Mary Anne Davis

"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/c... - Chris Menning

just saw the icecream cone - Gregory Lent

thx - Mary Anne Davis

And this is a good reason to keep UAC turned on :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl

get i must yoda slippers!! :) - Azeem

Oh, I /need/ those. They'd terrify the dogs. - eve shot first

Yuvi, I'm going to KILL you for bumping that one thread HAHA - Mona N.

Great for the city. Some stores in my area are now doing this (Waterloo, Ontario) but plastic bags are still readily available at most markets. Using those environmental friendly bags are fine. We have 4 in our apartment and I find they are more useful as they are easier to carry, hold more stuff, and are of course .. re-usable :) - Bartek Gniado

We bought 5 reusable bags at Whole Foods a few months ago and now bringing them with us is part of our routine. We'll never throw away another grocery bag. - Tad, TV's Patrick Duffy

I need to buy reusable bags. - Bjorn Tipling

Reusable bags can be very groovy. Worth developing the habit and looking for. - Mary Anne Davis

Wow! - Mitchell Tsai

Hippies. This is incredibly silly. San Francisco is becoming a Nanny state - Joe via twhirl

No puppets. - loren feldman

social media, business, branding,...and interactive dance. Yeah. go for it ;) - ray

so we ever going to get together I'd love to do a vid smacking down social media posers and BS - Michael Gray

Michael, Yeah let's do that. - loren feldman

personal branding or just business branding? btw, thoughts on Gary Vaynerchuk? - ryangraves

Bring it on :) - Guy

It is a bullshit term and a giant vacuum filled with a few clueless nerds. Loren, I think you should spend at least some of your time doing more interesting stuff. - neovids

You are right Feldman. BTW now living on LI full time. Let's hook. - loren feldman

I actually prefer your longer videos. This is interesting. I look forward to watching it. - Ettore Pasquini

I just like hearing you talk, man. You're very entertaining. I'm sure you'd make it work. - Omar Gallaga

I love the puppets - who doesn't? - but my absolute favorite 1938 Media videos are you expounding. - Donna Mugavero

60 minutes is a good length, the need for coherence is so great that it forces quality to emerge ... and we need a new michael moore - Gregory Lent

re: the need for a new michael moore -- no we don't. - Andrew Jecklin

If well done, could be a show. Not too mean, though. I think a new 60 Minutes. Yes, we do! - Mary Anne Davis

I guess we can all live with that...right ? - Jassim

I'm heartbroken. - Trish R

jeez, Bush doesn't even use the "hate" word. - Andy Sternberg

So he hates commentators based on their favoured medium? Does he also hate artists who sculture (as opposed to paint) - Craig Thomler

Nice to know that hate is still part of his platform. - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

me not know use computer, me hate computer people. - Amit Morson

You'll hate as more as we get closer to November. Keep saying stupid stuff. - Chris Baskind

The feeling's mutual. - Bryce

I'm sure " - Michael McGimpsey via twhirl

I actually watched the video -- it was obviously a joke. I take anything I read on C&L with a grain of salt anyway. - Shey

Seemed like he was joking to me - Bjorn Tipling

is this the kind of un-web 2.0 kind of guy we want running our country as we attempt to build our information worker dominance? ... I think not. - Shawn Smith via Alert Thingy

The things said in jest are often the most truthful things we utter, Sort of like In Vino Veritas. - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

what a dumbass - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

hmm maybe he cannot find them on Internets? - Fred Grott

After seeing McCain with Jon Stewart 13 or so times, watching him back in 2002 on SNL as a hippie high school teacher, and seeing him on SNL in the last few months making fun of his age, I sorta get the impression he has... well... a sense of humor. He can be a funny guy. Hasn't anybody else noticed? - Ken Sheppardson

