Christine Lu

So now all I have to do is figure out how to get me one of these... - Aaron Krug

I'm waiting for it to blast off! - Chris Rivait

Reminds me, perhaps not inappropriately, of a data center. If you can get millions of brains that close together and they don't take up much room... - Ray Grieselhuber

Good point, Ray. - Eric Sessions

This reminds me one of those pyraminds from Stargate SG-1. - imabonehead

Hope it doesn't fall over. - Ian Tindale

دیگه شورشو درآورده این امیر دبی شهربازی درست کرده جای شهر - Farz∂d Zam∂ni

HAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA - Mona N.

FLIP FLOPS in the water!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! - Anna Haro

The floaty thong idea is rock solid. What could go wrong? - Joe Pierce

I can't stop laughing!!!!!!!!! :D - Anna Haro

NO SHIT DARWIN!!! - Mladen Srdić

I'd have it no other way. - Andrew Trinh

Amazing! - Zu aka ElijahBailey

OMG! - BeeLing

That's awesome! And a griddle too. Must be 300W of electricity - klecu

This could be a picture of my friends and me - 10 years ago :-) - Søren Larsen

Wow Soren, if that's the case, then you are darn lucky to be alive. :p - Anna Haro

good morning - Marcos Marado

And California! (although my brain believes it still is in Berlin). - Robert Scoble

hi there! - Baard Overgaard Hansen

Hello. UK collective reprezent! - David Young

@Scoble succesful trip? - Zee from WeDoCreative

Hi from Egypt :) - Hayk

Ahlan wa sahlan Hayk - Zee from WeDoCreative

ciao!! :) - Dario Salvelli

ciao Dario! - Zee from WeDoCreative

Europe sucks :) that's why i'm in belgium..int's the center of the sucked europe... - Ben Borges via Alert Thingy

Ahoy from Rotterdam! - Vincent van Wylick

Scoble: Europe always wait your visits! Here is Turkish startups ---> http://friendfeed.com/e/4f4a51... Come closer ; ) - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

Greetings from the Isle of Man - Owen via twhirl

Zee: Türkiye'den selamlar! (Hi from Turkey - 12 points goes to UK) ; ) - Erhan "peanut" Erdogan

nil point UK :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

I love seeing enthusiasm. - Cyvros/fyc

Hello from Malta! ... anyone know where that is ? :) - Chris Farrugia

what are we Americans?? Of course we know where that is! (I'm only messing you American folk :) ) - Zee from WeDoCreative

@Zee...how dare you sir! I resemble that remark! - Anna Haro

Mademoiselle I am only fuc*ing with you... :D - Zee from WeDoCreative

Hallo from the Netherlands... - Aline

I KNOW...that's why I put "resemble" as in we don't know where the eff anything is - Anna Haro

lol..ah I gotcha :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

Hey, I've been around... some parts of the U.S. are another country ;) - Michael W. May

Since no one's going to do a Hello FriendFeed Thailand anytime soon, just wanted to say hello from Phuket. Heh. - Christine Lu

Hello, world! - Jemm

haha, Hello Friendfeed Thailand!! (crickets...) - Zee from WeDoCreative

HELLO FRIENDFEED ZEE - Mona N.

noooooo i missed this! (: - Mladen Srdić

Mona honey, you're still awake! :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

And hello from Italy ;) - Niki Costantini

i know... it's 5:15am... don't ask - Mona N.

Hello from the UK, any more Brits/Irish on here? - Kol Tregaskes

That is AWESOME. And that McDonald's ship... Wow. - Vincent X

OMG... I just posted this after you (and deleted it)... are we looking at the same secret site for all the cute fun small stuff? - Brandon

Brandon: I'm cleaning out my bookmarks by posting here... I need a SweetCron already so I can archive all this -- the pictures, some gadgets, but all the articles are from my reader / bookmarked sites :) - Mona N.

I'm cleaning my "Likes", now that i know i have 2499 limit for the rest of the week. - Nir Ben Yona

hahahhaha! Do an edythe and post manually. I love that - [like] :) - Mona N.

