Laughter is like composing Haiku or taking pictures. When you think of a scene in front of you in order to write a poem or think about how to compose a shot, you are deeply engaged with where you are at. You are seeing things beyond the surface, finding relationships, comparing, contrasting, creating meaning. Laughter is like that between people.
Gardening has the same effect for deepening my awareness with the seasons. I never paid close attention to the weather before. Hot cold etc sure, but when you worry about growing things you start paying a lot more intimate attention to frost wind sun seasons how things root and grow. Composting similarily links eating to growing to how things work together. Understanding is so relational. Those relations need to be established for wisdom to evolve
- Todd Hoff
from iPhone
Another magical lens is a mathematician looking for symmetry in the world. Once you start looking for symmetry it's everywhere and deeply connects form across all things.
- Todd Hoff
I talked with a woman today who collects sea glass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) by the sea. I was captivated as she explained how searching for glinty bits of glass in the surf transformed her and her families experience of the beach. She loves walking the beach looking for glass and collecting it. Her friend makes art work out of it, but she just puts it in a jar she bought...
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- Todd Hoff
A man I talked with told me how he like making up stories of the people he sees. He would look closely at a person I try to see if they were sad, happy, angry, impatient, blank, or whatever and then make up a story of why they might be feeling that way. It requires a lot of emotional intelligence and imagination to carry this out.
- Todd Hoff
Numeracy. By that I mean seeing things as described by numbers. It's a very different way of seeing the world. My first exposure to this way of relating to the world were stories about John von Neumann. It's certainly not how I see the world or anyone I knew at the time. The story I remember most is him looking at bicycle wheel and characterizing by numbers. He immediately signed...
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- Todd Hoff
Competition. This one is from Adam Savage. He sees deadlines and competition as a way to engage at a deeper level with his work. It's the pressure that creates a flow where he's solving problems and paying the most attention to what he's doing.
- Todd Hoff
Entrepreneur. There's a type of person that sees every situation as a new business that could be created. Viewing the world this way can be exciting. It makes you inquisitive, sensitive to relationships, and fundamentally optimistic. The downside is the potential to see everything as a means instead of end.
- Todd Hoff
Wine Tasting. It's especially fun in a group to go to a winery, look at the vines, hear the wine makers story, and try and find different flavors in the wine that backup what you've just experienced. A wine club deepens the experience a bit more. Buying futures, tasting the wine in the barrel and different points, then on release, then each year after deepens the experience even more. Food tasting in general would be similar I think.
- Todd Hoff
Wish lists. Lisa Bettany on Leo's show was rhapsodising about the process of picking her ultimate camera rig. It obviously gave her a lot of pleasure to think about all the different options, roll that about in her mind, imagine what it would be like, and come up with a final list. We something similar on the Internet with question like What is your favorite X? These are often surprisingly spirited and introspective discussions. Maybe related to window shopping.
- Todd Hoff
Trip joke. This is from a sailor who says on every trip to sea there develops a trip joke. It gets hammered into the deck and gets funnier as the days pass by. The funny thing, beside the joke, is the joke doesn't make any sense to the people who weren't there. It can't be explained. You had to be there in the experience. I think shared experiences are like that. People share something that can't be explained yet it is as real as rain.
- Todd Hoff
Naming. This from A Very Small Farm by William Winchester. In his book he is very precise with names. He doesn't just say there was a hawk sitting on a tree. He tells you exactly what kind of hawk, some characteristics of those hawks, and the quality of his interaction with them. He tells you precisely what kind of chicken, cow, or plant he is talking about. This seems to really deepen...
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- Todd Hoff
Breeding. Also from A Very Small Farm but also from people I know who breed dogs. In Williams case it delighted in producing new breeds of seeds that improved on what went before and fit is little ecosystem better. Dog breeders are often crazy intense about producing certain qualities and their dogs and spend infinite amounts of time evaluating breeding lines, looking at dogs,...
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- Todd Hoff
Picking seeds in winter for next summer's garden. People deeply enjoy this. Planning, browsing through catalogues, imagining how the plants will grow, what they'll look like, how they will taste.
- Todd Hoff
"When you watch your kid doing something you taught him, that's just not a feeling you get from purchasing a new iPad. When you sit in structure you built or use a product you built you'll know the feeling. It's hard to explain but in the end, it's worth it."
- Todd Hoff
Historical context & history. Knowing the history of something makes it mean more than it ever has before. It gives it layers of meaning and nuance that go way beyond a simple definition. Understanding the history of a word like brazen, for example, makes it so much more interesting. I image a definition of god as a being for whom all histories are known, so everything has ultimate meaning.
- Todd Hoff
Deep dive. I was listening to these guys who are really into chillies. They grow all sorts of varieties. They had opinions on all sorts of obscure aspects of chili lore. Thy delighted in talking about how to grow them, get the seeds, cook them, dry them, preserve them, how long different kinds took took to germinate, how some tasted better dried and smoked. And on and on. It was obvious about how knowing everything about chillies gave them a great deal of pleasure.
