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Types of Extremists - The Oatmeal - http://theoatmeal.com/comics...
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hia, Joe Silence, ЕП and 27 other people liked this
Does that really what atheist extremists do ? Talk about space, aliens or parallel worlds and stuff ? or this is clearly a manipulation ? and Hey check out PKK please :) The idea behind this organization is practically based on marksism & leninism so that makes them atheist as well, right ? correct me if I'm wrong. So what they do? They bomb and kill innocent people in Turkey , does not even matter if they are babies, youngsters or women.
- mcd
Seems if this was a equal opportunity parody, the Aethists would be bombing nativity scenes and Christmas trees ;)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Except I haven't heard of atheists bombing either of those things.
- ronin
I think they just throw barbed wit and strongly worded missives.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Atheists are too busy doing important things like scrubbing blessings off of highways.
- Akiva
Rene, PKK does not represent all Kurdish community in Turkey and yes, most of the kurdish people are not atheist, I agree with that and I sort of agree with the second part too, the way those govs threated kurdish people was all wrong. However, kurdish people is not my main point here, what I was trying to say and honestly I admit it seems that I am not intellectual enough to do that...
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- mcd
"The data show that there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world's religions." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Why would other forms of violence be any different?
- Bruce Lewis
friendfeed'i ecnebinin kullanıyor olduğuna inanamıyorum. herkes bir kişi için ingilizce konuşuyor olabilir.
- otisaga
@otisaga. orjinal ekipten abi adam
- Ozgur Demir
haaa. hangisi orijinal ekipten?
- otisaga
PKK is an islamist organisation AFAIK
- Onur Yalazı
tudor, hello, how are you? are they paying you well in friendfeed? will friendfeed close down? can you save my data for me? can you give me op?
- otisaga
Oh good lord.
- Rochelle
from iPhone
what? give the kid op, not a big deal
- Ozgur Demir
hahahahahaha
- clara glass
imho PKK does atmospheric black metal
- feraye
@ferayebach. are you sure it is black? I thought it was something else ?
- Ozgur Demir
@ozgur are one of those who suggest PKK is doing NWOB metal?????!?!!111
- feraye
abi bu nwobm mi değil mi tartışmasına en son 11 kasım 2011'de girdim. o kadar inanamadım ki tarihi not aldım.
- otisaga
o nwobm olayını çok karıştırdılar hep de karışıktı. milletli metal türü mü olur amk
- feraye
#türgalert.
- Alfonker Tapir
hmmm
- Oybek Toirov
Islam is a good religion
- Abdelmalek Fenghour
ISLAM IS SUPER. PROBLEM?
- feraye
atayizim tartismasina damgasini vuran pekeka \o/
- meylem
from iPhone
This morning we changed the format of FriendFeed subscription email messages to include more information about people who subscribe to you. Please let us know if you see any problems, and keep an eye out for more email improvements in the future.
superpultdu, Kishore Balakrishnan, Tanath and 65 other people liked this
Thank you very much, Casey! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nicely done :)
- LANjackal
Awesome! Now lets see support for more web services...
- Jac Falcon
saw that, and it was mega-helpful. bravo.
- Nathan Chase
Shoot. Now I need a subscription.
- Josh Haley
I'm all for improving the format of notifications, but wonder (aloud) if it is such a smart move to include the Approve/Reject link right at the top (unless it only appears in private feeds to which someone has requested access). Right now we have the option of blocking/ rejecting a subscriber at any time but presumably not at the very outset. This may lead to more of a walled gardens' mentality, already very prevalent at FF.
- ianf ⌘
ianf: approve/reject is only for private feeds. Public feeds just have a link to subscribe back :)
- Benjamin Golub
Nice
- Grant Bierman
that's great!
- K.D.
LIKEY.
- Steven Perez
I noticed this one! Such informations about people who subscribe to me on FriendFeed are useful, and makes it easy to quickly get in the conversation. Thanks for the good job!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
w00t!
- David Cook
For features like this one, I'm ok to receive html emails. -MANY- html emails ;-)
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
The new emails are AWESOME!
- April Russo
Gmail automatically showed me the images in a subscription email, even though I never told it to (you know how gmail has the 'display images below' option). further, it doesn't give me the option to hide the images. not that I'd want to, but how are you bypassing gmail's security feature to hide the images?
- chrisofspades
Chris, we don't do anything special. I'm not sure how gmail decides what images to show, you'd have to contact them or check the gmail help.
