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If you have tried to use bookmarlets, you may have noticed the browser automatically appends http:// in front of your bookmarklet js code... I've been able to get *some* bookmarklets working in the android browser by updating the bookmark urls manually in the database.
- Tim Hoeck
It looks like document modifiers don't tend to work, however, I was able to get a couple basic bookmarklets functioning..
- Tim Hoeck
Using adb: sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.browser/databases/browser.db
- Tim Hoeck
Then: update bookmarks set url="<insert bookmarklet>" where _id=<id of bookmark to update>;
- Tim Hoeck
I assume this solution is only working for development phone, not for all?
- Matt Zhou
Matt, if you have access to adb, you can do it.. I found it kind of pointless in the end though, because none of the really good bookmarklets work, only basic ones.
- Tim Hoeck
It might be possible to save bookmarklets using a small app that uses "Share link" intents ... eg, long press on the bookmarklet link, select "Share with BookmarkletSaver", which would then add it to your browser bookmarks, without the http://. Only useful if most bookmarklets actually function though ... which it seems that don't .. :<
- Andrew Perry
CATSTARE - http://www.misrule.org/friendf...
Andrizzle Gizzle, Derek van Vliet, Mol, Santa Claws and 159 other people liked this
NO, SIR. I HAVE *YOU* IN *MY* EYE.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from Bookmarklet
Must... hide.... but.... can't... move... hand.....
- Ladybug Heather
Damn I just flipped back to firefox and I got a cat staring at me. I'm now freaked out.
- Chris Rivait
Now that is a cat I'd have
- Mo Kargas
Shhhhh! It's trying to tell me something...
- Josh Haley
EXORCIST!!! aaaaaaaaahhhh!!
- Susan Beebe
holy freakin cow! so funny. :D
- vijay
redrum, redrum. (So much Awesome!)
- AJ Kohn
I have been annoying my WoW guild mates for months in the forums with this avatar. :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Yikes.
- Steven Perez
I would like to meet that cat.
- Rochelle
I think that cat has already met you...
- Akiva Moskovitz
Dogs have owners, cats have staff.
- Dave Martin
that cat is creeping me out. his eyes go right through me!
- BEX
catstare.gif FTW! This cat has been in our livingroom for an entire week.
- veo
this is why I'm a dog person.
- marthalib
Stares the crap out of that hamster.http://au.youtube.com/watch...
- Will Higgins™
I'd worry when I was sleeping if that cat lived in my house.
- Thomas Hawk
Freaks me out!
- Mike Reynolds
lolwut?!
- ax0n
woah! Have you joined the cat room yet?
- orionstarr
lolcats
- Noah David Simon
"I gonna kill you.."
- Kristian Salonen
I can't help but stare back at crazy kitteh every time this post pops up. Gah! lol!
- Carmen
Seriously. Would you people stop liking/commenting on this? It keeps popping up to the top of my stream and I have to stare at it again.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Nothing wrong with that.
- Jordan Hofker
Sorry ^^" ...AGAIN, muhahahahaa!
- Kristian Salonen
Akiva: No problem.
- Chris Baskind
Ok, that would freak me out.
- Jason Shultz
I have seen this a million times on myspace for years... we all have I'm sure. it is just great to comment here because then we can snag new people that are stupid enough to comment. ....you were the one who posted it Akiva. Fresh Fish for the TROLLS... hey Igor... 86 likes here means the bounty is ours. mo ha ha ha ah Fresh fish were looking at the stupid cat.
- Noah David Simon
Let's convert everyone to Trollism! ;-)
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
now you know why kitty is paying attention
- Noah David Simon
STARING CAT IS STARING
- Akiva Moskovitz
I've already liked this!
- veo
creeptastic!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Sleep well, cameraman...sleep well...
- Craig Durling
I want to like this again.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
If it just raise its paw, it would be a perfect Maneki Neko (japanese beckoning cat - good luck symbol)
- Gilgamesh
I don't think that this cat wants you to have any good luck.
- Akiva Moskovitz
NOT AGAIN!
- Steven Perez
he is a mesmerist!!!
- Mauricio Businari
Happy Caturday !
- johnpiercy
O_O
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Go away, scary munchkin cat!
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Is this a moving image fakery? I think the cat's head is CGI.
- Marg Uerite
"I know he didn't just call me a Ho?!"
- Carlton Hackett
I've got one thing you'll understand (Dr. Feelgood)/ he's not what you'd call a glamorous man (Dr. Feelgood)/ Got one thing that's easily understood (Dr. Fee lgood)/ He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
- Christopher Harley
NEVER FORGET
- Akiva Moskovitz
Augh! I hate those round-headed Japanese domestic cat breeds. Bleagh.
- Spidra Webster
*sniff* one of my first animated gif experiences on FF evar.
- Josh Haley
It's the only animated GIF I'll actually tolerate.
