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"Negative, I am a meat Popsicle."
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But....do you have a moolti-pass?
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
matter of factly, I do!
- Joe Pierce
LOVE that movie
- Mo Kargas
SMOKE YOUUUUUUU!
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Oh. Well, then, do you have A LEELOO? Because if you do, I might hafta kill you over her.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Josh ++! Jandy, In that case. No. No I do not have a Leeloo.
- Joe Pierce
Then what was that you just shushed and pushed into the closet? HMMMM???!!!
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
That was Tiny Lister.
- Joe Pierce
Uh-huh. Sure. I'll let you off this time.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
it's because I think so quickly on my feet that I get away with so many shenanigans.
- Joe Pierce
Wiskey Stones Won't Dilute Your Super Expensive Whiskey #giftideas - http://mona.posterous.com/wiskey-...
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Akiva has these.
- Rochelle
But, you're using the ice to dilute Whiskey. Whiskey's true flavor can't be tasted at full concentration due to receptor saturation, so you use water to bring all the of the flavor points within sensory range. I mean, yeah, I've hung out with the guys where we all drink Talisker straight up pound our faces on the table to get it down and kick each other in the nuts and call ourselves men, but we certainly weren't appreciating the flavor of the drink.
- Matthew DeVries
Depends on the whiskey.
- Mona Nomura
I prefer neat with maybe a splash of water. Ice can be unpredictable and changes the temp. It depends on the scotch, but I like mine closer to room temp.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Yeah, I like room temp better as well, and prefer just a predictable amount of water, (I guess I could have just said "Eric is right" and saved pixels)
- Matthew DeVries
Brand Innovation Workshop Brandculture Sessions #2 - http://www.slideshare.net/stack...
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Slides from Brandculture Sessions #2 "Brand Innovation Workshop" 12/11-2009
TRUE: The Top Six Reasons Companies are Still Scared of Social Media http://www.whatsnextblog.com/archive...
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Are you doing anything today to help further another person's goals? Paying it forward?
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You won't win cancer. You can take and take, but we won't give. The tables are turned, we're in control now.
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Gradon Tripp "24 Reasons Why Twitter Sucks" at PodCamp Boston 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Twitter's Most Active Users: Bots, Dogs, and Tila Tequila - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
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So, wait: the most active users are useless?
- Justin Whitaker
Well, I wouldn't say useless. And some of the bots like news and such are pretty valuable, right?
- warren sukernek
Polynomial (game) - a 3D space shooter with mathematically generated, mostly fractal scenery and models. - http://dmytry.pandromeda.com/games...
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"The Polynomial is a 3D space shooter with mathematically generated, mostly fractal scenery and models. It is easy to get started - you fly around, shoot some stuff, collect some other stuff, and dodge enemy bullets, all while admiring the trippy scenery and self-repairing by flying close to stars. When you're comfortable, you can set difficulty to "Insane" (press esc) for faster paced gameplay. To get really high score, you must be good at the shooting and dodging and collecting parts when you need them. You can also exploit chain reaction (never ending chainblow will be a level complete condition when I get around to implementing campaigns)."
- Jason Wehmhoener
from Bookmarklet
Beautiful timekiller =)
- Anton
Comic Sans ".love it, you don't know much about typography, If you hate it, you really don't know much about typography" http://bancomicsans.com/home...
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Hmm I support their (Bancomicsans.com) position. All else being equal, I think the world would be a better place without. But then, I'd have Windows banned too. :) I don't really hate the font though... Just like I don't "hate" Windows. The world would just be better - even better - without.
- Meryn Stol
Meryn - The operating system, or the fenestrae in walls that allow natural light into buildings and allow view of the outside world while still being sheltered by the building, that many fill with a transparent matrix like glass?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, uh no I support the translucent plates. Hell I'm even fine with colored pebbles. ;)
- Meryn Stol
How did we get from Comic Sans, to translucent plates?????????????
- Roberto Bonini
It was me - strangely - focusing on the fact that most windows are made out of glass.. Dunno why. In any case, I support the physical windows, even if they're made from different material.
- Meryn Stol
What's really interesting to me is what they say about Facebook, Starbucks and other brands at 4:30 or so. 'It's just a social networking site".
- Justin Whitaker
Name your favourite classic rave track?
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'Everybody in the Place' from the Prodigy for me. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Arksun - Arisen, epic 10min track (I think that's classic?). Other wise: Armin van Buuren - Shivers
- Kristian Salonen
FSOL-Papua New Guinea. Technically not a RAVE track, but played at a lot of Raves. Still epic to this day.
- Justin Whitaker
I don't even know what qualifies *chuckle*
- Michael W. May
Orbital - Belfast
- Rochelle
Rochelle, that's a rave track? I was thinking Kol meant main room NRG stuff.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Oh, well, I was thinking just any music associated with raves. Hold on, then.
- Rochelle
If it's main room NRG noise, I'd have to say DJ Misjah & Tim - Access.
- Akiva Moskovitz
FSOL - Papua New Guinea is my favourite tune ever. The Hybrid remix might just top it though.
- Kol Tregaskes
Other than some massively epic Tiesto-trance, I'd have to say Atomic Babies - Cetch Da Monkey (Donald Glaude Remix).
- Rochelle
Akiva, Rochelle, either if you like. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
[does Glaude arms]
- Akiva Moskovitz
I thought it meant 'rave' like the genre and that was too hard. Not that expanding it is any less difficult.
- joey
But if I were to expand it, I'd have to add Cass & Slide - Perception, Dom & Roland - Gene Sequencer, and PMT - Gyromancer.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Joey, yeah we can open it up, though there are a fair amount of cool rave tracks.
- Kol Tregaskes
Darude - Sandstorm. Is that rave?
- Alex Scrivener
We should do favorite Rave track 8tracks, or Mixclouds.
- Justin Whitaker
Alex: yes
- Kristian Salonen
Orbital - Are We Here may very well be my favourite track of all times, for a myriad of reasons.
- joey
Altern8 - Activ8
- Kol Tregaskes
XPansions - Move Your Body
- Kol Tregaskes
Bedrock - Heaven Scent.
- Rochelle
Bunch of rave nerds up in here I see :p you and your sub-sub genres and classifikation systemes. Never had the time nor patience to differentiate.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Poison by Prodigy
- Sarah Peterman
Kol, I love rave/breakbeat hardcore. I'm slowly collecting records of that genre.
- joey
Brian, neither me. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Yeah, I can't list any more because the rest of what I love is all epic trance. Hahha.
- Rochelle
Sarah, Poison to a tuuunnnne. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
++ Akiva for Neuromancer
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Oh hell, Kol went back to Altern8. Now I will have to counter with Human Resource-Dominator.
- Justin Whitaker
Justin, good choice. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
- Kol Tregaskes
Praga Khan's - Injected with the Poison
- Kol Tregaskes
You got the love - The Source feat. Candi Staton
- Kol Tregaskes
Ebeneezer Goode - Shamen
- Kol Tregaskes
On a ragga tip - SL2
- Kol Tregaskes
Sweet harmony - Liquid
- Kol Tregaskes
Utah Saints-What Can You Do For Me?
