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Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

To Sean: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU WHEN YOU JOKE ABOUT GOOGLE WAVE INVITES. What? You thought I was kidding????

September 30, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Scoble, Alex Scoble, Jennifer Dittrich, Sir Shuping is just sir and 80 other people liked this

YOU GET YOUR ASS ROASTED BY A GIANT ROBOT, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

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That is awesome Kamilah. The robot is Mo right? - Jimminy, CoG of FF

Totally worth it. - Your Neighbor Steve

Yes, Mo asked to participate in the Ass Roasting. I wasn't really serious about it until Mo asked. Then I had to make it exist. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

LMAO, Kamilah so awesome, but you missed Sean's half-stache and goatee. Those would have made it even more awesome. - Jimminy, CoG of FF

aw, shoot. I checked, but I wasn't sure about the status of his facial hair. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

This is THE. BEST. THING. ON. THE. INTERNET. EVER. *weeps for joy* - MoTO Bott

I'm tempted to lie about it just to see what I'd look like in one of your illustrations - chrisofspades

Excellent! - Katy S

The 1st pic of Audrey sneezing is so great. And I love "Pew Pew Pew." Great stuff, Kamilah! - Ayşe E.

LOL! Get him, Mo! Mo never misses his target! :) - directeur

*dumbstruck by the awesome* - Mo Kargas

Kamilah...I think I love you :) - Mo Kargas

I see the happy sloth! Cool! - Anne Bouey

Excellent! - Kol Tregaskes

So what will Kamilah, Princess Wave, sell her sketchbook for? It should be in the FriendFeed museum. - Louis Gray

Unholy mother of God! That's bad @$$ - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC

GOT DAMN, YOU'RE TALENTED! - Spidra Webster

*bump* - MoTO Bott

oh, though sketch is good, ever had an exhibition? - testbeta

I always knew it. The first time I saw Mo Kargas on FF, I knew he could roast asses with his eyes. - Joshua

Thanks, everyone :) I don't know that I can sell the original sketchbook, it's really my personal journal. As I say from time to time, though, my goal is to do some larger drawings and paintings, and eventually I hope to sell those, I just need, like, 48 hours in a day to get everything done... it's going to happen somehow, soon. I have had some of my work exhibited at various times,... more... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Kamilah, you're here! You should subscribe to me. :) - EricaJoy

What happens if I subscribe to you, Erica? Is something in particular happening over on your feed? - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Nothing interesting happening on my feed but I bet $100 I could make your day. :) - EricaJoy

Really, now? Alright then, I'll bite... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

What is it about giant robots? I dunno. But they are full of win. Case in point: http://tinyurl.com/ydzws8s - MoTO Bott

By the way Kamilah? I want the MoBot on a t-shirt.... Pleeeaaaasssseeee??? - MoTO Bott

Yes, giant robots are made of win. I dunno, Barry... last time I tried to make a t-shirt, people got all excited but no-one bought it (DYSP!). I might just make a design but not bother to try setting up a Spreadshirt (or whichever one it was that I used) for it. I'll have to see. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Can you do pre-oders through paypal? - MoTO Bott

I could do that somehow, I guess. I've taken payments through PayPal before. I wonder what pose the MoBot should be in? Have some source material I could work from? - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Kamilah, you are truly Princess Wave! Awesome, totally awesome! - WoH: Minding her Steves

http://ff.im/93prl - MoTO Bott

Kamilah - this very well might be the art post that makes best of day and becomes part of a meta-sketch project. :-) - Katy S

Ya, JUST for this drawing, Sean. :P And Mo. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Robots are hot stuff right now - you should add this to the Spreadshirt marketplace! - spreadshirtcom

