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The GAP is bringing back the red and black lumberjack. - http://garin.posterous.com/the-gap...
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- Bo Stern
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Amazon.com: Thermos 16-Ounce Stainless Steel Backpack Bottle: Home & Garden - http://www.amazon.com/Therrmo...
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This thing is amazing. I filled it with coffee this morning at around 7:45am EST and it's still piping hot despite sipping all day. Thanks Megen!
- Benjamin Golub
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Thanks for the pointer, might need one too :)
- Bo Stern
little things. chickadee. micro mini clip. - http://kamilah.posterous.com/little-...
Iván Abrego, MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS, LB - all new for '10! and 6 other people liked this
John (a.k.a. dendroica) was today's random selection. The chickadee was one of his Flickr favorites, and is copyrighted by Nate Klan. http://friendfeed.com/dendroi... ...
- Kamilah Gill
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Goofy Picture Meme (Even if you don't play along, we still had fun)
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Iván Abrego, Haggis (Sean Loyless), Josh Haley and 20 other people liked this
All part of why I love FriendFeed. :)
- Louis Gray
Goofy Grays!
- imabonehead
Time to change my profile pic, methinks...
- Louis Gray
귀여운 아기
- 남철nam chul 신sin
Yay for goofy pics! :)
- Jon, the Beartato of '10
It looks like you were having the most fun of all! And the twins were loving it!
- Anne Bouey
loldogs - http://cheezburger.com/lolbuil...
Jérôme Flipo, Bryan Tsai, Mark "Mr Bolivious" J and 7 other people liked this
The Sentinel: Mass Effect 2's Swiss Army Class - mass effect 2 - Kotaku - http://kotaku.com/5426125...
Bo Stern, Jason, Craving, Alex Scoble and Jennifer Dittrich liked this
"The Sentinel is essentially the Paladin of the Mass Effect universe, with a variety of offensive and defensive skills and the ability to use both tech and Biotics, making them the most versatile class in the game. They even have armor with a shield around it that harms enemies when it goes down."
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
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So.....why would I want to be any other class? What's the catch?
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
My Cmdr Shepherd was a tech/biotic cross and the catch is about the only gun he has proficiency with is a pistol. Lame. I figured this wouldn't be a big problem, but I didn't realize there was next to no melee fighting in the game; I thought this was going to be KOTOR with a new skin. Nope, no lightsabers or nothin'.
- Andrew C
Oh, that might be it. I remember being really disappointed on second playthrough that my biotic character was crap with guns (I was a soldier the first time, no special powers, but I could get master proficiency in every weapon).
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
AIUI, playing through multiple times in ME means you can build up a character who has crossover specialties, so you could have a biotic/tech with soldier-level proficiency with guns. I don't have the patience to play ME through more than once, though.
- Andrew C
The trick was getting the SPECTRE class weapons...and yeah if you finished the game once, you could carryover a specialty from that class to the next. So it was best to play as Soldier the first time so you could carryover Assault Rifle spec.
- Alex Scoble
I tend to do better with higher weapon proficiency than with special powers (true across games), so I'm glad you brought that up, Andrew. I'm always crap at classes that involve magic [which is basically what biotics is, I guess]. Mass Effect made that easier by letting you choose your squad based on what powers they had - me as soldier + Liara's advanced biotics + either Kaiden or Tali for tech was pretty killer.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Many criticize social gaming as pointless and boring, but with nearly seven billion players, "Earth" must be doing something right.
Vlad Hrouda, Lizunlong, Jérôme Flipo and 34 other people liked this
Meh. It'll never catch on.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
There are more players than people online? Oh wait. You're talking about the offline versions? I'm guessing there are plenty of the world's population that don't play games at all. Infants in Africa, for example.
- Cristo
Chris, you're not getting it. This _is_ the online version :)
- Paul Buchheit
No, I'm not getting it. But then I'm on the second glass of wine tonight. Is FriendFeed the online version? Did you guys get more subscribers recently? :)
- Cristo
Imagine a much more sophisticated version of farmville that takes up to 100 years to play...
