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Public Service Announcment for Women to Better Understand Men. - http://shey.tumblr.com/post...
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You are my favorite Jamaican!
- RAPatton
Some was funny, some was "boo!". Hope it's not true of *all* guys... my guy seems to like visiting my mom and the rest of my family, for example... I don't ask him to do that very often, though.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Thanks RAP :D
- Shey
Ok, but what about the missing the bowl thing? An email once circulated that said, "Sometimes we miss. Get over it." I just want to know why the author of that email (and some other fellas) couldn't get over himself and clean up his mess.
- MiniMage
@Mini Do you really want to know the details?
- Shey
*nod* missing bowl... important topic.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Nonononono no details. Just facts! Surely we can just be made to understand why without getting profound? Just skim along the surface, there, if you will :)
- MiniMage
Well this is uncomfortable, but...sometimes, it just doesn't come out straight..
- Shey
Because I'm a woman I get to be a sexist asshole and no one gets to object! :-)
- Dave Winer
Oh, dadgummit :)
- MiniMage
wtf David?
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Dave's embracing his feminine side. Roll with it.
- MiniMage
Counterpoint: If a man says something in the woods and there's no woman present, is he still wrong? :-)
- Dave Winer
aaaand blocked! idiot
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
MiniMage, I failed to see the humor there.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I wasn't taking Winer seriously.
- MiniMage
What did what he said have to do with anything, anyway? That's what pissed me off. Anyway. Moving forward.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Maybe non-sequiturs should wait for the PSA on understanding women.
- MiniMage
lol
- Shey
"Because I’m a man , I think what you’re wearing is fine. I thought what you were wearing five minutes ago was fine, too. Either pair of shoes is fine. With the belt or without it, looks fine. Your hair is fine. You look fine. Can we just go now?"
- Mike Reynolds
Non-sequiturs are fine, but they need to not be sexist. I'm cool with people saying random things usually, but that wasn't funny.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
My "Oh, dadgummit :)" was in reference to Shey giving details, when I had said they weren't necessary. I just wasn't quick enough. THAT was where I saw humor.
- MiniMage
? Why are you explaining that? I was talking about what David said, not you.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
@Kamilah: Twice you mentioned something lacking an amusement factor. I thought you felt I found amusement where you didn't.
- MiniMage
agh never mind. This is making me look supremely anal when really I'm not. miscommunication.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
That often happens when I'm involved. :(
- MiniMage
Wonderful report from a reluctant Obama canvasser: http://www.csmonitor.com/2008...
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They See Me Ridin' - http://www.photobasement.com/they-se...
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they hatin'
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
Would work better with Ken driving and the feline in the passengers seat.
- Mike Reynolds
DWP.
- John Craft
Oh my goodness. So many inappropriate things to comment! Resisting...
- Josh Haley
I LOVE the safety belt!
- Alexander von Halem
Who knew Barbie was into furries?
- Steven Perez
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: McCain's Rejected Robo-Call Scripts. - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2008...
Josh Wills, Eric Eldon, Mai and 9 other people liked this
"Hello. I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama has not accepted Joe the Plumber's friend request on Facebook. We know he's logged on, because we saw he changed his status on Monday. On Tuesday, he joined the group Art Historians Are Saucy. But he still won't accept Joe the Plumber's friend request. He knows it's Joe. Joe uses the screen shot of the two of them together as his profile picture. That's not a uniter. That's the same old liberal-elite politics as usual."
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
"Hello. I'm calling for John McCain and the RNC because you need to know that Barack Obama doesn't use his turn signal when he merges onto a freeway. I mean, seriously, who the hell does this guy think he is? He just goes. It's not even like he attempts to fit in. And I'm not talking lone-wolf maverick style, either. I mean, this is the kind of driving that gets people killed. Much like...
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- Ana
Question for those 25 and under: Most answering machines pick up after 4 rings, but pick up after 2 rings when there's already a message on the machine. Why do you think that is?
fshamsi, Melissa Kiser, John Craft and 6 other people liked this
I know the answer, but, sadly, I'm old :(
- Tudor Bosman
...under 25, but had to look it up!
- Paul Arterburn
i dont know the answer, which means im definitely under 25
- goutham
I'm over 25, but don't know. I'm really curious to hear what the answer is (didn't have much luck Googling for it).
- Shannon Bauman
26 and don't know...
- Roshan Vyas
I know, but I'm old, too.
- Ha3rvey (on hiatus)
oh wait - my guess is that most machines let the owner check messages on them by hitting a special code, so it's an indication to the owner that there is a message and it just makes them wait less
- Roshan Vyas
I'm way over 25, but I don't remember the answering machines I used to use doing this. They all had a configurable fixed number of rings, which usually defaulted to 4. What you describe sounds like a nice feature.
- ⓞnor
It harkens back to the days of when "one-ith by land and two-ith by sea" was the standard for communication. In this case four-ith by "no one loves you" and two-ith by "Bill collectors are calling".
- Roger N
if you're accessing your answering machine from a pay phone and it rings more than twice, you know that theres no messages and can save the cost of the call by hanging up after 2 rings
- goutham
There's a setting on there somewhere, it's setup that way so if you're on vacation or something it doesn't ring continually pissing off your neighbors. so if you're not there, the first call will go for 4. If you're still not there subsequently, it will only ring 2x. It's a "feature". Seriously these have been this way forever! (36)
- anna sauce
I don't even use an answering machine any more.
- Morton Fox
Morton, of course you don't, nobody does. Kevin's point (I think?) is that young people probably won't even understand the use case for the feature, since the landscape has changed so much.
- ⓞnor
Sad, I completely missed the humor of this post :(
- anna sauce
...and the use case involves a pay phone.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I changed my T-Mo VM number to my Grandcentral number. That way Comverse can't spy on me.
- Nick Martin
When my son was 5 (in 2000) he saw a typewriter. He called it a "writing machine". :-) BTW I'm old too.
- Melissa Kiser
Thanks for all the comments! Yep, it's usually referred to as a 'toll-saver' feature, so you can call back home to get your messages and still hang up on the 3rd ring if it hasn't picked up, knowing you don't have any messages. Nowadays it's outdated both because of the pervasiveness of voicemail, and because people who call in on their cellphones don't pay toll charges anyhow (though...
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- Kevin Fox
In practice, I've continued to use the 'toll saver' feature as a nagging reminder to check my messages. When I go to pick up the phone at home and the machine gets it before I do it bugs me enough that I'll listen to the messages that are already on there.
- Kevin Fox
That's remarkable. I had no idea that you could call your own answering machine from a pay phone. Almost 25 here, but my mom refused to have an answering machine in the house.
- Melinda Owens
i am joe the plumber - by baratunde - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Colin Powell just endorsed Barack Obama. Made my morning a little brighter. I'm traveling back to CA today. Lots of fun in NC, I'll miss it.
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While I have little time for, and little trust in, most politicians, Colin Powell is someone I have respected and thought to be a person of integrity. As he, better than most - given his experience - knows what it means to be not only president but Commander in Chief, this is a very powerful endorsement for Obama, and a stinging put down for McCain.
- Ian May
Colin Powell's critique of the republican party was perfect. Hope it opens the eyes of some republicans.
- Jim McCusker
Jim, I doubt it. I had the pleasure of talking with my very conservative parents Friday night. They like Obama, but they refuse to vote for him because of his stance on abortion and same-sex marriage. For them, the other issues just don't matter, and I am thinking that there are a large number of people that feel the same.
- Rob Diana
I think the time for respect of Colin Powell's integrity passed the day he stood in front of the UN with intelligence data he himself didn't trust and pressed the case for war as airtight. The endorsement is better than no endorsement or an endorsement of McCain, but any respect I once had for the man evaporated on Feb 6, 2003.
- Dave Slusher
No authentically "very conservative" person could like Obama, as what he embodies is wholly antithetical to conservatism.
- eggsy
eggsy, I meant liked Obama as a person, not about what he stands for.
- Rob Diana
eggsy: And would say that is a good thing. People on the right have forfeited their right to be called fiscally responsible. So what else is there left that is appealing about being Conservative?
- Rolf Schewe
I understand. Personally, however, I fine it difficult to like anything about a person who can deceive as a matter of course. Obama's whole effort is based on presenting an image that bears little resemblance to the truth, because if he were to simply say who he actually is, and what he actually believes, he would not stand a single chance of victory. His tactics are right out of "Rules for Radicals", by Saul Alinsky, whose pernicious brand of Marxism is de rigeur in Chicago politics.
- eggsy
eggsy: ....
- Rolf Schewe
Wow. What a shocker!
- Todd Lohenry
WOW... that is wild! smart boy!
- Susan Beebe
Powell's post-announcement interview on CNN is eloquent, humble, and honest. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Todd Harris
I see your tongue in cheek.
- Malcolm Gault-Williams
I would be curious to see the evidence upon which eggsy bases his assessment of Obama.
- Bren
I blame Bush, Cheney and McCain for tarnishing Powell's image. In any case, he's well-respected by most Americans.
- Mike Reynolds
@eggsy - you can't be an "authentically very conservative person" then, as you voted for Bush, not once, but twice
- Dave Hodson
The evidence that I rely on to draw conclusions as to the real nature of Obama, and as to his means and methods, is by this time easily found, owing to the fact of close scrutiny by scores of people and organizations. It remains obscured only to those who either do not want to see it, i.e. the old-media, and those who accept as complete the story told by the old-media. Google this: Obama, New Party, Stanley Kurtz, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Woods Foundation, Bill Ayers, ACORN.
- eggsy
Odd, McCain didn't find his endorsement much of a surprise.
- Phillip Jeffrey
I can say two things about Rolf Schewe based on his comment: 1) He doesn't know what it means to be conservative, and therefore 2) any criticism of conservatives by Rolf is based in ignorance of the subject. Incidentally, and just as a starting point Rolf, "Conservatives" are members of a Conservative Party, and may or may not be "conservatives", who may or may not themselves be a member of any party.
- eggsy
@eggsy: Okay, let's do ACORN. The organization is accused of registration fraud, not voter fraud. The cases of voter fraud that would result from these registrations is virtually nil. Who identifies the bogus registrations? ACORN. However, by law they still must submit them. Who helps to prosecute bogus canvassers? ACORN. Who really suffers from ACORN fraud? ACORN. They pay for bogus work. You've inhaled the smokescreen.
- AJ Kohn
AJ, you have missed my point, perhaps I wasn't clear. I have made no statement about the worth of ACORN, nor of anything they do or have done. I meant observe that Obama has purposely obfuscated his association with ACORN, and that this obfuscation is a consistent pattern of behavior for Obama. He has been less than truthful about his relationship with ACORN, just as he has with those of Bill Ayers/Bernadine Dorhn, Rev. Wright, Father Flagher, Woods Foundation, the New Party, Tony Rezko, and even others.
- eggsy
Yawn. Nobody cares. 0Bama is just another socialist.
- Spencer
Barack Obama, Colin Powell and Peter Simard are much closer to traditional conservative values than the current crop of neoconservative fascists, none of whom seem to have the slightest idea what authentic conservatism is all about. None of the neocons and religious fundies can make even a start on discussing these issues in an informed way. Real conservatives care about limited...
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- Sean McBride
Once again Sean, you seem to somehow connect conservatives and neo-conservatives, and really there is only a very tenuous connection, at best.
- eggsy
@eggsy: I see, you like McCarthyism. Guilt by whatever association you can find. It's just as easy to build that for McCain or nearly any politician.
- AJ Kohn
@eggsy: Sean *is* saying there is very little connection between true conservatives and neo-conservatives.
- AJ Kohn
As I watched Meet the Press I wished Gen Powell ran for President. He has the eloquence of Sen Obama & the experience of Sen McCain.
- ChiliMac
I just emailed the video to my undecided friends. Awesome.
- Sarah Perez
ChiliMac -- hmm, maybe we will see that in four years. It's an interesting notion, and I wonder if General Powell has ruled that out.
- DYKC?™
I don't find it very powerful or surprising that someone who opposes the war in Iraq and stated a barrage of Obama talking points voiced support for Obama. I'd like someone to ask Powell why he thinks Palin is not ready to be President when Biden is not in his right mind and Obama doesn't understand the role of the President or the federal government.
- ComicList
@Chuck The Plumber - Sort of like someone supporting Sarah Palin who doesn't understand what the VP does http://twurl.nl/1f1kc5
- Bob Schwartz
FT.com - Man in the News: John Maynard Keynes - http://www.ft.com/cms...
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A mini bio of Keynes. "As the world reels from a 1929-style stock market plunge and a 1931-style banking crisis, his words are a fair assessment of the dangers we face once again. Keynes, whose life’s mission was to save capitalism from itself, is more relevant than at any time since his death in 1946. His renewed influence can be seen everywhere: in Barack Obama’s planned stimulus package, for example. When George W. Bush said his administration’s plan to take equity in banks was “not intended to take over the free market, but to preserve it”, he could have been quoting Keynes directly."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Keynesian economics was pursued by left-leaning governments in Europe for decades, with disastrous consequences. Maybe some kind of neo-keynesianism might become popular again, but the big-government policies of the UK and certain other countries caused nothing but pain at the time, and those lessons won't be forgotton so easily.
- john conroy
@john conroy, "Keynsian" != "Big Government." Keynesian economics are "demand-side," compared to the "supply side" economics favored by our Republicans since 1980 (and famously described as "voodoo economics" by GHWB in the 1980 primaries). True, it puts more emphasis on fiscal policy than monetarism, but that doesn't automatically lead to "big government" when the economy is doing well.
- John Craft
... I should have also said, in the interests of fairness, that anyone who ever taught me economics was a vicious capitalist. One of them even worked with Milton Friedman. Still, the word 'Keynes' sends a shiver up my spine I must admit.
- john conroy
@ johnconroy, I took all my Social Science elective in Econ in the 1980s. My school featured a lot of young monetarists who look askance at Keynsian economics, and after the 1970s, pretty much everyone did. But a lot of what was done in Keynes' name - Nixon's wage and price controls, printing money by the truckload, etc. - aren't really Keynesian economics. At the end, no model is perfect, and the fiscal and monetary levers should be used together, and with as light a touch as the system will allow.
- John Craft
If I remember rightly, one of Krugman's papers that I studied was on the principle that long-term economic growth comes only from the efficiency dividends from innovation and technological advance. He put it in the context of the crash of the so-called 'Asian Tigers', as they were. It's a brilliant paper. (I hope I'm not getting him mixed up with someone else). Obvious implications for current situation
- john conroy
At the time when I knew a small bit about this stuff, it seemed to me like an utterly defeated paradigm: both inside and outside the classroom. But... Smith's economics doubtless seemed like cheap garbage when Keynes came along, and we more or less went running back to him (to a good extent). Economics is funny like that. Maybe Keynes 2.0 is on the way. Helluva turnup for the books.
- john conroy
But the Cubs will never - NEVER - win the Series. :)
- John Craft
10 Lessons Startups Can Learn From Superheroes - http://www.docstoc.com/docs...
Karthick R, Capn' One Eye - adrift, Ben Watson and 9 other people liked this
this is great! :)
- Zee.
Applicable to any organization or team, not just startups. Good stuff.
- John Craft
This is great. thanks for sharing..
- Lorraine Ball
Likes now included in real-time view (only the likes from people you are subscribed to directly). Refresh to see them.
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who tha man? - that's right. you tha man.
- Zee.
nice
- Tyler Gillies
@Poya: they should show up automatically. There may not be any recent likes in from people you are subscribed to right now.
- Bret Taylor
Whoa - just saw that. It is between 3:00 and 4:00, FriendFeed's traditional time to release features.
- Hutch Carpenter
ZOMG!! BREAKING - MUST CREDIT!! NATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY NOSE-DIVES AS FRIENDFEED REALTIME GAINS POPULARITY!!111!!! DEVELOPING . . .
- John Craft
LOL
- Tyler Gillies
Tyler, FriendFeed RealTime is evil ;)
- John Craft
can also click the tip left ff logo to see likes. Cool.
- MLx
Cool, ta Bret!
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm not seeing the option to "like" something in the real-time. Oh wait, there's one. Do I only see it if someone else likes it? Can I "like" something in real-time?
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Even more love ...thanks!
- Susan Beebe
Ah awesome this answers a query that I just had, great work Bret!
- Joe Dawson
Another great idea
- Mike Reynolds
Longer version of the US Election interview - http://www.cleeseblog.com/2008...
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You should never ask for help on the internet - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159...
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Why the media should apologize - Roger Simon - Politico.com - http://www.politico.com/news...
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What's really bizarre is that it's written by Roger Simon.
- John Craft
もんちゃんあたっく - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Huge grin on my face while watching this. What a sweet dog!
- iTad
0:50
- Kevin Fox
ha, the old chin-pownce!
- Nicķ
but i still want to play!
- Hao Chen
0:50 ftw
- Mona Nomura
In our house, I play the part of the dog :)
- John Craft
jump! jump!
- Alejandro
lol
- edythe
Pelosi Welcomes Filibuster of the House FISA Surrender Bill - http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r...
John Craft, Doug Brooks, Chris Reed and 3 other people liked this
Well titled ;). I fail to understand why some Democrats feel compelled to enable the administration on this. Retroactive immunity is both a bad precedent and unnecessary - the President could pardon anyone he believed was in legal peril. Make any necessary changes to FISA to catch up to technology, and strip out retroactive immunity. /soapbox
- John Craft
I agree. If retroactive immunity is so important to the administration, Bush should issue a Presidential pardon for any crimes that may or may not have been committed by anyone or any corporation. Adding to that, some might argue that a pardon implies guilt; so too, imho, is adding retro immunity to the bill. If they're innocent, they should want, even demand, their day in court.
- Steve Lowe
"Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal... If the president, for example, approves something because of the national security, or in this case because of a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude, then the president's decision in that instance is one that enables those who carry it out, to carry it out without violating a law. Otherwise they're in an impossible position." --Pres. Richard M. Nixon
- Oliver Ortega Chua
The FISA bill is really being pushed to save Pres. Bush's ass. Because if the telecoms didn't do anything illegal, then Pres. Bush didn't do anything illegal. Why are the Dems so eager to capitulate? I don't see a big push from the populace to pass FISA reform.
- Oliver Ortega Chua
Startup Warrior - http://www.startupwarrior.com/
sid, John Craft, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 4 other people liked this
An excellent mashup of internet startups and Google Maps, leveraging CrunchBase data. Pretty cool.
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
Looks very useful. Just wondering though - now that CrunchBase has maps, what does Startup Warrior offer that isn't available in CrunchBase?
- Mike Doeff
I've discovered several interesting Russian and CIS companies I never heard of, cool.
- Peter Fedin
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