Wow that sucks. Hope he doesn't really get in trouble - Kevin LeCureux

um, i'm as much of a libertarian, keep the gov't outta my life as the next guy, but if we allow people to sell their votes doesn't that mean that the person with the most money will always win? Is it really necessary for the US to act like some 3rd World country? - chartreuse

Lock him up for a year. When he gets out, tell him it was just a joke. - William Beem

Corruption is the most insidious problem faced by government; it's not a laughing matter. Why can't I just pay the IRS agent a few hundred dollars to ignore my deductions? Let me take the government contractor on a trip to Disneyland right before he approves my bid for the contract. If a vote can be bought and sold, it makes a mockery of democracy. Yes, there's corruption in government, but that's no excuse to permit it, or even encourage it. - Glen Campbell

Good call Hal, everyone forgets that line, "and to The Republic for which it stands..." - Scott Bannon via twhirl

seen so much of his work on zooomr and podshow and flickr , seems like such a great guy to hang around with and shoot pictures with . - fotographic

crazy story. He ended up suing and losing his job. Very sad. - chartreuse

Here's the story, he spun out into some difficult times. http://overlawyered.com/2008/0... - Jeremiah Owyang

...and the original New Yorker article: http://tinyurl.com/5j98up - Jim Stanger

the monkey's my 14,000th photograph uploaded to Flickr. 14,000 down, 986,000 to go. I love monkeys, they're my favorite animal. - Thomas Hawk

Congrats on #14,000!! Looking forward to the last 986,000... - Justin Korn

Did you shoot those while flying? - Jacob

Shot while flying from Portland to San Francisco - dan farber

Steve Gillmor assesses the state of the infosphere. Very well done. - Sprague D via Bookmarklet

"Of course, FriendFeed often feels more like Ex-FriendFeed as we struggle to find our bearings in this week’s model" W.T.F??? Another lettuce on peanut butter moment. This however is true "Voices we’ve come to respect suddenly sour with competitive bile." - Duncan Riley

Duncan, I think he was riffing on the use of "friend" in FriendFeed, when relationships can turn on a dime. Granted, reading Gillmor is often like trying to solve a Rubik's Cube with just your eyes, but this one was pretty good. - Sprague D

"So if white people do not feel and understand the significance of their own racial membership, then they can’t really imagine very well what life is like for non-white people, who do know that their own racial membership is important. Thus, because training people into whiteness means in part instilling in them this fundamental (and fundamentally false) sense of their own individuality, versus the more accurate group-bound self-conception that non-white people tend to have, then whiteness renders white people less able to empathize with the difficulties or suffering of non-white people." - Cecily Walker via Bookmarklet

This will be a photograph in the top 10 of many future lists. - Andrew Baron

Explanation: "In January 2007, people from Perth, Australia gathered on a local beach to watch a sky light up with delights near and far. Nearby, fireworks exploded as part of Australia Day celebrations. On the far right, lightning from a thunderstorm flashed in the distance. Near the image center, though, seen through clouds, was the most unusual sight of all: Comet McNaught. The photogenic comet was so bright that it even remained visible though the din of Earthly flashes. Comet McNaught has now returned to the outer Solar System and is now only visible with a large telescope. The above image is actually a three photograph panorama digitally processed to reduce red reflections from the exploding firework." - Andrew Baron

Amazing shot! - Timo Heuer

Unbelievable! - fbrunel

This is for sure a record post for me! 333 people liked this! - Andrew Baron

kanye defends himself - chartreuse

I thought long and hard--okay, not so long...and not so hard, either, about the best place to post this: where are there the most FOX viewers? On SU? On del.icio.us? Maybe I should head over to Digg? More of a Digg thing, yes? I don't comment on much in the political arena, and I include FOX as part of that b/c it's a network with an agenda (selling stuff), whose vehicle is pandering to other people with an agenda (far-right Republicans and specifically, the ones who seem less interested in debate or critical thinking than in having someone reinforce their beliefs, even at the expense of exploiting their fears.) But this shit? This shit is evil. Orwellian, big-time evil, as John Gruber points out in the post that pointed me here. Are there ridiculous, knee-jerk liberals on the far (or even medium-far) left? Uh, yeah. Reactionaries live at either end of any spectrum. But this clip isn't about people radically trying to change the world at any cost: it's about radically trying to... - colleen wainwright

Squandered -- past tense. - Brad Collins via twhirl

Wow, do they really taste like that? That's awesome. I'm not sure I could even imagine what a Dr. Pepper-flavored donut would be like. - ⓞnor

I didn't buy any because this plays into my wifes theory that American food companies are just inventing new ways to make people fat. Bacon and regular donuts are already doing a fine job on my body, why mess with fate. - Jason Shellen

food that tastes like some other food has always freaked me out. maybe i'm just weird... - chartreuse

dr pepper ~= cherry - j1m

Where can I buy these? - Paul Buchheit

Listening to the podcast now. Who's the guy with the accent? :) Nice to hear Cyndy laughing. The question ... Why am I listening to this at 1:30 AM? - Charlie Anzman

the gentleman with the accent is Duncan Riley - Steven Hodson

@Dobromir .. I am so fucking pissed right now - my host did some moving bewteen servers and while I'm waiting for a reply from them for now the last two weeks of the blog and the forums is missing. I am not a fucking happy camper at this point - Steven Hodson

sure hosting companies can be pain in the ass, I've seen u having issues before, maybe u should kick those guys out and go on with life before u become a big blogger oh wait u are already big ;-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

thanks for that Dobromir :) - Steven Hodson

perhaps people rushed in too quickly in setting them up? I'm just as guilty on the Inquisitr Fun room as well. Need to start updating it more - Duncan Riley

the rooms have never had a use case. for example im in "auto-junkie" room - firstly i already tag the item in delicious and it comes thru friendfeed i dont want to tag it again. if i do tag it for my "autojunkie" room it doesnt show up in my normal friendfeed feed so no1 sees it. basically FF rooms dont work and wont unless its changed; ideally when i shared an item in google reader or tagged it in delicious it autotagged or i classified it to a friendfeed room, then content niches could form.. - ben barren

Rooms seem like a feature that should have come out later. - possible248

A "Search for a room" feature will help bring them back... ;-) - AJ Batac

I've used ff rooms to replace 37signals Campfire chatrooms for ongoing private one-on-one conversations. That's worked very well. We like the appearance of the ff rooms versus Campfire and the ability to group our formerly random chatting into topics. Campfire itself is a great product, of course. - John Murray

Matches up exactly with the comic - one of the few things that did. Lucky actually, since they didn't get Eminem to play Wesley. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...) Great comic series by the way! -ugh, URL parses incorrectly. - Vince DeGeorge

Never read the comic, but I thought the movie was pretty badass. - Devin Anderson via fftogo

"What the F*&K did you do today?" Quite possibly my favorite final line in any movie ever. Tempted to get it tattooed on my wrist - ok maybe not but you get the point - Marco

I can't wait to see this movie. Looks adrenaline pumped! - Natitude