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Golly! - Kate Foy

unbelievable. OMG!! - karthick

no, please. - ::Kristen::

ut oh, they inherited the curse and awakened the mummy, someone call Brendan Fraser! - Adam Turetzky

seen that in Texas a few times in my life, actually. not on the same scale, however, as it was usually "just" dust. - Joe The Sausage

Crazy. - John (bird whisperer)

Eerie. - Chris Lasher

I've got friends in Riyadh. Sandstorms are crazy there. Amazing how it's captured on photos. - Dee @ Holycool.net

Frightening! - Thierry R. Andriamirado

I've seen this in Phoenix too. Maybe not quite as big, but it sure felt like it when you're watching it come at you. A giant wall of dirt. - Lindsay

that is an incredible sight. Wow! - Anna Lynn M.

Grew up in Muscat, Oman. Have been in these massive sand storms a few times when my dad used to take me on his plant inspections in the dessert. [Edit] They are not as frightening as they look. - The Fat Oracle

Kamath - it sure _looks_ horrifying, from the picture. Wow. - Rick Cogley

I've been in Saudi sandstorms, but this is something else entirely... wow. - Michael W. May

crazy.. - yagami

We had a mini sandstorm while in Baghdad. It just looks strange. Not scary, just weird. - Michelle M

Yikes. I might just never complain about an Israeli sharav again. - Miriam

I KNOW LOL - Mona Nomura

daayyyum - Shey

At the office? - Russellreno

*gets idea and heads off to Harbor Freight* http://tinyurl.com/4awlp9 - xero

All of the above please! - Shey

AND a car! - Mona Nomura

Hang on. - ·[▪_▪]·

Is there one with foot loops? Just askin' - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)

Ugh.. 'Double Up' Ugh-Ugh! - Johnny

I've never seen anything like this hahahahha - Mona Nomura

In all seriousness, not such a bad idea. I once had to rescue a friend cause she was, as the packaging says, 'getting stuck it to' and she used the ceramic soap holder as an anchor point. The holder broke and a piece sliced her hand open, cutting two veins in her fingers. Blood everywhere, the 'sticker' just fled (mega-ass-wipe-asshole) and she called me on her mobile from the floor of the shower, bleeding. Came over, drove her to the hospital etc... - Johnny

OMG What an *sshole!!!!!!!!! - Mona Nomura

That's why you have to move into a former geezer house... grab bars pre-installed! ;) - Cyndy

Whoa. - Shawn Farner

The shower can be quite a dangerous place for this actually, as @John said. - xero

ramp included, Cyndy! - Mona Nomura

Mel, it's night time. ;) I learn a lot of 'things' from the FF night crew! ;) - Mona Nomura

Hahahahaha!!! Nice find Mona! - Carmen wBabby

John, ceramic is some dangerous stuff, I split my thumb open once on something ceramic when I heard that my mom *might* move back to town. - Pete D

Definitely looks like a good tool to have when yer given 'er what fer - Rah-PM 2012

LOL... I love the illustration of the office scene with the dude one hand on the device and the other hand holding the phone for that all important call with the facilities dept. - Mathieu Ayel

oh my, thank you for all the FF 'Likes', everyone. :) - Melissa

you look like your avator :) - saeedeh

@Moanique: LMAO. So funny. Thanks, lady! :) *blush* again! - Melissa

you are lovely. - edythe

thank you, edythe. - Melissa

cute - Cee Bee

wow, what a person behind picture, you look very attractive :) - A. T.

Cee Bee + silpol: *blush* thank you. I am overwhelmed and humbled. :) - Melissa

You're so cute Melissa! Love those three portraits! - Carmen wBabby

reptile behinds?! =O - Mona Nomura

I just laughed out load when I read that. I think I'm calling it a night. - Justin Korn

;) - Mona Nomura

I'm still thinking of your facebook post and u come up with this? ha! - Majento

Oh Majento, the Facebook thing was SOOOO this morning ;) - Mona Nomura

Rubber duckie, you're the one. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

nightmares. that duck is CREEPY - Mona Nomura

Some quite funny ones. - Daniel Schildt

The espresso machine = EPIC LOL - Mona Nomura

It's still quite baffling why 2nd place is a Superman toilet roll LOL - Mona Nomura

this is AWESOME - Iain Baker

The sanitary towel is just wrong! - Joe Dawson

Au contraire young padiwan, it's so wrong it's downright RAD - Mona Nomura

....and the superman toilet roll is the funniest thing i've seen all day - shoulda been #1 - Iain Baker

but it's still not batman!! LOL - Mona Nomura

Shameless, direct, it gets a like :P - Michael W. May from twhirl

LOL! - Mona Nomura

haha, trying to get some disgruntled tweeple over to here. - Hao Chen

Philosophically I agree with you completely. Twitter isn't many things FriendFeed is, and vice versa. But when you post status messages of the ilk the social media mavens would post on Twitter, aren't you drawing more attention to the similarities than the differences? - Robert Seidman

Lively, but I see it all the time with other products as well. People keep calling it a Second Life clone, then complain that it has all these differences from Second Life! I have a vague recollection of what the idea behind the product was a few years ago, and I thought it sounded kind of cool, but I don't see any of that reflected in the stories that people are writing about it because they are all focused on how it's kind of similar to some other product (that I don't even use anyway). - Paul Buchheit

No one creates ex nihilo: Innovation IMHO is combinating stuff, and using analogies, sometimes real-life ones :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

little. yellow. different. - MG Siegler

It's like complaining that humans are just some kind of of chimp clone. The dna is 95% the same! (or whatever) - Paul Buchheit

You get more buy-in to move from one product to another by describing how much like the new product is to the one you're already used to, only better. Change is frightening to most users: take a look at Friendfeed and Twitter. Friendfeed described by itself? Dumb stare from large portions of even the early adopter community. Say it's like Twitter, only better? They all switch over. - Mark Trapp

Perhaps the word "mutation" is more appropriate as it suggests evolution... as in "Google was a mutation of AltaVista." - Philipp Lenssen

For some reason, I am finding this to be the funniest thread I've seen all day. - Robin Barooah

ah...oops. : ) But they're all clones of Club Caribe/Habbitat from more than 20 years ago. The bigger question may be why NONE of them really catch on with the masses. - Robert Seidman

here here. Bang-bloody-on. - Zee.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... then it's a clone. - Vince DeGeorge

Robert, Google wasn't the first search engine, the web wasn't the first hypertext system, etc. Sometimes it takes a while to get all of the details right, plus there are external timing issues that can make a big difference. To me, the interesting thing about Lively (as I understand it) is that it's more integrated with the web instead of being a whole separate world the way SL is. - Paul Buchheit

Modern computer games are all Nethack clones anway. - Michael C. Harris

Paul, good points thanks. I guess for me, when I saw HTML, I knew instinctively it was a bigger deal than GOPHER. I knew search was a big deal and insinctively could see Google was much better than Alta Vista. This isn't hitting me instinctively but that could just be because I'm old now. - Robert Seidman

Reminds me of movie pitches - "It's Battlefield Earth meets Howard the Duck" - Andrew Smith

Now that I've stopped laughing about the chimp analogy. I'l say that Lively looks way better for 'impromptu' meetings and special events - such as lectures or product launches. I wonder how it holds up to large numbers of visitors in the same room. - Robin Barooah

Well, for better and for worse, it seems like this is how humans ("class human extends chimp" in Java?) assimilate new information, by relating it to what they already know. Musical groups are described as being influenced by other musical groups. Films are described as "'Aliens' meets 'Home Alone.'" Stereotypes and oversimplification are *the norm* for our species, because genuinely new stuff makes people think, and most people don't like to think. Thinking uses up glucose and oxygen in the brain. - Karim

The brain already uses a disproportionate amount of the body's oxygen (25%) and most people work on minimizing that. (Doing things is considered more "fun" by most people when you don't have to *think* too much about them, when it becomes a reflex.) If you *prefer* new information, that means you like to think, and you should seriously consider the possibility that you aren't derived from class chimp after all. :-D - Karim

And yes, that is oversimplifying for the humans in the audience :-D - Karim

Paul - Think the better example is the myriad of articles comparing Twitter to Friendfeed. They both have a place, but are two completely different products. I did a brief on Lively. While it was difficult not to mention Second Life (because the broader audience sees a similarity), I did an edit within an hour to reflect to broader web aspect. I think some of it comes down to 'rush to press'. We can only hope some will not be afraid to make corrections - Charlie Anzman

That is hypnotic. Great find! - Chris McLean

Beautiful, but... troubling. http://is.gd/PjP - Bill Barol

here's my post on the installation: http://laughingsquid.com/beautif... - Scott Beale

Very cool ... - Cathy Brooks

That is beautiful! Neither of those links explained how they do it in any sort of detail. Anyone know? - Robert DeBord

wow - that's amazing... - Morgan

gotta be a projection of some sort... unless they're all on tiny strings and that swirling in the beginning isn't actually swirling..... - Nicķ

seems to me like they are going up and down on strings - Kyle A Koch

I love this ...very cool! - Susan Beebe