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Cutest Thing Ever!! Fwd: YouTube
- Surprised Kitty
#cats #video #animals - http://www.youtube.com/watch... (via http://friendfeed.com/animals...)
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April Russo (app103), Just Ken, Vicky and 5 other people liked this
Superheroes and Villains Try to Out-Emo Vampires - http://io9.com/5411337...
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Ozlem Akin, April Buchheit, arundadsad and 56 other people liked this
"Vampires aren't the only ones with tortured souls. Superheroes and their villainous counterparts get mopey every now and again. JSalvador's Super Emo Friends show chibi versions of comic book characters alone with their most depressing thoughts. [Etsy http://www.etsy.com/shop... via Super Punch http://superpunch.blogspot.com/2009... ]"
- RAPatton
Rogue so needs a hug. Is it lame of me to think these are adorable?
- Lauren
I am laughing so hard I can't breathe
- aden
LAWL.
- Derrick
The Hal Jordan one did make me laugh out loud.
- RAPatton
lol, I saw those earlier today. I should have shared them with the group. ;)
- Araceli
I only looked at the first few. I think Batman is my new favorite, lol. It's just "meh".
- Lauren
Oh man, these are awesome. I wish I could super like a post.
- Chieze Okoye
These are awesome!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
LOLOLz
- Melissa
These are hilarious! >.< I'm laughing my butt off.
- Jason Huebel
Really clever use of Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Benan Arıgil, Roberto Bonini, Nispell and 76 other people liked this
Best viewed from photostream. Excellent!! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
That is AWESOME
- Josh Haley
That's really cool. No way I'd have the planning ability to do that.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Nifty!
- @CrystalinaB
that's awesome.
- Alfredo
Oh wow.. they even compensated for the gaps between the pictures.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Fabulous!
- Penny
Can I FAV that stream!?!? That is awesome!
- Justin Korn
Nice!
- Nicholas James
Clever.
- Mike Nayyar
Check Daniel's share of this two: http://ff.im/2rPZM. Like that he's captured the photostream screenshot. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I did something similar some time ago: http://tr.im/k13U and http://tr.im/k142 but in sets not photostream. Anyway this guy work is nicer, mine was just an experiment.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Leandro, that is excellent!
- Kol Tregaskes
Brilliant
- Michael Fidler
THAT is really creative!
- Scott of Two Countries
i agree with creative.
- امیر؟
Sweet, What a great idea!
- aerobroken
Bumping some old good posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This just happened on national television - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Just Ken, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Joe Silence is not dead and 7 other people liked this
Google knows that. http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Louis Gray
Tight end?
- Kevin Fox
Serious Chocolate: Rice Krispie Spider Treats - http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes...
Just Ken, 7 поверхностей Римана, Michelle Jones and 4 other people liked this
"The Rice Krispies give the spider treats a nice crunch (a must for Halloween) and the black licorice legs can be savored eight times over—but the best part is that anyone in elementary school can help make and decorate these easy chocolate arthropods. If you're still looking for a recipe to bake for a classroom or party this week, check these out."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Old School Geek Shirt Meme
edythe, nakachi, Steven Perez and 36 other people liked this
Instructions: Find the oldest and geekiest shirt you own and take a picture with it on.
- Mark Krynsky
I'm totally going to do this. Hold on.
- Admiral Anika
OMG! +50bn !
- Mo Kargas
Anika...we're waiting anxiously.
- Mark Krynsky
boo. it's packed away. I still have the bright orange tee shirt that was part of my freshman year gym uniform. but it's in storage with the rest of my stuff.
- ♥patricia♥
Storage?!? Well take a little trip out there this weekend...we'll still be here.
- Mark Krynsky
Here it is: http://friendfeed.com/fabooma...
- Admiral Anika
Mark, what you been drinking?
- Derrick
Nothing yet Derrick...thanks for reminding me it's time to get my drunk on.
- Mark Krynsky
I may have one more shirt.
- Admiral Anika
Here's mine: http://ff.im/2WmEh
- Parth Awasthi
Here's another: http://friendfeed.com/fabooma...
- Admiral Anika
Crap. Ditched most of my geeky shirts for cycling event shirts. I do have a 2004 DARPA shirt, though...
- Sue Radd
DARPA = GEEK
- Mark Krynsky
Fuck, most of my geeky T-shirts became victims of entropy.
- Adrian
Please Adrian. You got a buttload of stuff in that closet. LOOK FOR IT!
- Admiral Anika
*breaks out the lazy FF list again for a possible new member*
- Mark Krynsky
Anika, is this Adrian YOUR Adrian? *friending*
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Ow... my TOE! Anika can you look in the closet for me.... pleeeease?? *wink*wink
- Adrian
Yes, Jandy. That's my husband. Adrian, I'm not about to stumble up these stairs.
- Admiral Anika
My bad for not getting his last name at the meetup. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
That was because Anika didn't let him talk *ducks*
- Mark Krynsky
Mark, LOL. Hey, when are we gonna do another meetup? WE NEED TO PLAN THIS SHIT.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
*dead* at Jandy swearing. lolz.
- Derrick
Pshaw. "Shit" doesn't count as swearing. Not when I'm drinking. At lunch today I was driving and told my coworkers if we didn't get to the restaurant they picked soon, we were going to "fucking Panda Express." I kid you not.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I'm SO up for another meet up.
- Derrick
This post just got upgraded to PG-13
- Mark Krynsky
*kicks Mark in the shin* He wouldn't have said anything anyway.
