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Because I'm bored to tears right now: STORY TIME! Add a line and keep the story going.
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Once upon a time, there was a kingdom known as the Principality of FriendFeed.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The ruler of Friendfeed was an evil man named Steven Perez.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Where no one agreed on anything. Even this was a point of serious debate.
- Alex Scoble
The evil Lord Perez had outlawed bunnehs throughout all of the Principality of FriendFeed.
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
The kingdom was in peril (as all good kingdoms are).
- Paul W. Homer
One day, while out picking cilantro, Gunny decided he wanted some chicken and waffles.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Lord Perez asked: "But where shall we go to get the Chicken and Waffles?"
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
Someone noticed that Gunny was picking cilantro and told him that cilantro is gross. Another person chided him that it's called coriander. A fight broke out.
- Alex Scoble
The fight quickly ended when the Wild Bunnehs of Helms Deep attacked.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Soon after the fight broke out, The town Scribe Sir Scobleizer posted about it on his blog.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
As the fight was not between two chicks no one cared to watch so Perez went back to his main focus and sent all his loyal minions to the magical land of Bacon in search of Chicken and Waffles.
- Steve C
"AND BRING BACK SOME CILANTRO!" commanded the High Time Lord.
- Steven Perez
from IM
At that point someone stole the time lord's sonic screwdriver and made away with a great cackle...Twas the Master AKA Josh Haley.
- Alex Scoble
Meanwhile trouble was brewing in the land of Twitter. The citizens there were growing tired of having to speak only 140 letters at a time.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Suddenly a giant waffle Chicken showed up, brandishing a fierce clump of CILANTRO!
- Paul W. Homer
The evil Master Josh Haley ran all the way to the Land of Twitter, the Dread Lord's sonic screwdriver in tow, determined to break the 140-character limit with the Time Lord's technology, when he suddenly came upon the Giant Chicken of MySpace!
- Steven Perez
from IM
And a bunneh rabbit bearing the bomb that brother maynard carries with him.
- Martha
The Giant Chicken of Myspace was quite emaciated however, and was now only the size of a small cat. Josh Haley punted the Chicken in to outer space where it remains to this day.
- Alex Scoble
This all would have been reported on the internet, but sadly, RSS is dead.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Thankfully, the Chicken dropped his stachel of Magic Cilantro, which revived the RSS Feeds of Infotainment and powered the Great Chatter Machine.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Someone else chimed in to say that RSS is in fact not dead and that Dave Winer is quite proud of this fact, thank you very much.
- Alex Scoble
The Bunneh, however, dropped his bomb on that blabbermouth and went off with Master Haley to the Land of Twitter.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Unfortunately, the Corporate IT Nazis had set up a firewall blocking them from getting to Twitter.
- Alex Scoble
As Master Haley and the bunneh pondered how to break the Firewall of Doom, the other subjects were still searching for the Chicken & Waffles Stronghold.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The small band of warriors in the lead of the search were comprised of Gunny the Brave, Alex the Scoble, Helen the Songbird, Katie the Oblivious and Shey the Sniper.
- Steven Perez
from IM
They were charged with crossing into the lands ruled by the Nomura, an army of young girls who insisted that everyone carry an iPhone.
- Steven Perez
from IM
If they could cross into those dangerous lands without being branded by the Force of i, then they would find sanctuary in the Kingdom of the Penguin, ruled by the beautiful and beneficient Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Little did the Nomuran's know, Gunny's Blackberry Curve had a camouflage function and they were able to cross their territory undetected.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
"Get rid of anything with the logo of the Window on it," said Gunny the Brave to his band, "If you carry anything like that into where we're going, the Nomura will find us and make us slaves in their Mac mines."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Quietly, the intrepid band crept across the glossy lands of the Nomura, keeping a sharp eye out for trouble.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Suddenly, there came a cry across the plain. "OMG YOU GUYS THEY'RE OVER THERE!" Zounds! One of the Nomura had found them!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Shey the Sniper tried to pick off the oncoming Nomura, but they moved too quickly from one place to another. Things looked grim.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Luckily the Nomurans were deathly afraid of bunnehs and kittehs, and the intrepid band of adventures were armed with them.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Suddenly, Helen the Songbird opened her mouth and let loose a burst of song at the Nomura. "NOOOO!" the Nomura said. "OPEN SOURCE MUSIC! WE CANNOT HANDLE OPEN SOURCE MUSIC ***AND*** BUNNEHS AND KITTEHS!!!"
- Steven Perez
from IM
Thus repelled, the Nomura retreated to their White Towers of Jobs, vowing revenge on the Time Lord's Children of Time.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Steve woke up, thinking "I have to stop reading LOTR and FF before I go to bed."
- anna sauce
Unfortunately, Steven was caught in a dream loop, brought on by a meal of bad lobster. Only the purest cilantro could break the loop.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hopefully, his warriors would soon return with cilantro, and some chicken and waffles, and his sonic screwdriver.
- Steven Perez
from IM
As the warriors exited the land of the Nomura, they soon found themselves at Castle of the Flightless Queen, Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Standing guard at the gate was Sir Haggis, Captain of the Guard, who demanded a password from the group to gain entrance.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Alex the Scoble, who loved arguing with people, soon began an argument with Sir Haggis over whether or not passwords were legal in the Lands Beyond.
- Steven Perez
from IM
While Alex argued with Haggis, the rest of the group found the secret entrance and snuck inside.
- Steven Perez
from IM
At last Sir Haggis attempted to end the discussion by saying "You shall not pass," at which point the Scoble said simply, "Enigma" which, being the correct password, compelled Sir Haggis to open the door. He did so with an oath: "Oh, Ffing enigma!" he said.