I think she got an extended coupon. - Nir Ben Yona

reminds me of the itty bitty billboard I saw in Venice today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/z... - Anthony Citrano

Anthony: Wow. Where was it placed? - Vincent X

@Vincent: somewhere west of ocean front walk, on one of those grassy areas adjacent to the bike path. - Anthony Citrano

Love this! - BeeLing

very kool - (jeff)isageek

Beautifully done. Congratulations to the maker! - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

These are fantastic! I'd love to get a copy of the book, but what would really be awesome would to have been in London today for the Little People Treasure Hunt the artist put on. - tagami

cotton cakes :D - Mil∂d

why they are artificial? ☻☻ - Mahdi Ebrahimi

Thanx Godfather :D - Maryam Ardakani

that looks likethe stuff my ex-fiance's grandmother used to make, but they'd be pillow sized. - Faboo Mama

PAKESH KARDAM MARYAM :D / Dobare MINEVISAMESH :D - Godfather

Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn in the same candid shot.... that is... no words. - Michael W. May

Princess Grace of Monaco - sigh - and Audrey Hepburn are just... flawless... wow - Mona N.

!! http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix... Marlene Dietrich!! ...sorry, I got excited - Mona N.

Mona, you're allowed to get excited over a picture that wonderful! ;) - Emma

I had to tumblr the first pic (Audrey devotee) - Michael W. May

I don't think so :P - Michael J. Cohen (mjc)

i'd do...nvm. just..nvm.. pool no more laptop. or FF tonight - Caroline

Seesmic has a natural hype cycle because of the celebrity behind it and the celebrity that installed it (it's a seriously who-you-know-connecton-coup)-- but that's not what I'm talking about here. It's interesting to note where circles and tribes move-- the 'my friends are there'. Part of this could apply to Rejaw too. It's not about whether or not the service has some differentiated feature/benefit, it's about where it lands on our personal timelines. Has anyone experienced this with Seesmic or others? - Eric Rice

I'd also like to note how many services FORCE social first, and groups second (if at all). When I refer to anti-social media, I'm really referring to 'discrete' media, not private (or media = networking, whatever). I'm loving things that give me the ability to have 'small social' because of the various theories like Dunbar's number and such. Community evolves into society, and those are two different things entirely. - Eric Rice

i don't know Eric, there's still a core group of people (many of us from the early days) who interact with each other on a regular basis: http://www.flickr.com/photos/m... - Chris Cavs

Yeah older than that. Actually, those pictured that I met there--- we've moved together into other mediums and spaces AND maintain a higher level of relationship-- which is a hard thing to do when everyone is look at me-me-me--- how do you stand out (so to speak)? Note: I do think video is one of the most powerful mediums for connections and human interaction. - Eric Rice

BTW, by 'older than that' I meant, to me, that group is second gen... not sure what generation we're on now... at least 5 or 6. - Eric Rice

well, *I* was there in November. I do remember those folks, and yeah, most of them have moved on. I'm actually a little bummed about that. But I've made some great relationships with those people in the picture. So yeah, video is a very powerful communication medium. I'm still not sure why you don't post though? There are more people now, so you have to be active to get noticed. AND...there are different times during the day that are more active than others, with different people engaging. - Chris Cavs

Maybe there's just certain people too arrogant, too needy, and too self-important--I'm wholeheartedly including myself here--to be "just another member" of a gigantic group and who need to be always part of a select few. I'm not good with crowds... - Seth Eagelfeld

well, i miss you there. not that i'm there often with my webcam issues, but i got a new webcam today, a 2nd wind and I pop up twhirl to see what's going on and it's--once again--a whole lot of nothing. there's too many cliques there and since i don't belong to one, it's back to me observing like back in april. - Faboo Mama

Chris: maybe because it's the same social effect of going to a new club making new friends and starting over from scratch? (well almost)... the one thing I dont think any web 2.0 folks look at is the issue of *social* scalability. Servers and code = easy. Scale socially? That's waaay different. - Eric Rice

Seth: I will be straight up honest and say that there are some people there who I just couldn't effing STAND to see-- not that they had anything to do with me drifting (maybe they did, heh) but yeah, that's a huge part of it. Maybe there's this 'do i want to become that barfly' in any social service? - Eric Rice

aww <3 faboo although interesting we interact more here and we're both from different 'generations' so to speak. God I love these weird-assed scientific social things. This is why we need sociocyberneticists and sociologists in social media, not more Twitter fanboys lol. :) - Eric Rice

do i count as first generation? :o) ...i feel bad. i dropped off too. more because of work and the fact that i'm still waiting for them to roll out group functions. but i am thankful to have met some really nice people when i was actively using it. hopefully when they roll out groups, there can be a reunion. :D - Christine Lu