- Casey Muller
Casey, you sure FriendFeed's founders didn't use some of their "we created Gmail" mojo? ;)
- chrisofspades
Chris, the "show images" only applies to external images hosted on other sites. Gmail doesn't show those by default because doing so would allow people to "bug" email. We include the images with the email so that they can be displayed immediately.
- Paul Buchheit
ahhhh that explains it. thanks Paul.
- chrisofspades
from email
Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/article...
birhan yel, Kamilah Reed (K. Gill), Maggie and 13 other people liked this
"SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world. Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was "perfectly happy" to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion. "I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11," Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. "What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?""
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn't want to hear," Gentries said. "But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of 'other' to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities." Added Gentries, "That really put things back into perspective."
- Paul Buchheit
Bret: "it turns out that sending packets over the network is an integral part of a website"
Jeff (Team マクダジ ), Jimminy IS Everybody, Tyson Key and 11 other people liked this
That's just crazy talk!
- FFing Enigma
Bull pucky - I don't buy it for a second.
- Brett Kelly
hi
- kadir
Lingerie Football League... Are you for serious? - http://www.lflus.com/index1...
ᏓᏰ #team Monique, .LAG liked that, imabonehead and 26 other people liked this
Apparently it is serious... and I've decided that the Seattle Mist will be my team until one comes to the Bay Area :)
- Ross Miller
from Bookmarklet
Uh... wow.
- Bret Taylor
I love the team names: "Miami Caliente", "San Diego Seduction", "Dallas Desire".
- Bret Taylor
This would be even more awesome if it were sponsored by Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator.
- Joel Webber
O.O i have no words.
- Jessie
lol I wonder if they'll need to wear protective gear?
- Christopher Chung
you should always wear protection. wait, what are we talking about again? oh right, football.
- Dan Hsiao
Hey, Los Angeles finally has a football team again!
- Kevin Fox
I'm sure that a number of players will be augmented with extra padding.
- Jim Norris
I thought this had been going on already?
- Shevonne
...touch down!
- .LAG liked that
let's play ball ladies, shall we...
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
This is almost as "good" as Topless Darts that they used to show on the Live TV cable channel in the UK.
- Tony Ruscoe
At long last we've burrowed all the way through trashy and back into awesome. *weeps uncontrollably*
- Jonathan
that's awesome
- sLam
Wow I don't this will survive.
- Jeff
Bahaha... it still exists! "(Las Vegas, N.V., 10/02/2012) — Lingerie Football League, LLC officials are announcing expansion into the Atlanta market for their upcoming 2013 season. Atlanta is the 12th market to be named a franchise into “the fastest growing sports league in the US” (BusinessWeek)."
- Ross Miller
Don't laugh. At least one of the NFL replacement refs came from there.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
*Please consider the environment before printing this email*
Ahmet Yükseltürk, Bret Taylor, Heather and 2 other people liked this
Who prints an email???
- Ross Miller
My dad. But he's old and insane and likes to keep paper records of his correspondence.
- Sarah G.
Sarah, he's prepared for the zombie apocalypse when his friends will be like, "Remember when I sent you that email that one time?" and he'll be like, "Lemme look in my filing cabinet..."
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
I have to print all of my email correspondence with the medical providers for my brother's care. My parents don't have access to email, but need the information available should they receive a call from one of those providers. Not everyone is 'connected'... not yet, anyway.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Penis Measuring - Craigslist - http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/van...
thelarimarshop, ЕП, urdumania1 and 5 other people liked this
"A friend of mine and I have been having a long-standing argument about whose penis is larger. [...] I don't want to see his penis and he doesn't want to see mine. I don't want my girlfriend looking at his penis and he doesn't was his looking at mine. So... We just need a girl to look at both of our penises (individually) and then to both of our faces say which one is bigger. We can't pay much. $50."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
I hope a gay guy responds to the ad.
- Jack&Cleo
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- İrem Melek
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- v-pills
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- v-pills
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- rumah jakarta
Last friday I taped an iPhone to my head and ran around Paris capturing the most famous sights in a single (somewhat shaky) shot. Here's the video: http://vimeo.com/12906858
Mahmoud Boba, thelarimarshop, Amine Madi and 95 other people liked this
Now we know what that 94 minute video was. :)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
that explain other FF posts, looking for tapes and where can one upload large video files ;-).
