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Amazing cloud roll captured on camera - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics...
Kevin L, Nicholas Kreidberg, Jason is Sassy and 59 other people liked this
"This amazing picture shows a rare phenomenon called a roll cloud which tend to form ahead of a cold front and can stretch for miles."
- winckel
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Woah, that's seems so unreal!
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Cloud on my photo not so big, but it's mine :) http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Guybrush Threepwood
more like this, images: http://images.google.com/images... and video http://video.google.com/videose...
- Jason Wehmhoener
that's no cloud, that's longcat!
- alphaxion
I'm amazed.........it looks like something out of War Of The Worlds or Independence Day
- winckel
alphaxion ;) Is that the Windows Azure -cloud?
- Jemm
Is it real?
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
I think it is - there's no sense in the short article that it's faked - so I'm inclined to believe it. I assume this is so uncommon it wasn't planned - simply the photographer was in Uruguay and had his camera
- winckel
Here's another example. We see them here on the coast now and then. Very impressive, and they ca be hundreds of miles long: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth...
- Chris Baskind
amazing
- winckel
hmm it's real then
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
That's awesome. I've never heard of or seen this phenomenon.
- Give 'Em DBizness
Well, look where the Telegraph got their picture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Chris Baskind
it's past 1 year already
- `aziz´ Alihan ÇETİN
When is twitter gonna get with the times and go HD? Sometimes I really need 141 characters.
fshamsi, Bruce Lewis, Louis Gray and 9 other people liked this
Don’t!
The secret of self-control. - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
Mark Crowley, Christian Burns , WorldofHiglet and 98 other people liked this
"At the time, psychologists assumed that children’s ability to wait depended on how badly they wanted the marshmallow. But it soon became obvious that every child craved the extra treat. What, then, determined self-control? Mischel’s conclusion, based on hundreds of hours of observation, was that the crucial skill was the “strategic allocation of attention.” Instead of getting obsessed with the marshmallow—the “hot stimulus”—the patient children distracted themselves by covering their eyes, pretending to play hide-and-seek underneath the desk, or singing songs from “Sesame Street.” Their desire wasn’t defeated—it was merely forgotten. “If you’re thinking about the marshmallow and how delicious it is, then you’re going to eat it,” Mischel says. “The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place.” In adults, this skill is often referred to as metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and it’s what allows people to outsmart their shortcomings. (When Odysseus had himself tied to...
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- Paul Buchheit
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This is an interesting quote because it implies that "will power" is more about mental strategy, not some kind of mental strength for forcing yourself to do something. I have the same strategy with food -- I eat whatever I see, so in order to not eat something I just need to put it out of sight.
- Paul Buchheit
effectively "out of sight, out of mind"
- alphaxion
This is where the magic of science is: you spend time and resources to prove a proverb.
- .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.
"The child who could wait fifteen minutes had an S.A.T. score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds."
- J.D. Deutschendorf
Sometimes I worry my metacognition is slowing me down because I'm spending less time just cogniting. (that oughtta be a word.) But no, in all seriousness, I think something, then realize the thought was there before I subvocalized it, and then I go in a circle several times subvocalizing those same thoughts as I examine the process of thinking. Frustrating!
- Andrew C
Some friends and I refer to this study often, pointing out when we've failed the marshmallow test. Staying up late is my most common mashmallow test failure (sacrificing morning time to enjoy a few more bleary hours NOW), but it's easy to spot this sort of behavior and fun to have a standard vocabulary to highlight its ubiquity.
- Seth
Episode on Mischel's marshmallows on RadioLab -- http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiola...
- Alex Haar
As a parent, I consciously used this strategy to distract my children whenever they got in mischief, behaved badly or acted out. As a grandparent, I often send a box of tricks, things like super balls, an "uno" deck, paints, a book, a yoyo or top, for my daughter to use with my grandchildren when they are driving her crazy and need to think about something other than running around screaming.
- Phil Boiarski
OK, that makes sense, but let's flip this on its head - How do you instead keep your mind on something and prevent yourself from getting distracted? You can't distract yourself from your distractions. Andrew C, the word you're looking for is cogitating.
- Mr. Gunn
Mr Gunn, thanks. Though I think 'cogniting' is a touch funnier.
- Andrew C
Some chimpanzees use this strategy as well, though not all of them.
- Björn Brembs
i think bhudda had some theory on this too...:/
- Paul Moss
I'm going to marshmallow-train my kids!!
- Jess Lee
Today my 4yo daughter was having trouble waiting for a treat, so I told her (and my wife) about reading this article last night. I talked about the ability to distract - and I thought I was doing a pretty good job of explaining it in 4yo terms. When I was done with my paraphrase/lesson, I asked her if she understood. "Uh-huh," she said. Then after a few moments, she asked if we could stop and get some marshmallows on the way home. All I could do is laugh!
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
I read a different writeup of this experiment a couple years ago, when our daughter was about 1 year old. Its something that can be taught, and encouraged. She's now very good at distracting herself from something which she knows she shouldn't do or would get into trouble over. She's not easily distracted in general: she can focus quite well on something she wants to do (and is allowed to do).
- DGentry
The experiment: http://friendfeed.com/haggis...
- Jérôme Flipo
Note to self: Don't 'friend' your boss on FB and then bitch about your job.
Hanna Bretzke, Alfredo, Nick Mutton and 242 other people liked this
Owned.
- Johnny
El. Oh. El. You gotta be some sort of stupid to friend your boss before your probation period is up. Fired in front of friends and family? PRICELESS.
- Admiral Anika
She's a f*ing idiot. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine at an ad agency, who accidentally texted "my boss is a fucking cunt" ... to her boss. She didn't get fired or reprimanded, but she freaked out about it.
- LANjackal
It floors me how much people openly vent about their jobs on public feeds like FriendFeed. Even if your boss isn't a direct contact, how are people so sure that a boss or co-worker won't stumble across it?
- Mike Doeff
from iPhone
If I have complaints about work, I try to mask them as much as possible or make them more about me personally than the job itself. At the same time, I really try to stay mum about any job I have..
- Jon, the Beartato of '10
Mike and how are you so sure that other people don't know who you are talking about? There's a person here on FriendFeed who complains about their coworker. Even though I live in a different city, I know that coworker.
- Admiral Anika
It also doesn't matter if anyone sees it when you write it, because The Google sees it and records it for anyone looking for it years from now.
