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Dear FriendFeed... Merry Xmas... Love Johnny
Amber, Random Time Lord, Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF, Live4Emma (L4S) and 42 other people liked this
Looking back on another year, my second Xmas with the Double Fs, I have come to appreciate the power and complete kickassedness of a lot of you here. For me, putting aside one's personal spiritual persuasions, Xmas is about taking stock of the ones you know and the ones you hold dear. This year has been hard for a lot of us. Some of us have battle personal tragedy. Some of us have battled financial stresses. Some of us have battled illness or disease... some continue that battle and you are in our thoughts. The year kicked off in spectacular fashion with the birth of Audrey Moskovitz. I have enjoyed watching her grow and I have also enjoyed watching the growth of Akiva and Rochelle as they experience some of the things those of us with kids have experienced. I have forged strong friendships. I have built on existing ones. I have lost some as well. The fact that I have a wonderful friend in Mr Josh Haley is a true blessing and a gift that lasts longer than one day. He truly is the Yang...
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- Johnny Worthington
<3 Merry Christmas you loveable man you.
- aden
Well said, Mr Worthington. <3 Merry Christmas.
- Yolanda
Now I must go hang my daughter's stocking... I am a fat bearded guy after all :)
- Johnny Worthington
Happy Holidays Johnny and Family and to all the FF's everywhere ,, play it safe .... but have heaps of fun
- johnpiercy
very nice JW.....a very Merry Christmas Johnny to you and your family
- VAL D. Zone
you rock johnny w. <3
- Call me Bronco
I'm Johnny's yang. Just picture that. OK, you're welcome.
- Josh Haley
I like that you're my Yang
- Johnny Worthington
I think you're a pretty darn good Ying.
- Josh Haley
Happy holidays to you and your family, too, Johnny! FF wouldn't be the same without you.
- Rochelle
Keep it comin' Johnny (Watch out for that Louis guy .... :)
- Charlie Anzman
Louis just drops science willy-nilly
- Johnny Worthington
Back at you man!:D
- Jason Hill
And to you and your family as well, Johnny. :-)
- AJ Batac
Merry Christmas Johnny! You too Josh! Oh, okay. All of you!
- Justin Whitaker
Merry Christmas Johnny!
- Jim: Dead Like FF
Merry Christmas Johnny and all FF denizens from still snowy NY in still free Obamaland!
- Thom Kennon
Merriest Christmas wishes to the Worthingtons! Much love!
- Laura B.
Merry Christmas to the Worthingtons! Hope you have a wonderful holiday.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Worth In Town FF are the Worthingtons.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
IT'S XMAS MORNING!!!
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Merry Christmas!!
- Trish Haley
Merry Christmas
- Mark H
Can't wait to see your Christmas pix, Johnny! Hope y'all have a wonderful day!
- Laura B.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Johnny! :-D
- Live4Emma (L4S)
If anyone at Google is looking for something to open source, the core machine learning infrastructure (like Seti) would be very good for the world.
Ozkan Altuner, Matt Mastracci, Joel Webber and 35 other people liked this
I agree, SETI would be great. But whoa, it would be a huge amount of work to open-source it.
- Daniel Dulitz
Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence?
- Gabe
Har har.... I assume there is ZERO chance of this ever happening.
- Jay
@Jay - I suspect Paul wouldn't ask if he thought there was zero chance. Last time I remember Paul asking for something from Google to be open sourced it was their JS compiler. That took a while, but http://code.google.com/closure...
- Nick Lothian
@Jay: Remember that Paul's referring to (relatively) generic infrastructure here, not search ranking code. But I think Daniel's right that it would be a *lot* of work, since most Google infrastructure is not "productized" and easy to wrap up in a bow for public release. Like any company with a lot of infrastructure, there are a lot of interdependencies that would be difficult to untangle. I think it would probably be better to simply publish papers on how it works, as with GFS, BigTable, etc.
- Joel Webber
Boy, that would be a bold move Paul. Agreed that it would help out many though!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
How about just dumping the source to the web without all the dependencies, even if it doesn't even compile? If it looks useful enough there's a good chance someone would adopt it.
- Jim Norris
I suspect you're right about that, Jim. But Google would probably catch more crap about a "throwing it over the wall and letting it stagnate" open-sourcing than it's worth. But maybe I'm just down on it because Google catches crap no matter what these days...
- Joel Webber
It's hard to open source distributed algorithms -- there's no obvious public standard to use, and the reasonable choices (TCP sockets? MPI?) are nothing like Google's internal infrastructure. I think a paper would be more useful than source code, the way MapReduce papers lead to Hadoop. Paul, have you looked at Vowpal Wabbit (http://hunch.net/~vw/)? It has experimental support for cluster parallelism, and I hear good things about it.
- ⓞnor
Well, it doesn't have to be an either/or issue.
- Jim Norris
If the code is too hard to separate from the infrastructure, then maybe a compute service like EC2 that provides an application interface specifically for solving problems with SETI could be good for both the world and good for the Google.
- Bill Strathearn
@Bill: Now *that* sounds like a good idea to me, especially if accompanied by a paper describing the algorithms in use.
- Joel Webber
Awake. WHY.
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Holidays excitement ;)
- Nir Ben Yona
I am because my upstairs neighbor decided it was time to wear boots on hard wood floors at 7am and someone must have come to visit too............;(
- VAL D. Zone
I'm up because the stupid buses are SO flippin' loud and construction started again. YAY - awesome!
- Mona Nomura
In that case, I know what to do. Hold On. [http://bit.ly/7ACXln]
- Nir Ben Yona
Good morning and Merry Christmas Eve to all...........
Nia, Mike Nencetti, Iain Baker and 3 other people liked this
Merry Christmas Eve to you too!
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
I had this really gullible friend. When we were 12, I told her that Australia celebrates Christmas on June 25, since they do things backwards there. So, when I got a text saying that 25 years later she's repeating that, it makes me feel both powerful and slightly like an ass.
Kol Tregaskes, Soup, adf and 8 other people liked this
But really? I'm LMAO.
- Admiral Anika
ROFL. Seriously, in 25 years she hasn't found an encyclopedia/dictionary/Australian person to ask?
- Jennifer Dittrich
....
- Mo Kargas
Apparently, I really made an impression. The mutual friend that texted me is alternately laughing and chastising me. She said they all said, "You know...Anika used to do that to mess with you." <--Used to? I *still* do it! LOL But she said gullible friend was like, "No way! Anika was so sweet to me and smart." Heh.
- Admiral Anika
LOL New text: You need to tell us what you told her. She needs deprogramming bad. This is the girl where when I got to Europe to meet her, she picked me up from the airport & asked me about her dog, a black lab. I said, "I'm sorry. Sam died. But your mom had him made into these boots." And handed her some black Uggs. I thought it was something that even she wouldn't believe. She broke...
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- Admiral Anika
Always was/am afraid of being that girl. :(
- Yolanda
Wow. That's a real lack of critical thinking.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Yes...very often I was concerned by how she'd get along in life. She didn't get jokes or sarcasm. I would have to be smiling or laughing for her to "get it". Otherwise, my deadpan was taken at face value.
