Be much cooler if whole table was molded out of bright colored plastic with lego block bumps on it. - Mark Forman
Wow, Legos are everywhere lately - who is their CMO? (Finlay Robb?) - what I've seen is genius. - Vince DeGeorge
These are almost the right size to build homes from... of course, then we'd need to fashion claw hands for people, but that is a mere detail... - Karim
Friggin' agreed. I just thought Twitter was bad. Now that I'm finally sucked in here, it's over. There is so much to check out that flows through this thing. - Lee Adkins
FF is absolutely addictive. There's so much - but it's not random tweets about going to Subway for lunch, or Vampire requests but instead really interesting stuff and great conversations - hence ... the addiction. - AJ Kohn
Twitter is more addictive for me still... but FF has greater time-suck potential as I'm more inclined to get sucked into comment threads. - Lucretia Pruitt
Yes I can get why FriendFeed, and the FriendFeed/Twitter hybrid that twhirl provides is extremely addictive. Now that the UI doesn't freak me out any longer, I can get comfortable here. I think the big thing is the reduction of friction in moving around among our social presences and those we follow. It could be better, but it is already tantalizing. - Dennis E. Hamilton
FF is more additive b/c it is twitter plus everything else so it seems clear as to why it would be. It is also seriously cutting into my RSS reading - Lou Paglia
You know, once upon a time I'd go out and be constantly checking Twitter on my phone, now it's FF, but I check FF more than I ever did Twitter - Duncan Riley
It's definitely addictive, I am with you Duncan I check it on the go regularly as well! - Joe Dawson
I go thru phases with FriendFeed. It gest real interesting for me when there's a wave of new users. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
friendfeed.com scroll scroll comment comment friends like read-blog like comment edit-comment like read-article unlike refresh comment like like favorite Everyone super-fast-scroll like scroll scroll scroll me scroll refresh friends scroll like - Mitchell Tsai
It's time for a 12-step program...who's with me????? - Anna Haro
Anna: waiting for an intervention. i.am.not.addicted. - Mona N
amen... I'm only following 5 or 6 people and It's still addicting.... - c010depunkk via twhirl
if I'm not on the desktop reading FF - I'm on the iPhone doing the same. Falling way behind on direct feed reading but do use Feedly quite a bit with its FF integration - David W
I've seen a lot worse. This doesn't (actually in NC) actually seem so bad; you scan the sign for the road you're looking to get on and the direction it's going, and follow the corresponding arrow. But it would be an interesting design exercise to come up with a new, unified sign that would present the same information. (Interstate highway signs generally do a really awesome job of that.) - ⓞnor
This, for example, is clearly somebody's attempt to make a single coherent display for a very similar situation, but I think it is actually much worse: http://www.driveandstayalive.c... Unlike the "fail" sign, it doesn't immediately tell you what to do, instead you have to decode the map and translate it into actual driving on the fly. - ⓞnor
am i the only one who finds a kitten about to be fork stabbed disturbing? not. cute. imho... - Mona N
Like when we were in North Vietnam, and my wife (who is Vietnamese and loves dogs) says to the taxi driver, "Oh, look at all the dogs on the porches of this town.", and he says, "They are food." - Chris White
btw I'm Japanese, not Chinese.. we'd eat your pets too but goldfish sushi? do.not.want! - Mona N
Chopsticks would clearly be the more appropriate utensil here. - Chris White
Reality check-many pets are food or pets then food in other cultures. Disturbing maybe. People that eat animals for food are kind of fascinated on how pet lovers spend so much money on an an animal. Not saying either side right or wrong just different. - Mark Forman
Mark: The live fuzzy kitten about to be forked stabbed is disturbing.... not the choice of delicacy <-for lack of a better word =\ - Mona N
Congratulations April & Paul! Just two days ago you told me you currently have 1.9 children. I assumed April still had something like three more weeks to go :) All the best for your growing family! - Mustafa K. Isik
Yes, at the time it was supposed to be another couple of weeks, but our kids tend to arrive extra early (The first was born at 25.7 weeks, and this one at 34 -- full term is 40). - Paul Buchheit
Wow, UPS tracking has gotten much better. Where is the baby now? Make sure you're home during the delivery, though. Whenever I'm not, they just leave it at the front door. (Congrats, by the way ;) ) - Vince DeGeorge
What is this? Baby on Friendfeed week :) Between you and Louis...hehe. So does this make Friendfeed an aunt or an uncle? or maybe a cousin? Congrats Paul! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
@Erhan, actually I would like to see the true babies pic and then the a render pic from http://makemebabies.com/. It would be awsome to see how closely the two would match up :)- - Peter Dawson
Congrats, real good choice that I am sure you will enjoy - Fred Grott
@Louis yeah, I was tempted to mess with people and post pics of myself at FriendFeed and various other places, but decided to come clean. [Note: I still think FriendFeed would be an awesome gig too...] - Jeremy Zawodny
Congrats and thanks for the fantastic app! - J. Phil
Amazing. Obviously the best first round of Google employees (gmail, reader) are moving on. It will be interesting to see how the company adapts / evolves. - Brandon Werner
Really bummed to see you go Chris, but congrats. - Mike Yang
Good luck and thanks for your work in making GReader so awesome. - Dana Franks via twhirl
Thanks for your work on GReader. It's an essential part of my daily workflow. Good luck! - Chris Baskind
Without Google Reader, I would be so much more productive. And also more boring and less knowledgeable since I'd read fewer feeds. Thanks for all the hard work and good luck for the future! - Tony Ruscoe
Wow, thanks a lot for your great work on Reader. It's really changed a lot of peoples' lives (including mine). - Jake
Definitely thanks for your work. It changed my life so much that I decided to build one. - Elias Torres
I wonder what Googlers realy mean when they congratulate other Googlers when they announce their plans to leave.... - Bindu Reddy
Bye Chris...THANK YOU... gReader is my friend and you made that possible :-) - Susan Beebe
@Bindu I suspect its "Take me with you!" ;) j/k - Erica Baker
Google Reader -- one of my top 5 favorite programs of all time. - Sean McBride
Weird, doesn't seem to work in Fluid. Clicking the link quickly shows the loading circle on the right, then does nothing. Works fine in Safari 3.1, though. - Mark Trapp
Liked just so people see my name when they test it out. - DeWitt Clinton
I notice another change. "You" is the first name listed for all the things I've liked in the past. Even those where I haven't clicked on the expand Likes link. This wasn't previously the case. A bit of work on the Likes sort methodology? - Hutch Carpenter
Noticed that too, Hutch: do you think it's sorting based on order of likes now? Obviously, with "You" always being first and outside the order. - Mark Trapp
Mark - definitely putting "you" out front is a change. I still don't know the basis for ranking the other Likes. Maybe the guys will comment here. Or blog it. - Hutch Carpenter
I like this addition. Clean, intuitive, simple, perfect. - Tsega D
a long list of names isn't too useful; why dont you bold the ones that are my friends? - peter
peter: all your friends are listed first. - Bret Taylor
More recent likes come first, so as new friends "Like" things, you see them. - Bret Taylor
Peter, bolding is a great idea, not just here, but in general. It would be an easy way to find friends that you have not yet subscribed to. - Scott Beale
+1 for bolding names that I'm already subscribed to. - Mike Doeff
I tweaked the sort order to put "you" first, but apparently I forgot to tell Bret. - Jim Norris
Indeed Shey, http://ffapps.com/showlikes/ is no longer required. Seeing a list of people who liked a particular entry is a great way to explore and discover users who share similar interests. - Aviv
چه قدر سریع,ایده اش همین صبح مطرح شد,اسمایلی جیمبووووووووووووووووووو:))ه - shandiz
Expanding shows a lot of Likes up in this post! - Joe Dawson
"This year, however, proponents of same-sex marriage have found encouragement in both the California Supreme Court decision and in a subsequent order by Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, instructing agencies in his state to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally elsewhere. The California court has also rebuffed several challenges to its May 15 decision, made by two conservative legal groups and by Republican attorneys general who fear that the California marriages will lead to legal challenges brought in their own states." - Bret Taylor
The current UK administration defused the issue of same sex unions by the introduction of Civil Partnerships in 2005 linked to an across the board change of relevant laws to provide parity with married couples - with the exception of those with religiious objections (who should really know better) this has gone smoothly and been introduced across the UK. Its not called a marriage but has all the advantages (and responsibilities!) of the mixed sex varaint. - Jican
It makes me very happy to see gay folks entering the light in California. I'm also very amused at how frustrating it must be to the Right. Well, I guess in a few years one of us will be proven right. Either a small percentage of the population of California will be happily married and gay or the country will lay in smouldering ruins and people will be having sex with box turtles. - Tad Donaghe
Tad: I feel a box turtle urge coming on! Hah. - Robert Scoble
@Tad - I had box turtles as pets when I was kid. Never considered that activity with them though... - Hutch Carpenter
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." - Rick Santorum (Idiot) ex-Senator from Virginia - Tad Donaghe
Dude in the pic with "Bruce Willis" is freakin HYOOOGE! I wonder how many opponents of gay marriage have been pwned by his hand...LOL - Rahsheen Porter
Whoa, don't push Santorum on us Virginians! hehe - Jody Carbone
Oh crap - sorry to pollute Virginia with Santorum! Oops. I wouldn't wish that on anyone... - Tad Donaghe
I hope it "sticks". My boyfriend and I are waiting until after November. To have the rug pulled from under us after enjoying a few months of wedded bliss would be too much for the heart to bear. - Jason Menayan
Congrats to all the new couples, with wishes for many happy years. - Chris Baskind
In my home town in Austria, we had a case of a black man and a white woman wanting to marry, they ended up being refused by the marriage registrar. Of course, we also haven't got gay marriage legalized here. The US have problems, but in some cases, law is way more progressive than in Europe. - sebmos
@Phil: LOL! This has certainly been a momentous (and good) development. But it would be nice to see these kinds of decisions made through the legislative process. The fact that this decided in the courts will make the outcome more contentious than it would have been had the population been forced to have a legitimate conversation about the issue. The more bigoted corners of our society now have a victim card to play - and play it they shall... - Forrest Cox
@Forrest: The genius of our system of government lies in its checks and balances. In particular, an unfettered democracy would be subject to the problem of the "tyranny of the majority". Fortunately this is offset by our Constitution and our courts, whose job is to ensure that individual rights are not trampled on, no matter how unpopular that individual may be, for whatever reason. Any bigots playing the victim card are ignorant of basic civics. - Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira I agree. The Cali court is playing exactly its Constitutional role, and it's essentially a conservative and Federalist approach to reconciling changing societal mores and the demands of a minority. As I've commented elsewhere, we are winning this argument, and we're doing it state by state, rather than through a Federal fiat, which simply is not feasible at this time. All good things... - Rick Powell
Looks like the permalink for this item is wrong. I'm guessing you used the FriendFeed bookmarklet within Reader. We actually expose a getPermalink() function that returns the current item's title and url (as an object literal) or null if no item is selected. You could use that in your bookmarklet if you wanted to special-case Reader to get the right link (Google Notebook already does this). - Mihai Parparita
I guess I must have, although I was pretty sure that I pressed "v" to open the current item and shared that. Special-casing Reader in the bookmarklet sounds like a good idea and is definitely something I'd use. - Tudor Bosman
Downloading the Spore Creature Editor: (a) Flash web site, (b) wants root access on my Mac, (c) wants registration on their site. Into the trash bin it goes. - Amit Patel
Well, a "noncorporeal chew toy" is a nonsense concept, and the notion of adding bacon flavoring to such a thing is ridiculous. The picture is obviously drawn in 3 seconds with Paintbrush. The $789.45 price is insane. It's some kind of strange fake entry, and I found it funny. But also, bacon is really tasty, have you tried it? I mean, like good, organic, flavorful bacon, fresh off the sizzling grill, right on the cusp between crispy and chewy, paired with a piping hot biscuit... - ⓞnor
"By the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will reside in urban centers. Applying the most conservative estimates to current demographic trends, the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim. An estimated 109 hectares of new land (about 20% more land than is represented by the country of Brazil) will be needed to grow enough food to feed them, if traditional farming practices continue as they are practiced today. At present, throughout the world, over 80% of the land that is suitable for raising crops is in use (sources: FAO and NASA). Historically, some 15% of that has been laid waste by poor management practices. What can be done to avoid this impending disaster?" - Jason Wehmhoener
Depends on the design, but the light problem is solved by windows, light pipes, low-light crop varietals, and yes, artificial light (typically low pressure sodium). Green roofs seem like a more obvious win to me, but vertical farms can be built in one place with centralized infrastructure and maintenance without convincing hundreds of property owners to green their roofs. - ⓞnor
I'd love to see a business plan. Urban property isn't cheap, and the building and infrastructure is nothing to sneeze
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