- Admiral Anika
I want to do a meetup at my house if you guys are up for it. Just need to figure out a good date. Saturday May 30th might be good for me.
- Mark Krynsky
I can do that, but I'm not going to be on my best behavior.
- Derrick
I think we can swing that day.
- Admiral Anika
Good, because I wouldn't tolerate that Derrick.
- Mark Krynsky
Well, hell, I'll leave my pants at home.
- Derrick
Good cause the pool will be warm and if it isn't there's always the Jacuzzi.
- Mark Krynsky
Go Swearing Jandy. Panda Express? I don't wish that on my worst enemy.
- Derrick
I think I can do May 30th. Is that Memorial Day weekend? Or is that the weekend before? I should ifnd out before I go into work and there's no work.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
It's the week after. May 25th is Memorial Day.
- Mark Krynsky
Derrick, but the Panda Express was RIGHT THERE. And I didn't know where the hell they were trying to get me to go. The other choice that I knew where was was McDonalds. We did finally find it, though - and had awesome BBQ chicken sandwiches, as you saw in my feed at lunch. Way better than Panda Express.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, I looked that place up and bookmarked it. Chick's in Calabasas? I'm coming for you.
- Derrick
Dude, if you ever come out, let me know. I'll meet you there.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Would just like to add: The Jaguar was NOT 64 BIT. Lying Atari. However, Aliens vs. Predator? The awesome. </geek>
- Pete Delucchi
Ha Pete...Tru Dat.
- Mark Krynsky
Here's mine http://friendfeed.com/alieb... :D
- alieb
I went with what I was already wearing, but I can definitely find older and geekier.
- Rob Haas
Robert...then tomorrow a part deux is in order.
- Mark Krynsky
JaGYOOwire
- Josh Haley
Finally found one! http://friendfeed.com/laurabo...
- Laura Lou Who
*bump* it's not too late. I'm sure folks would love to see your submissions to close out the weekend.
- Mark Krynsky
Jaguar?! Wow, that is going back.
- Diego Barros
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Embarrassing photo meme. That's me on the left, DJ Jack Friday on the right.
Darren Heydon, MiniMage TKDteacher of FF, rowlikeagirl and 118 other people liked this
Yay Leo!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Well played, sir!
- Josh Haley
Wow Leo, that's vintage and precious.
- RODNEY OLIVER
Whoo, Leo! Way to mix it up with the common folk!
- Akiva Moskovitz
That photo is WIN!
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
When is that Leo? I'm guessing 1978 or so?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Slow and clear.. and with a blue vest
- Rhys Amos
Woah...he MEMED! respect
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Dear Leo, I love you to death, however, please let your darling daughter know Monaco is not an island off the coast of France and yes, Monte Carlo is the capitol. My daughter is the same age and we are starting to shop college's as well. I wish you the best of luck finding a school that suits her well. I was an exchange student as well and found it the best experience ever!
- Jennifer Ragde
Okay, now my computer politically correct daughter is telling me this was not the correct way to state my opinion as I should have commented on the photograph. I'm really sorry, I love to listen to your broadcasts, but I really am computer retarded so please forgive me if I have transgressed in any manner. I can't even upload photographs without her help! Really, you don't look dapper,...
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- Jennifer Ragde
I do believe Steve Jobs was in the process of creating the Macintosh then? This is '70s right?
- Danny Minick
LOL Jennifer and +1 for your daughter. :)
- Josh Haley
You look so dapper, Leo!!
- Mona Nomura
go leo!
- sean percival
That's awesome
- Jesse Stay
lookin good ..
- Saad Kamal
Outstanding, Mr Laporte. You can see the in dream there. Potential and promise sporting a tank-top.
- Dan Biddle
Those pants look like they may be restricting blood flow a little bit... Also, sweet chalk board! Haven't seen one of those in years!
- Mark
I hardly recognised you. It maybe your outfit but you look older in this photo
- Kevin J Hatton
Taken at a radio station? (based on blackboard notes) Wait. BLACKBOARD??? Wow. :)
- CAJ, somewhere else
Jack looks like wolverine.
- Harold Benfield
Excellent sweater vest there, Leo!
- John Lutz
That's on handsome man! lol
- Melissa Goetsch
Leo, you were one hot stack if pancakes back in the day!!
- Erik Boles
Not to nitpick or anything, but Monaco is the name of the state and the capital city. Monte Carlo is just one of city's administrative areas :)
- Dorian
It's 1985 or 1986. I was 28 or 29. And an utter dork.
- Leo Laporte
This vintage is good stuff!
- Jackie
not vintage but funny - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Mike Bracco
Okay. Leo you rock! Let me get that out of the way. But you look like Susan Boyle in this photo. Sorry, someone had to throw it out there. ;-)
- Oracio
LEO: if this was a family photo I think it might make it on to the hilarious site that aggregates awkward family photos: http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ must check this out! :)
- Mike Bracco
Not a family photo - it's a work photo. That's from KLOK-FM San Francisco.
- Leo Laporte
Leo: I know, I was just saying if it was :)
- Mike Bracco
What's that funny lookin thing in the background?
- Daniel James
Daniel.. I think that is what was known as a monochrome display. They were all the rage back then apparently.
