BitsyBox is a hosted content storage platform that allows developer access through an API and a simple user interface for their clients to edit content without touching the code. It's been described to us as "content storage and management without the CMS." Co-founded by three West Los Angelenos, the platform's two components work through a free, downloadable PHP client and take a good bit of hassle (read: the penny-ante, back-and-forth of site edits) out of the business of web design and development. Sponsor Of course, something that takes so many of the small tasks of website maintenance away from developers and allows clients just enough control over content could only be the brainchild of a veteran freelance developer, which cofounder Scott Rocher is. Rocher wrote to us in an email, "Using BitsyBox's simple and secure web interface, developers can define data schema for each of their sites... and site-owner clients can edit the site content in real time." Client access is...
BitsyBox is a hosted content storage platform that allows developer access through an API and a simple user interface for their clients to edit content without touching the code. It's been described to us as "content storage and management without the CMS." Co-founded by three West Los Angelenos, the platform's two components work through a free, downloadable PHP client and take a good...
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I thought that only happened in the movies. And this was at work!
- Andrew Trinh
from IM
Sorry to hear it, but then again one more reason to ride a bike to work then drive a car. But sorry to say there are stupid people who do stupid things, damn shame.
- Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa
from IM
What's weird is I have a lock-cap on the tank, but it apparently didn't engage. I filled up completely yesterday morning ($80, 70L), then yesterday night I had 5L left. I checked for leaks - none. I took it to a mechanic this morning to see if the fuel sender was gone but it was fine and yes the tank was completely empty. I filled up again today.
- Mo Kargas
Cheeky thieving bugger! No thoughts except to park in a very public place if you can. It must take time to drain a tank. You'd think passers-by might notice! What about a notice inside the back window saying you have a CCTV trained on your car for security reasons ... you never know!
- Kate Foy
Kate - funny thing is I park next to a tram line. However the position I was in is obscured all around by bushes :/ Woops :(
- Mo Kargas
Well, Mo... You know what mom used to say: better to be pissed off than pissed on... And yes that does suck.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
That's crazy. Watch out that they don't put sugar in your tank, steal your hubcaps or throw rotten eggs at your car!
- Kevin Fox
Thats unlucky Mo my good man, let's hope the scumbag used the old school method and got a nice mouthful of fuel.....that he's still tasting
- Toby Graham
jlt-janet suggested I play around with some hair products, so I did. 1.) Pre-humiliation Jim. 2.) Stuck up Jim. 3.) Combover (or Satch) Jim 4.) Hannibal Lecter Jim. 5.) Winged Victory Jim and 6.) I Dunno What the Hell This Is Jim.
Okay, so is it weird to say that this series of photos reminds me of Hank Azaria? (Also: can't wait to see him in Night at the Museum 2.)
- Ladybug Heather
Well, excuuuuuuuuuse me! :-) I like Hank Azaria. He's cute and hilariously funny. Will never forget him in Mystery Men. And he does, like, half the voices on the Simpsons.
- Ladybug Heather
see, when I think of Hank Azaria, I think of his one scene in Heat where Pacino questions him about his relationship with the character played by Ashley Judd. You should watch that scene, cause I'm not gonna repeat it here.
- Jim Hearts FF
Hmm.... don't think I've seen Heat, actually. I'll have to do some googling. :-)
- Ladybug Heather
Heh. Pleased to see these pix near the top of the feed again. O HAI, JIM!
- Laura B.
oh, Trish! Say it ain't so! I was fearing that someone would pick up the Mr. Bean connection. I've heard that before. Many, many times. "Et tu Haley? then fall Jannotti!"
- Jim Hearts FF
huh... my comment bumped it back up, not that I wanted it bumped. Wait! What?
- Jim Hearts FF
from IM
"Google Squared, the service that automatically generates lists of entities and associated attributes, is now live. "Google Squared is a new way of organizing information on the Web to make it more useful and structured," explains Google. For example, if you search for [African countries], Google Squared generates a list of countries, then it finds attributes that should be appropriate when you describe a country (capital, currency, image/map) and it tries to find values for the attributes. Google Squared shows only the first 7 results, but you can always add new results and even new attributes. Clicking on the first blank column, Google Squared suggests 5 new columns: area, religion, language, GDP and Internet users."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
Star Wars > Star Trek. Waaaaay more fun to act out as a child.
- Amy
It's a toss-up these days. Pre-prequels, I'd give the edge to Star Wars - but man, Jar-Jar makes it *really* hard to say that these days... :)
- Thomas
@Thomas The prequels just don't count. At all! :)
- Amy
If we're going to selectively remove the bad from Star Wars, I think it's only fair we lose Star Trek V and Voyager... :)
- Thomas
Star Wars for sure. No contest. It's all about the magic of TPM release day, the memories (for you older folks) of childhood lightsaber fights as Luke and Vader, and the wonder in a child's eye at seeing a new episode of The Clone Wars. What have YOU got, Star Trek?
