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Space Shuttle Launch view from commercial flight! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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George Moga, Hayes Haugen, April Buchheit and 7 other people liked this
Any idea how far away they were?
- Gabe
Wow, a once in a lifetime experience. Cool!
- Patrik Johansson
April Buchheit, Jeff P. Henderson, Ayşe E. and 2 other people liked this
That Hazel, She's pretty cute. And I'm glad to see the bow on the head tradition is alive and well in your family.
- Clare Dibble
I love that 5th photo. :)
- Ayşe E.
awww - what a cutie!
- Taylor Rios
This was Chazel's first Chanukah, as evidenced by the bib. She preferred Cheerios over latkes for some reason.
- Gabe
In Facebook, you can "Like" your own posts.
лето ближе с каждым днем, şafak O, 7 поверхностей Римана and 235 other people liked this
LOL!
- Steven Perez
ahahah
- Cenay Bayülgen
It's good to be the king of the jungle.
- CAJ, somewhere else
ROFL
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Hehe... I suppose that's because "like" doesn't really do anything in FB.
- Christopher A Carr
i try not to judge.
- Trish Haley
Actually, as far as I can tell, Like in FB does do something: it's basically an empty comment, so you get notified of new comments that occur after you Like it.
- Mistletoe Glen
BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA
- Parth Awasthi
Gl3n: Oh, yeah, there's that.
- Christopher A Carr
Hahahahaha
- Geoff Schultz
We were always told it's okay to like your own post.
- Robert Kenney
And you "like" your own posts because you can.
- Mr Saturday Morning NFG
Because you can, indeed. Just like Mr. Lion, here.
- Josh Haley
lmaaaaaaaaaao!!
- vijay
Exactly what vijay said! :D
- directeur
You mean... ROFLMBO: rolling on the floor licking my balls off?
- Adrian
haha
- Rodfather
Dude. ROFLMAO!
- Carlos Ayala
jaajajja xDDDDD
- Drea
Just telling it like it is.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
I make it a point to like my posts daily. heh.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I Like myself. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
xaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I like me.
- Christopher A Carr
lol
- Rick Cogley
:) :) :)
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
I wonder if I should post this on Facebook .. :D
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
LOL!!
- Ethan
I'm seriously hurting from laughing so much!
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
*Throws Tylenol bottle at Mahendra*
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
"jealous!" LOL
- Ron Thompson
from iPhone
Yes. I think it's exactly like a lion licking its own balls.
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
+1 adrian, ROFLMBO.
- mjc
liked the title :)))))
- Viva Vida
just the titile, the pic is rood
- خیزران kheyzaran
@Glen: it's true but what bothers me most is that unlike friendfeed, fb delivers a separate mail for every person that comments on that post. #lame
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
hahaah. lol
- Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ
I would just like to go on record here and clearly state that, were I able to do what this lion is doing, I WOULD NOT! NO! NEVER! EVER! Thank you.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Mark, not even if they were dipped in chocolate?
- Adrian
lol Adrian :D
- vijay
lol
- mikepk
No! Not even then!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
:D
- Kaan Biryol
To be honest, Mark, I don't think there are many people who would lick a lion's balls, so you aren't alone there.
- Slappy Line
Thank you ! Best of the day !
- Desirade
I love your FriendFeed background picture so much Big balls !
- Desirade
LOL Oh yeah thats the spot
- Jim Goldstein
from iPhone
Desirade, that just may be the best comment I have ever recieved!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
strum above the hole, people!
- Jim Is Not Smart
Damn, Jim, you beat me to it!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Hahaha
- Ricardo Vidal
from iPod
1UP Jim
- Josh Haley
wewt?
- Danny Minick
lol
- Brady
Something to do while GMail is down.
- Josh Haley
Yau'll are some sick _ucks. Let the King have a private moment for God's sake. Shame on you people. Can't yau'll see he's welcomed in the jungle. He went down south :)
- Jeunelle Foster
sick _ucks, is that like hiccups?
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
LOLLLL
- Mil∂d
Very funny photo, just like a kitty cat
- F1Community
but why would you "Like" your own posts? that would be like...
- David Gross
hey if you don't like your own $h!t then who will?
- Tate DA FF MVP
it's good to like yourself unless your emo ;-p
- Loc
Laughing & crying at the same time... geez that's funny & contemporary #fb
- Yann Ropars
It's my birthday and I'll Like if i want to.