- Todd Hoff
Teasing. Playful teasing between willing participants carves out a special even sacred space, walled off from the mundane world.
- Todd Hoff
Parody. In an interview with one of the homer simpsons writers he said they were always looking around for things to parody on the show. I imagine that must give you an interesting relationship with everything around you!
- Todd Hoff
writing - "well, it was fun, though I think it would have been less fun if I hadn't been writing about it." -- richard todd
- Todd Hoff
Walk slowly around your neighborhood and back alleys looking for where food grows in public spaces. Most people walk quickly where they need to go totally ignoring the area around their own home. This is the intriguing idea of edible maps discussed in London’s Potential for Urban Agriculture – Interview with Mikey Tomkins - http://thesociocapitalist.com/2537.... More at http://www.mikeytomkins.co.uk/
- Todd Hoff
Esoterica. There are esoteric views for almost everything, gnosticism, kabbalah, hermeticism, alchemy, where people try to find the deeper meaning behind the surface in a way that is deeply personal. Moses just didn't get the 10 commandments, for example, he also received esoteric knowledge that is passed down orally for those who are prepared and worthy to receive it. Is this true? Who...
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- Todd Hoff
vacation. Being on vacation changes even your perception of things you see everyday.
- Todd Hoff
magic. When are trying to find the trick behind a magic trick you are viewing a scene in a completely different way than normal life. Ironically it's this attentional focus that allows us to be tricked.
- Todd Hoff
Naming things. Recognizing plant names. I suck at this. But the guys at rootsimple.com talked about walking around the neighborhood and everything is just a sea of green. Once you start learning the names of things then you start seeing familiar things all around you and it deepens your relationship. Maybe you've walked with people who know the name of everything and enjoy looking at leaves and figuring out what kind of tree or plant it is. Same with bird watching. And human watching while shopping.
- Todd Hoff
Shared experience. Experience something with other people dramatically changes what you are experiencing.
- Todd Hoff
gamification. Adding an extra layer of points, leveling up, challenges, groups tasks, etc to everything we do has the potential to charge and enrich otherwise mundane life. Or it can trivialize it even further.
- Todd Hoff
Attraction. "Crush: a heighten awareness of were he at the gym. 'ma idiot. Everytime he walks by, I smile like an idiot." http://friendfeed.com/vivianv...
- Todd Hoff
Acquisition. Viewing something with an eye towards purchasing it is a totally different experience from a casual interaction. All those little details that didn't matter before are now near deal breakers and indignities.
- Todd Hoff
Form. A poetry form like the villanelle, sonnet, haiku is restrictive, but by making you search for the right sound and and the right meaning to complete the form, a special vibrant place of possibilities is create that would not exist without the requirement of form.
- Todd Hoff
Oculus. An oculus defines a sacred space between this world and the world of spirit. It's a portal between the worlds. When you see one your mind is transported to other worlds outside the typical.
- Todd Hoff
Secrets. People who share a secret have an extra layer of meaning in the air. Everything is tinged with extra drama unavailable to those not participating in the secret
- Todd Hoff
For later: sex, festival, dream, sabotage, spying, altered states, competition, play
- Todd Hoff
Memory. I forget why. Oh, because everything becomes faceted with memory. Everyone can look at exactly the same scene and have a completely different experience because each person has a different set of memories. We don't live in the same world at all when you consider the power of memory. Memory is a tyrant, a box, a task master, a prison, a heaven, a torturer, a courtesan.
- Todd Hoff
Hemingway on Memory: "There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other." (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news...)
- Todd Hoff
sympathy. Yeats wrote about how the shared experience of sympathy bound together he and his lady love. Shared experiences and sentiments roughen usually hard, glassy, repulsive surfaces so that a spiritual glue can be applied, making unlike things as one.
- Todd Hoff
Style. Style creates a sort of sacred space where they stylish person separates themselves out from the unstylish. Tattoos, military garb, athletic uniforms, branded tshirts, religious garb, musical style, dance style, all serve the purpose of separation and enchantment.
- Todd Hoff
Game player type: explorer, socializer, killer, achiever. Each player type creates a different type of game space. Most people in the world the world are not out to achieve anything. They would like to earn achievements, but don’t care much to achieve.
- Todd Hoff
Echoes. Related to memories and trip jokes. But echoes are the piling up waves offset in time. So it's like rhyme in a poem, the poet setting up the rhyme for you to experience later. Repetition in music and stories. Old pictures. Snatches of memories of what has been seen, heard, experienced. All those in an echo are in a different place.
- Todd Hoff
Aftershock. A combination of memory and echo. When an after shock occurs, both actual and metaphorical, there's a space of simultaneity created where the fear of the past event rushes back to the present and infects the future. Each aftershock thereafter participates in the effect of all the previous aftershocks so all the pain a dread piles up like a compression wave. A truly powerful effect.
- Todd Hoff
Provenance. This one is inspired by Paul Bloom and How Pleasure Works. He talks a lot about essentialism. If the Mona Lisa were duplicated exactly we would still like the original better. Our lucky penny is identical to any other penny but any other penny won't do. A sweater touched by JFK is more valuable than a sweater owned by JFK but that was dry cleaned. My carrot that I grow...
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- Todd Hoff
Manipulation. From the Huntress...Paul McClure walked me through how the pro's get the emotion in their shots. They take five or six bracketed frames at different exposures of the same shot and then overlap them in a photoshop type program.
- Todd Hoff
Competition. Listening to athletes talk about that experience of being in the moment of a fierce competition struck me immediately as a powerful separate space completely separate from everyday experience.
- Todd Hoff
Filters. You know when on TV they light up a building with infrared and all of sudden you can see these little glowing lights that are people? In the forest a heavy dew is like that for spider webs. Spider webs are nearly invisible. Look at a patch of forest and there's nothing. Then have a heavy morning dew, it lights up that patch of forest and spider webs are everywhere....
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- Todd Hoff
Time Capsules. We've made a couple time capsules on our property. They only contain pictures of the house and the area, but I can imagine someone discovering them one day, opening, and reliving a bit of our past, just as I'm imagining a bit of their future.
- Todd Hoff
It took me 1.5-years to get RSS after Dave Winer first showed it to me. So, I am getting faster. Took me just a few months to get friendfeed. Glad you kept after me.
- Robert Scoble
So how do I access it? <---I take that back. Didn't realize what I was looking at when I went to the site.
- Mattie Kenny
Josh: it was a seasonal thing last year at this time, so it is no longer possible. We may have to bring it back by popular demand, but for now the entries you see are all from last year.
- Bret Taylor
Bret - bring back those cute little red icons next to the FF posts! easy seasonal "flair" feature!
- Susan Beebe
سلام استاد جوان، میدونم که این روزها حسابی سرت شلوغه خسته نباشی. همکاران میگفتند که قضیه دعوتنامه شما برای تدریس در آن چند دانشگاه آمریکایی جدی است. خیال ندارید که ما را تنها بگذارید؟
- Shahnaz Bahrami
سلام :) - شمام که بیدارید؟ پیشنهاد خوبی است ولی فاصله آمریکا تا ایران بسیار زیاد است و توان اینهمه فاصله و دوری را ندارم. شما خوبید؟ همسر و خانواده محترم خوبند؟
- "Flo14wer"
ممنونم همه خوبند. خوشحالم که خیال رفتن نداری. جوانترین و متخصصترین همکار و استاد دانشگاه ما هستی اگر بروی جای خالیت را هیچکس نمیتونه پر کنه. مثل دختر خودم دوستت دارم
- Shahnaz Bahrami
همیشه محبّت و لطف شما، مرا شرمنده و خجالتزده میکند. همه نظر لطف شماست و خوبی خودتان و بس، وگرنه که شما همیشه استادم هستید
- "Flo14wer"
عمر خیام ، دکتر محمّد معین ، قیصر امینپور ، غلامحسین بنان ، پرویز مشکاتیان، اونوره دوبالزاک ، ویلیام شکسپیر، برتراند راسل ، ولادمیر ناباکف همه متولد اردیبهشت هستند
- .مهــــــــدى.
Your blog and pictures opened my eyes. In my ignorance I have always envisioned a vast ocean of sand when thinking of the Middle East. Your blog and photos are beautiful and more what you would expect of Italy, Greece, etc. A day you learn something new is not a day wasted. Thank you!
- John Clark
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- Tinfoil 2.0
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- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
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This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- The original Kevin
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Just remember- this is not a competition, just an exhibition. @Kyle - ever been to Culver, IN? Grew up there before moving to Chicago.
- michael sean wright
Nice: I have been to Culver! You are in Chicago now? I will have to let you know next time I am up your way.
- Kyle Lacy
Not sure about that, but: "Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present all time is unredeemable." - Swatch, Always Now, 1997 (and yes my lunch, at 1:42am local, is consisting of a double martini so that actually makes some sense to me)
- David HC Soul
are you saying that time "now" has no meaning? i (obv.) reject this but toast your willingness to acknowledge the wisdom of a dean martin martini. now, for you sir, on to the work of most importance. focus on the permanent.
- michael sean wright
Well, I will grant that the sentiment of French Marshall Lyautey has some merit (he asked his gardener to plant a tree and when the gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years the Marshall was said to have replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!').... So I am off to plant some trees....
- David HC Soul
you, i like. and will point you to Hermann Hesse before he won the Nobel Prize for 'The Glass Bead Game' in which he wrote in in the idyllic poem "Hours in the Garden" (1936)- 'I hear music and see men of the past and future. I see wise men and poets and scholars and artists harmoniously building the hundred-gated cathedral of the Mind." - (forword to Glass Bead Game by by Hermann Hesse by Theodore Ziolkowski.)
- michael sean wright
Thanks for the pointer - I'll go search it out.
- David HC Soul
I hope so. The thought is consuming much of my waking hours these days.... But I have to be up in 5 hours... so will have to return to the 'nightcrew' tomorrow night. One thing about time is it does seem to age one....
- David HC Soul
sleep perchance to dream, a wise man said. Billy Shakespeare.
