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Recipe for Sexy Time: Taiwanese Sweet Butter Brick Toast 奶酥吐司 | sinosoul.com - http://sinosoul.com/?p=3594
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Cheryl Jones, R1CC1, Onur Gündüz and 33 other people liked this
"Recipe for “Butter Milk” in Chinese courtesy of Flower Grass Garden. Ingredients: 1/2 cup of non-fat powered milk 1/3 cup of granulated sugar, dial down for less sugary result. 1/3 cup of salted butter 1/2 egg yolk 2 slices of 1″-thick brick toast. Margarine is actually a better substitute than butter as it melts much quicker into the bread, but a true carb whore will always drop her panties faster upon the smell of real butter. Here comes the tough part: don’t use regular bread and don’t even think about doubling up Wonder Bread. I use dense toast found at Asian bakeries, may it be Japanese/Chinese or otherwise. The last time around, the source of brick toast was Domie’s Bakery in Rosemead. The cashier girl, knowing the ultimate purpose for said loaf, smiled wide & deftly sliced the 6″ loaf of bread into fours, resulting in slices that are 1.5″ thick. This is good. Girls like it thick, so they tell me."
- edythe
from Bookmarklet
lord! that looks so nom!
- vijay
doesn't it, though?!
- edythe
Yeah, lots of breakfast places served us toast like this in Taiwan. Frequently they made it with different flavoured butters, like coconut or chocolate.
- Louis Simoneau
omg, coconut or chocolate!!
- edythe
I think i'd love it with peanut butter! :D
- BeeLing
ahhhh the 626
- cysko
ha, cysko. :)
- edythe
gonna try this one definitely
- c'est mahéshieux
got some panties you need dropped, c'est mahéshieux? ;)
- edythe
Want. I wonder if our Asian supermarket has that toast.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Bah. Yu Yu did not have the toast (9/12). :(
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
aww, sorry, mage. :|
- edythe
yummy, but half a yolk makes my brain hurt, though...
- Michael W. May
a wicked hhaahaahaaah to @edythe
- cysko
VICTORY IS IMMINENT! I never could find the Japanese bakery in town, but I'd totally forgotten about a little market I used to live near named Hibari. Fortunately, Asian people know where to get Asian foods; imagine that! http://friendfeed.com/minimag...
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I like the somewhat similar but easier-to-make sweetened condensed milk toast - you just spread a whole bunch of sweetened condensed milk on toast and pop it in the toaster oven.
- Andrew C
I like the subtitles on this post. I kinda doubt sweet butter brick toast will get you an Asian girl in Vancouver; I mean, I think you have a decent chance of just finding this at your local bubble tea/snacks joint. But haha to "smarter than Chowhounders." =)
- Andrew C
If I thought this would make an Asian girl--or any other girl, for that matter--sleep with me, I would not make the toast!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
hee, minimage. :)
- edythe
I suck! Last night, I bought milk in case mine had gone sour (it had) and butter, in case I was out. Got home after a birthday party and discovered all my eggs were bad. Bought eggs today, then got home and realized the recipe said POWDERED milk, which I've never had in my life. This may be worse than the misadventures I had after reading Mona's moaning about steamed mussels and fries. FML?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
aw, minimage. are you sure your eggs are bad? i think they're actually good from 3-5 weeks after the sell by date.
- edythe
The eggs were definitely bad. I still haven't found powdered milk.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Ray H, Junebug (aka Sarah Jill), /metin civelek and 98 other people liked this
I am in love.
- Joe
Zoinks!
- Ken Kennedy
solidarity, sister, lol
- chaz2b
That's hot.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Oh dear god.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I saw her first, Holden. Back off.
- Joe
I'm pretty sure my husband would fight all of you off if necessary. Then again, he hasn't seen me with a beard yet.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Well now, that's more like it! #beardmeme
- Josh Haley
Well just in case bearded lady, I am free.
- Joe
very funny! looks like Jesus!
- orionstarr
Well, that's certainly a first for me...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Ah, I recognize that photo. It's from the high school photo meme. So this is a meme mashup. Well done Tina.
- Mark Krynsky
looks like a grilled cheese sandwich :)
- Edward Zwart
That looks just like the old circus freak posters of the beared lady. Maybe you missed your calling. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
Beards of the realm, unite!
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
wow. fits surprisingly well! Solidarity WIN.
- vijay
Can we find a way to put this onto /b/?
- Mike Nayyar
Like they said, you actually look good in it ;-)
- BeeLing
It definitely has the Jesus look.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Well, the straight up PSD didn't fit well so I did some rotating and skewing...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That's what she said.
- Glen Mistletoe
That came out pretty tight.
- Joe
That's what she said.
- Glen Mistletoe
It cracks me up every time it reappears. The gift that keeps on giving.
- Joe
That's what she said!
- Glen Mistletoe
Alright, for some reason this reminds me of the phone call I had with my mother Sunday, when we both started talking in really crappy Sean Connery accents. Fabuloush!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hawt.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
Haha Glen
- Rodfather
"Trabek... you wousshee..."
- Mark "DerBingle" J
x_x
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Nice!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Color in those red lips. But give me a 5 minute head start to draw a crowd.
- Moved to Facebook
from fftogo
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
Aaa Alev'in yabancısı :P
- sunipeyk
Full powered FFunderbeard!
- Holly Rae, FFer
This is a ma...wot?
- vicster
hawt!
- Rob Sellen :o)
*snicker* Cracks me up every time!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
not sure why, think you look quite... fetching. :P
- Rob Sellen :o)
hehehehe
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
That's a very professionally kept beard. Maybe this should be your new professional avatar. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
Nah, this photo is way too misleading, Jason. My hair isn't nearly this long any more.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Bumped for cuteness.
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Bumped, with a razor. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Somehow Dave hadn't yet seen this picture. He couldn't decide whether it was hilarious or mortifying...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
ROFL
- Laura Lou Who
missed ya tina.. can I stroke that? :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Olan Mills FTW
- Paul Reynolds
If it's a school picture, you KNOW it's Olan Mills! At least, that's the way it was around here. Those folks had a lock on the uncomfortably posed photo market.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
uncomfortable pose? looks pretty comfortable to me lol :P
- Rob Sellen :o)
Tina!
Mark "DerBingle" J, Joe Silence is not dead, John (a.k.a. dendroica) and 20 other people liked this
Blurrina! =P
- vijay
not to self get eye exam ;)
- Moved to Facebook
Wow. How much did your camera drink? :P
- CAJ, somewhere else
Her camera was stone cold sober, I'm just a zippy mover is all...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Silly camera. :)
- Laura Lou Who
*bump*
- Laura Lou Who
:)
- Ayşe E.
:D
- Mo Kargas
FF movers and shakers.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
How'd you know I was shakin' right now?!?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Exemplary Mom Builds 98-Inch Screen Inside Kid's Bedroom Ceiling - http://gizmodo.com/5323788...
Andrizzle Gizzle, Alex Scoble, Roberto Bonini and 5 other people liked this
"This is what great parents do when they want to take good care of their son, giving him all he needs to grow into a cultured, social, healthy young man: A 98-inch TV mounted flush inside his bedroom's ceiling."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
Wouldn't do this for myself much less my kid.
- ronin
I'd never have to get out of bed again! Wait...
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
o.O I won't even let Adrian get a 100" screen in our living room.
- Admiral Anika
A future leader of our country in the making. All it takes is a custom-mounted tv.
- Robert Kenney
it's gonna be a bitch when the remote stops working =P
- vijay
Where is ceiling cat?
- JazJaz
I was gonna post the same thing JazJaz! LOL!
- vijay
lol.
- Itachi
ceiling cat IS the TV, you idiots ;)
- Roberto Bonini
*pops in the goatse.cx DVD*
- Joe Silence is not dead
This is ridiculous
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Found my alternative to FriendFeed. Peace out puppies. Find me on Facebook and Twitter
rowlikeagirl, John E. Bredehoft, Nurse Katie and 16 other people liked this
*grabs chair*
- vijay
No.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Hey, I know you!
- Christopher Harley
What Andrea said.
- Michelle Martinez
*twiddles nobs looking for the right hailing frequency*
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
kwitters, sheesh ;-)
- Slappy Line
Before you go you have to at least start a thread badmouthing everyone, and then I need to see a decent flounce.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
When I go to FB & Twitter I keep getting a message that tells me: DROP DEAD DOUCHEBAG. *sobs*
- Mark Wilson
@Mark like kindergarten when Sally McCocknabber punched you in the face every time she saw you. Ahh the memories.
- Carlos Ayala
I second the demand for a flounce!
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
*waves* :(
- Helen Sventitsky
I'm gonna miss you two, but I hope you'll have fun in the alternative service(s) + there's still Twitter :)
- Jemm
I'm very, very sad that you won't be here anymore. I'm glad I'm friends with you on FB, though.
- josh neff, geek at large
I'm sad to see you leave Lindsey. :( wtf happened? :((
- AJ Batac
srsly!??!? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Beau Liening
Bye Lindsey! Might catch you on the 'alternatives'. :-
- Kol Tregaskes
DO ANYBODY NO WHAT ALTERNATIVE SHE IS TALKING ABOUT?
- Yolanda
Also, do you know how sad this makes me? :( Did anyone else decide to leave in the past few days?
- Yolanda
:-(
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Gutted :(
- Timothy Griffin
dislike
- Vezquex: God of FF
is the alternative called yahoo chat?
- Gus
er... "alternative" is a little vague. Surely she doesn't actually mean Facebook and Twitter. Those are sad excuses for alternatives, IMO.
- Jason Huebel
Maybe not great alternatives, but that's where the action people are. They're not on FriendFeed.
- Kittyburgers
For the record, I'm using GReader with a Feedly front end for content and sharing with Mark and Twitter and Facebook for social interactions.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
I'm way behind... I still use my mouth, ears, eyes, and toes for social interactions.
- Mitch
You'll see Twitter + Facebook + FriendFeed as well and keep an eye on Posterous too ;-)))
- Desirade
What? GET BACK HERE!
- Mo Kargas
Peace out puppies!
- Christopher Harley
@Lindsey, I was wondering why I hadn't seen you in my feed in a while... I guess missed this earlier but now I know why... Sad to see you go. :(
- Lindsay
hey r u really serious ? if so, wondering what made you make the property change ?
- Peter Dawson
Watch out for the door. ;)
- Cristo
The one advantage that Facebook has over FriendFeed is the sheer numbers of people with whom you can interact. And while I'll grant that the interaction experience isn't as rich as it is here, you can interact on Facebook. Twitter's not that good for true two-way communication.
- John E. Bredehoft
:(
- Maria Niles
The disadvantage for me with Facebook is the sheer number of people I actually know and don't want to piss off there. I'm not going to start controversial threads on my Facebook feed, so everything ends up being boring status updates.
- Cristo
If you don't have the balls to actually support issues you truly believe and are interested in, you can always create a new profile on Facebook and "befriend" a group of individuals you feel comfortable can share you ideas and thought with.
- Kittyburgers
from IM
is this a new trend - commenting on threads of people who leave Friendfeed?
- Mike Nencetti
I'm still wearing black
- Morgan Haley
No Matter How Hard You Try, It Is Impossible To Fax A Cat #shareit
Jim Huller, Faraz Mullick, Olive Fee and 718 other people liked this
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
That poor cat looks so confused.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
but it's so warm on top of the scanner!
- DJF
Time for a cat scan!
- Jemm
Iz I the right way up for printing?
- Vicky
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
LOL, Soup!
- Kol Tregaskes
that is one adorable kitten!
- Anna Lynn M.
<3
- Furkan Tunalı
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
Kitty!!!!
- Janice
keep trying!
