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Why I don't use Google Reader anymore - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-i-d...
Mike Fruchter, Susan Beebe, Bonnie Foster and 5 other people liked this
Awesome "no one loves you" defense from Scoble :P ""But my Google Reader account is super fast," I can hear you saying. Yeah, but you don't have any friends and you don't have many things you are subscribed to."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Nice Louis! "Why I don't use Google Reader anymore - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-i-d... 3 hours ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share - Hide"
- metalerik
so, how do you (everyone) feel about google reader?
- chaz2b
I love Google Reader. Everybody knows that. :)
- Louis Gray
Feedly running on top of Google Reader is hard to beat, for me...
- Andrew Terry
I use reader about once a day now. The "magic" view is pretty sweet.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I use it a little but it is butt ugly.
- ChiliMac
Everyone uses the tool they like, GReader is clearly my information source and hub. I will skim anything I haven't filtered with my Greasemonkey script. FriendFeed is my second hub with deep interactive conversations, Facebook is mostly a little more personal interaction, Twitter is mostly quick interactions (maybe two replies) with one person. So Twitter is my lowest ranking tool out...
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- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Can't really live without GReader. Since the GReader upgrades, I have put Feedly on the shelf. It's really the best way for me to follow activity on LinkedIn and all the Ning groups I belong to, as well as the usual stuff you use RSS for.
- Bryan R. Adams
I don't like Greader ui but i'm still using it with Feedly. Feedly is just awesome for reading, discovering and share rss feeds. Twitter+feedly is a good combination.
- David Foucher
from Nambu
I look at reader before I look at my email.... Is that bad? :) (disclaimer, I work on it)
- Jenna Bilotta
I still do e-mail first, Reader second, only because Reader is much more fun, and I would probably stay there.
- Louis Gray
I would miss so much stuff if I didn't use Google Reader. I get so much less noise there.
- Jesse Stay
I've seen this meme in a few places and I guess I don't fit the base use case as I tend to sleep from time to time and can't always be on Twitter.
- Dave Hodson
All these things are such moving targets. So what is the favored anti-virus software now?
- Dawn
Dawn, SocialToo ;-)
- Jesse Stay
I could live without Twitter...but GR with Feedly I use every day without fail.
- Bonnie Foster
Am I unique then? I read all my RSS feeds in my email program on my desktop and read them after I have read my email.
- Sandra Large
Scoble has an assumption that everything of interest is inside the twitterverse. My experience is that the RSSVerse is much more pervasive. To Balance the Signal to Noise Ratio use Yahoo Pipes/GReader/Feedly to munge the data to begin with. In my case I can find many topics that have not posted to twitter
- Robert Higgins
Robert: neither of us can prove that point. I am following almost 11,000 things now in Twitter. You want to try that in Google Reader? Go ahead.
- Robert Scoble
Didn't Congressman Grayson call Scoble an "S Valley Whore"? I think he should apologize.
- Dawn
i hate politicians etc so yeah he need to apoligize
- ffcode
Robert: (I am obviously biased here). it is great that you are following 11,000 things in Twitter and that makes you special and I think that some of the issues you are raising are valid. Where I think your argument breaks down is where you think that soon a lot of people will follow thousand of things in their aggregator and therefore twitter is a better solution than Google Reader....
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- Edwin Khodabakchian
Google Voice: New, Improved, & Still Disappointing - http://current.com/items...
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Iain, Courtney Engle, Shea and 16 other people liked this
Thx for liking, but I simply MUST insist that you also weigh in! I want to get some good Google Voice info out of your comments... here, on the Current.com page, Facebook, whatever.
- Sarah Lane
What, you gonna deny a poor little woman with a brain tumor? I think not. ;)
- Sarah Lane
Also! My Google Voice number is in this segment for all to admire. And so's my cell phone number, but I tried pretty hard to blur that one out. :)
- Sarah Lane
I have some good stuff, will post tomorrow during the living hours.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
from iPhone
Sorry, Sarah - can't be monitoring FF *all* the time... :) I honestly haven't used Google Voice much for some of the same reasons you mentioned. For some reason my number is firmly stuck in my head, but I haven't given it out to many folks (more out of laziness than anything, since my friends all have my cell number already). Haven't run into the issue with voicemail (even though I have...
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- Thomas
Sarah - you're right - it pretty much sucks if you don't give out your Google Voice number. The lack of Visual Voicemail integration is also a big let-down. I've experimented with it by distributing my GV number to Facebook contacts who I don't want stalking me (I made a group for them). I've found that the inbound calling, and SMS forwarding is really cool and works flawlessly. Outbound calling and voicemails requires a visit to the GV mobile page (which I keep open in Safari on my iPhone).
- Ankush Narula
Thinking about it some more, I can see a use where you give the GV number to all your creditors and potential telemarketers. I use my land line for that now, but eventually I want to get rid of that. Another use - if you want a number in a different area code. As someone who wants to eventually sell a screenplay, it might behoove me at some point to get a number in the 310 area code to...
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- Thomas
One more thing. Here are a couple of useful links I found courtesy of LifeHacker: Making the Transition - http://lifehacker.com/5311254... and Potentially getting unlimited calls with GV - http://lifehacker.com/5382770... I'll need to try out both... :)
- Thomas
awesome, thx for those Thomas!
- Sarah Lane
I love Sarah because she hasn't abandoned FriendFeed like the rest of the geeks. Keep using it Sarah! I'm even more a follower now than ever.
- Jesse Stay
I agree that giving it to people who I really don't want to have my number is nice. If you don't really want to hear from them, just let it go to voice mail. And if you do, no worries, you can add them to your friend group. Also if you're in some networking environment, you really don't have to worry about who exactly you give your number out to. I did try to tie it to my Skype account but it did not like that at all.
- Jerry Perez
I like GV's send to VM between certain times. So when I sleep I don't have to hear a phone ring unless so are so important to me I allow your call to come through. This way I can sleep but still receive potentially emergency phone calls. Also, I have used one is a home phone replacement so if people call it, it will ring my phones, my gf, and the kids. And I can see other great...
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- Philip Griego
Google Voice works really well *if* you have a good application to deal with the Voicemails. I installed GV Mobile on my (jailbroken) iPhone. Since they recently added the "use GV as voicemail" feature, I find that I'm using it a lot more than before. The basic problem with GV is that it's not a voicemail replacement, as such (though it has that sort of functionality now). It works best...
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- Otto
I'm using Google Voice and like it. It's still better than the crappy voicemail from the cable company or cell phone company. I don't have any app to run it on my phone and don't need one. I voice dial to get the messages. Works great.
- Dave Friedel
I use GV as the voice mail for my Podcast. Works great for that. Also use it for all of my phones, ...well, that is mmm, okay. I really wish it was a bit more flexible.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Hate the lack of support to visual voicemail and that I have to go to Google Voice's page to make a call if I want my number to show on outbound calls. LOVE the fact that I can give my GV # to potential employers so they don't have to worry about reaching a number I'm not at.
- ChiliMac
If I could get Google voice to just let voicemails go to my IPhone I'd be happy.
- ChiliMac
google voice just seems redundant. unless you give up your cell phone (which nobody will do) its just another way to do the same thing with (as you said) one more phone / log in / password / gadget. It wont last. Friend feed, Skype, and Twitter are NEW ways to communicate. I just got rid of my TV to watch everything online (Hule, Twit.tv...etc.) This was a way to get rid of a redundancy. Creating consolidation tech is where its at, not new ways to do old things, I think it will fade away. Gr8 vid.
- echostreamer
The real feature for GV is small business. So many telcos have SMBs over a barrel with terrible features. These people can't afford a PBX with forward and follow features. They could hook up a GV number, including their established line, and allow for forwards to any number, without the need to put 5 different numbers on their business cards. This is really a killer feature, and visual voicemail won't matter to those people. (also posted to current)
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I'm probably a minority here, but since I have an Android phone I'll chime in: GV works like a charm (including masking my number on outbound calls/sms) using the GV app for my phone.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
My use case is probably different then most. I use GV almost exclusively as a web based PBX. Very rarely do I use it on a cell phone unless the number is being forwarded there. I also use the number experimentally with widgets or by posting on developmental sites to track conversions that take the route of inbound phone traffic as opposed to an online sale. I also like the fact that messages are recorded online so I can forward them as needed.
- Eric Logan
I was all freaked about finding a Halloween costume so last-minute. Then I remembered my 7th grade cheerleading outfit. WHICH FITS, BITCHES.
Kol Tregaskes, Eric @ CS Techcast, pea ♥ fierce as a woozle and 13 other people liked this
Luckyyyyyyyyyy.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I thought you were against sexy costumes! ;-)
- jccalhoun
So are you going for the full on 80's cheerleader look? :)
- Thomas
So what you are saying is that you haven't gotten any taller since the 7th grade?
- Philip Griego
philip- yep, that's what i'm saying.
- Sarah Lane
I'd pay good money to be the size I was in 7th grade.
- EricaJoy
Wow. In 7th grade I think I weighed half what I do now.
- Friday Lo is Friday!
This I gotta see. Pictures or it didn't happen!
- Faraz Mullick
In 7th grade, I was almost a foot shorter than I am today. As for fitting into those clothes... well, you couldn't get me back into corduroys and terry-cloth, v-neck shirts even on Halloween.
- Roger Benningfield
So in essence for Halloween you are going as you? Won't you be embarrassed if somebody else shows up with the same costume!
- Joe Pierce
You know you have to do 80's hair for your costume.
- Philip Griego
Pics or it doesn't fit??? :D
- ChiliMac
rocketboom:
quitecheeky:
(via scarymansion)
this is making me laugh SO HARD.
Maybe this is the same Mike that Google Voice thought was me? This guy is a badass. - http://tumblelog.sarahlane.com/post...
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echostreamer and Thomas liked this
OK, while Mike was at church he apparently he missed the surmon on forgivenes.
- ChiliMac
Just found out I pop up third in a Google search for: mobile computing illinois chicago university. Huh.
OK, I had to check. What's also interesting is that it isn't your "about" page that comes up it's your "followers" page. That's weird.
- ChiliMac
Yeah, I blame having a heavy mobile computing following: specifically Paul Levinson and Jonathan Zittrain. Which is why I started following them in the first place, I suppose.
- Anne
Accoustic version of Date My Avatar (via @theAmberyOne's iphone) with @sandeepparikh @vork @paulandstorm @molly23 http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Paul Wilcox, Mol, Time Warping, Neil McDonald and 3 other people liked this
Cool. You have a good voice.
- ChiliMac
Jemm, ChiliMac, David C. Cooper and 3 other people liked this
that's too funny...
- The Coast Radio
Do they have gigabit on the ship? I smell a high seas LAN party. ^^
- David C. Cooper
Heck yeah! No one will give you crap when you hop on your laptop rather then lay out by the pool. Gaming on vacation would be mandatory. Screw the sight seeing, show me where the free hotspots are!
- ChiliMac
File this under "Best Footer on a Website Ever" - http://www.newtoyork.com/
Burcu Dogan, Michelle Darnell, George Brickner and 18 other people liked this
OMG thats awesome! I haven't laugh that hard today!
- Fee501st
I whole heartedly agree! and so true...
- Gary Oswald
"You're an asshole and your browser is an asshole" Best line ever!
- Fee501st
Wow! The whole rant could have stopped at "...best experience possible." But the brutal honesty afterwards? Wow!
