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There was a lot of chatter about the future of FriendFeed this weekend. The short answer is that the team is working on a couple of longer-term projects that will help bring FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world. Transformation is not the end. Consider this the chrysalis stage -- if all goes well, a beautiful butterfly will emerge :)
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What is transforming... FriendFeed, or the idea of FriendFeed?
- Christopher Galtenberg
Thanks for the update, Paul!
- Anne Bouey
THANK YOU!
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Fabulous News :)
- Susan Beebe
Noticed the "leaked" Facebook UI screenshots and the groups blog post today, and both seem FriendFeed inspired: nice to see Facebook trying to bring the stuff we like about FriendFeed to a larger audience.
- Mark Trapp
To Robert Scoble: I told you so ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Mark - got link?
- Susan Beebe
Thanks Paul :)
- ashish
Devil is in the details: "couple of longer-term projects that will help bring FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world" == Facebook projects with FriendFeed-like elements == no work on FriendFeed itself.
- EricaJoy
Paul, FriendFeed rocks as Gmail does ;)
- Orlando Pozo
Thanks for the update, the more you communicate, the less we have to speculate.
- Peter Hoffmann
The fact that these improvements are coming to Facebook and not friendfeed will not sway those who like friendfeed but dislike Facebook.
- Alex Scoble
Thank you Paul for bringing "FriendFeed goodness to the larger world" -- THAT sounds awesome!!
- Susan Beebe
integration with facebook?
- Rocco Galluzzo
@Alex Scoble: That's true
- Jorge Escobar
I hope out of the chrysalis emerges an infested Kerrigan. That'd be awesome http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki...
- Ivan Kirigin
Thanks Mark, much appreciated... I'll check those out
- Susan Beebe
+1 Ivan :)
- Benjamin Golub
But we knew this was the deal the moment the full details of the purchase of friendfeed by Facebook became public.
- Alex Scoble
Yeah, I don't give a crap about Facebook. I want to know about FriendFeed.
- Rochelle
Is it the interface people dislike about Facebook or the people they're friends with on Facebook? I can imagine being able to import all your subscribers from FriendFeed and have them in a separate group that doesn't interact with other groups you may have on Facebook.
- Cristo
sadly, no one with any power seems to care about FF anymore.
- Joe Silence
I'm glad to hear this. I prefer FriendFeed to Facebook any day of the week.
- Nathan Clayton
And the answer for me would be some of both. I have real life friends and family that I don't necessarily want to get into the same discussions with as I do with people here.
- Cristo
And there's your answer, Rochelle. friendwho? friendwhat now? Oh, you mean Facebook! (No I mean friendfeed) friendwho? (rinse, lather, repeat)
- Alex Scoble
there are some ui differences (and i tend to prefer friendfeed in those cases) but i have friended quite a few FF people in FB and the experience is remarkably similar in many ways.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Another big difference is I don't think you get the same FOAF interaction on Facebook as on FriendFeed.
- Cristo
yep
- Jason Wehmhoener
I hope my FaceBook peeps are ready for the FriendFeed firehose ... past experience would say that they're in for a shock.
- Crutis
Thanks for the transparency on the Friendfeed "ghost town" matter Paul. Much appreciated.
- Alex Knight
Thanks Paul... bring the special sauce to Facebook: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife...
- Andrew
I like the "chrysalis stage" analogy - sounds cool.... goes an looks for FF goodness butterfly!
- Susan Beebe
Good to know that FriendFeed still has some fight left; hope that translates into a viable and sustainable platform/utility for the masses (though I quite enjoy the close-knit, uber-geek community that it's become).
- Christian
I don't like the chrysalis analogy. The butterfly emerges from the chrysalis and buggers off leaving the shell. Of course, it might then also get eaten by a bird. Tweet, tweet.
- Mark H
Mark LOL nice, ... haha
- Susan Beebe
Note that he didn't say that FriendFeed.com was going away, only that they're diverted to bringing it to a much larger audience
- Jesse Stay
The problem is Scoble (Robert) and MG both just sent half of FriendFeed away so most of those that would benefit from this announcement won't even see it.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I didn't get that from Paul's comment. I read that some of the friendfeed ideas will be going into FB. I like that idea, but I still prefer FF to FB because of the different conversations here that I don't have with friends and family.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Yeah, Paul's statement won't help friendfeed. This will just either give people more reason to go to Facebook or find another service entirely.
- Alex Scoble
What Alex and Rochelle said. This sounds like a "we're bringing FF to Facebook" announcement, and I don't give a damn about Facebook. I want to know what's happening HERE. And Cristo, both, but more the interface. I care about the friends I've made here, and I'm connected with many of them now on Facebook as well, but I prefer to interact with them here, because I like it better.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Travis, he didn't say that - you read that, but he didn't say that. I'm willing to bet FriendFeed.com will not go away.
- Jesse Stay
As much as I agree about Scoble and MG driving people away, they have also effectively flush out some comment from the FF team.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Travis, there are better ways of getting the FF team to comment
- Jesse Stay
:( I quite liked the caterpillar.
- Nick Lothian
I think it's the opposite, the butterfly is becoming this crawling caterpillar :)
- Jorge Escobar
Oh I don't think FF will go away, and damn will hope it doesn't either!
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
What I do see is more Facebook integrated into the FriendFeed environment - I think that's a good thing
- Jesse Stay
The critical difference between Facebook and FriendFeed is the social model. With Facebook as it is today, you need to be mutual friends to see each others content. There is a "fan page" model but it is oriented toward "publishing/celebrity" rather than information sharing. FriendFeed has an asymmetric model like Twitter, where you can easily discover someone's content without any "friend" gesture whatsoever, and you can follow without friending. This makes the converation more discoverable, and useful..
- Adina Levin
Agree Adina.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
If the integration is bringing public/asymmetric to Facebook, then it will be very useful indeed. If the integration is to add FriendFeed-style service integration into the symmetric/private Facebook model, it will be much less useful - it's more of the same - I'll be able to more easily share updates from youtube or last.fm or delicious to my friend network, but be unable to discover new people and infomation.
- Adina Levin
Adina: And unless Facebook goes radically toward that model, it won't suffice for me. I could not care less about their upcoming redesigns.
- Christopher A Carr
@Jesse - I can't see any sign that they are working on FriendFeed at all. All the indications are that the FF team is now working on Facebook, and only Facebook. That's great for Facebook, and I'm sure they will do wonderful work there. But don't delude yourself that FriendFeed is going to get anything more than critical fixes, and maybe the occasional thing done in someone's spare time.
- Nick Lothian
Butterflies look totally different than caterpillars and they also fly away
- Melanie Reed
Crickets chirping... is this site alive?? :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
+100 Adina. The things I like best about FriendFeed (easy content/people discovery, FoaF, asymmetrical following and being followed) are completely opposite to Facebook's core model. That's why as much as people keep talking about Facebook adding FF-like features, I don't see the REAL FF core features making it over, because the mindset is different.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I don't see this announcement as anything new, or as reassuring. We knew from the time of the acquisition that there would be would be some movement of FF capabilities into FB. The real question is whether this means absorption of FF into FB or attracting the FB user base into FF. The comment about "bring[ing] FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world" still leaves that question open.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
+1 everything Alex Scoble has said. Friendwhat? What's a feed? Who uses RSS anymore? We've got PubSubWTFOMGBBQ now!
- Mr. Gunn
Agree with Jandy on +100 Adina.
- Amy℠
Also, I agree with Jandy and Adina's comments.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Nick, Paul just said they're working on other projects right now. That still doesn't mean FriendFeed is going away. I'm not deluding myself at all. I'm telling everyone else they're deluding themselves by assuming it's going away. All the FriendFeed team is still using FriendFeed, and Paul just tried to give us comfort not to worry. For some reason we all don't want to believe him. It's actually kind of amusing.
- Jesse Stay
I wonder what the powers that be mean by "FriendFeedy goodness"? Is it understood what WE like about it vs. FB?
- Amy℠
Paul - Wishing you all the best as you tend your new butterfly garden :) I'll be here to enjoy them!
- Susan Beebe
Jesse: "For some reason we all don't want to believe him." <-- Don't want to believe what? He didn't really say anything.
- Christopher A Carr
This is not the news that Friendfeed fans were looking for.
- Raphael, Raphael
The issue isn't belief that they are going to do something. The question is what they are going to do, and whether that will continue the core value of FriendFeed, which is not just information aggregation but discoverability.
- Adina Levin
I know more about the "Last Days" and heaven than I know about what's going to happen to FriendFeed as we have come to know it than was given in your rather cryptic answer, Paul. :) And while that may not be a fair comparison (God actually gave details and signs), there is something definitely not forthcoming about your response. A person usually withholds details that affect another...
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- Melanie Reed
Melanie, in other words, Paul works for a technology company in Silicon Valley that doesn't disclose future features, products, and services until they are ready.
