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Is there already a book club room on FF? (Ideally one that focuses on the free Kindle Owners' Lending Library for Amazon Prime members?) - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Kelli H., Hieronymous Boosh, Kol Tregaskes and 21 other people liked this
If not, wanna start one with me?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from Bookmarklet
I'm in.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I'm in, too!
- WebGoddess
Ooooh, that would be awesome!
- Jennifer Dittrich
That's four! Any others?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Sup.
- Hookuh Tinypants
me!!!
- Sir Shuping is just sir
I don't have a kindle, but I could find a way to read along with y'all for some books.
- Katy S
Ok!
- Lnorigb
from FFHound!
I have a Nook. *kicks dirt*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Ew. You smell funny.
- Hookuh Tinypants
This is not news.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
FF book club = yes, please.
- Great Scott! Snow!
Well, non-Amazon Kindle users will be welcome, of course, but I'm guessing the book won't be free for y'all.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
That's what libraries are for. :)
- Katy S
from iPhone
Good point!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I'd like to join.
- Running Slow
All are welcome! OK, we need a Group name. Who's feeling creative? *has had too many meetings today to be creative*
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
BooKlub (tm)
- Yvonne
from FFHound!
Sign me up, as long as you don't mind print editions.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
FFolio.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I'm game, so long as I don't have to buy a Kindle. (Nothing against them, per se, but I just got myself a tablet and I've got enough redundancy in my life.) #OrMaybeiamThinkingofDundancy?
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I like both "BooKlub" and "FFolio" for the name -- any other nominations before I create it? Any preference between the two?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Add me too! I have Kindle squared - cat and ereader. You can have my books but not the cat. ;)
- Janet:#TeamMonique
I suppose "Kindler's List" would be silly. :P
- Hookuh Tinypants
I'm there. I 'd love to share some of my loanable books, and maybe grab some too.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Love Kindler's List!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
No Kindle, but interested.
- Anne Bouey
Kindlers list is awesome
- Lnorigb
from FFHound!
LOL I love Kindler's List.
- Jessie
There is a Reading Room on FF: http://friendfeed.com/the-boo... You might ask there for more interested FFers or even cross-post when you set up your new one.
- Anne Bouey
+1 Kindler's List.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
OK, sorry for delays -- busy week at work. Any objections to Kindler's List before I create it? I suppose if there are, I can always rename it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Tada! http://friendfeed.com/kindler... -- all are welcome! I sent an invite to everyone who posted or liked above.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Still waiting. ;-)
- Anne Bouey
Hmm, I sent it Anne. :( But don't wait! Just join: http://friendfeed.com/kindler...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Thanks, Stephen. It just came through!
- Anne Bouey
Bump! http://friendfeed.com/kindler... is open for business, please join in!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Scalia Resigns Post as Scoutmaster - http://www.newyorker.com/online...
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"Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who for the past forty-seven years has served as a weekend scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts of America, angrily resigned from that position yesterday, effective immediately. Justice Scalia quit his post in a terse resignation letter that read, in part: “Some of the happiest memories of my adult life have been as a scoutmaster. Huddling under blankets around the campfire, and so forth. But now, all of that has been ruined. Ruined.” Shortly after sending the letter, Justice Scalia destroyed his scoutmaster uniform in the blazing fireplace of his Supreme Court office. Later, he went across the hall to share his decision with his close confidant on the Court, Justice Clarence Thomas, telling him, “There’s nowhere I feel safe anymore, Clarence. The military? The N.B.A.? Nowhere. I guess the only place I still feel safe is the Supreme Court. This is still a safe place, isn’t it?” Justice Thomas said nothing in reply."
- April Russo
from Bookmarklet
Oh, the satire article. Good stuff.
- Eric - seven eleven
You know, the funny thing is that it's Scalia, so it took me a couple of sentences to realize it was satire.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Fitbit Flex vs Fitbit One - Which one should I keep?
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I lost my Fitbit One last week and when the Flex arrived I couldn't get the wristband on. Plus I confirmed the Flex doesn't have an altimeter, so it can't record elevation (floors). I was kind of deflated on the whole Fitbit thing as I watched Stephen and Louis pass me on the leader board. (Well, to be fair, they didn't pass me, I just sank like a rock)
- Cristo
But that was last week. I located my Fitbit One. It was lost at a party and I was able to pick it up today. I also was able to get the Flex on my wrist. Once you force the rivets through the holes it gets easier the next time. Also it's much easier to put it on your non-dominent hand.
- Cristo
So now I have a choice. I could return the Flex and go back to the One, or I could keep the Flex and sell the One. I've decided to do neither—at least for now. I'm going to use both of them. Unfortunately Fitbit doesn't make this easy, but I'm going to create another account and then compare the results. I'm curious how close they'll be to one another and whether measuring floors...
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- Cristo
Ultimately I think we're still very early days on these measuring devices. For these two, I'd actually like them merged. I do find having it always on my wrist to be more convenient. But I want the altimeter and display from the One on the wristband. I'd also like a heart rate monitor and more control over the vibrator notifications/alarms. Down the line I could see all kinds of sensors...
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- Cristo
Does the One have any capabilities that the Flex doesn't? Or vice versa? I'm considering a Flex...
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
The One measures climbing stairs and hills—the Flex doesn't. Also, the One has a display so you can get a lot more information without syncing to your phone. The Flex just has 5 LED dots—each one representing 20% of your primary goal (e.g. steps taken, calories burned).
- Cristo
Also, note that I lost my One the other day due to it slipping out of the sleeve that attaches to your clothes—something to watch out for. The main advantage to the Flex is that it won't get lost or get washed in the laundry.
