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 {TF}
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?
- Ladyepiphanybug
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
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?
- Ladyepiphanybug
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
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
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.
- Jonathan Hardesty
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 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 ☠
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
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
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 Charabaruk
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&Cleo
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
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
Rob, have you seen anything similar for moving from blogger to wordpress?
- V Mary Abraham
Actually, I know Jesse Stay is doing something like that now for someone. Maybe he found something or can write a post about it.
- Rob Diana
Mary, if you are using the old Blogger, you need to export to XML and import to new Blogger, then export a second time, and import it to Wordpress.org or wherever it is being hosted. Of course, if you are on the New Blogger, you can save a step.
- Louis Gray