- Jim Addz No Value
Soon, the band of warriors were reunited and ushered before the most beautilful princess in the land, Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
They looked up, each agape with wonder. The Princess smiled.
- Jim Addz No Value
"Brave knights," the Princess said, resplendent in her finest rainbow gown and colorful striped socks, "take your rest tonight, and in the morning, I shall give you the map to the Fastness of Porcine Foodstuffs, where you may find what you seek."
- Steven Perez
from IM
The knights were ushered into resplendent rooms where they could refresh themselves before the feast that night.
- Steven Perez
from IM
After some rest and a wonderful feast, the Princess begged the knights to play a song for her.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The knights graciously agreed, and here is the song they played: http://friendfeed.com/silas21...
- Steven Perez
from IM
And the cheers from the assembled throng were many and happy, as the band finished their song.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Suddenly, from outside the palace, came a hue and cry. OH NOES! The song had attracted the attention of the Wild Bunnehs! They were assaulting the castle!
- Steven Perez
from IM
"O NOES!" cried Princess Stripey Socks. "How will we repel the Wild Bunnehs? I need a True Hero to save my palace!"
- Ladybug Heather
"Brave Sir Haggis, can YOU save us all?"
- Ladybug Heather
Alas, Sir Haggis had disappeared beneath the onslaught of bunnehs.
- Ladybug Heather
And the Princess didst sing from the turret at the northwest corner of her fastness, "I need a hero! I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!"
- Jim Addz No Value
Suddenly, the Lord of Time appeared on a white steed, a bag of magic cilantro around his neck and all the armies of FriendFeed behind him, shouting a mighty war cry of "DEATH TO WILD BUNNEHS!"
- Steven Perez
The Wild Bunneh's unbeknownst to the Time Lord had developed the Carrot Hole. Head Wild Bunneh gave the command, "Lettuce commence our attack."
- Janet
"Roger, Bunneh Leader, Bunneh Five going in"
- Michael R. Bernstein
The Wild Bunnehs fired the Carrot Hole at the Time Lord in a great flash of light and sound, the scene going bright orange and smelly slightly of carrot bread.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The Time Lord was wallowing in a sea of cream cheese icing. The planned worked, Roger Bunneh made five carrot general, he was hailed a hero.
- Janet
Ah, but the clever Time Lord was also a Kwitzach Haderach, and so called forth the rains to wash away the icing trap, while at the same time sweeping aside the Bunneh Army.
- Steven Perez
from IM
AHEM. NOT THE END. THIS ENDS WHEN I SAY IT ENDS.
- Steven Perez
from IM
NOW THEN, WHERE WERE WE? Right: So, having vanquished the Wild Bunnehs to a pocket dimension outside the Time Stream, Steven addressed his merry band of explorers, admonishing them, "Now don't forget: chicken, waffles, cilantro. And try to bring back some bacon, too. Here's some more money to help you on your trip."
- Steven Perez
Rescuing the brave Sir Haggis, Princess Stripey Socks charged him with joining the brave knights in the quest for good grub, giving a magic sword, enchanted shield, and a bag of holding containing a secret weapon.
- Steven Perez
The bag was moving, small sounds were heard. Sir Haggis was overjoyed when he glanced into this magical secret bag. A litter of babby bunneh cuteness could be seen.
- Janet
The brave warriors woke early the next morning, refreshed from their stay at the Castle, and set off to the West to find the Bacon Stronghold.
- Steven Perez
Unbeknown to them a Elf was following them eating the Cilantro that was leaking from the bag.
- Kim Landwehr
The merry band made their way across the Enchanted Fields of Flightlessness, eventually reaching the borders of the A-List Bloggers' country.
- Steven Perez
Gunny the Brave said, "Now be careful not to get into any arguments here. The people love to argue even more than -".
- Steven Perez
from IM
He had not even finished the sentence before Alex the Scoble got into a heated debate with Michael the Errington, a well known brigand and fool, and Chris the White, a born argumentative goof. Soon, even the Songbird and the Oblivious were arguing with several well-known bloggers whether Twitter or Facebook was better.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Gunny, seeing that this matter would require no small amount of time to resolve, sat down to eat an early lunch: cilantro in a cilantro wrap with cilantro mayonnaise.
- Jim Addz No Value
with a side of twisty fries seasoned with coriander.
- Jim Addz No Value
Suddenly, inspired by the cilantro coursing through his veins, Gunny hit upon an idea; he whipped out his Blackberry and tweeted the following: "STEVE JOBS IS AT THE STARBUCKS AND IS TAKING QUESTIONS."
- Steven Perez
Steve Jobs tapped him on the shoulder...
- Nick Taylor
Gunny fled the restaurant without paying, leaving his blackberry on the table. In the distance sirens... helicopter rotors... Gunny panics and climbs up a tree. Curious onlookers gather... Gunny shouts at them to go away...
- Nick Taylor
But there was no going away this day. No, Going away had been banished. The mighty over lord Steven had declared it to be so. Going away now had been replaced with
- Brent - Loving Life
singing! Gunny, with great relunctance, began to sing "We gotta get outta this place, if it's the last thing we ever do!"
- Jim Addz No Value
Gunny finding quickly that his singing basically sucked and the curious onlookers were getting closer, decided that the Not Going away command declared by the Steve Overlord was in need of some serious fixing quickly. Gunny thought and thought and thought and came up with an Idea, a brilliant idea, and just as the Curious onlookers were just getting to curious for safety reasons, Gunny
- Brent - Loving Life
Picked up a lazer ray gun and cut all the curious on lookers in half. "That will teach you to mind your own business." shouted Gunny.
- Brent - Loving Life
Gunny began to wonder if perhaps he had been a little hasty.
- Kevin J Hatton
But it was too late. The soapy nasty evil cilantro had altered his mind, and history forever, so-
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Gunny decided that Cilantro was never going to pass his lips again.
- Brent - Loving Life
My lips are on file, Gunny said; as the cilantro was secretly dipped in acid.
- Joel Robert Perez
'Damn that's hot!' he exclaimed and began to ponder his next move.
- Kevin J Hatton
Suddenly Gunny realized that Steven shared part of his name with Perez Hilton, so..
- JazJaz
And that's when a large bucket of ice cold water drenched Gunny from head to toe; Haggis had saved him from some bad cilantro. Meanwhile, the A-List Bloggers, thrilled at the mention of Steve Jobs somewhere in the area, ran to the next Starbucks over, which just happened to be next door, allowing Gunny and Haggis to gather Helen, Katie, and Alex and make their escape, after they grabbed Gunny's secretly cloaked Blackberry.
- Steven Perez
The intrepid band of heroes knew that they would soon need supplies, as their cilantro had been tainted by the dreaded IMHO Virus, a known cilantro-killer in the land of A-List Bloggers; luckily, Katie, who was usually oblivious to such things, knew of a secret stash of cilantro, borracho beans, Spanish rice and flour tortillas, so they headed off to the Mexican Restaurant at the Edge of the Mountain.
- Steven Perez
Soon after sitting down, they realized that a cloaked figure in the corner had been watching them with great interest from the moment they entered the restaurant. The Scoble began to be anxious, "I know that cloak, Haggis" he whispered.
- Jim Addz No Value
The cloaked figure, short and stout, made its way silently to the table, withdrawing its hood to display its large red mouth and row of sharp teeth, saying, "Greetings, fair travelers. I am Domo-Kun. I am here to lead you to our ruler, Princess Pea Awesomesauce, and she will grant you a boon for your trip. But first, finish your enchiladas before they get cold."
- Steven Perez
So the band of warriors had some yummy enchiladas and sopapillas, along with the finest tequila.
- Steven Perez
After their meal, Domo-Kun led the band to the edge of the mountain and said, "Now we must ride the wind. When I give the signal, we will jump off this cliff and be carried by the Rocs of Ages to the Stormhold of Pea. Get ready!"
- Steven Perez
From far away, a great raptor's cry echoed across the wide valley, soon joined by a chorus of calls that could have come from no ordinary birds.
- Steven Perez
"Sweet!" cried Gunny, through cilantro-colored teeth. "I've always wanted to be in a story like this!"
- Jim Addz No Value
Katie handed Gunny a toothbrush and said, "Better hurry, cuz I think we're about to go flying."
- Steven Perez
Then the rave began.
- John E. Bredehoft
At the rave, Gunny was given some cilantro laced with X. He passed out.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
Katie smacked Gunny awake. "Focus, man! The Rocs are coming. Finish brushing your teeth and get ready to jump!"
- Steven Perez
The flapping of wings became louder and louder as the Rocs, huge winged raptors from legends long since past, came into view, preparing to sweep the cliff and pick up their passengers on their journey to Domo-Kun's homeland.
- Steven Perez
But first the winged wonders ate at the base of the tree with all the dead bodies.
- Brent - Loving Life
"Stupid Rocs," growled Domo, "always getting distracted." He produced a bone whistle from his robes and let fly with a silent blast of noise. The Rocs looked up from their meal and flew towards the travelers on the cliff.
- Steven Perez
"OK," said Domo. "On my mark ... ready ... ready ... NOW!"
- Steven Perez
The group of warriors leapt from the cliff onto the backs of the swooping Rocs, all of them easily landing on the soft downy surface. The Rocs pierced the air with their battle cry and flew high into the air towards the Stormhold of Pea.
- Steven Perez
STELLA!!!! was the war cry of The Rocs.
- Joel Robert Perez
Gunny, with freshly brushed teeth looked around dazed and confused.
- Brent - Loving Life
Suddenly, there was a trembling and shuddering deep within the heart of the world, as the light blue of the Principality of FriendFeed changed to a darker, more evil hue.
- Steven Perez
OH NOES! The world around them had changed to resemble Teh Evil Kingdom of BookFaced!
- Steven Perez
"THIS WILL NOT STAND!" cried the Time Lord. "WE MUST SAVE THE KINGDOM BEFORE IT CRUMBLES INTO DUST! Or, at least, before stuff like search and posting files doesn't work anymore!"
- Steven Perez
Leaping from his throne, the Time Lord hurried to his lab, where his podcast partner, Time Lady Amber of Spence and her assistant, the lovely Lady Shevonne, were tinkering with a circuit board.
- Steven Perez
"Hark!" cried Lord Steven. "Time to get it in gear, you two. Fire up the TARDIS and let's go! We have to gather our forces and prepare for the assault!"
- Steven Perez
The Fair Queen Stripey Socks was locked in the Tall Tower , against her wishes by the Evil Duke Haggess ... The Knights of the Crooked Table , Sir Perez , Sir Haley , Sir Worthington , met in secret quarters in the Castle to devise a plan ... to rescue the Fair Maiden ...
- johnpiercy
i was as bruised as the bloody Knife held in my hand " how was i going to be clever with the police walking up the stairs i just woke and there were dead animals around me it was a upmarket hotel in Barbados a dead horse a donkey bleeding and some other thing that are to disfigured too be identified how do i explain this "How procedurals , nok nok its the police yes just a moment as run...
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- Gratten
"Zounds!" said Lord Steven. "The time fractures are getting worse. Now other realities are beginning to bleed and merge into our own. We have to find the others quick so we can seal the breach and defeat the enemies of FriendFeed!"