- Cristo
I like the added measuring that the One can do, and I find that I don't like to wear something on my wrist all that often. That said, the clip for the one is nowhere near as reliable as the Ultra had been for me. I've had the One slip out a couple of times as I was trying to clip it on, and once when I was getting in/out of my car. I'm hoping they'll eventually release a better optional clip.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I didn't think I would like wearing the Flex on my wrist all the time, but it hasn't bothered me that much. I do like sleep tracking, and using the wristband with the One was cumbersome enough that I stopped tracking or using the wake alarms. Each has their merits, but I'll probably go with a wristband in the future as long as they add the display and altimeter. They also need to make it easier to charge via USB and eliminate the syncing dongle for the computer.
- Cristo
Can you use either of them in cloudless mode?
- Tinfoil 2.0
Well, you could probably use the One without syncing, but you would only see the results on the device for that day. There's no non-web dashboard for a computer. I don't think there's a way to sync to a phone app without it storing in the cloud either.
- Cristo
Also Tinfoil, are you Jack Reacher?
- Cristo
I didn't see that one. I just don't like this trend of commercial cloud services mediating (and aggregating and monetizing) everything we say and do, especially since it's totally unecessary in most cases. If a product has no local mode, I have no use for it. Yeah, I know you didn't ask me. :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
FriendFeed has no local mode. :)
- Cristo
FriendFeed isn't a product, it's a service. Being largely ignored by FB is a huge advantage. And, it's still operating under the September 26, 2008 Privacy Policy :D
- Tinfoil 2.0
Given the vast distances in space, I think real space battles will actually be more boring than Star Trek space battles. Real lasers lose a lot of power the farther they go, so missiles will probably still be the way to go, but watching missiles lazily chase their targets in space will be hella boring.
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As far as space battle aesthetics go, I actually prefer the Macross/Robotech/every space-based anime look over the Star Wars look, even if missiles can't really make contrails in vacuum.
- Victor Ganata
I'm surprised no one has tried to come up with a technobabblish reason why future-tech missiles would actually have contrail-like projections. Like, maybe it's an artifact of traveling at relativistic speeds, or maybe it's all the positrons/kaons/tachyons they're emitting….
- Victor Ganata
Greg Bear has some interesting takes on space battles. He writes "hard" science fiction so the physics is more or less realistic.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
"Ship AI: All right, I fired two missiles at the enemy shuttle. It should take approximately 2 hours and 7 minutes for them to impact. Should I put a movie on screen?"
- Victor Ganata
"Scanning Classic Films of the 21st century. ...... Selection made. Now playing: Battleship."
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
http://www.npr.org/blogs... Google fights Glass backlash before product is even released.
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I think that this could possibly be one of those products that a large number of people don't get and are thusly left behind.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And I mean "don't get" as in "don't understand", "don't like", "don't want" and/or "don't see the benefits".
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The nature of the roll out is only going to exacerbate the problem. The product itself is severely flawed in a myriad of ways, but, seriously, whoever was put in charge of this pre-launch phase should be updating their resume.
- Soup in a TARDIS
What's wrong with the way they rolled it out?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I'd take issue with "and are thusly left behind." My guess is that millions of us who don't "get" a particular hot new thing aren't left behind--we choose not to participate. Which is an entirely valid choice unless life, death or health are involved.
- Walt Crawford
I take issue with the arrogance that those who don't bend over and willingly accept every new piece of tech as the holy grail and the product that will change the fundamental way we communicate as a luddite or someone who will be left behind. Maybe it's just possible that the vast majority of those who don't "get it" are actually making a choice that this is silly, a step to far or simply something that only those who display such arrogance will care about.
- Johnny
from iPhone
Surely if you're in the small group using it, you'd be left behind with the other people in the small group using it.
- Pete #TeamMonique
++ Walt & Johnny. These are choices. We absolutely should not blindly accept the technological manifest destiny, build it and they will come, mentality. Particularly when they are being foisted on us by very powerful data-aggregating corporations.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Like how all the people who didn't get on the Apple Newton bandwagon got left behind?
- Victor Ganata
And the Segway. (P.S. I had a Newton, but bought with company money, not personal)
- Tinfoil 2.0
They have given priority to a pool of almost entirely white middle aged men, Alex, almost all of which have ties to IT powerhouses but very little notoriety outside the industry. In one fell swoop they managed to tick the boxes for "pretentious people with lives highly dissimilar to any 'regular' person" and "unattractive shit your dad wears." They also did ZERO prep work to prepare the...
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- Soup in a TARDIS
If it is actually a good thing and works well eventually the majority will get behind it. When cell phone companies switch their focus to something like this then you know it has taken off. Otherwise it will just be another fad
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
I assume Glass uses massive amounts of bandwidth. I can't imagine data carriers being particularly enthusiastic that.
- Victor Ganata
They had a segment on APM Marketplace this morning about how the selective rollout was Google's way of trying to prepare people to adapt to changing social mores. I do think that people born in a world where they can't imagine life without the Internet have way different privacy expectations that those of us who remember a time before Facebook and YouTube.
- Victor Ganata
First generation products never capture markets in one fell swoop, anyway. Even the iPhone took a few iterations to grab all the marketshare, so maybe by the time Google Glass 3.0 rolls around, everyone will have jumped onto the face computer bandwagon.
- Victor Ganata
Isn't that interesting? iPhone has "all the marketshare"--Samsung and Google/Android must find that remarkable. And somewhat counterfactual.
