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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior - http://www.amazon.com/Animals...
Andrei M. Marinescu, Felicia Yue, Dan Hsiao and 4 other people liked this
I just started reading this book. It is very, very interesting.
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
agree!
- Felicia Yue
Great book, indeed. Brings a fascinating perspective that is foreign to most.
- Andrei M. Marinescu
First & 20: Joe Hewitt - http://www.firstand20.com/homescr...
Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy and Mark liked this
Joe, I'll trade you 5 Reader feature requests for you picking up Firebug development again and making it less flaky.
- Mihai Parparita
And everbody wins! :)
- Mark
Checking out at hotel: clerk: "do you have an email address?" Me: "nope" clerk: "really? you're wearing a firefox teeshirt."
Peter, Kol Tregaskes, Matthew Freeman and 36 other people liked this
my answer would be "I do... but you're not having it without either money or a good reason"
- alphaxion
How about "What's this 'email' people keep talking about? I'm going to a Windows 7 launch party, so I hope to get an 'email' there."
- Matt Cutts
would divulge, depends who is the clerk ;)
- testbeta
"I wasn't supposed to delete my account when I reached inbox 0? Oopie."
- Rick Turoczy
from iPhone
Lol @Matt. I love the squinted-eyes expression I get when I give a disposable email address that includes the company's brand in the username of *my* email address.
- Micah Wittman
"I'm sorry but I'd prefer not to give that out"
- Rob Shillingsburg
just create an account called "bitbucket" and pay attention to people when you tell them that ;)
- alphaxion
I feel this way about phone more than email.
- anna sauce
What anna said.
- Spidra Webster
I did the similar once when asked for my zipcode in bed, bath and beyond. Me: Sorry, I don't have one. Them: Eh? Me: Yup, don't have one. :) - It wasn't a good day and all I want is to go in, get my goods, pay my money and leave.
- 1x29
Sunny (The Geek Lord) to Sunny's feed, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, *Europe's Mobile Tech & Social Media Hub*, Technology, Robert Scoble
MiLi Pro - iPhone, iPod Portable Video Projector - http://www.phonesuit.com/product...
Wayne Sutton, Serkan Karaman, Willem (@wim66) ☠ and 10 other people liked this
The MiLi Pro is a breakthrough in iPhone and iPod accessory technology. It's an iPhone / iPod compatible, rechargeable, micro video projector. The power of the PhoneSuit MiLi Battery has been coupled with the convenience of a portable video projector and speaker system. Watch all of your movies, video clips, podcasts and more with ease! Now you can carry your own personal movie theater with you, anywhere you travel.
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
from Bookmarklet
I already waiting for it :)
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
IDEA: That can be a handy tool for presentations as well
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Let me think what else it can used for ? ???
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Any thoughts PeOple ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
watching movie??? Ok, just kidding. Which resolution has it?
- gianandrea
i suppose this gadget does not have much of a resolution. May it can be used to show of other geeks how cool you are :P
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
Though it is very kool and tempting....Does that sound to geeky ?
- Sunny (The Geek Lord)
One of my favorite lecturers systematically destroys "Intelligent Design" in this 2 hr. lecture. Dr. Miller is brilliant. http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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kevin oshea, Robert Littlejohn, Gokul and 9 other people liked this
wonder why it is difficult for people to accept theory of evolution, i am in initial parts of the lecture :) and instead of scientific folks, people from religious or theists/atheist are discussed.
- testbeta
Nice - here's my favourite standup saying the same thing in another way..
- Andy Connell
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty : The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
This was riveting.
- niniane
from Bookmarklet
fascinating discussion about server/server (XMPP) and client/server (protobufs) methods used in Google Wave: http://groups.google.com/group...
Tarun, Veetrag, Devon Govett and 5 other people liked this
How to build cheap cloud storage (67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867) - Backblaze Blog - http://blog.backblaze.com/2009...
Nick Mutton, Marco Willemse, David Berrebi and 173 other people liked this
Amazing level of transparency and detail about their custom storage servers. HN discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item... (discusses why this is appropriate for backup, but perhaps not generic storage needs)
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Put me down for two.
- Jason Shellen
45 drives per unit and many units means they must be constantly replacing failed hard drives - just due to the sheer quantity of them in use
- Jacob Old
It wasn't entirely clear to me from the blog post what you have to do to replace a drive. Looks like at minimum you have to remove the unit from the rack, and I don't see any drawer guides or similar to assist with that. And do they have to take the unit offline to replace a single drive?
- Jason Wehmhoener
Geez. Back in 1998, Microsoft was bragging about their 1 TB cloud... :-) Millions of $ then I think.
- Mitchell Tsai
One happy Backblaze customer checking in.
- Russellreno
sounds neat - now what to do with 67 TB of storage...
- Matt Ellsworth
Seriously Matt! Lots and Lots and Lots of video? HD video!
- Rick Cogley
So, they store their data "securely" in Palo Alto? That makes me scared.
- Jonas S Karlsson
Quoted from blog- "Backblaze Storage Pods are building blocks upon which a larger system can be organized that doesn’t allow for a single point of failure." They have indicated an amazing amount of cost savings.
- Wins Fern
$117k for a petabyte of storage. Wow.
- Nicholas James
Petabyte schmetabyte.
- Rick Cogley
Mitchell: I don't think 1TB was "millions of dollars" in 1998.
- Steve de Mena
Nice idea. Pity that it only supports a HTTPS interface, not surprising at that cost though (the software that runs the filesystems on the NetApp and other devices isn't exactly cheap to write). Anyone see if they quoted transfer speeds? I'm wondering what impact the four SATA cards each with SATA multipliers on them has when it comes to access speeds.
- Russ
Steve: according to http://www.littletechshoppe.com/ns1625... disk cost ~$0.08 / mb in 1998, which comes out to >$800,000 for 1 TB or just over a million bucks in todays dollars. so maybe not millions, but a million!
- Karl Rosaen
Russ: It runs Debian. If you were rolling your own (and they don't sell these units), you could turn on NFS or some other protocol (CIFS, iSCSI). They only use HTTP because it's cloud storage. NFS license is a major expense on NetApp, but all the major Linux distributions can act as NFS servers, CIFS servers, and probably iSCSI targets.
- Andy Dustman
Andy: I know that you could do that on them but it leaves the problem of what to do with the storage. You could merge the 3 volumes into an LVM VG but the performance could become an issue with any load on it. It seems I wasn't the only one to question the performance, while the views of a Sun engineer aren't exactly unbiased it does highlight some of the downsides: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archive...
