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Bill Romanos
What Do You Call a Carbonated Soft Drink? [US regional differences; enlarge map] - http://bigshottexas.blogspot.com/2009...
What Do You Call a Carbonated Soft Drink? [US regional differences; enlarge map]
Pop - Tyson Key
I have seen this before and find it fascinating especially the parts of the country where it's referred to as a Coke. What happens if you want a Pepsi or a Sprite? - Kenton
Heh, good question, Kenton - Tyson Key
It's always called a 'Coke' regardless of what the beverage actually is. At least that's how it is/was with my country Southern relatives. - Derrick
But Derrick what I don't get is if you are in a restaurant that serves many different things, how would you order? I can see it if you go to someone's house and they say what do you want and you say Coke, you get what they have, but the restaurant part confuses me. - Kenton
Strange but true: I checked http://popvssoda.com as part of my job interview preparations before taking this job in Memphis back in 2005. - Daniel J. Pritchett
the same thing that happens when you call facial tissues Kleenex but you refer to a product other than Kleenex. it's not terribly complicated :). i call it soda-pop, which may be due to an unhealthy exposure to the Outsiders as a child. @Kenton in an environment where it's Coke, you would likely be asked what type in that situation, just as you would if you said you'd like a soda-pop and there was more than one type available. - jocoda
Kenton, they'd say they wanted a Coke, then the waiter/waitress would say what kind, then they'd say root beer, 7Up, whatever afterwards. I always just asked for iced tea. - Derrick
LOL Derrick, that sounds like the safe thing to do. - Kenton
I always say "soda" in hopes of avoiding the "you asked for Coke but all we have is Pepsi, is Pepsi OK?" question because I am happy drinking whichever. They always ask though, so I guess I need a new gambit. Worse, my parents like to pull out the old "were you raised by Yankees?!" when I say "soda" in their presence. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Anyone know what an "other" might be? - Frank Senseney
Frank: soft drink, fizzy, and cola come to mind. - Mark Trapp
Restaurants work the same way here, at least in Texas. The waitress takes your drink order, and you tell her what you want. No one here says "coke" generically, to a waitress. If the waitress asks me what I want to drink and I want Dr. Pepper, I say, "Dr. Pepper." However, in casual conversation, "coke" means soft drink here and when someone wants a soft drink, we say "I want a coke." - Trish R
Fizzy lifting drinks! - Yolanda
I think I say "soda." It's hard to say, because I generally call my beverage "DVC" (The right initials never stuck in my head when I switched from Diet Vanilla Coke to Vanilla Coke Zero, besides, VCZ is not as cool to say). I rarely ever use a generic term. My country-deepsouthern relatives say "pop." - MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Why are people using the terms "country" and "southern" as meaning the same thing? - Trish R
Here in Australia they are usually called soft drinks or fizzy drinks, as opposed to beer which if often called "piss". "Let's have a piss-up, who's going to get the piss?" Classy eh? - jjprojects
The widespread emergence of using a specific brand of soda to refer to all types when many different types are vastly different from each other puzzles me. You can compare it to Xerox, but on the other hand you get the same result from a Xerox copy machine and a Lexmark copy machine while there's a drastic difference between Sprite, Coke, Dr. Pepper, et al. Reading the above comments I see how it's used, but how it's used seems like a waste of time to me. - Tom Harrison
Pop is Michigan - bcultral
Pop. When I lived in Georgia it was soda. - Maxamad (Amazigh)
The blog you cite is for invited readers only. - John P
"Tonic" is one of the "others" in Massachusetts. - John P
jjprojects
Re: I’m Creaing An Enviro Twitter List, Who Should Be On it? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Thanks to suggestions from tweeters, I've added a couple more locally, including @livelocal and @deskimo" - jjprojects
jjprojects
Re: I’m Creaing An Enviro Twitter List, Who Should Be On it? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"You're now on it too by the way :)" - jjprojects
jjprojects
Re: I’m Creaing An Enviro Twitter List, Who Should Be On it? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Great, thanks Grant. Most of these are on the list already, but forgot a few of those, including Better Place!" - jjprojects
jjprojects
Re: 140 Green Tweeters to Follow - http://www.socialearth.org/140-gre...
