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Functional code != Good code

August 16 at 1:14 pm - Link

I think it is especially tempting for Java folks to get enamored with using functional paradigms and start using them indiscriminately. - Michael Galpin

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mathschallenge.net

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Develop AJAX applications like the pros, Part 3: Use DWR, Java, and the Dojo Toolkit to integrate Java and JavaScript

August 5 at 7:17 am - Link

The third article in a series that I wrote on popular Ajax frameworks. - Michael Galpin

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Develop AJAX applications like the pros, Part 3: Use DWR, Java, and the Dojo Toolkit to integrate Java and JavaScript

August 5 at 7:17 am - Link

The third article in a series that I wrote on popular Ajax frameworks. - Michael Galpin

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The unary ampersand in Ruby

July 29 at 2:04 pm - Link

Procs, blocks and lambdas in Ruby. - Michael Galpin

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New Facebook: Popups? Errors? Content-less?

July 29 at 8:06 am - Link

Notice some of the same things with the new Facebook. Also, I can't add new apps. They go into an infinite loop. - Michael Galpin

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Type-safe Builder Pattern in Scala

July 23 at 5:41 pm - Link

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Very cool use of many features of Scala. - Michael Galpin

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Give Apache Geronimo a Lift

July 22 at 8:29 am - Link

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Article I wrote for IBM on using Scala's web framework, Lift to create web apps for Geronimo. - Michael Galpin

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Give Apache Geronimo a Lift

July 22 at 7:48 am - Link

Article I wrote on using Scala's Lift web framework to create web applications that can be deployed to Apache Geronimo. - Michael Galpin

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throw null

July 20 at 9:55 am - Link

Any blog post that concludes with Neal Gafter commenting that this is a bug that he introduced in Java 5 is pretty cool. - Michael Galpin

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Adobe Reader 9 Now Shipping With AIR Bundled

July 18 at 1:21 pm - Link

Missed this a couple of weeks ago. Hope Adobe doesn't cry foul when MS uses this same technique to put Silverlight on every Windows machine. - Michael Galpin

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“Being smart is overvalued in our society. Creating and executing on that intelligence foundation is what we should value.”

July 13 at 10:43 am - Link

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I totally don't agree. Being a hot movie star or a great athlete is what society values. I don't see scientists on "American Idol" do you? - Robert Scoble

Robert: Think in the long term picture. Who was Time's Man of the Century? What is our reaction when we talk about Galileo, Picasso, Edison, and Watson? Celebrities come and go, but leaders, inventors, and visionaries stay for centuries. We will remember Bill Gates's name long after we have forgotten about Angelina Jolie. - Ben Parr

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"Being smart is overvalued in our society" - s/read "Being smart is UNDER valued in our society" - Peter Dawson

"Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead" Robert Lynd - Dave Martin

I would take being smart over being Angelina. You are only looking at the immediate ramifications. being smart does not get you anything without the application of shrewdness. Society rewards beauty first, but eventually punishes it as well: Britney Spears syndrom, and Sharon Tate. The book "Accursed Share" deals with sacrifice. Great Brains are not necessarily beneficial to the human gene pool. - Noah David Simon

Peter: My point is that there are millions of smart people who do nothing with their gifts. You can be smart, but it's worthless if you don't apply that strength to change lives, to change the world. - Ben Parr

No, I think Scoble is right. A lot more people have heard of Elvis Presley or Babe Ruth than Galileo, Picasso (artistic talent and intelligence are very different BTW), Edison, and Watson combined. Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods will be remembered much longer than Bill Gates. - Michael Galpin via twhirl

different forms of intelligence should complement one another. for example, being simply book smart exposes one's emotional intelligence, or lack thereof. it's how one channels that knowledge that counts. - Cee Bee

oh now your knocking Picasso? Einstein beat his wife Michael. Picasso was a genius that had nothing to do with the quality of his painting technique. - Noah David Simon

