"When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety." -- Steven Wright
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car." -- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"When I grow up I want to be a futurist because I want to know what happens next."
- Kevin Fox
It has my name after it. right? ;-) Seriously, I ws going to give myself attribution, but it seemed weird to say "-- Kevin Fox - Kevin Fox"
- Kevin Fox
On the other hand, you just said "-- Kevin Fox - Kevin Fox" - Kevin Fox
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"If I were manager of a Black Angus restaurant, I'd have one person responsible for going out at dusk to make sure the 'G' lights up." -- Emo Philips
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home." -- Rodney Dangerfield
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"A girl phoned me the other day and said, 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home." -- Rodney Dangerfield
- Kevin Fox
I'm still waiting for a fireman and stripper to have an affair; I can see the see the headline now, "Stripper Caught on Fireman's Pole"
- Jimminy
"I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with ‘Guess’ on it. I said, 'Thyroid problem?’" -- Peter Kay
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I was on the street. This guy waved to me, and he came up to me and said, “I’m sorry, I thought you were someone else.” And I said, “I am.” - Demetri Martin
- Aneto
I LOVE Demetri Martin. That is not a one liner. Just sayin'.
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
"The trouble with unemployment is that the minute you wake up in the morning you're on the job." -- Slappy White
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins." -- Mae West
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive." -- W.C. Fields
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
There Stephen, I "liked" your thread, are you happy now?! ;)
- Georgia
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." -- Oscar Wilde
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents." -- Billiam Coronel
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Marge, I'm not going to stand here and lie to you, so I'll be at Moe's" - Homer S.
- Mark Layton
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes." -- some guy on Reddit
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
(Seen on a fridge magnet) "It speaks well of the human race that we allow our teenagers to live."
- Dylan Bennett
"This is the worst kind of discrimination. The kind against me!" -- Bender, Futurama (yay renewed!)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Futurama got renewed?! When where. :)
- Dario Gomez
"The wages of sin are death. But by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling." -- Paula Poundstone
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"How many members of a certain demographic group does it take to perform a specified task?" "A finite number: one to perform the task and an additional number to act in a manner stereotypical of the group in question."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." -- Dave Barry
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Just because you can, it doesn't mean you should...
- Tyson Key
Aperture Science: "We do what we must, because we can"
- Kevin Fox
'I sprayed spot remover on my dog and now he's gone.' –– Steven Wright
- Akiva
'I came home the other day only to find that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact duplicate.' –– Steven Wright
- Akiva
'Do you know why Jewish husbands die before their wives? Because they want to!' –– Henny Youngman
- Akiva
[Not necessarily a one-liner but a personal favorite] When interviewing a woman who had six children, Groucho Marx asked her why so many. She replied, 'Because I love my husband!' He said, 'Well, lady, I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth every once in awhile.'
- Akiva
'I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.' –– George Carlin
- Akiva
[Another personal favorite] 'I'd never join a club that would have someone like me as a member.' –– Groucho Marx
- Akiva
Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you!
- Morgan
'You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar.' –– George Carlin
- Akiva
'Everything in moderation including moderation.'
- Akiva
"In the future, everyone will be obscure for fifteen minutes". - me
- Michael R. Bernstein
"Very good, then we shall fight them in the shade!"
- Chris Charabaruk
"If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me." -- Bobcat Goldthwait
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
The funny thing is that the video may end up helping him a lot more. Getting someone else to even out the fight doesn't work so well when the cops have billy clubs, mace, tazers and guns (not to mention the law).
- Kevin Fox
'Who are you and how did you get in here?' 'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' - Leslie Nielsen (via Gmail clips box just now)
- Paul Buchheit
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." -- Mitch Hedberg (RIP)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." -- Groucho Marx (as Capt. Spaulding in "Animal Crackers")
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." -- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Never argue with an idiot. Someone else might not be able to tell the difference.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
"Trust me, that fall won't kill you. But the deceleration poisoning is a bitch..."
- Jonathan Disher
"When you're Amish, everyone's relative."
