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Their strategy was a success! - DeWitt Clinton

There's all this stuff over there. Photos and people and stuff. I have to admit, I haven't logged in for a few months. - Matt Cutts

Facebook is where I can be real friends with the people I last saw in elementary school. Or I could hang around Twitter, FriendFeed, and blogs, and interact with the entire web. Tough choice. - DeWitt Clinton

Bummer that you had to have over 1,000 fans to get a Page name, though. - Cathryn Peters

I'm more concerned about reserving Wave usernames. :) - Ray Cromwell

If it isn't it should be. - Brent - Loving Life

Oh man, I sure hope it is! - AJ Kohn

"A.I.G. executives say that they are contractually obligated to pay the bonuses to their executives, including those who are part of the A.I.G. division where the company’s crisis originated." Hmm, what if that's actually true? No matter, it surely isn't actually true, at least not for all of them. - ⓞnor

If you are contractually obligated to pay a bonus, why isn't it "salary"? - Bret Taylor

Easy way around the contract problem. Give the folks who are set to get these bonuses a choice.... take the bonus and lose your job. Refuse the bonus and keep your job. AIG has failed so spectacularly that they need billions in bailouts so I can't see the problem with firing a few of the folks responsible. - Jeff Jones

One of the arguments is that AIG will lose all the talented people if they don't pay the bonuses. Think about that for a minute... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Yeah, 'cause we may as well throw out all of our contract laws also. Who needs them? The government will keep us all nice & cozy. Now run along. - Craig Eddy

Contracts can be renegotiated. For instance, the gov't basically required the UAW to renegotiate their contracts when GM was bailed out, and something similar could have happened with AIG. - Larry Greenfield

Corporate thieves.. come on lets call a spade a spade !! - Peter Dawson

That's fine Larry. But what this sounds like it class envy, pure and simple. Just like we rarely see a definition of "rich" when we hear "tax the rich", I'd like to see what "executive" actually means. - Craig Eddy

I rarely hear "tax the rich" at all outside of straw-man arguments. And being upset that people who work for me are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for their abysmal performance has more to do with agency and accountability than envy. - Jim Norris

Ahhhh.. you knew the right wing class warfare drivel would be spewed forth sometime in this discussion. Come on Eddy, after eight years of the greatest transfer of wealth from the middle class to the top 5% it's "class envy" to be outraged about taxpayer money going to pay bonuses for the people who caused the need for the bailout in the first place? Get another schtick.. no one is buying that one anymore. - Jeff Jones

Jim I feel that way about Congresscritters, as well. Anything we can do about that? - MVB (Grinch of FF)

Bret: A contractually obligated bonus can differ from a salary because the bonus is usually set by some sort of performance metric, whereas salaries are fixed. Those metrics may no longer seem sensible to you or I, but the contract stands. Larry: You can only renegotiate if the counterparty has a reason to come to the table. The UAW did; these guys don't, really -- they will take their money and split no matter what. And unlike the UAW, these are many contracts with many individuals. - ⓞnor

Jeff: "Take the bonus and lose your job" is probably exactly what they are hoping for right now. Wouldn't you, if the bonus was millions of dollars, and the job was with a pariah company in federal receivership? Unlike the UAW workers, these guys don't care about keeping their job. - ⓞnor

As opposed to the UAW worker who cared only about his job, and not the company or the quality of the product... - MVB (Grinch of FF)

"these guys don't care about keeping their job" ... amazing how some presume to speak for "these guys" and (more than likely) have no idea who the hell they're talking about. The worse thing to come of all this (besides the fact that we did it at all) is the de-humanizing of the corporation. This isn't some anonymous evil mastermind that's getting this bonus. - Craig Eddy

Craig, who's demonizing who here? Contractually guaranteed bonuses are common at financial firms, but only for people making a very large amount of money. I'm just saying that it's very likely the recipients of AIG's contractual bonuses have no reason to want to trade their bonus (likely millions of dollars) for their job (which kind of sucks right now), and that's why the UAW comparison is not a good one. - ⓞnor

But I am very happy to say that the wealthy individuals who engineered a system of "regulatory arbitrage" (fraud) creating one of the greatest concentrations of unaccounted financial risk ever known, which is now holding the world hostage and requiring hundreds of billions of taxpayer money, can do without their bonus this year. You can howl about envy and class warfare all you like, but they fucked up massively, the government bought them out, and they can now eat their damn crow and go home. - ⓞnor