- Akiva Moskovitz
but...but...so many gifs!
- Josh Haley
I've said it before and I'll say it again: if I want animation on my desktop, I'll grab a window and then whip it around the screen with my mouse.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It seems to be the only animated gif that doesn't crash my browser, too. COINCIDENCE?!
- joey
LOVE IT! Can't believe I missed this back in November.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
I feel so guilty about...something
- s t e v e
One of the Classics ,,
- johnpiercy
that cat freaks me out every time!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
STILL THERE!
- Christopher Harley
geezus that's still freaky
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Any idea of when we're going to get a sync'able evernote app?
Christian Cable and lilbyrdie liked this
Mrsth, João Almeida, yagami and 3 other people liked this
yum
lilbyrdie, Jackie Ng, C.K. Johnson and 15 other people liked this
friendfeeders: can you add a 'Don't Like' link? ;-)
- Jing Lim
Eagle eating snake would, to an ancient observer, be interpreted as light eating dark, or something similar. I wonder what auguration would be proposed. Good or bad?
- Gorm
I don't care what it is as long as we can bring auguration back.
- Stefan Moluf
This is why you use pictures in your blog posts - http://www.winextra.com/index...
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Nicholas James, Moses Kpetigo, Paula Hawk and 25 other people liked this
True. A large proportion of my current traffic (and even of remaining traffic on my ancient abandoned blogs) comes from Google Images.
- Bora Zivkovic
My site is about images with some short text below. If it weren't for Google images traffic I would be almost ignored.
- Carlos Lorenzo
@Leather so is my braincell soup blog - well a very large portion of the posts are all pics
- Steven Hodson
My library blog is getting hundreds of hits from image searches and the rest of the blog is useless to them and isn't aimed at them, so I actually wish they'd stop distorting my stats. :-(
- Deborah Fitchett
Next post: "12,432 visitors in 10 minutes from Scobleizer."
- Jon Adair
@Jon .. na .. it would take at least 15 minutes
- Steven Hodson
I posted a link to the "research paper vs. internet" image you(and I) have on one of your posts.
- Mr. Gunn
Agreed. But be careful what you have pictures on. My number one blog post is because of people searching for pictures of North Korea. I have a picture. People come, use my bandwidth, and bounce away. It takes more than pictures (but they do help). http://blogan.net/blog...
- Brent Logan
I agree pictures are important, but dependent on your business model, a decent percentage of the time traffic from Google Image search isn't going to convert well. Not that it really costs you much of anything.
- Kevin Mullett
Yes pictures are important as long as they are in context and add value to the post. At http://cruisinaltitude.blogspot.com I add pictures when appropriate and sometimes the entire post are in pictures.
- mskonfa
HAY DID YOU KNOW IF YOU DELETE SOMETHING IT'S AS IF IT NEVER HAPPEND
Nia, lilbyrdie, Alex Scoble and 13 other people liked this
Oh wait. That's a lie.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Kicking myself for not screencapping quick enough.
- Rochelle
LOL'ing at us tonight.
- Rochelle
I just annoyed myself. :(
- Akiva Moskovitz
LOL!!
- Lisa L. Seifert
Lisa knows what's up.
- Rochelle
Let's say you have a series of comments. A makes a comment, B reacts. A makes another comment, C reacts. Then A deletes his/her comments, just leaving B and C reactions. This allows you to make up all sorts of things that A said.
- Ontario Emperor
OE, unless Rochelle has screencaps. Then there's no making up of anything. :)
- Rochelle
True, Rochelle. I do. Always. :-) You two are cracking me up with your rebuttal threads.
- Lisa L. Seifert
Sheesh, that guy can't take any confrontation or argument.
- Rob Haas
And the moral of the story is that although deleting your comments may make B & C look like they're insane, it makes A look like a complete douchebag who has no confidence in what he (or she) posted to begin with.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Not that I'm all scripty and junk, but I've been going back through my comments made on other people's posts +90 days old, and changing my wording so it makes the others seem irrational and slightly psychotic. And best of all, my doctor says it's OK!
- Christopher Harley
Christopher, I approve of what you say and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Christopher, +1 for 'scripty and junk'. In fact, the Script Writers Guild would like you to be their new spokesman. They assure you the level of junk involved will not disappoint.
- Micah Wittman
Micah, that was a nod to Johnny Worthington who, while being very talented, is not all scripty and junk.
- Christopher Harley
Apparently he likes toilets.
- Akiva Moskovitz
but not pants.
- WorldofHiglet
In the Southern hemisphere, pants swirl in the opposite direction.
- Akiva Moskovitz
not true! It's the position of the nozzle that determines the swirl! Fact: I heard it on FFundercats so I KNOW IT'S TRUE!