- Rhys Amos
Your hair wasn't even real back then! :P
- Kreg Steppe
I think his hair looks better now
- Jim Hague
Dear Dorian, I stand corrected. I was just stunned that someone thought Monaco was an island. When I was in high school (when Dinosaurs roamed the earth, ha ha!), we had to memorize the world in geography. I guess times have changed.
- Jennifer Ragde
LOL, I took all those old photos of me and hid them deep!
- Lillian Banchik
OMG I just found this... *DEAD*
- Johnny Worthington
Oh wow, totally 80s, fer shure. :P
- Mol, Santa Claws
You looked smart and confident :) Great photo! Thanks for sharing!
- mahjongmi
This Is a Photoshop and It Blew My Mind - Photosketch - http://gizmodo.com/5374890...
Wulffy, Nicholas James, David Berrebi and 127 other people liked this
"PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Wow, that is awesome. The authors list cracked me up: "Tao Chen, Ming-Ming Cheng, Ping Tan, Ariel Shamir, and Shi-Min Hu". One of these things is not like the others.
- Jim Norris
What is the definition of naff here? Here in the UK it effectively means stupid/silly/rubbish.
- Travis Koger
Yes, I can see it from the pixels.. :)
- Jemm
Wow, co-developed at NUS! although they've managed to mis-spell Singapore
- arunthampi
That's mind-bogglingly cool...
- Andrew Terry
Unb-freaking-livable!!
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
their site is down already...
- Maхx Tee
pretty neat but when i downloaded some higher resolution examples in their pdf, they didnt look quite as good
- bob
it's not so much about the resolution as it is about the intelligence of the system. Pretty cool!
- Vincent van Wylick
That seems so unreal! OnLive looks more real then this! Its blowing my mind
- Devin
Was just reading about this in a spanish photography blog. Amazing program.
- Juan Pablo González
Wow. That is so cool!
- Zachary TG
Similar to some cmu research http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/project...
- Ryan Moulton
Does this even work? I think it might be a farce.
- Harsh SIngh
Happy Birthday, ·[▪_▪]· - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
ffcode, LLnL, Mitchell Tsai and 85 other people liked this
Amazing! Solved!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I love you, baby! <3333 :-*
- Anna Haro
Is it considered solved if it's all the same color ... cake?! Thank you! I love you!
- ·[▪_▪]·
Happy birthday robot! I'm sure it feels just like yesterday when the factory assembled you. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Happy birthday there, my friend!
- Derrick
Robot! Oh! *hugs* Happy Personal New Year!!
- nakachi
Happy Birthday!
- Admiral Anika
Happy Birthday, Nice Robot!
- Ayşe E.
Happy Birthday!
- pea
Happy Birthday :)
- Baard @ Pixum
Thanks y'all!
- ·[▪_▪]·
Happy Birthday, robot!!!
- Anna Haro
YAY
- Mo Kargas
Happy Birthday! :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Happy Birthday
- © D/\\/IIID ℠ ®
Happy Birthday!
- Anne Bouey
Happy botday!!!! :)
- Carmen
Happy birthday!
- AJ Batac
Happy Birthday!
- Shevonne
Happy Birthday !!!
- Nir Ben Yona
Bon anniversaire!
- rowlikeagirl
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
- Liz
How in the hell did I miss this! Happy B-day, Nice Robot!!
- Helen Sventitsky
Awesome!
- Zachary TG
Happy Birthday and hope you're having your best birthday yet!! :)
- Emma
YES!!! HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY, NICE BOT!!!! Hope Anna got you something nice for your birthday....WAIT...don't answer that! ;-p
- Live4Emma (L4S)
OMG that is simply awesome!! want!
- Susan Beebe
Oh Crap Sorry Bot! Happy B-Day Metalface!!! Better late than never, no?
- Carlos Ayala
The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Mike Chelen, Daniel Chow, anarcher and 242 other people liked this
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
This is awesome!
- Christopher Chung
with a community like this - you just can't roll-it into f.b.. keep the dream alive!
- michael sean wright
:O
- Josh Haley
Amazing, thanks for that!
- dkb
According to Ross, they used about 1030 individual pictures in the final version. Stop motion is a lot of work :)
- Bret Taylor
Sure, sure--give away all the secrets. (Are those Lego dudes union?)
- Kathy Fitch
very creative. wonder how long it took to do that stop-action?
- berchman
Ross's best work so far ! great job Ross
- goutham
Major props to Ross and Dan. FriendFeed lives on
- Shane
That's priceless. Great job, guys.
- John Craft
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
Great project!
- Anne Bouey
AWESOME!
- Kevin Fox
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That is so awesome
- Glenn Slaven
happy-making!
- Felicia Yue
I am more proud than ever for being a FriendFeeder :)
- Arvind
Wow!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
Excellent!!
- Kol Tregaskes
That's great!
- Devon Govett
Cool! The friendfeed's manufactury
- Benedetto Vacca
неплохо, неплохо! Продолжение будет?
- atner
Lots of handshaking I see :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
hahaha very nice stop motion and music!
- Alex Huinchucleffy
BUMP
- Roberto Bonini
FULL OF WIN
- Jac Falcon
My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Shawn Leimbach, metalerik, Vimala Vita and 82 other people liked this
My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr The photo above represents my 30,000th photograph published to Flickr. It’s a milestone and part of my continuing goal to publish 1,000,000 photos to Flickr before I die. This photograph is from one of my favorite shoots. A shoot I did with my wife and children a ways back in this storm drain in Big Tujunga Canyon.
