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November 18 at 11:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Those dogs look like they are getting tortured. hahaha - Shevonne Polastre
O_O bahahaha - Bwana
wasted a good 30 minutes there the other day - very cute - Joelle Nebbe
I'm liking this because my daughter likes this ;-) - ChangeForge | Ken Stewart
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November 18 at 9:14 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
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 via 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/c... - Chris Menning
just saw the icecream cone - Gregory Lent
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
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September 17 at 10:18 am - Link
I recommend Run Lola Run. You need a movie with a good story and a bit of a tension. - Andrew Leyden
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now, if we can just keep him in a bullet proof bubble.... - Mary Anne Davis
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Malware on Twitter
August 5 at 5:41 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"If you click on the link, you get a window that shows the progress of an automatic download of a so-called new version of Adobe Flash which is supposedly required to watch the video. You end up with a file labeled Adobe Flash (it’s a fake) on your machine; a technique that is currently very popular." - Dave Winer via Bookmarklet
And this is a good reason to keep UAC turned on :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
And a reason to be very wary of url-shorteners; the obfuscation of the ultimate url can be a real problem. I use tinyurl's preview feature, which doesn't redirect you directly to the new url...it instead takes you to a page which shows the real link. But I'm not sure all these new shortener sites have the same option. - Ken Kennedy
yes this story broke sometime ago..the fix is not rolled in yet .. http://friendfeed.com/e/60aae7... - Peter Dawson
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Darth Vader and Yoda Slippers - $29.99
Darth Vader and Yoda Slippers - $29.99
August 2 at 11:25 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Well, you know what I'm goanna say! Nice Yogurt ones, on the right ;) - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
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.
Hey, I just remembered I hadn't Liked it, so I searched through the archives and Bingo! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
Dear other people - if you're wondering which thread Mona is referring to - here's that one: http://friendfeed.com/e/9f6fd6... *evil grin* - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
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“Scrabuklous shuts down at Facebook per court order. Scrabulous site www.scrabulous.com opens simultaneously.”
July 29 at 8:32 am - Link
Well, now, THAT'S interesting.... - Mary Anne Davis
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AFP: Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores
AFP: Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores
July 24 at 11:19 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The city of Los Angeles announced it will ban all plastic bags from retail stores as of July 1, 2010, following similar anti-pollution regulations already enforced in San Francisco. The second-largest US city behind New York, Los Angeles, with its four million population, will ban plastic bagging in all supermarkets, grocery and retail stores, the Los Angeles City Council said in its new regulation. After July 1, 2010, all store customers must provide their own bags or purchase bags made of paper or other biogradable material from the store for 25 cents (0.25 dollar), it added." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
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
Hippies. This is incredibly silly. San Francisco is becoming a Nanny state - Joe via twhirl
err, LA that is, LOL - Joe via twhirl
I know that it's already like this in Ireland, at least where my friend lives. I've been buying the new cloth bags at Wegmans at a rate of one per shopping trip. They actually do hold way more and stack nicer in the van. :) - Cyndy
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“Gonna do like a 60min video about Social Media, Business and Branding. Wonder if anyone will watch. I'm gonna do it anyway.”
July 16 at 6:48 am - Link
Will there be any puppets ;) - David Jacobs
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
sigh...we do NOT need another 60 minutes. what is w/ you people?? I don't understand. Most of you just want what's done, regardless of what you say. eh...no wonder Frank Kern types settle for making a couple of million in a week off of dopes and surfing the rest of the yr. - Andrew Jecklin
Loren, is that going to be a durational monologue or are you thinking of doing a documentary? - Andrew Eglinton
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July 6 at 12:39 am - Link
How does he know he hates the bloggers? From what I've heard from his staff he doesn't even know how to use a computer. - Robert Scoble
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
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
Um, Robert, I think McCain might have been trying to make a joke. Anyone else get that impression? - Jonathan Sterling
McCain jokes about killing Iranians with cigarettes http://snipurl.com/2v993 McCain, the jokester -- quite a sense of humor. - Sean McBride
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June 28 at 1:33 pm - via Reshare - Link
probably not a horrible lesson for all communities. I'm all huggy fuzzy today...what is wrong with me? :P - Erin Kotecki Vest
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New NoiseRiver App Adds Interest Filters to FriendFeed Stream [Louis Gray - 6/28/08]
June 28 at 2:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I love the "You're an addicted user of FriendFeed, and we understand you" intro! ... Kool-aid users, sign up here! ... Now featuring pink-lemonade & blue-raspberry kool-aid. ;-) - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet
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
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
Wait, wait... can I have a glass of milk at least? :p - directeur
Woo Hoooooo Mitchell!! ;-) - Erhan Erdogan
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“food court/service center in connecticut has new fangled "Dyson Blade" hand dryers in the bathroom and they work surprisingly better than the old kind - that dude is a genius, he's like Harrison Ford in Mosquito Coast”
June 28 at 6:16 am - via fftogo - Link
I'm all for better hand dryers! - Mark Dykeman
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
I always find it kinda freaky to see waves of skin on my solid-looking hands. - possible248
They have these at a local bar and grill (the Ram) and they work really well, though the whole "rippling skin" thing is still weird. - Jennifer Dittrich
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