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Yeah, I never did get the duct tape though, so I had to use clear packaging tape instead (with a sock stuffed between the iPhone and my hat to get the correctish angle).
- Paul Buchheit
Patent it NOW
- Josh Haley
Well, this is just genius!
- Eric - seven eleven
When you said you ran you weren't speaking metaphorically.
- Eric - seven eleven
Very Cool Paul!
- Jeff P. Henderson
great and inspiring
- Nenko Ivanov
this was perfect, I opened up my Paris map and followed you :)
- İpek Aral Kişioğlu
I'm surprised you were able to follow. I didn't have a map (my iPhone was taped to my head!) so I made a number of wrong turns, though the high-level route was pretty basic.
- Paul Buchheit
Saw the vimeo on your stream and watched a little of it. Great stuff! Cool to see new iphone vid quality. (er 3gs? quality, hmm) Oh yeah, and enjoy Paris!
- Jay
It's actually a 3GS, not an iphone 4.
- Paul Buchheit
I think I might tape a photo of Paul with an iPhone taped to his head to my head because I want to get arrested for being a menace.
- Akiva
You can fit an iPad on my forehead.
- Josh Haley
Ahhh this explains the "ducktape in Paris" stuff LOL :D (that picture is full of geeky win!)
- Susan Beebe
@Paul just curious how much battery did you have left after you were done recording?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Something like 22%, as I recall. I had put the phone in airplane mode to reduce wireless consumption and also because I'm concerned that an incoming call would stop the video or something.
- Paul Buchheit
Nice idea, OP
- LANjackal
this is definitely on the list of 'quirkiest things ever done with an iPhone'. :-)
- Olivia Lovag
this is so romantic
- τorƍue
awesome, you just needed a gun and it would make a cool REAL-time FPS :)
- Emil Kirichev
oh thanks you soo much!!! I love it!
- Bojan Babic
surprisingly un-shaky
- Sally Relton Shakespeare
Avg. speed: 9.48 km/h (9.23 mi in 94 min, see red track http://maps.google.com/maps...)
- Jérôme
Paul had the initial idea for Google Glass exactly two years before Google launched Glass. :)
- Space Cowboy
Now, if only he had thought of Gmail.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I hope this isn't the start of a "people walk around cities w/smartphones taped to their hats" trend.
- ronin
I hope it is
- Mo Kargas
If so, it'll just be transitional until smartphones are replaced by glasses-phones. Or smart glasses. Do we have an official name for those yet?
- Andrew C (✓)
Before Star Wars
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polymath22, amelia arapoff, Bret Taylor and 12 other people liked this
yahudiler görse bunlara ne der acep? şöyle bir kitap okudum da, yahudi köpek olayı beni benden aldı http://ff.im/YQlVY
- Kült Ablası
Bir şey demezler herhalde. Yahudi köpek ilginçmiş, Art Spiegelmann'ın Maus'unu okumuştum, fareli versiyonlarını biliyordum da köpekli olanını duymamıştım.
- Mistaken Identity
onu da ben okumadım da, nereye baksam tükenmiş vay anasına
- Kült Ablası
Güzel bir çizgi roman, hem 2. dünya savaşını işleyiş biçimi hem de bir çocuğun babası ile olan ilişkisini incelemesi bakımından değerli bir iş, tavsiye ederim bulursan oku.
- Mistaken Identity
çabalarım sonuç vermedi vallahi, ama aklımda bulunsun, teşekkür ederim
- Kült Ablası
Congratulations Bret on achieving all you have with Google, FriendFeed and Facebook. Looking forward to the news of the next journey. We're all proud of you. http://allthingsd.com/2012061...
thelarimarshop, Shakeel Mahate, Yolanda and 51 other people liked this
"He left the search giant to found FriendFeed, a once-popular social aggregator." ONCE POPULAR? :( :( :(
- Rochelle
Makes you wonder even more what will happen to this place now that Paul and Bret are gone.
- chrisofspades
Good point, Chris.
- Rochelle
I hope Chris didn't point out the beginning of the end.... again.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND
- Akiva
:(
- ؛ patrick
What Rochelle said. And what Louis Gray said squared.
- John Craft
Pretty interesting development. Curious to see what Bret does next.
- Mark Krynsky
The startup I would like to see is a service where I can feed in all of my RSS feeds and things, and people can comment on them, and the most recent comment or like bumps it to the top. To make it marketable, maybe ads on the side of the page can be sold that matches the discussion that people are having. For example, a discussion like this would pull up adds for Google + and Facebook and Ground Coffee. Wait, that is like FriendFeed without the ads.