- Thomas Hawk
@thomasHawk didn't you say you wouldn't use flickr after they were gits once long ago?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
Congratulations, Thomas! By the way, that shot would be perfect in my Vanishing Points group... I'll add an invite to it on Flickr.
- Kevin Trotman
Hasan, I did stop using Flickr for a while over some some censorship issues a while back. As you know I feel pretty strongly about censorship. I changed my mind though and couldn't really stay away.
- Thomas Hawk
"My 30,000th Photograph on Flickr" way to go @thomasHawk. I remember reading yr 10^6 & thinking thats ambitious. Now the Q. In the back of my mind I've been thinking about "how do you a) backup online against flickr takedowns? b) manage & curate the images as times goes on: cost, time etc?
- Peter Renshaw
Well mostly I back up my photos by using drobos as primary storage. I also keep another copy of my finished photos on hard drives off location. I upload pretty much the same photos to Flickr and Zooomr. So I've got two copies. Additionally, almost all of my flickr photos are fed into clustershot where they can be marketed for stock photography. I always upload original sized photographs...
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- Thomas Hawk
Veery nice one Thomas. Good job. :)
- BraGiu aka Beppe Bravi
Congratulations, Thomas! 970K to go!
- Alexander Arsky
Cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Congratulations, nice one!
- ilya
Congratulations. Doesn't seem like that long since 20000.
- James Myatt
Congrats Thomas!
- Simon Wicks
Great shot!!!
- Prakash
30,000, wow! Made me look. I'm only just past 20,000. Had no idea where I was. Need to pay attention to those landmarks. This is a wonderful shot, but then so many of yours are. You live to witness and share beauty.
- Patricia F. Anderson
Awesome!
- David Cook
from fftogo
Congratulations, and a beautiful picture. Thanks again for sharing
- Rob Kramer
That's a great photo, good work.
- Patrick
good stuff
- imran
500 a week! I feel slug-like. I'm so glad you do what you do with your talent at photography. Thank you for your inspiration and dedication to your craft, 4 children and spouse and a full time career aside. Very thought provoking and challenging. Congratulations on your milestone.
- Matt Penning
Congrats on reaching 30,000! Your artwork is always interesting.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Wow! 30,000?
- Zachary TG
congrats Thomas! I always look at flickr each day to see what you have uploaded :)
- Heather
Congrats!!
- Arijit Das
Straight XBMC or Boxee? Why?
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Владимир, Just Ken, Matthew Horton and 6 other people liked this
Books! :)
- Brett Kelly
I started with XMBC and thought I loved it but there were quite a few quirks that I really was getting tired of. Most of those quirks seem to go away with Boxee. Also, the scripts/apps in Boxee actually work! I have had much trouble with the apps and scripts in XBMC. One thing I wish Boxee did that XBMC does is allow settings on how it updates the library. Boxee seems to think you shouldn't have anything to do with that process. plus for Boxee is the social element, which is basically optional.
- Josh Haley
hmmm I have an old out of date version of xbmc on my xbox, I might have to look into Boxee
- MikeDeal / ZoneDancer
Well, if I had to choose, I'd probably have to come clean and admit that I have no idea what either of these things are, and therefore no idea which would be better for you. Using 3 year old child logic, the choice is simple - Boxee. It's really fun and easy to say. So go with the Boxee. Yay! Boxee! Hooray Boxee! Hooray Beer!
- Morgan Haley
You will please to excuse my brother. I have not had a chance to show him the new htpc yet.
- Josh Haley
And please excuse MY brother for assuming that I know what htpc is. My techie knowledge is actually quite minimal. Did you guys know that they keep updating things like programs and devices? I have stuff that I still need to learn how to use, and it's considered obsolete already. But I'll try to catch up with the masses eventually. This weekend I'm going to set up my new TRS-80 and try to write a chess game program. The maybe play some PONG. Yeah baby. R2-D2 ain't got nothing on me!
- Morgan Haley
*facepalm with spiked gauntlet*
- Josh Haley
OK, start over... Anyone want to weigh in on this?
- Josh Haley
I like Boxee because it seems to be gaining support from the industry and has some money behind it, unlike XBMC which is a "hacker project" these days.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
I didn't realize it was actually funded. That does help a bit, huh.
- Josh Haley
Honestly, I wasn't aware of XBMC until after I used Boxee. On my end, the social aspect keeps it ahead.
- Christopher Harley
I prefer Boxee too. I gave XBMC a try for a few hours but didn't enjoy the interface very much. I think Boxee does the right things most of the time.
- Juan Pablo González
Boxee! it's XBMC 2.0
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
i gave xbmc more than just a few hours. I used it even with the fancy Aeon interface for months and still, Boxee can do more. Don't get me wrong, the Aeon xbmc is quite amazing in how it looks butbin the end, functionality is the main thing for me. I don't think Boxee is especially "pretty" but it does flow rather well. Using on windows 7, btw.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Been using XBMC for years (both on Xbox and PC). Haven't used Boxee because wasn't available for Windows until recently. Just signed up and plan on trying it out though.
- Matt
I'm curious (and maybe I should go and try Boxee finally), but what is great about it, besides social features? I don't really care about social features for my media... I agree with Josh, I wish the scripts for XBMC were better organized and maintained. As for it being a "hacker" project, maybe so, but it is also one of the most well-organized open source projects out there.