- Justin Whitaker
Ooh, love Praga Khan and 'On a Ragga Tip' is great. This thread makes me want to go home and listen to records.
- joey
I had to dig up that PMT track and listen to it; haven't heard it in years.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Shamen - Move Any Mountain
- Kol Tregaskes
Satisfaction by Benny Benasi
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Brainbug - Nightmare
- Rochelle
Infected Mushroom - Unbalanced (Baby Killer Remix)
- Akiva Moskovitz
THANKS KOL. Now I can hear Akiva playing something with a lot of bass upstairs and I'm watching videos of rave tracks on YouTube.
- Rochelle
Aurora - Ordinary World
- Akiva Moskovitz
Hehe, Rochelle. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Faithless - We Come One
- Rochelle
Faithless - Insomnia
- Kol Tregaskes
Rozalla-Everybody's Free.
- Justin Whitaker
Hive - Surreal Killer
- Akiva Moskovitz
Rochelle brought up Brainbug, which lets me offer: Nalin & Kane-Beachball.
- Justin Whitaker
Has no one said Infected Mushroom yet?
- Rochelle
I did. Unbalanced.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Pete Harman - Maggie's Last Party (because it's wonderful and hilarious)
- joey
DJ Icey - This Is How My Drummer Drums
- Rochelle
Kurt would tear this thread up. He was the master of old rave.
- Akiva Moskovitz
DJ Icey - Blow Ya Mind (*dead*)
- Rochelle
Underworld - Rez/Cowgirl
- Akiva Moskovitz
Deepsky - Cosmic Dancer. http://www.youtube.com/watch... It's technically right on the cusp of rave and psy... but whatever.
- veo
The Prodigy - Hyperspeed
- joey
Green Velvet - Percolator (LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
- Akiva Moskovitz
Fatboy Slim & Wildchild - Renegade Master
- Rochelle
Percolator? LOL.
- Justin Whitaker
Akiva, I hate you.
- Rochelle
Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun
- Akiva Moskovitz
[courtsies]
- Akiva Moskovitz
Yeah the Chems! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Empirion: Advanced Technology.
- Justin Whitaker
Armin van Buuren - Burned With Desire. Which is probably my all time favorite trance record.
- Peter Kruit
Azzido de Bass - Doom's Night (Timo Maas Remix)
- Akiva Moskovitz
Doom's Night! Of course!
- Rochelle
Can I vote for a full album? Sasha & Digweed Northern Exposure Vol II: East Coast Edition. It'd be progressive house today, but back in the day it was Trance.
- veo
Anything from Dune.
- Peter Kruit
Well, I definitely know what some of you guys were doing during the late 90s. :P
- Rochelle
Craig David - Bo Selecta (I'm clearly drifting out of rave here)
- Akiva Moskovitz
Luna C - Piano Progression
- joey
Robert Miles - Children - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- veo
HAHA veo, at USC the other week, Taj totally played that track as we were all walking out, and KT, Kurt and I ran back in (mostly ironically) to go indulge our nostalgia. It was seriously hilarious.
- joey
Joey, you should be saying "that other decade", not "the other week". :P
- Rochelle
Which one? Children? That's awesome.
- veo
Its like 1997 all over again..
- veo
SUPERSTAR DJ KEOKI!!!!!!!!!
- Rochelle
"Do It Together" - Sacred, "Baptised By Dub" - Criminal Minds , "My Own" - DJ Seduction, "Durban Poison" - Babylon Timewarp, "Sued For A Sample" - Timelapse..... I could go on, and on....and on.....
- Iain Baker
Ah, Keoki. There's a blast from the past. I loved the Rabbit In The Moon Remix of Caterpillar.
- Justin Whitaker
Yeah, before RitM started sucking.
- Rochelle
You guys are all Noobs. What about James Brown Is Dead by LA Style?
- Louis Gray
Is that the Tori Amos one? I still can't listen to it without getting goosebumps.
- Akiva Moskovitz
ATB - 9pm till I come: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- veo
Louis chimes in with a classic!
- Justin Whitaker
Oh, well, you might as well start going further back in time and bring up, y'know, stuff like Rhythm Device - Acid Rock. And EBM like Nitzer Ebb and Front 242.
- Akiva Moskovitz
But Rochelle, I can't stop raving!
- joey
+10 Iain for DJ Seduction.
- joey
You have to draw the line somewhere... I'm raving to new order!!!!
- veo
Rave on, Beethoven!
- Akiva Moskovitz
All the good stuff is here: http://louisgray.com/music/ Bring it on.
- Louis Gray
Oh that's right, Louis! I always forget you're hardcore into dance music.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Nice collection Louis.
- Peter Kruit
The fact that you have no Fatmouse, though, makes you a stinky stinky man.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Louis speaks hardcore electronic music? Well, then.
- veo
Joey, don't make me bring the HHC smackdown.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, I've intentionally stuck to old rave in this thread, with one exception. ;)
- joey
Shamen - LSI.
- Kol Tregaskes
Usura - Open Your Mind
- Adrian Scicluna
KLF, What Time Is Love
- felicious
Kol, felicious, those are all good. The problem is... I could sing every word of most of those songs... and poor me. No video to prove it. You wouldn't want to see that anyway... right?
- Louis Gray
Juno Reactor - Badimo
- Sparky
Louis, oh yes please. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@SashaHalima I have the musical taste of a clubbing gay man. It's sort of ridiculous.
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That is so going into the introduction of your next panel.
- Justin Whitaker
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls (Music Video) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Don't allow yourself to end up doing work you're not proud of for people you can't stand.
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Ubuntu One Begins Public Beta - https://ubuntuone.com/
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What's this!? (Obligatory http://is.gd/yTe1)
- Chris Lasher
@Chris Awesome :)
- Piotr Byzia
from twhirl
Seems good, just asked for invitation! :)
- Matteo
Please, send me a invitation
- Francisco Espinoza
hmmm, think I'll stick with Dropbox. It's the same amount of storage and I can access it on my Windows Installation as well.
- Martin Rix (Mrrix32)
yeah i use dropbox for this. Canonical made a stupid move with this one.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Never tried dropbox, their closed-source implementation kinda scares me. We'll see what the deal is here hopefully Canonical will open source this and you can use your own backend. I hate having my data tied to a service.
- matthew john ernisse
This is something more subtle. Imagine an Ubuntu Live CD, or Netbook Remix, with built in support for UbuntuOne. That's the play here. Single login, seamless integration with mobile Linux.
- Justin Whitaker
I would love to play with this, but I have way more space on Dropbox. I had a fun encounter with one of the creators of Dropbox, Drew and he gave me 25gb for free. Good people there. Love Dropbox.
- Dennis Jackson
Observation: Peope without "skin in the game" invariably underestimate their own irrelevance.