- Walt Crawford
One thing that was immediately obvious to me during the NPR story: despite all of the gushing from Glass enthusiasts, there was only one they thing they could do wearing Glasses that they couldn't do with an ordinary smart phone. At this point, the marginal upgrade in capability and convenience doesn't seem to justify the cost, not to mention the privacy implications.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Walt, I meant "all the marketshare" as in "all the marketshare that they've captured" (which is certainly a significant percentage) not literally 100% of the marketshare, which is, yeah, preposterous. But it's also clear that Samsung in particular has jumped whole-heartedly onto the touch screen smartphone bandwagon. Ignoring patent lawsuit judgments, can anyone really seriously argue that the current form factor of almost 100% of smartphones today wasn't somehow influenced by the first-generation iPhone?
- Victor Ganata
I do.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I don't get Alex's comments, but I think I'm ahead of the game.
- Gimminy
You can take issue with "get left behind" all you want, shrug. Has nothing to do with being a luddite either. However, if two people are doing the same job and one person has a piece of equipment that gives them a significant edge, the other person will be left behind. Google Glass probably won't be as disruptive as that, but it's a V1 product. Same as the Newton. And the Newton wasn't a failure. The work done there ultimately led to things like the iPhone/iPad.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Until it becomes obvious what that "significant edge" actually is compared to a smartphone, I think I'll wait.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
It's there in the NPR blog that I linked. The potential uses in medicine alone are huge.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Some possible examples. There's a medical app that allows a surgeon to map a patient's body. They can then see using their HUD (which is basically what Glass is) exactly where they need to cut, critical patient data and the surgery can be recorded for later review. A remote surgeon could also use the camera view to help an inexperience surgeon through a new procedure.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Potential != actual. Google may not necessarily be the first to actually implement those features. Personally, I'd wait until a company with medical device and healthcare IT experience gets involved, either with their own devices or in collaboration with Google.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
You're arguing two different things, Alex. Google Glass isn't going to "leave people behind" because of uses and technologies that might result from it in the future. THOSE technologies might be revolutionary and wonderful, these arse-ugly glasses that are currently little more than a glorified cell phone and peep cam won't.
- Soup in a TARDIS
(Also, remote surgery already exists, just fyi)
- Soup in a TARDIS
I'm not arguing anything, to be honest.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And don't worry. As soon as Apple comes out with a similar product most of the naysayers will forget they ever had issues.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh yeah, because THAT'S not an argumentative or combative comment.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Let's just hope that this isn't the Newton of this type of technology. It took like what, 15 years for us to go from Newton to a successful useful product that a critical mass could afford?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yes, this CONVERSATION is really just my yearly pon farr. Get ready to fight to the death while wearing Google Glass so the whole thing can be recorded. **cue's Star Trek fight music**
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If we're talking about iOS vs Android or some other iOS deployed for use in the medical field, well, that's just a function of the critical mass of apps, where iOS has a head start. So, yeah, if Apple really does come out with something like Glass, it may very well be preferred in ORs and on the wards.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Does either company have a medical testing group? If not it probably won't be either company. That's a long complicated process.
- Todd Hoff
They don't really need to, Todd. These products are frameworks. Other companies that specialize in medicine can build apps for them and sell accordingly.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The whole entire stack needs to be vetter from hardware on down and up. Unless they are indemnified it would be nuts to take somebody elses platform and put the years and millions in trials it would take to get approval.
- Todd Hoff
There will always be niche products that are truly great for what they're for. I don't think Google Glass is one of them. Certainly a well-designed, well-tested medical HUD device could be very useful... to certain people. But that has nothing to do with the merits (or lack thereof) of Glass, or the general population getting "left behind" for not adoptng some niche technology.
- Tinfoil 2.0
There's nothing to suggest that this will just be a niche technology.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I wouldn't buy an Apple Glass either, Alex, especially unless it had serious privacy protections. I don't use Siri. I rarely have Location Services turned on. I eschewe apps whenever possible, particularly if there's a perfectly fine web interfce. The issue isn't who makes it, it's how it's implemented, and how it treats the user AND (especially) others affected by it.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Well, it is niche unless or until no one is left behind :p
- Tinfoil 2.0
iPhone is not a niche product and there are plenty of people who don't or won't have one.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But many of them have similar tech whcih means they aren't left behind in any tangible way.
- Tinfoil 2.0
And many others do not. There are still a significant number of people who don't have smart phones.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
1Q2013: "136.7 million people in the U.S. owned smartphones (58 percent mobile market penetration)" [http://www.comscore.com/Insight...] That's a pretty sizable proportion.
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's less than half the US. ~180 million people who don't currently have a smart phone is also a pretty sizeable amount.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Babies don't need phones. The majority of the US phone-buying market have smartphones. Seriously, is there anthing so unique about a smartphone that someone using a feature phone and computer (or tablet especially) wouldn't grok quickly enough - that current smartphone users also grok?
- Tinfoil 2.0
You can't grok what you don't have.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Most smartphone owners don't grok what they already have. But anyone who has used a tablet knows how to use a smartphone, except for voice, which is easy but is declining in use anyway.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Finally saw one in the wild today. Bigger & bulkier than I was expecting.
- ronin
I wouldn't buy apple-branded glass either. I think the whole concept is creepy. The tracking part, the taking photos part, plus I wear bifocals already. I also worry about this notion of people who don't get on board with google glass (or like products) will be "left behind" and that is somehow ok. We already have a huge section of the population left behind due to poverty and...