- Eric Geller
Simple: action figures, model starships, pretending to be Captain Kirk traversing rocky terrains and PEW PEW ing at make believe Klingons, and trying my damndest to give a proper Vulcan salute.
- Mike Nayyar
also Technology that isn't designed with flaws ;)
- Fee501st
Hmm...I did spend hours prefecting the vulcan salute as a child. :) As far as I'm concerned, they both have their merits but it's mostly sentimental. I have friends who refuse to watch EITHER - amazing what 'damage' not having seen any scifi when young does.
- Amy
Live long and prosper, young padawan. Always two there are, a vulcan and a human. :)
- Marcel de Jong
Well, Jack - I think I'm gonna load a game to see how my video card works, then I'm downloading and installing Windows 7. THEN I'll spend a few days setting stuff up the way I want.
- Internet's Tad
On the plus side, by the time you get everything shipshape, perhaps all the realm servers will be back up and functioning properly? :D
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Already 50% complete on downloading the updates... Of course, these updates will lead to OTHER updates which will lead to more and more and more and *explode*
- Internet's Tad
Once we added on FF all our friends that are on twitter (even those who aren't on FF, with imaginary friends), why use the website of twitter ? Is there some people that use both ? Why ? (I think i'm missing something with all these social interactions :)
fwed, Ping.fm allows you to post to multiple micro-blogging services not just FF. I use it to post to Twitter and several other sites. I wish, though, hat FF supported both Hellotxt and Ping.fm. Both have APIs and you are already able to use them on the likes of Twitterfeeds.
- Kol Tregaskes
It takes a little figuring out to get the gazintas and gazoutas aligned to eliminate dupes, but once it's set up properly it's pretty cool.
- Alan Chamberlain
I've just added FriendFeed as my RSS reader and in the process of ditching Google Reader. If FF supported Hellotxt/Ping.fm then it would be wipe out those Chrome tabs. Then if it allowed us to bulk import our Twitter (non-FF) friends then it would be my Twitter client. Gosh, if it was a "wave" it would be my email client. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol, FF is actually becoming kind of an email client for me, and for the small part of my "pals" who joined a private goup of mine on friendfeed. "Direct message" functionnality is cool for that reason : if he's around, he'll be notified. If he's not, he'll receive a regular email. I guess some not-so-far-from-now day, the term "mail" will be deprecated, and we'll talk about "messages", or, better "flows", "streams"... "Did you get my stream?"...
- Zackatoustra
Agree. I'm relatively new to social media but find FriendFeed offers me the most value, so that's where I find myself focusing. Must be something here. I'd be very interested to hear your analysis of FF after a while.
- Hamilton Wallace
Zackatoustra, if only I could get all my friends onto FF or FF allowed for non-FFers to use my FF email (koltregaskes@friendfeed.com) to email me. Or perhaps I could set up a forwarding rule that posts everything to me to go to the ff.com address, hmmm.
- Kol Tregaskes
Ah yes, forward an email to your ff.com address only gives you the subject name and no content apart from perhaps your signature that was added after the forward. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol - I too would like to use my FF email. Right now I auto forward some email to a private group (secret email). The subject is the FF title and body (text only) is added as a comment. When manually forwarding, I noticed the same behavior that you did.
- Kevin Whalen
from email
I love using FF as my main "Social App", but I found it difficult to replace Google Reader.
- Shawn Hickman
Kevin, so you are auto-forwarding them? I'll try it in Gmail.
- Kol Tregaskes
I felt like I was missing too many stories. In Google Reader I can easily see what I read and what I didn't. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them because I love FF
- Shawn Hickman
interested to know exactly what this looks like for you Steve. Would make a good blog post.
- Thomas Hawk
Kol - yep, I set up a filter in Gmail to auto forward.
- Kevin Whalen
from email
You've discovered The Secret - good to see you
- Jesse Stay
Shawn, no good points. I tend to make the last one by liking it, that way when I check the groups again I can see where I go to before.
- Kol Tregaskes
Here's a tip, why not forward to new FF subscribers and invites to your DM? Just set it up now and will see if it works (all you need is the link to the user's page).
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, I've tried the solution you suggests(forwarding mails) , but that doesn't work : the "non-FFers" receive an annoying message each time their mail is fwed to FF : "Hello, Your email message to FriendFeed (included below) was sent from an unauthorized email address (<non-FFer>@gmail.com) and requires approval. Please click on the link below to approve or reject this message. http://friendfeed.com/approve....
- Zackatoustra
Zackatoustra, I never said it worked, I said I wish it did. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It would be a great feature but of course it will open FF up to spam email.
