I clearly need to get to bed because I saw this at the top of the page and thought, "Wait. It's Sunday already? Where did the week go?" ooph.
- ♥patricia♥
Conventional logic holds that people don't carry baseballs around with them. Conventionally, would you think a person with pockets full of baseballs as "normal"? Do you carry everything you own in case you have to logically prove to someone that you own it in the event that some conventional debate arises?
- Darian Rawson
Omg I found it. Derrick, one more! :)
- Mona Nomura
Are you familiar with "Russell's Teapot?" : "If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion...
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- Christopher A Carr
I've never known a christian to react like that when someone asks to prove Gods existence. If someone is sincerly asking the question we'll usually talk about why we believe. If someone is being hostile I'll walk away.
- ChiliMac
ChiliMac, on a serious note, it's really dependent on the parties conversing. I've openly had many discussions on religion. It's also helpful to comprehend the other party's(ies') views and backgrounds, to have amicable discussions. :)
- Mona Nomura
Mona: You are absolutely right, it does depend on the parties. I believe most people still know how to and are polite and respectful of one another. I was having this conversation with a friend from my church the other night. His roommate had criticized him for reading books by Dawkins. We disagreed with him. We should understand those who have different opinions then ours and be respectful to one another.
- ChiliMac
could also be titled "conventional logic vs evolutionist logic" or "conventional logic vs global warming logic". i see more unfounded dogma from these two groups than any other.
- Brooks Bayne
Yeah, Brooks... or "conventional logic vs. round Earth logic," or "conventional logic vs. heliocentric solar system logic." I'm sick of dogmatic round-Earth liberals! If the Earth is so round, why don't Australians fall into space? Eh? Answer that secular libs!
- Christopher A Carr
Definitely something Richard Dawkins would approve of! :) And @ChristopherCarr - the Celestial Teapot was the first thing I thought of when I saw this.
- jack
"But he took it a step further, allowing fans to pay for backstage access and dinner with NIN during their current tour with Jane's Addiction. (Mr. Reznor claims this will be NIN's last jaunt on the road). He raised more than $850,000 for Mr. De La Cruz. "I was amazed that I could do that," Mr. Reznor said. "We want to turn it more into about change in the healthcare system, and these stories, these small stories about people can help do that." Sure thing, Mr. Reznor. You could have it all."
- Brad Williamson
from Bookmarklet
Today's young "musicians" need to take a good hard look at how Trent operates in this music industry and let a little of his intelligence brush off on them.
- Brad Williamson
I might have joined the "Media News and Analysis" group if you didn't spam every one of your messages with a comment about it. Chill out with the promotion man.
- David Chartier
Sorry David. The door is always open for ya in the future ;-)
- Brad Williamson
OMG - I'm gonna hafta second Mona here and say... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- Tad
You didn't look... too... fat... really... :)
- Michael Forian
"I won't sell your um e-mail address. Everything is safe with me, because, you know, I own everything." HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA
- Mona Nomura
So can we blame Pirillo for all of those spinning text GIF's that we were assaulted with in the 90's? : )
- Mike Doeff
Mike - for the record, I needed something relatively awesome to show on TV. There weren't that many amazing programs out there back in early '97. It was either spinning text or a rick roll, and since Rick Rolling didn't hit it big until recently...
- l0ckergn0me
Wild that that was only 11+ years ago... wow. The Dark Ages.
- Tad
Pretty amazing how smooth you were for a first appearance!
- John Rubier
I was thinking the same thing John, you seemed more relaxed there than on C4H
- Bwana ☠
This is insane. the dude on the other side needs to lay off the java for real.
- tony
Being a guest and being a host are two completely different things. Guests shouldn't be over-the-top. I was more like Tim when I hosted for a reason.
- l0ckergn0me
@Tony - lol. Check out some of Tim's videos on YouTube (link in Chris' video info). He's a riot!
- John Rubier
That was great... wow... 11 years ago. You've come a long way, Chris!!
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
I remember I used to get criticized for preferring NT4 over Win9x :P I think at the time of this video, I was a full Linux head
- Bwana ☠
You looked as if you had been doing this for some time. The other gentleman looked nervous.