- Yo Joe. No, go slow.
LOL @Joe
- Harold Cabezas
from Android
Exclusive: Facebook CTO Bret Taylor Departs (For Start-Ups Unknown) - http://allthingsd.com/2012061...
thelarimarshop, Shakeel Mahate, Хозяин строки and 6 other people liked this
Folly: The Facebook Open Source Library - https://www.facebook.com/notes...
Shakeel Mahate, Laura Norvig, Louis Gray and 12 other people liked this
"Facebook is built on open source from top to bottom, and could not exist without it. As engineers here, we use, contribute to, and release a lot of open source software, including pieces of our core infrastructure such as HipHop and Thrift. But in our C++ services code, one clear bottleneck to releasing more work has been that any open sourced project needed to break dependencies on unreleased internal library code. To help solve that problem, today we open sourced an initial release of Folly, a collection of reusable C++ library artifacts developed and used at Facebook. This announcement was made at our C++ conference at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
I sunk many hours into this, sometimes at the expense of my "real" job. If you're into C++ programming, give folly a try.
- Tudor Bosman
Now with discussion group: https://groups.google.com/d...
- Tudor Bosman
No, I was NOT just blasting Call Me Maybe with my windows down through some sektchy looking neighborhood in West Oakland. That definitely did not just happen. Well, ok, maybe it did and maybe it was awesome. And maybe you should call me...
Headless Gnad Kicker, Dan Hsiao, Bret Taylor and 10 other people liked this
WELP. *queues it up*
- Derrick
Obama knows what's up... http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ross Miller
FriendFeeder at FriendFeed - http://www.linkedin.com/in...
birhan yel, Ross Miller, Adam Kazwell and 11 other people liked this
Hi Casey... how's week 1 @ FF? Hope you like it! I do!
- Susan Beebe
Today it is year 5!
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
RT @iamdanw: Dear Google, could you go back to 'Organise All The Information' instead of 'Social All The Things'? http://twitter.com/bookofj...
Ahmet Yükseltürk, klemo, Steve and 4 other people and 14 other people liked this
This made me look over my shoulder for LG.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
WoH, one must not look over your shoulder.
- Louis Gray
...who said that??
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Eek!
- Amit Patel
File:Rain-shadow.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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Shakeel Mahate, linearthoughts, Iván Abrego and 8 other people liked this
Hm, weird, I'm pretty sure I drew this in gimp in the 90s, for notes I was making for a game I was working on. It's now on wikipedia. But I don't know *for sure* that I drew it. I no longer have the xcf files. Could I have gotten it from the web? I suppose it's possible, but who but me would've drawn it so badly?
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
A rain shadow is a constant in our local weather in Washington State. I wouldn't argue it but I wonder if people here, especially in Western Washington, are more weather savvy than people in other regions. Rain shadows, convergence zones, compressions, etc. Gah, there was a term I had only heard for the first time just recently but now I can't remember it... not mesocyclone... but...
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- Akiva
I became far more weather savvy after moving to the west coast. It's so much more interesting out here! Microclimates … it can be 30°F warmer at my house than 20 miles away; it can rain 10 inches in Ben Lomond and 0 inches in San Jose, 10 miles away.
- Amit Patel
School of Fail: Word of the Day: Kerning - EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures - http://failblog.org/2012...
AJ Kohn, JoeCamel, Bruce Lewis and 27 other people liked this
ha ha
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Ha. Also, from the OP comments: "Clever, but technically incorrect. This is an example of setting selective negative tracking which tightens the space between characters. “Traditionally, kerning letters were those in which a portion of the character protruded beyond the designated body, as in the tail of a capital Q. Although some type fonts may have isolated kerning characters, swash...
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- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
TL;DR - Micah knows typesetting. ;-)
- Le Slip Anglais
A pedant walks into a bar. Actually, he had a slight limp, so he sorta shuffled. And it was more of a pub than a bar...
- Ken Sheppardson
I am the winner! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Laura Norvig, Jimminy IS Everybody, Micah and 52 other people liked this
Man, I'm so going to win this game now.
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
Note to FriendFeed: you definitely didn't make it easy to find the winning combination.
- Mark Trapp
Dammit, just found it in the JS..beaten by Mark Trapp !
