"I've walked down Caniff holding a glass / Atlas root beer bottle in my hands / And I've entered closets of coney islands / early in the morning too." - Ginger Makela via Bookmarklet
Best Mix CD I have ever encountered. I don't say that lightly. This guy is ZTrip's daddy. Album is yours for whatever price you deem fair. I ponied up and still feel like I underpaid. (Thanks @aubs and many other for the frenzied links to this over the last 48/72 hours) - Sacca via Bookmarklet
yeah, i listened to this one quite a few times recently. good stuff. I also found some other good stuff by putting their name into last.fm. - Nate Koechley
I paid $20 because its just that good. Kudos to him and i hope the lawsuits don't break him. (Yep, they're already coming) - Erica Baker
Great album! Right now I'm listening to the beginning of track 9, where he mixes "Whoomp! There it is" and "Big Country." Impossibly catchy. - Wes Justice
"Sneakerheads and sci-fi geeks, come together in rejoicing! After years of pestering by concerned fans, Nike has finally dropped the Marty McFly Hyperdunk. Hold on to your hoverboard, this is the shoe from Back to the Future 2 (more or less - no automatic lacing)" - Jason Chen via Bookmarklet
I really want high-speed trains in California! SF to Palo Alto in 20 minutes, Stockton in 1.5 hours, and LA in 2.5 hours! - David Recordon
*think* sf to palo alto 20 minutes? that would be a regional train over here. not high speed train. *g* LA though was several hundred kilometers, right? that is several hours even in the land of high speed trains. ;) - Nicole Simon
558.68 km in 3 hours should be doable. and as LAX is my fav airport for entry with my current airline, may I add decent inclusion of the airports into that network as well? ;) - Nicole Simon
Is a high speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco a truly pressing need for our state, or is it the equivalent to another political movement mentioned in a Doonesbury cartoon - "free cheeseburgers for the elderly"? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
While I can't talk about the full run from SF to LA, I do know that I'd ride it throughout the Bay Area and to Stockton. Traffic is horrible, gas is expensive, and modern trains are quite comfortable. Given how air travel is going I'd expect a slightly longer train ride between LA and SF would be pretty popular since it wouldn't mean stripping in an airport, you'd have internet, and even nice food. - David Recordon
The link above claims SF -> LA is 2.5 hrs. Yes, rail is a pressing need all over the US, not just California. - Andrew Talbot
german trains do 250 km/h tops, so that works out good if you can get the same technology. plus being on a train has the advantage of not having to go to the airport with checkin and everything - and usually trainstations are in the middle of the city. problem: the whole culture is build up on the car, then again you have to start somewhere. I know that I as a tourist traveller appreciate more public transportation, and be it just in CA. - Nicole Simon
& I'd even say it's a pressing need all over North America...I can't even get a passenger train from Winnipeg to Minneapolis. Best I can do is take a bus from Wpg to Fargo, then catch the Empire Builder coming through Fargo at 2am. Not surprisingly, I've never done that. - Trent Olson
Yes, you do have a longer way to go. ;) I did take a trainride from L.A. to San Diego once - it was not only the most amusing train drive ever because tht thing was as fast as our slowest regional trains are when they are coming out of the train station. usually I get so motion sick I cannot do anything while travelling - that thing was so slow I was even able to work. ;) - Nicole Simon
My parents live in LA, so I've driven down I5 from SF pretty often over the years. Given the amount of traffic I've seen and our current oil situation, I would say it's a pretty pressing need. Why wouldn't we want to have a far more fuel efficient means of travel available? - Chris White
There are some things we can learn from Europe on this one. Some of our cars are twice the size of a European car. And, yes, they have a lot more mass transit there. - David Risley
@Nicole, high-speed and regional are considered disjoint concepts? It this part of some special language spoken by European train bureaucrats? - j1m
That looks pretty sweet ... too bad I don't live in CA ... this would be a good excuse to get a place out there though! - Nick O'Neill
That *is* pretty sweet. The train is going to go walking distance to almost all the places I go in CA - SF. Sacto, Redwood City, Bakersfield, and University City (UCSD). Nice. - Gabe Wachob via twhirl