ⓞnor++ - Kevin Scott

Again, let's not assume that "wealthy individuals" are the onces getting the majority of these bonuses. Especially since the Washington Post dispels that misinformation in a recent article: "some of the upcoming bonuses are relatively modest once they are divided among employees. About 4,700 people in the company's global insurance units are receiving $600 million in retention pay. In... more... - Craig Eddy

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn... - Craig Eddy

"AIG's top seven executives, including Liddy, already agreed in November to forgo their bonuses through this year. Last week, AIG agreed to restructure bonuses for the next 43 highest ranking officers at the company, who are to receive half of their bonuses -- which total $9.6 million" - Craig Eddy

i busted out laughing when I first saw this - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Holy crap, man. 101% LOL - Akiva Moskovitz

ROTFL - Parth Awasthi

too funny. - Jasmin Smith

Oh...my... - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

NOW why was Shey google-image searching strippers? hmmm - Caroline

lol umm... - Shey, Jamaican of FF

OMG!!!!!!!! that's tooo funny - Susan Beebe

OMG this is horrible! LOL - Adriana

))) - Mehdi saberioon

Hahaha :D - Joe Dawson

That is hysterical! - Aaron Schaub

bling bling! - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

submit it to the Failblog... ;-) - Bora Zivkovic

Wow. That's wrong on many levels. And hilarious. Very hilarious. - Give 'Em DBizness

holy crap. farking hilarious. - DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE

Looks more like a hammer... - Tyson Key

OMG.. I'm putting it on my Facebook. - Cyndy

i havent laughed like this in a long time - took me a minute to get it haha thanks - Allen Stern

Shey, if you put it on Flickr or your blog or something, we can link back to it and spread the word.... - Bora Zivkovic

I don't get .......ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! LOL! - Mike Lewis

you guys are retard i have seen this image 50 times on the internet somewhere....TIRED OF U PEOPLE GOING NUTS OVER SHIT THAT IS SOO BLATANTLY OLD it makes u look inexperienced - Caroline

Holy crap, who pissed in Caroline's corn flakes this morning? - Peter Ghosh

Caroline, on behalf of all of FriendFeed, I humbly offer our sincerest apologies for not consulting with you first to get permission to post something that you may have seen but others may have not. - Akiva Moskovitz

I’m deliberately un-liking this and then re-liking it just to bring it to the top and spite Caroline. - Guillermo Esteves

submitted to reddit! http://www.reddit.com/r... - Joshua Hatfield

lol least i got that out off my chest..akiva but 89 people? 89 smart and intelligent bloggers? content managers etc. - Caroline from twhirl

Makes sense to me :) - Charlie Anzman

LOL@Guillermo ! - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I've seen it before. Ive even posted it before ( to stumbleupon ), But that's ok. It's still funny as shit. I'd much rather look inexperienced than come off like I have that "shovel" she's selling shoved up my ass.....sideways. - Tony, Paradox of FF

Apparently, this is the note from the mom to the teacher: Dear Mrs. Jones, I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over... more... - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Where's your hat? :P (j/k) - Chrimmus Tad

You and Friendfeed are connected. It's the way it was meant to be. - Charlie Anzman

you did 5000 comments and 4000 likes in 24 hrs?! - WorldofHiglet

@World, no... talking in aggregate over 12 months. - Louis Gray

Oh. Right. Obviously. How silly of me. - WorldofHiglet

Great stuff. I'm still 50% behind you, but you had a head start :-) - Duncan Riley

@World, I know what you mean, you have to read Louis comment twice to work out it wasn't 5,000 comments in the last 24 hours, lol. - Kol Tregaskes

I just hit 1000 comments recently and I only really started participating in late August: http://friendfeed.com/e... I'm expecting even more great things from FriendFeed! - Daniel J. Pritchett

Louis Gray, social media R0ckStar!! - Sarah Perez

OMG I just looked at mine... *freaks out!* I have 9319 Likes / 5573 Comments! holy cow!! not even a year yet for me (joined Mar 1 2008) - Susan Beebe

Louis, I humbly bow to your superior FriendFeeding. - Toby Graham

I'm pretty sure I found FF b/c of you, or you b/c of FF. You see? You're inextricably linked at this point! - colleen wainwright

It does seem like a big number at first, Louis, but to put it in perspective, check your monthly, weekly, daily averages - Slappy Line

@Slippy: Where can I find that? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Nom nom - Johnny Worthington

This is an all new high. - Andrew Trinh

Sugar high, that is. - Brian Chang

I had a heart attack just looking at this! - Toby Graham

I'd be thinking along the lines of diabetes. - Andrew Trinh

I'm thinking those need something salty to go with them. - Cyndy

Nice, but not nice. - Roberto Bonini

Interesting! ok roll those in little pieces of peanuts and it's almost a sundae! - Susan Beebe

i prefer chocolate :) - Hayk H.

I'm with Hayk, chocolate all the way. My teeth hurt just looking at that :p - Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕

Archery Practice? - Stephen Pierzchala

I thought that said CAMEL coated marshmellows at firs... which don't sound as appetizing. - SolidSmack from twhirl

I want to eat those right now! amazing! - Kipp Bodnar

The more I see Paul and April communicating this way, the more it appears they have separate residences. - Louis Gray

Louis, we are all one residence on FriendFeed - Jesse Stay

+10 Jesse - Mathew A. Koeneker

OMG. I think I would OD on those. - Fa La La La Lindsay

the caramel coating is thin and crispy and they are still quite delicious the second day :P - bob

Cashew nuts. Amazing with caramel :) - Vamsee

Are these going to make it into the office? I'd be much happier giving one of these a try than more bacon cookies! - Kevin Fox

this batch is pretty much taken care of but maybe another one can be produced :P - bob

How did you make them? - Bill

pretty simple - just heated a cup of sugar with a 1/2 cup of water until it melted and most of water was boiled off, heated it further until was a nice golden color and then just dipped each marshmallow - bob

I can feel the pain from toothaches as I see this - anna sauce

The pain tells you it's awesome - Mo Kargas

Mmmmn, served with a nice glass of port. - Janet Fouts

wow sugar-coated sugar. - Kelly W.

Hum... The purpose? the use? :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

Next: car mounted version - Ken Sheppardson

Awesome flamethrower! - Mitchell Tsai

Somebody is gonna put an eye out with that thing. - Chris Baskind

Got to love diy flame throwers - Czar

Directuer, this is part of urban warfare and survival tactics training. Maybe this kid got his hands /idea from the some army guy or he just did it for kicks :)- - Peter Dawson

Somehow, I'm reminded of this joke: What does a redneck say before he dies? "Hey y'all watch this!" - Hutch Carpenter

That's hot! - Adam Lasnik

Hutch, you had me chuckling out loud there. ;) - Mathew A. Koeneker

the words homemade and flamethrower don't fare well in my prognosticating abilities - Cee Bee

me and the ground hog would get along great w/ that. - clarke thomas

Need one of these for weeds. - Larry Huffman

Great addition to one's zombie defense arsenal, that's for sure. - Ken Sheppardson

w o w - JA Castillo

please be careful man - Jason Calacanis

that's like a... real life rocketeer. RAD - Mona Nomura

s'mores? - Frankie Warren

@Blackopsmanners have to totally awesome and speed up darwinism just a bit - Justin Yost

OMG.. what's the opposite of a Fireman? heh - Daynah

http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Sean-Michael Robinson

I love it! - mjc

OMG.... Will come in handy for when those flesh-eating zombies try to take over... - Yule Heibel

My brother used to use hairspray and a lighter ...don't show him this!! hehehe! (LOL @ Hutch's comment above - awesome!!) - Susan Beebe

Oh boy! - Nicholas Kreidberg

OMG I must have that. - Jason Runyan

Perfect gift for the troll who has everything. - Dave Winer

And if this guy blows himself up, we can all pay for his lifelong medical rehabilitation via insurance premiums. - Sal DiStefano

My sister's boyfriend would LOVE this. He's just the type of guy who likes to build crazy, stupid things - David Adam

I know I'd let *my* kid play with a flamethrower in the backyard. Sureyoubet. - Chris Baskind

amazon, sell this now. haha. - mjc from Alert Thingy

You can take my flamethrower when you pry it from my hot, dead hands. - Jim Norris

I live in Northern Cal, we have enough fire thank you very much! - Barb Gonzalez

There is a much simpler and cheaper way of making a flamethrower: http://youtube.com/watch... - Thai Tran

Cool toy! But be careful man. - Jeff P. Henderson

exactly who needs a homemade flamethrower? - Paul Moss from Alert Thingy

Whoa. Judging from the aim on the second pic, those tree's probably are toast by now. - Franklin Naval

nice work idiot - ben rogers from twhirl

The hotness, literally. - David Cancel

this is fantastic - long live This Guy so my pyro bend can continue vicariously through his efforts (realizing, of course, that he may already be dead) - Nate

I want a mug - Alejandro

I'm drooling over this stuff, wishing I had a credit card (and spare change) so I could get something. Sweatshirt, maybe, or golf shirt. *Continues drooling* - Voyagerfan5761

What would be more fun would be pictures of FriendFeed users in FriendFeed shirts/paraphernalia in different locations. I've worn mine in three states. - Louis Gray

That's a great idea Louis! - Paul Buchheit

Been waiting for this :) Order placed for mug, polo, and T. - Mohamed J

What's going on with the boxershorts, they need to be tighter fitting. Looks like a parachute ha! - Joe Dawson

I only got to keep my mug a couple of weeks, then it disappeared from my desk :/ I guess other Googlers are greedy! - Olivier Tharan

The mug looks very nice. - Mike Lewis

how about a T or sweatshirt in black? - Rachel Lea Fox

I already have the t-shirt :) thanks Paul - Loic Le Meur

very cool :-) - Marco Kaiser from twhirl

Will the logo be available in multiple languages? Like, German... :) - Kevin D. White

I think I want the first shirt. Sexy!! - Corvida

I just got my tea mug and stickers. Perfect. I'd get a tshirt too if they came in black. :) - EricaJoy

I'm still waiting for my shirt, JIM. - Kelly

Mug is good for me... - pankaj

It took Google much longer to come out with their coffee mug. - Mike Reynolds

t-shirts are only cool if they're free. any plans to buy a t-shirt cannon and shower mountain view? - Karl Rosaen

And I assume the mug is to drink coffee to use FriendFeed longer? - Ontario Emperor

@Karl: Forget buying one, they should build it. One of the teams at the FIRST FRC Regional in Milwaukee, WI, this year did that. I even got pictures (still on the card; too much to do that's not sorting pictures). - Voyagerfan5761

We want baseball caps! (OK, I want a baseball cap) - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

I'm not sure about the boxer shorts. When I drop my pants, I don't want to have to wonder if others are impressed by my membership or my... - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Boxer shorts that say 'friend feed' is funny to me for some reason. - Eric Rice

http://www.cafepress.com/friendf... - Paul Buchheit

The young bucks and their laptops! - Russellreno

MAC World! - A-Xuan

I see Old Time Candy in that photo. :-) - Louis Gray

Who's that guy in the red on the right? Wait a minute?! He's not a FriendFeeder! Poser! Poser! - April Buchheit

No really, who is that guy? I recognize him from startup school. Is that Paul's brother? They kinda look like each other. - Michael Matuzak

Yeah, that's Paul's brother. I never did think they looked similar even though other people say they do. Apparently they also sound the same, which I personally don't think so either. At any rate, Paul's cuter. - April Buchheit

Interesting thoughts. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Look at the lower graphs. Who says mainstream media is dead. If anything, mainstream media is the enabler of new media. - Omar Ismail

it isn't dead, but it is dying. it isn't the influence that is the measure of its lifespan, but their ledgers. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

Looking at those graphs, my conclusion is actually press doesn't matter, it creates a curiosity pop that quickly goes to zero. What matters seems to be organic growth. Somewhere around July '07, users started sticking, the baseline slope became nonzero, and traffic took off. I guess press pops are good for giving you feedback early on, though. - ⓞnor

Love David's openess. Really interesting graphs - Immad Akhund

where is the friendfeed's various logos to choose from for pasting on blogs? - huixing

slope became nonzero? you mean right after the Time article? Also, why are you ignoring the massive step increase that's precisely synchronized with the Newsweek article? - j1m

It seems hard to believe that the Time article created a long-term positive trend (when lots of previous press had not). The Newsweek step function, maybe could be something. I guess it boils down to what they say: make a product people will actually stick to, and then get some press to start the exponential accumulation rolling. - ⓞnor

The newsweek change is pretty big and crisp, I'm not sure you can explain it away. Poisson model, one process/user, probability of a return-to-site event determined by a stickiness function? - j1m