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Recently my cousin's head was run over by a car. This is what's left of her helmet. My cousin completely survived because of this helmet. Please think of this before riding a bike without a helmet next time!
Harold, Michael Pardee, Amy and 80 other people liked this
I've ridden only once without a helmet in as long as I can remember. Felt vulnerable!
- Adam Loving
from StumbleRead
It's true. They work.
- Andrew Feinberg
wow... that's amazing. how old is your cousin jesse?
- dave mcclure
dave, my cousin's 30, just 1 year younger than me
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
You can read her story, in her own words here. I'm inspired: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
This happened to a friend of mine at the beginning of the month. He didn't do so good in the accident, but the helmet obviously saved his life. Thankfully is on his way home tomorrow: http://www.caringbridge.org/visit...
- Steve Lacey
I used to ride my bike without the helmet even though it is mandatory in Chennai, India. But after reading this I am not even going to the next street in my bike without helmet.
- Sudar
I never wear a helmet. When hearing things like this, I always think of this article.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1.... In the Netherlands no one wears a helmet. It seems safe to me.
- Peter Stuifzand
I was hit while riding to work in summer 2006 & did not want anyone to touch my helmet at all costs. If my brain was scrambled, I did not want anyone to touch my egg:) I highly recommend a helmet especially if you think you will not need one! Mine was almost the same color too & manufacturer, but there is no conspiracy there:)
- Roney Smith
Bicyclists/motorcyclists that don't wear helmets are better called future organ donors
- Brian Sullivan
Thanks for sharing. I ride often at traffic time between cars. always wear my helmet...itsg good to know that It does work :)
- jonathan
from twhirl
that's incredible...
- Jamie Allen
from twhirl
Wow, glad to hear your friend is doing well after that. I agree, helmets save lives. Regardless, I've many intentional close-calls by drivers who don't want to share the road. Unfortunately, this is the common attitude where I live (southern US).
- pete
we wear helmets for everything: mtb, snowboarding, wakeboarding, skateboarding & even surfing - skulls are fragile why not put a protective layer around it (i also try real hard to not ride on streets - a high percentage of drivers are oblivious to bike riders)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
I always ride in my helmet and stay to bike lanes as much as possible. Nice to know the safety tools work. Now, if I can just avoid that NYPD cop with a penchant for knocking people off their bikes. Hopefully, he won't transfer to LAPD.
- Jason Toney
Peter Stuifzand, my cousin would be dead if she did not wear her helmet. That article is BS. Wear your helmet!
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Point blank. You are a moron if you ride without a helmet. Sorry, but that's true and you're just going to play into Darwinian theory should you continue to ride without one. Any 'real' cyclist (e.g - you've been hit by a car - and yes, I have been) will tell you this without reservation. Helmets work without a doubt.
- AJ Kohn
I survived a nasty motorcycle crash in my youth and would also be dead without that helmet - which cracked in 2 like an egg (that would have been my head, as the nurse aptly put it!).
- Susan Beebe
A friend who's a cop refers to motorcycles as donorcycles whenever she sees someone riding without a helmet. I figure that applies for bicycles, too.
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
I was on the way to work Monday morning while it was raining, when the third car in front of me spun out of control and flipped twice into a ditch. When I pulled over to help her out she was just fine. She only had a scratch on her left shoulder from the broken window and was not hurt anywhere else. THE REASON: She was wearing her seat belt. It's nice to hear that these devices are actually helping us!
- David Cook
Awesome. I ride my bike to work everyday and I see a lot of people with no helmets on. I don't know how they do it.
- Clint Ecker
Wow! I wear mine! Didn't for years - I was lucky I guess. Thanks for posting that!
- matthew hunt
OMG... Jesse, do you have a link other than here on FF? I have friends whose kids refuse to wear theirs, and seeing this may help.
- Cyndy
Cyndy why not just link here - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Brian Sullivan
Dutch don't wear helmets and they don't get killed by cars http://www.ski-epic.com/amsterd....
- Peter Stuifzand
Actually they do get killed by cars. But culturally they are not inclined to wear helmets.
