eviltom

"Jesse Vargas punched Titsworth the fuck out because he kissed him in the middle of a match. And while there is nothing wrong with two guys kissing, both of them should, you know, be up for it." - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet

I can understand the confusion, but you're not allowed to punch someone AFTER they've kissed you. - Will Higgins

is the ref ralphie may? - eviltom

:D - AJ Batac

but if you leave the lid on for too long, when your friend opens the pringles they might end up with a different sort of surprise... - bob

:( - Georgia Diehl

what program are you using to view twitter like this? - Dan

Dan, that's gmail chat :) - Bec Rowe

Three-peat: "After a spirited, emotional and at times raucous debate, the New York City Council voted, 29 to 22, on Thursday afternoon to extend term limits, allowing Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to seek re-election next year and undoing the result of two voter referendums that had imposed a limit of two four-year terms." - Ana via Bookmarklet

Nah, it's too late for W. to push through a repeal of the 22nd amendment. He'll just have to suspend elections indefinitely. - Kevin Fox

John Oliver: Bush knows it's too late to be the best president of the U.S. John Stewart: So he's going to try for the worst president? John Oliver: No John, the last president. - Chris White

"Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have shown that simply peeling ordinary sticky tape in a vacuum can generate enough X-rays to take an image — of one of the scientists' own fingers. "At some point we were a little bit scared," says Juan Escobar, a member of the research team. But he and his co-workers soon realized that the X-rays were only emitted when the kit was used in a vacuum...This kind of energy release — known as triboluminescence and seen in the form of light — occurs whenever a solid (often a crystal) is crushed, rubbed or scratched. It is a long-known, if somewhat mysterious, phenomenon, seen by Francis Bacon in 1605. He noticed that scratching a lump of sugar caused it to give off light. The leading explanation posits that when a crystal is crushed or split, the process separates opposite charges. When these charges are neutralized, they release a burst of energy in the form of light." - April Buchheit via Bookmarklet

brilliant! - eviltom

Awww. I feel bad for the horsie. - Sudhakar "Thaths" Chandra

OMG that's sooo funny!! DUMBASS!!! LOL!! - Susan Beebe

"I was in this game for the money. The low hanging fruit, i.e. idiots whose parents paid for prep school, Yale, and then the Harvard MBA, was there for the taking. These people who were (often) truly not worthy of the education they received (or supposedly received) rose to the top of companies such as AIG, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and all levels of our government. All of this behavior supporting the Aristocracy, only ended up making it easier for me to find people stupid enough to take the other side of my trades. God bless America." - Paul Buchheit

"... legislation was repeatedly brought forth to Congress over the past eight years, which would have reigned in the predatory lending practices of now mostly defunct institutions. These institutions regularly filled the coffers of both parties in return for voting down all of this legislation designed to protect the common citizen. This is an outrage, yet no one seems to know or care about it." - Shakeel Mahate

This is fiction, right? The treatment for "Harold and Kumar Manage a Hedge Fund?" - Karim

For times when you need a place to get away from all the news of the impending economic collapse (or, you want to make some lip-synching videos), this place is renting out for *only* $15k/week... - Ana via Bookmarklet

that it, i'm going! who's with me? anyone wanna get matching speedos? - eviltom

D'oh. I will comment on this just so you know your friends are alive :) - Bret Taylor

"The first priority seemed to be getting Cassel ready for the job that begins Sunday against the Jets." - Ana via Bookmarklet

"Users can record images not just at the instant they press the shutter button, but before! Continuously recording at up to 60 images per second, a maximum of 60 images can be saved in the camera’s own buffer memory even before the shutter button is depressed. Even if users press the shutter a little late, they will still be able to catch that vital moment." - Gabe via Bookmarklet

If I remember right, with CHDK on my Canon pocket camera, I was able to get 1/60,000 second shutter speeds. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/a... although that didn't require that fast of a shutter. CHDK may be lying about the camera's capabilities. - Amit Patel

Casio has 1200fps samples at http://www.exilim.com/intl/ex_... - Richard Chen

First picture of the series begins here: http://picasaweb.google.com/an... - Ana

Pictures of the relay begin here: http://picasaweb.google.com/an... - Ana

thanks for cool pics and coverage, are you doing DNC for FF too? - Pokai

This is from 4 days ago... Bolt ran that day, but it was just a heat. I'll have pictures up of last night's 4x100m relay soon... - Ana

ana's captioning productivity has gone up 1000% since i left! - eviltom

I wonder if the cameramen have to train to be fit enough to run alongside the track&field olympians on their victory laps. Their equipment doesn't exactly look light. - Dan Hsiao

Newly-updated photos start here: http://picasaweb.google.com/an... - Ana

brazil is the best :D - Leandro Koiti Sato

Volleyball is my favorite sport. And I am so mad that NBC has decided to not show the Men's Final Live! oh well, I will go play the open gym and practice some kills to get over my anger! - Syed F Ahmad

Photos and video of 3 Beijing operas start here: http://picasaweb.google.com/an... - Ana

talk about applying foundation! quite scary - collins

i love this when i can see it. the costumes are all about the astral world. but the best chinese art form is a chinese orchestra, a truly high art form, makes western classical seem pedestrian. they see their job as creating the experience of a higher state of consciousness, and it works. - Gregory Lent

Diving and night shots of the Olympic Green start here: http://picasaweb.google.com/an... - Ana

Amazing to see these beautiful buildings up close - makes them somehow more "real" now that I've seen them so many times on the tube ... - Bo Stern

Great shots, Ana! - Dror Shimshowitz

Badminton... 8 rows up from the courts! I was so excited walking inside the stadium I actually started jumping up and down! - Ana via mail2ff

very cool. I just pulled up badminton live stream. they are showing JPN Sato/DEN Gade, now tied 1-1. very lively and excited crowd, indeed. - David Vasileff

didn't even notice they have streams for all three courts. crowd must be cheering the GBR/CHN mixed doubles match - what a match. unbelievable. GBR down 17-12 in final game finish 9-2 to win 21-19. wow. - David Vasileff

is jumping up and down in excitment outlawed by the government? the Chinese are a stoic people - eviltom

A star is born - Mike Yang

Yup, now she's officially a cewebrity. =) - Tom Stocky

Waiting with bated breath for 'The Tom n Avni Hour' on Youtube ---> - grant

as if there was any doubt, it is now crystal clear who the spokesperson will be for this future family - Mark Williamson via twhirl

50% of the time. - Colby Olson

Pareto principle work for 80% of things 20% of the time. :) - xero

Waiting the post about 20% of FriendFeed (the best):) - Igor Poltavskiy

"Al Gore—or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al—placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity's hubristic folly. "There is nothing left now but to ensure that my infant son does not meet the same fate as the rest of my doomed race," Gore said. "I will send him to a new planet, where he will, I hope, be raised by simple but kindly country folk and grow up to be a hero and protector to his adopted home."" - Dan Hsiao

This was too good. Had to reshare from a private feed. - Dan Hsiao

Al looks good in silver. - C. Golis