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- Soup in a TARDIS
Soup makes a good point. Tech can be as much of a power lever as money or data. We should be striving to provide equity of access to all power-differentiators, or the haves and have-nots will continue to diverge (with ruinous results probable). That doesn't mean Glass for everyone, just means scientific and technological literacy as a core piece of education.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Developers have definitely been building medical iOS apps and devices that connect to your iPhone/iPad, and they've been getting approved by the FDA. The companies behind them already have medical device experience, though. Apple doesn't seem to be into it directly, but iOS has a huge head start.
- Victor Ganata
The standards when dealing with human patients is exceedingly high. Pixuru is FDA approved, for example, and it allows customers to order framed prints of their own photos. A vision tester is another. Remote access of data. A radiology app. An EKG machine. Blood pressure. All trivial in the scheme of things. A device that can kill someone during a procedure has a lot of hoops to jump through. Look for this tech in easier to approve parts of the world before hits the US.
- Todd Hoff
Yeah, I don't really see GE, Medtronic, Siemens, or Philips necessarily going with either Apple or Google platforms for building medical devices, except for auxillary functions.
- Victor Ganata
Alex, I can grok smart phones perfectly fine. I don't fucking want it because of all the other shit attached that I would prefer not to have, plus I would hardly even use the thing if I did.
- Gimminy
Cristo, nice troll.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The notion of getting left behind is worrisome. I don't think it's a stretch to imagine a distopian world where the rich have access to all sorts of technologies, implants, etc. and the poor continue to live in squalor.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Cristo, your view of this sort of thread is severely warped. This is a conversation. A discussion. It's not an argument. If you want an argument that room is down the hall. There's no right or wrong here, only possibilities.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
In all this let's remember that IBM showcased an almost identical product with tiny postage stamp screen close to eye clipped to an eyeglass frame over 10 years ago. Remember ubiquitous and wearable computers?!? Yeah! No body climbed on that train either
- WarLord
Well, except for all of those Nike Fuelband users, fitbit users, etc.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Here's an Ad for Google's Project Glass, from 2000 and Made by IBM http://www.geekosystem.com/ibm-wea... via @geekosystem
- WarLord
Except that IBM never actually made a product.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
I've worn corrective lenses almost my entire life. I've watched my eyegl,ass wearing friends rush to contacts and even surgery to shed those bulky anoying frames and lenses - This attitude is a big barrier for Glass to get over. The plus will have to be astonishing to overcome this minus
- WarLord
Probably...then again, the technology to do this on a contact lens will get here eventually. Or just build it all into an Ironman like suit. I'm pretty sure that if someone could look like Ironman for $200, a lot of people would be paying for that.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
IBM were debuting a product, - mthey made a hands on demo to a portable computer project I was working on in St Paul over 10 years ago. So yeah Alex IBM did in fact have a beyond beta hardware package which is I guess what we arer discussing woth Google
- WarLord
My brother didn't have a picture of himself taken with it in the shower, therefore it did not exist.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If your point is that this tech has been in the works for a very long time, yep, no doubt. Just like how digital hearing aids physically filled a large room when first built in the 80s. Technology is much more often evolutionary than revolutionary.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
WarLord, I remember that ad on TV :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
Would you really want a surgeon who can't figure out where to make the first incision without their Google Glasses on? Or a surgeon who doesn't know not to cut the ureter/vagus nerve/inferior vena cava without electronic assistance? Not to say that there aren't instances where having a computer on your face won't be useful, just that we haven't…
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…out what those situations actually are yet
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I would like a surgeon who uses a tool to make sure that they perform the surgery they are supposed to perform on me exactly how it's meant to be performed, yeah. I'm sure that some surgeries would get more benefit from this sort of thing than others. For instance, a doctor is removing a cancerous growth and uses sensors to detect where the cancerous growth actually is and the HUD...
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- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Is the tech there yet? No, but it's definitely coming. The faster the better, I say.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
It will only be as good as the algorithm is. Real time in situ microscopy to make sure you got the margins would be pretty awesome, but that's a lot more tech than just a face mounted computer, and it would be incremental to already existing tech and procedures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Victor Ganata
Or what if it's a battlefield and there is no experienced surgeon around, yet there's a life or death need for surgery on a wound? This sort of thing would be much better than letting a soldier die.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yep, if you were to say that advancing the state of robotic surgery would be more impactful, I'd agree with that. I think that one thing with Google Glass is that people don't see what it could be used for and the answer is that it could be useful in a whole range of situations. But, you know, wake me when it's $200 and not as dorky as a pocket protector.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Realistically, knowing how to find a ruptured vessel and how to ligate it without any technology at all is what's going to save that soldier's life.
- Victor Ganata
If you were a hospital CEO and you had to decide between (1) getting all the surgeons with privileges at your hospital a general-purpose face-mounted computer (2) getting a dedicated system for a specific procedure for every OR in your hospital, which would you choose?
- Victor Ganata
The other thing to keep in mind is that medical technology moves at a glacial pace, especially compared to Silicon Valley startup culture. I don't need it to look cool. I need it to be approved by the FDA.
- Victor Ganata
I wouldn't mind if a surgeon was able to use Google Glass to improve the outcome of the operation (though I would expect him to know what he was doing without the glasses on). I would mind if he was using it to check his email or stocks while cutting me up.
- John (bird whisperer)
^ this. As an informational aid, fine. Distraction or crutch, no.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I think a surgeon who sees a big red X flashing before his eyes as he starts to remove the wrong limb or organ wouldn't be a bad idea.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
This is assuming they entered the correct limb into the system in the first place. And that they have the right patient. I guess facial recognition might be useful. Although illness can really change your appearance significantly….
- Victor Ganata
Phase 2
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The great backyard landscaping project of 2013 continues.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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There would be a few more if I included states I've driven through without really stopping.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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FIREPIT! Sent from my iPad
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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Nice work
- SteVe C
Tada! thats awesome.