- Brian Sullivan
Cyndy, with this being dug out of the grave, I just noticed your question. That particular picture is from my cousin's blog here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... You can read the full story here: http://thetopotheworld.blogspot.com/2008... Search for "run over by car" and you can read about her entire ordeal.
- Jesse Stay
My brother would not be alive today if he did not wear his helmet while riding his motorcycle; please wear a helmet!
- Sandra
man
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
If it's nice enough to ride, I probably won't be bothering with the human-powered bike any longer. I always wear a helmet on my gas-powered bike.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
As long as we won't have mountains, we Dutch will not wear those things. Otherwise we won't be able to recognise the tourists on bikes.
- Ton Zijp
Thanks for sharing - I had a mishap with a car, wasn't wearing a helmet at the time, was lucky. If they don't see you, it doesn't matter either way. Wear the helmet!
- Rick Bucich
This isn't as extreme as this but when I fell off my bike onto a sidewalk and broke my arm, I thought I was fine for a while. Later, my dad noticed that the whole front of my helmet was all scratched up and the visor in front was torn off! I realized that if I wasn't wearing my helmet on the 2 minute trip down the road, I probably wouldn't be typing this comment right now! Not that I'd be dead but I would have suffered some head damage, limiting my ability to do most things.
- Kevin Lyons
Helmets for cyclists are mandatory in Australia. Still gives me the shudders when I'm travelling and see bareheaded bicyclists on the roads.
- Kate Foy
Twitter ceases to exist… even the Fail Whale’s on holiday – The Next Web - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Joshua Schnell, Helen Sventitsky, Nispell and 14 other people liked this
"Okay, I know full well that the moment this post is published it will come back, but at the moment there’s a very odd kind of failure going on at Twitter. In fact, it’s like Twitter’s ceased to exist."
- Martin Bryant
from Bookmarklet
Maybe it's just the Fail Whale that ceased to exist.
- Michael Markman
Blame the Japanese......
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto: +1
- Martin Bryant
I think you may be right. It's dead. Like an O2 network
- David Bird
What happened?
- Abad A. Perez
from twhirl
well it seems to be working now, but earlier on Fred Wilson was able to tweet or so I saw.Maybe Fred has a inside track since he is an investor in twitter....
- Baba
Thank God it's back! I was getting antsy.
- Rob Sterling
And I still can't post.
- Hannes BrandstätterMüller
Still no sign of it here. Odd.
- Martin Bryant
I got the page 2 Minutes ago, but posting failed. Now it's down again.
- Hannes BrandstätterMüller
Back now - gosh nearly had to jump network there
- David Bird
I blame Scobel, if he hadn't unfollowed all those dudes. One got pissed and shut the whole thing down. Way to go Bob!
- ZuDfunck
This is the greatest news ever. I hope they don't come back
- LANjackal
Actually - welcome back to Facebook
- David Bird
Still down in India.
- Vijay
I've updated the post - it's like a social media apocolypse!
- Martin Bryant
FB's working just fine for me
- LANjackal
I'm betting that it's network related at the NOC.
- IHBSOnline.com
Maybe a failed router, or other hardware issue.
- IHBSOnline.com
It's that big Linksys router from South Park. Someone head down to reset it!
- Martin Bryant
I noticed this about an hour ago...very odd - FF is going crazy - http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Mike Bracco
Yeah, it came and went.
- Rob Sterling
@martinsfb any idea why they (Twitter) are down? Any idea when they are expected to return? TIM
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
@Tim Tunnicliff Twitter's back now - it was a DDoS attack. All back to normal now.
- Martin Bryant
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Google Reader (1000+) - http://vi.sualize.us/view...
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Melanie Reed, Varun Mahajan, Appie Verschoor and 11 other people liked this
I woke up to some very loud snoring. Wasn't me. Wasn't the wife. Wasn't the dog. Was the cat.
Tanath, scott willeke, Steve Rubel and 10 other people liked this
Nothing like cat's snoring to wake you up at 4am...
- Amit Morson
ah, to watch the eclipse live: http://www.exploratorium.edu/eclipse... (thanks @suw)
Mitchell Tsai, Jack Wilson, K4SAC, David Z and 8 other people liked this
1 more hour!