- WorldofHiglet
The idea of a nozzle making my pants swirl has provided me with a brief but thorough 48% LOL.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Hehe: 'briefs'
- WorldofHiglet
I have no idea that this is about, but it's making me LOL
- ha3rvey (sup homepants)
Pretty sure this is about Chris White. Found this oddity about him the day I ran into him.
- vijay
Christopher, good point crediting Johnny since not all would get the injoke, so in the future I'll be clearer by writing SAJ instead. Clarity ftw!
- Micah Wittman
I deleted a couple things from last night. Mistakes were made.
- Anthony Citrano
I never delete anything. If I'm wrong about something then I correct it with another comment. If I end up upsetting someone, then I might apologize in another comment. I don't delete posts and I especially don't delete comments because it makes comments written by others look awkward.
- Akiva Moskovitz
YO DAWG! I HEARD YOU LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE DELETE COMMENTS, SO WE ADDED A DELETE FEATURE TO THE DELETE FEATURE SO PEOPLE CAN DELETE WHILE THEY ARE DELETING!
- Alex Scoble
I know of one deux schnozzle who does this like it's his job.
- Matthew DeVries
Just to be clear I only deleted my own posts. I don't delete comments I made.
- Anthony Citrano
There is some truth in this. But I don't like the use of all caps.
- Meryn Stol
BUT DATZ HOW WE ROLL YO
- Akiva Moskovitz
You just have to delete it before it spreads like wildfire across the net. For instance, good luck getting rid of the fact that what I'm commenting on happened... ;)
- lilbyrdie
If you don't like mangos you are truly and seriously whack!
Just Ken, Alfredo, sofarsoShawn and 38 other people liked this
And tomatoes!
- Admiral Anika
I've never had a mango...
- Alix Whitmire
I must be whack
- Glen Mistletoe
I don't mind mangoes, just don't eat them regularly.
- Bryce Roney
I like them, but sometimes they smell meaty to me.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
you said whack
- Erin @queenofspain
mango salsa = teh nummay
- Anthony Citrano
Anthony, you're gettin' out of hand now. :)
- Admiral Anika
Yellow mangoes FTW Especially the ones from the Philippines. Omg WANT. *added: mango salsa = yuck.
- Mona Nomura
Mangos suck.
- Jim Hearts FF
Yay mangos!
- ronin
Dried mangos are addictive! Even better than dried apricots.
- Mlibrarianus
damn straight!
- BEX
Hui Lau Shan makes this mango dessert that's really amazing: mango juice (or is it mango juice slush?), diced real mangos, mango ice cream, small tapioca... mmmmmmm, HLS.
- Andrew C
In Belize there are 124 different variations of Mangos !
- bcultral
I've had this mango tree in my front yard for ten years. Every year we eat em so it should be ready to eat by june or july :-)
- Noe Ruiz
a hidden mango in some food sent me to the hospital a few yrs from the firehall . my head swelled up like a beachball and all red ,, i was scratching my pits .. it was horrible ... keep the dang mangoes away from me . PLZ
- johnpiercy
Such a profound statement has to be liked... lol
- Walt Ruppar
I ♥ Mangos!
- AJ Batac
Mangoes! FriendFeeders' choice of fruits...
- imabonehead
Yum, mangoes.
- Tyson Key
Mango chiffon cake! YEAH!!
- Russell Wagner
I just ate a mango.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva wins the interwebz...again.
- Alex Scoble
I don't want salsa ruining my mango.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Mango mango!! :D
- Susan Beebe
I'm a New Yorker in Manila and the mangoes here are the best in the world. Green mangoes especially, Perfectly sour. Shakes, cakes or sliced.
- Brooklyn Art Project
Mangos <3
- Nia
I hate mangos, I wish there were no mangos.
- Onur Gündüz
Mango Cobbler !!!
- Russell Wagner
It's just the gunk in the teeth thing afterwords that gets me, but that is overcome by their tastiness
- sofarsoShawn
I've seriously eaten myself sick on a big bag of dried mangoes from Costco - and I would do it again!!!
- BEX
They taste too mellony
- Matthew DeVries
Facebook is way more fun than friendfeed...seriously. Here it's all just talk talk talk, all the time. Facebook? You got pet dragons, gifts, super pokes, racing games, nutty groups, vampires who want to beat up slayers who want to beat up zombies...it's got it all, wrapped up in an all too busy
andy brudtkuhl, Jared Smith, Chris, Taskerrific Guy and 24 other people liked this
interface that even your mom can use.
- Alex Scoble
What? You're super-poking my mom!? O.O
- Admiral Anika
At least it's not as bad as Myspace. Although they're trying.
- Victor Ganata
Games, yeah, polls against your friends, yes, but new knowledge and news, I've got almost nothing in there (at least Mona makes that part else its dead cats all over.)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Hmmm... My Facebook is like my FriendFeed ... w/ different people. :)
- Mona Nomura
Turducken is tasty, and therefore good. FB is a time suck
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I disabled FB apps.