- Steven Perez
Throwing up the chronal shields, the Time Lords and his companions streaked across the cosmos towards the Stronghold of Pea, hoping that the intrepid band of heroes mentioned way back when in the story were acquitting themselves with honor and dignity.
- Steven Perez
Making a brief stop at the Castle of the Flightless Queen to pick up Sir Haggis and Princess Stripey Socks ("No, you can't do drunken karaoke now! Yes, you can bring your PSYCH and SUPERNATURAL box sets with you! Yes, Sir Christian can come, too!"), the TARDIS made its way the Land of Domo-Kun ahead of the BookFaced Wave of Destruction.
- Steven Perez
Actor model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
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The Actor model adopts the philosophy that everything is an actor. This is similar to the everything is an object philosophy used by some object-oriented programming languages, but differs in that object-oriented software is typically executed sequentially, while the Actor model is inherently concurrent.
- zeroinfluencer
This then relates to "Everyone is an Artist and Society is a Sculpture"? (Beuys)
- Mary Anne Davis
Yes, that's a good connection. The Actor Model looks at flow, Beuys looked at the spirit.
- zeroinfluencer
Was Beuys standing in a stream of creativity rather than being being a stream of production? His stance was so disliked by the established art businesses - be because he was a maker without a business model - his model was social, not production. Just a thought.
- zeroinfluencer
The Most Incredible Collaborative Music Video You Will Have Ever Seen. http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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must watch. genuinely.
- Zee.
Yeah, this is incredible.
- Robert Scoble
see that guys? you got Scoble's seal of approval...now go watch! :)
- Zee.
Clever stuff
- Simon Wicks
Now that's collaboration! Very cool, creative use of simple technology to create a complex end product.
- Larry Hawes
That is a very cool video. And cool they used their fans for it.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Amazing creativity! and what a wonderful message of UNITY! Love it :)
- Aline Ohannessian
that's amore;)
- Patrizia Filippetti
That is really awesome. I don't care for the song, but the concept and execution is wonderful.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Absolutely wonderful.
- Jim Carter
Wow. Just shows what is possible in this age
- Jamie Craig
from Alert Thingy
Retweeted and Posterized it. Thanks Zee!! Great. (before anyone commented, finally get back here to thank you!!)
- Mary Anne Davis
amazing
- mikepk
Is there a making of for this video? It's incredibly amazing...
- Rodrigo Leme
Very cool Zee, thanks for sharing : )
- Mark Harai
That is one awesome music video. It definitely shows its creative genius. I bet they didn't have to spend millions of dollars to make that unlike your typical corporate commercials.
- imabonehead
Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
- Louis Simoneau
Daniel Radcliffe's advice on dealing with fans + paparazzi cracks me up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk... see last paragraph. via @robinpedrero
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... this is unbelievable! biggest news to hit the retail/internet/brick & mortar space!
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Benjamin Zander on music and passion | Video on TED.com - http://www.ted.com/talks...
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Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it -- and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.
- My Name is Daniel
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Loved this. Have been thinking about non stop since I saw it. Thank you, Daniel. ;)
- Mary Anne Davis
Another great TED, a real EAR opener ;-)
- Graham Sergeant
@annaleekeefer Sushi is pretty but that's as far as it goes for me. I won't eat anything that lives underwater.
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For me, sourcing a story/waiting for confirmation means Trust. I'm not willing to sacrifice audience trust for speed and pageviews.
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A couple women from Essex, UK just stopped by to look at the firebowls. They'd made a special trip to see them while they're here.
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Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain (20/25 days in NY in June it rained).
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And As If By Magic...a book that was a blog. http://andasifbymagic.com/ #cleverbastard
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two years from now is not science fiction.
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right
- skylendar
reminded me of the famous Gibson quote, "The future's already here -- it's just not evenly distributed."
- Karim
heh, let me show you something I have mirrored years ago (the original page has long gone out of existence) - http://mbravo.spb.ru/winterm... (frames were a relatively new invention back then)
- Michael Bravo
This strikes me as a somewhat ridiculous statement. What exactly are you trying to say? Science-fiction has little temporal restriction. There is no rule that says sci-fi must be set in the distant future. At the rate that technology advances (which is increasing geometrically in and of itself), we have no idea where we'll be scientifically. Fiction set two years from now could easily be both fantastic yet scientifically sound.
- John Porter
John, i disagree with "we have no idea where we'll be at scientifically." many things might be *possible* in the next two years, but not all things are equally *probable.* for example, there's a consortium of semiconductor companies that create a roadmap for chip design over the next 15 years (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...). they try to describe challenges to the industry and predict how computer chips will change over the next 15 years.
- Karim
they think that we will be at a 22 nm process in two years. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) they do NOT think that you will be carrying around a sentient AI in your pocket based on neuromorphic memristor technology. the former is a cool future product but it's not science fiction. the latter is science fiction.
- Karim
We live in the event horizon - Real time comms = the future(no lag)!
- Richard
The Terminator's set now (well, 198- whenever) but it's science fiction; what matters is not the time the story's set, but the technology you introduce into it, and the way you track the social / related effects of that technology.
- Al Robertson
future = fabrication = fiction. 5 mins in the future is fiction. i guess the science bit is just stylistic.
- Mike Laurie
"As a science fiction writer, I'm interested in the next 5 minutes" JG Ballard... Near future/ speculative science fiction is one of many sub genres of science fiction. Where would you draw the line? How long does it take for a game changing scientific breakthrough to be made?
- Graham Sergeant
Good point Al... science fiction can even be set in the past especially with but not limited to time travel yarns.
- Graham Sergeant
Ho yes - much of Neal Stephenson's recent stuff (for example) is historical but also working in a very science fictional way, because it's dealing with the impact of new technologies on a given society. In fact now you point it out 'The Terminator' is not the best example, because even though it's set in the present, it has the future in it. Come to think of it, uber SF movie 'Star Wars' is set (very deliberately) 'A long, long time ago...'!