"Well full disclosure, I work on social media for Earth Hour :)" - jjprojects
jjprojects
Re: 140 Green Tweeters to Follow - http://www.socialearth.org/140-gre...
"Hey, you forgot to add @earthhour in the organisations http://twitter.com/EarthHour" - jjprojects
jjprojects
Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Not long to go now :)" - jjprojects
jjprojects
Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"He's a boy. Yeah, I know we'll be pretty busy to say the least." - jjprojects
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Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Thanks, I'm really looking forward to having another kiddie around." - jjprojects
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Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"@abinesh Thanks I am feeling fine. Getting it under control I think." - jjprojects
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Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"@molder I'm sure you don't mean keeping the illness part quiet, I've been complaining about it on twitter for 2 months :)" - jjprojects
jjprojects
Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Thanks Kate, Actually I never felt that ill as such, just felt like a calf muscle strain, and feeling pretty tired at night. Mentally it was a shock though, bit of a wake-up call. Yep, on the mend now I think." - jjprojects
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Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"@conniereece Thanks Connie. I'm really looking forward to birth day, about 7 weeks to go now :)" - jjprojects
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Re: What Have I Been Doing With My LIfe? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Indeed it is Dean, indeed it is." - jjprojects
jjprojects
US criticizes UN report on Gaza war crimes - http://www.presstv.ir/detail...
US criticizes UN report on Gaza war crimes
The United States has criticized a United Nations investigator's report on war crimes which were committed during the Gaza war. - jjprojects from Bookmarklet
jjprojects
World's largest offshore wind farm opens in Denmark - http://en.cop15.dk/news...
World's largest offshore wind farm opens in Denmark
The wind farm will supply 200,000 Danish households with electricity. It is the first of its kind to be equipped with a platform where personnel can spend the night. - jjprojects from Bookmarklet
jjprojects
Re: 15 Places to Make Money Creating Your Own Products - http://mashable.com/2009...
"CafePress really annoyed me. After I signed up I realised they only send out paper cheques in US dollars internationally. This was a show stopper, as it costs $50+ to have the cheques cleared and converted to local currency. What year is this? Have they heard of paypal? They must be losing a lot of business this way. /whinge." - jjprojects
vijay
Ads of the Future..
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oh my god! won't this guy just shut up with the rants already! =P - vijay
Is that the future or the present? - jjprojects
future jj. It hasn't caught-on yet, on a large enough scale, to be a wide spread headache. - vijay
"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet." - William Gibson - mikepk
aye mike. I would agree too but then a part of me says it sounds like me saying "The morning is here. It's just that the sun has not reached us yet." Thought provoking, none the less. Thanks for the quote. : ) - vijay
( also, anyone else notice this post doesn't have a timestamp? weird! ) - vijay
jjprojects
Re: FaceFeed To Emerge After US$50 Million Deal? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Yes, I'm wondering what will happen about that too. Surely they wouldn't be just automatically transferred if people are signed up to both, at least not without some sort of opt-out process?" - jjprojects
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Re: FaceFeed To Emerge After US$50 Million Deal? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
"Yep, definitely a different crowd on Facebook, mostly." - jjprojects
jjprojects
FaceFeed To Emerge After US$50 Million Deal? - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
FaceFeed To Emerge After US$50 Million Deal?
Also, a comment on this post: "I'm curious (and apprehensive) about what will happen to a person's subscribers and subscriptions on FriendFeed as a result of the acquisition..." - jjprojects
AJ Batac
Faceboook + FriendFeed: Do you "Like" it? - http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll...
Faceboook + FriendFeed: Do you "Like" it?
Faceboook + FriendFeed: Do you "Like" it?