- Josh Haley
Reminder
- Josh Haley
Remember I do.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Nibble Nobby's Nuts before Nobby nibbles yours
- Jesse Stay
#unutmatamkarışık bende bunu arıyodum ya :) iyi oldu
- Tamkarışık
The Worst Ideas of the Decade (washingtonpost.com) - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...
Mona Nomura, Clare Dibble and April Buchheit liked this
"Why didn't the United States have enough vaccine to fight swine flu this fall? It's partly because federal health officials didn't mix adjuvants into the drug." [...] "They were too worried about spooking anti-vaccine activists, many of whom claim adjuvants contribute to autism."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"The movement blaming vaccines for causing autism emerged in the early 2000s, and it was one of the most catastrophically horrible ideas of the decade."
- Tudor Bosman
Philippine volcano on verge of eruption as lava spills down mountain... but villagers are refusing to leave | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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"A rumbling volcano in the Philippines was on the verge of a major eruption today – but thousands of villagers living on its slopes are refusing to leave their homes. Already, 40,000 people have fled the no-go zone around Mount Mayon, which oozed crimson lava during eerie scenes captured last night. But around 3,000 residents, mostly farmers, remain – with some even returning after being evacuated up to three times by authorities."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Get your lava spoon ready!
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
Mordor?
- Amit Patel
Stay in the Game: The Fall and Rise of Alec Baldwin - http://www.wired.com/magazin...
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"Overcoming failure again and again and again…"
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
YC-Funded Lingt Uses Games To Turn You Into A Language Learning Addict - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
mehmet t. akalın, Clare Dibble, Tracy and Paul Buchheit liked this
My prediction: we'll see a lot more like Lingt in the future. Call it Web 5.0.
- Daniel Dulitz
你好
- Tracy
Will Na'vi be next?
- Amit Patel
Health Bill Passes Key Test in the Senate With 60 Votes - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Clare Dibble liked this
Cleveland Height Police and their PR problem - http://www.brewedfreshdaily.com/2009...
Clare Dibble, Paul Buchheit and Gabe liked this
Survival of the Kindest: Empathy in Our Genes http://huehueteotl.wordpress.com/2009...
Jenny Morman, T. Brent, technopeasant, Eric Logan and 10 other people liked this
Take that, Ayn Rand :D
- Victor Ganata
Victor, lol :)
- Melanie Reed
Imago Dei
- Melanie Reed
“Given how much is to be gained through generosity, social scientists increasingly wonder less why people are ever generous and more why they are ever selfish,"
- Clare Dibble
“Sympathy is indeed wired into our brains and bodies; and it spreads from one person to another through touch,”
- Clare Dibble
Perhaps I am genetically defective, then...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Well, to paraphrase Charles Darwin, "Variety is the keystone to man's success." Like all traits, empathy exists in a spectrum. Certainly, we wouldn't be at the top of the food chain if every human being were completely self-interested and had no capacity for altruism. But I think humanity would also die out if everyone were completely altruistic and exhibited no self-interest. It takes all kinds :D
- Victor Ganata
Awww... Victor is trying to make me feel warm and fuzzy about the fact that I don't care.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
LOL. I'm also saying you're wrong. :) Defective really isn't the right word for it, nor for most other genetic variations, at least as far as reproductive fitness is concerned.
- Victor Ganata
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." - Eph 2:10
- Jeremy (quasimodo)
Barry Schwartz on our loss of wisdom - http://www.ted.com/talks...
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"Barry Schwartz makes a passionate call for "practical wisdom" as an antidote to a society gone mad with bureaucracy. He argues powerfully that rules often fail us, incentives often backfire, and practical, everyday wisdom will help rebuild our world."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
barry's book the paradox of choice is worth reading as well.
- karl dotter
from iPhone
wisdom is the natural result of a quiet mind ..
- Gregory Lent
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research (very good read) - http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming...
Ajay Thampi, Joel Webber, Srikar and 35 other people liked this
"When you are famous it is hard to work on small problems. This is what did Shannon in. After information theory, what do you do for an encore? The great scientists often make this error. They fail to continue to plant the little acorns from which the mighty oak trees grow. They try to get the big thing right off. And that isn't the way things go. So that is another reason why you find that when you get early recognition it seems to sterilize you. In fact I will give you my favorite quotation of many years. The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, in my opinion, has ruined more good scientists than any institution has created, judged by what they did before they came and judged by what they did after. Not that they weren't good afterwards, but they were superb before they got there and were only good afterwards. This brings up the subject, out of order perhaps, of working conditions. What most people think are the best working conditions, are not. Very clearly they are not...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"I notice that if you have the door to your office closed, you get more work done today and tomorrow, and you are more productive than most. But 10 years later somehow you don't quite know what problems are worth working on; all the hard work you do is sort of tangential in importance. He who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues...