- Tim Hoeck
Tim, forget about the social side, as it is not intrusive at all. Try it for the excellent scripting organization and usability. They almost all work, which is the opposite of what I am used to on xbmc and manual installs, etc. It's definitely worth a shot. You just have to give it time to create the library, maybe overnight, once you set up your media folders. I wish it showed a status on that but it does indeed do well with scraping, art, info, etc. let me know if you like it Tim.
- Josh Haley
Boxee. There's only 1 reason behind this decision, even though I haven't used it: HD video. The only reason why I say this is because I use XBMC on my Xbox, and it can't handle HD video at all.
- Matthew Horton
Right there with you Matt. I retired my Xbox running XBMC when I got my HDTV. It just couldn't handle the video.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
I like them both from a concept perspective but neither of them are exactly what I want. Maybe I'm old school but I like the interface design of a TiVo menu or even Miro. I want the ability to know about every online video service but my main focus should be shows that I know I enjoy and to know that new episodes are there. I also prefer whenever possible to pre-download those flags series to prevent network congestion while viewing.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I use both. Xbmc on my xbox for one room and Boxee on a computer in another room. I prefer boxee for streaming/browsing online content, but use miro to pre-download content that I always watch. Then I stream the downloaded shows to the other room w/xmbc.
- Chris Goulart
media library and podcast RSS playback are important features, which work pretty well in boxee
- Mike Chelen
How to build cheap cloud storage (67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867) - Backblaze Blog - http://blog.backblaze.com/2009...
Nick Mutton, Marco Willemse, David Berrebi and 173 other people liked this
Amazing level of transparency and detail about their custom storage servers. HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item... (discusses why this is appropriate for backup, but perhaps not generic storage needs)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Put me down for two.
- Jason Shellen
45 drives per unit and many units means they must be constantly replacing failed hard drives - just due to the sheer quantity of them in use
- Jacob Old
It wasn't entirely clear to me from the blog post what you have to do to replace a drive. Looks like at minimum you have to remove the unit from the rack, and I don't see any drawer guides or similar to assist with that. And do they have to take the unit offline to replace a single drive?
- Jason Wehmhoener
Geez. Back in 1998, Microsoft was bragging about their 1 TB cloud... :-) Millions of $ then I think.
- Mitchell Tsai
One happy Backblaze customer checking in.
- Russellreno
sounds neat - now what to do with 67 TB of storage...
- Matt Ellsworth
Seriously Matt! Lots and Lots and Lots of video? HD video!
- Rick Cogley
So, they store their data "securely" in Palo Alto? That makes me scared.
- Jonas S Karlsson
Quoted from blog- "Backblaze Storage Pods are building blocks upon which a larger system can be organized that doesn’t allow for a single point of failure." They have indicated an amazing amount of cost savings.
- Wins Fern
$117k for a petabyte of storage. Wow.
- Nicholas James
Petabyte schmetabyte.
- Rick Cogley
Mitchell: I don't think 1TB was "millions of dollars" in 1998.
- Steve de Mena
Nice idea. Pity that it only supports a HTTPS interface, not surprising at that cost though (the software that runs the filesystems on the NetApp and other devices isn't exactly cheap to write). Anyone see if they quoted transfer speeds? I'm wondering what impact the four SATA cards each with SATA multipliers on them has when it comes to access speeds.
- Russ
Steve: according to http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625... disk cost ~$0.08 / mb in 1998, which comes out to >$800,000 for 1 TB or just over a million bucks in todays dollars. so maybe not millions, but a million!
- Karl Rosaen
Russ: It runs Debian. If you were rolling your own (and they don't sell these units), you could turn on NFS or some other protocol (CIFS, iSCSI). They only use HTTP because it's cloud storage. NFS license is a major expense on NetApp, but all the major Linux distributions can act as NFS servers, CIFS servers, and probably iSCSI targets.
- Andy Dustman
Andy: I know that you could do that on them but it leaves the problem of what to do with the storage. You could merge the 3 volumes into an LVM VG but the performance could become an issue with any load on it. It seems I wasn't the only one to question the performance, while the views of a Sun engineer aren't exactly unbiased it does highlight some of the downsides: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archive...
- Russ
Russ, great find, thanks.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Fascinating article; but more questions: "In rough terms, every time one of our customers buys a hard drive, Backblaze needs another hard drive." -- so what happens when a drive fails; how much redundancy is there? What happens when a meteorite destroys the whole building; is there off site backup too? (I know this *is* the off-site backup, but still...) I wonder how much data flows in and out over time. Maybe I should just read their website.
- Rob Fisher
Rob: they mention using 15 drive RAID6 volumes that can lose up to 2 drives before failure
- Mike Chelen
The worst part about this cluster design is the fact that I couldn’t shut up about it for the first couple days after finding out about it. It was the solution I proposed to every problem. There were complaints.
- A Mitchell
IMO RAID6 is not that great. Granted, it's highly unlikely to lose 3 drives at the same time, but there's still possibility. Besides, for write-intensive app, parity calculation is quite time-consuming. I personally prefer RAID 10 (striped array of RAID1 pairs). Yes the effective usable space is less than half total capacity, but for backups -- which will sooner or later be used to restore something -- I prefer data integrity over usage efficiency.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
IMO RAID6 is not that great. Granted, it's highly unlikely to lose 3 drives at the same time, but there's still possibility. Besides, for write-intensive app, parity calculation is quite time-consuming. I personally prefer RAID 10 (striped array of RAID1 pairs). Yes the effective usable space is less than half total capacity, but for backups -- which will sooner or later be used to restore something -- I prefer data integrity over usage efficiency.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Giant cow maze appears in field - http://www.metro.co.uk/weird...
sugatch, Dan Hsiao, M F and 73 other people liked this
That is sooooooo cute!