- Russ
Russ, great find, thanks.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Fascinating article; but more questions: "In rough terms, every time one of our customers buys a hard drive, Backblaze needs another hard drive." -- so what happens when a drive fails; how much redundancy is there? What happens when a meteorite destroys the whole building; is there off site backup too? (I know this *is* the off-site backup, but still...) I wonder how much data flows in and out over time. Maybe I should just read their website.
- Rob Fisher
Rob: they mention using 15 drive RAID6 volumes that can lose up to 2 drives before failure
- Mike Chelen
The worst part about this cluster design is the fact that I couldn’t shut up about it for the first couple days after finding out about it. It was the solution I proposed to every problem. There were complaints.
- A Mitchell
IMO RAID6 is not that great. Granted, it's highly unlikely to lose 3 drives at the same time, but there's still possibility. Besides, for write-intensive app, parity calculation is quite time-consuming. I personally prefer RAID 10 (striped array of RAID1 pairs). Yes the effective usable space is less than half total capacity, but for backups -- which will sooner or later be used to restore something -- I prefer data integrity over usage efficiency.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
IMO RAID6 is not that great. Granted, it's highly unlikely to lose 3 drives at the same time, but there's still possibility. Besides, for write-intensive app, parity calculation is quite time-consuming. I personally prefer RAID 10 (striped array of RAID1 pairs). Yes the effective usable space is less than half total capacity, but for backups -- which will sooner or later be used to restore something -- I prefer data integrity over usage efficiency.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
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Numan Arda Çebi to Numan's feed, Design (Tasarım), Creative Design, Designers Who Design Things, Graphic Design, Graphics N' Design, Graphic, persian graphic, ART ROOMََََ, Illustration, Cool!, FriendFeed, FriendFeed for Beginners, Ücretsiz (Free), Ideas & Inspiration, RWW: The Future of Tech, TheNextWeb Forum, Typography, Web & Teknoloji, Wallpaper
FriendFeed "Like it! & Share it!" Wallpapers - Designed by ncebi (http://friendfeed.com/ncebi) - Visit my blogpost for all resolutions (16:10, 4:3) & types (3D & Basic): http://onlayn.org/friendf...
SmiteMe (I <3 elitists), Göze Sencer, یکییدونه and 62 other people liked this
mükemmmel :)
- Burak Arslan
خیلی باحاله / Great
- AmirAli+i
Türkçeleri nerede :)
- Sinan İŞLER
@Sinan, istek olursa boş bir vakitte "Beğen, Paylaş" olarak yeniden düzenlenebilir.
- Numan Arda Çebi
Slightly too bright for me, but they're beautiful. Any dark background? Deep dark blue is my favorite (see my friendfeed page for a hint ;) )
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
@Pandu; There are 4 different kinds of wallpaper. Which one do you want? What is your screen resolutions?
- Numan Arda Çebi
çok güzel olmuş Numan. Illustrator mu kullandın?
- Tanju Yildiz
Awesome!
- AJ Batac
@Tanju, hayır. Photoshop ve Swift 3D kullandım.
- Numan Arda Çebi
Çalışmalar çok hoş ama renkler çok göz alıcı. Arkaplan yaptım ama çok dayanamadım açıkçası :(
- Tuncay KINALI
@Tuncay, en beğendiğin duvar kağıdını, ekran çözünürlüğünü ve istediğin rengi belirtirsen halletmeye çalışalım.
- Numan Arda Çebi
@Numan: Mine is 1280x1024 ... the Basic "Share It" is nice :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
@Pandu; http://yfrog.com/5ipanduj ;)
- Numan Arda Çebi
@Numan, Like It 3D, 1440x900, şimdiki renkten biraz daha mat pastel bir ton olursa çok hoş olur.
- Tuncay KINALI
süperler teşekkürler .
- Umut Çetinkaya
@Tuncay, http://img181.yfrog.com/i... | http://img513.yfrog.com/i... @Umut, rica ederim.
- Numan Arda Çebi
2. yi en çok beğendim ((:
- Rıza Selçuk Saydam
siva s, Banda, Ben Hanten and 18 other people liked this
好可愛的小baby:)
- Vista
Awesome - being a dad is the best thing I've ever done!
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
какое чудо! :)
- Banda
How to tell if you are a geek:
quik, Captain Jack, noemigio and 146 other people liked this
Tonight I was faced with this scene at a party in Indianapolis for Monster Energy drink and I figure it is a good way to tell if you are a geek. If you first impulse is to ask the girls for help with your Ubuntu install, you are probably a geek. If you start wondering about what cool iPhone apps they use, you are probably a geek. If you want to ask them where the best places to find wifi in Paris are, you are probably a geek. If you want to invite them to a Facebook party you are probably a geek. If you ask them what they think of Android you are probably a geek.
- Robert Scoble
from email
به به , چشم مریم خانم روشن
- Mil∂d
@scobleizer you follow the scobleizer on here?
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
By the way, I am a geek. :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you ignore them entirely and check out what's playing on the media player in the background, you're probably a geek.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If you can't spell "Ubuntu" do you get your geek cred's revoked?
- Joel Bennett
If your first impulse is to correct @scobleizer on his spelling of Ubuntu in his post . . . you're a geek.
- Michael Owens
So did you have wild sex with them?
- Dave Winer
geek --->
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
slut :)
- Jeunelle Foster
Well Robert, what did they answer to all these questions? <--- Geek.
- Bettina Tizzy
if you dont care, for once, what scoble has to say, and are simply wondering where to find these girls...what are you?
- Zachary Adam Cohen
sluts*
- Michael Owens
If you know for a fact the girls don't care at all about you and are only there as paid advertisements, AND you still don't care and want to gawk and hang out and get photos with them anyway...you might be a geek.
- Josh Haley
Scoble is a womanizer hahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
Damn, Josh, why not just go ahead and win the Internet for yourself, why don't you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It might be a new ad for s3.
- Trey Ratcliff
Thank you, sir.
- Josh Haley
Dave: I am talking with you so what do you think? :-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Dave + Scoble: That's a yes.
- Michael Owens
Zachary: they are in downtown Indy.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you ask them their thoughts on Faccebook acquiring FriendFeed, you're a geek.
- imabonehead
I wonder if Scoble's pickup line is "Hi, Who Are You?"
- Bastard Operator From FF
What the.. Why bother blogging this crap when you could actually be striking up riveting conversation..
- Pogmohoin
Imabonehead: definitely!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
on my way, just gonna fire up my get and break out the Nair for Men
- Zachary Adam Cohen
from email
oh btw sluts*
- Pogmohoin
"Hi, I'm Robert Scoble, who are you?"