*another bump* because I love it so. - MoTO Bott

lol, that's great! - Carmen wBabby

this is great. i especially love the sloth! - edythe

Yay! Sneezy. :) - Rochelle

BUMPAGE - Mo Kargas

*bump* because it still makes me laugh and because I wish I had laser eyes like Mo... PEW PEW PEW! - MoTO Bott

and because Haggis' word balloon says "ow may ass!" - MoTO Bott

*bump* for MOTO - Katy S

Does this make it bump? - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

yup! - Joe The Sausage

I've got still a few Google Wave invites... anyone? - Jemm

I love this so - MoTO Bott from Android

THANKS KAMILAH! - MoTO Bott

*bump* - MoTO Bott

:) Wow, how times have changed... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

"Roast Ass" -------> "Ow! My Ass" - MoTO Bott from Android

#halloffame - MoTO Bott

*sagenod* - Mo Kargas

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Funny Pics and Videos

No Matter How Hard You Try, It Is Impossible To Fax A Cat #shareit

April 19, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Ahmet Yükseltürk, selimovski, Joan Miro and 739 other people liked this

LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

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That poor cat looks so confused. - Georgie Bestie

but it's so warm on top of the scanner! - DJF

Time for a cat scan! - Jemm

Iz I the right way up for printing? - Vicky

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

LOL, Soup! - Kol Tregaskes

that is one adorable kitten! - Anna Lynn M.

<3 - Furkan Tunalı

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

Kitty!!!! - Janice

keep trying! - Morgan

FEED ME A CAT - tehKenny

Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying. - Steven Perez

Push harder - Josh Haley

LOL@Jemm - AJ Batac :)

آخی - یک بابک

Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

1 closer....hilarious! - Jeffrey Marsh

There we go 150 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez.... - Stephanie Segel

thanks, i needed a laugh - chaz2b

FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED - Karl Knechtel

iz dat some copycat? - bora "head" basman

LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer! - Threepwood

Just one more like... please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's over two huuunddreeeed - bora "head" basman

MOAR! - Pat Hawks

I need 9 copies please ! - Faraz Mullick

A cute cat :) - Mohammad Abdurraafay

Haha, Faráz. - Kol Tregaskes

Next target, 250 likes. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Friendfeed loev faxcat :o - Karl Knechtel

;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Pussy by fax. What will they think of next? - Mattb4rd

X)) - Neya

OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, this thread is pure genius. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

But only almost 50 comments.. :) - Simon Wicks

Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate! - Ivan Zuzak

Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

there we go then for the 1500+!! - Jaap Willem

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

OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy! - Kol Tregaskes

Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again. - Jason (not an Argonaut)

I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder - anna sauce

Hehe, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P - Richard A.

I'd like again if I could :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

bump - Simon Wicks

Richard, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

Awesomely funny! - Martha

Next target: 400 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

theres one more for you Kol - Toby Graham

Toby, you're very kind. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cute *_* - Sybelle

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you spare a cat 6 likes? - Jason (not an Argonaut)

sweet - Eric Hofmann

Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT. - Mike Nayyar

Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

this is underfaksink at its worzt - pb:

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:

Ah, OK, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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:

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

433 Like ! Wow ! - Like

Freemor, yes very cute! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

cute~ - Chan Pen

that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax. - Phil Maxwell

oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink - pb:

Just 5 more likes needed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Fax, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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

LOL, Kevin. - Kol Tregaskes

i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm - Iphigenie

Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Countdown! 8 more now! - Mike Nayyar

bump for more likes - Josh Haley

bump - Roberto Bonini

One more!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I took mine away, too much pressure. - SteVe C

Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that. - Georgie Bestie

меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот - Парадокс Смейла

Kendra, absolutely. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

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

wish I could double like! - metalerik

Wish I could just like it at all. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

But it's a cat being crushed... - Richard A.

برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟ - نصرآبادی

Hehe, Richard. - Kol Tregaskes

copy cat - gibilix

518 like! most liked post? - Lu Tao

ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :)) - Arzu

Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

*bump* - Andre

Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!! - Kol Tregaskes

So we know how many people use this site. - Richard A.