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
Damn. Those wacky aliens again *snigger*
- Roberto Bonini
Nintoku Tomb http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...
- Ami Iida
Holy cow crop circles made by Hindu aliens.
- Jeff P. Henderson
that's cool.
- Gus
There's a perfectly natural explanation for this...
- Jemm
I knew those folks from Gateway were aliens.
- Valley
I didnt notice the cow shape. I thought it was a maze for cows :O
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
@Valley: Do you mean the Heechee? ;)
- Jemm
darn aliens!
- Wayne Sutton
Udderly amazing. :-)
- Rick Cogley
@jemm, i meant gateway computers. :P
- Valley
The aliens have discovered Farmville.
- Eric Logan
I don't have the stomachs for this. :-)
- Rick Cogley
So cool. lol
- Zachary TG
The puns just flow well while I'm still half asleep and the coffee has not kicked in!
- Rick Cogley
I think I'll keep milking this post for all it's worth.
- Rick Cogley
Yup, the amoosement steaks are high.
- Rick Cogley
*snort*
- Roberto Bonini
i love aliens with a sense of humor.
- Carolyn Chan
aliens love them some beef, haha
- Jack Lhasa
Annmarie Haro's best name anagram is INANE OR A HARM - http://www.deanjackson.dj/nameana...
Parth Awasthi, Kol Tregaskes, Cheryl Allin and 13 other people liked this
=P
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
POTENT OR BRAT (I choose Potent)
- RAPatton
=D
- Admiral Anika
JAM ON A TALK
- Jacque
Wheeeee!
- Derrick
wooooo!
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
LMAO @ Jacque's :D
- vijay
Jacque's sounds like Pootie Tang. lol
- Anna Haro
+++Anna Most definitely
- Admiral Anika
Scott Mueller = "Cute Rot Smell"
- SAM
Ah... I got "Mole Clutters" from that engine.
- SAM
Hehehe... Scott Andrew Mueller's anagram name is WELL-READ, ROTTEN SCUM
- SAM
Try typing anagram into wolfram alpha
- Chris Heath
My First Pregnancy Photo Shoot! - The Amazing Sparky (aka Brian Johns http://friendfeed.com/brianjo...) and I teamed up to do a photo shoot of of our beautifully pregnant friend Georgia http://friendfeed.com/georgia who has also been kind enough to let me share the photos. I haven't seen Sparky's awesome photos yet, but his lighting was perfect!...
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Kamilah Gill, paniaguai, zizukabi and 61 other people liked this
This shoot was too much fun btw!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh, the third thumbnail is one of my favorites! Such a good shot :) I also LOVE number 22!
- Georgia Diehl
Georgia, the third thumbnail is one of my absolute favs too!
- Rachel Lea Fox
I couldn't remember which one of you and Nathan you liked best, the first one above and 22 are two of my favorites of the both of you alone with the spot color one.
- Rachel Lea Fox
There is a bug with the FriendFeed SmugMug crawl. I'm pushing a fix now :)
- Benjamin Golub
cool Ben Thanks!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Great job, Rachel & Sparky, these are so amazingly beautiful.
- Stephen Mack
Nice work! :)
- JA Castillo
Thanks everyone! Awesome subjects and co-photographers make for a fun easy shoot with great photos.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Lovely pictures!
- Tamara
And as the subject matter, I must add, both Rachel and Brian made the experience wonderful! I don't think the shots would have been so incredible if I wasn't so comfortable around the both of them.
- Georgia Diehl
Thanks Georgia!
- Rachel Lea Fox
What lovely pictures! I wish I had had some taken when I was preggo. *sigh*
- Marci Golub
Thanks Marci & Tamara!
- Rachel Lea Fox
what a cute couple
- RAPatton
19 and 23 are my picks. awesome job Rachel and Sparky.
- Amir Gharaat
I love pregnant bellies. =)
- AyDi şeker
Good works :)
- Tanju
Omg this is so well done. Very lovely shots Rachel!
- EricaJoy
Thank you all!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Great shots, Rachel! Looks like all of you had fun!
- Anne Bouey
Logo?
Ayşe E., Olivier Castets, Michael W. May and 55 other people liked this
Nice, very Mask :)
- Glenn Slaven
Hehe, it is kinda
- Johnny Worthington
Awesome
- Bren -- Not Grinchy
from iPhone
o hai Bender ;D
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Excellent.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Like!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
It looks like a cassette desk - with a beard :D
- Phill Price
The beard area should have twice the height of the eye area, shouldn't it? :)
- John E. Bredehoft
Can anyone else think of a better logo design?
- Johnny Worthington
Actually Ned Kelly comes to mind. WARNING: Cliche tolerances exceeded.
- Mo Kargas
What is it for?
- joey
Joey. For me :)
- Johnny Worthington
For a website, business?
- joey
Basically, like Pirillo has the circle and Drew has the monkey, a logo that I can put on shirts, adorn websites etc... Self branding.
- Johnny Worthington
Minifig + Beard?
- Mo Kargas
..................... hmmm... interesting Mo......
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
It would be stylized of course. I think it represents an intersection of your erm..interests. I suppose the minifig could also be holding a lightsaber
- Mo Kargas
Hehehe... true
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
except, if you plan to put it on shirts that you eventually sell, could you use a minifig? Lego copyright and all that? I don't know. Just wondering...
- pea
Duuuuuuuuuude! Nailed it! I shudder to think what mine would be.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Pretty sure they have that sown up Pea
- Johnny Worthington
from IM
Perfect!
- Fossil Huntress
And my axe!
- Rob Haas
An angry laptop with glasses?
- April Russo (app103)
My 16,000th Photo Uploaded to Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Rui, Slade Publishing, David Cook and 195 other people liked this
16,000 down, 984,000 to go.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Not long to go!
- Andrew Trinh
And what a fine one it is! Congrats
- Michael Fidler
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken.
- Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you.
- Russellreno
That is a great photo
- Darin aka iGoByDoc
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish?
- Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria.
- Thomas Hawk
Wow and Congrats!!
- Vox
Dude, you're a machine.
- Zee.
Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner.
- Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats.
- Charlie Anzman
big numbers means someone (Thomas) is dedicated to his art. He is pretty talented as well!
- Michael VanDervort
from twhirl
Perseverance furthers.
- Michael Markman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Congrats!
- J. McConnell
beautiful, congrats!
- Carmen
Awesome!! Keep going Thomas!! beutiful work... YOU are such an inspiration... thanks!
- Susan Beebe
congrats Thomas!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Damn that is all kinds of awesome.
- Mattb4rd
<3
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Wow, quite an accomplishment!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Great job Thomas. Keep it up.
- Andrew Smith
Congratulations.. keep going! we'll be watching :)
- Juan Pablo González
Congratulations Thomas!
- Holger Eilhard
Congrats & cheers TH. Your images confirm, you are, indeed, sui generis.
- Dave Martin
Beautiful shot! Congrats for achieving this landmark!
- Muhammad Ahmed
Amazing image ,,, TH ...
- johnpiercy
Always loved that quote " The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk"
- johnpiercy
Congrats, I even don't think I took so many photos in my life. :)
- Ferhad Fidan
from fftogo
@thomas: Yahoo should be giving Flickr to you for free. You'd do a great job with it. And it would be historical: the first user-generated (company) acquisition :)))
- Alberto D'Ottavi
from fftogo
Beautiful!!!!
- Rafael Montilla
awesome!!
- Rhoda Meek
For 1M images you could do a multi-part movie (1080p) miniseries averaging an hour per episode.
- Jay Cuthrell
wow from last year, I'm almost at 29,000 photos uploaded to flickr now.
- Thomas Hawk
And only 971,000 to go ... :P
- Rene Wirtz
That's Awesome!
- John Holzer
Keep 'em comin' Thomas!
- Charlie Anzman
I guess the metier of 'photo editor' is kaput...or, at least, greatly altered....
- Chris Gulker
You know they are going to delete your account without warning once you hit 999,999, right? :)
- Ace
Ace, I hope not, I'd be so pissed. Actually I think alot of what gets me so upset about all the content/account deletion issues is that I really do worry that it actually will happen to me. Flickr staff hates me and they'd *love* to delete my account. I worry that I'll wake up one morning and everything will have been nuked. I suppose that's why I'd like to see them enact the ability to...
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- Thomas Hawk
Holyshit! You have taked just couple of photos...
- k00pa
Why your flickr page says 28,974 items ?
- k00pa
Because this post is from September last year k00pa :)
- Simon Wicks
@Chris Gulker. Someday I hope to work with a photo editor. God knows I need to. I like to think of my Flickrstream today more as the raw material in a lot of ways for future projects. A good photo editor adds tremendous value to shaping a photographer's imagery.
- Thomas Hawk
OMG! I'm on TV! http://www.cnn.com/video... CNN.com bit for GnomeDex with Duncan Riley and my beautiful wife. #gnomedex
Just Ken, Thomas Hawk, Bruce Lewis and 7 other people liked this
I sees you!
- Derrick
Ted!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
That woman just cannot remember the name Tad can she? I think she got your name right only once. Anyway hope you're having fun out there. <aside> You'd think she'd have problems with your LAST name not your first.
- Berial
reallifecomics: Hey guys - broadcasting the first of the user-written strips live! IN HD, no less! Come check it out - http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
Just Ken liked this
coffee and breakfast...mmmmm - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Ben Hanten, Just Ken and Derrick liked this
Just Ken, vijay, Baard @ Pixum and 15 other people liked this
From the Japanese McDonald's site.
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Nom nom nom.
- Louis Gray
uhm, do anybody no how i would get a mouth big enough to eat that?
- pea
I know it's (Japanese) McDonald's but can someone please go pick me up one of these? Derrick's hongry.
- Derrick
Now, why can't we get that here? People in Japan have all the fun.
- Morton Fox
I would eat that...
- Jordan Hofker
And be sure to slap another piece of cheese between the patty and the egg. It's like glue, except you can eat it.
- Derrick
I wonder if someone has such a big mouth able to eat..
- JohnDu™
1000xYES!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
The Mega-Mac!
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
That would get me to go back to McDonalds at least once.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
What is that 2000 calories?
- Bryan Lee
Well, actually it says Mega-Egg, but MegaMac rolls of the tounge better
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
It is McDonald's evil plot to take Americans off the most obese people list.
- Robert Couture
メガマクダジ
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Why do some people need less sleep? It’s in our genes, new research suggests - Wellness - TIME.com - http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009...