- Paul Buchheit
*knocks on art students next door to get some weed* :)
- Cristo
No point, Cristo, *someone* has already smoked it all....
- WorldofHiglet
Earth is like Monopoly meets Risk.
- Morton Fox
Different game. Earth plays the reproduction game, which isn't all that boring :-)
- Todd Hoff
Earth is a more complicated game than can ever be described in metaphor.
- Mitch
Status update: "Paul has just grown tomatoes in his backyard".
- Louis Gray
What makes something a game vs life? Is all life a game? Is there any reality outside of the game?
- Cristo
I assume it's recursive Chris.
- Paul Buchheit
First Life is highly overrated.
- Jason, Craving
from Android
So we're still left wondering who bootstrapped the Lisp system that runs the whole thing.
- Cristo
Reality according to XKCD: http://xkcd.com/224/
- Mitch
Or maybe PHP...
- Paul Buchheit
PHP? Please say it ain't so!
- Gabe
Well, it started as this simple little game, and it just kept growing, and now there's so much code that it would be impractical to start over in a better language.
- Paul Buchheit
Still the same simple game, the rules may have gotten a tad more complicated though.
- Todd Hoff
FriendFeed has 7 billion users? (Starts writing...)
- Jesse Stay
life is like calvin ball, you make your own rules =D
- Mike Chelen
Or maybe he's suggesting that Paul is God?
- Jesse Stay
or we're all being scammed?
- Jesse Stay
I don't so much find it pointless and boring, I'd say more like pointless and incredibly depressing.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Very deep, Monsieur Paul.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Who has teh cheat codes? I'll buy for lots of karma points in gold
- Itachi
*bans for hacking* take that kind of thing to another server =D
- Mike Chelen
Nick Bostrom from Oxford University explains the Simulation Argument - http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulat...
- Luke Stanley
I'm not playing until we all agree on the rules!
- Mark "Mr Bolivious" J
A process without fixed rules is not a game, it's mediation.
- zeroinfluencer
So if an unstoppable force hits an immovable object, who will handle the exception? (throws UnstoppableImmovableInteractionException).
- Fırat Can Başarır
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- ★ Soner Gönül
No fair not counting non-human players. Most of our social games don't need much intelligence to play, right? Kill for food (wealth), find mates.
- lawrence wang
I hear they're planning a new expansion named mars.
- Private Sanjeev
The resolution and level of detail is incredible, but the graphics design is often severely lacking. Only in a few places did they even attempt to make things look good. And, of course, those are all the bits you see in the trailers..
- Otto
Frame rate could be better.
- Kevin Fox
Can I re roll? I'd like better stats.
- Dario Gomez
Superbright Supernova First Observed of Antimatter Variety - http://www.universetoday.com/2009...
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Fun With PhotoBooth, Part 7,982, starring Sarah and a PostRank shirt.
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Anne Bouey, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Bo Stern and 6 other people liked this
aww. cutie!
- pea
Record-Breaking Black Friday For eBay's PayPal - http://news.slashdot.org/story...
Bo Stern liked this
The glass is not half full of water, it is half empty... of vodka.
Fabrizio, Tanath, Bindu Reddy and 16 other people liked this
Whatever, dude. :)
- April Buchheit
Truth spoken!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Whatever happened to water being the fluid necessary for life?
- April Buchheit
I'm no drinker, but doesn't vodka have water in it?
- ha3rvey (wants confit)
Water is still the fluid necessary for life. After all that vodka, you are dehydrated, and need the water to make it through the hangover...
- Seth Greenblatt
Fill up some ice and tonic with lime wedge.
- Nyan Min
Nice to see that your posts are getting more frequent than past few months.
- ashish
Or twice as big as needed...
- Charles Nadeau
Paul Buchheit on the reason FriendFeed sold to Facebook: "The opportunity at Facebook is very substantial."
