Heavy pc and crt, ok, but the subwoofer too? You know how heavy those things are? This would work in space maybe.
- Josh Haley
And I wonder where it's getting powered from. Is there an extension cord behind him, or maybe he's got a generator attached to his feet?
- Costa Walcott
But which way would it point? Or should there be two, one aimed at his face, and one on the visor of his hat, to see what he can see?
- Ladybug Heather
It's a 'Trojan Horse'!! The hollowed out tower contains 8 Macbook Airs, 25 iPhones, a G1™[product placement by Google] and a handful of Newtons - just waiting to be deployed!
- Micah Wittman
There is a distinct lack of cup holder.
- Rochelle
True... where does the Mountain Dew go? Or coffee or Jolt Cola or whatever caffeinated substance he drinks?
- Ladybug Heather
Rochelle: thats what the CD Drive tray is for.
- Roberto Bonini
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! I just looked again...Gwen Stefani and JLo
- Anna Haro
Hey Anna!! *hug* Seriously... It paled everything else in comparison... I couldn't 'like' anything else on my 'best of the day' tab. :)
- Parth Awasthi
"Photographer Juza rocks the Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III with a monstrous Sigma 200-500mm f/2.8 EX DG lens. For reference, the Sigma weighs about 35 pounds. Hell yes."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
If you want to impress the chicks, just bring this thing along without a tripod to your next photowalk. Tell them that it's what you shoot with daily so as never to miss your shot.
- Thomas Hawk
Thats a serious lens..move out of the way! ;)
- iconic88
Holy crap! Work out while you shoot-brilliant!
- Susan Dennis
this guy carries his equipment (including a Canon 600mm) and a backpack hiking on the Alps, so I'm not surprised at all ;-) (http://www.juzaphoto.com/eng...)
- flod
Just when I thought I could become a good photographer I realize I'll need an arm like that!
- Alexis Bellido
good photographer, handles equipment with care...
- eva
Looks like Popeye... boys, yes, it IS all about your equipment.
- Paula W
I have a 70-210 F2.8 that makes me tired trying to handhold so I understand your need to search for support (I am old btw -- and my progeny are quickly heading that way ;-) )
- Brian Sullivan
Okay, so it’s not really a blueberry cheesecake but I didn’t know what else to call it J. It does have some delicious blueberry pie filling on it though. This is the cheesecake that I made this year for Thanksgiving. After all, what could be better for Thanksgiving dessert than a cheesecake? It was so good and it absolutely got devoured in no time. The highlight of this cheesecake is the crust. The crust is a combination of vanilla wafers and 3 different types of nuts – almonds, walnuts and pecans. A great way to make the crush is to crush all of the ingredients with a rolling pin. I feel the addition of lemon juice in the filling makes a huge difference in the overall flavor, and a little vanilla doesn’t hurt either. If you are looking for a delicious cheesecake recipe give this one a try. You don’t be disappointed. Enjoy.
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
from Bookmarklet
these pictures that you share always make me hungryyyyyyyyyyyyy , now I'm dieing of hunger and I don't want anything except this cake :D :(((((((((((((((((
- Viva Vida
Vida: You are young. you have many wishes. please don't die. i promise send you this cake. :D
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Mahdi :D but you are killing me with these pictures :D I can't I should go :)))))))))))
- Viva Vida
I think driving in the left road might be so adventurous. but lead to hospital :)
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
If I could get on 95 and end up in Rome, I'd be one happy American.
- Kim G.
Seriously, you all think the road on the left is bad? I'm going to have to go find a map to post of something called "The Tail of the Dragon" =D BRB
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina: It's not 'bad' per se. Just that high speed travel will kill you. Now, if only I still had my bicycle...
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
تو این جاده (عکس1) با سرعت 200 تا بری و تو جاده (عکس2) پیاده روی کنی. عجب حالی میده
- ♥ D E V I L S ♥
Sometimes it feels like, every road leads me back to you...
- Zahra (raoros)
I don't care if you fake follow me. I don't define myself by who follows me, but I define myself by who +I+ follow! I follow smart people who teach me things and put interesting stuff in my view. If you stop, or prove to be a jerk or a troll, then I'll just unsubscribe.
All I can say to that is, you better enjoy a lot of good German brews while you're there. It's non-sequitor, and that is what you should expect from me.
