blog? ........ and, do you plan to write a book about your travels ? thanks
- pb:
You mean the ones to the right? It's just the basic Blogger label gadget (via Add gadget use layouts).
- Chris Myles
What prompted it? long story: http://svbillabong.blogspot.com/2008.... short story: because we could!! It's the only way to travel the world, visit remote village and go "home" to sleep in our own bed, plus it's reasonably affordable (wind is free). No book is in the works.. but if we did one it would be a photo journal book (http://snaps360.blogspot.com). I just don't think anyone would buy it.
- Chris Myles
Wow, simply wow! I am jealous and happy that you had such an amazing experience. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Don't miss the interactive lifestream navigation map option.. http://ff.im/4Nbtx (also available under the header of the blog).
- Chris Myles
wow
- mikehedge
Color me 'seriously envious' - congrats on such a wonderful life adventure.
- William Meloney
Seriously envious doesn't quite cover it. NEED. ; )
- Fossil Huntress
Go for it.. my wife (girlfriend at the time of departure) had 3 days sailing experience before we left. And Yes she knew that we were planning a 5 year trip :)
- Chris Myles
Yup.
mohammadk, MORE, R093r- and 69 other people liked this
HAHAHA! It's funneh because it's true!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
*likelikelikelikelike*
- Ayşe E.
This is the most awesome thing I have seen in a long, long time.
- Michael McKean
I was going to put a bandolier on the bunneh and have it say "VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!" but the bunneh was too small. Seriously, though: that bunneh with the carrot bandolier from the PETA ad? PURE WIN.
- FFing Enigma
Bunnehs. Ho! Also, the word bandolier seems underutilized. Oh. right: http://friendfeed.com/pdxcabb... :D
- Micah
LOL
- Adam Turetzky
NOPE.
- Steven Perez
embrace the bunneh, Steven. you know you want to...
- holly #ravingfangirl
YOU embrace the bunneh. I don't want rabies. :p
- Steven Perez
from IM
LOL
- John (bird whisperer)
and the bunneh strikes back...
- Joel Robert Perez
NOPE NOPE NOPE.
- Steven Perez
Yup
- FFing Enigma
SuperDuperMegaUltraAwesome LOVE!
- Ladyepiphanybug
I've realized how I could have made this even better, so I might redo in the future.
- FFing Enigma
LOL You guys ----> always good for taking the edge off a difficult day Thanks :D
- comix aka martha
That bunneh is a pikachu lookalike :) or is it just me??
- Roberto Bonini
I can see it, Roberto...
- FFing Enigma
NOT A BUNNEH. OR A PIKACHU.
- Steven Perez
Pika? Pika-pika? Pika----CHHUUUUU!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
OH HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLL NO.
- Steven Perez
Wait, Steven Perez is PIKACHU?!? I'm so confused! (and prefer Togepi, myself. Togi-Togi!)
- Ladyepiphanybug
*bumpity bump bump*
- FFing Enigma
Bwahahahaha
- John (bird whisperer)
Eek.
- Steven Perez
Ha
- Roberto Bonini
THE PAST COMES BACK TO HAUNT ME.
- Steven Perez
lol
- کاوه
o_O
- Steven Perez
hahahahahaha
- Marissa
makes me laugh every time
- Imabug
lime yogurt cake with blackberry sauce - http://smittenkitchen.com/2010...
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"This is another one of those recipes where I’ve changed, uh, just about everything. What it shares in common with the original is yogurt and the basic proportions. To this I’ve added lime zest and juice and a blackberry sauce that shares a hint of the lime. I also rejiggered the instructions to make this a one bowl cake — you know, the most welcome kind. Don’t etch this recipe in stone — this could make an equally tasty lemon cake with blueberry, raspberry or strawberry sauce or even a gentle orange yogurt cake, simply dusted with powdered sugar. The sauce is optional, but when you find that you have extra (you will, unless you halve it) it makes as welcome a sauce over ice cream as it does stirred into your leftover plain yogurt."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
No shit... I was just chased up the path to my house by a pissed off koala...
Curdy G, Miriella, Nathalie and 78 other people liked this
OMG! Glad you made it in safe!
- Rachel Lea Fox
What? No snapshots?
- τorƍue
/me hums the Benny Hill theme
- Bryce Roney
It was funny already but Bryce just tipped it into epic.
- Spidra Webster
He didnt recognize you without the beard. watch koalas are very loyal ;)
- Tony C (Unrated)
As you do. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
That actually made me laugh... needed one today, thanks Johnny!
- Sally Church
crikey!
- Phil Essing
next time, pictures please!
- sean808080
How to speak Australian: *Johnny scrambles up his path with a koala snapping at his bottom* PUPPY.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
LMAO Lindsey!
- Sally Church
Doesn't this put your Aussie Man Card in jeopardy? All the Aussie blokes we see in movies and on TV do not get chased up anything, unless it's by at least a 60-foot long Croc :) Did the Koala look like a 60 foot croc when you first spotted him?