j1m different trains require different technology which in our case is existing and with history, but you would not need to redo that. for example the area I am living in is one of the last to receive over train electricity meaning that due to that my town is only since recently part of the very fast train network. imagine caltrain suddenly also having to run with high speed trains - you would need to vamp up not only the trains but so much more. :) - Nicole Simon
j1m but mainly because even the slowest of trains here are fast compared to whatever is Amtrak. ;) - Nicole Simon
Thing is, I'm not sure if it's laziness, stupidity, craven pandering, or all of the above. Personally, my vote is on craven pandering. Selling to the extremes, well, sells. - Adam Lasnik
Extreme headlines get read. Headlines that state the truth do not. - Robert Scoble
Would you prefer P send a shot over O's bow? - Erica Baker
Adam - we'll never get rid of these types of stories. Sometimes arguing the extremes crystallizes thinking in people. I personally like the nuances, because that's where future trends emerge. - Hutch Carpenter
Adam I think probably craven pandering plus high frustration level with Twitter. But Scoble is right. Jason's post will get wayyyy more views than my own honestly headlined one: http://tinyurl.com/honestheadl... - Robert Seidman
I think most of us thoughtful folks would really appreciate more nuanced reporting. But what's to be done about it? We're clearly in the minority. Fox News rakes in the dough, far more than, say, NPR. When people want to be pandered to rather than challenged, what's the solution for us (dare I say it) elite? :D How do we improve the discourse online, at least? How do we start? - Adam Lasnik
Fox News rakes in the dough even more than CNN. Interestingly though when there is "real huge news" (which doesn't happen often) people tune (en masse) to CNN, not Fox News. You ask good questions Adam. Hopefully FriendFeed is a good start to improving the discourse? - Robert Seidman
Thanks, Robert! And I do think Friendfeed is off to a great start. Lots of collegial give and take, lots of thoughtfulness. I have only blocked two people (for being extreme jerks), and that's not much given how much time I've spent on here and how many threads I've read :). And btw, excellent commentary on FriendFeed/Twitter! - Adam Lasnik
I vote for greed. Friction creates drama which creates viewers which creates advertising revenue. Manufactured partisanship sells more new and improved Clorox 2. - AJ Kohn
I recomment really to everyone the book by Gene Schwartz: "Breakthrough Advertising". The whole first chapter is about this kind of headlines. BUT, a sensational headline is generally not enough to catch attention. You need a promise - directeur via NoiseRiver
Okay, directeur: "10 Ways Friendfeed Gets You Better Sex Than Twitter, Guaranteed!" It's got everything. A number, a comparison, sex, and a promise/guarantee. Damn, I shoulda been a journalist :D. - Adam Lasnik
Adam: I would have liked that story. :-) - Robert Scoble
Adam: A copywriter you meant ;-) And yes, this is the type of headlines :) - directeur via NoiseRiver
And if so, what are the best types of companies to start in the current economic environment? Is Web 2.0 overheated? What about phone software/services? - Chris White
I think it's a good time to start an advertising start-up for web 2.0 companies...the current forms of advertising (outside of google's search ads) are not providing anywhere near the value they should be. As for phone software - I'm looking forward to seeing what the first killer app for the iPhone will be (and who will make it). The iPhone software might be more fun to invent, but there's way more dollars on the table to fix web-based advertising. - Adam Kazwell
I agree with Adam. This might not be the -best- time to start a me-to web service, bit it is probably a great time to start a support company for pre-existing services. - Steve Spalding
It's almost always a good time to start a company with a sensible business model (this _must_ involve someone paying you for providing a service or product) rather than one of those fluffy web2.0 companies that are merely built to flip. If you have an idea that will take in more revenue than it spends then you should do it. This may seem painfully obvious but in the midst of a bubble people seem to lose track of this stuff. - Adewale Oshineye
It seems sort of backward to me when people start with wanting to found a company, then pick a space based on what's "hot" or "saturated", and then look for ideas in that space. But maybe it's not backward, maybe it's good to engage actively in some general area you think has a lot of potential, and then see what pops out. That was sort of the FF approach, I think? - ⓞnor
Chris: if the current economic environment will supply more challenges it will also demand more solutions? - Amund Tveit