- michael sean wright
Then pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am I dreaming or awake, right now?"
- David HC Soul
man, most of the ppl who liked this i haven't seen on FF in ages. maybe i'm doing it wrong.
- Joe The Sausage
for most of us we met here, stayed loyal here but the sun set long ago : ( what a rush of a time that was! now we find ourselves over at g+ telling stories of the good ol' days!
- michael sean wright
Meme-inless no more! always been an interesting world with you!
- michael sean wright
oh and... i do have some google+ invites left - email me nicefishfilms at g ma i l dot co m
- michael sean wright
I'm curious now - did google + make you come back to FF? Because that is v interesting.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
yes, we did the podcast when ff was acquired by the book of face.. watched them absorb the real-time elements and i check in from time to time usually through this post as it brings back very fond memories. google + reminds me of the early days of ff - haven't felt that way about any of the social nets that have come since the facedbooked swallow up. heaven knows we've been on them all and they seem so ancient now -- quora anyone? google got it right with +. think it marks the next era for them.
- michael sean wright
Google + right now does remind me of the FF glory days and I am curious to see what happens next.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
آقا به خاطر فیل تر و استفاده از فریگت قابل مشاهده نیستن. لایک را هم با اعتماد به رای این خلقالله دادیم :دی اگه بشه جایی آپلود کنید و لینک بدین خیلی خوب میشه...
- Mostaf@m
آقا مصطفی محبت کردین. بعد از اینکه فری گت رو بستین میشه به صورت عادی عکس هارو دید آدرس عکیها با آدرس خود فرندفید فرق داره و فیلتر نییست. بازم اگهنشد بفرمائین جایی دیگه میزارم
- Nimaa
اوا نیمایی این همه کامنت و فید چرا خورده زیر این فید ناموسی؟ :))) پاکش اصلن :دی
- I /-\li
علی این همه لایک و کامنت سیخی هست در چشم تو :D
- Nimaa
من که عکس ها رو ندیدم.اما لایک می زنم بقیه ببینن به قول نیما شاد بشن.
- elmira
المیرا برات ایمیل میکنم ببینی با فریگت دیده نمیشن
- Nimaa
دومیه خیلی گوگولیه!نهمیه هم خیلی بانمکه!آخریه هم که تهشه!=))))))))))منم مستندشو توی بی بی سی دیدم!حس انسان دوستیت منو کشته!بعدشم من 16 رو برمیدارم به خاطر اسمم و هاله ی نور و این حرفا و اینا!کلا خیلی گوگولین دیگه بازم تعریف کنم؟:D
- Fereshteh
یه چهار نفر دیگه بیان لایم بزنن بشه 200 تا لایک خیلی خوب میشه!8->
- Fereshteh
"March 16, 2011: Mark your calendar. On March 19th, a full Moon of rare size and beauty will rise in the east at sunset. It's a super "perigee moon"--the biggest in almost 20 years. "The last full Moon so big and close to Earth occurred in March of 1993," says Geoff Chester of the US Naval Observatory in Washington DC. "I'd say it's worth a look." Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee): diagram. Nearby perigee moons are about 14% bigger and 30% brighter than lesser moons that occur on the apogee side of the Moon's orbit. Super Full Moon (movie strip, 550px) Above: Perigee moons are as much as 14% wider and 30% brighter than lesser full Moons. [video] "The full Moon of March 19th occurs less than one hour away from perigee--a near-perfect coincidence that happens only 18 years or so," adds Chester."
- Maitani
from Bookmarklet
"The best time to look is when the Moon is near the horizon. That is when illusion mixes with reality to produce a truly stunning view. For reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, low-hanging Moons look unnaturally large when they beam through trees, buildings and other foreground objects. On March 19th, why not let the "Moon illusion" amplify a full Moon that's...
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- Maitani
I checked the weather and it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Today it is overcast in Oslo and sunny in Bergen. Tomorrow it is the opposite. #firstworldproblems ;)
- Eivind
""He will direct the draughtsmen embarked on board the frigates to take views of all remarkable places and countries, portraits of the natives of different parts, their dresses, ceremonies, games, buildings, boats and vessels, and all the productions of the sea and land, in each of the three kingdoms of nature, if he shall think that drawings of them will render the descriptions more intelligible." [Instructions given to Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse]"
- Maitani
from Bookmarklet
Hao, this is awesome! Remember how people were saying in the FF Feedback room, how they'd like services to be linked, but not important the feeds? THIS is the temp. solution. WOW. Are you going to implement a way to filter individually?
- Mona Nomura
It doesn't actually do that, Mona. If your account is in Friendfeed, it goes into your feed. Hao Chen is merely making it easier to get the URLs from FriendFeed.
- Mark Trapp
Looks great. I guess I'll have to look into Social Graph API a bit deeper. It's so much faster than FF API for network data.
- Benedikt Koehler
Oops, I meant UN-LINK services so it'll stop pulling into their feed BUT still enable their friends to link to their respective accounts. Thank you for catching that, Mark.