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- Paul Buchheit
I've read this before and it has influenced me greatly.
- Ruchira S. Datta
It has a lot of interesting insights. Long-term/short-term tradeoffs such as this door example are particularly interesting because people often get productivity advice that I suspect hurts them longer term.
- Paul Buchheit
thank you, Paul, for sharing. I had a most inspirational bus-ride in snowy Estonia while reading this gem of a speech :) The avalanche of insights and concentration into 50 minutes is amazing and humbling. I'll definitely come back to Richard Hammings's speech to relive this perfect hour and concentrate on my dream of supporting creative process with software.
- Baldur Kubo
" By realizing you have to use the system and studying how to get the system to do your work, you learn how to adapt the system to your desires. Or you can fight it steadily, as a small undeclared war, for the whole of your life."
- Hayes Haugen
I'm half way through and although he has excellent insights, nothing so far helps explain lolcats.
- Hayes Haugen
New sign at Twitter HQ http://twitpic.com/ty0w9
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TobiasVerhoog.com, jkm, Hutch Carpenter and 37 other people liked this
So if the team makes "better mistakes tomorrow", what do they have planned? :)
- Louis Gray
It's hard to get the taste of irony out of my mouth.
- Kevin Fox
I really feel bad for these guys
- Mehmet Aydin
iRan
- Will Higgins™
I do to, and I'm sorry to even kid. I'm sure Twitter is being attacked constantly from various directions, from hackers to script kiddies to governments. I'm impressed they hold up as well as they do.
- Kevin Fox
I think we all share Kevin's views. The timing of Ev's share was very unlucky. But nobody wants this kind of trouble. They have been stressed to the limit with growth, which in theory is a good problem to have, and they are maturing. Tonight was a rare exception to recent continued good news.
- Louis Gray
Do the have a huge whale on top of their office?
- Jemm
LOLLLLL Onwards + Upwards to IRIDIUM!!
- Billy Warhol
Scientists discover fog on Titan http://www.physorg.com/news180...
Mark H, Shevonne, Bluesun 2600 and 2 other people liked this
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. According to planetary astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Earth and Titan share yet another feature, which is inextricably linked with that surface liquid: common fog.
- Ami Iida
Just got off the phone with my sis. She's in the hospital now. She's only around 5cm dilated, but contractions are 5-7 min apart.
Clare Dibble, Benjamin Golub, Anne Bouey and 4 other people liked this
Her doc plans on breaking her water and she could have baby Logan tonight!
- April Buchheit
from email
Being an auntie rules.
- EricaJoy
:) if they break her waters then it should be quite quick after that - exciting!
- WorldofHiglet
It seems like only 9 months ago she had Maya.
- Gabe
Gabe: It's been 13 months, actually.
- April Buchheit
Why James Chartrand Wears Women's Underpants http://www.copyblogger.com/james-c...
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"Taking a man’s name opened up a new world. It helped me earn double and triple the income of my true name, with the same work and service."
- Ruchira S. Datta
"Truth be told, if just a name and perception of gender creates such different levels of respect and income for a person, it says a lot more about the world than it does about me."
- Clare Dibble
This hit the feminist blogosphere a little while back. I was interested by the absence of discussion of race and class as well as gender. James Chartrand was such a ... , well, it's not etymologically an Anglo-Saxon (Germanic) name, but it does rather nicely signal upper class male whiteness. Mr. Chartrand's essay stands rather well with this NYT piece on "whitening" the resume --...
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- AliceS
I recently read that women lawyers with masculine names made more money and/or had higher positions than those with feminine names.
- Gabe
50% of US engineering students drop out - Why? - http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_nex...
ashish, Michael R. Bernstein, Zahra HB and 35 other people liked this
I am part of the 50% who don't drop out!
- Kevin Mohr
I didn't drop out but here is part of my experience in this post from years ago. It was discouraging to hear the professors talk. Needless to say i don't code. :-) http://www.altamirano.org/marketi...
- Antonio Altamirano
Thankfully I'm in the other 50%, but I can see why many would change their major or drop out. I saw it first hand where many 1st and 2nd year Mechanical Engineering students changed their majors to something 'easier'. The most common reason was difficulty with the required advanced Math courses. Calculus being the road block for many.