- Cristo
Hopefully this helps to quiet all of the "friendfeed is dying" talk. Because this thread proves ff is alive and well.
- Garin Kilpatrick
@Jesse - I read it differently to you. To me, Paul is saying "We are taking what we were working towards on FriendFeed, and trying to bring that goodness to a bigger audience". No one is claiming they are going to shut down FF.
- Nick Lothian
@Jesse - Want to make a bet on the number of new features added to FF before the end of the year?
- Nick Lothian
Cristo, to deliver some straightforward talk is not about giving away company details. If you have a product that is original and stands on its own, you don't need to refer to it as a "butterfly". Many companies even promote something new and upcoming especially to their loyal user base. It gives a signal. A proper one. It tells your users and future users enough so that they can make an informed decision about what they want to do instead of keeping them on tenderhooks
- Melanie Reed
"the chrysalis stage in most butterflies is one in which there is little movement" (via wikipedia) So if you follow that metaphor then eventually FriendFeed will go through a metamorphosis -- that means it's not dead... really how hard can it be to get what he's saying?
- Chris Heath
Its pretty hard :) The burning question is if they are putting FF goodness in to the walled gardens that are Facebook or are they bringing FF openness to FB too. I think the people here want the open forums that are FF not the closed ones that are FB. If FB is going hybrid with both walled gardens and open forums that would be OK too. People on FF want open forums... like Twitter and FF... without the crude interface that is Twitter and without the uncertainty that is FF now.
- Ed Millard
Facebook is gonna have to rip off much of the privacy to maximize their product in the real-time web world. I am going to assume FF goodness is going to be applied to FB :) *crosses fingers*
- Susan Beebe
Just a thought... why does "longer-term projects that will help bring FriendFeedy goodness to the larger world" JUST mean facebook.com? What I get from this is that they are working on a range of things, maybe bringing the FriendFeed sauce to a range of sites, powered by the Facebook back end. Who knows what that means. A FriendFeed service powered by FacebookConnect? Also to......
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- Johnny Worthington
LMFAO. Johnny++
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
FB needs to leave the privacy for the walled garden and the inner circle. Their current user base likes that. They just need a second feed that is an open forum and you can talk there without it bleeding in to your inner circle feed.
- Ed Millard
Seems like the inner circle is breaking down some now, what with parents and other relatives friending teenagers. I'm guessing the information posted on the walls these days is not as private. Is there a way on FriendFeed to limit what on your wall can be seen by particular people and groups?
- Cristo
Yes, but blocking doesn't work so well since you can just use Chrome's Incognito mode to get around it.
- Alex Scoble
Translation: if you haven't switche to Facebook yet, you better do it now so you can get a good vanity URL.
- David Chartier
from iPhone
I don't know what all the fuss is about. But could we have the long answer too, please?
- Laura Norvig
Although I'm interested, FB != FF. I don't see how the two mix in a way that makes me feel otherwise. Mixing audiences is not a good thing for me (with a few exceptions) and I know others share the same thought.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Did anyone notice that Robert Scoble didn't comment on this thread? What does this mean? Does it mean Robert Scoble won't exist soon? He must be working on a Monday afternoon, no? ;)
- Cristo
Paul, will FF be here in 1 year, 5 years?
- Robert Higgins
Robert, will you and I be alive in 5 years?
- Cristo
Thanks for the update Paul..
- Chris Myles
Cristo I am funking nobody, I would like Paul to quantify his post. Simple. Will FF be here in 1 year? Will FF be here in 5 years?
- Robert Higgins
Robert, I was trying to make the point that he might not know and can't predict what will happen over time.
- Cristo
IMO friendfeed shoud attract more general audience... Facebook and twitter are having more general users. Most of the FF users are tech bloggers or those who needs aggregation services... I dont know it's just my feeling or not . but this is my impression on FF. but it's great service.. the features are too good... but we will roam were we meet our friends... thats most of the people are into twitter and FB.
- Sarath
Sarath, is there a place you can get away from tech bloggers? :)
- Cristo
Ohhhh a perrrttty butterfly, I'm moist with anticipation.
- sofarsoShawn
Glad to hear it, Paul.
- WorldofHiglet
Cristo: i almost made the same observation an hour or two ago when i first read through this posting and its comments. I was skimming and kept seeing alex, alex, alex... and thinking to myself... where's Robert!?!