Cast your vote! - AJ Batac
I know it's a futile attempt but at least let people know! - AJ Batac
nice move AJB! - vijay
I hope you cast your vote. I'm shutting down my browser now and be back in a bit. Thanks to you all. - AJ Batac
100% No atm. Wow! - Kol Tregaskes
ARKADAŞLAR OY VERİN! ( A CALL TO VOTE :)) - Gülser Yücekara
Great! Thanks. - AJ Batac from fftogo
33 (80%) no - 6 (15%) yes - 2 (5%) neutral...... cast yours! - AJ Batac
42 (81%) no - 6 (12%) yes - 4 (8%) neutral - AJ Batac
Have you asked on Facebook? - jjprojects
jj, yes. ;) - AJ Batac
No! 76% (61 votes) | Yes! 11% (9 votes) | Neutral 10% (8 votes) | Other 3% (2 votes) - AJ Batac
No, but does it matter ? - Jacque
vote in the poll as well Jacque. (if you haven't already) - vijay
Vijaj: I am a good citizen, I did vote.. As NO. - Jacque
lol! - vijay
How can we say "Yes" or "No"? We haven't seen anything yet? We don't know how its gonna work? And isn't it funny that nearly everyone who yells for this union is a Facebook user? Why is this hysteria i really couldn't understand. - Olcayto Cengiz
Let's say you're a child. Your teddy bear is given to someone you know does mean things to all your friends toys. You don't need to wait for that person to tear the arms and legs off your teddy to know its a bad thing. - abacab
jjprojects
I've been locked out of my twitter account. According to my email they've reset the password, but the link I was send doesn't work at the moment because of their DOS problems (I assume). Multiple hassles.
I've seen others say the same thing has happened to them. - jjprojects
Loic Le Meur
@1938media hi buddy, every year I (try to) go completely offline for a week and I almost succeeded, could not help but check email, no reply
I think i need to do this.. been thinking about it heavily.. I would need to go to the mountains or somewhere with no access to wifi I also want to let go of my fone too for the week - Rachael Depp
It is a good thing to do. During summer holiday season is a good time to do it I reckon. - jjprojects
Duncan Riley
Epic win indeed Duncan. Well done. Have more than a couple of Friday drinks. - jjprojects from iPhone
Next stop, top 10? :) - jjprojects from iPhone
Almost 3m views a month is no small achievement either! - Mo Kargas
Congrats Duncan, a well deserved achievement. - Travis Koger
Congrats dude - Chris Saad
jjprojects
Pulse Of The Planet (Twitter) Flatlines Due To DOS Attack - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
Updated blog post - DOS attack targeted at one user: http://www.jjprojects.com/... - jjprojects
(jeff)isageek
I Can Has Happy: Top Sexy Geeks - http://icanhashappy.blogspot.com/2008...