Michael: Can you name an Olympian from the Greek era? Now can you name a Greek philosopher? You still make a great point, though - perhaps Jordan will be remembered far after Gates. - Ben Parr

chances are that Hercules, Achiles and the rest were great physical bodies Ben. Plato is nothing in name compared to Hercules. - Noah David Simon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Noah David Simon

Noah: Now we get into religion, and there's nothing that can beat its value in society today. No person has had a greater impact on the modern era than Jesus of Nazareth. When someone is raised into the status of religious figure (like Hercules the son of a god and a human), they become nearly immortal as long as the human race still exists. - Ben Parr

I was working in a Psychologist's office (honest, I was working, not providing work) when I came across an article that discrimination against stupid people -- those of lower than average IQ -- was far too acceptable in our societies. Athletes, screen hogs, smart people, stupid people...who REALLY gets slighted the most? - MiniMage via NoiseRiver

Great idea: Warren Buffet's sentiment: to paraphrase: "I'd much rather be associated with people that use a higher quotient via work and application of their 150 horsepower brain capacity than someone who uses 20% of their 300 horsepower brain capacity...its much more appealing for various reasons". Its ironic some on here missed the point of your idea. - james svenson

Mohammad would of kicked Jesus's hippie ass. never the less. Helenism was a very long lasting religion. Time will tell when it comes to religious avatars. My religion doesn't depend on man. - Noah David Simon

Disagree, Robert. Movie stars and sports are like the weather, info about them is ubiquitous and it is easy to have an opinion / speculate. It makes for lazy conversation, which in some ways is good in that it gets us talking to one another. It can even lead to more substantive conversation. That's really all they are to us. Easy conversation. That is why they fall so hard -- we really don't value them. Science, tech, politics, culture are still thing that matter very much and are highly valued -- just harder to have a lazy chat about. - Christian Anderson via fftogo

being curious is even less valued unfortunately. - sergiooo

Hercules is a damn Disney movie... where is Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? usually associated with gay porn - Noah David Simon

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Most web frameworks are broken

July 13 at 9:33 am - Link

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It's not web frameworks per se, but templating. It is a consequence of trying to make "programming" and "string replacement" equivlaent - Michael Galpin via twhirl

Totally agreed - templating languages gradually inherit features from programming languages, ultimately becoming a poor programming language in their own right with an impedance mismatch with their 'host' language. Instead of solving a problem, several new ones are created. - Robin Barooah

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“Did I miss something or has Twitter been pretty reliable all weekend?”

July 13 at 9:24 am - Link

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I think pretty reliable all week. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver

Pretty reliable for the past couple of weeks. - Mathew Ballard

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Surprisingly reliable, plus the API's request limit has been raised to 100 / hr.. - embee

Twitter traffic is much lower on weekends anyways, a weekend outage would come from semi-scheduled maintenance that goes awry - Michael Galpin via twhirl

Must have been that recent funding from Amazon. - Michael Narciso via NoiseRiver

am i the only one who hasn't had a functioning "older" button for most of the past week? Any suggestions for a workaround would be welcome. - Virginia

I also noticed there's less Twitter traffic than on workdays. - imabonehead

yes it was... it is getting better. things change. - Noah David Simon

That's good news! - Jay Martin

That is why I use friendfeed and plurk - Matt Rider

might be reliable, but at least @AmandaChapel isn't on friendfeed. it is so nice to be rid of her - Noah David Simon

still, the gtalk bot doesn't work!! - Jansen Lu

Twitter's ROCKING atm. The api limit has been lifted.. It's all good. Aside from the IM bot :| - Brad McCrorey

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Don't forget about Google Browser Sync!