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I'm all signed up for PodCamp Boston 4 - http://www.podcampboston.org/2009...
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PodCamp4? Might be in El Salvador. Need to double check plans/itinerary.
- Justin Whitaker
Most digital efforts assume users will care—Good solutions start with the assumption they won't, therefor value exchange is essential #twt20
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PORTAL - DONOT think of how it works. Just Do It
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The decaf is a lie.
- Akiva Moskovitz
No cake?
- Justin Whitaker
the cake is a lie
- Alfredo
haha! but damn, this would be awesome!
- vijay
7 Life Lessons I Learned Playing Halo | PickTheBrain - http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog...
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these are actually pretty good, well-written lessons
- Alan Le
i played 1 and 2 campain but not 3.
- Alfredo
The only thing you forgot was: watch out for snipers.
- Justin Whitaker
And: Always check your environment (the motion tracker is your life, check it every 0.25 seconds!)
- Daniel Bruce
@Alfredo: if you ever feel like there is a deep void in your life, it's because you never played Halo 3.
- grant fox
i played it but only multiplayer at my friends house
- Alfredo
I never played HALO, does spending endless night with CS help?!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Playing CS after playing Halo always messes me up. CS is faster i think and no recharging shields.
- Alfredo
I'm in a bad/sad mood. I think I believe for the first time that we are truly witnessing the pillage and murder of the everyday US consumer / taxpayer. Sorry, kids, it's really over.
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Fortunatly, Capitalism is more powerful than any Government.
- Robert Hafer
Socialism for the rich folk, capitalism for everyone else.
- Rene Wirtz
I think that pillage has been going on for a good long while and it's just coming to light now.
- Louis Simoneau
@Jason - yeah, there is. I'll expand on it later. Want to get my thinking straight - I'll probably write a piece on it. @Louis - perhaps, but something palpably different has been transpiring over the past 6-9 months. The average middle class person is truly being strangled to death. Thing is, it's strangely suicidal for the ones doing the strangling.
- Anthony Citrano
Government is too big. That's the problem. Anthony, if you truly feel this way, check out Free Talk Live http://www.freetalklive.com It's a podcast/radio show, but they discuss a lot of issues like this. They're heavily promoting the Free State Project http://www.freestateproject.com but they also try to give ideas as to how to not stress about this stuff. Honestly, I feel the same way as you, and have been threatening for the last 6 months to move to Sweden.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
@Mike - but the thing is, *I* have relatively little (less?) to stress about in that regard. I'm quite a lot harder to screw over than the people I'm worried about. Thanks; I'll check out the links.
- Anthony Citrano
@Anthony: would love to see your expanded thoughts, but just going on your lead line, I would tend to agree with @LousSimoneau: things have been going on for a long time, a lot more of it is coming to light now. I mean, you've always heard those canonical lines, "2% of the population owns 80% of the wealth, and so on..." or "...the rich get richer..." Perhaps those statements were really true.
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LAG: those statements have always been true.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
We passed a mark last August when it became OK for presidential candidates to play populist and talk down the market in an effort to get elected. Soon thereafter fear overtook the sitting President and he signed away the power to keep government at bay, the freedom for companies to fail ... to fear. Fear alone may drive us into the arms of Marx
- Daltonsbriefs
@LAG - just think about the TARP extortion for a minute. (That's indirectly what set me off today). $800B. That's probably $9k for the average income tax payer. My share is much larger. Banks were told to use the funds to loosen credit. Yet they are doing the 180-degree opposite: tightening credit hard, raising rates, etc. I covered this for Consumerist w/r/t Citi last year but it's gotten much worse. This is going to make it dramatically harder for indebted families to keep their heads above water.
- Anthony Citrano
@Tina... <sigh>
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Its not over. Far from it.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Wish I could share in your optimism, Mathew.
- Anthony Citrano
talked to a banker at a top 15 bank today, said "we are pulling out of local banking of all kinds for good, we'll look at gigantic syndications from now on" ... a bank that got TARP funds and is now eliminating all lending functions
- Daltonsbriefs
I tend to think the the US and the growing world has tremendous opportunities for those willing to work hard. And people have to control their spending.
- Mike Reynolds
would favor gov't controlling it's spending ... $2 Trillion in pork won't be helping anyone
- Daltonsbriefs
@Anthony: yeah, I know where you're going...it's a bleak picture. if you keep people in debt, you can control them. or, at least, you don't have to worry about them threatening your position.
- .LAG liked that
Well, this isn't Socialism, and the problem isn't a government that's too big and powerful. This is apex Capitalism, when the financial elites have become so powerful that they have manipulated their political dependents in both parties to allow the most grotesque graft and corruption in our nation's history. First they got themselves "deregulated." Then they wallowed in fraud for a decade or so. Now -- the financial pyramid game collapsing - they are blackmailing the government to subsidize their crime.
- Chris Baskind
+1 Chris Baskind
- Mike Reynolds
Yeah, +1 Chris Baskind.
- Andrew C
+1 @ChrisBaskind
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Yes, +1 to ChrisBaskind. The middle classes are just beginning to awaken to the notion that the "pillage" of their economy has been deliberate, and it isn't about greed. It's about power. The power to control the populace of a supposedly "free" democracy, through long term inescapable debt. MSM article - Taibbi's RS piece: http://bit.ly/I6nXJ In other words, you've been pwned.
- Cole Jolley
This all comes about 20 years after the collapse of Communism, so let's look at it for what it really is...after the Cold War, we were still left with one extreme, the more ruthless variety of capitalism, which thought itself above the law. Now, in 2009, we see where that gets all the rest of us. Time to reign in that extreme.
- George Hall (Australia)
+1 ChrisBaskind. I find it interesting (to say the least) that everyone is quick to blame big government and socialism on the "failure" of capitalism. The economic meltdown has very little to do with the government, other than previous presidents letting corporate greed out of hand.
- Rene Wirtz
@George - it's a bit too late to reign in that extreme. If the public will bend over with glee and hand over trillions of dollars to bail out these shenanigans, the "time to reign in" is well behind us.
- Anthony Citrano
@Cole - yeah, I posted Matt's piece a few weeks ago. As I said, I don't (yet) think *I* got pwned, but the average middle-class taxpayer sure did. @Baskind - mostly agree with ya.
- Anthony Citrano
These Wall Street oligarchs, because of their greed and short-sightedness, have created the conditions for massive social disruption on the American scene. We've seen this scenario before throughout history. They appear to be in full control of Barack Obama and the Obama administration. They have one major move left on the board: create a police state to crush all dissent and to keep their pelf and plunder safe.
- Sean McBride
@SeanMcBride: ..."social disruption"...but what if that's exactly what they want? you have people running around, blaming government, and shooting cops, and talking about socialism, and the people most responsible remain nameless and faceless, and are holed up in their gated communities, or French villas, with armed security, while everything falls apart. you're right: next step: crush the dissenters, or bury them under so much debt that they're effectively crushed forever.
