Sierra Nevada Pale Ale - All six of them too.
- Manny Flores
duvel belgium for an appetizer - then maybe makers for main course. i'll keep you fuckers posted if i change my mind on the whiskey. if i'm obnoxious later tonight you can assume i didn't change my mind.
- bluetick
Mountain Dew Code Red - when I can find it.
- Steve Dorsey
Momokawa Pearl Sake. Fretting about this f64 thing... Not a lot of daylight in Vancouver these days, I may end up shooting at night, which I suck at.
- Ryan MacLean
Let's see how this works. I have just completed "The Golden City" by John Twelve Hawks. The book can be described as knee-jerk paranoid crypto-punk sci-fi, I think. Not a fantastic writer, but the ideas are quite interesting. Third in a trilogy of books about a global society in the nowtime-to-near-future era where everything is going towards a tracked, monitored and taped world. I liked it. Was done in two days. Swords, quantum computers, dystopia, what more could you ask for? No William Gibson, but close, a quick read, recommended.
- Ryan MacLean
Cheers Ryan. I'll give that a go. I'm reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies at the moment. It uses the original P&P text wrapped around a zombie storyline. It's very funny, and well worth picking up even if (like me) you have no interest in Jane Austin.
- Chris Nixon
Wow that sounds interesting! I have read Austen's Pride and Prejudice, so it might be very funny.
- Ryan MacLean
Just finished "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Couldn't put it down.
- Ivan Makarov
That was a great book, Ivan. I loved the bits about hockey, being a Canuck and all. The Korean air example was also somewhat refreshing. I think a lot of people could learn a lesson from that chapter. Another good read, highly recommended, though I will admit I listened to the audiobook instead of turning pages on that one, in my daily travels to work.
- Ryan MacLean
Yeah, the part about hockey was good, although it doesn't always work, especially with high profile athletes who dominate regardless of age. Crosby, Thornton, Ovechkin, Franzen, Malkin, just to name a few I checked were all born in the 2nd half of the year. However, Heatley is a January birth, and Setoguchi was born on a perfect date, January 1st, which is interesting. But Sharks are rather evenly distributed. I think the rule applies mostly to junior hockey and it's all a fair game after that.
- Ivan Makarov
There was more to that than just birthdate, Ivan. Some players have played longer because they had access to rinks earlier, could walk earlier etc. It's not as simple as the day they were born, he goes on to talk about the magical 10,000 hour mark, which I don't necessarily agree with, but does come close to what he's trying to expound: experience matters. Experience coupled with an ounce of talent or natural ability makes you that much better.
- Ryan MacLean
just starting "The Intimate Philosophy of Art" by John Armstrong
- charlotte
Sounds heavy, is it any good? I remember urging Mo to read something similar a while ago. But I digress.
- Ryan MacLean
a few pages in, its interesting so far, not overly heavy language wise. He's kicked it off by discussing that feeling of "Is that all there is?" when looking at some masterpieces... here's a review http://www.amazon.co.uk/Intimat... I'm hoping it'll improve my critiquing skills!!
- charlotte
just finished "Pattern Recognition" am looking for another good sci-fi time, looks like a good one. Of course my opinion is suspect since I loved "Anathem" a dubious sci-fi entry if there's ever was one.
- Ventri
Yeah I'm not a big fan of "sci-fi" either, but I think I've read all of Asimov at some point. Pattern Recognition was good. Spook Country was a good follow up.
- Ryan MacLean
Just picked up Golden City, Ryan...glad to hear you liked it.
- Lee Shelly
Just started Haruki Murakami's "what I talk about when I talk about running". So far it's fantastic - gives you insight to his earlier work, and talks about his approach to life in general. Good for the hardcore Murakami fan (author of some fine flippin books).
- Ryan MacLean
Next up: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, based on a recommendation from a friend from a long time ago.
- Ryan MacLean
For the Sci-Fi people... any Iain M Banks fans out there? The Culture is in my opinion, one of the coolest sci-fi civilisations ever.