July 10 at 7:46 am - Link

Have you looked at Mozilla Weave? It's a browser sync replacement and it's under active development. http://labs.mozilla.com/projec... - Robin Barooah

Thanks for the pointer. I have not tried it, but it sure looks promising. I talked to the guys at Flock awhile back about doing something just like this. I hated having to synchro all the Flock settings (flickr, youtube, blogger, delicious, etc.) between Flock installs on different computers. - Michael Galpin

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Apache Geronimo on Grails

July 10 at 7:46 am - Link

This is the latest article I've written for IBM. It was a lot of fun to write about Grails. I am eager to see it running on the DaVinci JVM that Sun is working on. - Michael Galpin

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The Slip download map

June 27 at 8:42 pm - Link

How many artists even know what KML is? - Michael Galpin

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Egos and assholes

June 27 at 4:14 pm - Link

What does it feel like to be the best in the world at something? I sure don't know, so I'll have to ask Terry next time I'm in the city. - Michael Galpin

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Scala vs. Java Performance

June 19 at 2:10 am - via Reshare - Link

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Little did I know this little question would end up being the subject of multiple blog posts! Ha! Nice analysis too. - Dick Wall

What did you use for those wonderful charts? Is it a web API somewhere, or as I suspect, some Mac OS X application I have not heard of? - Dick Wall

Just Excel '08 on the Mac. I was going to use Numbers, but did not see X-Y charts on it. - Michael Galpin

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Datacenter Fire Causes Persai Outage

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Cradlepoint CTR500 Personal Wi-Fi Hotspot Mobile EVDO Router

June 12 at 5:25 pm - Link

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We Made It!

June 9 at 4:09 pm - Link

I got the Twitter is hosed screen right before Stevie J announced the pricing of the new iPhone. Still, kudos to Twitter. - Michael Galpin

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Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Announcing SquirrelFish

June 7 at 10:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"WebKit’s core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish... SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark, SquirrelFish is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter." - Bret Taylor

The interesting thing about this to me is that register-based VMs are clearly being made viable, what with SquirrelFish and Dalvik (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...) showing great results. I first got excited about them back when Parrot (http://www.parrotcode.org/docs...) was announced, but they dropped off the radar for a while. - DeWitt Clinton

This is the paper to read, mentioned in the SquirrelFish announcement, and commented on by @jcgregorio a moment ago: http://www.sagecertification.o... - DeWitt Clinton

When I read about Java in the late 90s I was surprised they were using a stack instead of a register based VM. Registers just make sense these days. - Amit Patel

I thought the Java folks picked a stack-based bytecode for compactness, not speed, since the original target was embedded/mobile devices. - Jim Norris

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Are Academic Journals Obsolete?

June 8 at 6:32 pm - Link

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It's fine to follow the same rigorous process, but put your paper on the net and make it freely available and searchable. Are you trying to make money off of it or spread your ideas as far and wide as possible? - Bob Lee

Most people aren't in it for the glory either, but to have other like-minded people review and evaluate their ideas for potential flaws and problems. If they want an idea spread out to the public for mass consumption, they issue a press release. The peer-review process is the academic equivalent of a spam filter. - Mark Trapp

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That is, you're in it to win it. The large cost involved in subscribing to a peer-reviewed journal is priced for people for whom the cost would be negligible given the commitment to the field of study. The cost is comparable to paying $1,000 for Adobe Creative Suite when you're a designer or a photographer or a Flash developer. No price, no vested interest, and the noise suddenly skyrockets. - Mark Trapp

On top of all that, if you are really interested in the journal's articles, you're probably involved in academia to begin with and can freely get the articles from your University's library. - Mark Trapp

Wait, why does noise skyrocket because more people can *subscribe*? I am very frequently interested in journal articles and pissed off by paywalls. Science is the core of humanity's endeavor to learn more, and that information needs to be available, and not just to the anointed few in universities. Willingness to pay money or membership in an institution are really bad heuristics. - ⓞnor

Nor, think of it this way: if you got to sit in on all of the strategy and staff meetings for Microsoft, Apple, Google, Dell, and every major technology companies, I'm sure you'd hear about a great many wonderous things that, when taken out of the context of a background in the technologies they are talking about (like, for example, all the meetings preceding them), paint a completely different picture of what's really going on. - Mark Trapp

