Reminds me of minority report. It looks great for managing windows and such, but what about writing documents? One of the nice things about the mouse is that you only have to use one hand, while the other hand can remain on the keyboard. I suppose this would also be possible with the touchpad here. The future looks promising.
- Robert Felty
They are pretty different. One similar area are templates. Tornado templates look a lot like Django templates but they let you run arbitrary Python inside of the template. I love being able to do simple things like list comprehensions inside of templates.
- Benjamin Golub
Ben: Thanks!! I didn't know that was there.
- Bill
yes, thanks Ben for posting the source to both blog implementations, I'm considering using tornado instead of webapp for my next app engine project, and having both to compare is quite nice
- Karl Rosaen
Are you planning on doing the same for rssmeme?
- Mick
Mick: no, would take too long, my blog was only a couple hundred lines of code
- Benjamin Golub
Does tornado have to use nginx or are you using this with apache?
- Hari
"Hipsters. They’re everywhere. You’ve seen them on skateboards, in the mall and at the club. You’ve seen them shrugging dismissively in Oakland, Calif., Willamsburg, Brooklyn and Austin, Tx. And, suddenly, in Barack Obama’s Washington, too. Recently, I encountered Hector, a teenager skateboarding with friends outside a McDonald’s in downtown D.C. He’s wearing a neon T-shirt, impossibly skinny jeans, and a bored expression. So, are you a hipster or what? “Man, no,” he says. He does not care much for labels. Can he have a cigarette? Hector is black. And these days, if you spend enough time in Union Square in New York City, Gallery Place in Washington or even Brick Lane in London, you know that there are thousands more kids just like him—black, white and brown. What gives?"
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I will admit, they do that look 10,000 times better than I ever could!
- Mike Lewis
I still don't quite get what the label means. :(
- Yolanda
it's not just skinny jeans, it's skinny jeans that have a low-waist, which is traditionally a more feminine cut. the whole point is gender ambiguity, and originally it was just dudes wearing womens jeans. (low waist is now mainstream for men, just in a more masculine fit).
- coffee
i forgot to mention, skinny jeans don't get caught in your bicycle gear (gear singular, because you're probably riding a fixie if you're a hipster. just sayin)
- coffee
Thanks, peter. No reference to hipsters would be complete without a mention of a "fixie".
- Gabe
I hate skinny jeans because I like to be able to fit a wallet or cell phone in my pocket. Race is irrelevant to lame-ness. Hipster/EMO culture knows no bounds. FASHION OVER FUNCTION is the credo
- Bobby Digital
Michael Pollan wants you to ask your grandparents if they'd recognize it as food before you eat it. So let's apply his test: "Hi, grandma?" "Why Sparky, how sweet of you to call!" "Yeah yeah. Listen, grandma, I have a question. Would you call Cookies & Crème Pop-Tarts 'food'?" "What what what now?" "Well, let's break it down. Grandma, are cookies 'food'?" "Cookies? Food? Errr....
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- Stephen Mack
Hmm. I might have derailed the post from the original question there....
- Stephen Mack
Nope. Sounds far to sickly sweet to me. Even my kids have a hard time stomaching pop tarts.
- Martha
I saw these in the store and almost bought them out of morbid curiosity. Then I realized they'd probably be as awful as those Kellogg's cereal straws (I have almost an entire box languishing in my cupboard...curiosity killed *that* mofo'ing cat) and I opted to just go with a box of Nature's Path organic toaster tarts. Much better. :)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Hard to believe he is taking over the Tonight Show. It will be interesting to see how his tone changes with the new show...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Letterman is going to wipe the floor with him
- Randy Pollock
Aw man, Bret, I was waiting to read this in paper form this Sunday. You and the internet have taken all the fun out of finally being up-to-date with my NYTimes magazine reading :)
- Ana
Randy, Totally disagree. I guess we will see. I'll be watching Conan for sure. I haven't laughed at Letterman since the late 90's.
- Mike Lewis
i think he'll do just fine against letterman. letterman is more established, but at the same time less edgy and less funny. he's become too set in his ways imo
- Cee Bee
Huge fans of Conan in our house. Should be fun. Can't wait.
