RT @tillamookcheese: What's on ur #breakfast plate this morning!?! I'm dreaming of the BEC (bacon, egg & cheese) from @pinest8biscuits http://t.co/BqlN6supsV
"Exercise science is a fine and intellectually fascinating thing. But sometimes you just want someone to lay out guidelines for how to put the newest fitness research into practice. An article in the May-June issue of the American College of Sports Medicine’s Health & Fitness Journal does just that. In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science."
- holly #ravingfangirl
from Bookmarklet
Just tried this tonight (modified a little, since the rotated push up and the side plank give my back trouble at this weight.) EVERYTHING HURTS. In a good way? *ouch*
- Jennifer Dittrich
I think I'm going to start doing this when I get home from work. I almost never have time to do the full gym thing, and I can get the cardio from walking on my lunch hour. It seems like an easier habit to get into.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Pretty much. You start with one set of monsters and to be able to play with any other set of monsters you have to pay. The one set of monsters is fine, but even the computer plays with the other monster sets, and only being able to use the one set gets boring after a while. Also new maps cost. I don't mind paying in app, but their fee system is way high. Even buying the bundle that has everything in it is $8 which for an iphone game is too much in my opinion.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Jimminy, gak that is horrible! I just know that in a game I would want to play through game center with other friends, I wouldn't want all of us dependent on paying that much money. The $8 is for the pack with all the current items, they call it Season 1, so they intend to have more seasons which I assume will cost similar. Can't do it.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Breakfistivo : synonym for brunch or brinner: "Yeah, that breakfastivo was totally delicious, too bad its already time for bed"
- Steve and 4 other people
Workivo : Working late into the evening / at home : "Oh my gosh this workivo is really driving me nuts! When will it end?"
- Steve and 4 other people
Sleepivo : Seeping off-hours, as when jet lagged. "Sorry honey, can't go out tonight because I've been totally sleepivo these last few days"
- Steve and 4 other people
Weatherivo : Grossly unseasonable weather. "Man, I'd love to go hiking this weekend, but it's supposed to be totally weatherivo."
- Steve and 4 other people
Facebookivo: "Steve, I was reading one of your status updates from 2010 just now, and--" "Wait, why are you all Facebookivoing my crap from 2010?"
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
"I've just moved to New Zealand, and my first 30 days and 30 nights here made a powerful impression on me. I've never done anything quite like this before, so I thought I would share what I felt with you."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Chance to get librarians on the open-science radar; let's take it. Sayeed Choudhury, Carly Strasser great choices off the top of my head. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog... No limit to how many/how often you can nominate!
wow, that's lovely, RR :) I think maybe I'll get a tshirt made that says "red-hot possibility" ;) I'm leaning in Aaron Swartz direction. Negatives: misses opportunity to honour someone who is still active, working in the system. Positives: white house, see this white house? FIX THIS.
- Heather Piwowar
I second Heather... probably would not support Aaron Swartz' nomination... I think it's better to select someone who is active.
- Christina Pikas
If someone else doesn't nominate Heather P, I will! And how did I not know about Carly Strasser until now? (Agree with Christina about Swartz -- benefit of sending message outweighed by loss of chance to boost someone active.)
- Bill Hooker
even if someone else DOES nominate Heather P (which MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED ALREADY I'M NOT SAYING), do it anyway. Volume can't hurt.
- RepoRat
Should we also nominate Jason P--Heather's copartner?
- Hedgehog
After weeks of twitter import working, it has broken again... and now even the backup I use (Twitter Feed) has broken too. Is this normal, or is this due to Twitter's 100K tokens policy?
Twitter's shutting down the version of the API that is in current use by Friendfeed, afaik. So that may be permanent. The 100k tokens policy probably wouldn't apply to Friendfeed, they probably have access to somewhere around 300k tokens. https://dev.twitter.com/blog...
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Oh crap, the API change. Damn. I wonder what the likelihood of Friendfeed updating its code to use v 1.1 is.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Probably zero. They're barely doing maintenance, never mind implementing new changes.
- Bill Mason
There's a hack you can use: Instead of importing a twitter feed, you can use a "custom RSS" feed, and use this url: http://api.twitter.com/1... (where xxx is your screen name). This worked for me just now.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
The on again off again problems has led people to use advanced tweets - does that still work?
- Laura Norvig
from iPhone
Laura: Sadly, while it works for existing users, it's at its follow limit, so no new users can sign up.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I thought I read that RSS feeds are going away when API 1.0 is sunsetted. Maybe don't quote me on that.
- Bill Mason
@Stephen - I just signed up for Advanced Tweets today and it worked for me...
- Andrew C (✓)
What's the deal with so many people not getting RSS, Atom and XML? Do they also believe that HTML is going to disappear? Weird stuff.
- Sean McBride
One gets the impression that opponents of RSS, Atom and similar markup systems are deliberately trying to destroy the connectivity and productivity of the Internet.
- Sean McBride
All Internet services should be easily able to communicate and share information with all other Internet services.
- Sean McBride
And what are Friendfeed going to do about the Twitter API upgrade?
- Dave Levy
Oddly, my yahoo pipe that reads from twitter RSS is still working without issue as long as I refresh it manually... So only 20 at a time. :(
- Andy Bakun
And my yahoo pipe stopped working. Twitter gives it 400 (Bad Request). I can still request the RSS feed from my home though.
- Andy Bakun
Dave, they are going to do nothing. Twitter and Google Reader will become just more dead icons in the list "all 58 services" supported, just like the old Wakoopa, TipJoy, Backtype, iLike, Magnolia icons that you still see in the list.
- April Russo
Backtype kinda imploded their own service; it's not like they changed an API and Friendfeed didn't update.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Backtype was acquired by Twitter, for their Hadoop tooling and analytics. Twitter shut it down.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
How hard would it be to write our own Twitter-to-RSS service to use as a custom RSS option for FF?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Technically probably not hard, but still beyond me. But I took a look at the Twitter dev terms of service, and I think that kind of thing might be against their rules.
- Andrew C (✓)
Advanced Tweets kind of works. I don't think it's against their terms if they make any provision of ownership to the author (the questionable case would be retweets). And yeah, it's not hard, just kind of costly.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I haven't been around these parts in quite some time. In all honesty, I'm kind of surprised there's still resources at Facebook keeping this place alive. Most of you I probably see elsewhere these days, but I still pop in from time to time just to see the lights are on.
So it does... We're working hard on a complete overhaul of the site - top to bottom - so we're not working too much on the current build. I should update that footer though.
- Nathan Chase
Waking up this morning, I smile.
Twenty-four brand new hours are before me.
I vow to live fully in each moment
and to look at beings with eyes of compassion.
guessing 39yo moms may be an underrepresented group at @github meetups. oh well! off to represent on behalf of nerdy women everywhere. Because I really want a laptop sticker :)
"The Grilled Cheese Invitational in Los Angeles, California is a yearly festival that brings both amateur and professional chefs together to compete to see who makes the best grilled cheese. From the classic bread, butter and cheese sandwich, to bizarre dessert grilled cheeses, these competitors made it all. This year 150 competitors made over 750 grilled cheeses for a hungry crowd of people who served as judges."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
"This recipe combines the ingredients of a bacon cheeseburger in a quesadilla. These quesadillas are so easy to prepare and make a great appetizer. If you want you can even serve them for dinner with fries or a side dish. Some of the ingredients in this recipe include hamburger, bacon, cheese, onion, and pickles. You can add just about any of your favorite cheeseburger ingredients if you want."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Franc, a rememberer
Library Duck Cam! on USTREAM: We have a duck nesting outside the library! Watch along with us! (And please watch her on the webcam--we are trying not to di... - http://www.ustream.tv/channel...
"When it comes to play, humans don’t play around. Other species play, but none play for as much of their lives as humans do, or as imaginatively, or with as much protection from the family circle. Human children are unique in using play to explore hypothetical situations rather than to rehearse actual challenges they’ll face later. Kittens may pretend to be cats fighting, but they will not pretend to be children; children, by contrast, will readily pretend to be cats or kittens — and then to be Hannah Montana, followed by Spider-Man saving the day. And in doing so, they develop some of humanity’s most consequential faculties. They learn the art, pleasure and power of hypothesis — of imagining new possibilities. And serious students of play believe that this helps make the species great. The idea that play contributes to human success goes back at least a century. But in the last 25 years or so, researchers like Elizabeth S. Spelke, Brian Sutton-Smith, Jaak Panksepp and Alison Gopnik...
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- Anne Bouey
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"Dr. Gopnik shows this brilliantly with a game she invented with the psychologist David Sobel (her student, now a professor at Brown). In the game, which has the fetching name Blickets, players try to figure out what it is that makes an otherwise undistinguished clay figure a blicket. In some scenarios you can win even if you’re applying a prior bias. In others you can’t. Last summer I...
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- Anne Bouey
"Esther, along with most other 4- and 5-year-olds tested, bested not just me but most of 88 California undergraduates who took the “and” test. We educated grown-ups failed because our prior biases dictated that we play the game by the more common and efficient “or” rule. “Or” rules apply far more often in actual life, when a thing’s essence seldom depends on another object’s presence....
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- Anne Bouey
The end part reminded me of that cover of Toto's Africa by Mike Masse and Jeff Hall that Glen shared -- incredible performance pulled off by two guys in a pizza parlor. Here it is if you needed to hear it again like I did: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo