Now, rather than from a hard drive, imagine PS loading from an audio cassette tape - a whole truck load of them. You wouldn't need an animated GIF, you'd just need a GIF.
- Micah Wittman
I've seen some good 'backyard critter' food mixes at the store lately (dried corn, seeds, etc.) that might be good for something like this.
- Jennifer Dittrich
We've got a privacy fence, so they couldn't see it. Also, this was between windows, so no looking out that way either. I realized this was the only snowless strip on the driveway. It's about 1.5 feet wide. The air exchange pipes for our furnace are about 3 feet from where the bunny way, so I think he/she is probably a smart bunny enjoying the warmer air coming from the house. I put out some corn, lettuce, and a turnip. I've got corn for our squirrel feeder.
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
It should have read "When I came home for lunch, there was lunch huddled by my house"
- Frederick Bvalani
"Doctors now speculate that his near obsessive compulsion to consume spinach was actually a fruitless attempt to stave off the debilitating effects of acromegaly by using an Ayurvedic folk remedy borrowed during his stay in the former Portuguese colony of Goa."
- Christopher Harley
Ultimately, the pituitary adenoma causing the overproduction of growth hormones typical in acromegaly sufferers, rendered the sailor-man both impotent and riddled with gallstones. And it is in that conditioned he remained until his death in 1974.
- Christopher Harley
Conversely, Pierre Bluto, whom doctors examined only after his passing in 1981 had suffered no particular ailments from which his death can be attributed. Although that is not to say he was without affliction. Evidence from M. Bluto's postmortem provides clear proof of a life spent in the clutches of advanced syphilis and gonorrhea.
- Christopher Harley
Hell yes it is! All the fine dudes and finest bitches still be rocking the Casbah daily and nightly here on the station with it all! K-FFD!
- Morgan Haley
Still alive but the momentum and will to live is gone -- and the sale and virtual abandonment was like shutting out the lights in the middle of a party -- a signal for everybody to go home.
- Brian Sullivan
The Google real-time announcement certainly didn't hurt!!!!
- Charlie Anzman
Honestly, it's not that much different -- plenty to chat about, and plenty to chat with -- and it's still storing all my web finds perfectly. There's an extremely considerate and passionate community. So... sure!
- Christopher Galtenberg
It is to me - it all depends on what you make of it
- Jesse Stay
Who is here is replying "yes". Who's not here any more just won't reply. The fact is few weeks ago you wouldn't have asked :) [ah, this means it is not kicking as in the past]
- Markingegno - Donato
from Android
I would say yes. It had a slump period for me for a couple of months, but now I'm putting more in it and getting more from it in return.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Tricky question. Nothing else out there has this feature-set, and AFAIC that's the killer, I use FF because it's the best platform. Maybe some people drifting away since the sale, but OTOH there are new people joining. My buddies Nat and Brent from Calgary both joined around the time of the sale and have both really gotten into it. I have more discussions here than on Twitter, and I think that's true for a lot of people.
- Louis Simoneau
And @Scoble: the fact that you don't get 12 000+ followers on FF makes it less attractive to social media marketing types, which actually makes it BETTER as a platform for meeting and interacting with real people. I have 'friends' on Twitter that I've back-and-forthed with a few times but couldn't really tell you much about, whereas here, I feel like I really KNOW people like Derrick, Jandy, Monique, etc.
- Louis Simoneau
Only to some hardcore dedicated FF'ers. Other then that its just here for Robert Scoble to come on and preach how every worthy tech person he follows is on Twitter and how this site is dead.
- CW™
And regarding Robert's statement, OF COURSE a founder of Google will get thousands people who click the follow button. Then what? I look forward to Eric having 12,000 individual conversations this week, so someone ping me when that happens :) I've gleaned more valuable insights into the thought process and perspective of Google/Googlers from being in and around the conversations started by DeWitt on Friendfeed than I have in any other way.
- Micah Wittman
I have to excuse myself for not being very active for quite a while: I was being busy organising the Dutch Bloggies. I do think FriendFeed is still alive, but I sure wished there were more Dutch people to keep up a conversation with. It's making it difficult, now I'm out of organising for a week, to start up being involved again. I'm jealous at the Egyptian & Italian people, who seem to have a whole community here.