- Prolific Programmer
from IM
You guys are a bunch of pathetic losers. Robert did you ask them what their astrological sign was? and if you did you are a geek who's desperate :)
- Jeunelle Foster
If you immediately turn to your iPhone and write about it on FriendFeed you are a geek
- Jesse Stay
I'm pretty sure I am still a geek, but there is no way any of those questions come to mind when I see this picture. And I think if those questions come to anyone's mind here, it might be time for geek-rehab.
- Bill Grant
Pogmohin: I talked with them for a while. Nice people but didn't know what Android was so I moved on.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
hahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
This post is just a cover story for why does Robert have this picture, anyway?
- Jason Wehmhoener
So is "What do you think of Android?" the new Turning test?
- Micah Wittman
thinking you can pick up said girls by telling them you wrote an iphone app and expecting them to get excited about it then you're a geek.
- evablue
Yeah.. I am from FHM mag.. Want to make the big time baby.. Now can the girl at the rear just reach around to the one at the front more...click .. front page Roberts Screen Saver..
- Pogmohoin
Damn. Best photo you've ever taken!
- Mike Flynn
Me: confronted with this scene, I'm a slut first, then a geek. ;) (Mike: hella observant!)
- Dennis Jernberg
You could also be gay, or female, but that would be in a non-geek-centric universe, so I could be wrong. ;)
- Lisa Norman
I have a feeling this is going to show up in the daily "Best Of Your Friendfeed" for anyone subscribed to Scoble.
- Michael Owens
Michael: You're right! This one wins the whole day. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
Also, there is an iPod in the background -- clearly these are Apple Fan-girls.
- Bill Grant
"Android? Oh, haven't met him yet. Is he still at the party?" *leaves room*
- Micah Wittman
What were we talking about again?
- Derrich
Bill: Sure enough, iPod, docked.
- Dennis Jernberg
The girl at the right said her name was Ashley. Actually she said she was "Smashley." love that.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ashley owes me money and I better not run into her or her face would be smashley
- Jeunelle Foster
Bill: yup. I picked up on the iPod very quickly at the party. I am hoping Ashley sends me her play list!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
@Micah -- Me: "No, that's Mandroid. He stayed home. Wasn't cool enough. Android is...(way short explanation)"
- Dennis Jernberg
If you take a picture of three beautiful girls, post it on FF, and your first inclination is to write a caption that includes the words Ubuntu, iphone Apps and Android - OR if you comment on such a post... You are definitely a geek.
- Robert Rose
By the way none of the three had been to Europe so they couldn't help me with good places to get wifi for LeWeb.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
If you help them sign up for Facebook, FriendFeed, and Twitter, you're a geek.
- imabonehead
Well they don't look like they know how to boil rice
- Jeunelle Foster
Been to Europe?? Man did they say the best thing that come out of Europe was "The Final Countdown" from their Daddy's "86 with a Bullet" tape!! http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Pogmohoin
This scene was the geek's dream while posting this. :)
- Bundit
imabonehead: actually they are already on Facebook. Which says something about how mainstream Facebook has gotten.
- Robert Scoble
All the Facebook friends in my family (except for my brother) are definitely nongeeks.
- Dennis Jernberg
anyone reading this is a geek
- Brendon Wadey
++++++++++GooglePlex, Akiva!
- Melanie Reed
Well I know I'm a geek. When someone like me, who spends a lot of time helping a sexy geek like Marina Orlova of http://hotforwords.com because she speaks geek and is enjoyable to work with. I might even venture to say she's a bit of a computer nerd. When Marina wakes up the first thing she does is check her email. When she gets ready for bed she can be found tweeting before she retires...
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- Captain Jack
Captain Jack: she sounds cool. What apps does she have on her iPhone?
- Robert Scoble
Were they impressed by the size of your lens, Robert?
- Raphael, Raphael
Raphael: I didn't have that with me tonight. Was going low key. :-)
- Robert Scoble
wow
- Ehsan Diary
If Robert had taken that shot with is 600mm, he would have had to have been 3 blocks away and you would be able to see the the flecks of color in their eyes :) You are looking at their eyes right?? -- My first thought was well, they can't be geeks as everyone knows true Geeks drink Red Bull not Monster :P Monster isn't all bad, they are big supporters of Surfrider and International Surfing day ----> Surfing Geek
- Luke Kilpatrick
If you're a geek, why are you asking someone else for help with your Ubuntu installation? Shouldn't you figuring that out yourself? Turn in your geek card, now.
- Andy Bakun
Yeah, they'd have to ask you to help with their Ubuntu installation. Except if they don't know what Android is, they probably haven't heard of Ubuntu either.
- Dennis Jernberg
This Ubuntu question can relate this photo and the Ubuntu logo, then that's a geeky question. (I mean this http://www.flickr.com/photos... )
- Mahmood Padura
Actually, I was going to ask what the gadget was on top of the microwave-minifridge combo.
- Jay Cuthrell
I'm guessing it's an MP3 player (in the slot) and some kind of speaker array combo?
- Jay Cuthrell
I guess the answer is: regardless of whatever you do, you are a geek :-)
- Ethan Gahng
It would be a lot easier to tell if those three people were not in the way of the shiny thing in the back of the photo.
- Jay Cuthrell
I think Robert took this photo just to keep me wondering all night about that mystery device.
- Jay Cuthrell
Geek here :) I'd do a print 'Hello, Girls !'
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
damn it Scoble! I have to like this.
- rob friedman
looks like my weekends
- sean percival
did they recognize you as the "scobleizer" ???
- zʍıɔ
New blog topic: the decline and fall of FriendFeed
- A Mitchell
What's that coming over then hill?
- Nick B.
"Well, hello there, sexy ladies! Would you like to come up to my place and read my @scobleizer feed? Hmm?" -bow-chicka-wow-wow-
- Kevin Leroux
wow. I couldn't even make out what was that thing in the BG. I noticed the additional thumb/thigh in front -so that makes me a photo geek??
- jomarhilario
Oh my! Now I'm sure I'm not a geek! Hahaha they are beautiful as hell!
- Rafael
if you find this picture of these attractive women on this page you are probably a geek...even if you don't read every single comment...including this one.
- Lee Sachs
Some of us geeks know what we're doing with women.
- Tyler Hurst
true dat,, you really can have it all
- Zachary Adam Cohen
from email
Oh, how gorgeous. You've got to love that Ipod design.
- James Kuypers
I can tell the way the Hottie on da Right is looking at me that she really likes ME a lot!!!
