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Del's Best Machine Yet?
Wednesday at 2:10 pm - Link
I've seen this before but it is still fascinating. - Brian Sullivan
No nails, no screws!! Truely amazing! - Jigar Mehta
I like how it's really tidy and nicely crafted too. - sergiooo
and the point is???? - Wizetux
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thesixtyone - massively multiplayer music discovery
August 21 at 11:46 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
The most impressive use of javascript I've ever seen. - Eric Kerr
Actually, I got very confused by the navigation. I keep clicking in the wrong place, and I'm still not sure which actions cause music to start playing. It seems kind of cool though, and apparently they have FriendFeed integration! - Paul Buchheit
Wow, this is really impressive! It's the best new website I've seen in at least 6 months. - Eric Florenzano
5 minutes in, was still trying to figure out how to get a song to play. and then that thing on the bottom left expanded and I figured it out. A little too much discovery involved for me tastes, but cool idea nonetheless! - Chu Yeow
I haven't used experience points since I played D&D. - James Herbert via twhirl
Impressive!! I like the sound of the bubbles. - Ray Chen
yea, the bubbles remind me of those vh1 pop up videos. If only navigation around the site wasn't such a pain. - Raymond
This is pretty sweet - yeah, lil grey box bottom left w/green dot - listening 2 Code Monkey by Jonathancoulton - great find, Paul! - Cheryl Allin via twhirl
Would love it if Songbird could pull tracks from it... - abacab
updates remind me of the iminlikewithyou UX - tagami
Thanks for the feedback. We just added a mouseover tooltip for songs to make the action of playing music more obvious. - Samuel Hsiung
hey raymond, what issue did you have w/ the navigation? if you would be so kind: james at thesixtyone dot com - James Miao
Amazing good UI (or even genius), very nice site and I found a lot of interesting and unknown music there! I somehow never liked last.fm and ilike.com was a bit better for me, but still not the best. I'm not interested in sharing what I'm listening to at the moment (as I often listen to one album for many days or weeks), but I like to discover new music and maybe share recommendations with friends. I'm highly impressed with thesixtyone. - Wojciech Polak
Loving the interface! Any new music service is a blessing these days. - Majento (Early Adopter :)
Somthing to keep an eye on. That, is if the RIAA don't get hopping mad. Anything to keep music going.... - Roberto Bonini
Damn it's a great implementation of JS and UI - JungleG
Also, a friend developer of mine tried it on a Linux desktop and it didn't work - JungleG
he probably needs to update flash: http://www.thesixtyone.com/sta... - James Miao
awesome work -- great JS magic. well done Sam. yet again. - Puneet Thapliyal
About 2 hours of listening now, the default station, great tunes and perfect connection. - Majento (Early Adopter :)
Thanks James! I am hooked! Great job... - JungleG
thanks, glad to hear people are enjoying the experience. - James Miao
i go there, haven't a clue what to do .. so i leave .. i don't care about points, just wanted to listen to music.. - Gregory Lent
@ gregory: candidness appreciated. while thesixtyone's positioning is very deliberate, we can always improve on communicating the wide range of benefits for using the site (i.e. you can listen without having to interact with the site). - James Miao
Excellent site and great service, I check out the Hot tunes each week - Kol Tregaskes
I believe this site is a lesson in how not to design a UI. After a couple minutes of registering and trying to figure stuff out...I'm done and I haven't even heard a song yet. Someone's going to have to make it a bit easier to get started. Going to this site for the first time is just like running Emacs. - Todd
agree with greg, todd and whoever else who felt frustrated and left tuneless - viki saigal
OK, after restarting Firefox, I seem to have music playing. Not the best experience...but since I'm into music and always looking for new ways to discover music, I went through the pains. I don't think I can point my non-techie friends to this site, though. - Todd
Hmm, music started playing for me immediately, and it was pretty obvious what to do. But I'm not sure why that thing at the left is closed by default. If I hadn't read about it in this thread, I might not have discovered it. - j1m
I've been using this site for a while. A great place to find new music. - Dennis Jackson
this site is awesome. that is all. - Tim Hoeck
thanks for the recommend... i just uploaded some tunes - Rob Reed
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A combination of both amazingly beautify and horrific images. - Mark Krynsky
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Yes, we are the first ones!
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Rahsheen(isSoAwesome) posted a message
August 9 at 7:31 pm - Link
Not as much as I think about the fact that I wish I lived closer to some of them because I have a feeling we WOULD be good meatspace friends... - Lindsay Donaghe
Only re: cute girls. - Andy DeSoto
while it's probably true, that's the great part about online friends - they often can become meatspace friends as well. - Morgan
I guess I should clarify. Location aside, you may have never connected with certain people if not for the internet. Due to lifestyle or cultural differences and things like that. I find it quite interesting. Making friends online pretty much lets you cut through a lot of social bull - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Rahsheen I agree with you. @Lindsay, lately, I've been wishing I live closer to certain people. I honestly do believe I would be great buddies with some FFers, and like Morgan said, they CAN become meatspace friends as well. :) Now that's a reason to leave my computer and house--go meet FFers! ;-) - Anna Haro
Yes, but mostly because of location and circumstances. And you're right about the social bull Rahsheen. Sometimes that stuff can be off-putting. - JMS
yes, no, maybe? I think perhaps not sometimes because of politics. I'm very low key on that, but I have my opinions. I don't find differing religious or political beliefs a reason to not be friends, but I believe it's a pretty common break point. - Todd Jordan
yes. online friendship easier to form because there is less of the "social bull," as Rahsheen calls it. gender can still be tricky, but culture and skin color matter so much less. Well, and appearance in general, obviously. :p - edythe
Rahsheen I agree - you get to know the people for who they are not what they look like, which is the beauty of this medium. - Morgan
It's one of the reasons I like doing Gnomedex. :) - l0ckergn0me
you need to get out more :-) A lot of my local online friends have become my meatspace friends. - Duncan Riley
It's also possible you would have simply never been in a position to meet. Those common social situations where you meet new people would just have never happened. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
I wish more people in Oklahoma knew what the internet was. - Geoff Schultz
Honestly, many online friends most likely won't regardless of locality. Just call me a hermet. - RaAusar Powers
I'd like the idea of FF meet-ups but I don't know of many people in KS who are close to me. Although I'm willing to drive to somewhere like Lawrence, especially if we went to Free State - JMS
It is easy for those whom live in a big city to meet. I live a fairly small town, and very few are on Twitter, so I would say there were almost nil on FF. - Michelle Martinez
No. Who has meatspace friends? I need to http://www.getafirstlife.com - James Herbert via twhirl
Meatspace, I like that. :) The meats that I meet are still using MySpace. - Kevin Etter
I wouldn't call my real life "meatspace." That's the term me & my RL friends use when we refer to MySpace, because so many people on there are just looking for booty calls. lol - Louie
LOL @Geoff Schultz... :D - Anna Haro
I do - frequently - Dennis Howlett via twhirl
what's that? meatspace (totally serious) - Mona N. via fftogo
"Real life," Mona! - Andy DeSoto
I didn't know either till I saw it like 50 times today. - Geoff Schultz
meatspace sounds so icky. Like the deli counter or something. Meetspace is marginally better. But anyway, I'm ignoring my concern over the fact that I like it better here. :) - Yolanda
I think it's a little like friends you have because of other arranged circumstances, like friends because you were neighbors, friends because your parents were friends, friends because you have a mutual friend, and so on. If I'm honest, I don't think I'd reach out to a good portion of people I interact with online, but since I'm interacting with them anyway every time I use Twitter or Friendfeed or Google Talk, it's easy to make a claim about friendship stronger than it probably is. Although, those relationships are counterbalanced by others who I'm glad to have the opportunity to meet, and while the circumstances behind first interacting them are not the normal fare, I probably would reach out to as I would any other friend: I consider it the new pen-pal. - Mark Trapp
haha...I guess it's all about control. I can take as much or as little of FF as I want. Contrary to meatspace, where it's much harder to block or hide your friend's date she met at an improv comedy driving school (he was the instructor). Interacting and engaging here is at my convenience, my leisure; FF serves at the pleasure of ME. - Chris Kim A
Sometimes I wish I could hide certain things about my RL friends: for instance, I wish I could hide anything a certain friend says about his PSP. - Harvey Simmons