- LogEx
I thought I hated all FB apps until I discovered the Mafia Wars one.
- Anthony Citrano
Initially, I loved all the FB apps...but now, a year or so later, I'm beginning to loathe the apps and games and whatnots.
- Carlton Hackett
you are kidding, right?
- bcultral
Oh good, I've been looking for a good reason to not make a Facebook account. This just might be it.
- i80and
Yes...this post is most definitely sarcasm.
- Alex Scoble
And there are far more mangos on Facebook.
- Todd Hoff
oh, it's certainly more fun -- esp. if you're prone to being hooked by addicting games. fb is rapidly becoming the de facto aol-style platform of the current times. if you don't have a fan page/group for your product on fb, it doesn't exist. if you don't make your web app into a fb app, you're not only anti-social but can't possibly be a real web dev... ;) (that said, fb is the only way i've been able to truly keep in touch with "real life" folks and especially family that don't reply to email...)
- lilbyrdie
I knew that you were funnin'. I hate all the crap. And I don't want my so-called friends from high school all up in my stuff!
- BEX
Chris White, that comment needs to go on a tee shirt.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
hahaha!
- Anna Haro
Freakin’ awesome – Microsoft 2019 has nothing on this guy - http://www.inquisitr.com/19248...
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lilbyrdie, Simon Wicks, Clay Newton and 2 other people liked this
Evernote Blog » Blog Archive » Evernote Mobile Web Gets Androidified - http://blog.evernote.com/2009...
lilbyrdie, Nock Forager, Jeffrey Canton and 8 other people liked this
Yippee!!! Two of my favorite things, together!
- Lindsay
from Bookmarklet
Appears to be a generic mobile site, is there anything specific to Android? Or is it just PR spin?
- Daniel Sims
Wow, now I can give this a try. Is it a real Android app or just a web-optimized site?
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
This is just a mobile optimized site. Ok their blog, they mentioned that they are working on a native Android app
- Paul Westbrook
Looks like I'm one step closer to becoming an Evernote convert. Hope the eventual native app is free and uncopyprotected, otherwise I'll likely miss out (*curses Google for locking out ADP-1 phones from paid apps*)
- Andrew Perry
I might just switch from Google Notebook (which is pretty much dead) to Evernote now.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Discovery News: Born Animal: See A Fish With A Transparent Head - http://blogs.discovery.com/news_an...
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Derrick Peters, AMBI JI, mohammadk and 51 other people liked this
"The common name for the fish is 'barreleyes.' Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute investigators recently figured out why this species has such an unusual head. Its eyes can actually rotate within its 'skull,' so the transparency allows the wary swimmer to keep a literal eye on happenings above it, as well as to the sides and directly in front."
- Corie
from Bookmarklet
Awesome!
- Steve C
Video here - http://tr.im/gJws
- Kevin D. White
I was telling to André today that fish is the awesomes! :D It looks more a creature from some sci-fi film than a real fish.
- Bibi
Kevin, thanks for finding that video! Really awesome. :)
- Corie
that is one apathetic looking fish.
- Moved to Facebook
"It can also rotate its eyes to avoid predators, or to avoid being caught by scientists." :)
- Steve C
Every time I see this fish ? When it pops back to the top of the feed it freaks me out. I can't Imagine the response if I came across one while diving in my peripheral vision.
- Eric Logan
I wish I had a head like that. So people can see pass me for who I am. :)
- imabonehead
@Eric How about: "Holy crap! I'm below 900 fsw!"
- Kevin D. White
dxTop: dxTop : Android Home Alternative - http://dxtop.wikidot.com/
lilbyrdie, Mario, Ozgur Cem Sen and 2 other people liked this
dxTop is an alternative to the Android home interface. It includes the ability to use widgets, four screens, and dual trays
- Tim Hoeck
from Bookmarklet
lemuel, Riyaz Mohammed Ibrahim, David Vasileff and 16 other people liked this
Great photos!
- Paul Buchheit
Their feathers are so shiny, they look like scales on miniature dragons.
- Maggie
Great job, hummingbirds are tough
- Benjamin Golub
The Curious Cook - Do You Need All That Water to Boil Pasta? - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Lisa L. Seifert, Bibi, Mark Trapp and 12 other people liked this
"After some experiments, I’ve found that we can indeed make pasta in just a few cups of water and save a good deal of energy. Not that much in your kitchen or mine — just the amount needed to keep a burner on high for a few more minutes. But Americans cook something like a billion pounds of pasta a year, so those minutes could add up. My rough figuring indicates an energy savings at the stove top of several trillion B.T.U.s. At the power plant, that would mean saving 250,000 to 500,000 barrels of oil, or $10 million to $20 million at current prices. Significant numbers, though these days they sound like small drops in a very large pot."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"There’s one other dividend to cooking pasta in minimal water that I hadn’t anticipated: the leftover pasta water. It’s thick, but you can still easily ladle it out by tilting the pan. And it’s very pleasant tasting: not too salty, lots of body, and lots of semolina flavor. Whole-wheat pasta water is surprisingly delicious. Italian recipes often suggest adding pasta water to adjust the...
