Another word and the forces will abolish all forms of Cilantro on this planet called Earth, message received from Planet Janet
- Janet
Message to Planet Janet: you know you love it with cilantro, baby.
- Steven Perez
Now see this is the interesting thing: if anybody posts, then you have to. So if everybody keeps posting, you'll just have to keep up with us. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I CAN ATTEST THAT PEA IS, IN FACT, ALL SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE. Argue that, and let's see how mean you really wanna be. In the meantime, my head hurts so discuss this amongst yourselves. You can summarize it for me later.
- pea
Debating tip: never try to get in the last word. Always give your opponent the opportunity to get in the last word. By some sort of mysterious karmic law, your persuasiveness will improve immeasurably. :)
- Sean McBride
Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh!!! As long as he doesn't respond.
- Jimminy
This is a point that can never be proved, nor disproved until all but one of us are dead.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
So... it's kind of like a "tontine" but with a pretty weak payoff?
- Mark Jepsen
Hmmm, actually, it only needs to continue until Steven Perez is dead (of very old age, i of course hope). Our victory is guaranteed. Of course, if friendfeed gets eaten by fb, it's just going to be a race to get the last comment in before the site goes down.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
It's okay, he's got a Catch-22 now. Steven Perez isn't a Bunneh, so long as he doesn't respond. And we all know he refutes his Bunneh status.
- Jimminy
It was real hawt in the town that night! IF I EDIT 18 hours later like now - is your last still last if comments are disabled? A hawt question.
- L Stephen Cleary
Steven is a Bunneh!!! He responded when I said he wasn't. Bunneh's can win if they want.
- Jimminy
Steven, I'm sure that not even you would resort to cheating to get the last word. I vote we just find the comment limit. It's gonna be a number ending in '0'
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
You did see where I said that I like my food scared and running, yeah? Mmmmm, ferret-ka-bobs ...
- Steven Perez
from IM
I do indeed see where this is headed, and no sir, I don't like it. *calls upon the forces of Voltron
- Tsali, The Native of FF
from IM
Sadly, the only Voltron to heed your call is the vehicle Voltron. And I disabled that yo-yo by pulling out the sparks plugs in the car feet.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And what is yo-yo code for in that last statement?
- pea
It's an old Navajo word for "punk-ass bitch".
- Steven Perez
from IM
very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy very busy
- Steven Perez
from IM
VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY
- Steven Perez
from IM
I think friendfeed only put the extra "Add comment" link at the bottom of threads because of this specific thread. It took me a full 20 seconds to scroll from one end of it to the other.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
hmm... 800+ comments on this thread, and this is my first, and probably last comment on this thread. I wonder should I read all the comments, or just post?
- Mike Nencetti
Are you guys still trying to win?
- Steven Perez
from IM
23 years from now, Steven will still check his MSGoogle MyFriendFace feed every morning so he can respond to this post with 3,137,783 comments...
- joe is...
from iPod
After half a month there must have been moment you thought it would not be a real big deal if you eventually should NOT have the last word, I suppose?
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
Now that you've nearly reached 1100 comments, I realized that I hadn't officially "liked" this yet! Error rectified, though you're clearly a comment whore, you show great panache while doing so!
- Mark Jepsen
Ohhh, you mean that place, which is totally faked by a #viciousbunneh who was in cahoots with the government in taking all the alfalfa plants into an underground hidden bunker.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
I will allow you to have the last word. But to take that last word you are surrendering your honor to a den of sightless whores.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Eventually, the whole thread will go backwards to the beginning.
- WorldofHiglet
That sounds like more fun than I imagine you wanted it to.
- Steven Perez
from IM
It was a test. Honor is pride. A den of sightless whores is merely an event that you will carry forever. You have attained the 7th level of enlightenment.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Considering that this thread has only been around since August, and has been shut down for the last two months, that's not too bad.
- Steven Perez
from IM
2012 is just the begining of the 13th Baktun, the long cont calendar doesn't actually run out until sometimes after 4772, that is of course if you stick with only Baktuns and don't use the other 4 higher counts, I just think FF will end in 4217 on planet Tersanzar :)
- Tsali, The Native of FF
Ah, right thread. In that thread, it's asked what you think you smell like. In this thread, I told you what I think you smell like.
- Steven Perez
from IM
I think this has lasted long enough. We already know what has to be the last word, it's already in the original quote. I will put it as the closing comment. I think we will all feel relieved we can now carry on to do greater things. For ourselves, our loved ones and the world.
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
"PageRank assigns a reputation score to the URL where content is published. This makes it a great fit for content that stays put in one location. However, evolving content distribution via blogs, RSS, guest columns, and syndication are a challenge for PageRank. Tweets, retweets, micropublishing, ratings, and comments - even bigger problems. The solution lies in associating reputation with the identity of the author - a PageRank for People."
- Leo Laporte
from Bookmarklet
Reminds me of "wuffie" where personal reputation replaces monetary wealth in Cory Doctorow's DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM.
- Liam Watts
I love that comic. Makes me chukle every time.
- Roberto Bonini
Doctors are catching on to this and have slipped a "patient will not post online comments about doctor" clause into their standard forms. You don't even know you've agreed to it unless you read the whole thing, and who does that?
- jjjobst
Desirable, but immensely difficult: how do you define a "person" for rank purposes? We are talking here about a huge collection of disparate things. And, what if, contrary to the online reputation, the real reputation sucks?
- Nikos Anagnostou
Agree that we need a soltion for this but a Nikos touches upon is need to agree definitions of scope. Others male valid point also some further discussion and thinking required.
- Najeeb Mirza
PersonRank tied to (possibly) OpenId anyone? ...Everytime I click „Like“ FF brain is assigning whuffie to the author of a message.
- Mindaugas Dagys
Doesn't Googles Sentiment Analysis a step in the right direction? It infers sentiment to rank http://www.seobythesea.com/... and “service,” “value,” and “general comments.” Aspects are defined in one of Google’s papers on sentiment analysis as “properties of an object that can be rated by a user.” Unfortunately, Google is attempting to Patent this process.
- Greg
Yup. This made me think of "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" too. If you haven't read it, it's worth it.
- Chad McCoskey
I would say not desirable - relevance is highly relative when it comes to people, and frankly anything that ranks people by the noise they make online and how many people they can get to claim they are great... will produce the wrong kind of behaviour
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I agree with Joelle, mostly. The exceptions would be for trolls and spammers -- it's too much work to be on a constant lookout for trolling, and I'd really like to have an automatic metric which would enable me to automatically filter out such rubbish.
- Nathaniel Thurston
leo: yes indeed, and such a content filter would work well by taking into account the distance through the social graph between the author and each reader, rather than using a fixed measure of the author's reputation for all readers.
- Bob Hitching
from fftogo
But I think it's more fair to rank a document, than a person. This is something we shouldn't do at all.
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Nathaniel - I might agree for spammers, but "trolls" are a difficult thing. Many game changing people were labelled troublemakers first, today we'd call them trolls...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hi Guys - I'm the author of the original article. One thing to keep in mind is that this system could be made topic sensitive. We'd be looking at total contribution/reputation for each person for a specific social graph relating to a specific topic. Is some ways this would be like mapping the Hilltop/HITS algorithms used in algorithmic text search to the social space. The similarity is...
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- Marshall Clark
The problem with any such measure is that some people will take it far too seriously - make it into something authoritative instead of something helpful - and some people will game it. I dont want to have to think about my "score" in any field and have to "work" in the way the score measure in order to be taken seriously
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Interesting post, I was just thinking today when reading about Listiti.com about how Twitter Lists plus this new form of "Track"/search on them can at least partially solve that problem: Just pick a reputable List, one that is large enough to create a thorough but vetted "universe of discourse" (e.g. Scoble's Tech-News-Brands with 500 entries). Then you're searching over that set, and not over the entire freaking Internet. This pretty much bypasses all of Google's PR machinations and their gaming by SEOs.
- Alex Schleber
On SocialToo we're assigning a rank to people based on various points assigned by other people they come in contact (via follow, dms, etc). It has the potential to become this.
- Jesse Stay
Yep eBay comes to mind A+++++ Quick operator will deal with again!!!!!!!!!111one
- Phill Price
from iPhone
But isnt the problem then that all you see and hear is from the "big guys" who are already established, as defined by "in" players who by nature will want to be in the "big guys" good books? We're right back in the landscape of television, where the barrier of entry for new players is high, opinion and value is centrally defined... and we get lower quality and service as none of them tries very hard...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Confession: I find Nutella to be unsatisfying. The flavor is vaguely nut-like but not especially hazelnut-y, and it's not nearly as chocolaty as the color would suggest. Basically: I'd rather eat a Reese's cup any day of the week.
I never tried it...have I not lived, Shey?
- Anna Haro
not a big fan either for the same reasons tastes faux chocolately/nutty & all too sugary
- sofarsoShawn
I'd rather have peanut M&Ms to either of them - crunchy, nutty, chocolatey goodness!