- Devon Blugh
from twhirl
Who still uses IE6? I've always wondered that...
- Thomas
lol
- Carlos Urrutia
Corporate users who have no choice may still be on 6.
- Dave Friedel
they have a choice: resign
- Mark
Yeah, give up benefits, have the house foreclosed on... but use Firefox! LOL.
- Dave Friedel
If I recall I think IE6 is without tabs? Imagine the horror, seriously.
- Mark
In some cases, internal applications were written to work with crappy IE5 or 6, and don't work right with anything newer. Some companies hold back upgrades due to the cost of modernizing the applications. My personal favorite is Firefox, but it doesn't work with Active Directory security for internal apps on a Microsoft network.
- Dave Friedel
Yeah, that's the excuse we were always fed in web scripting classes - that they haven't moved due to internal websites and whatnot - but ffs, seriously IE 7 came out 3 years ago!
- Amy
Yep. That's life in large companies. Unfortunately they have the money to employ lots of people... and to put off updating their internal apps. See they don't care that you can't surf some site on the net. Unfortunately it encourages some office workers not to bother upgrading at home either and just be indifferent to browser version. Another argument for Cloud computing.
- Dave Friedel
It also implies that they haven't updated their pcs in FOREVER. These people work in Hell.
- Amy
A little harsh , but true and funny .
- Lisa zahara Hopkins
I've been in the position of trying to justify a six figure upgrade to a set of applications because they only worked on very old versions of IE. Without showing how it makes the company money, saying "people can't see some sites on the Internet" isn't enough to get approval for that much money to be spent on salaries vs other development. This is why I watch Revision3, to know there is a better world outside of multimillion dollar corporate hell.
- Dave Friedel
Excellento - loved the Miles Davis' covers too - our university seems to be locked into IE6 - it's like going back to the dark ages . . .
- Chris Loft
Ha!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I know someone who still uses IE6. He upgraded to IE7 and now wants to go back to IE6. Poor deluded guy.
- George Brickner
I gotta be honest, I'm a little hurt. I still use IE6...because I have to because my work won't upgrade because they've put to much money into systems that work with IE6 and I'm stuck with this piece of junk! It makes me cry. :(
- ChiliMac
The madness won't stop until MS stops supporting 6. I hope that happens sooner rather than later.
- ChiliMac
OLD MAN RANT: I refuse to call it "Wiilis" Tower. When they tear it down and put up a new building, they can call it any fool thing they want. But I refuse to call it "Willis Tower".
ChiliMac, Alex Scoble, Roberto Bonini and 2 other people liked this
wat?
- holly
Thanks, Holly. Not enough cilantro in my eggs this morning.
- Steven Perez
or maybe too much? :D
- holly
WHATCHU TALKIN' 'BOUT, WILLIS?
- Josh Haley
What you talking 'bout..."Willis"?
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
LOL! My friend works for Willis... He said they got that building so cheap it's sad because it's mostly empty.
- Her Lindsay-ness
totally beat that Grift dude.
- Josh Haley
The first thing that came to my mind when I saw "Willis Tower" was: Yippee-ki-yay, motherf---er! >_>
- Arlan Koizumi
i bet you;re taking about Sears Tower, right??
- Roberto Bonini
You'd bet right.
- Steven Perez
I thought the same way until I heard a news anchor call it the "Big Willy". That's a name I can't resist using.
- ChiliMac
Hulu will start charging subscriptions in 2010? http://news-briefs.ew.com/2009...
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Fine, but I don't want any buffering delays in future.
- Spidra Webster
If that happens, then I will find another way to watch TV.
- Gary Oswald
On the other hand, does that mean they are going to do away with adds in the stream?
- Gary Oswald
Do away with ads? Once that was promised of pay channels on cable. Never happens.
- Mark Horne
There is no "this is evil" option on FF. There needs to be.
- Mark Horne
and so Hulu becomes irrelevant to me.
- Joe Silence is not dead
And by 2011 will become another footnote in internet history.
- Brian Merriman
...and we will miss them?
- Joe Geeting
Carey told reporters...“I think a free model is a very difficult way to capture the value of our content. I think what we need to do is deliver that content to consumers in a way where they will appreciate the value,”......So my question is this, if this is true, how has ad based TV lasted so long???
- ChiliMac
And are the ads going to disappear for subscribers? The initial lure of cable was the absence of commercials. That didn't last long.
- Spidra Webster
Me as Zac Efron - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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RAPatton, James Ferguson, midnightgolfer and 3 other people liked this
hahaha!! That's too much!
- JA Castillo
Ha
- Jerry Perez
I had to Google to find out who Zac Efron is. So I don't get teh funny here. :(
- Otto
I think I just turned gay. :D
- ChiliMac
http://twitpic.com/mm5is Nom noms
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Yummy!
- ChiliMac
Just told my co-worker "I love you" for going to pick up sandwiches. Yes, that's all it takes, apparently.
Kol Tregaskes, Haggis (Sean Loyless), Seth Rubenstein and 15 other people liked this
Wonder what she say if they was BLTs!
- Fee501st
As long as they don't have any Spam in them...
- Jeff P. Henderson
...and no pink gadgets.
- Jerry Perez
By "I love you", did you actually say "STFU"?
- Thomas
You've been permanently scarred by that, huh?
- Veronica
Some wounds never heal...
- Thomas
Some mean lady will tell him to STFU, and he fall in love! At least it be a funny story for the grand kids!
- Fee501st
Isn't that how all courtships start? I'm confused...
- Thomas
They do for me. :$
- Faraz Mullick
lol, were they extra special sandwiches or are you just especially hungry?
- Amy
hungry and lazy.
- Veronica
cool Veronica, i share those same traits! :D
- Fee501st
I'd say I'm guilty as charged there too :)
- Amy
Who doesn't? :)
- Carlos Urrutia
from Android
So that's all it takes... I'm going to return this diamond ring.
- Jason Wong
Nothing says "Will you marry me?" like someone on bended knee holding out a foot-long sweet onion chicken teriyaki...
- Thomas
Nahhh, steak and cheese with southwest sauce... *drools*
- Amy
I was originally going to say "holding out a foot-long meatball", but for some reason it didn't sound right in my head...
- Thomas
Sweet. I've got a hoggie in the fridge, where should I mail it? :D
- ChiliMac
My cow-orkers qould be very disturbed if i said that to them.
- George Brickner
Silent whistle LOL
- Michael King
Does an orrder discrepency = "I hate you"? Lunch can be a fickle affair.
- rosenasylum
does that come with specialty coffee drinks too?
- Courtney Engle
Apparently gin and I are better friends than I originally thought. Vodka, you are so last year.
ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,, Fee501st, niccolò vecchia and Thomas liked this
Oh are you drunk?? Ok, now for some questions...
- Dave Friedel
Oh dear. V, don't drink and answer Dave...
- Thomas
I want drunken picture uploads... right now. Are you passed out?
- Dave Friedel
That would make the uploads difficult.
- Thomas
I'm not drunk!
- Veronica
Well, she's conscious.
- Dave Friedel
Not even slurring...
- Thomas
I had three drinks and a big dinner!
- Veronica
How big were these mugs of Vodka and Gin? :D
- Dave Friedel
Ok Ok Ok...
- Dave Friedel
But maybe I shouldn't have tweeted that because now everyone thinks I am...
- Veronica
Play up to it... (evil grin)
- Thomas
Well, when you mention two different hard liquors in one tweet........
- Dave Friedel
...you're having a good night! I tell ya, that 'don't mix drinks' concept is nonsense.
- Amy
Is she drunk now or did she sleep it off already? :)
- Carlos Urrutia
from Android
3 drinks != drunk
- Amy
She could have had more after wards, for "medicinal purposes" of course :)
- Carlos Urrutia
from Android
Amy: It's not just the quantity of drinks but also how fast you're having them that determine if you're drunk or not.
- Sylvain Nadeau
I heard when starts hugging people for no reason, that's when she is drunk ;)
- Fee501st
Sylvain: And a boatload of other things. I was an alcohol licensee in a previous job.
- Amy
Bombay Saphire Gin rulz! Very smooth so you can drink it straight up or with a little tonic. Great in the summer. Viva la Gin!
- echostreamer
glad you had some fun . . . I think I'm like you V, I sip my gin and enjoy it with a little tonic and lime. . . keep having fun and tweet me when you are. G
- George Ordway
HENDRICKS GIN...is not for everyone.
- Andrew Skretvedt
I love gin! And I'm with echostream, sort of. Bombay Saphire is good straight up or in a martini. If I'm mixing it with tonic then I knock it down the regular Bombay. No use wasting the good stuff with a mixer.
- ChiliMac
RT @theguild Episode 8 - "+ 10 to Bravery" is up! DL on Xbox and Zune! http://video.msn.com/... AND new gag reel http://video.msn.com/...
I want more! NOW!!!!! This waiting a week stuff is driving me batty!
- ChiliMac
6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
Darren Heydon, Kol Tregaskes, Anthony Citrano and 9 other people liked this
"(CNN) -- Officials are trying to rescue a 6-year-old boy who climbed into a balloon-like experimental aircraft built by his parents and floated into the sky over eastern Colorado. Margie Martinez of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said a sibling saw the boy climb into the basket before the balloon took off. Since the door on the balloon was unlocked, Martinez said it's possible the boy had fallen out. The balloon appeared to be a saucer-shaped, Mylar-coated helium balloon, not unlike a party balloon. The craft was drifting eastward, authorities said. The helium balloon was tethered to the boy's family home in Fort Collins, the Larimer County Sheriff's Department said. The boy got into the craft Thursday morning and undid the rope anchoring it. The department said the dome-shaped balloon is 20 feet long and 5 feet high."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
The balloon just came down to a soft landing.
- Moobie
With no boy inside.
- Manny Flores
Who deleted the balloon boy and why?
- Jeff Wilson
Aggghhh!!! Boy! Boy ! Boy! Balloon! Balloon! Balloon!!! You know how many kids starve to death every single day?
- Shepherd Johnson
that's not funny.
- Mo Tabesh
that's terrible actually...
- bluetick
that is horrrrible. do they know where the boy is yet?
- Jess Dennis
that's just awful.
- Thomas Hawk
Shepherd, people are capable of having concern for more than one human, situation, or subject at a time.
- joey
@joey: We are??? Shoot, now you tell me. :D
- ChiliMac
ChiliMac, well some of us are ;)
- joey
This reminds me of 12 Monkey's.
- Manny Flores
"Deputy: Object seen falling from balloon"
- bluetick
"However, a spokeswoman for the Larimer County sheriff’s office, Kathy Messick, contradicted that fact. She said that when the balloon landed, the box was still attached to the balloon."
- Jeff Wilson
This is getting incredibly juicy. It may be a hoax by the father for national media attention
- Jeff Wilson
what? They think it might be a hoax. What a horrible hoax if that turns out to be true.
- Thomas Hawk
Something fell, here's the video showing it: http://www.ireport.com/docs...
- Jeremy Brooks
No one has called it a hoax in the media, but some of the things they are posting is leading people that direction. The father called the news outlets immediately after take off, and not the police for 30 minutes
- Jeff Wilson
And if you havent seen, the family was featured on TV on the show Wife Swap recently
- Jeff Wilson
doh!
- Jeremy Brooks
i don't read anywhere that the kid has been found, what's your source cmiper?