- Louis Gray
The show's gonna tank -- Conan is too niche.
- Mona Nomura
I'm assuming the style of his new show will be a great deal different from his old show, which was sophomoric and funny in a "Wow! Wasn't that the stupidest thing I've ever seen" kind of way. I doubt that style will fit very well in the 11:30 time slot.
- Gregory Pittman
Love Conan. But will be interesting to see how his act changes in the new show.
- ronin
Secondary thought - if the NY Times goes away, where does this get written, Rolling Stone? Would a blogger do this good a job with so lengthy an article?
- Louis Gray
This is awesome. I love how the words are tilted and huge... the "Down" looks like it is floating more than the others.
- Michael Leggett
from Bookmarklet
@Laurie, Oh man. Those are serious granny panties!
- ♥patricia♥
I'm thinking Mona likes the kind of underwear that covers her womanly bits with dental floss. [EDIT: Not that there's anything wrong with that. I bet she looks smokin' in em.]
- Laura Norvig
Out, I am not loll! You're freaky deaky dude. And you guys are all missing where the actual slider is positioned. Cha-Chiiiing!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Mona, I know you are hinting at something so but I've been rubbing my screen for the last hour trying to work it out and all Ive done is worn a hole....what am I doing wrong?
- Threepwood
Its all nice but please get it off Celina Jaitley, she is yuck and she talks weirdly. Please photoshop it on someone else. Then I would enjoy it more. =P
- Faraz Mullick
Or just an Auto-Lock = Never setting ...
- Patrick Jordan
Aren't those things always permanently on Auto-Lock?
- Kittyburgers
The password is always TEQUILA
- Tony C
from fftogo
This would sell AWESOME in the Chicks with D*cks/ Wangs demographic (hermaphrodites/pre or /during op Trannies) market, so as to jump the lines at sporting venues etc. & YES they ARE GRANNIES!
- sofarsoShawn
With my luck, they'd be password protected.
- Robert Hafer
Mona, if these are granny undies, what exactly do you wear? lol
- Daynah
Anna, apparently the nail polish is there to give perspective on how giant the panties are. Full story (towards the bottom of this post): http://metalia.blogspot.com/2007...
- Laura Norvig
REALLY, Facebook!?!? According to your intelligent algorithm, you've assumed that I'm someone who would want to "Become a fan" of that woman-beater, Chris Brown!? Get-outta-here!!!
It's just a suggestion though. I have actually found several great folks and built some awesome contacts and friendships. :)
- aerobroken
the trouble with most of these suggested list is there seems to be no rhyme or reason for them. They seem to make about much sense as having a bunch of squirrel decide.
- Kim Landwehr
I bet he has a group called "I didn't touch her"
- Outsanity
I don't really care about Java on App Engine but they've finally got scheduled tasks! It's implemented exactly how I thought it would be: a YAML configuration file and each "task" is just a URL that is hit according to your configuration.
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
oh, well maybe i should take it off my wishlist then. since it lives nextdoor.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Unquestionably the greatest board game of all time.
- Stephen Mack
+1 to Catan. +1 to Catan on XBox. +1 to Carcassonne. +1 to Carcassonne on XBox.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
@Stephen Mack: I'm certainly not willing to say it's the greatest board game of all time. It's a good game. I like it. My only complaint is that if you don't manage to get a good starting location, you can guarantee a loss before the game really starts. Other than that, it's a blast.
- Cyrus Lendvay
I used to be a big fan of catan, but hardly play it these days. Instead I play Race for the Galaxy, multiple games per week, for over a year now. It's better than Catan in my opinion, I highly recommend it.
- Evan Parker
But but but! I said "unquestionably" and I will brook no dissent.
- Stephen Mack
And clearly Race For The Galaxy, an amazingly great game, is a card game, not a board game. Not to disagree with Evan.
- Stephen Mack
Catan, Carcassonne, et al., are great gateway games to introduce people to the wonderful world of Eurogames and away from the Milton Bradley/Parker Bros. stranglehold. However, there are far, far better games out there than these. Look into Agricole, Twilight Struggle, Through the Ages, and fun Ameritrash stuff like Arkham Horror.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Tongiaki is also fun and sort of similar (in that it has hexagonal game board pieces).
- Clare Dibble
"Now that Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) is publicly available, running a complete Django installation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is easier than ever. Why EBS? EBS provides persistent storage, which means that the Django database is kept safe even after the Django EC2 instances terminate. This tutorial will take you through all the necessary steps for setting up Django with a persistent PostgreSQL database on AWS. "
- Thomas Brox Røst
from Bookmarklet
Whats interesting is that Wayne has been doing this long before Radiohead or anyone else decided to be "innovative." His mixtape floods are probably his best work because he's not limited by a record label or rules in what he can or cannot do. To listen to him freestyle for 4 minutes straight is nothing short of amazing.
- EricaJoy
Let's also not forget Soulja Boy, same kinda thing.
- Eric Rice
Are you kidding Eric? Please. Soulja Boy is nothing. like. Wayne.
- EricaJoy
He used DIY media and built himself by himself, on the net, no different than any of us vlogger dorks. :) Yes of course they are nothing alike (but now that both songs are stuck in my head, I guess I got my penance.)
- Eric Rice
The thing is, Wayne's stuff didn't get released to net until very recently. In the past, the only way his mixtapes got on the internet was via fans ripping and uploading the street released mixes. The thing about Wayne is that instead of fighting against it, he embraced it. He's a very for the fans artist I think.
- EricaJoy
I think Eric was talking about content distribution here; appreciation (or not) of the music doesn't bear on how it was distributed.
- Phil Crissman
@Phil That's my point. The distribution of Wayne's stuff doesn't really fall into the "ooo isn't he understanding of the web and progressive" idea. Wayne's stuff was essentially put on the web because of his fans and he chose to go with that method of distro rather than fight it.
- EricaJoy
"If you’re still wondering what the connection between people with no business carrying a mortgage and the collapse of Bear Stearns is, you might find the illustrations below useful."
- Jess Lee
I think the explanation of tranches is a little misleading — the mortgages themselves aren't sorted into different classes, they get sliced up so that the senior tranche gets first dibs on payments from all the mortgages.
- Jim Norris
"Why does she go on like this? Does Clinton privately believe that Obama is so incompetent that only she can deliver the policies they both support? Is she simply selfish, and willing to put her party through agony for the sake of her slender chance?"
- Ana
Maybe she's hoping for the vp spot with McCain, which might be her best shot at being president at this point :)
- Paul Buchheit
Ana: Answers to your questions are as follows: I have no idea, not sure and absolutely.
- Chris Reed
I am all with the comment aggregator, but I do not want it limited to blogs and friend feed only, I want to see it with any place I decide to have a conversation! FriendFeed already knows when you comment at Digg, why not show WHAT was commented - and it would be great if all could be tied into a blog - that way we each have our own 'home base' to keep track of stuff! :)
- Paula Hawk
So I'll be contentious: Yes, the ability to pull comments from the blog into friendfeed is interesting, but no more interesting than pulling on the content of the post itself. And yes, pushing FF comments made by people who subscribe to you on to your blog's page is interesting, but not all those comments made on FF shares when someone else shared, delicioused, tumblred or otherwise...
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- Kevin Fox
I like the idea of using FriendFeed conversations similar to a TrackBack, but don't need everything copied. How's that for a happy medium?
- Louis Gray
One of the great things about FF is that social scopes are permeable and pliable: conversations leak around, and people like it. The question is not "should it be possible for conversations to cross boundaries" (between social circles or web sites) but "when and how and under what circumstances should crossover happen to promote effective dialogue and community".
- ⓞnor
Having Friendfeed comments on a specific blog post pop up say in a sidebar of the comment thread to that blog post, right on the blog, might add some value. Similar as to how e.g. a trackback system or a backlinks checker integrated in the comments thread can add some value (I wish Google Blog Search wasn't broken, as it offers feeds for its searches). This stuff is likely not as valuable as the main comments made to that blog posts, but perhaps makes sense displayed as expandable box or sideb and what-not.
- Philipp Lenssen
Trackback idea is a good one. I can see problems of everyone having multiple copies of everything everywhere.... I would even say just one trackback per blog post, perhaps with an updating count of comments?
- Paula Hawk
I think "solving the dup problem" on FF itself -- balancing separation and aggregation when many people discuss the same thing -- could be a good testbed, without all the hassle of syndication. Do "segregated but parallel" commentstreams work out in real life? Who knows, but I'd like to see.
- ⓞnor
☺Egnor. But who gets control? If I share a blog post from littlegreenfootballs.com with my friends on FriendFeed, I don't want LGF to decide whether my conversation with my friends get trackbacked, linked to, sidebarred, or otherways made visible to the masses of users there who would pile on to my nice social conversation. 'Private' feeds are one way of hiding this, but it's a very...
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- Kevin Fox
I think Philipp is on to something with a sort of expandable "See discussion about this topic on friendfeed" link... but would this expandable sidebar have the ability to browse through the ff comments generated by each link to the post or who's conversation thread would be shown? Maybe you would show just the friendfeed conversation generated by the original creators link to the...
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- Ross Miller
I like the de-duping issue, but I'm not big on the popularity leaderboard. One of the things I like about FF is that it's not a popularity contest. You can't see how many people are following someone else & you can't see who has the most 'liked' or commented items, or even who's posted the most. It might me naive, but I'd like to keep it that way if possible. I'm not opposed to the idea of a TechMeme-esq most popular link though.
- Glenn Slaven
at the end of the day, i'm happy to have the best conversations about content i publish happen on friendfeed - i don't need to own them on my blog. but i would like to be able to tell people "hey, go here to friendfeed and talk with other people who find this interesting" or to be able to show readers that there is an active discussion about a particular topic happening somewhere else if they'd like to join in the fray. i think that's good for me as a publisher and good for friendfeed, no?
- Charles Hudson
@Kevin: I don't think unilateral automated aggregation is the answer! I think two questions are conflated here: whether and how conversations cross social scopes (me and my friends discussing someone else's blog entry), vs. how one person's social universe can be unified across sites (comments attached to the blogger's own friendfeed entry getting pushed back to their site). The first one is a indeed a "very, very messy" social engineering issue, the other is a relatively basic feature to be prioritized.
- ⓞnor
Let me be the first to say that I don't want to see the blog comments unless they are from someone I know (or I guess friends of friends). It's amazing how uninteresting the opinions of internet strangers are. At least let me turn it off. I never read the comments on blog posts except on friendfeed.
- Cyrus Lendvay
But I would be sad if the messiness of those issues led you to back away entirely -- I think there are exciting and cool things you could do with continuing to refine what FOAF does, and to make it easier to see the different discussions about the same thing that already overlap your scope.
- ⓞnor
If anyone reads this and decides to take up the desktop-application development mentioned in this shared link, I suggest something along the lines of twhirl, if possible.
- Voyagerfan5761
@Kevin: As you suggest, I think that what makes ff intimate and useful is that the conversations just involve a small group of people, and you know roughly who they are. This fits a model of social interaction evolved over millenia. The obvious way to make ff better is to provide more flexible kinds of privacy, not more ways to broadcast. Otoh, perhaps bloggers would like an easy way to set their ffs so that the conversation on ff around their posts are pulled back onto their blogs.
- j1m
There may be benefits to syndicating the other (bookmarked) feed items, but there the benefits of not syndicating are pretty obvious too.
- j1m
Great discussion in the comments in the article via Kevin Fox. Nice that he stopped by. Very cool
- Mike Reynolds
saw (and suggested to you) this a while ago. why didn't you favorite when *I* told you about it? 8^P Seriously, tho, it's pretty hilarious. Also, there's a second one.
- Chieze Okoye
huh? i found this through daniel wu's blog this morning. i screen all your emails, chieze : )
- Jess Lee
by "told you" I mean I used my mouth to speak the words "you should watch everyday normal guy." I know I know, who uses their mouth to tell people about stuff anymore, hehe.. 8^)
- Chieze Okoye