- Patrick Jordan
so Australia is living up to the fantasy I have of it in my head, built from movies in the 80s like A Town Called Alice and Thorn Birds. NICE.
- anna sauce
"Meggy! Meggy!"
- anna sauce
It was Bruce. He is the dominant male in our area. I got out of the car and I heard some rustling from the trees. When I started to walk up the path, I saw him climb down and start walking towards me. He grunted very aggressively, something I don't want to stick around for so I bolted. I must have disturbed him having a root with one of his girlfriends.
- Johnny
yes, Johnny certainly knows how to paint a word picture...!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
That's a MoW, right there.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
I just love this thread!
- LB so u no it's real
this just proves the value of that welcome mat my mom used to have: 'Friends Welcome. Family - Make Reservations'. Maybe the little guy thought you were a distant cousin, and decided to relight the fire under the long standing family feud between the Worthingtons and the Koalas?
- Morgan
Bruce is totally going to lose his endorsement deal with Qantas
- Spidra Webster
POIDH!
- Vicarbott
only in Australia.
- Trish Haley
Some men get KO'd. Johnny gets KOala'd! I've heard those koalas have very sharp claws!
- Mark J
Maybe you forget to say "G'day Bruce!" when you saw it on your way up the walk!
- Mark J
grrrr, ;)
- chaz2b
*bump*
- LB so u no it's real
Did it have really big <makes hands look like fangs> teeth?
- Kelly W.
Like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Eric
or more like this? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Eric
Today is FriendFeed's "Subscribe Sunday" - http://friendfeed.com/ff-subs...
Jimminy, CoG of FF, Zu from AOD, Slavomira Vladimirova and 39 other people liked this
Thanks goes to the combination of Alfredo (http://friendfeed.com/fredyga...), vijay (http://friendfeed.com/dffrnt and Praveen (http://friendfeed.com/praveen...). Thank you very much guys. I can assure everyone they should be very grateful to these guys as you wouldn't have wanted any logo I made as I'm awful at creating them. Find out more about FF-Subscribe Sunday here: http://friendfeed.com/ff-subs...
- Kol Tregaskes
My boys!
- Shevonne
err my name :p
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
@Alredo Whats wrong with your name?
- Shevonne
missing an f
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
Oops, corrected. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
thanks
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
@Alfredo I KNOWWWWW hahahahah
- Shevonne
:)
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
I need to check my posts more, I'm terrible at it. Ask Manuela. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol doesn't matter. We all knew who "Alredo" was. I do the same. I always screw up my spelling on here
- Shevonne
It's ok, Klo.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Shevonne, hehe. :-) Thanks Bce. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
The Green Cross Society ? :) perhaps bevel it to make it look like a button, eh ?
- Ahsan Ali
Haha. Shevonne is back if we haven't noticed. :P
- Amani
Hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Cool logo. It doesn't represent "Sunday", though.
- LouCypher
I like it. What would you change about it, Lou?
- Kol Tregaskes
And a quick reminder about FF Subscribe Sunday, why not join in: http://beta.friendfeed.com/ff-subs...
- Kol Tregaskes
Cool - I like that, so who are we subscribing to on sunday?
- Dan owns Comicsforge.com
Red letters on white perhaps, or picture of the sun.
- LouCypher
Lou, cool idea! I'll speak to the designer. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Dan, check the group's description. Basically it's like Twitter's followfriday but for FriendFeed. Pick someone from FF you want to recommend and follow the guidelines on the group.
- Kol Tregaskes
Bumped as a reminder for today. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Nice icon!
- Just Katie
Thanks, Katie, it came from a combination of vijay, Alfredo and Praveen.
- Kol Tregaskes
It's that time again, folks! :-) My FF-SS this week is Nicola: http://ff.im/2KDUY, who is yours?
- Kol Tregaskes
Here's a good list of people to follow and promote if you're stuck for ideas: http://ff.im/3pIES
- Kol Tregaskes
Just a suggestion but if you add "_GG72" to your FF-SS tweets they will then appear here: http://ftags.com/GG72
- Kol Tregaskes
Bumping for today.
- Kol Tregaskes
New name and new guidelines, check the post here: http://ff.im/4MXRD
- Kol Tregaskes
This is now called FollowFriday (well for the moment anyway). Please recommend a fellow FriendFeeder that we should follow. Mine is Rochelle here: http://friendfeed.com/ff-foll...
- Kol Tregaskes
Heh, but it's Friday today! ;)
- Tyson Key
Yeah's I'm trying a new name. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
And a new day. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bumping as it was mentioned recently. Should this is Sunday, Friday or what day?
- Kol Tregaskes
Don't forget to promote your fellow FriendFeeders.
- Kol Tregaskes
Silent Morning - http://mikeroblogger.tumblr.com/post...