- Lnorigb
Sweet!
- Kelli H.
I'm trying to set something up like this so that I can surreptitiously burn some (all?) of the branches, etc. from my downed trees. I have a 36" fire ring, but I need to prep the ground around it with stones or cement tiles, etc. Whoa! Just clicked to view the additional pics... I love the benches. You're way beyond what I was planning. Very nice.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I admittedly went a little overboard. My tendency is to get in over my head when it comes to projects.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I feel like beating today with a bat into a bloody pulp. The kind of bloody pulp where you can see the guts and brains splattered all over the floor. The kind where CSI picks fragments out of the light fittings. The kind where harden cops walk out visibly shaken. I want to hear today's skull crack with each blow. I want splatter... I am in a mood
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Go for a run.
- Brian Johns
Up a hill.
- Brian Johns
While dragging a tire.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Or a dead body.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Have a cookie
- Mo Kargas
Or he could do what he actually did, and let Batman lighten his mood: http://friendfeed.com/jworthi...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Britt Julious: 'Orphan Black' is one of the smartest – and most exciting – new television shows | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago - http://www.wbez.org/blogs...
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"This is why Orphan Black, the new sci-fi television show from BBC America works so well. Orphan Black is the story of an orphan (Sarah, played by Tatiana Maslany) who witnesses the suicide of another woman (Beth) who looked just like her. Sarah assumes her identity and her problems soon escalate and unravel from there. Well, that is what it is like on the surface. Her journey reveals something far more complex and sinister: other women who also look just like her as well. Are they related, or clones, or something else? The show gets to the heart of the matter quickly and is thankfully not afraid to do so."
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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CAN'T. UN. SEE. This Photo Of A Man Showering With Google Glass Will Haunt You For The Rest Of Your Life - http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrm...
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"Unrelenting internet human Robert Scoble recently declared that, as one of Google's Glass "Explorers," he would never take the headset off, except to let strangers try it. Today he posted this picture. "You thought I was kidding," he wrote alongside it."
- Brent Schaus
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"Scoble is an indiscriminate evangelist; he embraces virtually any new technology with inhuman enthusiasm. This makes him useful as a sort of reductio ad absurdum product processor: he takes a new service or thing and gives himself to it, both testing it and inadvertently demonstrating the logical conclusion of its creators' visions."
- Brent Schaus
"This photo of a drenched middle-aged man recording himself as he screams into his shower mirror,* then, may the purest expression of the Google Glass concept yet (and perhaps of Scoble, too)."
- Brent Schaus
BRAIN BLEACH REQUIRED
- Headless Gnad Kicker
(Tad has a private feed, and I'm not subscribed.)
- Brent Schaus
god help us all.
- holly #ravingfangirl
dyrs
- bde
It's just a previous showering photo of Scoble, showing he has a history of showering for the public. ;-)
- Spidra Webster
:(
- Victor Ganata
OHNONOTAGAIN
- Hieronymous Boosh
he scares becos he cares.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Congratulations, you've just been #scobleized.
- Adrian
Is it bad that I recognised Robert before I read the description? I know there's another shower pic on FF somewhere....
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Oh. Someone has already linked to it :)
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
OHH SWEET MEGATRON WHY
- Mo Kargas
DAMN YOU B.S., DAMN YOU!!
- Micah
Doin' my part?
- Brent Schaus
Yes you are. ;)
- Micah
I think I've seen this play before.
- Eric - seven eleven
I blame Brent. http://friendfeed.com/micahwi...
- Micah
OP: "He is, by the nature of what he does, almost always wrong." ...and probably voiding his warranty too by getting the stupid thing wet.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I thought showering was dead.
- Eivind
LOLOL Soooo TMI(Too Much IMAGING), Sooo Funny...!
- Harold Cabezas
Eivind is right, showering is dead and I'll tell you why
- Greg GuitarBuster
More information here:
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Alex! Please control your brother. Nobody wants to see him showering. (Also, Higlet, I recognized him, too, sadly)
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Never, eh? I'm sure his soon to be ex-wife is happy about that.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
smh
- David Cook
I just totally jerked off.
- Akiva
CAN'T. BREATHE. LAUGHING. TOO. HARD.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
His wife took the picture, just sayin'. And sorry, I have zero control over my brother. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The thought of what might be happening below the fold continues to frighten me.
- Todd Hoff
If only I was subbed to you I could see that!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I forgot how.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Is this how you break the news to me that I'm one of the Final Five Cristobots? #allalongthewatchtower
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Let me pick your brain: What mobile app features typically get you to upgrade from FREE to PAID version?
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Free is a trial and I need it
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
i use it all the time and keep hitting the upload limit (Flickr, Evernote)
- ~Courtney F
Not terribly specific, but customization - the ability to customize how I interact with the application.
- Jennifer Dittrich
If there is storage/retrieval of scanned or downloaded items. It really depends on the app, though.
- Anika
Thanks (keep 'em coming) - if it varies by type of app just name a few examples if possible. I'm working out what feature split I'm doing on my to-be-released calculator app.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
porn
- t-ra: not givin up
For a calculator, maybe have scientific on the paid side?
- Gimminy
J, it's fraction-oriented which doesn't try to be a full blown scientific calc. Main features: fraction form input /output, rounding to nearest fraction (1/8, 1/16, etc), imperial + metric conversion display, input mixed units (feet, inches, meters, mm) expressions, calc history, attach note to a calc, search for notes by keyword, send calc by email, copy expression from calc history back to input, identify repeating decimals, display improper fraction form.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Ad removal is a big one for me.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
No ads in either version.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Jimminy - since there are so many calculator apps with scientific built in, I'm not sure how effective that would be. However, if it's a graphing calculator, maybe the free version could plot a specific number of points, or perform a specific number of operations at once, and the paid version could have more capability in those areas.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
A limit to something I really want to do.