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- RAPatton
"Restaurant cooks prize thick pasta water. In “Heat,” his best-selling account of working in Mario Batali’s restaurant Babbo, Bill Buford describes how in the course of an evening, water in the pasta cooker goes from clear to cloudy to muddy, a stage that is “yucky-sounding but wonderful,” because the water “behaves like a sauce thickener, binding the elements and flavoring the pasta...
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- RAPatton
I thought of this briefly before but I'm always afraid I won't use enough water. I don't think i want to drink pasta water though =/
- Lindsey is Fierce!
I've never used as much water as the directions say.
- Ladybug Heather
Drinking pasta water? And I thought I was weird drinking pickle juice...
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
This is strangely familiar to food we just cooked last night. We were making stew and needed to boil potatoes first. But we also needed to make beef stock. So, we added bouillon cubes to the water for making the potatoes. This made for flavored potatoes, thickened water from some of the starch that came off the potatoes, and no waste water going down the drain -- the stock was dumped in to the stew.
- lilbyrdie
I see a red moon rising: rare natural phenomena captured by on camera
| Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...
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Phoenix, Mike, lilbyrdie and 12 other people liked this
"Stunning pictures of a red rising moon have emerged today. The rare natural phenomena, which is known as ‘Etruscan Vase’, is caused by differences in air temperature near the earth's surface. Also known as an Omega moon because of its shape, the optical effect is more usually seen in views of the setting sun rather than the rising full moon. Photographer John Stetson caught the moment on camera at Casco Bay near Cape Elizabeth in Maine, USA, earlier this month."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"The lower part of the image is formed by rays from the moon which are reflected upwards from the warm layer of air at the surface. If you are above this layer, you see both images together as rays also pass relatively undeflected over the top of the warm layer. Optics expert Les Cowley said: ‘The effect is not dissimilar to the mirage seen above a hot road surface. ‘The mirage depends...
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- RAPatton
Download All Applications From Android Market For Free - http://www.ghacks.net/2009...
lilbyrdie liked this
This would seem to make the process "easy" but most users won't do this. "Hacks" like this (to get free apps) have been available on most download systems, especially the early versions. But how many people will jump through the hoops needed to do this? Probably not enough to worry about.
- lilbyrdie
Bay Area Homeowners Out of Luck, Few in Bay Area qualify in housing rescue plan - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
ka3drr, Mrsth, lilbyrdie and 3 other people liked this
"(02-22) 17:57 PST -- More than 90 percent of Bay Area mortgage holders cannot qualify for the low-cost refinances included in President Obama's housing rescue package, according to an analysis of loan data from real estate service Zillow.com. That is the smallest percentage of people eligible for the refinances anywhere in the country, Zillow said. "The Bay Area is being hit by the fact that it's high-priced, and therefore the loans that were made around the peak years were not conforming (meaning they were above $417,000), and secondly, that (the housing market) has gone into such sharp decline that many homes are underwater by more than 5 percent," said Stan Humphries, vice presi"
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Annoy-A-Teen - http://www.kd7qis.com/CJKApps...
Bill Sodeman, Carlos Granier-Phelps, lilbyrdie and 6 other people liked this
"Annoy-A-Teen generates irritatingly high frequency sounds that most adults have lost their ability to hear, thereby targeting teenagers and other dumb animals. It will also annoy adults who are fortunate enough to still have a teenager's hearing. What will you hear? Depending on the sensitivity of your ears, you may or may not hear all of the sounds created by a compatible device, even though they are irritably perceptible to others with more sensitive ears."
- Christopher Harley
from Bookmarklet
I'm one of those adults that gets spooked by high frequency sounds, along with "teenagers and other dumb animals". Usually outside shops / stores fitted with the speaker systems that give out the high pitched squeals and clicks to drive the kids off.
- Wayne Smallman
Bizarre.
- Christopher Harley
Awesome!
- .LAG liked that
imagine if every time u answered a question on Yahoo Answers or made an edit on Wikipedia you made a quarter. http://www.mahalo.com/answers...
Morton Fox, lilbyrdie and Ontario Emperor liked this
Imagine if CEO's interacted with people instead of just pimpin'?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Jason has taken "social networking as advertising" to a new level. He IS the advertisement. His product has consumed him.
- ComicList
Yes, just imagine. You'd have something kind of like Google Answers and we know how well that worked out. I'm thinking someone needs to read _The Wealth of Networks_.
- Kevin Gamble
I'd rather imagine I got the quarter each time I read an ad on a social network. ;)
- Kevin C. Tofel
@kevin I want a quarter every time I down-thumb completely misleading and truly offensive ads on facebook. Instead, I think I'm giving money to facebook because the logs just proved a read the ad.
- lilbyrdie
@charles True, but you can't fault him too much -- Jason is pretty good at it. I'd like to imagine if there was a way to do that and just get a free Tesla -- without CTS first from responding 500,000 times. ;)
- lilbyrdie
Realized just now that I don't use Delicious anymore to share links. I use Friendfeed.
Neal Jansons, Paul Buchheit, Roman Zolotarev and 72 other people liked this
Ditto @Scott
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
copy, paste, and tell the tweeple
- Pete Delucchi
Tried to log in to delicious yesterday and couldn't remember my login deets
- Christian Anderson
Same here.
- Victor Solanoy
Same.
- Melanie Reed
yeah cause its easier to go back and check your links in delicious if you want to keep it if it's not just another lolcat pic.. things move too fast to go back in here
- Terry O'Fee
uh, yeah!
- Josh Haley
I still do because I find them a bit easier to find later. Plus they get pushed here, twitter and, after a few build up, to my blog as a link post.
- Scott Kingery
I still use delicious! But only for things that I think I shouldn't miss in the future. And as always, I just bookmark stuff there, forgetting everything about them the next second. It's almost like a ritual!
- rampantheart
from twhirl
It's easier following up on a link in del though.
- ◄ani625Ξ
Veronica, that's a good thing. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bookmarklets rule and FF has nicest one so far.
- Rodfather
I wrote a delicious clone and integrated it with my blogging software.
- Wirehead
I use Delicious all the time. Like the fact I can take my bookmarks anywhere that has a internet connection. Use FriendFeed to share funny pictures.
- Hector Ramon
I think the only person I ever shared links with on delicious was myself. In the future. On another computer. The firefox plugin is great -- and I wish Chrome had something like it so the links would more easily go cross-browser in near-realtime.
- lilbyrdie
is there a bookmarklet for delicious? I used to use the plugin for Firefox, but now I'm on Camino and I never looked for a new one.
- Veronica
@Veronica - see here for the bookmarklet: http://delicious.com/help... - I tend to use Google Bookmarks for the stuff I use day-to-day and delicious for all the things I think "that might be useful in the future"
- Andy Davies
I use Delicious for myself, FF to share with others. :)
- mikepk
All of this talk of feeding on delicious friends is making me hungry!
- Paul Reynolds
I use del.icio.us more, with friendfeed. Now they route to Twitter near realtime; before, they were homebodies.
- Denise Howell
I don't share links. I keep them all to myself. Screw you guys. OK, maybe Twitter.
- Mike Nayyar
I never used Delicious to share links. It's a tool for saving links for yourself primarily IMO. Delicious has been so valuable to me personally because of that. I think ur doin' it wrong.
- Fleagle
People share links???? HAHAHA!!!!!
- Benno
Hulu dropping Boxee shows Big Content still can't take a step forward without two back. "Enjoy our content, but don't you dare watch it."
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I've been reading about the G1 since its announcement.. how did I miss this? All IM services in the Instant Messaging application, with the EXCEPTION of Gtalk (I think?!), use SMS to send IMs. This means if you are not on an unlimited SMS plan, you will be charged for IMs if you go over your SMS limit!
- Tim Hoeck
Technically not quite true; they all use TCP/IP data, but the AIM, Yahoo, and MSN IM apps connect to a carrier gateway that charges you as if the messages were SMS.
- ⓞnor
@nor, that is exactly my concern. It is at the very least deceptive.. if Tmobile planned to charge for these services (even though they use TCP/IP), why is it these were not built into a separate application from gtalk? It is extremely confusing to say that some parts of an application "charge" while others do not. Ryo, there are a number of other free IM applications.. had I known about this "trickery", I certainly would have (and will) use them.
- Tim Hoeck
Hmm, I'll have to check my bill and watch for charges. I'm pretty sure my flexpay plan only has unlimited data and not unlimited messaging... it is the G1 specific plan, though.
- lilbyrdie
luckily the SMS charges do not apply to third party AIM clients like http://www.cyrket.com/package..., it's only on the built in client
- Karl Rosaen
does skype? or is that different?
- Fred Grott
Karl.. exactly :) Fred.. The official Skype client AFAIK does not use SMS, however, it DOES use your phone minutes for calls, it does not use VOIP.
- Tim Hoeck
Confirmed. The IM app try to use SMS when I startup it. ough :S http://flickr.com/photos...
- Nock Forager
understandable from perspective of MO's desire to make lots of money, but insane that this is not called out super prominently in the marketing material. can't believe there hasn't been more outrage on this.
- Jon Price
rubbish!
- Ozkan Altuner
Mac Chrome: It's Alive! (well, not really but now has a UI) - http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/pinkert...
