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I'm in - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Here comes the man hug express! *hug* - Andrew Dobrow

Luk atz mai uid! - Yuvi

I guess this is technically an LOLHuman. - Andrew Dobrow

awww - Bryn Youngblut

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

ahahahaa - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Been there, done that. Many, many, many years ago, we brought computers to a week-long music festival just so we could play games. - Akiva Moskovitz

Switch that to someone else carrying all that and I'm there with you. - ♥patricia♥

Akiva, you went to burning man? Sweet! Tell all... - Pete Delucchi

Hah, no. It was a regional festival. - Akiva Moskovitz

That guy needs to ditch his eMachines and get a MacBook Air. - Louis Gray

What in the hell resolution is he running at? The IE icon takes up the entire screen. - Akiva Moskovitz

I wonder what battery he used... - Ming Tsai

He's writing "e"-mail - Morton Fox

Wow, that will produce some muscles ! - Ryo / Fuck Facebook

.LOLz - .LAG liked that

Wiindows Fit - Jemm

L ... O ... L - Mike Reynolds

LOL that would be my bf! - Brandy Lea

Dude. Get a Shuttle case at least. - Cyndy

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

hehe - Kamilah Gill

Hmm, needs more counter-balances on the front. Right now it's just a touch off-center. :D - i80and

amazing - johnpiercy

*bump* - Micah Wittman

*bump*^2 - imabonehead

WIN! - TheHenry

COOL! :d - selma hurkan

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

Go Ana! - Jim Norris

Oh yeah! I guess that means Ana's really 2 for 4, not 0 for 4, right? - Kevin Fox

Thanks for the Saturday delegate update Chris. - Mike Reynolds

@Carla And I credit, you, Shellee and Kelly with Texas, so there :-) - Chris Reed

@Mike No problem... Having fun with my crackberry on the convention floor . - Chris Reed

ouch. - Alfredo

Happens to me all the time LOL - Mona Nomura

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

hahahahahah - Shevonne

LOL - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Me on the flip, I miss out on all the invites because I won't waste my time on Facebook, then I get, "Well, if you read my posts..." - Anika

I think I'm gonna do that today - bust out all my friends. OMG I HAVE THE BEST ONE BRB - Mona Nomura

My response to Emily: Because my activities aren't dictated by when you want to talk to me. - ·[▪_▪]·

I just busted my friend out: http://img.skitch.com/2009030... - Mona Nomura

LMAO!!!! LOLOLOLOLO - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Same here...I haven't checked my FB Inbox in over a month, and honestly, it'll probably be another month before I check it again. - Derrick

Another one - I'm being a FB troll today: http://img.skitch.com/2009030... and another http://img.skitch.com/2009030... - Mona Nomura

You HAD to bust him. hahaha - Shevonne

"It is important to note that not every single person on the internet is American." - Neither do we all drive on the right. :^) - Nick B.

This is hilarious. - Josh Haley

That will teach her. - Meryn Stol

oops! - Sarah Perez

LoL! :D - N.Onur ATAHAN

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

Spams are everywhere! XD - Midori

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

First off, that SocialToo is crap. - ld

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

SocialToo can help you block many automatic DMs. http://www.socialtoo.com - Louis Gray

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

LOL looks like? - sofarsoShawn

omg - Erin @queenofspain

Jesus, must have been the horse that got her leg. Don't f with this chick! - Steve C

@Bwana HAHAHA +1 - Alfredo

I hope the horse eats her other legs, the one with that pink furry boot - Mike Nayyar

That's seriously better than the Sleestak-in-a-gym from earlier. PONY! - Jennifer Dittrich

It rubs the lotion on it's mane, or else it gets the hose again. - Josh Haley

My entire office said WTF! - Eric @ CS Techcast

+2.3 Josh - Steve C

I'm waiting for someone to say WANT. - ld

Moar pix http://leatherdonut.com/post... - ld

trapdoor horse is watching you masturbate - Cee Bee

Wow, wtf indeed! - Chieze Okoye

That's disturbing - the horse - BEX

That's that horse that posts all those upskirt shots to porn sites. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Why am I not surprised? - sean808080