Darren Heydon, Just Ken, Myrna and 18 other people liked this
"Some people are genetically programmed to need less sleep than the rest of us, according to a new paper published this week in Science. A rare genetic mutation lets its carriers function happily and healthily even with hours less sleep each night than doctors normally recommend. Researchers discovered the enviable gene variant after studying a family in which two members, a mother and a daughter, seemed to need much less daily rest than their close relatives. The women slept just 6.25 hours per night, while others in the family averaged 8.06 hours. The researchers then sequenced some genes they thought could be responsible, and discovered that both mom and daughter — unlike others in the family — had a never-before-seen mutation in a gene that's known to affect circadian rhythms."
- Anna Haro
from Bookmarklet
"Next, to test whether that gene variant was really the cause of mom and daughter's shortened sleep time (and not just some freak coincidence), the researchers genetically engineered a group of mice to express the newly found mutation. Sure enough, those mice had a typical activity period that's more than an hour longer, on average, than that of a normal mice. The mutant mice also seemed to need less catch-up sleep than others after a period of sleep deprivation."
- Anna Haro
Sleep is a waste of time and unproductive.
- Louis Gray
Sleep is overrated....
- Roberto Bonini
I was just thinking about my sleep patterns. Last night was the first night I've had 8 hours of sleep in about a month. And I'm more tired than ever. I guess my body is used to getting 6 hours.
- Ben Hanten
*Gladly takes Louis and Roberto's sleep*
- Derrick
I think I'm in love. ♥ - http://fishki.net/comment...
Iván Abrego, Rob Collier, Nathan Chase and 68 other people liked this
This whole page is AWESOME.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from Bookmarklet
holy cow! Jemm will go nuts when he sees these!
- vijay
Ok, this is the coolest today!
- Patrik Johansson
HAWT!
- CW™
My long lost twin! http://friendfeed.com/joeybea...
- joey
Your long lost twin, or long lost daddy-type manager?
- Sparky
These are great. You don't even have to like Star Wars for this to be great. :)
- Louis Gray
No way!!! I saw her first!!! :)
- Mike Shields
@vijay: You can keep her :P
- Jemm
This just made my day!
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
from Android
I'm kinda surprised you hadn't seen Red & Jonny before, joey. They have a flickrstream: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Wirehead
Awesome! Thanks Wirehead.
- joey
This is troubling me.........
- Kevin J Hatton
Loved the whole page!
- Shannon
AWESOMESAUCE
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Oh God! Hahahahahaaaa!
- R1CC1
Welcome to the Twilight Zone!!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
This girl has the sort of face only Darth Vader could love.
- George Hall (Australia)
Price-drop spotted: 360 Elite going to $300? - http://arstechnica.com/gaming...
Just Ken, Alex Scoble and Andrea Contino liked this
"The smoke becomes fire? A scan from an upcoming Meijer catalog shows a $300 Xbox 360 Elite to be sold on August 30. Let's have the official announcement!"
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
that is still 200 more than I want to pay for the console.
- Wizetux
Note to self: Don’t ‘friend’ your boss on FB and then bitch about your job. (Thank you April Buchheit!) - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Darren Heydon, John Field, Christoph Thelen and 10 other people liked this
When there is a lot of foam (53 pics) - http://izismile.com/2009...
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TheHenry, James (!?), Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 36 other people liked this
for a commercial
- Jess Lee
from Bookmarklet
I bet they were 'foaming' mad!
- Kevin J Hatton
I'd be foaming at the mouth if that was my pad.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Here's the Sony ad: http://www.tuxboard.com/...
- Ionut
Whoa, I was half right??? Mark this down in your calendars, people!
- Andrew C
Free Word Descrambler and Word Finder - http://www.thewordfinder.com/scrabbl...
Just Ken, Steven Perez, TheHenry and 4 other people liked this
Uh-oh. No cheating, Tad-meister.
- Louis Gray
(Nice to see this after Tad starts a Scrabble game with me on Facebook)
- Louis Gray
Hehe - this was before I started the game with you Louis. LOL One of my buddies at work told me about it.
- Internet's Tad
TBUZZ: Talk about any Webpage with Twitter Community - http://www.go2web20.net/app...
Just Ken, Azzam, Bill Romanos and 2 other people liked this
thx orli :) Very usefull site ! As usual with you.
- Guy Vander Heyden
:)
- Orli Yakuel
this looks great!
- Nathan Rein
Very cool, looking forward to other versions
- Majento
Hmmm, update button not updating, IE + Chrome
- Majento
The new Bit.ly SideBar Bookmarklet does the same thing.
- Svartling
I personally think this type of tool should be expanded to the the wider web and not just twitter. Is the a tool that can 'access' simultaneously different APIs i.e. friendfeed, backtype, disqus, etc and see what all the rage and buzz is about a page.
- Azzam
Perhaps TBUZZ servers are overloaded.
- Richard Collins
Are their technicians aware of the problem??
- Richard Collins
also try http://convotrack.com/ (made by Backtype)
- Nathan Rein
Amazing interactive graph of how groups of people spend their time. http://www.nytimes.com/... #visualization #dataporn
Chris Zlatis, Nikos Anagnostou, Stephen Edgar and 8 other people liked this
Does require flash player, so not on my iPhone :-(
- Giorgio Burlini
from iPhone
Alas, I had high hopes that this would have been some cool Javascript/Canvas visualization, but it was not to be. :(
- Chris Messina
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