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When you see that red line under "rediculous," it means the word is not spelled that way.
rowlikeagirl, Iván Abrego, Jemm and 8 other people liked this
English orthography is a bitch, and I'm not the greatest speller in the world, but ugh...its seems that word is spelled wrong more often than not.
- Christopher A Carr
unless they meant it as a jab at liberals.
- Shane Abernathy
Wait, righties are red, lefties are blue...
- Christopher A Carr
just a guess if I thought I was a clever republican I would do that.
- Shane Abernathy
from email
Except you got it backwards.
- Christopher A Carr
And there's no specific "they" here. It seems to me about half of the population of the US spells the word "rediculous."
- Christopher A Carr
how so.....Red iculous.......red state?
- Shane Abernathy
from email
They ignore their browser's spell-checker with that word, for some reason...just certain it's spelled that way.
- Christopher A Carr
? Like I said if I were a republican I would do that. I was making no specific reference to what your thinking,
- Shane Abernathy
Are you hung over?
- Shane Abernathy
Are you? Oh, do you mean "red" as in communist?
- Christopher A Carr
No red as in republican, red state, GOP red iculous.
- Shane Abernathy
from email
I guess people who spell it wrong are analyzing the "re..." as re- , a prefix. I wonder if they also tend to pronounce the word [ri 'dI ..] rather than [rI 'dI...]
- Christopher A Carr
Redonkulous
- Alex Scoble
How is that a jab at liberals?
- Christopher A Carr
if you are commenting on a post from a liberal person and in your reply you make the assertion that their opinions are red iculous. Or if in your reply you want to make it known what side of the fence your on.
- Shane Abernathy
from email
I'd like to just get rid of vowels in English orthography and use vowel marks instead. Then the hair on the back of my scalp won't stand up when I see things like that. Oh, and also: "definately." GAAAHHH!
- Eph Zero
Right, because some things are finate, and some things are infinate, and some things are definate.
- Christopher A Carr
There must be papers on English morphological awareness and orthographical competence among native speakers. Or do you suppose people who spell it "definately" would also produce "finate?" Perhaps the root sort of hides in the affixation. Had I actually paid attention to the "applied" part of the "applied linguistics" education, I would probably know this stuff.
- Christopher A Carr
oh, i thought the red line was there to emphasize it. thanks for the tip. ... :) ... I wondered why the computer was always wanting to emphasize so many words. It seemed a bit rediculous to me.
- SuezanneC Baskerville
No, I think you're right, Christopher. It's those darned unstressed syllables messing everything up. But words feel different in my head based on the spelling, even if they are homophones. It makes me feel all creepy-crawly to think of the way those words must feel inside other people's heads.
- Eph Zero
The home automation / home theater world is weird. Apparently Do-It-Yourself (DYI) is a bad word there for high-end systems. Companies like Crestron and URC only sell to dealers. They claim it's because they can only assure quality this way, but I suspect it's more their business model of selling certification to installers.
Beau Liening, Jimminy Fuller, Rodfather and 5 other people liked this
This world needs to be consumerized and open-sourced. Why do I want to spend huge amounts of money for a system I have to call someone to change? It's not like these installers are super geniuses. They aren't inventing some new programming language or writing all the device drivers themselves. They're installing. Let us programmers write our own code.
- Cristo
I bet all this stuff could be run on Android and would work better. Controller and remotes.
- Cristo
It's because you need an expert to set up complete home automation. This just isn't knowledge that consumers possess. And of course they want to make money on the sales of software.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, I'm a consumer. Are you saying I couldn't do it? There are hundreds of thousands of programmers in the world, most of which could set up their own systems, and would probably want to. Most installers are doing little more than creating macros. Would you want the cable company coming out every time you wanted to record a new season pass or enter a favorite channel?
- Cristo
This is also a way of masking how lame their software is. They don't want to deal with the customer service issues. Eventually there will be companies that are actually good at user experience and software that will replace them.
- Cristo
Yes, Chris, I'm saying that you couldn't do it in any reasonable time frame. You would be recreating the wheel in so many ways. And Crestron's business model is very sound. They push off tier one support to installers and only have to deal with the really complicated problems. They don't want someone like you calling them up asking about every little thing that an installer already knows. You are not who Crestron sells to and they are probably quite fine with that.
- Alex Scoble
Hence the Android analogy.
- Cristo
This hot chic apparently took her pic on this mac before I came and sat down.
Jeff P. Henderson, VAL D. Zone, Kenton and 4 other people liked this
You're so bad
- Fa La La La Lindsay
poor girl. never thought it would end up online. :P
- John Wang
Yeah - cause leaving photos in Photobooth in an Apple store is usually totally private.
- Chrimmus Tad
You bastard. That's my sister!
- Cristo
*holds Cristo down*
- Roberto Bonini
Thank you for this wonderful gift, Tad.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
I think kenny is pushing Google Googles search to the limit right now.... :)
- Roberto Bonini
Seriously, is Google Goggles available beyond Android yet? That would be THE perfect Christmas gift!!
- Kamilah Gill
LMAO Tad: "Yeah - cause leaving photos in Photobooth in an Apple store is usually totally private." -- Hilarious!
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Me & my monkey visiting Nannie.
Steven Perez, VAL D. Zone, Meredith and 7 other people liked this
An iphone takes much better pics than my crappy camera phone.
- Mary Carmen
What is your favourite Christmas song?
Morton Fox, Morgan Haley, Kenton and 2 other people liked this
I'm thinking of a non-pop one, hmmmm. :-) But you pick whatever you like. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Home for Christmas has gained a special place in my heart. Hippo for Christmas is fun.
- R1CC1
Fairytale of New York :) Or non-pop: Gaudete.
- Vicky
Metallica - Devil's Dance
- Mo Kargas
Father Christmas - The Kinks
- Mary Carmen
I don't like Christmas music except for Elfman's Opus - NBC.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Deck The Halls With Parts Of Charlie - from Tales From The Crypt's Have Yourself A Scary Little Christmas.
- Katy S
Definitely Fairytale of New York, or Death Cab for Cutie's "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)", or Baby, It's Cold Outside. Non-pop: I have always had a soft-spot for Do You Hear What I Hear? and O Holy Night.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
from fftogo
O Holy Night, Mary's Boy-child and Snoopy's Christmas always make me cry.
- Deborah Fitchett
Oh Come, Oh come Emmanuel.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Julian Casablancas has released a pretty good Xas tune.
- Kol Tregaskes
I loooove Christmas music so I have lots. Some of my faves though: Song for a Winter's Night, River, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, In the Bleak Midwinter, and the Claymation version of We Three Kings.
- Kenton
I'm glad I'm not the only one who prefers Fairytale of New York! :-)
- vicster is...
Okole Night
- Morgan Haley
Although I love them all, I would have to say "Bells Of Christmas" always triggered my interest :D
- Tim Tunnicliff
from email
Oh! I always forget, I absolutely love Carol of the Bells & I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm (especially as sung by my former high school's Jazz choir — I still have their CD, haha). AND Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Canon" is beautiful.
- Penguin It's Cold Outside
Bumped. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Backupify – Backs up everything you do online. - http://thenextweb.com/appetit...
yakoo, HealingBrush, Brian and 9 other people liked this
thanks for the share.. like the service :)
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
I tried to take advantage of their free offer for the past several hours but their sign-up page times out. Anyone else having the same problem?
- Philippe
I finally signed up but the service is really slooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww... Too much traffic due the free lifetime offer?
- Philippe
Nice idea, this backupify!
- TrafficBug
@jodiwomack just told me about this yesterday. I lost my laptop (stolen) 23 months ago; have had serious backup every since!
- Jason
It's a real-life Russell from UP! :p - http://droplr.com/1GAcK
HealingBrush, Nima Nilian ★, میر Ellie موسوی and 44 other people liked this
خودشه؟ :))))))))))
- I /-\li
گمونم خودشه
- Amir
واااایییی عاشقشم :دی
- Armin
هنوز ندیدمش. هوم
- Negin
نگو که ندیدیش، همین الان بدو برو نگاه کن. عالیه...
- ساشا
نگین میتونی از اینجا بگیری :) http://gigadl.net/movie...
- Armin
آره، میبینمش حتمن! / آرمین بابت لینک ممنون
- Negin
OKEY داشــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــت
- نوروز
All you have to do is take some photos – which you never delete from your camera – so when someone finds your camera at the bottom of the gorilla pit they are able to locate you and return the lost property to its rightful owner. http://www.andrewmcdonald.net.au/a-picto...
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Lo, Bryan Lee, chaz2b and 163 other people liked this
I love this.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I like how everything is clear and readable except the email address.
- Alex Scrivener
LOL That's funny, but yeah...what's with the email address being so small?
- Admiral Anika
At any rate, I had a video I made with all my info on it. I accidentally took it off my chip, but I'm positive I copied it to my camera. Unfortunately, I don't know how to access my camera's memory and the cord has been lost. One of these days, I'll RTFM. =)
- Admiral Anika
that was great.......lol
- VAL D. Zone
genius.
- Morgan Haley
I like how the facial expressions match the whiteboard :-)
- Rene Wirtz
lol that was awesome as hell. I'm definitely planning to do it.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I'd just leave only one pic with my email
- Itachi
The other pics build empathy, encouraging a border-line thief to return the camera. Otherwise you may as well stick a label on the case and be done with it.
- Alex Scrivener
Does anyone else want to make out with this guy for being SO DAMN AWESOME? Srsly, total panty-dropper this one was.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
@tinypants I totally agree!
- vicster is...
God. That really *was* awesome. Anyone hesitating, go on, click the blue arrow so you can read the whole thing XD
- Kamilah Gill
this is win.
- Colette
cute
- Burçak Çubukçu
he's sweet, but it won't work
- topo
this would make an amazing ad : )
- liladreams
wow, this is very close to being the most popular thing I have ever posted to Friendfeed. Just goes to show, um, something. Always use pictures?
- Alex Scrivener
took 25 of em ;)
- Itachi
ALWAYS use pictures. I try to include a picture with every post. Otherwise, people just pass the post by. It's always been that way.
- Jason Huebel
Yes, Always use pictures! For one thing, I might sketch your stuff one day! Also yes, it helps your posts stand out.
- Kamilah Gill
Awesome!
- Josh Haley
I'm the opposite. I tend to ignore posts with photos (unless the post itself is just a photo). Why? The image usually detracts from the text and people spend time talking about the picture and making it clear they didn't bother to read the text or link.
- Admiral Anika
=/ (not about the original post. I already expressed how much I love it)
- Kamilah Gill
:)
- winckel
Or you could just put an address sticker on the camera...
- Alix Whitmire
No, the pictures try to build an emotional connection with the finder. It helps convince a not-so-honest person to return the camera rather than just keep it. It won't stop a real thief, but it could tip the odds in his favor. A sticker can't do that.
- Alex Scrivener
There should be a place in your camera for email address, like cell phones have "Home" so when you lose it, someone can call you. Hmmmm.
- anna sauce
Brilliant! :D
- Carmen
I wouldn't ever think to go through pics, but if I found a lost cam (or phone or whatever) with an address clearly visible on it, I'd pop it in the mail, or call/email someone, no problem. Same holds true for some lost and found places. They might call you if there's easy contact info, but I don't see them taking the time to flip through photos to figure out how. Maybe do both?
- Alix Whitmire
Creative!
- Mehmet Ali Akyol
lol
- echostreamer
LoL !
- ★ Soner Gönül
So good!
- Micah Wittman
That's a great idea ! i'm just sad you didn't show it before i left my camera somewhere ... T_T
- Duff
that's genius. now all I need is the camera
- JSLeFanu
Very Good!
- John D Reasor
ikinci ramazan cekic vakasi mi bu simdi
- Cagdas Seichter
ramazan taklitlerinden sakininiz
- Cagdas Seichter
I was putting a README.txt file on my USB sticks with contact info if it got lost. This is way better! Now take this board with your contact info.... smile, no! put a sad face.... and you're done!
- Nenad Nikolic
This is now far and away the most popular thing I have ever posted. Even got a FFundercats Best of the Week!
- Alex Scrivener
:D
- Josh Haley
Güzel, son derece yaratıcı bir fikirmis :)
- Orkut Ozdemirci
The Festive Library 2009 - a set on Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Spidra Webster, Numan Arda Çebi, Rob Haas and 57 other people liked this
"National Union Catalog Christmas Tree. " -- So Awesome!!
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
that's great!
- Anna Haro
hey, look, that's my library!
- a creature was stirring
I totally want to do this next year, but our NUC is bound in all kinds of ugly colors: red, yellow, brown, gray. Rats!
- Catherine Pellegrino
Fantastic!
- Galadriel C.
Merry NUCmas!
- Liam Sullivan
Patron: I need to look at the volume that is bottom center. I need to see more info about that book by J. Aardsmann...
- Joe
i'm doing this on monday. there are 2 librarians who swear that they use the NUC daily (BALONEY) so we'll see what happens. heh.
- jambina
Our NUC is in boxes in our high density storage facility.
- DJF
Catherine, just explain to people that your tree is dying. That's all.
- Miriella
not dying! those colors are the ornaments!
- ~Courtney F.
Everyone at my library loved this. Maybe we'll even do it next year.
- barbara fister
We ain't got a NUC. Maybe an ice-blue DLB tree?
- s t e v e
i'd love to see a tree constructed of chunks of discarded looseleaf in a law library.
- a creature was stirring
WE ARE DOUCHEBAGS. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), Christopher Harley, Andrew C and 7 other people liked this
For a douchebag, his double pits to chesty move sucks.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
I can't decide if this is satire or serious. Weird.
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Serious is the only way to come at douchebaggery.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Well, this is certainly a serious bunch of douche bags! Especially the dude in the pink shirt.
- Jenny R.
Yes! He seems of an elite class of douchebag.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
That's pure gold!
- Christopher Harley
GM is killing the Snaab brand...I don't think many people will care.
edythe, Victor Ryden, Mathew™ one of a kind and 8 other people liked this
I only care because they took an iconic brand of well made cars and turned it into a cheap shell of its former self producing the same crap that GM has been producing for too long.
- Kenton
Au contraire ! Saab has a great history (turbo, fighter jets, +++), and besides, Norwegian Bård Eker and people from the Koenigsegg supercar company were in negotiations with GM to buy Saab, but GM chose to sell just parts of Saab tech to the Chinese and kill the rest of the company instead, and that´s sad.
- Thomas Bøhm
Companies that wish to retain their history and heritage should not sell out to large multinationals.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
Apparently so.
- Thomas Bøhm
How awful! I had a Saab 900S back in the 80's, before GM stepped in. I have many fond memories of that car. I wasn't at all happy when GM got involved w/Saab. Now, killing the brand, that is really sad...
- Seth Greenblatt
Apparently Dutch company, Spyker Cars, have now put in a new bid for Saab.
- Thomas Bøhm
I can tell you that Sweden is in shock, and everyone is blaming everyone.
- Patrik Johansson
Modern corporations run by pointy headed MBAs forgot how to make brands differ its alll homogenized safe and boring and I blame stupidity laziness and mostly that car guys like Harley Earl are gone
- WarLord
I'm a Swede, and I DO care! (Can't we "dislike" stuff too?)
- Natanael L
It vud seem my Skandinavians haf you out-num-beRed, MisteR Skoble. *stroking the cat* Or should I say ... (dramatic pause)... Agent Dodge o´ Seven (..seats..) !1? :)
- Thomas Bøhm
Yess, I do care also, SAAB is a wonderful brand that should stick around. Even if it is *shudders* Swedish
- Rasmus Lauridsen
When I was much younger, I really wanted a Saab. That desire kinda fizzled out a few years after GM took away everything special about the brand.
- Chrimmus Tad
I owned a fantastic Saab 900S Convertible and loved it! I definitely care, because I thought that was the best car I ever owned, and I want another one. I will hope that Spyker saves the company and keeps it alive. You don't have to care, plenty of other people do.
- Bette Cooper
Your right I really don't care about Snaab. Actually I don't even really care about Saab either.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
The chinese wanted the tech so that they could leapfrog the R&D process of getting tech that would pass regulations (crash test safety, emissions, etc) -- also one of the reasons that Hummer was bought by a chinese company. These chinese companies will now have their 'foot in the door' (so to speak) for selling cars in the US. --- there still might be a chance that saab will be 'saved' but it's not looking good right now
- Chris Heath
Demi's Hip-Gate Continues: Photog Raises The $take$ | Perez Hilton - http://cocoperez.com/2009-11...
Morton Fox, Matthew DeVries, elnaz and 17 other people liked this
“To reiterate, Demi is a beautiful woman who needs no help from retouching. This was never about her, nor about retouching - I have no problem with either. Further, I feel bad that Demi is on defense - she should not have to defend other people's mistakes; W Magazine should be addressing this rather than her. Having said that, she did raise the stakes considerably yesterday by posting what she claims is the original unretouched shot, along with the accusation that ‘these people’ (presumably Xeni and me) are ‘bullshitting.’”
- Anthony Citrano
from Bookmarklet
So where does this sit now? I assume Anthony still has his $5000. Has Demi/W Magazine responded?
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian: W Magazine has said nothing beyond their original unattributed remarks to Jezebel; Mert & Marcus (the photogs) have said nothing (& I don't blame them); the celebutard blogosphere is alight with breathless speculation/anticipation; Demi has not responded to this round, no.
- Anthony Citrano
So I am guessing if there is no response from any of them (the likely situation) you will let sleeping dogs lie and claim "victory" ? Or are you game for stirring the pot somehow?
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian, it looks like it's getting far more interesting than I ever imagined it would...
- Anthony Citrano
How so?
- Brian Sullivan
Stay tuned, my friend.. stay tuned.
- Anthony Citrano
The anticipation is gnawing away at me. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
Why is it that these "issues" always seem to be as much about keeping the name of some self-aggrandizing "celeb-media" muckraker in the center of the spotlight as about the supposed "celebrity" who may or may not deserve to be part of the issue? "Demi's Hip-gate?" Seriously? In my humble opinion, self-styled and almost-by-default-self-important media reporters need to get a life! (And preferably one that lies outside of the super-hype echo chamber known as celebrity media.)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Oh... and while I'm at it... STAY OFF MY YARD!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
@Mark - how would you have handled it differently, if you were in my shoes?
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony, sorry if my broadside was harsh. I don't pretend to know the details that led up to the initial post. Mostly my verbiage was directed at Perez Hilton, since I'm inferring that he was initially involved (?) and to this day I am at a loss as to how someone like him gets away with being a no talent @$$portal and injecting himself into the lives of people who actually may have some...
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- Mark "DerBingle" J
@Mark: no, it was I who was initially involved and I was the source of the original story that set off this massive furor. Perez wrote about it after my $5k offer to charity. But simply put, I will not stand idly by and have my credibility (& validity as a journalistic source) attacked by anyone. Demi Moore did that, and within a couple of hours the tide began to turn, with several...
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- Anthony Citrano
Alright Anthony. I spoke out of turn, and I apologize for that. I've never let a preponderance of facts get in the way of a good curmudgeonly rant, and it appears I did you an injustice. If what you say about your standards is true, then that lends hope to your profession where it has otherwise been sorely lacking, at least in my limited estimation. I don't claim to be up to speed where...
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- Mark "DerBingle" J
@Mark - no need to apologize, and please do *not* keep your opinions to yourself! Besides, I am a heavyweight champion of curmudgeonly rants. ;) [and welcomed the excuse to vent.]
- Anthony Citrano
And it just got significantly *more* weird yesterday. Right when I thought this non-story was over... again I say: stay tuned (busy summoning some courage at the moment.)
- Anthony Citrano
Doesn't sound good if you have to summon courage - hope it is all ok.
- Brian Sullivan
So Anthony -- is everything OK?
- Brian Sullivan
@Brian - thanks for checking in. Yes, it is, but I am ... umm, shall we say, getting some ducks in a row... knowwhatimean? ey, ey? saynomore, saynomore?
- Anthony Citrano
Wow, boys, you have been busy chatting up a storm over here, haven't you? (Obviously after Mark's recent post I *had* to see what the fuss was about). You haven't put a foot wrong yet, Anthony, so I hope you continue to fight your corner with grace and tact.
- WorldofHiglet
obviousshop is obvious
- Will Higgins™
may this be the only thing peeps have to worry about....
- VAL D. Zone
@Val: I agree. But, as totally vacuous as it is, it's having a palpable impact on my life at this moment. Hard to imagine, I know.
- Anthony Citrano
She is still a hottie -- shop'ed or not. Knowing nothing about this story.....but I would tend to side with Anthony just by his rep and actions.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
sorry Will :-/
- Anthony Citrano
whatever
- Will Higgins™
yeh what3ver.
- Anthony Citrano
COMMENCE VACATION NOW!!!!!!!!! WOOT!!!!! NO LIBRARY TILL 2010!!!!
Laura wishes you peace., Holly Rae, Jennifer McDaniel and 31 other people liked this
HOORAY!
- josh neff, geek at large
you go girl
- VAL D. Zone
have fun!
- Nancy Sp♠id
yay!
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
YEAH!! Enjoy!
- tab thinks you're awesome
...a (cyber) toast! To days off, filled with loads of holiday cheer! yada yada yada...
- .LAG liked that
Booyah! Me too!
- Martha
Enjoy!
- Holly Rae
AWESOME! All my favorite Internet memes are in this pic!
Blackstare, Michael W. May, joneilortiz and 54 other people liked this
LOL @Pedo
- rowlikeagirl
pedobear + ceiling cat + hypnotoad = win. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
Don't forget chutulu. :)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
And the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt.
- Neal Krummell
Find the FUUUUUUUU
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Hah. The first thing I looked for was good ol' Pedobear. I felt a moment of panic when I could not see him but then bam! There he was. And all is right with the world again.
- Akiva Moskovitz
The narwhal is there, perfect...*with* bort watching! This is a heavily-reddit-inspired pic
- Itachi
ha! I noticed that fuuuu'ing RAGE FACE down there, finally. but what about that white thing pointing inside the room? never seen it before.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
*CUE CSI MIAMI INTRO* YEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I like the "please do not feed the trolls" and evolution fish.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Bora, it's Reddit http://www.reddit.com
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
That is Bort, Bora...the mascot of Reddit. And the two guys I'm assuming are Alexis and Steve (founders of reddit). They got the orange mailbox..edit: nvm, that guy is Caruso
- Itachi
all that i've found is HL,House and gmail-kill me :(
- morose
The guy with the cane and the crowbar is House, I'm pretty sure. Happy to see bacon make an appearance. :)
- Curtiss Grymala
The other guy is Horatio Caine in a classic put on sunglasses moment
- Rasmus Lauridsen
mmmm Bacon
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Wow, I don't know at least 10 of these memes.
- Andrew C
Someone explain to me that frog?
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
and what about the "learn how to (p)eel a banana" brochure?!?
- Lui(gi) ►►
Luigi, it was a popular youtube video (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
The banana peeling is a guy who made a video about how to peel a banana like a monkey - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
The 'More You Know' jingle should be playing on repeat in this post.
- Akiva Moskovitz
@AJ @Rasmus my life will never be the same again! thank you guys, I'm gonna post it right now ;-) lol
- Lui(gi) ►►
I don't know the majority of them. Which would make me feel pretty square except I remember tons of memes that aren't on here.
- Spidra Webster
So does anyone know how to create the creepy reddit stare emote depicted on that guy's head bag? I need to have that one available for an easy cut/paste.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
My favorite is missing. Just damn. :-(
- Dave Roth
I see no cheezburgers or lolcatz. Fail!
- Curtiss Grymala
Curtiss, look at the ceiling cat.
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
At the risk of asking a stupid question... what's an "internet meme"?
- Philippe
Here you go, Philippe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Got it now! Thanks, AJ!
- Philippe
AJ - Ceiling cat is supposed to be white. I thought the thing sticking its head out of the ceiling was supposed to be the Firefox or something (as it looks more like a fox than a cat). You could be right, though
- Curtiss Grymala
Curtiss, original ceiling cat I think wasn't white.
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
AJ, it's Hypno Toad, a television star in Futurama.
- Raphael, Raphael
Thanks Raphael. Didn't know that. ;)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Ceiling cat is on my desktop right now, and he's an orange tabby. And he's staring at me.. he knows.. somehow he knows..
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Great !
- ★ Soner Gönül
It is looking like I will have a new job. FT thru March at a 1/3 rate increase. Starts Monday. Yay!
Kol Tregaskes, Derrick, winckel and 14 other people liked this
Congrats!
- Laura wishes you peace.
Mazel tov!
- Akiva Moskovitz
FT?
- Raphael, Raphael
Full time and then the job transitions to Manila. I am not going to Manila. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Great news! Much luck to you in the new job!
- jcunwired
Congrats
- Rodfather
Thank you. More money and I can wear jeans to work. Now, I need to find a sale on jeans. D'oh. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Congrats Mathew!
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
Nice, dude
- LANjackal
A single sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means that a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1,587.5TB - http://inothernews.tumblr.com/post...
Jimminy Fuller, Liviu Barbat, Jim Graham and 49 other people liked this
So I had to calculate this out: the HGP estimates that the human genome is about 3 billion base pairs (3Gbp) long (Their count includes 22 chromosomes+X+Y) which can be used as an estimate for how many base pairs are in a haploid gamete. Since each base pair can have 4 different values (A-T/T-A/G-C/C-G) a base pair basically encodes 2 bits of information. So 3 billion base pairs = 6 gigabits = 750 MB. On average, there are about 250 million sperm per ejaculation, so that comes (pardon the pun) to 1.875 petabytes of information. Of course, there's a lot of redundancy in that information, but 1.875 petabytes in about 2 teaspoons of volume is impressive in terms of information density. (Bear in mind, my mathematical skills are fairly weak, and I could've gotten this calculation very wrong.)
- Victor Ganata
Oh. Victor. =)
- Admiral Anika
http://xkcd.com/386/ Can you tell I don't want to do my charts today?
- Victor Ganata
Yeah, try telling the girl you're just backing up your data. ;)
- Cristo
Jeez, now that's all I'm going to be able to think about...
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
LOL @Cristo
- Mo Kargas
No wonder I feel tired all of the time.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Too.... many..... JOKES!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Well, an ATTEMPTED data transfer. Sometimes it's kinda like wadding up a bunch of 1TB USB keys and tossing them in the trash. :D
- Chrimmus Tad
That's just about the coolest stat ever.
- Chrimmus Tad
This could be really really bad if women take their lead from mobile broadband. $60 for 5 GB would add up in a hurry!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Tad, that's why you have to use the Tiger Woods branded Raid-14 approach. ;)
- Cristo
It's like spamming. You're sending out all that data and only 37.5 MB of it will be used.
- Morton Fox
And that, my friends, is why every sperm is sacred! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Another great post! :-) Informational, true, and funny. :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Spammers are essentially manwhores then
- Itachi
I don't think it's possible for me to love this entire conversation more than I do RIGHT NOW. And I love all of you for making it happen.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
EPIC.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
does a vasectomy result in a lower data density I wonder?
- jeff hammond
BRAVO!
- Santa CW™
@jeff: it shouldn't; the testicles will still produce the same volume of sperm as before. They just won't go anywhere. The body reabsorbs the sperm over time. So...kind of like performing a regularly-scheduled defrag?
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
So Condoms are firewalls?
- Santa CW™
Precisely.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I wonder how much data a virus contains? It'd be interesting to compare a virus attack to a pregnancy attempt just in terms of data transmission. I'd think virii carry much less data...
- Chrimmus Tad
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Aaagh! It's viruses!!!!!!111!!!1111!!111
- Victor Ganata
Sorry, Tad. Major pet peeve of mine ;)
- Victor Ganata
You OK, man? Srsly, here, sit down. Have a beverage. Relax a bit. Maybe read a few entries over at FML or AwkwardFamilyPhotos...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Isn't the overwhelming fraction of the human genome "junk DNA"?
- Andrew C
My favorite science post ever. Easily.
- Jason Huebel
Agreed 137%.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
"Junk DNA" is kind of a misnomer, though. It's more accurate to say we don't really know what they do. Some sequences are pseudogenes, which are evolutionary relics. Other sequences are retrotransposons--molecular parasites that embed themselves into an organism's genome and copy themselves endlessly. But there are areas of non-coding DNA that are involved in the regulation of gene...
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- Victor Ganata
But to answer your question, Tad, apparently a cough can contain up to 200 million viral particles http://www.livescience.com/health... The size of the rhinovirus genome is about 7,000 nucleotides http://blogs.america.gov/science... while the influenza genome is about 13,000 nucleotides long....
more...
- Victor Ganata
And you might possibly cough both or more out at once. Plus bacteria, etc etc
- Chrimmus Tad
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For the record: I just totally hit on my boyfriend using information gleaned from this thread.
- Sparky
This? Is why I love Sparky.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
p.s. we have determined that we have sufficient enterprise storage capacity to continue with the release.
- Sparky
Women prefer bigger bandwidth.. No dial up for them..
- Santa CW™
I think Petabytes is a very appropriate term for this discussion.
- Kenton
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to ejaculate as often as you cough when you're sick.... Still, you'd have to be sick with the flu and cough 3,000 times to match the throughput of a single ejaculation :D
- Victor Ganata
Thinking (with some regret) about all those sperm I lost so casually in my youth, and how much smarter I might be today if I'd listened to my spiritual mentors!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Let the heathen spill theirs, on the dusty ground. God shall make them pay for each sperm that can't be found.
- Christopher A Carr
What? I enjoy Kristin Chenoweth and may have a slight thing for her. .... Do you want to fight about it?
Alex Scoble, Kamala Whitaker, Brett Kelly and 18 other people liked this
Her forehead is gigantic.
- Chrimmus Tad
Enormous.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
It's an eighthead.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I see you've all chosen fight! *grabs brass knuckles*
- Joe Pierce
You can plaster the internet on thaty 5-head. DAMN!
- Admiral Anika
Are you going to defend her forehead?
- Chrimmus Tad
It'd make a nice surface to project a movie upon.
- Chrimmus Tad
Thought that was Cameron Diaz for a second there.
- Nurse Katie
OMG TAD!
- Admiral Anika
I <3 Itty-Bitty.
- cecily
She looks like a [slightly] less nightmarish version of this cashier at my local Albertsons.
- Adrian
I feel the same way.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
ZOMG! I just realized who she is! I've only seen one full episode of Glee... and that was it. :D She was great in it.
- Adrian
I loved her in Pushing Daisies.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
She is the best little pixie in the whole, wide world.
- RAPatton
I'll end up buying the Pushing Daisies boxed set mainly just to see her as Olive Snook (especially later on when she got to wear different costumes on the job with Chuck).
- Akiva Moskovitz
Def have a thing for her, esp after hearing her sing. Wow! So much teh awesum inna li'l pixie pkg :-D
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
She has a forehead?
- Kenton
I've only seen one episode of Pushing Daisies. I was totally in a box of dumbassness on that one. I need to get it! She has amazing range with that little voice of hers.
- Joe Pierce
And *fist bumps* to anyone commenting on her talent in this thread.
- cecily
Talent? Are looks really a "talent?"
- Jeremy (on vacation)
I LIKE!
- Mo Kargas
Her looks are actually scary to me, but she can sing like nobody's business!
- Adrian
Yeah, more than a couple of people have mentioned her talents over her looks. Did you read the responses Jeremy, or were you assuming what they said? Or did I miss a joke?
- Joe Pierce
I was being facetious. I was playing chauvinist for cecily.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Loved her in West Wing! Loved her in Pushing Daisies! Loved her in Glee! I didn't like Wicked but that was for reasons other than her! She sang and acted the part of Glinda amazingly!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Fist-bump is a term of agreement, people. You know - the Obama fist bump? I'm *agreeing* with people who are focusing on her talent.
- cecily
I'm surprised Haggis hasn't chimed in. I'm pretty sure you'll have to duel him for her.
- Spidra Webster
For the record, I think she's great.
- Spidra Webster
Let the evidence speak for itself: http://vodpod.com/watch...
- Adrian
*sigh* Her voice just gives me chills. So talented.
- cecily
(And in that clip, Lea Michele has guts. I'll give her her due, but to sing up against Chenoweth? That took guts.)
- cecily
I predict we have not seen the end of her on Glee.
- Joe Pierce
Given that we know they're bringing in Idina Menzel this season, I think there's a chance they could bring Chenoweth back for a cameo.
- Spidra Webster
It's quite an ear opener as she winds up her vocal histrionics. Most impressive. I've been very reticent of Glee for some reason, but that episode made me pay attention.
- Adrian
I started Glee because I liked the performances, but I'm staying because they bring guest stars like Chenoweth (and Idina Menzel!!) to the cast. Oh, I can't wait for that story arc.
- cecily
Oh, I'll fight you but not for the reason you think. I love her. Have ever since her stint on the West Wing.
- pea
Itty Bitty!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Rosetta! Glinda!! Woot!
- Alix Whitmire
Thats Ga-linda.
- EricaJoy
You can drive a freight train on her forehead.
- Faraz Mullick
She's such a cute little thing. I'll fight you for her. CAGE MATCH!
- Jason Huebel
I'll do you one better, I'll see you in THUNDERDOME Jason!
- Joe Pierce
we don't need another hero.
- pea
Did you just quote Tina Turner at me?
- Joe Pierce
and what if I did?
- pea
I haven't decided yet. something..
- Joe Pierce
uh-huh. thought so.
- pea
Our official 2009 "nog-off" here at work. Employees bring in their strongest egg nog / cider, we all drink, then vote. w00t!
Uwe, Kenton and Morton Fox liked this
Hey Nintendo, add more customizations to mii creator. Signed, last year.
Kenton, Alex Scoble, Tyson Key and Admiral Anika liked this
Not joking here. An update to stuff like this would make a world of difference.
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
I still don't understand why I can't access my account online like Xbox. Then again, I still haven't gotten the hang of adding other people to my Mii Plaza.
- Admiral Anika
I feel like there's enough genius behind the scenes at Nintendo to make some of these fixes if they wanted to. Is there just not enough demand for these fixes? I mean, my brothers have all but gotten bored with the Wii and have moved onto the 360. Maybe it's that Nintendo isn't trying to reach the middle of the road gamer. Oh well... :(
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Mandatory Government controlled filtering coming to Australia in 2010. Australia will join countries such as Syria, China and Iran in controlling what is seen on the Internet. Vote this up and help petition against this absurdity. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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"Liked" but don't like... well you know...
- Kenton
Bryan Clark, 佛陀, RAPatton and 8 other people liked this
What a piece of garbage Rackspace has turned into. All servers down, and their phones are busy. Fanatical service my ass.
Itachi, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Micah Wittman and 9 other people liked this
Rackspace, a year ago and earlier, was an awesome company. Now the service goes down catastrophically every couple of months, one hand doesn't talk to the other, and are much less responsive to basic business concerns. Anyone a Rackspace expatriate who has had better service elsewhere?
- Mark Trapp
While I try to get through to them, I'm just going to talk about all the ways Rackspace has failed as a vendor over the past year. 1) Had a contract renewal in October. We signed the new contract, waited 2 weeks for them to send back the executed contract. Nothing. Call them up, ask them what's happening, and they say they don't execute contracts unless explicitly requested to. That's not how contract law works.
- Mark Trapp
:(
- Tyson Key
Today is the 4th time this year all of our servers are down and we have no way of reaching our support team. Instead of allowing their customers to reach their support teams so we can notify our clients and users, Rackspace chooses to update their blog. That's not fanatical service, that's lame service.
- Mark Trapp
Just had an issue where all of our users mysteriously couldn't access our secure FTP server that we use for critical day-to-day operation. It took them 5 hours and several attempts to blame the problem on me to figure out it was a security update they rolled out and didn't tell anyone about. The next day, we lose access to the server again because they rolled out the same security update they told us we would be exempt from.
- Mark Trapp
Going back to the contract renewal, prior to this year, we've been able to work with them in negotiating a fair contract, most of the time prices went down (because that's how technology prices work). This year, no change in price. Upon negotiating, their counteroffer was for us to get different servers and do a complete manual migration over to them on our own dime. Yeah, that's fanatical service.
- Mark Trapp
In the past year, we've had 5 different account managers and I lost count of how many business development consultants. Each time, we had to re-explain to them what exactly we do and what our business needs are. It may be just me, but fanatical service involves taking notes.
- Mark Trapp
Every time we've had a catastrophic failure, we were told it'll never happen again. Famous last fanatical words. The last time this happened, I asked for extra reassurance. They told me it was a problem with one datacenter (conveniently, the one we're in) and that they could move us to another data center, but the manual migration would be on our dime. How fanatical!
- Mark Trapp
Yeah -- all our Jungle Disk remotes and mail are down as well (but those are not mission critical). I would say their credibility is not high.
- Brian Sullivan
Still can't get through to my support team.
- Mark Trapp
I am beginning to think that Robert may have been hired to be the chief apologist.
- Brian Sullivan
He's not doing a very good job at it. I'm really looking for a reason as to why I should stay with Rackspace other than the expense of migration.
- Mark Trapp
Twitter is lit up like a Christmas tree -- hundreds -- maybe thousands of tweets.
- Brian Sullivan
Looks like my RackSpace-hosted JungleDisk's still functional. for what it's worth. (I only used RS since they waive the data transfer/bandwidth fees for uploading and downloading data, unlike S3). Not sure which data centre the content is hosted in though.
- Tyson Key
JungleDisk was not functional for me -- but it just came back up. Email looks like it is back as well.
- Brian Sullivan
Finally got through. Was told nobody knows what happened and that they'll notify us. Yeah, that's not fanatical service. Trying to get ahold of someone else there.
- Mark Trapp
It was a "network related outage" and that I should "check the blog for updates."
- Mark Trapp
Spoke to someone, who's apparently my new account manager because my now-old manager is away for a month, and I should get an incident report as soon as they have it. Was offered the same "we can transfer you to another data center" manually and on our dime thing again.
- Mark Trapp
Wow, I don't even know how I would respond to that. Good luck.
- joey
That might give you some insights in to what's going on, Mark.
- Alex Scoble
That's pretty much what they told me. They also told me it affected only the Dallas-Fort Worth datacenter, all other datacenters were fine.
- Mark Trapp
We had all the same problems with Rackspace, so we left for SoftLayer. Do yourself a favor and get the hell out of there. It's not going to get better. Just ask @racker420.
- Alex Wolfe
Thanks Alex for the referral. It's frustrating because before 2009, Rackspace was unbelievably awesome, I recommended them to dozens of people, and wouldn't have ever thought of leaving them. What a difference a year makes.
- Mark Trapp
Knock on wood; once again we were only down for a few minutes.
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
Climate Deal Announced, but Falls Short of Expectations - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Demetrios the Traveller, Kenton and chaz2b liked this
*shocked*
- Kenton
My sister is currently in Korea. She said that this weird man came up to her asking if she was alone, where she was staying, and if she had anyone around. I think he was a human trafficker; she thinks terrorist. Either way, that is scary. Ladies traveling alone, be careful and weary of people around you.
Amber, Random Time Lord, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Morgan Haley and 9 other people liked this
so true....
- VAL D. Zone
Yeah, you never want to offer that info to a stranger off the street. You're probably right about the trafficking, Shevonne.
- Steven Perez
That's wild!!
- Roney Smith
My question- has that guy been successful with that line of questioning? Seems obvious.
- anna sauce
It may just be one of those "lost in translation" moments; those might just have been the English phrases he'd learnt that he could remember.
- Mark H
You meet all kindsa wackos when you travel- a guy in lin ein Scotland of all places saw my name and started this whole "you are a sexy Swede? Do you have sex alot? We have sex now?" lol.
- anna sauce
Guy from United Arab Emerits started propositioning me for 2nd wife-dom. Seriously.
- anna sauce
My sister said he was Middle Eastern
- Shevonne
How odd. Where was she exactly- what kind of location?
- anna sauce
She is on base for training, and she went out to do some shopping
- Shevonne
What base?
- Alex Scoble
Ill have to ask
- Shevonne
"human trafficker" don't speak to victims. The monitor and then scoop the victim up. Its a business and they are really well organized. Thats why its called as Organized Crime. FWIW, I think its a lost in translation moment.
- Peter Dawson
Just curious, Shevonne. I was stationed at Osan for a year back in 95.
- Alex Scoble
tazer the fugger
- Morgan Haley
Some Purely Anectdotal and Totally Unscientific Data on Flickr Images Being Sold by Getty Images - http://thomashawk.com/2009...
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Michael Hocter, Jeff P. Henderson, See-ming Lee 李思明 SML and Kenton liked this
Over at the Getty Images Contributor Group on Flickr (it’s private and you have to be an accepted Flickr/Getty photographer in order to see it) there have been a number of threads started over the past few months where Getty/Flickr contributors have posted and shared basic information about how their sales are going through the Flickr/Getty partnership thus far. While it is probably far too early to accurately ascertain a lot of the statistics on how things are truly going, I thought I’d compile some of this information as anecdotal.
- Thomas Hawk
Gmail Account and Google Apps Got Hacked - http://www.labnol.org/interne...
Kenton liked this
Your gmail account got hacked?!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
Not mine, click link to read about it.
- Keith Rowland
Mary Carmen in natural light (Have a great vacation, btw!)
Steven Perez, Chatsohbet, Santa CW™ and 10 other people liked this
Your pictures are great. I just got rid of some of the purple
- Josh Haley
The purple is actually the darkness of her office-cave :)
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
oh wow! Thanks, Josh!
- Mary Carmen
:)
- Josh Haley
Yes, my office is a cave. I hate the overhead lighting.
- Mary Carmen
TWO MORE HOURS TILL MY VACATION DOO DA! DOO DA!!!!!!!!!
Scott, teh Dork Knight aka Kenny, Steven Perez and 13 other people liked this
*floored by MC's cuteness*
- josh neff, geek at large
what a smile.......
- VAL D. Zone
Awesome. I hope this is cool: http://ff.im/d6qnU
- Josh Haley
very, very cool, Josh!
- Mary Carmen
The Stache-Wich - http://krynsky.posterous.com/the-sta...
Jeremy (on vacation), Chatsohbet, Jean-Marie Gall and 6 other people liked this
maybe i did « Loldogs, Dogs 'n' Puppy Dog Pictures – I Has A Hotdog! - http://ihasahotdog.com/2009...
Ken Morley, echostreamer, \(*_*)/ and 5 other people liked this
Almost fell out of my chair I laughed so hard at this one.
- Jason Huebel
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ROTFLMAO!!
- Kenton
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