Daniel Andrlik

I get your point, but 'chrome' isn't specific to Firefox, it's a general term for the borders and widgets belonging to a window in a GUI. Firefox's GUI has probably the most popularized use of term, but you'll notice the search results are already changing as people continue to write and publish about Google's browser on the web. - Daniel Andrlik

well of course, google owns data heh - Eric Rice

As Daniel predicted, almost all listings for Mozilla's chrome in Googling for 'chrome' and 'browser' are gone with all links being Google Chrome, not Mozilla Chrome. I am not calling foul, I'm just noting how fast data moves and changes. - Eric Rice

It's to the point of depressing, that there's a big wide world out there and some amazing minds around here, but they can't get off the god damned twitter and friendfeed cheerleader squad for five minutes. And everyone is the media, too, so basically unplugging from one, doesn't really do much. - Eric Rice

If you want to look into the world of design and tech innovation beyond Twitter take a look at "Design and the Elastic Mind." It's the catalog of a recent show at MoMA. Annoying typographic design that makes reading painful (some designers need to be strapped into a chair and forced to read the crap layouts they foist on us.) But the work presented will shake you loose. Here's the NYTimes review of the exhibit (not the book) http://snurl.com/38l6t - Michael Hussein Markman

good god the review starts: "Bioengineered crossbreeds. Temperamental robots. Spermatozoa imprinted with secret texts." Yeaaaah, I'm sold. - Eric Rice

You, my friend. Are following the wrong people ;) - Mona N.

I'm with Mona, Eric. Time to dial up some new follows :) - TDavid

Mona: No, I pay attention to the right people, they just get squelched out by the goofy ass noise. You think I'm a pain in the ass for my health? There's only one good thing about some of these groups of people... they are programmable hives that you can run mental algorithms against. At least that's the way I'm writing it, heh. - Eric Rice

The only person worth following, E: http://friendfeed.com/e/edf8ef... - Mona N.

Really, Mona? There's got to be some other good twitter comedians out there...somewhere...such an untapped venue. - Pete Delucchi

Unfortunately, aside from the man who throws up things he may need later (LOL!!) I have found anyone who's made me LOL.. I would LOVE to find more! - Mona N.

Tsk tsk, sir! In these worlds talk like this gets you hidden. Forsooth! Also...Eeegad! - Jim Stanger

Eric: yep, the noise can be deafening at times and make FF seem like huge freakin' echo chamber! expanding your FF circle will open up new stuff to your feed...more fun! get more cake and bacon!! - Susan Beebe

I'm with you, Eric - Aaron Brazell

You do not need to have 25k followers to be happy! A few hundred people who you interact with is just perfect! Just keep looking for followers who interest you! - Igor The Troll

Jim, you know my position on hiding, blocking, muting. ;) - Eric Rice

...and we know yours on kfetching. :D - Mark Forman

Actually it's not so much a follower thing, I've found that while my follower list is very low here, I'm still able to read and discover other things. It's the noise that seeps in. I mean, I don't *read* TechCrunch and I can't escape that thing because *everyone else does*. That's how the game works, that's fine. I'm not bitching from a poor-me perspective, I'm directly bitching AT: and that means saying, look, people YOU CAN DO BETTER FOR YOURSELVES. So yeah, kinda like that. - Eric Rice

BTW, I freaking LOVE pomade. - Eric Rice

Pomade pretty old skool dude. That used to be currency at the barber shops I frequented ans a Brooklyn kid,where all the barbers were named Louie. - Mark Forman

That was my favorite tweet yesterday from the Mars Lander. - Mathew A. Koeneker

Agreed, the implications from water on Mars are mind blowing. - Jeremiah Owyang

water on mars is great, but iet's get to the real issue: is there OIL? - Baratunde Thurston via twhirl

FOLKS - We *knew* there was water on Mars for quite some time. http://blogs.discovermagazine.... It's just that we can "touch", "feel" and "taste" it this time, rather than just "look". The linked-to post has more details. - Yuvi

