There were some bugs in the "Twitter publishing" code that caused some entries to get published on Twitter when they should not, and others to not get published when they should. I've cleaned up the code to eliminate these problems, but it's possible some settings were lost. Please verify your settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting...
Cheers for this Paul. How cool is it that one of the founders of FF still gets his hands dirty in the code. Once a coder, always a coder :-)
- Keith Bennett
from Nambu
Thanks Keith :) By the way, if none of your posts are making it through to twitter, it may be that you changed your password. To verify, simply click "Save changes" at http://friendfeed.com/setting... and we will check that your Twitter credentials are still good (and sign-out then back in to fix).
- Paul Buchheit
Matthew, in general all the same settings that the old ui had are available on the new one (plus a few more), though they are now divided on to several different pages. You should be able to reach all of the the settings by clicking on the word "settings" below your name in the top-right part of the page (the dialog shows a few, and links to all the others).
- Paul Buchheit
You can filter by service by searching for service:twitter (or whatever service you like), and of course that can be combined with other search operators as well. See http://friendfeed.com/search... for more.
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks Paul, sounds like you pulled an all nighter to fix these.
- Robert Scoble
Yeah, unfortunately the code had gotten rather involved since it was trying to support both the old ui and the new (the old ui worked on a per-service basis instead of letting you decide individually on each entry), and the logic sometimes became inconsistent. I simplified it quite a bit, so there should be less room for bugs now :)
- Paul Buchheit
Nice try, Matthew, I congratulate you on being awake, and carpe-diem'ing Paul here, but have to disappoint you - if FF wanted us to have favicons, they'd already issued us our favicons. Do you see any favicons that made the transition from earlier version. No? You think Paul nuked them by mistake... be my guest, and I'll be looking forward to the next couple of years' worth of your pleading for favicons when you could be learning to live both here and thereater without them.
- ianf ⌘
I'm a bit confused about the "Post my FriendFeed entries on Twitter by default" and "FriendFeed (when there's no Cc box)" options. Are these exclusive? Does checking the first one mean all my FriendFeed posts will get posted to Twitter even if I uncheck the Cc box?
- Tony Ruscoe
Paul, thank you thank thank you for the "Check CC Twitter box by default" option!!! That's one step closer to only needing Friendfeed. I'm almost ready to dump Google Reader AND Twitter now!
- caj needs a haircut
Tony, the "cc twitter by default" option sets whether then checkbox is checked or unchecked by default in the share box and bookmarklet. The other option ("when there's no cc box") applies mostly to the API and other off-site interfaces, such as email (mail share@friendfeed.com) and IM. For any given post, only one setting applies.
- Paul Buchheit
I publish to Twitter by default but now link directly to the source. I figure that those finding outside of FF want to go to the source (while those reading on FF are already seeing the discussion).
- Mike Reynolds
Hi Paul, about 15 mins ago I "shared" an item from FF here to "my feed" and "cc Twitter". But still not showing up on Twitter. Just thought I'd let you know.
- Brian
Thanks Brian. It turns out there was a bug in the "Share" feature that sometimes caused us to sometimes not send the tweets (the new code errors on the side of not sending tweets). It's fixed now though. Please let me know if you spot any others.
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, that did the trick! Thanks for looking into that. BTW, that was a quick fix! Just shared an item on FF and it pushed thru to Twitter instantly.
- Brian
Hello Paul, when I try to publish just my google talk status to twitter and have "Link to source site instead of FriendFeed conversation" selected, it doesn't send the tweet. I'm not sure if this is because twitter seems to be having difficulty right now or if it's the lack of a source link because it's a google talk status?
- ehaab
ehaab, publishing to Twitter was broken this morning, so no updates went out. It should work fine now however, including publishing updates from Google Talk. Sorry about that.
- Paul Buchheit
thanks! it was driving me batty trying to figure out why it wasn't taking.
- ehaab
I think it's still broken. I just posted via the Bookmarklet and CC'd twitter... no go. EDIT: my latest one just posted, must be intermittent.
