Panda's are quite possibly the most absurd looking animal second only to the duck billed platypus. It is for this reason that I <3 dem.
- Geoff Schultz
Kungfu Panda is showing his sensitive side! :)
- imabonehead
Heavy pc and crt, ok, but the subwoofer too? You know how heavy those things are? This would work in space maybe.
- Josh Haley
And I wonder where it's getting powered from. Is there an extension cord behind him, or maybe he's got a generator attached to his feet?
- Costa Walcott
But which way would it point? Or should there be two, one aimed at his face, and one on the visor of his hat, to see what he can see?
- Ladybug Heather
It's a 'Trojan Horse'!! The hollowed out tower contains 8 Macbook Airs, 25 iPhones, a G1™[product placement by Google] and a handful of Newtons - just waiting to be deployed!
- Micah Wittman
There is a distinct lack of cup holder.
- Rochelle
True... where does the Mountain Dew go? Or coffee or Jolt Cola or whatever caffeinated substance he drinks?
- Ladybug Heather
Rochelle: thats what the CD Drive tray is for.
- Roberto Bonini
That's terrific! It's funny how Hillary still loses states she 'wins' (Texas and Nevada, I'm lookin' at you)
- Kevin Fox
Sure, but I tend to think of that as extreme recklessness on the part of the press. Certainly, in the case of her loss in Texas, there was no reason to report that she 'won'. Not quite sure how that happened.
- j1m
And I think this paradox Kevin mentions hi-lights the strength of Obama's campaign. HRC has been conducting a pretty traditional primary campaign. Obama is running away with it thanks to some new-fangled ideas.
- Shellee
Yes. He's good at winning elections, in a way we haven't seen since at least Reagan.
- j1m
One reason why I don't use facebook.
- Brandon Titus
But I update remotely, it's an unfair critique
- Matthew DeVries
LOL... this has happened to me a couple of times. Worse still when we decided to go to Hawaii and did not let some of our relatives know about it. They found out about it via Facebook!
- Bindu Reddy
I wouldn't disable my DM, because I do get some that are legit. I think this is going to be a social persuasion. Maybe we need some folks to start a new convention of unfollowing those who send out these automated DMs. Unfollowing is the worst fear of these automated DM types.
- Hutch Carpenter
Twitter should allow users to opt out of DMs altogether. I tend to unfollows accounts that send auto-DMs, it immediately diminishes their value to me. Too impersonal -- not what I use Twitter for. I know where your website I'd but I'd prefer to receive your updates via Twitter. Imagine if every RSS feed began with a form letter pitch...
- Andy Sternberg
from fftogo
Good analogy on the blog RSS feed subscriptions. And if I've taken the time to look at your tweets and the link on your bio, you don't need to send me anything else. Just keep on tweetin'.
- Hutch Carpenter
I don't know why this pisses people off so much. The furor over the DMs to me is more annoying than the DMs themselves. I just don't like the boring pseudo-sincere "let me know how I can help you" ones. I use one and dig it.
- Steve Isaacs
It's annoying in the way spam email is annoying. My Gmail spam filter saves me from dealing with the spam deluge, but does nothing for these spam DMs.
- Hutch Carpenter
i think if your twitter account is a business, it's a perfect opportunity to link a new follower to something useful to them
- Nathan Chase
LD - SocialToo lets you auto DM? I just use it for stats, not that.
- Hutch Carpenter
Nathan - I agree that a link to something useful is fine. Say I tweet about something, and you have a link that is relevant. @ or DM me. But how do you know what's relevant with an automated DM after following?
- Hutch Carpenter
If you have one of the "let me know how..." ones, I will let you know, and if you ignore my @, I'm just going to drop you. To use auto-dm to begin convo = not bad, but to not continue convo = fail
- Michelle Darnell
@Hutch - for instance, if you follow Flickchart (my startup) on Twitter, it auto-follows and responds with. "Thanks for checking us out! Be sure to sign up for our beta to get your invite soon! - http://www.flickchart.com" - does that seem annoying or misplaced?
- Nathan Chase
Agreed. Twitter should review this. It's becoming an epidemic. It diminishes my impression of someone immediately.
- Seamus Condron
There is a use for it in places, but the issue is like anything else once spammers get ahold of something it destroys it for everyone. I wouldn't opt to disable DMs because I sometimes reply by DM if I get behind in getting back to people so I don't flood timeline with chatter
- BCK
Nathan - that seems OK. I mean, I'm following a company (Flickchart), so I'd be interested in getting a beta. But there are a lot of marketing types and life coaches who fire these things off. Often after they've followed me and I follow back. Wasn't expecting to get spammed in that transaction.