- Ton Zijp
Friendfeed is immortal, perfect, the best. Friendfeed will never die. ... in fact, the end of behemoths like Facebook and Twitter will be tweeted on Friendfeed.!
- Petr Buben
Just got back into using FF more heavily and find it much more enjoyable to any of the Twitter clients I've found. I can actually engage with the people that I "follow" and learn more about them and find interests instead of just trying to separate the wheat from the chaff like I feel I do on Twitter
- Ian Rudy
Am I the only one who got tired of responding to posts that ask if the site is still alive? "Charlie, you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can you here me *now*?....I gave up on 'em after Scoble's 2nd one. Just ignore
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Kol, use your connections and see if you can get in on the BFBC2 beta, the MP takes MW2 back to the drawing board.
- Carlos Ayala
BFBC2 does look good but a PC game for me. I've played the demo, very good.
- Kol Tregaskes
lol, oh dear. I thought you meant you had it already too.
- Amy
Hehe, it's only a matter of days I think. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Like most, if not all shooters, Kol, I agree. Nothing comes close to the accuracy and speed you get on the PC...maybe gaming with a mouse and keyboard on the console but i havent experienced that yet. But playing this on the console has no hardware implications and barely any networking implications either. I wouldn't say i am completely converted just yet, but I am embracing the PS3 more and more when it comes to gaming.
- Carlos Ayala
"News that critically acclaimed vocalist Sade is working on her first studio album in nearly a decade, Soldier Of Love, has been welcomed by music lovers worldwide. Due to her unique fusion of R&B and smooth jazz the Nigerian born singer created timeless classics such as Smooth Operator and The Sweetest Taboo. With the leak of the title track we now get the chance to hear what her highly anticipated new body of work will sound like. Fortunately the long wait was more than worth it. Sade leads her sultry yet powerful voice over a staccato rhythm thus proving that she has retained her style despite the numerous changes within the musical landscape in recent years. Soldier Of Love is set for a worldwide release on February 8th via Sony Music."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Make sure to follow the 'Sade – Soldier Of Love' link to download the track.
- Christopher Harley
Listened to it three times so far and I really like it. Reminds me a bit of the latest Portishead album.
- Derrick
Not a fan of this track (the soldier boy drum roll gets to me and its a departure from her writing/singing style) but welcome a new Sade album anxiously.
- Carlos Ayala
Tad will like this. He is a fan of Sade.
- Lindsay
Very first CD I ever bought was a Sade album. Actually, maybe that was the first tape I ever bought. Damn. Remember tapes?
- Internet's Tad
oh yeah, i still have loads of tapes in boxes. one of my cars has a tape player and i have a cassette jambox in the master bathroom that blasts Rush - Hemispheres twice a week. *goes off to check out the Sade track*
- Joe Silence is not dead
Oh man, I'm all choked up now. I hope she tours.
- Rochelle
NEW BUSINESS VENTURE IDEA: Prisons. Put the inmates to work in manufacturing and assembly of high tech gadgets and have a lower labor rate than off-shore. No unions, no healthcare, barely any overhead... All paid for with good ole government money. And Apple can proudly fly the "Made in USA" label on it's products. Thoughts?
Make it so that high tech gadgets are ubiquitous everywhere among the populace. Make it full circle, like high tech gadgets for exercising to help the now obese users of the new high tech lose weight
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Well... Freighting 'x' numbers of pieces all the way to one spot in the States from Asia vs freighting 'x' numbers of pieces to one spot in Asia from Asia then shipping 1 piece to the States...
- Johnny Worthington
I understand, Johnny. It surely wouldn't be a 'one-for-one' offset. I think I can make up the cost but not heating or cooling the plant.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
And recruiting is so easy. Let's say I see MVB jaywalk after exiting a bar. His bartender and I are on the same social network. Welcome to my labor force.
- Todd Hoff
The issues that wouldn't make this work is purely ethical. Western countries are fine with slave labor as long as it's someone else somewhere else, not to mention the idea of slave labor with some races has history.