- WorldofHiglet
WoH, I personally don't care for peanut M&Ms. I propose we start an international peanut M&Ms for Reese's cup trading organization.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
if reese cup or skittles were the only two things in my house I would never eat candy
- VAL D.
I love Nutella, but I can see your point. They don't really set reasonable expectations.
- Bren, Not Grinchy
from iPhone
Nutella and peanut butter comes very close to the same flavour as a peanut butter cup. The chocolate Reese's uses isn't particularly great chocolate anyway.
- Kenton
That's true, Kenton, but the saving grace of a Reese's is the perfectly salted peanut butter... Dang, now I WANT ONE =(
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yes TIna you're right there. Laura, have you tried chocolate sprinkles? No spreading and no hazelnuts. We have Dutch friends who snack on bread with butter and chocolate sprinkles.
- Kenton
Chocolate sprinkles are a pale, sad excuse for chocolate! If you want chocolate and spreadability, melt some chocolate with butter and a bit of milk and spread away... Now I want that too!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I got the stuff once, within 10 minutes of eating it, the entire epithelium of my mouth sloughed off and pealed away. There was an alarming amount of.....um.....hemorrhaging from....uhhhhhh......a place that lasted about a week. As far as I'm concerned the stuff is radioactive poison.
- Matthew DeVries
There are good chocolate sprinkles out there, but you usually can't find them at the grocery store. That stuff tends to be old and over-processed.
- Katy S
You think you'd get out of that with just unsubs? BLOCK. BLOCKITY BLOCK BLOCK. :) I agree with anna, Nutella's best in a piping hot crepe, but I'll eat it any way it comes.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Never had Nutella....but now I'm curious.....however I want chocolatey!
- Bonnie Foster
from iPod
Clean clothes....and maybe a carne asada burrito.
- Captain Bubbles
Trick question: I don't want to become one of the "monkey people". (South American morality tale) I'll get up and make it myself. but thank you. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Scott, I hope it makes better tea than the Volgon spaceship's cook.
- Captain Bubbles
Hey as long as there isn't a poetry reading we're golden.
- Scott
Scott, yeah. I'm pretty sure replicators are only optimized for black tea. Don't expect to get a good Rooibos or green tea with the thing.
- Micah Wittman
Now Micah, they are optimized for Counselor Troi's Hot chocolate. :)
- Melanie Reed
I thought of that, Josh, to pay off my obligations but then again, I don't know how that would affect the future and the relationships I would (or wouldn't make) so while it's tempting...I'll wait. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, Hot chocolate is a dessert. That's a whole 'nother conversation :P
- Micah Wittman
Ehn, clothes, car, cash, spare iPhones, huge TV, the most elaborate dinner ever.
- Clark Baumgartner 蔵明 馬武刀
No, Micah, its a "desert topping AND a floor wax!" haha (I'm trying to think of a funnier commercial illustrating a paradox...but I can't)
- Melanie Reed
Gold-pressed latinum--I mean, uh, Taimak, Dean Cain, a fellow employee and Jet Li. That's after it made a larger replicator with enough space not to crush the fellas.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
But no one makes love like Neil Patrick Harris is dancing? FAIL!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My brother in law in the Philippines can't be dissuaded from naming his son Elmo. I hope that unborn boy is ready to be tormented for the rest of his life. Why do parents do that to their kids?
- Bradley Farless
You know, in my heart I hope that people like NPH who seem just so damn awesome on the screen are just as cool in real life. Anyone met the fellow in person?
- Adam Lasnik
I'm sure he's a decent guy. Never met him, though.
- Josh Haley
But he sure can dance, just look at him go!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Love him when he's unicorn watching.
- Gabrielle V
Okay, I swear I am not just pimpin' good swing music, but I was looking at this GIF and listening to this song - http://lala.com/zPe9 ("Billie's Bounce" performed live by Buddy Rich) - and it matches! :o
- Adam Lasnik
Gross. I just unliked to be contrary. Yet another reason why I pulled back from FriendFeed. And why getting swallowed up by Facebook, the great leveler, couldn't make more sense.
- Rick Powell
That's right, all you horrible time-wasters you! Get back to talking about kernels and APIs! Have you no Protestant work-ethic? /sarcasm
- Neal Jansons
It didn't! I have no idea what it was, a friend sent me the pic and I was so horrified I had to force everyone else to see it. I would flee and scream like a little girl if I saw this in my house
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
are those....*fangs* at the front? Cool looking as long as it's not anywhere near me.
- WorldofHiglet
You can keep it outside. In a hermetically sealed chamber. With tinted windows. DO NOT WANT IN THIS HOUSE.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I just found my Xmas present for Anika...She will love this for her bug collection... hehehe
- Bill Heslin
This is a Dobsonfly http://bacn.me/7dw It's a male and cannot actually bite. Females can however. They are native to all 50 states. Even California where like everything else, bugs are illegal.
- Christian (Simply X)
"They are not poisonous, but possess an irritating, foul-smelling anal spray as a last-ditch defense"... it even FARTS... I love it! :D
- Andrea (Notorious)
Tell me what country that is from and I'll put that on my do-not-visit list ;-) (oh, nuts... it's here in the US???? - help me!)
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I am *so* gonna try to find one of these somewhere and pose with it. I think I saw one of these on one of the screen doors at my parents' house once. I admit that it made even my bug-loving heart jump a little. I at least knew in advance that such things existed.
- Kamilah Gill
that looks like something right out of the Australian outback...yikes!
- Susan Beebe
Updated the title since most people won't want to read the 70 comments to find the answer. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
@Haggis ....LOLz! hell, no, I wasn't going to wade through 70+ comments to find the answer. my "Boll Weevil" ploy worked! i got the answer in just 2 comments! now THAT is real-time search.
- .LAG liked that
For a pick me up dessert for any-time, pudding. I think of mousse as a special treat, so for a fancy dinner or special occasion, I prefer that.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Pudding! Some dishes, like quiches, i prefer to be light. but i like thick, rich, creamy chocolate. mousse just doesn't quite satisfy... usually. :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
... wait a minute! I thought she left your guild - and you are still frie... oh, wait... that's not real either. So damned confusing *holds his head tightly*
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
I needed to remember this one because whenever it starts playing, my cats look at each other, then around the room, then back at each other trying to figure out where it is coming from :)
- Anski
:) Amanda Tapping is on Twitter, you know: @amandatapping
- WorldofHiglet
Very cool - I never knew who Amanda was, but she does seem to have quite a following. What did you think of the show's (Sanctuary) new scene-transition thingy, where they have have 2 or more panes? I am not sure if I do or do not like it. I did like that it allowed them to show what was going on from two different visual perspectives - I thought that was neat, but was approaching overuse, perhaps? I dunno - maybe I just tend to pick on stupid things at times. --- anyways, the season opener was good fun :)
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
It's a bit irritating. I think one of the reason I'm so interested is the technology behind it - nearly everything is greenscreen and I think they are pushing the boundaries of what can be done. And in doing so, the story does sometimes take a back seat. But the Sanctuary panel was very good and I'd like to see them succeed.
- WorldofHiglet
Reminds me of minority report. It looks great for managing windows and such, but what about writing documents? One of the nice things about the mouse is that you only have to use one hand, while the other hand can remain on the keyboard. I suppose this would also be possible with the touchpad here. The future looks promising.
- Robert Felty
"Neil Gaiman is writing a new short story—well, the beginning of one, anyway—and needs 1,000 collaborators to help him finish it via Twitter. Starting tomorrow at noon ET, the well-known Twitterer (@neilhimself) will tweet the first line of a new story, and the rest of us will be able to continue it with our own 140-character contributions, Publishers Weekly reported today. The expected 1,000 contributions will be compiled by BBC Audiobooks America into a short story that will be recorded by a professional narrator (though judging by the overflow crowds which turn up for Gaiman readings and signings, we think that estimate is woefully low.) The audiobook will be available for free download at BBCAudiobooksAmerica.com/trade and at iTunes and other audiobook retailers before the end of the year...."
- WorldofHiglet
from Bookmarklet
cool idea, but will doubtless result in some gawd-awful fiction
- Louis Simoneau
Do our votes counts? I vote for this one. (they all look great though)
- Rob Haas
We'd want to have a bolero or sleeves added to this one made from the same lace. It is almost impossible to find a dress that is not just strapless.
- joey
Oh, Ms. Joey...you look quite lovely! :)
- JA Castillo
It's a toss up between this and dress #4 for me, because the train on this is absolutely beautiful, but I agree that it could use sleeves.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
This one is my favourite. I think you look totally beautiful in them all, but I love this the most. I like the neckline on the 4th dress a lot too :)
- Penny
This is the loveliest on you Joey. It's very elegant and you carry it off well. I think you'll also be pleased with this one years from now from the wedding pictures. It will stand the test of time because it has very classic lines.
- Melanie Reed
YUP! We're doing meet'n'greets at two different theaters tomorrow night for the opening. I'll be at the Camelot for those in the area: we've got the OK to draw out a track in the parking lot and skate in the theater!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)