@Eric Rice, I hear you!! I stopped reading TechCrunch a few months ago because I knew I'd run in to their content repeatedly as it echoed throughout the rest of the blogs I read... and should probably unsubscribe from at some point soon. - Christopher Butler

Amen brother! - David Cook

Shit, I want that for my DESK - Eric Rice

Yeah, same here. One for my desk. No one would know the difference. :-P - David

yes - but I meant more the style of using ff without all the neat gm scripts for it. ;) - Nicole Simon

what exactly scriptts? - silpol

@silpol: first and foremost the one that reveals the usernames behind the nicknames =) - Alex

When are these idiots going to finally get it? Oh yeah, when we all DIE because of their incompetence. - Dillon K. Hoops

Yeah, that whole "humans produce a lot of trash" stufff is just liberal nonsense. We've got a swirling mass of plastic bags circulating the Pacific Ocean cause that's how we like it! - Lon Harris via twhirl

Well, the website is called "thinkprogress.org". Ya think there is a little left bias there? - John Denver

Some people have to get a life, and not take everything so seriously. - Patrick Minze

John, bias or no, those comments they posted are just laughable. My personal favorite is : "I can’t wait to teach my kids how we’ve destroyed the Earth. … Pixar is teaching. I can’t wait. You know if your kid has ever come home and said, “Dad, how come we use so much styrofoam,” oh, this is the movie for you." Like, really? That's a tough question for him to answer? - Veronica

But read what the writer/director says about his film... everybody's wrong: http://www.christianitytoday.c... - Sean McCune

Veronica, I agree with you completely. My point was only that "news" that comes from sources with a bias to either side have to be taken with a grain of salt. I always tune up my BS filter when reading items from NPR or Rush Limbaugh equally. ;) - John Denver

Funny they ignore an "anti-socialist" message of the second half: Big Business & Big Government are indistinguishable. The end of the world comes with that merger as government provides a free, Utopian life with no incentive to work, and uniformed citizens lose all personal identity. They decide they'd rather go home to a mess, till the soil, raise nuclear families, enjoy wholesome entertainment (hoe-downs, "Hello Dolly"), and rebuild a free society than live their government-provided lifestyles. Right? ;) - Kevin Hessel

http://www.christianitytoday.c... - Sean McCune

FF mangled the first URL. The writer/director of Wall-E talks about the film and basically has gone in a whole different direction from anything being talked about by right or left regarding this film. - Sean McCune

Stanton's take on the issues raised by the film is interesting. But it doesn't make those with alternate interpretations "wrong." That's the beautiful thing about art - it can mean different things to different people. Certainly, a film can have subtext and meaning beyond what the director lays out to a magazine. - Lon Harris via twhirl

Lon: Sure it doesn't make them wrong if they interpret the movie differently. But it makes them wrong if they decide that Pixar or Stanton or whoever is "teaching" something that they explicitly deny. Of course, then the conspiracy theorists will just claim they're lying. :-) - Sean McCune

Sean: Yeah, I think we ultimately agree. The film has a surprising amount of depth, so a variety of potential takes on it could be offered, but it's clearly not intended to indoctrinate children into any kind of liberal conspiracy to save the planet unnecessarily, or whatever these loons are claiming. - Lon Harris via twhirl

It's well known that the left coast leans left. Take it with a grain of salt and enjoy the damn movie!! - Hal Rottenberg via twhirl

What a twisted interpretation of little fun movie. - Ralph Poole

I think we are more likely to destroy the planet with our solution to climate change than with too much carbon output. - Christian Burns

Like George Carlin said " the planet will be fine, we're in trouble. - Robert Hafer via fftogo

No, I just want to filter using those terms. I want a filter to show all my unread emails. - Veronica

I think you can only use it as a search "filter", not as a "true" filter. - Kevin C. Tofel

there is acutaly a google labs addon that just that - Matt Rider

in:inbox is:unread (did ou have a typo here for "in" or in the filter you tried to setup? - Naor

Don't filters run on all incoming mail, or is there some way I don't know to manually run a filter. If the former, than it doesn't really make sense to have a filter that asks for unread email, it's all unread as it's coming in. - Kyle Johnson via twhirl

if you put "label:unread" or "label:inbox" in the "Has the words" field, it works. - Larry

