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You are looking a little green, I think you've already had too much! ;-) - Jeff P. Henderson

Uh-oh - a new shower picture forthcoming? - AJ Kohn

Cheers Robert. - Nicholas Kreidberg

im scrubbing my list and using the hide feature like never before. however thats creating a much better overall experience. all around win. - sean percival

What's with all the tequila lately Bob? Shit's disgusting. Pick up some Riesling! - Mitch

AJ:: I haven't had that many shots yet! - Robert Scoble

Please don't take pictures if he gets naked - spare the rest of us ;-) - Jesse Stay

@Robert: Cheers! And hey ... the night is young and FriendFeed is rockin. - AJ Kohn

Mitch, don't diss the nectar of the gods. - Alex Scoble

I can verify this as truth beyond reproach. :) - Robert J Taylor

Dear god, I wish I could favorite this. - Mike Nayyar

First typo, that means the shower scene is drawing closer... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

i know the feeling. almost done with a bottle of wine. - Thomas Hawk

Things are always more fun with tequila :) - Luke Kilpatrick

Sometimes I wish my computers had breathalyzers. - Michael McKean

Luke: until the morning! - Robert Scoble

Does the bartender take PayPal? I'll buy the next round for ya...just to see what happens next :-) - Jim McCusker

Jim: unfortunately no. - Robert Scoble

Alex - Oh I'm firmly dissing it. So are my stomach and esophagus. - Mitch

+1 Tina ... A few more Robert .... please - Charlie Anzman

Since when 1 shot of tequilla makes a grown (and green) man drunk? sigh.. only in America.. ;) - jacek

Is the little Twitter maintenance caterpillar in the bottom of the bottle? - Todd Clausen

haha - Mitch

FriendFeed is slowly discovering all the links that I've been collecting for my future blog post, “We are all color blind.” - Amit Patel

This appeals to be in a bizarre fashion. - Jerry Welch

"Note that the above optical density is for a human lens of about 5 mm thickness. The optical density is proportional to the thickness of the lens. As will become apparent below, smaller animals have better ultraviolet visibility than humans because of their thinner lens. Larger animals have even less sensitivity in the ultraviolet and even blue regions for the same reason." - bob

And the fourth color look like pea soup? ;-) - Jim Norris

Yeah but I'm guessing the lens blocks UV A for a reason, which has something to do with keeping your retinas from being fried. Just a guess though ;-) - Karim

How would we process the data, though? (For that matter, how do X-chromosome heterozygous tetrachomats process the data?) Our retina and visual pipeline is pretty set up for trichromacy. - ⓞnor

nor, that's interesting, where could I learn more about "our retina and visual pipeline is pretty set up for trichromacy"? - Jason Wehmhoener

j1m probably has some more technical references, but I very highly recommend reading http://www.handprint.com/HP... if you are at all into geeking out about the fundamentals of color. From http://www.handprint.com/HP...: "Evolution could arrive at a more complex visual system, but it would require modifying a visual cortex specialized to receive and interpret the three cone outputs; adding a fourth cone would mean reengineering the brain as well." - ⓞnor

So has anyone had these new lenses installed? I thought that was a relatively common procedure. Maybe they use uv blocking replacements? - Paul Buchheit

I've heard of experiments where people (probably Army "volunteers") had their vision extended into near-UV, but with the predicted retina-burning results. - Gabe

Cataract surgery and the use of replacement intraocular lenses has been around for a while. I am not sure, but I am under the impression that originally people were encouraged to wear sunglasses or UV-blocking lenses to block UV, though lately the replacement lenses seem to block UV (see http://archopht.ama-assn.org/cgi...). This is to prevent retinal damage. - Karim

There is a fascinating article here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science... that confirms my suspicions that UV looks like the color white under a black light: whiter than white, tinged with blue or violet. If you have ever seen someone's clothes or teeth glowing under a blacklight, you might have an idea what being able to see into the near UV is like. - Karim

I am not of the opinion that a fourth cone would require re-engineering the brain, so much as it might involve co-opting the existing channels. UV might be perceived as a change in brightness (luminance) rather than a new color (chroma). - Karim

paul, egnor: the studies that this article refers to involved people who had their lense in one eye replaced. One of the investigators is himself akaphic and can see UV: http://starklab.slu.edu/humanUV... Karim's link is good too. - Sanjeev Singh

@Karim, the problem is that the perception of brightness will continue to be needed for (a drum roll) actual brightness. - j1m

:-D good point, j1m. i guess i am thinking of UV looking "unnaturally" bright, glowing, the way the color white does under a blacklight. so the perception of UV would be of things being radioactive ;-) just a guess, mind you... - Karim

