"On Thursday the film’s director, Ridley Scott, announced that a new division of his commercials company, RSA Films, was working on a video series called “Purefold.” The series of linked 5- to 10-minute shorts, aimed first at the Web and then perhaps television, will be set at a point in time before 2019, when the Harrison Ford movie takes place in a dystopian Los Angeles. Mr. Scott, his brother Tony and his son Luke are developing the project in conjunction with the independent studio Ag8, which is run by one of the creators of “Where are the Joneses?” a British Web sitcom that solicited storyline suggestions from the audience. Similarly, “Purefold” will harvest story input from its viewers, in conjunction with the social media site FriendFeed."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"... “Purefold” will harvest story input from its viewers, in conjunction with the social media site FriendFeed ..." ~ Is this a sub? ~ http://paulgraham.com/submari...
- Peter Renshaw
Peter, not sure what you mean; no PR agency is involved and no press release was, erm, released - we've just explained the basics to the project to 2 reporters. We have also talked to many people over the past few months about what we aim to acheive. We'll be blogging about the past 9 months development and the forthcoming outputs soon. PR may be used to brief in more 'mainstream' magazines in due course. (And glad to see a Paul Graham essay used as referenced - I'm a big fan)
- zeroinfluencer
Hi David, I was just noting that Paul B. posted without naming FF is working with this idea & Purefold. What information is *not included* is just as important as what *is included*. A quick acknowledgment from the boss might have made this fact clear. The Sub reference comes from *quietly* slipping in info into the conversation w/o explicitly stating why. That's all. Aside from that...
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- Peter Renshaw
Hey Peter, I see. We haven't explained the novel way of how we're using FriendFeed yet, there's a few concepts we need to explain before we do. I've had unloaded all the project details immediately there would have been mass confusion on how to use/participate Purefold.
- zeroinfluencer
"... We haven't explained the novel way of how we're using FriendFeed yet, there's a few concepts we need to explain before we do ..." Write it up: how Purefold & Friendfeed want the process to work. When you do post it somewhere prominent (Purefold discussions?). Should make interesting reading. Never assume a lack of information will somehow make things clearer. I'll take the info-glut every time.
- Peter Renshaw
Hey Peter, you and I both, but I'm presuming many cant. We'll add a 'features' as we go, then I suspect I wont face mass confusion. Purefold is designed as a large system, using lots of FriendFeed Groups to mix streams of material. If anything, at this stage, we're getting feedback on the basic concept, clarifying, and them moving forward. I think when we explain how we'll be using FFeed API, you'll 'get it' quickly.
- zeroinfluencer
This is one of my all time favorite films... being a Nexus 6 myself....
- Fossil Huntress
Hey Fossil, Nexus 6 cant exist before 2015 (they have a 4 year lifespan, so the movie tells us). Are you lying about your model number ;-)
- zeroinfluencer
Andy - you're on target. Wave did catch our attention, but it's nowhere near ready for a commercial property like Purefold (Google dev teams have known about Purefold since March). FFeed has possibly the smartest team in this area - and the software is rock solid and very clever for integration. I managed to put a smile on Paul B at FFeed face when we talked about our objectives - I...
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- zeroinfluencer
zooeydeschanel:
pinakyu:
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I got a chance to watch this movie at the Sydney Film festival on Sunday. Great indie flick.
I love you Zooey :)
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Simply smiling in a photo is so boring, why not strike a pose? Asians are notorious for their quirky and cute poses and this site focuses on documenting these poses. To help you recognize various poses, visual aids will be provided courtesy of popular Korean, Japanese, and Chinese models.
- ronin
from Bookmarklet
awesome site! I feel more educated now. ^_^
- BRҰANSAҰS
"yo what happened to peace?" after browsing the blog (which happens to be full of really pretty women), the peace/v sign was the first mentioned. i feel vindicated
- Cee Bee
I've been told off all my life for pulling faces, or making expressions in photographs.
- Ian May
Cee Bee, yeah the V sign is permanently ensconced in the #1 position.
- ronin
One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- Hookuh Tinypants
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
I really hope this 'bacon' craze gets squashed by the threat of swine flu. Food that slowly kills you is not 'cool', nor has it ever been. Carl's Jr. wants us to basically have sex with their hamburgers, so that we will forget about the fact that they are selling death between two sugared buns. Truly sad. I recommend EVERYONE go and see "Food, Inc" when it hits your city.
- Fleagle
That's not funny. Bacon flu killed my uncle five years ago, you insensitive pig.
- Dawn
And if we combine swine and bird flu we can have "bacon and egg" flu which is even tastier - if the flu don't getcha the heart attack will
- Nicholas Paul Gordon
from Nambu
The Pork industry will still not be happy with "bacon flu"
- Christi
HAHAHA @ Nicholas. That is the funniest thing I've read all day.
- JCLeftie
Bacon flu still sounds distasteful. Maybe we should call it 'bacon bits'. A high school 5 miles from my house (San Jose) closed down for a week today because a student was confirmed to have bacon bits.
- Kevin Fox
Gee, Christopher. Really? Bacon had nothing to do with it? That's fantastic. Anyway, my point is, this recent 'bacon craze' is really just another internet craze that usually dies out after a few weeks, Related or not, it's just my hope that the onset of swine flu could kill the fad, mainly because it's annoying as hell. It's a stretch to relate the two, but who cares? It's worth it if I don't have to hear about how friggin' cool bacon is anymore. I'm sure it won't, but I can always dream.
- Fleagle
@Fleagle: lol, it's just "another internet craze that usually dies out after a few weeks" that's been going on for months at least, possibly years.
- Chieze Okoye
Months? Maybe. Years. Not really. The 'spike' has happened quite recently, as others have caught on and decided to wax poetic about the pork product in all it's glory. Sure, people will always talk about bacon, but not quite as much as they do right now.
- Fleagle
I'll chime in once more, then I swear I'm done. Yes, you are correct in that it would give evidence of a mass ignorance or stupidity, but really, would anyone be surprised? Of course bacon has nothing to do with the virus, but you can see how this recent 'pandemic' can immediately put people in a mass panic. Most people react with little or no information whatsoever. It's the sensasionalist media mentality that rules supreme.
- Fleagle
Fleagle, I can honestly say that you are literally the first person I have ever met that is this righteously angry at bacon.
- Chieze Okoye
And besides, it's been proven that bacon cures hangovers, so maybe the bacon flu isn't so bad after all :)
- Kevin Elliott
it's bacon fever in spanish. THat's the translation, so why not go for that
- Eric
So when you get a fever, you can say that you're fried?
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm a huge fan of TiVo and wish them all the best. It seems that their case has merit so it will be interesting to see what happens.
- Jim McCusker
The question is... will this be an opportunity to buy/sell TiVo stock?
- Louis Gray
Big TiVo user since day one, but I fear for them. They are running out of partners, options, etc. Hopefully they can find a way to survive.
- Dean Terry
Huh, I was just thinking about getting a Tivo HD
- Jason Carreira
I'd be sad to see TiVo go. Their DVR beats the pants off of Comcast's offering.
- Akiva
Louis - Might make a bounce if they win but TiVo still needs better penetration into the marketplace. I love my HD unit with Verizon CableCard, but it's a shame that the CableCard isn't bi-directional yet, thereby making On-Demand and Pay-Per-View impossible.
- Jim McCusker
I recorded the entire olympics in HD, on a DISH network DVR, the 722. it rules
- Brian Hendrickson
I really liked TiVo and was rooting for them big time. They are in a tough spot though. Top technology that a lot of people don't see as enough better than the generic cable/satellite DVRs on the mass market side and competing with Microsoft Media Center on the higher end. Best advice is to sell to Apple who might have the muscle to market them. AppleTV needs a DVR badly anyways.
- Thomas Hawk
IMO, Tivo has a pretty good product, but will die a slow death unless they can either get major traction with the cable companies (ie, Comcast deal) or are able to monetize their IP. Most consumers won't pay the premium to get a Tivo when the local cable co offers an alternative for $10/mo.
- Jim
Oh, and I'm getting increasingly irritated with Tivo's inability to ship software that is full of blatant bugs that I encounter _every_ time I use my Tivo... and they refuse to fix several of these, as they have endured several software updates. :( Very disappointing...
- Jim
I guess I'm just grateful that our TiVo HD doesn't randomly decide to delete everything we've recorded like our old Comcast DVR did.
- Akiva
Tivo needs to become the software provider (as the idea behind their deal with Comcast) ... having seperate hardware that doesn't play well with cable and/or satellite is going to kill them. Oh, and lower prices. I love my Tivo.