So that's what Paws Printing means. - Jack&Cleo

Richard, we getting there. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Jack, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

this thread is making history. - vijay

Indeed .. this is a most epic thread - Mattb4rd

Hehe. 9 more for 550! - Kol Tregaskes

8... - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

7. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this" - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get??? - Roberto Bonini

Gosh, no idea. - Kol Tregaskes

take some bets then come back in a year to check? - Iphigenie

:) - SokooteDel

Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes! - Mattb4rd

552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

560! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

And back down to 559. Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo? - Susan Beebe

I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat! - Rich

Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

564! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken - Jason (not an Argonaut)

maybe a good way to clone cats :) - Roberto

Hehe, Roberto. - Kol Tregaskes

This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!? - Kol Tregaskes

It could! Keep bumping it up! - imabonehead

It will :) - Roberto Bonini

My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun... - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-) - j1m

No yet. Close though. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Stuck on 581. - Kol Tregaskes

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

11 more to 600. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟ - Exir

هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D - Shayan

Hehe, 6 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600 - Josh Haley

Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's 598+3, at the moment ;-) - Andre

There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!! - Kol Tregaskes

3 people un liked :( - Roberto Bonini

I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well. - Kol Tregaskes

too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;) - Jason (not an Argonaut)

Haha, Jason. - Kol Tregaskes

614!!!!! - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Whoa! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)] - pb:

Petr, who's he? - Kol Tregaskes

omg, this post passed 600 likes! - imabonehead

@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there .. - pb:

I see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Day 11 and this thing's still going! - Phil Maxwell

Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible - Megan Craig

Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry! - Jérôme

Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography? - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-) - sofarsoShaw BAZINGA!

this makes me laugh every darn time I see it - Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian

Who is this NShawnFW? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

kitties do like to find new spots to nap :) - Maryam

LOL, now over 650 likes. - Kol Tregaskes

این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟ - Maryaminaa

Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol? - Roberto Bonini

Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :) - Maryaminaa

Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

lol - Maryaminaa

I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture - Kevin J Hatton

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE. - WYRD 101

Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead - Mattb4rd

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

10 more likes for 700! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

7 more by my count! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy? - aerobroken

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

Wow, not so bad huh? \u) - Zu from AOD

Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-) - Rick Cogley

Must try this at home! - Anthony K. Valley ©

Bumping some old great posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Now THAT is a classic! - Allan Besselink

you have to flatten it first!!! ;) - Neda S.

This is very good humor! - TrafficBug

Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

just a couple thousand to go - Jason (not an Argonaut)

LOL - Smeerch

__awesome__ - scotu ._.,

and it got resurrected once again! - Iphigenie

I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy. - Seth Greenblatt

Bump. - Kol Tregaskes

ahahahahaha salaaa baaaaaakkkkkk - missipipi

I'm so glad this thread has been revived. The cat in the fax machine never fails to delight. - Michelle Jones

aha! 700 kişi zorla kapağın altına tepilen kediyi beğenmiş - Siminya

I've heard of cheap paper but this is ridiculous!! - Neda S.

Copy the cat - Alyn William

And there I was thinking this was the most liked post on FriendFeed. Darn, just 3rd. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Just 100 more likes to go. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Missed this the first time around. - John (bird whisperer)

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, over 700 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

715 likes and counting. - Kol Tregaskes

Fax Yeah! - Playing Well with Others

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

who revived that one? - Iphigenie

Me, sorry. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 40 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

all right let's do it... - Iphigenie

Love this one! - Fossil Huntress

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

#aaaf - Ali Oz

Louis Gray

July 9, 2008 from Flickr - Comment - Like - Share

Yolanda, Oguz Serdar, A. T. and 60 other people liked this

Double cute! - sergiooo

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Great pic's! - Dan Boggs

Is it just me, or are all baby clothes in either FriendFeed or Twitter colors? I was noticing in my baby boy's clothes today that I had half of web 2.0 in his wardrobe. - Jesse Stay