Try this: https://mail.google.com/mail/?... - Phil Glockner

If you want to show all your unread emails, you can simply make a search for "is:unread". But maybe that's not what you meant, I'm not sure. - Vincent X

Larry & J. Phil are close. If I use "label:(unread inbox)" in a search, I can get the desired results. Now if we could just create a custom label with that query, that would do it. - Kevin C. Tofel

No, I know that. But I have a lot of other filters, so I don't want to see ALL unread, because that would include all my bacn and other junk. I just want the inbox. Oh well. - Veronica

You can turn on the Quick Links feature in Gmail Labs and then use it to create a bookmarked search request. It's kind of like a filter, unless you're trying to take an automated action based on those items. - Daniel Andrlik

Kevin, no need to a custom query, Gmail URLs are universal.. once the correct URL is constructed, you can just cut and paste it here. - Phil Glockner

Okay, so if I understand correctly, your filters tag and process your bacn and other junk, getting them out of your inbox... Then in that case, if you want to view all of your unread emails in your inbox (and not the other stuff), running a search for "is:inbox is:unread" should work, but I might be slow and missing the point of what you're trying to do. :) - Vincent X

The Quick Links Labs addon works perfectly for this. I've been doing it since Labs put it out (and was doing it manually before that). Run your search for "is:unread in:inbox". Once the results are showing, make the quick link, and you're done. After you've activated Labs and Quick Links, of course. ;) - abacab via twhirl

Got it! Between J. Phil's comment and abacab's, looks like you can create the custom query and then use a Quick Link for it. I'm excited and I wasn't even looking for the solution! ;) - Kevin C. Tofel

I just added Quick Links. Very nice, quick and easy. That should do the trick! - Vincent X

be careful though that some quick links will not stay and sadly sadly they do not do what saved searches did (= apply them as additional filter to the current search) but they will do in the meantime. - Nicole Simon

I believe (and hope) quick links will end up sticking around (with some tweaking here and there to accommodate saved-searches functionality, maybe?). At the very least, if Quick Links goes away, someone will whip up a GM script and get it working again (assuming someone hasn't done it already). - abacab via twhirl

Yeah, I remember when they first started the blog and got a little bit of mocking, but I'm impressed with how seriously they're taking the socnet stuff, not to mention how well they are doing it. - Daniel Andrlik

And it doesn't have that 'oh we're just doing it because we're supposed to' vibe that seems to be present in the so-called 'social' space. Look at those happy happy commenters, heh. - Eric Rice

Eric - are you looking forward to the sony home service.. that 2nd-life-esque thing that's been in development forever? - Phil Glockner

J.Phil: moderately... thing that I'm noticing now is how people are using things like GTA 4 Free mode as a virtual world.. it's a place to hang, relax, socialize, sometimes play/fight... There's some undiscovered territory yet that Home has to offer, and it might not even been from Home itself. (Also, I think the comparisons to SL do more harm than good, and also, not fully congruent.) - Eric Rice

BTW - sure, the comments are happy, but I wish I could compress all the single-word posts into one tokenized post.. like GZIP them or something. Sweet! x18 - Phil Glockner

You just take it one day at a time. Sometimes, one hour at a time, one minute at a time on bad days. - David

Alcohol.. - Fred Grott

I was out of work sick 2 days this week too Leo - i know how you feel. - Joel Ross Housman via twhirl

Once I get over the aggravation of being sick, I'm in the "I get sick rarely" club, it often becomes a welcome respite. Except for the illness part. - Warner Crocker

I don't like being sick but I certainly don't give up on life cause of a flu bug. I just want to be left alone in my misery. - Chris Kuhner

I am the world's worst sick person. I lay around and look pitiful and try and guilt me wife into getting me stuff. That doesn't tend to work well. - Kyle Johnson

We men are all tough until we get sick. Then we're big babies again. - Jason Huebel