- JediPein
Not big on sci-fi, but are you recommending that book? Ender's game has surprisingly little sci-fi stuff in it, which really wouldn't matter I suppose, it's an amazing book. I love putting of reading awesome books because you've forgotten all that was said about them and you can approach them with a clear heart. This is rocking my socks off.
- Ryan MacLean
Ryan, The Culture is a creation of Bank's that runs through a whole series of novels, space operas as they're sometimes called these days. You don't have to read them in order, and I didn't, but still got my socks off... the first one is Consider Phlebas... they have cool names for ships such as "It's My Party And I'll Dance If I Want To"... and "Size Isn't Everything".....
- JediPein
Those are some pretty rockin' ship names.
- Ryan MacLean
just do it man... i think you'll really like it...
- JediPein
Pein, will get to it, I promise... Trying to work on the "reading list". You know, the ones people have recommended over the years? Just diving into Dune at the moment. Like I said, not a big sci-fi guy, but there are many audiobooks out there on the cheap in this genre, so why not? This one has a huge cast of voices, and so far, so good! Not a David Lynch cast, mind you, but nonetheless...
- Ryan MacLean
Dune is a good one. May go back and re-read it. Actually, I'm looking for something trashy right now, like a thriller or something, or a war diary. I find the British accounts of the Afghan/Irag wars quite interesting.
- JediPein
Just picked up Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet. While I'm not religious (and have no religion) I somehow always enjoy stories about heaven and hell, good and bad, angels and demons, etc etc etc. Not far in enough to give a review but so far so good.
- kinobe
frames actually suck. they typically limit the store space and overly protect the form of art.
- Ivan Makarov
IRL, not so much. On flickr, never. I'm the glass-on-glass type.
- Ryan MacLean
Maybe dry-mounting, foamcore? That kinda stuff. Why do people feel the need to frame stuff, especially JPEGs?
- Ryan MacLean
I think I'll convert to a all frame sort of photog, just for the fun of it
- Ventri
Mmm, foamcore, that gets the nostalgia going...
- Ventri
The best is the limited edition uploads JA. Priceless. Internet gold.
- Ryan MacLean
Ivan, that's interesting, how do frames overly protect the form of art? do you mean make the art seem precious? just wondering.
- charlotte
i was once framed. my brother ate some cookies off the top shelf and blamed me. it was an awful experience. i've been afraid of frames ever since.
- Ryan Dearth
framism = hatred or intolerance of another photo or visual work of art based solely on the outer frame of said photo or work.
- johnny action
Here's a thought: why not try some gold ornate frames?
- Ryan MacLean
too pretentious. i don't like bling.
- johnny action
I am a framist on Flickr. They are unnecessary, pretentious, and distract from the photograph.
- Chris Nixon
I try to overlook them, as well as sigs, and focus on the core photograph underneath. Sometimes this is easier than others. As a personal aesthetic they don't appeal to me. In the physical world I've never been crazy about frames either, sometimes they bother me less than others though. I find super think black frames the most aesthetically appealing probably. Jeff Wall's lightbox frames are interesting too, but there they serve a distinct and more specific utilitarian purpose.
- Thomas Hawk
Charlotte - when photos are put in a frame, they become too static. You can't handle them, and if they're hung in a prominent place in one's house, they are typically function of light in the room, placement, glass etc. It's almost as if they lose energy. While I have several photos hung in my house, it's mostly to create a sense of decoration and protect the walls from nakedness, rather than appreciate the art itself. I prefer to look at prints as they are, without glass or mats.
- Ivan Makarov
Ivan - lose energy... I can see what your saying... that putting glass between a photo and the viewer might have an effect on the colour or catch dust in the light perhaps, or maybe feel constricting. I do think though, that the right frame on the right photo can actually add to the energy, certainly add to the energy of a room. There's a great art to a well hung piece... I think its a...
