"This roomy little NAP SACK becomes a SHOULDER BAG with a tug of the straps. Cool option, when you happen to be in and out of it a lot." I like it.
- Lindsay is :)
"So imagine our surprise to discover the Self-Portrait Machine, a device that snaps your photo and then forces you to draw your own face by dragging your bound hands around until the portrait is complete. Jen Hui Liao's project is the result of an observation that "our personal identities are represented by the products of the man-machine relationship." So it's like art and the intersection of philosophy... only it's not -- it's just a robot too lazy to make the portrait itself."
- Lindsay is :)
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They're just distracting to me. In a forum like FriendFeed where you can do full text searches, I'm not sure what they really do but clutter things up. Personal preference, I know, but I don't like them. I am big on regular tags though. There should be a way to tag a post without using hashtags that would also not be displayed unless you wanted to look at the tags.
- Lindsay is :)
@Mike - that's the most attractive hashtag I've ever seen. :)
- Lindsay is :)
I use Delicious for tagging resources I want to find again.
- Peter Warnock
Yeah, they're kind of a punch in the eye, visually. And you can't eat or smoke them, which, if you're gonna throw 'hash' in the name, you should be able to consume in some non-virtual way.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
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I agree. I don't think it's needed. It's ugly and distracting. I mean, we have threads. It's not like twitter where everything is a individual post and the need for tagging came about.
- Rodfather
From a semantic perspective, they are powerful. How about a setting that filters the hashes from the view?
- Peter Warnock
Gordon points out that a hashtag creates a link to the ff search query for that keyword.
- Peter Warnock
I don't find them very attractive either.
- Anne Bouey
I have to agree with you. I abstain from using hashtags, unless I absolutely have to use them. Seems that, more often than not, you can simply search FriendFeed (or any other social network, for that matter) through the use of keywords. Only time I see hashtags being useful is for organization, like during a conference.
- Thomas Ward
WFS! This would totally work in all too many IRL situation; although I do hate that TLA -- "IRL" -- it's all "RL" whether online or not. Get over it, humans. ;-)
- michael silverton
AHHHHH. After about 3 months of intensity and 3 weeks of insanity, today I cleaned out my bug queue for our release. Tomorrow I work from home and get it into staging and then I start my vacation. It couldn't have come quick enough. I'm only a tiny bit sad I won't be around to see it go live.
I decided to sign up for Google Wave waitlist. The blurb over the description said "Write a message to the Google Wave team (Haikus, sonnets and ASCII art all accepted)." so I decided to send a haiku AND a limerick.
Limerick: There once was a comp'ny named Google, / Who's distribution of invites was frugal. / But they'll smile today / And give one away / Or the point of this limerick is moot-gle.
- Lindsay is :)
They were handing out brains, and they asked: "Would you like a high IQ?" I thought they said: "Would you like a haiku?" So I answered: "No, tanka" (This is my attempt at poetry humor. I'm sorry.)
- Mark Jepsen
Gotta be some of the Seattle folks coming... And Robert Scoble and Louis Gray better be there :). Alex Scoble isn't too far away either... Speak up and be counted, peeps!
- Lindsay is :)
There are more changes afoot - good, I hope. You should like one of 'em, in particular. :)
- l0ckergn0me
I have heard that I should go. But I have not yet been invited (and don't know the dates). Haven't checked in with the wife and the work either.
- Louis Gray
I'm going - but if you want to do a meetup earlier - I am in seattle. :-) See you there if not. I'll be the person with the apple notebook covered in stickers (like 100's of others).
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
and there's also already AdFree.. I have limited screen space as it is, I don't need 25% of my screen showing ads.
- Tim Hoeck
I have noticed a lot of commercials on the radio recently using the word "less" when they should be using "fewer". It's driving me crazy now every time I hear one. I really need a vacation.
One example is the new Gatorade low calorie one. At the end they talk about having less calories... No, there are fewer calories. Less applies to a part of a whole. Fewer applies to discrete units.
- Lindsay is :)
No, Glenn I would like to hear FEWER ads doing that. :P
- Lindsay is :)
So you would like to hear less being used fewer?
- Alex Scoble
Whats a radio, do you mean like pandora or something?
- Geoff Schultz
@Alex - *rolls eyes* @Geoff - radio is that thing I have to listen to since Tad started using the car that has the XM Sirus thing in it and won't buy me one for this car. :S
- Lindsay is :)
Today I am a bear, and I think I'm headed somewhere where people have sticks. It may not be pretty for any of us.
Here comes Steven Cottontail, | Hopping' down the bunneh trail, | Hippity, hoppity, | Steven's on his way. | Bringing' every girl and boy | Baskets full of cilantro joy, | Things to make your FriendFeed bright and gay!
- Lindsay is :)
Whatever you're smoking, Lindsay, please cut it in half.
- Steven Perez
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LOL! I wish I were smoking something. It would be a lot more fun that what I'm taking a break from doing right now.
- Lindsay is :)
oh... hmm... hard to tell in the avatar, but I guess the ears were the giveaway! LOL! Oh well, everyone can use a little "hamster on a piano" every now and then. :)
- Lindsay is :)
arrgh looks like the video has been taken down off of YouTube. That is a major bummer. :(
- Lindsay is :)
Yes, there are a small contingent of people here on FF (led by Tina) who believe that I am a bunneh. Hence, the new avatar. :-)
- Steven Perez
via IM
That's OK. It's the thought that counts. :-)
- Steven Perez
via IM
No Steve, I never said you were a bunneh, I said you were HOLDING the bunneh. You started saying you weren't a bunneh, and I espouse the same "doth protest too much" school of thought as WorldofHiglet.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It makes me feel old when things that are being sold as "vintage" are from the decade I remember most as a child. I guess I should be glad I can't remember stuff they're calling "antique" yet!
I hate when 90's music is called Retro!!!
- Chris Rivait
I hate when the "new rock" station keeps playing songs that are 19 years old. I like 'em and all, but it's definitely not "new rock".
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Agree with Tina, that's one of my pet peeves, along with frickin Star radio out here on the West Coast hyping "brand new music" for songs that have been out over a year.
- Steve C
The mystery of crop circles in poppy fields in Australia's southern island state of Tasmania has been solved -- stoned wallabies are eating the poppy heads and hopping around in circles. "We have a problem with wallabies entering poppy fields, getting as high as a kite and going around in circles," the state's top lawmaker Lara Giddings told local media on Thursday. "Then they crash. We see crop circles in the poppy industry from wallabies that are high," she said.
- Lindsay is :)
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This article confused me. Google Voice has been out for months now and all the Grand Central users have already been prompted to move over to it. If you were a Grand Central user then you already have a number so there's no need to "check those emails and get ready to claim your number, they could go fast." There are no new numbers available except to Google employees and a few special individuals who they want to give them out to. Previous Grand Central users don't have any invites to give out (I wish we did). Maybe when Google Voice "opens up" there will be new numbers but I'm still confused about what the article is saying. :(
- Lindsay is :)
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What I think they are insinuating is that it is going to go live soon
- Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
Then why didn't they just say that? For someone who's been a Grand Central user for years the article just didn't make any sense.
- Lindsay is :)
What the note is saying is those people who have requested a Google Voice account (which they've had a mail in form up on the site since moving everyone from Grand Central over) will finally be getting their requested invites
- Adam Turetzky
Hmmm... ok... I hope they finally give us back the invites we used to have. I so regret not giving all of mine out when I had them (and using one for my kid).
- Lindsay is :)
They killed that invite system. If you didn't have an account since they took this Google voice live for Grand central people you were prompted to "request a beta invitation". Those who signed up are now getting those invites. 4 of my friends are setting up their accounts now. I imagine very soon the service will be available to everyone.
- Adam Turetzky
I had 10 invites when I first got GC and I gave them all out. Not a single one was activated yet when GV rolled out 4 of the people came crying back to me for another invite. The shiny and the new.
- Christopher Harley
Today we’re featuring 40 fractal images created using Apophysis. It’s a free Windows program for designing and rendering fractal flames. You can download the software for free at SourceForge
- Lindsay is :)
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I suggest downloading the Electric Sheep screensaver if you like animated fractals (like these) and cloud computing: http://ff.im/4e05u
- bnoise
Emmett Rensin and Alex Aciman's TWITTERATURE: The World's Greatest Books, Each Presented in Twenty Tweets or Fewer A HUMOROUS retelling of works of great literature in Twitter format -- written by two 19-year old University of Chicago freshmen, to John Siciliano at Penguin, by Brian DeFiore at DeFiore and Company
- Lindsay is :)
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I made one... it turned out ok but would have been a lot easier with a craft robo or something. Cutting it by hand made it a little tough to fit together.
- Lindsay is :)
Lindsay did you get the craft robo? Are you planning to?
- Trish Haley
I am so tempted to... if it were available via Amazon Prime I probably would have already bought one. I may still anyway from the USCutters site.
- Lindsay is :)
Josh has been dogging me to get a vinyl cutter since forever (like 8 years or so). I think I would play way too much if I had one instead of making stuff for people to buy to justify the expense.
- Trish Haley
Like a professional vinyl cutter? That would be way too awesome yes. But you could probably sell some stuff on Etsy pretty easily... Lots of scrapbookers and other DIYers pick up supplies there. If you guys lived closer I'd say let's go halvsies on one!
- Lindsay is :)
I think he was meaning a low to mid range professional one. He wanted to make vinyl stickers for soccer moms. I didn't want to deal with soccer moms. But I like the idea of making stickers to place on wood or plaques... like family names etc. Now there are companies like uppercase living selling stuff for home decoration.
- Trish Haley
Trish, I'm an Uppercase Living demonstrator! IMO, the professional vinyl cutters wouldn't be worth the cost. Because Uppercase Living is making advances so fast and is such a leader in the industry that it wouldn't make sense to compete. Getting the discounts on the vinyl is awesome as a Demonstrator + we can sell right through our websites (if we want). I have several friendfeed rooms. Here is one - http://friendfeed.com/upperca...
- Jannifer Stoddard
Here's my Picasa photo gallery if you'd like to see that - http://picasaweb.google.com/wordsfo... - ALSO, I got something called a Scor-Pal at the scrapbook store. That thing is AWESOME for making all kinds of boxes, envelopes, etc. You can see it online at http://www.scor-pal.com. (P.S. - I am a craft freak & also have a scrapbookers FF room here).
- Jannifer Stoddard
Cool! Thanks Jannifer. I got invited to an UL party last week, but couldn't make it, but checked out their site and it's pretty awesome. Some of it is not my style, but the fact that you can customize stuff is cool. I've never heard of Scor Pal, so will have to check that out. I have an endless list of craft wants. Thanks for the links.
- Trish Haley
My kid is a lobster!! We went over how to apply the sunscreen at least twice before I sent him off on his field trip today... But he didn't realize he'd have to do it more than once after he'd been in the water for a while. Now he is completely red. Sigh.
Solarcaine tonight... aloe vera tomorrow.
- Lindsay is :)
uh oh. I guess this incident will teach him a lesson to apply sunscreen more appropriately.
- imabonehead
Well, we had our detailed and demonstrative discussion about how to apply the sunscreen because the last time he went on the same field trip he came home lobster boy and he was miserable for almost a week... Maybe the 3rd time will be the charm.
- Lindsay is :)
What you should do is take a picture of him when he's all red. Then photochop his picture morphing into a real lobster. :)
- imabonehead
Sequestered at the Howard Johnson's downtown. Mojitos in the piano bar while discussing the triple homicide.
- Christopher Harley
want out? Just stand up when the lawyers as you a question and in your best stallone impression say Law? I AM THE LAW! bow and sit back down. works every time ;)
- EARL (Born in the USA)
I learned a lot during the two trials I served on.
- Richard Walker
I have been summoned before, twice... one time I had to sit in the waiting room ALL DAY waiting to be interviewed before they finally released us. That was hard because I was between jobs and needed to be making calls to recruiters. The second time I called in the night before and was told I wasn't needed. Hoping that will happen again. But at least this time if I am put on the jury I have an employer who will let me have time for it.
- Lindsay is :)