- Tim Hoeck
That's the thing... I've seen the DVR I can get from TimeWarner, and it's just CRAP. Somebody has to make and sell a good one, and if it's not going to be Tivo, then who? I still think DVR's are in an early adopter phase. I think people will get tired of the DVRs from their cable companies and upgrade.
- Jason Carreira
Just shows you how stupid people can be... $10 a month adds up pretty quickly when TivoHDs aren't even that expensive. Refurbs on woot a couple days ago for $160, for example. Normal price at Costco is around $200, iirc. Tivo's even offering lifetime subscriptions on units again, making the service even cheaper. Sure, a lot of this is upfront money and a barrier to buy for a lot of people, but the math is solid... if you have the cash, you're a bonehead for renting. Nevermind non-Tivo boxes are 99% shit.
- abacab
(all that said, we have three Tivos in our house--2 Series2s and 1 Series1--and love them. At the same time, though, I'd almost rather just drop cable and torrent the shows we watch. It's not like we watch anything live anymore anyway, so the wait for a good torrent download isn't a big deal at all.)
- abacab
Dish has always been a second tier satellite provider, IMO. DirecTV has them beat hands down. I was very sad though when DTV decided to drop Tivo in exchange for their own equipment. I really miss the interface on Tivo and it's recommendation feature. Plus, I felt the search feature was better on Tivo. But, at least the DVR functionallity on DirecTV is nice, unlike what most if not all the cable operators have.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Agree with Jason - the Time Warner DVRs are truly awful. I've swapped devices, tried getting the "newest" ones (almost all Motorolas) and they are world-record awful. Time Warner couldn't give a shit. Is there an elegant way to use Tivo or other good DVRs on TW that I don't know about? I wonder if Apple will figure out a way to make this work. Although they need to fix this iPhone disaster first.
- Anthony Citrano
I've heard that the Tivo HD's with Cable Cards work with TW... anyone who's tried it, feedback would be appreciated
- Jason Carreira
Jason - I have Tivo HD and it's amazing. But I use it with bunny ears as a small protest against Comcast and their stupid fees for cablecards. Separately... I thought Tivo and Comcast had a partnership in which the software would update on Comcast boxes "any day now" for some regions?
- Patrick Lightbody
I am one of those 100k that unsubscribed to TIVO, after 4 years I decided that breaking up with TIVO and TV in general was a good plan. Both are gone. Netflix+Roku+Web all we've been using since June.
- Mark Interrante
@Mark, but that doesn't have current seasons of TV shows, does it?
- Jason Carreira
@Mark, Wow, bold move. The best I could muster was to eliminate cable and go w/ bunny ears. @Jason, you can get current TV shows via Hulu and other websites. It works fairly well except that: A) it doesn't display on my TV, and B) it doesn't work for sports events and such, though going to a bar works well enough.
- Patrick Lightbody
How's the Roku, Mark? Any complaints or nags about it?
- Josh Haley
I'm missing this year's shows. Except for the Daily Show which stream all their shows. The rest, I'll watch them when they hit netflix. I love Roku, it has a reasonable selection of back catalog, and they continually add more movies. The Roku was trivial to setup and has wifi and hdmi. Patrick, I know that I have the bunny ears configuration if I decide to get some TV.
- Mark Interrante
"A Foxconn rep told a Chinese newspaper that "she is definitely not fired," and that the pictures were test photos "accidentally" left on the iPhone."
- Victor Ryden 美久太阿
from Bookmarklet
I figured they were test pics since so many have been popping up. You never know with these iPhone production plants whether they're super strict (fire people for forgetting to delete the test photo) or just normal.
- Brandon Titus
@Yolanda - Darn, still don't get it :( Guess I'll look it up tomorrow..
- Yuvi
You have to watch that Yuvi. It's a classic. ;-)
- AJ Batac :)
The movie is about a young girl who is possessed by demons. In one popular scene, her head spins around... very similar to the cat in the pic. But, yes, you should see the movie. :)
- Yolanda
Matt, this one was reshared from the original, which was posted via the bookmarklet. Perhaps it is only animated gifs that are uploaded directly that do not work?
- Phil Glockner
The the new list feature is heck cool... just created test. Wondering how we can share list now :)-
- Peter Dawson
A link to cancel a comment with no hack! YAY!!!!