- Hao Chen
i always wanted to see a total eclipse, I don't know why but in India its always partial :(
- Rahul Das
@Rahul Das : Its not true that Total Eclipse hasn't been seen through India. May be you have just missed it. To be precise. The Total Solar Eclipse Happened in total solar eclipses ... 1980 /Oct 1995 / Aug 1999 ... and would happen on July 2009 / Jan 2010 ..dont miss those :-)
- Nishant
I may have. but every eclipse I can recall has been a partial one.
- Rahul Das
I remember seeing a total eclipse when I was in elementary school. It had to have been less than 4th grade. It was pretty cool.
- David Z
Don’t Feed the Pigeons - http://www.digyourowngrave.com/dont-fe...
Alfredo, Tom, Alexey Ivanov and 223 other people liked this
haha
- Fa La La La Lindsay
LOL
- Pete Delucchi
Ahahahahaha!!
- Andy DeSoto
OK, this is my favorite post of the day.
- Kevin Bondelli
ahahaha.... messing with the olds is fun....
- Jason Carreira
Hilarious!
- Ms Penny Claus
lol
- ChaCha Fance
from twhirl
LMAO!!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
250 proof hilarity
- Bwana ☠
Stuff like this and Trigger Happy TV make me wish I owned giant animal costumes just to mess with people.
- Kevin Bondelli
Hee.
- Ayşe E.
pigeons = flying rats
- Mona Nomura
I had a pigeon wave a knife at me once. Those mofos mean business!
- Jim Stanger
I agree with Mona, I don't like pigeons, they're disgusting.
- Oli Kenobi
Mona: thank you! I was just watching Samantha Brown on travel channel, eating pigeon dumplings in Xi'an, and I said the exact same thing..
- Bren -- Still Believes
Epic
- Johnny Worthington
That's not just any pigeon!
- Charlie Anzman
now that was funny!
- Tim Hoeck
Every time this gets bumped up I start laughing again.
- Kevin Bondelli
Tim liked it. I'm gettin' outa here while everybody's on an up!
- Charlie Anzman
you see, now i have a disturbingly twisted version of Feed the Birds Tuppence a Bag playing in my head. it's not *right*.
- idnan
hahahahahahaha GENIUS :)
- Iain Baker
olololololol
- Jay
A Top Secret missing scene? http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Federico Bolsoman
ha, I saw that on Reddit earlier. Brilliant. :)
- Tamar Weinberg
LOL
- Mitchell Tsai
Classic forum avatar. I think someone overfed the pigeons
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
lol
- Arjun
Steroids!
- Bill Sodeman
haha
- accesine
haha, it's <b>funny</b>....
- kakilang
That's one awesome pidgeon. I love the frustrated toss of bread at the end.
- Derick Valadao
There's always one!
- Alex Hammer
thats awesome!
- (jeff)isageek
LOL! Literally, LOL!
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
I know a guy called 'Pidgeon Lowry'. I wonder was that him?
- john conroy
epic tail
- John LeMasney
haha, great!
- Nick
This is funny! that dude was pist! threw his last piece of bread at the "aggressive pigeon"!! ha, ha!!
- Susan Beebe
lol now that was funny!
- Daynah
you never know when life will throw a giant pigeon at you.
- John LeMasney
totally something to share
- Got80s
good thing that big pigeon can't fly and poop on ya!! yuck!
- Susan Beebe
Everytime I see this it cracks me up! Where do I get that pigeon costume?
- Rowell
Wow, this is already #4 for the best of the month. Why that's important I have no idea. It probably isn't.
- Phil G
OMG this showed up again... I love it!! tooo funny! :-)~
- Susan Beebe
Still laughing at it. Wife thinks it's funny, too. :)
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
it's #1 on my feed for the month. :D
- AJ Batac
chao dou
- terababy
Can someone make a video like this about Trolls? Do not feed the Trolls! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
What I want to see is a giant cigarette come and attack the next Asshole I see flick a lit cigarette butt out the window on the freeway!
- Jeff P. Henderson
That is 100% awesome. No. 137%.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Kevin Rose shaves his head (for charity) live on Ustream.TV - http://youtube.com/watch...
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Lise, Glenn Batuyong, Bryan Landers and 27 other people liked this
Thats damn cool what you guys are doing. I'm just glad I'm not one your friends.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Gratz on the donations but that isn't shaved.