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“Now mind you, clicking doesn't work, and the renderers crash like nobody's business, but the other great thing is that the user interface stays running even if they do. Just open a new tab and keep going! It's important to point out that's part of what's taken us so long to get to this point. The WebKit that ships as part of Mac OS X can't run this way -- it took a lot of work to marshall it to do so. In addition, the UI clearly needs much love, but it's an indicator of the clean and simple direction we're heading.”
- Andre
from Bookmarklet
This is something I have been waiting for a long time. Can't wait.
- Sloan Bowman
NEW PENNIES - http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos...
Mark Wilson, Lindsey is Fierce!, Chris Frost and 12 other people liked this
This is what our tax dollars are paying for!!!!!
- Tamar Weinberg
from Bookmarklet
Hmmm... I guess that makes cents.
- Louis Gray
+1 Louis
- Victor Ryden
Louis++
- akihito
+.01 Louis
- Jesse Stay
Jesse wins. I'm out.
- Louis Gray
Aren't we supposed to be getting around to _removing_ pennies from circulation instead of making new money? It may make cents, but it makes no sense...
- lilbyrdie
Pretty (worthless)
- Seth Gottlieb
I like them. I think they do well to honor one of the greatest Presidents we've ever had.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Source: Apple asked Google not to use multi-touch in Android, and Google complied - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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Apple, which of course makes the signature multi-touch mobile device, the iPhone, apparently asked Google not to implement it, and Google agreed, an Android team member tells us.
- MG Siegler
from Bookmarklet
a lack of lawsuits
- MG Siegler
"Don't ask, don't tell" would have worked out better for Google at least
- MG Siegler
Let us know if this is true or not, if you are able, Chris.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
ha ha, this will be very hard to trace, but keep trying :)
- MG Siegler
I didn't think you could, Chris, but I always hope...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
What the fuck!?
- LarchOye
Yikes! ... Then again, maybe it was a "wink wink, we have a patent coming up in a few years..." back a while, too...
- lilbyrdie
Keep Your Identity Small - http://www.paulgraham.com/identit...
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..."I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity, and people can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity. By definition they're partisan.".... hmmmm
- Duncan Hull
this reminded me of "make things for other people" vs "make things for yourself" - if you make things for other people it isn't part of your identity and you can't defend choices to yourself emotionally
- paulm
PG: "More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn't engage the identities of any of the participants." -- Thus if everyone became 'selfless' (in the Buddhist sense ;-) we can all discuss everything with detachment. :-} Thanks, Paul, your essay also has ramifications for peaceful negotiations.
- Adriano
I agree that in principle, "being a scientist...doesn't commit you to believing anything in particular". However, in practice a great many scientists act as if it commits them to fundamentalist materialism. Thus they still manage to get the psychic comfort that comes with every kind of fundamentalism, of thinking that the worldview they subscribe to is the only reasonable one.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I like that term, "fundamentalist materialism" :)
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul, I'm not sure who coined it--it may have been Robert Anton Wilson.
- Ruchira S. Datta
The problem with the three major monotheistic religions is that they demand exclusion of other belief systems, and basically damn non-believers. You cannot have real co-existence and mutual respect on this basis.
- Paul Denlinger
@Paul Denlinger, demanding exclusion of other belief systems is a characteristic of every kind of fundamentalism, e.g., free-market fundamentalism. It's true that the concept of damnation is limited to the religions you're referring to. (Actually, does Judaism damn non-believers?) But belief in damnation is not even a necessary characteristic of religion, per se, let alone of fundamentalism. I think it's fundamentalism that Paul Graham is warning against here.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira, I don't buy the attempt to redefine fundamentalism to somehow explain something (or anything) about science. Fundamentalism is the belief that sacred texts are literally true in their entirety. This term doesn't mean anything outside of the domain of religion, e.g. in science, where there no sacred texts, nor even any 'texts' at all; if you're lucky maybe some text files. Stepping back a bit, religion is about faith; science is about questioning.
- j1m
@j1m, from the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: "fundamentalism. 3. strict adherence to any set of basic ideas or principles: *the fundamentalism of the extreme conservatives* [1920-25, Amer.; FUNDAMENTAL + ISM]."
- Ruchira S. Datta
Wait a second... you're arguing that online discussions of JavaScript don't degenerate into religious arguments? Ok, I see that you address that question later on. But "keep your identity small" feels a little like begging the question to me, in as much as one's identity is defined by all of one's thoughts and beliefs. Should you keep your thoughts and beliefs small?
- Jim Norris
@j1m, my comments referred to some scientists, not to science. The fact that a group of people practices science doesn't mean that everything they believe is science. Moreover, questioning is a very important part of some religions.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Jim, I interpreted Paul as saying one should view one's own beliefs with a degree of detachment, i.e., keep an open mind. Not identifying with one's thoughts and beliefs is very tricky in practice, but it can be quite freeing.
