This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Wondering what the future will bring. Reading an excellent article "The Future Of The Web: Where Will We Be In 5 Years?" http://www.noupe.com/trends...
One of the best known video game franchises of all time, Sid Meier’s Civilization, will get a Facebook version under the name Civilization Network.
- polou/indigo_bow
from Bookmarklet
"Germany's most popular women's magazine is banning professional models from its pages and replacing them with images of "real life" women instead. In what is seen as the latest attempt to stamp out the "size zero" model, the editors of Brigitte said it would in future only use women with "normal figures". "From 2010 we will not work with professional models any more," said Andreas...
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- Baard @ Pixum
""For years we've had to use Photoshop to fatten the girls up," he said. "Especially their thighs, and decolletage. But this is disturbing and perverse and what has it got to do with our real reader?" He said the move was a response to complaints by readers who said they had no connection with the women depicted in fashion features and "no longer wanted to see protruding bones". "Today's models weigh around 23% less than normal women," Lebert said. "The whole model industry is anorexic.""
- Baard @ Pixum
I´m curious if this works out for them. hope so. (In fact I remember brigitte trying to turn to "real" women very often through the last years, but it never seemed to be successful - to me.)
- esther ♥ ♫
hopefully it does work out and then spills over into US markets. not holding my breath, but it would be a healthy change. i sure don't want my girls starving themselves when they're older so they can look like the walking chicken bones they would see in magazines today. i also don't want them to have an unrealistic and unhealthy idea of what a woman is supposed to look like and the resulting low self-esteem that too many of my friends' older (10-22 yr old) daughters seem to have developed.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Disturbing and perverse, indeed. People's health and well-being are at stake.
- Ayşe E.
I find this very interesting. And I hope they succeed.
- Baard @ Pixum
from iPhone
I already applied though Google Wave officially, so I will wait, if you're the inpatient type, go ahead and try this invite system!
- polou/indigo_bow
from Bookmarklet
Lifehacker also has a common pool of invites for giving out, so I guess you will just to have to wait and hope to get it soon!
- TrafficBug
When Mike reviewed social bookmarking, research and collaboration service Diigo last year, he liked its simplicity, its connections with other services, and its wealth of features. Since then, the social bookmarking field has continued to mature; witness the recent purchase of Friendfeed by Facebook, and the numerous ways that bookmarks can be shared on social networks. Even MySpace is getting into the act by syncing posts with Twitter! o how can a lesser-known app like Diigo compete? The latest version of Diigo has just gone live, and from what I can tell, it’s growing beyond social bookmarking and going for the “kitchen-sink” approach: Add as many features as possible, so that no matter what a user wants, it’ll be there. Among the list of new features are a few that caught my eye: Similar to Iterasi, users can now archive web pages from a particular point in time — even ones that are dynamically generated or password-protected. Multiple versions of the same page can be saved, either...
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- Eric Logan
from Bookmarklet
Buying a house for cash is the dumbest thing you can do. There, I said it.
- Aviv
Racism still exists. (Man, you should see the objections / rationalizations some people bring up in response to things like Bertrand & Mullinathan's resume study.)
- Andrew C
The Republican Party elected officials are the most amoral moral majority that ever called attention to themselves and labeled themselves superior.
- Karma Martell
Aviv, why is buying a house for cash the dumbest thing you can do?
- Cristo
Oil supply is finite. The US dollar is not backed by gold. The only thing that changes from one election to another is who gets to screw us all. The Federal Reserve is an illegitimate institution that should not be in control of our money.
- Morton Fox
Actually, the oil supply is infinite. Just maybe not on this planet in our needed timeframe.
- Cristo
Oh boy.. I knew I shouldn't have said anything :) We'll get to that at some point I'm sure. If I'm not mistaken we've had this conversation on FF a while back.
- Aviv
I'm a long way from where I want to be.
- Ted Roden
smart people are totally capable of doing idiotic stuff when they are manipulated
- ayca
Your explanations for why you do what you do are probably arbitrary made-up rationalizations. You have no conscious clue why you do a lot of things. If you stopped to really understand them, you'd be amazed. Or horrified. Or both.
- Thursday Lo :)
If you watch advertising, it influences your purchasing decisions.
- Thursday Lo :)
Money isn't anything. You want the ends, not the means. Anyone who truly desires money is crazy.
- Thursday Lo :)
You can only truly love one person in your life.
- Daniel Dulitz
strongly disagree, Daniel. but i guess we all have our own definition of the word. :)
- Anthony Citrano
unless daniel is hinting at the truth that the one person is yourself. But even then, that's rationalising away the truth that you are stuck with you for the rest of your life. ;)
- alphaxion
here's my own home spun "truism"... to live for eternity is as terrifying as the knowledge that you will no longer exist.
- alphaxion
economic growth based on use of limited resources will not last forever
- Marcel Janus
the psychological strain in the world is not yet intense enough for substantial changes
- Marcel Janus
The singularity is not arriving anytime soon.
- Cristo
Just to let you my dear peOple that this news was posted before mashable, Techcruch or any other site posted..I feel good to be more quicker then them.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
If you don't believe me compare the timeline of the posts :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
It's nice to see twitter finally get features. This is kind of useless, who does it matter to other than marketers who retweeted stuff, and doesn't this duplicate functional that already existed in terms of favorites? If favorites were shown in your own twitter feed, this functionality would have been had a long time ago.
- Andy Bakun
Great idea people love to see the buzz right in their face. It seems that @Ev is staying ahead of the curve.
- Christopher Scott Ostini
Andy: Retweet can provide way to get to know who else is interested in the tweet and marketers can get to know there supports (just a thought).
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
It can prove great tool to companies to get to know their buzz but for a layman person who just want to tweet, it doesn't count much
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Yes, twitter is a valuable tool for seeing what people are interested in and what is the problem with that? I'd rather see what I'm interested in than some of the trash I see in ads now
- vintageozarks
Yeah, and that feature has always existed as "favorites", but favorites on twitter has a shitty UI and UX since no one sees them after you favorite them. I guess twitter has the money to reimplement functionality they already have.
- Andy Bakun
Andy: I agree with you, I doubt that many people even use the favorites feature
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Owners of the project: "Since what we really do is to develop custom recommendation solutions for our clients, Playalike is a very basic showcase of our award winning technology. We are geeks at hears but music lovers too.... We hope you will enjoy using Playalike as much as we did building it, and don't forget, the more you rate, the better Playalike will serve you. Report bugs to feedback@playalike.com "
- Alp
How does it works? I'm a registered user, I have fav some video, after I logout my account e login again, but no track still remains in memory. "It leans from what you like": how? Any other people have tried this?
- Roberto
hi roberto, history is disabled for the current release. We limit "learning" in a session that starts with a search. Meaning that, everytime you search and end up in a video, a new session is started. On the backgroun, we train the system regularly. So as you use the system, it will get smarter. On the next release there will be a "Play my general preferences" feature.
- denizoktar
Question for you guys, especially people like @Chrisbrogan & @Scobleizer (who seem to be constantly wired). Do you have SPECIFIC boundaries for tech use (i.e. Places -no cell @ family dinner; Times -no Net after 8pm; Topics -no talking about partner's personal biz). As we become increasingly wired, do you think people need to articulate boundaries?
By articulating, I mean taking the time to conciously choose boundaries, and expressing them clearly with those who'd want to know them.
- Leif Hansen
Anyone want to speak up on this? Not easy one for us early adopters, but...
- Leif Hansen
I think it's funny that you called it 'wired' when soon we will have these things as either integrated biological attachments or wireless brain scanning devices. At my house we try hard not to have phones and laptops at the dinner table but it's usually a big fail. However, I have a rigid calendar I stick to that keeps my computer closed during time with my daughter :)
- Adam Eivy
My line is at my bedroom door. Well, except you can see that I have two sons and a third on the way so you can guess that something happens in there. ;-) But, seriously, there's very few things @maryamie and I won't blog about. If we have a fight we probably won't blog about it until we talk it out. Adding other people's input to that often changes those kinds of things. We both watched...
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- Robert Scoble
It's not all good. I try to choose moments to share with you. Only the really interesting ones. Watching me type into friendfeed or play with Milan isn't the kind of thing I want to share, so don't. At least not usually.
- Robert Scoble
Probably at Church or in any religious services...
- kazumi iwakura
Heh. I TOTALLY use stuff at church. Texting, checking email, etc. It's all relevant. :-D Then again, I'm not Scoble or Chris Brogan. Clearly. :-)
- Lisa L. Seifert
While I'm very responsive and available, over time I have started to observe a few boundaries and share limits on a need to know basis (otherwise some overstep). This has been a work in progress, I come from a corporate background where we were pretty much on electronic leashes (even on vacation overseas; colleague had to postpone a honeymoon (that couldn't have gone over well, imho))....
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- Casey
Not when eating--I don't want to get any sort of fluid on my electronics.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Nothing after 11 p.m. Eastern time. Oops. Good night.
- Bruce Lewis
It is difficult because it is partly due to addiction and partly due to necessary work.
- ashish
As a tech professional it gets more and more difficult to stay away from all the gadgets which keep you connected plus the whole shebang of social media out there. I try to set boundaries whenever i notice myself spending way too much time online. No gadgets at dinner or at the gym and if i can help it then sometimes even when i am going out.
- Bhowmik Shah
@Scobleizer claims he reads 20,000+ tweets/day every day, which requires 5.5+ hours/day of nonstop reading. So, no, he can't possibly have any "unwired" time.
- Chris Spizzirri
Chris: I never claimed 20,000 every day. I said 10s of thousands. I can easily do that. In one day I cleaned out more than 3,000 emails and still had time left.
- Robert Scoble
I typically clear if I want to talk abut something online about the other person and actually refer to them. Nothing that was mentioned in private, private company details, nothing meant just between friends, etc. I try very hard to set aside some amount of time for my girlfriend though with being a full time student and working it's diffucult to find that time. Other than that no other real rules, typically don't mess with it much if at all while eating at the table that sort of thing.
- Justin Yost
The biggest thing is that people who don't understand my use of technology don't see how I can spend so much time online and both still get value out of it and still have more that I want to do online.
- Justin Yost
Not in restaurants, because I don't want to look like a jerk. That's why I don't often go to restaurants; I do more take-out than anything. Not in movie theaters after previews (and rarely during previews, but I do at least like to mention I'm about to watch something), because I know the light bothers others. I do not name my employer, friends, family, co-workers, or my TKD master.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
The only boundries I have are the ones set up by my girlfriend. She goes crazy if I bring my MacBook to the bedroom. I find that I like being 'off' every now and then, though.
- Jon Gosier
only on vacation, then it is limited to 10 minutes a day to make sure there are no fires and the universe is ok...
- Jamie Ginsberg
Actually, there are lots of boundaries. I never brightkite my home's location. My birthday isn't April 1. I don't talk much about my wife because she values her privacy. I don't write much about the inner workings of my parent company (though I share lots about my own company). Tons more. Rule is, when I'm home with the family, no computer until theyre all in bed.
- Chris Brogan
Yeah, bedroom. And funerals. Movie theaters.
- Rachel Walden
The picture makes me think of "Videodrome".
- Tim Tyler
Besides the fact that multitasking wastes time, I think if you are always wired, during certain situations where your full attention is required, you're not appropriately focused if you're also trying to tweet.
- Rick Cogley
Thank you guys for the honest, insightful answers. The irony is that you chose to answer this question during my net-free afternoon (doing some deep reflection in which I find screens keep me at the surface). I just peeked at my email and saw 23 replies so wanted to say Ill reply in more detail later :)
- Leif Hansen
The keep things seperate I haven't upgraded the computer at home. So, this really limits of what I can do online while I'm at home. I don't have a cellphone either. Just lots of hours while "at work" connected and totally immersed and marketing, networking and connecting like crazy.
- Mathias Eichler
We try to ban mobiles at the table - but between me, my wife and five kids under 20 it doesn't last
- Thom Kennon
Thom, I agree on banning mobiles. I'd say, nix them during performances or talks (depending of course on the social situation), meals, study. We make our daughters leave theirs downstairs when they go to their rooms.
- Rick Cogley