I Can Has Happy: Top Sexy Geeks
I Can Has Happy: Top Sexy Geeks
I Can Has Happy: Top Sexy Geeks
Dames! - Phil G
Hey, where am I? :P - Mona Nomura
Agreed, where is Mona :)? - trextor
HAHAHHA - Mona Nomura
If you don't have a twitter account then you're not really a geek. - ChiliMac from twhirl
Bookmarked, obviously... - George The Writer
Sarah Austin is so cool. She is a living dream. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
ditto George and Matt :) - Joel Reyes
Ok...so I believe there is nothing sexier than a beautiful woman who is also a geek or is beautiful and knows how to work on cars or beautiful and loves sports, or is amazing in a courtroom. Am I missing anything fellas? Ok...so Mona needs to be on there. Mona where is your picture!! - Adriana
hahaha I was just kidding! I would rather be offered a guest spot on Gizmodo. ;) - Mona Nomura
I say you can have both! ; ) - Adriana
I have to hide this post. I can't concentrate if that photo of Sarah is reappearing over and over again. - Ryo / Fuck Facebook
o m g. Talk about a gigidy-gigidy overload. Used to think Oliva was the hottest geek, but there's so many of them. God bless the internet. I think I need a kleenex. :-| - Matthew Horton
This warrants a giggity giggity -> http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Matthew Horton
Ok. Not sure about this. Is it post-modern and therefore ok to think objectification of women is cool? Plus, you have my fav Felicia Day in there, which confuses the matter even further. I either need to have more to drink, or something.... - WorldofHiglet
::droooooollllllsssssss:: Women.. Geeek... Sexy... uhhh... ::drooooollllllllssss:: - CW™
You may watch Lala on sevenload. http://en.sevenload.com/shows... ;-) - Erhan Erdogan
This list is crap because it doesnt have Mona - ld
Didn't Wired do this sexy geeks thing a year ago, same people pretty much? It gets traffic, no doubt about it. Isn't that what this is really about for those involved? It works. - jjprojects
agreed...if they had mona on there I would have so had her pciture up on the post :) - (jeff)isageek
Bah, they missed ALL the FF beauties! Pfffft! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
tina agreed! - (jeff)isageek
olivia.... - Cee Bee
The question is; do we like them because they're sexy or geek? - M. Serdar Kuzuloglu
cuz they are geek!! - Ahmet Kakıcı
yeah i'm into olivia because she knows the difference between amd and intel. right - Cee Bee
My night is complete. Thanks :) - Charlie Anzman
A beautiful librarian perhaps? -
*starts loading up her spellbooks and component pouches and grabs her best sword* - MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Why can't a women be smart, beautiful, and be respected for that without having to take most of her clothes off. Do we get the same thing for the sexy, smart techie guys? (Who would fit that category?) Sorry guys, but you're being kind of piggish. -
So let me get this straight, just because "she" has a podcast she is a geek? Most of these I can get, but I'm not so sure some of these are a stretch. - Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
We like to pretend that humans are enlightened, but we're still just animals at heart. - LogEx
I was scrolling down waiting, waiting, waiting and there at the very bottom was Amber McArthur, the cutest geek of them all. And did you notice she had all her clothes on? Very impressive. - Got Love For DB™?
always a good post to come back to from time to time :) - (jeff)isageek
yum, yum, yum! - Brian Felix
Smart women exist, I don't think this is so surprising! - ★Kristy Kinderfresser
this is almost to my 100 likes club :) would be # 3 for me. - (jeff)isageek
T'was only a matter of time, to which I say it's about time. - Mike Lewis
what, no iJustine? - Jason
They don't seem nerdy enough to be hot to me... and I object to the blatant gender discrimination! nerdboyfriend.com :) - Lo
Jeremiah Owyang
What's wrong with Twitter?
Was working earlier this morning. Not now though. - Hutch Carpenter
What do you mean? - Thor
a serious lack of intellect coupled with an egregious amount of over pimping yourself - Braden Douglass
Twittter is down - Jeremiah Owyang
Scoble unfollowed everyone and broke it. - Steven Melfi
It's down HARD - API and web site for about an hour - Jon DiPietro
braden, is that limited to twitter? ;) - Jeremiah Owyang
when you find out, let me know... :( - Sydney Owen