:) - mhmazidi

Wonderful photos. Congrats and enjoy! - Larry Huffman

yeah it is all nice and happy now - give it 12 months and the inner demon comes out... Nice time though, when they are small and cute :) Enjoy it. - Dave Gray

The best part at this age is when they fall asleep on your chest. - Russellreno

Looks like Sarah is trying to push Matt away... saying "Hey dude! We are so out of the womb! Shove over!!" - Yolanda

I wuv babies! - Shey

that is really quite lovely, louis. those early days with you daughter will be with you two for the all your lives. - ryan from fftogo

awwww how adorable! - Jessica

I think the baby sleeping on my chest thing was one of my favorite moments when we had small babies in our family. Thanks for sharing. - Jeremy Kunz

Sweet pics. - John McCrea

how adorable..your little ones are soooo cute.. thanks for sharing! - MiaD

sooo cute! - Sarah Perez

Bump. - Louis Gray

CantorJF to CantorJF's feed, Yahoo Pipes

I want to build a yahoo pipe that extract one image link from "item.content" and assign to "enclosure.url" to see it in friendfeed import... but i'm stuck at the content parsing .. regex? suggestions?

May 28, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Chris Nixon liked this

did you figure this out? I am fooling with a similar idea. - Robert Wayne

if you haven't come tp any solution yet, use Create RSS module — it does just what you need - с мармеладом в бороде

m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Today I TOOK MY LAST DOSE OF FEMARA. After 5 straight years of faithfully taking one pill a day and numerous checkups and mammograms and sonograms and bone scans I NOW DECLARE THAT MY BREAST CANCER IS OVER.

December 31, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

☆彡Jazzy-B, Betsy, Pete and 88 other people liked this

Congrats, m9m! - Derrick

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They say you are never "cured" but I say Oh Yes I Am. Wonder if I'll see any change now that 5 years of side effects will end. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

Now *THIS* is good news! - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

Wonderful! m9m. - Micah

Way to go! - Chris Nixon from FFHound!

HURRAY!!!! - Anna Lynn M.

this makes me smile each time it pops up - Michael W. May

Superb! - SAM

That's great news, m9m! - Anika

What a fantastic way to end the year!! - aden {Chickadee}

Congrats! That is fantastic - Georgie Bestie

That's wonderful! Congratulations, m9m! - vicster

Reading this just brightened my day. Congratulations to you! - rowlikeagirl

Yay! What a wonderful post! - LB so u no it's real

Great news! - Brent

Yes! - Yolanda

Hell yeah, m9m!! - Penguin from fftogo

Grats! - <3Heather<3

Congratulations! And here's to a cancer-free 2011! - joey

Woohoo! - Shevonne from Android

Yay!! - Spidra Webster

Awesome! - Mark J

Congrats, m9m! - Jenny R

Yay! That's wonderful! Happy New Year! - Anne Bouey

:-) :-; - Mitchell Tsai

\(^_^)/ - Eivind

Best news I've heard all year. Congratulations! - chrisofspades from YouFeed

coolness congrats be well - WarLord

Excellent news! - WoH: Minding her Steves

HELL YEAH! - ☆ Mellyboo ☆

Thomas Power

Lady Gaga most 'liked' on Facebook - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...

December 31, 2010 from my6sense - Comment - Like - Share

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Facebook is clearly doing it wrong! - Chris Nixon from FFHound!

Scoble, Alex Scoble

Is there a good way to get free audio books? Good iPhone app for doing it?

December 27, 2010 - Comment - Like - Share

Chris Nixon, Turkish Delight, !lker yoldas. )°( and 3 other people liked this

http://www.podiobooks.com/index... - WarLord

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if you have a library card to your local public library (any of the WCCLS libraries), you could (in theory, I haven't played with the app yet), use the Overdrive app to check them out from the library. - holly #ravingfangirl

Ask your brother ;-) - Jeff (Team マクダジ )

Depends, how much does quality (sound and delivery) matter? - Johnny

Not much, Johnny. At least not initially. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

John Kiosque

Congrats are in order to Aberdeen MP @annebegg on being made a Dame. All together now: 'There is nothing like a...'

