◄ Chris Nixon ►
Create an account or sign in to get started
Show: Comments - Likes - Both
Twitter
Jesse Stay posted a message on Twitter
Google Reader
Friday at 6:27 am - Link
This is simply untrue. While my politics are very much left-wing, there are some very smart people who believe in traditional republican values. To dismiss all republicans as either rich or stupid is just ignorant...and I know *that's* not a badge of honour. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Blog
ScottBourne posted an entry on MovingLeft
Wednesday at 3:17 pm - Link
Is Scott Bourne dangerously unstable? He seems to leap to unfounded and borderline slanderous conclusions in the face of confusion and adversity. With his ability to publish content worldwide to thousands of news consumers, he could make dangerous and violent suggestions. Can we trust his finger at the button? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Regarding how short and tame the actual article is, I'm filing this under "blatant linkbait" - Phil Glockner
Any one who thinks Palin is qualified to lead America is bordering on delusional. - Stuart Forsyth via twhirl
Anyone who casually and categorically classifies millions of Americans as suffering from severe mental illness obviously hasn't engaged their brain before speaking. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Mark clearly hopes we'll rise to the flamewar. We're all entitled to an opinion Mark and I don't need to qualify Palin's incompetence - she's doing well enough destroying her credibility on her own. - Stuart Forsyth
No, it's comments like the Scott's and yours above that destroy Democratic credibility. You all seem infected with the inability to make a statement these days without insulting half the electorate. I continue to be astounded by your callous disregard for so many of your fellow citizens. It's caused the feeling to be mutual, believe me. You guys ceded any moral highground long ago, due to this. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Wow the righties are really worried. They're guy is self destructing and all they can do is attack a fat old photographer in return. Pitiful. McCain IS dangerous. He's out of control. He's erratic and angry and those are just facts. - ScottBourne
By the way Marky be sure to send my post to FlipFlop McCain and invite him to sue me for slander - I dare him and you. - ScottBourne
Scott - I'm not worried. I've just had it with folks saying stupid things. It has almost nothing to do with politics, unless you are saying that everyone who believes like you do makes cavalier and insulting statements as a matter of course. And FFS, you're not my sister, don't call me Marky. You don't see me calling you Scotty-wotty-puddin-pop. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
BTW, Scott... Out of control. Dangerous. Erratic. Angry. These aren't what facts. They're adjectives. Buy a dictionary and try again. With someone else. Blocked. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Commenting purely on the video...that's a bit creapy though isn't it? - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Marky if you've had it with people saying stupid things - stop talking. You and your ilk seek to suppress speech every time you don't agree with it. I think the fact that we're considering giving authority to nuclear weapons to a guy flashing back to his POW days is worthy of some concern. If you don't feel that way, fine. But don't try to stop me from saying how I feel about it - or I'll be calling you much worse than Marky. - ScottBourne
Scott Bourne is like the rest of us, he has an opinion and he is exercising his right the voice that opinion. If you don't like what he as to say then you don't have to read his blog. - Mathew Ballard
FriendFeed
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a link
I didn't care for How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Thursday at 12:58 am - Link
Simon Pegg may be in this movie, but be under no illusion, this is a chick-flick...and not a very good one. Very occasionally funny. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Flickr
Juan Pablo González favorited photos on Flickr
...happy...
Tunnel View - Film Edition
Untitled
Wheel of Fortune
Ascent of Rocketeer
159 | when the sky is not enough
drunk on love
Show all
October 2 at 11:09 am - Link
Thanks for the faves! - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Twitter
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a message on Twitter
FriendFeed
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a link
Wheel of Fortune on Flickr
October 2 at 8:19 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
One more fave and this will become my most faved Flickr shot ever...and it was only uploaded a week ago. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee! - ◄ Chris Nixon ► via Bookmarklet
Faved! ;) Very nice processing there... really like it - Juan Pablo González
Faved too. It's a gorgeous pic, congrats! - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl
Thanks guys! I'm past the mark. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Flickr
◄ Chris Nixon ► favorited photos on Flickr
verazzano
its just a feeling
Yamanote Line Masked Man
Spitfire
Slippery Slimy Sides
She Took Almost Everything From Me
What Remains
Show all
October 2 at 5:56 am - Link
Rosiehardy ftw! - Mona N.