- Kevin Fox
"Recently I got caught masturbating -- to National Geographic. Not my finest moment. I don't know who was more embarrassed, me or my dentist." -- Anthony Jeselnik
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Indeed, I do. I was so jealous when someone posted from the west coast about eating crepes filled with Nutella, whipped cream and strawberries, but there was nowhere I could go for that. I was in Cincinnati yesterday and took advantage of Jungle Jim's proximity to pick up some things I can't find in town, and when I saw crepes (which I will NOT make myself), I nabbed 'em! Now I need the other three ingredients.
- MiniMage
from BuddyFeed
Reckon the comments in mutiple languages, I think the love for Nutella is a worldwide phenoma. <3 I think Nutella is the key to world peace. ;)
- Olivia Lovag
Nope. Neither the chocolate nor the hazelnut flavor seems to pop out to me, it just tastes sweet. I'd rather have the fresh ground chocolate peanut butter from Whole Foods.
- FFing Enigma
YES,yes,yes....i do and i like it even more when listening to my ipod and doors are locked,...must be a english thing to do ......nikki......^o^ -
- nikki hayes
hi, nikki ! ...... nice to meet you !! ........^_^
- keiko-san
@Ortaparmak - Since 1973>soudesu. nihonwa kyoukara "Golden-Week" ni hairimashita. demo, watashi wa shigoto desu. nichiyoubi to getsuyoubi dake oyasumi desu. doko e ittemo hito ga ookute.....
- keiko-san
Italian Restaurant de hataraite imasu. yoru dake desukedone......; p
- keiko-san
keiko-san, I fine and I'm busy at work. how about u ? : )
- Lost Abyss
@AyDin >hello!.....I did't know taht. What's so good? I tried looking on the Internet, I have little information. What is it made from hazelnuts, I guess? It seems to eat once. It also has made what countries?
- keiko-san
@ Lost Abyss >hi!.....are you busy?.....me, too!......^_^
- keiko-san
I'm home now : ) weekend rest time : )
- Lost Abyss
to ke dargire jabre mohiti hastio masaele zin das...papak...ba to hastam...to ke ba kasi ke tarside az un donya bara doori az atashe doozakhash hame jayash ra pooshande chon pooshanidan az atash kasi ke sarapa tarse va tars doshmane manteghe che manteghi bahs mikoni pas manteghi bahs kardan ba kasi ke door az mantegh hast khod eyne bi manteghie ;)
- peepoo
Keyko, stop rebumping same old posts. Now Nutella makes me throw up. Would you still like something that you see 3/4 times per day?
- Apostocosì (Vulvia)
Hi :) I'll write recipes with nutella a.s.a.p :P
- SanalMutfak (M)
No, it's disgusting. The worst such hazelnut cream produced, sticky, oversweet and at the same time flavorless. There are bunches of much better similar creams around, not necessarly hugely more costly: Novi cream is hugely better and still in the same price range!
- Alice Twain
Alice come on... a little spoon of Nutella could make you less ... :P
- Eta e basta
use translate button keiko :) (I know It doesn't perfect)
- SanalMutfak (M)
@Eta, nutella is disgusting. not hazelnut creams. The point is that nutella has next to no hazelnut in, that's part of what makes it so bad. Again, try some better hazelnut creams, stuff that does not feel like sugary glue in your mouth but rather is silky with a distinct taste of toasted hazelnut. You will taste the difference.
- Alice Twain
I'm in it for the chocolate, not the nut
- MiniMage
from Android
In Italian, "Slurp" is an onomatopoeia, i.e. this word means that someone is licking him/her own lips while thinking about the goodness of a food.
- Smeerch
Aw, come now, Joe. Ridley did Alien, so it's possible he could do a prequel showing the origins of the alien species quite well - given a solid script
- Nathan Chase
I stick to my original thought. Is it possible he'll strike gold? Yes. Is it likely? No.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
after AVATAR, I'd be down for Cameron to go back to Aliens and maybe produce a new film with Scott at the helm - although that would probably be two guys that would NOT get along given their notoriety for being stubborn and tyrannical on sets
- Nathan Chase
The key term being "solid script." There's a good chance that won't exist, and even Ridley can't make gold from a shit script. Why not just drop the franchise altogether and go do something new and original?