The biggest bummer about having online friends that you don't have in meat space is virtual beer is no where near as good as real beer. I'd buy any of my FF friends a beer. Any time you're in/near Phoenix, let me know and me and Lindsay will have dinner with ya and buy you a beer. - Tad - just Tad
I think it's better this way :P It would be interesting to see though - Shey
Not much different than meeting someone over the phone in business over time. When you do meet them, it's gonna go one way or the other. Usually, a huge plus for those making a living on the Net to do a few meet-ups, conferences, etc. Networking takes on a whole new meaning. The problem? Most of them are overpriced ... locking out a lot of great people. - Charlie Anzman
I like having friends in both realms. Take 'em as you can, I say. - Josh Haley
Thats what makes it so great. Our social circles have expanded beyond creed, family, tribes, guilds, and states. - Ernie Oporto
Rahseen, I used to think of the two spaces as separate but increasingly my online and offline friend circles are one in the same. The sphere is larger online, obvs, but I've found that those who I connect with strongly online first, are also quite awesome offline people and cool to hang with and walk through life with. In the past year, I've spent much time in the bay area hanging with my mostly online community. I took a trip to Seattle solely to hang with "online" friends and... - Jason Toney
online friends have come to visit LA and more will come soon. The line that demarcates the two worlds is fading for me and will soon be completely gone, I think. - Jason Toney
I'm not just a piece of meat!.....in space! - Josh Haley
I have met some really cool people by way of the internet. It's a beautiful thing. I would use the "love" button on this if i could. - Monique
Nope. - Pete Delucchi
Shit how many of the online friends are you friends anyway? As soon as some shit hits they run for cover! Friends to Spam friends? - Igor The Troll
LOL, you made me Google "meatspace".. I just usually use IRL.. but I know there are some ppl I know IRL (or at the meatspace deli counter) who are completely different in cyberspace - they're funnier, more confident and more outgoing online than I have ever known them in the 5 years that I've worked with them.. - Kim via feedalizr
I would have used IRL, but I didn't want to look like some old fogy from IRC. I haven't seen anyone use that term around here....LOL. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
haha! so now I look like an old fogy from IRC - ok I'm busted! :) - Kim
LOL, I think we're both busted now. At least we can claim to have wisdom...or something :) - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
I do think about it at times. - "Czar" DJ Peterman
i'd be down to meet up and have a few drinks with some local ny'ers on FF and i'd totally meet up with people across the country or welcome them when in nyc. i'm always open to expanding my circle of friends and associations. it's nothing - Cee Bee
I have been very lucky that most of the people that I have interacted with and even become on-line friends with have been just as nice in person or the RW. - Mathew A. Koeneker
See, my comments killed this thread. - Mathew A. Koeneker
It's the opposite for me. Several people I have met online ARE my friends IRL now. I think it also depends on how you use the internet. - Trish R
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Top 10 Mugshot T-Shirts - ComedyJuice.com
Top 10 Mugshot T-Shirts - ComedyJuice.com
Top 10 Mugshot T-Shirts - ComedyJuice.com
August 9 at 11:53 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I chuckled at "I'm Rick James B*tch" - Mattb4rd
loved the "nobody's perfect" with that face.. perfect - Pascal
Like these. Liking the last one best of course. But all cute. - Todd Jordan
nice boobs on the right - Noah David Simon
I wonder if the T-shirt fit the crime? Or got them arrested in the first place. - Larry Kless via twhirl
@Larry: Good point ;) - Joni Moilanen
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Retelling Hamlet via Facebook -One Thing Facebook is good for, I guess ;)
August 8 at 3:49 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Literary humor.. love it. - Haggis (Sean)
Cheaper than Cliff Notes! - Mona N.
'Denmark is now Norwegian' The End. - Patricia Hanrahan
"The King poked the queen" HA - Mona N.
this is so monday: http://friendfeed.com/e/611dbc... :P - Morgan
This is so cool, the best literary use of FB that I've seen. Hamlet could buy Ophelia. - Chris Loft
Beautiful. :-) - Chris Baskind
Morgan: yes, i am SOOOO monday ;) - Mona N.
This actually makes Hamlet interesting. - l0ckergn0me
@mona that was my "look at me, look at me" moment ... not proud. :) - Morgan
um, dude. we already bonded over music last night. we are friends for life! ;) <3 - Mona N.
for serious? woot! - Morgan
That's fantastic! Facebook has new value! - Jandy Stone
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Hey, I was feeling generous and thought I'd give 'em to friends as gifts. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
now *that's* a marketing success. - MikeAmundsen
Apple pulled it from the store (Right after a bunch of news stories appeared :) - Charlie Anzman
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Do's and don'ts with babies
Do's and don'ts with babies
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I saw this a while ago...still makes me laugh! - JA Castillo
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July 27 at 3:22 pm - Link
Not liking out of protest ;) - Bret Taylor
Not liking this at all, like MS is going to pay anyone money!!! This is a snopes article.. - Paul
Christian, this is crap spam and I"m going to unfriend you for it! - Ivan Pope via twhirl
Come on, I thought it was pretty funny. ;-) - Christian
I will lick any of your posts. - Chris Pounds
I think you meant "like" Chris ;-) - Christian
Christian took me for $300,000 on his last 419 scam. He's a monster. - Rob Kniaz
"I want my two dollars!" .... couldn't resist! ;-) - romerotron3000
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July 14 at 4:11 pm - Link
This is insanely cool. - Rick Klau
⚤ - l0ckergn0me
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 44% Likelihood of you being MALE is 56% - Corie Allison
That is really cool. If I had to guess, I'd say it's probably more likely to estimate the user as male in general - Thomas B via NoiseRiver
It said: Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 2% Likelihood of you being MALE is 98%" Yep. - Leo Laporte
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 5% Likelihood of you being MALE is 95%, i blame those 5% on my girlfriend using my computer... - Simon Wicks
99% here. - Vincent X
Great, we're going to use our male likelihood percentage as an indirect way of comparing penis sizes. - Thomas B via NoiseRiver
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 1%Likelihood of you being MALE is 99% - Jake (aka Jawee) via twhirl
Likelihood of you being MALE is 90%. I wonder what counted towards the 10% female. it says .8 ratio for cafepress - Alan Le
OK, after reading all of yours, I'm feeling very un-girly. - Corie Allison
Internal Server Error? - AJ Batac
Whoa...I'm 50/50. I'm not sure what to do with that... - Justin Korn
Got it working... "Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 60%" wrong :-) - AJ Batac
Aren't there easier ways to 'estimate' gender? - James Joyner
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July 14 at 2:23 pm - Link
Don't all airline tickets weigh the same? - Stuart Grimshaw via twhirl
I think it would be great, may even help not getting stuck between two large people on a flight back east. But please don't let TSA be responsible for weighing everyone we may never get to board. - Jon Erickson
Actually, I often get "electronic" tickets... I wonder if those weigh anything. - Jeremy Zawodny
This reminds me of living with roommates... you'd start out splitting the electricity bill evenly, but then someone complains that Carl has a server room that drains 70% of the power and then Carl complains that Eddie uses a lot of that server space and so on and so on... weight-based pricing sounds neat ... in theory... but could turn into disaster - Dave Dash via Alert Thingy
so how do you buy tickets in advance, or for a third person, when you can't price them until you actually show up to be weighed? - Chuq Von Rospach
It's an interesting concept ... but as mentioned above, could get messy. I've often thought about how this could be done in health care. THAT gets even messier though. - AJ Kohn
its a great idea, but people would scream discimination - that being overweight isn't their fault, not to mention it would be impractical - scales at the airport would slow things down, and if you didn't weigh people at the airport, surely folks would exaggerate their slenderness to get the best price. - Jason Kaneshiro
@Jason: You could weigh them at the security checkpoint without slowing them down too much. Hey, they even get to take the shoes off to lower the total! - AJ Kohn
@AJ, more likely it would have to be done at the luggage counter where people interact with the airline representative and pay for the additional charge, and second, all the people who don't check bags with e-tickets would then have to stand in line also to be weighed. - Jason Kaneshiro
I'm not sure that knowing the *exact* price in advance really matters. What you're "buying" in advance is a $/pound price point. Most poeple likely own scales and could easily ballpark their ticket prices. Hell, it wouldn't take long for popular booking web sites to add a little on-line calculator. - Jeremy Zawodny
Yikes, would be very embarrassing for many Americans. - Sonciary Honnoll
Here's an idea. At the airport, set up a series of poles set up with increasing distance between to measure girth. Charge accordingly depending on which posts the passenger can pass between. Essentially, if you're spilling out of your airline seat into the next one, you should pay for two. This would be similar to the "does your suitcase fit here?" type plastic boxes to measure carry ons. - Jason Kaneshiro
I'm thinking of it like in Total Recall with the wall of x-ray ... as you walk down you're assigned a weight. Perhaps it's not even a scale but simple math based on visual capture? - AJ Kohn
if you're going to attempt this in obese-nation, then ya need to seriously overhaul a ton of other crap like banning fast food, only see fruit vendors in airports and, if your feet cant reach the floor in your seat -sorry you cant lean back its felony if you do - Dan Rockwell via twhirl
Oh man I'm in trouble. Wouldn't this classify as weightism? :P - Shey
This is likely an unpopular view, but would it be a bad thing to provide some economic incentives to be a bit healthier? I mean, it's one thing if you choose to smoke, stuff yourself with fast food and not exercise and your quality of life and health diminishes. The problem is the rest of the populace pays for their care. - AJ Kohn
Weight is not always health related - some people are naturally larger or smaller. Also sometimes being overweight is a medical condition rather than the result of food consumption. So not a really fair system. - Craig Thomler
sort of understand the mass to cost to transport ratio - but surprised to see above is all about overweight - how about those of us who are genetically big, we'd be punished for our dna - mike "glemak" dunn
Final solution remedies always produce collateral damage,huh? - Mark Forman
One way around the weight discrimination is to include carry ons in the pricing. An overweight person could reduce their ticket price by bringing less crap on board, and the skinny person with three "bags" (purse and bag of food) plus a rolly suitcase could pay just as much. - Jason Kaneshiro
Jason: smart approach... sorta huge line though to weigh all this stuff...monetizing air travel really does suck - Susan Beebe
im obese and what you just said kills me "put down the cinnabon before you board" - i hope we get to meet one day and you say that to my face! - Allen Stern
Allen, perhaps you're not familiar with my story? http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog... - Jeremy Zawodny
No zealots like a convert. :) - Robert Cooper via twhirl
As someone who is bigger (tall and a bit wider) I think the only way I would agree to pay more is if they give me a bigger seat with more legroom. Short skinny people can spare the space. This is a reason I hate to fly. I would rather drive than pay more to get treated as sheep. - Dave Simon
Jeremy your system is flawed for so many reasons. Stick to coding pal :) - Allen Stern
Allen: thanks for your thoughtful analysis and advice. I'll be sure to only think and write about code from now on, for fear of a coming up with "flawed" ideas. - Jeremy Zawodny
I'm thinking Jeremy meant this like Swift's "A Modest Proposal" [satire] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... - Sprague D
So in your plan, if I am fat, do I get a larger seat to go along with my higher price? Right now I pay for two seats, how does your system handle that? Or does everyone get the same seat but pays more because there's more weight in there? I am going to double-swipe my metrocard tomorrow on the subway because the train pulling me has to exert more force because of my weight. On a side note, congrats (seriously) on your weight loss. - Allen Stern
Allen: a larger seat would make a lot of sense, wouldn't it? - Jeremy Zawodny
i wish i had more time right now to go back and forth with you on this but 9 companies have decided to post news tomorrow at 9am and i have to write their stories - maybe we pick this up at another time - sorry - Allen Stern
This came up 6 years ago too. SouthWest decided they would force large people to buy a second ticket. http://scottkoon.org/2002/07/1... . This works out to a lose-lose situation for everyone. It does open some "slippery slope" possibilities. The real problem is that they put too many rows on the planes. Tall, skinny people would rather have one less row and some more leg room. I'd also advocate some sort of "smack in the head" policy for anyone reclining in their seat. - Scott Koon via twhirl
I would find this a lot more palatable if you also got a size-appropriate seat. If I'm 280 lbs and am paying twice as much as someone who weighs 140lbs, then I should get a chair that fits my size, and the 140 lb person should get a chair that fits their size. - Kevin Fox
This campaign was running a few weeks ago when I was in Philadelphia: http://flyderrie-air.com/derri... The first airline to charge by weight. It is coming. (No, it isn't real, but it is funny) Wasn't pay by the pound big with some small town restaurants in the 70's / 80's? I remember going to one as a kid and it was a nickel a pound for kids under 12. - Scott Schnaars
Besides larger seats for larger people you would also have to provide a bigger meal and more snacks. Ummm wait.. that's called first class. - Luis Figueiredo
A sensible idea. - Carlo Zottmann
all I know is that I just flew continental and was totally surprised to be fed... and I mean actual food not just peanuts - nick carrasco
It's not unreasonable to charge people according to the cost of carrying them & their luggage, whether or not you also offer to sell them custom sized seats, but it's probably a money losing scheme once you factor in people's resentment of it. Given a choice between equitable treatment and just treatment, people generally choose whichever benefits them more. - seth
Obsese people wouldn't get larger seats for their expensive tickets, they would get more fuel for their flight. Bigger seats are available right now; it's called first class. - Micah Sittig
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YouTube - A Vision of Students Today
July 9 at 12:42 pm - via Mento - Link
A short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. Created by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University. - Corvida via Mento
that's pretty neat. i liked the video. it paints a picture of how out-of-date the current learning system is. i'm looking forward to reading the comments. - Ra Osolage via twhirl
it also underlines some detriments in our mediated society. i saw this a while ago. its the video that inspired me to get the Neil Postman book "Amusing ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business". - jon madison via twhirl
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I love the equation bookshelf! A quick google didn't show where to buy it or how much it costs... - Alan Le
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I'm not your buddy, guy! - l0ckergn0me
I'm not your guy, friend! - l0ckergn0me