She is great isn't she? - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Love of Carnage too - cool. - TreJack
That sunken car pic is ace! - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
This is the reason why I love Friendfeed in the mornings... - George The Writer
Google Reader
October 1 at 2:22 pm - Link
Awwwww. It's a shame that the movie industry want to go down the same path to failure as the music industry. I think a lot of people need to stop listening to lawyers, and start listening to smart people. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
No offence to smart lawyers around here. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
FriendFeed
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a link
Happy Birthday
October 1 at 12:09 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday dear FriendFeed, Happy Birthday to you. Hip Hip! - ◄ Chris Nixon ► via Bookmarklet
FriendFeed
Bwana McCall posted a message
“Ripping the Iron Man DVD with Handbrake for computer & iPhone. Yes, I bought the $15 in addition to the Blu Ray just for ripping :D”
October 1 at 8:22 am - via Ping.fm - Link
handbrake is teh bestest - AJ Batac ♘
♡ Handbrake - Bwana McCall
HandBrake saved my life!!1! - Timothy Griffin
you could have let AxxO do all the work for you ;) - Josh
No piracy in this house :) - Bwana McCall
Is Axxo still on the go? - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Did the same - would be nice if they included Digital Copy with the Blu-Ray - James Hull
Since, technically, even ripping the DVD you own is considered illegal (by DMCA) and you already own the movie (via Blu-ray), couldn't you just rip it from a rented/borrowed DVD? (I'm not a legal expert or condoning anything; just throwing it out there.) - Oliver Ortega Chua
I wouldn't do that Oliver. In fact, I wasn't positive the act of ripping the DVD was technically illegal unless you plan to redistribute. Looks like I was wrong. I'll have to look into legal solutions that retain the DVD's encryption and can make digital copies (I do NOT want to Real DVD) - Bwana McCall
I can't believe I just discovered Handbrake yesterday. That is one fine tool. - Sarah Perez
handbrake is great, does anyone do the media server thing with their PS3? trying to solve that with a mac. - Karl
See Sarah, if you were subscribed to Bwana.TV, you would have known about it in August 2007 :D :P ;) http://www.bwana.tv/2007/08/28... - Bwana McCall
Karl, if you're on Windows, Orb is a decent solution http://www.orb.com/gamers/inde.... I'm still looking for an _easy_, free solution for Mac OS X, but I haven't found one yet. The best pay solution may be Nullriver's MediaLink http://www.nullriver.com/produ... - Bwana McCall
I need a Blu-ray ripper :( - Andru Edwards
Still need to find a decently-priced Blu-ray player :( - Glenn Batuyong
I think we're going to see our first $150 players this Black Friday... - Bwana McCall
getting my Blu-ray copy of it today. 8^D - Chieze Okoye
Yeah, I was going to mention Real DVD. Anyway, Orb is great! I use it with my Xbox 360. - Oliver Ortega Chua
I can't get DVDs ripped from Handbrake to play on my iPhone. What's your secret? - solipsisticnation
My secret? Select the iPhone preset on the right. I'm not joking :) - Bwana McCall
YouTube
Steve Rubel favorited a video on YouTube
Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads
Play
September 30 at 6:58 pm - Link
you want her to admit she reads the NYTimes? come now. I wouldn't.... and I read every article every day. - AnotherⓃⓄⒶⒽ
Or was it that she was given instructions by her handlers not to give any specifics in order to avoid being skewered? Let's be fair. She's not specifically articulate in dealing with the national press, but that doesn't necessarily mean she's illiterate. - Jill O'Neill
What's the risk of blurting out 8 major newspapers from left to right? - Björn Brembs
Well, she could have mentioned the National Review AND the New York Times. That's a broad spectrum, no? - Mavericks of A-sauce!
Trap-filled questions shouldn't be answered. I'm constantly amazed by the differing treatment of the two sides by the media. Saw a hilarious (because I could see through it) puff-piece that Entertainment Tonight did with the Obama's and almost threw up all over the treadmill I was using. When Katie Couric talks to a lefty she smiles, when she talks to a righty she sneers. - Craig Eddy
That's funny. I didn't see any sneering. - Mavericks of A-sauce!
You know who else famously said he doesn't read newspapers? Bush. - Eric
Craig: all questions are trap filled. But, she should use these as an opportunity to communicate her world view. The fact that she couldn't, or wouldn't, do that is totally scary to me. The fact that she still is getting defended by you is even worse. Amazing. There are ways to deal with a press that doesn't like you. Any politician better be skilled at doing just that. - Robert Scoble
Craig must be referring to the SNL parody video. Couric does nothing but smile at Palin. Katie has done a fantastic job in these interviews, both with her performance, her questions and her reactions to them (I would have had coffee coming out my nose about half the time). Her credibility rating has soared as a result. - JodyUnwired
Katie was actually quite gentle with Sarah in her interviews with her. The fact that Sarah couldn't even handle the light weight stuff that Katie threw at her shows that she can't handle ANY media, let alone mainstream. - Mavericks of A-sauce!