- Chris Heath
Great news. Thanks! friendfeed team. :D
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
@Sarath - I have a lot more in common with the people I've met here on FriendFeed than FB or Twitter. Twitter is too hard to search, and FB (and Twitter to a good extent) is driven by the people you know in RL (and unfortunately I don't have nearly as much in common in RL with my family, co-workers and acquaintences as I do with people scattered all over the world who I have met on FF)....
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- Fa La La La Lindsay
I think that in his cryptic statement he means, and a lot of people here agree with me, that more Facebook's going to get more FriendFeedy. Which doesn't mean that FF still isn't dead or doomed. After all, he works for Facebook now. FriendFeed=open forum, Facebook=walled garden, totally opposite master metaphors; but I don't think Zuckerberg gets it, and FF belongs to Zuckerberg now. So this is really about FB; FF's still in limbo. Still, some FF people friended me at FB, and I put them in a special list.
- Dennis Jernberg
@FF-team keep on rocking :). BTW I also think it's really cool you guys open-sourced tornado.
- alfred westerveld
+1 what alfred said, and good to hear words like "longer-term" & "beautiful" coming straight from The Walrus - keep that vision strong. Hope all goes well for FF team doing some good re-inventing the Octopus Garden of FB - seems you've got your work cut out for you there! It would be so nice if any way to keep a "simple & pure" form of FriendFeed alive (maintained and developed - more open source?) for us to enjoy, but no worries .... you've simultaneously raised the bar and paved the way for the rest!
- Dan Freeman
Good luck with the development Paul! Hopefully Zuck has some positive insight.
- Garin Kilpatrick
I like butterflies.
- Harold Cabezas
Paul: If someone offered me a bag of money to do what you guys did, I would have done exactly the same (probably a lot faster too). However, it would be nice if you spent an hour answering some of the questions here. It might also give people like me a little more faith, in what used to be your primary project; Friendfeed. You made the best platform on the planet - why not use it to let us know what the heck's going on?
- Jim Connolly
I'm assuming that Facebook wants to keep their roadmap quiet. I respect that but leaving you community in the dark for a brand that the applications stand for community building is rather ironic.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
SUPER!! I don't Blame ya 1 Darn bit fer Dumpin' FacePOOP Paul!! ;PPP Wait FacePOOP is the Maggot Stage!! ;))
- Billy Warhol
If I can still have all my friends that I have here on friendfeed and share things with them the exact same way, I don't care what "www" address I have to type in to get it. I just hope i don't have to give up any of FF's awesome features! Thanks for the update Paul!
- David Cook
The problem is I don't know whether to wrote an app on your API or not because i'm not sure whether it will all be dropped in the "transformation". Imagine speding late nights and weekends coding something up only for it to be dropped suddenly. Need a decent long term picture. Looking at Cliqset.
- Steven Livingstone-Pérez
Good point Steven - and one of the reasons many of us are spending so little time developing our networks here.
- Jim Connolly
waiting....
- ffcode
ffcode: Good luck with that ;-)
- Jim Connolly
So the changes are at Facebook not FriendFeed, Paul?
- Kol Tregaskes
And good luck to all of your team
- Ozkan Altuner
from iPhone
This is a truly disappointing/concerning post and I think it would have been much better to hold comment until something more tangible could be discussed. Thanks for adding to the confusion/drama Paul.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
yemezler
- MobilAdam
I do care about what happens next, but this is the best news of the day nonetheless ! thanks for giving us updates at last ! and I do hope FF will awaken again ! such a great tool, but letdown since the announcement of the buyback by FB
- laetSgo
will I see this post in my "best of week" email from FF?
- Kirill Bolgarov
If Facebook is going to get fixed, please remember that it needs fixing politically, not just technically. It needs to give people the option to open their data to Google - for instance. A walled garden where the walls are fixed in place sucks.
- Tim Tyler
@Paul, or perhaps an Alien will erupt forth from its stomach? (kidding, kidding!)
- j1m
My #chrometip: on dev Chrome, right click on tab and click "Pin Tab". Tab minimizes to favicon & slides all the way left!
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My driver in NYC is the only guy I've ever met who chooses the male voice for his GPS directions instead of the sexy British woman.
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The Tesseract: how to describe the 4th Dimension (using the flatland metaphor of 2D beings encountering a 3D being): http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This is like an outtake from Matrix 2. This is the guy Neo meets before his chit chat with the architect ;-)
- Graham Sergeant
like flatlanders don't the french also lack words for 'up' and 'down' ? :)
- James Tindall
I'm going to work in his phrase "The penalty of projection" at a talk I'm doing on Monday. Any idea where I can get a Tesseract cube? Looks like a Habitat kind of thing.