- Mona Nomura
It should be possible to use the Social Graph API to find services that are not imported into Friendfeed as well as friends' services not on FF. It's a bit tricky because it requires a lot of separate requests. Right now, it's only using the SG API to find your subscriptions across the services you import on FF.
- Hao Chen
Thanks, just don't look at the source code. LOL
- Hao Chen
Hao, this is awesome, this is going to save me so much time! Thanks!
- Shey
Very cool. However, my tiny brain is not grokking " Remove Connections Already Subscribed To". Please to explain.
- Laura Norvig
Laura, it's not very accurate, but it's supposed to remove links to people's accounts on the other networks you already subscribe to. For example, if I already subscribe to Bob on Twitter, it might remove the link to Bob's Twitter page in the big list.
- Hao Chen
very kool Hao....Im finding my fellow FF on other services!
- (jeff)isageek
Hao, this is very cool; I just used it to great success friending last.fm users.
- Pete D
Hao, since I am the lone step child, any idea why it would not work for me. I typed in my ID, nothing happens, no spinning wheel indicating it is thinking. Just looks at my sad face....LOL.
- R. Ferguson
Hoa - This is great. Can you add Blip.fm?
- Russellreno
this is so awesome Hao - great job!!!!!!!! look out for random add notifications from me :)
- Morgan
How does that work?I type in some user name in it,nothing happen...
- Steve Chou
Steve, what browser are you using? Any JavaScript errors?
- Hao Chen
Glad to hear you guys are finding uses for it. @Russell Right now, the list of services it displays is the list of services being imported by people's FF accounts, and since Blip.fm isn't a supported service yet, I can't add that in easily. I'll think about how to use the Social Graph API more effectively to do those things though.
- Hao Chen
This is just excellent, not wholly accurate like you say but brilliant. Now all I need is to add more contacts on FF ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Never seems to work for my own username.
- Andrew Trinh
Thanks, guys. :) Andrew, ah, looks like Social Graph doesn't see your FF subscriptions for some reason. http://socialgraph-resources.g... I'll re-code this using the Friendfeed API to get your subscriptions later.
- Hao Chen
Very cool Hao! I like seeing which less-common services people actually use. My list (and top 25 services) is http://friendfeed.com/e... Does your system count me twice for YouTube because I have 2 YouTubes? (seems like it might, from the Blog counts).
- Mitchell Tsai
It's not working for me either when I input my username.
- Steve Lowe
Ditto steplow. Looks like it should be awesome but sadly it's drawing a blank for my username. :(
- David Young
"The Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts contains descriptions and images of the most lavishly illustrated and decorated manuscripts in the British Library's collections. But for the purposes of our catalogue 'illuminated' is applied in its widest sense, so that not only manuscripts with gold and silver decoration, or those containing exquisite miniatures, are included. In addition, manuscripts with lesser decoration, some with initials in colours, but which contain interesting texts or script, are in the catalogue and in some cases images will be added later as they become available."
- Maitani
from Bookmarklet
Vuuuu... 2 gündür çok sevdiğim şarkıları dinletiyorsun :) Teşekkürler hatırlattığın için.
- Hadi Joseph Yaman
şarkıyı mehmet erdem yazmış ve söylemiş. yayından kaldırılan "sınıf" adlı dizinin jenerik müziğiydi. ses tonu çok benzediği için ve youtube ilk olarak pinhani şeklinde yüklendiği için pinhaninin üstüne kaldı şarkı (:
- melankolikdeli
ahahha resmen fiyasko bir feed oldu bu =) mel rezil ettin beni =)
- GeneratioN
öyle deme yahu (: hemen herkes pinhani zanneder zaten (: ufak bir yanlışı düzelttim sadece (:
- melankolikdeli
ya mel git şurdan araştırdım..sözleri o yazmış, söyleyen pinhani..git gözüm görmesin seni =)
- GeneratioN
gelmiş geçmiş en iyi şarkı pink floyd comfortably numb pulse konserinde çaldığıdır :)
- ucanpastirma
gelmis gecmis en iyi sarki insanin kendine yakisani giymesidir (ilk ben davranayim istedim)
- erdems
80'lerin sonu... - Sweet Child O Mine
- Erkan Belen
sheryl crow ister istemez bir 'country' tadi katiyor bir seyleri cover'irken, axl ne kadar yoddle soylerse o abladan da o kadar cikar hani
- erdems
Başına "Bence" yazmamış olsaydın "Yok artık daha neler" diyecektim, ama o "Bence" bütün bunları engelledi :D
- Tobias Fünke
pek de yanılmıyorum aslında Deli P. " 'Sweet Child O' Mine' placed #37 on Guitar World's list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Solos." It also came in at number three on Blender's 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born, and at number 196 on Rolling Stone's The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time[7]. In March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 6 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. The...
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- Parfe
benim de her karaokeye gittiğimde çığlık çığlığa söylediğim şarkıdır bayılırımmmm
- İrem | Kuyruksuz Uçurtma
Bu dediklerin popülerlikle alakalı şeyler Parfe bana bunlarla gelme :D Millet ne şarkılar yazıyor da işin pazarlama kısmıyla ilgilenmediği için 1000-2000 kişinin bildiği şaheserler oluyor.