- Jonathan Hardesty
that, and it's a great property to explore still... it's one of the richest movie monster stories ever told
- Nathan Chase
Scott just isn't the same director he was then. He's not hungry anymore. Jonathan H. is right, this is easy money... but probably none of mine.
- Jim #TeamMonique
Meh. If he does follow through with it, how does it diminish the existing films?
- Derrick
Derrick, it doesn't hurt the existing films to people who have already seen them. If he makes a shit prequel it could hurt the existing films for future fans.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
original ideas are always a riskier business proposition - it's the same in music, video games - any entertainment medium - familiarity always produces a higher chance of positive response - it's just the way humans work
- Nathan Chase
That would be good, if he decides to make this one of the good movies he does now (Kingdom of Heaven, Blackhawk Down) instead of the shitty films he does now (Hannibal, A Good Year.)
- Ciaoenrico
I guess my point with the whole original idea comment is that I would like to see something different. Something ELSE. As an average joe viewer, I don't really care where the alien came from or it's origin story. Also, what's wrong with NOT knowing? Makes the whole thing more mysterious and exciting, right?
- Jonathan Hardesty
All I'm saying is I have a friend who won't watch Episodes IV V and VI because he saw episodes I and II. Plus like Jason said, we have part 3 and Resurrection to show that not every Alien movie is gold, and then there are the two AVP movies. The Xenomorph has worked plenty, maybe a break? Also in the case of a reboot, it should never be done by the original creator.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
well if everyone thought Alien should have been left alone, then we would never have seen Aliens - which IMHO is the best action/horror/sci-fi film ever made
- Nathan Chase
@Nathan, it is a great film. But the sequels and the spinoffs have really made me tired of the idea altogether. And now we have a Predators remake too? How about we re-release the original films in theaters for limited runs, show new generations how good these films were instead of bastardizing them or cheapening them with prequels?
- Jonathan Hardesty
Jason, it has more to do with the quality of the films than the shock of finding stuff out since he ha no idea that it was supposed to be a surprise.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
That's just silly. I always watch films in chronological order. The fact that your friend won't watch Eps 4, 5, and 6 because of 1, 2, and 3, prove he is a dolt. You can't undo time and that's how 95% of most people saw them. But like I said, Alien came out in 78, 79? If you wanna watch the films, start there, and if he makes a prequel starring the Jonas Brothers, it still doesn't eliminate what came before it.
- Derrick
I'd like to see him give it a go. I *love* Predator (even if it was a B-movie) but following movies haven't been that great.
- Kol Tregaskes
So now that we know this to be Prometheus, have your opinions above changed at all?
- Nathan Chase
I'm withholding judgement until I actually see Prometheus, but if it is as good as it looks I shall apologize to Ridley Scott for the bat crack.
- Joe "Funkasaurus" Pierce
This is the most awesome thing I have seen in a long, long time.
- Michael McKean
I was going to put a bandolier on the bunneh and have it say "VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!" but the bunneh was too small. Seriously, though: that bunneh with the carrot bandolier from the PETA ad? PURE WIN.
- FFing Enigma
Would you like to hear about my undergraduate thesis on the efficiency and equity of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965?
- John E. Bredehoft
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- Chris Heath
nope, i am the official thread killer
- AJ Batac
Cuz this is killer, thread killer night, and no one's gonna save you from AJ when he's about to strike, you know it's killer, thread killer night, you're fighting for your threads from a killer, thread killer tonight
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
When I first came on to ff today, this is what I saw at the top of the feed. As I leave, it is at the top again. Thus, I both start and end the day smiling.
- Katy S
It looks just like Derrick is about to say "Goo goo ga ga"
- iTad
I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be my embarrassing photo meme entry.