December 31, 2010 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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NoahDavidSimon

Gaming: Identifying Yourself As A Lesbian Gets You Banned On XBOX Live - http://consumerist.com/5160187...

February 26, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Zu from AOD, Kol Tregaskes, ❁ⓟⓘⓝⓚ❁ⓖⓐⓡⓓⓔⓝ❁ and 12 other people liked this

Teresa says that she was harassed by other players and later suspended from XBOX Live because she identified herself as a lesbian in her profile. When she appealed to Microsoft, she says they told her that other gamers found her sexual orientation "offensive." - NoahDavidSimon from Bookmarklet

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Woah....that's ludicrous - Shevonne

huh? WTF? - Parth Awasthi

One of the comments says it best: "You do not have freedom of speech in private businesses." That's the great thing about FREE enterprise and free markets: you're FREE to shop somewhere else. Try that with your soon-to-be-mandated government health care or your mail delivery, where if you don't like it, that's tough balls. - Craig Eddy

not sure why Xbox is giving sexual orientation an option here. isn't the idea to shoot the other player? it might be best to have, "don't ask don't tell". I'm not sure players should know why a person is aiming a virtual gun at them. I'm not saying getting your kicks is wrong... but most of us don't sign up to get beaten up by bull queers. - NoahDavidSimon

The PS3's PS Network's "Home" is FULL of lesbians. - Will Higgins™

@Will: ...that are actually guys ;) - Jemm

Jemm - NOOOOoooooo! - Will Higgins™

the question is more complicated then just sexual orientation. the question becomes more in terms of the nature of certain forms of sexual behavior. certainly we live in a free society where people should do what they want... but there is a certain sexuality to violence that we must address. on that matter is it appropriate at all for men and women to be shooting guns at each other? perhaps gender segregation is more complicated then our bodies. they don't let men and women play basketball together. - NoahDavidSimon

it is a funny issue because it seems to really open up a sore spot. society simply can not address all the classifications of gender and sexuality. by simply identifying a character as straight or gay it limits the spectrum of psychological profiles. this is why our government should not create social contracts merely on who we like... but our civilization needs to create structures that reflect our architecture - NoahDavidSimon

there is less an issue of gender orientation and more a dynamic of if a person is an objectifier or an objectified. is a person dominant or receiving. does a person get off on being shot at or not? being that this world is virtual... it doesn't even work because it is a waste... it is a sacrifice... a martyrdom of time we all choose. we are all there to be submissive to the machine. in... more... - NoahDavidSimon

Why put your sexual orientation in your profile? Politics, sex and religion have no place on a network where people just want to play games. - Paul Grav

this assumes that it is just a game. I think politics, sex and religion have no place in the virtual world exactly because they do. it is an example of how transparency must be limited. we are all there to be submissive to the machine and therefor our hidden agendas might have symbolic implications that destroy the community. I'm not sure I would want to play this XBOX game. - NoahDavidSimon

I hope she sues Microsoft and wins. Bad move on their part in this day and age. - Robert Couture

The Code of Conduct is pretty explicit about this: "Don't create a gamertag or motto that other users may be offended by, this includes comments that look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate any of the following: profane words/phrases, sexually explicit language, sexual innuendo, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal... more... - Craig Eddy

http://support.xbox.com/support... - Craig Eddy

So, even though I believe it, I wouldn't expect Microsoft to allow me to put "Jesus Loves You" in my motto. Nor would I expect "I only swing straight" to be allowed. - Craig Eddy

I agree Craig. though I do giggle at the idea of someone shooting a virtual gun and telling you that g-d loves you. - NoahDavidSimon

