Stephen, very happy to see new features like this, but I think the "death" part is the major users reducing their activity. I'd love to see some support from Facebook in promoting FriendFeed more to encourage those users to go back. Or maybe they don't want to? Regardless, bonus for me! Thanks Benjamin - you're awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, fair enough but major users always did come and go. Some of the departees who left said they were doing so because there was no new development. Clearly not all development is halted. Last week Paul hinted that FF may receive a major new feature, and characterized his participation as "20% time" -- I'll take that.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I backed down off the all caps. The group "best of" is really useful, love it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, I agree - I'd just like some confirmation that Facebook cares about all this so I can know whether to focus my efforts on Facebook or FriendFeed or both.
- Jesse Stay
I noticed the best of on the iPhone the other day, wrote it out on a cake and then ated it.
- Josh Haley
Jesse, I think you should focus where your users are focused. What do SocialToo users want? But if they want Facebook focus, you should still keep an eye on FriendFeed, since the future Facebook will look a lot more like FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Paul Buchheit said the FB acquisition was attractive because of shared vision/direction. I would be surprised if a lot of that vision wasn't already embodied in this product right here.
- Bruce Lewis
Amazon Prime has really skewed my expectations on how fast online orders should arrive. Having to wait 5 days for UPS/Fedex ground shipping from Cali is just killing me. #FirstWorldProblems
Man, I got something the other day and I swear it wasn't even 24 hours after I ordered it.
- Derrick
I ordered a USB 3.0 flash drive from there the other day at 8am and it showed up at 4.
- mjc
from FFHound!
http://www.amazon.com/gp... is what I bought btw, love it even on USB2 cause it saturates the bus, 30MB/s+ read. All the USB2 drives I've had can't touch it. 100+MB/s is quite nice on my one USB3 box as well, but I almost wish it had an eSATA port too :P
- mjc
from FFHound!
If a cat took a piss in a bucket used to wash the socks of coal miners let sit for 2 weeks in the sun and then filtered through a wrestler's leotard before being filled by a yak who drinks the fluid then spits it over the wall of a public toilet that funnels down into the bottle, that's what I think that diet lemon, lime and bitters taste like
"Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd isolated the microbial munchers. One came from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, and the other from the genus Sphingomonas. Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
So why is carbon sequestration a good idea when it's all complicated and expensive, but bad when it involves burying plastic bags in landfills?
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's better to sequester carbon as dirt than as bags.
- Gabe
But if it's already in plastic bag form, why not leave it that way instead of turning it into CO2?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: that's exactly what I've been thinking. Particularly since the City of Seattle no longer allows residents to sequester food based carbon in landfills and instead requires us to burn it into compost.
- Hayes Haugen
Dirt is useful because you can grow stuff in it. Most waste products are not so useful.
- Gabe
Yes, but the choice isn't between dirt and plastic -- it's between plastic and CO2.
- Paul Buchheit
I have to agree with Paul on this one: atmospheric CO2 is much more of a pressing concern at the moment than landfill space. Though I do admire the kid's scientific spirit.
- Louis Simoneau
It doesn't say what the process actually produces. They mention the feed material (plastic) and the waste material (water, CO2), but not the real products. I assumed it produced globs of carbon. Am I wrong?
- Gabe
Has nobody considered this for an artificial ecosystem? Compost your scraps for fertile soil, and compost your bags for the CO2 for the plants growing in it. Sure you'll need an airlock on your greenhouse (and an oxy mask whenever you enter it) but you'll have the best damned tomatoes on your street.
- Chris Charabaruk
You don't want to leave it in plastic form as it screws up the ocean large! Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I hope they can use this to make something that would eat the plastic in the ocean rather than the sea life dying from it.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Since it said that the waste products were CO2 and water, I assumed there were also non-waste products. The good thing about landfills is that they can later be mined for all the great things that were too cheap to recycle.
- Gabe
Yeah, I think landfills have an unjustly bad reputation. When properly managed, they are a great way to deal with garbage that our technology can't yet efficiently recycle. (we're saving for the future!)
- Paul Buchheit
that's great news. now i can really finish my threat to all my damn *invincible* plastic bags! (waves fist)
- ed fry
The two biggest problems with landfill are the leachate seeping into groundwater (or contaminating local soil) and methane (a greenhouse gas). Even if you can mitigate those problems, they're difficult to eliminate entirely, making the land almost useless once it's full.
