She was always complaining about her head being cold and she loved it. I think I'll place it on the casket so she can keep a warm head wherever she ends up. RIP, Amazin' Grace.
- Derrick
from iPhone
"A user of Yahoo's photo-sharing Web site Flickr says he suddenly had his account yanked after he posted comments criticizing President Obama. Shepherd Johnson of Virginia said his account -- which included about 1,200 photos -- was deleted last week after he started making anti-administration comments alongside photos on the White House "Flickrstream." Johnson said he was griping about a new law that "allows the Obama administration to withhold from the public photos of horrible acts used by the Bush administration in its so called War on Terror.""
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
"The wildlife photographer Roger Hooper has worked with the WWF to capture images of endangered species. Here are a few striking examples of the portraits he caught on film."
- RAPatton
saw them via Ňicķ's feed. he likes science-y stuff mainly, but his feed is always interesting, and he has a real soft spot for Marilyn. :) http://friendfeed.com/hoplit
- edythe
Saw these pictures earlier this morning via the Pop Candy blog. I looked at them wondering what camera the photographer used. And the captions were interesting reading. And of course the pictures were great. :)
- Cheryl Jones
thanks polly! actually i have a soft spot for norma jeane.... (oh, and "science-y stuff? haha :-P)
- Ňicķ
...if only I had the scratch for one! ;)
- JA Castillo
Back when I bought my first Drobo, in 2007, DR was offering a special rebate on additional Drobo units. If you bought the first at full price, you could buy more at $299 a piece. I jumped at the opportunity and I don't regret it.
- Raoul Pop
“Air Sex is sort of like Air Guitar,” said Tim League, founder of the Alamo Drafthouse and the Air Sex World Championship, “except instead of pretending to play an invisible guitar on stage, contestants get up there and pretend to have sex with someone who isn’t there. With their clothes on, typically. They pick a song to perform to and then have two minutes to impress the judges with their overall Airness.”
- Iain Baker
from Bookmarklet
"His boss SGT Chacoh serial #22030 was just as bad if not worse, he said we had to leave the city and go to another one to shoot pictures. Again, no law was given even after many many requests. I asked him if they would arrest us for not complying, he said "They were not saying that" I asked what they were saying then? He just said we had to leave the area, and if not we would get a trip to the station. I asked again what the charge would be (If any) and no answer again. I explained this is a textbook definition of coercion. They were not willing to cite any law, or talk any further about it, since the SGT had forbidden me from taking pictures of him and they told us we could not audio record them or else they would put us in jail we had no hard evidence of what they had said. I am probably going to have to legally sequester the dash-cams as evidence if I ever want to get hard evidence."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
More police coercion from the LAPD against photographers. The author of this post, David Sommars, and I were kicked off a sidewalk together last December by the Long Beach Harbor patrol. Seems the police in this area still think photography from a public sidewalk is a crime.
- Thomas Hawk
I think it is especially bad when police tell you that you are not allowed to take photos of them. Being able to photograph the police is an important safeguard to our liberties. While the police might rather not see videos like the killing of Oscar Grant getting out on the web, we have a right to photograph them at all times. It is an important right to protect against abuse of power by those entrusted with a gun and a badge in our society.
- Thomas Hawk
Most definetly. Really dont understand why they would have such a problem with it either. I understand that the public should be vigilant if they see invididuals filming train stations, airports, obiously just for terrorism reasons, but its just plain obvious that that isnt who we are when we take our photos. Understandably, any person does reserve the right to not have their photo...
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- Giraffes Up In The AIr
I don't know about the US, but in the UK anything in a public place is fair game unless otherwise noted. That includes people and police officers. (Though a recent law change confuses the issue about police officers. Law says "no", government says "yes unless we decide you are a bad person who would use those pictures in a bad way.") For the UK peeps, or visitors to the UK, also...
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- Andy Bold
From BBC News: "New York's iconic Times Square is getting a major makeover, with city officials banning cars from stretches of Broadway. Vehicles are being barred between 42nd and 47th streets at Times Square and 33rd and 35th Streets at Herald Square. City officials say the move will reduce pollution and pedestrian accidents and ease traffic flow in the area known as "crossroads of the world"."
- Mark Trapp
from Bookmarklet
Boy, this is such progress that we should do it everywhere (sarcasm) , Ban all cars and we shall prosper!! Ya right!