I think you might actually need to have one normal eye to see uv light: you'd need to compare the differences between the eyes and if your UV eye sees a whitish blue that the normal eye doesn't, then it's UV. - Sanjeev Singh

Well, think about how you see violet -- you don't need a violet-sensitive and a non-violet-sensitive eye, just a violet-sensitive cone, whose signal can be compared to a few non-violet-sensitive cones a few microns away from it. - j1m

From the sound of it, there is no UV cone, it's just that the regular cones are uv sensitive (though the blue more so), which is why it looks like a bluish white. - Paul Buchheit

sent. Although I nearly typed shift 2 :-) - Duncan Riley

Haha. :) Thank you! - Jennifer Leggio

Bjorn, need an email address, no other way of doing it I'm afraid - Duncan Riley

I actually kinda like it so far. Threaded convo + notification is kinda cool. I think the notification piece is what is noticeably missing from Plurk. - Jennifer Leggio

bwana at bwana dot org. Thanks :) - Bwana ☠ from fftogo

21 left, enjoy - Duncan Riley

I'd be happy to come play on yet *another* new microblog... no really? ;) geekmommyblog at gmail. Speaking of which - you must agree that http://www.socbut.com wins the prize for WORST name of a new microblog site. :) - Lucretia Pruitt

Anyone got an invite for lil ole me? colin @ colinwalker dot me dot uk - Colin Walker from fftogo

Duncan, if there are any more can you send one to robdiana at gmail dot com? Thanks. - Rob Diana

What does one more microblogging service hurt, right? lol. OnkelSchark at gmail dot com please. Thanks Duncan! - Mark Douglass

I talked about it on Profy this week in the Workarounds post. I'm trying it out, so have invites if people want them. - Leslie Poston

how 'bout kwippyinvite (at or near) kshep.net. kthxbye! :-) - Ken Sheppardson

invites sent. Anyone else wanting them I'm heading to bed (just back in from a night out), happily send more in the morning, alternatively everyone on this thread is in, so has invites as well. - Duncan Riley

thanks Duncan! - Mark Douglass

one more pls dobromirh *at* gmail *dot* com - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Russellreno at gmail - Russellreno

I just got a Kwippy account. It looks really neat. It's certainly more featureful than identi.ca - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I absolutely love Kwippy! I wish more people were using it. - ChaCha Fance

Beta invites? Cool. klecu1 at gmail - Kevin L

Cool. I didn't tried them yet. Too many of them... just too many...(I'd love to hear if this one worth it though) - Orli Yakuel

I kinda like Kwippy. It's basically like all these other sites but you can mainly post from GTalk or Yahoo Messenger. No need for an Adobe AIR client in my view. - Outsanity

It's kinda like making blog posts simply from Yahoo or GTalk if you look at it like that. - Outsanity

Site looks pretty. Makes me want to start Kwipping. - Jesse McPherson

Changing the view to only your Plurks really helps one follow where you have participated better. Your replies in other threads show up better also. - Roney Smith

I love the Plurk timeline but the service itself is nothing more than a clone. A clone whose "innovation" (sarcasm) is easily implemented for any other of like services. - Jesse McPherson

Best comment I saw was Plurk was simply a clone but aimed at the teen-age market. - AJ Kohn

One of the services that I have not bothered to even try. No need to - Deepak Singh

waits for krulp to come out of alpha testing - Moved to Facebook

Ok, i'm really not going to bother standing up for it on this one...anyone interested in hearing my views can read here: http://friendfeed.com/e... or you can read here: http://www.plurk.com/p/10hhb . What i will say really is clone or no clone, the attention to detail, embedded media, conversation views, constant activity, customization, cool people of ALL ages and service reliability...is why i keep going back. - Zee.

trust me, when people constantly respond to your every posting on Plurk, you'd find that it can be quite versatile (each plurk has it's own url, just bookmark the important discussions, simple). I'm basically treated like a 'johnny come lately' or worse on twitter, ignored, un-followed, my links rarely acknowledged but people are really polite and curious about what I share on Plurk. Plurk allows people to share little thumbs of photos/Flickr and Youtube, which makes me far more interesting to a new friends - Darren Daz Cox

Darren: you're noticing the early-adopter-phenomenon. Twitter used to be like that for me. Then the masses moved in. FriendFeed is like that for me right now too. We'll see if it stays nice and friendly a year from now. - Robert Scoble

*trying it out* - Darren Daz Cox

Google can afford it. lol - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

those kids and their damn "free videos." - Thomas Hawk

I'm not saying videos shouldn't be free. I'm saying that I'm already warmed up while enjoying some entertainment. If I wanted a follow-on product, it would be perfect timing. - Chris Brogan