@nor: it seems backwards to me, too, but perhaps it's just as important for people to create products to satisfy unmet needs as it is to create products and then use marketing to convince us that we have a new need. - Amit Patel
What Adewale said. Positive cashflow is what makes a company. No matter how bad the economy gets there will always be someone willing to spend money on whatever value-adding service or product you can provide them with. - Thomas Brox Røst
@nor: I started a company once to create products and services I was passionate about. Turns out the infrastructure to support those products and services was about 15 years too early. These days I spend more time thinking about when is the right time to work on things. Not saying it's right or wrong, just that I have a different perspective now. - Chris White
Real Genius, Princess Bride, Star Wars, and I have no idea for the last two. - Kevin Fox
Tootsie, Forrest Gump, La Vie En Rose, As Good As It Gets, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Weird Science, Tarnation, Out of Africa, Rainman, Cinema Paradiso, - Pokai
Shawshank Redemption, Tombstone, Forrest Gump, The Book of Love, A League of Their Own - Erica Baker
Raging bull, Cinema Paradiso, Bullit, Empire of the sun, The Wall - George The Writer
North by Northwest, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Husbands and Wives, The Unbearable Lightness, Raiders. I was surprised that I chose these. Only 2 of my 7 favorite directors make an appearance, and only 2 actors that I would count among my real favorites. But, you know, if you can only pick 5, you really start cutting muscle. - j1m
Casablanca,Lovestory,Ratattouile,Fight Club, Breakfast At Tiffany's - Giancarlo Angulo
Until the End of the World, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Days of Heaven. - DeWitt Clinton
Harold and Maude, Raising Arizona, The Blues Brothers, Empire Strikes Back, and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. [The next five would be The Breakfast Club, Clerks, Swingers, Pulp Fiction, and Ghostbusters. Princess Bride, Office Space and Shaun of the Dead were under consideration as well.] - Keith Pelczarski
It's a Wonderful Life, Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, Singin' in the Rain, Stage Door - Spidra Webster
Lawrence of Arabia, Heat, Empire Strikes Back, The Last Emperor, Crouching Tiger - Christian
real genius, star wars, hardboiled, serenity and dogma? Maybe? that list'll probably change tomorrow. :) - felix
Manhattan, The Incredibles, Time Bandits, Fargo, Anne of Green Gables - Ginger Makela
Casablanca, The Incredibles, The Empire Strikes, Army of Darkness and High Noon.Runner ups: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, To Catch A Thief, The Naked Gun, Airplane!. I am sure my list would be different tomorrow or even in 5 minutes. - RAPatton
Is this list different than your favorite 5 films of all time? - Nathan Chase
Raiders, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Magnificent Seven, The Empire Strikes Back, Pulp Fiction (runners up: Princess Bride, The Matrix, Breakfast Club, High Plains Drifter, Remember the Titans) - Harvey Simmons
Snake eyes, mission impossible I, the rock, antitrust, traffic - Anthony Farrior
Cassablanca, A Fish Called Wanda, Gross Pointe Blank, The Princess Bride, The Fifth Element. - Joel Gray via twhirl
None i've tried before, but it just feels weird knowing what will happen, but maybe just maybe Beowulf - Gordon Swaby
Blade Runner, The Big Lebowski, Airplane!, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Rubin Sfadj
Short Cuts, Die Zweite Heimat, Deer Hunter, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain. Can I add Fellini's Roma as well? Thanks. - Thomas Brox Røst
if anyone would like a http://www.flickchart.com invite, send your email address to nathan at flickchart.com and you can see how close your lists above match your true Top 5 Movies Of All Time.... - Nathan Chase
Citizen Kane, A Fish Called Wanda, Goodfellas, Girl in the Gold Boots (MST3K version), and 2010. (C'mon... Helen Mirren, Roy Scheider, *and* John Lythgoe?) - Roger Benningfield
Snatch, Garden State, The Empire Strikes Back, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski - James Ferguson
Casablanca and The Thomas Crown Affair (remake w/Brosnan and Russo) are always on my top 5 rewatch list, the other 3 would be some combo of: Shawshank Redemption, Cinema Paradiso, Star Wars, Princess Bride, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Roman Holiday, and To Have and Have Not). Oh, and I can't explain it but The Life Aquatic as bad as it is still draws me in and cracks me up... I probably should see someone about that. - Casey
