Thanks Miiko (http://www.pinkmoxie.com/pinkm...) for passing this along. "Today, I stumbled upon a video that deeply moved me. It was of Michelle Maykin, a 26-year old UC Berkeley graduate, class of 2004, and San Francisco Bay Area resident who is fighting for her life." Even if it's only sharing this link, please help. - Steve Spalding via Bookmarklet
Just like to thank everyone who took the time to check this out. - Steve Spalding
nearly every village in the world has something similar.. life is like this - gregory lent
Gee Gregory, that's a compassionate attitude. Not the first prick-like comment I've seen from you either. - Paul Reynolds
compassion is acceptance, not emotional response to seeming exceptions - gregory lent
That's funny, I was under the impression that compassion is *absolutely* an emotion. The emotion one feels when there's a strong desire to alleviate another person's pain or suffering. Also, let's not confuse Zen for apathy. - Paul Reynolds
if you will look inside that strong desire to alleviate, you will see your ego resisting an existing situation, and you want to change it ... it is only when you accept it, take it into yourself fully, that you can begin to do anything about it... i live in small town india and see this story or worse every day. every day. it is not easy, stretches empathy to infinity, and leaves a full time understanding that life is like this, it is not just an occasional event, that one musters up some energy to solve. - gregory lent
In case all of you SM folks are looking for some ways to use your bookmarking prowess, this just might be a good target -- just saying. - Steve Spalding
Those are the ones that have been reasonably successful. If you need help, guidance or what have you I am all for helping anyone do anything involving this or similar projects. - Steve Spalding
Awesome. Easy to do. Easy not to do. Here is where services like Ping.fm and hellotxt shine... - Rahsheen Porter
From FlowingData: "Remember SimCity 2000? That was a great game. That was probably the last computer game I played for any significant length of time, and if my Macbook Pro were able to read 5-inch floppies, I'd totally pop it in and build myself a city called Yau Town.
Put the look of SimCity 2000 together with Google Maps, and you get OnionMap." - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet
kinda related in a map sorta way. check these new 3d maps. currently available as a demo only, but will hopefully be a sign of things to come: http://us.youcity.com/ - Cee Bee
"The LA Times blog is reporting that the infamous, limited edition "I am Rich" application was purchased by six Americans, one Frenchman and one German. That's right. These guys gave the developer, Armin Heinrich, a total of $5,600 dollars and Apple $2,400 for what effectively is a 320x480 pixel Photoshopped picture of a jewel." - Jonathon via Bookmarklet
hahahahhahahahaha now THOSE are douche bags. One app is like.. one iPhone w/ contract + one w/out. what asshats LOL - Mona N.
Thats it, I'm launching a rival app for 10$ less ! - Mo Kargas
But is that safe to do if the app should be running? Don't you risk data corruption? Don't you risk government corrup... ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H - l0ckergn0me
Sure, if you're force-quitting apps all the time, you risk data corruption, I wouldn't do it daily. Besides, the black helicopters can remotely make your brain explode if they want :) - Bwana McCall
You think a developer will provide a memory mgt app. - RaAusar Powers
Liking for the Kirk/Mona/l0ckergn0me comment trio. - Akiva Moskovitz
Whoa. Is it just me... or do "Adam" and "Eve" have the same kind of... you know... groin area? Isn't that... just... wrong? Not that I look for such discrepancies! I'm just saying that when a LEGO minifigure appears to be naked, you expect... well, one might expect... ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H - l0ckergn0me
If only they got usability and OS security (without making it a burden) - Jason Carreira
Thanks for great post. If you get a chance to visit a Microsoft Technology Center you should definitely check it out. We have a very cool lab and demonstration set up. - Todd Bremner via twhirl
@jason I wonder what do you know about OS security.... - silpol
"Sources confirm that Team Darlton is looking to introduce two new characters this season – and they're both as mysterious as they are lethal. They're also coming in as recurring players with an option to become series regulars in season 6." - James Ferguson via Bookmarklet
Daynah <3 You know, I'm starting to share for YOU haha! - Mona N.
I'm happy to have known all of these. ;) - l0ckergn0me
Ok show-off! ...but then again, I would've been worried if you DIDN'T know :P - Mona N.
Actually, if I was a show off, I'd write something like: "What a n00b. He didn't even include the obligatory 'hold down the period button in an email field to flesh out a '.com' with ease tip. Classic rookie mistake." What I'm interested in is finding out which iPhone tips your friends on FF have, Mona. :) - l0ckergn0me
Remove both ends from a tomato past can and thoroughly wash it. Carefully bend one open end of the can into the tulip shape. The metal is soft enough that it bends it easily, but you might want to use some household items to help you bend in the details (like the petal points on the tulip) - Stupid Blogger
I still type http:// as well. I don't care really.. It's the unix in me, I'm used to typing - Bwana McCall
I think me dropping the 'www' (and the 'http://') happened when I stopped using bookmarks now that I think about it. - Akiva Moskovitz
I find it annoying when some websites require you to type www or get a 404. As for capitalizing "Internet", it keeps the spellcheckers happy. - possible248
@possible248 my pet peeve is companies that issue an SSL cert for company.com or www.company.com but not both - you get a cert warning if you enter the wrong one. - Sparky
I'm with you, Akiva... I don't even remember when I stopped doing it. THE WORST though, are the people who have the dubx3 habit, and when you tell them to type a URL w/ no dubx3 required, they automatically type it in. ie: http://mail.server.exchange but they type http://www.mail.server.exchang... and get UPSET when they can't connect... lol =\ - Mona N.
It depends on how the DNS settings are set by the site owner. In 95% of the cases, most sites now deliver with or without the www. Some sites (for whatever reason) don't set the DNS settings to deliver without it. Moral - If you don't see it without, then try it with. - Charlie Anzman
Mona, I like the fact that you type 'dubx3' when it's two characters longer than 'www'. - Akiva Moskovitz
CTRL + Enter in the address bar after typing just the domain root, like "google" then CTRL + Enter. Unless you're on a Mac...then I dunno. Stopped typing WWW since I learned that. - Josh Haley
I think I stopped using www back when slashdot.org was just getting hot... - Rahsheen Porter
Mona - that's a pet peeve of mine as well. One of the few habits that drives me nuttier than that is when a person puts a working web address into a search engine query field... which usually ends up being MSN's. - Tom Harrison
I use google toolbar and just the name. Lazy. Yup. - Toby Graham
don't browsers add the www if they don't find something without it ? @possible248 the Internet and an internet have 2 different meaning or am I wrong ? - Olivier
@josh: command+enter does the trick on a mac - Danielle Knopf
i use opendns' shortcuts.. 'ff'=friendfeed.com, 'g' for gmail, 'gr' for google reader, 'l' for localhost etc. ;-) - AJ Batac
so do I AJ, but for those sites where I need to type, the old school habits come out. - Bwana McCall
for other sites, i enter the name and just hit CRTL+ENTER. if it's not .com, im skipping it unless it's really necessary. :-) - AJ Batac
{Anything}+CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER by the way is {Anything}.org - AJ Batac
{Anything}+SHIFT+ENTER is {Anything}.net ;-) - AJ Batac
Well at least you don't still type http:// too. Not that I know anyone who does that. How outdated! >_> - Arlan Koizumi
Me too, but after ordering 200 moo cards I found out (the hard way) that if you don't type in the "www" before your linked in profile, it doesn't go to your profile - just the front page. How can such a well-respected web brand not have that option?! - Vince DeGeorge
I think the Expedia commercial "Expedia....DOT COMMM" drove it home. I can't remember when I stopped, really. I've been on the web since it existed. Hmm. Maybe once I learned to set up a webserver and made all my domains work either way? - TxVoodoo
Never saw the mini-series - have you seen it? The plot (from Wikipedia) sounds interesting. - Bret Taylor
It was one of the coolest TV events of my childhood, glad to see it come back. The series might not hold up, but the story will. - Eric Schlissel via twhirl
OMG, V was ... so huge when I was a kid. Epic stuff, even Freddy Krueger was in it. - AJ Kohn
Hey, has anybody seen my guinea pig? - l0ckergn0me
Get outta town - I had nightmares about that little green "V" baby they showed at the end of the series for ages! - Cecily Walker
Heh nice. I remember the mini-series and the TV series too. Good stuff. - Alex Scoble
V is one of those things like old Atari 2600 games... you loved the hell out of it back then, have these great memories... but if you experienced it again today, you'd be all "wtf, this is really terrible!". V was cool, but got cheesy, and any update would almost have to be deliberately campy or so-bad-it's-good to get any more attention from me. - abacab
I had nightmares about people's skin pealing off, after watching some episodes as a 10 year old. - Vincent van Wylick
All I remember is being weirded out that they ate mice on that show, when I was little. - Louie
ah, you deleted the youtube vid? Hah.. weird, thats why I clicked like and nothing happened.. and the comment just hung trying to submit. it's interesting watching how other people use FF... you need the Friends and Groups greasemonkey script, Mona! - Tim Hoeck
Really? Hold on... the high quality one isn't showing up. Man, this is terrible. Please bear with me while I try to figure it out =( Thank you. As for the greasemonkey script, I know LOL. I need to do that ...soon - Mona N.
You need a sound effect to go with your scrolling action, Mona. I suggest the revving motor of an engine as it races past....nnnnnyyyyyyaaaaaaaooooooo, - Pete Delucchi
That was fun :) I use FF in pretty much the same way - Bob Kingsley
I love the video! Thanks for the mention, you rock Mona :) - Mike Fruchter
@Mike I fully expect a MonaChannel when Streamulo is out of super secret beta. Sign Me UP! - Carlos Ayala
Predictions come true. First step to Rock Stardom. Moooona ! Hyper-scrolling! - Charlie Anzman
"My feed is ample" eloquent while frantic. Nice. - Josh Haley
Believe it or not, there IS method to my madness ;) Thank you Josh, Mike, Carlos, AJ, Charlie! @Bob: Thank goodness, I thought I scared everyone :) - Mona N.
Thank you Mona, trying Jing...and love the hyperscrolling bit. Why did you take down the video? - nieuwbouw20
nieuwbouw20, ty :) after recording the clip. don't forget to compress the file w/ an online converter (there are free ones!) the clip is still here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Mona N.
This is the first time I've ever seen a curved photo sensor. Would have a bunch of cool applications including eventually building a real Bionic Eye. - Jeff P. Henderson via Bookmarklet
Is that a press release from the department of redundancy department? ;-P - cmiper
lol! that is exactly what I was just going to say! - edythe
Ahh it's the ultimate guest-Alec Baldwin! Wait was this some double entendre kind of thing? :P - Mark Forman
"I can't help notice, Pete, that your balls are misshapen" LOL - Pete Delucchi
I like, "I love the way your balls smell." :p - Anna Haro
I flove this skit. I especially love their calm and relaxed NPR voices through the entire thing. Love it. - Monique
@Monique right?! I swear that's why it's so funny...those NPR voices talking about "tender balls." - Anna Haro
OMG. She said "I can't wait to get your ball in my mouth" @Anna I just watched it again and found myself listening to see if the voices even gave away a detection of laughter, but they never did. - Monique
"The authors of this paper claim to show that other terms can be added to the quantum mechanical action that are consistent with current theory and experiment. However, some of these possible terms include conditions in the future that need to be taken into account and summed over. That is to say, what happens in the future could (according to this paper) affect what happens in the present.
Why the LHC? The authors argue that these sorts of time-violating interactions could be associated with whatever new particles we create at the LHC. For example, the production of a large number of Higgs particles in the future could have a backwards-in-time causal effect on the machine that produced them, stopping the machine from ever running." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
I've been thinking about this issue of the future effecting the past for some time. I think it's true, but impossible to prove. I even wrote a blog post about it, but I'm not sure if anyone understood: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.c... - Paul Buchheit
This would account for the observer bringing the universe into existence, even though the creation of the universe pre-dates the observer. - Bret Treasure
It seems like there are some people working on making the future effecting the present possible to prove. Impossible is such a strong word. - Clare Dibble
Really? There are so many things that have been impossible to prove for so long! But that might not be the same impossible you're thinking of. - j1m
Not impossible, just currently unimaginable. - Stupid Blogger
I made you post this. But I can't prove that I did. - Louis Gray
WOw! This changing the present stuff really works! :) - Brad Fitzpatrick
Schroedinger called, wants his Cat back. - Toby Graham
Sorry, tell him his cat died when we opened the box. - Jason Carreira
so what's the period of time involved here? are we dealing in units of Planck time? do Higgs bosons show up a couple of picoseconds at the target before they are supposed to? Or is the LHC spewing Higgs NOW, before it has been turned on, before it is even finished? What if some CERN janitor holds up a bucket to the LHC, collects all the Higgs bosons before it has even been turned on, and wins the Nobel Prize? - Karim
Very cool! Science fiction meets real life... - Mitchell Tsai
also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.... now i'm wondering if what the janitor is collecting in his bucket is not Higgs bosons, but rather *anti-Higgs* moving *backwards* in time. if mass is a result of Higgs, then does anti-mass and anti-gravity come from an anti-Higgs field? ;-) - Karim
Please ignore the previous comment if it has mistakenly appeared on FriendFeed prior to the year 2093. - Karim
++Karim :) Meanwhile "The world's most powerful particle accelerator, aimed at unlocking secrets of the universe, will be launched on September 10" http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200... - Eugene