- Daniel Sims
Hi Paul, Mine is still not working. I have also checked the setting page.
- zahedzadeh
We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.
See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now.
- Bret Taylor
No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a...
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- Michael Fidler
So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this?
- Michael M Bailey
Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool.
- Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool.
- Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!!
- Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) !
- Ahsan Ali
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too!
- John W Lewis
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO?
- Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels
- patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take?
- Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
"Two weeks ago, we launched version 2 of the FriendFeed API in beta. Since then, we've watched how developers have been using the API and collected a lot of their feedback. We've implemented some changes, and now, we're ready to remove the beta label!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
A two weeks beta in the 2.0 era sounds almost blasphem! Congrats!
- Simone Ruffilli
Congrats to Ben and Gary for all their hard work getting this out the door. And thanks to all the developers who have been sending us great feedback the past couple weeks.
- Bret Taylor
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
عالی! يه موقع سايز بزرگ عکسات رو برا ما ميفرستادی
- آريوبرزن - Aryo
الان دیگه میفروشم :دی البته شما صاحبشونی شما امر کن ما امانتتون رو پس میدیم :دی
- ferii
ما مخلصيم، لطف داری رفيق :-) اين بزرگش جون ميده برای والپيپر. اون چراغه که تو شب گرفته بودی، يادته؟ اون مدتها عکس والپيپرم بود :-)؛
- آريوبرزن - Aryo
حالا یه عکس برات میفرستم سایز اصلی اگه حال نداد برای والپیپرت اینو میدم اگه هم داد اول اونو بزار که والپیپرمون یکی باشه هرموقع خسته شدی بگو اینو سایز اصلی میدم باشه ؟؟ :دی
- ferii
قربانت نیلو جان اگه همون نیلوی خودمی من بازی هم مثل همیشه باید ازت عذر خواهی کنم :دی چون بعد امتحانات بد حالم گرفت دیگه نتونستم بیام پیشت با هم حرف بزنیم :دی
- ferii
Na rohe sham pas ;) zendegi adama hamishe onjori ke mikhai pish nemire :)
- وروجك
from iPhone
بهترش اینه که بگی هیچوقت اونطوری که میخوای پیش نمیره :دی
- ferii
And frankly, I like adding friends with whom I have a low compatibility. It helps me hear music I never would have found in the first place. I never would have listened to a lot of my favorite music if someone hadn't said, "just try it."
- Ciaoenrico
Heh, "Music you have in common includes ABBA and Depeche Mode"...
- Tyson Key
Your musical compatibility with koltregaskes is Very Low. Music you have in common includes Sneaker Pimps, Hybrid, Snake River Conspiracy, VAST and The Boxer Rebellion. (that's because I listen to a lot of obscure stuff) http://www.last.fm/user/app103
- April
http://www.last.fm/listen... BTW, I send my Blip.FM feed to Last.FM. I fell asleep several times while listening to Blip, so there's some music in there that I don't necessarily like. But, for the most part, it's mine.
- Michael Fidler
If I played my 'best of the best' playlist one day would anyone be interested? It's 45 songs and iTunes tells me it's 4 hours. I can post a FF message when I start and finish and you can check the tunes out.
- Kol Tregaskes
Welp. Ya'll have been friended and oddly enough I only had 4 with high compatibility. Lucky for me that means there is a lot more music our there that I need to be turned on to. Thanks, Kol! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
ولی گفت اینو از طرفش اینجا بنویسم:دی arame del: ممنونم که به يادم بودي خانمي arame del: ان شاءالله که به زودي .... ( یه کوچولو سانسور میشود :دی) ؛
- آرامش مطلوب
تا وقتی اینجام نمیذارم این بیاد پایین :دی
- جزر و مد
یعنی نه خودمم نه از آشناهام! از نت گرفتم؛ :)
- آرامش مطلوب
آهااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااان :دی
- I /-\li
من نون اولشو با فتحه می خوندم هی نی فهمیدم چی میگید :))
- I /-\li
من میخوام برم کتابخونه... به کی بسپرم برم این فیدووو :(( یه مورد اعتماد میخوااام:-<
- آرامش مطلوب
اسمم علی ه خو :( / البته بعضیا مثل فائزه خط خطی هم بهم میگن :دی
- I /-\li
یعنی باید از رو جنازه من رد شی که این فید رو بدی دست کَس دیگه ای :|
- I /-\li
همون خط خطی بهتره! :))))) لایک برای فائزه که این اسم رو برات انتخاب کرده! :))) آرامش این فید رو واگذار کن به خط خطی خیالش راحت بشه! والله! :))
- dRHossein
راستش اولین بار این اسمو خیزران گذاشت :دی
- I /-\li
دودینگ و منیره پیشته حتی حامد /:) این بچه صاحاب داره :دی
- I /-\li
خب صاحابش از اینجا ورش داره. اصلا حتی چشاش. حتی اون خط زیر لپش. بازم بگم؟!
- doodinghouse0
من کیو بیارم اینارو از این فید ناموسی دور کنه؟! یکی هم اضافه شد... :-S، توان مقابله ندارم
- آرامش مطلوب
ای واااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااای نفس کششششششششششششششششش دودینگ بگیر که اومد اسمایلی پرتاب تبر به ناحیه ی کمر به بالای دودینگ :دی / آرامش میگم اصلا میخوای من برم با "برت" صحبت کنم این فید رو اختصاصی بره از تو دیتابیس فرفر بیاره تو اکانت من امتیازش واسه من بشه... هان؟
- I /-\li
خرج داره، تازه بعدش به نام شما هم نمیتونه بشه! چون خیلی سادش اینکه، اسم من اون بالاس.. بنابرین بیخیال شید دیگههه /:)
- آرامش مطلوب
آرامش من این همه راه ارائه دادما معلومه اصلن نخوندید /:) گفتم می رم با Bert جون هماهنگ می کنم اونم به خاطر گل روی من این کار رو انجام می ده دیگه ;)
- I /-\li
واااااااااااای خدای من یه لحظه هر چی گشتم نتونستم پیداش کنم فک کردم پاکش کردین قلبم وایستاد! حتی فکر بلاک کرن رو هم کردم :)))))))) اما سرچ کردم پیدا شد خدا را شکر :دی / عزیز عمو :* :******
- I /-\li
سلااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااااام. در جواب سلامایی که می کردی و نمی تونستم جواب بدم . اول از همه گفتم بیام این فید پر کامنت رو رصد کنم، منم دو لحظه :ی ( بیشتر از یه لحظه) پیداش نمی کردم داشتم دپرس می شدم اساسی . چقدر خاطر خواه پیدا کرده این دخترک، آرامش جان هواشو داشته باش:ی
- آرام دل
آرامش خودتم همینطورها. این بچه از همون اولش پای من نشسته. گفته باشم . :********
- I /-\li
خطخطی دخمل به این نازی، خرجش زیاده بالطبع! میتونی برسونی؟؟ به این هم فکر کن که شما یک اصفهانی هستی...
- آرامش مطلوب
اولا که این دکمه ی بلاک کو؟ :)) / ثانیا این وروجک خودش منو عاااااااااشقه، از طرق مختلف بهم رسونده. گفته هم هیچی نمیخوام جز سه جفت النگو پلاستیکی که اونم من خریدم گذاشتم کنار تو بقچه براش :دی
- I /-\li
:))) خطخطی گذشت اون زمون... پولاتو رو هم جمع کن بعد بیا :)
- آرامش مطلوب
http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;)
- Jorge Escobar
http://twitter.com/movieguyjon - I say weird shit, bitch at random times, and will say more weird shit. Occasionally I'll post fun things too, with a smidgeon of inane. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
Pretty clever way to work in a plug for your timeline.. I like your style, Kol ;)
- Brad McCrorey
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr.
- Dennis Jernberg
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin
- Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; )
- Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/casschin - I mostly post up funny/odd web gems and nerdy tech news. Occasionally, I tweet what I eat.
- Cass
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet.
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle?
- Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore.
- Gabrielle
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust.
- sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter...
- Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread)
- Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting.
- Eoghann Irving
شوخی کردم . ما رو بردی تو حال و هوای حرم امام رضا ، با اون همهمه آرامش بخش و رقص نور و حال و هوایی که از بچگی ، از اون زمانی که دستمو میذاشتم تو دست بابا که گم نشم تا الان که من باید دستشو بگیرم همراهمه ( اسمایلی احساساتی شدید )
- ® Mehdi.Mixer
لايك برا پدر عزيزت و خودت كه بچه همون پدر با مرامي :) امام رضا خودش حافظتون باشه عزيز
- Hamsafar
آقا به خاطر فیل تر و استفاده از فریگت قابل مشاهده نیستن. لایک را هم با اعتماد به رای این خلقالله دادیم :دی اگه بشه جایی آپلود کنید و لینک بدین خیلی خوب میشه...
- Mostaf@m
آقا مصطفی محبت کردین. بعد از اینکه فری گت رو بستین میشه به صورت عادی عکس هارو دید آدرس عکیها با آدرس خود فرندفید فرق داره و فیلتر نییست. بازم اگهنشد بفرمائین جایی دیگه میزارم
- Nimaa
اوا نیمایی این همه کامنت و فید چرا خورده زیر این فید ناموسی؟ :))) پاکش اصلن :دی
- I /-\li
علی این همه لایک و کامنت سیخی هست در چشم تو :D
- Nimaa
من که عکس ها رو ندیدم.اما لایک می زنم بقیه ببینن به قول نیما شاد بشن.
- elmira
المیرا برات ایمیل میکنم ببینی با فریگت دیده نمیشن
- Nimaa
دومیه خیلی گوگولیه!نهمیه هم خیلی بانمکه!آخریه هم که تهشه!=))))))))))منم مستندشو توی بی بی سی دیدم!حس انسان دوستیت منو کشته!بعدشم من 16 رو برمیدارم به خاطر اسمم و هاله ی نور و این حرفا و اینا!کلا خیلی گوگولین دیگه بازم تعریف کنم؟:D
- Fereshteh
یه چهار نفر دیگه بیان لایم بزنن بشه 200 تا لایک خیلی خوب میشه!8->
- Fereshteh
"Bob Parsons is facing lots of backlash even though he had a permit to hunt elephants"
- AJ Batac :)
from Bookmarklet
Personally, I don't like the concept of hunting elephants (especially since the populations are still a bit dodgy from ivory poaching), but as long as what he did was legal, I suppose it's okay. What I don't like is the way he framed the hunt, acting as though he was being philanthropic in killing the animal. I'm sure there were better ways he could have helped the village in Zimbabwe. Any excuse to tell people not to buy from GoDaddy is fine with me, though. :)
- Curdy G
"Welcome to the NQR generation: the Not Quite Retireds. They planned. They diversified. They resigned gracefully from their careers. And now they need a job. Their numbers are exploding just as the prices of heating fuel, food, health care and gasoline hit new highs. A Wyoming newspaper reported last month that 433,000 seniors older than 65 were on the hunt for work. This is the highest level recorded since the federal government started keeping unemployment statistics in 1948. According to AARP executive Deborah Russell, people don't have money to retire anymore. A recent AARP survey revealed that "1 in 4 respondents 45 and older are planning to work much longer. One-third of them cited falling home prices and shrinking investments as the main reasons." Statistics from the National Home Price Index concur. The latest report shows a 15 percent decline in home prices - the worst drop ever cited. "Our home was our fallback position, and now that's gone," says Michael, a 51-year-old...
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- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
"Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd isolated the microbial munchers. One came from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, and the other from the genus Sphingomonas. Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
So why is carbon sequestration a good idea when it's all complicated and expensive, but bad when it involves burying plastic bags in landfills?