- Trish R
Maybe the more general rule that comes into play here is to never say anything about someone you wouldn't tell them to their face.
- Ken Sheppardson
Well said Ken.
- Benjamin Taylor
What an idiot... When people claim we don't need guidelines for employees using social media, I just have to point out cases of extreme stupidity like this...
- Badger Gravling
Ouch! Hope she learned the lesson. And +1 Ken, this is the simplest rule not to forget at any point.
- lelapin
this is huge!
- Loic Le Meur
OH those lessons learned the hard way.
- anna sauce
Why friend your boss in the first place, especially if all you do is complain about the job?
- Adrian McMillan
Ouch… :P
- Daniel Schildt
Well someone has to make room for other people! From the sounds of it, she was probably already canned anyway.
- Robert Fisher
Well that was a bit dumb. The thing about social media is it's just so much a part of our lives. We are encouraged to pour our views and feelings into it but we have to remember who is going to be reading it. In the end we have to censor ourselves so as a result our lifestream is a watered down stream. There are no directors cuts.
- Parvez Halim
Absolutely priceless!
- Robert Couture
Oh and I forgot the LOL.
- Parvez Halim
this is something that may occur very often. More than we think!
- Rui
@Rui I remember a colleague of mine did a similar thing. Luckily they got away with a written warning and no pay rise for that year.
- Parvez Halim
HUGE!
- Nathan Guetta
Interestingly, every time I consider complaining about my job via any social media platform, I stop and think "how can I make my job better? how can I improve myself?" and then end up writing about that instead. It has made me a much happier person. Really.
- mike fabio
OMG ! this is awesome
- Franck Nouyrigat
OUCH!
- Retno Nindya
.. and that's why I'm private. I'm pretty good about not talking about work, but never know when I may say something completely stupid
- Rodfather
I think there is a serious point here: Your on-line social network pals will be supportive of you regardless of whether you are right or wrong. That's what friends are for, kind of. All the boss does is let in a bit of reality.
- sjjh
Maybe she wanted to be fired by her boss? Just questioning...
- Torsten Eckert
Splendid. Too bad the story isn't real. OR IS IT...?
- Francesco Balducci
I do so love the false sense of anonymity the Internet instills in people.
- matthew john ernisse
haha!
- orionstarr
Where did you get this? I'm trying to verify that it is actually a real event. Looks too 'perfect' and to generate this much hype I believe it is just two friends that wanted to laugh about how stupid the world is...
- Brian J. Reeves
April - you can't imagine how many people e-mailed me screenshots of this :)
- Charlie Anzman
I wish I was here in order to press the "Like" button.
- Clément Cailly
social media and your boss don't mix well :)
- Dave Q
Zing!
- Nick Mutton
What World of Warcraft players desperately need - http://graphjam.com/2009...
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Brett Kelly, Christian (Simply X) and 14 other people liked this
awesome sauce.
- jack
the wow themed mountain dew comes with an in-game pet :) (dan made me post this)
- Henru
Clearasil/Oxy/Proactiv should be on this pie chart.
- jack
I always thought they need more role playing, which is a lot different from collecting xps and money.
- Marco Mariani
Meh, I exercise daily, get plenty of sleep, have knitting and reading for hobbies, and I'm married. :P Still... not a Mountain Dew fan, but the in-game pet was cute. :D
- Alix Whitmire
A Textbook Example of What’s Wrong with Education | Edutopia - http://www.edutopia.org/muddle-...
xero, Mark Essel, metalerik and 24 other people liked this
"Mainly, they know how to censor themselves. Once, I remember, an editorial group was discussing literary selections to include in a reading anthology. We were about to agree on one selection when someone mentioned that the author of this piece had drawn a protest at a Texas adoption because he had allegedly belonged to an organization called One World Council, rumored to be a "Communist front." At that moment, someone pointed out another story that fit our criteria. Without further conversation, we chose that one and moved on. Only in retrospect did I realize we had censored the first story based on rumors of allegations. Our unspoken thinking seemed to be, If even the most unlikely taint existed, the Gablers would find it, so why take a chance? Self-censorship like this goes unreported because we the censors hardly notice ourselves doing it. In that room, none of us said no to any story. We just converged around a different story. The dangerous author, incidentally, was celebrated best-selling science fiction writer Isaac Asimov."
- Paul Buchheit
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Very dangerous territory indeed.
- Martha
I believe open-source is the right way to go with textbooks. The current system is guaranteed to produce bland, mediocre, and uninspiring products, much like the schools themselves.
- Paul Buchheit
Good discussion on http://news.ycombinator.com/item... too
- Paul Buchheit
Such initiatives should help: http://www.tricki.org/
- Shailesh S. Khandekar
I like his ironic use of the term "Content Lite"
- Gabe
Curriki.org , DSpace.org, http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ , and don't forget Open Journal Systems
- Ed Dodds
Big Brother Amazon Remotely Deletes Purchased Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm From Thousands of Kindles - Kindle - Gizmodo - http://gizmodo.com/5317180...
Gerd Leonhard, LANjackal, Paul Buchheit and 48 other people liked this
"Amazon basically guaranteed that I'll never buy a Kindle last night by bending to the wishes of a publisher and deleting every single legitimately-purchased copy of 1984 and Animal Farm from all Kindles remotely. Apparently, the publisher changed its mind about having electronic versions of Orwell's books. So Amazon removed them from the store and in the process remotely deleted the books [...] Amazon says this is a "rarity," but even once is too many times for bullshit like this to happen."
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
Sweet irony.
- Tudor Bosman
Open source or no money from me
- Josh Haley
Yeah, that's a nonstarter.
- Christopher Harley
Remotely? WOW
- Rodfather
Wait, you paid for it, then it's yours! Isn't it? :/
- directeur
From mission control: "What does this button do? OOPS."
- Derrick
"This looks to be a case of a bad copy of 1984 being removed from the kindle store, not a major publisher changing their mind. If you read the amazon discussion, this has happened before. Which makes sense. I could self publish a book called 1984 on kindle and just upload an ebook I found somewhere else. If people buy it, and amazon finds out, they probably remove those non legit copies...
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- Cristo
That's quite Orwellian. :)
- Morton Fox
Where'd you get the Kindle with the color screen?
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
The irony is positively delicious. I like this NY Times article on it too. http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
- Keith Bourgoin
It's still troubling they would remove content from your device. Think what would happen if Apple remotely removed Apps from your iPhone.
- Rodfather
Apple has stated that there's a "kill switch" for apps that permits remote deletion. Imagine what would happen if an App contained a trojan that would wake up in 90 days and send all your contacts to a spammer? Apple would be killed if they DIDN'T take some action to stop it and they could.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Apple might have backed themselves into a corner with their supposedly rigorous review process for apps. Would you expect Microsoft (or Apple, for that matter, or the vendor of your favorite Linux distribution) to remotely disable malicious applications on your desktop or laptop? Why should an iPhone / iPod Touch be any different?
- Tudor Bosman
(What I meant: Apple established this trust model. "You download the apps from us, and we tell you they're safe, we're somewhat morally responsible if they turn out not to be." For desktops and laptops, it's generally understood that you're on your own, and the OS vendors try their best to prevent malicious apps from taking control, but no guarantees are implied.)
- Tudor Bosman
Shame on Amazon for caving and also for doing the removal like a theif in the night, instead of up front and informing the consumer. If they thought that noone would notice then they are not very bright.
- Kim Landwehr
I LOVE my Kindle, but I don't really buy books from Amazon - there are tons of free pdf versions of books on the web, all FREE, and NO ONE can remove them but me
- William Harryman
[Update] Amazon has pledged not to do this again, saying "When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers. We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances." http://www.informationweek.com/news...
- DeWitt Clinton
Kal Penn goes from 'White Castle' to the White House; starts gig with Obama administration - http://www.nydailynews.com/news...
Andy Ackerman, fshamsi, anna sauce and 3 other people liked this
"This was no "Harold & Kumar" adventure: Actor Kal Penn on Monday became White House wonk Kalpen Modi. ... Modi reported to work Monday as the associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, a gig he landed after working his way up through Presdent Obama's campaign operation."
- Christopher Chung
from Bookmarklet
no way!
- Felicia Yue
yep. this is why he left house last season
- Elliott
he's definitely diversifying his resume. also, that's a rather odd picture. it looks like they're about to kiss.
- Dan Hsiao
no, it looks like Obama leaning in for a smooch, and Kal is trying to get away
- Felicia Yue
Are they about to kiss?
- anna sauce
Ocean Beach
Hutch Carpenter, fshamsi, τorƍue and 5 other people liked this
JEALOUS! I've had about enough of my job. =^p
- Rebecca Sun
Crazy how popular Michael Jackson's music was this past week (screenshots taken Monday, when I downloaded The Essential MJ album)
fshamsi, Kol Tregaskes, 阿石 and 3 other people liked this
"Many retail stores reportedly ran out of stock over the weekend, which might have contributed to Mr. Jackson’s remarkable sales tally online: 57 percent of his album sales were digital downloads, and 2.3 million downloads of single tracks were sold, separate from album sales. In the five years that SoundScan has tracked downloads, no artist has sold more than 1 million tracks in one week. Last year Mr. Jackson sold a total of 2.8 million tracks." - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
- Dan Hsiao
That's the same album I bought.
- Mike Wills
iTunes has such a better browsing experience than Amazon. I always want to browse on iTunes and then buy on Amazon but half the time I forget and end up buying it on iTunes.
- Dan Hsiao
5 Guys in a Limo - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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fshamsi, tagami, Rebecca Sun and 2 other people liked this
Very strange to hear these familiar voices coming out of actual people. Also, RIP Don LaFontaine!
- Rebecca Sun
thought I'd share a 14yr perception of twitter when asked if he knew what it was.."it's like a chat room for old people"
Alex, John Ford, Shailesh S. Khandekar and 13 other people liked this
David Letterman teaches us all how to do an apology. Good show Dave! - http://www.tvweek.com/blogs...
Daniel Rowley, Dave Martin, Jason Pollock and 28 other people liked this
Between the insanity and outrage that is Letterman/Palin and DePass/Michelle Obama, it is amazing that our government is actually working to progress our country forward in any meaningful way. Oh wait, maybe our government isn't doing that so much. Bill Maher definitely said it best this week.
- Joel Marcey
David didn't teach anyone how to do an apology. If he really did then he would have made an apology right away. Not 1 week after the fact under intense pressure.
- Gavin
You're kidding right Robert?
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Gavin: if you are forced to do an apology, this is how to do it. Ed, no, I'm not. It was a good apology. Why wasn't it, other than it took a week?
- Robert Scoble
Robert: He obviously isn't sorry because then he wouldn't have made a mock apology the next night and then a week later made a "sincere" apology.
- Gavin
He didn't need to apologize, but of course, that's politics.
- Dean Clark
I agree, the apology was good and sincere. However, people took it the wrong way from the start and should have trusted his description of it not being about the 14 y/o. It's weak to attack him about it - shows a lack of imagination from those attacking him... Many better things to go after :)
- Sol Young
Dean: Of course he needed to apologize. His comments were distasteful and rude. If this was a show on FOX News everyone would be freaking out. But since its Letterman anything goes. His joke was disgusting!
- Gavin
Gavin: most people who apologize are doing it because they are forced to. I remember saying "fuck" in class when I was in kindergarten. I was forced to apologize. I wasn't sorry. What did I do? I said "I'm sorry for saying fuck the other day." The teacher learned a lesson about that and so did I. There's a good way to apologize and a bad way.
- Robert Scoble
Love her or HATE her, this was a lude, tired old insult at one's children. She's long out of the race. This personal. He hedged. And the writer of the article hedged even more. Can you imagine someone with 2,000,000 twitter followers ripping your [lovely, classy] wife?
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
People say things, they think about what they said sometimes, some laugh, say it louder, some say I was wrong...good for him. It takes strength to apologize no matter who you are!
- Myrna
Robert: I wouldn't called an insincere apology a good apology. And definitely not after giving a mock apology first and then a "sincere" apology.
- Gavin
And I don't care about Palin other than that she's human. In fact she rubs me the very wrong way.
- Myrna
Ed: people make mistakes and if I were in front of TV cameras every evening I would make many many more mistakes.
- Robert Scoble
Myrna: Would you want someone making sexually explicit jokes about your 14-year old daughter?
- Gavin
I agree, Robert. He should've done it earlier. And, whether or not you (not you, personally, Robert) like Sarah Palin isn't the issue. Remember when NBC Correspondent David Shuster joked about the Clinton's "Pimping Out" Chelsea? Hillary responded aggressively and Shuster was forced to apologize. So there is precedent on something like this.
- Curt Mercadante
Gavin: sometimes it takes a week for people to see the real harm they did. It was clear he wasn't talking about the 14-year-old, or at least he didn't think he was. The fact that he took a week to understand just how bad the perception of that was, is fine with me. It takes me a while for things to sink in too and for me to get the perspective I need to figure out I was wrong when I am.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I don't believe it took a week for it to sink in, he made fun of it the next day. When I first heard the jokes it wasn't clear to me that the jokes were aimed at Bristol.
- Gavin
Letterman's apology was an apology, which is more than you get from most public persons these days, "i am sorry if i offended anyone" is not an apology, it is a pretend apology. Letterman said, " Well, my responsibility - I take full blame for that. I told a bad joke.....So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the Governor...
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- Nathan Eckenrode
Nathan: That's just smart PR.
- Gavin
Gavin, of course I wouldn't like it and not about my son either.
- Myrna
Myrna: So why are supporting Dave then?
- Gavin
Gavin. doing the right thing is smart PR, but it is also doing the right thing.
- Nathan Eckenrode
Gavin: because Dave apologized for being a jerk. The fact that you can't accept his apology says more about you than it says about Letterman.
- Robert Scoble
This whole situation is incredibly stupid and the mere fact that it has stirred up so much attention/controversy demonstrates how easily distracted our society can get. There are much bigger issues to tackle here, folks. This is DUMB.
- Andy
Letterman was stupid. Palin's response was somewhat of a PR blunder. But the way some people have criticized Palin over this has a bit of a double-standard given the history of how people reacted to the Shuster-Chelsea Clinton remark. Imagine if Letterman had made the same joke about one of the Obama daughters while they were in NYC. All hell would've broken loose. Just a stupid situation. Made for the tabloids and, in the end, probably boosted Letterman's ratings. That being said, I agree with Robert.
- Curt Mercadante
Nathan: bing!
- Robert Scoble
The bigger issue here is the media and how they have an extreme anti-right bias!
- Gavin
Andy: double bing! Personally I didn't know about the whole Letterman/Palin thing before I read the apology. I just liked the apology. It was perfectly done. If you are ever in the place where you need to give an apology for whatever reason you should come back here and study this piece by Letterman.
- Robert Scoble
Agreed Robert. I make mistakes all the time. But I heartily subscribe to @BlairWarren's thesis: "An apology that is not made with the same level of enthusiasm as was the transgression is not an apology at all; it's an insult."
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Remember, people, that David Letterman is a comedian. It is his job to work on the edge of culture and society and press our buttons with social commentary. He's an artist. Do we ask playwrights to apologize for plays? Novelists to apologize for their books? Musicians to apologize for their scores? This doesn't mean we can't give comedians a rough time for things they say (it's a way society makes boundaries), but we need to remember that it's that its their job to make us uncomfortable.
- Jason Miller
Gavin, I'm supporting the fact that he apologized especially if he can't stand her. Those are the times that apologies are the hardest. Try apologizing to someone who rubs you the wrong way. Lol, that's real growth imo.
- Myrna
It's astounding to me how many of you insist on blaming Palin for this.
- Glen, Bespectacled Elder
Ed: well, the audience applauded three times, so I'm pretty sure this played pretty well when he gave it. Jason: plus Letterman doesn't write his own jokes. That said, he screwed up by not knowing how this one would play to the audience. He knew he was playing with fire because he researched the age of the kid. Myrna: exactly.
- Robert Scoble
Hmph- go figure - I emailed Dave & CBS last week and suggested he apologize . Was right thing to do. Unusual to applaud CBS but I do today
- Crystal Clear
Glen: who is blaming Palin here? She isn't even part of the post here. I was focusing specifically on Letterman's apology which was ALL ABOUT HIM.
- Robert Scoble
Jason - yes, but Imus was a comedian, too. Fired. I don't think Imus should've been fired. I don't think Letterman should be fired. I've heard worse jokes. Palin was right to be pissed. People are correct to note a double standard here. Case closed. If we called for everyone to be fired who made a lude remarks, none of us would have jobs. I certainly wouldn't. I'm not particularly a Letterman fan (Conan is way better), but I can just choose not to watch him and move on with my day.
- Curt Mercadante
Glen: Oh, I see a couple of people talking about Palin and how she's using this for political gain. Yeah, so that probably is true too.
- Robert Scoble
Sarah Palin will ALWAYS look like a deer staring into the headlights to me. She was in over head. What a slap in the face to intelligent women from either party. Were the republicans trying to win? I don't think that Ms.Palin would even know that she was being apologized to
- Chris White
Heh, what's funny about this whole thread is I had no idea it would cause such a conversation and go into whether Palin was a good choice or not. We covered that enough last November and here I just wanted to talk about the fact that this was a good apology and it's one that, if I'm ever in need of an apology, I will look back on.
- Robert Scoble
Chris: are you the Chris White who used to hang out here and who deleted his friendfeed account?
- Robert Scoble
Chris - whether or not you like or dislike Sarah Palin has little to do with this post. I'm not particularly a fan of Obama, but would ABSOLUTELY think a similar remark about his daughters was stupid and lude. I thought David Shuster's remark about Chelsea was stupid and lude. I thought Letterman's remark was stupid and lude. That's consistency.
- Curt Mercadante
there is a really salient point in Letterman's apology about the perception being greater than the intent, and perhaps Sarah Palin herself suffers from being on the wrong end of the perceptions of the American people, but she hasn't really taken any actions that will change that perception.
- Nathan Eckenrode
Curt: exactly. I actually resent Chris' attempt to take this back into political bickering. Let's focus on the apology and whether or not it was good. I think it was good, and I can see the point of several people here that it was late. Anything else? Onward...
- Robert Scoble
Letterman lost me a long time ago. Politics aside. Entirely over-rated ... NOT funny?
- Charlie Anzman
But Robert, I liked what Chris said because I'm always wondering every time I hear her speak, what do they find intelligent, interesting or anything about that woman especially as a role model in any way.
- Myrna
Myrna: yeah, but that should be discussed in a separate thread. This one is all about Dave's apology and whether or not it was good.
- Robert Scoble
Good has certain criteria for me, this one doesn't cut it because it was forced, he "had" to apologize. It was good if you look at the content. I think it was borderline tongue in cheek. Many suggested, the way it was worded, he thought the remarks, if made about the older daughter, would have been appropriate.
- Sal DiStefano
i think that the timing of the apology came at the point where Letterman realized the actual harm he had committed, and then he sought to make immediate amends, not only with his sponsors but with the very people his comments hurt.
- Nathan Eckenrode
You're right Robert. .I'm finished..said my piece..on to Iran..
- Myrna
Sal: name one apology that wasn't "forced." People don't apologize unless they are caught at something.
- Robert Scoble
It is good that he FINALLY gave an appropriate apology. This is something he should have done at his first attempt of an apology. It's too bad though that he only realized what effects his jokes can have after he saw it being discussed on a nationwide news show and after a sponsor allegedly threatened to pull ads on his show.
- Mark Powell
Oh Robert, I apologize if I offend someone and don't usually wait for someone to 'catch' me. But I'm a female lol
- Myrna
Hey, I hear a lot of judgment on this thread. Do you?
- Myrna
Myrna: if you offended someone you got caught. Otherwise how would you know you offended them?
- Robert Scoble
I know if sometimes I go over the line before I close my mouth. Sometimes I think things and speak to fast.
- Myrna
Intuition
- Myrna
Myrna: yeah, that's one kind of getting caught. The voices in our own heads sometimes are our strongest critics, huh?
- Robert Scoble
is not intuition developed through practice and studying the mistakes of the past? :-)
- Nathan Eckenrode
Hmmm Nathan yes through practice but it comes from inside me not from studying anything.
- Myrna
Robert: I disagree with the idea that everyone is forced to apologize. When someone realizes they have gone too far or crossed a line, they can choose to apologize. I just don't think he thought it was over the line. I do think he was referring to the older daughter. I think he thought she was fair game. I think there was some network pressure on him to do the apology.
- Sal DiStefano
Robert, remember I told you a certain time and I was late? I felt 'not good' to say the least. I kind of apologized didn't I, if you remember.
- Myrna
Here's the beauty of America - as opposed to what our brethren in Iran are experiencing right now. If you don't like Palin, change the channel. If you don't like Letterman, watch Conan. If you don't like Fox News, watch CNN. And on and on and on.
- Curt Mercadante
Hey, don't we ever feel guilty? So that's part of intuition talking.
- Myrna
right that is what i mean from inside of you, you can study memories of the past and how you felt when others did this that or the other thing and if you find yourself modeling one of the behaviors which made you feel in a bad way, your intuition reminds you that there is a line that you are about to cross or have crossed and even if another person does not catch you, you have caught your own actions and you are forced to apologize. am i off base here, have i over analyzed or am i close?
- Nathan Eckenrode
Ok let me get this straight this whole conversation is about whether a apology was sincere and whether the timing was also sincere, am I right.
- Kim Landwehr
I think Robert brought up a good point which is, if you don't get caught, is there an apology. I think there can be. I have apologized to someone for something I said, which I thought might have offended them and they actually had no problem with it. So was the apology for them or myself?
- Sal DiStefano
Kim perhaps it can be limited to those grounds, but it seems that there is sufficient area for this conversation to dig deeper into a greater realm than just the pop culture reference which initiated it.
- Nathan Eckenrode
Mostly for yourself and a little for them Sal. When you apologize to some one you are disarming yourself and people feel closer.to you or they accept you or what you said, They love you! Unless you are an over apologizer.
- Myrna
Just thinking that this entire discussion threat is the reason FriendFeed is so much better than Twitter.
- Curt Mercadante
Sal: it was for the voices in your head that told you you were being a jerk. Kim: I'm just shocked that a stupid tweet kicked off such a conversation. Heheh.
- Robert Scoble
Nathan, its a feeling inside. I don't know where it comes from. I'm not linear. I don't study.
- Myrna
ah yes the Over Apologizer, drops "I'm sorry" into every open hat but never changes behavior.
- Nathan Eckenrode
Nathan, how about conscience..that sounds good.
- Myrna
It's those damn voices in my head!!! ;-)
- Sal DiStefano
Myrna: i do not think that the development of intuition is something which occurs with a great deal of forethought and linear planning.
- Nathan Eckenrode
Haha they're discussing this on Keith Olbermann right now.
- Myrna
That was kind of my point, Robert, although I probably said it badly, it is just weird what can start a long thread, you never know
- Kim Landwehr
We should start talking to twitter people about coming to FF about Iran in case twitter crashes. They get so scared. They're so addicted. They don't know they have a choice. I know Robert, this is off subject but I know you love this topic.
- Myrna
Myrna: friendfeed is a lot closer to a talk show than most people realize. Kim, yeah, it is weird, huh? A piece of software running on my machine just posted a Word doc icon to my friendfeed. It got some comments too. Wacky! Myrna: I've been trying for 16 months to get people over here, it's not easy.
- Robert Scoble
I was proposing a conjecture(ooh ooh special word of the day!!!) about what happens on atomic/spiritual/brain chemistry level to create the mechanism of intuition
- Nathan Eckenrode
Myrna - I agree. It's taken me a long time to "see the light" ... mostly because most of my network is only on Twitter but only uses FF as a Twitterfeed. But the key point is that FF allows you to have these discussions in real-time right on the same screen without having to use a third-party app. or client. Don't need hashtags here....
- Curt Mercadante
Nathan, let's say intuition is beyond our 5 senses.
- Myrna
Yes Curt..if they only knew...
- Myrna
i agree with you completely Myrna
- Nathan Eckenrode
Well, I remember when a friend kept telling me to stop with fb and use FF. It was beyond me. That was then, this is now. It takes time for people to change/understand/grow.
- Myrna
Myrna: our brains are awesome pattern recognizers. How those patterns get put in our head we are not able to explain. Think about everything you see and how quickly you are able to recognize it. The glass on your table. Your monitor. Your printer. These are very difficult things for a computer, even the world's biggest ones, to do. Yet you can't explain how you learned all that. I see it with my baby son and how he learns. It's amazing and humbling.
- Robert Scoble
Yup
- Myrna
Robert is it is exactly because of my children that I have been able to see how the brain works on the everyday things that we take for granted at this stage.
- Nathan Eckenrode
Letterman apology - great example! [edited: deleted silly inside joke]
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I agree with this post, "This whole situation is incredibly stupid and the mere fact that it has stirred up so much attention/controversy demonstrates how easily distracted our society can get. There are much bigger issues to tackle here, folks. This is DUMB. - Andy"
- BEX
What do you mean Jannifer?
- Myrna
His first 'apology' was a backhanded addition to the joke's originally unintentional error. I don't care whose daughter it was, he stated "Did I suggest that it was OK for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No." Seriously? This was the reaction to screwing up with a Palin joke about a kid getting knocked up in the midst of a ball game, like the slap-happiest slut of...
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- Jon Osterholm
Per Myrna's post, I'd still like to know what Jennifer meant.
- Curt Mercadante
Oh Myma / Curt - nothing - it was an inside joke - disregard!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Oh Sheesh.. no wonder this country is so fucked up with comments like this.... When someone says the words "knocked up" and "sarah Palin's Daughter" in the same sentence NO ONE but right wing nut jobs thinks the daughter in question is the 14 year old. The joke was about Bristol, Palin knows it, EVERYONE knows it. Palin just needed some outrage to continue her persecution complex world tour.
- Jeff Jones
What, being forced into making an apology more comprehensive than the initial 'apology', more than is genuinely felt, because of advertisers and sponsors? That's a model for us all? Good show?
- David Jones
Robert, here's why it wasn't a good apology. He still claims his intent has been misunderstood and the issue is an audience perception problem; that's not true. He still thinks it ok to have intended it to be about Bristol and yet he apologises to Bristol. On the one hand, joke would've been ok if about Bristol; on the other hand say sorry to Bristol - in the same breath. Pathetic.
- David Jones
I just wonder why Letterman apologized.to begin with. But for what it's worth the apology was pretty good.
- Rene Wirtz
In a few years if he had made this joke about an 18 year old Obama daughter he would have been fired immediately. The double standard is crystal clear. It's ok to make obscene jokes about Republicans, especially female Republicans.
- Sean OBrien
Monitored - http://alejandroz.soup.io/post...
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LOL! jajjajjaj
- Oscar Mota
literalmente "monitored" lol!
- Rebeca Zuñiga
LOL "...que es gerundio" xDDD
- espyder
British cops deliver Catch 22 to photographers: you're not allowed to know which areas you're not allowed to photograph - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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"In Britain, cops have the power to search you if you take a picture of a "sensitive" area, but they won't tell you which areas are "sensitive," because they're so "sensitive." The British Journal of Photography is trying to use the UK Freedom of Information Act to find out which places in Britain have such precious photons that people who collect them without authorization can have their civil rights violated, but so far they've been unsuccessful. There's no evidence that terrorists use photographs to plan attacks. Indeed, if disclosing the visible features of notable, iconic buildings puts them in danger, we may as well tear them all down now and get it over with, since the whole point of a notable, iconic building is that everybody knows what they look like."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
and really, UK, you're not that big of a country, if they really wanted to get you, wouldn't they just target the whole thing, and not something so specific as a single building or "sensitive area"? ;-)
- Bill Scherer
That makes for an excellent headline
- Wirehead
BBC NEWS | Health | Basic anatomy 'baffles Britons' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
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"Many people in the UK are unable to identify the location of their major organs, a study suggests. A team at King's College London found public understanding of basic anatomy has not improved since a similar survey was conducted 40 years ago. Less than 50% of the more than 700 people surveyed could correctly place the heart, BMC Family Practice says. Under one-third could place the lungs in their correct location, but more than 85% got the intestines right. There are concerns that a poor grasp of anatomy could potentially compromise patient care."
- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
"There is a real problem with health literacy - people's ability to understand and process health information - which this study is indicative of. "It really does matter, particularly as we look ahead to an NHS where resources are ever tighter. "If people are going to use the NHS in an effective way they need to be able to communicate and understand what is said to them - this way we avoid repeat referrals, unnecessary hospitalisations."
- Anne Bouey
Awh! Pancreas is itchy...Yup scratch right there, no highter. b'tween my shoulder blades — DUH! ;)
- Micah Wittman
Web Series Tied to ‘Blade Runner’ Is In the Works - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Jessica, Ross Miller, junrxu and 14 other people liked this
"[Ridley] Scott, his brother Tony and his son Luke are developing the project in conjunction with the independent studio Ag8, which is run by one of the creators of “Where are the Joneses?” a British Web sitcom that solicited storyline suggestions from the audience. Similarly, “Purefold” will harvest story input from its viewers, in conjunction with the social media site FriendFeed."
- Dan Hsiao
from Bookmarklet
You can find their FF group here: http://friendfeed.com/purefol...
- Kol Tregaskes
Neat! How did the FF tie-in come about?
- Jess Lee
Jesse, we are interested in both the aggregated and real-time experience of the web for developing storytelling for product development - FF was the obvious choice.
- zeroinfluencer
Dan, thanks for posting it here in FF mentions.
- zeroinfluencer
David, no problem. Thanks for choosing "the obvious choice"! :)
- Dan Hsiao
No-one Reads Your Stupid Tweets t-shirt ($21) - http://rumplo.com/tees...
Darren Heydon, Didier Lahely, Louis Gray and 208 other people liked this
A+++... I tweeted this.
- Phil Essing
Want.
- Joel Webber
i need to wear this to remind me of my own insignificance
- Cee Bee
good. and maybe our g.o.v. also agree of this, so they just blocked the Twitter site.
- yagami
Pretty funny! And in most cases, pretty true.
- Colleen O'Donnell Pierce
I want a shirt that asks "if your followers are so loyal why don't you leave twitter?"
- Noah David Simon
Gotta tweet this :)
- Stephanie Segel
Two things strike me as amusing about this. 1) The fact that so many of us liked this entry (and, by extension, undoubtedly like the shirt). 2) The probability that many of us actually still use Twitter, conscious of the fact that practically no one really cares what we tweet :D
- Adam Lasnik
it could've been funnier if there was an another line of text => 'about 1 minute ago from txt in reply to @aplusk'
- Ozan Caglargil
Hi Jess, thank you for spreading the word about my cheeky t-shirt design ! If you'd like me to send you one just message me !
- Tweet Tees
WANT.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
+10 Ozan!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from PeopleBrowsr
yes, finally somebody says it!
- Jacob
Be prudent about sharing vacation data online - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
Aaron D'Souza, Jannifer @wordsforliving, Myrna and 6 other people liked this
"These days, kids and even many adults think nothing of telling the world - or at least their 795 closest friends - that they're not at home by posting their whereabouts or vacation plans on Twitter, Facebook or other social media. Israel Hyman, an Arizona video editor who says he has close to 2,000 people following him on Twitter and also uses Facebook "a lot," recently was burglarized while he was in Kansas City."
- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
"According to the British government Web site Get Safe Online, 13 percent of social-network users report posting friends' pictures without their consent and 7 percent report posting friends' contact information without consent. Those most likely to give away their friends' information are 18- to 24-year-olds."
- Anne Bouey
"Joanne McNabb, chief of the California Office of Privacy Protection, says she hasn't received any complaints from people who think they were robbed because they disclosed their whereabouts on social networks. But, she says, "It's a risk in the online world just like in the offline world." Robbers have long been known to scour the newspaper for death or wedding announcements and target...
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- Anne Bouey
This sort of scaremongering (the article's, Anne, not yours) makes me sad. "Are your kids safe?!?! NEWS AT 11!" Blah blah whatever. We can either hole up and become fully private (and likely still get robbed or killed or whatever) or we can be as public as we feel comfortable being... enjoy some serenedipitous encounters... and for crying out loud, ask a neighbor to watch our place or have automatic lights go on or whatever.
- Adam Lasnik
While the tone might be a big scare mongering, Adam, the article itself makes sense. I'm endlessly stunned when people announce on Facebook or other social sites that they're going to be gone for the next two weeks.
- Soup
Why, Soup? Do you have any quantitative evidence to suggest that they're more likely to be burgled? (no, anecdotal evidence doesn't count). You're telling me that the likelihood of *someone in their friends network robbing them* is significantly more than the likelihood of them finding a new last minute travel buddy or a free ride to the airport or a tip of a great restaurant where...
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- Adam Lasnik
Adam -- Hate to disagree (and I know that you discount anecdotal evidence) but a teacher at my school recently told her class that she was going on a vacation and you'll probably never believe what happened. Or maybe you will. HER STUDENTS broke in to her apartment and stole her stuff. The take home point for all of us was to not name specific dates and/or times. Or perhaps to tell our...
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- Miss Elle
Adam: I'm not sure why you're leaping to the conclusion that I don't want people to not talk to strangers (lord knows I do that enough for a good 5 or 6 people). I'm simply suggesting that announcing to a vast number of people (particularly those you don't know) that you're going to be gone from your home is a bad idea. It always has been, it always will be. Announcing it on Facebook or similar is just doing a foolish thing on an even larger scale.
- Soup
Adam, I totally disagree. Serendipity might be an acceptable tradeoff for someone who is single, but I don't know half the people following my streams, and the risk of having something happen to Jayita while I'm away is more than I'm willing to bear.
- Aaron D'Souza
And actually there is quantitative evidence. Jayita attended a workshop organized by MVPD that presented some.
- Aaron D'Souza
Ack. I think I may have been outvoted... and possibly convinced. It's a hard sell for me, because I have so very often ended up in wonderful situations due to posting where I'm going on Tripit, Facebook, etc. Perhaps a reasonable compromise would be: publicize relevant-but-potentially-sensitive-info to a group of a reasonable size and reasonable scope. For instance, on Tripit and...
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- Adam Lasnik
With that said, though, I'm not sure the key takeaway is the one being advertised here. Perhaps a better overall solution is "1) Don't just accept anyone into your network. Add connections with thoughtfulness. 2) to the extent possible, use privacy controls to sensibly limit sharing and disclosure. 3) Even after exercising #1 and #2, be keenly aware of who is in your network and who can...
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- Adam Lasnik
I agree with you, Adam
- Jaemi Kehoe
from IM
Thanks, Jaemi! And as a quick example: I ended up being invited to a small-group pancake brunch in Reykjavik, Iceland, simply because I had posted in advance that I was going there.
- Adam Lasnik
I have been burglarized 4 times in my life - one time was while my parents and I were on holiday (I was a kid), the other 3 times were at night while we were at home sleeping - and the police confirmed that this was most common, burglaries while people are out eating or even at home. Burglars don't need the internet to know you are away, and most likely this person was burglared by someone not in their internet network, just someone that noticed that they were away the old fashioned way.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Super Mario Bros. meets The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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NBC blocked this one. :/
- Louis Gray
Hulu link http://www.hulu.com/watch...
- Jimminy Fuller
man it musta been super-fun to create that graphic!
- Felicia Yue
Cultural differences between the US and the UK
Tanath, Anthony Citrano, Daniel Rowley and 343 other people liked this
The Top Paid App in the Singapore store is Airport Mania: First Flight.
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Is there a site that lists "top apps" from various/all countries ?
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Classic...
- Rob Kramer
so telling...
- Brian Appleby
That says it all
- Darrell Bell
So when are they going to release an app for "Ow! My balls!"
- April Buchheit
+++April
- Kamilah Gill
Is the UK bestseller just a re-packaging of CIA world factbook? Or is there more to it?
- Hiro Asari
You see, we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them
- Ryan Gerritsen
It's actually the same app, just different marketing. Yes?
- Mike Beck
What does "we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them" mean?
- Gabe
Our beer-drinking football-hooligan contingent are still saving up for their iPhones.
- Tim Tyler
World Cup Ping Pong here in France, don't know what that means ?!
- Benoit Cazenave
"Zoom in / Camera zoom" : the Top Paid App in Switzerland
- tomavana
I'd suggest that in *paying* for an app called "The Moron Test" you've already passed it.
- thepete
thepete: passed or failed?
- Gabe
that was really great kevin :)
- Alp
Is there anything else interesting about the rest of the list?
- David Chartier
from BuddyFeed
Hilarious!
- Vera Hannaford
crushingly depressing. ugh.
- daisy
World cup ping pong is the top paid app in Italy too. And even top free app. What's the point with that?
- ialla
Hehe
- WorldofHiglet
Excellent catch! :)
- Ozkan Altuner
The engineer in me is irritated by the simple apps make it to the top of the AppStore; the artist in me is delighted :)
- Ian
sad, but funny
- Rick Cogley
Proud to be an American! LOL
- Susan Beebe
That says a lot.
- Chuck Adams
Yes, it does say a lot. =)
- Zed
Don't need no stinkin' facts...
- Kevin Pedraja
But it's got a red button!
- Brian Bufalo
One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after.
- Neal Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
wavesand liked this....
- 拓 | wavesand
from email
Laugh, sure. But your pounds sterling end up in a California bank account. ;-)
- Chris Baskind
My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Lol Amanda
- AJ Batac
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
"the girl and the muppet" by danielle kelly - JPG - http://jpgmag.com/photos...
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How to get the girl (based on successful attempts) - http://www.thedoghousediaries.com/...
googirl, Dani Radu, M F and 68 other people liked this
And what if ignoring her doesn't work?
- Paul Buchheit
Be yourself Paul ;)
- Nicholas James
Apparently "Make Her Laugh" should be rated a LOT higher, according.. to the study I can't find. Oh, well. *internetsearchfail*
- Jennifer Dittrich
Paul: Respect her parents while spontaneously ignoring her and doing funny things with your friends puppy.
- Kevin Bondelli
I have learned for the second time that having technology in my hands causes baby girls who were previously standoffish to become my best, closest friends. Two different kids in two different states. One loved my Tablet PC; the other loved my iPhone (specifically the Ocarina app on touch mode). Since technology attracts me as well, perhaps this will work with older girls? ;)
- MiniMage - HLtW
triple 'like' this one. so slow to learn this, reverse psychology offers surprising opportunity in life.
- Lane Rapp
There are hundreds of people I could be and undoubtedly are ignoring. How do I show her I'm ignoring her specially?
- Daniel Dulitz
Yes, that is true for the laws of attraction. If you can't get it you want it more. Marketing and sales also use that as a way to sell more...Rodney
- Rodney Arvid Josephson
Sounds like the Tao of Steve. We pursue that which retreats from us
- Robert Felty
If ignoring doesn't work make sure to pay a lot of attention to her best friend :)
- Bindu Reddy
*takes notes*
- Michael McKean
Paul, is it too late for you to ignore the bug April encountered here? http://friendfeed.com/eskimo...
- Bruce Lewis
Bindu, jackpot :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
This is kind of Japanese way....
- K.D.
Puppies work best on me.
- Jess Lee
Too bad I'm not a dog person. (or really, any kind of pet person, but who takes their cat out for a walk?)
- Andrew C
hahahahaha. true.
- Melissa
Pineapple whip float!
Rebecca Sun, Christopher Chung, niniane and 17 other people liked this
Want!
- April Buchheit
I'm so in the mood for ice cream
- Manuela
Pineapple? Sounds yummy.
- DarknessFalls
Where is that from?
- Violet Mae Lim
It's from the Tikki Juice Bar at Disneyland (http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyl...). I think you can also get it at the Dole Plantation in Honolulu. :)
- Dan Hsiao
lucky!!!
- Emily
thanks for the recommendation, mei :)
- Dan Hsiao
First Trailer for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes! - http://www.firstshowing.net/2009...
Maria Jose, Kim, Kol Tregaskes and 45 other people liked this
Looks like it'll be a fun movie! I wasn't expecting the trailer to have so many comedic bits.
- Jess Lee
from Bookmarklet
Yea, looks great.
- Alejandro
I LOVE GUY RITCHE MOVIES!
- Tyler Gillies
After LXG, I really hope this doesn't horribly suck.
- Phil G
Yes! It'll be awesome!
- George The Writer
Robert Downey Jr! Jude Law! Though I don't quite remember those explosions from the stories...
- Paul Haahr
Looks like a 007 movie.
- Ray Chen
LOL, the end of the trailer is hilarious!
- Tanath
As a Guy Ritchie fan, I can only say: wow!
- Rui Pires
Bah, it's from Warner :-(
- Marcos Marado
and from Guy Ritchie #FAIL
- sofarsoShawn
Guy Ritchie is awesome. #WIN
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Maybe in the year 2000
- sofarsoShawn
I don't remember Sherlock kicking so much ass - this isn't your daddy's Basil Rathbone.
- Vince DeGeorge
Flashy, but loses the tone of the books completely :(
- Aaron D'Souza
Toward a Grand Unification of Cutlery - http://dennisdemori.tumblr.com/post...
Chris Hofmann, TiTi, Joe Breen and 64 other people liked this
Via @brady.
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
The spife looks dangerous.
- Benjamin Golub
redicalicalous
- j1m
LOL
- Lorenzo Strambi
Benjamin: At one point my local supermarket were giving away plastic spifes (spives?) with their kiwi fruit. They were a pretty effective tool for that fruit: http://www.aotearoa.co.nz/bones...
- Simon
Splayds (also known as Spknorks).. lol
- Ozberk Olcer
This is absurd. A combination between a knife and a spoon makes perfect sense (who hasn't cut something with a spoon?) but it would look very much like a spoon, just with a sharp, possibly serrated, edge along one side of the bowl. How does this "spife" work?
- Larry Greenfield
yes lets sharpen an edge of a spoon, I'm getting tired of having my tongue in one working piece anyway.
- Terry Bruce
from email
This is fabulous for those places where your left hand is reserved strictly for a) your lap b) passing the iced tea, or more importantly when it comes in titantium for camping!
- Nick Wade
Democrats in Senate Block Money to Close Guantánamo - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Antonio Piccolboni, Charlie Anzman, Michael Forian and 2 other people liked this
"In an abrupt shift, Senate Democratic leaders said on Tuesday that they would not provide the $80 million that President Obama requested to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba... While Democrats generally have been supportive of Mr. Obama’s plan to close the detention center by Jan. 22, 2010, lawmakers have not stepped forward to offer to accept detainees in their home states or districts. When the tiny town of Hardin, Mont., offered to put the terrorism suspects in the town’s empty jail, both Montana senators and its Congressional representative quickly voiced strong opposition"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
They can't just move the prisoners to another location, lock down the facility and walk away?
- Michael Forian
Michael, no one wants them.. no one will accept them to be moved to.
- CW™
I hear bullets are pretty cheap.
- Bob Blunk
Bob, we can't just shoot all of our leaders! If we did that, it would be hard to find new people willing to take the job.
- Gabe
@Gabe lol
- minus-one
The FedEx Arrow - http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-arch...
fshamsi, Benjamin Lee, Andrew C and Jim Norris liked this
"Not long ago, I posted about the subliminal arrow in the FedEx logo. I received several emails regarding it, including one from design student Bobby Dragulescu. Thanks to Bobby and his typography professor Leah Hoffmitz, I was put in touch with the logo's creator: Mr. Lindon Leader of Leader Creative. Lindon kindly agreed to the following interview, which is comprised of 8 fairly intelligent questions, and 3 fairly dopey ones..."
- ⓞnor
The cursed thing about knowing this about the FedEx logo is that you can never see a FedEx truck without seeing it in the future.
- Paul Haahr
There is also a subliminal spoon-shape in the other e.
- Kevin
Haha, never seen the spoon before till now.
- Andrew C
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