- Morgan Haley
FEED ME A CAT
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying.
- Steven Perez
Push harder
- Josh Haley
LOL@Jemm
- AJ Batac
آخی
- یک بابک
Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
1 closer....hilarious!
- Jeffrey Marsh
There we go 150 likes. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez....
- Stephanie Segel
I think you mean a LIVE cat…
- Glen Mistletoe
thanks, i needed a laugh
- chaz2b
FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED
- Karl Knechtel
iz dat some copycat?
- bora "head" basman
LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer!
- Threepwood
Just one more like... please. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
it's over two huuunddreeeed
- bora "head" basman
MOAR!
- Pat Hawks
I need 9 copies please !
- Faraz Mullick
A cute cat :)
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
Haha, Faráz.
- Kol Tregaskes
Next target, 250 likes. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
اخي...گناهي
- noonii
Friendfeed loev faxcat :o
- Karl Knechtel
;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Pussy by fax. What will they think of next?
- Mattb4rd
X))
- Nia
OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, this thread is pure genius.
- Alex Scoble
But only almost 50 comments.. :)
- Simon Wicks
Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate!
- Ivan Zuzak
Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
there we go then for the 1500+!!
- Jaap Willem
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
OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified...
- Kol Tregaskes
OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy!
- Kol Tregaskes
Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again.
- JSNFLMNG
¡Excelente!
- Marcos Vicente
I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder
- anna sauce
Hehe, Anna. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P
- Richard A.
I'd like again if I could :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
bump
- Simon Wicks
Richard, LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesomely funny!
- Martha
Next target: 400 likes? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
theres one more for you Kol
- Toby Graham
Toby, you're very kind. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Cute *_*
- Sybelle
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
can you spare a cat 6 likes?
- JSNFLMNG
sweet
- Eric Hofmann
Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT.
- Mike Nayyar
Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Awesome.
- Alex Scoble
this is underfaksink at its worzt
- Petr Buben
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" ..
- Petr Buben
Ah, OK, Petr. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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? :]
- Petr Buben
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
433 Like ! Wow !
- Like
Freemor, yes very cute! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
cute~
- Chan Pen
that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax.
- Phil Maxwell
oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink
- Petr Buben
Just 5 more likes needed. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Try rolling the cat through a press first. Flat cats fit into the fax easier.
- Bob Blunk
Fax, Petr. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ok, over the top now.
- Greg Guitarbuster
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
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
LOL, Kevin.
- Kol Tregaskes
i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED!
- sofarsoShawn
Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Countdown! 8 more now!
- Mike Nayyar
bump for more likes
- Josh Haley
bump
- Roberto Bonini
One more!! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I took mine away, too much pressure.
- Steve C
Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that.
- Kendra <3 Three Lions
меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот
- Парадокс Смейла
пиздец как!
- getalifejerk
Kendra, absolutely. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
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
wish I could double like!
- metalerik
Wish I could just like it at all. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
But it's a cat being crushed...
- Richard A.
برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟
- H.M.Nasrabadi
Hehe, Richard.
- Kol Tregaskes
copy cat
- gibilix
518 like! most liked post?
- Lu Tao
ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :))
- Arzu
Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
*bump*
- Andre
Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!!
- Roberto Bonini
OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!!
- Kol Tregaskes
So we know how many people use this site.
- Richard A.
So that's what Paws Printing means.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Richard, we getting there. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Jack, hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
this thread is making history.
- vijay
Indeed .. this is a most epic thread
- Mattb4rd
Hehe. 9 more for 550!
- Kol Tregaskes
8...
- sofarsoShawn
7. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this"
- sofarsoShawn
Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get???
- Roberto Bonini
Gosh, no idea.
- Kol Tregaskes
take some bets then come back in a year to check?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
:)
- SokooteDel
Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes!
- Mattb4rd
552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
560!
- sofarsoShawn
And back down to 559. Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo?
- Susan Beebe
I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat!
- Rich
Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
564!
- sofarsoShawn
I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken
- JSNFLMNG
maybe a good way to clone cats :)
- Roberto
Hehe, Roberto.
- Kol Tregaskes
This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!?
- Kol Tregaskes
It could! Keep bumping it up!
- imabonehead
It will :)
- Roberto Bonini
My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun...
- Kol Tregaskes
Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-)
- j1m
No yet. Close though. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Stuck on 581.
- Kol Tregaskes
Most liked FF post ever?
- Kristian Salonen
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
11 more to 600. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟
- Exir
هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D
- Shayan
Hehe, 6 more likes. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600
- Josh Haley
Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
it's 598+3, at the moment ;-)
- Andre
There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!!
- Kol Tregaskes
3 people un liked :(
- Roberto Bonini
I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well.
- Kol Tregaskes
too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;)
- JSNFLMNG
Haha, Jason.
- Kol Tregaskes
614!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
Whoa! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)]
- Petr Buben
Petr, who's he?
- Kol Tregaskes
omg, this post passed 600 likes!
- imabonehead
@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there ..
- Petr Buben
I see. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Day 11 and this thing's still going!
- Phil Maxwell
Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-)
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible
- Megan Craig
Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry!
- Jérôme Flipo
Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography?
- sofarsoShawn
Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-)
- sofarsoShawn
this makes me laugh every darn time I see it
- Stephanie_Thankful
Who is this NShawnFW? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
kitties do like to find new spots to nap :)
- Maryam
LOL, now over 650 likes.
- Kol Tregaskes
این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟
- Maryaminaa
Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol?
- Roberto Bonini
Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
it will
- Seltoon
what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :)
- Maryaminaa
Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
lol
- Maryaminaa
I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture
- Kevin J Hatton
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE.
- Kris Roley
Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead
- Mattb4rd
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
10 more likes for 700! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
7 more by my count!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy?
- aerobroken
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
Wow, not so bad huh? \u)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
try harder! ; ))
- Didier Lahely
Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-)
- Rick Cogley
Caturday is tommorow ... Fax Cat on Saturday ..