- Derrick
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
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
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
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:
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:
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
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
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
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...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd isolated the microbial munchers. One came from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, and the other from the genus Sphingomonas. Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
So why is carbon sequestration a good idea when it's all complicated and expensive, but bad when it involves burying plastic bags in landfills?
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's better to sequester carbon as dirt than as bags.
- Gabe
But if it's already in plastic bag form, why not leave it that way instead of turning it into CO2?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: that's exactly what I've been thinking. Particularly since the City of Seattle no longer allows residents to sequester food based carbon in landfills and instead requires us to burn it into compost.
- Hayes Haugen
Dirt is useful because you can grow stuff in it. Most waste products are not so useful.
- Gabe
Yes, but the choice isn't between dirt and plastic -- it's between plastic and CO2.
- Paul Buchheit
I have to agree with Paul on this one: atmospheric CO2 is much more of a pressing concern at the moment than landfill space. Though I do admire the kid's scientific spirit.
- Louis Simoneau
It doesn't say what the process actually produces. They mention the feed material (plastic) and the waste material (water, CO2), but not the real products. I assumed it produced globs of carbon. Am I wrong?
- Gabe
Has nobody considered this for an artificial ecosystem? Compost your scraps for fertile soil, and compost your bags for the CO2 for the plants growing in it. Sure you'll need an airlock on your greenhouse (and an oxy mask whenever you enter it) but you'll have the best damned tomatoes on your street.
- Chris Charabaruk
You don't want to leave it in plastic form as it screws up the ocean large! Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I hope they can use this to make something that would eat the plastic in the ocean rather than the sea life dying from it.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Since it said that the waste products were CO2 and water, I assumed there were also non-waste products. The good thing about landfills is that they can later be mined for all the great things that were too cheap to recycle.
- Gabe
Yeah, I think landfills have an unjustly bad reputation. When properly managed, they are a great way to deal with garbage that our technology can't yet efficiently recycle. (we're saving for the future!)
- Paul Buchheit
that's great news. now i can really finish my threat to all my damn *invincible* plastic bags! (waves fist)
- ed fry
The two biggest problems with landfill are the leachate seeping into groundwater (or contaminating local soil) and methane (a greenhouse gas). Even if you can mitigate those problems, they're difficult to eliminate entirely, making the land almost useless once it's full.
- Gabe
Gabe, not to minimize the problems, but I live right next to Shoreline Ampitheather in Mountain View, which is built on landfill is proof that the landfill land is hardly useless.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
It's not just landfills, though. Take the large floating trash gyre of the Pacific, and its effects in the ecosystem. So the tiny little plastic balls in water are fake food, and animals eat them, and then die in various ways, lowering populations and making species even more fragile. Landfill may be a good way if it's contained and monitored more closely, or CO2, in various areas- such...
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- anna sauce
@anna at least he is coming up with a solution rather than just finding more things to complain about
- Chris Johnston
anna's right -- the problem is when the stuff ends up in the ocean. Landfills are a good way to keep the stuff out of the ocean.
- Gabe
Stop speculating and start experimenting!
- Dane Deasy
Wait, so both "Atlas Shrugged" and Justin Bieber are getting movies made? Moments like this are when I mumble under my breath about FIREFLY getting only one season on TV.
On the other hand, maybe these cinematic disasters are a good thing. I mean, look what happened the last few times a manufactured pop-poppet got screen time (GLITTER, FROM JUSTIN TO KELLY, etc.). And if anything made a laughingstock out of L. Ron Hubbard's catalog faster than BATTLEFIELD EARTH, I can't think of it.
- Steven Perez
It'll be enjoyable to hear of Atlas Shrugged flopping because people wouldn't put up with a 30 minute diatribe free of explosions and crazy action.
- Chris Charabaruk
You always see the terms inept and disgruntled, but we rarely use ept and gruntled. Perhaps I should make a tshirt that says "Ept and Gruntled". What kind of graphic would be appropriate for that? I'm thinking an alpaca.
A shirt with "Ept and Gruntled" and an alpaca on it would be awesome. Sign me up for five.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Wouldn't it just? Because alpacas always look like they're smiling and perhaps plotting some mischief, and if that's not the definition of "ept and gruntled" I don't know what is!
