"White chocolate is technically not chocolate at all, since it does not contain chocolate liquor or cocoa solids, the two primary ingredients in chocolate."
- Spidra Webster
I looked at at least two pages of every user who posted. I just started learning, so I bookmarked about 20 pages that I'll be coming back to. This was nice, thanks!
- Ryan Massie
http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;)
- Jorge Escobar
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr.
- Dennis Jernberg
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin
- Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; )
- Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://identi.ca/andyc Microblog about all sorts but mainly OMB and how much I dislike inferior legacy services. No names, no packdrill.
- Andy C
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet.
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle?
- Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore.
- Gabrielle V
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust.
- sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter...
- Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread)
- Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting.
- Eoghann Irving
The "blog" she runs is a linkfarm and I wouldn't be surprised if she thinks all men are sexist - females like that, deepens the gender divide. Ugh.
- Mona Nomura
Guys, I'm having a big clear out on Twitter but want to make sure I'm following all my Friendfeed friends - could you please link to your twitter account in the comments below?
http://twitter.com/rahsheen - pretty positive there was a tool capable of doing this, but not sure if it still exists and can't remember what it was called...I think someone here developed it.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
What you can do is run this and then click all the Twitter links in the results. It's everyone you are following. It gives a big page of links to all their blogs and services: http://hiphs.com/ff/ffriends
- April Russo (app103)
April, I actually ran it, but it's still hanging, not as quickly as before but it only pulled 2800 of the users from Zee's public subscriptions. I really need to put more work into all of my Friendfeed backup tools. Note: I'm a retard, I'll dm you a list of your users FFriends and their subsequent Twitter accounts.
- Jimminy Fuller
Thank you Mona, happy Holidays to you too!
- Niki Costantini
Niki :) Hope all's well with you and you're enjoying your Christmas :)
- Mona Nomura
Have the best AT it, and best of vaca-tions! No one can leave you behind! Me and my special Mona-X-Mas Children Carol: \o) o o o o~o~o oo o,o- o ,,o
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I'm also with Akiva – the iPhone OS is a nice operating system but it's not a full-scale computer.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I would draw the line somewhere around $700, I suppose.
- TrafficBug
I would pay a price as low as longer it will take to the device to be available on the selves after being announced by Steve Jobs. :)
- Federico Bolsoman
By revolutionary do you mean: exactly the same as everything else, but with an Apple sticker on it?
- Will Higgins™
Firewire is usually Faster ... I have a Mac with Firewire Ext HD for Time Machine Backups .
- johnpiercy
All I know is if I need to transfer 500+GB of data over USB2, I have to leave it overnight while it only takes a couple of hours w/FW800.
- ronin
That's cheating Ronin. FW800 is 800Mbps, versus 480 Mbps from USB2.0. The fair comparison would be FW400 which is 400Mbps. Or USB3.0 which is supposed to be 5Gbps (5000 Mbps). So it depends on which version of FireWire you're using. There's also some CPU cycles or latency stuff too, which I'm not too familiar with.
- John Wang
I made it! Most influential British Twitter users revealed - Telegraph (UPDATE: wow - thanks so so much guys. Can't believe the love i have on here.) - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technol...
well done, Zee! Glad you're ahead of Peter Andre....:)
- WorldofHiglet
Hi, Zee ! je vais de ce pas jeter un coup d'oeil chez les Britons ;-)
- Desirade
zee - gifted followers = default list/suggested user list - when a media outlet reports on "x account has y followers" it's almost like there needs to be a notation that they were given the followers as a freebie.
- Allen Stern
Strange enough, the link to the PM's wife's Twitter page isn't direct; it's <http://go.telegraph.co.uk/...>...is this done to possibly track the number of clicks or something? All the other Twitter accounts listed are direct links
- Itachi
i thought that everyone has agreed to used "listed" as the new 'count that matters' -- there's more of a meaning to listing someone and there never was a suggested list... however... the more followers you have the more chances to be listed there are ( i guess )
- Chris Heath
Heh, nvm, seems it was a bug on my end. The link does take you to her Twitter page, but while I was mousing over the links I saw the go.telegraph.co.uk link and was a little perplexed why they had that there. It's gone now after a refresh
- Itachi
wow - thanks so so much guys. Can't believe the love i have on here.