- Jeff P. Henderson
If I were entering college now, I would try to go to Olin. I really like their approach.
- Paul Buchheit
nice post, I'm looking for the number of engineers (or per thousand capita ratio) graduating in Greece (or greeks graduating around the world)
- George Tziralis
Many of Computer Science professors at Stanford were luminaries in their fields, but weren't very good at engaging students in the subject matter. Brilliant researchers don't always make the best teachers. I think this contributed a lot to the dropout rate.
- Jess Lee
How does this compare to drop-out rate for all US college students? And does "drop out" mean "of college entirely" or "take a break then come back" or "and choose another major"? The discussion may be lusty but I really don't like discussions that start on a figure w/ no bother to compare it to anything else, or link to info about how it's calculated.
- Wade Dorrell
In CA we have two types of public universities. The UC schools require the professors to do research, where as the State University schools do not. I think the State University schools are much better for undergrad tech education as you get much more attention from your professors.
- Jeff P. Henderson
The UC Berkeley College of Engineering started the Center For Entrepreneurship and Technology http://cet.berkeley.edu to address some of the issues Dodge talks about.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Engineering is hard and requires above-average intelligence. Think about it this way: Statistics tells us that probably 50% of people will be below-average. Wouldn't you want those 50% of the students to drop out before actually becoming an engineer? MIT just doesn't admit that half of the population in the first place, but most schools don't have that luxury.
- Gabe
People have a lot of options for (a) careers (b) money (c) power (d) image (e) attracting mates in the US, compared to China/India. Engineers are not valued very highly in the US compared to businesspeople, doctors, and lawyers.
- Mitchell Tsai
@Gabe: You would think that all the people that go to study Computer Sciences or seek other Engineering degrees are above the 50% average to begin with.
- Amit Morson
somestimes it's a scoail or maturity thing - was for me. I get by. Wished I finished.
- Alan Wilensky
from Alert Thingy
It's because of the fact that people with higher standards of living pursue less demanding challenges offering similar ROI (I = investment+involvement). That's why there's so many non-US students (especially from lower income countries) in engineering and why they're much less inclined to fail.
- Nenad Nikolic
from twhirl
Engineering sucks. I think there's a point where any engineering student realizes that even with a degree they're looking at a pretty mediocre salary working in a really boring job. Add this to the difficult coursework and boring courses, well, engineers are good at math. It adds up to being a raw deal. That being said, if you get into engineering at Stanford or UC Berkley, your ROI would look a lot better then mine. I'm sure a large number of engineering students consider dropping out, even after Calculus.
- Will Higgins™
All I can do is nod. For a couple of years, not a day when by when I didn't consider jumping ship, for all the reasons commenters here have mentioned: long hours, heavy workload, fickle job market, salary barely comparable with what I could expect with a business or law degree. But here I am, a month away from (finally!) finishing my EE degree, and I couldn't be happier.
- Derrick Burns
Continued from above: Basically, I think so many give up because they were looking to get something out of being an engineer: money, prestige, etc. But it's simply too great a commitment on several levels. You really have to pursue engineering because it's something you want to do, something you care about.
- Derrick Burns
I dropped out because Chemical Engineering was not what I was expecting. I wanted more Chemistry, less Math. I switched to IT Management and found it much more interesting. Mind you, I'm Canadian.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I remember having a crisis in my final year of Electrical/Computer Engineering. Dropping out was a non-option, but I did consider completely abandoning 3.5 years of engineering study to switch fields and schools during my senior year. In hindsight, I didn't understand what engineers really did. My vision at the time was closer to industrial or product design than engineering. I had to take it on faith in my first two years that I was on a path to do what I was envisioning.
- Kelly Norton
I suspect that more than 50% (even at good schools like GATech, I have friends who have done this) are in the wrong field. Many of my friends went into programming because they enjoyed computers and I've told them they would hate it because they don't like math. They don't listen. :)
- mjc
still others go into engineering due to parental expectation, which I find ridiculous, but understandable
- mjc
Amit: one of the properties of being in the lower 50% is not knowing that you're in the lower 50%. That means many of the applicants do not know they are unqualified.
- Gabe
Extensive aptitude/personality testing could fix this
- Aaron Eaton
I actually sit on an advisory board for ASU (arizona state) Poly - I can tell you that what I see is students becoming disillusioned by all the stuff they have to learn before they can go out and create something "cool". The challenge is keeping them engaged through the pre-reqs/early coursework. BTW - IMHO the problem with "drop out and learn X" is that they've intentionally skipped the fundamentals that make good engineers. Just because you can code doesn't mean you can engineer... two different things.