- bluetick
i see it on the new york times site. he was hiding in a box. im certifying it hoax and laying full blame on the father. next, please
- Jeff Wilson
yeah? Wow.
- Thomas Hawk
what's your source???
- bluetick
cnn is showing this now
- bluetick
wow, a hoax, really? What a truly horrible hoax.
- Thomas Hawk
Getting tweets confirming this (source quoted was ABC news).
- Jeremy Brooks
he was found in a box in the family's garage....
- bluetick
kid became afraid after people starting searching for him and hid in a box in the garage attic, thinking he was going to be in trouble, the 7 year old brother kept to his story of seeing the child climb into a box on the balloon. Not confirmed as a hoax as the issue is still being investigated.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
damn. If my kids ever pull this sort of stunt they'll be no Xbox 360 for a week.
- Thomas Hawk
For a week? My kid will *never* leave the house again.
- Michelle Martinez
I'm still calling parental hoax.
- EricaJoy
I dunno as an ex 6YO with good memory not sure if kids being kids won't be casue
- WarLord
Ok, maybe no XBox for 2 weeks.
- Thomas Hawk
Oh boy, looks like free college is out of the question for this little guy. Its more like "you're grounded". There might even be an ass whooping in his very near future :)
- Jeunelle Foster
"Falcon's parents, science enthusiasts Richard and Mayumi Heene, were featured on the 100th episode of ABC's prime-time program "Wife Swap" in March, ABC said." ...I dunno, from what I'm seeing on this wife swap clip, I would probably call them pseudo-science enthusiasts... they seem a bit odd, anyways.
- Stephanie Keating
maybe the kid got the idea here: http://www.amazon.com/Curious... Pretty much the exact same thing happens to Curious Geogre in that story. I know because I've read it to my kids dozens of times. Maybe it's time to stop reading them this book.
- Thomas Hawk
did u add the link to csratr already?
- Ricardo Liberato
Liber it's in the group description on the flickr page. Unfortunately there is no more space in the FF group description as they limit the number of characters.
- Thomas Hawk
but if you find a way to add... we can be flickr independent to vote!
- Ricardo Liberato
use one of those url shortenr
- Ricardo Liberato
hmmm.. good idea. I'll try.
- Thomas Hawk
try using bit.ly links
- Ryan MacLean
or ow.ly, even shorter. FF has ff.im, but I don't know of a way that you can use it other than when posting to twitter.
- Ryan MacLean
I'm sorry but this little brat needs a good ole ass whooping and so does his father and his father should be fined for this hoax. No sympathy from me.
- Jeunelle Foster
Think I'm glad that I was hunkered down at work during this story.
- Michelle
I wish so much that he'd gone along for the ride. I bet he does, too. Oddly enough, this episode made me realize David Shuster of MSNBC is a bit of a tool.
- Anthony Citrano
Photographer James Rhodes Thinks It’s Ok to Threaten People With Violence on the Internet - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
Jeff P. Henderson, See-ming Lee 李思明 SML, Shannon J Hager and 9 other people liked this
I was deeply troubled by comments made in a Flickr forum that I admin by Photographer James Rhodes. His Flickr account is here where he goes by thevikingjames. He’s on Facebook here. For some reason Rhodes seems to blame me for internet harassment that he feels he’s suffered on the internet for admining an uncensored group on Flickr. He claims to have stalked me at the Dream Machines Show this past year in Half Moon Bay and has written that I didn’t know how close I came to being mugged by him at that event. Note. This is someone that I’ve never met in life and had no signficant interaction with on the internet prior to him making these sorts of threats. He’s made threats against other people in this internet forum as well. I’m not going to get into the details of this specifically, other than to say that I found it offensive that he’d suggest that he was stalking me at a public photographer event. And that he’d threaten physical violence against people over differences in photography...
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- Thomas Hawk
On his web site, he says he's "someone a bit more talented than [Thomas Hawk]." Yet I can't find any of his photos. And threatening your family is lower than low. I'm sorry you're having to deal with this, Thomas. Good luck.
- Celine Chamberlin
The sort of people who are capable of (and have a tendency to) carry out acts of violence, do it rather than talk about it on the internet. The sort that talk about it are usually morons who've been kicked around most of their lives and are just wannabe 'gangsters'. The internet is the only place that's going to happen and sadly for them, it only happens in a virtual, non real way. Not very satisfying. I wouldn't worry about him.
- Gary
Sad, very sad.
- ChiliMac
caution is advised
- imran
Ugly, hope it doesn't escalate anymore, if it does there should be enough grounds for some sort of legal action.
- Grant Bierman
: ( what is on his website right now is terribly disturbing.
- carlotta fancypants
yeah carlotta. I've blocked him here.
- Thomas Hawk
Olympics warns man to remove photos from website - thestar.com - http://www.thestar.com/olympic...
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"OTTAWA–Amateur photographers in the spectator stands at the Olympics should look over their shoulders before peering through the lens because a powerful organization will be sure to watch what they do with those snapshots. The International Olympic Committee sent a cease-and-desist letter to Richard Giles, 38, after discovering his images from his three-week solo trip to China for the 2008 Beijing Games on the popular online photo-sharing site Flickr, where he was allowing other people to use them as they wished. The letter marks the first time the IOC – whose website calls it the "supreme authority of the Olympic Movement" – has moved to protect its image on a social media site."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Wow. wtf IOC?
- Bill Scherer
After reading the article I'm not as freaked out by this. Looks like the IOC realized their mistake in demanding an all out takedown and are now looking to have them moved from a Creative Commons license to All Rights Reserved.
- ChiliMac
Sure would be nice to be able to filter out @reply tweets from feeding into FF. Come on FF, how hard can it be?
Roberto Bonini liked this
I hear what you're saying but I like them showing up. Friendfeed is my Twitter feed at work. I'd miss out on some good stuff without the @ replies.