- Admiral Anika
:)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Sam! Poor Sam! lmao
- Rick Cogley
Nymmy is at the vet again! She has been throwing up everything the last couple days. Likely because of her meds, but she has now gone too long without food so we have to find out. :(
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Hoping Nym feels better soon.
- Stephen Mack
:( SO sorry to hear it.
- Alex Scoble
she is feeling much better now. Has kept food down for something like 20 hours now. We are all very happy. Damn antibiotics making her sick!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Glad she's better!
- Anne Bouey
Glad to hear that she's better.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Just a word to the wise if anyone uses IAMs cat food: I was concerned about RubyRoo because she seemed to be eating less than normal, then I discovered that the bag of IAMs cat food had some pieces scattered throughout that were weirdly colored and looked "not right." I went back to the store to complain and got a fresh bag, but I was concerned that she had eaten the "iffy" stuff for at...
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- Mark "DerBingle" J
looks like my cat :)) http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get...
- Пушистая нямочка
Good call mark. That is one of the many reasons I feed my cats wellness cat food.
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
You have a beautiful tortie too!
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
:(
- Mona Nomura
Watch This: 70-Minute Video Review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace | /Film - http://www.slashfilm.com/2009...
Anne Bouey, Jérôme Flipo, Richard Chen and 9 other people liked this
❝Some guy named Mike from Milwaukee, WI put together a 70-minute video review discussing the many reasons why the movie was horrible. And this isn’t your usual fanboy rant, this is an epic, well-edited well-constructed piece of geek film criticism. In fact, the way I learned about the video was from Lost co-creator and Star Trek producer Damon Lindelof, who said “Your life is about to change. This is astounding film making. Watch ALL of it.”❞
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
Just watch a couple of minutes. Then try to stop watching!
- Rob Shillingsburg
Confused Matthew is another geek teardown reviewer that is fun sometimes, here's his takedown of Matrix Reloaded Architect scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch... "Is this just a shitty architect?" "This has got to be the worst architect in history of fiction."
- Ray Cromwell
Prediction for 2010: FriendFeed is going to see a resurgence.
ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, 拓 | wavesand, Jokin Lacalle and 77 other people liked this
What's the rationale?
- Pavan
Really?!
- Michael Liss
I think this prediction's outcome might fall into the hands of Facebook. We'll see what they do with the property this year.
- Andrew Dobrow
Funny that this comes from Twitter. =D
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
ROFL.
- Derrick
So is RSS if we're going to follow Robert's logic.
- Jimminy Fuller
HOW TO SPOT COMMENT BAIT IN 100 EASY STEPS — STEP 1: DID IT COME FROM ROBERT SCOBLE? STEPS 2-100: REPEAT STEP 1.
- Akiva Moskovitz
already happening, yo
- Josh Haley
it started surging (again) after ppl let the knowledge of fb purchase fall into the bits of history pages
- chaz2b
Lets cross our fingers
- polou/indigo_bow
This is SO an experiment on Scoble's part.
- Jeremy (quasimodo)
WTF is FriendFeed?
- David Cohn
Rational, Twitter usage is flattening, people are finally figuring out that Twitter sucks for having a conversation. People though Friendfeed was hard to use, try having to install several software 'crutches' to be able to use Twitter productively without even half the functionality as Freindfeed.
- Jeff P. Henderson
if you say so...
- MobilAdam
Either this is tounge in cheek or Robert really hasn't gotten over our breakup... Robert, I hope we can still be friends but we have to move on and grow... FriendFeed will always love you, but we need some 'us' time to find out who 'we' are... *cues The Bodygaurd soundtrack*... *walks out into the rain, adjusts collar, walks off down the road*... *fade to black, credits*
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
LOL Johnny!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Best Christmas present ever!
- Jemm
Comment bait. Even Robert can't generate interest these days.
- Russellreno
I agree. Friendfeed is for those who need more from a 2d interface. Until there spatial interface is there, Friendfeed is on top of the pyramid (especially when one knows how to use it best).
- Kirill Bolgarov
Up
- Luca Perugini
from iPhone
*slow-mo head shake*
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Too funny! Johnny and Akiva -- you guys crack me up.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
I would agree with a few here and say that FriendFeed is already resurging, Robert. #friendfeed
- Kol Tregaskes
AMEN!
- zʍıɔ
The stats don't agree though: http://thenextweb.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
it's like drunk dialing an ex-girlfriend...
- Aron Michalski
from BuddyFeed
i guess so too..
- Daniele - Viralavatar
so too :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Agreed wholeheartedly Robert
- Roberto Bonini
Akiva: lol, Kol: that article only looks at unique visitors, and doesn't consider user hours.
- Mike Chelen
:) @ Aron - sums it up perfectly...
- 1x29
Lets hope so ... Miss some of my old peeps :)
- Charlie Anzman
I'm surprised Robert made this statement but I find it very interesting in the change of view and wonder what has changed his mind or if he knows more info.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
The unpredictably erratic Scobot is at it again...
- Ciro
Well, after glancing at his Twitter timeline, he's just making a bunch of joke predictions. I'd like to think that there's some truth in this one though...
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sniffs... Do you smell that? It's what we used to call a troll. Robert is getting dangerously close to becoming irrelevent.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
Robert is waiting until 2010 to respond to this thread. :)
- Louis Gray
I told you so
- Jesse Stay
Kol: the *stat* doesn't agree (note the singular)
- Jesse Stay
Well, since I'm ready organizing the elections for the best Dutch blogs I can say the resurgence already started last week. ;-)
- Ton Zijp
Kol: Here are many more stats that imply the contrary: http://staynalive.com/article...
- Jesse Stay
Excellent idea.
- Richard A.
from FreshFeed
Scoble - I disagree ONLY because I think that FriendFeed activity is already migrating to Facebook via deeper integration over there but I'm wiling to hear you out (as are the other 40+ people commenting here). Do share why you think this is true?
- Aaron Strout
I wrote this tweet for Twitter, not for FriendFeed. But nice to see you all! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Jason: I'm definitely irrelevant if the people calling me irrelevant don't even have 1,000 subscribers. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
I actually see FriendFeed growing instead of slowing and there will also be new enhancements. A testing ground for Facebook. Just to expand, Robert's still the man!
- amarquart
Akiva wins the internets with this mathematical formula for spotting comment bait.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
You think we're fighting, I think we're finally talking! -all in one page
- Tim Jones
Funny, when I write, I write for everyone, everywhere
- Johnny Worthington
Beat ya to it Robert: http://friendfeed.com/jhuebel... And the resurgence is already happening.
- Jason Huebel
@Jason Williams, wow that's the pot calling the kettle black, doncha think? Robert's not a troll.
- Jason Huebel
@Kol, somebody mentioned that those stats often only consider US visitors (why that would be, I don't know). FF's non-US contingent has grown tremendously, so that graph may not show the whole picture.