- Gabe
Gabe, not to minimize the problems, but I live right next to Shoreline Ampitheather in Mountain View, which is built on landfill is proof that the landfill land is hardly useless.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
It's not just landfills, though. Take the large floating trash gyre of the Pacific, and its effects in the ecosystem. So the tiny little plastic balls in water are fake food, and animals eat them, and then die in various ways, lowering populations and making species even more fragile. Landfill may be a good way if it's contained and monitored more closely, or CO2, in various areas- such...
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- anna sauce
@anna at least he is coming up with a solution rather than just finding more things to complain about
- Chris Johnston
anna's right -- the problem is when the stuff ends up in the ocean. Landfills are a good way to keep the stuff out of the ocean.
- Gabe
Stop speculating and start experimenting!
- Dane Deasy
So I went to Soundwave Brisbane 2011. That’s right, the fat bearded geek went to Soundwave. First off, big thanks to the guys from Eden Must Burn for the invite. Rad gents all of them… and major props to Liz for driving. There is a reason I’m a fan of these people, and it goes way [...]
- Johnny
$11 hamburger!?!? Please tell me it at least had bacon on it
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
No, but after the day I had running around, drinking and rocking the fuck out, what was a sub-par $4 hamburger turned into a fucking epic $11 gastronomic feast :)
- Johnny
RT @God_Damn_Batman: Christopher Nolan is the director Oscar deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So he'll get snubbed. Because he can take it.
"IBM research labs have no dressing rooms for some reason! As a result, Brad Rutter and I took over two HR conference rooms to change clothes, get made up, etc. I’ve already emailed the HR department a little chart showing which parts of their desks I sat on naked. Sorry guys! Hope the basket of muffins made up for it."
- Louis Gray
from Bookmarklet
"Ice cream made with breast milk has proved a big hit in a London restaurant, with the first batch sold out within days of going on sale, its makers said on Friday. The ice cream, called Baby Gaga, is made with milk expressed by 15 women who replied to an advertisement posted on an online mothers' forum. Each serving of Baby Gaga at the Icecreamists cafe in trendy Covent Garden costs £14 ($22.50). One of the milk donors, Victoria Hiley, 35, said that if adults realised how tasty breast milk was then more new mothers would feel happier about breastfeeding. She expressed the milk at the cafe and it was pasteurised before lemon zest and vanilla pods were added during the churning process. Hiley, who is paid £15 for every 10 ounces of milk she donates to the company, told the BBC: "What's the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?""
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
sık yaşanan ama çok güzel bir görüntü abi bu, yılın bazı dönemlere bu balıklar grup halde dolaşıyorlar köpek balıklarıda saldırıyor bunlara böyle görüntüler çıkıyor, ne olursa olsun grup dağılmamak için elinden geleni yapıyor çok hoş
- Anarşalı
"The intrinsic path to success is to focus on being the person that you are, and to put all of your energy and drive into being the best possible version of yourself." <--This.
- Derrick
This sounds like an exchange I'll never forget between a reporter and an Olympic athlete. The reporter asked where she got the discipline to train long and hard every day. The athlete's response was that what many people mistake for discipline is actually passion. It's because she really wanted to be her best.
- Bruce Lewis
Off-topic, can you install tweetmeme on your blog, I would like to re-post it without too many steps ;-)
- joergkurtwegner
I am finishing my last sandwich right now!
- Sebastian Wain
"Remember how Bill O'Reilly used tidal phenomena to definitively establish the existence of God? And how you laughed it him because the moon, and not God, actually does that? He's got a question for you: How'd the moon get there?"
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
"Really. It's in this video. HOW DID THE MOON GET THERE, YOU PINHEAD? Moreover, how come we have a moon, and Mars does not? (EDITOR'S NOTE: Mars has two moons.) The answer is God, who exists, put it there. Next question."
- Steven Perez
The comments section alone is worth the price of admission.
- Steven Perez
Best comment: "Magic of course. The moon was put there by lesbian witches in a ritual involving aborted feti as a left-wing conspiracy to give republicans AIDS."
- Kenton
"O'Reilly is the person in the advanced HTML class that interrupts the instructor so he can show him how to turn his computer on."
- Steven Perez
It's the old question: isn't it more difficult to believe in science and reason than it is magic?