- Tobias Fünke
sana güllerle geleyim Deli? en iyi gitar riflerine sahip 5. şarkı seçilmesi (gelmiş geçmiş) teknik, az önce yazdıklarım popülerlik, bence yazmam da gönlümdeki başarısını gösteriyor. daha bir şey istiyorsan "de get" ! ya da sen müzikten anlamıyorsun, ona da ben bir şey yapamıyorum. şaheserler zaman içerisinde yok olmaz ve oradan oraya yayılır, öyle değil mi? çatır çatır bu listeye girecektir yani o senin şarkılardan biri.
- Parfe
Şimdi Vodafone zaten bu işlerin ağababası. Ben bu işlere karışmam diyoordum, sonra sert çıkıştın olmadı ama nedir bu sertlik :D Ben de seviyorum, eyvallah ama şarkılara objektif bakıyorum. Bunlar göreli veriler, ben zaten sen "Bence" dediğin için karışmadım olaya. En iyi 5. riff seçen ya da seçenler için de göreli. Bi şarkıyı kesin olarak en iyi seçebilmek için dünyadaki bütün şarkıları...
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- Tobias Fünke
sevgili Deli :) size bu satırları her zaman tropikal bir iklime sahip ülkemden, okyanus kıyısındaki evimden yazıyorum. size sert çıktığım konusunda haklısınız çünkü objektif verilerle neredeyse kanıtlanmış subjektif bir fikrimi, hiçbir materyal öne sürmeden tartışmaya çalıştınız. bu bana göre akıntıya karşı kürek çekmek gibiydi :) tabi ki (daha önce de belirttiğim ve sizin de...
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- Parfe
bu albümü dinlemek için yurtdışından birilerinin gelmesini bekleyen var mı burada?
- satine
hiç kuşkusuz, 7 nota ile oluşturulabilecek kombinasyonların en güzellerindendir bu şarkı.
- Kenan
Ve benim için en güzeli, 11-12 yaşında ciyak ciyak bağırdığım "reminds me of childhood memories" dizelerinin (ya da dizesinin) gün gelip yaş 30 küsur olunca kıçıma batmasıdır. Al sana memory'nin alası oldu!
- Bahçe Pengueni
Once upon a time, there was a handsome young warrior named Haggis, who lived in a land far to the South, and he loved a beautiful fiery-haired princess named Penguin, for her people lived in the far-away North and worshipped at the altar of the Mighty Linux God.
- Steven Perez
... while Princess Penguin was rolling up her new pair of stockings...
- Josh Haley
The Perez was known througout the Land of FriendFeed as the biggest braggart of all, and all feared those moments when he opened his huge piehole and started singing, so Haggis went out to meet the Black Knight on the field of battle.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And then the infamous Tony Shalhoub showed up, turned The Perez and Haggis from foes to friends united against a common enemy.
- FFing Enigma
It was then known as The Great Cock Block of the 13th century
- Josh Haley
Haggis and the Perez did battle against the Shahloub upon the lists, and did soundly defeat the hated enemy, and only then did they pick up Haggis' trusted friend, Christian the X, for a long journey to the Frozen North to seek out the Princess Penguin and her Enchanted Stripey Stockings of Love.
- Steven Perez
from IM
*echo* stockings of love....stockings of love.....stockings of love....
- Josh Haley
Before long, the trio of heroes stopped at the town of Bitchfest.
- Steven Perez
from IM
BOO! Bad line! As the editor, I call foul.
- Steven Perez
from IM
from a distance they overheard a couple arguing over the merits of boutique granola versus starbucks biscotti.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
*use your magic to resurrect the heroes*
- Josh Haley
*oh, all right* UM, they were slain by the Evil Trolls of GRIPE, until the Magic Mage of FriendFeed, Derrick the Bold, happened upon the scene, scaring away the trolls long enough to bring the heroes back to life with the Spell of Fabulousness!
- Steven Perez
from IM
As they were gettig ready to leave, that's when they overheard the previously mentioned couple arguing over food, ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
Whilst in Bitchfest and among all the dead, they were shocked to realize they were the only two on earth alive. Princess Penguin, delicately sampling the biscotti and screamed for her Haggis. Haggis said, "Me loverly Princess Pengie, whatever frights you so?"
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
"I broke a nail!" the Princess sobbed.
- Josh Haley
So the heroes showed the couple of the most wonderous food of all - sweet, sweet bacon - and alighted towards the Frozen North, intent on helping the Princess with her stockings and her chipped nail, leaving Bitchfest in the capable hands of Andrew Zimmer, who threw them all a party, but no one liked it and bitched all about it.
- Steven Perez
While passing through the Giant Arch of Annheiser, the hale heroes alighted upon the words strange and swift, "You're going the wrong way to the Frozen North. Here's why:"
- Steven Perez
"1. You're going north, not northeast."
- Steven Perez
"2. You're wearing the wrong kind of shoes."