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Sean, we already have a police state. Apparently it's questionable to carry around $4k in cash. We can't question why we are being questioned by police because we are being "disrespectful" or whatever. The military already has shown that it will head the call of duty to come to the aid of a state even when it's unconstitutional. The only thing we can do is hope that whatever plan is in store for the last 20 years or so is somehow foiled. I honestly think Bush was on the verge of screwing up that plan.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
I hate this attitude that "they" are going to do this to the population - and that the population has no power to stop it, no choice. It's a bit pathetic and we get what we ask for.
- Anthony Citrano
We get what we allow, Anthony, not what we ask for. And we allow it if we don't think the consequences through for something we ask for.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Like I've always said, corporations cannot be trusted to be ethical. As corrupt as we think the government is, corporations are 10x as bad and in many cases have exceeded government in terms of power as well.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Tina - OK, agreed... we get what we allow. But we allow such things with great apathy and total negligence of our civic duties. So, not exactly *asking for it* but willfully enabling it.
- Anthony Citrano
@Shey - I don't buy that. I have worked in senior levels in government, sat on corporate and non-profit boards. I've also founded for-profit and not-for-profit corporations. There's good everywhere, and there's bad everywhere. At the end of the day all of these institutions are populated by humans. The characteristics of said humans will be reflected in any given institution's DNA.
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony, that allowance of unforeseen (or even foreseen) consequences is the result of two things: lack of forethought and lack of caring. Too many people don't take the time to think things through (at all levels of life), and another subset of people wouldn't care about the consequences as long as they don't affect them. True horrors happen when the people in charge are in the union of those two groups.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Shey is dead on -- unchecked corporate greed is way worse. Anthony - I am not sure if we will have a middle class when this is all over. It very well may be just the have's and have not's.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Unethical corporations will eventually fail for the owners. Technically every company is owned by someone. If you own stock, you own that company. If you vote for the actions of management via the board of directors, then you support their unethical behavior. Same with government. Demonizing companies and promoting hatred through class-envy will not solve our problems.
- Robert Kenney
The only reason why corporate greed has gotten the way it has is because government initially stepped itself into business. Corporations don't like paying taxes, following rules, etc, like the rest of us. They were more creative at finding ways to hide these things from the public and the government. Not saying it's good, but that's what you get when government tries to impress itself in everything. If everything was able to be left more open and transparent you would still have corruption,....
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
but it would be found out much quicker and the company wouldn't survive long. When they allowed lobbyists inside the government, it just allowed the government to "see past" these issues for so long, causing even more corruption.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
@slayerboy - do you like paying taxes? see what i said above about corporations. it's not about corporations, government, etc. - it's about human beings. all these institutions are comprised of humans. there's rot everywhere and there's good everywhere. that's why when you want to build a great institution you pick great people.
- Anthony Citrano
Agreed. When government injects itself into private enterprise, problems like this exist. Fannie/Freddie/FHA/Student Loans/Housing, CAFE Standards, Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), EPA, etc. It always starts with the best of intentions. And often can improve our communities. But everything has strings, and those strings are the trip-wires to Capitalism.
- Robert Kenney
@Anthony My statement was very general but I still hold to it -- humans are the problem, yes. But my bigger issue is the way the system is set up. The global macroenvironment increasingly favours corporations as restrictions are increasingly getting slacker while governments face more and more scrutiny from their people, other nations, and international organizations. Meanwhile corporations bend/break rules, exploit loopholes, and dangle jobs as carrots for governments to give into corporate desires.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
My problem is they operate without any risk of REAL consequence. Governments are much more regulated.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
The relationship between government regulation/intervention and business freedom is a constantly swinging pendulum. Right now, the pendulum has swung toward regulation because the era of unchecked capitalism led to epic greed and risk taking. The new era won't last forever and government regulation that's implemented today will be eased in the years to come. This is how it is, how it was and how it will always be.
- Kevin Pedraja
I work in banking. One of the TARP recipients. I would have preferred that the Government picked up the pieces on the back end (welfare, etc.) than prop up zombie banks and allow the people that took investors money for a fraudulent ride get away unscathed.
- Justin Whitaker
Robert Kenney, what problems do you think the CRA or EPA have caused?
- Andrew C
The CRA is like many government programs, created with good intentions and used as a tool for political power. Community groups such as ACORN used the CRA to bully banks into business they otherwise would not participate in, at the risk of losing the ability to grow, merge, or operate in new markets via increased regulation. This created a market for non-CRA regulated banks to fuel the sub-prime growth and crash. Ask any banker if the CRA has impacted their business overall for better or worse.
- Robert Kenney
The only problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
- Glen Mistletoe
True. And the only problem with crony capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
- Sean McBride
@Anthony: i agree with you when you say: "I hate this attitude that "they" are going to do this to the population - and that the population has no power to stop it, no choice. It's a bit pathetic and we get what we ask for." I think "the people" could stop it, but at the end of the day, I think a lot of people don't really want to do the hard work it would require to make these kinds of changes. It's easier for most to just play along, and "get theirs." as long as it's not them who's hurt, status quo's OK.
- .LAG liked that
@Robert Kenney - I don't follow how responsible lending to the community 'created a market for non-CRA regulated banks to fuel the sub-prime growth'. So if banks weren't doing enough to lend in their communities, the subprime market would have stayed small? How do you figure?
- Andrew C
When was the last time anyone below the elected level in Govenment was held responsible for their actions?
- Robert Hafer
@LAG - totally agree re: people not wanting to do the hard work. We're paying the price for sure.
- Anthony Citrano
Bilderberg Group - That is all.
- Bwana ☠
@Bwana - I knew the "secret society" conspiracy theories would rear their heads sooner or later. that is all.
- Anthony Citrano
Pop quiz for Anthony: which leading members of the Obama administration have also been Bilderberg Group attendees? Ditto for the Bush 43 administration? What traits do they have in common?
- Sean McBride
Sean: I lost you at "Pop Quiz" :). Out with it.
- Roberto Bonini
Let me wait for Anthony's response, please. :) (Please keep in mind that I am very hard-nosed about conspiracy theories -- I always focus on well-documented facts. Wordnet: hard-nosed; hardheaded: "guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory.")
- Sean McBride
C'mon, Anthony, the new FriendFeed ain't great, but it's not exactly "pillage and murder."
- Glen Mistletoe
@Sean: I'm declining your pop quiz; you and I've been around this merry-go-round enough.
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony -- I really don't understand your point of view on this issue, since you are eminently reasonable on nearly every subject. Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross are just a few key Bilberberg Group attendees in the Obama administration -- Summers and Geithner have been rather prominent in the news lately, as you have no doubt noticed. When I see data clusters like this, I pay attention.
- Sean McBride
US capitalism has been through worse then this.
- John Flynn
Here is an interesting set to fill: Bilderberg Group attendee /and neoconservative /or neoliberal. And another: Bilderberg Group attendee /and Iraq War ringleader. The Bilderberg Group appears to be the most influential social network in global (and American) power elite politics. Perhaps Anthony can name a social network which is more powerful -- I'm all ears. Why shouldn't this be a subject of intense and hardheaded investigative journalism?
- Sean McBride
John Flynn - yes, but to me it is an open question whether the US can confront the robber barons the way it had to, and did, back during the Great Depression.
- Andrew C
@Sean - where it breaks down for me is very simple & I've expressed it on your feed a couple of times. It's one thing to say some of these events/groups/conferences internetwork the most influential people in the world. I don't object to that; in fact, quite the contrary: I agree with you. But I do object to the "secret society" New World Order conspiracy theories - and that's what my comment was referring to. I'm not suggesting that you are/were advancing those types of conspiracy theories, btw.
- Anthony Citrano
Also, agree w/ what Andrew C just said. And I'll go a little further than Andrew: @John - no, it hasn't.
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony -- once one sets aside nonsensical conspiracy theories, one is still left with the fact that the Bilderberg Group appears to be the most influential social network in global (and American) power elite politics. It is a subject which certainly merits detailed study and discussion, in my opinion. Oh: add Robert Gates to the BG list, along with Summers, Geithner, Holbrooke and Ross. There are others in the Obama administration. I am also struck by the high number of PNAC members in the BG.
- Sean McBride
A few Bilderberg Group attendees for those who are curious: Bill Clinton, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Dennis Ross, Douglas Feith, Evan Bayh, George Mitchell, Henry Kissinger, Hillary Clinton, James Steinberg, Jay Rockefeller, John Bolton, John Deutch, Ken Mehlman, Lawrence Summers, Madeleine Albright, Marc Grossman, Michael Ledeen, Paul Wolfowitz, Philip Zelikow, Richard Holbrooke, Richard Perle, Robert Gates, Robert Kagan, Robert Zoellick, Sandy Berger, Terry McAuliffe, Timothy Geithner, William Luti.
- Sean McBride
What was this thread about again?
- Anthony Citrano
Pandas =)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Anthony -- you don't think there is any connection between the Geithner-Summers Plan, and the role of Wall Street oligarchs in the current economic meltdown, and the power elite organizations and social networks to which they belong? Not much dot-connecting required here. From where are these policies originating?
- Sean McBride
I like pandas.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Ok -- Anthony clearly doesn't want to discuss the Bilderberg Group. :) I'll retire the topic in this thread with this comment. I have a high respect for Anthony's analysis of politics overall -- he's usually right on the beam.
- Sean McBride
@Anthony: this is a thread that got 'hi-jacked.' without wading too deeply into @Sean's Bilderberg--Illuminati--Committee of 300 ideas, I'll submit that the kind of nefarious coordination between highly influential people doesn't have to be secret at all. They meet right in front of our faces. And then the next thing we know, terms like "free trade zones," "1000 points of light" and "GLOBAL financial crisis" are injected into our lexicon...and then next we know, we're pwnd... like right now.
- .LAG liked that
For the record, I didn't mention the "Illuminati" or "Committee of 300." Much of the proceedings of the Bilderberg Group is an open book -- Google it, and you will be inundated with many solid and well-documented facts. Obama's administration is thoroughly dominated by Bilderbergers -- that is a fact. So, too, were the Bush 43 and Clinton administrations.
- Sean McBride
@Sean: duly noted. it was i who was connecting dots you didn't draw.
- .LAG liked that
LAG: Thanks. :) I confine my interest in conspiracy theorizing to fiction, where it provides wonderful plot devices....
- Sean McBride
@Sean... LOLz! If only what's happening right now WERE fiction, then it would all make sense. any way you slice it: we're f**ked... or heading that way real fast. <sigh>
- .LAG liked that
Let me get this straight...a bit of adverse reaction got 15 AIG executives to pay back those bonuses...and you think you're F***ed? LAG, it just goes to show people will always try to get away with things if everyone's silent or thinking they can't do much about it. And yet, that reaction to AIG showed those execs can be guilt-induced to do the right thing. In the sixties, we used to call accepting things as unchangeable as "defeatist." Anyway, it does need some centrist approaches right now.
- George Hall (Australia)
@George: please tell me you're kidding about the bonuses. So I guess if Madoff sent his victims a nice fruit basket, they'd basically be square? So grandstanding pols managed to guilt a small number of execs into forgoing ~$40 million in bonuses. The company extorted $180 *billion* from the US Treasury... the other 99.975% of the money has evaporated. And they'll be asking for more.
- Anthony Citrano
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@George - the bonus giveback was a nice start, but it is literally (at best!) a thousandth of the problem.
- Andrew C
@George: I'm not even talking about AIG -- but that's symbolic of the problem, a very small symbol, sort of a like a hood ornament on a stretch limousine... a super stretch limousine. and a fruit basket would be nice, but those AIG guys would probably give baskets full of wormy apples and rotting berries. Thanks...for nothing.
- .LAG liked that
@Chris Baskind: +!
- imabonehead
@George: I very much agree with your assessment, however, that the Silence Of The Plebs is a *huge* part of the problem.
- Anthony Citrano
The 'Silence of the Plebs' isn't an accident, Anthony. The bulk of America so used to a slow-rolling bureaucracy (think of a trip to the DMV, the county clerk's office, city hall) that they're fed up with the concept of government in general, and have no real belief that they as an individual can have a real impact in specific. Almost every single rep at the federal level is well off, white, with a law degree. The plebs don't feel like they can (or even should) understand much less affect that government.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Exactly Tina. I think of it like this. Walmart has long lines, people bitch and complain about the company. DMV has long lines and it's the same old crap. In reality, both are the same old crap, but because we're paying for something we feel we can bitch. i'd rather see people bitch about the bloat of government than the "evil" corporations that we allowed to be evil when we allowed government to get so big and out of our hands to allow them to be in bed with all the corporations.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
@Tina: i think in olden times, they defined this "slow-rolling beauracracy" you describe with the term "checks and balances." Where were these checks and balances when they ripped up Glass-Steagall and created the financial conditions we're witnessing today?
- .LAG liked that
Not exactly, LAG. Checks and balances implies a government that is responsive and informed, able to keep other branches from overstepping their legal bounds. Personally, I think it's been a long, long time since we've had a real checks and balances system. Perhaps not even in my lifetime.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
....ooops @Tina... see my edit, I didn't have the "pause" button on before I finished... lost my place.
- .LAG liked that
@Tina - you may be right, but it's a choice the plebs have made. They will now live with the consequences of that choice. Individuals can - and do - make a difference. But to do so, one must turn off the TV, pick up the phone/keyboard/car keys/etc and get their asses out there and actually do it. But there's always something on TV or on sale at the mall that's more important. If we actually demanded something - whatever it might be - we could have it. But historically we don't give enough of a shit.