I'm actually less interested in the legalities in this... because I am certain that MSFT opened themselves up to this and they only have themselves to blame. What I am interested in is the very sexual dynamic of virtual hunting and why it might be threatening to bring in identity into this. certainly the industry opened themselves up to something when they created Tomb Raider and Street... more... - NoahDavidSimon

I'm certain there are no coded answers to these questions. we invite sexuality into the sphere. the virtual vixens are in fact very "lesbian" esque... and of course they also create a male hetero fetish. They are muscular and they are aggressive... the industry created this out of it's own desire to sell games. but in fact it is popular because it appeals to a desire for men to submit. to role play something that they can't in life. - NoahDavidSimon

I believe that the user is very different the the character. you submit to being Lara Croft when you play her. you are not straight you are not a man. you are Lora Croft - NoahDavidSimon

it is a matter of health to allow a certain level of libidinal desire that might be damaging to oneself. we as human beings might even be more healthy because we experiment with this other side. this duality. I'm not sure this should be coded as homosexual or transgender. if this element is dangerous to the game then it should not be an option. - NoahDavidSimon

It's pretty obvious that most of the people commenting have very little familiarity with XBox Live. Microsoft has stated that putting anything that could be construed as sexual in nature in a user profile or gamer tag, puts a user's account in question. That being said, LIVE is hardly what I'd call a tolerant community, but microsoft would ban a gamertag like "StraightGamer" or "HeteroDude." - Jon Anderson

Further reading: http://kotaku.com/390593... - Jon Anderson

yeah... I am not familiar with Live. the gender and preference is an option or no? the entire market for this is because the natural male instinct for hunting and fighting is taken away from society. people are repressed. if they invite the natural fetish into the sphere... then it is their fault - NoahDavidSimon

There is no "sexual orientation preference" option, thank goodness - Craig Eddy

oh... ok. that was not made clear in the piece. then I don't blame them for wanting to filter out those details. they shouldn't allow me to say I'm Jewish either btw. I question the very need for a user profile there. I'm not sure a VR shooting range where you don't know people is a place to make friends - NoahDavidSimon

Most of the people I'm 'friends' with on LIVE I either know in real life or met through common interests sites/groups. Gaming with strangers can be -to say it nicely- effing terrible. - Jon Anderson

wow... so "GayerGamer" was the dudes name. hypothetically if I were to change my name to say "HebrewHammer" that would probably be offensive as well? or say some dude whose name is "Christian"? MSFT is making a lot of discression here. I'm not sure I agree with that finding. essentially they are saying it is a name issue... but they have no problems with political discourse or... more... - NoahDavidSimon

There's a field in your profile called Bio, it's limited to 499 characters. You're prompted with "Enter some information about yourself.". If a fellow gamer has filled in their bio, I'd expect to see some generic stuff such as game preferences, location and maybe age. - Paul Grav

You're not obliged to enter your real name. So if you're real name is "I hate christians" then there's no problem, because you're not obliged to enter it. You are obliged to enter a gamertag, which can be anything you like, expect for what MS judges to be offensive or controversial. - Paul Grav

...especially as XB360 is populated by kids insisting on calling each other "fag" at every opportunity. She should call her lawyers. - Chris Nixon

Chris the mere fact that there is bigotry does not mean you change the rules without a lot of thought. I wonder how much thought went into this. did they pull it right away; did they have a debate about the many ramifications. to me it isn't so much if the name is right or wrong... because I think there is a lot of context. - NoahDavidSimon

There was no thought. Can you imagine the number of people that have questionable gamertags or bios? This one was a no-brainer. - Paul Grav

I can't even understand how this was even contemplated. Idiotic complaints belong in the bin not matter how many there are. At the moment in the UK on a BBC kids TV channel, there is a presenter who has one arm cut off at the elbow. There have been hundreds of complaints from parents claiming this scares their kids. It is an idiotic fascist complaint, and the BBC rightly ignore them. - Chris Nixon

