Check the confession room, Zach... ;) HA - Mona N.
One problem. For most bars, you want them to be open for a long time. At this bar, it would be a failure if it didn't close 10 seconds after opening. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I like those Bar names. Like the "Sonder-Bar" here in Berlin. "Sonderbar" is the german word for curious or freakish something like that (for the info) ;) - /usr/Geek
Some people are serious control freaks. - Mark Trapp
Yikes, had no idea people can delete YOUR comments here, that is cowardly - Sally Church
People have the right to moderate comments that are offensive/out of line. Most people don't even know that they are being offensive, so I give the benefit of the doubt. Anyone who's been following me for a while knows I try not to be an idiot -- so if you're gonna delete my comments, at least tell me why. - Shey
What post did you comment on and have the comment deleted? Maybe we should all avoid commenting on this individual's posts to save time. - Brian Sullivan
See also: Dave Winer, who's deleting comments of mine on posts of his. It would seem that I don't even retain a copy of my comment if he moderates it away, either. I don't really think this kind of revisionism bullshit is cool at ALL. Don't wanna get comments, then don't fucking post, or go private-feed. Seriously. - abacab
"If I'm being an ass" I deleted one comment in my feed once for precisely that reason. It was clear that this person wasn't properly ever a friend, ally or anything resembling productive follow. I have a private feed for a reason: I want to engage "friends." Otherwise, it's open season for attention seekers, energy creatures, trolls and bozos who seek to provoke - rather than productively contribute. I have plenty of right leaning pals in FF who I happily engage because they are intelligent and respectful. - melmcbride
Mind you, Dave's notorious for deleting comments on every service he can--his own blog, etc--when he doesn't like them for any reason at all. So I'm not really surprised by his childish behaviour as much as I am confused by FF providing a mechanism for allowing it. - abacab
Shey is NEVER an ass. Shey and I likely don't agree on plenty but he's dignified in his interactions with people. And even if he posts stuff that I might not like (or vice versa) he knows enough (as I do) that making passive aggressive remarks on each other's feeds is an expression of hostility. - melmcbride
It's not Dave Winer, I know he deletes comments all the time, unfortunately that's just how he is. Gotten kinda used to it now. Thanks Mel :) - Shey
"Acacab" Maybe if you actually wrote under your name, a mark of accountability, people wouldn't be inclined to delete your comments and feel more trust towards you? - melmcbride
I haven't seen a delete comment feature other than for your own posts... - Outsanity
Personally, I would like to see a standard comment in place of the deleted one. "A comment by <name> was deleted.". That way people can see what happened. Transparency is key. - Rob Diana
...said melmcbride who requires authorization for a subscription. - Josh Haley
Now that I have blocked a couple of people, I guess I would like a similar feature for blocked comments as well... there was a post earlier today that looked like people were sniping at each other when in fact they were sniping at the person I had blocked. - David Muir
I second Rob's idea. That's a measure of accountability as well. - melmcbride
melmcbride: Umm, yeah, that's it. Sure. Say hi to Dave for me. - abacab
Rob Diana's idea is a great one. Thirded and Fourthed. I'd also like to still retain copies of whatever comments/etc I made that someone else moderated away. It's still my content, after all, isn't it, and not something someone else gets to decide to throw away? - abacab
I delete personal attacks when I have the power to. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, that's what the attackers claim they're doing when their comments get deleted. I like disagreement, it's how I learn (one way) and sometimes I even change my mind when I hear another point of view. But someone saying you're a hypocrite isn't disagreeing, and they're entitled to say that, but not in my space. - Dave Winer
I also think it's important to block trolls so we can have intelligent discussions that are above the "neener neener" level. Again, they can host discussions in their space that are at their intellectual and emotional comfort level. I don't mind discussing things with children, as long as they maintain their manners. - Dave Winer
Dave, my comment isn't "your space". And since the comments are completely wiped, once you've decided to be offended--and let's be honest, you're VERY easily offended, and you DO have problems with ANYONE that disagrees with you, unless you can spin it back at them to make them look stupid--no one else gets a chance to decide for themselves if you're being too...fragile or "personally attacked". Even in your reply now, you're belittling ppl that disagree with you as children. Who's neenering who here? - abacab
I also agree with Rob. Also because it holds *me* accountable. I've deleted comments of my own for some of the reasons mentioned here. Sometimes it's just easier to be an ass to the internets than it is to deal with the real issue. But I would think twice about commenting in the first place if I knew people would see that I'd cleaned up my act after behaving like a child. I like playing with the big kids and want them to like me, after all. How's that for transparency?? :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
I'd like to know who is deleting comments. If they have the nuts to delete comments, they should also have the nuts to own up to it.Dave has done so above, so who else is going to take responsibility for their actions? - Rahsheen
Rahsheen, I respect you a lot here, but isn't painting Dave as having balls for owning up to deleting others' comments a bit of a stretch, when all we have to go on is his word that they were nuke-worthy? I REALLY don't think people like Dave will like transparency of the "comment from X deleted by Y" variety, as it will show the extent to which they go to sculpt and stroke their profile|reputation|ego...but I believe it should be implemented as a feature here (and anywhere else). - abacab
I'm surprised someone would delete Shey's comments. I don't think I've ever seen Shey be a jerk, troll, idiot etc. I do delete comments on my feed. Some people who comment are just being jerks for the sake of being jerks or weighing in on the discussion with nothing to really contribute. When that happens, I'll delete their comments. - Candace Holly
And getting back to Shey (sorry Shey), I don't get why anyone would delete anything the guy's ever said, either. I've yet to see a post of his I didn't find interesting or funny or both.. - abacab
If FF had the ability to rank comments or 'dislike' them then it might help to prevent trolling/flaming/etc in a DIGG-like style. As a user receives positive feedback their comments are given more prevalence. Granted, even that can be abused by the HERD mentality. Either way, I think comments should not allowed to be outright deleted. - Steve Sebestyen via twhirl
being blocked by dave winer, who i quite like, was a shock, but i just picked up my pixels and moved on - Gregory Lent
Each of us functions as a kind of micro-community manager for our feed. Modeling by example and response, we tell others what we will and will not tolerate. Some of us simply don't engage feeds where obnoxious behaviour is tolerated. It's up to each of us to decide whether or not we want to engage a moderated feed. I respect other people's choices to moderate or not moderate their feeds. It's not for me to tell them what *I* think they should tolerate. - melmcbride
melmcbride: I TOTALLY agree with you. One thing about FriendFeed is that it hasn't turned into YouTube or Digg commenting by idiots. The fact that we can delete comments is a HUGE part of that. I will delete comments from people who are disruptive to the conversation. To those who don't like that, just start your own top-level conversation -- I can only delete comments in comment clusters that I start. I can't delete comments here, for instance. - Robert Scoble
I havnt met anyone that is really disruptive enough to delete a comment - d e f c o n
I have deleted posts in the past but because they where insulting my other subscribers and not providing any constructive dialog. - Geoff Schultz
[FriendFeed suggestion] Could you guys link deleted comments - from (a) manual deletion (b) people deleting accounts - to a "lost" area in each person's account? One of my good Harvard friends just deleted his Facebook account due to a SPAM virus which had a domino-effect on all his activity (he was a very active networker). - Mitchell Tsai
@Rob: +1. A simple notation that a comment by [person] was deleted would suffice IMO. - AJ Kohn
I wonder what "Americans" means. They have a different category for "Native American". - Jason Wehmhoener
Yes, lots of Germans in Oregon. The language was, until surpassed by Spanish several years ago, Oregon's second most commonly spoken language. - Christopher Harley
interesting to see that all the Norwegians are situated north in America. - Baard Overgaard Hansen
Well, I am Dutch, German, English, Irish, Swedish, and a dozen other flavors in Mich. I think this was more accurate, say, 30 years ago. The last generation or two have begun moving around a lot. - Michael W. May
I dunno, I'm from Missouri, on Mom's side I'm 4th gen from Germany. There were a lot of blond heads where I grew up. Mom's side of the family has all dispersed since then though. Dad's side is also German ancestry, but I'm more like 12 or 13th gen there, and that side is still mostly in Missouri, probably won't be leaving anytime soon either. - Jason Wehmhoener
Lots of German heritage in the US: my great-grandfather moved to MI from Germany after WWI and my grandfather grew up speaking nothing but German until he went to school. Unfortunately, he started school in the US after Hitler had come to power in Germany: he paid a very dear price for that... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Jasmin: from 1850-1900, there were several waves of German, Italian, and Irish immigrants who spread quickly. Kol/Jason: this is based of the US Census, which allows people to choose what ancestry they closely identify with. American merely means that the respondent identified themselves as American rather than Irish or German. Dollars to the donuts most of the American identifying people are probably old south, and are of English descent. Baard: The lake superior region is known for the Scandinavians; as people emigrated towards the west, Swedish and Norwegian immigrants chose that area because it most closely resembled home. - Mark Trapp
Slippy Lane, up until a few years ago, there were more Jews in the US than there were in Israel, too. But the Irish, Jewish, and Italian communities are all closely surrounding New York City and Boston. As this is broken out by county and by ancestry with the most in that county, it doesn't give an accurate picture of how populous the Irish and Italian communities are in the tri-state region. - Mark Trapp
hmmm, for Canada there will be huge splat of Ukrainians in the middle, in Alberta mostly... - silpol
what's the source of this map? it's nicely done - Nathan Rein
I say we just call the whole thing, "American," and be done with it. - Pete Delucchi
Mark Trapp and others: a lot of the "Americans" in the South are probably either English as Mark said or Scots-Irish. There was a large Scots-Irish migration to the SC backcountry (and much of the rest of what's now the Deep South) in the 1700s. - steplow is Steve
I'm surprised by the seeming under-representation of the Scottish and Irish as well. I would have figured the NY/Boston areas would have been weighted more heavily that way. But the concentration of Germans in the middle of the country seems dead-on. - Abby Martin
Scot-Irish and English were most of mine but the German migrations have been steady since the 16-1700s... one of my ancestors came to PA from Augsburg then to NC before the RevWar - Jeff Quinton
Well that explains why NYC has the best pizza. - Eric
Of course the design of the map is potentially misleading. If you have ten counties with a distribution like this: county 1, 51% German, 49% Irish; county 2, 51% Puerto Rican, 49% Irish; county 3, 51% Italian, 49% Irish; county 4, 51% African American, 49% Irish, and so on ... then the Irish would not appear on the map at all, even though they were the single most numerous ethnicity. - Nathan Rein
"american" is basically a designation people chose to give themselves when answering this census instead of listing their heritage from someplace else - Cee Bee
I love how Hawaii is blanketly "other". Sheesh. Who am I? Where do I come from? Am I an Others from Lost? - Josh Haley
That's outdated! There a TON of Hispanics in the Chi (including me)! How rude! - zoblue (Zulema)
Nathan's dead-on about this being misleading. It makes it seem like my county is mostly Polish. There's no way it's even 30% Poles here, we're mostly a mix of Celts, Italians, and various Slavs. I'm thinking, Poles, ~20%, Irish, ~19% (albeit the loudest and best-partying 19%), everything else between 10 and 18%… - Sharon
right Sharon, it all depends on how narrowly the "ethnicity" slots are defined, and my impression is that the Census Bureau is pretty capricious in that regard. Re its misleading character, though, it occurs to me that it operates on precisely the same principle as the Electoral College... heh.. - Nathan Rein
"It's a desktop organizer that looks like a fellow sitting on the john. Besides the spaces to hold pens and Post-it Notes, the figure holds adhesive tape in his hands as if it were a roll of toilet paper.
As a special touch, the toilet itself can hold paper clips. The colorful guy has a magnet in his butt so the paper clips stick to it when you lift him up!" - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet
Because, you know, everyone in the DNC is a perfect speller right? Then again, there is at least one prominent far left blogger who spells "Canada" as "KKKanada" so that's alright then :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
So "ameirca" is making some political point similar to "KKKanada"? The latter is deliberate, the former, I'm not so sure. - Jack Carlson
@soulhuntre fess up you sneeky person ... you made an intentional spelling error ... mission accomplished! clever very clever ... how do they find talent like you? - Wes Schadenfreud
Yikes. Please duke it out by the bike racks and not here :) Thank you for your cooperation! :) - Mona N.
Them Republicants shore is smart, ain't they? No wonder they vote that way. - Jody C
Quiet you unpatriotic Frenchies! Criticise the uneducated and the terrorists win! LOL. - Mark O'Neill
Nice, make fun of the dyslexic people. Or maybe his child made the sign. Question, is your spelling perfect all of the time? When you're not using spell check? I really don't understand why it is acceptable to make fun of someone when you don't agree with their political views. - ChiliMac via twhirl
وااییی من تشنمه نوشابه میخوااام:(((((((((((( - Aida
Where are the memorials to those who fought and died in the Cola Wars? Where is their parade? Where are the heros? Lest we forget... - John Worthington
...and all poor little Cola ever did was try to speak out against segregation. :( - Matrixx333
Manny has been killed and the platoon is looking for revenge... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
how about this one .... "Right, some bastard's glassed this wee lassie, and nay bastard's leaving this pub until we find oot who did it!" - (Begby from Trainspotting) - Slippy Lane
wow very creative. Maybe pepsi should hire you. - Colide81
+1 Anna. She *does* look like how Mona would look like when, uhm, threatened with a horse. And maybe drunk (again)? - Yuvi
Drunk with delirium Yuvi--lack of sleep. :/ Speaking of drunk--I better not catch you drinking and ffing until you are an official adult. Got it?!! ;) - Anna Haro
I don't care if it's true or not, but I'm going to picture you with your face planted on the keyboard. HAHA! - Anna Haro
I agree, Anna: Kyle started out making a drunk vid and passed out onto the keyboard in the middle. That's the reality I choose. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
While I've always liked Biden, I've never thought of him as Mr. Excitement. But damn if he isn't sounding great on the stump. - Chris Baskind
Joe certainly is sounding better than usual. There were some clips a day or two ago where he looked positively hammered... slurred speech, big hand gestures and all. It looks liek he has his A-Game with him these days and thats good - vigorous debate is a good thing. - Soulhuntre via twhirl
he was pretty sharp in this clip - didn't see the one where he was slurring (and that's a little scary, btw) - William Harryman
"My best friend got me a huge Mario figurine from Japan, comes with mushroom! its very well crafted and painted, practically seemless." - Outsanity via Bookmarklet
"Wonder where Hurricane Ike will hit or when Tropical Storm Hanna will pass? Hurricane season has lots of people glued to the Weather Channel to catch the latest updates on developing storms. But why wait for the weatherman to tell you what is going on when you can check for yourself online? One of the best places to do that is Stormpulse. (Google Earth is another one). Stormpulse shows active hurricanes and tropical storms in the Atlantic. And the graphics are better than TV because you can play around with them." - Russellreno via Bookmarklet
