Doubtless it is -- but even better would be tap water in a reusable travel mug... In other news, when I drink from a box, all I taste is cardboard.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
But I agree with the sentiment, bottles of water are worse than cartons
- anna sauce
Yeah it's a weird thing to promote, but I guess there are a lot of times where you need a portable container of water, and you might not have planned ahead. This obviously is at a convenience store, where that sort of thing would happen a lot.
- Ben Hanten
And Ben, I recognize you're more sharing the photo than advocating use of this product... :)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
can't really take a tap with you on a hike, now can you?
- Joe Silence
I'm trying to find a joke about turning boxed water into boxed wine and failing.
- Amy℠
Really true? Considering the level of energy, chlorine and chemicals that are required to produce the white paper (recycled or not), the adhesive, the plastic cap, the ink, and the wax liner. I would be curious to find which is more efficient or better for the environment. Paper or plastic.
- Robert Kenney
Paper would definitely be better for the landfill.
- Ben Hanten
@Lindsey is Fierce!: that's what i've been doing for many years now.
- Joe Silence
"Starting today, people who visit your profile will see it in the theme you've chosen... We've [also] added an option that lets you create a custom theme by uploading a background image and choosing a few colors."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Haha, cool. Thanks for the answer Bret :) BTW Congrats on the acquisition earlier this week. Fantastic news for a great team and great product :)
- Sam Houston
Duck hunt is awesome! Tell Kevin to go sit in the corner for a while. :-)
- Robert Scoble
But what if I don't want to see other people's themes? There's a reason I avoid doing that on Twitter. Can we make our theme the default at all times?
- Anika
ah, I figured as much there would be a setting, thanks Kevin! :P
- Tim Hoeck
Thank you, LE. It wouldn't have killed me to check that first, but I'm super tired.
- Anika
Robert: If you change your theme's background color to black (even though it won't display because of hte tiling) the links will turn white.
- Kevin Fox
Robert, that's too much green monster for me. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
to your guys' credit you make it pretty hard to make this as hideous as you can make Gmail
- MG Siegler
@ Chris ..well, how about to make this personal themes showing through an option? /quick button, no need to go to settings - that'd be too far :] .. option for viewer, not for author
- pb:
Ok so I'm shooting ducks here. is that part of the custom pages open to all?
- BairdWilliamson
I'm sorry, but this is the lamest thing FF has done (besides sell to Facebook, perhaps). This should not be default, especially when there's a theme that sends a duck flying across pages distracting you from reading them (it's like 1997 all over again). The only upside is that you can turn it off. It's a neat gimmick the first time, but after that it's just lame and becomes a...
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- Tanath
I'm sorry, Tanath, but I 100.000% disagree with you. Don't like it? Turn it off. Me? I love it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Already have - but it shouldn't be default behaviour.
- Tanath
Look, I'm excited that FF is still being worked on too, but this is arguably a step in the wrong direction. There's reasons why MySpace is going down the toilet, and different themes on every page is one of them. I'm inclined to take that bet, just not at this early point because it's mostly die-hard FF addicts that even know of the feature's existence.
- Tanath
As long you guys don't f*** with it, I can't see a problem. Why should FF staff avoid a feature only fearing its possible misuse? I'd rather see an option inside FF to explicitly hide user themes, if they get disturbing.
- David Schmidt
On or off, I can't see any themes on friendfeed except what I have in my browser's usercontent.css file. It would have been nice to include an "advanced user" feature that could have allowed us to enter in our own custom CSS for designing our own theme, sort of like how LiveJournal allows. That would have not only allowed customizing on friendfeed, it would also fix the problem with...
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- April Russo
David: you can hide other people's themes in your settings (top right of the page)
- Bret Taylor
Comparisons to MySpace seem off, since custom themes involve only four possibilities (background image, background color, bar color and box color) -- no widgets, no custom HTML, etc. And first and foremost, they can be switched off. How many times do you visit someone else's page on FF anyway? Most of the time is in your home feed or different lists. I just don't get the negativity, when it's a fun and optional feature that you can opt out from ever seeing again in about two seconds.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I don't know if I consider customizing a few basic settings is really a "Theme".
- Steve de Mena
Stephen, that was our thinking internally, though we also give a bit more control with the checkboxes.
- Kevin Fox
Forcing themes on others is bad. This needs an opt out. Glad I use custom CSS.
- Michael W. May
Michael: It DOES have an opt out. If you don't like it please opt out! Click Settings in upper right, you'll see two prominent check boxes regarding theme display.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Kevin: Thanks! You're right, you did twitter one better by letting people opt out of seeing customized themes entirely.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Michael, just uncheck the "See other people's themes" checkbox under settings and you won't see anyone else's theme.
- Dan Hsiao
Stephen's right. Read Bret's comment further up: "[Y]ou can do that by clicking "Settings" and then un-check the "See other people's themes" checkbox" - Bret Taylor
- Micah
i really like this.really really :-)
- dwightboozer
If this is any indication of what is to come, congrats :) Absolutely gorgeous!
- mySingapore
Thanks to the FF staff, this has been a long awaited request =) Ya'll rock!
- FFing Enigma
What's the next? I guess "FF background creator tools" will come out nowadays. :)
- Oguz Serdar
To begin with, is "Themes" really a necessary feature? Still, great to see the new features coming. =)
- Winston Teo
Winston: yes. I've been waiting for this for a long time. It lets me put some personality onto my home page and that is, believe it or not, important. Very important for brands, too, if this is going to become a business.
- Robert Scoble
Can you guys stop adding awesome new features, please? Otherwise, no-one else will have a chance to catch up and it'll be an even greater disappointment when it goes. ;)
- James Myatt
I changed my background, but how do I let others see? when I click Bret's page, I still see my own background...I assume this is similar to twitter's custom theme where every user has a different background when their link is clicked. (I'm on friendfeed.com/bret, but still seeing my own background). -edit-Nvm...I guess I have to log out to see it...
- brainno722 (Peter)
@Kevin, thanks for removing the borders <3. @Peter he probably doesn't have a theme set for his own profile...
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
issue uploading background. hangs on firefox & safari. tile image checkbox is greyed out.
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
update ile beraber restart gerekmesi de inanilmaz sacma.
- Eren Emre Kanal
sıkıldım artık apple'ın güncelle(yeme)melerinden...
- Batu
Eren Emre: Aslinda sacma degil. Cunku Webkit rendering engine Cocoa Core WebKit Framework araciligi ile diger yazilimlara da sunuluyor. Her ne kadar update Safari isminde gorunse de, Safari aslinda sadece GUI'nin ismi. Bu update Webkit, SquirrelFish ve Drosera guncellemelerini de iceriyor. Tum yazilimlari kapatip aciktan sonra aslinda guncelleme etkinlesiyor. Logout yerine, restart koyuyor Apple. Quicktime ve iTunes'un bazi guncellemeleri de restart isteyebilir ayni sebepten oturu.
- Berk D. Demir
Bunu dinamik olarak yapmak da mumkun (ve cirkin) ama attigin tas, urkuttugun kusa deger mi paradoksu var iste.
- Berk D. Demir
senelerdir windows icin de soyledik Berk ayni seyi. Sonra microsoft ie ile explorer i ayirdi diye hatirliyorum. daha saglikli oldu.
- Eren Emre Kanal
EEK: Ama bak buradaki entegrasyon farkli ustadim. WebKit, bir Core Framework parcasi. Yazilimlarinda HTML render etmek icin kullaniyorsun. O da guncellenecek. Orada calisan yazilimin guncelligi gormesi icin acilip kapanmasi en kolay yol (dikkat restart gerekli demiyorum). Modern Unix'lerde dynlib'ler dogrudan bellege cekilmek yerine mmap ile aciliyor. Bu dosyalari zart diye replace...
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- Berk D. Demir
Georgia Congressman Paul Broun warned attendees of a town hall event Tuesday that the Obama administration was planning to use a pandemic or a natural disaster to implement martial law in the United States. Speaking at the North Georgia Technical College auditorium, Broun said that the “socialistic elite,” as well as Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, were planning to exploit a crisis to create a favorable climate for their stalling political agenda. “They’re trying to develop an environment where they can take over,” he said. “We’ve seen that historically.”
- Michael Forian
from Bookmarklet
Those aren't US troops in the photo... and people were saying the same thing about 43 after the anthrax scare. At least the GOP wingnuts could come up with a new story... but no.
- Bill Sodeman