- FFing Enigma
Well, we are cool like that Chris. And in other news: I think I found just the alpaca for this shirt.
- FFing Enigma
isn't the opposite term to inept "adept"? so, inept is useless, adept is good at it.. would ept be "average at it"?
- alphaxion
Good point. Then again, I do find myself to be rather average in most things so I think the shirt would still work. Actually, the meaning 'average and happy' is perhaps appropriate.
- FFing Enigma
Face it, The English Language is just bizzare
- Brent - Yes I am
I love the Online Etymology Dictionary. Oddly enough, 'dis-' in 'disgruntled' isn't the usual negation, but provides emphasis. http://www.etymonline.com/index... So 'disgruntled' is even more gruntled than 'gruntled'. 'Inept' is derived from Latin 'ineptus' which can be parsed as 'in-' + 'aptus', so the opposite of 'inept' would be 'apt'. http://www.etymonline.com/index...
- Victor Ganata
A Very Descript Man (attributed to a J. H. Parker) I am such a dolent man, I eptly work each day; My acts are all becilic, I've just ane things to say. My nerves are strung, my hair is kempt, I'm gusting and I'm span: I look with dain on everyone And am a pudent man. I travel cognito and make A delible impression: I overcome a slight chalance, With gruntled self-possesion. My, dignation...
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- Micah
Can't help thinking about this exchange on The Office when I see "gruntled":Michael: No need for consternation. Everything is under control. Jan: Michael, last Friday one of your employees attacked another employee in your office! Michael: It was a crime of passion, Jan. Not a disgruntled employee. Everyone here is extremely gruntled.
- Cheryl Jones
Sometimes when I have too much to eat, I gruntle a little.
- Rick Cogley
This thread is making me want to gurgitate.
- Reed Porter
Really? I find it makes me rather combulated.
- FFing Enigma
Whoa, a lot more good ones in here! Added the ones we didn't have yet into my thread (including your original "ept") - http://friendfeed.com/faithx5...
- Jandy
I think the words "ept" and "gruntled" would be well-represented by the image of a goat. A goat is ept, rarely putting a foot wrong on the sheerest of rock faces, and seems particularly gruntled while its life lacks surprises and predatory threats.
- Slippy like shiny things.
Mel, I love how they would pose for you. I know how you shoot and you like to get natural shots, but everytime you picked up your camera, they got all single file line status for you. :)
- Derrick
"Yeah, so we're in the studio now, laying down some tracks. They wanna get Diddy in on it, but I'm hoping we can work with Reznor, cause he seems like a cool guy..."
- Derrick
Diddy, Reznor, Derrick & Mariachi... I'll take it on vinyl!
- Jason Wehmhoener
That is so totally full of win that it makes me "SQUEEEE"!
- Lindsay
Ay Papi...this pic is awesome. I'm going to go make myself a margarita in honor of it.
- Mark Krynsky
"The next time you're at the Renaissance Faire and you see the blacksmith and saddle maker toiling away at their quaint jobs, try to remember that once upon a time those were common, everyday careers. And then take a moment to realize that a lot of the iconic jobs that have been part of our lives since birth will, before long, go the way of the blacksmith."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Case in point, the American prison system and the way we treat people who have already paid their debt to society as ordered by a court of law. (Yes, Aaron said this like 3 days ago)
- Rahsheen
"Today, Stevie Wonder attended a World Intellectual Property Organization meeting in Geneva to ask delegates to support the World Blind Union's proposed treaty for copyright exemptions for visually impaired and other disabled people. "Please work it out. Or I'll have to write a song about what you didn't do." (Thanks, Madrat, via Submitterator!)"
- Steven Perez
“Now that we can put digg.com/ in front of any URL to digg a page and get the toolbar (which is very neat!), can FriendFeed do something similar? :-)” - http://friendfeed.com/e...
It steals traffic from content providers.