The company we keep. - Warner Crocker

A great divide in contemporary American culture: crony capitalists vs. creative capitalists. Crony capitalists hate creative capitalists and feel threatened by them. That's the subtext here if you dig deeply. The Bush 43 administration (of which McCain is a part) is the last angry gasp of a particular class of crony capitalists who want to annihilate everything that they can't understand or control. The Internet is full-throttle creative capitalism -- it drives these people nuts. - Sean McBride

Or maybe he was making a joke. - Ken Sheppardson

I think he is THE joke - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

Ken - How can a guy this deadly serious, with that rictus grin and ever-present rage, ever make a joke? Does he look like he gets the Internet? - Sean McBride

Unfortunately his jokes tend to be about hating people and bombing countries. That bomb Iran song was a hoot. - Kevin Bondelli

Sean : http://www.thedailyshow.com/vi... - Ken Sheppardson

This was on December 7, and the clip leaves out a part where he is using a blog as an example, so it is tough to determine whether he was being playful or not. I think the selectiveness of the clip is unfortunate. Anybody know where the whole piece is? - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl

Ken: I watched the video. McCain can be charming and likable in spurts. He's also a very angry man who is going to push the same war agenda in the Middle East as Bush/Cheney, at the behest of his neoconservative and crony capitalist puppeteers. If you think "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" is funny, along with $200 to $400 a barrel oil prices, you'll be impressed by McCain's wit and brilliance. Joseph Lieberman, who knows McCain well, praised him as a "Maccabee" -- an Old Testament holy warrior. - Sean McBride

More evidence that McCain may, in fact, have a sense of humor: http://video.google.com/videop... - Ken Sheppardson

Sorry, I meant December 2007 (it was the 29th) - Dennis E. Hamilton via twhirl

@Robert Scoble: McCain's hatred of bloggers is evidence of blogger power. If a guy who can't use a computer feels the impact of bloggers, it's a cause for celebration, no? - Michael Markman

@Sean McBride: pedantic nit: Maccabee doesn't appear in the Old Testament. He appears in the Apocrypha. - Michael Markman

There's a massive lack of any kind of a sense of humor going on in this campaign, especially when it comes to McCain. He used a crack about beating his wife when he felt that a reporter asked him a "Have you stopped beating your wife yet, Senator?" question, and he got beat up about it. There have been many similar instances, and maybe this is one, too. I don't particularly like John McCain, but I think everyone needs to stop jumping his shit about trivial crap. - David Worrell

Michael: a man who attends to the details -- I like that. :) Let me rephrase: the Maccabean meme -- the archetype of the ethnic nationalist holy warrior -- is a product of the Old Testament mindset or culture. (And there are many fine things in the OT -- I am not using the term in an exclusively pejorative way.) In any case, Lieberman praising McCain as a Maccabee doesn't inspire confidence in me about McCain; nor is it a tribute to McCain's sense of humor (or even sanity). - Sean McBride

Note: Joseph Lieberman is also a big fan of Christian Armageddonist John Hagee, a fanatic who wants to set the world on fire, starting in the Middle East. Apparently Lieberman sees signficant similarities between Hagee and McCain. - Sean McBride

Sean: wow, that explains a lot! yikes - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)

John McCain is definitely aware of the Internet. - Alexander Carlill

Sounds like he doesn't like people who express their opinions either - Judy Jones

November is going to be catastrophic for the GOP, I think. - Alexander Carlill

Susan: Lieberman, Hagee, neoconservatives and Christian Zionists/Armageddonists are counting on John McCain to expand the Iraq War to Iran and the rest of the Middle East -- that is why they are promoting him. Notice how many belligerent and threatening statements McCain has made on the subject. He's a fanatic, not a comedian. This entire political bloc also hates political dissent and often smears political opponents as "terrorists" -- hence their hatred of the free-wheeling and intellectually independent Internet. - Sean McBride

"I hate the bloggers." So, he hates the ability of people to express themselves without censorship? Seriously, even in jest, this is disconcerting. And remember the adage - never truer words spoken in jest. - AJ Kohn

AJ: One of John McCain's chief promoters, Joseph Lieberman, is also a sponsor of the Homegrown Terrorism Act, a piece of nasty legislation that is moving in the direction of censoring the Internet along neoconservative standards of political correctness. Make no mistake: these people really, really hate the Internet and diversity of opinion. "They hate our freedoms." :) - Sean McBride

And I hate the Interwebs, too! - David Gutelius

Ignore Lieberman. A few Senate victories and the Dems will kick him to the curb, he'll lose his seniority and the GOP won't take him either. He's a religious zealot and a total opportunist. Picking him as VP was possibly Al Gore's worst decision since he stole all of Vint Cerf's ideas and invented the Internet based on his unfinished plans... - Andrew Feinberg

Seriously folks - he was kidding. I'm not going to defend the man as a technology pioneer but I think we can all agree that "bloggers" in the most general sense are not beloved far and wide - I don't know where Yglesias gets off calling the laughter 'tepid' either. There are PLENTY of substantive issues to disagree over - I'm ignoring ridiculous "Obama doesn't wear a flag pin" memes - no need for anyone to grab their e-muskets over this one either... - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I'd say the Democrats have pretty much kicked Lieberman to the curb already. - Ken Sheppardson

He's still Chairman of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, and the leadership has to kiss his ass lest he go Jim Jeffords on them. With 12 Republican Senate seats open, give the Dems a few victories and Joe gets the boot. - Andrew Feinberg

Hey, just dug up this from his Liberty University commencement address back in 2006. Summary: He really does hate bloggers ;-) http://kshep.posterous.com/mcc... - Ken Sheppardson

he also hates puppies, lollipops pigtails and sunlight - I mean ANY sunlight - if elected President he has a secret plan to detonate nuclear devices on the sun so that he may plunge the world into eternal darkness mwahahahahahaha Oh and he met my grandmother once (sweet, sweet lady) and he slapped her because she didn't get up when he entered the room (she was wheelchair bound at the time). - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

LOL at Marco. Need to be able to "Like" comments as well. - Robert Stribley

@ Shey, i think he's serious, but he just let it come across as being a joke - Gordon Swaby

@Gordon he's not despite whatever other problems people may have with him he genuinely enjoys a free and open exchange of ideas (simmer down - no flaming that comment folks) for well over a year now (and long before ANY other candidate followed suit I believe) he has hosted regular conference calls directly with bloggers where every two weeks or so he jumps on a conf call and takes their questions. It is undeniable that he provides journalists far more direct access than Obama - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

I couldn't help but comment more extensively on Sean McBride's "creative capitalism" comment on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/5sj5qf After looking further at Sean McBride's FriendFeed, I can see the delusions don't stop at "creative capitalism". - Jason Huebel

He was clearly joking during that clip. Senator McCain gives unprecedented access to bloggers and to all media types unlike Senator Obama. http://tinyurl.com/677vds The main benefit of web 2.0 is that it gives us a better view of how people think and what they are really like, but in this election Senator McCain is the only one with an open access policy. Senator Obama is restricting access to all but a few media outlets while Senator McCain is letting small town newspapers ride on the Straight Talk Express which gives them the opportunity to ask the candidate questions. - Michael Beach

Jason: I read your interesting blog entry. Let me clarify a bit: "creative capitalism" -- new successful and profitable businesses based on original intellectual property and fresh ideas, not necessarily restricted to the Internet or information technology. "Crony capitalism" -- businesses based on financial manipulation, no-bid contracts, oligopolies, monopolies and the like. See, for instance, Halliburton's Iraq War profiteering. Creative capitalists tend to gravitate to the Democratic Pary; crony capitalists to the Republican Party. Halliburton is a very different kind of enterprise (and culture) than Google. - Sean McBride

John McCain's script is being written by the same neoconservatives at the AEI, JINSA, WINEP and other neocon think tanks who have come close to destroying the Republican Party and the conservative movement. They are urging McCain to expand the Iraq War to Iran, thus McCain's "joke" -- "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran" -- a little ditty that was also sung by neocon James Woolsey from the AEI. Is there anything funny about the prospect of $10 or $20 a gallon gas? Chaos in the Mideast? Try nightmare. - Sean McBride

Throughout the nineties I got the strong impression that old school crony and vulture capitalists were utterly baffled and enraged by the smart ass kids from MIT, Stanford and other hotbeds of radical imagineering who created the Internet revolution. They saw the entire cultural shift as mystifying, subversive and threatening. McCain is definitely old school in this kulturkampf. Ancient. - Sean McBride

Kulturkampf: geeks vs. geezers. - Sean McBride

Discussion at Russellreno (13 likes, 17 comments) http://friendfeed.com/e/3405a3... NoiseRiver FriendFeed Room http://friendfeed.com/rooms/no... - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell = :p never thougth it could be interpreted the way you did :) - directeur via NoiseRiver

FriendFeed NoiseRiver Room http://friendfeed.com/rooms/no... - Mitchell Tsai via NoiseRiver

Hmm... NoiseRiver editing is not so hot... I got the following HTML mess after editing a comment at NoiseRiver. --> Discussion at Russellreno (13 likes, 17 comments) <a href="http://friendfeed.com/e/3405a3..." rel="nofollow">http://friendfeed.com/e/3...</a> - Mitchell Tsai

So umm you can follow twitter on friendfeed, now you can follow friendfeed through noiseriver. When does the next app come out that allows me to follow noiseriver? - Sean Davis

Facebook -> Twitter -> FriendFeed -> NoiseRiver -> Whoisi -> ??? I think we're drinking ...lots and lots... of kool-aid! ;-0 - Mitchell Tsai

@Mitchell " [..]NoiseRiver -> Whoisi -> ???" A Life Tsunami - One find day we will log into these accounts and the whole system will be flooded with recursive links, data, friends and whatnot.. :)_ - Peter Dawson

No shit... This makes my head spin... Trying to keep up with the Jones socmedia apps is impossible. I can't tell which social media app I need to using so i can stay informed of what the next cool social media app is. - Cody Heitschmidt

Social apps are worse than nightclubs - at least a nightclub stays the 'in' place a few months! - Craig Thomler

Come on folks! :) You know we devs are kinda sadics and like to torture our users ;-) - directeur via NoiseRiver

Maybe like the "raves" in Los Angeles. You have to call on the day of the rave ...to find the location. ;-) - Mitchell Tsai

For me, FriendFeed is like the rave-locator. I don't have to try 50 new raves. I just listen to FriendFeed and try the rave if it gets good reviews. My non-FriendFeed friends are totally lost in the social networking stuff... - Mitchell Tsai

I would like to introduce you to my agent, Mitchell Tsai. - Russellreno

@Russell Should I charge a percentage? $0.05 for each glass of kool-aid? ;-) - Mitchell Tsai

Mitchell - You are welcome to keep a nickel of every dollar you collect. - Russellreno

I knew they sucked but never considered there might be a better way to design them - guess that's why my name isn't plastered on the side of a 500 dollar vacuum cleaner. - Marco (aureliusmaximus) via fftogo

Oh but I must add that the dyson design renders it powerless to save u from looking incontinent if you sray your pants with water from the sink - old school still rulz for that - Marco (aureliusmaximus) via fftogo

The mini-malls that line the inner harbor in Baltimore have these hand dryers as well, they work great! - Raoul Pop

yeah, they're great! wish they were more common. Course japan's been doing it for years. - felix via fftogo

No Marco... these blow. ;) - Yolanda

Wow, it would be great to try one of those. - Jeduan Cornejo

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gad... http://popsci.typepad.com/pops... - Marco (aureliusmaximus)