- Todd Hoff
Micah, maybe artificially limit history on the free version (as per Courtney's comment), and have notes and send to email only in the paid version.
- Gimminy
Variety. For example, I use a bunch of creative apps. I get a basic toolset on some of them and have upgraded to unlock additional tools. Could that work with graph types or number of expressions?
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Good ideas here, appreciate it. I have contemplated a total # of calculations limit, which effectively makes the free version a trial app, but not sure I like the way that feels.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
When I said a limit on number of calculations (or operations), I was more referring to it being able to do something like [(2+4)(3+2)]/7 but not something like [(2+4)(3+2)(7-5)]/(12-3) (limit to the total number of operations in a single problem, etc.). That's still similar to a trial app (feature-limited, though, not time-limited)
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Oh, interesting, that's one I hadn't thought of, thanks Curtis.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
A virtual register tape on the paid version, with the ability to save tapes.
- April Russo
Yep, the virtual tape (I just call it the history entries) is a major part of the interface. I'll think over maybe partially limiting it.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
No, it's not the same. It's a partial history, like a POS transaction. Bonus points if you can find a little cheap wireless roll printer to print out the transactions, individually, and add that ability to the paid version, too. Then all you need when running very small biz is your phone and a mini printer to print the receipts. paypal already has an add-on for accepting credit cards. No need to buy a cash register.
- April Russo
Oh, interesting. The sales transaction use case wasn't on my radar. The app is linear measurement (ft, in, meters) centric, with construction trade in mind. But a printer interface would be pretty cool - I'll have to look into it.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
If the game is fun i'll pay for full. Don't usually use mobile for much else.
- SteVe C
I have a desktop calculator that has what I am talking about. screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u...
- April Russo
This probably doesn't apply, but I'm more likely to pay for something that works underground or caches/archives whatever online content (i.e., does not require connectivity), since my commute is underground.
- Meg V. Meg
Last 2 hours with the company I've been working for for 18 years. O-o
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That must be so odd.
- Jennifer Dittrich
0_o
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Left on good terms I hope?
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Yep. It's odd. Gave plenty of notice, so no hard feelings I think.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
That's good. I hope you're on to bigger things!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
\o/ Congrats! Got short timers? We could sneak in a game. :)
- SAM
Shaking my head at someone (who complains that his brother @ITBlogger posts useless noise) wearing a pair of Google Glasses in the shower
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I'm thinking terror, abject terror at Google PR
- Mo Kargas
maybe, Mo, but maybe the terror is soothed by his quote, "I'm never going to live another day without a wearable computer on my face." http://thenextweb.com/video...
- Laura Norvig
^That assumes people want to emulate him. Just a hunch, but I'm going to suggest that this may not be the case.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Oh my, it's the Scoblerizer. Well, everybody's sure to want to wear one ALL THE TIME, 'cuz Robert Scoble is never wrong. And always states his opinions--oh, sorry, known universal truths--calmly and judiciously.
- Walt Crawford
[As for Google Glasses: Damned if I know. Not wild about having even more Borg on the road and the sidewalk paying no attention to what/who's around them, but that's a slightly different issue.]
- Walt Crawford
I have no desire to wear a pair of Google Glasses. I have no desire to wear the reading glasses that I have to. I don't even want to wear sun glasses.
- April Russo
Walt, re: @scobleizer: "He is, by the nature of what he does, almost always wrong." :) [http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrm...]
- Tinfoil 2.0
Tinfoil: I'm familiar with Robert; even met him once. That Buzzfeed piece is a great "venerate YOUR AWESOMENESS by pretending to poke fun at you" item, Buzzfeed at its...best?
- Walt Crawford
The jury is still out on the actual utility of Google Glass. It could be great, and it could be a dud. I just hope to see more selective pics from RS in the future #noshowerpics
- Eric - seven eleven
Also, John C Dvorak's take that this is all one elaborate prank would be LOL!
- Eric - seven eleven
If we ever send a human crew to Mars, would it be a good idea or a terrible mistake to have the ship AI's voice based on Morgan Freeman?
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"I can't do that, sonny."
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I thought we learned our lessons with HAL....
- WarLord
I was thinking more of a voice UI like Siri than a full AI like HAL.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Female voice for the subservient machine, male for the commander. (Am I in trouble now? :D)
- Eivind
I only mention this because I always find his narration for "Through the Wormhole" soothing, and even in the post-apocalyptic environment of "Oblivion" where he's the leader of a resistance movement, he's still (perhaps inappropriately) calming. On the other hand, when you're trapped in a metal can hurtling through the vacuum of space for three years or so, I imagine your view of what's soothing and what's absolutely terrifying can be very different.
- Victor Ganata
I was thinking more John Cleese
- Mo Kargas
Why not the voice of Carl Sagan? Don't think I could think of anything more perfect than that.
- April Russo
Kevin Spacey's character from "Moon". it would be fitting.
- Hieronymous Boosh
It should be GlaDOS. Obviously.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
If it's the voice of self-checkout box store machines GOD HELP US ALL.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Helleaux! The voice of the computer on Star Trek: TNG. A woman's voice is much more soothing. ;)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
ORLY? not if it sounds like my 3rd grade math teacher.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Passed someone running today and they were wearing Google glasses. Have to say it wasn't a good feeling.
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Think about every bad hair day, every time you pick your nose, scratch your butt, slip and fall, spill something on your shirt, or say something dumb live streamed to the internet. Think people have fun mining shit from google maps now? This will be a laugh a minute. At your expense.
- Todd Hoff
Just saw Robert Scoble demonstrating his glasses on an impromptu Gillmor Gang. Recording should be up later today at http://techcrunch.com/2013...
- Laura Norvig
I watched it live Laura. Should a parent have the right to put a child's entire life at home in public forever?
- Todd Hoff
I wonder how many people are going to end up melting down like Josh Harris did? Or maybe we'll all just slowly adapt.
- Gimminy
Some form of opt-in signaling would be a sufficient fix for me. Just like I would like a way for movie theaters to signal devices that they should shut up, GG should understand no trespassing signs.
- Todd Hoff
In Sean fashion: slave all google glasses in region X | people database | {facial recog, voice recog, social network recog, body recog} --> candidate list of bombers
- Todd Hoff
^^ lol
- Greg GuitarBuster
I predict a strong market for GG blocking devices.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I'd buy a GG blocker.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Finally, the killer app for QR codes... a 'noindex' tag you wear on your forehead. :)
- ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ
Would You Have Spotted the Fraud? — Krebs on Security http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010...
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Having had my ATM card skimmed while I was on vacation and a lot of money withdrawn, I can only say: Pay attention.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
You know one of the things I hate about Apple? How they think it's ok to insert ads into the emails you send from their mobile devices. And the ads really suck, too. "Sent from my iPad"? Is that supposed to make me jealous enough to run out and get myself one, too? Fat chance! Not so all my emails can become ads for Apple products!
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And if Apple gives you a way to turn that off, please do, unless it was part of your agreement with Apple to get a free device.
- April Russo
I thought you could edit that in your email settings under signature?
- Mary Carmen
Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Signature > Clear. That should work. I agree, it's obnoxious.
- Victor Ganata
I don't own any Apple devices, but I have to see this crap when opening emails from people that do.
- April Russo
It also excuses or explains typos.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
And brevity, since some people take short answers as rude or hostile
- MiniMage
Sent from my bittybox.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Sent from Ed the Slow Ass Jr.
- April Russo
I don't think many folks realize they can change that signature line. I'm not a fan either, but it certainly explains typos and seemingly curt responses.
- Corinne L
I get that with "Sent from Verizon Droid" as well. It's customizable, but comes that way out of the box.
- Eric - seven eleven
from iPhone
I like it on there to show that I'm working from home on my personal device on my personal time. :-D
- Paulette
Paulette, changing it to "working from home on my personal device on my personal time" would serve the same purpose, without becoming a free ad for some company's products. ;-)
- April Russo
Mine is ... "Please excuse misspellings and short message. Typed on small keyboard with big fingers"
- Me
Pretty much every device maker does this with their embedded mail program. It's not just Apple.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Good point, I'll change it! ;-)
- Paulette
Police: Body found in river may be missing Brown University student - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2013...
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The Tripathi family's search for the 22-year-old philosophy major has been detailed on a Facebook page, "Help us find Sunil Tripathi." They temporarily took down the page after they were inundated by ugly comments when Sunil Tripathi was falsely accused on social media of being one of the Boston Marathon bombers.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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Is Game of Thrones something I should be watching?
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Yes.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Yes, Winter is Coming.
- Todd Hoff
If you have to ask...
- Me
Hell, yes.
- Anne Graham
Yes.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Si.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
yesssss
- holly #ravingfangirl
Yep. you will love the "Lil Lannister.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
yes, but you have to start from the beginning.
- ~Courtney F
And if you are in the school of "don't kill my favorite/lead/any character" this show is NOT for you.
- ♫410 I Coach 'em Up♫
Definitely yes.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I just finished The Tudors and figure I'm ready for Game of Thrones.
- Chelle Chelle Ro Ro
Yep.
- Jason P
Very yes.
- Jed Harris-Keith
from iPhone
I hardly ever watch TV shows but I watch GoT.
- Rodfather
LOL, Rodfather, that sounds almost like The Most Interesting Man in the World.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I don't always sound like the most interesting man in the world, but when I do I sound like Rodfather.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
You have to watch it if you want to stick with the cool crowd :P
- imabonehead
Yes!
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Yes.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Yes.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
It's the only reason we have HBO.
- Todd Hoff
It's the only reason that my brother purchased HBO.
- Jed Harris-Keith
from iPhone
Responding to tragedy – What brands (and brand marketers) sometimes forget: social networks are communities, not just channels. | Sterling Communications - http://www.sterlingpr.com/respond...
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If brands want to be regarded as full-fledged members of a community, and not just faceless, unfeeling corporations that care about nothing more than shilling products, they need to behave like humans. Real humans (generally) don’t break into a highly charged, emotional conversation to offer their own mundane, off-topic updates. Real humans don’t ignore what’s happening right in front of them.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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The Paris Time Capsule Apartment | Messy Nessy Chic Messy Nessy Chic - http://www.messynessychic.com/2012...
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"The owner of this apartment, Mrs. De Florian left Paris just before the rumblings of World War II broke out in Europe. She closed up her shutters and left for the South of France, never to return to the city again. Seven decades later she passed away at the age of 91. It was only when her heirs enlisted professionals to make an inventory of the Parisian apartment she left behind, that this time capsule was finally unlocked."
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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There is a further twist to the story. In the apartment a painting of familiar style was discovered of a beautiful woman in pink. One of the inventory team members suspected this might be a very important piece of treasure. Along with the painting, they also found stacks of old love letters tied with colored ribbon. With some expert historical opinion, the ribbon-bound love letters were...
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- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
BBC News - Singer Katherine Jenkins defends London Marathon look - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...
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Woman who runs marathon (for charity) criticized over her appearance by woman who doesn't run marathon. Good times.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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[Insert gratuitous comment about how it's easier to be a dude.]
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
"You can knock me all you like but you cannot take away from me what I know I accomplished last weekend." Jenkins has so far raised £25,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support, which she chose as her charity because its nurses helped her father Selwyn before he died of lung cancer when she was 15.
- SteVe C
Also, SHE RAN 26.2 FREAKING MILES. Jebus, People...
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
A Week After: A Run For Boston in Your City | PavementRunner - http://pavementrunner.com/boston-...
Seattle runners: Meet tonight at the Super Jock & Jill at Greenlake. 6:15pm.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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RT @billmon1: Q: How many people does a US company need to kill to get as much media coverage as couple of messed up kids with pressure cookers. Bhopal?
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I seem to remember that getting quite a lot of coverage, actually.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I suspect Billmon was saying it might take that level of deaths to get comparable media coverage to this Boston marathon terrorism thing. I mean, the more I read about the West disaster, the more it sounds like criminal negligence, /at least/. Tons of explosive chemicals in there, close enough for a hospital to be badly damaged, and the feds didn't know, the state didn't care...
- Andrew C (✓)
It's kind of crazy to realize that far more people were injured and killed in the West explosion than in the Boston Marathon bombing.
- Victor Ganata
The Boston Marathon was intentional terrorism, in a crowded event in a major city, on an iconic day for Boston. But yeah, the West explosion had many thousands of times more explosives involved.
- Andrew C (✓)
The "tv/cable news is dead" tweets come out again, of course. Look, shitty is not dead, it's just shitty, unfortunately.
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Is there a live Twitter feed where I can see what I'm seeing on television? I don't think so.
- Eric - seven eleven
Social is great, crowds are fantastic, but we still need reporting.
- Eric - seven eleven
I have to steal that, Micah.
- Victor Ganata
I don't think it's really a comparison of the MSM with soc med. I think people just want the MSM to actually do their jobs.
- Victor Ganata
Me too. Re-hire the real reporters!
- Eric - seven eleven
If I were a reporter, it would give me great pleasure to watch the soc med "first!" people make total asses of themselves, after which the real story would come out making them look like complete morons. But, alas, the advertisers probably don't want that.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, but they don't even do commercials in developing situations like this.
- Gimminy
Jimminy, the only reason why they want viewers is for the ad revenue. Just because they don't interrupt live coverage with commercials doesn't mean the networks aren't trying to appease ad buyers.
- Victor Ganata
Johnny, I suspect that there might be market for late but right. It's probably a narrow niche market, though, so I can understand they'd be apprehensive of going that route.
- Victor Ganata
Victor, I don't disagree, but at the same time WHDH is being very cautious about false information.
- Gimminy
I wish tv/cable news *was* dead. At least then, we wouldn't have to put up with terrible "journalism".
- Steven Perez
The terrible "journalism" is still a hell of a lot better than the terrible "whatever the fuck I thought I heard".
- Gimminy
I don't know, I think the former begets the latter.
- Victor Ganata
Maybe, but if the latter hadn't pushed so forward into the legitimate journalism, it would be less of an issue to begin with.
- Gimminy
Nobody is covering themselves with glory on this. I think we need to accept that the new world of journalism, both traditional and social, is going to give us lots of bad information based on poor reporting/rumormongering.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I blame "us" to a large extent. We stopped caring about real, or accurate, news a while ago. Compare Moyers's ratings to TMZ's. I bet he loses handily. Now there are a myriad of reasons for America's retreat into the trivial as news. Personally I blame Reagan. But then, I blame Reagan for everything.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Astute Johnny is very astute.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
I'm listening to John Denver and you can't stop me.
Yvonne, SteVe C, Victor Ganata and 3 other people liked this
Oooh, good idea!
- Steele Lawman
Are you drinking flavored coffee with that?
- Catherine Pellegrino
Hell no. I have taste.
- laura x
*prepares Emergency Funkadelic Care Package Mixtape for Malcolm's sake*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Did you know there's a new album of John Denver covers?
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Ethel and I hare having a fine John Denver listening party. Kevin, yes! I just saw that we got it, which is what inspired my return to the original.
- laura x
X and I have agreed that "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" may be the nadir of the Denver catalog.
- Steele Lawman
Thank you for the ear worm.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Amazon premieres 14 new television pilots (online) - latimes.com - http://www.latimes.com/enterta...
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"Amazon is turning to its consumers to help decide which of the new television shows premiering Friday to add to its programming lineup, democratizing a process that was once reserved for a rarefied group of network executives. The online retailer will post 14 TV pilots -- including a musical office comedy set in Manhattan, a live-action comedy about four U.S. senators who live together in Washington, D.C., and a show based on the cult film "Zombieland" -- ask viewers to critique them. The feedback will help inform which pilots are developed into a full series."
- SteVe C
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Exhibit A in the not-your-usual-TV-sitcom offerings is "Browsers," a musical comedy about four young professionals as they start their first jobs at a news website, Gush, run by the imposing Julianna played by Bebe Neuwirth. The project is the brainchild of 12-time Emmy-winning comedy writer David Javerbaum, of "The Daily Show." Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Gary Trudeau created...
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- SteVe C
The real question is whether crowd sourcing will produce good TV or just lowest common denominator crap. Remember, we live in a world where "Everybody Loves Raymond" was a huge hit.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
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