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Mark H, Brandon Titus, Neya and 7 other people liked this
xkcd: The Flake Equation - http://xkcd.com/718/
Louis Gray, Nicķ and Brandon Titus liked this
"Statistics suggest that there should be tons of alien encounter stories, and in pracitce there are tons of alien encounter stories. This is known as Fermi's Lack-of-a-Paradox."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
To be fair, the actual number could be half that, if C_R and M_I are correlated.
- Tudor Bosman
Also, the misspelling of "practice" in the title is Randall's, not mine.
- Tudor Bosman
Penguin, obeca, Shey and 325 other people liked this
HAHAHAHA
- Johnny
You guys, this image is SO huge! HAHA
- Mona Nomura
Lol
- Farzad
Ignore! :D
- MissSaghar
ترابلشوتینگ: to solve your problem you must shut down your computer and fuck yourself immedately!
- M∂hmood
eAHAoeuhAEOUAEhoaehoueaH
- MustaBR
رافائل هنگ کرد! :))))))))))))))
- M∂hmood
Like for saghar :D viva MicroSoft :D :D
- Farzad
This is one of my new favorites.
- Kevin Bondelli
i wonder what mona is like at a flea market - she probably finds the rare gems!
- Allen Stern
Too bad there isn't a StumbleUpon for flea markets.
- Kevin Bondelli
Allen: Will work for free food! ;)
- Mona Nomura
I want to randomly deploy this into a piece of software as an easter egg.
- Kevin Bondelli
aaaahhhh, windows.... hahahahha
- Melissa Maskevich
I made a Mac error pop-up to keep this one company. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Kevin Bondelli
This *still* makes me laugh out loud lollll!!
- Mona Nomura
wow september? nice to see this again hehe
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
As Carlos said, I am "crate digging" . . . my feed used to be so visual. I am finding ALL sorts of posts.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Oh shit that's funny!
- BEX
just laughed at this one again :)
- (jeff)isageek
Hehehe
- Jonathan Hardesty
from fftogo
lol!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Fly, little butterfly, Fly!
- Martha
oh this must be at least thirty-seven years old. but still funny!
- Kirill Bolgarov
It can't be THAT old; it's done in XP look-and-feel...
- Karl Knechtel
nice! I've never seen this one before.
- Phil Maxwell
- the f word
- Monique
Karl, that was a joke
- Kirill Bolgarov
XA x333
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Classy. \p/
- Zu from AOD
Had me LOL ... Literally.
- Charlie Anzman
:D:D
- Nucro
Lol
- yasin ghasemi
Bump.
- Kol Tregaskes
OLOLOLOLOL
- General Thomas Wodashin
hahaha
- Marissa
oh damn I liked it already
- Victory through semantics
Where in the Sam Hill did this come from?! LOL
- Mona Nomura
It's all about the butterflies
- Jesse Stay
http://msn.com/ looks pretty slick these days. The butterfly has shapelier wings.
- Vezquex
Still funny.
- Amit Morson
lol
- Rob Marchitti
Emma Watson in Daily Mail editorial [photography by Sean Cook] | SuperiorPics - http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthre...
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file under: Y for yummay
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony she is jailbait!!!
- Mona Nomura
errr she's like 18 or 19 so she's been legal for a few years Mona. Trust me, I keep track of these things. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Totally legal!
- Rob H.
Holy Crap! When did she turn legal?! MY BAD! Carry on, nothing to see in the comments. ;)
- Mona Nomura
Welp @Mona that depends on what state you'd be hosting the young lady in but in most places she's been ‘legal’ - in that special sense - a coupla years now.
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony, she's already 18.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
@Alex isn't that what I said?
- Anthony Citrano
Crap, I just realized how much older than her I am. If you all need me I'm going to go over in the corner and feel all creepy for a bit. P.S. keep off my lawn.
- Joe "Brrzzzzzzt" Pierce
Yeah, I guess it is... :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
After all, Alex, I don't think Mona was talking about cigarettes.
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Oh my virgin ears!
- Mona Nomura
born 15 April 1990 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Bora Zivkovic
thanks, sherlock ;)
- Anthony Citrano
@MVB: Hm, I don't... *rushes off to Google*
- Anthony Citrano
time is so cool! what a hottie!
- sean percival
@sean: yes, time's so cool until right..... now. Can we freeze her?
- Anthony Citrano
Why the morality police, Anthony? Do you need saving from yourself?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Ha! no, please. ;) But, following the "dirty old man" dust-up, I found myself wondering where the Puritans had been during all these other posts. So yesterday I bumped a bunch of them.
- Anthony Citrano
Dirty old man dust up?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Okay, found it.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
:( that says it all.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
She should stomp a high-heel in a paparazzi eyeball.
- Brent
Just was talking to http://www.friendfeed.com/garin and we came to the conclusion that if you are going to comment on a friendfeed item you should either be first or last. Why? They always are visible. So, here's your chance! :-)
Roshan Ramachandran, Amit Nangare, Jeff P. Henderson and 61 other people liked this
zaloom!
- Kevin Johnson
If we are really cool we'll get on this list http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Robert Scoble
Kevin is first, who will be last? I just want to be the penultimate commenter!
- Robert Scoble
first and last words are all that matter on the FF.
- rob friedman
Okay. Everyone stop NOW!
- Kevin Sablan
great. now FF is going to be filled up with those annoying ass people that comment "FIRST!" on everything.
- Enrique Gutierrez
ok
- Shawn Snodgrass
Aw crap, I could sit here all night waiting to be last, so may as well comment now.
- Sharon McPherson
8th!
- rob friedman
Any worthy FF thread will engage interested parties enough to read most of the comments.
- iTad
Do I get bonus points if I end up being the thread killer?
- Kevin Johnson
Kevin you could always delete your 1st comment. :)
- rob friedman
Kevin! Yes, and we're having a great time watching this. It will get old fast, but for now it's really fun!
- Robert Scoble
Dang it I am 5 min too late. So I guess it is like posting on a blog post, you always want to be first.
- Jeff
Hey Enrique.. that would suck. Oh... LAST! Oh Jeff... Last.
- Ted Bradford II
That's why these threads just go on and on and on... people just want to have the last word. ;-P
- Chris Heath
Chris: I don't want the last word. I want the penultimate word. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Nope, I like the riffng of the conversation. Jump in anywhere. Enjoy the free flow of ideas and worry not about being seen by the scanners. Those who take the time to expand the thread have such a richer experience.
- michael sean wright
if i wasn't so tired i'd play that out Chris (as my last post was truly in jest). Late here in East TN. Gonna go tip a few cows and call it a day.
- Ted Bradford II
Ted: so was mine ... didn't you catch the winky tongue? (i'm on cape fear so i'm soon to bed as well)
- Chris Heath
Good point, unless you're actually using the RT chat aspect of FriendFeed, I guess...
- Andy Werner
I actually come back 5 days later to make comments so I can have the last word. Everyone has already forgotten what the conversation is about by then.
- Jeff
Chris- I did, but needed a segue into a cow tipping joke... cause I've never done so before. I do know this, tomorrow I will use the word 'penultimate' and dazzle family and friends. Hope alls quiet on the Cape bro. These storms have been a biotch. Annnnnnd Jeff just trumped us all. Tell him what he's won Enrique... nite all.
- Ted Bradford II
Second to last is always visible on my screen. :)
- Bwana ☠
Clever way to get the most commented upon comment on FF ever....
- Barak B
Ted, if you haven't dozed off- i'll have you know that the coastal winds tend to keep a lot of the storm systems at bay- if you're close enough to the water - a mile or 5 inland can make a big difference some days - and spot t/storms can be localized around here big time - for instance yesterday it rained (for a short period) at my house while i was at work 5 miles away getting no rain - only knew cuz the ground was wet when i went home for lunch... ok - it's really time for sleep now - g'nite FriendFeed
- Chris Heath
so in other words, last is not least?
- Julie Bovee Hill
Barak: check out this idea for a long thread (still nowhere near the longest on friendfeed, but the idea.. ) http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac...
- Chris Heath
Chris: Yes, that is a good one too. This is better though and I predict with end up with more comments.
- Barak B
Yay! I am last as of now :)
- Amit Nangare
lets see how long this lasts for! :)
- Paul Kinlan
Another one of these? From Scoble this time? Wow. BTW, last post.
- Chris Charabaruk
I will be the penultimate commenter!
- Garin Kilpatrick
That way I can be the ultimate one.
- Chris Charabaruk
Nope.
- Barak B
friendfeed should allow for "liking" comments so top comments can be the ones shown, no matter the chronology. And allow the users to watch comments by likes, threaded or chronologically.
- Charbax
A blatant attempt at gaming the FriendFeed statistics for no real useful purpose... Oooh, can I be last, Please Please!!!
- Peter Kelley
No, Peter, you may not be last. That's my position.
- Chris Charabaruk
Last Post!!!
- Richard Hurt
well, the last comment is always changing, isn't this like having your 5 nanoseconds of glory?
- Liviu Lica
This thread is now closed.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
No, NOW it's closed.
- Chris Charabaruk
Or is it? :)
- Liviu Lica
Perhaps now...
- Garin Kilpatrick
I would give it another 2 hrs or so.
- Jeff
thats me! :)
- Roshan Ramachandran
based on what you say, it easier to simply click like :-)
- Orli Yakuel
:)
- Michael Fidler
"Comment on a friendfeed item"? which one? ;)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Are trying to go for the longest comment thread again?
- Amit Morson
Amit: no, most times one post gets hidden.
- Robert Scoble
In a different timezone you can have the advantage :)
- Rene de Vries
Okay, people, nothing to see here. Just walk on. This is the last comment. It's all clear now.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
What if you write backwards? Does that help?