- Ninh Nguyen
But you're sharing the content on FF and thus more people will then see it.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ninh, if you mean when you click on a link within Digg.com then yes the toolbar shouldn't be there. But if you put friendfeed.com/ in front of the URL then that is fine.
- Kol Tregaskes
vijay kindly made me an admin for the FFFilters group but I had no idea of it. It would also be useful to have an "Admin" section on the Subscriptions page showing what groups we are admin on. #betakoltag-sg-searches
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks - I love watching real time comments - uber cool!
- Susan Beebe
FriendFeed, if done right, could easily replace Tweetdeck
- Susan Beebe
I think the "Like" button could act as a retweet button. It can already push likes to Twitter. It just needs to follow the "stranded" RT format.
- Pat Hawks
Liked is similar, but takes up too many characters and is less known by general public
- Susan Beebe
@Susan that's what I mean. If I "Like" something here, FF should just push it to my Twitter status in the form "RT @whomever [Original message]..."
- Pat Hawks
Seems to me it'd make sense so have *Twitter* entries go back over to Twitter with RT rather than Liked... maybe as an option... but it makes no sense to me to "retweet" stuff that wasn't a "tweet" in the first place.
- Ken Sheppardson
Pat - Exactly! But I also want a "RT" button as I don't always "like" a post... sorry :)
- Susan Beebe
@Ken Right. I think the system could be smart enough to figure out the difference.
- Pat Hawks
It just seems that the "Like" paradigm is quite similar to the RT paradigm on Twitter
- Pat Hawks
Only if its originally a tweet. But then again, you may not want to RT that item. Too many RT's can be spam, sort of.
- Roberto Bonini
Yes, I should have clarified that (I thougtht that was an obvious requirement) - yes RT for items originating from twitter - afterall we're talking re-TWEET right?
- Susan Beebe
"Like" should retweet. I've been saying it for a good long time now, that liking a tweet in FF should do a proper RT rather than the standard "Liked X" that FF pushes to Twitter.
- Chris Charabaruk
Correct, I too want them up there, directly after Friends list which, btw., DOES NOT NEED additional groupings into Favorites/ Personal/ Professional taking up screen real estate. Also, renaming Filters to "Saved Searches" is the wrong move, esp. since the latter string is far longer. Incidentially, Groups Prefs do not work for me - Groups shows 4 items even though I tried to revert it back to former 2. If Friends, Groups and Filters are to be separate, I'd place Groups last.
- ianf ⌘
Bump up text size to 24p, and browse it on a 13" laptop's screen - then you'll see how Filters (now Saved Searches) fall off the display.
- ianf ⌘
Ianf: Your Friends panel shows all the friends lists that you have. If you want all your friends in one list, you can put them in one list and delete all the other default lists. But those lists were already there. And the string "Saved Searches" doesn't take up nearly as much width as the names of most of my groups. :)
- Karl Knechtel
There does seem to be a bug if you try to put fewer than 4 items in your Groups.
- Karl Knechtel
@Karl - there's no option to delete selected (empty) lists, not via the Browse/Edit Friends option at the bottom. Similarly, Groups panel seems stuck at minimum 4 items there.
- ianf ⌘
@Ianf: Select the empty list in question (you'll have to do each one separately), and click 'Delete' at the top. :) I agree this could be streamlined better.
- Karl Knechtel
Ahsan, yes FF should. There is no way I want my Saved Searches at the bottom there!! If you have a lot of Subscriptions is *very* annoying to scroll way down to get to, what I would say, is FriendFeed's second most important new filter behind real-time! Please put back or give us the option to select what boxes we see and where they are in the sidebar? #betakoltag-ob
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes ++ Ahsan and Kol, I have more Groups than Saved Searches - I use my saved searches more than groups. If your Saved Searches are falling off the page - try viewing at 90% 0r 80%. (Viewing at 100% is far too big for me, and I'm half blind.) -[
- Chris Loft
1. There appears to be issues with excluding search terms, i.e. via the minus character (-): http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf.... UPDATE: I believe this is to do with point 20 (refresh issue).