- zeroinfluencer
I thought it was "forwards" they lacked... cheese chomping surrender monkeys! ;-)
- Graham Sergeant
I wanna see this speech in real life - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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BREAKING: Declaring something 'Dead' is dead... I just killed it.
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*dead*
- Louis Gray
but cmon - throwing DEAD on a title gets more pageviews and that is so good woo
- Allen Stern
Tell that to the doctors...
- Jemm
Bones: "He is dead, Jim." Kirk: "STFU"
- Jemm
Unusual Paintings of Obama Naked with Unicorns | WildAmmo.com - http://wildammo.com/2009...
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Can also be ordered as posters at Dan Lacey’s blog
- zeroinfluencer
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Nice, lovin ugly betty with the wounded unicorn
- Paul Argent
I *need* to understand WTF is going on here.
- zeroinfluencer
(via @mauromrm on twitter)
- zeroinfluencer
That's fucking awesome
- Rodfather
I wonder is somebody can do this for RTE.. It will be fun..
- Jacque
This is relevant to my interests
- goodmachine
No serious politician should be without a unicorn.
- zeroinfluencer
The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
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"Supercomputers pitted against one another in a high-stakes battle of attack and counterattack over a global network where predatory algorithms trawl the information stream, competing every millisecond to gain an informational advantage over rivals. It sounds like Hollywood fiction, but it's just an average trading day on the stock market ...Experts guess that between 60 and 75 percent of the NY Stock Exchange's daily trading volume is just computers trading against one another using a variety of strategies."
- james reilly
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"Because high-frequency trading is, as Richard Bookstaber has recently described it, an "arms race" where relative speed matters much more than absolute speed, this market is one of the few left with a demand for raw performance at any cost. "
- james reilly
I think Kurzweil is also doing this. Evolutionary algorithms...
- Alexander Kruel
Three Philosophers Belgian Style Blend (Quadrupel) - Brewery ... - http://likaholix.com/bindu...
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I recently had some of this beer. From the folks at Ommegang brewery. Really very yummy :)
- Bindu Reddy
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I'll take one...
- Christopher A Carr
Kal Penn Starts Work At White House - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
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"WASHINGTON — Actor Kal Penn started a new job Monday as a liaison between the White House and Asian communities. The Indian-American actor is taking a break from Hollywood to work as an associate director in the Office of Public Liaison, with a focus on connecting President Barack Obama with the Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities, as well as arts groups. Penn had a recurring role on Fox's TV show "House" and starred in several films including "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle" and its sequel, "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay""
- Myrna
from Bookmarklet
Wtf?
- Mitch
Did you want to say something Mitch, lol
- Myrna
Okkk...out of all the experts who specialize on this, he is the one that will be the liaison?
- Shevonne
The articles posted right after he was killed oh House never mentioned his movies by name. I don't think it was a coincidence.
- Heather
Heather, what's your thinking about this?
- Myrna
He's an associate director. While I wouldn't be surprised if he has a lot of creative control, I do think that he is more a figurehead than anything else. I'm sure he's surrounded by smart people that can help him come up with a working agenda.
- Zach Landes
And you never know Zach, he might surprise us all. He's definitely not a 'Sarah Palin material', just my intuition.
- Myrna
He was hugely influential in getting the college-age vote out for Obama. He's a pretty smart, affable guy and will probably do well in this public-facing role.
- jakebf
Jake, I agree!
- Myrna
Does this mean I get a free joint?
- Rodfather
WTF'
- Caroline
Caroline, nice eh?
- Myrna
Rodfather, I have no answer for you :)
- Myrna
he is funny guy::D
- Amir
Handsome and smart too Amir :))
- Myrna
maybe:d
- Amir
LOL Amir
- Myrna
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I have made this database of medical lists available as a shared notebook: https://www.evernote.com/pub... It will eventually have over 200 notes. Does anybody think there is mileage in "The Evernote Community" making stuff available in this way? I would also be interested in comments from other medics.
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Since Yahtzee still hasn't put permalinks on his blog, I'm going to link to my FF quote instead: http://friendfeed.com/jessica...
- Andrew C
Alan Wong made kalua pig for White House luau, but couldn't dig an imu | HonoluluAdvertiser.com | The Honolulu Advertiser - http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article...
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I actually like that they did this.
- Uncle CW™
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This is the weirdest CAPTCHA I have ever gotten
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Believe it or not, I've seen worse.
- Amit Morson
@Amit I don't know how it can beat that!
- Shevonne
hahaa that is weird.