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- charlotte
saved = 2, deleted = 36, total = 38: save % = 5% (abysmal)
- Chris Martino
saved = 19, deleted = 106, total = 125, save percentage = 15.2% (How does MO have more saved than me!?
- Ryan Dearth
30 submissions, 6 in the lightbox, save 20%, 5 of the 6 are bw, which makes me think. Also 5 of them are HDR, which makes me think again. :-D
- Thomas Strini
I used to be selective, but now i just throw whatever is new in and don't even pay attention to the commentary much any more. Part of the reason I haven't submitted in ages
- Ryan Dearth
I've upset 47 people, driven 15 to drink, but only caused actual tears 7 times.
- Chris Nixon
I don't know. Submitted a lot. Saved 2. Percentage too low to calculate; my watch calculator doesn't have that many zeros. I can't help it if you people have no taste! :-)
- Jeremy Brooks
Submitted = 14, saved = 0 going for a record, loosing-est percentage (the more I lurk in dmu, the less I take/ or submit photos, as I can anticipate the comments)
- Ventri
i think i've submitted about 7 and have been saved twice...
- Ryan Pendleton
Interesting...I too have dug up my Led in the past month... been listening to alll my favorites but "good Times Bad times" always kicks it off...
- Tioga Pass
And I hope the new site ends up working out. I still don't like the way things are going. I like the conversation here at FriendFeed more than at the Flickr group... but there are people who spend more time on the Flickr forums whom I miss. I wanna reunite. :)
- Stephanie Keating
So do we Stephanie, but this site sucks for what you are trying to do. Plain and simple. I wish you folks would figure that out -- flickr won, you lost (and the rest of us lost as a result) -- but only because you decided to lose.
- andertho
it's hard to fight from within flickr when the other side can simply nuke your account/group without warning for whatever they feel like at any time, without recourse in any area under their control.
- Thomas Hawk
andertho - we always said that FF is a temporal solution. but going back to flickr and trying to rebuild another DMU like nothing has happened is not something too many of us have the energy, the time and any desire to do, knowing that one day for whatever reason it may all disappear again. if flickr doesn't like our freedom, it's time to take our discussion elsewhere. will community thrive outside of flickr? that will be up to us.
- Ivan Makarov
Exactly. I agree with Thomas and Ivan. Andertho, "fighting" Flickr by allowing them to nuke our groups and attempting to spring back up each time is hardly a fight, in my opinion. It's letting yourself be their punching bag, their shooting practice. The fact is that Flickr users are powerless to fight the higher-ups at Flickr. The only "power" we have is to leave. I'd rather exercise...
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- Stephanie Keating
I think it's completely possible to take the community off of Flickr, and I really do hope that that's the direction we end up going. I don't think it will be an easy transition by any means, but I think in the end it would be a step in a better direction than just staying and putting up with Flickr's tyranny.
- Stephanie Keating
You guys don't have a "community." You have a gathering of about six disaffected folks. The only thing killing our community is your unwillingness to be a part of it. "Community" transcends any old threads, it's about having a gathering place. flickr still provides that gathering place. This site does not. Moreover, any site you build will suffer from the same inability to attract new...
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- andertho
feels like it's working to me. Community building takes time though.
- Thomas Hawk
andertho - why does the group where we submit photos (with discussion closed) have several hundred more members than your "new flickr DMU"?
- Ivan Makarov
Thanks Stephanie. Things are much better. My grandmother, 94, went in for a routine surgery and ended up with a bad case of pneumonia. It's taken some 10 days, but she has finally left the hospital in good shape.
- Greg Benedict
it doesn't update the pool, why is that? the photos on the site are not necessarily are the one in the pool.
- Mo Tabesh
It's your choice Thomas...honestly I like it more without you on Flickr...but you are killing your own idea because of your stubbornness to not be a part of the groups on Flickr.
- Cody Robertson
Well, the idea that you stole from the original DeleteMe! admins about 4 years ago.
- Cody Robertson
....anyway....good to see you back Greg.