- Adriana
Agreeing with Caroline. I've also noticed some guys just get better with age. It's not fair!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Ooohhh Novell is one of the big guys. Can't wait for Win98. That will rock.
- Louis Gray
This Software rocks and is worth every buck!! xD
- Dieter Schwarz
Dieter - Xara3D is still pretty damn amazing. No equivalent for it on Mac OS X.
- l0ckergn0me
Wow this is Old School right here. Thanks for sharing this Chris. I think this goes up there with Baumer promoting Windows 95. In great stuff from the 90s on youtube :)
- Shawn aka ringking
While we can now use a retail Mac OS X DVD to turn our PC into a hackintosh, we still need a bootloader to get it to recognize and install OS X the first time. The good news is, after a successful installation, we can now install any updates from Apple without breaking our system or reinstall the operating system without having to add the same kexts (drivers) that we already have that makes our non-Mac standard hardware peripherals work.
- Leo Laporte
My main system is a generic PC running OSX86, and for what it is I LOVE it! The scene has come a lonnnnnng way since Tiger 10.4.6. I remember putting that on my old VAIO. That's when it was really tricky. Now, getting a new fully working OSX system at a fraction of the cost is a piece of cake!
- John Reynolds
i love these photos, what dont you like about them?
- Melissa Maskevich
I like them too. I bet he is a bit embarrassed by them though. I know I would be.
- Yolanda
They are simply hilarious to me. U look @ them and think this dweeb would one day be the POTUS?
- R. Ferguson
i think he looks very handsome, cool, relaxed, and fun. we should be so lucky to have a president like this. nothing embarrassing whatsoever. i heart obama :)
- Melissa Maskevich
I think he looks handsome too, but he's got too much of that Lou Bega thing going on. I keep half expecting him to break out into a rendition of Mambo #5. Vegas girls and all that...
- Helen Sventitsky
Awesome photos! He looks a bit like Jimi Hendrix with the hat on. Probably not the image the president elect would most prefer, but it could be worse. Maybe he could have also been rolling with Denzel in American Gangster :P
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
What if these came out BEFORE the Electoral College voted? The way that colleges punish people for social media excesses, you never know what could have happened.
- Ontario Emperor
Definitely recommend. Informal testing on my XP tablet shows it's noticeably faster than Windows.
- Voyagerfan5761
from fftogo
i use it, registered it last year when they had a rebate (you get a bit more options and flexibility, thats all). Pretty excellent for speeding up copying of lots of little files.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
A must have utility, way better then Vista's, XP's internal copy/move operations
- Ozkan Altuner
I love this app. and use it all the time. Continues to copying/moving files when one or more files are in use or locked, unlike the default Windows!!
- Mark Layton
I highly recommend TeraCopy. Very fast and useful.
- ComicList
Wish there was something like this for OS X.
- l0ckergn0me
I can vouch for this. Great product. The beta 2.0 version works well too.
- Paul Whitaker
"GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson said the auto maker, which leases the planes, had decided to get rid of two of its five remaining jets before this week's hearings as part of deep cost cutting under way at the company. The company sold two planes in September. "We understand the symbolic issue of people showing up in Washington in corporate jets," Wilkinson said. "We're very sensitive to that." All travel at the company is getting cut dramatically as GM, which burned through $6.9 billion in cash in the third quarter, struggled to stay afloat. GM has eliminated half the workers who staff its Detroit-based hangar and planes, Wilkinson said. Wilkinson said GM's top executives are required to use company planes for air travel as part of security requirements set by the company's board of directors. The planes make for expedient, safe travel and also allow executives and their teams to travel to places not easily accessible by commercial airlines, he said."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
One rainy night eight years ago, in Watertown, Massachusetts, a man was taking his dog for a walk. On the curb, in front of a neighbor’s house, he spotted a pile of trash: old mattresses, cardboard boxes, a few broken lamps. Amidst the garbage he caught sight of a battered suitcase. He bent down, turned the case on its side and popped the clasps. He was surprised to discover that the suitcase was full of black-and-white photographs. He was even more astonished by their subject matter: devastated buildings, twisted girders, broken bridges — snapshots from an annihilated city. He quickly closed the case and made his way back home. At the kitchen table, he looked through the photographs again and confirmed what he had suspected. He was looking at something he had never seen before: the effects of the first use of the Atomic bomb. The man was looking at Hiroshima. In a dispassionate and scientific style, the seven hundred and one photographs inside the suitcase catalogued a city seared by a new form of warfare
- Cee Bee
I've posted the one photo out of the lot which is creepy as crap. The article says there's 701 photos. Where are they all? Higher res too please!
- Will Higgins™
wow! I was too sad to go see the museum at Hiroshima while visiting the area. Someone told me there are body forms vaporized on a piece of sidewalk. Could not imagine the horror. chills
- Janet
This Pipe allow you to post a message and (optionally) a link, a comment and up to three images to either your Friendfeed stream or a Friendfeed room. [via http://friendfeed.com/e...]
- LouCypher
i'm confused, so when would this be useful?
- Zee.
I believed the FF bookmarklet can do all that with just one click.
- Jonathan Kong
This is a proof of concept. you can now build your own app that [e.g.] reads your band's tour dates and posts a reminder about each gig one day before the show (the public has a short memory). This way you can afford to be offline while touring. This is just from the hip. I'm sure you can think of other ways to use this pipe
- ĎÚβĨŐÚŚ Dod
@Jonathan: but you can't post an image directly from the web and linking to image URL (case: http://friendfeed.com/e...), OR post an image that isn't on a web page (example: http://friendfeed.com/e...), OR post 3 images and each image is linking to different URL (example: http://friendfeed.com/e...). Can your bookmarklet do any of those?
- LouCypher
White’s Books, ex-Penguin designer David Pearson’s new venture, hopes to reaffirm traditional methods of book production. The first four offerings from the publishing house are out this month, sporting covers by illustrators Petra Börner, Joe McLaren, Stanley Donwood (above) and Pearson himself… The selection will no doubt be on a few Christmas lists this winter, thanks in no small part to Pearson’s art direction on the project he founded with publisher, Jon Jackson. We talked to Pearson about their work to date and his first illustration commissions. http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog...
- Cee Bee
I understand what Dan means. The developer is famed for pissing people off left, right and centre. Google his name... I should stress that I've never had any problems with him, and I've bought a few of his apps.
- Brad Brooks
"I’ve been noticing lately, much to my delight, that there seems to be a resurgence in retro themed web designs. Whether we’re feeling nostalgic for the classic floral wallpaper in Grandma’s old kitchen or simply watching too much Mad Men; retro appears to be in vogue. This has led me to scouring the Internets on the prowl for the perfect retro Photoshop pattern. I ended up finding 208 of ‘em, and thought I’d share them with you. Enjoy, daddy-o."
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
This is cool, but it doesn't seem like typography to me?
- Jason Wehmhoener
doesn't have to be about letters necessarily. visual design in general
- Cee Bee
" Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed together to form a composite. Unlike conventional composite materials, though, it conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or brass. "All those things are what a lot of people in nanotechnology have been working toward as sort of Holy Grails," said Wade Adams, a scientist at Rice University."
- RAPatton
Chris, unfortunately, by not voting for Obama or McCain, it is LIKE you're not voting at all even if you do vote.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Because a vote for anyone other than Obama or McCain is a vote for no one. This isn't a 3 party system. This is a binary system. You can either vote for A or B. A vote for neither is a vote for the winner. Lucky for all of us Obama doesn't need your vote to take Washington. And voting for Ron Paul won't get you anything but an excess of smug.
- Alex Scoble
Obama is an idiot. McCain is also an idiot. Discuss. Either way, Alex, you're voting for an idiot. :)
- l0ckergn0me
I'm with you, Chris. And seriously considering my uncle's job offer in Europe.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Europe will be going into a recession too. This will be a global downturn.
- Ralph Poole
Or Baldwin or McKinney or Riva or McEnulty or Weill or Moore or Calero
- Amber, Random Time Lord
This is the one year I've held my nose and voted mainstream. I almost always go third party.
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
neither man is an idiot. they are both quite intelligent. unfortunately, mccain tarnished his reputation as he's clearly willing to do anything to win.
- don loeb
Idiots they may be, but they're the only choices we've got if we want our votes to matter at all. And I would rather have the lesser of two idiots in office so I will cast my lot on Nov. 4th for the one I prefer.
- Lindsay is in 20-ten
Call Obama what you will, but "idiot" is weak.
- jcunwired
You're right in that they both suck. I'm getting a write-in ballot so that I can vote "present." Legitimizing either, even in the slightest way, would require my abandoning too many important principles. This is all about stewardship... what I leave for my kid... what my generation keeps and improves for the next. When the parties nominated these two, it was nothing but FAIL.
- Bob Finch
Because, as a regular third-party voter myself, the third party choices this year range from horrible to the usual gang of idiots to even nuttier than usual.
- Rob Haas
Neither is an idiot. Both are tools. I'll throw away my vote to a third party and sleep well for the next four years.
- Mark Jaquith
from twhirl
having to choose a lesser of 2 evils is no choice at all! If neither of the candidates are what you want, why do you have to vote for one of them anyway to spite the other? surely you would vote for who you want. Personally, I would LOVE to see a "no confidence in system of government" box appear on ballots too so they can guage just how many people think government is fundamentally broken!
- alphaxion
"This is no easy A-B-C! Marion Bataille’s 3-D exploration of the alphabet is truly a work of art. From the lenticular cover to the clever execution throughout, bold letters move from point A to Z in ways you never imagined possible. Discover this treasure & prepare to be amazed! Hardcover. Approximately 7.25”x5.75”" $19.95
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
"McCain misstated his own health care plan, saying he’d give a $5,000 tax credit to “every American” His plan actually would provide only $2,500 per individual, or $5,000 for couples and families. He also misstated Obama’s health care plan, claiming it would levy fines on “small businesses” that fail to provide health insurance. Actually, Obama’s plan exempts “small businesses.”"
- Clint Ecker
from Bookmarklet
"McCain lamented that the U.S. was forced to “withdraw in humiliation” from Somalia in 1994, but he failed to note that he once proposed to cut off funding for troops to force a faster withdrawal."
- Clint Ecker
"McCain claimed “1.3 million people in America make their living off eBay.” Actually, only 724,000 persons in the U.S. have income from eBay, and only some of them rely on it as their primary source."
- Clint Ecker
McCain press release: The direct cost of this plan would be roughly $300 billion because the purchase of mortgages would relieve homeowners of “negative equity” in some homes. ... It may be necessary for Congress to raise the overall borrowing limit. Minutes later, McCain was attacking Obama for proposing what he said was $860 billion in new spending.
- Clint Ecker
"Obama’s plan requires large businesses to provide coverage for their employees or pay into a national plan, not "small businesses," as McCain said. Obama's health care proposal, posted on his Web site, says: “Small businesses will be exempt from this requirement.”"
- Clint Ecker
"McCain repeated an error he made in the last debate when he said, "In Lebanon, I stood up to President Reagan, my hero, and said, if we send Marines in there, how can we possibly beneficially affect this situation? And said we shouldn't. Unfortunately, almost 300 brave young Marines were killed." In fact, as we noted previously, McCain wasn't elected until three months after the...
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- Clint Ecker
Wow, look at all of McCain's mistakes! Good thing Obama didn't make any.
- Darian Rawson
You can post those, I'm just cataloguing McCain's gaffes.
- Clint Ecker
Well, you might want to reconsider. I mean, that could conceivably take up ALL of your time.
- Darian Rawson
I actually think that looks OK, might have to try it out.......
- Iain Baker
I must admit, I am tempted, but the thought of how long I would need to spend on the elliptical machine to work that off is keeping my taste buds at bay.
- Aaron Krug
That does look like something I'd try once.
- ronin
I can beat that. Went to lunch with a friend who had a deep-fried oyster po' boy. The whole sandwich was deep-friend. Not the oysters.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Please Help Kevin! DIGG it! THANK U Tweeters!! FREE Michael Moore Movie!! Spread It!! http://slackeruprising.com/# OBAMA ALL THE WAY!! No more Bush! + No McANUS!! Peace
- Billy Warhol