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony, I guess the question then is this: what keeps us in front of the TV and in the malls? Why don't we give a shit? I ask because the TV, the malls: they come from somewhere. Someone wants us vegging and shopping. Perhaps it's "Corporate America" milking us dry, perhaps its the government itself using modern life as the new opiate of the masses. Or a li'l bit of both... The fact remains, though, that the only group who DOESN'T benefit from an apathetic public is the public.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
What keeps us there? That's simple: apathy and laziness. I've witnessed it my whole life to great frustration. Sorry, but I don't buy the idea that we're victims of anything beyond our own daily choices. It is a conspiracy of our own making. We've spent an entire generation making a very nasty bed - and now we get to lay in it.
- Anthony Citrano
So, you don't think there are groups that have a vested interest in keeping the American public lazy and apathetic? Or, there are such groups, but the fact that they have a vested interest in a lazy and apathetic public somehow doesn't translate to them actively encouraging such a state?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
crap wish I could remember the name of the movie I just watched last week on google video...I think it would help your case better Tina, because i agree with you
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Every time I have this conversation I am reminded of my years in Boston, the birthplace of the Great American Experiment. Because of my background/govt work/etc, I often went to political events / fundraisers / hearings / and so on. You could hear the crickets at such things. Empty chairs everywhere. But when the Patriots won the Super Bowl, 1.5 million people showed up for the parade and the party...
- Anthony Citrano
...the city was paralyzed. 1.5 million people! More people than live in my entire home state of Maine. Do you realize what we citizens could accomplish if 1.5 million people showed up on the steps of the US Capitol and demanded something.. anything? Nothing - absolutely, positively nothing - would be off the table with a demonstration of solidarity of that magnitude. But neh, we're busy watching “The Bachelorette” in high-def. It's really heartbreaking.
- Anthony Citrano
How much money did that Super Bowl bring in, Anthony? How much money does The Million Man March bring in?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So people are drawn to it like moths to a flame because it costs them money? To your question about vested interests; I don't buy it. There is no conspiracy to keep us dumb and happy - and frankly I think it's a copout to say that there is. Although I should say - there is no conspiracy that cannot be revealed by the nearest mirror.
- Anthony Citrano
No, silly =) I'm saying the organizers have a more vested interest in getting people there because it MAKES them money. There were a lot of brains and talent behind that Super Bowl event, making sure they got each and every one of those seats filled. I'm sure there were amazing people involved in the Million Man March, but I guarantee you they didn't have the manpower the Super Bowl had for organization, PR, advertising, etc. There wasn't as much money to be made, so people didn't put their energy behind it
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
A bit more on the “vested interests” thing: sure, there are market-driven forces everywhere competing for our time and attention. People want to entertain you, sell you neat stuff, make money off you, whatever. But we choose which ones to grant our dollars and attention. We're not robots devoid of free will (we just act like it.)
- Anthony Citrano
I am strangely enjoying being a spectator here. Odd...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Alright, so the average person (not you, not me, because we'll both grant we're not average, right?) is given the choice: pay $100 and get a cushy seat, a once in a life time ticket, a great ball game, a story to tell your friends and family OR for free you get to go walk around in Washington DC and chant and carry a sign. Again: not you, not me, an average person...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
@Tina, I love ya, but in a way you're being harder on people than I am. You're painting all those people as mindless pawns who just do what the idiot box tells them to do. It's no secret that we live in a constitutional republic where the power rests with the People. They don't need to see a TV commercial to know that.
- Anthony Citrano
Wait... If we aren't average how are we supposed to answer the question?
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Anthony, I'm not, I promise. I'm painting the average person as someone with an average IQ: 100. How many people do you know with an IQ of 100?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
So in that sense I agree: most people are morons. And now we get to see what happens when morons hand over all their power and money and authority over to a few jackasses to do whatever they want with it, no questions asked (so long as the cable TV is working, that is.) It's gonna be very very interesting, and not in a good way.
- Anthony Citrano
MVB, stop stirring the pot my friend =) You have an imagination and the ability to step outside your own realm of reality. I've seen you do it before, once or twice.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That's my point, sadly. The populous, in general and by statistics, is vastly underinformed and ill-equipped to make a real effort or stand up for themselves in this kind of situation. Our options are either sit back and call them silly, apathetic fools or try to do something about it.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
*retreats to the sidelines*
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
BTW, this is where my inner literati comes out and I say George Orwell was wrong with his whole 1984 thing. And who nailed it? Aldous Huxley with Brave New World. See also: Neil Postman, "Amusing Ourselves To Death."
- Anthony Citrano
Alright, I think someone has hijacked MVB's account. He's enjoying being a spectator, not willing to engage in conjecture, and now is retreating to the sidelines? Body snatcher!!! And Anthony: why do you think Aldous Huxley gets you on the special library list while George Orwell and Ayn Rand don't? ;-) (sorry, have to feed the conspiracy theorists something)
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
LOL I'm just passing a little time at this charity thing and can't really engage.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
@Tina - totally agree with you on the general populace and their capacity/ability (or lack thereof) - and that's what I was saying originally. Difference is, you're compassionate and nice about it, and want to find a way to help lift these people up. Conversely, I'm in a bit of a tough-love mode recently.
- Anthony Citrano
It's not about being nice (though that is my view, true enough). It's pragmatic. Revolutions are historically led by the poor, hungry, desperate, downtrodden 'average' man. Governments topple, castles are plundered, and heads roll when things get too bad for the general populace.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Aldous Huxley is near and dear to my heart for reasons I won't get into here (lest I hijack my own thread.) But they're obvious to all but the most casual acitrano-observer. And shit, I'm already on all kinds of lists. I know this because I get to see them. ;)
- Anthony Citrano
Wait, you get to see them? Oh my... Remind them to update the post-it on page 57, would you? Thanks!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Interesting thread filled with thoughtful and passionate thoughts. Even with this level of engagement with this topic, it still feels like much of the conversation and reactions are just scratching the surface of the problem.
- Christian Anderson
What strikes me is how we are still clinging to our ideology. "Capitalism caused this," "the administration is socialist," "AIG bonuses." Really? Was it really AIG's fault or the republicans? Are the Ds really ruining the country?
- Christian Anderson
Seems to me we're not being intellectually honest about addressing what got us here.
- Christian Anderson
Finally found the video i was talking about that will shed some light on all of this and how we got here. This all started when Psychologists got involved and marketing became big. http://video.google.com/videopl... http://video.google.com/videopl... http://video.google.com/videopl... http://video.google.com/videopl... It's a 4 part series from the BBC, watch all of them,
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
and yes I understand the videos are a total of 4 hours long, but it's very interesting to see how we got here.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Also, see http://video.google.com/videopl... for more insight into the financial mess. I really think we are on the brink of collapse, but I think we can build ourselves up again without government. It's all been a web of lies for the last century or so. It's all crumbling down.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Christian Anderson, perhaps I'm being partisan, but it seems to me the problem's causes are these: (1) the collapse of the housing/asset bubble, (2) the fact that the collapse is being drawn out because banks refuse to believe their toxic assets have lost as much value as everyone else thinks, (3) the potential for bank runs wiping out much of the financial system, which (4) the big financial institutions are capitalizing on by basically looting the US government via the AIG insurance contracts they ...