- Mo Kargas
Screenshots don't do it justice: it actually pulses different colors. Just in case you didn't like the gray enough.
- Mark Trapp
For those still looking, Paul gave away the most important clue. The screenshot does, too.
- Mark Trapp
so what is it Mark? share, share
- Tweet Feeds
It looks like people are solving it, so hopefully I'm not spoiling it: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Tab, Return. It's a variation of the Konami code (which nets you 30 lives in Contra) adapted for the keyboard. Figured out the first part from Paul's clue, but it took going through the minified Javascript to figure out a) that they didn't use the original Konami code like Google does and b) what they used for keyboard equivalents for "select" and "start."
- Mark Trapp
AWESOME! but didn't the code net you 99 lives?
- Keith - @tsudo
In Contra it was 30; not sure what it was in other Konami games.
- Mark Trapp
Geek!! :)
- Susan Beebe
hahah man that's intense. i guess they know their audience :)
- Frankie Warren
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja: U U D D L-Button R-Button L-Button R-Button Start. 30 lives. I'll never forget that ;p (there also was that B A B A variation too..) GG Mark.
- Zu from AOD
Tsega: likely a jQuery pulse plug-in. Something like: http://enhance.qd-creative.co.uk/demos...
- Mark Trapp
That's weird, the page is suddenly laggy, interesting. /me gone with its 30 lives.
- Zu from AOD
Nice plug-in btw. This is trippy.
- Zu from AOD
That's so awesome!
- Mohamed J
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- Outsanity
Ahhh.. Too bad it don't stay
- Outsanity
coool - it's easter already!
- Gaby K. Slezák
Cool.
- Kol Tregaskes
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude
- Johnny
super cool!
- vijay
Doesn't seem to work in Chrome, but I'm seeing it in Firefox.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
:)
- edythe
Worked for me in Chrome, but I'm using one of the older builds.
- Jandy
You have no idea how much this improves the Beta.
- Shey
Groovy.
- MLx
Works in Chrome :)
- Roberto Bonini
:)
- edythe
Bump
- Ross Miller
I never knew about this.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
*Liked*
- Micah
Oh! I miss Mark!
- Meg V. Meg
Meg, I still badger him on the twitters once and a while ( @itafroma )—and so can you!
- Micah
I don't have the energy for the twitters.
- Meg V. Meg
Me neither.
- Mark Trapp
Welcome back, Mark.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Mark!
- Meg V. Meg
Meg!
- Mark Trapp
The last word: Advice from 'America's worst mom' - http://theweek.com/article...
Sehrish Raza, dopamine intake, покупайте круглые штуки and 42 other people liked this
"I really think I’m a parent who is afraid of some things (bears, cars) and less afraid of others (subways, strangers). But mostly I’m afraid that I, too, have been swept up in the impossible obsession of our era: total safety for our children every second of every day. The idea that we should provide it and actually could provide it. It’s as if we don’t believe in fate anymore, or good luck or bad luck. No, it’s all up to us. Childhood really has changed since today’s parents were kids, and not just in the United States. Australian children get stared at when they ride the bus alone. Canadian kids stay inside playing video games. After I started a blog called Free Range Kids, I heard from a dad in Ireland who lets his 11-year-old play in the local park, unsupervised, and now a mom down the street won’t let her son go to their house. She thinks the dad is reckless. What has changed in the English-speaking world that has made childhood independence taboo? The ground has not gradually...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I've brought this up a few times before. Parents don't even let kids go outside their own property anymore. I understand, but it seems to me exploring is an important part of a kid's development.
- Rodfather
This is a good one. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
- Rodfather
The nation of Flip Flops and bike helmets has lost its mind -Kids 100% safe, 24/7 365 is impossible. we want it! In the next breath we condone 500 million tainted eggs... Really is it all a reactin to Baby Boomer Parenting and will it lead to helicopter velcro parents. So is your kid playing in the park alone about safety or about something else... So no I don't understand why kids can't be kids bu lets be clear its not about them or safety
- WarLord
Thing is, if anything does happen to a kid, the first thing everyone does is blame the parents. There was a kid killed fairly recently at Fort Wilderness (Disney campground) by a bus - and the overwhelming majority of comments were - why on earth was a 9 year old riding a bike without adult supervision? What kind of parent lets their kid do that?