- Brian Roy
Is Computer Science part of engineering? Because it didn't take much training in Computer Science for me to start doing cool stuff. I wrote my first game and posted it onto the internet my freshman year (Core Wars). By my Junior year, I had designed a programming language and integrated in it into a MUD. Pengtoh had contributed to Linux by his sophomore year. On the other hand, I always flunked electrical engineering classes, and couldn't stomach math past linear algebra.
- Piaw Na
I switch from Engineering to a Computer Science degree. Apart from the fact that I wanted to program, there were two reasons. 1) The load was very high (it was close to 40 contact hours/week in first year). 2) The maths was hard - I'm ok at math, but combined with the high load I found I struggled when I wasn't too interested in it.
- Nick Lothian
"the US should staple a Green Card to every foreign student's engineering diploma and encourage them to stay in the USA."
- Clare Dibble
Same as Nick here. Dropped out due to difficulty and lack of passion for the field. Went back later to finish a BS in Computer Information Systems.
- Bill Sanders
I wonder what percentage of medical school students drop out. Engineering is a hard discipline, if you want to be a web dev or a study IT or "new media" instead. Making engineering "softer" because today's students don't like to work hard and expect results instantly will just create generations of mediocre engineers and will not make the US more of an engineering power.
- Kevin Goldsmith
from twhirl
engineers are boring and dry, pay is low, classes are full of non-social ppl. (and almost no girls). Why not study finance, or something, girls and pay is much better.
- imran
Engineering is fun! The big thing is that school's curriculums are frequently irrelevant. For instance, a lot of CS majors require irrelevant Math or Physics not because it's a requirement to do good software (they aren't), but because those classes serve as weeders. The result is, for instance, we get lots of CS majors who can't communicate or string a sentence together. If we rearranged the CS major so that we didn't impose a stupid requirement, we'd get a bigger diversity of candidates and less dropout.
- Piaw Na
Engineering is the best!!!! and for those who says it sucks or that the pay is not good (or that we are boring and dry), its probably because you are in that 50% of retards that dropped out of it. No other profession gets paid as much as an engineer right after graduation, and there is usually more demand for engineers than for anything else. I just think people are too lazy to even try anymore. I dont know why, even graduate school is fun in engineering. Aerospace is the best!!!!!
- Mike hawk
life in a conceptual box is the result .. content with that, you will stay with it .. not content, universes open up
- Gregory Lent
life in a conceptual box? do you even know what you are saying? universes open up when you quit engineering? If only you were to see the world through the eyes of en engineer, we see everything from several different perspectives, not just that of people like you. If anything, engineering has really opened up the world for me as it really is. Stop making those type of remarks. Instead get back to engineering school so you can see what it feels like.
- Mike hawk
I think I know the boxes Gregory is talking about from some of his other comments. Whether you've gone to engineering school is orthogonal to whether you can get outside of them. So it's pretty much irrelevant to this thread.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I dropped out the day I learned it had nothing to do with driving a train. Now I'm stuck with this silly hat and overalls :(
- Christopher Harley
At least, those 50% tried.
- ashish
I bet you the pre-med numbers are similar, but I'm not sure universities necessarily track undergrads who aspire to go to med school. In general, how many freshmen actually stick with the major they pick when they start college?
- Victor Ganata
Dude, this is excellent. Luis von Ahn's 10 Steps to Successful Teaching - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scsfac...
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"3. Teaching evaluations are highly correlated with the grade the students think they will get at the time of filling out the surveys. Make your course easy, then crush them on the final."
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
Mjadra sandwich - http://blog.robfelty.com/2009...
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Ruchira S. Datta, April Buchheit, Sam Harmon and Clare Dibble liked this
Awesome images! - Wellcome Image Awards 2009, Winners' gallery, Scientific and medical images - http://www.wellcomeimageawards.org/gallery...
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Had the pleasure of visiting the exhibit a couple of months ago. Highly recommend the Wellcome Collection, if you find yourself in Euston with some time to kill.
- Neil Saunders
Thanks, Neil, that sounds like a great idea!
- Cesar Sanchez
@Neil aye: see http://www.wellcomecollection.org/
- Duncan Hull
What is one place in the world you think everyone MUST visit? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Mitchell Tsai, zʍıɔ, Durukan Duru and 20 other people liked this
The bathroom.
- DGentry
socotra
- imran
Himalayas..(INDIA).
- dineshviswanath
29°58′45.03″N 31°08′03.69″E
- kartik vaithyanathan
Grand Canyon!
- Bo Stern
lol @ D
- VAL D. Zone
NY and England
- VAL D. Zone
Their nearest ocean.
- Mike Nencetti
Their local library.
- Spidra Webster
New Zealand (they have some really good libraries!)
- Joe Silence is not Santa
New Zealand, but if 7 billion tourists descended then did it wouldn't be worth visiting.
- Kevin Fox
Prague.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
hmm if we combine some of these answers we have the bathroom of a library in New Zealand that is near the ocean....
- Mike Nencetti
LOL @ Denton
- Admiral Anika
+1 Mike
- AJ Batac
Hawai'i
- Morgan Haley
Phuket, Thailand - I've been to Bali, Hawaii, and some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, but Phuket beats them all. Be sure to take the boat tours.
- Jesse Stay
South Africa
- Kamath (नमः)
Yellowstone/Grand Teton.
- andrei_c
sicily
- Meg v. Meg v. 1.0.0.1
Mike: As I remember, the bathroom in Auckland's public library was just fine, but maybe not worth a special visit. I'm reluctant to identify anything--seven billion people would wreck southeast Alaska or Bora Bora, which might otherwise be good choices.
- Walt Crawford
Prague.
- Christian (Simply X)
Disneyland
- Rodfather
I say Hawai'i because I want the economy there to be stronger. I plan to retire there someday and need it to be pimped out by the time I'm ready. So go there. Spend lots of money. Thank you.
- Morgan Haley
FriendFeed.com
- Louis Gray
The Librarians in Auckland probably use Friendfeed.
- Mike Nencetti
good one RAP thats why I am here...........
- VAL D. Zone
Amoeba Music?
- Andrew C
Right now? The bathroom! UH Oh Gotta GO!!! ~ aaaaaahhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
- sofarsoShawn
Edinburgh; Montreal; Cape Breton
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Rome
- Alex Scrivener
Bora Bora Island-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- ashish
Bora Bora is absolutely stunning, but also really expensive. Also, it's really a disconnect hearing Polynesian people speaking French.
- Kevin Fox
Algeria.
- Itachi
Portugal, specially São Miguel, Azores - http://picasaweb.google.pt/rikhard...
- ovigia
Railey Beach, Thailand
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Trantor
- Pierre Lindenbaum
Hawaii ,,,, paradise on Earth
- johnpiercy
pretty much EVERYWHERE in New Zealand is close to the ocean.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Rome
- Amy
Whistler BC Canada. Then again, Tourism Whistler is my employer so I'm paid to say that but I do also believe it personally.
- Andrew Smith
Vladivostok
- gmarketer
Yosemite.
- Christopher Harley
from iPhone
The Louvre.
- Rochelle
Jerusalem.
- Robert Scoble
Both Steve Wozniak and Larry Page (and Larry's wife) told me that New Zealand were their favorite places to visit, though.
- Robert Scoble
I agree with Rome.
- Cristo
Stormhold
- Charles Ying
One might want to see the polar ice caps while one can. I guess a glance at the thermafrost before it gets thawed would be logical, and all the coastal areas and islands before they are submerged.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Venice is vulnerable.
- Cristo
The moon.
- imabonehead
meat packing industry =)
- Harsh SIngh
Personally my favorite place to visit was the USS Nimitz while it was in operation. That beats everywhere else I've been. San Quentin is a place I'd love everyone to visit but it certainly wasn't fun.
- Robert Scoble
Auschwitz
- Alex Scoble
While we're at it, every tax payer should visit a sewage treatment plant too.
- Robert Scoble
Margaret River Western Australia. GODS COUNTRY (im not religious)
- Tyson
damn.. did i just tell the world the best secret.. argh
- Tyson
The Alamo, we must never forget the Alamo.
- sofarsoShawn
I'll be honest, the Alamo is really, really, really boring. The history is great, but trudging through the line of a kajillion people wasn't very much fun.
- Jason Huebel
went to the Alamo in early 2004 while i was in San Antonio. there was no line or anything. of course, it was February at the time.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
The hood. Wherever the nearest lower class neighborhood is. The place where there is nothing but liquor stores, gun stores, and Family Dollar. People would appreciate things more if they realized just how much they have. The world might be a better place. Then again...maybe not.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Somewhere to get a good view of the Northern (or Southern) Lights
- Ian May
Masada and the Dead Sea.
- Michael R. Bernstein
istanbul - Turkey
- Mustafa
Istanbul and San Francisco:)
- Petek(UCB)_
LOL ! awesome!! @ Mike Nencetti
- Maryam
New York City
- Henny Susilawati
from email
Cherry Blossom Land, Belleville, NJ...during the 3rd week of April. http://images.google.com/images...
- April Russo (app103)
SuezanneC, don't you think everyone travelling to see the polar icecaps would hasten their demise?
- Ruchira S. Datta
If you like mountains and chocolate as much as I do, Bariloche, Argentina. Horseback ride through the Patagonia
- elizabeth
Sao Paulo, go to the same dumpy open-air restaurant four nights in a row. Talk to everyone who comes up. It will broaden your horizons. Brazilians are genuinely interested in people, especially people who are different from them. In the U.S., we are in too much of a rush. Too inward facing. Second place to go: the old markets of Karachi. Accept tea from the shopkeepers - then others will approach. It’s safe.
- A Mitchell
Many criticize social gaming as pointless and boring, but with nearly seven billion players, "Earth" must be doing something right.
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Meh. It'll never catch on.
- Mistletoe Glen
There are more players than people online? Oh wait. You're talking about the offline versions? I'm guessing there are plenty of the world's population that don't play games at all. Infants in Africa, for example.
- Cristo
Chris, you're not getting it. This _is_ the online version :)
- Paul Buchheit
No, I'm not getting it. But then I'm on the second glass of wine tonight. Is FriendFeed the online version? Did you guys get more subscribers recently? :)
- Cristo
Imagine a much more sophisticated version of farmville that takes up to 100 years to play...
- Paul Buchheit
*knocks on art students next door to get some weed* :)
- Cristo
No point, Cristo, *someone* has already smoked it all....
- WorldofHiglet
Earth is like Monopoly meets Risk.
- Morton Fox
Different game. Earth plays the reproduction game, which isn't all that boring :-)
- Todd Hoff
Earth is a more complicated game than can ever be described in metaphor.
- Mitch
Status update: "Paul has just grown tomatoes in his backyard".
- Louis Gray
What makes something a game vs life? Is all life a game? Is there any reality outside of the game?
- Cristo
I assume it's recursive Chris.
- Paul Buchheit
First Life is highly overrated.
- Jason Huebel
from Android
So we're still left wondering who bootstrapped the Lisp system that runs the whole thing.
- Cristo
Reality according to XKCD: http://xkcd.com/224/
- Mitch
Or maybe PHP...
- Paul Buchheit
PHP? Please say it ain't so!
- Gabe
Well, it started as this simple little game, and it just kept growing, and now there's so much code that it would be impractical to start over in a better language.
- Paul Buchheit
Still the same simple game, the rules may have gotten a tad more complicated though.
- Todd Hoff
FriendFeed has 7 billion users? (Starts writing...)
- Jesse Stay
life is like calvin ball, you make your own rules =D
- Mike Chelen
Or maybe he's suggesting that Paul is God?
- Jesse Stay
or we're all being scammed?
- Jesse Stay
I don't so much find it pointless and boring, I'd say more like pointless and incredibly depressing.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Very deep, Monsieur Paul.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Who has teh cheat codes? I'll buy for lots of karma points in gold
- Itachi
*bans for hacking* take that kind of thing to another server =D
- Mike Chelen
Nick Bostrom from Oxford University explains the Simulation Argument - http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulat...
- Luke Stanley
I'm not playing until we all agree on the rules!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
A process without fixed rules is not a game, it's mediation.
- zeroinfluencer
So if an unstoppable force hits an immovable object, who will handle the exception? (throws UnstoppableImmovableInteractionException).
- Fırat Can Başarır
...
- ★ Soner Gönül
No fair not counting non-human players. Most of our social games don't need much intelligence to play, right? Kill for food (wealth), find mates.
- lawrence wang
I hear they're planning a new expansion named mars.
- Private Sanjeev
The resolution and level of detail is incredible, but the graphics design is often severely lacking. Only in a few places did they even attempt to make things look good. And, of course, those are all the bits you see in the trailers..
- Otto
Frame rate could be better.
- Kevin Fox
Can I re roll? I'd like better stats.
- Dario Gomez
Good times at the Facebook Holiday party
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Looking good! Ben made the trip?
- Louis Gray
LG: Yup!
- April Buchheit
Kevin looks very Sgt. Pepper-y!