- Al Robertson
YouTube - The Singularity is Near - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ive just started reading Kurzweil and Grossmans book Transend. The premise being that if you begin to live at optimum health, ie exercise good balance of Omega 3s and 6's etc, you can extend your life expectancy by 5 to 20 years. To paraphrase Kurzweil; Those two extra decades will-bring you to a future point in time when well have dramatic new technologies that can literally change...
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- Babak Zand Goodarzi
More Terence McKenna: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Frank Da Silva
recommend you check out this guys blog http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/ :) It's believed that we are about 20 to 30 years away from the tech to extend human life to 1000 years and keep you perma 20's in body health. The issue then becomes the human mind, it's already struggling to cope with 100 years of life, 1000 will really test its limits to the extreme. It could also be the...
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- alphaxion
Hmm, James Blish riffs on this kind of immortality in his book 'Cities in Space', his characters' watchword - 'millions now living will never die' - which I think is meant in part to parody Jehovah's Witnesses use of the same statement at the start of the c20.
- Al Robertson
What is the c20 ?
- Eric Logan
20th century
- alphaxion
one of the obvious problems of having billions of people hanging around for thousands of years when before they were lucky to get to 100 is that of resources. but is this pressure relieved once we start to develop technology which utilises nearly no resources i.e. we're just pure energy and that energy is derived from natural sustainable sources. and presumably space is less of an...
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- Mike Laurie
What are the top 10 apps I should load on the new iPhone 3GS? I started out clean. More here, please tell me what you suggest here:
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I've already loaded Facebook, Google, Evernote, and TweetDeck. Which apps are MUST HAVES. Only suggest apps you actually often use. I filled up my old iPhone with too many apps I never used.
- Robert Scoble
You should definitely get Pandora on there.
- Conway Anderson
Things. Best task manager I've ever used. I use it so often that I moved it to the bar along the bottom.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Kevin: I'm not a big gamer, but would like to try out a couple.
- Robert Scoble
Try the AP mobile news app to try out push notifications.
- George Deane
Robert, you might also consider Blocked. It's a quick-play, no-impact puzzle game.
- Akiva Moskovitz
when will we have a friend feed app, i like camerabag
- Eran Even-Kesef
If you ever come to the UK, the National Rail Enquiries app is awesome. Can't live with out it now.
- Roberto Bonini
I got Tuner so I could listen to Leo on the go. ;) Also just installed HeyWAY, might be interesting for you. Games: How about Star Defense?
- Holger Eilhard
Try Snap2Twitter for tweeting photos - they just updated with geotagging...will compliment the new autofocus feature!
- Tom Parnell
Peggle, without question. Best game on the iPhone.
- Josh Bancroft
Nintaii, Stanza, Evernote, Tweetie/Twitterfon, Banner Free, Flight Control
- Vineet Bhatnagar
Remote - for controlling music through my home stereo system
- joeszabo
I know you upload to Flickr... Try Flickit. You can upload your iPhone 3G S images with ease.
- Jason Hansen
You definitely need the Read It Later app, extremely useful
- Antonio Montero
Check out Numbrosia, an original and addictive number puzzle. (Yes, I developed it.)
- Amir Michail
Instapaper. Great for those times when you don't have any internet. Also, Stanza for ebooks and Shazam to find out what a song you're currently hearing is.
- Leon Freyermuth
Definitely want to see a Friendfeed App
- Keven Elliff
I'd say Tweetie over TweetDeck. TweetDeck is still kind of crashtastic. Still waiting for my iPhone 3G S to be delivered! Analytics app, WordPress app, FlickIt (for sending full res pictures to flickr), Pandora, Kindle for iPhone, Scrabble (connects to Facebook FTW), Evernote, Peggle, Skype, Shazam
- C. K. Sample III
I would think Pandora, but that's just me
- Spirit 2.0
Keven: I second that, although MotherFeed isn't too bad.
- John Fox
BeeJive IM is one I can't live without. Also Skype, Sonic, Flight Control and Last.Fm
- Jono Russell
TweetDeck, Pandora, Dictionary, FStream (I use it to listen to live.twit.tv when I'm away from my computer) and Colloquy (IRC client).
- 321
if you like to be in the photo - check out fototimer - I have used it quite a few times
- Eduardo Merille
BeejiveIM and Stanza/Kindle are my two most used ones you haven't already added.
- Antonio Zahra
You should get Twitterrific, AP Mobile, Flixster, What's On, Pandora, Dictionaire, Instapaper, TWC, Asphalt 4, and Shakespeare.
- Alexander
Evernote, Instapaper, Tweetie, Facebook, Last.fm, RTM, Satchel, Beejive IM and some games or something.
- Brett Kelly
it would be nice if someone took this whole list and did a review of the actual top 10 3.0 apps.
- Amir
Def prefer Twittelator Pro for tweeting. Pano is pretty cool for panoramic photo stitching in-camera. Pandora is a keeper. Free Memory or iStat could be crucial for killing runaway bg processes. HoldEm is the only game I end up returning to. Good advice on overloading. Better to overload with podcasts and tunes!
- Laura Scott (@lauras)
I'll cast more votes for Things and FlickIt - both superb. 1Password is great for digital wallet / password manager purposes, although, like Things no Windows client - you need to be happy with Mac and iPhone. Animoto is a great app for knocking together slide shows really quickly. Autostitch is nice for stitching together several photos for a panoramic effect. If you ever do voice...
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- Patrick Jordan
Pandora, Shazam, Boombox, Flashlight, TWiT.am, LaTwit, craigsphone, Units, Carpenter, & NYTimes -- I also have homescreen bookmarks for Wolfram|Alpha, FriendFeed, Wunderground, & GMail
- Chris Heath
Kevin, there are several already. I've been playing around with amigo lately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Things, reQall, Weightbot, GroceryGadget, Photogene, iFlashReady, SpeedTest
- Ronald Barnett
Shazam - it listens to a song playing and identifies it for you. Use it surprisingly often when listening to the radio or in a business when music is playing. Very accurate. The majority of apps on my iPhone I never use...
- Steve de Mena
the only one I didn't see mention on this that I use all the time is I.TV
- Kim Landwehr
Cardstar- stores your membership/reward cards that can be scanned right from the iphone screen. I actually use this often.
- Ryan Erickson
TweetDeck for the iPhone is NOT the best tweeting application. It uses up too much API, although I would still have it on my iPhone just to look at every now and then. Twitterrific is definitely the 5-star app ever since it realized its 2.0 version. TweetDeck is only a 3.5 to 4 star app in my mind.
- Alexander
That vibrator one that was posted on FF yesterday somewhere.
- Steve C
1Password. I can't live without it on my Mac and my iPhone. Tweetie, Pandora, Fieldrunners (still love this game), GV Mobile for Google Voice. Many more above are great as well.
- Kelly Sims
SportsTap. I'm not a huge sports fan, but the ability to set favorite teams and get real time updates is great. Hopefully they'll put out a new version for 3.0 with push notifications.
- Carlton Prest
BuddyFeed, Tweetie, Skype, AccuWeather, AirSharing
- Susan Beebe
Top 10 iPhones apps IMHO are: Twitterific or TweetDeck, Facebook, The Weather Channel, Evernote, AP Mobile - links to Twitter, FB & Evernote, Air Video & Off, Midomi I like over Shazam, Stanza - books & RSS feeds,
- Robin Birkel
Photogene -- very cool photo editing application
- RobinDotNet
Here's one that is a must for you: PangeaVR: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Orli Yakuel
i.TV for sure :)
- Justin Whittaker
Try out Gokivo - the first TBT navigation app for the iPhone. We are excited to finally be able to launch our app on the iPhone.
- Mark Goddard
from BuddyFeed
I think I might have too much time - here is a count of the apps mentioned so far:Pandora 9 Evernote 7 TweetDeck 6 Stanza 4 Tweetie 4 Shazam 4 Facebook 4 BeeJive IM 3 Skype 3 Flickit 3 Things 3 Flight Control 3 Instapaper 3 Kindle 3 NYTimes 2 Peggle 2 AP Mobile 2 I.TV 2 Photogene 2 Twitterific 2 1Password 2 Last.fm 2 TWiT.am 1 Shakespeare 1 Peggle 1 AirSharing 1 Star Defense 1 Eye-Fi 1...
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- Ryan Barnett
TWC is The Weather Channel, so there have actually been 2 TWC recommendations
- Alexander
New to iphone but was a Touch user for a long time - I have many of these apps already - some new ones to check out now also. I just restored from my ipod Touch backup and all my existing apps came over. They seem to be working OK. Question - is it possible to rename my iphone as it now says it is my ipod Touch?
- Tony Vota
Yes, you just right-click on the name of the iPod on the right-hand side in iTunes and select rename.
- Leon Freyermuth
Trailguru, Sportacular, Livestrong, Foursquare all make my front page
- Ryan Barnett
SnapTell, 9-toolbox, Flixster
- Chad McCoskey
@leonf - Got it. Thanks. It was actually a double left click to select and rename.
- Tony Vota
I'd swear by Remember The Milk as a task manager. Outside the built in apps, this is my most reliable and useful app, and there's an imminent update that I'm hoping will include push notifications. Other than that, my most oft used are Beejive IM, Kindle, Byline (for Google Reader syncing), Strands, Facebook and TweetDeck. And I'm posting this through a new FriendFeed app: AlertThingy which seems pretty awesome.
- Owen
from Alert Thingy
Must have for me is : Camera bag(Must have), Facebook, Tweetie and/or Tweetdeck(Not too stable), BeeJive IM, Shazam, Evernote, Airsharing, Urbanspoon, Remote for Keynote, Google Reader Web and GTalk Web.
- shadow
Must try HeyWAY... Cool app
- Mike Diaz
Oh yeah, and Documents to Go (Exchange edition) is proving very useful, just needs xls editing and MobileMe iDisk access.
- Owen
from Alert Thingy
@techsavvyguru - No problem. I just thought the right-click and select rename method was easier to explain. That does work, doesn't it? I haven't tried it in awhile.
- Leon Freyermuth
Great question, tons of valuable answers here.. very nice :)
- Susan Beebe
Evernote, tweetie, facebook, motherfeed, camerabag and camerakit
- Thomas Chai
RssPlayer is my most used app.
- Christian Burns
Why Jared, of course!
- Daniel Krech
another vote for Weather Channel and the radar videos. Also Bloomberg for stocks and Checkbook for jotting down expenses to be entered into Quicken later.
- Sarah Miller
Agree you need to add Skype, BeeJive, and Pandora. I also like Todo and NYTimes. Just getting my head wrapped around TweetDeck for iPhone; been using Tweetie up to now.
- Scotty Perkins
I'm setting mine up right now. I can't believe how well it works here! Thanks for asking this question here. This is my first iPhone, so I need all the advice I can get. I love this phone!
- Michael Fidler
iFart, iBeer and the iphone star wars sword. The most popular iphone apps.
- Charbax
I can't believe no one mentioned Yelp. I use it all the time, especially here in the bay area where you live.
- Sam Pullara
surprised no one mentioned truphone - skype and push notification support
- Riaz Kanani
'Things' is a daily go-to workhorse of an application, One of the best values in the app store.
- Dean Kakridas
Remember the Milk, Bloomberg, Evernote, PCalc, Amazon, the Wearher Channel
- Robert Hafer
appsniper
- Jay Clark
I know this is lame: but I am addicted to the "Blowfish" game we downloaded for our kids. Trust me - it's very addicting. Weather Channel best weather app IMHO. Shazam. BuddyFeed. LinkedIn. Skype.
- Curt Mercadante
Reisertris!
- Raphael, Raphael
More votes for Photogene, Bloomberg and Weather Channel. ShoZu. USA Today. Is Urban Spoon a must? Not sure, but it came in handy when I was traveling.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Instapaper
- Steve Rubel
Evernote, Red Delicious,Skype, Google Voice Search, FaceBook,Yelp, BrightKite, Domain Tool, iSSH, and FTPOnTheGo are a few good ones to start with.
- Mike Elliott
FLASHLIGHT
- Rochelle
Get the "What Apps Should I Download" app...LOL
- Acoustic Randall
I would but I ask you about a month ago in email what camera should I take on my bike you never answered back. But here are some ideas good mapping gps, google search, evernote. Now how about a camera pick please.
- Darren Lowery
thirsty pocket, Tweetdeck, phoneflix, shazm,skype,facebook,google mobile,mint,yelp and iwant
- Sai
Kindle, Shazam, trade Tweetdeck for Tweetie, FB, PageOnce for your bank accounts, Evernote, Google, and Wordpress. What's amazing about your list is that there's a lot of overlap among all the omments above considering how many iPhone apps exist. Very Few rise above the noise.
- Francine Hardaway
You need BeejiveIM and TweetDeck, that is all.
- David Ford
WeatherBug Elite, BBCReader, NYTimes, WSJ, Bloomberg
- Bob Morris (polizeros)
Nambu for all things Twitter. Password. Google. Conversion. Linked In. NetNewsWire. iFirstAid. Flashlight. Wordpress. Currency. Dictionary. Level. A good, local weather application.
- Greg Smith @ PR Lab
See here: http://www.flickr.com/photos... First Page: Yahoo, Google, NYT, Bloomberg, WSJ, Thomson Reuters News Pro, HuffPost, AP, and Yelp. Second Page (Not shown): Black and White (aka Go), Smugmug, Weather Channel, and Fandango. Have tried and removed: Evernote, Shazam, Amazon Mobile, Kindle, Shakespeare, TapTap (1 & 2), Skype, TNF Snow Report (will probably reinstall in winter), pTerm, Units, Wurdle, Public Radio Tuner, Starmap, Super Monkey Ball, and Morocco
- Steve Wilhelm
iSnort http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- A.T.
For the Twitter power user, Twittelator Pro 3.0
- Louis Trapani
Smugshot
- Tony Fluharty
BuddyFeed is the best FriendFeed app I've found, and I'd go for either Twitterific or Tweetie over TweetDeck. Instapaper is vital, and either OmniFocus or Things depending on which you prefer on the desktop. If you're not a desktop app person for to dos, then RememberTheMilk is great.
- Ian Betteridge
compass, skype, bubbles, Google Earth & document viewer.
- Robert MacEwan
One more is Byline, which just got a nice upgrade and syncs with Google Reader.
- Steve Rubel
For video uploads direct from the 3G S to over 40 services you should give the new Pixelpipe 1.4.1 version a shot. Details at http://tr.im/p7vT
- Brett Butterfield
I like BuddyFeed, LinkedIn,PocketGod, Tap Tap, Shozu,Worpress, and Tumblr
- Chris Sparno
LOL. Now you're going to have a ton of Apps you never use!
- Dane Deasy
I like the one that puts mullet hair cuts on friends head shots.
- Christine Taylor
Robert - have you tried ALL of the above suggestions yet? If so, please report back with findings. :)
- Patrick Jordan
Waiting for push notification support for IM apps.
- ashish
Robert - For news headlines with awesome photography - Thomson Reuters New Pro. Great for catching up whilst on the move. Keyword customisable.
- Tom Ablewhite
get pandorabox best app
- Blake Mathews
Public Radio, Pandora,Classics, Twitteriffic... tho I honestly haven't checked out any other Twitter Apps.
- Orville Chomer
Thanks for great list of recommendations. :)
- Daniel Schildt
Thinking if I read only Read-Write-Web, Louis Gray, Seth Godin & Rob Scoble I'd be pretty set on social media.
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Who am I missing on an essentials list?
- Mark Traphagen
Lots of tier 2 and tier 3, plus some larger groups, Kyle Lacy, Chris Brogan, few dozen others. But Louis, Seth and Robert will link off to them. Plus Louis often has guest bloggers. You also might want to pick up Profy.com Svetlana sometimes writes awesome material on the social space and puts a great international spin on things. My 2 cents, for what it is worth.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Scary. I always thought the echo was too much to get through, but now it turns out there are simply very few knowledgeable social media experts
- Alexander van Elsas
So basically you just read RWW, techcrunch, mashable, Scoble's and Brogan's blogs and you are all set :D
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Depends what you're looking for. Louis covers the real time web better than anyone. Seth doesn't cover social media at all. He writes about innovative marketing. Robert covers the geek's eye view (very well!). ReadWriteWeb.com, for Marshall Kirkpatrick is missing. ConversationAgent.com for Valeria, and TwistImage.com/blog for an International view. Forget Brogan. : )
- Chris Brogan
@Chris - not likely you are a hard person to forget - I saw you speak in seattle a month/few months back. :-)
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Yeah, probably shouldn't include Seth in a social media essentials list. He's just so good, I tend to throw him in any mix!
- Mark Traphagen
And Chris, where do you write?
- Mark Traphagen
After recommendations from several friends and perusing his site, I think I would add Chris Brogan to my social media essential reads list. Deal clencher: his "about" page includes full disclosures of all his social media-related paid relationships http://www.chrisbrogan.com/about...
- Mark Traphagen
Mark: Chris is my favorite social media expert. Love his email newsletter, too, which is really his blog.
- Robert Scoble
OK....that was just deal clencher++ Thanks, Robert.
- Mark Traphagen
Alexander: I wouldn't say it's a matter of "very few knowledgeable social media experts", it's just that a few people are aggregators/collectors and if you follow them you'll see 80%+ of the "important" stuff. They watch the rest so we don't (necessarily) have to. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, that is really the problem with this whole approach. Why stop at what everyone else knows too (the 80%). That's a lot of echo. The interesting stuff needs digging and you will find that in the last 20% imo.
- Alexander van Elsas
Alexander: I read tens of thousands of items a day. I think it's funny that you say there's interesting stuff out there not getting found. If you simply clicked "like" on it, we'd see it and I'm far more likely to reshare things that get your like on them anyway. But, to get to the point, I really disagree that there's a lot of good things out there not being found. I have not found that to be the case at all.
- Robert Scoble
That's why I add the "(necessarily)" condition. I think this ties in with the stream vs. queue debate (e.g. http://friendfeed.com/dgentry...). Very few people can read *EVERYTHING*, so if you treat what the collectors/aggregators pick up as a queue and read all of it--via email, RSS, IM notification...whatever--you can just treat the rest like a stream and let it flow over you.
- Ken Sheppardson
Robert, you do not miss a thing on Friendfeed, that is for sure. I would never be able to (or want to) compete with that. I was actually more thinking about the world outside Friendfeed (which is a lot bigger). You (and the rest of us) meet hundreds of interesting people that do not have their content on Friendfeed, I'm sure.
- Alexander van Elsas
Robert: I'd suggest the the stuff that gets missed isn't fact or reportage... that all gets echoed and repackaged and amplified just fine. What gets missed is the analysis and opinion from the people sitting in the corner at the party. They may not speak up that often, don't yell anybody down, but just say really, really smart things every once in a while. If you're not listening for it, it's easy to miss.
- Ken Sheppardson
@Ken, agreed ;-)
- Alexander van Elsas
That would be a start. And if this doesn't cover it, I'll find the rest on Google Reader, and share to FriendFeed.
- Louis Gray
Recent blog post by @Brad_King at www.themodernjournalist.com does a fantastic job shedding light on social media. Even a SM bumbler like me can grasp bits and pieces through his explanation. Good luck!
- Becky Middleton
"Empathy is an essential--perhaps the essential--trait in successful designers." : http://snipr.com/i9xaf - http://twitter.com/apolodu...
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RT @RaviTangri @skashliwal @StephanieFrank: Forget collecting massive followers. Build massive relationships. Reap massive rewards. #skqot.
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I'm really enjoying Wordpress.com for simple, but professional sites. I swear by Squarespace for complex CMS, but WP is nice for simple.
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Just say no to swine flu
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Anticipating the Zune Phone is like knowing you are about to witness a train crash.
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@telstarlogistic discovered a t-shirt that helps you show your special love for Obama http://laughingsquid.com/a-shirt...
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RT @wattzon: paper cup http://www.wattzon.com/stuff... travel mug http://www.wattzon.com/stuff... energy print of the paper cup =~ 131 times travel mug
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Twitter Down Art Collection - http://dembot.com/post...
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Twitter has been up and down over the last hour so I thought this would be a good time to revisit the good 'ol Twitter Down Art Collection.
- Andrew Baron
from Bookmarklet
"Safari could not open the page “http://twitter.com/” because the server is not responding."
- Andrew Baron
I like the new icecream cone. http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Chris Menning
Less time coming up with cute icons, more time doing actual work.
- Juan Pablo González
Just added the new Twitter Worm and Melting Ice Cream Cone work.
- Andrew Baron
Own the presses: TypePad Journalist Bailout Program: Free accounts for laid-off journalists: http://www.typepad.com/bloggin...
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Actually we gave them tax incentives to build SUVs. So we must take the blame as well. We need to revamp our transport infrastructure.
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Miss Potter - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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I recommend Run Lola Run. You need a movie with a good story and a bit of a tension.
- Andrew Leyden
I just want to be clear in my mind. John McCain is from the incumbent party right? He's part of the team that gave us the last 8 yrs, right?
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And I don't consider the iTunes Store "easily accessible" -- I like the web, and web browsers. I know it's silly, but that's what I like.
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When I am near my computer, I like to listen to Last.fm more than my iTunes library because whatever nanobot is picking music LIKE what I like. I hear lots of new stuff that way and I can listen to a different like each day. So far, that is my preferred listen. Today at least.
- Mary Anne Davis
Agreed after just waiting 20 minutes updating that great app I was left thinking havn't we already solved these issues with web apps?
- Ben Hedrington
It's always been puzzling to me that iTunes isn't web-based. Seems that Apple could sell more if it was web-based, no? Then again, if MobileMe is any indication of Apple's current expertise with web-based stuff, maybe we should all be thankful that it's not a web-app. (and that's probably their roadmap: cut their teeth doing web-based stuff with MobileMe and then use that know-how to make other thing web-based)
- Rakesh Agrawal
it is the keyed-security that prevents it from being "easily accessible" - drm-lite
- Scott Moskowitz
Barack Obama at the 2008 DNC - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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now, if we can just keep him in a bullet proof bubble....
- Mary Anne Davis
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