- Zee.
Mazel tov, Zee! You're one of my tech favorites on here.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Big Congrats Zee ,, all your HArdwork is paying off
- johnpiercy
Now don't let it go to your head and start thinking that services need to bend the way they function to your will and don't start ripping services when they can't perform to insane, unrealistic, and just plane silly standards. "WTF GReader's interface starts breaking down and failing when ever I try to display 1 million individual RSS feeds on 15 inch screen at one time, this is entirely unusable!"
- Matthew DeVries
Still don't see why it's gotta be pink.... I'm guessing it's to attract the female audience to the PS3. There was nothing wrong with the black, silver or white.
- John Wang
Actually, it's the color of the cherry blossom in spring. A very deep tradition in Japan that both genders really dig. Including myself.
- Jason Hill
OH GUYS GUESS WHAT fall grades have finally been posted and I got an A in Illustration!!!! I can admit I was very worried about it especially when I realized like 3 days before the last class that I never completed my 2 point perspective project, oops. So I ended with 3 As and 1 B (in English Comp)
I am though for real annoyed about the B but it was really the best I could do, it was based on how many final essays you wrote, and I just couldn't get that A one done. I guess I am happy enough to have passed it though.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Definitely ... too bad I don't know anybody famous.
- Brian Sullivan
When you give examples or tell a story, do you try to weave in famous people that you've met?
- Cristo
Brian, you must not be trying very hard then.
- Cristo
No, hell no, and definitely not. I know a handful but go out of my way to ensure their privacy is not violated. A big step is not bragging about knowing them. Besides, I feel most are better off because THEY know ME! :)
- jcunwired
Do you trust someone more because they say that so-and-so famous person told them something? E.g. As I was sitting next to Rep. X on the plane they said that the FCC is going to make Twitter the official US micro-blogging service.
- Cristo
I think getting to meet and/or hang with rich/famous people gave me an opportunity to get a perspective on what really matters (to me), so, in that sense, I think I've gained something as the result.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
I wouldn't personally know. But knowing people from FF has made me a better person.
- Morgan Haley
Rodfather, the person who knows famous people, or the particular famous person?
- Cristo
Not a goal to meet them, but I'm related to a semi-famous person so sometimes I talk about him, but definitely not a goal.
- Jimminy Fuller
Famous people, no. Interesting people, yes. Some of the interesting people I've met happen to be famous, but that's not what I have usually found interesting about them. I've taken things away from those meetings that have made me a better person.
- Jennifer Dittrich
It depends on the person. And how much you let someone influence you. But I'd have the same answer if you removed the word "famous."
- LAST DAY OF WORK
Do you like to read blogs where the blogger is constantly talking about all the famous people they've met, as if that makes him an authority on everything?
- Cristo
If it was an entertainment blog, maybe.
- Rodfather
What about a technical & social media blog?
- Cristo
If the famous person has access and knowledge of pre-released products, maybe. Angelina Jolie had one of the Palm Pre test devices. If the blogger got some inside scoop on that at the time, then I would probably read it.
- Rodfather
I think knowing exceptional people makes one a better person. Doesn't matter if they are famous.
- Alex Scoble
It certainly hasn't made me one. A lot of them are really quite normal to tell you the truth.
- Itachi
Famous people are famous because of all the non-famous people who know them, right? It's only human nature to brag. Or so my good friends Tom Hanks and Albert Einstein say.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Only being a better person can make you a better person, and we each bear sole responsibility for our quality in humanity. Internet fame is better than "proper" fame because it ends when it's supposed to :-)
- Slappy Line
Somerimes Its good for me to talk to someboby rich or powerful or famous because I find out they have problems too, sometimes same as mine sometimes different but just enough so that money, fame and power didn't solve it all. This forces me to quit whining and man up. Of course visiting hospital has a very similar function ;)
- WarLord
The only reason I wish I knew someone rich and famous is to get into a suite at the football game Sunday and the bowl game on the 27th instead of sitting in the cold. Other than that, I don't really care.
- Alan Simpson
Alan, thanks. You reminded me there is football on tonight. :)
- Cristo
If you can learn something from "famous" then it will make you a better person but that can be said for any person. It all depends upon that famous person.