- Kieran Daly
Okay, people, nothing to see here. Just walk on. This is the last comment. It's all clear now. says Ruud van Wijngaarden
- Julian Edward
It would be nice if we could pick the number of comments shown at the top and bottom, I'd like to see the first 3 and last 3 for example.
- Kol Tregaskes
I usually read all the comments of something I'm interested in. I don't just read the top and bottom ones so I don't care where I come in. I comment on what I want to because I want to say something. It's nice if the original poster reads/responds to it, but not absolutely necessary. Most of the time the most fun/interaction comes from other commenters.
- Molly
:) says Michael Fidler
- Julian Edward
Sounds like an online auction...Is there any deadline? Then I'll prepare my winning speech 17,3 sec beforehand.
- Zack Brandit
I'm not falling for your postbait, Scoble! Oh wait...crap.
- caj needs a haircut
Cow tipping - That's Funny
- Brent - Yes I am
Good point.
- Jack Boyle
I feel sorry for the cows. And the grass. I am weakhearted I guess.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I guess I misunderstood. You were talking about that fat waittress in Crazy Mick's Breakaway Cafe, weren't you?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Fine, I'm in
- Don Bonaddio
am I last yet ?
- Julian Edward
Nope
- Jérôme
no
- mjc
Yeah, you were last. Congrats.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
In ur timezone, stealin ur commentz, kthxbye :)
- Peter Kelley
ok, I'll hold on to last place for visablity!
- PaulJohnson
I was going to add something witty, but i got nothing. sorry....
- Mike Nencetti
No problem. Participating is more important than winning, we say in the Netherlands.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
It's the long-tail of real-time
- zeroinfluencer
Excellent point David ;)
- Don Bonaddio
Being last has one drawback. It makes you a thread-killer. I'm not sure some of us like being that. Sometimes I'd rather see the discussion keep going.
- George Hall (Australia)
Do like the suggestion made earlier that there should be bonus points for being the thread-killer...
- George Hall (Australia)
but who wants to be last?
- mcvictor
Ok Robert, please close this thread now. ;)
- Meryn Stol
I disagree, and I'll tell you why below...
- FFing Enigma
We already did this thread, I'll post the link right after Tina's rebuttal
- Rah-PM 2012
You don't really believe that Robert. Content is key! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
But if I post last, I'm first in the thread on Twhirl! Double win! ;-)
- Julie Barrett
from twhirl
amazing
- David Gross
from email
Always happy to be last .... but it probably won't last :)
- Charlie Anzman
llllllaaaaasssssstttttt
- mjc
You'd be right Charlie :P
- Jay
And there is nothing I hate more than reading that first comment that childishly claims "First!" and nothing more. "Last!" (until the next comment comes along)
- Jim Espinoza
By the way, I'm the last commenter in a very participated thread recently started by Robert Scoble, but that didn't gain me almost any new follower. I'm fine with this though, as I'd find silly being advantaged for being the last commenter ;-)
- Opensource Obscure
Agreed :)
- Fabian De Simone
How do I stick my comment to the bottom so that it will always be last? :)
- Jeff Sayre
How long can this go on?
- Tom Landini
Last! ...for now
- Scott
So this if why Scoble goes nuts over realtime feeds - he can be the first to comment.
- Tom Landini
Well, every comment gets to be last for at least a couple of seconds. Or fractions of a second with RT.
- The original Kevin
If you want to understand the power of last you need to read this thread http://friendfeed.com/mikenay...
- WoH: Minding her Steves
"There is no final solution. There is no last word.” ~ Carlos Fuentes
- Sharon McPherson
First is way better, because the last post can always change :)
- Tim McDougall
Easy to be first, harder to be last. Kind of like trying to win a silent auction, you always have to go back
- Lorraine Ball
but what if it took me a while to find the discussion, and i still want to be last? ;-)
- Courtney Engle
Firs...Last.
- Rob
@Rob - in yo' face!
- JoEllen
The one who will comment after me is so stupid I would'nt like to be him :P
- stanjourdan
Yoink!
- Zach Lytwyn
112 comments - but there can never be last comment, can there? Unless there is a FF limit on the number of comments - Paul, is there a limit?
- WoH: Minding her Steves
The current last comment is the next penultimate comment.
- Brian Sullivan
Not everyone is on here to market themselves to infinity. Why people, other than people who actually make money off of exposure, insist on wanting the most friends on ff/fb/ms/tt is beyond me. Not everyone is a Scobilite! Yes I did just make that word up... where do I copyright it? lol
- Jason Williams
Didn't someone blog about tinyurl's dominance a while back - about how they have too much power. Might have been Gillmor or Winer
- Bwana ☠
Winer. I don't think they have too much power
- Steve Gillmor
I'm going for last.
- Derek Markham
I've got last:-)
- Francine Hardaway
I'm the ultimate thread killer, so I win.