- Johnny Worthington
Prisoners get healthcare. We pay for that.
- Captain Bubbles
And I could grow it horizontal, too. Think combination parole officer/distribution agent!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
"We" pay for it, Anika. That means it wouldn't hit "MY" balance sheet.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Johnny, you assume this isn't being done right now, right here in the US. I just want to build it and franchise it.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I thought the prison industry in the US was already near saturation.
- Andrew C
I keep hearing about all the over-crowding, Andrew. And I bet the US prison system has never made a concerted effort to market themselves.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
What about the companies who hired Ciavarella and Conahan ?
- Andrew C
The DEA says Lil Wayne is an indispensable weapon against Mexican drug cartels having eradicated 40 tons of marijuana alone by smoking it himself.
- William Harryman
from Bookmarklet
this is the funniest thing I've seen in weeks
- William Harryman
NOW THAT'S COLDDD!!! #yeg#yeg > #wienerpeg [cut glass? yup] (the first one displayed is in Celsius & for the benefit of our American friends :) the 2nd one's in Fahrenheit)
Looks like you're getting a heat wave tomorrow! Been there, done that in northern NY. Just one of the many reasons I'm in Arizona.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
*shakes fists* to Arizona & other warm climates
- sofarsoShawn
Call me crazy, but I liked the cold winter in AB. Much preferable to a NM summer.
- Jenny R.
Don't shake your fist...just come on down! Everyone else in Alberta has...lol
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
Is this the LA in California? I gotta call shenanigans on that.
- ha3rvey (needs soup)
Well it's miserable here, too. I had to put on a long sleeve shirt, and now it's clouding over. Probably won't make 70 today. Brrrrr!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
There are about a hundred user submitted photos; one of my brothers tortures my other 2 siblings with a photo of them freaking out with Santa so this resonates
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I wasn't fond of ole boy when I was a kid.
- Derrick
we teach kids not to talk to strangers then dump them in a strangers lap who is bigger then life itself.............
- VAL D.
" The world’s best surfers are waiting for a once-in-a-generation wave here along the North Shore of Oahu, after dozens of them plunged into the churning waters on Monday, dodging rocks, reefs, and driftwood in waves rarely seen even in surf paradises like Hawaii — but still shy of the big one."
- RAPatton
from iPhone
"Surf experts and weather officials have forecast a swell — churned by North Pacific storms — that may rival those of 1969, considered a seminal year in surfing the North Shore, where images of surfers flying down towering waves helped bring the sport into the mainstream and into the perennial realm of cool. In the next day or so, 30-foot to 50-foot wave faces are possible, according to the National Weather Service, the type of prediction that sends professional wave-riders into an extremely mellow frenzy."
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Heard a 50 ft'er is coming ... google " laird hamilton " he has ridden some of the Monsters
- johnpiercy
My mom learned how to surf in Hawaii back in the 50's. I've always wanted to learn.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Amazing: "This color mosaic was assembled from 18 images taken by Galileo's imaging system through a green filter. On the upperleft is the dark, lava-filled Mare Imbrium, Mare Serenitatis (middle left), Mare Tranquillitatis (lower left), and Mare Crisium, the dark circular feature toward the bottom of the mosaic. Also visible in this view are the dark lava plains of the Marginis and...
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- Carlos Ayala
"An Australian team of scientists has found that a gene known as trichohyalin is responsible for determining whether your hair is straight or curly. Now it's possible to tell what kind of hair suspects who leave DNA at a crime scene have, determine a baby's hair type while she's still in the womb, and perhaps even develop medications that change hair texture without perms or straighteners."
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
Medications??? I take offense. This is not a disease, people :( Next they might be trying to change what color we are, the whole shebang. There should be more focus put on things that are actually detrimental to a person's life.
- Kamilah Gill
I said in the comments that it was definitely a bias thought
- Shevonne
Sadly, in the Philippines, they already market skin-color changing treatments quite heavily. I'm sure they'll be all over this hair texture business. Colonial mentality FAIL.
- Victor Ganata