- Kol Tregaskes
6. More a tidy-up than a bug but better error reporting, for instances when a post is deleted and you post a comment to it afterwards without knowing of its deletion: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
14. Sometimes adding a photo via the share box form using the image URL freezes the browser or doesn't upload the pic (occurred in both Chrome and Firefox): http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
16. When editing a saved search the friend list selection defaults back to your first list + if multiple lists used in your saved search and is edit the list: parameter is completely removed: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
18. The annoying character that is placed at the end of the URL in the browser's address box once we use the bookmarklet is still there and there are history issues with Chrome (probably Chrome's problem though): http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
Matthew, that is the plan. I've not checked them all but edit a few I've noticed that have changed.
- Kol Tregaskes
21. The Twitter character counter counts leading spaces but are not posted in the tweet (so the counter should take this into account and not count them): http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
30. The 'Friends' link on the side bar should show friends only, not friends and groups. We already have a page for Groups in the sidebar below: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
31. The Save button on the Twitter publishing page appears level to the last sidebar (which could be a long way down and create a huge space from the settings to the save button): http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
37. Imaginary friends from the old UI are not displayed on the search dropdown menu + might be best to remove the DM link on the imginary friend's profile page: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
Bumping this FF ssuggestions at #betakoltaglist for my reference while Search is working. Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions but not these are very old and I'm using this weekend to go through them. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, have you considered setting up a feed for your UI suggestions?
- Karl Knechtel
Karl, note some of these are not mine (check the links that point to the original post or related posts) but you can currently use this filter: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search...
- Kol Tregaskes
Ahsan, that's really what the FF-Feedback group here is for, so feel free to comment. :-) The FFRequest group is Petr's.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ahsan, just for you I've created this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf... but I think there is already perhaps too many groups for such posts. What do you think? :-) I don't mind putting them all in this new group but I'll either way for probably post sharing or do it when I get time to re-post all the posts and comments again.
- Kol Tregaskes
Bumping this FF ssuggestions at #betakoltaglist for my reference while Search is working. Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions but not these are very old and I'm using this weekend to go through them. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
1. Indications for all your feeds (not just DMs) to show the number of new posts and possibly new comments + Ability to click on the number and have it go to a page where it shows only these new posts (and probably ones that come in after) and not the old posts: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
4. If the service icons are not to turn (which I’m kinda switching to liking) then we need the duplicate detector to be added with settings to prioritise selective services: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf... UPDATE: Dup detector is back but not perfect and still does not work with micro-blogging services. See suggestions...
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- Kol Tregaskes
IMPLEMENTED: 7. A “smooth” real-time feature – with real-time still on and new posts and comments coming in that are pushing entries down the page, have the post you are viewing mid-page down stay exactly where it is on your screen while the scroll bar moves down. Avoids the “jumping” effect: http://beta.friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
8. New bookmarklet with the same new features the new share box.
- Kol Tregaskes
9. New Notifier which allows, for example, selection of your filters.
- Kol Tregaskes
Another reason to do the namespacing thing I was getting at elsewhere (i.e. /namlhaz/feeds/johnqpublic wouldn't prevent Mr. Public from signing up later). Which also allows me to have a "webcomics" private feed while other users also have one. :)
- Karl Knechtel
Karl, this could be a reasonably good workaround for my request for categories. I'd still need to tag the entries in some way but could use, for example, http://beta.friendfeed.com/koltreg... for my photography tagged posts, which I could share out in a nice tidy-ish URL. It's not perfect as I would need to use a unique tag name but not a bad solution. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Sort my groups based on update time the way it used to. I really miss that.
- amygeek
42. Sidebars move down with your viewing post or as Kevin Fox has suggested have the main body and the sidebars as 2 separate scrollable entities: http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol - PLEASE can we have daily/weekly email digest facility that we ALREADY HAD in the old FF?
- Matthew Todd
Bumping this FF ssuggestions at #betakoltaglist for my reference while Search is working. Feel free to comment and add your own suggestions but not these are very old and I'm using this weekend to go through them. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes