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Steve Rubel posted two messages
“My new Tassimo is turning me into a bigger caffeine addict than I was before. Watch out world.”
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“Google Chrome for Mac in 2008 - yay or nay? I say nay.”
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Never heard of this service...I'll have to give it a try - Justin Korn
Filter by author is really handy. I can only do that with the imaginary friends feature in FriendFeed. Nice to be able to do it in my aggregator. - Rolf Schewe
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Steve Rubel posted a link
Google releases Vocito desktop dialer for Macs
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Requires a GrandCentral account. - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet
Is this actually made by Google or just hosted at Google Code? - Carlos Granier-Phelps
@cgranier Given that it's on their blog, I believe it's theirs - Steve Rubel via IM
Gotcha, thanks... Just saw the bit about the "Google Mac Playground." - Carlos Granier-Phelps
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Louis Gray posted a message
“What are some songs that you used to really like, that now, you can't stand?”
yesterday at 1:19 am - Link
For me, that would be anything from Crystal Waters. At one time, Gypsy Woman and 100% Pure Love were high on the list. I just deleted them from iTunes after years of skipping them. - Louis Gray
Also include: Anything by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One time, they were seriously alternative. Now, I just skip or change the station. - Louis Gray
Achey Breaky Heart. Cotton-eyed Joe by Rednex. All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth (ok I was 8 when I last liked that one) - Phil Glockner
Sliding but not completely fired: Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead. (And yes, I know these are bands and not songs) - Louis Gray
Man, I love all the songs and artists you guys mentioned. Maybe I'm still stuck in the 90s? - Jesse Stay
Yeah, RHCP seem to be rubbish these days. - Richard Bradshaw
Anything by Lamb. I wore out the first two albums and just can't stand to listen any more. - Kevin D. White
I wear my sunglasses at night, most things by Peter Gabriel. Too much play, get bored with it. - dan
Being part of the party scene here, take any new club song release, give me 3 months and I'm sick of it. - Mark Martinez
Louis, I hate you. I now have that as an earworm... la-da-dee-da-da-da, la-da-dee-da-da. ARG! - Cyndy
Most stuff by Sting - Tad, Fool
i used to love Rhianna's Umbrella song - now its turned off as soon as it starts - Stephanie Pickett
any thing by or with Kanye West... Yes he's talented but every time he issues a statement or does an interview I want to slap the taste out of is mouth. Along that line of thinking you can throw "The Puff Daddy" (or what ever the kids are calling him now) to my needs to be slapped up list... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
The eighties. All of it. - Slippy Lane
Almost everything I played when I was on the air. You think YOU'RE tired of the stuff you hear on the radio. After the 50,000th play of "Heartache Tonight," the violent thoughts begin. - Chris Baskind
No such thing! I can go the other direction, but once it's liked, it's liked forever. - Josh Haley
Most songs off the classic greatest hits albums (you know the ones I'm talking about) by the Eagles, Steve Miller, The Doors and Eric Clapton. - Jon Price
I will love Depeche Mode until the day that I die, but if I hear "Enjoy the Scilence" one more time.... - Helen Sventitsky
Finally got rid of the earworm, and thought of one. Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy" - Cyndy
Louis, usually every sony I like :) I have a bad habit of looping... Like, playing the song 100 - 200 times ...again and again ... eventually the magic wears off and I start hating the song :))) - Alemsah
I'm theorising that great music from 1976 and before has remained great, whilst anything that has been labelled as great since the end of 1976 has, in fact dated. The further we get from 1976, the quicker new so-called great tracks age and cause us annoyance. ;-) - Slippy Lane
Roxanne's Revenge - MiɳiMagɘ (Sexy Scimitar)
I have to agree that RHCP are pretty crap now. - Mark Wilson
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Apps: Alexander Kohlhofer posted a link
Share any point in time across time zones with easy to use permanent urls.
October 27 at 3:51 am - Link
permatime.com :) - Alexander Kohlhofer
i love you. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Nice idea. I've sorta gotten to used to doing the math and saying GMT +- etc, though. (get off my lawn) - Michael W. May
So had we - and we hated every minute of it. - Alexander Kohlhofer
oh - and I love you, too :) - Alexander Kohlhofer
Nice and simple although you could already do this by inviting people to a meeting in, for example, Outlook. It doesn't do recurring appointments, as far as I could tell. Recurrence is where you need something like this. - Jim Hawkins
we have just rolled out a nice update.. New features, more locations, better interface... - Alexander Kohlhofer
I'm not sure how this works... so I set up several timezones and I want to link to that configuration so I can check times later... where is the url/link for me to do that? Or am I using it wrong? - Lindsay Donaghe
oh... hmm, maybe I get it now... so it's not for you to check what time it is now, but for you to mark a particular point in time. That's cool, but I'd like to be able to set up my timezones so that I can come to the home page (or a url permalink) that shows the current time so I can tell if, say, it's too late in the evening to call my Grandmother who lives 2 timezones away. - Lindsay Donaghe
it remembers your settings automatically (for your computer). If somebody sends you a link it will display that time in your time zones. If you sent a link from yours it will be shown to them in their time zones. - Alexander Kohlhofer
yeah, definitely with you there Lindsay...i actually asked everyone if they knew anything like that a while back and there were a few suggestions..see here: http://friendfeed.com/e/854434... - Zee from WeDoCreative
Update again - I guess it must store those in cookies... looks like they were there when I came back to the page. So in that case a couple of feature suggestions, be able to choose different configs (say I have AZ, Central and Pacific because that's where my family lives, but another one for AZ, London, Sydney and Dallas where my business contacts are...). Also, be able to add a note or description to the zone so it would say "Central - Dad, Grandma, Uncle Norm" or something and be easy to spot... - Lindsay Donaghe
if you go to permatime.com it does just that. It shows you the current time across all your time zones :) - Alexander Kohlhofer
true - if you save the create permatime url as a bookmark...it's a great way to quickly go and insert any time in a particular place... - Zee from WeDoCreative
Any chance for those other suggestions, Alexander? - Lindsay Donaghe
Allowing custom labels is definitely on our list. I am not so sure about some more clock like features as there are plenty of good world time clocks out there. Permatime is all about sharing points in time - a definitive need with no good solution - till now ;) - Alexander Kohlhofer
We added custom labels a little while back. We have just added drag and drop, and easier date entry for the week ahead. For the keen or geekily-inclined, there's an indication how to construct your own permatime urls at http://permatime.com/about - Tim Diggins
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89, which is apparently high for Memphis. I think some higher-scoring locals use suburbs or jokes for their locations though. - Daniel J. Pritchett
100. :-) But I'm only 156 on the ranking list. I guess I don't Tweet enough. - Robert Scoble
Are you saving up your milliscobles for a big event? - Daniel J. Pritchett
Grades; this IS what makes me hate the word "social". You'll tell me that it's how real life is too. and again I won't agree... this is, in fact, how real life WAS. kings, slaves, blacks, women... - directeur
I personally like the list of Sunnyvale users: http://twitter.grader.com/inde... - Louis Gray
ha! I got a grade of 74 and a rank of 67,727 out of 367,076... I think I'm happy with that? - Simon T Small
got 90 and I barely use twitter... so, that's simply silly - directeur
94. Not sure what it means, but okay. - Tyler Hurst via twhirl
I got a c-. - felix
99.5 Where's my cookie - Bwana
I like the Mountain View list: http://twitter.grader.com/inde... - Kevin Fox
I get 75, but what this really means I leave to others to decide. - Grant Bierman
your cookie was blocked by your browser security setting. :) - paisano
All I care is that I'm higher than Louis Gray at 99.7 :-P - Jesse Stay
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"TiVo becomes the latest Silicon Valley company to resort to laying employees off as it “manages through the challenges presented by a difficult economic climate,” as well as what it, perhaps euphemistically refers to as “a rapidly evolving retail consumer market.” Perhaps “devolving” would be the more appropriate verb choice. Or does TiVo know something about other changes in consumer habits, in addition to the evidently growing consumer fad of, well, consuming less." - Chris White
I love snark. - Chris White
Do layoffs mean you maybe hired more full-timers than you should have? Perhaps the time is right for us all to become consultants. - Daniel J. Pritchett
Don't they need someone to deliver pizzas? - Mona N.
Daniel: TiVo's headcount has remained pretty steady over time. There are a lot of companies more deserving of the 'you hired too quickly and now you pay the price' snark than TiVo is. This is a sad day for TiVo and many of my friends who work there. - Kevin Fox
I ♡ TiVo. We have two, including a Series 1 and an HD. They pioneered this market and should have gotten much bigger than they have. Great product. - Louis Gray
Louis, I feel the same way. There are just a handful of products / services that are in the same class as TiVo in my book. - Mike Doeff
The problem TiVo ran into (and WebTV also) was that the cable/satellite companies control everything. Once they partnered with companies with better UIs, they created internal projects to build their own DVRs, and then ended the partnerships. Getting a box from your provider became the default compared to getting a 3rd party product. It's an unfortunate reality of business that there are strategic issues beyond user experience that determine success. It's the primary reason we haven't seen an Apple DVR. - Chris White
But we have seen an Apple phone, and arguably the situation is pretty similar there. - ⓞnor
@nor, Apple negotiated a great deal with AT&T, as far as wireless contracts go, but they still had to sign a 5-year exclusive. The cable market in particular is different because it's regional, which just becomes a huge convoluted mess. Better luck will probably come from using broadband than trying to navigate the cable twisty passages. - Chris White
@nor: By that analogy, is Android the generic mobile provider's alternative? - Kevin Fox
Tivo made it impossible for me to cancel my account with them a few years back (no option on their website, even though I had added by cc# there, and an intolerably long wait on the phone). My credit card was about to expire, so I figured it wasn't a problem (just a few extra months of billing), but then they continued to charge me even after the card expired (the new card had the same number with a different expiration date). Anyway, I don't feel too sorry for them, and I don't plan to buy from them ever again. - Paul Buchheit
Paul, the credit card companies are funny about these recurring charges. Even after I've changed numbers on the same account for fraud reasons, I've continued to get recurring charges from some companies. Luckily I've never had a problem with TiVo because I bought out the contract and then gave it away to someone. - Chris White
Just one more useless commodity that needed to bite the dust as soon as home DVR'ing with traditional services was implemented. - tony
I'm kind of surprised at the antipathy I'm seeing here for TiVo. I can understand if their CS department somehow slighted you, but I have not had that experience and I have owned 4 separate TiVo's over the years, some with lifetime subscriptions. Bottom line, the TiVo has the easiest, most powerful platform for scheduling recordings and watching TV that I have ever used. At the very least, I would hope that Scientific Atlanta, etc., would take notes but almost everything else out there is crap (cont'd) - Phil Glockner
Ah, the company that singlehandedly screwed the ad business :) - Patricia
comparatively. TiVo has fought and scraped for so long on a completely slanted playing field, and they are a true underdog. I'm glad that projects like MythTV are starting to mature, and perhaps that is the future of television, but for now I will stick to my Series3. - Phil Glockner
I wasn't snarking, just curious about business models. - Daniel J. Pritchett via fftogo
Phil, my comments weren't antipathy. I thought TiVo did a great job on user experience. What I was saying was they didn't have a strategic business advantage, and that is often what is necessary for long term success. - Chris White
Thanks Daniel and Chris. Chris, I see what you are saying. If you look at TiVo's history of partnering with companies (like DirectTV) and then getting screwed over by their partners, they aren't trying to be elitist in the market. They are willing to make a deal. But the rest of the industry would prefer to stick with the lowest common denominator, or (like Dish) just rip off their technology without apology. - Phil Glockner
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Turbaconducken (Turducken Wrapped in Bacon)
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"Turbaconducken. That’s right — a chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon. Otherwise known as a bacon-wrapped turducken." D: - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
mmmm....bacon - Paul
The amazing part is that the chicken *and* the duck *and* the turkey are wrapped in separate layers of bacon. Also amazing is that an entire site is dedicated to "Daily Updates on the World of Sweet, Sweet Bacon" - Bill Strathearn
I have to say that is some seriously unattractive food, regardless of how good it might taste. I'd love to see a professional chef try to dress that thing up... - Kamilah Gill
That's just wrong. - Mo Kargas
10 bird roast from posh british chef hugh fearnley-whittingstall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Alex Gawley
@Alex: Wow. I didn't think the turbaconducken could be topped, but 9 birds stuffed into a turkey definitely wins. - Jess Lee
I also read it as bad German transliteration, something “turboconductive”, or maybe Italian, “turba con ducken”. - John Lam
wow, that's all kinds of bad. i bet it tastes fantastic though - Cee Bee
تقدیم به بانو گیلاسی :) - mhmazidi
Is it Bacon season again already? - Kevin Fox
Bacon season never ends, Kevin. ;) - Jared Smith
ایییییییششششش این چیه !!!!!!! باز شروع کردی هاااااااااااااا /: - gili
I'd just like to see bacon DNA spliced into each of the constituent poultry. - Richard Chen
it's a meal, playing a meal, disguised as another meal - ♫ Rahsheen™
That could work - Josh Haley
heart attack meatball! - Susan Beebe
GOTTDAMN. - Derrick
Oh my hell! Has anyone shown this to Paula Deen? - Cyndy
I'm a vegetarian now, that's just uhm nasty - Gordon Swaby
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Baratunde Thurston posted a message
“Benjamin Netanyahu's site straight cribs BarackObama.com (http://ping.fm/fDUwE)”
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I posted about this a few days ago on Twitter...amazing doncha think? yet it makes sense. just look who'll be prez in a few months :) - ♣genieyclo♣
I wonder if the same person designed both...or maybe there's an open template out there? Anyone know? - ♣genieyclo♣
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Developer strikes it rich with iPhone game, Makes $250k in 2 Months.
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fair play to the fella... - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet
(Average geek): AARGH! I hate this guy! If only I had thought of it, instead of....well, doing nothing but playing WoW all day...and actually learning how to program iPhone apps...and...well, doing anything of value actually. Still, I hate this guy! - Fleagle
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Just wait awhile, and the cheap crap you paid too much for will come back...but this time it will be even more expensive than before. How's that for consumerism? - Fleagle
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Eric Holder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NBC says that Eric Holder has agreed to be Attorney General for Obama. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
Another Clintonista. Shocker. - Brian Newman
Poor choice - imran
I'm still waiting for hope and change. All I've seen are a couple guys that got rich as i-bankers and trial lawyers after Clinton left office. - Brian Newman
Increasingly, I'm getting the feeling the Obama administration is turning into a puppet affair. - abacab
A puppet affair how? O is setting up competent people in powerful positions so that they can get the job done. I for one am glad to see folks that have had recent prior governmental experience getting tapped for the lead spots. O is the President, he can't be the cabinet too, so these guys who specialize in being the absolute best at what they do are going to take care of these things while he gets on that 'change' bit we're all waiting for. - Aaron Krug
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Why does Google disallow other search engines to crawl these images (via their robots.txt directive, which says Disallow: /hosted/images/ and Disallow: /hosted/life/)? - Philipp Lenssen
Philipp, ohhh :-( - Timo Heuer
Philipp good question. Is it "the world's information" or google's information? - Chris Lamprecht
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Apps: Carlos Granier-Phelps posted a link
ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall: Free for a Day
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"In celebration of the 15th year anniversary of ZoneAlarm’s firewall applications, you can download Zone Alarm Pro anytime today and until 6am PDT tomorrow." - Carlos Granier-Phelps via Bookmarklet
It's on my laptop now. - Charles LePage
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“hey! joomla.org has the same blue background as barackobama.com. Hmmm”
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“cancelled at&t wireless acct (setup for qik.com & n95 during DNC). rep thanked me for being a "low activity customer" aka GIVING AWAY $$”
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“if you're tired of backwardsnewssite.com demanding registration to read their content. check bugmenot.com (thanks to all who rec'd)”
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