It's all about rest and fluids (water) to recover from any viral illness... I am a physician and I can never get patients to do the only things that really work... sleep and drink tons of water! When they actually DO listen though they get better MUCH faster... also... if you can start Zicam within an hour or so of your first symptoms is really makes a difference as well... especially for cold viruses... - Patricia Hale

Take life a day at a time, and be thankful for the not-so-bad days. Makes you appreciate life more, and the little things :) - Melissa

Hi Leo! Hope you get better soon. I'm a long time listener and fan since the Screensavers! Just wanted to send you some greetings from Bremen, Germany. Joachim - Joachim Moncoq

Never take health for granted. I've been chronically ill for almost 14 years and I'm only 47 now. The medical industry is over-rated and corrupt. My problems started while I was in Honduras for the Peace Corps when I ate a germ-ridden sandwhich. That 1st night is burned into memory cuz my fiance and I were at a theatre in Tegucigalpa watching Shindler's List. I spent the whole time standing by the back door so I could run to the bathroom. It's shameful that our society looks down on the chronically ill. - Brad Stolba

Imagine having a flu bug last for a month. Hope you're feeling better now! - Margaret Kerr via twhirl

Leo, Twitter has been VERY sick for months, but do you hear them whining? Pull up your socks, my man! <with a smile> - ron k jeffries

I get the flu bug, then lay out on the couch, move my laptop to my stomach, and let its warmth soothe me. That's how I deal it. - Ivan

Same here. Which makes my wife scoff at how men can be such babies when it comes to being sick. - Hutch Carpenter

You adapt, you have no choice. Adapt or go crazy and die. - Michael W. May via twhirl

You have a man cold? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - AJ Kohn

Exactly - you adapt. Hardest part is not being able to talk about such things without being called a whinger, or worse, a malingerer. - Patricia Hanrahan

The same happened to me Margaret. The whole month with the flu. I still went to work, though. - Alejandro S.

If you like Wonton soup, now is the time to get your hands on some. It always fights my colds/flus valiantly! - Mike Lewis

... get well Leo from jp ( the fireman ) - johnpiercy

Ah, the man-cold syndrome, as illustrated here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Daniel Andrlik

My wife has Crohn's and my son has celiac. You carry on, because there is nothing else you can do. In the end life is still good. - RAPatton

Dunno. Could be like today, seeing the ex-wife for the first time since the divorce, happy as can be. Rips everything back open. - Steven Buehler via twhirl

guess you just carry on - it's your only life after all. it's amazing, what people can do. brilliant. - Günther Mulder via twhirl

I feel the same way! I have this terrible flu bug for the past few days, but I have no fever. It makes me feel as if I cheating, are this highschool flashbacks? - Ori

hey Leo ... speaking as someone with chronic illness (I have Lupus) .. you just get by .. you get up everyday and you try not to complain too much. I pull myself together and continue to pursue my goals (I am overly ambitious) and to hang out with my friends (of which there are too many at times) and spent time with my son (who anyone with children knows .. kids take lots of energy) - I refuse to lay down and die .. even though I wont live as long.. I will live while I am here. - Jenz

feel better - Grant via twhirl

I had a 12-yr suicidal depression from 1986-98. When all of life seemed dark, I felt as if even if someone granted my favorite wish, that I still wouldn't care about living... - Mitchell Tsai

mitchell: for me, being depressed means not having any wishes... - edythe

I have delt with chronic headaches for the past 35 years, you ratchet up your willpower and get through the day, mostly. Like the saying: some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you. - Robert Hafer via twhirl

Chronic illness for people such as myself is just another item in a day. Deal with something long enough and it becomes just part of the routine. I suffer from insomnia and have a problem with my frontal lobe that has to be treated with a variety of medications and I just soldier on, day in day out. But, the upside to this means that despite my ailments I am the best Admin anyone has ever seen. Chronic illness is just a speed bump, not a road block. - Parker R. Snyder

Polly: Yeah. "Not having any wishes" is maybe a better way to describe it. When either the world is entirely gray...or really unenjoyably painful (as opposed to fun pain...like a good workout or struggling to help a friend). - Mitchell Tsai