- Kol Tregaskes
Couldn't agree more w Steve. Moving back in that direction again too
- Charlie Anzman
What about Google Wave and FriendFeed integration? (Assuming Wave arrives soon)
- Tyson Key
Is anyone aware of a primer on this topic? I am not a FF power user
- Bob
I just started doing this a couple of weeks ago and so far so good. Definitely agree its tools are underrated.
- Mike Elliott
I wish Friendfeed had much more powerful features and tools for managing large research collections -- but it seems to be focusing on the conversational aspects of social media on its current development path.
- Sean McBride
converted blog embeds into ff embed. they load faster
- Noah David Simon
My 2 cents - I am a mum of 3 kids, 1 boy 2 girls ... I love them. More than anything in the world. And all I hope for them is to be healthy, happy and to eventually find someone that they love. Opposite sex, same sex, rich, poor ... who cares? So long as they find love.
Fine, that happens a lot (and not due to "anonymity" as you claim, because we all are pseudonymous at best here, but because of netizens' inability to hold a civilized impersonal discourse) – but let us then not forget the ego-drama queens who cry wolf in lieu of a better argument. BTW. claims of "being offended" sadly seem to be the new method for playing a victim, and are not confined to any one culture.
- ianf ⌘
The main point is - people who insult others through comments online tend to utilize less of a personal filter than if they were to insult others face-to-face. I think that's unfortunate.
- Nathan Chase
Well, Nathan, since you indirectly aspire to be an arbiter of verbal offense - would you say that telling someone who addresses you per "calm down" and "peace kids" that you "already had a mother. One was enough" is offensive per se (actually "rude" was the charge used; or maybe it was an attack on the Motherhood itself, I dunno). Be specific.
- ianf ⌘
ianf - I disagree; I'd bet that the more anonymous one is, the more willing one is to forgo civility (since crudeness has a social cost). You're right that we're "anonymous" relative to our real life personae, but you have a *new*, online community that knows and likes "ianf." To the extent that ianf as a handle is meaningful to you, you won't want to tarnish it with those same costs of incivility.
- Jeremy Thompson
I don't get the "I'm offended" thing, either. I think it's annoying and overplayed. But that's not really Nathan's angle here, the way I'm reading it. It's possible for him to dislike the motivations and actions of anonymous instigators without playing the "offended" card.
- Jeremy Thompson
Jeremy, you are of course aware, that neither of our arguments can be proven beyond reasonable doubt. All I'm trying to say, is that Nathan's chief offense culprit of "anonymity" misses the mark, because (to take just a simple example) while your nick of "Jeremy Thompson" may be full of meaning and truth to you, to others it may just as well be a made-up label for your online...
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- ianf ⌘
can't agree more guys - I for one merged my online/offline yrs ago and think those who interact anonymously are suspect
- mike "glemak" dunn
mike, prove to us now that » mike "glemak" dunn « is not a pseudonym ;-)) No, you don't have to prove anything, but then perhaps your argument is moot.
- ianf ⌘
I wish I could "Like" this at least once a day.
- nakachi
She is so full of cute that she could give cute away every day for the rest of this decade and she'd still be SUPER cute. Possibly the sweetest baby in all of Seattle. <3!
- ♥patricia♥
Who said she's no longer cute? Youse want me to take care of them for youse?
- Sharon McPherson
Ooh, tough. I'd take Fellowship over either of the others, but between Two Towers and RotK? I honestly think I'd take Two Towers, just because RoTK infuriated me so much with its multiple endings. But I'm likely to get into it with Akiva again if I don't stop now. :p
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I never did like the LOTR movies, but I saw them out of geek obligation. RotK was the least enjoyable, because I saw it for free (yay) but in a theater with broken A/C. Overheating + an overlong movie with a ton of fake endings = a grudge I still haven't forgotten.
- Andrew C
Absolutely no idea. LOTS trio all blend into one for me.
- Kol Tregaskes
Kernel panic...... but Two Towers by a hair.
- Roberto Bonini
So it seems to me it stays static until you click on either one or reload the page. Is that a choice? Does it matter? Does anyone else find they get a reaction to the cursor going to the pokey index finger when you place it over one or the other?
- moon_shadow70
Computer animation, once one of the most isolated corners of Hollywood, is rapidly becoming one of the most crowded. With the cost of computer animation coming down because of advances in technology and soaring box office receipts for family films, a broad range of new animation players are entering the multiplex. In 2009 14 animated movies — most of them computer-generated — will have a wide release, compared with 8 such films in 2005. Pictures from independent producers like Imagi Studios, which has “Astro Boy” lined up for an October release, are competing with the likes of “Up,” from Pixar, and “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” set for release on July 1 by 20th Century Fox. Sony’s own computer-animated movie, “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,” is scheduled to open on Sept. 18.
- Emma
Yeah, I follow plenty of people who post only links and photos in their Twitter accounts and Tumblr seems so much better suited for that purpose.