- Hutch Carpenter
I actually don't need DMs at all. If someone wants to contact me privately they can follow the link to my website and contact me through it. It seems that it would be very easy for Twitter to add a "Disable DMs feature."
- Keith - @tsudo
Louis: You mean if I join SocialToo I can tell it to not send me auto DMs from other SocialToo users, or is there something more sophisticated?
- Ken Sheppardson
I use an auto DM to send silly phrases to people when they follow me. It's the "let's tweet soon" ones that grate my cheese.
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
Ken, it will block DMs from SocialToo users and TweetLater users, for starters.
- Louis Gray
What is the biggest complaint about DM's? Is it the links? Number of DM's you get a day? I use an automated DM to aid in being cordial. I got the following DM this morning and thought it was a good one, "Checked out your profile and you are an amazing person! Keep it up!"
- Damond Nollan
I had Auto DM's setup as a way of saying Thanks for following ...Ive heard at Podcamp Toronto that many people dont like them .. so OFF they go ... no MORE Auto DM's
- johnpiercy
I didn't even know you could setup auto-DMs...awww and here I was so happy everytime someone wrote to me ;)
- Dennis Bjørn Petersen
from twhirl
I can't stand those who send a DM to invite me to become "friends" on Facebook, I've only known of your existence for a whole minute and are we supposed to be "friends"? Mind you, I received a message from someone on Diigo who is looking for a husband and I thought it was a social bookmarking site.
- M F
What if it's just a simple "thanks for following me" message and not a link or sales pitch?
- Mattb4rd
@Matt, I hate those "thanks for following me" messages just as much as the automatic sales pitches. If someone wants to "thank" me for following them, then follow me back. Or, if that person followed me first, there's no need to do anything.
- Joey Gibson
SocialToo is awesome. Also, I've learned to ignore spam DMs the same way I can ignore spam emails. With that said SocialToo makes it easy to reduce the number of them greatly.
- Bwana ☠
Lawrence Schiller's knack of being in the right place at the right time made him America's most intimate chronicler of the decade. Lucy Davies applauds a new exhibition.
- Emma
from Bookmarklet
Great captures and great descriptions! ;)
- Brandon
I understand security is a concern but this just seems a little ridiculous to me, and as the article suggests, flies in the face of the transparency and openness that was the signature of the Obama campaign. Now that Mr. President gets to keep his Blackberry, I hope that other changes will be implemented as well - like Macs in the Whitehouse! :)
- cecily
Why not Linux?? Because someone will type "sudo rm -rf /" in the terminal...
- James Fridley
Ya and how many people in the White House would know the root password. Anyone who knew it would be smart enough not to do that.
- Sweyn Venderbush
You got me Sweyn.. :-) I just had to reinstall 8.10 last night after playing around a little too much with the code. Though that said, the live disk really has been a life saver many a time...
- James Fridley
Will these twankers get anything done with those millions though. So far I haven't seen any real UI improvements and such for over a year, same shit, different scale.
- Richard A.
I think that's why they keep getting money - so many tech problems and stuff-ups, yet Twitter still grows at a fast pace. It's like nothing can stop the growth.
- jjprojects
but then again some of us are moving away from old fashioned twitter. I don't get twitter feeds here anymore for example. All of them are hidden.
- Richard A.
I don't know, I'm hopeful they will use this money to reinforce their infrastructure and start monetizing Twitter Search.
- Brandon Mendelson
I thought they had already taken steps to reinforce their infrastructure? They must know how many users could come on board this year, given the growth rate. Bit like working on the racing car while it's driving though, yes?
- jjprojects
I saw an article about twitter monetization. truth is they could have done that with sms but these idiots just cut the service, That's when most people would have paid money for sms notifications. They're not going about this the right way.
- Richard A.
oh god no. i think twitter will eventually turn out like livejournal. by that time the next big thing will have taken over, who knows..
- Terry O'Fee
Aren't they? I looked twice to make sure they were real. So ... imagine a hot air balloon tour of Holland when the tulips are in season.
- Chris Baskind
Good link, Ken! We need to find more ...
- Chris Baskind
Is this where they grow plasticine haha???
- Joe Dawson
I've always loved tulips. I would LOVE to fly over & see something like this. I'll have to check whether anything like this can be seen on Google Earth.
- Kamilah Gill
Way Cool. I'd love to see them up close. Believe it or not they used to grow bulb flowers like that in Fremont California of all places. But the fields and greenhouses are now long gone, replaced by condos and high tech office buildings....
- Jeff P. Henderson
I remember how fascinated I was as a child when we drove through tulip farms in Holland. It was amazing.
- ※Fu※
We've got some big tullip farms around Holland, Mich, not far from here, but like that is only a town mimicing a country, those farms do not compare to this
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
There's a similar patch of bliss in Lompoc, California *just north of Santa Barbara.
