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Figure if I had some friends on xbox I might play those games sometime. Is CoD World at War worth picking up? - DeWitt Clinton

finiteloop. Haven't used it in over a year, but if I start again, I will look you up. - Bret Taylor

notsle - Caleb Elston

@kfury had a good thread earlier today about guided tours in CoD, which is great because it makes the gaming more social. I play WoW because @marijke plays with me. And I'd love to try left 4 dead, but from the reviews it sounds like it all but requires co-op. - DeWitt Clinton

TerminusEldorado (on sony network) :) - James Todd

AmEricaJoy - Erica Baker

The Mad Penguin - Bill Strathearn

That's what I'm wondering. I should also mention setting type="application/x-shockwave-flash". The question is if the browsers are reliable enough to only allow flash (and not quicktime) and if the flash sandbox is reliable enough to stop cross-site scripting. - Paul Buchheit

There are some flaws in various versions of Flash that allow malformed SWF files to execute arbitrary code on the client. - Gabe

i don't use it but always nice to have one more. Be prepared for my mission to bring unwrapp.com onto friendfeed Paul :) - Zee from WeDoCreative

Finally! Yippee! - Anika Malone

Anyone has invite? - Igor Poltavskiy

how about viddler ? - johnpiercy

The comments there are a treasure too! :) - Alex

It's as big as all the countries of Africa combined! - Gabe

hotbed of innovation and manufacture within 30 years - Gregory Lent

Alex: spot on. lol reading these comments. A dash of pedantry, a little bit of bigotry, some serious lack of geographical knowledge: so much fun! :) - Mathieu Ayel

beg to differ somewhat with Gregory. It might become hotbed of innovation but not any time soon. Conflicts, political instability, lack of decent governance and underlying infrastructures and institutions will not allow it to resonate in a way to become a hotbed of innovation. In small pockets though, it happens even now, especially in countries like Kenya and Ghana in everything from innovative approaches to private education to inventing incredible devices for water cleaning. - Hayk

Moreover, the size and comparison of African continent with other continents and countries is little more than a nice figure illustrative of geography. - Hayk

30 years, hyak, things will move fast, but i know what you are saying, seems nearly hopeless, impossible .. but the world "vibration" will make it happen faster than is logical (my opinion) - Gregory Lent

Gregory, i did not mean logic. Living on this continent since 1.5 years and seeing their mentality and their potential, I believe that nothing short of dramatic consciousness change, to borrow your term, will turn people on this continent into economic machines of production. I generalize, apparently. - Hayk

me too :-) ... i really have nothing to base this on .. except two things .. the creativity they have with basically nothing, even bricks are rare sometimes .. the way they are doing the cellphone thing is a hopeful sign .. and the other is from african art, every culture made masks with some sort of design feature where the third eye is .. there is an innate plugged-in-ness there, so that when it gets a bit stable, it will flow .. and the gates foundation should only do education, malaria will then take - Gregory Lent

care of itself - Gregory Lent

Also, Africa had this "misfortune" of being on top of all kinds of natural resources which became valued at one point or another. As it said in Blood Diamonds, "every time a precious resource is found on this continent,innocent people die, country is plundered." Pouring money only to sustain lives without any solid self-sustainable policies in education or infrastructure is sort of a band-aid. Tackling malaria is what appeals the most to inner sensitivities of Gates :) - Hayk

Africa is the cradle of our species.. says a lot about how out of touch we have become when we treat our birthplace with such distain. No wonder we're raping and pillaging everything we can. Makes you wonder if the attempts at keeping the African nations as undeveloped as possible is to turn the place into the next middle east when the rest of our resources have been spent. - alphaxion

+1 Gabe - Rebecca Sun

They took the idea from a failed Taco Bell campaign, Mexican-like food. - Eban Crawford

Note that it's called "pasteurized process cheese food", not "cheese", which (according to FDA regulations) means that it must contain at least 51% cheese (and probably contains exactly 51%). - Tudor Bosman

LOL, the fact that it is actually cheddar just makes this even funnier. - Kenton

Cheddar?!?!?! As a cheese lover, this is offensive. Glacier Ridge Farms should get their food processing license revoked. - Anika Malone

+1 Bret - exactly ... funny sh*t - Susan Beebe

it's the "Velveeta Effect". Everybody sing: there's no single cheese like velveeta, because velveeta is more than one single cheese. Like colby, swiss and cheddar, blended all together for a taste that melts with ease! - Morgan Haley

@Morgan: I'd be more comforted if I knew for sure that the other 49% (per Tudor) was just other cheeses ... - Tom Stocky

i think it means this is not cheese and can't legally call itself cheese - Joelle Nebbe

I looked into a number of methods and never found something that I liked. I asked the Dropbox guys to let me use my own S3 bucket instead of requiring that I use theirs but got shot down. - Benjamin Golub

How weird. I expected this to be one of the first things people would do. - DeWitt Clinton

S3Fox says they do it, but I don't use it for synchronization, so I can't vouch for its quality. I wrote my own, it's not really a very hard project. http://www.rjonna.com/ext/s3fo... - Dave Winer

Thanks, Dave. I saw S3Fox, but it didn't quite support wanted as far as I could tell. I just want to take an existing domain (static.unto.net) and port it over to S3 and CloudFront. A simple rsync-like script to mirror that directory over to S3 should be all I need. I may have to follow your lead and write my own. (So much for 10 minutes.) - DeWitt Clinton

I see, instead of having the files on a local hard drive, they're only accessible via HTTP. If so, S3Fox doesn't do it. - Dave Winer

http://s3sync.net/ ? http://s3.amazonaws.com/ServEd... - Aviv

@Dave - no, they are available locally, but it's a headless machine -- no UI, command-line only. - DeWitt Clinton

@Aviv - s3sync looks like a winner! Thanks much! - DeWitt Clinton

Dewitt, in that case s3fox would work. Doesn't matter if its headless machine as long as you can access it over your LAN. - Dave Winer

Hmm. I suppose I could use sshfs to mount the remote directory locally, but that seems a bit convoluted. What would be awesome would be a fuse filesystem interface to S3 itself -- then I could use mount the S3 store on my server and use standard rsync and rsnapshot tools against that. - DeWitt Clinton

Now that's a good idea DeWitt! Do it at the filesystem level and a whole new world of opportunities open up. - Benjamin Golub

There are several s3 fuse projects out there that work pretty well. See http://developer.amazonwebserv... for ideas - Aviv

@Aviv - so I see now! Have you used any of them? Any thoughts on which works best? [Ahh, I see you added a link. Perfect!] - DeWitt Clinton

I haven't tried any, but the most popular one seems to be http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/ - Aviv

Gem of a post! - Rahul Deodhar

"To be a company that society wants to exist." - Bill Strathearn

Amazon is a CDN. - DeWitt Clinton

it's more than a CDN, this seems to be a way of tieing a url to a S3 bucket - think whole dir ftp-like CDN - no? - Mike Taylor via IM

yay - Yolanda ♥s Nuttycakes

Paul, nice, is bulk removing from Home feed in the works ? - Kyle Weller

Nice, I was waiting for this. - Philipp Lenssen

Super-like! - Rob Diana

Great feature - Mike Doeff

ta-dam!)) - Il'ya Ash

Hip-hip-HOORAY! - Anika Malone

SAHWEEEEEET!! - Josh Haley

Yay!!!! - Shannon Jiménez

OK, so Hide each of Dan Hsiao's blogs, got it. - Josh Haley

Good work guys. - Louis Gray

Freaking awesome! - ♫ Rahsheen™

Fan-bloody -tastic - Zee from WeDoCreative

OH YES! - Shey

OMG You guys RULE. - Mona N.

*searches for random "blogs" to hide* - ♫ Rahsheen™

OMG. I'm in love with Casey. - Cyndy

Kyle, you can already remove say everyone's Twitter feed from your home feed. - Anika Malone

awesome!! - Justin Korn

i. love. this. feature. (said in ballmer voice) - MG Siegler

I LOVE YOU FF!!! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

Thank you. - tehKenny

Many, many thanks, you guys! Is there a place I can go to edit the blogs I'm hiding currently? - flammable

Wooo hooo!! finally the custom blog hide feature arrives!! - Susan Beebe

Smurf-tastic!!!! - AJ Kohn

YAY! - Rochelle

excellent - Duncan Riley

Great new FriendFeed feature! - Mike Reynolds

YES. FINALLY!! - Tim Hoeck

hell. yes. - tiffany

Smart FF!:) - Igor Poltavskiy

I should go back to feeding my last.fm recently played *chuckle* - Michael W. May

Finally! how cool. - Juan Pablo González

I think I'm in love. Thanks, Friendfeed team, you are so responsive! - LauraBrarian