- Josh Haley
Square: The Other Rectangle
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Much catchier than "Circle: The Other Ellipse"!
- Gabe
xkcd - http://xkcd.com/674/
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"On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
Best alt text ever!
- Doug Beeferman
Gotta love the 'mother of all' pun as well.
- Kevin Fox
I see that xkcd subscribes to the neutral theory.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Cigarettes kill, but don't tell smokers? - http://news.yahoo.com/s...
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From Reuters: "Cigarette pack warnings that remind smokers of the fatal consequences of their habit may actually make them smoke more as a way to cope with the inevitability of death, according to researchers. A small study by psychologists from the United States, Switzerland and Germany showed that warnings unrelated to death, such as "smoking makes you unattractive" or "smoking brings you and the people around you severe damage," were more effective in changing smokers' attitudes toward their habit. This was especially the case in people who smoked to boost their self-esteem, such as youth who took up the habit to impress or fit in with their peers and others who thought smoking increased their social value, the researchers said."
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
I am done with this semester! All 5 projects/papers due this week have been completed! PARTY! Well, imaginary party.
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I <3 hats with ears on them!
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And we <3 you and Thomas and your family.
- Louis Gray
Adorabibble! :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Even though I don't have a job or own a business, I occasionally feel the need to have a "business" card. There are times when I'm getting acquainted with someone and need to share my contact information and a business card is the fastest and least awkward way of sharing that information. What do you guys think?
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In the old days, people had personal calling cards. Some do now too. I think it's a great idea.
- LogEx
Totally! I adore business cards. Sometimes I make up reasons to need and therefore make them. Such as we have business cards for our home haunted house. I think I've used 10 of them. But I LOVE them. And in a pinch they double as a person calling card!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Yes, calling cards. I read this a while ago - it's for men, but probably relevant: http://artofmanliness.com/2008...
- Nick Lothian
I have personal cards. Check out Moo Cards.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
There is even a fail-whale card http://www.thestationerystudio.com/index...
- Nick Lothian
Tiny Prints has 'mommy cards', not that this is what you're looking for.
- Kevin Fox
People I know use Moo Cards. And you can support FFundercats by getting them via their link
- Spidra Webster
Personal business cards are a great idea with space on the back for notes or message
- WarLord
nothing wrong with a personal calling card. more and more ppl seem to have them these days.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
yup
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Moo cards are cool, or if you want something simple with space for notes: http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEM... or http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEM...
- LogEx
American Psycho: Business Card Scene -- http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I'd definitely include a watermark in my calling card design. :)
- April Buchheit
I've made mini moo cards for this.
- joey
I still have a bunch of Google Voice cards...
- Christopher A Carr
I like the concept that levenger.com presents in that there's space to write additional information.
- April Buchheit
What do you guys think? http://ff.im/cHhzU
- April Buchheit
The cards are a great idea.
- Anne Bouey
Find a letterpress shop; they'll be able to make you great calling cards that cannot be equaled by regular offset printing.
- Clayton Wheeler
Further to what Clayton wrote, if you can find a print shop that still does real engraving, try getting engraved cards - raised ink lettering, using a classic typeface such as Copperplate Gothic
- Victor Panlilio
April, the goal here is to make Paul envious with the understated elegance of your card. :-)
- Kevin Fox
There is nothing wrong with having cards, in fact it's rather smart. Which is why I started printing "friendship cards" for my daughter when she was about 12. I like to include a photo on cards, because if someone can't remember who you are from the info on the card, the photo may jog their memory. Put your info on one side and a nice photo on the reverse. They are also good for giving to friends and family when you move, and they will not only have your new info, but a nice photo for their wallet, too.
- April Russo (app103)
I think cards are a great idea, too; i also think "American Psycho" was a very funny film.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Eggshell cardstock?
- Jeremy (quasimodo)
I say go for it. A woman I play tennis with has Tennis Sub cards. You can find her any morning of the week at our club, subbing in games. I seriously think she saves a fortune in court time that way - pays her $300 annual dues, then not a dime more! (And I think the cards run her $10/a thousand . . .)
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
These days I have people Tweet/Facebook or Bump! / contxt (for non iPhone owners) me. moo cards are so 2008 ;)
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
What's old is new. Yes, as many have mentioned, the idea of a "calling card" harkens all the way back to slightly before ante-bellum South (at least in this country) During the 50's and slightly beyond the practice was part of a students' high school graduation purchases.
- Melanie Reed
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