- Jason Huebel
Akiva wins the thread.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
let's hope so - I love the darn thing
- Arthur Coleman
I'm finding that FriendFeed is fiendishly sticky. On Twitter lists do help, they make twitter better and all but but but-but I think a lot of users are getting more sophisticated in their web usage faster than Twitter can evolve their tech. Louis Grey recently postulated that even if there is no interaction on FriendFeed it makes complete sense to stay riding this horse. That got me...
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- JSLeFanu
Dude..... I totally hope you're right, but not too sure about this! LOL Explain your rationale please :)
- Susan Beebe
i agree with the original prediction. by the way, what's a resurgence? is it different than insurgents? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Morgan - the insurgents never left ... ;-p
- Robyn Hawk
Jason, OK. Good. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll stay one faithful user, for those "outside the US" stats. Still feature plenty, still enjoyable. Still effective. Thanks for rallying the troops again Robert. Bring the hopes, and forget the ropes! 8)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
My 4 day Xmas break starts........... NOW!
Laura B., Kol Tregaskes, Mo Kargas and 8 other people liked this
Woohoo!
- aden
Wheeeeeeee! Happy Xmas, Johnny!
- Ayşe E.
First LEGO, then THE WORLD!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Her: I got a ticket for unlawful tree climbing. I was climbing a tree at the park, I guess it's illegal.
Jennifer Dittrich, Charlie Anzman, Chris Baskind and Admiral Anika liked this
How much does something like that run?
- Admiral Anika
Before you know it, they'll pass a law against putting mustard packages beneath the teacher's chair in the cafeteria.
- Chris Baskind
The realtime connection from Twitter to FriendFeed is back! (thanks to Twitter's "birddog" api)
Arunav S Banerjee, Robyn Hawk, Stefigno and 148 other people liked this
Awesome news!
- Jorge Escobar
Very good!
- Kurt Starnes
Sweetness!
- Alex Scrivener
34 secs flat for my latest tweet. Thanks Paul and team for this!
- Jorge Escobar
wow, that makes actually want to use Twitter. I may just go tweet something.
- Mike Nencetti
It should be even faster than that Jorge, but our systems are getting near their limit. I hope to have it down to 1 sec sometime next month.
- Paul Buchheit
Thank god!
- Miguel Caetano
@Paul, believe me, 34 secs is a charm compared to what we had before!
- Jorge Escobar
Great news!
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Is the birddog api open to all developers, or is it only to you guys?
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, everyone can access the streaming api, but you need an agreement to follow a large number of ids. See http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Streami...
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul.
- Roberto Bonini
that cool. Thanks Paul
- Peter Dawson
Yay! That's fantastic! I was getting really bored of manually refreshing it every time I tweeted. Especially from my phone. :)
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Does this mean that Scoble can get smarter on FriendFeed again?
- Crutis
NICE!
- Jason Huebel
Thanks Paul, nice work :)
- LANjackal
wow no posts on the majors yet - usually within mere moments of an announcement we'd have posts.
- Allen Stern
Thank God.
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
cool!
- barbarars
What was the problem?
- Ozkan Altuner
Now....if you could just get rid of the @ replies again. I would be very happy.
- Chris Nixon
relief ! :)
- asli subasi
You are still working on Frienfeed (: how nice !
- Murat Can Demir
whoa, it took less than a minute. i accdently tested it but it's great :) thnx
- asli subasi
awesome, keep it up guys, i knew you would not let us down
- Iggy Mwangi
Great news, love the efforts still put in to FF.I use Google Reader to share into FF (PubSubHubBub) then FF to Twitter (now Real-Time). The URL shortener is great (ff.im), and so FF is central to my social lifestream. I don't care what Scoble says, FF is technically better and feature-rich.
- Keith Rowland
P.S. Conversations are still better here than on GReader, and you just can't have one on Twitter.
- Keith Rowland
You didn't break the FF Facebook app while you were at it, did you? It hasn't worked since.
- Tim Tyler
Oh, awesome!!! 12 seconds :) I can finally go back to Twitter (...okay no I can't I've turned into a Friendfeed junkie..) but prior it took hours upon hours for me to see a feed. Dumb I am, I never suspected a problem LMAO.
- H0llywoodWh0re
Thank you!
- Micah Wittman
Awesome news :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
eyvallah hacı
- Mücahit Yılmaz
Cool. Haven't tried it but yay!
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
Yippee! I love real time
- Sandra Large
Paul ?? Twitter updates facebook status and then facebook creates a new feed here on friendfeed. So we have same entries both from twitter and facebook on friendfeed. Could you guys please work on how we can avoid duplicate entries? Thank you. ( If there's already a way to avoid this, pls let me know)
- Murat Can Demir
Cool, thanks, Paul! :-) RT Twitter updates have been missed. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
And just as I say that, I see my tweets are not coming into FF in real-time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol. I just tweeted and it was here before I could get out of Tweetie and launch Safari... It's working :)
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
awesome.; thank you a lot..
- Jaap Willem
Nice! Thank U Paul :)
- zʍıɔ
:)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Oh, so nice to have that back again.
- Hutch Carpenter
Johnny, cool. Just me then. It's still slow. Maybe it's FriendFeed then?
- Kol Tregaskes
It truncates retweets, even in the middle of a link...
- Raphael, Raphael
seems that there are only 140chars allowed for a tweet (on FF) and the new twitter retweets are being translated on the way through to old RT @name style - thus are too long.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Whoo! VMware Fusion update.
Charlie Anzman, Mike Nencetti and ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, liked this
Update to v3? I'm still on v2.
- Micah Wittman
Yeah, a v3 update. A lot of performance and 64-bit fixes, apparently.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Notice a difference?
- Matt Hilton
Matt, yep. Performance seems snappier overall (especially Aero stuff and when in Unity). Visual Studio 2008 is still a little more sluggish than I'd like but it's definitely better than what it was before. And, also, resuming a sleeping VM seems to be twice as fast as before.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Thanks Akiva, I'm updating now.
- Matt Hilton
from email
How much RAM are you running on the windows side?
- Sankt Nikolaus
For the most part, just a gig with Windows 7. I have a dev VM that I have 2 gigs going but 1 gig is usually enough.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, what is your host computer? I'm using a MacBook w/ 4GB RAM, but 1 Processor and 1 GB on the Virtual Windows 7 seems slow.
- Matt Hilton
Oh. This is on an octo-core MacPro with 6 gigs of RAM. You might want to boost your VMs to 2 gigs.
- Akiva Moskovitz
On anything less than a Mac Pro, VM Windows will seem slow even with 2GB RAM. There's a very noticeable performance difference when running a VM on a Mac Pro vs MacBook (Pro). Same holds if you're using Parallels instead of Fusion.
- ronin
Yeah, you have the big boy. I'm going to leave it on 1 for a bit. Maybe there was some re-adjustment that needed to happen on the first boot with the new settings. 2 GB with 2 Processors seemed to slow the host MB down. Thanks for the info.