- Pixie
My first thought when reading this story was "how old is old enough to ride the subway alone?" Apparently the rules say 8. But really, I think the parent's judgment is the best bet. I'm pretty sure I walked 4 blocks alone to school when I was in sixth grade (10). I also started riding my bike about 2 miles around that age to pick up newspapers for my paper route.
- Robert Felty
I walked a mile home from elementary school all the time, and it never occured to anybody that it might be dangerous. If I had to cross any major streets, though, things might have been different.
- Gabe
Rob & Gabe: That was before safety was invented.
- April Buchheit
I wish I could remember the details, but either Lewis or Clark as a teenager used to walk across two states, alone, to get to their farm. I remember when I read that little factoid I thought my, how things have changed. That would scare the crap out of me.
- Todd Hoff
I'm surprised by how children are bestowed independence suddenly, rather than being eased into it. I very much believe this to be the root of a lot of social problems. Children are taken to and from school every day, with parents carefully monitoring who they talk to after school, and then when they turn 16 they're given a license and a car (and the freedom that comes with it) and are...
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- Tudor Bosman
I would go further and say that this happens because parents are looking for easy solutions. It's easier to say "don't touch alcohol, ever, and when you're 21, you're on your own, and no longer our responsibility" than to teach moderation (preferably by example). It's easier to say "don't have sex, at least until you turn 18 or until you no longer live in our house, whichever comes...
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- Tudor Bosman
Exactly Tudor.
- Paul Buchheit
I walked to and from school 1st grade to senior year. In middle school I had to walk across town, sometimes without my friends. I never gave it a second though. I was a latchkey kid for many years so I was used to being fairly independent. One half day (high school) I asked my dad if I could go to McDonalds for lunch. He forgot and flipped out at me for going missing. "You could have...
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- Heather
I wonder if this is why so many kids aren't ready for the real world when they're 20.
- Amit Patel
Here in PA, it's illegal for parents to give alcohol to their own children. I grew up in a household where, as a small child, I'd occasionally get watered-down wine with meals; better to think of it as something that tastes bad than as something wonderful that only adults get.
- Phil Pennock
I grew up in a household where wine was just a part of religious ceremonies, not a beverage. Every week we'd have a Kiddush cup of wine. It's hard to imagine such a thing being illegal!
- Gabe
Phil: irresponsible parenting mandated by law! That's great.
- Tudor Bosman
We added a few features you might have missed recently: support for imgur.com thumbnails (http://friendfeed.com/search...) and "Best of" for users/groups on the iPhone (http://friendfeed.com/iphone...)
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Rumors of FriendFeed's death are greatly exaggerated. (Thank you, Ben!)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Thanks, guys :)
- Franc, a rememberer
Stephen, very happy to see new features like this, but I think the "death" part is the major users reducing their activity. I'd love to see some support from Facebook in promoting FriendFeed more to encourage those users to go back. Or maybe they don't want to? Regardless, bonus for me! Thanks Benjamin - you're awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, fair enough but major users always did come and go. Some of the departees who left said they were doing so because there was no new development. Clearly not all development is halted. Last week Paul hinted that FF may receive a major new feature, and characterized his participation as "20% time" -- I'll take that.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I backed down off the all caps. The group "best of" is really useful, love it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, I agree - I'd just like some confirmation that Facebook cares about all this so I can know whether to focus my efforts on Facebook or FriendFeed or both.
- Jesse Stay
I noticed the best of on the iPhone the other day, wrote it out on a cake and then ated it.
- Josh Haley
Thanks for the update Ben
- AJ Batac
Jesse, I think you should focus where your users are focused. What do SocialToo users want? But if they want Facebook focus, you should still keep an eye on FriendFeed, since the future Facebook will look a lot more like FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce, I'm not sure we know that.
- Jesse Stay
Paul Buchheit said the FB acquisition was attractive because of shared vision/direction. I would be surprised if a lot of that vision wasn't already embodied in this product right here.
- Bruce Lewis
ffcode: you can do that. Here is the "Best of week" from one year ago: http://friendfeed.com/summary...
- Benjamin Golub
ITS ALIVE!!!!!!! MUH HA HA
- Roberto Bonini
OLD: FriendFeed Tour - http://www.vimeo.com/1348436
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Had to replace some bad hardware. All should be well now :)
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i didn't even notice... i was out for dinner straight from work today. How long was ff down for?
- Chris Heath
Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - Quora - http://www.quora.com/Enginee...
