"Star Wars fans rejoice! The Jedi Dressing Gowns are here! What could be better on an evening than strutting around in your Jedi robe, making sure your little Lightsaber doesn't inadvertently pop out due to your lack of jimmy-jams? The Jedi Dressing Gown is made of soft 100% cotton velour and has a Jedi logo embroidered on the front. The bath robe's large hood, sash belt and wide sleeves are classic features of a Jedi robe. Will you be seduced by the dark side (your smelly old bathrobe with cat hair all over the back) or will you fight for justice...or at least the last Jaffa Cake...in a brand new Jedi Dressing Gown?"
- Iain Baker
from Bookmarklet
My SS has moustache bars so there'd be seriously diminished returns in buying nice levers, but if I had drops on it, I'd consider upgrading the Tektros to these...
- Chester
from Bookmarklet
Ok...so I believe there is nothing sexier than a beautiful woman who is also a geek or is beautiful and knows how to work on cars or beautiful and loves sports, or is amazing in a courtroom. Am I missing anything fellas? Ok...so Mona needs to be on there. Mona where is your picture!!
- Adriana
hahaha I was just kidding! I would rather be offered a guest spot on Gizmodo. ;)
- Mona Nomura
o m g. Talk about a gigidy-gigidy overload. Used to think Oliva was the hottest geek, but there's so many of them. God bless the internet. I think I need a kleenex. :-|
- Matthew Horton
Ok. Not sure about this. Is it post-modern and therefore ok to think objectification of women is cool? Plus, you have my fav Felicia Day in there, which confuses the matter even further. I either need to have more to drink, or something....
- WorldofHiglet
Didn't Wired do this sexy geeks thing a year ago, same people pretty much? It gets traffic, no doubt about it. Isn't that what this is really about for those involved? It works.
- jjprojects
agreed...if they had mona on there I would have so had her pciture up on the post :)
- (jeff)isageek
*starts loading up her spellbooks and component pouches and grabs her best sword*
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Why can't a women be smart, beautiful, and be respected for that without having to take most of her clothes off. Do we get the same thing for the sexy, smart techie guys? (Who would fit that category?) Sorry guys, but you're being kind of piggish.
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So let me get this straight, just because "she" has a podcast she is a geek? Most of these I can get, but I'm not so sure some of these are a stretch.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
We like to pretend that humans are enlightened, but we're still just animals at heart.
- LogEx
I was scrolling down waiting, waiting, waiting and there at the very bottom was Amber McArthur, the cutest geek of them all. And did you notice she had all her clothes on? Very impressive.
- Give 'Em DBizness
always a good post to come back to from time to time :)
- (jeff)isageek
"Cyclists have dismissed Mayor of London Boris Johnson's announcement of two new cycle superhighways through the city as a "marketing gimmick"."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"From May 2010, two corridors of cycle lanes will lead from south Wimbledon to Bank and Barking to Tower Hill. But Transport for London (TfL) admitted much of the route would not be covered by the lanes through lack of space."
- Kol Tregaskes
I was really looking forward to this. Being able to cycle into London would be great but the last quote worries me. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
This doesn't sounds anywhere near as good as it should be, shame. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
Half-assed Boris strikes again! Seriously, it's typical of bureaucrats to do a half job, that is effectively as good as no job at all. One needs one's wits about them driving in London (as in any major city), let alone cycling in it.
- Ian May
Have just moved house, this park is a few minutes walk away. It looks great now, but this photo makes me long for the last few weeks of September.
- Iain Baker
I just want to be able to auto-import my Facebook friends, see their streams, and then comment back and have it post to Facebook like I can with Twitter here. Of course, if I could auto-import my Twitter friends as imaginary friends here, that would be killer too.
- Kevin Kuphal
yeah same Kevin, it's dangerous this move though...wonder how easily it will be to get images and info out from people who don't want it out there. If you see what i mean....
- Zee.
I never thought they would open the whole stream like that before!