Adam Helweh, Stephen Mack, Daniel Rowley and 15 other people liked this
"The biggest component is the question - what is the value of Facebook? It is a very successful company and is going to get more so in the future. There is a lot of opportunity in the social and realtime. Facebook is in a unique position that will prove to be very lucrative."
- Louis Gray
Interesting...
- WorldofHiglet
All about the Benjamins?
- Brian Sullivan
Nothing wrong with pursuing the Benjamins -- that's what creative capitalism is all about. Friendfeed's founders probably couldn't have picked a better moment to sell the company for the price it did.
- Sean McBride
I still want it to stay right here .... Period.
- Charlie Anzman
Paul is smart :)
- Susan Beebe
Hmmmm, if we assume there is a golden handcuff situation going on, how long until Paul departs and uses the funds to build FriendFeedHD XL Ultimate Edition?
- EricaJoy
I like where you're going with this, Erica!
- Laura Norvig
+100 Erica.
- Adam Helweh
Large Hadron Collider is online, Higgs boson be da... - http://meme.yahoo.com/ivanfil...
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Steven Perez, Itachi, Bo Stern and 2 other people liked this
Large Hadron Collider is online, Higgs boson be damned -- Engadget (via MemeThis )
- Iván Abrego
Steve Jobs introduces the "Digital Hub" strategy at Macworld 2001 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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kartik vaithyanathan, Bo Stern, Robert DeBord and Johnny Worthington liked this
Rediscovered via John Gruber. This is the one Jobs keynote I attended.
- Louis Gray
Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC - http://science.slashdot.org/story...
SuezanneC Baskerville and Bo Stern liked this
From what I have seen so far in previews and some reviews I have come to the conclusion that James Cameron's Avatar Movie is a live action/CGI remake of Ferngully:The Last Rainforest. #nomoreoriginalideas
Jessie, WorldofHiglet, Jennifer Dittrich and 6 other people liked this
Yeah, but no Tim Curry singing. Fail.
- Jennifer Dittrich
who voices the bat in the new one?
- Mike Chelen
BLDGBLOG: The City and its Flooded Double - http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Véronique Rabuteau and Bo Stern liked this
"Studio Lindfors—of Cloud Skippers and Cloud City fame—have released a stunning new series of images, published here on BLDGBLOG for the first time, in which we see New York City and Tokyo after a catastrophic flood. Called Aqualta, the project is an exquisitely produced tour of a hydrologically transformed metropolis. Gondolas float through a still-blazing Times Square; people fish atop gravel banks that have built up beside inundated skyscrapers; and an aerial network of blimps, catwalks, pedestrian skyways, and cable cars passes and sways above the Venetian streets. I can't emphasize enough how beautifully detailed the images are; I've put them into a Flickr set for closer viewing. They knock me out."
- Jason Wehmhoener
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NASA has discovered a "significant amount" of water on the moon. http://www.cnn.com/ (via @cnnbrk)
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Ken Thompson fixes O_CREAT in Go. I wonder how many years he has been wanting to do that? - http://code.google.com/p...
A.T., imabonehead, Karthick R and 21 other people liked this
Looks like he only fixed this yesterday :).
- Private Sanjeev
Beautiful. The universe has been fixed.
- Tudor Bosman
Reference: http://books.google.com/books...
- Tudor Bosman
Google to Acquire AdMob - http://www.google.com/intl...
Daniel Rowley, burcu, Chieze Okoye and 6 other people liked this
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock." Congrats to Kevin Scott and the other folks I know at AdMob.
- Bret Taylor
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Oh my god...the world is about to implode.
- Devlin Dunsmore
That's a lot of change.
- τorƍue
WOW! Another homerun.
- charlie larson
Step Aside, Kindle -- Nook Has Android on Its Side - http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Andrew Perry, Burcu Dogan, Tracy and 3 other people liked this
"The Nook does have some nice incremental improvements over the Kindle: two screens, the familiar e-ink black-and-white reader screen that dominates the device's surface, a smaller horizontal color LCD at the bottom of the device used for navigation, typing on a virtual keyboard, and so on. It also has built-in Wi-Fi, a replaceable battery, and an SD slot, all of which are missing from Amazon's Kindle. The Nook matches the Kindle's lower $259 price, effectively forcing Amazon to drop the price of its global Kindle by $20. It's clear that Amazon is paying attention to what Barnes & Noble is doing. It won't cede any ground it doesn't have to."
- imabonehead
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"First of all, the Nook uses Google's Android operating system. That could enable the Nook to become a significant application platform in the future. While the iPhone has many more applications available than Android, there are still plenty emerging on Google's platform. Currently, the Kindle has approximately zero third-party applications. (Admittedly, the Kindle has a Web browser, a...
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- imabonehead
I already own a Sony eReader PRS-700. It's not bad. I'm seriously interested in getting the Nook when it comes out.
- imabonehead
I wanted to buy it but when realized that barnes and noble doesnt sell eBooks to Russia bought Sony PRS-600
- Kaspar Minosiants
OPML for Twitter lists - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Bo Stern, Davide Tarasconi and ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, liked this
nice!
- .LAG liked that
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9 Amazing and Inspirational Concept Laptop Designs | Tech Inspiration - http://www.ekoob.com/9-amazi...
Daniel Rowley, Ritu, Ahsan Ali aka. Slick and 6 other people liked this
I love the car concept one. This would work well with the "parking lot" portion of my daily commute.
- Miss Elle
Milky Way Awe: a 648-Megapixel Panorama of Our Galaxy - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_webl...
Kol Tregaskes, Bo Stern, Wulffy and 6 other people liked this
"Piecing together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at Central Michigan University, describes the panorama: "This panorama image shows stars 1000 times fainter than the human eye can see, as well as hundreds of galaxies, star clusters and nebulae," Mellinger said. Mellinger spent 22 months and traveled over 26,000 miles to take digital photographs at dark sky locations in South Africa, Texas and Michigan."
- Michael Fidler
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CIA Ops in Afghanistan - http://blip.tv/file/2781602
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USA soccer is playing Honduras right now, qualifying for the World Cup with a win. They're up 3-2 right now. But game isn't on TV? No where?
Fox, Stephen Mack, imabonehead and 3 other people liked this
Wow. Even FSC isn't showing it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It's only available via closed-circuit (i.e. participating sports bars).
- Mark Trapp
Here's an article from the Washington Post describing the situation: http://bit.ly/NASzP
- Mark Trapp
I've got ESPN on, they go to updates every so often. Sad.
- Hutch Carpenter
Thx Mark. What a mistake for that firm, MediaPro. Their broadcast plans didn't include ESPN, even though the network tried to get the game. Maybe the Latin American pay-per-view market makes bigger money. I'm doubtful though.
- Hutch Carpenter
But ESPN did just report that USA won the game. Awesome! World Cup 2010.
- Hutch Carpenter
Whoo!
- Akiva Moskovitz
OK good. Now I don't feel guilty missing it. Though it was probably online somewhere...
- Gus
Google Wave Is Easier To Understand Than… - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Eric Logan, Daniel Rowley, vijay and 4 other people liked this
Glenn Beck refuses to define "white culture" - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jacob, Andrizzle Gizzle, Jennifer Dittrich and Bo Stern liked this
How pathetic!
- Bo Stern
yes.
- Anthony Citrano
what a weirdo! haha, but he probably has a huge following...
- Jacob
Hey Jacob, consider it a delightful privilege that you don't have to endure his constant painful presence in your MSM as is the case here in the US where everyone likes to beat him up (deservedly) but also driving even more attention in his direction ... sigh
- Bo Stern
well you have them everywhere, also here in NL :(
- Jacob
Was Google Wave 'over-hyped' by Google itself or by social media commentators who either didn't understand what it was or dreamed it to be more than it was ever designed to be.
Susan Beebe, Jeff P. Henderson, Kamilah Gill and 6 other people liked this
I ask cause I'm trying to make sense of all the review by catergorising them into three groups 1) Generally dissappointed 2) Had unrealistic/confussed expectations 3) Poo-pooing cause it doesn't fit their current personal branding.
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Plus I would like to use it myself (don't worry, I was nominated about 18 hours ago)
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
I hear ya - the hype has been intense. As a GW nominee, do you have any invites? Wanted to check it out myself a bit. Cheers.
- Bo Stern
Holden. Can I ask, if I may, is it under-engineered for the small group of social media people who have large user-bases? Is it designed for middle of the road, more tight social/business circle people?
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Yeah it was poor product images and general misunderstanding by the initial publishing from huge blogs like TechCrunch. This just spread the misinterpretation far and wide, through the online social environment.
- Jimminy Fuller
Bo, not sure, I haven't got my invite yet. I'll let you know
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
I think people don't get that this is more of a framework than a finished application. It is ripe for being built on top of to make it "useful" to most people. It's kind of like Wordpress with just a couple of plugins. Out of the box it does what it is supposed to do, but it's built to be enhanced, and by adding a bunch of developer plugins. If there weren't any plugins for it most people wouldn't bother to use it but those who wrote their own.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
What most people are missing, I think, is the amazingness of the stuff underneath... I mean, it's a real-time collaboration framework that is federated, meaning you can run it on your own server and talk with other servers at the same time... that's pretty dang impressive to me, even with the performance issues they're having (the working out of which is part of the point of letting beta testers in). Admittedly it takes a hard core geek and/or developer to appreciate a lot of that.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
These are early days. Gmail had terrible reviews out of the gate. It was just different from what people were used to.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Lindsay... You have crystalised it right there. *lightbulb lights up* This is bare-bones infrastructure.
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
I don't think it's under-engineered as that would imply it's ready for use and it's not. It's a developer preview that has now moved to limited beta. The issue IMO is that they let in all of the echo-chamber social media pundits who are looking for the next thing to drive traffic.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Holden, if you just see the images of Google Wave without reading about it, it looks like a social network, even though they were marketing an email/IM tool. That is poor product imaging, if you are using images that don't appear to match the use cases you suggest.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, I think the screenshots look like what it is, but people interpreted that to be a social network app... But how many ways can you visualize conversation anyway? ALL social networking stuff looks the same from screenshots... email, IM, Twitter, and FriendFeed, your wall on Facebook...
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Lindsay, I agree, that that's what it looks like, but if you don't have the context with it or it's embedded in a lengthy PR post, that it's actually meant for email/IM, I think that's a failure to communicate through your product images, of your true purposes of the product.
- Jimminy Fuller
Or the audience forgets it over a period of 6 months waiting. Images are easier to remember, than a tiny phrase in a list of thousands of words. The images lead to rampant misinterpretation.
- Jimminy Fuller
I've been waiting for this conversation. I read Gina Trapani's review to understand Wave. I am a Gmail and FF fan. At first I thought is was email on steroids, then I saw similarities to FF. If you equate a wave to a FF topic they are very similar. You have friends (contacts) topics and more ways to interact with a wave that a FF topic. Just as FF required critical mass before it was useful, Wave will encounter the same issue.
- Russellreno
I'm just saying then, what are you supposed to make it look like so it won't be confused with a social media app... they weren't lying with their screenshots... It was the person looking at them (or the blogger writing about it) that made the impression of what was being shown.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Russell, I think a wave is more similar to an FF group... you can have sub threads all over the place. Everyone in the thread is like a group member.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Lindsay: So I am on the right track. At first I saw chaos but even FF developed tools to deal with the noise. I also see the possibility of a private FF. A better analogy might be a spreadsheet. Sure you can and subtract but it is so much more. I enjoy getting in early if I can see a personal use down the road.
- Russellreno
Lindsay, I don't think they could have done anything with the images, they were honest with them, but the images were highly susceptible to misinterpretation, I think the best thing Google could have done, is to keep repeating over this 6-month long period was what it actually was, to help keep their goal vocalized and clear. So while I'm blaming the pictures, it really comes down to...
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- Jimminy Fuller
Thanks!
- Bo Stern
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