- Rob H.
It is also good for stuff that isn't really long but stays to a similar theme. Have a few. One is just for random weird crap seen on the net that I give to my bored friends who aren't hipped to FF.
- Amber, Random Time Lord
I have never understood why tumblr isn't more popular. I have the most fun with my tumblog
- Rick Powell
Why hello, Rick. Nice to meet you. TOTALLY diggin your profile picture and checkin' out your Tumblr now :)
- Mona Nomura
"In fact, the reason Wave is being released in the way it is right now -- as an early developer-only experience -- is to encourage programmers to write extensions to it. The e-mail gateway is particularly critical, and Google may develop it itself. Without it, Wave is yet another new communications medium that will have a hard time getting off the ground since it duplicates many capabilities people are already accustomed to. Wave is technically a radical departure from e-mail, but for the end users it will still be used for a lot of the same things e-mail is." - Yes, it's another Wave hands-on report. But the difference in this one is the realistic conclusion reached: as radical as Wave is, it will need links to email and other services long before it overtakes them
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
[[[unlike]]] He appeals to people for the fact that he is just a man. Most of the plots revolve around his inner struggles as well as his conflicts with criminals
- Lindsey is Fierce!
The Dark Knight Returns kind of changed my views on Batman, and The Killing Joke about how far he could be pushed.
- Pete Delucchi
ROFL It's like you heard my daughter the other day, "I don't get Batman. He's not like a mutant or can do anything. He wears a costume. *I* can wear a costume." I told her to enjoy the magic.
- Anika
Lindsey, if I want to see wanky drama I'll watch Passions or Y&R. Batman, a superhero, needs kick arse powers or GTFO
- Mo Kargas
So Mr Movie Producer, I have two scripts: One is a story about a man hell bent on revenge, riddled with regret, trapped in suit that represents the best and worse of human kind, a suit that hurts all that he loves and will ultimately destroy his mind and his soul... The other is about a time travelling robot from the future with big explosions...
- Johnny Worthington
Say it ain't so, Mo; say it ain't so. :p Seriously, the point of Batman is that he doesn't have any powers except his human capabilities: intelligence, science, and athleticism (and incredible wealth, true, but that's a device to make it believable, to give him the resources for the science and the time to pursue it all). He stands as a sharp contrast to Superman, and that is why the together they are billed as the "World's Finest" in the crossovers (though I think Wonder Woman should be added).
- Neal Jansons
I'll be choosing the second one John :) @Neal, why even bother with the wanky suit then!
- Mo Kargas
Super powers or not, he could kick my ass. #bitchlips (And +10 Pete for the comic book stuff. The Killing Joke is no, uh joke.)
- Derrick
If the made the Killing Joke into a movie... errr... If it was possible to make it into a movie that wouldn't suck scrotum... Game Over!
- Johnny Worthington
@Mo Because, like Johny pointed out, the suit hyperbolizes the human condition. He is split between his anger and compassion, his darkness and his desire for justice and to help people. The suit is that of a villain that strikes fear, yet at the same time is a symbol of hope and justice for the oppressed. Comic books, at least some of them, possess all the elements of high literature, you just have to look. Batman is one of these.
- Neal Jansons
Now that's an interesting question :) Who *are* the literary predecessors of Batman? Or is he a unique 20th century postmodern creation?
- Victor Ganata
@Mo No, not really. He is kind of his own figure. All I suggest is read the Frank Miller Batman graphic novels. Because of the nature of comic characters being distributed over many eras and authors, it's hard for fans to explain the literary qualities to be found within them. You have to read a lot of Batman books to *get* Batman. Same thing with most of the best DC characters. Marvel is different.
- Neal Jansons
The Count of Monte Cristo, Zorro. There is a long tradition of the wronged aristocrat seeking revenge in disguise.
- Rob H.
This was one of the things that troubled me about watchmen, there didn't seem to be any point to the hawk guy being such a shameless batman ripoff.
- Richard Lawler
Richard, my understanding is that Alan Moore initially wanted to use known DC characters, but DC didn't want him to maim or kill any of them, so he created original characters based on known characters.
- Victor Ganata
I would like to point out that I only "like" this for the discussion that followed, not for the ridiculous assertion that Batman is anything other than the radest character ever created.
- Joshua Nunn
If we are going to pick on character names, shall we discuss the fact that the Doctor has never actually been to medical school? Oh yes, I went there.
- Joshua Nunn
Don't have to go to medical school to be a doctor. But when your name is BAT-MAN you are an amalgam between man and bat! FAIL!
- Mo Kargas
But "Awesome-crimefighter-who-has-ninja-skills-and-can-kick-your-ass-but-not-kill-you-and-can-even-beat-friggin-superman-when-he-needs-to-man" isn't as concise.
- Joshua Nunn