- Ruchira S. Datta
And how is one supposed to discuss important controversial issues without one's beliefs becoming part of one's identity? People choose sides on questions about economic recovery plans or anthropogenic global warming because they feel like those issues matter and Bronze Age battles don't, but I'd bet that archaeologists are just as religiously divided and sectarian about Bronze Age battles as the rest of us are about politics.
- Jim Norris
@Jim, one should sharpen one's own viewpoint as far as possible, but once one closes one's mind there's no room to let new knowledge in. Philip Tetlock in _Expert Political Judgment_ found that "foxes" who were flexible in their thinking made better predictions than "hedgehogs" who were stuck to an ideology.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I think this has a kernel of truth to it, but why are religion and politics, rather than baking preferences and JavaScript interpreters, core parts of identity? Religion and politics are both areas in which the questions are critically important and yet people have very little individual power to influence the situation. An online discussion is more likely to lead to a more concise script or a tastier cake than a more effective plan for either economic stimulus or salvation.
- Jim Norris
@Ruchira there's a reason why that dictionary spends 11 lines giving the real definition and 3 lines giving the definition you use. The other dictionaries I own don't even list the meaning you refer to. Calling any old person who passionately holds some belief a fundamentalist means about as much as calling any old riot cop a fascist. More to the point, the distinction really matters:...
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- j1m
@Ruchira: +1 for mentioning that book, I stumbled on it in the "Google Library" years ago. I think I agree with you; still, aren't most new and innovative ideas generally first advanced by ideologues? (Or is it time to do more reading?)
- Jim Norris
@Jim, wait, innovative ideas, idealogues, wtf? example?
- j1m
Scratch that, I don't know what I was thinking.
- Jim Norris
I mean, there was that gmail thing created by idealogical ajaxian Paul Buchheit
- j1m
This is actually a really bizarre essay. Isn't the idea that you should actively shrink your identity really weird? Would that ever work? And while I personally really enjoy discussing politics, and indeed, with the right people, arguing about it, if you read a lot of, say, javascript discussion groups that keep degenerating into off-topic political arguments, shouldn't you stop reading them? This doesn't seem like something you want to make your problem.
- j1m
If we were serious about Religious and Political discourse we'd require our children to learn it in school. If you're taught by Jesuits you have a shot, if you go to a public school, you're screwed
- john schneider
from twhirl
Also, isn't the key thing religious and political debates have in common that they're debates about what's moral? It hardly seems like you need to drag 'identity' into the picture to explain why people have strong opinions about morality.
- j1m
Well, not all political debates explicitly involve morality... maybe the lesson to take from this is that discussion has limited utility, particularly in the absence of empirical evidence, and that being attached to certain ideas as a part of your identity doesn't help.
- Jim Norris
@j1m, the idea that a dictionary definition doesn't count because it's short is new to me. Is "Islamic fundamentalism" a contradiction in terms? I'm using "fundamentalism" to describe rigidity on the part of believers, not any particular belief. The key thing about religious and political debates is there's no way to settle them. The question of the best method for reconstructing evolutionary history also can't be settled, so phylogenetics is just as contentious.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@Jim, yes, I got the Tetlock book when he came to Google. Most innovative ideas come from unexpected associations. See, e.g., _The Creative Brain_ and _The Origins of Genius: Darwinian Perspectives on Creativity_.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I'll buy the religion argument, but some of the most creative people I know are passionate about politics.
- Phil Boiarski
@Phil, I know creative people who are passionate about religion too. Firstly, I didn't mean to imply all creative people are open-minded about everything. The creativity comment was a bit of a tangent prompted by Jim Norris's retracted thought. Secondly, passion and open-mindedness are not mutually exclusive.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I see the idea that it's even possible to be detached from one's own thoughts and beliefs is not uncontroversial. Adriano's comment above is apropos: there are books with step-by-step instructions on how to do so, through meditation. _The Fine Arts of Relaxation, Concentration, and Meditation_ is one. _Emotional Alchemy_ is another. This explains specifically how not to identify with one's thoughts and beliefs, focusing on those that fall into maladaptive patterns called schemas.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Great post. Thanks, Ruchira for the time and the comments. On reading the post I felt precisely what Ruchira felt - that most of us are too rigid in our thoughts and beliefs, esp. when it comes to religion. If one's religion tells him that the non-believers are not as good as him, then if you are a true believer, you have no choice but to believe that. One is pushed into this corner (if one can see it as a corner) because of what PG says: "The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you"!
- Suresh R Iyer
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I've found http://www.handango.com, http://slideme.org, and http://andappstore.com - any others I'm missing?
- Tim Hoeck
Good point, Tim. From what I'm hearing there are many more coming.
- Matthäus Krzykowski
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