- ChiliMac
^ hehe same :)
- Fee501st
So it should be some type of filter option for the user
- Jerry Perez
ChiliMac- But it's a whole 'nother step to see what the original post was!
- Sarah Lane
Sarah, not if FriendFeed users use the FriendFeed reply feature to reply to tweets! :)
- Andru Edwards
Plus, in FF you can send comments as tweets, so it can easily get out of control (comments to comments and such).
- Thomas
Hrm. I don't know, it just seems like a lotta noise to me.
- Sarah Lane
^Agree
- Thomas
I'd love to see the option to turn them off at least
- Thomas
Yes, having the OPTION to do it would be nice. Can't argue against having more options to control what comes through to you.
- Andru Edwards
I agree. Twitter is noise.
- Josh Haley
LOL! My mom offered to do the voiceovers for @comicbookorange since I'm sick! I'll still do them, but I'll act as unsick as possible!
How about you write your sickness into the episode? Or did you already film?
- ChiliMac
Probably going to take down the mmmbop apple store video so I don't get in trouble on YouTube. Watch it before I do! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Letterman admits having sex with female employees - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
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"A CBS News employee is accused of trying to extort $2 million from David Letterman, forcing the late-night host to admit in an extraordinary monologue before millions of viewers that he had sexual relationships with female employees. Letterman said that "this whole thing has been quite scary." But he mixed in jokes while outlining what had happened to him, seeming to confuse a laughing audience at Thursday's taping about whether the story was true. The network said the person who was arrested works on the true-crime show "48 Hours" and has been suspended. A person with knowledge of the investigation said the suspect is Robert J. Halderman. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because authorities have not released the suspect's name."
- Thomas Hawk
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I don't respect what Letterman did but I truly respect that he is willing to take the bullet rather than let this guy get away with blackmail.
- ChiliMac
blackmail sucks. Glad he stood up to this guy as well. It will be interesting as more details on this story emerge. I can't imagine what this guy's defense is going to be. He seems like he was a pretty accomplished individual based on his own work.
- Thomas Hawk
thawk: headline is... "my alimony made me do it"
- bob phillips
His defense is going to be I wasn't extorting him, I was just giving him the option to buy out my script, because my script would have harmed Dave and I didn't want that, and he was guestimatting that the upside of the script was about 2 million.
- RAPatton
Offering to sell someone a script by putting a message in an envelope in the back seat of their car saying that you know that they've done terrible things seems a bit unconventional.
- Thomas Hawk
I didn't say it was a good defense, but that is about all he has.
- RAPatton
LOL at Thomas... Agreed... a tad bit unconventional. Kudos to Dave though for taking it head on. And, am I'm I reading this right?... Dave has been mostly single during his career correct? And he's not being accused of harassment? Hmmm... I wonder how many people meet/date from relationships in the workplace? Seems like that's a pretty common place to hook up if your in such a immersive industry. (Follow up: Why is immersive not a real word?)
- SAM
Well he's been mostly single. He divorced back in the 1970s, I think from his first wife, but had been dating Regina Lasko since 1986 until marrying her earlier this year. He also has a son with her.
- Thomas Hawk
Mmmmm... that's less good. Bad Dave.
- SAM
I don't know that he is going to be in that much trouble with his wife as he could be by having relationships with employees; there can be a lot of legal issues spawning from that.
- RAPatton
There can be legal issues for sure and it's probably stupid to have sex with people who work for you, but if it was consensual between adults I'm not sure I have any problem with it. I'd suspect that if there were employment type issues surrounding the sex that they might have been addressed by now. You never know though. I suspect a lot of details are still going to emerge about this story.
- Thomas Hawk
I am sure he thought the were consensual, but you can always have the person who works for him claim that it wasn't at a later time, that they were pressured into doing it; it leaves him very vulnerable. I don't know if the network has any issues, because I would think the legal liability would be at World Wide Pants.
- RAPatton
Regardless of the legal implications... bad decision making at best. But worse so on the part of the alleged black mailer. Class-less.
- SAM
Sure bad decision making. As was Clinton's deal with Lewinsky and loads of other wealthy powerful people who've strayed. But these things happen and will continue to happen. I just appreciate when they happen between consenting adults and rape/children aren't involved.
- Thomas Hawk
Stephanie Birkitt (aka Vickie) apparently is one of the women. I always wondered what happened to her,
- Brian Sullivan
Fortunately for Dave he's a comedian and not a politician. I thought his monologue on it though was brilliantly crafted.
- Thomas Hawk
If a politician handled it the same way he did, but not letting himself be blackmailed, they would be fine. For a few weeks they would take a hit, but they would recover. They get into trouble when they drag it out, lie about it and try to cover it up.
- RAPatton
There are serious ethical issues if Letterman is involved with hiring/firing/promotion/demotion decisions. It affects both the women sexually involved with him and the other men and women who were not but whose career advancement may well be impacted by the effects of these illicit encounters.
- Joel Lovato
Chicago eliminated in 1st round of Olympic voting? The IOC was not impressed w/ the American Prez? Or they found out how corrupt Chicago is?
I have a feeling we're going to here claims that it's anti-american sentiment & is all Pres Bush's fault.
- ChiliMac
Anyone know how I can get into the Magic Castle without being a member? Want to take my brother.
Check out the Totally Rad Show. They were just there. There are associate memberships also. But really I think you need to find a member who will take you.
- ChiliMac
Polanski's defenders lose sight of the true victim -- latimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/news...