I was just checking for group functions and GOOD GRIEF on your avatar Christine <3 - Eric Rice

Eric, the scalability issue is definitely a problem. But I'd certainly welcome you back! it's funny, because I started in November, then in January, I fell off until April after PodcampNYC. Now i'm on there again, and there have been at least 2 "generations" since then. Crazy. - Chris Cavs

feel ya eric - moved on awhile ago but i do that a lot, i try everything and only stick f/t w/ a few - it's a time mgmt & balanced life sort of thing for me, nothing against the service or the people - its all my fault or seth's maybe ;) - mike "glemak" dunn

glemak makes a good point. There are just too many socnets now. Some will fall through the cracks in our lives. It happens. I'm on both Seesmic and Phreadz, and Phreadz has kind of fallen through for me. Twitter & Plurk are my main microblog sites, while rejaw, pownce, jaiku, and identi.ca all fell through. - Chris Cavs

Yeah I get evangelized on Rejaw a lot and it's like come on, enough. They might have better features, but it falls into the trap of selling features, not benefits-- and there's high barrier to switching. And even tho there's differentiators, it's not different enough to prevent it from being Yet Another Twitter Clone. (this was kinda off topic, but had to address Rejaw honestly for a moment. (It's social scalability sucks) - Eric Rice

interesting about phreadz, chris. after a lot of berating (peer pressure me?) i got an account. it's been two weeks and i just recorded a video profile today. the thing is that, i look at the users and it's just another clique of people. pretty much the same people who ignored me on seesmic. do i need that? - Faboo Mama

Mona, I had a blog entry this week about a setup that would let your houseplant tweet when it needs water... It doesn't look as cool as this, though. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

omg that's awesome!! - Corie "Viper" Jones

look how cute its face is!! :) - Mona N.

I don't think that plant in the picture wants water, not with that look. Yikes! Is that the Audrey II? - Joe Pierce

The plant in the picture is hungry, Joe! - Mona N.

I want - Rodfather

Me too, Rodfather. Meeeee toooooo - Mona N.

awesome! - tagami

I can't stop staring at it... Is that... ok? - Mona N.

I really like it and wish I could order one right now. I think it would make me happy to look at it in real life. :-) - Corie "Viper" Jones

clever product concept... cute! - Susan Beebe

I just want something that'll make that face ... other than my wife. - Scott Kitchen

I SOOO need this... I either totally over water my plants or they die because they're dry as the desert! - Lindsay Donaghe

Omg - this just went to the top of my xmas list - Dylan McIntosh via fftogo

haha! It's so ultra cute! - Mona N.

realy interesting if it does work properly - saeedeh

Wilson? - Iain Baker

lol - Ray Grieselhuber

Too. Freaking. Funny. - Steven "Snake" Perez

I use this with fundamentalist bible-thumpers and they seem to really get confused. Many don't even know it's there. There's a lot of other fun stuff in Leviticus, but the shellfish thing is one that really seems to paralyze fundamentalists. Because they won't cave and say that the old laws don't apply anymore, yet they can't reconcile that all that shellfish they've eaten has them Hellbound... - Anthony Citrano

Hmm, I am most certainly going to hell. - abacab

Ah, inconsistency :) - Michael W. May

NOT KOSHER! - Rochelle

bottomfeeders - Gregory Lent

Old Testament cultism -- it also happens to be the driving force behind neoconservatives and Christians Zionists and their many delightful policies (including the Iraq War, the Clash of Civilizations, World War IV and a domestic police state and theocracy). This is very serious stuff indeed -- it doesn't get more serious. - Sean McBride

Some are pretty crazy. Leviticus is old testament and doesn't apply. With the arrival of Christ, the old laws were replaced. Any normal Christian knows this stuff. - Jason Shultz via twhirl

Let me add that there are many good and positive strains in the Old Testament -- the emphasis on social justice, truth seeking, compassion, philanthropy, etc. -- but fundamentalists focus only on the most ignorant and violent strains. As far as ancient texts go, the OT is probably less benighted than most. In other words, putting an antisemitic spin on the dark side of the OT is as misguided as believing in the most unscientific superstitions in the work. Christian Armaggedonists like John Hagee do not understand what the best of the Jewish tradition is all about. - Sean McBride