- Dee S.
At least it is readable, most this days are near impossible to make out. Must be time to replace this system surely.
- Kevin J Hatton
hehe... just like Amit, i've seen ridiculously worse
- AJ Batac
Obviously you're ordering the extras at a massage parlor?
- Matthew DeVries
@Shevonne I'll show you one when I get it ;-)
- Amit Morson
I've been keeping a folder of the captchas I get from Facebook and noting the friends for whom the captcha was generated. Gotta say, there's been some suspiciously serendipitous relation between some of the people and the 'randomly' generated captcha. Is there such a thing as 'contextual captchas'?
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I'd so love to write captchas... like the interior of fortune cookies... little bits that make people stop and say, "no way..."
- Fossil Huntress
LOL.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I guess tenderness costs extra.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Turning The Camera Around: Health Care Stakeholders - http://www.npr.org/news...
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"When 22 senators started working over the first health care reform bill on June 17, the news cameras were pointed at them -- except for NPR's photographer, who turned his lens on the lobbyists. Whatever bill emerges from Congress will affect one-sixth of the economy, and stakeholders have mobilized. We've begun to identify some of the faces in the hearing room, and we want to keep the process going. Know someone in these photos? Let us know who that someone is -- e-mail dollarpolitics@npr.org"
- Steven Perez
OH SNAP!
- Steven Perez
"out the vampires" time?
- Joe Silence
Seems like a good idea to me.
- Steven Perez
from IM
"KLAATU...VERADA...NICOTINE! NICKEL! NIC*mhrmglmmll* THERE, I said it! Yeah." *backs away*
- Joe Silence
Wow, what a simple but great idea. Good for Rob Hill.
- Andrew C
NPR: Turning The Camera Around: Health Care Stakeholders - http://www.npr.org/news...
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"When 22 senators started working over the first health care reform bill on June 17, the news cameras were pointed at them -- except for NPR's photographer, who turned his lens on the lobbyists. Whatever bill emerges from Congress will affect one-sixth of the economy, and stakeholders have mobilized. We've begun to identify some of the faces in the hearing room, and we want to keep the process going. Know someone in these photos? Let us know who that someone is -- e-mail dollarpolitics@npr.org"
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Do Guys Quote Movies More Than Girls? - Cinematical - http://www.cinematical.com/2009...
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"Reading through Todd's interview with The Proposal director Anne Fletcher, I came across this quote that stuck right out. While discussing Fletcher's most memorable summer moviegoing experience, she says, "You know, it's funny, but I have this generalization, it's completely general, but I really believe in my soul that men quote and women don't. Women will experience a movie on a totally different level, generally speaking, and they'll go, "I loved that movie" or "I didn't like that movie" and that will always stay on them, but they won't remember a single quote. And men will experience a movie in an entirely cerebral way and be able to quote lines 50 years from now – and they connect with each other through them.""
- Bluesun 2600
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I think Anne has a point. It's a guy thing.
- Karma Martell
In-N-Out Wins Best Burger In Zagat's Fast Food Survey - http://consumerist.com/5287288...
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"The results of this year's Zagat's Fast Food Survey are in and Wendy's is the top "Mega-Chain" (over 5,000 outlets) and In-N-Out burger the best large chain (up to 5,000). When asked which outlet had the best burger regardless of number of locations — In-N-Out came in first with Wendy's at #2." - DUH!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
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- مـــــــــمد
And the fries are gluten free!
- Steve C
Agreed.
- Ayşe E.
There are few things more delicious than a Double Double.
- felicious
that and animal style fries, felicious.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Never been to in-n-out.
- mjc
I forgot about those!! I'm gonna need to go down to Fisherman's Wharf and make this happen. Soon.
- felicious
great choice! I miss In-N-Out!! none here in Rochester, NY - augh!!
- Susan Beebe
What!? Fatburger is *way* better. It doesn't look like there were even included.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I miss California.
- Mike Reynolds
it's the one thing i miss for sure... Double-Double, Animal Style... *sigh*
- Live4Emma (L4S)
what are some other names for their burgers?
- Cee Bee
Cee Bee The burgers are just Single (hamburger or cheeseburger--most just order that), Double, Triple, Double-Double, Quad..http://www.in-n-out.com/secretm... Also, I was told that say ordering a Doulbe meant you get two patties and one slice of cheese, whereas a Double-Double is two patties and two slices of cheese. A Quad is 4 patties and a 4x4 is 4 patties with 4 slices of cheese.