- Matt Hilton
from email
Actually, on my MacBook Pro, Fusion performs really well, too. I don't use Unity there, though, so maybe that helps.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I think the first boot threw me off when I went from 2 to 1 GB RAM and 2 to 1 processor. It seems good enough right now. I wasn't expecting extreme performance from the virtual machine, just to be able to do stuff for work if I can't get to a PC at home.
- Matt Hilton
Cute: Yahoo Targets Former Employee Names on Google AdWords - http://searchengineland.com/cute-ya...
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Head over heels! The Giant Panda who did a roly poly in his sleep - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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It’s a sweet but unremarkable sight, a young panda dozing off in the midday sun. But keeling over into the hard paving, this quick-witted bear awoke in the brink time and executed a perfect forwards roll. The sleepy panda, named Tai Shan, could have fallen flat on his face. But instead he dropped his head between his legs and turned gently head-over-heels before landing comfortably on his back in pleasant surprise.
- Emma
from Bookmarklet
Kung-fu Panda
- Spidra Webster
All you have to do is take some photos – which you never delete from your camera – so when someone finds your camera at the bottom of the gorilla pit they are able to locate you and return the lost property to its rightful owner. http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au/a-picto...
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I love this.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I like how everything is clear and readable except the email address.
- Alex Scrivener
LOL That's funny, but yeah...what's with the email address being so small?
- Admiral Anika
At any rate, I had a video I made with all my info on it. I accidentally took it off my chip, but I'm positive I copied it to my camera. Unfortunately, I don't know how to access my camera's memory and the cord has been lost. One of these days, I'll RTFM. =)
- Admiral Anika
that was great.......lol
- VAL D. Zone
genius.
- Morgan Haley
I like how the facial expressions match the whiteboard :-)
- Rene Wirtz
lol that was awesome as hell. I'm definitely planning to do it.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I'd just leave only one pic with my email
- Itachi
The other pics build empathy, encouraging a border-line thief to return the camera. Otherwise you may as well stick a label on the case and be done with it.
- Alex Scrivener
Does anyone else want to make out with this guy for being SO DAMN AWESOME? Srsly, total panty-dropper this one was.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
@tinypants I totally agree!
- vicster is...
God. That really *was* awesome. Anyone hesitating, go on, click the blue arrow so you can read the whole thing XD
- Kamilah Gill
this is win.
- Colette
cute
- Burçak Çubukçu
he's sweet, but it won't work
- topo
this would make an amazing ad : )
- liladreams
wow, this is very close to being the most popular thing I have ever posted to Friendfeed. Just goes to show, um, something. Always use pictures?
- Alex Scrivener
took 25 of em ;)
- Itachi
ALWAYS use pictures. I try to include a picture with every post. Otherwise, people just pass the post by. It's always been that way.
- Jason Huebel
Yes, Always use pictures! For one thing, I might sketch your stuff one day! Also yes, it helps your posts stand out.
- Kamilah Gill
Awesome!
- Josh Haley
I'm the opposite. I tend to ignore posts with photos (unless the post itself is just a photo). Why? The image usually detracts from the text and people spend time talking about the picture and making it clear they didn't bother to read the text or link.
- Admiral Anika
=/ (not about the original post. I already expressed how much I love it)
- Kamilah Gill
:)
- winckel
Or you could just put an address sticker on the camera...
- Alix Whitmire
No, the pictures try to build an emotional connection with the finder. It helps convince a not-so-honest person to return the camera rather than just keep it. It won't stop a real thief, but it could tip the odds in his favor. A sticker can't do that.
- Alex Scrivener
There should be a place in your camera for email address, like cell phones have "Home" so when you lose it, someone can call you. Hmmmm.
- anna sauce
Brilliant! :D
- Carmen
I wouldn't ever think to go through pics, but if I found a lost cam (or phone or whatever) with an address clearly visible on it, I'd pop it in the mail, or call/email someone, no problem. Same holds true for some lost and found places. They might call you if there's easy contact info, but I don't see them taking the time to flip through photos to figure out how. Maybe do both?
- Alix Whitmire
Creative!
- Mehmet Ali Akyol
lol
- echostreamer
LoL !
- ★ Soner Gönül
So good!
- Micah Wittman
That's a great idea ! i'm just sad you didn't show it before i left my camera somewhere ... T_T
- Duff
that's genius. now all I need is the camera
- JSLeFanu
Very Good!
- John D Reasor
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ramazan taklitlerinden sakininiz
- Cagdas Seichter
I was putting a README.txt file on my USB sticks with contact info if it got lost. This is way better! Now take this board with your contact info.... smile, no! put a sad face.... and you're done!
- Nenad Nikolic
This is now far and away the most popular thing I have ever posted. Even got a FFundercats Best of the Week!
- Alex Scrivener
:D
- Josh Haley
Güzel, son derece yaratıcı bir fikirmis :)
- Orkut Ozdemirci
Does FF inherently attract people who like to argue? :)
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Geeks have argued since time immemorial. "Who's stronger? Thor or Hulk?"
- Spidra Webster
More likely argument takes up disproportionate amount of the conversation.
- Ruchira S. Datta
that just peeps in general
- VAL D. Zone
Argue is a main tool for some,to polish their ego of....you name it !
- Dedegi
@Ruchira, agree... FF also makes it really easy to argue. Much harder to do so on Twitter etc :)
- Bindu Reddy
It doesn't take up much space to say "+1" or "me too!"
- Ruchira S. Datta
NO, IT DOESN'T! YOU WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT? Wait...
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
And when "Like" means "Like", one might end up not commenting at all.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Bubba of Arizona - yes it does.... :)
- Bindu Reddy
:) Bindu, I think there are a lot of people that wanna fight if they can hide behind a faceless medium that allows cowards to escape consequences for inflamatory statements.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
not really.. I believe FF attracts ppl who like to exchange thoughts.. no two person thoughts are the same in terms of articulation and/or created in the same manner. So we perceive a difference and at times we can be very rude in articulating that difference :)- Having a difference of opinion is not an argument !!
- Peter Dawson
No, it doesn't, Peter. And there are some people on FF (and other places) that disagree in a cordial, friendly manner. But many others are...well, not so much.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
Not that I have noticed.
- Louis Gray
It attracts people of wide and diverse skill sets and it also encourages Hilarity on occasion ,,,,
- johnpiercy
NO! :) Wait... maybe YES!... no wait.. umm.. whats the question again?
- Santa CW™
I think it attracts people with a diversity of ideas and opinions, which is bound to lead to arguing.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Any site that lets you speak your mind AND has a lot of people that might see your comments...hell yes it does.
- Josh Haley
CW - LOL :)) @johnpiercy Agree some of the discussions are hilarious..
- Bindu Reddy
All sites that invite comments attract trolls.
- rowlikeagirl
It's like jousting without the blood or the prospect of getting the lady.
- Todd Hoff
yup, It's a lot of fun :)... except at times when people begin to take the arguments very seriously....
- Bindu Reddy
Read this.. it might help everyone.. http://ff.im/d6phS
- Santa CW™
Everyone on this thread is wrong, but me.