- Chris Nixon
I'm manually doing pool updates while we build this. It will be automated before we go live.
- Greg Benedict
one more thing greg, csratr uses flickr login info. when i use it, i don't need to log in to anything. can we have the same for the website? i login to my flickr account, and when i am on the site, it recognizes me. just brainstorming, not sure if possible. thanks for the hard work man.
- Mo Tabesh
Greg, what your doing with the site looks great, thanks for giving your time.
- charlotte
Its looking brilliant ! I miss you guys, ff just doesn't thrill me.
- Paul Skinner
Mo - The next piece is integrating Flickr Auth. I'm working on that now.
- Greg Benedict
I'm doing some forum testing there, if anyone wants to join me. :) I think the forums are going to be the #1 most important thing for that site, especially if we are still using Flickr for the pool.
- Stephanie Keating
p tried to make an ID / password, it didn't work.
- Mo Tabesh
that's me, i tried to type "i", and i pressed "p" instead. :D
- Mo Tabesh
Hmm, okay. I have gone through and started a list on that forum of ideas/issues/suggestions. NOT intended to make your life more difficult Greg - only easier. :) I think things look awesome so far.
- Stephanie Keating
It looks like the activation code still points to the old dmu.heroku.com URL, but pasting the directory + code at dmu.tgfi.net did in fact work.
- Ryan MacLean
Just had a quick look around, this is shaping up nicely Greg!
- Ryan MacLean
McLaren do like make things difficult for themselves! How would they ever be able to convince the two sets of fans that they were both getting equal treatment? The internal politics would just ruin both drivers' concentration...
- Tim Ostler
McLaren do have a way of making their own lives difficult, don't they? Alonso/Hamilton, Prost/Senna, Prost/Lauda ... now Button/Hamilton? And for Button to consider it? Very strange indeed.
- Allan Besselink
$$$ is the reason -- Hamilton made almost 4 times what Button made last year.
- Brian Sullivan
There were a few others too, but as I've quit the groups it's difficult to list.
- Chris Nixon
s busy forum can pay for its own in ad revenues, rther than just being promoting lethargic flickr
- Ricardo Liberato
You've quit more groups than I've ever been in. Congrats! ^_^
- Almond Butterscotch
it's good to quit them. I never participated in most of them and many were just things I'd been invited to that I joined at one point or another.
- Thomas Hawk
I need to do that too.. hell I'm admin of 38 groups or so???
- Jakey
i wonder how many group therrr admins ;-}
- Mo Tabesh
Good to cut a little more flickr out of my life.
- Thomas Hawk
I've also quit most of the groups a while back. Waste of time really.
- Ivan Makarov
TH: you're quitting groups... are you also done posting to Flickr (aside from the "blog related" posts)? Or just taking a break? It's been a while since you've uploaded your daily 40+ shots...
- boscbo
No, I'm still going to post images to flickr. I'm just not going to engage in community there in forums. I hate feeling like every day could be the day that they nuke my account without warning. By dropping the forums on Flickr from my life I have less of a liklihood that they can vindictively nuke my flickrstream for something I might say over there in a forum. The flickr TOS/CG is so...
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- Thomas Hawk
Dropped a few group memberships also, as I think TH has the right idea. The "other" DMU was the first one to go... I just don't enjoy the drama at all.
- Scott Coulter
Whenever a group is nuked either by admins or Flickr staff it always creates chaos. It's harmful for community and creates unnecessary drama.
- Thomas Hawk
Is there a tool to allow me to rapidly quit a bunch of groups on Flickr? I'm a member of over 600 and my exporter program loads them all every time I go to post a photo, which takes too long and seems like a waste. It would be great if there was a quick way to quit a bunch. I wonder if you've heard of anyone making an API tool that does this.
- Mathew Spolin
There is a greasemonkey script I think.