A great point was made recently that the McCain campaign screwed up by not letting her make the rounds of the conservative talk shows and news programs and getting her "interview legs" to avoid things like the Couric interview gaffes from occurring. Locking her down and overwhelming her with talking points and one-liners has only made her look like a puppet and a pawn. - Trish R
Trish, while I'm sure that you're right about how the progression of events could have gone better, I'm not sure that Mrs. Palin needed any help looking like a puppet and a pawn; I think she accomplished that much all on her own. - Aaron Krug
wow. - Akshay Kapur
@Helen: +1. Exactly, all she had to do is say she checks in on a number of sources to get views from all sides of the issue and then name a few. All done. She probably has read them, but wasn't sure which to say, which had endorsed McCain and instead just sort of froze. - AJ Kohn
ps recession - adolfo foronda
I don't read the newspaper...what does that frickin' matter? Newspapers are so last century. I get my news from NPR, friendfeed (sad I know, but it works pretty well) and Yahoo News. - Alex "Chameleon" Scoble
Well, hey. Bush is president. She is only running for vice. Give her a break. The bar is lower. LOL. - Stephan Miller
To be fair...I don't read any newspspers either. i just don't feel the need to lie about it. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
@Alex: She didn't say "I get my news from the radio and internet", she said "Um, all of them." - Eric
@Eric Exactly! She gets Russian news by looking from her back yard. - Stephan Miller
Jeez, even I know the name of 4. (and I'm not American) - Bibi
Oh-my-goodness! Not even "The moose news"? - Matteo
FriendFeed
Zee from WeDoCreative posted a link
YouTube - Sarah Palin: Homosexuality Is a Choice
Play
October 1 at 7:23 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
No, underage unprotected sex is a choice, homosexuality, like douche baggery, isn't... - John Worthington
Just like being an ignorant bitch? (sorry poli-geoff is out of his cage already its too late the damage is done) - Not Not Geoff Schultz
Just the thing she was trying to work against. :p - Mavericks of A-sauce!
Keep sticking your foot in your mouth, you white trash ho. Are you working for the Democrats. LOL No education or common sense. Shining example of a Republican candidate. And like them, she has a gay friend. Oh, that is another SNL skit waiting to happen. - Stephan Miller
she will mess up sooo many times if she ends up in the white house... - Zee from WeDoCreative
Being uninformed on your government is a choice - Alex "Chameleon" Scoble
Liked so that people see this, not necessarily because I agree with her... - Jared Smith
Her "Best Friend" of 30 years, I guess one can't toss boulders in the glass house. - Jacob
Oh, but if you point that out, you're not being fair! :p - Mavericks of A-sauce!
Jared: same here. Sigh. - Robert Scoble
Same here Jared. My comments would only be filled with curses, so I'm refraining. - Carmen
What I want to know is who is her lesbian friend? And why would a lesbian be best friends with someone like Palin? I find that very interesting and wonder if it is true at all. I've had people tell me this before and then when I push them on it they can't name their "best friend." Also, if I had a best friend and I was running for Vice President that person would be with me every stage of the way. Just saying. - Robert Scoble
Yeah, because it's so easy and fun being gay in America. Why not choose to be gay!?! - AJ Kohn
And can a moose be a lesbian anyway? - John Worthington
When we look beyond the cheap tinsel we are most likely to find, tinsel - Dave Hussein Martin
Would you rather she didn't share her beliefs? I personally wish more candidates would state their true (non party speak) beliefs - then each person can make an informed decision in the booth. BTW, amazing how many of you can't articulate your opinions without resorting to name callling. Talk about unprofessional. - Dan Nimtz via twhirl
Dan... cause you can't fight an illogical argument with logic... - John Worthington
DEATH TO INTOLERANCE!! Kill it where it stands. Slash it's violent throat and stab it's unloving heart. - Dawn
@Dan: Calling this woman an idiot is not an opinion, it's a statement of fact. - Eric
I totally respect Sarah Palin for making the choice of being blatantly stupid. It's not a choice that I have made, but I am not gonna judge her. - lezionidistile
Of course im unprofessional Dan I don't get a pay check for this shit. - Not Not Geoff Schultz
@Eric - Amen! - Nicholas Mercer
She CAN'T know how stupid she looks or she would have had a mental breakdown by now. - Stephan Miller
@Eric Yeah, ok you're the expert. I was more pointing out "white trash...", etc. Serves no useful purpose IMO - Dan Nimtz via twhirl
Owing to how free she is with her opinions, I am forced to wonder how many other people share her views. - J. Abdul-Qahhar
I live around white trash and know it when I see it. I fought to get away from people like her. Just the fact she is running for office is appalling. Anyone see Idiocracy. This is the beginning, mark my word. And sometimes it takes an expletive. I don't say "Oh,poop" when I slam my finger in the door. If she gets to the white house, this will hurt more than a broken finger. - Stephan Miller
that someone like Palin could be VP and possibly president is very very scary - Ryan
Based on her communicated belief system thus far, I just don't see Palin with a best friend who is gay, nor do I understand (like Robert) why anyone who is gay would consider her a best friend. I think its a "make believe" friend. - JodyUnwired
I've just scanned this, so I may have missed the details. Is the main bullet point from this thread that Sarah Palin is a gay moose who's best friends with Scoble? That doesn't seem correct. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
There's a column on a gay conservative site about this too (I can't remember which, I saw it briefly this morning while horking down cereal). She really does have a long-time lesbian friend apparently. One assumes they must never discuss gay identity issues. - Soup
Therefore, wouldn't heterosexuality be a choice too? Life's about choices ... wait ... isn't she Pro-life? She CAN'T be pro-choice too ... time-space continuum collapsing ... - tj hanton
+10 tj - Soup
lot of america sounds just like her . - Gregory Lent
Twitter
cmiper posted a message on Twitter
Digg
Trevor Carpenter dugg a story on Digg
October 1 at 2:27 am - Link
DropBox really is awesome. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
I am downloading it now. - Trevor Carpenter
It really is a terrific service, have been running it on all of my PCs for a while now. I just wish they had some more pricing options, I would gladly pay a bit more to get a bit more out of it than just the 50Gb package which is a little high priced per month. - cmiper
main windows competitor is live mesh, which also includes remote controll via RDP over Mesh. Problem Mesh has is that it is MS products only. Benifit is ability to resolve conflicts and Remote Desktop over Mesh without the need to open up a firewall - Jonathan Jesse
started paying them $9.99 for 500 gb yesterday. Google competition is coming sooner or later though! - Sumit Chachra
@Sumit what are you using 500gb for? How are the transfer rates between systems? I have an account but haven't used it a lot. Waiting for my Dell Mini 9 to come and then test Linux/Windows sync through Dropbox - Jonathan Jesse
I use it to sync up documents between my Macbook Pro and Vista desktop. It's *fantastic* in that "where have you been all my life?" sort of way. I might get the 50 GB plan and start using it for some larger files, but I think the upstream will prove too crippling for that. - Eric
I should add, another viable option for anyone looking into this sort of thing is Jungledisk + your own Amazon S3 account. Somewhat cheaper than the $10/month dropbox wants, though it doesn't have the automagic syncing that dropbox offers. - Eric
@Sumit - it's 50GB for $9.99 not 500GB. ;-) - cmiper
not exactly like dropbox but hmm http://oosah.com/ is 1TB for uh hum FREE now if they would only fix the flickr integration. - adolfo foronda
@cmiper, I too wish they had larger options. I want it primarily to back up my photography. Maybe my iTunes library too. These combined are 660 gigs, today. - Trevor Carpenter
@cmiper my bad! 50gb for $9.99 !! @Jonathan I am using it for keeping a backup of all my itunes songs, videos, codebase (have mercurial repository too) etc. It syncs lazily, specially for big files, but does the job. The web interface could be nicer, but the Mac integration is pretty sweet! - Sumit Chachra
Disqus
◄ Chris Nixon ► commented on a blog post on Disqus
October 1 at 2:29 am - Link
"Thanks for stopping by and commenting Fish Whisperer!" - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Google Reader
October 1 at 1:27 am - Link
I think Obama is falling into the trap of not criticising the government on a current crisis for fear af being accused of being anti-American by the Republicans. The truth is there ia nothing *more* American than freedom of speech, and freedom to criticise those in power. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
I think Obama is not criticising more because the house dems are hip deep in both the problem and the failure of the bailout. At some point, tossing those stones will wind up hurting himself as well. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Last.fm
Bruce Cameron loved a song on Last.fm
September 28 at 10:15 am - Link
Great song! - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
FriendFeed
Russ G posted a message
“Today I'm 40 and Life is Good!”
Today I'm 40 and Life is Good!
September 30 at 11:49 am - Link
Happy Birthday, Russ. - Andy Roth
Congratulations! - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Congrats Russ :-) - Maryam Ardakani
Right on, another Libra enters the 40s, happy birthday! - TDavid
Thank you all and as you see I'm holding the best present I could have wanted, even if he came a few weeks ago :) - Russ G
happy birthday - Svein Håvard Djupvik
FriendFeed
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a message
“Is there any good way to geotag my photos from my proper camera using GPS data from my iPhone?”
Is there any good way to geotag my photos from my proper camera using GPS data from my iPhone?
September 30 at 8:52 am - Link
Adams, Addleson, Addanowski, Adler, Bueller?....anyone?..Bueller? (Bump) - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
FriendFeed
peiman posted a link
قهوه با طعم استامبل
September 27 at 1:00 pm - Link
wow this is fabulous - Medad Rangi
‫شایدم استامبل با طعم قهوه :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi
I hate the word addicting. It seems to have gained popularity in the last couple of years as people forgot how to spell addictive. - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
یه زمانی معتاد این استامبل شده بودم . صبح و شب دستمون رو دکمه اش بود - macromediax
Twitter
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a message on Twitter
FriendFeed
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a link
FFUK - FriendFeed
September 30 at 1:45 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Hey all UK FriendFeeders. I've just created a room just for us...and anybody else who cares to join in. - ◄ Chris Nixon ► via Bookmarklet
FriendFeed
Melissa posted a message
“ok FriendFeed... next question: What city are you in?”
September 30 at 12:02 am - Link
Los Angeles. - Melissa
Fresno - imabonehead
Louisville - Amber aka SDA
Los Angeles! - Monique(boring)
San Francisco - Mike Doeff
Dunedin (Suburb of Tampa... or St. Petersburg... or both... or something.) - Alix Whitmire
Hotlanta - Rah™
Sydney - James Cooper
Mountain View - torque
Tarrafal - ※Fu※
Adelaide :D - Mo Kargas
Taipei - Yu-Jie Lin
Melbourne - Bec
London - chet
Melbourne (pronounced Mel-bhn) - Richard Crocker
fort lauderdale - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
Melbourne - Warren Butler via fftogo
What, heaps of melbournians I'm not subbed to :O - Mo Kargas
Singapore - BeeLing
Jyväskylä, Finland - Daniel Schildt
Louisville, Kentucky - Mathew Ballard
Melbourne - Duncan Riley
Oh wowsers, loads of Melbournites! - Bec
San Francisco! - Mona N.
San Jose - Tamara J.
Fremont ;0( - ☛ Adam Helweh ☚
Hello from Bangalore, India! - Siddharth Deb
Honolulu (currently!) - Daynah
San Jose, 'The capital of Silicon Valley' - Jeff P. Henderson
Cairo, Egypt - Hayk
London - Joe Dawson
San Mateo, original home of YouTube. xD - Jauder Ho
santa cruz - John Cozen
Edinburgh - Grant Fitzgerald
San Francisco - Eric Florenzano
Mountain View - Bo Stern
Does Singapore count as a city? - Singapore - Kevin Singarayar
Istanbul :) - Muge Cerman
Toowoomba - Kate Foy
Aberdeen, Scotland - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Salo, Finland. Not many knows that, we make here Nokia mobilephones :P - Kristian Salonen
Istanbul - Esra Nur Üçkol
Lyon - Gina K
Fairfax, Va - tj hanton
Atlanta(-ish) - tiffany
Louisville. But you knew that. - Michelle Jones
Brisbane, Australia - John Worthington
Shenzhen,China - Steve
Minneapolis - Erica Mauter
I don't live in a city, it's a town and it's called Edenbridge, the county is Kent, South East England). Easy commute to London though, where I want to live. - Kol Tregaskes
Need more Brits here. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Portland, Oregon - Maureen
San Francisco - Thomas Hawk
Houston (Humble, really) - Josh Haley
San José, CA (not Costa Rica) - Pete Delucchi
Washington, DC - Vinay | विनय
FriendFeed
◄ Chris Nixon ► posted a link
Footage shows boy hit by bus
September 29 at 2:43 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
What an arse...lucky to be alive. - ◄ Chris Nixon ► via Bookmarklet
Google Reader
September 29 at 2:41 pm - Link
Do Not Touch! - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Can't be serious right? - Remo
Everyone, just back away slowly. If you move reeeaaalll slow, it can't see you. - Jordan Hofker
Google Reader
September 29 at 1:43 am - Link
Thanks Brian! - ◄ Chris Nixon ►
Tip: Now you can add FriendFeed to your blog with our new customizable FriendFeed widgets!

Other ways to read this feed:Feed reader