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Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Reddit

ericflo on I've built this site to help people split bills between friends. What do you think?

Monday at 10:38 am - Link

"It's very simplistic compared to BillShare, which has been around for a while longer." - Eric Florenzano

Duncan Riley posted a message

“What I find amazing about the Motrin story: the woman leading the anti-Mortin charge is SPAMMING comments on blogs writing about it with a link to her blog (often adding her link in the comment itself on top of the natural one) I can smell a professional victim...sorry promoter a mile off”

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OOhh.. I want a free comment from her! :-) - Louis Gray

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example one http://www.thestandard.com/new... - Duncan Riley

I just saw the ad. How could anyone find that offensive? I like how these days everything that people disagree with is somehow "offensive" instead of a valid point of view. - Eric Florenzano

Jessica is an idiot. Reposting Patricia's comment. http://friendfeed.com/e/5ed4d6... - Leather Donut

Leather, that's a private feed so I can't see it, but I agree with it up front :-) - Duncan Riley

Whatever happened to just not buying the product. Even better - has Blogger Moms replaced the more outdated Soccer Mom label? - Wayne Schulz

It sounds like a "social media expert" looking for attention IMO - Jesse Stay

funny how the dumb think everybody else is - Gregory Lent

Maybe a Psycho? ;-) Or some PR company hired to do damage? - Igor The Troll

Actually some people do think this is a PR blitz and a masterstroke Guerrilla Marketing! Who knows, anything possible now days. Apple has been using negative PR to generate publicity for their products for years! - Igor The Troll

Wow is that why there are so many Apple haters? - Phil Boiarski

for every hater there are 10 lovers, the rest do not really care! Oh, and I am a living proof! ;-) - Igor The Troll

hiya i'm new on friendfeed. wubu2 then lol - Lucy Scott

Eric, I agree there's nothing offensive about the video. How about this theory -- the people complaining about it work for the ad agency. What better way to make the video go viral? I never would have watched it if there wasn't some kind of controversy, which, after seeing it, I don't get. I thought it was kind of clever, and informative. I've never carried a baby that way, and had never thought about whether it was a strain for the person carrying the baby. In what way is that bad, and for who? Seriously. - Dave Winer

Duncan, it's about protesting child abuse instead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Leather Donut

storm meet tea cup; tea cup, storm. - Scott Lockhart

♫ Rahsheen™ posted a message

“I have never seen a movie on Blue Ray.”

Sunday at 5:09 pm - Link

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me either - Justin Korn

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me neither. I don't even have a blu-ray player. Join the club :) - imabonehead

I keep meaning to. but, not yet. - jbrotherlove

What about Blu-Ray? :P - Donato (ricin)

Is the quality that much better than a 1080p upsized DVD player? I got one of those for $40. I think I can live with the difference until the blu ray prices drop under $100. - Kevin Shannon

Nor have I, though I am curious to see if it lives up to the hype. - Kevin Bondelli

We recently got a Blue-Ray player super cheap. Watching our first BR movie tonight. - Squirrel Girl

I just don't see how much clearer it can get than HD. I mean, yes..it can be higher quality...but will I really notice? It's almost like bitrates on mp3's, to me. Once you get to 128, can you really tell the difference? - ♫ Rahsheen™

Akiva can notice the difference. I cannot. - Rochelle

I'm skeptical. We would have never gotten one if it weren't offered as a bundle with our new TV. - Squirrel Girl

Players should go for around $200 this holiday season. Good time to grab one, or wait one more year and they will be a great price. - Tim Hoeck

Rahsheen .. some can, some can't. My wife still can't tell the difference with HD! :) If you have it on the right tv, with the right environment... it's pretty amazing. - Tim Hoeck

Rahsheen, I can here the difference between many 128 bitrate mp3s and say, 320 bitrate mp3s or uncompressed (which is why I now rip to FLAC). - jbrotherlove

If I had the means to show her a side-by-side comparison, I'm sure she'd notice the difference which is huge. - Akiva Moskovitz

I have, and it was pretty good. I have a PS3 and on a 52" Samsung LCD, I watched Ratatouille. Yay! - Will Higgins

I can tell the difference between a 128kbps MP3 and a 192kbps MP3...it gets very difficult to tell from there on up though. And if you can't tell the difference between SD and HD, then you don't have a big enough TV or need your eyes checked. - Alex Scoble CISSP

I've only seen some Blue Ray trailers. - Paul W. Swansen

I agree with Rahsheen that on a 50" TV it doesn't get any better than HD. However, going up from there it certainly would be nice to have affordable 4k resolution (4 times the current 1080p) and good line quadruplers, but such things are far away for most of us...you currently need to spend $200k or so to get such technology now for front projection. - Alex Scoble CISSP

I've only see one in Best Buy. - Mathew Ballard

I've never seen a movie in BluRay either. Then again, I don't watch all that many movies. At this point, only watch on my standard def TV. With the TiVo, I don't even have a DVD player hooked in at the moment. - Scott from Canada

Not here either, hidef screens, and some demos in stores, etc, but not in my house - Justin Yost

Only the demo versions in stores. - steplow = Steve Lowe

I haven't either. - Abby Martin

I should have movie night at my house. - Robert Scoble

I'll upgrade to HD and Blue Ray once I'm able to watch PG-13 movies with my family. Things like Lord of the Rings is still a bit too violent for them. - Mike Reynolds

The best way to experience Blu-ray is on a Plasma tv. There is a huge difference as compared to a normal DVD. Once you see a Blu-ray movie on a nice Plasma screen you'll be able to spot out the imperfections on a standard dvd. It's like video game consoles, when they're current -- you never can imagine the graphics being any better ... but they will get better. - Brandon

Also, just like DVDs, some Blu-ray transfers are better than others. The Blu-ray version of Arlington Road wasn't spectacular. The transfer for 2001, however, was simply unbelievable. And this is on a 'mere' four-year-old 36" Sony WEGA CRT. - Akiva Moskovitz

add me to the list .. I still havent seen Titanic .. people keep telling the boat sinks - johnpiercy

its not just a better video presentation, but the audio is very different. Yes, you need the theater setup to get the full effect, but if you have full dts 7.1 - blu ray movies sound better than the theater - John Head via twhirl

John, good point. We 'only' have 5.1 but we've recently upgraded our A/V unit. Going from Dolby Digital to TrueHD/DTS/Linear PCM (now all through HDMI) was like going from 128k MP3s to lossless FLAC. Well, for obvious reasons. - Akiva Moskovitz

don't bother with BR right now - It''s all about the digital file. Why limit yourself to a physical format when you could get the same HD quality from a file that you can transfer to whatever storage medium (capacity willing) you want. Physical format "wars" will make way for codec battles, without DRM getting in the way you wouldn't need to repurchase your collection whenever there's a new codec on the block. Streamable to any set top that can handle it & no "which box is the disc hiding in" roulette! - alphaxion

I don't have Blue Ray anything. - Morton Fox

I don't have BR either, and from what I read, it's don't going to last much longer anyway. It's not making the inroads it should, but the licensing is so expensive in any case. More to the point perhaps, the only DVDs I've purchased in the last 5-6 years have been the blank ones for the computers. - Ian May

Same here - Michael Hocter

I love my PS3. I just wish there were more Blu-ray movies available on Netflix. - Drew

I only own one Blu-ray movie, got it last year, still haven't watched it yet. - Logical Extremes

alphaxion, that sounds like wishful thinking (that I also wish was true). I'd love to have DRM-free HD movie files, but I really doubt the studios will be releasing those in the foreseeable future. - Logical Extremes

I have the Biohazard Trilogy (aka Resident Evil Trilogy) on Bluray, and a PS3 that I watch it on. But so far that is the only Bluray in my collection. - LonelyBob

We watched a movie on our blue-ray player last night and it looked awful. More specifically, the motion blur was ridiculous. It's probably the TVs fault, as we didn't go for the 120hz model when we bought it. I will say though, besides that, the resolution looked amazing. Much like HD TV does. - Squirrel Girl

Duncan Riley posted a link

FU Ball

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HAHAHA! - Justin Korn

HAHAHAHA - Anna Haro

Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Reddit

ericflo on Django 1.0.1 released

Saturday at 12:02 am - Link

"Can I party with you guys? :)" - Eric Florenzano

Eric Florenzano commented on a blog post on Disqus

Re: 2012 Movie teaser trailer

November 13 at 1:09 am - Link

"Cool, thanks for posting. By the way, I really like that your site doesn't have one specific focus. Sometimes it's tech news, sometimes it's trailers, and other times it's celebrity gossip. Ok well I could do without the celebrity gossip but you know what I mean :) Keep up the good work!" - Eric Florenzano

Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Reddit

ericflo on django-treebeard - Efficient tree implementations for Django 1.0+

November 11 at 2:56 am - Link

"The author has http://django-treebeard.google..." - Eric Florenzano

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Django’s URL template tag sucks", by Jeff Croft

November 10 at 5:08 pm - Link

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The blogosphere is alive, well and kicking

November 9 at 3:34 pm - Link

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I don't know... I remember when a post like this would've touched off a comment storm lasting the whole weekend. Now you don't even get a picture of a cat titled " I CAN HAZ BITCHMEME." Maybe blogging is dead. - Sprague D

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@Sprague at one point just after the first few posts about the death of blogging I was getting worked up to write something about it but then realized that it was just a load of crap meant to do nothing more that get links .. I went over to icanhascheezburger and played with the kitty cats instead .. much more fun - Steven Hodson

It might be alive but I can't blog from China. Sigh. - Robert Scoble

Why? Сensorship? - Igor Poltavskiy

No, he's having too much fun. - WorldofHiglet

Call me on the phone and dictate your post. I will publish it for you :) - funkyboy via Posty

Blogging will live as long as people want to share their thoughts and opinions with the world. - Slippy Lane

@funkyboy +1 - Igor Poltavskiy

Rishabh Manocha posted a message on Twitter

“I love jquery. $.getJSON is full of win.”

November 9 at 10:08 am - Link

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Kol Tregaskes posted a link

Early Star Wars Storyboards

November 8 at 4:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"These are early storyboards from Star Wars, from before the Falcon was changed to its current design. I took them from Hyperspace's Insider supplement, which means there's more to be had in Insider. I'll try and pick them up and see what this is about. The text on the Hyperspace page (which requires membership), reads: "Insider readers who enjoyed J.W. Rinzler's revealing "Pirates of the Boards" article from issue #91 can view the rare storyboard artwork here in an enlarged slideshow format -- please see the original article for additional information regarding these rare images. Be sure to check out Rinzler's continuing series of early storyboard art in the next five issues of Star Wars Insider!" To my knowledge, the majority of these storyboards were done by Joe Johnston." - Kol Tregaskes via Bookmarklet

directeur posted a message

“Sometimes I "like" stuff because I can't comment on them, especially questions to which I have no answer in hope that my followers will help. Hope you don't mind :)”

November 8 at 4:20 pm - via NoiseRiver - Link

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That is what you *should* do. Like'ing things makes sure everyone eventualy sees it. - ♫ Rahsheen™

Whoa, you're back on FF! Yay :) - Eric Florenzano

Eric: Thank you! It's because of people like you that I'm back, no matter how loud others will laugh :) - directeur

Mona N. posted a message on Twitter

“OMG Trailer of New Pixar movie: "UP" http://www.traileraddict.com/t...”

November 8 at 1:07 pm - Link

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I'm there. - Derrick

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Me too, Derrick, OMG - Mona N. via IM

Pixar rocks. Great find, Mona. - Louis Gray

*linked removed out of niceness* - Bryce via IM

Um... NOT CLICKING on that. TOTAL party foul. JEEZ @LG: Thx :) - Mona N. via IM

Bryce: that's terrible! - Eric Florenzano

:S Sorry, first thing that came to mind. - Bryce

Up looks really cool, so long ot wait = May 2009! - Kol Tregaskes

Yay! That looks cute! - Carmen

What's up Carmen!! :) - Mona N. via IM

Love everything they do! - Jandy Stone

Cute! - Rochelle

Looks awesome. Disclaimer: I work for Disney, but I really do love all the Pixar movies! - Mike Reynolds

I'm a sucker for cute grumpy old people. I'm in. - Kamath ॐ

Disney/Pixar, simply amazing. We just watched Cars tonight. Love them all! - Mark Douglass

Just watched the Incredibles the other day, too. Pixar ftw! - Mona N. via IM

I *love* Pixar! Toy Story is still my favourite - Trevor

WOOHOO! Thanks Mona! (How do you find this stuff?) - Abby Martin

I'm told I surf a different Internet... - Mona N. via IM

it's too cute! - Lindsey

Mona N. only surfs in IPv6. - Jack Carlson

Great trailer! Kind of sums up what many Americans did during the Bush administration. - Paul Denlinger

Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Reddit

ericflo on It's Caches All the Way Down

November 8 at 1:44 pm - Link

"Definitely. In hindsight it was an awful way to explain to a non-engineer how a computer worked. I've since gotten a little better :)" - Eric Florenzano

Kris Kowal posted a message on Twitter

“DjangoLA meetup #1 :-)”

November 6 at 10:23 pm - Link

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FriendFeed Over IM: Kill Me Now

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It's called learn how to utilize options, hater. - Mona N.

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Secrets of the Django ORM, by Eric Florenzano

November 6 at 5:46 pm - Link

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Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Reddit

ericflo on Cloud Fail

November 6 at 2:09 am - Link

"It's not necessarily original, but like pretty much everything else it's a synthesis of other ideas. My main thesis was that we're not only risk through outsourcing now--it's outsourcing plus (and this is key) massive interdependence which makes the situation scary. If you depend on a service which depends on another service which depends on a third service, there's quite an exponential chance for failure that you're taking on." - Eric Florenzano

Johnny Worthington posted a message

“...gasm”

November 4 at 9:28 pm - Link

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I think pretty much anything ending in "gasm" deserves a like. :) - Far

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electiongasm, obamagasm, democragasm ... - Mo Kargas

Fargasm. :D - Far

alcohol-gasm - Trish R

Lightgasm. Futuregasm. Kittengasm. iPhonegasm. Positivitygasm. Hopegasm. Puppygasm. Changegasm. Likegasm. Hedgehoggasm. Lovegasm. Huggasm. Bunnygasm. Linuxgasm. FFundercatsgasm. Musicgasm. Thinkgasm. - Ladybug Heather

socialgasm - JC unwired

Well... might that give you a social disease? - Ladybug Heather

Gasmgasm. - Akiva Moskovitz

you're welcome, sir. - Josh Haley

the cheese is melting gasm - Mark Wilson

ffundergasm! - Mo Kargas

KFCgasm - Mark Wilson

Eargasm...c'mon, you know what I mean :p - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Heartgasms and Mindgasms are more fun for me than body-orgasms. - Mitchell Tsai

Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Digg

Crazy Go Nuts Game: shoot little squirrels out of a cannon

November 4 at 2:54 pm - Link

"Best. Comment. Ever." - Eric Florenzano

Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Reddit

ericflo on Gems of Python

November 3 at 4:30 am - Link

"Haha that's a good point!" - Eric Florenzano

Monique posted a message

“I just hung up from talking to Mona on the phone, so I know she's up. Who else?”

November 3 at 2:38 am - Link

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- crickets - - Mona N.

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I'm awake...blogging and watching cartoons on hulu. - Neal "thePuck" Jansons

haha. just us chickens i guess - Monique

*yawns* I'm awake. I'm heading for bed soon though. - Thankful Molly

Me :) - Eric Florenzano

I just woke up two hours ago (it's 11am here).. so pretty sure I'm awake for the next 10 minutes ;p - Pascal

i'm awake kind of, about to lay down. i will be smsing the rest of my 15 mins of consciousness - joshua hatfield

Me - Johnny Worthington

Eric Florenzano commented on a story on Reddit

ericflo on Ask Proggit: Best resource to learn JavaScript...

November 3 at 1:16 am - Link

"I second eloquentjavascript.net. That site/book rocks." - Eric Florenzano

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:the game:

November 2 at 1:23 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

The best satire that I've seen in years comes from an unexpected source--a game. - Eric Florenzano via Bookmarklet

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Affleck does Olbermann on SNL

November 2 at 12:48 pm - Link

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I guess I don't watch Olbermann enough to get this one - Mitch

Chris Coudron posted a message on Twitter

“http://twitpic.com/jbt1 - Ahhhhh college... He'll regret this one in the morning”

October 31 at 9:42 pm - Link

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Fox passes on renewing King of the Hill

October 30 at 10:47 pm - Link

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i dont like this move, but after all its fox - sam via twhirl

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The Single Sign-On War Will Ruin OpenID

October 29 at 7:54 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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“While I’m sympathetic to [the] argument that more OPs is frankly better for the web, I’m not convinced that a Visa card is all that useful if none of the major department stores will accept it.” - Chris Messina - Eric Florenzano via Bookmarklet

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Interesting Open Source Surprises

October 29 at 7:39 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Leo Soto finds some open source code he wrote years ago in some very high profile projects. Very cool! - Eric Florenzano via Bookmarklet

Dude, you have some neat stuff in your feed! Sorry I didn't sub sooner. Jeez. - Mona N.

Whoever Mona likes, must be good. Sub'd. - ♣genieyclo♣

@Mona - Wow thanks that was really nice! - Eric Florenzano

Mona N. shared an item on Google Reader

Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID — The NeoSmart Files

October 29 at 7:29 pm - Link

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"As Google points out, this isn’t OpenID. This is something that Google cooked up that resembles OpenID masquerading as OpenID since that’s what people want to see – and that’s what Microsoft announced just the day before." - Mona N.

Thank you, Eric Florenzano http://friendfeed.com/ericflo - Mona N.