- Steven Perez
"3. You're taking out page views along the way."
- Steven Perez
"4. You're not importing your adventures to the Land of the Fail Whale."
- Steven Perez
and the Mighty Linux God was mighty, awesome. Might Linux God is so, so, so much cooler than Windows, the latter being a bumbling wizard. Mighty Linux God is also far superior to OS X, who is a small deity sharing some, but not all, of the characteristics of the Mighty Linux God.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Princess Penguin realized the Evil *insert audible hiss sound* Black Knight Perez placed a reversal spell on her golden compass. Unbeknownst to Haggis he was starting to itch and a horrid rash befell his manly chiseled chin. Sweet Bacon! Dear Lord it was the sweet bacon. He wheezed in a whisper, "Pe......"
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
So, safe from the wind Zephyr known wide throughout the land as Scoble the Robert, the heroes made their way northeast until they fell into a pit. OH NOES! Twas the Pit of LOLz!
- Steven Perez
*Janet: we're trying to get to Penguin. She's not with the group yet.*
- Steven Perez
from IM
*ok, all, we're in the Pit of LOLz now, so you have to speak LOLcat*
- Steven Perez
from IM
"I can haz cheez... WHAT THE? What spell is this upon mine tongue?" shouted Haggis
- Josh Haley
"IZ IN UR HED, MAKIN U THINK OF MY SOX", proclaimed the Princess, with surprise.
- Josh Haley
and den de heoroes all jumped up reelly high, an all de LOLcatz said OMGWTFBBQ, as de heros got awayz!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Little did our intrepid heroes realize that they had landed from their epic leap into the Grey and Dull Land of Politics, where Wingnuts started every sentence with "Well, Rush said ..." and Moonbats kept trying to sort everything into nice, neat containers, including our heroes!
- Steven Perez
While crossing the treacherous waters, they looked, and beheld the FAIL WHALE! Panic ensued.
- Josh Haley
The heroes were almost to the shores of the Frozen North when the Failboat hit the Fail Whale, throwing them into the icy waters!
- Steven Perez
from IM
*Feel free to add yourself to the story, btw. We ARE in the Magic Land of FriendFeed, ya know.*
- Steven Perez
from IM
Dripping wet but alive (THX CEILING CAT!), our heroes made their way to the first structure they saw: the Majestic LEGO Citadel of Mona the Sprite.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And there was much rejoicing. yaaaaay. *fwap fwap fwap*, I mean *clap clap clap clap*
- Josh Haley
It was time they stopped dropping that acid and stick to weed. "Well, that wasn't fun..." they said.
- Outsanity
Um, yes, all was nice and sweet, until a cry arose from the Courtyard of Bacon: 'DAMN YOU, STEVEN PEREZ!" ZOUNDS! It was Wilson the Pornstached and his troupe of troublemakers The Ffundercats!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Suddenly, X whipped out a photo of Donald Sutherland and said the words that would banish the trio of miscreants: "COOTIES! YOU HAS THEM!"
- Steven Perez
from IM
Verily, the heroes vanquished the trio of podcasters to the Room of Inappropriate Discussion and then continued to the next castle over, the Hall of Fire, and the beautiful princess who waited inside for her brave Haggis.
- Steven Perez
from IM
But Tony Shalhoub was already in the castle, nay even in the bedchamber.
- Josh Haley
That's when the fair princess finally announced, "ENOUGH! THIS STORY HAS GONE ON LONG ENOUGH!" Waving her mystical Stripey Stockings of Love while chanting the words "SUDO KNOCK IT OFF AND SHOVE OFF SHAHLOUB!"
- Steven Perez
from IM
... the princess sent the Shahloub back to the land of TV.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And the brave warrior and the fair princess embraced in a shower of Gummy Bears.
- Steven Perez
from IM
OK, does anyone else here have an excellent picture in their mind of her waving stockings...I mean with them on?
- Josh Haley
And that's when Steven the Perez shouted, "OH HELL NO!" and struck the hated Bill-O with the one thing that could send the dread ghoul back to hell - THE LOOFAH OF MACKRIS!!!!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Kicking the dread ghoul squarely in his shriveled manhood, The Black Knight sent him screaming to Michael Moore's house, forever consigned to hearing about unions and healthcare as his punishment.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And a great hurrah sounded forth as the brave warrior kissed the fair princess.
- Steven Perez
from IM
*I'll bet Sean was waiting for this part.* :)
- Steven Perez
from IM
and then the fallen gummy bears came to life and began to plot against the king....
- Morgan
Until Ceiling Kat ate them all up, cuz he had NOMZ!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Meanwhile, Sir Shey da Sniper on his way home to the land of The TrueNorthStrongAndFree, was carefully watching the heroes from a distance. LOLing as the heroes stumbled along in their quest. But now, separated from the heroes, he disappears as his trail takes him through the Valley of Yonge amidst a caravan of travellers who vagrantly yell at each other from their carriages.
- Shey
*remind me to do a story about Sir Shey* And there was a grand wedding for Haggis and Penguin. Christian the X was made general of their army and won great battles against the Facebook Consortium. Perez the Black Knight left for further adventures in the Land of FriendFeed.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And Haggis and Penguin lived happily ever after. THE END.
- Steven Perez
from IM
My God, we're good. We should write this stuff down. We'd make more coin than JK Rowling.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Can't wait til Penguin sees it. I can almost hear her: "Wait, I was waving WHAT around?!?"
- Steven Perez
Then comes the movie...who will we get to play Penguin? Haggis? The FFundercats can cameo as themselves, maybe...
- Josh Haley
I want Forest Whitaker to play me.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hai, yu awl be sush gud kittehs - yu ken haz cheezburgers an gummbly bairs. Das iz good. An evry stufs - ai liek a gud storwee. ^_^
- Ceiling Kat
but Walrus replied that's the gov'nor; gov'nor Jimminy Cricket you can tell by the monocle ruler of all le web
- sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!
Oh, you artists and your crazy demands. I'll meet you in Kentucky. Bring your sketch pad, it'll be like Titanic only I'll be wearing a penguin costume.
- Penguin
Just as long as Celine Dion doesn't sing the theme, it should be all good.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Five times. Five times I read Celine Dion as "Ceiling Dion". Can Ceiling Cat sing the theme? And yes, Sean, exactly. Who wears clothes under a penguin costume anyway? Unless it's a rental... Ew.
- Penguin
You'll have to ask Celing Kat. Will probably cost you many cheezburgers.
- Steven Perez
from IM
No swinging 'em around unless your legs are in 'em. More challenging that way.
- Josh Haley
Penguin: You do realize now that I am going to caption a photo of Celine Dion with the words "Ceiling Dion is watching you sketch", right?
- Steven Perez
I SUMMON YOU, ALMIGHTY CEILING CAT. Have we figured out who's going to portray me in the feature film yet? I vote for Billy Crystal. @Steven, please do!
- Penguin
If you were older, I would say Christina Hendricks from MAD MEN. Of course, if you looked like Christina Hendricks, I'd go to Boston and woo you myself.
- Steven Perez
Sounds like now it should be Shannyn Sossamon
- Josh Haley
We need to illustrate the kids book version of this before we can get a studio to bite on the movie version. Anyone a good cartoonist?
- Morgan
You know, I think I know a guy who can storyboard this ... :)
- Steven Perez
And all this was done in FOUR HOURS??????? Man FF is fast, but I just didn't really know how fast. That was HIGH-sterical of the HIGH-est order.
- Martha
I just had to read this again. And as suspected, it was just as LOLarious the fourth time around.
- Penguin
We'll have to do this again sometime. Preferably on a lazy Sunday afternoon.
- Steven Perez
Bump for Abigail. All of Haggis' contributions ... um ... uh ... MAGICALLY DISAPPEARED. YEAH. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
- Steven Perez
I almost forgot about this, sigh. So awesome.
- Penguin
from iPod
"The Turk, the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax.[1] Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress the Empress Maria Theresa, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard exactly once. The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to operate the machine. With a skilled operator, the Turk won most of the games played during its demonstrations around Europe and the Americas for nearly 84 years, playing and defeating many challengers including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin...
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- Eivind
from Bookmarklet
Jim, thanks for that museum link, but its north of Inverness, which is a pity, it's too far away! :'( ...Might ask Gordon or Amy to visit and get some photo's, lol. :-P
- Halil
I'm in London, so not so bad, but still Inverness is quite a trek, and I believe it's even colder there than Edinburgh, Glasgow or St Andrews, which is where I have previously been.
- Halil
Interestingly, in German vernacular there is a verb "türken", which means "to cheat". I suppose it is associated with this Mechanical Turk. People who care about what they say and how they say it won't use this word though.
- Maitani
Hmm, I can't find that word, even on German language site it still translates it as Turks, as in the people. Maybe it's a slang or vulgar slang, as is the English term when referring to controversial expressions. Can you link me to anything please?
- Halil
"DNA extracted from the bone has yielded a draft genome sequence, enabling scientists to reach some startling conclusions about this extinct branch of the human family tree, called "Denisovans" after the cave where the fossils were found."
- Ken Morley
from Bookmarklet
"The Denisovans were a sister group to the Neanderthals, descended from the same ancestral population that had separated earlier from the ancestors of present-day humans. The study also found surprising evidence of Denisovan gene sequences in modern-day Melanesians, suggesting that there was interbreeding between Denisovans and the ancestors of Melanesians, just as Neanderthals appear to have interbred with the ancestors of all modern-day non-Africans."
- Ken Morley
"The fact that Denisovans were discovered in southern Siberia but contributed genetic material to modern human populations in Southeast Asia suggests that their population may have been widespread in Asia during the late Pleistocene."
- Ken Morley
"In the light of the Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes, a new, more complex picture is emerging of the evolutionary history of modern humans and our extinct relatives. According to Green, there was probably an ancestral group that left Africa between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago and quickly diverged, with one branch becoming the Neanderthals who spread into Europe and the other branch...
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- Ken Morley