- Andrew C
bought over the last decade or so. AIG's outstanding commitments are (I vaguely believe) around 25% or so of the entire financial crisis. A single player is responsible for that much nominal money - isn't that crazy?
- Andrew C
I tend to take the centrist approach to the politics part. But essentially what I've seen since 1989 fits more with Huxley than Orwell. Then again, history is always cyclical, and even times like the last twenty will still yield to a change toward the opposite direction. Sadly, the nicer middle-ground periods don't last long. Let's also face the facts there is still a building backlash to the greed of the extremist versions of capitalism. It still needs some checks/balances to happen, and renew ethics.
- George Hall (Australia)
Actually, Tina, your point about revolutions is pretty wrong, from a historical perspective. Revolutions are usually led by those from the middle to upper classes who convince the poor and downtrodden that it's in their interest to rebel. (see: Castro, Fidel; Adams, Sam; Zedong, Mao, for example).
- Kevin Pedraja
Kevin, I'm looking beyond the past 100 years. There hasn't really been a middle class for the bulk of human history.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, OK, but why? What relevance do revolutions that happened, say, 400 years ago have for modern society? For all of the talk about how devastating this recession is, we still haven't seen unemployment levels approach anywhere close to those in the Great Depression (upwards of 25%). And we didn't have a revolution then.
- Kevin Pedraja
Cleaner FriendFeed (New Beta) - 04/06/09 | userstyles.org - http://userstyles.org/styles...
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Changelog: -- removed the grey background -- removed the bar background and made it subtle -- some font size changes -- some spacing adjustments -- select text background changed
- AJ Batac
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* Cleaner and cool look and feel (FriendFeed is already clean, this makes it a lot cleaner) * Different font style * Highlights friends comments with baby yellow (instantly know that the user is already your friend) * Highlights your comments with baby blue (it’s cool to see your own comments from river of comments. Looks good when you are a distance away your computer, makes your...
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- AJ Batac
yay!
- mjc
This userstyle brings the FriendFeed conversation to another level by instantly letting you know… 1) Your own comment (Powder Blue) 2) Your friends comments (Light Yellow) 3) Your non-friends comments (Normal FriendFeed Comment Color) 4) Likes (Light Pink)
- AJ Batac
As FriendFeed becomes popular, you’ll definitely need some kind of instant and attention grabbing color that catches your eyes and tell you where you left off in a conversation. Hope you like it.
- AJ Batac
Well THAT didn't take long.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
MUCH better :-)
- andy brudtkuhl
Now I have to move over to FireFox?
- CW™
Nice AJ. I'm considering installing Chrome v2 just to use this Greasemonkey script. You fixed all the UI nitpicks I have. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Congrats aj.
- Alp
you legend. :)
- Zee.
THANK YOU!
- Rochelle
Installed and liking... wish the font was a tad bigger but I can adjust that :)
- Bwana ☠
could you block the logo also?
- mjc
installing - lovely- although there is something in having the "main area" diff. from the rest of the screen as in the original design - must play and see what works better for me
- Naor Mark
That's much better, thanks AJ
- Sally Church
Good work!
- Rich
i like colour isn't too much white hard on your eyes
- Damian Holmes
mjc, it won't look good. but you can use this (#logo img { display:none !important; })
- AJ Batac
That looks much better! Maybe the FF devs can adopt that scheme.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
really clean and cool.
- Jansen Lu
That was fast man!
- JazJaz
wow thanks aj
- Alfredo
that looks much better
- RAPatton
thank U
- Andrea | amnesiak1978
agreed...should have been this way from the start :)
- Nick
Damn, AJ...fast work! Awesome as usual! :)
- JA Castillo
great - hate the grey!
- Gaby K. Slezák
thank U
- Andrea | amnesiak1978
wow that was fast... I don't mind the gray, but this is a nice option for those complainers who don't
- Nathan Chase
Switched already and I'm lovin' this script - much nicer!
- Sally Church
I cleaned it up further. If you've downloaded it already, edit and change this line (.bar {border:none !important; background:none !important;background-color:#C8DCF5 !important;}) ;) much better without those borders on bars ;)
- AJ Batac
(too lazy for looking up the line - re-installed :)
- Naor Mark
Same as Naor, but yeah it is nicer :-)
- Sally Church
this is fantastic - loving life with a #112 body :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
Wow AJ, nice job. I hope FF takes notice.
- Andrew Smith
AJ that was fast!
- Susan Beebe
Much better AJ!
- AJ Kohn
Wow. Nice. Thank you!
- Ken Sheppardson
I can't tell... are you mimicking the effect of the little yellow halo around the comment bubble when it's inserted into a page you're viewing? Ah... there it is... the halo's still there. Might be nice to have the entire comment's color fade. Skill Level 2.0 ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Thanks AJ!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I love the comment HIGHLIGHT COLORS - blue = mine :) Friends = yellow = cool!!! thanks
- Susan Beebe
@Susan Wasn't that apart of the beta already?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
@Shey, nope.
- AJ Batac
Wow, this style is gorgeous! Blows the default beta away. Still no fan of fixed-width but if devs go with this style and the new functionality, it's enough win for me.
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@robot, here's one for you -> Widescreen version (http://beta.friendfeed.com/ajbatac...) or fluid/liquid
- AJ Batac
Widescreen...for...the....WIN
- Bwana ☠
I do wish links were in a different colour or <strong>
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
How cool is this!
- Charlie Anzman
WOW tnx I love it
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
this is great. thanks!
- Peter van Teeseling
Made it use Segoe UI pt 11, and looks much better :D
- Yuvi
This is much more visually appealing. You rock!
- Justin Whitaker
I really like this. Thank you, good sir.
- Brandon Ball
OMG AJ, this is SO MUCH better! Thank you!
- Phil G
Someone make this a sticky. :)
- JazJaz
That's way better! Thanks a bunch :)
- Maryam Ardakani
Awesome AJ! But what took you so long?
- Edward Zwart
♥♥♥♥♥ Thanks!!
- Alix Whitmire
I switched to Firefox just to use your layout - it helps.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
AJ - Would you give permission to FF bosses to just steal your setup and implement it? It's just a whole lot nicer.
- Matthew DeVries
free to modify, free to whatever you want to do with it. ;)
- AJ Batac
hey dude you got mentioned in the read write web http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Alfredo
@alfredo, Thanks.
- AJ Batac
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This is wonderful in FireFox
- Anthony K. Valley ©
Thank you, AJ, you rock!
- Michelle Martinez
Awesome!! I'm using it right now.
- Mark Layton
Gosh, that's better, thanks for the Beta FF version - I've been used CleanerFF since using FF.
- Kol Tregaskes
This is VERY nice. Well done!