- johnpiercy
Must try this at home!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Bumping some old great posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Now THAT is a classic!
- Allan Besselink
you have to flatten it first!!! ;)
- Neda S.
This is very good humor!
- TrafficBug
Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
just a couple thousand to go
- JSNFLMNG
LOL
- Smeerch
__awesome__
- Matteo Scotuzzi
and it got resurrected once again!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy.
- Seth Greenblatt
When it's OK to say 'Bugger'
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Some of these are great!! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
think I'd say more than just bugger :P
- alphaxion
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
I need to find a list of UK speak so that I can incorporate it in my daily vernacular here in the States. :)
- Derrick
gotta wonder how many of these are transformers
- vijay
@derrick a fav outburst of mine is "goat molesting, gerbil felcher". If I want to confuse a person, I'll yell "yoda raped your dog". list of some apparently strong profanities removed to stop kols thread from deteriating :)
- alphaxion
Oh my stars, alpha...anything a little less, uh, vulgar? A friend I studied with here went to boarding school in London (originally from Thailand) and he used to call people stupid gits. I always loved that.
- Derrick
there's the modifier of git - get. eg "cheeky gets!". Sorry if I turned the thread blue, I was being a cuntmuffin ;)
- alphaxion
great photos wow
- Brian Hendrickson
LOL
- Derrick
Those poor little ducklings
- Hutch Carpenter
can't agree on last but one, that's dutch beer... nothing's lost!
- Mike
Poor horse!
- Rick Cogley
I feel sorry for all that beer wasted. :(
- Faraz Mullick
Bumping some old good posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
hehe - and ouchie!
- WorldofHiglet
The photo with the pole in the driveway looks like it was designed that way.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Invisible Props... for cats
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LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
LMFAO @ Snowboard cat. :D
- vijay
:))))))))
- Farshad
invisible tokyo *dead*
- esther ♥ ♫
Invisible Bike and Fung Fu Cat! - Magic! Brilliant posting thanks!!!!!!!
- Kevin J Hatton
invisible comment " !"
- Toby Graham
Invisible pommel horse has been a favourite of mine from the day it appeared. ... most of the invisible ones are just the best ever anyhow.
- Nine
Now in love with "swimming pool". I think it works so well because of the angle of the rug.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
piyuuuu
- sadi tekin
That is some sweet work on the pommel horse
- Steve C
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
XD
- Jay
Bumping some old good posts. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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.
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*passes out the tin foil* ;)
- Josh Haley
* 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
Hahaha, mikepk!
- Spidra Webster
"The idea of a computer that does a lot less — leaving out even things you consider essential,..." - http://minimalmac.com/post...
“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
Ommwriter: a Mac writing app that helps you concentrate - http://www.pheedcontent.com/click...
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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
Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and email - http://digg.com/world_n...
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
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- vijay
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ヘアースタイルに無限の可能性。誰もが振り向くびっくり髪型画像
- vijay
”デブと痩せ” だと同じポーズでもこんなにも違うという比較画像 - http://mauvais.tumblr.com/post...
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- vijay
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- vijay
Giant Jellyfish Capsize 10-Ton Fishing Boat - http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009...
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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
イタリア製トロンとも言うべき、フェラーリV4スーパーバイク : Gizmodo Japan（ギズモード・ジャパン）,... - http://mauvais.tumblr.com/post...
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イタリア製トロンとも言うべき、フェラーリV4スーパーバイク : Gizmodo Japan（ギズモード・ジャパン）, ガジェット情報満載ブログ
- vijay
Chrome OS will help kill Silverlight and other non-open tech, preventing msft and others from recapturing the web. (though I expect that it will support Flash by necessity)
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Good point.
- Robert Scoble
I hope it doesn't. After all we need good media delivery platforms.
- Swaroop
Including GNASH - the open source alternative - would solve that problem
- Bogdan Costea
yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it.
- Zio Bonino
Chrome OS might be a compelling case for SVG/<canvas> + <audio> tag replacements for flash. Dunno what SVG's perf is like on WebKit tho.
- Matt Mastracci
Microsoft will port it. It's all about codecs & DRM. Ogg Theora isn't all that great.
- Rodfather
Is that Steve Jobs disguised as Zio ?
- Swaroop
@Swaroop Yes, we do. Like HTML5.
- Benjamin Dobson
@Swaroop eh eh, I've got flash disabled on all my systems :)
- Zio Bonino
@Benjamin I'd prefer HTML web apps over native apps anyday. But it'll take time for it to mature
- Swaroop
Rodfather, I don't think that will be an option for msft :). If Chrome is built the way I would do it, there is no installation per-se -- everything runs in the browser and the config in stored in the cloud (and cached locally). The computer is a pure appliance.
- Paul Buchheit
@Zio You're the real Steve Jobs
- Swaroop
Microsoft moves much too slow to force new standards these days.
- Louis Gray
@Louis: IE8 flunking ACID test :)
- Swaroop
What about more standard codecs like h.264? That isn't open and is in hardware already.
- Rodfather
h.264 is established and must be in there, but it's not a platform like Silverlight is.
- Paul Buchheit
I know some of the guys behind silverlight. It is some great technology. Too bad it's from Microsoft and is closed.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
A world with no Flash and Silverlight. I can't wait.
- Paul Grav
Yeah, it's too bad they didn't open-source it. This stuff with Mono is silly -- if you want to make a real standard you need to make the real implementation be open.
- Paul Buchheit
MS are about 10 years too late with Silverlight. And they'll most likely be dragged kicking and screaming into supporting HTML5.
- Paul Grav
Zio sez (hopefully humorously): "yeah, nobody really needs flash. kill it" -- have you ever watched a single YouTube video in your life? Like seventeen gazillion other people across the wired world. yeah, you're right, nobody needs Flash. ha!
- .LAG liked that
Remember Dave Clark in 1992, "We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code."
- Guy Vander Heyden
.LAG: most YouTube videos are playable without Flash now. My iPhone plays most of them and it doesn't have Flash. Certainly by the time the Google OS came out YouTube would be converted completely to non-Flash capability.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: The youtube flash application helps read the flv files on Youtube's servers and provides a UI (decoder too).
- Swaroop
Even Google admits they're not sure I'd bit for bit html5 video is less bandwitj consuming than flash. And flash isn't just media delivery, also interesting games and apps like tonepad, splicemusic.com's online sequencer, etc (I'm musically inclined, so most of my examples will be along that line) and please don't suggest we redo it all in java
- Ed F
from Nambu
Does this mean the next Silverlight release is codename Seppuku?
- Jay Cuthrell
Maybe we'll see commercials encoded in movies if everything is open.
- Rodfather
Flash is too established to kill off right now, so I'd be surprised if Chrome didn't include flash support. It will take many years to get rid of that thing. First they need to fix the standard browser to not be so broken (lack of video, multi-file upload, etc), then they need everyone to switch to the new html5 solutions.
- Paul Buchheit
Scoble ...that may be true, and YouTube plays on my Pre without Flash (yet)...but that doesn't mean that "nobody needs Flash." really? what would replace it?
- .LAG liked that
So Google's NaCl http://code.google.com/p... (now integrated within Chrome/Chromium) was just a temporary workaround, right?
- Jérôme Flipo
Use HTML 5 instead!
- Minh Bui
Is it just me or does Native Client (NaCl) remind you of the Microsoft Active X approach?
- Daniel Chow
But who prevents Google from taking over the net?
- Andreas
youtube videos play on iPhone/iPod Touch as they are higher res mp4 files NOT flv files. It was a big deal when Steve negotiated that deal with youtube.
- vijay
You have Moonlight to run Silverlight applications in Linux. Not perfect, but then an application made on Silverlight is "not perfect" by definition
- Marcos Marado
The point here is that Google has no motivation to include Silverlight on these machines, and installing software likely won't be an option (it's a web appliance), so it will be absent from a lot of netbooks, just as it is absent from iPhones. That cuts into market share, which is a bad thing for a platform that is trying to compete with more universal tech like Flash and HTML....
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- Paul Buchheit
@DanielChow: NaCl has very little overlap with ActiveX, apart from running native code. It runs in a provably safe way, and explicitly does *not* allow it to access arbitrary host APIs. But it can be quite useful when you need to run code that would be too slow in Javascript (even on v8): e.g., heavy encryption/decryption, possibly codecs, definitely game physics, and so forth.
- Joel Webber
There is a time and a place for Flash and Silverlight so I hope it will run it. There are simply some things you can do which aren't possible, or practical in html/css/javascript.
- Steve Temple
Paul: why wouldn't Chrome OS come with Moonlight? And if not, why wouldn't you be able to just install it? And third, why the hell would people want Moonlight for? I never installed it and not even once felt the need to!
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
because of moonlight http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlig... the potential userbase of silverlight is greatly improved, agree that projects which don't consider compatibility are limiting their potential
- Mike Chelen
@mindboosternoori Ryanair site uses silverlight: http://www.ryanair.com/site... that's the only website I know that uses it - for this you would need moonlight :)
- Ihar Mahaniok
Flash is needed for the google os to be useful in education. Many education based websites are flash based.
- Willowdale
@Paul "Google is probably paying OEMs to ship with this OS, so instead of paying $x/machine to include windows XP, they will get paid $y/machine to include Chrome." - paying present tense, already? Isn't it enough for OEMs not to have to pay hefty licenses to Redmond, etc., while being able to ship with a free, stable OS+browser combo; they need to be paid to do that as well?
- ianf ⌘
I sure hope so. I think the wide array of JavaScript libraries have been killing Flash for years. Silverlight was never really a player. The only think keeping Flash afloat is video
- Scott Radcliff
I don't know what's under the hood of Silverlight (nobody knows), but Flash is basically a sprite engine controlled by Actionscript, which is basically an adapted version of Javascript anyway. It's nicely packaged though, and has an army of developers, so it won't go away that easily, at least not until there are Flash-to-Canvas/ HTML5 porting tools/ translators and the like.
- ianf ⌘
to follow that logic...photoshop is needed as well
- Chris Hofmann
somebody call me when http://playboyarchive.com is working in Chrome OS (it's currently implemented in Silverlight)
- Karim
If it gains any traction at all, MS will just make Silverlight version that will run on Google OS. Sure google could block it, but they haven't done so with the Chrome browser.
- Jeff Weber
Interesting. I doubt the Google OS will get that big anytime soon though.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
Silverlight doesn't have a chance now...I wonder what would Adobe Air do.
- Saad Kamal
not really, if google want to be open then they will need a plugin architecture for it and then MS could just port for it. I really don't see this troubling mainstream users any time soon.
- Darren Stuart
Though I agree with the view that MS monopoly may erode as alternative devices get adoption over PC/Notebook, and these devices will mostly run on open source OS, but it may take years to create a significant change in every day usage of normal users. In the end, OS choice is mostly done by manufacturers, and they would be happy to get paid by open source vendors for putting their OS on...
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- Kaan Bingol
People want media. Hulu, Netflix, Kindle, iTunes, etc. They need to address that or they are DOA.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, what makes you think it will lack media support?
- Paul Buchheit
I don't think it will lack licensed media support but what deals they are able to make will be crucial.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, i thought you were going to say that Netflix was using Silverlight. ;-)
- Karim
Yes, they are, what is their deal with MSFT? Can they do non Silverlight distribution?
- Hayes Haugen
i believe the Netflix non-Silverlight distribution is a format called "DVD" that works over the "Snail Mail" protocol. ;-) but clearly if Google is paying OEMs to install Chrome OS, they can pay Netflix to go back to Flash which Chrome OS will probably support "by necessity" ;-)
- Karim
How can Google make money from Chrome OS? Or does it want to make money from it except through advertisement? I still can not imagine that all software and service are free and sponsored by advertisements.
- Derek Wei
All Chrome OS questions are answered by today's Fake Steve Jobs ;)
- Hayes Haugen
Is there a need to make money? If more and more people eschew desktop offline applications in favor of online web based apps, it means more pageviews, more eyeballs, more advertising inventory, plus has the side effect of undermining a big competitor's cash cow.
- Ray Cromwell
That's the key, Google wants everything online. They figure the more people online, the stronger they become, and the more money they make. At least that what was said at the Chrome launch.
- Scott Radcliff
from email
I'm amused that the "backwards compatibility" argument against alternative operating systems has slowly turned into "does it support flash", and when you unpack that it really means "does it play YouTube". I suspect Google will make sure ChromeOS cna play YouTube and they don't need Flash to make sure of it.
- Nick Lothian
Is it possible that Microsoft will write Office for the Web using Volta instead of Silverlight? Could be a showcase announcement for their attack on GWT
- Ray Cromwell
I think Microsoft is going to focus less on the front-end of the web and more on the back-end, middle tier and database sides. Azure is a big deal that consumers aren't talking about because it's not flashy but will be pretty important to developers (and especially enterprise-level applications) when it's finally ready because everything becomes an interface to the cloud. Microsoft is...
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- Lindsay
Azure looks really cool. Hint: so did Blackbird.
- Michael R. Bernstein
lol blackbird (scary redmond flashback) - a good example of azure platform utilization can be seen via jon udell's elmcity project - http://blog.jonudell.net/elmcity...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Nosense, I want silverlight, flash, html and any other technology in my desktop & mobile phone. Silverlight? yes, there you can develop under Python, Ruby et al, instead of the outdated javascript.
- Sebastian Wain
It looks like with Native Client, you should be able to write your Chrome OS app in any language you feel like. So far, they have some examples in C/C++, but one of the things they ported is a Lua interpreter. If Adobe isn't going to invest heavily in fixing the show-stopping bugs on non-Windows versions of Flash, it's inevitably going to die, and there's really nothing either Google or Apple can do even if they wanted to support Flash better.
- Victor Ganata
...ActionScript3 is ECMASCript-compliant. I know nothing about standards bodies, and shii like that, but what if Adobe dropped ActionScript and said, "You can now use pure Javascript to build Flash applications..." It wouldn't be a big leap. I'm pretty sure that would shut-up all the Flash haters. And to the folks who say Flash is hanging around just because of video...well, video is...
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Actionscript is just the glue for the more advanced what-iffy graphic functionality of Flash. They can not drop it for Javascript, because it contains additional graphic primitives that JS lacks. But it's not the JS-or-Actionscript that makes it a target for hate, it's other things. Nobody denies that it's pretty capable, but it is also badly written, eats up memory like no other, makes...
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- ianf ⌘
I like this post!
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
from iPhone
I honestly don't know how necessary Flash is. Apple seems to be doing fine without supporting it. But certainly Gnash and Swfdec should be implementable on Chrome OS. The fact is that without Adobe's full support on a given platform, Flash apps will always be second class citizens on alternate platforms, and so far, there's no indication that Adobe is interested in fully supporting any platform other than Windows.
- Victor Ganata
ianf ...you bring up great points about Flash's detriments, as does Victor, but until there's a better way to bring video to the Web, I can't see it disappearing. Adobe seems to keep improving the Flash VM, hopefully they'll address those CPU-hogging issues and make a more efficent runtime. Yeah, I hate hearing the fans kick-in when visiting a Flash-heavy site too. <sigh>
- .LAG liked that
alternative to flash video such as ... html5 :) (requires ff3.5) http://www.dailymotion.com/openvid...
- Mike Chelen
from IM
Ed, only??? thats one of the main reasons cited for the continued requirement of flash on popular sites like youtube
- Mike Chelen
Ed, those other uses can be accomplished through pure Javascript, video was the last remaining stumbling block
- Mike Chelen
Still waiting on non-Flash recreations of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch... Well aware of how someone mentioned higher up how you can combine javascript and svg to get nifty flash-like effects. I want apps like that though ^ Only real alternatives I've seen are Java-based ones, and those runs even slower than Flash.
- Ed F
Pardon me, but the OP is a ridiculous conclusion. For that to be the case, Chrome OS would have to kill Windows, OS X, etc altogether. Paul, I understand your viewpoint as being an ex-Google person, but that's just NOT going to happen. Right now the video specification from HTML5 has been dropped because of an impasse, meaning that we may be transitioning from 1 closed-source boss - Flash - to another - H264. Good luck.
- LANjackal
But why do these type of apps have to be written in Flash at all? You can easily do the same thing in C, C++, ObjC, Python, Ruby, etc., with the Native Client API that they're building for Chrome. http://code.google.com/p...
- Victor Ganata
I'm just saying, it's not like Flash is the end-all/be-all. As Apple well demonstrates, some people can live quite well without it.
- Victor Ganata
Victor ...i think the answer to the 'why do these have to be written in Flash at all' question is because Flash is installed on such a significant portion of Web browsers. But I recall that Adobe Flex had a competitor, Laszlo/OpenLaszlo, which compiled apps to SWF or to Javascript. Who's to say that Adobe doesn't have the same capability of making SWF apps into JS ones? On one hand, it...
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Ed, such apps are possible with Javascript and HTML5 multimedia features, the question will be how difficult developers find it, and whether the performance is fast enough
- Mike Chelen
LANjackal, there is a question of degree in that Flash + H264 uses proprietary software and codec, while HTML5 + H264 requires only the codec. while OGV is no longer part of the spec, it can certainly still be used to have completely open video formats, and recent comparisons have shown it performs well http://people.xiph.org/~maikme...
- Mike Chelen
Silverlight's 3 is looking pretty impressive today but tend to agree
- Charlie Anzman
What everybody seems to be missing about Flash is that it works because there is one implementation which is mostly backwards-compatible and the same across platforms. It beat Java because, among other reasons, Java just didn't work the same across JVMs and platforms. The problem with HTML5 is that it will have a different implementation for every browser, and that means your app/game...
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- Gabe
Paul, don't you prefer brutal competition SL vs. Flash vs. standards bring to the table by definition? Or are you more into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - 2020 Google Union - type of ideology?
- Kari Honkanen
Kari, I don't understand your question. Competition is good, but with open-source we get that -- no need for flash or SL.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, no, we don't get the same level of competition with open-source only. As long as there's an opportunity for big gains (like in this case to bridge the gap before html 5 era...to satisfy demand), there will be innovations driven by that. I believe we all benefit from a free market economy that includes commercial, closed source, innovations. I am more scared of the possible future...
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- Kari Honkanen
I wouldn't worry too much amount multimedia. By exposing WebGL, (and hopefully OpenCL), you can offload a lot of compute intensive stuff onto the GPU via GPGPU techniques, and NativeClient is there to take up the rest of the slack, but the for the vast majority of iPhone-like games, I'm willing to bet V8 Javascript on a modern processor is more than enough. That leaves licensing issues...
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- Ray Cromwell
Paul, so are you saying that Google will block both Flash and Silverlight from ChromeOS? That's a new take on 'open.'
- Cliff Gerrish
MSFT next smart move: get Chrome OS (it's BSD licensed), inject IE9 and Silverlight into it and go benchmark against Chrome :)
- Claudio Cicali ♋
MSFT sucks Claudio :)
- Orlando Pozo
Something feels contradictory about a system touted to 'kill' competitors being 'open'. Sounds almost predatory to me.
- Karoli
I'm not opposed to non-open software, but for OS, browser, etc I prefer that it be open. Cliff, Google isn't going to "block" anything, but they can certainly choose what to include, and my guess is that they won't include SL. As Claudio points out, MSFT can make their own version of ChromeOS that includes SL, which is why open source software is nice (it can't be crippled too much or else someone will fork it).
- Paul Buchheit
I have heard somewhere that Fash uses it's own port where Silverlight works over the HTTP port. That's why Netflix works so well. To that, Flash costs more on a sever side because providers can charge more for that port traffic. Could it come down to who is cheaper? (I am fully prepared to be wrong).
- Johnny Worthington
Johnny, they both use HTTP -- there's no difference there.
- Paul Buchheit
Is Chrome OS BSD-licensed? I thought it was using a Linux kernel.
- Victor Ganata
@Paul - well, Flash can do P2P stuff over non-HTTP posts, but that is very new (Flash 10 I think). The cost isn't affected anyway.
- Nick Lothian
My understanding is that netbooks would have to be absurdly popular for Chrome OS to make a dent in the popularity of Flash or SL.
- Gabe
it is possible to have smaller groups for open source software, such as google's own gears api http://code.google.com/apis...
- Mike Chelen
How is HTML 5 going to defeat Flash and SL? I haven't used it, but I don't see anything in the spec that looks like it could compare.
- Gabe
@Gabe - what do you think HTML5 is missing? It does video, drawing, local storage, "threading" via WebWorkers. The biggest hole I'm aware of is the lack of access to webcams & microphones. What have I missed?
- Nick Lothian
Nick: When you say HTML 5 has "drawing", are you refering to the Canvas element? I would not consider an immediate-mode procedural raster drawing library to be much of a competitor to retained-mode declarative vector libraries like SVG or Silverlight. Programming with the Canvas tag is sort of the equivalent of programming in assembly language for bitmaps.
- Gabe
@Gabe: I think you've got it upside-down. A Canvas-style API is the fundamental basis on which you can build a retained mode structure like SVG, et al. If a platform includes a retained-mode library as a convenience, so be it. You can build SVG on Canvas, but not the other way around (hacks like IECanvas notwithstanding -- they have horrible performance characteristics and are a nasty abstraction inversion).
- Joel Webber
So, if Moonlight (Mono) runs on linux -- Will google make sure it doesn't work on Chrome OS?
- Cliff Gerrish
Joel: I don't think you said anything contrary to what I said. I just don't understand why any programmer would want to waste time writing an app using a low-level library when I could use a high-level library that implements everything for me.
- Gabe
@Gabe - I agree, and people are implementing those libraries now. See http://raphaeljs.com/ for example. Also, don't underestimate the convenience factor. I don't own any Flash development tools, but my text editor works pretty well for Canvas+JS based stuff.
- Nick Lothian
Nick: Didn't the author of raphael have some massive rant about how bad the Canvas element is? And I don't have any Flash dev tools either, but I use a text editor for most of my Silverlight development. It is incredibly convenient to be able to type something like <DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding tabledata}"/> into a text editor and not have to create the data grid myself.
- Gabe
Why is Flash a "necessity" for an OS? I enjoy what flash can do, but it is like putting pimped out leather Oldsmobile seats in a Ferrari. It would definitely be nice, but certainly not a necessity.
- Dan Douglass
Early post goof up. To your original point, I agree. I like how Google is approaching the internet space with web apps that can be run with out a bloated browser.
- Dan Douglass
Dan Douglass: Flash is necessary because so many web sites rely on it. How many people would want to get a netbook that couldn't play FaceBook games or watch YouTube videos? Of course Google is in the unique position of being able to make YouTube work on ChromeOS without Flash, but they probably can't do anything about Hulu, Vimeo, or any of the other video sites out there that require Flash.
- Gabe
Anyone else think Joy is Spam?
- Chris Myles
already reported it yesterday :)
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
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Faster photo sharing, and more - http://my.opera.com/desktop...
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
Engadget redesign is live > http://www.engadget.com/
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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
I enjoy reading it as a tech blog, and all that shite on top is stuff I have to scroll past in order to read the blog. The "top stories" graphic is just a much more obvious version of what they formerly had on the side, which I only used occasionally when a new piece of tech or news caught my eye. I don't care for this new layout. I wonder if anyone is watching the server logs to see how much time is spent scrolling past the "Top Stories" and what the click-through on that graphic is.
- Ken & Kiyomi
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
I *tried* reading engadget in depth this morning. Their choice of fonts, the overly large graphics for each entry, and their glaring rating/reply on comments make for an unreadable website. I can understand facebook's redesign and dedication to dynamic content... but engadget is not a social website, it doesn't need to be redesigned often in order to remain relevant. I'll need to add engadget to my RSS reader and read it through feeds rather than as a website.
- Ken & Kiyomi
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.
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Big difference, you don't pay a ridiculous price to see a poor imitation :)
- Mo Kargas
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
pics or it didnt happen :)
- Chris Hofmann
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
yep, that too alphaxion ;D
- vijay
『Google』のロゴが『Googl』になった!? その謎が判明 - ガジェット通信 - http://mauvais.tumblr.com/post...
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『Google』のロゴが『Googl』になった!? その謎が判明 - ガジェット通信
- vijay
Growl updated to 1.2, adds 64-bit support - http://www.tuaw.com/2009...
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Filed under: Software, Freeware, Open Source Ever since upgrading to Snow Leopard, the one remaining 32-bit niggle I have has been with Growl's preference pane. Today, however, Growl has announced and released v1.2 of its famous application notification system with, among other things, 64-bit support. While most of the updates in 1.2 are "behind the scenes," the biggest user-facing improvement is in the upgrade to 64-bit. What this means is that for Snow Leopard users, selecting the Growl preference pane does not require Preferences.app to re-launch in 32-bit compatibility mode. In addition to the Growl preference pane, GrowlMail and GrowlSafari have been updated to 64-bit and are now Snow Leopard compatible. Further, the Growl framework has been re-written in Cocoa dropping support for the Carbon-based API. You can see the full list of changes over at Growl's version history page. Growl users should have received a notification to download the update. Alternatively, you can head over...
- vijay
Official Google Blog: New site hierarchies display in search results - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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"Google usually shows a green web address, or URL, at the bottom of each search result to let you know where you're headed. Today we're rolling out an improvement that replaces the URL in some search results with a hierarchy showing the precise location of the page on the website. The new display provides valuable context and new navigation options. The changes are rolling out now and should be available globally in the next few days. Some web addresses help you understand the structure of the site and how the specific page fits into the site hierarchy. For example, consider a search for the biography of Vint Cerf (Google's Internet Evangelist). The URL for one result, "www.google.com/corporate/execs.html," shows that the page is located in a page about "execs," under "corporate," which is on the "google.com" site. This can provide valuable context when deciding whether to click on the result. Often, however, URLs are too long, too short, or too obscure to add useful information. For...
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- vijay
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I just got asked this on Aardvark: Who's a better fighter, Bruce Lee or Tony Jaa?
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bruce lee
- chaz2b
Tony who?
- Mark Krynsky
FIGHT!
- Simon Wicks
We'll never know. Chalk this one up for: #mommyistheremartialartsinheaven?
- Adrian
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
:p
- chaz2b
Says here that Bruce would win - http://www.google.com/trends...
- Simon Wicks
he would, he got kicked outta his house cause his dad thought if he stayed, he was gonna get killed (in fights)
- chaz2b
Lee
- vijay
There's only one way to find out. Have them fight against each other.
- Meryn Stol
That would be cool to see. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Lee, his street fighting would give him the edge. But it would of been Epic!
- Bluesun 2600
lee
- Amber, Random Time Lord
Lee!
- Tsali, The Native of FF
What a great Aardvark question! I never get such good questions! My money's on Lee.
- Martha
Hehe, Martha. I do get some very random ones. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I must have been under a rock or something, not knowing Tony Jaa's name. Hard to speculate who would have been the better fighter, but Tony Jaa's pretty amazing, at least on the various YouTube clips.
- Rick Cogley
Bruce Lee
- Parvez Halim
I have to admit that it would be one hell of a fight.
- Parvez Halim
JKD has changed a lot since Bruce Lee's death. I have all of the martial arts books Bruce Lee authored and I can tell you that Dan Inosanto really did a great job of evolving what Bruce Lee started. With that said, Bruce Lee's jun fan kung fu is no match for muay thai, which is now a major part of modern JKD.
- Mark Davidson
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Who would win? Both of them. They wouldn't be fighting each other, they'd be busy beating up the bad guys.
- Slappy Line
Bruce Lee
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Dizi Dizi Minimalizm - http://www.sutkutusu.com/post...
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Poster mevzusunda sıradışı tasarımlara imza atan illüstratör Albert Exergian kişisel bir proje olarak geçmişten günümüze popüler televizyon dizilerini konu alan bir poster serisi tasarlamış. Dizilerin temalarına göre seçilen tek bir görsel üzerine kurulu bu minimal posterler, sezonlar boyu insanları televizyon karşısında kilitleyen herşeyi tek bir karede ifade edebilecek kadar güçlüler. Sadeliğin kudretine bir kez daha şapka çıkarma zamanı…
- vijay
Twitter’s Newest Desktop Client: Seesmic for Windows Launches - http://mashable.com/2009...
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looks sexay!! woo! time for Tweetdeck to go bye bye.
- vijay
That's cool! Silverlight is waaay better than Air
- Kirill Petrovsky
FriendFeed - ホーム - Aline Ohannessian: Wake-up Wall Interactive... - http://mauvais.tumblr.com/post...
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FriendFeed - ホーム - Aline Ohannessian: Wake-up Wall Interactive Wallpapers by Kicki Edgren Nyborg »
- vijay
Ponzi Schemes Go Green - http://digg.com/busines...
Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of using bogus claims about “green initiatives” to entice more than 300 investors into what was really a $30 million Ponzi scheme. “The only green these promoters seemed interested in was investors’ money,” said Don Hoerl, director of the commission’s Denver office.
- vijay
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