Needs one-click export to YouTube. :-) - Kevin Fox
I second Kevin's idea. Where's the Gmail Podcasting Suite? ;-) - Chad Thornton
I'm surprised that webcams aren't as cheap as usb drives. Cellphones all have cameras, so I doubt that a basic camera cost much, and obviously usb interfaces are cheap too. Maybe the volume is just too low? - Paul Buchheit
Our Annie was convinced for the longest time that she _didn't_ close her eyes when she went to sleep. We had to take a picture to prove otherwise. - Joe Beda
you could enable the "right-side chat" and "right-side labels" to move chat and labes to right side. combine that with "navbar drag and drop" which enable drag and drop gadgets conspire to making room for friendfeed gadget. - huixing
"Listen, if I can fool my wife, my children, my boss, and everyone down at the county sheriff's office, I'm pretty sure I can fool Gmail." - Ana
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“Gmail tip of the day: Apparently the 'are you sure?' message you get when you try to send a message with an empty body can be bypassed by adding 'EOM' to the subject.”
@Trevor it helps the mobile world know they don't have to open the message message - Paul Arterburn
Another feature Gmail supports that I like is '+' notation. I create a filter on myself+dev@gmail.com and it automatically goes in to my dev folder. - Peter Simard
"When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?" - Paul Buchheit
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I'm still too good at math at the bottom of the bottle - Amber aka SDA
Maybe it should measure your reaction times instead of forcing you to do math. I'm thinking, "punch the monkey". - Paul Buchheit
=Amber -- need to be able to choose how difficult your math problems are. - j1m
the interesting thing is, the most powerful part is just the second-guess: it doesn't have to be a math problem. just a simple "do you really want to send this" reminder might do... - Taylor Davidson
How about letting my Gmail friends review my Drafts, only drafts that get liked will be sent out :-) - Majento
@Taylor: I think the math problem -- or something like it -- is essential. Don't know about you, but I've "permanently deleted" countless files just because I reflexively hit "Okay" when the warning dialog box popped up. Without the math problem to keep one honest, one will end up clicking past warnings in an unconscious, mechanistic manner. *I* would, at least. - Chester
@Chester: I'll buy that. Needs to be more than just a reminder... but the question doesn't have to be math. The key, as you point out, is for the question to require you to answer something... - Taylor Davidson
Chester, have you learned not to reflexively click buttons yet? :P - Tanath
When will they come out with "delayed sending"? I want to have 60 seconds after I click send before the email is actually sent. That little bit of time would stop a lot of confusion. - Benjamin Golub
These are all half-assed suggestions. What we all really need is for our e-mail app to read our minds *and* know better than ourselves whether or not a message should be sent out before further review. - Chester
Two problems with this gadget, a) I want to make it trigger on every email, but after you solve the problems successfully, there's a window during which you can send more outgoing emails unchallenged; b) even at max difficulty level 5 the problems take only 15 seconds to solve sober - it seems unlikely that they'd take more than twice as long to solve when drunk - though I will have to verify that experimentally, I guess. - ƃuɐʞ
That is just atrocious. Pictures do speak a 100 words. - Mathew A. Koeneker
How can you tell whether the haze is caused by pollution or mist? - Gabe
@Stupid Blogger: So "Like" that it was posted. ;) - Tanath
@Gabe: depends how much you cough/eyes water. I didn't find Beijing to be that bad, Shanghai was much worse; and Shenzhen is very close. When you're up high you see the hazy skies worse then when you're in Beijing, on the ground you don't notice that much - visually. - clarke thomas
what time was this shoot taken ? CO2 levels I think the most is SFO /NYC for cities.. next come cities in .cn.. not sure.. - Peter Dawson
hm gov says not bad than athletic committee says to bad to perform - Fred Grott
It will take years for the air quality to improve. Communisim cannot dictate the physical laws of nature. Hope it does not affect the Games. - Roberto Bonini
cool! if that was smog...I wouldn't go outside and I live in Los Angeles! - Pokai
Ecellent Catch Philpp !! :)- seems that the Posted pic is 404 status - Peter Dawson
It's not all bad. In the grand(er) scheme of things, this major public FAIL raises awareness about air quality, and maybe it will give the Chinese government (and others) the kick in the pants that they need. - Tudor Bosman
Ana's original must have been removed by the Chinese government. There was smog but now it's gone. - Kevin Fox
looks a lot like Mexico city from my hotel window too - Josue Salazar
What's all this 404 talk? Is this pic actually being blocked somewhere? (oh, Bret points out that they're referring to the image on picasa, not the thumbnail here) - Paul Buchheit
Only if you click on the link, it still shows up fine as the actual image on the Friendfeed site. It's like magic that way. - Steve Craft
Looks like the picture is no longer at Picasa/Google. Ana or somebody else removed it? - Brian Sullivan
No need to fear anything... this was a problem w/ Picasa Web Albums. I'd added comments to the photos from Picasa and deleted the previous web album album so I could upload the photos anew. But then PWA flaked on me and it was getting late so I went to bed. Here's the new album (http://picasaweb.google.com/an...), complete with the latest picture of the morning: http://picasaweb.google.com/an... - Ana
"The authors of this paper claim to show that other terms can be added to the quantum mechanical action that are consistent with current theory and experiment. However, some of these possible terms include conditions in the future that need to be taken into account and summed over. That is to say, what happens in the future could (according to this paper) affect what happens in the present.
Why the LHC? The authors argue that these sorts of time-violating interactions could be associated with whatever new particles we create at the LHC. For example, the production of a large number of Higgs particles in the future could have a backwards-in-time causal effect on the machine that produced them, stopping the machine from ever running." - Paul Buchheit
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I've been thinking about this issue of the future effecting the past for some time. I think it's true, but impossible to prove. I even wrote a blog post about it, but I'm not sure if anyone understood: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.c... - Paul Buchheit
This would account for the observer bringing the universe into existence, even though the creation of the universe pre-dates the observer. - Bret Treasure
It seems like there are some people working on making the future effecting the present possible to prove. Impossible is such a strong word. - Clare Dibble
Really? There are so many things that have been impossible to prove for so long! But that might not be the same impossible you're thinking of. - j1m
Schroedinger called, wants his Cat back. - Toby Graham
Sorry, tell him his cat died when we opened the box. - Jason Carreira
so what's the period of time involved here? are we dealing in units of Planck time? do Higgs bosons show up a couple of picoseconds at the target before they are supposed to? Or is the LHC spewing Higgs NOW, before it has been turned on, before it is even finished? What if some CERN janitor holds up a bucket to the LHC, collects all the Higgs bosons before it has even been turned on, and wins the Nobel Prize? - Karim
Very cool! Science fiction meets real life... - Mitchell Tsai
also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.... now i'm wondering if what the janitor is collecting in his bucket is not Higgs bosons, but rather *anti-Higgs* moving *backwards* in time. if mass is a result of Higgs, then does anti-mass and anti-gravity come from an anti-Higgs field? ;-) - Karim
Please ignore the previous comment if it has mistakenly appeared on FriendFeed prior to the year 2093. - Karim
++Karim :) Meanwhile "The world's most powerful particle accelerator, aimed at unlocking secrets of the universe, will be launched on September 10" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200... - Eugene