Please don't take this the wrong way. I've been on x-box live since it came out. If you play any FPS like CoD you know the "high" caliber of some of the people you play with. There are a lot of juvenile delinquents on there. I can't count how many people I have muted and/or reported. There's no real bio on there where you can broadcast your sexual orientation so she chose to put that... more... - Jason Shultz from twhirl

I just question her motives for putting lesbian in her profile. She was wrong for getting banned for it. Obviously, the people who harrassed her were wrong. They harrass everyone for any number of reasons. It still doesn't make it right. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

@Noah Sexual orientation isn't an option on xbox live profiles. she wrote it in. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

there is that context that I was contemplating. like the cartoon in Rupert Murdoch's newspaper that people feel is racist and Lou Dobbs on CNN says isn't... the question in the end is the context. and you can see obviously this girl is playing at people's inner demons and fears... and yes even bigotry. it was meant to provoke... and in doing so... for right or wrong about the ideal name being sexual or non.. should not be allowed. - NoahDavidSimon

@Jason. How does MS know whether she is or isn't a lesbian? Anyone can put that in their profile. I think MS were right to take some sort of action. - Paul Grav

I take it back about MSFT being to blame. they did the right thing. I thought they were creating facebook profiles on XBox and punishing people for saying they were gay. virtual fire ranges are no place to test to see if the boundaries of our society are fair. We know they aren't. It is a given. - NoahDavidSimon

bump - The Black Book

FriendFeed Feedback: Ahsan Ali

Consider this: If I 'Create a Feed' for an Imaginary Friend, I could theoretically use his twitter nickname, which would be unavailable to /him/ if he wanted to signup on FF using the same nickname. Inconvenient.

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Interesting point! I wonder if they've thought of that? - Martin Bryant

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I'm betting the imaginary friend namespace is unique to you. In other words, it won't prevent someone from using that name globally. - Leo Laporte

Leo, that's not true. Creating a feed (which is how the Beta FAQ suggests you should create an imaginary friend) essentially creates a room. Rooms and users use the same public namespace. - Tony Ruscoe

Yeah, I think its public. That also means Room names clash with Nicknames. - Ahsan Ali

Yes, I think this will be problematic. I'm purposefully not using friends' twitter names for when they join FF. I decided to make a consolidated feed per topic. One is called imagFriends-gtd for the people I follow on twitter re GTD. That worked fine in that their posts came over but now I can't tell which of the 3 people made which post. I know it's still being hashed out. I'm looking forward to see what comes out of it. - metalerik

Oh. I never realised that. Seems like quite a flaw to me. - Quasar

Imaginary friend does not have nickname in FF API (we need to distinguish them by UUID) and I think FF is going to dump it in the next release. At least beta dumped it. - NaHi from f2p

Glad this issue was brought up. - Micah

Very good point, this is a major flaw! And how are imaginary friends going to be converted to the new UI system? They need to have unique URLs. For example, one of my imaginary friends is at this URL: http://beta.friendfeed.com/08bd132.... Not sure you can view it but is this the best way to resolve this issue? #betakoltag-sg-gen - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, I'd suggest using some other naming scheme for "Feeds" (friendfeed/feeds/feedname) and usernames for 'People'. - Ahsan Ali

I know my entry didn't grab much attention but this kind of 'resource model' should be established first: http://friendfeed.com/e... - NaHi from f2p

NaHi I saw that the first time around - impressive effort! The question is - is FF listening to us ? - Ahsan Ali

Ahsan: I bet they have a concrete model and just watching us discussing to add a final touch to it. - NaHi from f2p

Hey NaHi, I just realized you're the author of soap4r :) Complicated stuff, but its a life-saver ! - Ahsan Ali

Ok, I've reported this to FF as a 'bug'. - Ahsan Ali

Bump. - Kol Tregaskes