Well I would guess if you are an Orthodox Jew this still holds true, but beyond that the majority of people that follow the Book, understand that the old law was fulfilled at least from this perspective. No reason to shun the tasty little creatures now. - Robert

"Normal Christian"? What does that mean? Seventh-day Adventists (and other Christians) don't eat unclean foods. Also, the idea of "clean" and "unclean" foods has been around at least since the time of Noah. The way I see it, the Levitical laws were to remind the children of Israel about principles they might have forgotten while they were in bondage, IMHO. - ha3rvey (That One)

Just by nature of being raised Buddhist, i'm in the doghouse by default with the Old Testament. So I may as well call up my gay friend today for a shrimp salad lunch. :D - Christine Lu

Further point: thoughout modern European history, many Jews have been in the forefront in ditching the dreck from the OT, while amping up the most enlightened themes. Another reason to blow off any antisemitic exploitation of some disturbing OT beliefs. (Of course, Christian fundamentalists often use these "subversive" intellectual activities on behalf of Enlightenment modernism to try to whip up antisemitism.) - Sean McBride

+1 Harvey - Jason, if you study this, you will see that this PARTICULAR issue is outside of the laws that were replaced (or, rather, fulfilled). Even Christ said it Himself - "I have not come to abolish the them but to fulfill them. Until heaven and earth disappear, no the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will be any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished." While the Mosaic law is no longer in effect, dont confuse that with meaning that all old laws are Mosaic... - Andru Edwards

Oh, and I can safely say that God doesn't hate shrimp. If I create something for a specific purpose, and tell my son not to eat that thing, that doesn't imply that I hate what I made. It just means that it isn't food. - Andru Edwards

+1 Christine :) - Michael W. May

+1 Harvey and Andru - Shey

Robert, you're wrong. Torah, including the kashrut laws, were not replaced for Jews of any stripe except for Messianic Jews (but that's another story all together). The Covenant with Jesus (which was, remember, designed some fifty years after Jesus' death by Paul of Tarsus) has everything to do with creating a path to G-d for the gentiles. The idea that it somehow supplants the Torah for the Jews is just a failed marketing ploy as most Jews of the time said and still say, 'Eh, no thanks, we're not buying.' - Akiva Moskovitz

+1 Harvey. Most daily laws for Jews are there as constant reminders. The Jewish approach is quite Buddhist, too; each physical act is a reminder to be in the moment and to drop one's ego. - Akiva Moskovitz

Always fun to watch piecemealing... carry on. Christine, +1 - Cyndy

+1 Andru. But, keep in mind the clause 'until everything is accomplished'. Everything has not yet been accomplished. Jesus was talking about the coming of the second kingdom (which Jews equate with the coming of the Moshiach). Essentially, those laws have not been replaced (Peter's vision in Acts of the Apostles notwithstanding, I suppose). The Torah still stands (even the icky parts). - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva -- but Buddhism is not an ethno-religious nationalist ideology, after the style of, say, Chabad-Lubavitch. Buddhism is universalist, egalitarian, trans-ethnic, trans-nationalist, etc. Buddhism is not about your ethnic or nationalist self-identification and self-interest. Buddhism is for humanity as a whole. In some ways, it is the most modern religious philosophy ever developed, and fully compatible with Enlightenment universalism. - Sean McBride

I have to say I love fresh seafood - not in the same league as those nasty junk food outlets, which I avoid, and Red Lobster sure turns good seafood into junk. - Ian Hussein Maverick May

Ian, living in Seattle provides me with an endless supply of obscenely fresh seafood. I could eat sushi and plank-cooked salmon every day for the rest of my life. - Akiva Moskovitz

Dietetic dialectic. - Jay Tannenbaum

Ian, I think you nailed it. Led Robster is teh suck. - ha3rvey (That One)

Wait - does this mean cock isn't kosher? I mean it's not shellfish, and usually it's not unclean. Usually. - Sparky

Red Lobster's dining atmosphere sucks. I feel like I'm on a discount airline crammed into their dining room. And they don't take reservations. Poor dining experience, poor customer service. I won't eat there. :( - Jason Shultz via twhirl

Akiva - we don't do badly for seafood here in Charleston, SC either - as long as you avoid the likes of Red Lobster of course :) - Ian Hussein Maverick May

Also, what does G-d have against Detlef Schremp anyway? - Akiva Moskovitz

mmmm... Dead Lobster cheesey biscuits. :) - Bill Sodeman

can you blame him? - Morgan