- Billy Warhol
@James I hereby award you the true geek award for your spotting of the iPod in this picture. =P (Special mention to the others who said MP3 player) - Silver iPod Nano I would think.
- Travis Koger
Perhaps you need to add this app to your iPhone: http://www.beakerbreakers.com/nerdale...
- Chad McCoskey
from iPhone
Admit it: you told them you were Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Maxwell Kennerly
Two things. 1) Geeks do it better AND 2) they're not sluts... they're leveraging their assets... more power to them
- Ankush Narula
davşan kızlara benziyorlar beaaa.
- Pilot23
Really lol Scoble maybe u had been having 2 much fun @ the racetrack & geeks does attract some attractive wolla
- polou/indigo_bow
Funny old world three attractive women in a fun pose at a launch party and it creates enormous interest? Funny how things never really change in human habits, geek yep that's me but this article made me smile a lot, keep snapping away Robert.
- Ian Wright
If you are writing a disclaimer on a picture, you took at a party, because you don't want to be locked out of the house by your wife, you are a SMART geek:)
- Maryam Scoble
from iPhone
double like for Maryam :D
- Alberto D'Ottavi
+1 Maryam
- imabonehead
Best of day.
- beersage
If you ask them how big their racks are, and you mean rackspace server size, then you are a geek.
- Matt Soreco
If you whip out your iPhone, take their picture, and bring them home .... you're a HOT geek !
- Christopher Yeo
Totally....
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Keep up the good work Scoble! :-)
- Garin Kilpatrick
Heh, love that Maryam commented on this. I miss her and my two buddies. I'm just wondering why TechCrunch doesn't have parties like Monster drinks! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Robert, you'll just have to bring a case or two of Monster to your next TC visit and see what happens.... just make sure the cam is on.
- Jay Cuthrell
Jeez, I must not be geekish at all — *my* first thoughts are all carnal.
- Hieronymus Murphy
Me, I'm a mutant. ;)
- Dennis Jernberg
3 girls 2 cups
- HansVanRock
Only qx...which was your first impulse? I pray for your sake it was to throw down camera & decide where u were going to be in Blonde sandwich. :-)
- Brenda Rothaupt
Disney Is Buying Marvel for $4 Billion - http://laughingsquid.com/disney-...
Ankush Narula, Victor Ganata, Mark Layton and 3 other people liked this
HOLY. CRAP.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh noes. What will happen to the violence and gore?
- Dean Michael Berris
Doesn't Marvel have deals with Universal Studio's?
- Mark Layton
Yes they do. Expect those deals not to be renewed. I imagine we will be seeing Spider-Man and the Hulk at Disney World before too long.
- Evan Brown
@Evan. Thanks, that is what I was thinking. Universal has a majority of rides and venues themed from Marvel. Should be interesting to see what happens there and at the Disney Parks.
- Mark Layton
Outstanding. More summer blockbuster crap that I don't have to watch.
- Big K
Google’s Matt Cutts praises WordPress for SEO - http://www.wordpressphilippines.org/blog...
Mark liked this
Oddly enough reruns of the Screen Savers make for very interesting background noise while working.
Mark and Dean Michael Berris liked this
I get annoyed at software devs who, when asked for estimates, not only assume perfect engineering day but forget they make bad bugs.
Mark liked this
Which is why I stop estimating and just say "I'll do what I can within the week." -- agile is so the way to go in engineering; takes the pressure of the developer from being a good estimator to just being a good engineer.
- Dean Michael Berris
Breaking Up a Traffic Jam! MUST SEE - http://www.metacafe.com/watch...
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Bryan Lee, Shey, Jamaican of FF, Raphael, Raphael and 86 other people liked this
"Sometimes a single driver can vastly improve traffic."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
I always leave a large gap in front of me.
- Michelle Martinez
I think I'll do this from now on
- AJ Batac
I had heard about something like this a while back. I try to do it as much as I can but jackalopes are always cutting in the space. Oh well.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Continue what you are doing Curtis. Don't mind those jackalopeseses
- AJ Batac
This philosophy collapses when you have real gridlock though; if all the lanes are clogged with stopped (or very slow moving) traffic and you try to employ this technique, you just end up pissing off the cars trapped behind you because you are going 5mph while everyone else is going 10.
- Phil G
Try that on british motorways and you'll find forty lorries and assorted 4x4's filling the intervening space. Most traffic jams would be avoided (except where sheer volume of traffic is the cause) if everyone left a two-second gap between them and the car in front - whatever speed they're doing - and don't brake unnecessarily
- Slappy Line
It's simply courteous and defensive driving. There should be space between cars for safety. And there's no reason to close ranks to not allow others in. We're all going in the same direction with the same goal. If you'd like others to be courteous, always be courteous yourself.
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Living in LA has totally colored how I drive now. I remember going back home to SD to see my folks and I was agog at how much more aggressive I'd become. :(
- Derrick
It's not cheating, it's just optimal timing :-)
- Todd Hoff
It's the rocket scientist like this that causes wrecks behind him and road rage. Slower traffic keep right is the law (for good reason). He demonstrates why he should stay in the far right lane, go about his business, and stop trying to "fix all of the traffic around him". What an ego.
- Robert Kenney
the most important part is really the end, where he says how this style of driving is actually calming and altruistic instead of infuriating and selfish.... geez, if everything felt that way we'd have less problems once people got out of their car, all frustrated and pissy.
- Ňicķ
Simple math.
- Mike Reynolds
Moral of the story. DON'T DRIVE LIKE A PRICK!
- Darren Heydon
This is absolutely brilliant. I think I just found a pick of the week and it's only Tuesday.
- Josh Haley
This is the dude who did the zero cost steadycam using a tripod. Good stuff.
- Rodfather
I gotta check that out, Rodfather. I could put a steadycam to work. http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to...
- Josh Haley
Actually, on British motorways they have variable speed limits (for example, on the M25 around London). They found out that, if they lower the speed limit (sometimes as low as 20-30 MPH), they can keep traffic moving; however, if they keep the speed limit high, they get a seriously bad traffic jam. It was interesting to watch.
- Mistletoe Glen
I received a 404 error. There seems to be a traffic jam on the server as well.
- Louis Trapani
from iPhone
It's kind of obvious.. stop and go causes problems (and wrecks), even if it does take you longer, it doesn't FEEL longer because you aren't gas/break/gas/break, so less stressful drive. On the flip side, you think this guy driving slow (and not keeping the traffic pace) will cause someone else to slam him in the rear?