- Ninh Nguyen
This could be major. If FF and/or other services allow me to use FB on my terms, I might start using it more regularly again.,
- Louis Simoneau
Zee: I reckon Facebook will have to introduce even more privacy grains for people to control things getting out of their feeds. Could be very complicated and confusing for many users.
- Martin Bryant
can someone clarify, is there anything stopping developers from caching all our Facebook friends (private) info that appears on our personal streams indefinitely?
- Zee.
Well, if there was ever a question that FB was abandoning the carefully guarded, gated-community model, I guess there isn't anymore.
- Martha
Interestingly, all the comments to this article are from Friendfeed.
- Kenton
"Boyle's performance on ITV's Britain's Got Talent has attracted more than 100 million hits on the site in a fortnight as the 47-year-old church volunteer continues to captivate a huge global audience. But the financially beleaguered channel had insisted that no advertisements be shown alongside the clips until it has thrashed out a deal with Google, which owns YouTube. The stalemate has meant that no one - not ITV, nor Simon Cowell, nor YouTube itself - has been able to cash in. Estimates of how much ITV - and the show's producers, Talkback Thames, and Simon Cowell's company, Syco - could have lost to date vary between £500,000 and £1.5m. ITV has been battered by an advertising slump recently and is cutting hundreds of jobs."
- Iain Baker
from Bookmarklet
To be honest, I think we've had so many years of 128kb MP3s and streaming Pandora and like.fm services that people can't tell the difference between low and hi-fi. It's just *fi and it's sad. Because when I put on a CD and listen on my stereo in the living room, it's GORGEOUS. But most albums have been compressed so much that the dynamic range is almost non-existant. Sad state of affairs.
- Daniel Bader
Playing 128k next 320k and you CAN tell the difference. It is obvious. But I still rip in MP3 format rather than a lossless format, mainly due to portability. If I want to post something on the web, I don't think most web browsers support lossless format (am I wrong?).
- Kenley Neufeld
I care. Always. And I can tell the difference. I dislike MP3s and prefer to listen on the Disc player or on my iPod where most of the stuff is losslessly ripped.
- Parth Awasthi
I do, but I've gotten so used to the compressed quality of Mp3 files (and the compressed quality of recordings in general) that hearing something recorded and mixed in the '70's just throws me off, anymore...
- Helen Sventitsky
It's weird that in under 100 years we've gone from AM radio mono to FM stereo and CD quality then to mp3
- Alex Murray
Think the music industry is dying, and that it’s time to go independent? Or have you always favored smaller, independent record companies over huge bureaucratic institutions? Don’t worry, even if you don’t have dozens of spin doctors working for you, you can still promote your indie band online. We’ve got 25+ tools to help you do just that.
- <<futuRINÔ>>
"Nokia's all-inclusive Comes With Music mobile service has been much slower to attract UK consumers than expected, according to an industry consultancy. Music Ally claimed yesterday that Comes With Music has won 23,000 British subscribers since launching last year. Nokia has refused to confirm the figures and said that it has not released data on subscriber numbers. Paul Brindley from Music Ally made the figures public at an Association of Independent Music conference in London. Brindley told 6 Music the statistics were a "big disappointment" to the music industry. "If anything I was rather kind in not saying it was a complete catastrophe. It's a big disappointment because very rarely, if ever, have we seen a digital music service that's been so widely promoted in the mainstream media," he said."
- Iain Baker
from Bookmarklet
It's such a confusing prospect - download unlimited music for a year.... and then you can keep what you've downloaded after that.... but you can't download any more... and you can't transfer what you've downloaded to any other device.
- Martin Bryant
BOOO! to websites that are bringing back the 1990's fad of framing pages linked from them. DIGG and Facebook are starting to do this. It was stupid in 1996, and even more off-putting now.
no no, you see it's different, they're no installation toolbars! yeah...umm... that's the ticket.
- mikepk
They want to keep their audience but it's a stupid way of doing that.
- Richard A.
I can't believe that 1.) Sarah Lane on Net@Nite said the DIGG bar was good and 2.) After flamming it himself, Leo didn't press Sarah on it's lameness and totally reversed tack after Sarah said it was good.
- Matthew DeVries
Incredibly annoying. I hate that you close the bar and it goes back to the original link (in facebook anyway)
- Amy
Has this thread worked? Did they cut it out yet?
- Matthew DeVries
There's something telling in there about how Zuckerberg and Rose were not on the Internet the first time we had to put up with this.
- Andy Bakun
Andy, you'd think they'd have hired someone who used a computer in the 1990's to work there, or at least asked Scoble, Winer, Dvorak during demos.
- Matthew DeVries
Can we repurpose the term "Eternal September" or something to refer to the continuous reinventing of the Internet Annoyance Wheel?
- Andy Bakun
And yet nobody says anything about ReadBurner's lame BurnURL bar or Adjix (which not only uses the lame framing method, but does so to shove ads in your face) or StumbleUpon, or Ow.ly, or Krumlr. Off with all of their heads! I wrote about it last week, but I think they're all playing with the fire that is Google's index: http://marktrapp.com/blog...
- Mark Trapp
It would be fun to get a screenshot of a blog post wrapped like russian nesting dolls inside facebook bar, inside the digg, bar, inside the stumbleupon bar, inside the ReadBurner bar, like we used to see back in the 90's.
- Matthew DeVries
Sites pulling this kind of crap is in poor taste, but I like having a GM script that pulls the text only of a blog post, so that I don't have to click through.
- coldbrew
Did you do that Mark, or did you find it with some google magic?
- Matthew DeVries
I found it in one of the comments on one of the plethora of stories today about Digg's changes to the DiggBar. I think it was ReadWriteWeb.
- Mark Trapp
@Andy Bakun: Why do you say Zuckerberg and Rose weren't on the web in the 90s again? They're not *that* young. I'm younger than Rose and I used Web regularly in the mid-90s while growing up in Alabama, far from the epicenter of the Internets.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Wasn't Rose a CS major at UNLV in the '90s?
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken and Daniel - I think he's inferring that anyone who lived through that ugly insanity of frames within frames within frames would never try to revive that concept, thus they must have just missed it and didn't realize it was already done.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew: Ah... yeah... Thing is, conceptually I don't really mind the idea of a cross-browser, zero-install toolbar. "wrapping" a page, i.e. putting a banner across the top isn't quite "frames within frames within frames". Are people really objecting to that, or are they objecting to the fact it's not opt-in?
- Ken Sheppardson
For me, it's the pure hideousness, and the wrapping thing was all over the 90's as well, rejected, people installed proxy side apps to block them.
- Matthew DeVries
And Ken - looks at the picture Mark linked (and I later intensified). You really have no problem with that?
- Matthew DeVries
I have a problem with being forced to use anybody's toolbar, whether it's in the page or in the browser. I don't have a problem with toolbar functionality implemented in something other than XUL or as an IE plugin, no. The image above is different from FireFox users who have toolbars installed for Yahoo, Google, Diigo, Facebook, and six other sites is simply that they did it by choice.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken: if there was a way to make these toolbars not propagate to other people (who haven't opted-in), it'd be okay, but that's not really possible given the way user agents work. The DiggBar functionality that's unveiled today comes close, but it still forces the use of their URL shortener, obfuscating the URL. If you want to enhance your browsing experience, modify the user agent (i.e. via a toolbar), not the web.
- Mark Trapp
It's been like 4 days, and it seems all these sites are still doing it. What has this world come to where a thread on a website doesn't turn the tide bad trends and change the minds of decision makers......
- Matthew DeVries
Starting today and running through the 25th, A temporary bar dubbed "Alcoholic Architecture" is popping up in London offering a cloud of breathable gin and tonic to it's patrons. Patrons pay around $7 for hourly slots between 7 and 9pm where they can don protective suits and get drunk off the air.
- grant fox
from Bookmarklet
Woah Rob, you're setting off my "too attached to e-mail" alarm with this quote: "Facebook, Twitter and FriendFeed all have private messaging options. There really is no reason for having private messages directly within the application. Given that all of these sites require an email address, why not just make the private message an email gateway?" I am a big proponent of minimizing email due to its opaque one to one nature. Many other e2.0 bloggers feel the same way.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I just read John's comment on your article and I agree with him wholeheartedly. The new FriendFeed DMs are amazing in what they can do for group communication. Tack on the option to CC: your public feed on a DM and then share the URL offsite and it's just nuts.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Actually, John has a really good comment on the blog. A conversation using the FF DM has everyone's comments. The email chain for something like that would be really long. The main problem is that we have silos of information with the DMs, and that really bothers me, though I am not a fan of getting a ton of email either.
- Rob Diana
Daniel, good point. But on the other hand, I do like the idea of ONE "inbox" for ALL conversations. I want all my conversations in one place. I hope someone will build a system for that, something that allows me to read and reply to anything digital. On blogs, on FriendFeed, or plain email. And if no-one does it, I might go build something like that myself.
- Meryn Stol
One thing I know for sure is that one reason I like commenting on FF better than commenting on blogs because the conversations stay "here". If someone replies, I can talk back. And if necessary, we can back and forth.
- Meryn Stol
You're 100% right re: silos Rob & Meryn. I love the fact that GMail lets me easily retrieve discussions I had in 2005 and it's a shame that most social services won't do that. Even if everyone's search was as good as FriendFeed's there's still no unified search to hit my GMail, FriendFeed, and Facebook messages all in one pass.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm praying for an uber "Outlook" style app that just hides all networks, and focuses on my connections. Indeed, if a message came through Twitter, it might mean I only have 140 chars to reply. The interface could inform me about this. But really, I want all my connections, all my conversations in one place - visually, I mean.
- Meryn Stol
I felt obligated to be long-winded, so I made my response to Rob's post and John's comment on my blog: http://beta.friendfeed.com/itafrom... My main thesis is that we already solved this problem many times over, and it shouldn't be such a conceptual leap to apply it to private messages. Federation doesn't have to be a bunch of silos that don't talk together and we don't need one single destination.
- Mark Trapp
So, did everyone catch the new "DM to mail" feature that Bret Taylor announced?
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm following Mark's footsteps and writing a separate post. Stay tuned.
- Corvida
Not too sure though that I want to be a member of Google Social, hopefully there is a serious "forget you ever heard of me" button in this somewhere.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
@Dan what's a lil scary though, is that if you use Google - it's almost as if you haven't got an option.
- Zee.
It's not as if Google doesn't already have this information. I was surprised how many of my sites and services were pre-populated in my profile. May as well claim and control.
- Chris Baskind
yeah same Chris, crazy in fact...Even profiles I had forgotten i'd created with little if any public information about me
- Zee.
The integration of all their services is still rather clumsy. For example, there are separate profiles for Blogger, Reader and YouTube. Picasaweb doesn't even seem to have one.
- howard shippin
yeah agreed Howard, i'm pretty sure that will come though
- Zee.
integration with other services and social network is non-existent on the Gprofile
- Mathieu Ayel
Orkut sucked and don't forget Microsoft have tried to do this with MSN by making MSN Messenger into a Social Network which hasn't took off either. Although if they implement the service and improve it a lot (since Google Profiles sucks currently) then they could have a very large and useful social network on their hands. Also there is another problem in that spammers are going to love...
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- Nicholas James
you make a good point Nicholas. Regarding MSN's previous attempts, I just think Google has a much better platform to build the network off...not having to rely on an im client as it's backbone
- Zee.
Google makes a good point, it should be the apps that drive the social network around them, not the social network driving the apps.
- Matthew DeVries
Wow. The blog my hubs and I share came up ESFP. He's an INFP, and I'm an IXXJ. Very, very interesting result... and the description is not completely off-base, either. *scratches head, pondering*
- Ladybug Heather