(*update: This Friendfeed is paused.)loves Japan, design & anything out-of-the-box. Likes breaking stereotypes. Huge fan of Gintama. More > http://bit.ly/3OrOln
Ahsan, remember me suggesting you digitize your handwriting? That time, there were no free solutions; but that excuse is now no longer valid =P
- vijay
from Bookmarklet
Great lines... "don't worry we still have plurk"?? (on another note he must be my favorite actor in the whole world... had me at "wings of desire" in the 90s...)
- Iphigenie
DMCA notices aren't new on Alex. I guess it just took Downfall parodies to make you aware of that...
- Spidra Webster
Yes, and as far as I know these videos have weathered this storm before and remained up after someone at YouTube wisely discovered that parody is protected as free speech.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Still works for me. Guess because I'm the owner?
- Mark Trapp
I just downloaded this one for my personal collection, rescuing it before it gets DMCA'd. (was the first vid I thought of when I heard about the takedowns)
- April Russo
I don't mind if you save it for your personal use, heck you're well within your rights to do so, but if people are re-uploading it, that's pretty tacky.
- Mark Trapp
(Same comment here:) Ah, wait!!!! It was Hitler's birthday today (yesterday here). At Google they felt they couldn't disrespect him at such a day.
- Ton Zijp
I think it's been unblocked pending response by whatever-they-are-called, but I've also uploaded it to my Vimeo account here: http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...
- Mark Trapp
Creamy Dessert Makes a Mockery of Tradition ( I sure as hell hope not! I love Japan for it's minimalist traditions. ) - http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009...
"Could it be true? Has Japan, the land of the eternally small—small homes, small cars, small people—decided to turn over a new leaf and venture into the world of bigness? Could a gargantuan creme caramel spell the end of Japan as we know it? As if to spit in the eye of centuries of Japanese miniaturizing, the people at Takara Tomy have created the astounding Giga Pudding, a flan so large you have to make it in a bucket. Luckily, the bucket’s included."
- vijay
from Bookmarklet
Akiva likes flan. I bet he'd love bucket o' flan.
- Rochelle
I'm more a crème brûlée guy, but by the bucket would soon make me an ex-crème brûlée guy.
- Micah
Which reminds me to ask, is Farrell's Ice Cream still around. I can't think of anything that said "excess" more growing up. Also, a bunch of kids armed with spoons diving into a single, huge platter of mounded ice cream is 'just wow' now.
- Micah
Small cars? Someone hasn't seen the Toyota Crown, or the V12 Toyota Century
- Mo Kargas
Beware of people saying "go ahead. Open up. Put everything you do, online!" They are facebook employees & by 'online' they mean 'facebook'. Remember, in the world of 'FREE', the currency is 'FREE'DOM. YOUR freedom. And if they come up to you and say 'We -Do No Evil-', just smile, back up slowly and run as far as you can, away from them.
* takes tinfoil... passes on the rest... lights up doobie and goes into reflective mood * remember the time when we went from being a part of friendfeed to being a part of facebook, overnight, without our consent and without any warning?
- vijay
Remember when people actually paid for stuff in currency other than the tacit agreement to be exploited at a later date? Ah the memories. :)
- mikepk
“The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential, because you can still do those things on your other, primary computer — is liberating.” - Daring Fireball: Maybe Instead of Two Cars, You Just Need a Car and a Bicycle Gruber, as usual, nails it.
- vijay
Filed under: Macintosh, Office, Productivity Ommwriter is a Mac word processor with a bit of a gimmick. Like one of my favorite writing apps for the Mac, WriteRoom, Ommwriter goes full-screen, with a minimal interface and a focus on avoiding distractions. Ommwriter is even more extreme, though, adding a calming background and soothing music to the mix, and restricting your control over text formatting to a bare minimum to reduce fiddling. The good: that fiddling-reduction thing really works. You can make your text larger or smaller, and choose between three fonts, but that's it. It keeps you away from the controls and focused on your words. Also good: there are 7 different musical selections, and the option to turn the music off altogether (which I recommend you exercise). The default background is quite attractive, but you can switch to basic white if you don't like it. The bad: your only options for saving your Ommwriter docs are plain .txt or Ommwriter's own format. I suppose...
- vijay
The University of East Anglia's Hadley Climatic Research Centre appears to have suffered a security breach earlier today, when an unknown hacker apparently downloaded 1079 e-mails and 72 documents of various types and published them to an anonymous FTP server. Much of this information is damning, and shows the Centre involved in sharp practices.
- vijay
Dozens of giant Nomura jellyfish along the eastern coast of Japan capsized the 10-ton fishing trawler, known as the Diasan Shinsho-maru. According to news sources, the incident occurred when three fishermen attempted to haul in a net containing dozens of these enormous jellyfish, which weigh as much as 440 pounds and can grow up to 6 [...] Related posts:530 Lbs Giant Fish drags boat over 20 milesGiant Japanese Jellyfish Turned into CandyPink Land Jellyfish Invade Japan’s Shores This is only a summary of the article. Click on the title to read it in full.
- vijay
Here's another Unite build for you to test. This time we have worked on making image generation in the Photo Sharing application faster (DSK-271038), and as you can see there are a few other tweaks as well. Give it a spin, and let us know if you find any regressions since the previous build. Download Windows MSI / Windows Classic Macintosh (Universal) / Macintosh (Intel-only) UNIX/Linux ...
- vijay
Mostly, I like it; it's very strong. I especially like the heat-map they've used for the Most Commented stories. The only thing I'd criticize is something Mark Trapp has already pointed out (http://friendfeed.com/itafrom...), and that's the serif font on the light background - I had to Zoom the text to make it properly legible for my poor old eyes.
- Andrew Terry
Looks like they love the new features too much... so much that they deemed it necessary to -highlight- every single one of them to the extreme. It's over the top and all over the place. I'm not a big fan of this effort. But as with every redesign these days some like it, some don't and few days later everyone has moved on. I get engadget as RSS so does't affect me that much.
- vijay
stunned. Just saw God do a Michael Bay.It was like a blinding ball of fire abt a quarter of the moon's size streaking across the sky. lucky.
aye Mo... this one was free and hella scary :D Not often do you see a meteor this huge and this close, rocket right over your head. For that 5 seconds, night turned into day. My first thought was "omg... we are screwed". This is beyond once-in-a-lifetime; this is once-in-many-many-lifetimes.
- vijay
Chris I wish! Waaay too fast to take pics. I would have taken a video but who thought we would get such a humongous monster? I was expecting the usual cute little trails far far away in the sky.
- vijay
also, best thing about it not being Mr Bay? No crappy shakey cam footage ;)
- alphaxion
Btw, this one was -reaaal- close... was flying at only 13 miles above the ground(a mere hair's breadth in the cosmic scale) --->- http://bit.ly/1KPm7C wow. we almost didn't have to wait around for 2012.
- vijay