- ·[▪_▪]·
Nice! That's funny when you ask for help!
- Oli Kenobi
What else will you shave? lol
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Lame stunt - he used a #4 guard - that's like 1/2" that's a freaking hair cut!!! No shaved heads here guys...
- Brad Parler
I hope he does not attempt something else for publicity! Hair grows other stuff will not! LMAO
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
well it's not shaved but I guess it'll have to do. Looks better already....!
- sean808080
good job kevin
- Greg Rosen
from twhirl
Something just changed in the force. I'm now on Twhirl and http://identi.ca/ -- Twhirl is now officially the shiznit.
imabonehead, Carmen S. Villadar, Glenn Batuyong and 19 other people liked this
Wow. It took you that long Robert. You early adopter you. Did someone squat your name on identi.ca or did you get @scobleizer?
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I was an early adopter of Twhirl, but when Twitter had all of its problems I moved away from clients and just used the Web page.
- Robert Scoble
All the identi.ca talk is really starting to wear away on my nerves. Identi.ca is just one instance of laconi.ca, and as such is just another single point of failure just like Twitter. In fact, it's probably no more stable than Twitter was two years ago. All these tools pointing at identi.ca totally miss the fact that the real advantage of laconi.ca, the open source service, can run on many other servers and not just identi.ca. However, there's no way tools like Twhirl can support all laconi.ca instances.
- Ken Sheppardson
twihrl gives me nothing but problems. I can't use my scrollwheel because it scrolls two full pages with each click, on every PC i've used it on, regardless of configuration. It's a memory hog for the little it does, and everytime I click a link, it opens the page twice. I' ve tried reinstalling it to no avail, anyone else having these problems?
- Richard Lawler
from twhirl
Is there any way to easily add all twitter friends in identi.ca?
- Mike Hussein Cohen
from twhirl
Yeah. I use it for the "other" services I use, and also when I have my Macbook hooked up to my 56" HD set, but I really wish they would consolidate the 4 windows into single window with multiple tabs.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Ken: personally it's just another point to communicate with you other than Twitter. Our system is becoming stronger thanks to these. Now we have FF, Twitter, and Identi.ca and Plurk. Four ways. Will all four systems go down at the same time? Doubtful.
- Robert Scoble
@mike3K ah, the holy grail of data portability! when is open mesh arriving!
- The Pageman
I'd kill for them to add an RSS reader into it.
- Bradley McSpinn
Why not just use Ping.fm and Gtalk as a client?
- Rutger Blom
I like Twhirl. They keep adding support for other clients.
- Jim Williams
I used to like Twhirl but now I use TweetDeck. It is amazing and its a great way to manage your Twitter feeds. You should give it a try. A new version is about to come out with notifications if that is one of the things you are looking for. Im testing it right now and it works really well.
- pcnerd37
I moved from Twhirl to TweeterDeck and then to FriendFeed and Identi.ca back to FF.
- Scot Duke
Why is it that, when I try to update Twhirl, Firefox just wants me to download an .air file? When I click the .air file, nothing happens.
- Bradley McSpinn
Robert: I think you mentioned that on GG yesterday... wanted to respond then :-) Relying on four+ independent services (or four devices for that matter ;-) might work for a select few, but for this stuff to move beyond the "twitterati" some service needs to provide utility-like reliability. "Oh, my phone is broken today, I'll just write a letter" won't be acceptable to the main stream. A true open source twitter-like cloud could do that. Identi.ca can't, at least not any time soon.
- Ken Sheppardson
seconding and thirding @Mike Szczygiel: "twhirl def needs...a way to combine account windows into one"
- Derrick Burns
Twhirl's creators have promised, very soon, some other than multiple floating windows. But I don't get the popularity of TweetDeck. I found the interface overly rigid and far less usable. Twhirl is what I'm sticking with -- and I keep notifications off. (Notifications, beyond direct messages or even replies, seem like a time suck to me.)
- Peter Kirn
from twhirl
did you just say shiznit? :)
- Jeff Woelker
from twhirl
@Peter Kirn: not to mention that the incessant 'bing!' on every tweet is enough to make you schizophrenic.
- Derrick Burns
Scoble just said shiznit. This is now tagged as BEST TWEET EVAR.
- Rob Diana
But are you going to come up with a Twhirl gang sign to complement the FriendFeed gang sign? Fotwizzle.
- Ontario Emperor
using post-to-any-service clients is like suffering from disorganized schizophrenia at a block party. it just ain't fun for all participants
- thomas marban
from Alert Thingy
identi.ca feels like a step backwards from FF.
- Thomas Hawk
I also like Twhirl. It's simple and yet elegant.
- imabonehead
@Thomas I think Identica (could be) a good independant service alongside FF, depending on how they grow their service of course.
- Roger Kondrat
Its got the twitter disease. Thats why you should just come on over to friendfeed. we are talking about you here anyway :-)
- Richard Binhammer
More status: identi.ca and Plurk
timepilot, roamin, Noah David Simon and 113 other people liked this
Also, we now import Zooomr favorites, and IntenseDebate should work again (they changed their username scheme).
- Paul Buchheit
Thank you. :)
- Hao Chen
very good :-) (but ... can't wait when frf has an ability to add an arbitrary service (user-generated catalog of services available))
- Nikolay Samokhvalov
Awesome!
- Glenn Slaven
When can we have newsgator clippings support for us non-google reader users?
- Glenn Slaven
It's official ... from the big guy himself
- Charlie Anzman
Is there a Skype status feed somewhere Chris?
- Paul Buchheit
igor, I think we'll figure that out once they get federation working (which is supposed to be soon).
- Paul Buchheit
Great. Now I can hide identi.ca feeds without having to hide the blog of the respective user. Thank you.
- Lars Trieloff
Great job!
- Rutger Blom
what about the facebook status updates? I hope that's coming...
- Rahul Das
Nice work with the status, I would like to see DailyMugshot introduced!
- Joe Dawson
Great! Just added identi.ca; configuring brightkite too.
- Parth Awasthi
Paul, given Identi.ca uses the Twitter API it would be nice if we could respond via Identi.ca in the same way you can with Tweets. I presume implementing it wouldn't be overly hard (where as Plurk of course is another matter)
- Duncan Riley
@Rahul FB status would be cool, but there is no public RSS feed. There is a feed, but it requires a key, which would require you to type in your username/password.
- Hao Chen
@Duncan +1. i was thinking the same thing
- Trent Olson
Quick poll. Who's using Plurk?
- Larry Kless
Any chance of adding Qype for us non-american review writers (aka non-yelpers)?
- Liron Tocker
Woohoo! Identi.ca!
- ◄ani625Ξ
Integrated identi.ca via RSS feed before. OK, now it's there but it's not that big deal to me.
- Ansgar Wollnik
Thanks for the identi.ca support ... Excellent work !
- Christian Farley
AWESOME!! Ok, I might be using Identi.ca again!!! Yippee! Thanks FF team!!
- Susan Beebe
Why are the updates called Dents, I'll Dent you later :S
- Joe Dawson
i love "status-blogging", but i still think that it destroys the flow of my friendfeed - i also blocked every twitter update from everyone here at ff...
- Dieter Schwarz
Yay, more services to add to my profile! ;P
- Aaron Myers
I am getting ready for Identi.ca Twitter going down the drain!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
seems like i need to go get my identi.ca id before its taken ...
- Raza
Fantabulous ;)
- Yung-Hui Lim
yay!!
- Sarah Perez
I am all set! Please follow me! http://identi.ca/igorthetroll
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
ahhh cool
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Now people can stop doing status updates with FF every time Twitter is down ;)
- Alejandro
great! but my username on identi.ca (9000) is not recognized by the subscription page. starts with a digit, yes — maybe that's the problem.
- 9000
The term "Black Hole" is now deemed as being racist. - http://www.townhall.com/video...
Joshua Rosenstock, Mindaugas Dagys, Patrik Tschudin and 9 other people liked this
I guess all astronomers will be boycotted.
- Rob Safuto
Is this not the stupidest thing you've ever seen. How fucking stupid do you have to be to say that a Black Hole is racist. I promise you those dopes never even heard the term before that minute. These guys are involved in Gov't. for chrissakes.
- loren feldman
Lookout. Next thing you know the phrase "White Christmas" will be deemed to be biased and offensive because it doesn't include other colors.
- Rob Safuto
Great line Rob. Yeah let's picket science.
- loren feldman
I'm afraid the creationist fanatics already have that angle covered.
- Donna Mugavero
So it has nothing to do with "trim"? Shit.
- William, CPU Media
To keep your "accounts in the black" is a positive use of the term. Guess the dude is overdrawn.
- William, CPU Media
This is just sad. This is our country. We are doomed.
- loren feldman
Stupidity, nay, idiocy, is colorblind.
- Frank Roche
I completely agree that it's a racist term. The whole language is racist. It's intrinsic in the language, so anyone who has a problem with it should learn speak (and use on a daily basis) another language that is less racist. </sarcasm>
- Juan Aguilar
from twhirl
Can Salaam E. Bologny tell a white lie?
- William, CPU Media
William - LOL, Im just so blown away by this.
- loren feldman
Its shit like this that is really going to hurt Obama's chances.
- loren feldman
I told my pal the Bad Astronomer that he's going to have to find new terminology.
- Donna Mugavero
in related news, my friend said I looked white as a ghost today--racist!
- Jason Calacanis
This is crazy. What are we going to call all those suck ups in the world now?
- Melissa dela Merced
from twhirl
So these people actually run an entire city...?! WAUW. Danish local politics is so boring compared to this. We have waiting lists in the hospitals, old people that don't get their homes cleaned weekly anymore and schools in poor conditions. Thank God we don't have these problems...
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
“Its shit like this that is really going to hurt Obama's chances.” … why?
- Tsega Dinka
Give me a #$^ break!! This PC crap has gone way overboard! It's getting so that you can't say anything anymore without someone getting offended. This is an excellent example of someone being hyper sensitive to a very commonly used term that has absolutely no racial meaning.
- Jeff P. Henderson
I have black shoes on and white socks...so..err..what happens now?
- Mo Kargas
@ Mo Kargas: Nothing, that's just poor style =P
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
My loudspeakers at home are black and my iPod earbuds are white... Oh, my, does this mean I can only listen to Hip Hop at home?
- Henk de Kruyff
from twhirl
@Dennis *phew* Fashion (lack rather) trumps racism :D
- Mo Kargas
Geez, this is more ridiculous that Chinese deleting stories about famous ancient generals, simply because they fight races that are now part of the Chinese "minorities"...
- Felix Wong
Iain Baker, Kevin Porter, Hannes BrandstätterMüller and 8 other people liked this
The toilet thing just doesn't do it for me. Attractive young lady though...
- Chrimmus Tad
I've seen a lot of this Bathroom Adventures series before. Now I feel like I've seen them all.
- Michael Hocter
...peculiar to say the least!
- JA Castillo
I thought the other day... "hmmm better be careful what I favorite on Flickr" ;-)
- Darren Mak
very attractive.. I like her tattoo..
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
from twhirl
Bordering on Brazillian-- I mean German-- Scratch that; Japanese!! All the same, not the average Flickr shots that run through my feed!
- shanebe
Man, people have some odd kinks... though I suppose this is relatively tame compared to some.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
does Flickr have "Private Favorites"?
- Frederick Johnson
Love them all!
- Parth Awasthi
@Frederick. No flickr doesn't have private favorites. If someone wanted to privately fave though they could create a second account and use that one privately. B Adventures is an interesting concept, a different twist on the photo a day sort of thing. I admire the commitment and endurance to a project and art like that. I thought she'd do it for a few days and then stop, but she's been at it for a while now.
- Thomas Hawk
This woman spends a lot of time self-absorbed in the toilet.
- TranceMist
I followed her for a while, but after about 100 bathroom shots, it lost its luster.
- jerry
I love these :)
- Iain Baker
@or1gb1u3 Plurk is too weird to get Twitter sized audiences. Maybe of 14-year-old girls who like Neopets. Not me.
Mitchell Tsai, Marco Kaiser, Yusuf İbili and 38 other people liked this
NeoPets FTW! w00t! ha, ha!
