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how come the video doesn't work in firefox? - jason burton

Video and editing were beautiful - oh, wait, it's about content, right? :-) - Tom Landini

It worked just fine for me in FF on both windows xp and os x. - Chris

odd, must not be up to date on something. Had to use IE to get it working. - jason burton

@jasonburton - you should try to re-install Flash. I have seen that fix problems like that in the past. - Chris

The preview frame before you start the video isn't very flattering to Leo :) - Kevin Goldsmith from twhirl

Jason: it's working for me on Firefox. - Robert Scoble

Tom: @rocmanusa will thank you for your compliment. He makes me look good. - Robert Scoble

Indeed- Thanks, Tom. As for the preview frame- I tried changing that at least 10 times but our "system" can sometimes leave a lot to be desired. - Rocky Barbanica

Great guy and great interview. Love the blast from the past metnion of Pointcast as a very early real-time web example ... - Patrick Jordan

met Leo in person in TO , a few yrs back ,, Super Friendly , Easy going , approachable ... even bought a few beers for the table ... Its good to be LEO - johnpiercy

Just watching the second part now. Also love his take on how awful local news on TV is - so true ... - Patrick Jordan

I had the same problem getting the videos to play in FF. I ended up d/ling them and playing them in GOM. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

Working great in FF on Mac for me too - Patrick Jordan

just for documentation, i'm using FF3b2. Addons running are Drag and Drop, Firebug, and adblock plus. - Jason Shultz from twhirl

I'm using firebug and adblock plus as well. ff 3.05 tried reinstalling flash and it still didn't work. Ah well, works most of the time. - jason burton

You're missing out, Chris. Top Gear is awesome. I've seen it having the same ratings with Americans as most American Drama shows. - Shafiq Jetha from twhirl

Isn't there an American version due out soon? - Brian Sullivan

The Stig owns - Alex Scoble

No offense, but I imagine an american version will preserve none of the qualities that TopGear has. For a start, Clarkson, May and Hammond are a completely irreplaceable combination (even though Clarkson is actually a very carefully crafted character, and nothing like his real self). Then there's the heritage of the show itself, it was after all born from the ashes of a "normal" motoring magazine show. I'm sure a US version would be great....for America. It wouldn't be Top Gear though - Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane

Need to go cross country. 5-6 does it for me. - Robert Scoble

20 minutes is great like I currently get.... - jason burton

My XPS is awesome. 50 minutes max. Should be 60, but it takes 5 minutes each turning off and on. :) - Stu Andrews from twhirl

my iPhone 3G can run for nearly 6-8 hours between charges ;-) - Indio Apache from twhirl

I get 2-3 hours on my Thinkpad T61, and 4+ hours on my MBP. I'd love to get a full 8 hours on both. - Sparky, a big deal

not so important to me. would rather have more cores, memory, disk, faster hibernation/sleep/resume, etc. than battery life per se. don't mind schlepping the 2nd adapter or battery. - Karim

I always get a 2nd battery or slice battery if available. Goal is to have 8 hours combined. - James Kendrick

I'm currently battling with some thoughts on this. I have a 2.5hr mobile device that is super fast for coming out of standby, linking up to wifi, getting stuff done desktop-style. Other devices with even 4hrs aren't so productive! - Steve 'Chippy' Paine

I like having the flexibility of going light or long - James Tenniswood

I know. I'm still trying to find another site reporting this besides ESPN. - jason burton

Yes way. He started the process earlier this month so he wouldn't get fined for having it on his uniform. God, I love my crazy-ass criminal-thug Bengals. I really, really do. - Cyndy

ego maniac! - orionstarr

Excellent. - Mo Kargas

It's about time. - Zach Underwood

When I die, I want that to be done to my body :P - Michael Forian

WOW - Kate Mag from twhirl

great find ,, thanksfor sharing - johnpiercy

He should have seen that coming! - João Almeida

Yeah, the Star Wars prequels really were poor films. Something like "Children of Men" is much better film making, and without all the spaceships and crap. Special Effects films are kind of like hair bands and heavy metal guitar solos. They replace the art with the machinery of artifice. - Dean Terry

So good. they should have done this to him after the first three (made). - Morgan

love it :) - (jeff)isageek

Like! - imabonehead

*Sigh* _Another_ prequel basher. Prequels=Windows Vista. Misunderstood. - Nate Pilling from twhirl

I agree with you, Dean Terry. But at the same time, Children of Men did have a whole heck of a lot of special effects. - Bill Bittner from twhirl

Whatever you think of the prequels, this Lucas statue is EPIC! - Josh Haley

I'm one of very few people who actually kinda liked the prequels. I'm easily entertained. - Internet's Tad

HAHA!!!!!!! I laughed out loud. omg Thats better than FAIL or FIRED. Seriously. - Mona Nomura

that is awesome - jason burton

This will also prevent Lucas from destroying my memory of the original trilogy any farther. - Pete Delucchi

I was wondering how long it would take for the geek Star Wars revolt to take shape with the animated prequel. - Ed Roberts from twhirl

The revolt should have started already. Talk about milking a cash cow to death. - Arlan Koizumi

Tad... I'm with you. - Johnny Worthington

i'm sick of starwars already! - orionstarr

My theory on the prequel v original= the orginal trilogy was so open ended - it expanded the mind into this universe beyond imagination. Even in the first one - Obi Wan discusses The Clone Wars with little or no "dumbing down." A real conversation - like explaining to a teen ager old WW2 or Vietnam stories. But in the prequels - everything was dumbed down, explained - that massive universe from the first three was shrunk down and tied up all nice and neat. The mystery died - and so did the luster.... - George Smith

I agree with George. - Lisa L. Seifert

Many bothans died to bring us these photos - Josh Haley

I'm not sick of Star Wars...how could you ever get sick of that? I'm sick of the crapified versions of Star Wars that Lucas foisted on us in the last 10 years in order to sell merchandise. - Alex Scoble

I've just started using WordPress and I don't hate it. I actually like it. Why the hate? - James Ferguson

Love WordPress.org! It's tremendously flexible ... which can be frustrating but ... usually works out after some concerted work. - AJ Kohn

there's too much hate in the world. - Thomas Hawk

Akiva - Come and join 'us' on Blogger! Ugh ... I do use WP too (full disclosure :) - Charlie Anzman

Akiva's been having some bad days lately... he needs some love to get rid of all that hate! - Her Lindsay-ness

Lindsay, I'm glad you didn't say "needs some lovinING" :P - Internet's Tad

Beware of blogger, it's horrible at handling comment spam. The worst. - Thomas Hawk

Aww, what seems to be the problem? Maybe we can help. - Daynah

WP4Life - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I like using the disqus plugin for wordpress to help manage the spam. - jason burton

Unfortunately, what's most likely going to have to happen is that I'm going to have to write PHP code [shudder] to do what the built-in tags should be able to do. At this point, though, it would appear that all the functionality is there. Now, I just need to move the old posts from the Textpattern database to WP which I will do by hand because I want to cull. - Akiva Moskovitz

go blogger...it's elemetary, but it works. - Don Martelli from twhirl

@Akiva Are you using SimpleTags? http://wordpress.org/extend... - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Shey, no. I don't tag my posts so I'm using that feature to load custom .css files on a per-post basis. - Akiva Moskovitz

I've only recently started using Disqus, but I've had a WP blog for a few years now, and always found askimet does a good job filtering out the spam idiots - Ian May

psst, it's a word pun, methinks ;) - Michael W. May from twhirl

I know people who think it is spelled that way. They even shorten it to Congrads sometimes.... - jason burton

MWM, I assumed it wasn't a pun, but maybe they're Three's Company fans. :) - Ha3rvey (not Akiva)

It's hard to pack so much creepiness in such a small space. Great find. :) - Steve Spalding

that baby burger pic is just wrong - jason burton

lol - Alan Le

baby burgerrrrrs - Brian Ries

at every stage of our two boys lives my wife and i have commented "that'll be one for their therapist" whenever we've done something that tormented or traumatized them - usually its us embarrassing them in some way - nice to see that someone is helping this along w/ these cool products ;) - mike "glemak" dunn