- Thomas Hawk
I recently returned to flickr after a two year absence since the censorship of German flickr users. The site feels not the same anymore. It still is nice for photo sharing, but there can be no trust anymore, especially facing the ongoing unbelivable behaviour of flickr staff towards paying customers. I now use it merely as a secondary place for the occasional and cursory exchange. My content is safe on my own server.
- Ulrich Hilger
Mathew- Check out this GM script: http://userscripts.org/scripts.... It doesn't allow you to mass quit, but it's definitely easier than going to each individual group page and quitting. I quit about 200 groups yesterday using this script. Took about 15 minutes.
- Chris Martino
I need to too. I'm a member of over 600 groups.
- Nick Humphries
anybody got a script to erase faves, I'm going for the bare bones, I've got 5 groups now
- Wendy Martyn
The Great Google Wave invite thread. Anyone who wants an invite post your Gmail address here and anyone who has invites available please use to invite the people on this list. There are also a bunch of requests in the Invites group here: http://friendfeed.com/invites
I have a few but holding them for a few people who have already asked me. I'm at kolint [at] googlewave [dot] com btw. A pain I know but if you can, could you update your comment when you have an account or just delete your comment. Ta! :-) EDIT: Try this site for invites: http://googlewaveinvites.com/
- Kol Tregaskes
Are people on this list getting invites or at least been told they have an invite on the way? You might have to be patient, it could take a long time for one to come through.
- Kol Tregaskes
Adam, yep agree. Maybe because I did that (month ago though) helped me get mine through from Vijay so quickly!
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol, the invitation process seems to be based on nominations. For example, everytime someone nominates/invites you, you get bumped up the queue for an account until you're at the top and you get sent an invite by the team
- Ysabel Legaspi
Ysabel, ah I see, So lots of people must have nominated me. Darn, so a few users I have nominated could be waiting a looooong time. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
if that voting system is right I'm very annoyed. I asked for an invite months ago, now all the numpties are all over it I'm not going to get a look in. It's like I've been sat at the front of a shop queue and everyone's just walking right past me into the shop. I am British but I detest both queuing and waiting, so this is pretty tough going
- Toby Graham
Like most other people, yesterday I wasn't aware of that I «needed» a Google Wave invitation this badly...but now I am!!! quackofdawn at gmail dot com
- Quackofdawn
Please I want a invite :( jesi.nieves at gmail
- Jesi
from iPod
neternity@gmail.com and i promise to send a wave of 100,901 twitter followers to your doorstep each of whom will have averaged 1 tweet in their existence - this might not get me an invite but surely it will get some notice - must have that something special - my google wave invite special sauce ingredient is twitter juice PS Not to be construed as an offer, not valid in any of the 53 US states, do not try this at home, caution: contents are hot.
- Ross Button
Anyone have already a wave invite?. I'm a developers anxious to take a look at wave. jmiguel.rodriguez at gmail.com . Thank you very much in advanced!
- jmiguel rodriguez
trentono gmail com...thanks in advance, mysterious stranger...
- Trent Olson
lol at this point i gotta think that by the time an invite makes it this far down the list i may already be at the top of the official invite list but doesn't hurt to try right? marco [dot] nunez @ gmail - thanks!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I'm also trying. As Marco said, it doesn't hurt :) iamclem at gmail. thanks!
- Clément Simon
Hello, I would love to have a google wave invite too. ilteris@gmail.com thanks!
- ilteris
Oops! You said gmail address: marybaumcreative (at) gmail. Although I run marybaum@marybaum.com through gmail servers too.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from email
louisrbourque@gmail.com - an invite would be greatly appreciated, and I'll pass it on! Thanks
- Louis Bourque
from iPod
can you send me invite for google wave to i.igors (at) gmail (dot) com
- Igor Krstev
If any kind soul has an invite to spare, it would be gratefully received and shared on once GOOG get around to inviting me in. :-) The key piece of information belatedly being andy.bold@gmail.com kthxbai
- Andy Bold
Looking for one myself at alexscrivener (at) gmail (dot) com
- Alex Scrivener
I'd love an invite. I was sort of expecting to get one from Google, as I have been in all of their other betas, but to no avail :( carlton.prest@gmail.com
- Carlton Prest
Plesae send an invite! jwatson820@gmail.com
- Jonna Watson
damn, the pretty please guy will get one for sure, that steve guy @hotmail.com is likely last on the list - but we all will get one if that scobilizer guy notices that we are all here and asking and so cul cuz we are all on friendfeed - maybe if we twitter too it might help - hello google !!!!
- Ross Button
how do we know which ones are sent? I'm just doing my own thread.
- Vezquex: God of FF
I've been too busy to get on FF the last few days....figures something important happening and I missed it! I knew about Google Wave but didn't know there would be a thread to post a request. In any case, better late than never, I'd love an invite at madeliene2007 at gmail.com. :)
- Bonnie Foster
I've been on Twitter all day trying to get one, I'd love it if my day can end by me finally getting an invitation :) I'll be sure to send some invites to other people in this thread! andryou@gmail.com
- andryou
re.renus@gmail.com somebody please send me a invitation... ^_^ : )
- Emad
wimmulder@gmail.com. Am really excited to try this out for a collaborative research project I'm working on. Hoping someone has an invite to spare!
- Wim Mulder
giuliocc@gmail.com . Keen to see if we can shake M$'s cage about messaging and collaboration.
- Giulio Campobassi
Would love an invite - jonathonc at gmail.com
- Jonathon
VitaArdiyana (at) gmail (dot) com, Thanks before Kol. I will delete my comment when i have my google wave account.
- Vimala Vita
Just digging into the comments now but let me begin by saying that you did an incredible job with this thread Kol, 473 (474 after I post) comments!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Google Wave : Could anyone invite me ? : jean.charles.blondeau[at]gmail.com Thanks
- Jean-Charles
System Messages Invite Status: 17559 invite requests in the system. 7 invites confirmed as received by requester. 199 invites claimed as sent from giver.
- oliv21
How does anyone know if someone has already been invited? You could go back and edit your comment when you receive an invitation, but since that takes days, it could be ages before you know.
- marziah
I've not even had a nomination, RK. At google dot com I'm suezanne , in the event anyone wants to make a nomination. I've asked before on friendfeed. It's kind of humiliating to beg.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
i have decided that if i do indeed get an invite, i will decline, forward my gmail account to windows live and put ie back as my default browser and i will bing it
- Ross Button
@Ross: why punish yourself for something you didn't do? :)
- François Dongier
I just want some google love; just like the rest of us do; but n,o they wave at us as they have their private, invite only party; thumb to nose, fingers a waving - that's the google wave; we need a tshirt
- Ross Button
al86shaw@gmail.com :) Not expecting anything, but thanks anyway!
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Send to me plz ,,, mxina.com {a} gmail {dot} com
- Mohammad Sharifi
Has anyone received their invite? I haven't yet.
- Rodrigo
from email
I'd love an invite to Google Wave pls. non-geeky bf got one before me! that's just not cricket.. hehe :) icetigerza (at) gmail
- Kim
Hello, if there's any invite left, you'll make me more than happy ;-) matthieu.beauval [at] gmail [dot] com, thank you !
- matthieu beauval
If there are still invites left daryl@learnscape.com.au
- Daryl Hunt on FF
Of all the people posting here the chances of me getting an invite are slim but I'm still willing to try. If someone wants to shoot an invite over to jcallahan126@gmail.com I'd REALLY appreciate it.
- John
from iPhone
Aww Did I miss the Wave of invites? Come on Kol... Hook me up! :)
- Walt Ruppar
It looks like it, although you might be able to use the hyperlink on the front of the Wave homepage to request an invitation, if it's still available.
- Tyson Key
Google Wave Anybody? I needz one plz... walt {dot} ruppar {at} gmail [dot] com
- Walt Ruppar
from iPhone
I'll give this a try: j.linkola at gmail - anyone have invites left?
- Jussi Linkola
Anyone can provide a Google Wave invite? bmtrocks@gmail.com
- Brian
Hi guys I realy Waiting impatiently, but still have no invite... can anybody sent me invite please please simplisityzehra@gmail.com thanks in advance
- Zehra
firatdemirel at gmail.com just needs an invite for Gwave. Thanks.
- Fırat DEMİREL
Does anyone have an invite to share? Can you send it to v9y.rec at gmail.com please? Thanks.
- Vinay | विनय
Can somebody send an ivitation to terror@gmail.com . Thanks in advance.
- Yiğit
Please send an invitation to me at trivedi.knz@gmail.com. I got tired waiting.
- Kandarp Trivedi
I'll be glad to invite others on this thread once I get mine. Thanks in advance.. Keep the thread alive.
- Kandarp Trivedi
rodgerdb@gmail.com ha oh man am I late to this thread =( Here's to hoping!
- Rodger Ballard
really need one, would be so grateful thacker90184@gmail.com
- brandon
I want Google Wave invite too, please sent it to: ric4p5 {at} gmail [dot] com Thanks
- jose manuel
If anyone has invites, could I have one please? tekked - gmail.com
- TechKid
In case there is still someone with spare invitations: piotr.byzia at gmail.com
- Piotr Byzia
teeeya@gmail.com - Anyone with a sparee invite and feeling generous! (thank you thank you thank you in advance!!!) :D
- Simply Teeeya
Anyone with a spare would be my hero! Someone bought out my buddy who was going to give me one. robert@idealfusion.com
- Robert Coombs
antonyat AT gmail DOT com If anyone sends me an invite, I thank you greatly - if I receive an invite, I'll make sure to return to this thread :).
- Antony Jepson
I've been playing around with Flickr's new people tags for the past hour or so. I like them *a lot*. The only thing is it's that much more metadata to lose when they nuke your account without warning.
I've decided I want to have fun with the people tags. I want to find as many pictures of Gary Coleman that I can, and people tag them as me.
- Adam Harrison
That sounds like a good strategy for you Adam. You do actually look like him a little bit.
- Thomas Hawk
BTW, is someone people tags an image with your name, it shows up on your recent activity, but it breaks muting, so you can't get it out of your recent activity. Freakin' annoying.
- Adam Harrison
Ah that stinks. I liked the mute feature! I don't need to know who won what sparkly gif award. So I'm gonna hafta deal with people tagging the hawk til doomsday huh?
- Ryan MacLean
i think this feature is lame - lame like mo on crytstal meth trapped in john travolta's bubble-bot bubble. thats what i think
- Cu12-13V(As,Sb,Sn,Ge)3S16
Thomas, looking at the option it does allow you to enter an email address in the text field, however I guess this would depend on the email address that the user has linked to their account... which also begs the question, does it respect the 'don't display my email address' privacy, I assume it would.
- Travis Koger
it seems like you can add an email address to send them an email, I'm not sure it will query their database though to simply find a match if they are already on Flickr but you just can't find them. That would seem better to me.
- Thomas Hawk
I asked Heather if, with our favs now showing up in our profile, if our accounts could be flagged based on our favs. She said yes, that this was always the case because your faves could be creepy.
- Adam Harrison
bottom line: if flickr wants to delete your account the will - their TOS are so loose I believe there isn't a single account in which they would not be able to find a reason to delete
- eyebex
....ughhhhhhh....ugh ugh ugh ugh. So it's not only "don't be that guy," but, "don't like stuff that might be from that guy."
- Stephanie Keating
Great to see a nice vague deletion policy again..."a bit creepy"
- Chris Nixon
So someone who mainly photographs sunsets and bunny rabbits and only uploads the safest of safes to their Flickr account could still be deleted because they fave a lot of nudes, or candid shots of people... or whatever. WTF. Just, WTF.