- Alex Scoble
All conversations on the internet are arguments. This is due to the nature of text as a non-emotionally expressive medium. People read lack of emotions as negatives, thus creating an inherent argumentative tone in any text which disagrees with the opinions of the reader. Thus, all text conversations are eventually heated arguments instead of reasonable debate. The exceptions are few and far between.
- Otto
otto, interesting idea/theory... never thought of it that way... Sometimes how you phrase something matters. People who are argumentative for example always like having the last word..
- Bindu Reddy
Alex, no you are the only one who is wrong :)
- Bindu Reddy
"“Words are magic. The very idea that by making sounds we can paint pictures in the minds of others is magic. We get to choose whether we practice white or black magic" - Jack Brightnose, Cree Medicine Man
- Peter Dawson
Bindu, the irony of your statement warped the universe a bit, but it still seems intact...oh and no, you're wrong. :)
- Alex Scoble
Ask Scoble ( err robert he invented the Internet )
- johnpiercy
Yes, and what Otto said. Other types like myself, who at least initially wanted to find social connections and interaction, give up on that objective and just change how they use it (for learning or exploring, etc.)
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Fights aggregate attention. So yes. Let's go back to High School. Did anyone pay attention to the geek doing a science fair exhibit? Not many. How about a fight in the quad? I remember one where it seemed the whole school gathered around and watched. This is why conversations don't necessarily make you smarter but are probably more entertaining to watch and, maybe, even participate in.
- Robert Scoble
Yes arguing for the sake of arguing doesn't make you smarter... However FF conversations are sometimes really great in helping see another point of view. Maybe we should have a "smart conversation" icon so we can filter for them :)
- Bindu Reddy
"smart conversation" - what is smart for one , could be dumb for another !
- Peter Dawson
Is this Argument? I was looking for Abuse.
- John Craft
Yes Yes Yes, Umm just what do you want to argue about today???
- ThatDBD
I learn more from an argument than having a discussion. A Discussion sometime leads to an argument but an argument rarely leads to discussion.
- ashish
Not more than any other service, but it does better provide the means to do so :)
- sofarsoShawn
Just because some social media services don't facilitate conversation well doesn't mean it doesn't exist on that service. FriendFeed EASILY facilitates the quick exchange of ideas between multiple parties, so disagreement is bound to surface. Twitter is like sticking PostIt notes on a wall, you can argue, but it ain't easy.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Are you guys kidding me? 37 replies and no one told Spidra that Hulk is strongest one there is?
- Andrew C
Everyone agreeing isn't very informative. Agruement is good mental execise. Oh, and Hulk.
- Robert Hafer
from iPhone
Can't stand people who think like I do. Or who don't challenge my nonsense.
- A Mitchell
NO !!!! WHATS"S YOUR PROBLEM?
- JSLeFanu
Johnny, love your postit comment
- Bindu Reddy
+Spidra - Geeks have indeed argued since well, the Greeks. The concept of the dialogue as a "debate" goes way back (even to Babylonian writings), but Plato perfected it: "Plato further simplified the form and reduced it to pure argumentative conversation, while leaving intact the amusing element of character-drawing. He must have begun this about the year 405-406 BC, and by 399 he had...
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- Adrian
ROBOT RAVE! - http://mokargas.soup.io/post...
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WOOO!
- Mo Kargas
Well done, Sir!
- Robert Kenney
Just had to make a soup.io and add as a custom rss feed in order to get the anims to work !
- Mo Kargas
Rock! Robot Rock!
- Mike Lewis
DOO DOO DO DO DOO DOO VWIP VWIP
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Break it down robro
- Mo Kargas
Ignore the collateral..good robo parties are measured by such
- Mo Kargas
TGIF!!!
- Mo Kargas
OOOOOT OOOOOT TCH TCH-TCH OOOOOT OOOOOT
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
*POOMPCHIK-POOMPCHIK-POOMPCHIK-POOMPCHIK-POOMPCHIK-POOMPCHIK*
- Joe Silence is not Santa
This is one the best episodes of Transformers.
- Andy Bakun
Yep, way better than the movies
- Mo Kargas
The system, is down, down, down
- Geoff Schultz
It's like the ending of Reservoir Dogs...but with Robots!
- Carlton Hackett
PEWW PEWW ZAPPP PEWWW
- Mo Kargas
DANCE AND FLAIL AROUND
- Josh Haley
/me dances and flails around!
- joey
:)
- Josh Haley
It's back! It's like the best of FF clipshow at this point :D
- Micah Wittman
I see that another weekend at the Kargas Kompound went off without a hitch.
- Steven Perez
I'm so high on robot right now.
- Sparky
TWSS
- WorldofHiglet
Ooh yeah, you know what time it is
- Mo Kargas
Holy Shit :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Mo and his friends are celebrating...
- directeur
Looks like an awesome b'day
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Damn right Rah, we know how to party
- Mo Kargas
TGIF
- Mo Kargas
This is what happens when you OD on Energon Cubes.
- Santa CW™
THIS IS WHAT I CALL A GOOD PARTY!
- Mo Kargas
needs more lasers
- WorldofHiglet
always
- Mo Kargas
the finale of "Blake's 7" as portrayed by robots?
- Joe Silence is not Santa
oh, now you did it. I have the Blake's 7 theme going around my head #wobblysetsahoy!
- WorldofHiglet
WIN
- Mo Kargas
^^^ Yep. This is the everlasting gobstopper of laser GIFs.
- Micah Wittman
ROFL!
- rowlikeagirl
WWEOEOEOOOOOOOOO!
- Mo Kargas
We just had carolers. Carolers. I was charmed but I also had no idea what to do so we kind of hid. They left food.
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I'm sorta like that around mimes
- WarLord
You have mimes that go door-to-door in your neighborhood? That's weird.
- Akiva Moskovitz
ROFL
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Its the cold weather, nobody on street corners, door to door is the only way
- WarLord
FAIL, and WIN
- Josh Haley
I miss door-to-door caroling. I haven't lived in a neighborhood safe enough to do it for many years.
- Spidra Webster
A friend of mine and I used to go caroling every Halloween.
- Mistletoe Glen
I wish I still had the issue of Dynamite magazine that had Halloween carols in it. "Deck the halls with balls of cotton, 'tis the season to be rotten"
- Spidra Webster
Remember how you were telling Rochelle she needed a digital mezuzah? Do you have an analog one?
- Spidra Webster
I think we had carolers once. It was quaint.
- Lis Miller
usually performers appreciate applause, though hiding in the shadows is considered a compliment at the milford academy
- Mike Chelen
I'm Catholic and have no idea what you're supposed to do. I'd imagine, go out and greet them? Introduce? Get to know neighbors and all that? But that's just speculation. I'm not sure if that would piss off Carolers, by delaying them from the next house and making them stop singing.....
- Matthew DeVries
I figured it was a church group and thought they probably left church literature on the porch so when they were gone, I went out to check. No literature, just a package of what I'm guessing is brownies. Who wants to eat them and see what happens?