@Cecily: or maybe Ubuntu??? ;) - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Sure, why not Ubuntu? - 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

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

Terry, quite a possibility - Duncan Riley

99 pantaloons! My husband and I make that joke. - Tamar Weinberg

Pantaloons works! :D - Helen Sventitsky

Luftballoons - Anthony Citrano

Luftballoons is winning, Yay! - Helen Sventitsky

Luft ba-loons (serving suggestion: alcohol + friends in drunken sing-a-long) - Johnny Worthington

luftballoons because the "captain Kirk" sticks out so awesomely. - JoEllen

luftballoons - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Luftballoons...Or I'd go with the mash-up with Jay-Z's 99 Problems. - James Ferguson

Luftballoons for sure. - Kyle Hebert

99 Luftballons. OMG, that was over 25 years ago. Nena was great. - Tapio Kulmala

Abby, don't worry about it. I got my German from Google. :D - Helen Sventitsky

Luft! - Tyson Key

99 Vodka Spoons? - Tyson Key

- luft! - JA Castillo

Luftballoons -- Homer Simpson style. - Trish R

Luftballoons - J. Abdul-Qahhar

Luftballons über alles!!! - Karim

These are quite beautiful. - shelisrael1

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

Wow - Michael W. May

Imagine a world covered with tulip farms and salt ponds : http://www.flickr.com/search... - Ken Sheppardson

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

Breathtaking! - Nicholas Kreidberg

I think the tulip is the most underrated flower. - MG Siegler

WOoOW! Tulip is one of my favourites. - Maryam Ardakani

oh my god. no way! wow. - edythe

fantastic - Greg

If I were an alien, this is where I would choose to land my spaceship. Clearly a sign of an advanced civilization. - Karim

Amazing colors - johnpiercy

That's really nice. - Nicholi from twhirl

That's pretty impressive stuff - things that most people would never see or dream of. Thanks for sharing. - Benjamin "Zeus" Heide from twhirl

That's amazing. - Sawyer

That's a beautiful photo. I love tulips. We visited Keukenhof when I lived in The Netherlands and it was extraordinary. - Trish R

that's fantastic !! - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Very pretty. - Alex Hammer

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

All sorts of gorgeous - Dominik Hofmann

Wow that's really cool stuff. - Robert Occhialini

Oh wow. Thanks for sharing those. Gorgeous! - Kimberly J from NoiseRiver

Great stuff - Jeduan Cornejo

awesome. don't we have some tulip farms somewhere in the States? - Pete Delucchi

Because nothing says romance like buying her a burial plot. - Steven Perez

I can't think of a worse gift. - Kevin Bondelli

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)

+1 Jack - Kevin Bondelli

LOL - Christian (Simply X)

Wow - Stewart Heys

That is insane! - Brandon

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

Quick reaction from the cam operator as well. - michael sean wright

Amazing! - Jeff P. Henderson

@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

lol - now I have to like this - jbrotherlove

Live: new 17-inch MacbookPro. - Robert Scoble

and thats about it - apart from a drm-free iTunes - sdfx

8 hours battery life, 8GB of RAM, and 1080p display is nice, but is it really "interesting"? It seems very evolutionary to me. - Sparky, a big deal

The iPhoto upgrade is interesting - Stephen Foskett

I wanted iPhone updates. :( - Rochelle

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)

Yeah, definitely disappointing. - Akiva Moskovitz

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

Paul, my guess is March or April. - Akiva Moskovitz

Best thing to come out of this is 10 million DRM free songs by end of Q1. - Kenton

Yeah, nothing surprising. A lot of pretty standard upgrades. Maybe it's good there won't be anymore! - Benny Wong

Re: the Mac Mini, Apple has been known to silently update products that don't fit into keynotes. - Mark Trapp

Any iPhone announcements? How about copy/paste and video for the iPhone? - Kenley Neufeld

Cut and Paste for the iPhone? BWAHAHAHA... - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

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've had an iPhone for awhile now and very much miss cut & paste. - Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)

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)