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"Let's take a hike on the coast from San Francisco to Los Angeles to visit our friends in Newport Beach. I'll whip out my map and draw our route down the coast. The line is about 400 miles long, we can walk 4 miles per hour for 10 hours per day, so we'll be there in 10 days. We call our friends and book dinner for next Sunday night, when we roll in triumphantly at 6pm. They can't wait!"
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
The Big Sur factor is too often unaccounted for.
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
They should have planned for alternative modes of transportation :-)
- Shakeel Mahate
Brent, what is the equivalent of topographical maps in this analogy, I wonder.
- Laura Norvig
Would better more detailed specifications of desired system be that topo map
- WarLord
Notice that that the detail/quality/kind of the map is only one of the problems. Changing requirements, unforeseen issues that only crop up once you start, and not being experienced enough at the start were additional contributing factors. I found this to be a good analogy.
- Andy Bakun
Andy++ If the guy in the parable totally understood fractal coastlines, _he would still have been in huge trouble for all those other reasons_.
- Andrew C (✓)
louisgray.com: FestivusFeed: FriendFeed Airs Your Grievances - http://louisgray.com/live...
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I found this fake comment I made 1 year and 1 day ago quite ironic at this point. (Reminded by Susan Beebe's thread)
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
"Robert Scoble joins every network but this one." BUT I kept pushing... and here we are. :-)
- Louis Gray
Louis - Wow, your pushing WORKED in a big way...Mike must hate you by now! - of course I love you for that :)
- Susan Beebe
Here's the post in my thread Louis is referring to -----> http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Susan Beebe
It took me 1.5-years to get RSS after Dave Winer first showed it to me. So, I am getting faster. Took me just a few months to get friendfeed. Glad you kept after me.
- Robert Scoble
So how do I access it? <---I take that back. Didn't realize what I was looking at when I went to the site.
- Mattie Kenny
Bring back Festivus Feed!
- Shawn Farner
Yeah do it! :)
- Susan Beebe
My favorite grievance: http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Louis Gray
Robert, now we just need to get you to understand auto-follow (the SocialToo way) ;-)
- Jesse Stay
LOVE!
- David Cook
Josh: it was a seasonal thing last year at this time, so it is no longer possible. We may have to bring it back by popular demand, but for now the entries you see are all from last year.
- Bret Taylor
Bret - bring back those cute little red icons next to the FF posts! easy seasonal "flair" feature!
- Susan Beebe
and here we are...
- Jesse Stay
Jesse I want to like this, but I already liked it in 2008!
- Eric Florenzano
Whoa. How did I NOT like this in 2008. Weird.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
The comments about this on Facebook are illuminating.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Robert Scoble, joins, then leaves, every network, including this one.
- Laura Norvig
What Laura said.
- Louis Gray
Happy Festivus, everyone.
- DGentry
o_O
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Picasa Web Albums won't let people see my albums w/out joining Google+ now? WTF?!?! The "go back to picasa" link is fail. Grr.
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BBC News - Apple's Jonathan Ive gets knighthood in honours list - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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"Jonathan Ive, Apple's head of design, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list. Mr Ive, who can now style himself Sir Jonathan, has been made a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE)."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
Failbook: Failbook: Lingerie Party Invitation - EPIC FAIL Funny Videos and Epic Fail Funny Pictures - http://failblog.org/2011...
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My professor told me to write 150 words on an imaginary subculture. Am I doing it right? - http://imgur.com/iV1mW
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Sleeping on Daddy
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Awww...she is so precious!
- Anne Bouey
cutie!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh my gosh, this is making me disgustingly clucky!
- Headless Gnad Kicker
So adorable!
- Bret Taylor
beautiful shot.
- Drew
Awesome. You should keep her!
- Louis Gray
now i want to go hug my kids. they're asleep, tho.
- Joe Silence
It's the most wonderful thing in the world to have a baby sleeping on you, isn't it? :-)
- Ordinarybug Heather
Brings back memories of sleeping on Mommy!!!!!
- Susan Talsma
So lovely :*
- Nedaッ
that is sooooo sweet!
- Kelly W.
+
- Ali Oz
what a tiny and cute baby that is!
- grizabella
Google Reader Social Retrospective - http://blog.persistent.info/2011...
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It seems appropriate to have this as my last shared item. P.S. My first shared item was http://ecmanaut.blogspot.com/2006... (back when I was sharing my "linkblog" tag) and/or http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006... (once one-click shared items appeared).
- Mihai Parparita
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