- Admiral Anika
you can also get 4x4, 5x5, 6x6, etc... :-D
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I've never been to In-n-Out. My favorite burgers are Five Guys.
- Alan Simpson
Alan, as I said back in Feb. when we had our Five Guys meetup, I'd take INO burgers over Five Guys any day. Five Guys wins out in the fries dept.
- Admiral Anika
Never had an In N Out burger, despite being on the west coast twice. Can someone take me?
- Mike Nayyar
I'll take you Mike, but you have to promise not stare at my boobs or butt. ;P
- Admiral Anika
Anika, I will keep an open mind and not argue for Five Guys until I some day get to try In N Out. I do love Five Guys fries.
- Alan Simpson
Perfect matchup would be INO burgers and Five Guys fries. That might be my last meal prior to be executed.
- Derrick
Have you committed a violent crime recently, Derrick?
- Mike Nayyar
We really need one of these in PA.
- Obayoo
No love for Fatburger?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Visit the Midwest and you can have a Butter Burger at Culver's. I'm not saying it's the best, but ya gotta love the name.
- Katy S
Hard to believe! I don't think their burgers are that good and their fries absolutely suck!
- Jeff P. Henderson
You can just fly into LAX, take a quick cab ride (5 mins), get some In N out and hope back on the plane. Done & done!
- Amani
Nom
- Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)
I crave In-N-Out -- but can't have any this summer -- sniff
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Tell me about the best Veggie burger and I'm in :)
- Justin Hopkins
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In-N-Out is truly the best. Fatburger is good but nit good enough in my opinion. how about the protein burger (lettuce wrapped)? Mmmmmmm!
- Sean Simkins
Really, Sean? In-N-Out better than Fatburger? I'm a bit stunned.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Bush Told Journalist in 1999 “I’m Going to Invade Iraq” - http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article...
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"Bush told Herskowitz that his father (President George H.W. Bush) knew that from Panama and (President Ronald)Reagan knew that from Grenada and…(UK Prime Minister)Maggie Thatcher knew this from the Falklands.” According to Baker, Bush told Herskowitz, “The ideal thing was a small war, and this is why Bush said nobody was going to be killed in Iraq because he thought it would be small war.” Bush co-authored his book “A Charge To Keep” with Karen Hughes. In his introduction to the work, Bush wrote, “I thank Mickey Herskowitz for his help and work in getting the project started.” Baker said he believed if a major daily ran his Herskowitz interview it “could have changed the election” but “I could not get it published.” The story was turned down by both The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. He described the Post as “scared because of the Dan Rather thing, and they said to me, ‘What do you have in the way of evidence?’” Baker replied, “Here’s a tape of Mickey Herskowitz, who’s...
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QUESTION: You have a year, unlimited funds, and the choice of one skill to learn in that time. What is it?
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Shamelessly borrowed from John Rogers: http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2009...
- Steven Perez
Play the piano.
- Alix Whitmire
Write.
- ♥patricia♥
I'd hammer out my pilot's license.
- Christopher Harley
Play the piano x 2. Which is what I'm trying to do right now, as a matter of fact.
- Helen Sventitsky
UNIX system administration
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Design and build my dream house.
- Jeff P. Henderson
A language - probably French. In France.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Art forgery.
- Mark H
Unquestionably music.
- Todd Hoff
Ooh, love this question. I'd want to learn book conservation/restoration. That just seems so damn awesome. Wish I'd known that existed when I was little.
- Ayşe E.
Learn Japanese - in Japan. Full immersion course. Set us up in a small Japanese town with no English speaking people and provide us with the Pimsleur course and a good course for reading Japanese characters. In a year, we'd all be close to conversationally fluent.
- Tad
Ballistics.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Mythbusting!
- invariant - farewell FF
I'd go intensive into novel writing, with hired editors, writing coaches, and a research staff at my disposal. I'd need quite a bit of classes to do it, though, Anthropology, psychology, astronomy, Mythology, and of course writing.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
Welding
- Sue Radd
Today? Glass lampworking. Tomorrow? Who knows - lol
- Shannon
learn a couple of languages...nice question.
- Anna Lynn M.
wood working. i've always thought it would be cool to be able to make stuff with wood
- Imabug
The fine art of traveling the world and writing about it well.
- Steven Perez
How to be a successful artist.
- Phil G
Learn to rule the world.
- imabonehead
At this point, I probably want to hone my photography skills and become a fulltime professional photographer, for a magazine like Wallpaper. (Then again, I also want to finally get a book published, so I may try that instead ...)