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"Q: Did you resist at that time? A: A little bit, but not really because . . . Q: Because what? A: Because I was afraid of him. That's Roman Polanski's 13-year-old victim testifying before a grand jury about how the famous director forced himself on her at Jack Nicholson's Mulholland Drive home in March of 1977. I'm reading this in the district attorney's office at the Los Angeles County Criminal Courts Building, digging through the Polanski file to refresh my memory of the infamous case, and my blood pressure is rising. Is it because I'm the parent of a girl? Maybe that's part of it. But I wish the renowned legal scholars Harvey Weinstein and Debra Winger, to name just two of Polanski's defenders, were here with me now. I'd like to invite Martin Scorsese, as well, along with David Lynch, who have put their names on a petition calling for Polanski to be freed immediately. What, because he won an Oscar? Would they speak up for a sex offender who hadn't? To hear these people tell it,...
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- Thomas Hawk
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probably the best write up on the Polanski case I've seen yet. Strong writing and good work by Steve Lopez at the L.A. Times for putting together this op/ed piece and pointing out the moral failure of those who are currently supporting Polanski.
- Thomas Hawk
I really don't understand why France insists on protecting this guy. I hope Switzerland does the right thing.
- ChiliMac
Stay focused: The Computer Graphics Group sharpens photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images instead of a single higher-quality image. - http://web.mit.edu/newsoff...
"For photographers, it's sometimes difficult to keep both the foreground and background of an image in focus. Focusing somewhere between the two can ensure that neither is blurry; but neither will be particularly sharp, either. On Friday, at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision in Kyoto, Japan, members of the MIT Graphics Group will show that combining several low-quality exposures with different focal depths can yield a sharper photo than a single, higher-quality exposure."
- ChiliMac
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Allen, Lynch, Scorsese sign petition for Polanski release - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - http://www.abc.net.au/news...
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"Top US directors Woody Allen, David Lynch and Martin Scorsese have signed a petition protesting the detention of Roman Polanski in Switzerland, a French film industry association, SACD, said. The petition in favour of fellow director Polanski, coordinated by the SACD which represents performance and visual artists, so far has been signed by some 110 industry figures. Among them are Michael Mann, Wim Wenders and Pedro Almodovar, as well as Darren Aronofsky, Terry Gilliam and the Dardenne brothers. "We demand the immediate release of Roman Polanski," it says."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Is anyone surprised that Woody Allen signed this?
- Kenton
What Kenton said. =)
- Spidra Webster
"First they came for the directors, and I said nothing for I was not a director." Sheesh.
- Kevin Fox
lolz @ Kenton
- Lindsey is Fierce!
I'm surprised that these folks would want to so publicly support him. I wonder of this is commentary on a greater moral bancruptcy that exists in Hollywoodland and the entertainment industry more broadly speaking.
- Thomas Hawk
from iPhone
I think more than anything it's people who know him personally who don't think he's 'the kind of person that rape laws were written for' and were offended that he was apprehended while going to receive a lifetime achievement award. This lack of perspective in such capable filmmakers is surprising.
- Kevin Fox
LOL @ Kenton
- Spencer
@Thomas I think this once again shows how "out of touch" Hollywood is with reality.
- Spencer
@Thomas & Kevin: most of the people supporting him are of the opinion that the overseeing judge in his case reneged on the plea deal in the original case (as is the victim), which is what started the whole "fleeing overseas" nonsense. What he did was reprehensible; no argument.
- Jennifer Dittrich
*Like* for Kenton's comment.
- Tudor Bosman
Was Woody Allen's step-daughter under 18 when he started a sexual relationship with her?
- Thomas Hawk
I saw a quote from Polanski's Swiss lawyer saying he is "ready to fight". I think that is great to hear. If he's ready to fight then come back here and fight!
- ChiliMac
If there is any fact in the whole original judge reneging issue, big deal. Polanski drugged and raped a 13 year old girl and then after admitting his guilt, he fled the US. Face the charges and make your arguments again idiot! As for his supporters, you are also idiots. Roman Polanski may be a great director (I certainly think he is) but he is also a rapist of a CHILD even if it was a 'long time ago'... fools!
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Thomas, I think she was in her early 20's. My comment was more on the age difference than anything else.
- Kenton
I agree with Jennifer's analysis that the support from these people is more because of the feeling of injustice than that what he did was right or wrong. However, I'd be afraid to put my name to anything in support without being very clear that it was because of a percieved miscarriage of justice rather than support for child rape.
- Kenton
what was the injustice done to Roman Polanski?
- Thomas Hawk
Problem is that a Judge doesn’t "reneg” on a plea agreement. A plea is between the defense and the prosecution. The Judge either approves it or disapproves it. In the case the Judge didn't approve of it a instead of dealing with it he fled.
- ChiliMac
Woody Allen pledging his support? No surprise there.
- Kevin J Hatton
Mmm.. 13 years old huh? And she's 40+ now? > 33 years ago, how would they punish such a crime? What's the usual judgment if it's a case that happened so many years behind?
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
@Kenton - I agree; the 'out of touch' element for me here is that the people supporting him for that reason think that everyone knows the specific details of the case, or like them, has watched "Wanted and Desired."
- Jennifer Dittrich
"Directors Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and Woody Allen are among dozens in the film industry to sign a petition calling for the immediate release of Polanski. Academy-Award winning film producer Harvey Weinstein, also a signatory to the petition, wrote in the UK Indpendent calling the original plea deal in Polanski's case a "miscarriage of justice." "Whatever you think about the...
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- Thomas Hawk
You know, I just read through both the transcript of Polanski's plea bargain as well as the testimony of the victim Samantha Gailey when she was 13. The thing is that he plead down to the single count of sex with an underage child -- something truly horrible. But the account of the actual incident. The rape, the victim protesting the entire time, the manipulation on his part, the...
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- Thomas Hawk
++ Thomas.
- Ayşe E.
Well said Thomas.
- Penny
Honestly, I don't know who I'm more offended by at the moment: Roman Polanski for acts he perpetrated 30 years ago, or Lynch, Scorsese and the others for their advocacy of ignoring those acts today.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, that's an easy choice for me. Lynch, Scorcese and the others are just guilty of stupidity or blind loyalty. Polanski is guilty of much worse.
- Stephen Mack
I'm offended most by Polanski, but I'm flabbergasted after reading the testimony of this girl that any human being could somehow stand by and defend this man at this point. Harvey Weinstein called the plea bargain a "miscarriage of justice?" and said he's "served his time?" The only miscarriage of justice here was that he was even offered to plead *down* to a single count in the first...
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- Thomas Hawk
I used to like movies. >.>
- David C. Cooper
Stephen, I'm talking about at this moment. I've been offended by Polanski all my life, and my outrage doesn't spike just because he's the news of the day. The others though, their offense is new and current, and so on this day their pious defense of this child rapist offends me more. Tomorrow maybe he'll regain top spot.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, I have no refutation. Your logic is impeccable.
- Stephen Mack
Here is the actual petition: http://www.thewrap.com/article...
- Thomas Hawk
Wow. The petition reads as if he were a political dissident being restrained by a foreign power for crimes of conscience, rather than a child rapist being extradited for raping a child and evading prosecution. Accepting the petition's arguments as valid means you should be able to commit any crime at all and not be apprehended for it so long as you happen to be on the way to accepting a lifetime achievement award.
- Kevin Fox
So many names I used to respect. Thanks for posting Thomas. One name not on the list: Luc Besson, who said, "I have a lot of affection for him, he is a man that I like very much ... but nobody should be above the law. I don't know the details of this case, but I think that when you don't show up for trial, you are taking a risk. Everyone [who signs the petition] can do as they please...
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- Stephen Mack
Whoopi Goldberg On Roman Polanski: It Wasn't 'Rape-Rape' http://jezebel.com/5369395... I'm confused so sometimes rape isn't rape?
- Thomas Hawk
It seems like marginalizing sex crimes has become part of the liberal agenda.
- David C. Cooper
Re Whoopi: I have a feeling she wasn't up to speed on the specifics of the case, and she'll sing a different tune on tomorrow's show. Re Scorsese, Lynch and Allen, none of their names are listed on the petition linked from these comments. Is it out of date, is there another petition, or is this just an untrue rumor?
- Kevin Fox
Hey Whoopi: He confessed. He. Period. Confessed. Period. He confessed to raping a 13 year old girl. Read the testimony. (http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...) What would you see as more "rape rape" than that?
- Stephen Mack
David: Oh please. I'm as liberal as they come. This isn't a liberal-conservative issue. I haven't seen a single politician of any stripe oppose the arrest.
- Stephen Mack
David: I think you'd find that almost everyone on this thread is 'liberal' and we all condemn Polanski and want him brought to justice at the same time we condemn his famous friends trying to defend him. Don't go generalizing.
- Kevin Fox
I think the link I posted was to an earlier version of the list. Woody Allen, Scorsese and the others are widely reported to have signed it doing a simple Google news search for their names. I can't get the page with the actual SACD petition on it to load: http://www.sacd.fr/Le-cine...
- Thomas Hawk
CNN reporting that Allen, Scorsese, etc. signed it: http://www.cnn.com/2009...
- Thomas Hawk
Here's the other thing that I don't get, it keeps getting brought up in the news that his wife was murdered by the Manson family and that his family were holocaust victims. What is the point of this? Are we supposed to feel sorry for his hard life? Are these facts supposed to somehow soften his crime of rape or make it somehow not as bad?
- Thomas Hawk
from iPhone
As I Jew I find it embarrassing and offensive that they bring up the holocaust in his defense.
- David C. Cooper
I'm amused by the "We demand that he be released" verbiage. Movie directors demand his release or... what? They'll stop making movies? They'll make movies but refuse to release them to U.S. audiences? The phrase 'Drama Queens' has never been so appropriate.
- Kevin Fox
I've seen a documentary once on 'sex offenders' parents being in prison for many years for crimes they never did (and having those laws lowered even I think, in one of those states), or sometimes it was the forced testimonies on the children to have the 'evidence' needed to imprison them. Life is rough on all corners I suppose. Even if the possibility exist, many will just stick to the...
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- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Do judges now take into account demands submitted by petitions? For criminal trials?
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Hollywood has now sunk to new lows, if that was possible. Actually I am pretty sad by this that soo many people are defending a child rapist. They should all be condemned and ashamed of their support!
- Travis Koger
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Activists protest Obama-Joker banner on Richmond strip club | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com - http://hamptonroads.com/2009...
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"Civil rights and community activists in Richmond are protesting a banner on a downtown strip club depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman. Representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Nation of Islam and other groups gathered outside Club Velvet at noon Monday to protest what they called an affront against the nation's first black president and "veiled attacks on all African people." At a news conference that was part street theater, a dancer from the club walked through the crowd with a sign that read "Strippers for Obama" as a drummer kept a steady beat. Club owner Sam Moore said the banner is not racist. He said he's simply unhappy with Obama's policies."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
On cue, they pull the race card when it has nothing to do with race.
- Spencer
They took their cue from Jimmy Carter.
- Robert Couture
If you'd prefer to be simply termed misguided and ill-informed instead of racist you should probably bang that drum harder.
- Richard Lawler
I really wonder if the owner put this up because of his disagreement with Pres Obama's pollicies or just to get a stir up around his club. If he really has an issue with Pres Obama's policies I think this is a dumb way to try and win people over.
- ChiliMac
my husband would like everyone in the southeast to decline flood help. because that's the government and government is bad. or something
Erin, do you have to be THAT person? No one is saying all government is bad. I'm tired of people trying to exaggerate and distort the positions they disagree with.
- ChiliMac
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