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Golly! - Kate Foy

unbelievable. OMG!! - karthick

no, please. - ::Kristen::

That looks unreal. - Tsega Dinka

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 Silence is not dead

Crazy. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Eerie. - Chris Lasher

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

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. - Her Lindsay-ness

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. - Kamath (नमः)

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

Looks painful! - Alison Robb Astair

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 Martinez

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

I KNOW LOL - Mona Nomura

daayyyum - Shey, Jamaican of FF

At the office? - Russellreno

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

All of the above please! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

AND a car! - Mona Nomura

Hang on. - ·[▪_▪]·

Is there one with foot loops? Just askin' - Ha3rvey (not Akiva)

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

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 Worthington

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

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 Delucchi

Definitely looks like a good tool to have when yer given 'er what fer - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Will it stick to a painted ceiling? What...? - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

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

:) - RAPatton

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

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. - l0ckergn0me

nightmares. that duck is CREEPY - Mona Nomura

The guitar is cracking me up lol - wouldn't look out of place in a death metal gig or something :) - Jonathan Beckett

hahaha - the crayons too... lol - Jonathan Beckett

Some quite funny ones. - Daniel Schildt

The espresso machine = EPIC LOL - Mona Nomura

I've never laughed so much! - James Tenniswood

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

Must...have..bat duckie and..iBat! - Candace

I want ibat but really women i think those are the perfect shoes for the modern feminists if you didn't get him with the heel after burn him and being Superman I know i am the but what did that have to do with batman? Very funny list thank you Mona - Cecil Sandus

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

ROFLMAO! Maybe the Great White Shark ate the Twitter Whale! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

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..... - Ňicķ

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

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

agreed, nice primer - i tend not to use hide that much i just move on by since ff flows pretty quickly - i do tend to block more often lately though, mainly for those w/ high irritation tendencies - mike "glemak" dunn

Thx Aaron. Particularly with microblogging platforms, definitely, but as I noted, I don't do it for blog posts (well foreign language sutff aside) because the good stuff is usually in something someone had taken effort in writing, as opposed to say a Pownce/ Jaiku/ Twitter update - Duncan Riley

Great stuff! I do take a different opinion about duplication in syndicated streams, but otherwise very solid tips! Thanks! - Phil G

J. Phil, one thing to keep in mind, if you start duplicating too much, people start hiding you. It's why I pulled things like Plurk out of my blog feed, and didn't add Identi.ca. The irony of course is that this is suppose to be a lifestreaming service, but I think we're starting to move past that very basic premise. - Duncan Riley

Duncan - I will agree, people start hiding some of the duplicate content. Hopefully just enough so that they are no longer seeing the duplication, and they have chosen the services they prefer (like diigo over del.icio.us in my case, or mixx over digg). And if a conversation springs up, if they did the hide right, they will still see it. - Phil G

I need to start hiding things more. Also, when did you start integrating TradeVibes into posts? - Ben Parr

Here is my argument FOR duplication when necessary, and I guess I could make this into a blog post: I like an article, so I bookmark it and digg it. In theory, this generates FOUR entries in friendfeed: Diigo and del.icio.us, Digg and Tumblr. Looks like spam if you aren't filtering it, but some people will want to find me on digg, and others will want to see my tumblr. Why should I deny them? - Phil G

My "like" here actually means I liked this. The one that really rang true with me is reciprocal follows. If you don't follow me, that's cool. But it's not likely I'll follow you long. FF really is a sharing kinda thing. If I wanted broadcast, I'd still be on Twitter. - Chris Baskind

I hide everything I've read. In fact, at one point I was hitting the daily limit on hides and when I'd hit the link the little loading icon would sit there and spin. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken - that's one of the more extreme uses of Hide I've heard. But then, I guess you won't see this comment... - Hutch Carpenter

I REALLY want to see the URL treated as the top level object. Six people each bookmarking and sharing and twittering a link shouldn't result in 18 new items in my feed...at least not by default. By default I'd like to see each of those actions appear as a "comment", and pop the item onto my list the same way a comment/like would. Here's my UI mockup :-) http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Ken Sheppardson

Agreed a great article!! I am new here and need all the help I can get. - Mel Buckpitt

No, saw your comment, Hutch. Because I regularly go back and look at the items I've commented on or have hidden. I switch back and forth from "discovery" mode where I'm hiding stuff that's in my "inbox" to "converation" mode where I go back and follow-up on stuff I've seen/liked/commented on. - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, but then who owns the thread? Right now, the moderator of a thread (and owner) is the person who published the item on which the discussion resides. But if there are multiple people publishing the same story, and they're all now part of one single feed, who gets top billing? And how would you handle reshares, or bookmarklet shares? - Mark Trapp

If we take the time to 'clean up our own' stuff occasionally and throw a pointer to the primary thread (like this one already has) it will help for now. i have a lot of faith in the FF gang but right now, it's all in how you use it. First timers need to learn BEFORE they drop out. - Charlie Anzman

As a strawman I'd say the first person to post the URL "owns" it (does posting an item really give you any form of "moderation" functionality??) Any subsequent twits, shares, likes, comments... whatever... show up attached to the original post. There's be no point to "reshares". Commenting or liking an item would serve the same purpose. A bookmarklet share would appear the same way (as shown in my mockup) - Ken Sheppardson

Ken - I can see link aggregation for a particular user's stuff, but link aggregation between users would cause a lot of confusion. - Phil G

Ken, the other thing with consolidation is a lot of times, merging conversations wouldn't be interesting to people. One group of people might have an entirely different discussion about the content that a different group of people may have. Merge all the items together, we all have to have the same conversation. It's been brought up a few times tonight, but every time Friendfeed takes away the control from the individual experience, you run into problems. It's what makes Friendfeed Friendfeed. - Mark Trapp

The forced merge of conversation doesn't seem to be the answer. - Mark Trapp

Perhaps there's some compromise where FF could add a drop down list of all the conversations associated with a particular URL, next to the "More" link, for example. Could list the action, number of comments, and number of likes. Or somebody could just come along and write a full blown desktop client that would let us slice/dice the feed the way we want to see it (ala email) - Ken Sheppardson

Ken, re the overall duplication: absolutely yes. I'd love nothing more than for FF to say list the primary link, the offer a supplemental list underneath of people who have Dugg, bookmarked, whatever under that. J.Phil, that goes to your point as well, although what I'd say is that although you can't avoid some duplication, but that doesn't mean you cant reduce it. If you're ping.fming Pownce, Twitter, Jaiku etc with the same message, do you need all three or more feeding into FF? - Duncan Riley

Ken - There is a point to re-shares. If we start re-sharing to FF rooms, that concept will gain more wide-spread acceptance, and possible help all of this. - Charlie Anzman

Duncan, I especially appreciated the unsubscribe without return follow tip. - Michael C. Harris

Duncan, I think the user bears a HUGE responsibility not to pollute the stream by feeding three or four copies of everything into their account (e.g. blog RSS, tweet of their post URL, FF note of their post URL, etc) and to just perhaps designate one bookmark services as feeding FF (I don't need to know somebody bookmarked AND greader shared AND dug etc an article) - Ken Sheppardson

Charlie, Good point RE rooms. Seems like it might be nice to just be able to tag an item and have it appear in the room as-is, with comment stream intact. - Ken Sheppardson

What about merging feeds just on a user's account? It wouldn't do anything for multiple people sharing the same stories, but it'd mitigate the problem of people sharing their stories to multiple services on their feed. It would still allow for water-cooler fragmented conversation, as well. - Mark Trapp

+1 Ken - Cyndy

I have to agree with a lot of what you said here, especially the bit about unfollowing people. I cleaned out a lot recently for the very same reason. - Ross Maguire

This just happened to me. There was a post with a tinyurl redirect. When tinyurl goes down, then link gets lost. Thus, duplication of the article occurs or the link gets reposted somewhere in the comments. I see this often on Slashdot when servers get slashdotted. - Franklin Naval

Great article! Agree on the duplication of content. Sometimes it's just damn hard to think of all the possible ways, that the services will interact with each other. Will do it later on this week. - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

Very good points, especially about the duplicates - there's nothing more annoying than to see the same links from the same person repeated 5 times from different services. The one point I don't get is the reciprocal following - I do have some "friendship" subscriptions & subscribers, but when I subscribe to someone who shares good links on a subject I'm interested in, I don't expect them to follow me in return. And when someone subscribes to me, I look at their content before deciding if I return-subscribe. - Andrea Sturm

Thanks for the tips. Don't know if I could unsubscribe from those that don't follow me. I've only got 8 now and I want to keep each and everyone! That being said, thanks for the encouraging words towards the "hide" feature. I'm just figuring out the benefits of that. - James Hull

Great image. Very cool - Håkan Dahlström

haha. - Chris Qie from twhirl

FAKE! - Yuvi

Its a Mac Sunset ,,, the sun shines brightly on Macs - johnpiercy

dhuuuuunnnn... WALL*E charging complete. :-) - AJ Batac

I find it amusing that the comment feed for the image is even anti-PC. Mac evangelists are funny to me. - Greg Hollingsworth from twhirl