The cost of entry (and it's really time, not money) is so high for academia to force you to go back and spend the time to make sure you have the proper context and background to participate meaningfully in the discussions being thrown around in peer-reviewed journals. - Mark Trapp

I think I lost my point on this trying to expand on examples: you have two options to show to a peer-reviewed journal you are committed to be responsible in your participation and viewing of the data; either be a part of an academic institution (where you can get the journals for free) or pony up. It's no different than any other field: you can either put in the hard work and build your credibility up, or you can pay to expedite the process. - Mark Trapp

It seems to me that peer reviewing and payment are distinct. Making the peer reviewed research freely available seems like a no-brainer; why should we restrict knowledge? A lot of professors in the CS dept at Stanford retained the right to put PDFs of their papers online independently of the journals, but many still do not, and it pisses me off. Journals are not interactive. Having more people read them does not contribute to "noise." - Bret Taylor

Until online sources are seen as potentially equal with anything in print, academics will have to stick to the printed page. Academia is largely about reputation. I should know, I'm wading through it now. - Zach Landes

I get really concerned about talk of restricting access to people who will be "responsible in viewing of the data". Information is far too valuable to be left in the hands of the experts! What exactly are we worried will happen when the great unwashed masses get their hands on scientific papers, that doesn't already happen when they get their hands on the bowdlerized misconstrued mishmash that gets out in the popular press? - ⓞnor

Bret, you're dealing with people's work: 90% of what appears in a peer-reviewed journal isn't intended for public or mainstream scrutiny. If everyone had to stop and explain away the wrong assumptions and conclusions because there's some public outcry about something someone read in a journal, they wouldn't get any work done. People don't have a right to all information: we as society seem to have no problem with companies holding invite-only conferences, or the fees you have to pay to attend, for e.g. WWDC - Mark Trapp

So why is there an outcry about academic work? It's no different. Zachary, most journals are published online as well, and the peer-review process happens largely over email and such. Nor, sure it does, and that's when you have the press supposedly vouching for their credentials on the fields they report. So why would you want to exacerbate that? - Mark Trapp

Dude, have you been to the Internet lately? It is basically one enormous steaming pile of wrong assumptions and bogus conclusions. Adding some scientific papers, which uneducated people probably won't even bother with (because the language is dense, the format unfamiliar and the conclusions subtle), isn't going to cause some great surge of public ignorance! Public access to information is of TREMENDOUS value, which for example is why we have public libraries. - ⓞnor

Except this isn't some right to public knowledge anymore than Google's product strategy is a right to public knowledge. More often than not, people are coming from privately-funded Universities who have no public obligation. So why are we all of the sudden forcing them to be under public scrutiny? You want to force all the people working for public Universities to make their work freely available? Go ahead, but you need their support. You won't see this great cornucopia of information rush forth. - Mark Trapp

Sure, not all information is free. But scientific knowledge is the cornerstone of human advancement; the Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC is not. Conferences cost money because conference centers are expensive to rent. Web sites are not expensive to run and the scientists aren't getting paid (much, if anything) for writing, reviewing or editing journal articles anyway. - ⓞnor

I don't want to force scientists to make their work public if they really don't want to (though I would like them to, if I am paying their salary with my tax money). But the vast majority of scientists do want open access, it's the journal publishers that erect the barriers. Freedom *does* have the support of the producers, what we lack is the cooperation of the middlemen. - ⓞnor

I argue that this is of NO value to the public good unless you are actively engaged in the field; if you are, you most likely already have access to the information, for free, searchable, online, indexable, whatever else you want. If what is published to a journal is in the public interest, it's a moral imperative that the researcher release a press release and talk about it publicly. Why isn't that enough? Why does every Tom, Dick, and Harry have to be involved in that personal decision? - Mark Trapp

Nor, I think we're mostly on the same wavelength here. I think that's an excuse that scientists make to sugar coat an air of arrogance (in much of the way I'm describing). If a scientist wants to make his research widely available (and it's sufficiently cleared to go through a peer-review process, that is, the scientist isn't under an NDA), there is nothing stopping him. Absolutely nothing. - Mark Trapp