- JCunwired
instahide
- Edward Zwart
How can we compete against Robert
- Peter Meng
Peter: why compete? Just come in last! :-)
- Robert Scoble
ok
- Kevin Johnson
Just checking. I heard this thread was closed, so I wondered if commenting still works.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
For the love; Robert please kill this tread so I will stop getting email. ;)
- Jeff
wow that's pretty rad :-)
- Patphelan
@Jeff, it's not spam if you opt in ;-)
- Kevin Johnson
wonder what the value of posting on page length increments are... as people page down your comment is visible ;)
- offbeatmammal
Jeff: do you still get email if you hide a thread? I bet you do. That sucks. Now I know why I don't turn on email notifications.
- Robert Scoble
There is no last. - Mobius Loop
- Robert Couture
to infinity and beyond
- Jonathan Grimes
Kevin: i did not say it was spam. I put the smiley face indicating my partial joking nature. but only partial.
- Jeff
Robert: I could not figure out how to disable comments for particular post. It is really not a big issue since I have gmail, but I do think this post may never die.
- Jeff
@Jeff - same here - noworries
- Kevin Johnson
- Rob
This. Will. Never. End.
- Michael Forian
Pay me $10 and I'll delete this thread. (Future friendfeed monetization technique). Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Your comment is always the last! look at mine :)
- Luis Benavides
Welcome to the neverending thread :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
Garin: I'll delete it before it ends. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert: That would be a shame. You'd be up $10 at least though :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
The last shall be last
- Peter Meng
There can be only one.
- Kevin Johnson
I seem to be last on many of Steve Gillmor's posts @techcrunchit, the kiss of death to many a conversation. I should be so lucky here.
- Aron Michalski
from fftogo
A good way to stop? - Scoble puts in his penultimate comment Kevin Johnson says zaloom!
- Julian Edward
Yes, you should be so lucky :p
- Jesse Newhart
I'm going to change my FriendFeed ID to "145 more comments"
- Mark Traphagen
Getting a piece of the pie... :)
- Jan Ole Peek
I've often found myself to have the last comment. It hasn't benefited me yet that I've noticed...let's try that again.
- Mike Lewis
first is forever....last is a very transient honor indeed.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
and being both is probably meaningless, but I'm still going to claim it
- Kevin Johnson
Do others ever get more than 2 comments on their posts? :)
- Cameron
I'm lucky to get 2.
- JCunwired
Doing it!! www.radarla.com
- Drew Lucas
So, if you are last and then someone comes behind you, should you re-comment to be last again?
- T.S. Elliott
Probably so T.S. but it won't last long ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Sorry Rob:-)
- Michael Fidler
1
- Robert Kenney
2
- Robert Kenney
This is the Seinfeld of FF....the post and comments about nothing. I wonder what the record is for the most comments on FF?
- Jeff
As a fine-art platform, as a painting, do you think anyone would be interested in a full-screen image feed animated by Judith Supine? http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- stephen harlow
He who comments last...
- Abbas Haider Ali
comments as:
- Kevin Johnson
Tag- Im it
- Ryan Gerritsen
not anymore you're not ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
zaloom!
- Kevin Johnson
for one moment I could imagine that every comment was Kevin Johnson and his "zaloom!"
- WoH: Minding her Steves
ANd so I do and then another and another :) Fun huh.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
not really... but hey... whatever
- Chris Heath
So to comment or to like a FriendFeed item is to promote it.. and to promote the promoter. Great great great!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
173rd!!
- Mark Traphagen
Controlled noise...
- Joe Dawson
Indeed it is official :) But not for long let me bask in it's glory for a moment hahaha.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
It was fun while it lasted.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
It's over now - no need to post any more comments
- Julian Edward
Okay, Thanks. It was taking too much of my time anyway.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Nicholas: Except this thread is far more epic :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
back again...to claim last place!
- Zach Lytwyn
Good for you Zach!
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Cannot. Let. This. End.
- Robert Couture
Have. To.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
hit hit hit
- Hans Mestrum
Kol: Cool idea, it would be neat to be able to choose how many of the first and last comments were visible.
- Garin Kilpatrick
Last
- Michael Fidler
I like most anything distilled...information, bait...(distilled bait...is that like the worm at the bottom of the mezcal?)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
The difference would be that in this case the worm will stay on the bottom. No matter what.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I reckon it'll be Ruud van Wijngaarden
- Julian Edward
I am not quite sure about that. But willing to accept it. (Wait! You just called me a worm? The most underrated but valuable animal on the planet, that brings us fertile ground and eats dead stuff? It is a nice compliment, but might be a bit much).
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
No, No! - I didn't mean you worm. Although as you say they are useful beings. I do hope you'lll be in heroic position of last commenter! This is a case of the last shall be second. (Kevin Johnson being first of course). Scoble is penultimate we would hope. I'm aiming for 5th to last!
- Julian Edward
Yesterday somebody asked: 'if you pass the number two in a race, which place are you in?' and I answered wrong. Passing the last one in this race will be hard...
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
The last comment shall be mine! :)
- Garin Kilpatrick
Woot, last comment. ;)
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
mine
- Michael Fidler
NOPE
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Mmmm. I always hoped I would be last.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from email
Mmmm. I always hoped I would be last.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
from email
I think it is hard to be first and even harder to be last.. just look at this thread.. http://ff.im/1hqgl
- David Gross
Last comment?
- Jeff P. Henderson
you mean Twitter Gar1n? You were talking on TWITTER WEREN'T YOU! LIAR "friendfeeed Garin" pfttttt still the same bi-polar
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Interesting comment, SFSS, very interesting indeed. So interesting, in fact, that I think that nothing further needs to be added to this thread. Ever.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
אתם כל כך מלא חרא, אבל זו בעיה שלך, לא שלי :-)
- David Gross
from email
actually i don't know how not to be the last commenter :)
- İ. Emre Kutlu
Me too..
- David Gross
from email
If only I could puncture the depths of Scoble's scratch-the-surface brain fart, techno-vangelizing, then I'd actually care WHOLE HEARTEDLY about this meaningfully retarded thread.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
The only way this thread can be made even more ridiculous and anachronistic is to move it to identi.ca.. Myspace would work, too.
- Tal Shafik
Interesting ;)
- Alex
And since you can't guarantee being last unless you are the originator of the thread or can convince the originator to end comments (but since Robert is AWOL that is unlikely) -- you better be first. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
Stuff
- Jonathan Hardesty
Okay, admittedly being the last IS visible...but who REALLY wants to be the thread-killer?
- George Hall (Australia)
apparently, some people http://friendfeed.com/ajbatac... http://friendfeed.com/silas21... http://friendfeed.com/mikenay... (notice 2000+ comments!)
- Chris Heath
I think I remember commenting on one of those threads...and it's STILL going????
- George Hall (Australia)
Hey, this one's from May... it's about to hit its own anniversary!
- Chris Heath
I'm surprised this only has a little over 200 comments.
- Jason Williams
201
- David Gross
213 ? Original Zlaloom! + 212 more comments including this one. The last one.
- Julian Edward
don't be so sure about that... there's lots of people who like to be thread killers or last... just wait and watch
- Chris Heath
yes - that's very true
- Julian Edward
Sage words Robert - Sage words indeed!
- PaulJohnson
See??? I told you!
- Chris Heath
yep - you were right
- Julian Edward
It doesn't seem to work in the long term.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I am looking forward to playing board games on the iPad while travelling with Karen. This is the first device I can really picture two people using at the same time, which seems like an opportunity for some truly new types of software.
Franklin Pettit, Sarath, Zu from AOD and 91 other people liked this
With mice and keyboard, two people at the same time on the same device doesn't really work well. Touch screen seems like a really cool opportunity.
- Bret Taylor
I always wanted something we could use for a board game on an airplane in particular.
- Bret Taylor
oh! 2 player touch screen air hockey!!
- Nathalie
I thought to myself I could have used this when I would play chess with my little brother, and he would get mad and sweep the pieces off the board. I figured it'd be pretty difficult to do that with an iPad. Then I realized what he could have done to the iPad...
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Yeah - I keep thinking of how popular this is going to be on road trips with the family
- Jesse Stay
Taking turns. Like handing a crossword puzzle or magazine back and forth. Plus a swipe for changing posting accounts.
- Hayes Haugen
Does this mean you're getting one?
- Shannon Jiménez
Shannon: yep, definitely getting one. If for no other reason than to write a couple apps for it.
- Bret Taylor
Bret, same thought here - I can think of some uses, but as a developer I want a new toy to play with and innovate with :-)
- Jesse Stay
Cool-- that means I get to play with it :)
- Shannon Jiménez
Is it just me or does that still seem a bit small for two people to have their hands on at once?
- Richard Lawler
You know. I totally missed this use case. I don't play board games enough, so this would be great for me.
- Roberto Bonini
I don't know who the makers are of touch-screen tablets that already do this, but I've seen one in action: http://ourdoings.com/brlewis...
- Bruce Lewis
Chess, checkers, go, Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, chinese checkers... and I think it will also be a great platform for war games.
- Brome
So do i brome. BRING ON RISK
- Roberto Bonini
^LOL
- LANjackal
You're going to drive that accelerometer nuts with two people, you know that don't you? :)
- JCunwired
SMART idea - that's why I like you - out of the box - excellent eye for various use cases - neat! The iPad has a lot of potential. I have been wanting what I call an iCouch tablet for web viewing, this i really great. I can't wait till i get one!
- Susan Beebe
Nathalie, air hockey was my first thought when they said it worked with two people. That would be cool.
- Todd Hoff
Wow that's true- I didn't really get the iPad until I thought of 2-player games. Now to develop Catan for the iPad.
- anna sauce
Will be awesome for board games.