- Susan Beebe
My favorite. We put in 1K bulbs in our beds for a spring display.
- Mrsth
A thousand bulbs? Wow. I hope you post pictures the next time they're in bloom.
- Chris Baskind
I am glad Obama is going to try and embrace technology. Despite security and privacy issues, it's time for the presidency to adapt.
- Louis Gray
I think my favorite quote in here is, "But Obama, who succeeds the unpopular George W. Bush on Tuesday..." I love that they included the qualifier there.
- Carla Thompson
I can.... how about check out long term care options... Nothing says I love you like "Your ass is going in a home when I can do it"
- CW™
Fortunately for my fiancée, I don't plan on ever dying. I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm getting a cybernetic body as soon as I can afford one.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Overwhelming would be an appropriate way to describe the feeling the guy would have in his nether region...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Gawd, I'm getting all teary, this is so romantic. Nothing says, "Honey, I'm having an affair and may have to kill you" like this affordable gift.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
anyone else blown away by the strength of the Hudson current?? It's waaay stronger than reported imo - hats off to the captain of that first ferry (and all other ship captains as well). I'd imagine that bumping into a downed airplane with tons of fuel leaking out surely had at least one of them thinking that the plane could blow at any moment.
- Will DeLuca
@Will, Jet A fuel is basically kerosene and is fumes are not as explosive as gasoline, it has a much higher flash point, so much less chance of explosion from leaking fuel especially with the air temp around 20F.
- Jeff P. Henderson
For realz; after all she will dress him up in her love; that is what is in vogue, so papa, don't preach and instead be a ray of light cause you know Jason is crazy for you
- RAPatton
dude you crossed the borderline, maybe you need to take a Holiday, perhaps to La Isla Bonita, from the hard candy and let Jason know that you Cherish him
- Lindsey is Fierce!
first of all, what, I can't listen to classic Material Girl sometimes? Second, y'all stupid.
- Jason Toney
LOL at this thread, and just played the first half of the Immaculate Collection, and I'm totally not one of those Madonna Gays.
- Derrick
a 17 inch is a mongrel - too big to be portable and I would rather have a imac on my desk. 15" is the sweetspot. Would love 8GB on my mbp though.
- Kamath (नमः)
I'm upset with the continued refusal to roll out the iPhone push notification framework. It's the one thing holding the iPhone back from replacing a notebook in my life completely.
- Sparky, a big deal
Scoble: meh....i mean COOL that it's so thin and it's a 17" macbook pro but for me, i wasn't in the market for one so that one's lost on me...dig the drm free itunes however! :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
What no Mac Mini upgrade? No new iTunes Music Stores for other countries? No new iPhone sales in countries that are still not getting it (say, Malaysia)? Disappointing keynote...
- Colin Charles
from twhirl
The only thing I am even somewhat excited about is the itunes DRM free stuff.
- Colide81 (James)
Kamath: I love my 13", but think about how many people use their mac solely at home
- sdfx
No Mac Mini and no Snow Leopard. I guess the lack of Snow Leopard news means it's quite some way from release.
- Paul Grav
Snow Leopard is more of a developer/IT release: MacWorld is a consumer-based conference. They're probably keeping Snow Leopard for WWDC, which is when they normally talk about the OS.
- Mark Trapp
I guess too that the specs of the mini and the displays will be silently improved
- sdfx
Funny. The only people I know who seem to care about cut & paste on the iPhone are people who would never buy an iPhone anyway. Most iPhone owners that I know don't miss it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I still like Amazon's mp3 store. Took apple long enough.
- Derrick
The only reason nothing was shocking was because we already knew what was coming thanks to the power of the internet. If it wasn't leaks and rumors we would have all been shocked by, oh I don't know, DRM free iTunes.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Akiva, i think that while cut/paste is not a "MUST HAVE OMG IT'S MISSING" kind of thing, to just not have something as simple as that seems, well, petty. just get it in there and shut everyone up about it...there have been a few times on my touch where i needed it and it would have been nice...but no one is saying, that i know of, that it will break the phone or ipod by including it....so then DO EET!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Why would you spend R&D on a feature that won't have an effect on a buying decision?
- Mark Trapp
Well, you know that Apple does whatever the hell it wants to do so it's not even really an arguable issue.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Not impressed by the new declarations from apple.
- Richard A.
I have a touch and wish it had cut and paste also. It limits the device in its ability to do work.
- RAPatton
sdfx: I get that. Which is why I would think they would prefer a imac with a 20-24" screen rather than a mbp 17". Also get that it's a preference - just my opinion.
- Kamath (नमः)