Most academic research is paid for with tax-payer money (DARPA, NIH, NSF). Privately funded university or not, most research money doesn't come from the university itself. I do think professors have an obligation to make research public because that is the purpose of university research: to further human knowledge and understanding. There shouldn't be a bunch of elitists deciding who has the privilege of accessing that knowledge. - Bret Taylor

If the scientist wants to publish his or her research in the journals widely read in the field, they are often contractually prohibited from making their work accessible to the public. - ⓞnor

Bret, I'm hard pressed to name more than a handful of peer-reviewed journals that aren't freely (as in speech) available. You just need to pay a subscription to get them. If you don't want to pay, you need to be attached to a University that subscribes to them. It's not an insurmountable roadblock we're talking about here. - Mark Trapp

The problem is that journals are a big business that brings in a lot of money for publishers. They justify the cost as being a function of small print runs, specialized audiences, and high overhead. But the fact of the matter is that it is in their best interest to maintain a closed, proprietary system that gives them leverage to charge huge sums to universities and libraries rather than open them up to inquiry and knowledge sharing. The irony is that much of science is funded by the federal government, yet the data and information is not open to the public, copyright is given to the publishers and consequently enriches them. There is a movement now towards "open source" publishers such as the Public Library of Science www.plos.org, and the use of "creative commons" licenses: http://connect.educause.edu/Li.... - Nathan Young

Nor, if you can provide some background info on that, I'd love to see it. That's a misconception a lot of people have about the peer-review process, and if journals are actually doing that, they are violating a tremendous code of ethics. - Mark Trapp

I think we have all made our points, so this is my last comment here, but I think payment is a huge barrier. Some of the greatest minds are not at universities and may not have any resources available (people like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...). Any barrier to information is significant. Look at the usage of Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica Online, which was available before IIRC and "just" required a subscription. Free vs. not is a huge, huge barrier. - Bret Taylor

There's another thing about the printed page: its more expensive than the digital page. As a result, there is a barrier to the creation and distribution of printed materials. Part of the validity of a scientific, peer-reviewed journal is in the fact that it is published at all. On the internet, there is nothing to stop someone creating a very official sounding "academic journal" filled with unchecked falsehood. Finally, almost all academic journals are available online, through a subscription database. - Zach Landes

Although technically you sign off all your rights to republish or widely disseminate your papers (and even figures!!) when you publish with most journals, I find that many people skirt this restriction by placing PDFs of their work on their personal or university websites (I know I do :). - Nathan Young

Bret, I see what you're saying. It's a complex issue with many parts, and I think we're all dissatistified with various parts of it. Zachary and Nor: it would be unviable and completely unsatisfactory to a researcher to not be able to discuss his or her work outside the confines of the journal. The journal isn't the only place a researcher gets their credibility. In a lot of cases, yes, they do transfer their copyright to the publisher, but the publisher in turn grants them irrevocable rights to discuss and - Mark Trapp

distribute their work with other parties. - Mark Trapp

Payment is an inconvenient barrier, especially to small businesses who need to access the data. However, sometimes I can get free articles from www.pnas.org and sometimes free articles from industry friends. - Sally Church

The NIH has a new mandate for publishing supported research. Principal investigators must ensure that electronic versions of any peer-reviewed manuscripts arising from NIH funding and accepted for publication after that date are deposited in PubMed Central (PMC), NIH's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. Full text of the articles will then be made freely available to the public no later than 12 months after publication http://grants.nih.gov/grants/g... - Nathan Young

Mark, I'm pretty sure you're missing the point completely. Academic journals charge for only one reason, and it's the same reason as any other business: to make money. If they could make more money by putting their stuff up on the internet for free with ads on it, they'd start tomorrow. They also serve an important gatekeeper function, but it's entirely on the input end: they decide what articles to publish, and edit the articles, and if the journal is any good the people it has do this are.... - j1m

chosen from among the top few dozen people in the field. Once it's published in those journals, it gains the prestige of having been filtered by those top experts, and the journal has done its job. The only reason to charge for the work after that is so you can pay salary (etc). Most academics will tell you they'd rather have their work out from behind pay walls, and disseminated as widely as possible. If nothing else it would stop them from having to respond to the 100s of emails requesting PDFs... - j1m

that a good article gets from scientists at institutions (often in less-wealthy countries, often just not universities) that can't afford to pony up for subscriptions. - j1m

From Nathan's link: "Beginning May 25, 2008, anyone submitting an application, proposal or progress report to the NIH must include the PMC or NIH Manuscript Submission reference number when citing applicable articles that arise from their NIH funded research. This policy includes applications submitted to the NIH for the May 25, 2008 due date and subsequent due dates." - j1m

This is perhaps the most substantive response to Mark's claims: The NIH and agencies like it fund most academic research, typically in its entirely. They paid for the research, they own it, and they now insist that it be public, for all the reasons that ⓞnor and Bret raise, and more. - j1m

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Why every guy should buy their girlfriend Wii Fit.

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I can't watch this, it's disrespectful, sexist and I tot..... heeeeeey, that's pretty nice. - Vince DeGeorge

I'm not supposed to watch this! ZOMG! - Yuvi

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lol - Dobromir Hadzhiev via twhirl

ex-girlfriend in 3...2... - Chris Hollander

@Chris - LOL! - Hutch Carpenter

classic! - Vox

that rear has been in the commanche - Bhaskar Vijay Singh

Hypnotizing. - Sean Oliver

hahahahahaha brilliant. - Chris Ridenour

I don't even need to watch it. The fact that guys are so easily distracted by stuff like this is why women will eventually take over the world. You didn't see this. Look! Boobies! - Cyndy

Cyndy - it's not so much the boobies here... - Hutch Carpenter

hahahahahaha - Parvez Halim

:D - Jigar Mehta via bTT

Oh oh...intruder alert! intruder alert! perhaps this should have been posted to the Man Show room. - Mark Krynsky

awesome! - Tyler Gillies

So where's the video of the boyfriend in his underwear WiiHooping? - Ginger Makela

@Ginger DO NOT WANT - Andrew Dobrow

Ginger - you're gonna have to find that one and post it. - Hutch Carpenter

The guy sticking out his tongue at the end sort of ruins it for me. Douche. - Andrew Dobrow

Now, if I were to post a video of my girlfriend attempting to do the hula-hoop game, the responses would be quite different. I nearly wet myself when I saw her try it... and I don't mean in a good way! :-S - Tony Ruscoe

It is funny watching someone getting into it ha! - Joe Dawson

<grin> - Russellreno

Hutch, I took your advice. And it's official: after watching about 20+ videos of dudes wiihooping, I've concluded that white guys can't hoop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... If you guys can do better, prove me wrong. - Ginger Makela

It's true. Our hips are all wrong. - Slippy Lane

She missed 3 out of 7 hoops...she stinks! - cmiper

yes, we suck at wiihooping, but we therefore can do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - minus3

Busted! http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/... - Hao Chen

Awesome! :) - minus3

nice now to find the hot girlfriend - Charles Rice via twhirl

Excuse me. I need some "alone time" now. - Mitch Wagner

From the link posted above by Hao, this seems like a shameless Nintendo Wii advertisement from Tinsley Advertising company. http://www.shoemoney.com/2008/... I don't like sneaky ads. - Puneet Thapliyal

So the guy says thats his girlfriend. Based on http://www.flickr.com/photos/m..., I believe him. That his girlfriend happens to work for the same advertising company doesn't seem so damning to me. Need more proof plz. - Erica Baker

@Ginger...you asked for it, so here you go...finally a video for you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Mark Krynsky

Thanks, Mark K. aw, ginger: score one for equal opportunity Wii-Fit ogling! :D - edythe

@Mark K. - that is hysterical! Nice response to the original video. - Hutch Carpenter

The response to this is pretty funny... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Mike Doeff

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