A read receipt that doesn't have to be set up ahead of time by the sender? That sounds like something that would actually get used. Pure crazy talk!
- Ross Miller
But not really a read-receipt. People could read in private, but this would enable them to give a positive acknowledgement without requiring another message.
- Kevin Fox
maybe gmail will have that soon ?? Fav an email and then a notification swings back to the send and with Fav icon in a different color ??
- Peter Dawson
"I was in clinic when I heard the overhead STAT page to the emergency room. As I sprinted down the stairs, I ran through the possible scenarios. I wasn’t on call, so the day to day gynecologic emergencies weren’t my purview. I hadn’t operated on anyone in the past few weeks, so unlikely to be one of my own patients with a complication. Logically there was only one conclusion."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"A vascular system so traumatized by sheer blood loss that it had run haywire and lost the ability to clot. Disseminated intravascular coagulation. This is how many young women die when an abortion goes wrong."
- Tudor Bosman
I'll editorialize: If we outlaw legal abortions, women will die. It's simple.
- Tudor Bosman
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-)
- Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that...
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- pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :)
- Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team.
- Anne Bouey
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;))))
- K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;)
- Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting
- Roberto
from fftogo
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped.
- Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was!
- Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs*
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today.
- Ben Darnell
Although despite my thinking about the future, I just spent half an hour loading and reviewing reports from 10/27/2010 instead of today, so maybe I should also think about the present.
- Stephen Mack
"On August 14, 2009, we issued 11,052,955 shares of our Class B common stock as consideration to ten individuals and one entity in connection with our acquisition of all the outstanding shares of a company. "
[Verbose Aside:] Last night on my walk I went to a local spot that is a bunch of shops in a converted Uniroyal factory. They've kept a lot of the 'factory motif' in the corridors, including a couple of heavy duty truck scales that are still 'working.' Against my better judgement, I stepped onto one and waited as the needle swung like a pendulum across the huge circular dial...
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- Mark J
I've been beating up on myself a lot this past week regarding my inactivity and disinterest in dieting and weight loss. Truth be told, I think I was a bit fatigued from concentrating on it for a long time. Weighing in on Sunday and seeing progress was a great catalyst to keep going. Also having a supportive partner......
This is me weighing about 420 pounds. I can't begin to list all the health issues I had. Seeing this now, I just can't help but cringe....a lot. I need to be nicer to myself.
- Mary Carmen
Weight loss can be mentally exhausting. Be good to you!
- Katy S
Yeah, gotta give yourself credit for what you've accomplished. Go, you. :)
- Jenica
I am very proud of you, and you have come a long way. I have mad respect for that, and I totally understand how you feel. I am dealing with that right now.
- aden {Chickadee}
((hugs)) I hope you can be kind to yourself past, present and future.
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Most, if not all, of us have a life-long struggle being honest with ourselves, reality, and the possible. I see great courage here, MC, inspiringly so. Thank you for sharing yourself with all of us.
- Micah
I've pretty much destroyed all photos of me from this time. I don't even recognize that person. But damn if I still don't feel like her.
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
You've come so far. I am very proud of you, MC. *hugs*
- Tamara J.
I know from having hung out with you a couple times that you are always striving to be your best self. That takes a lot of courage and makes me proud to say I know you. Go Team MC!
- Corinne L
You can do it! You sound vey focused, and you sound like you believe you can make changes. That's the hardest part--believing.
- rochelle rochelle
from fftogo
Wow. NIce work. Everybody gets discouraged now and then and progress isn't always linear. Just keep your goals in mind and you'll be fine.
- The original Kevin
Wow, awesome, MC. The wife wants to know your secret :)
- Rah-PM 2012
It's easy to forget how far you've come. Give yourself some slack and don't beat yourself up. You've certainly already come a long way, and it's a marathon, not a sprint...
- Iphigenie
Rob wrote it very quickly and I did not have a chance to proof read it. We very much enjoyed our visit! You did get your own blog post, so we didn't totally forget you ;)
- Clare Dibble
Blog post? Nobody told me I got my own blog post! Where is it? Where is it?
- Gabe
Blog post? I looked thru the fedibblety blog and did not see any posts about to the trip to Ohio. Did I miss it?
- Maggie
No, it didn't get published... I will work on that. Sorry :(
- Clare Dibble
I've been kind of a hot mess the last week or so, so treating myself like a king tonight. Angus NY strip, roasted garlic potatoes, steamed carrots and broccoli with a squeeze of lemon and a pat of butter, an Argentinian Malbec and a couple bites of fair trade dark chocolate.