It's not working here in MN... must be down; API doesn't work, either so no tweets for us - Tim Elliott
Lots of folks at Dell are noticing it's down too. - LionelatDell
site and API is totally down (nit just failwhaling). odd. - Sam Harrelson from BuddyFeed
SCOBLE BROKE TEH TWEETEZ - Jeremiah Owyang
Loaded question, Jer ;) - Brett Kelly
Not even a fail whale on this end. - Ed Moltzen
I was using pingdom to track when it was back online. - Rob Paller
huge Twitter fail right now - Kevin Norman
It's down? How is that even possible? - Justin Whitaker
Been down for at least 45mins... - Penthouse Magazine
Twitter was a figment of our imagination ;) - Valeria Maltoni
Yeah -- I haven't seen a fail whale in a while. And i just noticed that Penthouse Magazine commented on your post, Jeremiah. - Daniel B. Honigman
Does Facebook or Friendfeed pick up the real time web slack when Twitter goes down? What is your first instinct on where to turn? - Joe Magennis from iPhone
Is this todo with the injunction? Twitter Sued for Patent Infringement - and it doesn’t look good - http://bit.ly/avWLR - ImJustCreative from twhirl
"We are determining the cause and will provide an update shortly" 5 mins ago on the status blog - jjprojects
Joe - Interesting how that happens, eh? Let's just move over here full time. - Sam Harrelson from IM
facebook is messed up too - (jeff)isageek
Major Fail Whale - huge - Drew Lucas from iPhone
so huge a fail, we're not even getting the whale :) FriendFeed must be rubbing their hands with glee - Robert McIntosh
I guess that's one way to get me to venture over to FriendFeed. - Ryan Stephens
Not sure, but i like it. - Johnny
@Ryan, this is a great time for me to figure out how FF works. - Sydney Owen
Kind of annoying, but interested to see where everyone will flock to in its absence... - Christian
So is this a coordinated attack on Twitter and Facebook? - Sam Harrelson from IM
Identica picks up a lot of the overflow - ImJustCreative
@Hutch I can't work, because a lot of my morning is on Twitter. Seriously. I'm just at a standstill, kinda. - Sydney Owen
LOL, I'm not the only one who is checking out Friendfeed a bit more right now :P - Selene M. Bowlby
Friendfeed was defeinitely the first place I came, then Facebook, but FB seems to be really lagging - Crispin Heath
Facebook was giving errors when commenting... - Gabe Diaz
I guess this is a perfect time for all you "die hard twitter users" to realize why Friendfeed is better! :D - Johnny
man, I think I have the shakes - Kevin Norman
Oh, look at all the fresh updates here! (Including mine) Is this the social media equivalent of a booty call? - Justin Whitaker
and the funniest part is when your first reaction is to tweet and find out what is going on. oops. Nothing on the blog, I checked. - nan braun
Can't access Twitter in NL either. Over to Friendfeed! - Samuel Driessen
I'm having login issues with Facebook as well (and so are a number of my friends in different parts of the countries). FriendFeed FTW - Sam Harrelson from IM
@Sydney I rather like FriendFeed, there's just more people on Twitter for me, it drives WAY more traffic, and it's RARE good discussions evolve here from anyone other than POWER users. - Ryan Stephens
love how we all pop over here when twitter is down ;) - Kate
Ryan: how do you have discussions on twitter? I'll agree that they are rare. - Johnny
What's up with twitter? Nothing. :-) - Panayotis Vryonis
Johnny: I have more discussions b/c my friends engage more there...of course harder to follow and usually include only 2-4 people. I LOVE the threaded comments here, provided a group of intelligent people were chatting, but how often does that happen? Sometimes with people like Scoble, Owyang and Louis Gray? (that's been my experience anyway.) - Ryan Stephens
Ryan: I don't think it's fair to assume that there is a lack of intelligent conversation on friendfeed, especially with your 12 comments and 2 likes which tells me you've never really tried it out. - Johnny
I was not fully awake trying to bring up the Twitter page. Good to know it wasn't just me. - RuthNH
Ryan: I'd be happy to build you a list of friendfeed users and send them to you later today - Johnny
Sam .. They are like alternate universes. Didn't expect anything in my Facebook feed, but knew it would be hopping here. Love this! This is going to be a Trending Topic I suspect .... - Joe Magennis from iPhone