- FFing Enigma
Mona, poster names are still links they're just styled differently so they don't look like the other links.
- FFing Enigma
beta.friendfeed is my new friend !! lots of new stuff to play with.. 8-10hrs lag with list data ..but a very very powerful feature. !! Way to GO TEAM FF !!
- Peter Dawson
Love it. If this does not go mainstream, I don't know what will.
- Vinay | विनय
I want to start a pool -- (a) first blog to hit techmeme with an article on the re-design, (b) blog with most articles about the re-design (within 2 days starting now)
- Wayne Schulz
Michael: if you're viewing your feed from the main address, there is a 'sharing' box up at the top, and the options (comment, photo, link) appear once you begin typing.
- FFing Enigma
click on your name Jennifer, above right
- Tibor Holoda
@Jennifer "My Feed" in the sidebar replaces the "me" tab. And like Tibor said, your name works too.
- Dan Hsiao
you launch this right after takeoff from scoble to berlin - coinkydink? :)
- Allen Stern
@Stupid Blogger: Thanks, I'd figured that out, was just pointing out what seems like a bug in the current UI.
- Michael Nielsen
Looks nice on first glance, and it seems easier now to reach rooms. The friend lists should be a great way to organize my imaginary friends which are basically topic subscriptions. The "Add/ Remove friends" link is confusing at first because when you don't have any friends in the list yet, clicking it will result in nothing (making you wonder if it's broken). The message sharing post...
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- Philipp Lenssen
I love the new info bubble. Super better than the old one :)
- AJ Batac :)
can't seem to access the beta site: Service Unavailable We encountered an error on your last request. Our service is new, and we are just working out the kinks. We apologize for the inconvenience.
- Thomas Hawk
Awesomeness, very useful, and solves the biggest problem of noise reduction! great!
- Aditya Kothadiya
awesome! Working now. Anyone know if there is a pagerization greasemonkey script yet for the beta site?
- Thomas Hawk
thanks for the iteration.. it's a great step forward
- Travis Parsons
like the new functions, but not the new layout, it just doesn't look like friendfeed and a bit feel like google groups (caused by the side bar maybe). miss the old layout...
- Baron M.
We need a "remove from home feed" button under the friends settings. Or there must be an option that we can choose the list which shows on main page. For example, i want to see only "Professional" friends' feeds on the main page.
- Selim Yoruk
I'm truly amazed at how good the UI is. The subtle touches like the use of blue links in just the right places or the contextual help like "How does hiding work?". Really great job. I think mioNews just became a little less useful to me, since FF now natively has friend groups. Oh well :P
- Patrick Lightbody
It has a great feature in allowing me to separate different people into different lists - that will be worth the whole interface change in itself. I hope that rooms also have embeddable feeds tho!
- Justin Long
FF is in a frenzy. This is 16 hrs old and 3rd on my Best of the Week. Congratulations Bret and team.
- Russellreno
@Marcos: you can hover your mouse over the comment bubble in front of a comment to get its timestamp.
- Dan Hsiao
The majority of citizens polled say they'd rather elect a gay than an atheist. I'm guessing at least 3 more presidents before we even elect an agnostic (maybe he'll/she'll be gay!)
- Jack&Cleo
I'm 33 and don't imagine we'll elect a non self-described Christian in my lifetime.
- Michelle Jones
Well, we are a christian nation. At least according to an abc poll 83% of americans claim to be christian.
- Steve Helder
from twhirl
Leo, dang I personally miss the TechTv days... alas, the powers that be are absolving all reference to the Great I AM, but HE's got that covered too, Amen?
- Dan
from twhirl
why is that bad? we were founded on Christian Beliefs even if freedom of religion is guarenteed. "In God We Trust" is in our country's DNA
- John Head
from twhirl
John, you've just shown you know absolutely nothing about what this country was founded on.
- Jeff Jones
Jeff, I disagree, John is right. I've studied our history and we are founded on the Bible...
- Douglas Porter
from twhirl
doubtful considering the constituents, though perhaps a non-christian president in your lifetime.
- xero
John, Douglas, please reread the Constitution. Nowhere will you find a reference to Christianity or the Bible. At best the majority of the founding fathers were deists. Then read Jefferson's writings from that period. These days he'd be considered a non-believer. BTW-"In God We Trust" was added to coinage and paper money in 1954 as a reaction to the Communist threat.