- Brian
Sarcasm aside, I think this move is great, especially for peds and tourists. Normally those 2 locations SUCK for everyone, on foot or in vehicles. Losing 5 + 3 blocks of auto access down one avenue that most regulars avoid anyway unless they really have to shouldn't affect vehicular traffic much but makes the area a much more pleasant place to get through for everyone else.
- ronin
"Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display. Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small light emitting diodes (LEDs), helping turn his prototype contact lenses into a sophisticated personal display - the tiniest one possible."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
that can't be good for one's health. fascinating though
- Cee Bee
How would it be bad for your health Cee Bee? Maybe it might screw with your vision some, but what else would it affect?
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
It would be the a great heads up display, but I don't know if you would be able to track eye movement to select things on the display. The gyroscopes on the lens would have to be almost nano.
- RAPatton
i'm not sure but placing some electronic object of that sort directly over one's retina may have its side effects. then again, i've been on this laptop for the past 6 hours and my balls are frying
- Cee Bee
I'm totally ready for augmented reality, but I think i'll let other guinea pigs work out the kinks in the system first...
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
hmm, not a fan of this nor of a cattle prod being plugged into the back of my head. though something like "The Thirteenth Floor" would work
- clarke thomas
@Phil: That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the photo. I want!
- Jeremy Brooks
Very interesting. Gartner predicts that human augmentation will evolve over the next 10 years to the point where it will be feasible to enhance the performance or sensory abilities of healthy individuals. In other words, medical techniques such as sensory transference, direct brain interfaces, and nerve mapping will be used not just to restore physical deficiencies, but to enhance healthy people beyond “normal”.
- Alan Cheslow
Whoa... cool. But really, heads up display, blah blah blah... i want my eyes to glow in the dark. Then I'll really be able to fight crime with my intimidating stare!
- felix
I'd be happy with augmented reality embedded in my glasses... I'm not much of a contacts guy anyway.
- Internet's Tad
from fftogo
I can finally hook up Friendfeed right into my eyeballs!
- Hao Chen
Next step would be flashing contacts like those aftermarket lights underneath cars.
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
Should give these away with Kraftwerk's-Man Machine Music. Way cool-I want some.
- Mark Forman
Just add a tiny wireless receiver, and you'll get special promotions of chips and nylon socks flashed on you contact lenses when you walk past Walmart.
- Dewald Pretorius
Now if it can be a camera and take a frame every time I blink I'm in.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas: If you're blinking, you're going to get a bunch of dark photos :P
- Eric Florenzano
i look forward to the day when my contact lens overlords control all that i survey
- Ranjit Mathoda
"Why are you staring into space and chuckling to yourself", asks my wife. "Oh, just checking my email, got some funny ones today", I reply.
- Nick Lewis
My two questionable cents: (1) power supply and (2) cooling. Much like current artificial eyes, but way harder to solve.
- 9000
i think they are debating weather to include wordpress bloggers or just users of blogger. :)
- (jeff)isageek
It's not exactly a very liberal/free-speechy kind of nation is it?
- Adam Turetzky
This more than anything I can think of makes me glad I'm American today.
- Sprague D
Sunny-side up: At least they're debating it. :-)
- Louis Gray
@Sprague D there are plenty of other countries that don't even have the death penalty for anything - America is only slightly up the scale you know
- Ivan Pope
from twhirl
I feel sorry for the Iranian people who have to deal with these idiots
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
this is just part of a "good cop, bad cop" game. they'll defeat the bill and then everyone will go "Yay! now bloggers only get torture and years in prison for being snarky about the government! Iran is teh progressive democracy!"
- Karim
Peter, your comment illicited a surprise snort out of me. I never snort. Good show!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Need a shirt now that says, "Give me Blogging, or give me death!" - proud to be an American!
- Jesse Stay
@Ivan Pope - nice reply - people in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks and all that @Peter Simard - I think you'll find Nero (he of the horse for senator fame) was higher on the dodgy ranking than the Iranian Government or Ahmadinejad himself @Jonnyc - spoken like a true Xenophobe - is it timely to mention the debacles that have been performed in the name of other religions - witness...
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- Ben Kepes
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
I believe they will just chop off hands for tweets
- Nicholas Molnar
I despise a lot of the things he's said and done -- but I've never thought it was cool to knock the dead.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I just don't see a reason to be this nasty about someone who has passed away. Ugh..