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's better to sequester carbon as dirt than as bags.
- Gabe
But if it's already in plastic bag form, why not leave it that way instead of turning it into CO2?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: that's exactly what I've been thinking. Particularly since the City of Seattle no longer allows residents to sequester food based carbon in landfills and instead requires us to burn it into compost.
- Hayes Haugen
Dirt is useful because you can grow stuff in it. Most waste products are not so useful.
- Gabe
Yes, but the choice isn't between dirt and plastic -- it's between plastic and CO2.
- Paul Buchheit
I have to agree with Paul on this one: atmospheric CO2 is much more of a pressing concern at the moment than landfill space. Though I do admire the kid's scientific spirit.
- Louis Simoneau
Concur with Louis and Paul. Here's an interesting Penn & Teller bit about landfills: http://www.youtube.com/watch... (from their Bullshit episode on Recycling myths).
- Stephen Mack
It doesn't say what the process actually produces. They mention the feed material (plastic) and the waste material (water, CO2), but not the real products. I assumed it produced globs of carbon. Am I wrong?
- Gabe
Has nobody considered this for an artificial ecosystem? Compost your scraps for fertile soil, and compost your bags for the CO2 for the plants growing in it. Sure you'll need an airlock on your greenhouse (and an oxy mask whenever you enter it) but you'll have the best damned tomatoes on your street.
- Chris Charabaruk
You don't want to leave it in plastic form as it screws up the ocean large! Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I hope they can use this to make something that would eat the plastic in the ocean rather than the sea life dying from it.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Since it said that the waste products were CO2 and water, I assumed there were also non-waste products. The good thing about landfills is that they can later be mined for all the great things that were too cheap to recycle.
- Gabe
Yeah, I think landfills have an unjustly bad reputation. When properly managed, they are a great way to deal with garbage that our technology can't yet efficiently recycle. (we're saving for the future!)
- Paul Buchheit
that's great news. now i can really finish my threat to all my damn *invincible* plastic bags! (waves fist)
- ed fry
The two biggest problems with landfill are the leachate seeping into groundwater (or contaminating local soil) and methane (a greenhouse gas). Even if you can mitigate those problems, they're difficult to eliminate entirely, making the land almost useless once it's full.
- Gabe
Gabe, not to minimize the problems, but I live right next to Shoreline Ampitheather in Mountain View, which is built on landfill is proof that the landfill land is hardly useless.
- Stephen Mack
It's not just landfills, though. Take the large floating trash gyre of the Pacific, and its effects in the ecosystem. So the tiny little plastic balls in water are fake food, and animals eat them, and then die in various ways, lowering populations and making species even more fragile. Landfill may be a good way if it's contained and monitored more closely, or CO2, in various areas- such...
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- anna sauce
@anna at least he is coming up with a solution rather than just finding more things to complain about
- Chris Johnston
anna's right -- the problem is when the stuff ends up in the ocean. Landfills are a good way to keep the stuff out of the ocean.
- Gabe
Stop speculating and start experimenting!
- Dane Deasy
Carrie getting some much deserved attention. "Ms. Grimes is an Internet-age statistician, one of many who are changing the image of the profession as a place for dronish number nerds. They are finding themselves increasingly in demand — and even cool. “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I’m not kidding.”"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Great article, but it left out that statisticians need some CS muscle to effectively operate on large scale data. It's the combination that make Carrie -- and others like her -- 'Internet-age' statisticians.
- Michael E. Driscoll
به خاطر همينه خانوما میگن تو ایران برابرى حقوق زن و مرد نیست. اگه مثلا يه آقايى عکس گذاشته بود دکمه هِيت بوجود میومد به جاى لايک. قشنگه دنیا جان ;)
- HamidReza
from fftogo
جالبه ممد میاد کامنت میذاره.. یکی هم پشت بندش منتظره اعلام لایک کنه برای کامنتش.. در ضمن من منظور کامنتت رو نفهمیدم و ترجیح دادم پاک شه تا شبه ای هم نباشه
- Donya
ۖۖۖمـــــــــــــــمد میدونم منظور بدی نداشته(احتمالا)ولی از خودم مطمئنم که منظورم بد نبود در راستای شفاف سازی
- آرش دی آرچر
"Sun Tattoo is a soft stencil which can be used for making the tattoo pattern on the skin by sunshine. It’s better to use it with sunless tanning cream." ~~~~ ehhhhhhh o_O
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
So when you get skin cancer, it's in a pretty shape? Mmhmm....
- Will Higgins™
Will: Melanoma shaped flowers. Beautiful.
- Manuel Mas
Did anyone else notice that is not a before and after pic? Also, my mom and I totally thought of this on a small scale, like temporary tattoo kinda things.
- <3Heather<3
@Geoff Sometimes I have an overwhelming compulsion to vote up comments (too much StackOverflow) ... Couch ... <chuckle>
- Tom Horn
My brothers and I tried sun stenciling ourselves when we were kids. Despite our pale Irish skin cancer-prone complexions.
- Spidra Webster
If you're someone who tans well and you can keep the paper close to your skin, it turns out well. If you're like me and go directly from pale to pink, which then fades to more freckles, not so much.
- Spidra Webster
No way it would turn out that well defined.
- Brad Connell
شهادت پایان نیست. آغاز است، تولدی دیگر است در جهانی فراتر از آنکه عقل زمینی به ساحت قدس آن راه یابد. تولد ستارهای است که پرتو نورش عرصه زمان را در مینوردد و زمین را به رب الارباب اشراق میبخشد.
شهید منتظر مرگ نمیماند، این اوست که مرگ را برمیگزیند. شهید پیش از آنکه مرگ ناخواسته به سراغ او بیاید، به اختیار خویش میمیرد و لذت زیستن را نیز هم او مییابد. نه آن کس که دغدغه مرگ حتی آنی بر خود وانمیگذاردش و خود را به ریسمان پوسیده غفلت میآویزد، تا از دغدغه مرگ برهد.
- Ruhollah M
چه کااااااااریه؟ نوشابه خانواده وا میکنیم خو
- Ruhollah M
فطرس جان بهش گیر نده خب عاشقه داداشم یککم! دست خودش نیست خو
- Ruhollah M
شهید یک ابزار است ... نردبانی برای رسیدن به اهداف ما ...شهید نیز باید مانند همه چیز در اختیار رسیدن ما باشد به اهدافمان ..انگاه که از مسیر ما کمی مایل شد ، خودش را مانند باکری ها تخطئه می کنیم و خانواده اش را مانند همت و باز باکری و خیل عظیم خانواده های شهدا می توانیم به عوامل بیگانه ربط دهیم ... خون شهدا وسیله ای برای بخشیدن هیجان به جمع های نوجوانان بسیجی برای تهییج احساسات انها ......
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- Omid Mohaddes
شهدا همه اصحاب اخر الزماني سيد الشهدا عليه السلام هستند و پيام آنها عشق و اطاعت است و وفاداري... سید شهیدان اهل قلم
- Ruhollah M
در گمنامي مشترکيم اي شهيد گمنام نام گرفته؛تو پلاکت را گم کرده اي و من هويتم را.
- Ruhollah M
و تو را چه نياز به پلاك است؟خدا همه را خوب ميشناسد... ما تو را گم كرده ايم...تو كه پيدايي...راستي روزي ات نزد خدا امروز چه بود؟ مرا ديدي هراسان؟مي دويدم در خيابان؟ پي دين؟ نه ... نه... من پي چيزي مي گردم كه نيست
- Ruhollah M
فطرسم اس ام اس زده بود میگفت اشتباهی گرفتن قربونیش کردن
- آرمان فاطمی
راز دل را نتوانم به کسی بگشایم ... که در این دیر مغان راز نگهداری نیست
- Ruhollah M