- ashish
I think Mona is the only one getting this. :)
- Cristo
Not a better person but more interesting at dinner. Especially if you slept with Tiger Woods. ;-)
- Robert Scoble
it can change your social status but it is ethically irrelevant
- barbarars
I AM famous. Y'all betta rekonize up in here. Holla at me in the VIP section.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I run into Burning Buildings and have done CPR on more dead people than most of you have seen "LIVE" people ,, does that make me a HERO ,, of course not ...
- johnpiercy
Robert, did you sleep with Tiger Woods? It doesn't seem like that exclusive of a club lately. ;)
- Cristo
Cristo: I slept with a Tiger, but I don't think I slept with THAT Tiger! :-)
- Robert Scoble
Prolly not but it can give an interesting perspective on things. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Does knowing not-famous people make famous people better persons?
- shubho sengupta
FailWhale and 503s are already embarrassing but getting hacked? Really, Twitter? REALLY? I am so embarrassed for them. LOL
- Mona Nomura
from Posterous
Makes you wonder why Plurk isn't doing anything about getting ahead.
- John Wang
I have one but haven't used it in a long time. It's a decent bag that I thought was perfect at first but becomes awkward/stiff especially when you are wearing a heavy coat (most of the year in Rochester). Every museum I went to made me remove it because it sticks far out your back and you can easily knock things over. I switched to a Lowepro Nova and then grew into a Crumpler. That style works better for me.
- Benjamin Golub
@Ben - What Crumpler are you using now?
- John Wang
6 million dollar home with a D700, 50 1.4, 70-300, and filters/caps/random things. I still have plenty of room left.
- Benjamin Golub
I like and use the same Sling bag ... for day to day I also have a Kata Bag ..DR467 digital rucksack .. carrys MBP and DSLR and extra lenses ,, http://www.crunchgear.com/2008...
- johnpiercy
I have an Off Trail 1 that I stuff things in now -- but there was never enough room for travel -- some stuff just wouldn't fit so I need at least one other bag. I guess I will give it a whirl to see how it goes.
- Brian Sullivan
I use the 6 Million as well when shooting. Perfect size for 2 bodies (non-pro size) w/attached lens or a body w/2-3 lenses. Prefer the sling/messenger style bags over backpacks unless I need to fly.
- ronin
nice bag. might have to look one of these up sometime soon. my lowe bag is on my last nerve
- Morgan Haley
i take it you guys don't carry tripods then? at least not in the same bag. externally?
- John Wang
I don't own a tripod. With a D700 I never seem to need one :)
- Benjamin Golub
I have a travel tripod but rarely bring it out. When I do it's got its own form-fitting bag w/sling. The Crumpler bags have this small strap on either side that I hang a small Gorillapod (for compact cams) off of though.
- ronin
I use one rarely -- need it for panoramas and group shots that I am going to be in so I have a separate bag. I would like have Benjamin's problem/advantage.
- Brian Sullivan
I borrowed one of these from my brother. I like it a lot better than my CompuBackPack, b/c you can get the camera in/out without removing the bag. It's very comfortable.
- Dave Roth
I ve just bought 100aw... it sucks.. too small.. =( I wish I would go for 200.
- ilgaz erel
hells yeah I've used it! ended up selling because it was too small for my many lenses.
- tabbr
I opted for the Flipside 400; nice interior, and no trouble fitting 7 lenses and body.
- tabbr
"Roy Edward Disney, the nephew of Walt Disney, died Wednesday after a yearlong battle with stomach cancer, according to a Walt Disney Co. spokesman. Disney "played a key role in the revitalization of the Walt Disney Co. and Disney's animation legacy," the company said. He died in a Newport Beach, California, hospital at the age of 79."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Very sad. The book 'The Pixar touch' talks in great depth how Roy was instrumental in making Disney what it is today.
- Andrew Smith
Just saw "Waking Sleeping Beauty" which is a documentary about the struggles within Disney Animation in the age of Beauty and the Beast and Lion King, etc. A MUST SEE if you're into Disney and/or animation. A nice tribute to Roy who's briefly featured in the film.
- Derrick