- Pete Delucchi
Wait. Isn't Robert Scoble just Alex Scoble's older brother?
- Akiva Moskovitz
Pete, the correct spelling is "Mississippi." And Robert, "The Metro" and "Take My Breath Away" are really good songs. And I think you'd agree that the content that you obtain from your subscribees is more important than your subscribee count. It's a content game, not a numbers game.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
Akiva: yup, Alex is my younger brother. You can't really blame him for how he is. I used to beat him up. Of course, he gave me my issues with authority. He told mom. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Pete: Rocky already found a bar that has hundreds of beers. I have a feeling we'll be seen there once or twice between now and Sunday.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, he seems to be doing all right so far!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Great example of being quality-centered instead of market-centered... do what you love and a market will find you...
- Justin Long
@Akiva, yeah, robert scoble uses his last name to get by on alex's gig.
- Morgan Warstler
Akiva- You are the man...that's the funniest stuff I've seen since the whole Korn of the Blog thing.
- Alex Scoble
@Pete - I just want you to know that your non sequitur above ended up inspiring dozens of non sequiturs on FriendFeed this evening. I hope you're Melvin about that.
- Ontario Emperor
from fftogo
That's one of the many things I like about FriendFeed: how many people follow you isn't displayed at the top level. I hope that doesn't change. I think a lot of people on Twitter (and other social networks) only obsess over their followers/friends just because everyone else can see it. I also think that's why a lot of people don't like FriendFeed... you've got to give substance to get substance.
- Paul Reynolds
@Ontario I've stopped shaking my fist, just so you know.
- Pete Delucchi
Agreed - I don't think I'll ever "fake follow". I'd rather just unsubscribe - those I follow I try to pay attention to.
- Jesse Stay
How does one 'fake follow' a person? Is it hard? Is it fun? Can I do it?
- Michael Moran
I agree with you Robert as I don't see any valid reason for me as an individual to fake follow anyone!
- Joe Dawson
Yeah @robert, how or whats "fake follow" ?
- Arjun
Agree on this, though I think from a feature perspective it's a smart one!
- Vinodh Nandakumar
NEW (February 25): Of course two weeks ago I started auto following again. Why? Cause Direct Messaging on Twitter is broken. But here on friendfeed I have a different philosophy. I am using lists to follow specific people and segregate those out from other people. So I can keep the geeks who talk tech separate from my brother, for instance.
- Robert Scoble
That said, I assume everyone is smart until they prove otherwise. :-)
- Robert Scoble
i just wish people would stop talking about following in general :P
- Terry O'Fee
This would have more credibility now Robert if you protested the capping of manual follows at 2000 until you get followers of that number and can move on now. You got to autofollow with abandon; today normal people are capped on manual follows. Unfair.
- Prokofy Neva
Holy hell, this thread is 6 months old!
- coldbrew
I would agree with Garin, followers/following is not important, but discussion is. BTW, Loic is very good a starting this type of arguments (must be his French side).
- Jeremy Chone
This level of necrophilia is just gross dude. Internet threads are not fine cheeses.
- Matthew DeVries
dont worry, matt. there's about five or six conversations of the same discussion now.
- Terry O'Fee
I feel like I should invite friends over and serve wines with threads like this "tonight, we'll be sampling a 2003 SA thread about iPods, a 2007 flickr thread about EXIF data, and something really special a 1994 ISCA BBS thread about where the clitoris is"
- Matthew DeVries
lol - I really enjoy your posts and convo - I learn many things - and thanks for the laughs too : )
- Mark Harai
I'd respond to this thread but necro-posting creates zombie threads and zombie threads eat Brrraaaiiinnnnsss! :P
- MarkCarras
Robert you have alot to teach and you seem teachable also-sign of a good journalist.
- earlewallace
"This is Big Blue, a custom PC homage to the best Lego sets in history, including the Galaxy Explorer, the Yellow Castle, the Firefighter Station, plus a built-in touchscreen, spectrum analyzer, and HDTV tuner."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Is this why they have so much trouble mating? They're too busy laughing and going 'you're a fuckin dork' to their prospective mates ...
- Patrick Jordan
Yep. Piece of video from AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO. Don't ask how I know that. I'm still trying to forget that I was watching that show.
- Steven Perez
AFHV? Oh no! That must mean someone hits the panda in the groin, I don't want to see that video.
- Joe Pierce
Ok this picture STILL cracks me up hahahaha
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
Kungfu Panda is practicing the Power Driver move.
- imabonehead
"X-Ray vision and Harry Potter-style invisibility cloaks are among the inventions that could become part of everyday life by 2039, according to a list predicted by experts in the New Scientist.They believe X-Ray vision, allowing users to see through walls, could be possible because of an extension of existing research on ultrasound. Invisibility cloaks, like those worn by fictional characters including Harry Potter, could also become available in shops. Researchers are said to be developing fabrics that deceive the human eye by distorting light waves. Meanwhile, material replicating a gecko's foot could be developed for gloves and boots, allowing people to stick to walls and climb like Spiderman. The predictions were gathered by New Scientist magazine to mark the 30th anniversary of the first mobile telephone network. A Japanese company launched the first cellular network in Tokyo in 1979."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Long Exposure Photography is something that can take your breath away when you get it right. Here are some shots to get you inspired (plus some tips below the pics on these techniques).
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
from Bookmarklet
Mona you can do the keys with the ALT key and numbers in Windows. That site just makes it easier to do without having to know the exact keystrokes.
- Nicholas James
I don't have a need for this, since I have it installed with Japanese. But thanks, Nicholas. :)
- Mona Nomura
This one was quite helpful when I was in Iceland and couldn't find @ in the Icelandic keyboards
- João Almeida
"The world's smallest working fuel cell has been created by US chemical engineers, at just 3 millimetres across. Future versions of the tiny hydrogen-fuelled power pack could replace batteries in portable gadgets."
- Sally Church
from Bookmarklet
The next great advance in electronics will come from power supplies that allow portable devices to run untethered for weeks or months at a time.
- Brian Sullivan
Does it generate enough power for anything useful? You know, size isn‘t everything. ;)
- dK
I've been saying that for a while, Brian. Where's the Moore's law for batteries?
- Mr. Gunn
from twhirl
Fail. Twitter shouldn't be so thought-out! This is why I hate Guy Kawasaki's post too.
- Eric Florenzano
#6 is the only one that hits on the real use of Twitter. The reads more like how to turn Twitter into a massive self-promotion bot wasteland.
- AJ Kohn
Unfortunately, this translates into less than authentic communication, particularly the "Create and auto-welcome message" (which clogs up Twitter inboxes with low value messages) and "Schedule my Tweets" (to send stuff while you're out doing something else!).
- alex de carvalho
auto DM's are NOT a welcome...they ARE a spam!
- Rob Sellen :o)
While I don't necessarily agree with the list...I do like the idea of having an ordered plan with things like "write a tweet about x, y, z today...write one by 3 o'clock, 7 o'clock, etc." A little structure to the tweeting schedule and an idea of what you want to talk about is helpful in building an audience for someone like me who has no one listening to me and therefore little incentive to tweet!
- Zach Landes
@zach That makes me sad. I'm following you on FF now, but I will hide your boring ass tweets if you follow anything like a plan. Spontaneity is what makes for vibrant conversation.
- Dominic Jones
I said I think the idea has some merit. I plan to continue to largely ignore twitter and use friendfeed for my conversational needs :)
- Zach Landes
That all sounds mechanical and contrived; I only do #6, which is most of my tweets and very random they are too on all sorts of things but maybe I'm missing the point.
- Sally Church
Is this for real? Some people are too damn organized. Spontaneity is doomed with wide adoption of something like this. gawd.
- Karoli
8. Toss the Twitter plan - really! Toss a lot of other time wasting following of non-producing opinion and news blather. Blah, blah, blah ... 9. Utilize my time in productive, pro-active generation of valuable contribution to self and sell that value to others. 10. Stop spending my value and time by being a source of information and behavioral actions for others to observe, comment, collate and sell the details of to others that they convince is of importance.
- Vince Green
This is why most of the Twitter community is in the shit. Old-school marketing techniques are bleeding over into New Media technologies. People begin to accept that this crap is ok. IT'S NOT OKAY!!!!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Urrghh, people who do this, I will unfollow immediately. What a waste of time, Loosers!
- Dennis Goedegebuure
This may be posted in jest but I really despise this. The whole essence of micro-blogging IMHO is the spontaneity. Thinking about a 'strategy' or, worse, scheduling posts seems to defeat the point.
- Andy C
@Rahsheen says the man with TM next to his name...
- Zach Landes
sofarsoshawnv09: I read, and write arabic and it is not.
- directeur
It's from reCaptcha - which takes one known word and one unknown word from a scanned book (a project to use Captchas to digitise book). You could have put anything in for the unreadable set of numbers as long as you put Naude in as well - the system waits for 2 people to add the same to the unknown and then assumes that's the correct word. http://recaptcha.net/
- Tom Beardshaw
Not that I question that, but how come recaptcha works better on my forums than regular captcha? I always assumed it was because there was two words to decipher?
- MarkCarras
I think it's because of the javascript plus they may do some anti-bot ninjitsu on their end.
- tiffany
WTF is that?! I hate those chapta things! Grrrr!
- Susan Beebe
Looks like my grocery list. "Hi! Could you tell me where the GhYTrEe is? (Wht the hell am I supposed to buy again)?"
- Sue Radd
$24 for a coffee mug seems a little steep
- Mark Layton
If you can pay $8 for coffee at Starbucks, why not pay $24 for a mug?
- Juan Pablo González
I don't drink coffee. Please tell me it's a joke when you say coffee at star bucks can be up to 8 dollars!!!!
- Adriana
I totally wouldn't spend that much for it, but it's totally cool!
- Lainie
Mark, it's a novelty item! If everyone has one then it defeats the point of "novelty", right? Don't expect the price to drop but definitely look out for this cool tech to pop up in a lot more places { eg: the Thermal CD from NIИ which actually came prior to this mug. }
- vijay
@Adriana, I don't drink coffee either, I was making fun of the Starbucks' fans around here ;) I honestly have no clue how much it costs!
- Juan Pablo González
Who knew there was a blog about coffee vending machines? In any case, these are some cool cups. The cookie one needs to be under the tree this year.
- Chris Baskind
from Bookmarklet
The cookie holder is definitely a winner! And if that cup is one of these oversized one you can truly save on going back to the kitchen for a refill...
- Mathieu Ayel
"Coffee Drink Machines Blog Featuring coffee fun, vending machines in business and pleasure including bizarre machines, pictures, stories and vide0
- jfayel
Louis - I am sure you are familiar that FFholic has a similar notion of participation on Friendfeed - http://ffholic.com/Activit.... Maybe they should look at your idea and extend ffholic to measure blog comments and interaction.
- Atul Arora
Complicated and useful than ffholic's AP. Now my .2 CN comes to hand.
- İbrahim Uzun [ j ]
please note that "hehehe." gets you no CN credit
- Allen Stern
Allen: I'll trade you a few miliscobles for some CN. What's the exchange rate? :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'd argue that it's not as cut and dried as all that. Louis, you shared a post from Dare Obasanjo this morning. I clicked through and read it, and while it wasn't particularly interesting, nor surprising, to me, I knew my husband would be interested in it, so I forwarded it to him via IM. The CN scale (and Allen, your arguments) assume that FF is the sole conduit. There is no way of seeing stats on hits and comments that arise from people finding something on FF and sending it on OFF FF.
- Cyndy
Guest posting on LG.com last week gave me a great chance to watch content spread across the web in ways it usually wouldn't. I'll have to write up the results to show where different conversations sprouted up and whether or not that's a good thing. Spoiler: Of course it's a good thing!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
What does guestposting on a blog have to do with whether or not FriendFeed helps or hurts a blog?
- Cyndy
@Cyndy: Louis has roughly 50x the readership I do, so I was able to get a view into the reach of a larger blog. Scads of smaller conversations spun off the original post on FF and a few other places. It's not that guest posting was the magic link, just that my humble blog isn't large enough to experiment on the reach of re-shared content and conversations.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
And Allen has a bigger readership than Louis, Daniel, and he does it for a living. What applies to Louis's blog, especially since he's so closely linked with FriendFeed, does not extrapolate to the general worthiness of FF. @Allen: See, I'm back to my usual self. Feel better?
- Cyndy
Threatening Allen's business model isn't necessarily a knock against FriendFeed- that's what disruptive technologies do! I'm sure someone with Allen's foresight and connections will manage to stay ahead of the times.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Cyndy? Did you throw up all the unicorns, rainbows, and butterflies I shoved down your throat this weekend?
- Mona Nomura
Or Daniel, the reverse occurs, and disruptive technology kills pro blogs, leaving no content on FriendFeed other than LOLcats and "me making X face" memes. Mona, yes. See my vomiting them all over this thread.
- Cyndy
welcome back cyndy - good to see you back to normal. friendfeed did one thing smartly - they made it as lazy as possible for people to interact.
- Allen Stern
@Cyndy: I made a reference to Jack Valenti in the comments on Louis's Blog. Worry about FF et al "stealing" valuable comments and pageviews sounds very much like the complaints of the RIAA and MPAA five and ten years ago. As much as we love and respect our successful bloggers, we can't expect them to last forever under an aging business model. Robert Scoble is doing a good job of diversifying and trying a lot of new things at once. I don't know if it's helping his bottom line, but he's definitely...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
... out in front and trying lots of new things to shore up the traditional superblog model.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
You can't use Robert Scoble as an example, because Scoble has an employer: FastCompany. He can take sponsors on his blog to make money, but he also has another paycheck. As does Louis. This "everything should be free" mentality is going to kill quality content. The RIAA and MPAA were slow to adopt digitial distribution methods, and are beyond ridiculous in their punishments, but they are dead on the money for loss due to piracy. Everyone wants something for nothing. And that includes FriendFeed.
- Cyndy
I chose Robert as an example precisely *because* he has an employer. He's a high-profile agent for a forward-thinking media company and he's exploring new ways to monetize online content. Not everyone is going to be able to make a living running his or her own blog forever, no matter how awesome of a job that is.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
"high-profile agent for a forward-thinking media company" - robert should change his title to this - sounds expensive!
- Allen Stern
Not sure who said everything should be free. FF doesn't provide a means for comfortably resharing entire articles, in fact the sparse UI promotes clickthroughs to read the main article if you actually want to see it. We need to focus on creating ways for content producers to keep track of and participate in the discussions spawned by their content, not to squelch them.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
And when and if FastCompany goes under because they can't make money in your "aging business model" scenario? FastCompany makes money the same way Allen does. If the business model is dying, then where does Scoble work then? VC can't fund the Web 2.0 industry forever. For that matter, how is FriendFeed going to make money?
- Cyndy
Cyndy, I'm not enough of a visionary to solve the "how to perpetually make money online" problem. I just want us all to start looking for new ways to integrate disparate comment streams rather than wishing they'd go away. This genie isn't going back in the bottle any time soon. Allen already does a pretty good job of branding his social media profiles with the CN logo, it's not like his 'outpost' contributions are going unnoticed.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
but Louis - just yesterday you shared one of my blog posts w/out a comment or anything else... i actually think someone should lose "creds" if this happens...
- Jeremy Toeman
@Jeremy: If every share required a minimum ten second investment (format properly, say something insightful) then maybe Louis wouldn't have shared your item at all. Would you really be better off in that scenario? I understand if you'd like to encourage high-value participation but there's no need to penalize lower-value interactions. FFHolic's "4 points for a native share, 1 point for an external share" system makes sense to me.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@Daniel: fair point. i think the real answer here (IMHO) is that friendfeed needs to start aggregating/merging items across all users. so if someone shares something else on FF, the item appears as "Louis Gray shared an item ... [originally from Daniel Pritchett]
- Jeremy Toeman
It would be pretty cool if FriendFeed automated some forensic analysis of the spread of information throughout the network. Perhaps we're reaching a tipping point like Twitter did when many users started using 3rd party clients over twitter.com. FF's API is pretty robust, does anyone think a FriendFeed+attributions client is viable?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Good discussions of course. Interesting note that the RIAA came up. What I was thinking, if we use Allen's analogy, is that maybe FriendFeed is Napster to Allen's being a recording artist, and what he's looking for is iTunes. :-)
- Louis Gray
And Jeremy, I will constantly share your content, with or without comments. I give Google Reader shares a good amount of CN because when they are shared, they go to FriendFeed, Social Median, Strands, Facebook, ReadBurner, RSSmeme, Feedheads, you name it... one button and BOOM, instantly in 10 places. So I know it increases exposure. On top of that, it shares with my friends who follow the link blog.
- Louis Gray