- Tim Hoeck
It might cause more disruption with cars behind him moving into the other lane to pass him. Honestly, I can't stand drivers who leave a huge gap in front during a traffic jam. Josh, it's basically just extending a tripod and holding it in the middle :) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Rodfather
Interesting: "Governor Bush vetoed 2005 SB732, which would have reserved the left lane for passing, saying that drivers blocking the left lane are 'cautious and careful.'" - from "State keep right laws" http://www.mit.edu/~jfc...
- Micah Wittman
So, his basic tactic, albeit in a single lane, is similar to what I see highway patrol officers do when they want to SLOW DOWN traffic -- the highway patrol car swerves back and forth from fast to left to right lane and back and forth, lights ablazing, effectively doing two things -- creating a BIG GAP between the cop car and the rest of the traffic in front of him, and second SLOWS...
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- Pete Delucchi
A few people already mentioned it above, but let me also say that this technique will not work in heavily trafficked roads. I've spent time in cities like Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Bangkok and you just can't leave a large gap between you and the car in front of you. First they will get filled by other cars really really quickly, and second you will just piss off the cars behind you.
- Andre P. Siregar
My wife and I debate this, because I sometimes do this myself. Stop and go traffic seems silly, when throughput would be higher if people left enough space between cars to absorb some of the braking. The website at http://trafficwaves.org/ is interesting, especially the link to http://www.ur.umich.edu/0304... that claims single-lane jams would be radically reduced if >=20% of cars had adaptive cruise control.
- Matt Cutts
Meh. I just do whatever gets me to my destination fastest #aggressivedriver
- LANjackal
kinda like why people are requested to exit in an orderly fashion during a fire. The only hindrance to this is getting over the feeling of being taken advantage of by the jackasses who ignore the order. But no pain no gain and you have to live with that for the greater good.
- vijay
I practice a type-A version of this in non-stop-and-go traffic, I'd call "driving Parkour", basically, I tend to drive over the speed limit, but I leave large gaps, and when I need to slow down, I avoid hitting my brakes and try to led friction/drag slow my car down before I have to hit my breaks. I look far ahead and try to plot out if I need to switch lanes in order to maintain speed...
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- Ray Cromwell
Clarkson eluded to this in his unique crass manner, don't brake and drive clever. Save everyone money.
- Toby Graham
the biggest cause of traffic jams are the idiots who don't get in lane and bimble along in the middle lane without any plan to actually overtake anyone. I've seen people when there has been nothing on the inside lane and yet they won't pull into it as they should. This is even more obvious when you consider that articulated lorries aren't allowed to drive in the outside lane, meaning...
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- alphaxion
( ++ alphaxion for 'bimble'. Loving that :D )
- vijay
The roads imho would be better if more drove this way. I was, however, waiting for some kind of shocking thing to happen in the video.
- Rob Schieber
I agree ashish. I "liked" this just so I could watch it later on my laptop. shouldn't have to do that.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
This is actually an impressive use of game theory/backward induction to determine an optimal strategy. If this guy isn't a mathematician or work for the highway department, he should be.
- Mark Trapp
i do the same here in Rome/Italy since 1998
- alex
Well we can't get people not to talk hands free or text while driving, so I have to think it has to be impossible to get people to adopt/understand.
- Matt Soreco
Great to see this taken up again - I've been doing this since I first read his site years ago...
- Kevin Marks
I always keep lot of room in front of my car for my safety but I think it takes lot of room and creates longer line.
- ashish
While the line may be longer the actual distance you travel isn't any greater; you use less gas; your breaks will last longer; you're less likely to be involved in a crash and in fact it has an almost negligible affect on your travel time. Yes it is "slower" but on my 50 mile commute the difference is maybe a couple of minutes.
- Eoghann Irving
I agree Eoghann Irving. Wish everybody thought like this.
- ashish
+1 Pete Delucchi. I do agree it's probably better for your mental health to drive this way. Assuming you don't mind the "insult" of everybody cutting into to your lane.
- Matsis
Drivers behind me may get annoyed but there is always room at the front ;)
- ashish
I used to drive like this, until my commute changed to one that had more traffic lights. Then I realized that letting cars in front of me didn't make 1 second per car difference, it could make 10's of minutes, because I'd often miss traffic light cycles. I wish it wasn't the case - I guess it's going to depends on your commute.
- Nick Lothian
for the most part this will work; unless you're in the NYC area or such.
- clarke thomas
Glen, unfortunately, variable speed limits on the motorways here in the UK don't actually work as well as you might think. During heavy traffic, most drivers look up at the sign as it changes from 50 to 40 and think "If only". The other problems are the speed cameras in those areas - we have two types. To avoid being caught by the normal cameras, drivers zoom between cameras at 80+mph...
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- Slappy Line
Call this my FriendFeed experiment -- I'll try using FriendFeed more than Twitter and see where this goes.
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That's funny, cause I've been using Twitter more as an experiment. I still love FriendFeed more, though.
- Robert Scoble
you will end up using ff all the time.
- Alpay Erturkmen
you guys and your experiments
- Mark
what is your hypothesis ?
- Mark
I just realised that I am more of a Twitter guy. Got to the API limit several times already! LOL.
- Anton Dominique Cruz
My hypothesis is that FriendFeed offers a better experience than Twitter. And I think it's been verified already.
- Dean Michael Berris
I have been using FF more and more, but it will never reach the status of Twitter. It's just too busy for what people want.
- Spencer
I am to so much peace using FF than Twiter - maybe the clarity
- Khuram Hussain
I did the same try 3 months ago and now FrF is my fav ) I use Twitter only for FrF-less friends or Twi "threads" that include number of users. I see Frf much more comfortable and efficient
- massagin
Google Wave Preview Opens to the Public on September 30th - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Yippee!!
- Kol Tregaskes
Can't wait
- Matt Ruiz
At last!
- Usman Bashir
Yeha!
- Fatih Taşkıran
This is so going to work in the classroom! I'm excited.
- Miss Elle
And Google Rocks! :p
- Fırat DEMİREL
Just forewarning - the public will be overwhelmed. It's too much to launch with, IMO - way too many features. (I'm in the developer sandbox preview)
- Jesse Stay
@Jesse Thanx 4 the forewarning I kind of have that feeling when the video presentation presents itself it will take a while to look around its features. I always take my time to test features
- polou/indigo_bow
I expect a steep learning curve. I've barely started learning about GReader, for that matter. Still, I'll be there when Wave launches, for sure.
- Dennis Jernberg
Anil Dash said it best http://dashes.com/anil...
- Mac64
Unless they fix up a lot between now and then people are going to be very, very surprised (not in a good way!). Release early, release often is great, but I'm not sure people's expectations are realistic.
- Nick Lothian
Let's see what it's like then. Thanks for the info.
- Rick Cogley
OMFG
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Great now how long till Google buys Twitter to integrate it into Wave
- Rob Cairns
Rob, there is already a Twitter extension called Twave that integrates Twitter into GWave.
- Kol Tregaskes
Rob: I highly doubt that Google will buy Twitter as it doesn't fits any were with their existing products and with its integration with Wave what's the point of buying it.
- Usman Bashir
Usman - they will find a way to leverage it into Wave or another product.. I really believe Google is going going to make a big splash with Wave and they will have some big surprises in store. Google is not King of the cloud for a reason:)
- Rob Cairns
I've been secretly hoping that FFers, through one of our A-lister friends, would be reached out to for early invitation. Sept 30 is sooo far away!
- jcunwired
Thank Heavens for Google!! Every Computer User owes Google a Huge Thank U for FREEing us all from the Shackles of Greedy Monopolistic Crappy Microsoft* ;))
- Billy Warhol
oooh, I can't wait for this!:)
- Patrik Johansson
I watched the video. So exactly what kind of beast Google Wave is? A social media platform? Can it aggregate as well as FriendFeed? Looks awesome to me. More like a tsunami. lols
- jan geronimo
bump due to duplicate
- Zee.
Hehe, delete the dups, Zee. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
i did didn't i?
- Zee.
I'll bump this again. Sorta disturbing that the the Scoble "look at me, I'm part of this" thread has garnered more attention than this. WAVE offers more promise at this point.
- Mattb4rd
Whoohoo - I am really looking forward to Google Wave - great news - thanks Zee.
- Robert Freeze
A Google executive told me that something cooler than Wave is yet to come this year. OK now I am interested! But I am tortured. What is it?
Malte Steckmeister, Kevin Brew, Peter and 140 other people liked this
That does peak my curiosity!
- Kevin Whalen
You are a cruel, cruel man. Now we're all tortured
- Keith Barrett
There going to buy friendfeed.
- Shaun Hess
Yea. I feel like your friendfeed pic, not being able to figure what it is.
- Lakshman Prasad
Must be pretty big.. very curious!!
- Allan Jones
Geocities 2.0!
- pourmecoffee
Maybe Google Chrome OS earlier than expected?
- Manuel Mas
I wonder what that could be.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
So they're already giving up on wave?
- Colin
What is your Friendfeed picture anyway? I'm slightly confused.
- Hunt
Whatever it is, Apple/AT&T will not allow it on the iPhone :o
- Kevin Whalen
How can they be advertising something cooler than Wave when Wave isn't even out yet?
- Lise
Colin: no. Wave is very important to Google.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Wave 2.0?
- TheHenry
I think I know, but I'm not allowed to say because it would violate an NDA.
- Bryan Bartow
It's Google Surfboard - a wave add-on
- Keith Barrett
Bryan: in that case do you agree?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Wave is going to be awesome. Waiting on my sandbox access.. it will redefine communications on the net!
- Tim Hoeck
Or how about Google Wave: Pacific.
- TheHenry
Depends on their implementation of the idea. Personally, I'm more excited about Wave based on what I know about the two, which I admit is very little.
- Bryan Bartow
I have a Wave sandbox, and it IS awesome! The announcement has to be related to the new OS or android
- Keith Barrett
Keith, if it's what I'm talking about then it is neither.
- Bryan Bartow
Bryan: hummmmm. Now I'm more tortured
- Keith Barrett
In the interest of full disclosure, my information is two levels removed from the source. Google -> vendor -> me. Still, I trust the source and when the idea was told to me it sounded very plausible.
- Bryan Bartow
I hope it's Google Base integration with Open Social widgets!
- Mitch
A bit bigger than that, Mitch ;)
- Bryan Bartow
@manuel I just came back from Win7 ship party and i am astonished that how many man years does it take make a OS.
- Ruchit Garg
My team was actually asked to work on the project, but we unfortunately had to decline. It definitely would have been a cool project.
- Bryan Bartow
Ruchit: I understand, just speculating. Yet considering it sounds like a Linux distro running Chrome, it does not sound all that impossible.
- Manuel Mas
Maybe its the ability to call up contacts list when composing a message. That would be groundbreaking. :/
- jcunwired
Google Heath integration with Orkut?
- Mitch
@Bryan: Is it a Netbook with Chrome OS with all the Google Apps built in. Something like a GPad?
- Abhishek Tiwari
Chrome OS wouldn't be a real surprise. Even a Linux distro by Google wouldn't be a shock. Wonder what it could be... hmm...
- ChristianWV
killer than wave??? how many of you think google wave is a path breaking one?????
- hariharan kumar
Should be considerably easy for Google to accomplish since Wave is vaporware to the overwhelming majority of web users - even savvy ones who know about it.
- Chris Duffy
cool is always relative. I have learned not to get too excited. It may be cool for you but not me.
- Phillip Miller
I think you mean subjective
- Mitch
hate you. :)
- metalerik
It's going to be an anti-aging skin cream. It will be called the G-formula.
- Tomy Thomson
What about the Google Docs interface overhaul? http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009... With the possibilities of GDrive ...
- Kevin Mohr
Wave seems like another Orkut to me, so it wouldn't surprise me if there is something better coming.
- Cristo
Google AdSense on the new Coca-Cola Freestye soda dispensers?
- RAD Moose
@Abhishek Nope. Not hardware related if it's what I'm thinking.
- Bryan Bartow
I'd be willing to bet it is mobile-related.
- LogEx
Google shoul create a highly robust social media platform that integrates Google's products: profiles, mail, calendars, chat, voice, picassa, blogger, gReader, search, latitude, maps - that is what I would build :)
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
add Wave too, of course
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I'm just going to call it gootopia (or should it be googtopia. hmm)
- Micah Wittman
from iPhone
Susan, I think that is happening already, bit by bit. Every month there are new capabilities and integration points. I'm optimistic on that front.
- LogEx
Interactive TV? :P
- imabonehead
I was dreaming about getting access to wave now something new and better?!!!
- Mostafa Lameei
Mostafa: There's always something new and better coming from every front.
- Manuel Mas
Logical - Google product integration has way more potential than they have currently in production now. I see layers of useful and revenue generating features and improvents. The potential roadmap I see for this is highly disruptive and needed.
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
If I had to guess, I would say 1) some type of Youtube Appliance (=Apple TV done right) or 2) Google News 3.0 (shifting from news to a discovery engine). The TV thing is probably bigger and somewhere they have a big competitive advantage with Youtube.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
USB plug in directly to right ear download contents of mental zipper - ready to upload to friends
- PookyMedia
Another big opportunity besides realtime communication is media streaming so my guess is a Silverlight-like (RIA) platform with special focus on adjustments dependent on the device used for consuming and open enough that augmented reality innovations will play nice with current "standard" codecs
- Alberto Saavedra
Google TV!!! Yes!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
Google Web Drive, under the "Cosmo" codename. Read Blogoscoped or GOS. I think Ionut told me he expects Cosmo to be launch before Sept.
- Jérôme Flipo
from iPhone
Google Web Drive would be cooler, in a way..ve.
- Nick Humphries
Antimatter Wave, aka Wavenot™
- ianf ⌘
Google buying FF?!! but something big too big have will for sure have a relation with Google voice.
- abdellah
A time machine?
- Allen Eskelin
"Google buying FF" - Noooooo! It will just get killed like some of the other high profile acquisitions they have made.
- Travis Koger
@Allen I love the concept, @Travis google killed the app that were at their first stage of development, FF is 85% finished (mean completed) the rest 5% will be user innovation, so even if Google buy FF they will not change a line in the code or the architecture.now who is the firt to like this post?!! what did Greader this week? who from Greader left the office to go to FF? too many question!!
- abdellah
but let be clear, all the above are just speculation.
- abdellah
Nope Abdellah. Cosmo have been mentionned numerous times in official docs and in the code of some apps.
- Jérôme Flipo
from iPhone
@Jerome havn't understand what do you mean by Cosmo
- abdellah
I think it's called "hype."
- Carlos Eberhardt
It has to be quantum computing. all computation done outside of time and space.
- Walter Logeman
I'm thinking Google Chrome with Native Client for super fast rendering of web applications (including Wave).
- George Moga
Introducing Google Goo: Making the web squishy, coming late 2009.
- DGentry
Won't be hard to be cooler than Wave. Yes, I'm not a big Wave fan: way too noisy, messy, unusable... Maybe I'll change my mind in the future but for now, I still don't get what we'll do with this stuff and I don't buy the idea.
- Pascal Thivent
Okay, here are my predictions. First, let me say that being cooler than Wave will be quite hard because that's pretty awesome (do you have sandbox access Pascal? Because I'm sure that will change your mind). (1) Google TV - Never mentioned anywhere officially and would definitely be cooler than most others, however VEVO is somewhat similar. (2) GDrive/Cosmo/whatever they call it - would...
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- Californian
Google World Domination?
- Amit Morson
This churn in applications wears me out! Where do you get the energy?
- ZuDfunck
The amount of web-based applications being delivered from Google is amazing. There is so much potential in Google voice apps, Google Wave, which will put their social apps on steroids and now an OS. If they can leverage their brand and fan base into these other verticals; they will be a force to reckoned with and a huge target for anti-trust regulators...
- Mark Harai
Google Cloud. In your pocket, on your desk, embedded ---anywhere, anytime at anyprice.
- Thom Kennon
Wow Thom - that actually does sound VERY cool...
- Mark Harai
I'm interested too!!
- Alex Hammer
Probably something to do with a more direct Windows competition. If you look at Google's recent products, many of them are meant to replace Microsoft products.
- William Mougayar
from iPhone
A multi-platform OS is the only thing in my mind that could top Wave. Can't wait to find out for sure though what this will be!
- Garin Kilpatrick
I bet it's the Gdrive after I've just paid for an extra 10GB storage on Google. Would be cool to be able to access all my files from any google app, so I could add a picture from picassa webalbum or embed a video of mine/ favourited without having to go to the other site and copy a URL. This would set it up nicely for google OS
- Steven Horner
from iPhone
It's a kind of gyro balanced 2-wheel personal transportation device, IT will change everything. The way we live, the way cities are built.
- Ray Cromwell
Crazy. I wonder if it will read my mind and stream content related to my thoughts in real-time.
- Dane
What!? Cooler than Wave. I'll give my left nut to find out what & to be a tester.
- Brian Felix
from iPhone
Whatever it is, I'm sure IT WILL BE BIGGER THAN THE INTERNETS!
- Andy Bakun
It is a Google-branded reality distortion field developed in collaboration with Apple. The reality distortion field prototype is so strong that Eric Schmidt was forced to resign from the Apple board of directors, lest his field encounter that of Steve Jobs reulting in mutual annihilation in a devastating burst of pure energy.
- thegeniusfiles
That's a really interesting idea, Gabe. It seems to go a bit against the drive that Google Apps will reduce the need for IT departments though, so I doubt it.
- Californian
Google will be hiring people to come to your house and physically direct your searches.
- Chris Baskind
This photo search thing?
- Michael Q Todd
Google has created an OFF button for the internet and will demonstrate their magic later this year. After that, Google will solidify the world under one government known as the Google Wave Party. Then, SkyNet will be born and we will all be shocked and amazed when Google Androids storm through our neighborhoods, killing us all.
- Bradley Farless
More exciting than Wave. Has got to be Tsunami
- Sidharth Dassani
Cloud ships could cancel out effects of global warming this century for £5.3bn - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...
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"A wind-powered fleet of nearly 2,000 ships would criss-cross the sea, sucking up sea water and spraying it upwards through tall funnels."
- mridul
from Bookmarklet
Tweetie Desktop for Mac Is Clean, Simple and Robust - http://www.louisgray.com/live...
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Prediction: Twitter will buy Tweetie.
- Mike Doeff
Okay I'll admit, I'm looking forward to this. Tweetdeck was just way too much for me, but Twitteriffic is getting a bit long in the tooth.
- Kevin Fox
Looks nice. Much better than what I have last seen from Twitteriffic.
- Meryn Stol
I also think people will like to have the same (or similar) UI on iphone and mac.
- Meryn Stol
I am torn between the multi-column Nambu (which has translate feature) and the more minimalist (but with plenty features under the covers) Tweetie. Am sticking with Tweetie for a few days to give it a chance, since Nambu has been a big favourite for a while.
- Bob Walder
Bob: I like the "take over your screen" approach of TweetDeck better. Why? I have a whole computer dedicated to running it. Nambu is interesting, but I got used to TweetDeck and didn't see much of a reason to switch.
- Robert Scoble
Mike: Don't think Twitter will ever buy a client. Especially one without a Windows component. Robert: I really like Nambu so far. I've never really gotten into Tweetdeck, something about the UI is weird. Tweetie looks pretty cool but the lack of groups is a huge problem for me.
- Brandon Titus
I prefer desktop applications for almost everything, but I thought I was in the minority on that. Everyone seems more interested in web-based mail/IM, but dedicated applications for Twitter are so often trumpeted. I'm not sure what to think about that, but I know I'd like to see a really nice application for XMPP(does Twitter still support this?) and SIP that is extensible. AIR is a memory hog, so Tweetdeck et al. are not acceptable.
- coldbrew
What about setting up groups (re:Tweetdeck) so you can organize your twitter feed? That seems like that is the one thing that is missing.
- Amani
Leather, OAuth is still *very* beta. I have a hard enough time with the stuff Twitter has that's not in beta, but until we can expect not to have the code changed every week it doesn't make sense to implement OAuth. It's still very buggy.
- Jesse Stay
Stay: Say what you will, but my understanding is that Twitter's OAuth is 'textbook' with respect to the spec. Not sure past experience is relevant in this context.
- coldbrew
Regarding the lack of groups. From what I've seen @atebits holds values in certain things (e.g. defaulting to via: rather than RT). However he did make RT an option in the end, so perhaps he'll do the same for groups? Anyway. I'm looking forward to this - anything to get away from AIR apps, though I use Twitterfall most of the time anyway.
- Jalada
Robert: I have a big thing against Air (and other such "bloat tools"), so would always choose a native app like Nambu or Tweetie. If you opt for the multi-column mode of Nambue (and you can choose a more "Tweetie-fied" look if you prefer) then you get something that looks (to me) a lot like Tweetdeck and certainly fills your monitor
- Bob Walder
I'm looking forward to this app. I like Nambu but I'm always looking for something new.
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
I, like many others, love Nambu. Since Nambu is already thinking ahead and planning for future FriendFeed support, I think I'll keep using it. :)
- EricaJoy
Sharing on FriendFeed from the command line
Mike Chelen, lemuel, Alfredo and 83 other people liked this
i hope this is a picture of the actual command line that you used to submit this post, leading to much back and forth writing of command line, photo editing, and then pressing return back in the terminal :)
- Alex Gawley
It's mostly the actual command line (the fist posts went to a test account). There wasn't too much back and forth because osx numbers screen shots sequentially, so I knew what was coming next. Here's the code: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2008...
- Paul Buchheit
sips: that's some sort of mac thing?
- ⓞnor
Sips seems to be the only image scaling program installed by default on the macs (and imagemagick is kind of hard to find, when last I tried).
- Paul Buchheit
cool
- xiaoxiao
Friendfeed is blocked in my company. I think the web filter out there is screwing up. What to do? Can I do something?
- pankaj
If FriendFeed is blocked in your company, get back to work as they obviously don't want you checking it while on the clock or off.
- Sam Levine
pankaj, see: http://rdr.to/0EX
- Goran Zec
haha nice!
- Jay
Very nice!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
I still like making my Mac talk
- Outsanity
Ubercool =)
- Ozkan Altuner
THAT is GEEKY!
- Asbjørn Mikkelsen
Official Gmail Blog: New in Labs: Undo Send - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
HealingBrush, Renchin(Reina), Darren and 74 other people liked this
Undo send. We're going to add some longer time options.
- Keith Coleman
from Bookmarklet
haha i just did that mistake. accidentally send an email. ah i wish i had that feature 1 hour ago!
- Eren Emre Kanal
That's a BIG Feature!
- directeur
Sanjeev will finally be happy!
- Bay Chang
Yes I am!
- Private Sanjeev
I could have used this a few times when I was working at the G!;-)
- John Piscitello
this is awesome ... at this point everyone should be using gmail!
- Jay
@Paul Thanks for your original blog post on undo -- It came at a time I was trying to convince some that a 5 second delay would bring way more value than it would harm. It was nice to be able to say, "Well, Paul thinks so."
- Michael Leggett
i just used this for the first time a little bit ago. it was awesome!
- Dustin
It's very cool. I just used undo on a message I sent in 2002 and now I have my old job back. Thanks gmail! :-)
- Kelly Norton
@Kelly Undo Send only let's you undo for 5-10 sec after you send the message. What you want is our Custom Time feature - http://mail.google.com/mail... :)
- Michael Leggett
@Michael :)
- minus-one
You could always use http://www.deferredsender.com if you want a time window of more than 5-10s
- Deepak Jois
I've been waiting for this for a long time.
- Benjamin Golub
@Michael Leggett Unfortunately, that won't work either. It will only undo as far back as April 1, 2004!
- Anne Bouey
For use this function, I changed my Gmail from Japanese to English version.
- Renchin(Reina)
Staying up way too late writing a blog post prompted by Doug Bowman's. 1,500 words later and I've lost what my point is. Maybe tomorrow.
Bindu Reddy, Louis Gray, Josh Haley and 2 other people liked this
I resemble this remark.
- AJ Kohn
I would like to see it, whether or not there is a crisp thesis.
- ⓞnor
I for one embrace Kevin as our new blogging overlord.
- Louis Gray
The Amazing Rusting Aluminum | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/scitech...
Andrei M. Marinescu, Kevin D. White, Mark and 13 other people liked this
"Applied to aluminum’s surface, mercury will infiltrate the metal and disrupt its protective coating, allowing it to “rust” (in the more destructive sense) continuously by preventing a new layer of oxide from forming. The aluminum I-beam above rusted half away in a few hours, something that would have taken an iron beam years."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
(tying it all together) So if I accidentally break a CFC bulb with my aluminum macbook, it's going to get some big glaring rust pits?
- Kevin Fox
I *so* want to see a time-lapse video of this!
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
im not sure their numbers are right and it would probably require quite a lot of mercury - ive tried it will gallium and the aluminum will then react with water but the whole piece doesnt become instantly reactive (it was also interesting to see it diffusing through the aluminum foil - slowly i might add)
- bob
"Unless you are a representative of a national meteorological bureau licensed to carry a barometer (and odds are you’re not), bringing mercury onboard an airplane is strictly forbidden. Why? If it got loose, it could rust the plane to pieces before it had a chance to land. You see, airplanes are made of aluminum, and aluminum is highly unstable."
- Clare Dibble
Kind of an interesting exception.
- Clare Dibble
Don't try this on the new Mac Books!
- Ray Cromwell
@Clare I'm shudder to think what the TSA would do if they caught me trying to board a plane with an unlicensed barometer.
- Kevin D. White
Why IBM Should Buy Sun: Cloud Services - http://gigaom.com/2009...
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Utility -> Grid -> Cloud ... -> Vapor
- TranceMist
Just keep Sun's zembly service alive!
- Francois
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