I thought I was a film snob, but the first things I thought of were Princess Bride, Dr. Strangelove, Tommy Boy, Fifth Element and Raising Arizona. I guess Strangelove counts. - Jack Baty
Star Wars, Army of Darkness, Princess Bride, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Raiders of the Lost Ark. (Clerks and Office Space just narrowly miss the cut off). - Eric
awwwwww.. star wars still rocks.. may the force be with da fans !! LOL - Peter Dawson
Loving all the Princess Bride nods :) That, To Have and Have Not, The Lion in Winter, Léon (The Professional), and Roman Holiday. And there are about 30 others I could exchange those with depending on current mood. - Michael W. May
a much more rational alternative to the 37sigs advice - Adam Kazwell
You still need to keep people inside your company from convincing you to add every feature any competitor has. - Chris White
"Remember, not even 100% of people like ice cream." - j1m
@chris white - yeah, i didn't mean to suggest that features should be added recklessly. Just that if you're afraid to remove features, that means you're afraid to make mistakes. And if you're afraid to make mistakes, it gets harder to succeed. - hunter walk
but how does it do when sandwiched between two suvs? - bob via Bookmarklet
hopefully it comes with a locator beacon for when your friends pick it up and hide it behind the Ford pickup - Earl E Morningwood
"As for the engine, the concept had a one-cylinder diesel engine producing 8.5 horsepower and 13.5 foot-pounds of torque. Car says the production model will use a two-cylinder turbodiesel for a little more oomph. Doubling the number of cylinders is sure to cut fuel economy, so VW may install a diesel-hybrid drivetrain. The engine turns off at stop lights to save fuel, then automatically restarts when the driver depresses the accelerator pedal.
(Update: The car reportedly has anti-lock brakes, stability control and airbags. According to Canadian Driver, "Volkswagen says the One-Liter Car is as safe as a GT sports car registered for racing. With the aid of computer crash simulations, the car was designed with built-in crash tubes, pressure sensors for airbag control and front crumple zones.")
What's it gonna cost? Car quotes "one well-placed insider" who says the One-Liter could have a sticker price of anywhere from 20,000 to 30,000 Euros (about $31,750 to $47,622)." - Paul Buchheit
hopefully there won't be as many suvs and pickups to avoid once gas hits $5 a gallon. beautiful car. this is what the future was *supposed* to be. doc brown must have gone back in time and fixed things. - Karim
absolutely.. I think rising gas prices are the biggest boon in disguise... guess all automobile companies will start unveiling all their work they've been doing on fuel effeciency. - Krishna Gade
cw cuts through a lot of the confusion, but man, I'm still pissed about the username/IP viewer data getting out. Who cares about IDs of people that watched something, go after the fucking uploaders if you must. - Matt Haughey
"Compared to the typical American diet, subjects consuming the diet enriched with peanuts and peanut butter experienced a 11% reduction in total blood cholesterol levels and a 14% reduction in LDL cholesterol levels. HDL cholesterol levels did not change. When the subjects consumed the diet enriched with peanut oil, their blood cholesterol levels had similar heart healthy changes. The olive oil enriched diet did not affect blood cholesterol levels any differently -- total cholesterol levels were decreased by 11%, LDL cholesterol decreased by 15% and HDL cholesterol levels remained unchanged.
Subject's total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol levels were also lowered after the low fat diet by approximately the same amount as compared to the peanut/peanut butter and olive oil diets. However, subjects' HDL cholesterol levels, or the so-called "good" cholesterol, decreased about 4 percent while on the low fat diet. The low fat diet was the only diet that increased triglyceride levels when compared to the typical" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
It's interesting to see when a food industry funds a study that says that particular food has great health benefits - the pomegranate industry is a notable example. - Jennie Lin
Also, kind of off topic but the National Peanut Board has a marketing campaign in the NYC subway system with statements like "Do you stop eating peanut butter because you grow old, or do you grow old because you stop eating peanut butter?" Who knew that the peanut industry needed to market! - Jennie Lin
I feel like any high-fat food item with marginal or questionable health benefits has got a marketing campaign out there: milk, cheese, avocados, now peanuts. What's next, pork? Oops, too late. :-) - Jeff Eddings