- Stephanie Keating
DAMN! That sucks. Deleting user data (especially without warning) for what you *fave* on flickr? The good news is that I doubt your Friendfeed account will be nuked here because of what posts you *like* on the site.
- Thomas Hawk
Ahem, I was doing research for my "Sexy" Gallery.
- Ricardo Liberato
Haha your faves from yesterday were priceless!
- Ryan MacLean
friendfeed needs to bring the "hide" feature to groups.
- Thomas Hawk
Flickr discussions also had many pictures, they just happened to be sparkly gifs. I actually like the "share on friendfeed" feature, if that's what you're talking about. What's not to like?
- Ryan MacLean
I've no problem with photos in the group, more sharing photos with as many groups as possible to get as much attention as possible, and no intention in being part of the group.
- Chris Nixon
Thanks, Shevonne! You can also do it on individual photos (yours and your contacts). So, just like Facebook tagging. Nifty.
- JA Castillo
The only thing that I like that Picasa and Facebook do that Flickr doesn't is that it allows you to tag a person without having to email him/her for permission.
- Shevonne
this happened last night, around 10 cst
- Jess Dennis
@Shevonne - well, if they are already a contact, you don't have to get their permission do you?
- JA Castillo
@VR hehe thanks! I owe it much to my parents, I guess. I couldn't get them to join any #socialmedia. I have only got my dad to join LinkedIn so far, that's it!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
@CN haha yes. I got that idea from reading about scanography a long time ago. I can't find the original source now but I've found some related content that you might be interested in: http://golembewski.awardspace.com/cameras... "The most interesting aspect of scanner photography is the fact that movement is recorded much differently than it is with conventional...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
The winner was taken on the Isle of Skye by Emmanuel Coupe and is titled: Sunrise over the Old Man of Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
- Chris Nixon
from Bookmarklet
I strongly suspect that this would be deleted in DMU. But they've deleted many of those considered the world's finest photographers in the past so no surprise there.
- Thomas Hawk
LOL delete. Everything interesting is on the right.
- Ryan MacLean
Why Thomas, do you think that this is anything but a corny piece of crap?
- Ricardo Liberato
It's been proven time and time again that "good" photographs aren't necessarily popular, and that works from famous artists don't always hold their own outside of a collection.
- Ryan MacLean
That said, this might actually get saved.
- Ryan MacLean
i like the one with the joggers, pretty good b&w shot.
- Mo Tabesh
White House communications director Anita Dunn says that Mao Tse-Tung is one of her "favorite political philosophers" and one of the "two people that I turn to most."
White House communications director Anita Dunn says that Mao Tse-Tung is one of her "favorite political philosophers" and one of the "two people that I turn to most."
- andertho
Seems fair enough. She makes a good point.
- Chris Nixon
"Fair enough"? Please tell me you are aware that Mao killed more people through genocide than did Hitler. You know that, right?
- andertho
She wasn't saying she agreed with that now was she? She's making a specific point about fighting your own battles.
- Chris Nixon
Well, the political philosophy she speas about has been written before he came to power. it's o.k., she points it out very well. it's NOT about the regime he leaded later.
- Thomas Strini
I'm surprised that anyone active in U.S. politics would want to associate themselves in any way with Mao Tse-Tung.
- Thomas Hawk
Sure, and if someone on the right quoted Mein Kampf and said they don't agree with what Hitler did but he had some good ideas, you guys would be cool with that, right? And that is NOT an invocation of Godwin's Law as it is precisely, exactly the same thing -- two murderous, genocidal tyrants who wiped out populations on a grand scale with their hate. Her comments are utterly and totally indefensible, and I am shocked that any thinking person would attempt to defend them.
- andertho
It seems to me that it's just politically stupid to publicly align yourself with a major communist figure that way. Was it wrong for Van Jones to say Republicans are assholes or to sign the 911 conspiracy petition? Probably not either, but some of the Obama administration choices seem incredibly politically unsophisticated. Of course your political enemies are going to be scrutinizing...
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- Thomas Hawk