- Tony
@wiredryo You really like colors? I find them distracting and cheap-looking. Just my style though, maybe. I like minimalism.
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WOO-HOO! Now THAT is more like it!
- Steven Perez
So much better. Thanks! <3
- ♥patricia♥
That's wonderful. Thank you!
- joey
Even cleaner without avatars in the feed: http://userstyles.org/styles...
- Meryn Stol
Really enjoying the Cleaner FF. By the popularity of this thread, I'm assuming many are not really happy with the gray background and colored sidebar boxes.
- Ricardo Vidal
I personally have not much trouble with the new color scheme. Try removing the avatars, they are really noisy. Just try to experience the difference.
- Meryn Stol
colored and + fontsized the post titles, as i prefer to catch the posts rather then the comments, it really works.
- Yunus Tunak
AJ - Could you maybe make one that moves the filters and subscriptions over to the left side, turns off the real time, makes the avatars disappear and replace them with icons showing what service provided the post. Maybe as a finishing touch add the ability to post things to our rooms/groups?
- Matthew DeVries
http://beta.friendfeed.com/ for new look
- Yunus Tunak
Feels so much better.
- Valley
Application error (Apache) Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html :(
- Helen Sventitsky
I changed the background for #f8f8fc because it doesn't look as good when it's just as white as the main column. Having it an off-white like that is a lot nicer. Just a suggestion.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Also, I turned off highlighting of friend comments (although not my own) because you all chat too much. :)
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
this is awesome. thanks so much!
- Karoli
great! i disliked beta's grey background. :-)
- browneyes
Much better! I don't mind the constant flow, but wasn't a fan of the new design.
- Vince DeGeorge
Done. and loving it. Thanks AJ!
- Dave
AJ, you da man! I like it very much. :)
- imabonehead
I tweaked it so all it really did was get rid of the gray background, but left the font sizes and colors alone. Now it looks REALLY good to me. Will screenshot it now. Thanks, AJ!
- Josh Haley
Using this now... soooo much better! :D
- Brandon
i love it! :)
- pm10
love it! seems better!
- Business Blogger【ツ】™
very nice, thanks :D
- PaperDoll
wow, just installed this, way better!
- Marcos Marado
I agree! I think I like this much better. The Gray background was getting to me.
- Kreg Steppe
Still prefer the post options from the 'old' freindfeed interface - they were out front & more available for on-the-fly, intuitive changing
- awd
@Aaron, I like the new one better. ;)
- AJ Batac
Great job, AJ. Soooo much better. I hope that FF notices that we like their original clean design better and incorporate it into beta again so that I don't need a script for this.
- Carmen
<too lazy to read through the comments> if you're using stylish, but aren't crazy about the Trebuchet MS font, go to Tools > Stylish > Manage Styles. Select "Cleaner FriendFeed" and click the Edit button. Go to line 8 and remove "Trebuchet MS" from the font-family declaration (font-family:"Trebuchet MS","Arial","Serif" !important;)</too lazy to read through the comments>
- tiffany
Updated: For widescreen monitors (http://userstyles.org/styles...) / Normal width (http://userstyles.org/styles...)
- AJ Batac
Beta Friendfeed Helvetica Edition - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Burak Dönertaş
What if this were your personal Opening Day for your career? What would you do differently? (Why not go ahead and do it?)
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"Over the years I have been creating lots of confusing, busy yet at the same time, meaningful and insightful emergent media diagrams. These attempt to help the uninitiated heritage media folk, get to grips with a multiplatform, shifting-social-media-sands, transmogodified entertainment landscape…breathe."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
that totally fucks me up, that ball thing on the side. Totally
- sofarsoShawn
How I manage my todo-list? A really simple and efficient way: I have ONE big text file on my desktop and I write or delete stuff in it. Really, that's it.
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it's very easy to seach for text in a text file, I can put things in any order, I can edit it very easily anywhere. All in all, managing my tasks shouldn't be A task for me :)
- directeur
I like http://www.rememberthemilk.com, primarily because I can reference it everywhere, i.e. web site, within gmail, and via the command line with a little Perl client.
- Ken Sheppardson
...oh, and don't forget to go adopt David Allen's GTD methodology :-) http://www.davidco.com/
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, I tried RTM since its first days actually, and I have tried many other tools too. But (at least for me) nothing beats a text file.
- directeur
Directeur: Don't tell anybody, but I always seem to end up going back to index cards, ala http://www.kensheppardson.com/2007...
- Ken Sheppardson
That's smart Ken! :) I have a little thingy like this in my pocket, I don't use it often, since I'm almost all the time with a computer, but it definitely helps in some situations!
- directeur
I've tried them all and nothing works as well as simply emailing myself. It's searchable, orderable (want it higher in the list? Just reply to the email causing it to bump up in the Gmail interface), and most importantly: available on any computer/phone
- Benjamin Golub
i have a small (very thin) pocket notebook (3in x 5in) that holds a tear-off pad of paper and a small pen. goes everywhere w/ me. if i think of something important (to-do, phone no., idea, etc.) it goes there. when i get to home/office i transfer or execute as needed. paper is torn off and tossed out.
- MikeAmundsen
used to use tasktoy [http://tasktoy.com/] cuz it would work on desktop and mobile device, but i found it kept falling out of sync (my fault, of course). so i stick w/ my paper and pen<g>.
- MikeAmundsen
Yay for text files!
- Justin Whitaker
posting about my own thoughts on the subject :)
- mjc
i've fought against text files in the past... but at the end of the day, simplicity really does win. My big problem with the 1BTF approach is sharability- many of my tasks are either shared responsibility, or shared visibility (i.e., me and my wife are working on a project, my manager wants to see progress on a project, etc). the best solution i've come up with so far is........... big huge whiteboards. one at home, one at work.
- Chris Hollander
What can I say... am trying to solve the whole "to-do/GTD" puzzle... am giving both Evernote and RTM a shot... Evernote lacks proper "alerting"... and typing notes in RTM is cumbersome... man... don't really know ups and downs on this one... oh.. and does needing to add more content in notes make my "need" a GTD...really?
- Thomas Jeppesen
anyone using gmail to-do list?
- MikeAmundsen
i have tried RTM, Things, Evernote, storing to-dos in my gmail as draft, sending mails (ben g's method), Zoho Planner. not tried: gmail to-do list. sticking with evernote for now. criterion is: rich text (highlighting et al), available on internet & iPhone, easy to type in & save, search, take pics of whiteboard & upload.
- kartik vaithyanathan
this is actually how i always do. notepad on iphone for shopping - maximum. i either simply can't get used to GTDs, or just not that busy.. (or is it just good memory..)
- ilovo
OneNote + DropBox = awesomeness
- Jemm
I have a notebook and a pen.
- Onur Gündüz
I couldn't live w/o RTM. Tags, smart lists, reminders...it's great.
- Matt
@RobGlaser they don't have solutions--they're finance people. :-) clearly innovation + investment = job creation = recovery. Agree?
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