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 in a TARDIS
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
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
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" ..
- pb:
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? :]
- pb:
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)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
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?
- The original Kevin
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
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
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
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...
- The Real sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
A smashing success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. This is very cool. If you haven't yet, go ahead and do so. Original post here http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mark Krynsky
Added. Surely I'm not the only FF'er in Africa?
- Neill Adamson
@Neill, that's great. You just got us to the 6th continent. I highly doubt we can hit 7 as there surely can't be someone from Antarctica that FriendFeeds.
- Mark Krynsky
The Antarctica challenge: OK, here's the plan: we need to contact Eli Duke (http://twitter.com/elisfanclub) he's tweeting from McMurdo Station, Antarctica. We have until February (some background I just found: on his 1st stint in the Antarctic he was a dish washer. In 2006 he wrote a functioning RubyOn Rails site, got burned out and tried to give it away on Craig's List...unsuccessfully--it's back online now http://listyourlist.com/ . McMurdo Photo: http://is.gd/8Ltk)
- Micah
I reshared to the Translation room to help boost your international participation.
- Shannon Jiménez
nah, friendfeed isn't a niche play. it's got dozens of users! ;)
- Jeremy Toeman
Alrighty then, I just sent Eli a tweet (http://friendfeed.com/e... ) with a plea. I hope I'm not taken for a crazy. Hmm, I know that could be my first reaction.
- Micah
@Robert: caught up with an old buddy over a cigar, bottle of wine, and a few glasses of quality bourbon. and i have to be up at 6. so i'm having fun. ;) sorry we didn't get to catch up more at the 12seconds/uservoice party!
- Jeremy Toeman
WTF!!! Nobody from India... ??? Am I the only one..:)
- Devakishor
Well I was late to this party. Great idea Mark. I have all of New Zealand to myself!
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Turkey is on it must be. Anyhow, and Anyway, they'll be more Balloons One Day All Around Our World, BTW Thats a Great Daft Punk Track ain't it ;-D, Shall We Play it, and what Room shall we doeth Such? It Big enough for All. That is All. Time For Work Now, See You Laters, FriendFeed and Have A Nice But Try Not To Be too naughty Day. :))
- Jason
Why is Erhan Erdogan in the middle of the atlantic ocean on the map? Is he in the Bermuda Triangle or something? lol
- Alan Le
@Micah, great job on recruitment. Eli has added himself and we now have all 7 continents filled.
- Mark Krynsky
Erhan probably got moved accidentally. When I got to the page, and was moving the map, I accidently grabbed someone and moved them to the middle of the Atlantic. Thankfully, it was someone who used a special icon, so it was easy to search and put them back.
- Anika
Hmm, apparently I'm just up the road from Haggis.
- Rob H.
I just added myself. Curious - how do you get different placemarks? I like the Google-looking ones that aren't quite raindrops.
- Tamar Weinberg
Just an addendum to Spidra's explanation: To go back and edit, click the pushpin then click the "Edit" button (look waaay to the left on the page). Then you can click the icon to change, and you'll see Save button next to "Edit"
- Micah
Oh cool. Nice job reviving this guys. Hopefully we get another good round of users to add themselves.
- Mark Krynsky
Kind of frustrating to see how much time I spent on this map and then to find out someone had probably saved their changes over mine - hence mine was gone this entire time. Others should also check for this. In any event, thanks, Spidra, for the tip :) My other pet peeve is Google Maps scrolling incessantly out of nowhere. (Hi Jess.)
- Tamar Weinberg
Added myself yesterday. I notice, thought, that you have to flip to page 2 ... Can't we show all the FFers on one map, regardless of the page ?
- Ahsan Ali
so...you have a shrink-ray and you're all gonna fit in there?!? 'Cos I would hold out for something a little more likely to pass building regs if I were you!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
* 25% of all Web searches are porn related * 12% of all Web sites are pornographic * $2.84 billion in revenue was generated from U.S. porn sites in 2006 * 260 new porn sites go online daily
- Peter Butler
from Bookmarklet
"There is so much hugging at Pascack Hills High School in Montvale, N.J., that students have broken down the hugs by type: There is the basic friend hug, probably the most popular, and the bear hug, of course. But now there is also the bear claw, when a boy embraces a girl awkwardly with his elbows poking out. There is the hug that starts with a high-five, then moves into a fist bump, followed by a slap on the back and an embrace. There’s the shake and lean; the hug from behind; and, the newest addition, the triple — any combination of three girls and boys hugging at once... A measure of how rapidly the ritual is spreading is that some students complain of peer pressure to hug to fit in. And schools from Hillsdale, N.J., to Bend, Ore., wary in a litigious era about sexual harassment or improper touching — or citing hallway clogging and late arrivals to class — have banned hugging or imposed a three-second rule."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Hugs are awesome. Unless they are coming from creepy people. Generally, though, they are awesome.
- Micah Monserrat
People are more physical nowadays. I appreciate this. Especially with the LADIES.
- Mike Nayyar
This hugging is a good thing, with electronic communication being the norm.
- Rick Cogley
the breakdown is very interesting. for us, growing up, it was kisses. affection amongst hard rocks was common too, this still exists today, involving complicated handshakes and hugs.
- Carlos Ayala
I am going to hug the entire FriendFeed team tomorrow. Bret can monitor the second counts.
- Louis Gray
Growing up in Japan, hugging didn't come natural to me. I can't remember my first hug, but I did like a girl's bosoms pressing against me. Those were the days!
- Hiro Asari
@Hiro, lol. :-) Now in Japan, there's even groups that offer "free hugs" on the streetcorner. Japan has changed a lot in the 22 years since I came...
- Rick Cogley
@ana, yeah, only in America. I am American, but I always wonder why people are so uptight about that sort of thing. 3-seconds... jeez.
- Rick Cogley
@Rick I believe you, but I want to see the pics of these people (and the reaction of the passersby).
- Hiro Asari
@Hiro - yeah, I've only seen them once for real, and a couple times in the paper. Peoples' reaction would be interesting yes.
- Rick Cogley
God, only in an American public high school could they turn a perfectly reasonable and healthy interaction into a cause for alarm. We Americans *need* a little more contact, if you ask me.
- Joel Webber
This was pretty common amongst a subset of people when I was in high school in Australia (mid-90s), along with cheek-kissing. It was great.
- Glen Murphy
Hugging is a good thing. It should be encouraged. You know, humans that touch one another, speak to one another, and that generally have social interaction, are happy humans. Deal with issues on a case by case basis and don't make these knee jerk blanket policies
- Chris Gardner
OK, so this is an interesting phenomenon but I found it mighty weird that this story was on the front page, below the fold, of the print edition. The jump? It was to page A3. I'm all for quirky stories on the front page; it diversifies the page and reaches a broader audience. But....
- Christopher Chung
So we are conservative, don't we? To me, only the most friendly will I give my hugs. I could expect the gap between us and our children.
- Juvenn Woo
from fftogo
"Last Monday, May 25th, the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake was held near Gloucester, England. In a tradition that dates back at least 200 years, possibly much longer, groups of fearless competitors chase an 8 pound (3.5 kg) round of Double Gloucester Cheese down an extremely steep and uneven hill, with a 1:1 gradient in some parts. Thousands of spectators gather to watch the five downhill and four uphill races, and to celebrate the winners and console the losers afterward. Injuries such as broken bones and concussions are commonplace, but the event continues to grow in popularity. The winner of each race is awarded the delicious round of cheese they were chasing. (17 photos total)"
- Rachel Lea Fox
from Bookmarklet
Thanks for the link Steve! Can we say insanity? I do like a lot of the costumes, and others scare me a lot!!!! I say just go buy the cheese!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Is that guy naked?! I hope the ground is smooth, for his sake
- Chris Lamprecht
Chris, other photos/video show that he might have a g-string type thing on. However I don't see that as enough cover or something like this. If I was ever crazy enough to attempt this I would be going down in full hockey goalie gear!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
In ancient Rome, the men used to chase cheese rolls down from the Acropolis wearing only a thin coating of olive oil. OK, not really, but now it's on the Internet so it's half way to being true.
- Brian Johns
A comparison of freeway ramp rendering on various online mapping sites shows that it's a tricky problem, and at least at the time of this post (2006), Google had the best rendering. I looked at Live and Yahoo again today and it still doesn't match what Google had in 2006.
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
His own company's map demo (http://maps.cartifact.com/) is pretty slick, with the labelled building outlines. No way to link to a particular view, but zooming in on that 10-110 intersection is nice.
- ⓞnor
It's always kind of surprised me to not see much commentary on the quality of map rendering in these apps. It was the first thing that struck me about Google Maps when they released (especially compared to MapQuest, which at the time looked like it had been rendered on my old C64).
- Joel Webber
He fails to mention this, but Google's is the only one on that list that shows the ramp directionality. I would think that might be good information to have :)
- Joel Webber
"But the RAW files [do] not remove the judges' suspicion of excessive use of Photoshop. In particular three images invoke the judges' anger. ... After a short discussion [they] agree to vote the series out."
- Casey Muller
from Bookmarklet
All three examples look okay to me, but of course they can set their contest rules however they want.
- Casey Muller
Wow. That elephant's hung like a horse.
- John Craft
THAT is why you always march the male ahead of the female elephants. Lesson learned I guess... I'd rather not see the shot 5 seconds later.
- Rafael Robayna