- Anand Sharma
from twhirl
Just wondering where all the people who have a problem with this would draw the line. When is it OK to express negative things about dead people? Is it based on time passed, level of nastiness of the person, whether they have living relatives who might love them? This is a totally serious question, I am not being snarky.
- Elisa Camahort Page
There is no respect for the dead for me. There is respect for the life they led, how they both lived and died, and for those they leave behind. That guides any comments or expression from me on the dead. Nothing else.
- Michael W. May
@Elisa I think there are tasteful and tactful ways to make political statements or give personal opinions on someone, even if that person is dead. I don't really have a problem with saying you didn't get along with the person, I just think it can be done with a little savoir-faire.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
On the other hand, someone dying doesn't erase the bad things they did in life. Scumbag us a bit harsh though, Marshall.
- Gez
@Shey But surely there's a line. Not to go all Godwin's Law, but are you saying every person deserves tact and savoir-faire, no matter what they did? "Didn't get along with" would not adequately describe the feeling people would rightfully have about various figures in history. I just am wondering if you really think every person or situation deserves such tasteful, polite treatment.
- Elisa Camahort Page
Remember the old adage: Never kick a man when he's down... he might get up. Well, it don't apply to the dead :)
- Ian Betteridge
Im from the uk. Just done a bit more research on this guy. Seems scumbag wasn't too harsh after all. If I wasn't in polite company I may use worse language. Worth noting that his kids will probably have there own different memory of him.
- Gez
Helms was a bully, an unreconstructed racist, a homophobe, a demagogue, and one of the most execrable human beings to ever carry the title "United States Senator."
- Chris Baskind
Does it make me a bad person if I "liked" this one.
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
@Paul L. McCord Jr: I agree that people are shocked by the timing, but I think the more they learned the more they might not care.
- Elisa Camahort Page
You're correct. I redact my description of "homophobe" to "bigot."
- Chris Baskind
@PaulLmccord. No real difference, if you feel either fear or disgust you are a bigot.
- Gez
He even called himself a bigot. No biggie to see you guys calling him one. At least he was willing to stand up for what HE believed in... What do each of us believe in?? Are we willing to look stupid for it? Be berated for it? Even though I disagree with almost everything Jesse Helms believed, I agree with his chutzpah. He was willing to uphold his beliefs even though it went against the grain. Just sayin'.
- Lisa L. Seifert
@Elisa its a fuzzy line to be sure but I think we can all agree that Jesse Helms cannot be equated to Hitler regardless of how much one may disagree with his policies. One of my favorite paragraphs of Carnegie's "how to win friends...": "Martin Luther King was asked how, as a pacifist, hecould be an admirer of Air Force General Daniel "Chappie”James, then the nation’s highest-ranking black officer.Dr. King replied, "I judge people by their ownprinciples - not by my own.”
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
he is dead. may he rest in peace. let's not piss on his grave
- ron k jeffries
it's ironic how people are getting offended at other people who take offense to a man with such an insidious and loathsome history. you know what? good riddance.
- Cee Bee
"Helms was a well known backer of the KKK and other white supremacists; he once referred to the University of North Carolina (UNC) as the "University of Negroes and Communists." we still elect people like this? fuck this guy, good riddance.
- sean percival
You reap what you sow. Live like Helms and your legacy will include things like 'scum bag'. Do we stop talking about how bad Saddam Hussein was? "Hey, he's dead now, let's not kick the cruel dictator now that he's gone." Yes, it's an extreme example, but seriously folks, why not call a spade a spade. (Helms might even like that term.)
- AJ Kohn
Dear Internets, Please let me join new social networks by just clicking a button that says join, and automagically add all of my other friends from other services. Where's my goddamned intelligent agents already??? Sheesh!
Yeah, but I want automagic data portability. I want it to go on in the background. I don't even want to know it's there. I just want to click a button to sign up for a service and be done with it. Or better yet, have my IA sign up for the services it figures I'd be interested in, and then just show me the best content from said services.
- Internet's Tad
Again directeur - I support the movement, I'm just bored by it. Just make it work. ;) The internets is for dumping awesome into the truck of utility.
- Internet's Tad
Tad, I myself already using some of its techs in my products :) If you're a dev do so too, if not pass the message :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
One thing I was wondering along this same vein, are there ajax widgets or something that you could put on your blog/site and allow people to subscribe/follow/digg/stumble/whatever you in one click? Must I visit the actual site every time?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I'd LOVE That Rahsheen! That'd be an excellent intermediate step. I think too many sites are still too worried about attention focusing. They WANT you to visit their site to stroke their ego, ads, etc
- Internet's Tad
I don't see why something like this doesn't exist for all social sites. You are adding the person so that you can interact with them at a later time on that service, so they shouldn't care if you hit the site to add them as a "friend." The "+friend" buttons on Digg work exactly how I want, I would just rather them be on MY site and work for every social network.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I was just twitter-moaning the same thing when I saw this in FF, some of you want leaps and bounds, I'd be happy if I could just join a new network and have all my accounts/contacts automagically connected
- Scott Bannon
from twhirl
actually, it seemed like swurl did that automatically...
- edythe
Ya, we do, check us out http://www.swurl.com/ We try to do as much magic as we can for you, computers are suppose to be smart aren't they?
- Ryan Sit
i was just about to say, I dig that swurl and feedly just kind of did that. I haven't gotten on board with feedly yet but I like the concept. Find me. Don't make me find myself.
- Jason Toney
it is my hope to built it... and then "they" will come :)
- Larry
from twhirl
I want a FireFox plugin that auto logs me in to all the websites I use. I think that would do a lot of good. It seems like this would be possible but no one has written one!
- Stefan Hayden
Brian, one of the reasons I don't use more web services is exactly because I'm sick of signing up for them and manually re-adding all my friends. If sites want us to use them they can either better make it brain dead simple or offer a service so compelling that we're willing to do the hard stuff. For many competitors who don't offer something that much different, an auto-subscription thing that I'm talking about would allow them to attract many more users.
- Internet's Tad
would love to be able to import all my flickr contacts, have them match up with FF accounts where possible and create imaginary friends for the rest which would be replaced by their actual accounts as they joined over time.
- Thomas Hawk
Right Thomas - and you ought to be able to do that just by clicking a single button that says "Import my contacts." Or at the very least have a single button and a drop down - Import -> Flickr
- Internet's Tad
I really like swurl, haven't messed with feedly yet, but even with swurl I had to manually input all of my account names/URL's/etc. to bring everything together. It wasn't hard, but it wasn't automagic either. Brian mentioned OpenID as too passive, I disagree with that and think user data could be expanded to contain the social network connections you have, then when you join a new...
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- Scott Bannon
from twhirl
I was really impressed with how well swurl worked.
- Jason Wehmhoener
concur on swurl doing that automatically via each service - doubt i'll live in it like tend to in ff but it is a cool environment
- mike "glemak" dunn
I'm probably the only one who uses rather different sets of “friends” on each network.
- Amit Patel
Isn't this what gnip is supposed to do? Also, about swurl -- I would say it's been working a LOT of magic, it added a TON of friends of mine on different services. Ryan - Could you consider some bulk-editing tools for the friends tab? Like "mute all people not on swurl", for example?
- Phil G
Agreed that swurl is fantastic behind the scenes once you enter in your account names/url's for each service... what I'd like to see though is a hubbed identity source so that when you join a new service you don't have to enter your FF username, your Twitter username, your FB feed url and etc. Just let me click "join" and find me--and my connections--everywhere.
- Scott Bannon
from twhirl
Also, if it gets too magical, you get a service like spokeo. It's kinda scary.
- Phil G
But the point of new social networks is to shed all your stupid non-friends!
- ⓞnor
I still want people to be able to add me without leaving my website. Isn't that what AJAX is for, after all?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
How about being able to sign up for disparate services/sites here on FF and automatically have all subscriptions updated in said service and automatically have said service's content spewed out here in FF? I want FF to be my primary hub for all things internets.
- Internet's Tad
Brian, there's no "might" about it, if someone can figure out a *good* solution to this problem, they will be sitting on a gold mine.
- Brandon Wood
Did anyone already mention Facebook Connect?
- Amir Gharaat
People wrap bacon around other foods to make them taste better, yet breakfast is the only time it's socially acceptable to eat bacon by itself.
- William Beem
it's really for losers, I dislike breakfast
- Justin Yost
I'm such a winner that sometimes when my wife and kids are off doing stuff together, I go to Cafe Brazil and get me some pecan pancakes. There are few things more satisfying than pancakes that I didn't have to cook. :)
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Wait, what was that first step again?
- Daniel Smith
Of course. Isn't addiction required at this point?
- Her Lindsay-ness
yes :) It hasn't impacted my life yet. A component of my job is watching for trends on the internet.
- Tony Haenn
@Tony same with me - it's integrated into my career.
- Steve Rubel
@k I think I saw a psuedo-science article one time that said there is an "endorphin boost" when we access new information or are waiting for it. Hence the constant need to check email, flip through g. reader etc...So in a sense you are addicted to something just like crack or meth :)
- Tony Haenn
Friendfeed doesn't mean addict in English ?
- Jean-Charles
Hmm... lets see here.. Staying up until 1am catching up on news feeds and/or creating independent media content.... I think I might be. But I can quit any time!
- Mike Wills
@Steve and @Tony...me too...does that make us addicted to work?
- mike
I would feel like I'm cut off from the world if I didn't have *some* connection to e-mail, or Google, or whatever, but I don't think I'm addicted. There are many times (often weekends) where I barely do anything online besides check e-mail... That's why I'm not a very good blogger. :P
- Cheryl Jones
"endorphin boost"? So that explains it. /me quits the internet... but will return when the DTs kick in.
- DeathByNinja
Yup. But I'm ok with 7 days in the woods with no internet too. I think I'm addicted to breathing, eating, and movement. I asked an ex-girlfriend about her addiction to reading "When was the last time you went a day without reading anything?" .... "Uhhh. Can't remember." ;-) See Julian Baldwin's "addicted to learning" thread http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mitchell Tsai
Addicted? No. Not at all. I can quit anytime I want.
- Russell Holliman
To be honest, I am taking a week hiatus the end of this month. Middle of nowhere... no cell phone, no internet, no radio, no TV. I think I'll die! And catch a lot a fish while doing it.
- Mike Wills
I am yes, a program I want to watch is on and I am here!
- Joe Dawson
Absolutely! My wife despairs when she tells me to put the laptop away when we retire at night, and then I roll over and pick up my hiptop! :-)
- Lee Hopkins
Oh, come one. Anyone who reads your confession can relate. After all, it's on FriendFeed. Does anyone other than Internet addicts even use FF? :-)
- Brent Logan
The Internet.... My life...One in the same it appears to me :)
- Keith Bilous
let's find a word stronger than addicted... :)
- Goktug Gedik
I can survive without it for a while before dying of "noise" thirst.
- Roberto Bonini
pretty much, find it tough to deal without Internet connection for more than a day, possible but feels weared, it's where I communicate mostly, it where I hear the news, where I learn something. It's vital oh ye it helps me make a living as well
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I've been away from the internet for hours at a stretch. Sometimes days. But usually, it's because I'm participating in other activities even more addictive than the internet.
- Morton Fox
I'm not addicted to the Internet. It's not like I've been browsing FriendFeed constantly. I take a 30 second break every hour so nobody can say that I spent the whole hour on the Internet. :D
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
from NoiseRiver
I want to marry FF and have half FAIL WHALE babies.. addicted? Never.
- Mona Nomura
I guess I am if I'm upset that I missed this for the past 2 hours. ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
I'm glad that Internet keeps me away from my other addiction: reading books. You know, from reading books you get those tiny, tired eyes, your elbows are getting sore from holding up the book and at a certain moment you don't know how the hell you got to move your body because of stiffness. Well with Internet, after all those hours... Well, I feel the same, but happy. ;-)
- Ton Zijp
I thought those were stuffed animals at first. What is the story behind these pictures? I assume it has something to do with the earthquake and panda sanctuaries in China.
- JP Landry
"Zoriah is one of these great photojournalists. And what I really love about his work is his ability to combine photojournalism with art — I find many of his photos to be highly artistic in nature. He’s completely independent; covering the issues that he wants to cover."
- jerry
from Bookmarklet
"And then they invited her to the film's wrap party in San Francisco. Courtney was elated, as you might imagine. Pixar flew her and her boyfriend into town and put them up in a hotel. You can read their account of the evening here, and there are plenty of great details (including Brad Bird teasing her, "Why don't you cry at any of MY movies?")."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet