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No joke. This is why I should always take someone with me when I go shopping for clothes.
Pixie, John (bird whisperer), Marissa and 22 other people liked this
oh dear.
- holly #ravingfangirl
RIGHT???
- Meg V. Meg
It is a bit spermy.
- Katy S
HOW DO THEY SELL THIS IN STORES WHERE CHILDREN ARE ALLOWED???
- Meg V. Meg
Wow sperm that big could put an eye out.
- SteVe C
Whoa.
- Curtis (a) Jackson
I do like the style of the dress.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I'm trying to figure out where this will be appropriate. Bachelorette party? Baby shower?
- Katy S
Yeah, I might go back and get a different pattern. So cute!
- Meg V. Meg
I would wear that to the grocery store in a heartbeat. Then again, I'm broken. :D
- Hookuh Tinypants
But I don't think those are sperms. Did y'all click the picture to see the full thing? Of course, they do look spermy from a distance.
- Friar Will
Wear it to the gynaecologist.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
^Yes!
- Heather
Bring it to the XXX theater. Put it on half way through movie and walk out screaming.
- SteVe C
are they supposed to be peacock feathers? cos they don't look it. when viewed at a distance.
- Joe Silence
Fertility clinic.
- Kevin Fox
from iPhone
Well, it could be any monotrichous flagellum organism.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Micah takes the high road.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
are you bringing this to SD?
- kendrak
Packed.
- Meg V. Meg
You need a videographer to follow you around and record the reactions. Like that GoT video.
- John Dupuis
Can I just say that tracking tornadoes is one of the most fantastic/terrifying uses of Twitter that I've ever seen? https://twitter.com/nwsnorman
Mark Trapp, John (bird whisperer), Christina Pikas and Betsy #TeamMonique liked this
Do I not have the new Gmail yet, or have they forced everyone else to use my settings?
Mark Trapp, Kevin Johnson, Micah and 3 other people liked this
I had to go in and pick "Configure Inbox" from the Settings menu. Then it walked me through setting up the tabs. Basically, with that setup, I can get rid of 75% of my filters.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Huh. This is what I have different email accounts for.
- Meg V. Meg
Setting up tabs?
- Hedgehog
I haven't gotten the new Gmail yet.
- John (bird whisperer)
You can turn it off (for now at least) even if you do opt-in via "Configure inbox". Just go back into "configure inbox" and uncheck everything but "Primary" (it won't let you uncheck that one). When you save it'll tell you you've turned it off and the tabs go away.
- Mark Trapp
Kitty KITTY don't eat EAT DON'T EAT don't eat the cactus CACTUS KITTY DON'T jesus kitty
bevedog, Catherine Pellegrino, Marianne and 3 other people liked this
We had some networking issues that were causing packet loss over the past couple days that (we think) have been resolved. If you noticed the site being a bit sluggish, it should be improved now.
http://www.oactivista.com, superpultdu, Maria Clarke and 24 other people liked this
ddos?
- Hüseyin Mert
Not DDOS; bug on our side. http://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
oh, thanks God :)
- Hüseyin Mert
با عضویت در اتاق " در ارتباط با توییتر... " از جدید ترین متعلقات این سرویس با خبر شوید... اسمایلی : (تبلیغات).http://friendfeed.com/twitte-r
- سینه سرخ
bret neler oluyor? hani ben yaşadığım sürece ff kapanmayacaktı..hani ff'yi benim üzerime yapmıştın..nedir bu dedikodular???
- S. Aynebilim Beder
Bret yavşaksın olum sen. 2009'dan beri hiç mi siteye girmez lan adam. Olum ne Fb merklısı bir adammışsın lan sen. İnsan merak eder ne var ne yok diye girer de bir selam yazar. Senin amk lan ben. Siktin gül gibi siteyi şimdi de kapanacak diyorlar. Kapatacağına biz Türk kardeşlerine devret kardeşim. Biz domain falan alırız, sokayım boktan domainine. Yönlendireceksin sadece panelden. Ne dersin Bret? Hadi kardeşim bir düşün. gerçi girmiyorsun di mi sen buraya. Hay mk ya.
- EG
Hi Bret, we recently heard that you're shutting down Friendfeed - is this true? Please clarify this for the sake of FF Turkish Community :)
- DenizTuran
cool
- solncee
cool
- arieana
http://swc.bc.ca for shoring in the Turkish Community.
- Anthony Berkut
nice to see you againe .
- meseret mihreteab
That moment on an express train, immediately after the doors close, when you detect that someone approximately halfway down the car has recently crapped his/her diaper/pants, and the crazy/homeless-looking guy sitting to your right turns to you and says, "Where does love begin, miss? WHERE DOES LOVE BEGIN."
Chelle Chelle Ro Ro, http://www.oactivista.com, Mark Trapp and 14 other people liked this
Oh you so New York!
- kendrak
so, where DOES it begin? *shifts in seat with sloshing sound*
- Joe Silence
POIDH
- lris
Oh, yeah, that moment.
- bevedog
A bad smell can really ruin a good question.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Really? This change is only a minor version change??? "This function and the semantics of SDL alpha blending have changed since version 1.1.4. Up until version 1.1.5, an alpha value of 0 was considered opaque and a value of 255 was considered transparent. This has now been inverted: 0 is now considered transparent and 255 is now considered opaque."
Mark Trapp, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo and Victor Ganata liked this
"Have a good evening with the catbeard" = words I never imagined having to type
Mark Trapp, Joe Silence, John (bird whisperer) and holly #ravingfangirl liked this
Have just invented the "consultancy pact" (along the lines of single folks's marriage pacts) where if neither you nor a friend is successful/satisfied in your respective fields by the time you're X years old, you start a consulting firm together.
April Russo, Yvonne, RepoRat and 9 other people liked this
what type of consulting?
- kendrak
depends on the friend
- Meg V. Meg
Should be career consulting, for the irony.
- Mark Trapp
Should be dry cleaning biz-focused career consultancy, for the double irony.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
That also specializes in Iron Maiden and Iron Butterfly memorabilia, for quadruple irony? Okay, I'll stop now.
- Mark Trapp
An appropriate time to stop -- Fe only has 4 energy levels.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Rule 34 as evidence that culture, too, abhors a vacuum.
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Except perhaps when it comes to women on the internet (rule 30 or 37, depending on which list you go off of).
- Mark Trapp
Numbered rules suck.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Oh, I'd say the vacuum is indifferent/subject to the systemic biases of culture creation/distribution. Unless you mean the rule 30 which represents the one-dimensional binary cellular automaton rule introduced by Stephen Wolfram in 1983 (which I am very excited to learn about, so thank you).
- Meg V. Meg
NUMBERED RULES RULE.
- Meg V. Meg
That sounds better than the rule 30 to which I refer, which is "there are no girls on the internet". :(
- Mark Trapp
Oh, I'm not attesting to its descriptive (or normative!) power; just providing it as a counter-example, from the same list of rules that rule 34 comes from, to culture (or really, the subset of culture that created the list) abhorring a vacuum. While a porn variety vacuum is prohibited, an internet gender vacuum is codified.
- Mark Trapp
Sure sure, and that's the rule 30 I was responding to, initially. The vacuum is a vacuum. What fills it up is culture. Culture creation/distribution is subject to systemic biases.
- Meg V. Meg
I mean, on the internet, we're all dogs, right? It's just that "nobody knows": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... So that's why there are no girls :)
- Meg V. Meg
OH MY GOD, AND THAT'S WHY THE INTERNET IS OBSESSED WITH CATS
- Meg V. Meg
And why that dog riding the skateboard is such a huge sensation! It's all coming together, now.
- Mark Trapp
Right?
- Meg V. Meg
This thread is totally rule-wonk pr0n.
- bevedog
I made an imp-powered tiny printer! http://youtu.be/5q95HSfw-CQ
Anne Bouey, Stephan Planken, Meg V. Meg and 25 other people liked this
You can print to it by going here: http://fury.com/imp/print.php
- Kevin Fox
It's pretty nifty - I wonder what messages Kevin's had so far?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I wonder if someone could get a job by sending their resume?
- Jimminy
That's pretty cool.
- Heather
:) Yay!
- Anne Bouey
I wonder if Kevin can guess which of the many lines printed is the one I submitted.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
That's cool.
- Rodfather
Sent: 4 8 15 16 23 42
- Rodfather
Sent: For the kittehs!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Received!!
- Kevin Fox
Stephen, was it "I just typed this / And this is crazy / But here's my input / So print me maybe?"
- Kevin Fox
That's amazing Kevin!
- AJ Batac
Kevin, great job guessing correctly. :)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I can't wait to see the printout(s).
- Julian
Now you need to guess the senders and match each with the correct message. :)
- Anne Bouey
Printed!
- Laura Norvig
Pretty sure that's one of the coolest things I have seen all day. And I saw some pretty cool things today.
- Josh Haley
Sweet.
- Micah
Tiny printer is at Maker Faire! Send us messages!! http://fury.com/imp...
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
Yay! :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
What happens when someone's personal website is used, unbeknownst to them, as part of the test to become a search engine evaluator: http://blog.davidjohnsen.com/2013... Seems like there should be a word for "digital happenstances that are delightfully/surprisingly folksy"...
OMG 404 Joe, Stephan Planken and Mark Trapp liked this
GUESS WHAT I MADE, Y'ALL
Chelle Chelle Ro Ro, Curtis (a) Jackson, Aldo Oldo and 6 other people liked this
That is such a disgusting photo.
- Meg V. Meg
what is it? i want it.
- jambina
You're saving me some right?
- Hedgehog
Me jealous that's what.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
WANT.
- holly #ravingfangirl
w00t...
Brent Schaus, Anne Bouey, Tinfoil 2.0 and 19 other people liked this
Huh, but it won't include the link. How strange.
- Meg V. Meg
Dang.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I got the link but no map. Can't win 'em all.
- Stephen le Francoeur
I have been to all the places. ALL THE PLACES.
- Meg V. Meg
amazing!!
- $tephanie•Gardening
Yay, you!
- Kirsten
I would say go, meg, go! but you obviously already have!
- holly #ravingfangirl
That's a lot of interstate travel!
- Walt Crawford
CANADA NEXT
- jambina
Yes, we have been trying to think about what's next. Canada is on the shortlist.
- Meg V. Meg
Wayne says "Hi, I'm in Delaware." http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- OMG 404 Joe
apropos of nothing, but that site uses too many colors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Though it does make the US look like Skittles and Skittles are delicious.
- Mark Trapp
Isn't there some math proof about the minimum number of colors needed in a map to guarantee that no two adjacent regions will have the same color?
- Stephen le Francoeur
Four Color Therom? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- kendrak
I can't be certain, because I don't remember the exact colors and states, but I get the sense that the online map is trying to mimic a particular kind of color-in-the-states map that people used to (still do?) stick to the side of their RV/camper thing and fill in as they drive around. We saw a LOT of these on our epic cross-country road trip in the early 80s. EDIT: ah ha! http://www.signsoflife.net/rv-trav...
- Catherine Pellegrino
Kendra, yep, that's it.
- Stephen le Francoeur
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
http://www.oactivista.com, Insan Narya Noviansa Nugr, Forex Berza and 260 other people liked this
You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! :)
- Matt Ruiz
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
Great! Thanks! Love FF!
- Scott Monaco
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Lovely. Thanks guys.
- Mitchell Tsai
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
WOW. that's really helpful！
- K.D.
Looks like a great addition for those who are not embedded on the site. Nice intro.
- Louis Gray
Cool!
- Josh Haley
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
Nice addition!
- Michael Fidler
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Franc, a rememberer
That's a cool feature
- Xitong Liu
Emails no longer get sent except for Subscriptions. The last non-sub email I recieved was July 15th, 2011.
- Jimminy
I still get them.
- AJ Batac
I get these every day.
- Me
i get it
- solncee
I still get it
- AJ Batac
*jealous* I no longer get anything but subscription emails.
- Bruce Lewis
A typical two-hour afternoon chat reference shift goes like this:
Mark Trapp, Stephen le Francoeur, Kirsten and 5 other people liked this
Looking for chapter summaries of a book
- Meg V. Meg
Where are the books with this call number (actual call number)
- Meg V. Meg
Can you buy this book for me, how do I know where something is available in order to request it from ILL
- Meg V. Meg
Real estate market information for Brooklyn
- Meg V. Meg
My account shows a book that I never checked out, who do I call
- Meg V. Meg
What is the APA format for citing an app (Micromedex), then the Micromedex site includes *pages* of examples for citing internet, intranet, and CD-ROM versions
- Meg V. Meg
Umlaut/SFX error, how to get call number from catalog
- Meg V. Meg
Where are the books with this call number (not any kind of identifier I’ve ever seen)
- Meg V. Meg
Discovery layer error, how to get to "real" psychology databases, suggested follow-up appointment with psychology librarian
- Meg V. Meg
Articles on EU/US diplomacy re: nuclear Iran, then none of the databases are working because they're using the university VPN
- Meg V. Meg
Plus, 5 other questions I had to transfer to back-up staff because I had too many chats going on.
- Meg V. Meg
This, THIS, is why it drives me crazy when people say we should "just close all the reference desks." And this is seriously a typical shift.
- Meg V. Meg
Dang. DANG. Can I come and work at your reference desk?
- Catherine Pellegrino
It is usually the highlight of my week, and definitely one of the highlights of my job.
- Meg V. Meg
This is like our chat shifts, too. More often than not both my coworker and I have 3 or 4 at a time. The only thing I hate is when patrons abandon ship RIGHT before you send them exactly what they need.
- Lily
sounds awesome!
- $tephanie•Gardening
Now I'm staffing back-up queue for an hour. So far: 1. Are all dissertations online, or are some still in print 2. Clicking on database links is prompting an ezproxy error because they're being rerouted to a libguide from an Australian university 3. Do surgical residents (med school) have off-campus access to our e-resources (not med school)
- Meg V. Meg
Now my brain is fried, and I'm going home.
- Meg V. Meg
TiVo should make a Roku-sized box with 16gigs of flash and the full TiVo UX. Nobody wants full-sized AV components anymore.
Shakeel Mahate, Benjamin Golub, JA Castillo and 8 other people liked this
It's like the iPod evolution from small hd to bigger hd to small flash to bigger flash. TiVo is currently in the 2nd step.
- Kevin Fox
I love looking at my home theater rack, but I hate crawling around behind it.
- Eric - Too Hot
OH GOD YES CHRISTO.
- Kevin Fox
16GB ~= 2 hours of 19Mbps HD video (i.e. broadcast HD). But I like where you're going with this. :)
- Steve and 4 other people
Consumers can get 64GB flash drive for $35; I bet TiVo could probably get it much lower. No reason to skimp with just 16GB, this isn't 2003.
- Jimminy
*listening*
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Could flash, even SLC flash, stand up to the rewrite cycles of a DVR? Wouldn't you be better off with an iPod classic size HD? I really doubt the HD (even with cooling) keeps the box as big as it is.
- Andrew C (✓)
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-slc... - SLC rated for 100K write cycles, MLC for 3K write cycles. So back of envelope, 64 GB of flash MLC would be good for 3 years before crapping out if you've got the box recording 24/7, but SLC would last long enough.
- Andrew C (✓)
I have 250GB in my DVRs, and it's not enough. OTOH, high-capacity DVRs are a form of lock-in with the provider (and its antiquated hardware model).
- Tinfoil 2.0
OTOH, everything is available as streaming, so why have any local storage at all?
- Steve and 4 other people
Not legally. Not at any price. And many (most?) people don' have the bandwidth or caps necesary for all-streaming, all the time.
- Tinfoil 2.0
"uncompressed" HD comes right off the cable or antenna, so TiVo-style. The 1G/hr stuff is what you find on teh internetz. Or, are you thinking "download & play" for this thing?
- Steve and 4 other people
Based on the specs for the TiVo premiere (500 GB, 75 hours of HD advertised), they're running at ~6.7 GB an hour. So 16 GB would give you ~2.4 hours. Probably couldn't get everything you need to transcode to something like h.264/h.265 in a Roku-sized box. It would take forever to do it, too (definitely not on the fly).
- Mark Trapp
The TiVo Stream encodes HD video down to 1.2gigs an hour in realtime. It doesn't take a big box to house and feed an mpeg encoder chip.
- Kevin Fox
The HD video I get off comcast is pretty highly compressed. The only place you'll find uncompressed HD is OTA, which is why the latest TiVos *only* write bytestreams from cablecards, so they don't do any compression themselves.
- Kevin Fox
That's true: I wonder why Tivo advertises such conservative storage capacities, then. If it's as densely packed as the 2nd gen Apple TV, it doesn't look like you'd be able to fit the cable card housing inside a Roku-sized box, but you'd have room to spare in a 1st-gen Apple TV/Mac Mini sized box. Still much smaller than a traditional Tivo/set top box.
- Mark Trapp
True, and instead of onboard flash you could have a microSD card slot like the Roku has. Granted, companies like to get high margins on high capacity boxes, but they could just sell it with 8gb flash and bundle a 64gb microSD for a good amount of storage.
- Kevin Fox
Mostly, I just think the full-sized TiVo isn't a good fit for dorm rooms. It's not bedroom friendly due to size and fan, which is why they made the TiVo Mini, but that's just a slave device to a full TiVo. A small standalone box without a spinning disk or fan is very appealing.
- Kevin Fox
A 1.8" disk might not need a cooling fan.
- Andrew C (✓)
1.8" is interesting. I'd be a little worried about their MTBF if they're always reading and writing, and I'm not sure if you'd get much of a price savings over flash for ~160GB, but it's possible. Heck, Apple still sells 160GB 1.8" HD iPod Classics.
- Kevin Fox
The biggest thing I wonder about this is how to get a cableCARD slot into such a small form factor.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Prime Explorer - http://www.bigblueboo.com/prime...
Mark Trapp and bde liked this
Visualization of prime numbers with different layouts.
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
My mother told me to pick the very best one, and you are not it.
Kirsten, Mark Trapp, Joe Silence and 9 other people liked this
TIGER
- kendrak
Bad date?
- OMG 404 Joe
YEP. *looks down at the dead monkey on the carpet and then back at Indy*
- Joe Silence
Whenever someone says "bitcoin", it's like my brain turns off for the rest of the conversation.
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Bitcoins synergize the information economy, allowing you to crush it while pivoting into a disruptive market.
- Mark Trapp
Also, 'peak oil' has the same effect on me
- Mo Kargas
My brain starts to fantasize about some far off future not unlike the one in Jonathan Coulton's song Laura. And is equally uninterested in the actual conversation.
- Marianne
Mark...
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I fully admit that there are very few rational discussions about bitcoin happening, as it's all taken over by the crazies. Which is too bad, because the theory/tech is interesting.
- Jason Griffey
Ok, Google+ has the black bar at the top (for Google properties), then the Google+ search bar, then a gray bar for "join Google+", then a black bar for the person's name, then a white bar with About, Posts, Photos, YouTube, and only then do you get to the actual content. And then chrome: bookmark bar, url bar, tab bar, menu bar.
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The actual content starts 413 pixels down from the top of the screen. On my previous laptop, 1280x800, this would be pretty awful. But it's still pretty awful on my current laptop, with 1440x900.
- Amit Patel
(BTW Chris Hadfield's stream is nice: https://plus.google.com/+ChrisH... )
- Amit Patel
I've ranted about Google's inconsistent and wasteful upper pixels numerous times on G+. It wasn't so long ago that G+ only took 206 pixels off the top https://plus.google.com/u... The new taller G+ cover photo is just ridiculous.
- Tinfoil 2.0
It must depend how you get there (or what browser you're using?). I just checked Google+, and the overhead was pretty trivial--search line and tabs. (Windows 7, Firefox).
- Walt Crawford
Its keeping up with the Zuckerberg's syndrome and Page has it bad.
- Me
When you greet a friend, how many times do you kiss? http://www.radicalcartography.net/index...
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Tongue in the ear twice, which is not on the list. Must be an Italian thing.
- Zamms
Thanks, I just had an Aeon Flux flashback.
- Meg V. Meg
Holy crap, there's a Liquid Television website: http://liquidtelevision.com/video...
- Meg V. Meg
Roguelike Primer: Best In Genre For Beginners & Veteran - Indie Statik - http://indiestatik.com/2013...
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Betsy #TeamMonique, Ha3rvey (on hiatus), Scoble, Alex Scoble and 4 other people liked this
"Procedurally generated dungeon crawling seems to get more popular with each passing year, all building on top of a template first featured way at the start of the 80s. Development jams are held to create them en-masse (this year’s 7DRL challenge kicks off this Saturday), and they’re becoming increasingly commercially viable, thanks to accessible graphical entries in the genre, such as Dungeons of Dredmor, and action-hybrids, like The Binding Of Isaac, leading the way. With so many out there, and aimed at such a wide range of player-bases, it’s hard to know where to start, or even what you’re looking for."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Nethack. The end!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Somehow I never got into Nethack :(
- Amit Patel
Sooo what does the pope actually do? Is there somewhere to look up what decisions a pope has made recently or something like that?
April Buchheit, Micah, Betsy #TeamMonique and 4 other people liked this
I wonder too. Since he's no longer infallible, I guess he's just a glorified manager?
- Tinfoil 2.0
The pope is like a prime minister for bishops: his first duty is to be the bishop of Rome, but the Roman bishopric is considered first among all the dioceses and has certain responsibilities, including ordaining other bishops and canonizing saints. He doesn't decide or change policy (the Magisterium of the Church, basically the authority of the Church as a whole, does that), but he's...
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- Mark Trapp
Being effectively the smartest guy in the room, what the pope says is considered infallible but only when he speaks ex cathedra (latin for "from the chair"): it has to be about a matter of doctrine, it cannot contradict the teachings of the Magisterium, it must be a clearly-defined statement, and he has to do it in his capacity as the head of the Church (he can't, say, infallibly...
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- Mark Trapp
how have I never heard of the Magesterium before?? How does he get the job?
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
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The pope, or the Magisterium? The pope is done through a papal conclave, which is just an election amongst cardinals. The Magisterium isn't a person: it's the collective knowledge of the Church passed down from Jesus and interpreted over the last 2000 years. Basically, the pope can't contradict canon (unlike Brannon Braga with Enterprise. DAMN YOU BRAGA).
- Mark Trapp
I love that the full name of Ecuador, "República del Ecuador," literally translates as, "Republic of the Equator."
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They were like "You guys, what should we name our country? Hmmmmmmmmmm...OH OH OH!"
- Meg V. Meg
^^ I snorted.
- bevedog
This is only vaguely related, but did you know the only two countries that officially have the word "the" in their names are The Bahamas and The Gambia? LIKE YOU'D CONFUSE THIS GAMBIA WITH A KNOCK OFF GAMBIA!
- Zamms
I want to move to The Hague.
- OMG 404 Joe
Republic has a pub in it, let's not forget what's important here.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
19 years ago today (to the hour), I was getting home late (for a school night) from a terrible spoken word (or slam poetry) thing, where a guy named Kyle (who had a crush on me) read/performed while smoking and wearing a motorcycle(?) helmet. The phone rang as I walked in the door, and it was my best friend calling to say she'd just given birth.
Sir Shuping is just sir, SteVe C, laura x and 17 other people liked this
When I picked up the phone, I was facing north. I was wearing a blue sweater and jeans and combat boots, and I didn't know what the word "episiotomy" meant (yet).
- Meg V. Meg
Now her son is in college in Chickasha and has a girlfriend named Kat.
- Meg V. Meg
Time . . . she sure does fly, don't she.
- Friar Will
HIS DAD WORE A TOP HAT. LIKE, ALL THE TIME. His dad made the first espresso I ever drank, and played for me the first Sisters of Mercy song I ever heard, and the only one I really remember.
- Meg V. Meg
wow
- kendrak
He was named after a character in a book that I had just read (Rosemary Sutcliff FTW?)
- Meg V. Meg
His name has FTW in it?
- OMG 404 Joe
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I'm always kind of surprised that the kids at Chickasha actually stay in state. But that's probably because I couldn't wait to get out.
- Kirsten
Wow, I can relate to the freaky feeling. My nephew is graduating high school this May, and his dad (my brother) and mom were very very young as well, but my brother had more serious personality issues than wearing a top hat. His kid is now a top notch scholar in his high school IB program, and I couldn't be prouder.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
Thank you DreamHost for storing my password in plaintext :(
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That kid is far too old to think that taking a photo of a lion will send it to the bank. The cynic in me is convinced they wouldn't have cast a boy of the same age in that role.
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You're thinking to hard.
- SteVe C
THEY'RE NOT THINKING HARD ENOUGH
- Meg V. Meg
I feel like if they cast a boy in the role, the dialogue would've been something like the parent trying to trick the boy into thinking the lion would be teleported, but the boy would've been too wise to the shenanigans. Weird commercial nonetheless: took me a couple of times seeing to figure out why the girl was objecting and why there was a lion in a bank.
- Mark Trapp
Deconstructing commercials?—what is this, time travel back to the world of Mad Men?
- Micah
I, too, think she's way too old to think that. And I tell her so, repeatedly.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
75% of my 8 y.o. son's conversations with me start, "In Minecraft..." Thanks @notch! :-p
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um. that was a bit of an earthquake.
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- Jennifer Dittrich
wha???
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Up in there?
- Zamms
wow
- Meg V. Meg
I find it hard to believe that it's only a 3.5. Living in the bay area we never felt anything less than a 4 or 4.5. Felt more like a 5 to me.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
eh, i have felt all of the 3-somethings in the area over the last 6 months or so. this was about the same, but lasted longer than the others.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Location can make a huge difference for how much surface shaking you have happen (shallow vs.deep)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Hey Holly. What's shakin?
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
They must have changed the scale in the last 20 years. ;)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Another one???
- Julian
I didn't realize you were so close to Mt. St. Helens.
- Meg V. Meg
Oh nm, you are not, that's a town.
- Meg V. Meg
yeah, the town of St Helens is closer. the mtn is still not far, in the scheme of things. 60 miles maybe?
- holly #ravingfangirl
creeeeeeepy
- Meg V. Meg
Weird, didn't feel it near the Burnside bridge.
- Mark Trapp
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