- Baffled
from BuddyFeed
*sends Bill-O a copy of THE FIFTH ELEMENT*
- Steven Perez
I've never liked the guy but I just assumed it was all part of the polarising persona he played on TV: the big bully who doesn't like to listen to anything but the sound of his own voice. It appears that there's less up top than I gave him credit for; not listening to anything anyone else says seems completely ingrained in what passes for his personality.
- Mark H
Can a scientist also explain how Bill got to the Moon?
- Neal Krummell
Forget explanations. Can some scientist send him there? Now!
- Jim #TeamMonique
I get the point being made by highlighting this story, but it's a terrible example to rail O'Reilly on, as scientists still aren't sure how the Moon got there (but they have their hypotheses): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... And the Moon is qualitatively different than the satellites around Mars in a variety of ways.
- Mark Trapp
It was constructed by the Empire under the supervision of Darth Vader
- Johnny
from iPhone
"Wait, if God exists, how'd he get there?"
- Private Sanjeev
Tonight's Talking Points: Earth is centre of the universe and flat... WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!!!1!1
- Johnny
from iPhone
It appears to me Bill O'Reilly is saying whatever he wants just to get attention. #attentionwhore
- Chris Topher
It's an all too common flip answer; just another way of saying "you can't prove god doesn't exist, so therefore god exists"...
- Baffled
Mark: That's silly though. You can't ever be 100% certain about anything if you want to take it that way. You can't *prove* that this isn't the Matrix that we're all living in either. Doesn't mean it is.
- Otto
Mark there's a vast grand canyon difference between selecting between alternate explanations for the moon's origins based on reasoned discourse and saying because I don't understand it God done done it. Speaking of grand canyon, there's also a group that find the grand canyon an impossible natural process and think Jesus done done it.
- Todd Hoff
Todd, to be fair, that's not the argument O'Reilly made. It was a pretty standard teleological argument that used examples of complex problems we really don't have the answers to in science yet to demonstrate the inherent problems with saying "science has all the answers". Rather than strawmanning his argument to him saying something akin to "Effing magnets, how do they work? It's a...
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- Mark Trapp
Neither science nor religion promises to have all the answers. You're thinking of politics.
- Bruce Lewis
Mark: But that's specious, at best. Science is indeed about finding answers, but saying we don't know why the moon is there is not correct either. We have a pretty darned good idea why the moon is there, the math backs it up, and it's plausible. There are some aspects that we don't know and which don't quite fit, but hey, with every answer comes new questions, sort of thing. And the...
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- Otto
I would say that we know how the moon is where it is, but not why.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
He's not saying he doesn't know why the moon is there and science should explain. He's saying God put it there, so suck it science!
- Eric - Too Hot
That's really the point here. Bill doesn't give two tugs of dead dog's cock about the moon. He cares only that he looks smarter than the pinheads who showed him up. And if that means presenting scientists with questions until they trip up, that's what he'll do. This whole thing is all about Bill O'Reilly's ego.
- Steven Perez
Next, he'll be explaining that God put only 23 letters in the English alphabet (and Gawker will point out there are 26x2).
- MiniMage
Not true, that would prove there was NO God!
- MiniMage
"On Abraham Lincoln, the top hat imbued honesty into his every word. On Fred Astaire, the hat conveys every movement as beauty and grace. Even Mr. Peanut wears a top hat when he’s steppin’ out in style. So, how does that tie in with cupcakes? Enter the Hi Hat (aka High Hat) cupcake. A tender chocolate cupcake topped with over 2 inches of marshmallow icing, dipped in rich chocolate coating. How much more graceful and stylish can you get?"
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
Everything is good for something – including SPAM. According to this article. A spam message wishing a Russian woman happy new year may very well have killed her, and saved hundreds of intended targets, according to an account by The Telegraph’s Moscow correspondent, Andrew Osborn. The woman, dubbed “The Black Widow,” who Russian authorities suspect was part of the same militant group that killed 35 people at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday, was at a house preparing for the attack, which would have occurred on New Year’s Eve at Red Square. Instead, the woman’s mobile phone, which served as the device’s detonator, was activated hours early by a spam message wishing her a happy new year. She was killed, while a man and woman suspected of being accomplices escaped from the house. Russian security forces told The Telegraph that phones are usually kept off until the last minute for detonation, but in this case, “the terrorists were careless.”
Men account for a slight majority of North Carolina's charges. The average age of those ticketed with texting while driving is 28, according to the AP review. More than half were at least 26 years old when they were cited, including eight people over 60.
- Leo Laporte
I believe it... I watch them drive here!
- David Eckard