@johnny I'd love to see that list, I'm going to sit down with friendfeed this weekend and figure it out - Sydney Owen
Well, you mean in general or just the current outage? ;) - Mads Kristiansen
Sydney: Subscribe to Kol (http://friendfeed.com/koltreg...) He is a very active user on friendfeed and already has a recommendation list. I'd be happy to create an additional one for you as well. - Johnny
.. Scoble must have run his script again, I guess.. ;) - Mads Kristiansen
Johnny: That's completely fair. I've lurked a lot & have read a lot of Louis Gray's, Scoble's and Valeria Maltoni's insights with respect to FriendFeed. You're right, maybe I'm not following the right people. And I didn't necessarily mean to imply there was a lack of intelligent conversation. It's just rare that I've seen these discussions develop from anyone's comments aside from a few power users. I'd be grateful for a list of users. - Ryan Stephens
A social networking coup? - Melissa Pierce
I heard from someone that Twitter doesn't even know why it's down. - Paul Chaney
Ryan: I'll subscribe to you and get you a list in the near future. This conversation that you are engaging in right now happens with the majority of users (not just power users). - Johnny
Yep, Twitter is still not working out here on the east coast @ 10:07am. - Dion Hinchcliffe
Facebook and Twitter are getting slammed. But internetpulse.net indicates the Internet is humming along. - Ed Moltzen
Some Graphic Design FriendFeed user names here : http://imjustcreative.com/friendf... - ImJustCreative
Thank God for Friendfeed and other such Microblogging streams. - PurpleZoe
Nothing on the twitter blog, which is still up: http://blog.twitter.com - Dion Hinchcliffe
I'm blaming Jeff Elder for breaking the Twitterz in the Charlotte area, because he wrote a column about how it was good for listening for businesses. http://bit.ly/ospIC - Andria Krewson from iPhone
Johnny: But how often does it start from someone's message that's not a 'power user' ? How often does someone following 100, have a 100 followers end up with conversations like this off of one of there comments? - Ryan Stephens
Are you asking for a list on how it can be improved, or are you referring to it being down at present? :) - Alasdair Munn
Failed Whale :-( - Gee Ekachai
Twitter works via SMS from your phone... - Tim Elliott
Tim: Who will be able to read it..? - Johnny
@johnny: if you have it wired to FF then here ;-) - Tim Elliott
I really being able to be online with FF.. Twitter still down - Kathy Mackey
Twitter is down - Hunt from BuddyFeed
Worse yet -- what's wrong with Posterous? - Daniel B. Honigman
Daniel : Yeah, cant log on to Posterous either - ImJustCreative
Looks like they're dealing with a DOS attack. - Michael Chin
More details from Jeff Elder, essentially pointing to Mashable for details. http://bit.ly/XyvnW - Andria Krewson from iPhone
Twitter now says they're defending against a denial of service attack: http://bit.ly/IpVQf - Dion Hinchcliffe
our coverage: Twitter, Facebook, and LiveJournal Down at the Same Time! Update: Twitter Experiencing DDOS Attack http://bit.ly/vZbMC - Marshall Kirkpatrick
Posterous is acting a little wacky as well. - Steven Melfi
a lot of things - andy brudtkuhl
FB down too? - Alex Hayes
No Twitter? No FB? Yikes! I may actually get some WORK done this morning... :) - Alex Hayes
i've had problems with Facebook too. as i've been saying, i think friendfeed is the obvious choice for backup scenarios. - DanielthePoet
Thanks for the recommendation, Johnny. Sydney if you are interested in the list, let me know here: http://ff.im/5IcYN - Kol Tregaskes
(jeff)isageek
twitter : 2006-2009 It was a good run #outage
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good one. - Madhav Tripathi
RIP - ◄ani625Ξ
It was good while it lasted. - Faraz Mullick
Has Al Qaeda claimed responsibility yet? - dkb
Someone call homeland security! - ◄ani625Ξ
You are fogetting that it was down for most of 07 - jjprojects from iPhone
Yes, 2007 was a very trying year ... yet we stuck with it. - Chrissie
Which is why I'm on friendfeed this morning :) - Justin Rains
jjprojects
How Social Media Can Make History (TED Talk) - http://www.jjprojects.com/...
Shirky ends with a question that I think a lot about myself: how can we make best use of this medium, even though it means changing the way we’ve always done it? - jjprojects from Bookmarklet
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