- Rene Wirtz
DANCE!
- Yuvi
Oh, piano for certain and if that does not work, how to knit socks.
- Janet
Japanese.
- Brome
Hmmm, maybe cooking school, or a language, or photography. Digital technology has changed the work flow SO much.
- Derrick
Six months of a crash course in Effective Bribery for the Amateur Emperor. And then I'd put those unlimited funds to some really good use...
- Andy Bold
Xeriscape gardening and farming. I figure that'll be useful in the coming years, and I like gardening anyway.
- Amy℠
Definitely music theory. I can pretty much bang away at any instrument and make it sound kinda good, but I would be a beast if I actually learned scales, modes, etc.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
aikijujutsu
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I'm with Chris Harley - pilot's license for sure. Then I'd fly around and see places and people I haven't before.
- Jordan Hofker
(Just enjoying everyone's answers. Carry on.)
- Ayşe E.
learn arabic
- tiffany
linguistics
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
This one's harder than I thought. I'll get back to ya after some thought.
- MicahBear78
Intensive study of folklore. Most definitely.
- Katy S
I'd like to become a social media expert.
- Glen Campbell, esq.
+++ Geln!
- Tad
I want to learn Objective C.
- Neal Jansons
Architecture. No question about it. What I should have done the first time around. But nooo, "You should go with business and economics".. My ass. EDIT: Ah..only one year.. a crash course in sailboat design (if not proper naval architecture) then.
- Thomas Bøhm
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I like to learn how to live off the original funding giving me the means to learn any and everything I wanted at my leisure.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
skill? I'll have to go with piano as well.
- Alejandro
It's a tie between learning to be a top chef, and spending a year doing strength and stamina training so I can finally hike the full length of the Pacific Crest Trail. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I think B-boying. DJing would last me longer -- I'm 32 and my knees know it -- but my heart is with breaking first.
- Andrew C
Chinese
- Davis Freeberg
Paradox-correcting time travel, that way I could go back to the beginning of the year and learn something new. EDIT: Seriously, linguistics.
- Jimminy Fuller
Anesthesiology. Or, failing that, spiritual direction.
- Ladybug Heather
I would learn how to play the piano :) or I would also like to learn how to use a potters wheel.
- martha
as many already said, play the piano. since i play it already a little bit, play it the *perfect* way. Glenn Gould or smt like that.
- diego morelli
learn to use the unused 80% of my brain
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
I want Amazon to support OAuth for S3 so I don't have to store my keys on someone else's server. http://baconfile.com/login...
l.m.orchard, Daniel Rowley, Nick Wade and 5 other people liked this
OAuth-enabled storage is definitely a gap in the cloud cover, AFAIK.
- Bill Barnhill
What is the scenario here? Would you give access on a bucket by bucket basis? Or just readonly access? As S3 assigns you a unique secret key that you can reset, OAuth adds very little above and beyond sharing the password.
- Joe Beda ()
Ultimately I want a service to store my data on s3 (or cloud storage) using MY account credentials. In an open format. Gonna happen.
- Hayes Haugen
bucket by bucket -- good!!
- Dave Winer
No, but close. I want facebook to store the photos I upload there to_ my_ amazon s3 account. AWS should also offer an imap server where I can store my email. These are just examples. The bottom line is my data is in the cloud under my control and I give services permission to access. Sorry for OT.
- Hayes Haugen
I'd like it if web2.0 services would mash up more, for instance panoramio and flickr working together.
- Marcel de Jong
Goose flies upside-down - Local & National, News - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news...
Felicia Yue, Tanath, Tony Ruscoe and 45 other people liked this
"This is the moment a goose was caught performing an extraordinary upside-down contortion as it battled to land in heavy winds. The bird was captured by a wildlife photographer flying with its neck twisted 180 degrees and its body seemingly facing the wrong way. The manoeuvre may look painful but it is a known tried and tested way of braking, called whiffling. In amazing twists and turns, birds spill air out of their wings and can slow down rapidly and reduce height. The results, however, are not usually this extreme."
- April Buchheit
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April this rules, great find, and is yet another example of the unlikely ways in which unlikely things just *work* whether or not it makes any sense to us or not. Cheers.
- chad calease
in an aircraft, it's called a "forward slip" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... -- usually performed when you're on final and you realize you need to lose some altitude in a hurry. ironically, the only human to try and forward slip while inverted was Goose from "Top Gun."
- Karim
Never did find my wallet. So improvising with an empty pack of Orbit Mint Mojito gum: http://twitpic.com/5b8jj
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