- Jack&Cleo
@Jeff Jones, I have to agree with @John Head. Christian morals and beliefs founded the USA. However, they felt tolerance of other religions (mainly other denominations) was important. Very few of the founding influential would even publicly consider atheism as viably PC at the time; the populace just wouldn't have it. If those governing the public did not answer to anyone other than themselves, the public would have felt the system corrupt. 1st amendment must be read in concert with the constitution.
- xero
@Jack Carlson, privately deist perhaps (many were mason's after all), but publicly Christian en masse, at least in legislative writing. You'll be hard-pressed to find a reference to "a god" or "whatever god" except when speaking specifically cross-religion. You'll find "God" and "our God" on many more of the public documents they wrote. Given, our fear of communism did change many things we see today to include a reference to "God", such as the coinage and pledge. Good point btw, and TJ was an exception
- xero
Quote seen on http://www.netalive.org/topics... "Deism says it is rationality and reason that leads to God. To the Deist, the evidence is the creation and the idea of what brought about the evidence is the Creator." It seems that, like an atheist, a deist is also an anti-religious rationalist, only having reached a different conclusion. I once called 18th century deists "the athiests of their day" and after reading some more about deism, I think I still stand by that.
- Pierre Houston
"God" is the basic Christian/Jewish god, why not "god(s)" or "Allah" or "Shiva" or "Zeus" or "the Creator(s)" or even better, why even bother mentioning a deity or creator? Given, references are mixed, but they really didn't need a reference at all, ever.
- xero
To those asking if one would want a non-Christian president: One does not need to be a Christian to have Christian values - or, indeed, the values held up by any religion.
- Christian Leonard Quale
from twhirl
One advantage to being publicly identified as an atheist; neither party likes you very much, they tend to leave you alone. Dem's are as theistic as Rep's.
- Jack&Cleo
If this were my world, then the 3 best Rugby Front Rowers would form a Trinity of Political Power, making decisions for everyone. These decisions would consist of Meat Pies and probably copious amounts of Ambrosia (or "beer" as some people would call it). We Aussies know how to make good pies.
- Stu Andrews
from twhirl
For those claiming the US was founded on Christianity and the Bible, please show me more similarities between the Constitution vs. the Bible as compared to the writings of Thomas Paine.
- Jason Carreira
personally, i think we may be confusing being Founded On The Bible to being founded in the context of Christianity. and +1 Jason Carreira
- idnan
All this religious stuff is bullshit. What a waste of time. Why don't we start talking about investing in the infrastructure in this country instead of Iraq, education, healthcare, Mcain's 10 mansions @xero; Christian morals and beliefs founded the USA? Really? So enslaving people, killing off an entire race of people, and making money are Christian values?
- PC Easy
@PC Easy: Actually, making money is one of the more highly-regarded Christian values. Google 'Puritan Ethic'. Or visit a cathedral.
- Derrick Burns
@Mark VandenBerg - Whoa, so are you saying that you need to have "Judeo-Christian morals and values" to believe that murder is wrong? Maybe I missed your point, but I hope that's not what you're saying.
- Herb Hernandez
Influence? Sure.. However, that's quite different than saying we were founded on those beliefs.
- Herb Hernandez
abhorrent to have an elected official be religious? There's only a handful of federal elected officials who are NOT! Why is it abhorrent to the majority to have an elected official who is NOT religious? Can they not separate morality and ethics from religion and see how someone could be moral and ethical without being religious? Freedom of religion should mean freedom NOT to believe, as well, but so far not in this country.
- Jason Carreira
its actually been well over an hour now, and still no option to play at 30% done, it makes me wonder how they'll do the netflix 'watch instantly' thing...
- MG Siegler
It's buggy as all hell on the xbox. Blogs keep touting this as the next greatest thing but I don't think any of them have actually tried running netflix on the xbox. I spoke with netflix and they have even said they recommend against it bc media center does not properly communicate with their servers causing accounts to lock up.
- Brandon
Louis explained it the best it can be.
- Parth Awasthi
Different file compression techniques is my guess. You probably won't get to watch until it hits 70 or 75% downloaded.
- Kevin C. Tofel
I'm happy with my PS3 rentals and the overall process of shopping in their store. Yeah, it's not Netflix or Apple TV, but hey, rentals are disposable.
- Eric Rice