- Rochelle
Around here, people open their door and stand outside and listen, then clap or thank them when they're done.
- Trish R
Tell them you're Jewish and that Jesus wasn't a real Messiah. ;-) They won't come back.
- Jason Huebel
lol you peeps make me laugh
- VAL D. Zone
Actually, I don't think we've ever had carolers. Maybe at the mall they had some people caroling over by the big clock. But that's not the same. They're supposed to come to you. Isn't that what they're paid for? *someone whispers in my ear* What? They don't get paid? Then what are they doing out in the cold? Silly people.
- Jason Huebel
cauldron of hot oil - don't stay home without it.
- Morgan Haley
I learned yesterday that Simler.com is a Utah company - need to look more into them. Very interesting. Excited for Utah right now!
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Simler rocks.
- Louis Gray
Thanks for sending them my way Louis
- Jesse Stay
Stunning photographs of animals inside womb | This Blog Rules - http://www.thisblogrules.com/2009...
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Beautiful!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
amazing...
- Samir Kerimov
incredible!
- MB Linder
Astounding!
- Micah Wittman
Wow, the elephant one is amazing!
- Itachi
I wonder how big that elephant is, the picture doesn't show relative size, but I'm guessing it weighs as much as me.
- Ray Cromwell
Awesome
- Frederick Bvalani
Feeling better... had something, visited vet, and now this is perhaps the first normal day! Recovering on a more bland, reduced diet and medicine. And acting a little bit older... keep finding that it's very quiet, and she's posed in front of this window watching the ferns outside and birds. Umlaut has never been... a reflective cat (as I've known
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... her), so this kind of cracks me up. She's also not super dependent anymore on being right on my neck at night, and I've found her curled up near my pillow for large periods of time. She's also purring more easily when I pet her, before she would really only purr when it was bedtime and she was super cuddly. Of course, this could be all in retaliation for removing the crêche. She was pretty pissed about that. No more Joseph to gnaw on or barn roof chips to chew.
- anna sauce
I love how - no matter how much she grows- her ears are still jackal-like. That's my niece's name for her (all 8 niece/nephews giggle hysterically when they use her name- which I don't quite understand) Jackal.
- anna sauce
OK just thought of this morning when she took a flying leap onto my face from the floor. It was harmless, and hilarious, to me.
- anna sauce
Look at how pretty she is!! Love the window shot, makes her look so angelic, which we all know she is! Joseph especially! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Glad she is feeling better! Her face is so gorgeous. You did say that the creche probably wouldn't last long... :)
- Bash
God I can't tell you how funny it was when she completely landed on my face this morning with all paws/arms/legs extended, basically a belly flop.
- anna sauce
must have been her "I'm feeling better" belly flop!! Did they tell you what she had?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Her tests came back OK, so the vet suspected over-rich food (or a bad batch of food?) and so I had her on some medicine and diff. food (ID is the type/brand). I am resisting feeding her all the time, now just 1/2 cup in the morning and a few TB before bed.
- anna sauce
good call. That will also keep her from going through the 2 year old weight gain both Nym & Indy have gone/are going through. My theory, right around age 2 - 2.5 their activity slows down but they don't know to slow down their eating too. Hence weight gain. If she already is used to restricted times for feedings you can just change the type of food slowly and she will likely not gain weight. Or at least that is my guess.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I'm dieting in solidarity with little puppy. Wow, she does *not* like going on a diet. Craven desire makes her do a lot of silly things. Now she can also jump on the kitchen counter in one fail swoop. I've honestly never had a 100% indoor cat, and kind of worry about her plumping up due to boredom.
- anna sauce
awesome name.
- mjc
I happens, but i think you are doing really great with her!! She looks healthy and sounds happy
- Rachel Lea Fox
Thanks Rachel!
- anna sauce
I suppose you could get her a friend. :) In all seriousness, my two cats keep each other very active.
- Katy S
Katy is right Anna... you can pick a second one from my next summers batch! ;) j/k
- Rachel Lea Fox
Katy- that's definitely the opinion of most of my friends/family re: Umlaut. I've got a 1-bedroom and not sure I want that much litter going on :)
- anna sauce
Totally understandable. Plus, with just one you will be saved the emotional trauma (yes, I'm melodramatic) of realizing that your cats love each other more than they love you. Yours is still a kitten/adolescent though, right? She'll slow down a bit later on.
- Katy S
Sitting in my hotel room waiting to get ready. Watching What Not To Wear and trying to relax...There's no way I'm going to stay unemotional today. Cassie's already cried twice.
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How many hours to go? I've got confused with which time zone you're in.
- Mark H
Good luck - hope it's a great day. Would it relax you to have us throw up a few subjects for you to tear us up on?
- Patrick Jordan
Mark, 3 hours from the time he posted.
- Rochelle
Thanks Rochelle. That'll be half past midnight here. I'll still be awake and watching. Not sober. But awake.
- Mark H
Lot's of love to you guys and best wishes for a most awesome life together.
- aden
Don't even try to stay unemotional. I cried when I made the toast at my wedding.
- s t e v e
YAY! Congratulations!
- Yolanda
This is exciting. Good luck!!! Congrats!
- Nurse Katie
:)))
- Micah Wittman
Wow! The big day really is here! :) I'm so happy for you guys. I hope everything goes great. Congratulations!
- Kamilah Gill
Why is this not being streamed?
- Santa CW™
CW, it is. http://friendfeed.com/itblogg...
- Rochelle
I'm crying right now.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Thanks Rochelle!
- Santa CW™
Guests are arriving,,,the countdown begins
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
screenshot of video http://friendfeed.com/orchid8...
- Call me Bronco
whoah camera pan!
- Call me Bronco
Hey, Alex! Some dude just married Cassie! You better go check on her! :D
- Steven Perez
Yay! Congrats! You did a great job. :)
- Rochelle
Congrats!
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Woo, Contrats!!
- Joe Pierce
yay! congratulations, Alex and Cassie! :)
- holly
Enjoy your lives together.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
hope it goes/went wonderfully Alex.
- Zee.
congrats - best of happy times!
- barbarars
congratulations!
- Jim: Dead Like FF
Congrats Alex!
- Jesse Stay
Congrats to both of you!!! <3
- Carmen
Congrats!!!
- Michael Fidler
Congratulations!
- bcultral
Congrats buddy :)
- LANjackal
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- ★ Soner Gönül
best wishes for you...Alex
- urin
How come we only hear about famous men being unfaithful to their wives. We don't ever hear about a famous woman being unfaithful to her husband...
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There were rumors about Jacky O. Cher comes to mind as well. Elizabeth Taylor probably didn't get married 8 times by being faithful. I agree it's not as common though.
- Cristo
Weren't there more rumors about Kennedy though?
- Bindu Reddy
Maybe women are more discreet....or sneakier...however, you want to look at it. ;)
- Bonnie Foster
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. I would guess Cleopatra had her share of affairs. :)
- Cristo
Plenty...often incestuous
- Itachi
I think maybe it's cause women get attracted to powerful men... the men than find it really hard to resist :))
- Bindu Reddy
Men find it hard to resist women that are attracted to them?