- Scott Cederberg
Todd and Nathalie, an air-hockey type game (maybe more like Pong) is what people are playing in the photo I linked to in my previous comment. I sympathize with whoever the manufacturer is, in that the perception is that it doesn't exist until Apple ships it.
- Bruce Lewis
Hey I want an I pad, but they said the 3g version isn't available till April, mmmm. How can I get one sooner???
- amelia arapoff
I have to admit it's a wee bit more portable than Microsoft's Big Ass Table™
- Richard Walker
Never thought of this possibility. For the first time I can begin to see myself possibly even buying one - assuming the software is there to make it worthwhile.
- Andrew Perry
Share option of friend-feed cost me a call from my wife yelling at me "who the hell is this Karen you are playing with on the train to work? I am gonna kill you both!" She simply saw it on my facebook feed never realized it is a FW. (http://friendfeed.com/tzury...) LOL
- Tzury Bar Yochay
not sure about this, the form factor may still be too small to be comfortable for two players simultaneously looking at it, or touching it. Now with blue tooth connexion between two iPads, I would see lots of opportunities for boardgames, including games where each player need to keep some information secret (his hand of cards usually).
- Antoine Bertier
Hmm nice idea. Checkers, Domino, Backgammon would be all excellent
- Özkan Altuner
I just downloaded SDK and am working with another programmer on the Catan version. Bret you inspired me!
- anna sauce
Yay for social devices!
- Адский Блондин
Anna, you know there's already a Catan for iPhone, right? http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009...
- Ken Gidley
So.. you wanna buy a improved GAMEBOY oh geez.
- Bahriye
but he will HAS a TOUCH SCREEN that 2 people can touch at the same time!
- İyi Aile Çocuğu
Thanks Jason- I'm very excited about it!
- anna sauce
Ken- yeah
- anna sauce
board game app ---> http://www.gametableapp.com
- Ryan C
Exactly. I am foreseeing to see FarmVille on that!
- Sarath
A movable FriendFeed bookmarklet. To install add a new bookmark and set the location to this snippet http://pastebin.ca/1484593. From http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
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Anton Volnuhin, Daniel Mietchen, See-ming Lee 李思明 SML and 52 other people liked this
Very useful.
- Kol Tregaskes
But I've found it to be a little buggy recently (in Chrome). On a few sites (BBC, FF and others) when I hit the bookmarklet the screen scrolls to the bottom and I cannot scroll back up. I have to use the original FF bookmarklet instead. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
The pictures are a little out of order
- Mike Chelen
Mostly stick with the regular one, and use the movable bookmarklet when something is blocked
- Mike Chelen
Cool. I was always hoping for a new Bookmarklet. And even if it's buggy, it's a step in the right direction. Nice Job
- Michael Fidler
Michael: It seems like the only way to uncover parts of the screen. Thanks go to April's friend for writing the code http://friendfeed.com/friendf... hope these pics help to see how it works
- Mike Chelen
Have you ever tried the Posterous Bookmarklet? I think it's one of the best around. It pulls everything off a page and allows you to choose what you want. It's similar to the FFeed one in a way, but I would like something like it, but combine it with the ability to pull in more than three pictures in at a time. Don't get me wrong, I love the FFeed one too, but there's something elegant about the way the Posterous one works.
- Michael Fidler
useful, thanks.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Sweet.
- Meryn Stol
Michael: How well does Posterous stuff import to Friendfeed? If it were possible to import more than 3 pictures, that would be nice.
- Mike Chelen
Mike. Posterous imports well using the Custom RSS/atom feed , but I recall seeing a message from Gary, one of their founders, mentioning that he would like to have better integration with friendfeed. Before I enter the feed, I first run it through fflow, which gives me a MediaRSS feed which tends to display larger pictures. I use it on all my feeds. Love it. Here's the URL: http://www.fflow.net/...
- Michael Fidler
Michael: cool, fflow looks similar to feed buster http://feed-buster.appspot.com/ which i use heavily for multimedia import to friendfeed. will have to try them side by side and see if there are any differences. thanks for the tip!
- Mike Chelen
Whoa, fflow is new to me. Anyone know how long it's been around and who the developer is?
- Ivan Zuzak
Wow...thanks!! :)
- Roshan Ramachandran
Thanks!!
- Roshan Ramachandran
very cool!
- Tim Hoeck
If you're trying feed-buster out, join http://friendfeed.com/feed-bu... and let me know if you run into any issues.
- Ivan Zuzak
testing now on ie7. and works great. thank you :)) #ffhacks
- Friendfeed's Francisco
One of these is not like the others...
Tudor Bosman, Vezquex, Kol Tregaskes and 10 other people liked this
Um, I just got it.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
What page is that?
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Which one? I see five recipes...
- John (bird whisperer)
They are delicious bar-be-qued - marinate the night before -/
- Chris Loft
Ummm, it must be the Bacon and eggs! One adds alcohol into the recipe. One makes you wanna drink. The others go well with Wine.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
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