- Susan Beebe
neopets pwn you
- Tyler Gillies
Plurk is like a game - the more plurks / invites, the more karma, the more pretty toys open up
- martin english
What's with the name? Tweet sounds cool, plurk sounds strange.
- brian junyor
Couldn't have said it better myself.
- Dewald Pretorius
I suppose I'll go be a 14 year old girl then... wait did that come out right? ;-P
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
from twhirl
Whenever I think of plurk, I think of a fish jumping out of its bowl onto concrete...strange.
- Jeevan Padiyar
from Alert Thingy
My verdict which apparently is so very important - plurk will do more for twitter than anything else recently and will remind us ingratiates why we loved it in the first place.
- Kamath (नमः)
from twhirl
I can't get their stupid timeline to show up in firefox on my mac (though it works on safari & firefox on my windows laptop). Not worth using safari just for that. :-/
- Bob
you know, I agreed with you until I used the mobile site on the browser on my treo tonight - then I was blown away... fabulous for conversations - blows FF & Twitter out of the water in that aspect. Seriously - I was kind of surprised.
- Lucretia Pruitt
@lucretia is right. i use http://plurk.com/m in the sidebar. also check the group feature.
- kosmar
Plurk will probably end up being the MySpace of micro-blogging services - and that is not a bad place to be. Great implementation IMHO.
- Aviv
Wow, Neopets? Been ages since I've thought about it... Comparing Plurk to it never occurred to me.
- Voyagerfan5761
its just who you follow. you wont see the myspacey customized or teeny user part of it, when you dont add them. also ist not likely to browse on anywhere else than your own customized page.
- kosmar
Was not impressed with Plurk at all. I must agree it was to weird for everyday use. Good luck Plurk.
- Admiral70
I resemble that remark! Think I'll err on the Tamagotchi side, though ...
- Ashton
جالبه حرفش,خب راست می گه لوسه خیلی
- Shandiz
what the hell is a neopuppet? LOL! :-)
- Chuck Boyce
from twhirl
I had to go back a few times before liking it a nice twhirl-like client would be good though
- Sebbe D'Hose
It's hard to say. It might get a different Twitter-sized audience. The audience isn't us, that's for sure. And they do need to take a few barriers to use down though in order to get really viral. The lack of an API is also a major issue.
- Dion Hinchcliffe
from twhirl
robert is just mad someone took his name http://www.plurk.com/p/2urp
- Zach Chisholm
There are more 14 year old girls than 40 y/o geeks
- Mark Drapeau
from twhirl
plurk me baby one more time
- Tyler Gillies
it's called PLURK for god's sake. Surely that ranks as one of the worst web 2.0 names ever?
- Sam
I actually think the name is very good. A really good pick imho.
- Aviv
It's better than all those names that simply remove the "e" like Flickr did.
- Robert Scoble
Robrt Scobl
- Tyler Gillies
at least you can conjugate plurk like a regular verb. with twitter i usually felt stupid trying to come up with a verb form ("he, uh, twittered") and there was the whole "twitter/tweet" thing for the noun. whereas a plurk is a plurk is a plurk.
- Karim
That's right, considering all the silly names we've been seeing in the past few years, Plurk is a brilliant pick and I think it'll be a key contributor to its [potential] success in becoming the MySpace of micro-blogging services, as well as attracting its intended audience (yes, all those 14 year olds currently populating the service).
- Aviv
Robert, at the end of the day, 14 year old Plurkers simply don't have the same expectations as Twitter super-users and tech geek early-adopters. If Plurk goes down for 30 minutes, they'll happily turn on their Tivo and try again after a Hannah Montana fix.
- Aviv
Touch My Body - Newest Version - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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New drinking game: Take a shot every time Scoble mentions FriendFeed on Twitter. Nah. We'd all die of alcohol poisoning...
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LOL!
- jennifer woodard maderazo
You'd certainly get very drunk!
- Robert Scoble
heh.. this message sponsored by the booze lobby
- highcenter
from twhirl
by the time minutes pass, alcohol will be drinking you.
- bvs
I absolutely detest Friendfeed. Why the hell are people commenting on my Twitter messages in Friendfeed? @msaleem instead people! Arrgh!
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You know, commenting in FriendFeed and Twitter is possible.
- Louis Gray
Heheh. Because we can.
- Robert Scoble
And now, I will.
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Here here!
- Mick Liubinskas
We can do both :-)
- Andrew Dobrow
Well, I'm replying in both Friendfeed and Twitter at the same time. :)
- Morton Fox
ya coz we can.. and we like Friend feed
- Vinodh Nandakumar
this comment will show both on friendfeed and on twitter - unless you see it frist on twitter, in which case it will also be on friendfeed
- martin english
I comment here because I don't get abused for answering Tweets here.
- Robert Scoble
I also comment here because the answers are threaded. I also comment here because I can permalink to a cluster of comments about a single Tweet. I also comment here because people can "hide" this conversation if they don't like it.
- Robert Scoble
oh dude, I see this being a blog post by morning! :)
- Paula Hawk
Getting a little viral, isn't it?
- Mohsein Sani
I didn't know you could comment on friendfeed.
- Jim Vrckovski
FriendFeed works, Twitter is down all the time. Twitter is a platform, FriendFeed utilizes this platform - for me, in the most useful way I've seen so far. (It's web-based, it allows conversations.)
- sebmos
I don't put most things on both FriendFeed and Twitter. Why? I keep getting told I'm too noisy on Twitter so I'm using FriendFeed to reduce my noise. In fact, I've just told everyone to come over here instead of continuing this conversation on Twitter. Conversations aren't really good on Twitter. What is? Answering the question "what are you doing?"
- Robert Scoble
Agreed with Robert. I really like the parallel nature of the Twitter / Friendfeed symbiosis.
- Soulhuntre
This definitely looks like it's going to get viral!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
Twitter need to make some sort of threaded comments system.
- Richard Cunningham
I've thought of a better way to handle replies. Msaleem's original message is number 812534216, so to reply to reply @msaleem:812534216 which would map onto http://twitter.com/msaleem... which should also be backwards compatible. Then clients could track the replies in a thread
- Richard Cunningham
@ Richard Cunningham My first impulsive thought is : Threads would destroy twitter
- Kamath (नमः)
ah, but we can do both! :-)
- Duncan Riley
because it is another conversation thread that is easier to follow than on twitter and connect to other like minded people.
- Rodney Rumford
I would use this more if Twhirl would just give me a sound stating someone replied to me. Also, threads are only one level on FF. Twhirl could technically do the same thing with Twitter - why not?
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
Jaiku already has multi-level threaded comments. It's Google's fault that people aren't using it.
- Morton Fox
Also, Quotably allows you to thread your replies to any tweet you want.
- Morton Fox
You brought this on yourself, you know....
- GerryBot
Twitter is not intended to keep conversations. Let's try to keep what it was born to and then, if the tweet is interesting enough let's move the rest to FF.
- Hernan Garcia
I think the biggest poblem is when people are adding comments that add nothing to the situation at all. Or when they are just rambling on and on about the same subject or make REALLY long sentences that clearly show that English is not their main language and that get lost in constructions that are hard to understand and you can clearly see that the commenter did not even take the time to read his own comment to see that it lacks proper structure and grammar. But it's like it's with cliffhangers, they are
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
So sick of ppl telling me where to leave my comments. I'm sorry, but I'll comment anywhere I damn well please. Period. Get over it.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I agree with Shey. Recently, a friend of mine deleted his FriendFeed account specifically to stop me from replying to his stuff from here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
See the 'choice' as a plus. It just takes a few seconds to come over here and look?
- Charlie Anzman
Because we can't comment on them within twitter. I like the whole idea of comments. I wish I would recieve more comments on my friendfeed!
- Cade Brown
When someone comments on Friendfeed (in lieu of Twitter), it should be a form of a compliment, showing that you have a higher level of exposure.
- Zak K.
You're right.
- shami
@euan Twitter is more usable when I'm asleep, yes. :-)
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We have to invent whole new meta-commenting systems just to cope with your stream, Robert :)
- Ian Betteridge
from Alert Thingy
Signed up very eary on but only recently became active/saw the value. . .
- DaveFriesen
from twhirl
Move to Europe - enjoy it ;)
- A.T.
Am I getting too noisy? Put me on Twitter Snooze: http://twittersnooze.com/
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