- Cristo
Well men find it hard to resist attractive women who are attracted to them....
- Bindu Reddy
Why not ask about how this story would be completely different if it was Tiger with the golf club to the back of the car and not his wife?
- Santa CW™
It's all about the narrative. And the narrative that sells is the cheating husband, I guess.
- Chieze Okoye
Also, CW's point is very good, too. It would have been a totally different story altogether (again, the narrative that sells).
- Chieze Okoye
Madonna
- Nick Lothian
Some reporter actually did a story on this - http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-a...
- Bindu Reddy
So a man with a cheating wife that takes a Golf Club to the window of the back of her vehicle is not equal to a cheating husband who's wife takes a Golf Club to the back of his car window?
- Santa CW™
Well that depends.....if the cheating wife has 11 boyfriends (what's the equivalent title to "mistress"), and counting, then I'd tell the husband to go for it!
- Bonnie Foster
I am pretty sure its because women tend to be more discreet.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Also, men are, by default, considered the aggressor in a relationship (accurately or not) and so are assigned the burden of the consequences. If a wealthy/powerful woman has an affair with a man (or men), it's assumed that he was a willing participant and in no way "coerced." I happen to believe that none of Tiger's mistresses were truly "coerced" either, but that seems to be irrelevant in the world according to MainStreamMedia.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Live now: This Week in Tech 225 with John C.Dvorak, Jason Calacanis, Brian Brushwood, Robert Heron, and Jason Howell... http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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where can you find the twit story for these show
- Richard Thomson
"AT&T Takes the Blame, Even for the iPhone’s Faults/Glitches" - http://www.nytimes.com/2009... - Gruber responds: http://daringfireball.net/2009...
- Holger Eilhard
the lack of activity here proves that friendfeed is dead
- James Britton
Pining for the fjords.
- Ghworg
is the friend feed unsuspectingly slow? Is everyone in a secret wave I don't know about
- Andrew Euell
I really want a Droid but what do I do with my Storm?
- Willy Monroe
Leo calling his mom on air, invading her privacy(?) - want her to login to Facebook to see privacy settings, was - as Dvorak just said - radio/podcast history. Great moment. :)
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Leo, bring your mom on the show next time. We like her.
- Willy Monroe
I can verify that Facebook's privacy settings were all defaulted to "public" when I logged in last week - like Jason says
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Breaking News! Mom of Leo Laporte brought Pesto to the USA. :-) http://twitter.com/masamed...
- masa media
Twit title: "open your facebook page mom" - this episode is epic :)
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Leo Mom is Great And Every Funny Name this twit mom book leo
- Richard Thomson
great Bruce Schneier quote. need link please.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
If you want Google wave invite Please follow or PM me in the chatroom
- Richard Thomson
Has Leo mentioned the change of the TWiT donations on TWiT? I'm curious to see what Calacanis thinks. :]
- sunkenplanet
Donations are now called Tips, I think. I have not made one in a long time anyway.
- Willy Monroe
sunkenplanet, yes... last week
- Chris Heath
I think Donations were important in the early days to help pay the beginning expense.
- Willy Monroe
ACLU facebook quiz http://www.facebook.com/apps...
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
Not take this test if your scart
- Richard Thomson
CRIA (RIAA North) getting sued for committing music piracy -- http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content...
- Phopo Jijo
Chris Heath: ahhhh. I thought he started on MBW. thanks.
- sunkenplanet
Web enabled TV will arrive soon. Watch internet TV and surf the internet from your easy chair but can the network handle it?
- Willy Monroe
Leo, When will TVs that are internet enabled arrive? We can watch HuLu without running a wire across the living room from the laptop to the TV.
- Willy Monroe
Hey Leo, Did you get the Nokia N900 yet? Whaddaya think about it?
- Robert Cloud
Roz Savage just tweeted: "They stole everything. My laptop, iPhone, wallet, video camera, reading glasses, journal, drivers license. No insurance. DEVASTATED." http://twitter.com/rozsava... :[ Sad news.
- sunkenplanet
@ Richard thank you. I thought it was burried in Bruce's archive. Didn't know that he quoted himself as a reaction to Darth Schmidt. Great quote.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
I can confirm that if you have not edited settings in Facebook and log in now it defaults to having your profile and updates publicly visible. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Eric Leone
i guess changing your privacy settings is a good thing then... i had changed my passwords and it kept all my old privacy settings
- Chris Heath
just shut down the video after the not nice comments and images.
- Allen Stern
I just took a screen capture of the Facebook privacy settings. This was with my test account that I have used to test the Facebook Connect service, not an account I just created today. http://screenr.com/0vU
- Eric Leone
of course eric if you had just created the account today then it wouldn't have prompted you about the privacy changes
- Chris Heath
Keep your salary. For the work you do and the trail you're blazing, you deserve the salary, donations and more. Facebook = Walmart. Schmit Vader is a good Sith name. Great show
- echostreamer
Leo, with all due respect, this idea of having people donate money to pay your salary while they still have to endure the ads is seriously screwed up. It's a real insult to your audience. Think about it. I love you man, but this is really messed up. Oh, and don't ever tell people you're objective when it comes to sponsors with this whole Sync/Mustang crap. You edited out my comments on...
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- Bill Heald
Actually, commenting when you dont know the whole story is "screwed up." The donations are a way for the Community to buy into and have a part in the Twit network. Similar to a commune or buying a stake in the network. This model actually reduces the amount he takes from the big picture, while still allowing us to take part (donations.) It is obvious these comments are coming out of old...
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- echostreamer
echostreamer, I love your comment because I love being accused of "old media thinking." I don't give a flying rat's ass about Leo's model, or yours, or anybody else's because I'm speaking as a consumer of the TWiT product. And I'm not going to pay Leo for his media while having to listen to ads, any more than I would pay for any audiobook that was filled with ads. Old media will soon be...
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- Bill Heald
bill, you don't have to donate and that's the point. and if you do donate it has nothing to do with the advertising. as a journalist i'm sure you do know the definition of donate, right? it's not a subscription
- Chris Heath
oh, and why did you delete your first comment... i thought it was pretty good
- Chris Heath
I work in big media also. The only difference between you and me is that I know the ships going down and Leo's got the life raft. I sniffed you out as old media, I get credit for that right? This isn't a multinational corporation, the rules are different for advertising, revenue, and donations (not to be confused with subscriptions.) Your rebuttal is a spelling correction.....nice...
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- echostreamer
No, I don't consider myself old media, or big media, or new media. I'm just a journalist, who does print, web, you name it. I find the term old media in such discussions as a very adolescent pejorative, because journalism is journalism regardless of the delivery media. Or, it should be at least. And my rebuttal was not solely a spelling correction. Read it again. My rebuttal has to do...
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- Bill Heald
Bill, no need to dream we have that already in TWiT and it's network - get off your high horse and take off your blinders... it's been a long day for all of us.
- Chris Heath
and another thought... wouldn't it be nice if you only paid for a newspaper when you wanted to? they do have all those ads in there that you have to 'endure'.... and how come my copy of the paper has ads in the first place? i pay monthly for it, they shouldn't make me endure all those ads!
- Chris Heath
Twit is all free, you dont have to pay anything. Its completely free to all of us. If you are talking about "print" media, you pay for the product AND have to endure the ads. Thats 2 forms of payment and breaks your "rule." (Im sure whatever print you work for has ads and charges for the paper or mag so you are contradicting your own "rule.") With Twit , there is NO form of payment. I'd...
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- echostreamer
Here's the thing: you're right when you purchase a print pub you pay for and there are ads in it. Point well taken. However, when I'm reading a news story it isn't stopped cold by an ad in the middle of the copy that I have to read before I can continue with the story (although as you know a lot of online pubs do have ads you have to work around or click through that interrupt copy)....
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- Bill Heald
echostreamer... don't feed the trolls - this guy is a dunce - don't waste any more of your time
- Chris Heath
Oh, man, I am so busted! Discredited. Exposed. And I thought I had punked you all with my devious, dunce-like trolling. Damn you, Heath! Damn you to heeeeeeeellllllllllllll
- Bill Heald
I see your point, I just think it is short sited. This isn't a multinational corporation where if one division runs out of cash, you simply siphon it of from somewhere else or reorganize you finances. Private companies are different. The ability to donate is for our benefit. If you have a good suggestion, they'll implement it usually mid-show. You suggest shows, guests, formats,...
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- echostreamer
It feels like I'm performing an "Old Media Exorcism" in this thread. "The power of Twit compels you!, The power of Twit compels you! I need an old Geek and a new Geek."
- echostreamer
Heres a thought...LOSE CALACANIS!! Sorry, whether you like a president or not, comparing ANY US President to Stalin or Hitler is unacceptable and you shouldn't tolerate that on your show. Period. I realize 90% of the tech blogging community seems to be on one side of the political spectrum but can we please keep twit about the tech? Please? Please?
- John A Cook
John, wasn't he comparing Schmidt's comments to things that Stalin and Hitler said? I don't recall a US President being brought into that conversation.
- Chris Heath
Also John, one of the beauties of America is our freedom of speech, right?. It sounds like you would rather Leo be more like those dictators and punish Jason for his views.
- Chris Heath
Hey Leo, just want to let you know Fusion Garage people aren't Indians they are from Singapore. http://maps.google.com/maps...
- Mohan P Ram
It was definitely about Schmidt's comments that "If you aren't doing anything wrong, you dont have anything to worry about." Calacanis's remarks were about the CEO (president) of google.
- echostreamer
Thanks everybody again for all your well wishes and mazel tovs. Wedding went well and everybody had a great time. Cassie and I are a little hung over from the after party and the after after party. We didn't drink much during the wedding.
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congratulations!!!
- Anna Lynn M.
Mazel tov indeed!
- Michelle Jones
Congrats Alex and Cassie
- johnpiercy
Congrats you two!!! All the best!!! =D
- Anna Haro
Congrats!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
"OMG, I HAVE FEET!!!!!!!! DO YOU HAVE FEET???? FEET ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!" (this is my favorite pic of my nephew)
Kim, nakachi, Kamilah Gill and 74 other people liked this
FEET KICK ASS!!
- Chrimmus Tad
Does he always have that huge-ass grin on his face? Because if so, he is the most irresistible nephew EVAR!
- Laura H.
He does. He is a very very happy baby.
- Mary Carmen
Your nephew is trying to scare Chuck Norris with his awesomesauce feet techniques.
- imabonehead
from Android
Another future shoe lover.
- Chad McCoskey
from iPhone
Absolutely.
- Mary Carmen
I have feet. And they are coooool.
- SAM
Just wait until they start stinking.
- Andy Bakun
My feet are flat
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
So are mine.
- Mary Carmen
=D
- David Cook
OMG, cuteness overload!!! :P
- Molly, "sorry"
I wish I was that flexible now! (However, I would NOT put my foot in my mouth like I did back in those days. At least not literally! I do it figuratively all the damn time, and have demonstrated such right here on FF.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
:)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Adorable!
- tab thinks you're awesome
Inspired by comments: Which one do you loathe & despise more, the Jared or Kay Jewelers commercials?????
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I think because its the holidays, both are upping the cheese factor in the commercials. I think I hate them both equally, but sometimes Jared makes me scream at the television.
- Mary Carmen
Jared. Wait....yeah, Jared, I'm 99.99% positive I hate them more.
- ÉllbeeÇee
Jared. Especially the one with the guy and the GPS.
- Michelle Martinez
Jared. The whole "he went to jared!" schtick where women go all twitterpated makes me want to kill people, whereas "every kiss begins with Kay" is sort of a fun play on words.
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
The "He Went To Jared" crossword. If that's what Marriage is about, count me out.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I hate commercials that equate love with slave labor.
- Chrimmus Tad
I think they're about the same in terms of cringe-worthiness. Granted, I don't have a tv so I'm only rarely exposed to them. I might have missed some recent heinousness.
- Katy S
fwiw, I will require slave-labor diamonds of my future fiancee for him to prove he really loves me. Well, really any diamonds will do...
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
I hate both of them, but Jared is a little worse because it condenses so much of what's wrong with the marriage-industrial complex into one highly toxic bite-sized piece, and passes it off as romantic.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I dislike both of them. They are stupid commercials that want us to believe that the best gift is a diamond that you'll have to go into debt in order to buy. BTW have you heard about the "chocolate" diamond? There are commercials for them. I think...chocolate...mmm...isn't that an imperfect diamond? I mean a diamond is suppose to be without color. So pay a ton of money for something people wouldn't have bought previous cause they would have called it imperfect!
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
Jared. But thinking about it made me remember the funniest bit of the last Parks and Rec: http://www.hulu.com/watch...
- cdogzilla
Yes.
- Steven Perez
Man, that's a tough one. Every kiss most certainly does NOT begin with Kay, and I sure as hell wouldn't be all, "HE WENT TO JARED" if I got engaged.
- Laura H.
I guess Kay since they have more .....
- VAL D. Zone
I can't choose. I rant at the television for both.
- joey
I hate them both equally, I think.
- ha3rvey (free hugs!)
Kay. But Jared is not much better
- Marissa
For you
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- Mo Kargas
Man, I must be tired. I stared at this wondering why that chicken had no feathers.
- Admiral Anika
LOL
- Mo Kargas
It's like an albino Admiral Ackbar.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
x_x
- Anna Haro
60+ Creative and Clever Advertisements | Inspiration - http://www.hongkiat.com/blog...
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There are some remarkably creative ad firms these days... if it weren't for the, prostituting yourself to clients peddling consumer goods part... I really think I could get into working at one of those places.
- SAM
Ha!
- Charlie Anzman
Actually I'm just kidding about that last part... My creative vat o' inspiration is almost solely dedicated to creative folks at ad companies.
- SAM
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