We're at Penn Hospice at Rittenhouse now. Frank is resting comfortably. I don't think it's going to be very long now, but on the other hand I have no way of knowing.
I wish Frank peace and you and your family both strength and peace. ((hugs)) for all.
- Anne Bouey
thank you for allowing us to share this journey with you and your family. hugs to all of you.
- Marie
You and your family are all in my prayers. Love to you all.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Jim, this is one of those times when words fail. You are in a sacred space, in the presence of the Divine. May you be a blessing to Frank, and may he pass peacefully and comfortably into the arms of the Beloved. May all of your friends be a blessing to you and your family, that you may find peace and comfort. May your anger fail to conquer you, may your sadness be pierced with light, and may you find celebration even in the darkest night.
- Ladyepiphanybug
"The maguro bōchō is a longer knife with a blade length of 40 cm (16 inches) to 150 cm (60 inches) in addition to a long handle. It can fillet a tuna in a single cut, although usually two people are needed to handle the knife and the tuna."
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
"Millions of human interactions were assessed during the study which included actions such as communication, founding and ending friendships, trading goods, sleeping, moving, however also starting hostilities, attacks and punishment. The game does not suggest any rules and everyone can live with their avatar (i.e. with their "game character" in the virtual world) as they choose. "And the result of this is not anarchy," says Thurner. "The participants organise themselves as a social group with good intents. Almost all the actions are positive.""
- Maitani
from Bookmarklet
"Exactly how people tick The interactions were fed into an "alphabet" by the researchers, "similar to how the genetic code of DNA was decoded 15 years ago," says Thurner. "From this we get a pattern which reflects how people tick." However, there is quite a high potential for aggression: so, for example, if a negative action is inflicted, the probability that the player will subsequently also act aggressively shoots up more than tenfold, even to about 30 percent."
- Maitani
"Very much more serious is the role of Joseph Ratzinger, before the church decided to make him supreme leader, in obstructing justice on a global scale. After his promotion to cardinal, he was put in charge of the so-called "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith" (formerly known as the Inquisition). In 2001, Pope John Paul II placed this department in charge of the investigation of child rape and torture by Catholic priests. In May of that year, Ratzinger issued a confidential letter to every bishop. In it, he reminded them of the extreme gravity of a certain crime. But that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture. The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church's own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden. Charges were to be investigated "in the most secretive way ... restrained by a perpetual silence ... and everyone ... is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office … under the penalty of excommunication.""
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
A 14-year-old runaway was picked up by police and gave a fake name and age. Somehow she picked the name of a 22-year-old illegal immigrant, and even though she's black and speaks no Spanish, ICE deported her to Colombia!
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
How in the hell do you deport a minor who is black and speaks no Spanish to Colombia? Somebody should not only get fired over this, but probably go to prison too.
- Gabe
If she survives, the plus side will be a free trip to Columbia.
- Clare Dibble
"More than two centuries after she disguised herself as a man and set out on a journey that would make her the first woman to circle the globe, pioneering botanist Jeanne Baret is getting some long-deserved recognition. A newly described plant species has been christened Solanum baretiae in her honor. Biologist Eric Tepe, with the University of Utah and the University of Cincinnati, named the newfound species after hearing about Baret's unsung work during a National Public Radio interview with Glynis Ridley, author of the biography, "The Discovery of Jeanne Baret" (Crown, 2010), on the program "All Things Considered." Baret collected thousands of plant specimens from exotic locales around the globe, and, according to Ridley, likely collected the first specimen of one of the world's most beloved flowering plants — bougainvillea."
- John (bird whisperer)
from Bookmarklet
"Baret's journey began in 1766, on the first French naval expedition charged with circumnavigating the planet. The voyage was to take three years, yet Baret would not return to France until nearly a decade later. The female explorer's extraordinary travels and detour into cross-dressing were simply an extension of an already extraordinary life. A woman of humble origins, yet an...
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- John (bird whisperer)
"Yet it was one particular story that decided Tepe's choice. Ridley said that Commerson himself intended to name a genus of Madagascar plants with a showy range of leaves — a good representation, he thought, of Baret's many facets — for his partner, but died before he could publish. "My new species also has highly variable leaves," Tepe said. He got in touch with Ridley, who loved the idea, "and here we are about a year later with the published name in hand," he said."
- John (bird whisperer)