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Don’t! The secret of self-control. - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...

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"At the time, psychologists assumed that children’s ability to wait depended on how badly they wanted the marshmallow. But it soon became obvious that every child craved the extra treat. What, then, determined self-control? Mischel’s conclusion, based on hundreds of hours of observation, was that the crucial skill was the “strategic allocation of attention.” Instead of getting obsessed with the marshmallow—the “hot stimulus”—the patient children distracted themselves by covering their eyes, pretending to play hide-and-seek underneath the desk, or singing songs from “Sesame Street.” Their desire wasn’t defeated—it was merely forgotten. “If you’re thinking about the marshmallow and how delicious it is, then you’re going to eat it,” Mischel says. “The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place.” In adults, this skill is often referred to as metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and it’s what allows people to outsmart their shortcomings. (When Odysseus had himself tied to... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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This is an interesting quote because it implies that "will power" is more about mental strategy, not some kind of mental strength for forcing yourself to do something. I have the same strategy with food -- I eat whatever I see, so in order to not eat something I just need to put it out of sight. - Paul Buchheit

effectively "out of sight, out of mind" - alphaxion

This is where the magic of science is: you spend time and resources to prove a proverb. - .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.

"The child who could wait fifteen minutes had an S.A.T. score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds." - J.D. Deutschendorf

Sometimes I worry my metacognition is slowing me down because I'm spending less time just cogniting. (that oughtta be a word.) But no, in all seriousness, I think something, then realize the thought was there before I subvocalized it, and then I go in a circle several times subvocalizing those same thoughts as I examine the process of thinking. Frustrating! - Andrew C

Some friends and I refer to this study often, pointing out when we've failed the marshmallow test. Staying up late is my most common mashmallow test failure (sacrificing morning time to enjoy a few more bleary hours NOW), but it's easy to spot this sort of behavior and fun to have a standard vocabulary to highlight its ubiquity. - Seth

Episode on Mischel's marshmallows on RadioLab -- http://blogs.wnyc.org/radiola... - Alex Haar

As a parent, I consciously used this strategy to distract my children whenever they got in mischief, behaved badly or acted out. As a grandparent, I often send a box of tricks, things like super balls, an "uno" deck, paints, a book, a yoyo or top, for my daughter to use with my grandchildren when they are driving her crazy and need to think about something other than running around screaming. - Phil Boiarski

OK, that makes sense, but let's flip this on its head - How do you instead keep your mind on something and prevent yourself from getting distracted? You can't distract yourself from your distractions. Andrew C, the word you're looking for is cogitating. - Mr. Gunn

Mr Gunn, thanks. Though I think 'cogniting' is a touch funnier. - Andrew C

Some chimpanzees use this strategy as well, though not all of them. - Björn Brembs

i think bhudda had some theory on this too...:/ - Paul Moss

I'm going to marshmallow-train my kids!! - Jess Lee

Today my 4yo daughter was having trouble waiting for a treat, so I told her (and my wife) about reading this article last night. I talked about the ability to distract - and I thought I was doing a pretty good job of explaining it in 4yo terms. When I was done with my paraphrase/lesson, I asked her if she understood. "Uh-huh," she said. Then after a few moments, she asked if we could stop and get some marshmallows on the way home. All I could do is laugh! - Gary Walter (gwalter)

I read a different writeup of this experiment a couple years ago, when our daughter was about 1 year old. Its something that can be taught, and encouraged. She's now very good at distracting herself from something which she knows she shouldn't do or would get into trouble over. She's not easily distracted in general: she can focus quite well on something she wants to do (and is allowed to do). - DGentry

The experiment: http://friendfeed.com/haggis... - Jérôme Flipo

bob

Fed judges order California to devise plan to slash prison population - San Jose Mercury News - http://www.mercurynews.com/politic...

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"The three-judge panel gave the governor and lawmakers 45 days to present a plan to cut the inmate population from about 150,000 to 110,000 over two years. The judges delivered a stern message about conditions that are so poor in some prisons that they violate inmates' constitutional rights....In general, the 33-prison system is at nearly double its capacity. Even under the judicial order, the system would remain overcrowded, at 137.5 percent of capacity." - bob from Bookmarklet

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I wonder if they intentionally chose the verb "slash". - Paul Buchheit

I say they hold a lottery for the prisoners. - Kenton

give them .. give all people, when it is still time - an education, health care, work ... so that this all crap of the biggest prison population in the world, biggest deficits, would never happen again - Petr Buben

Paul: do you think "cut" would be better than "slash"? Or maybe "shiv"? - Gabe

The ACLU has a plan: http://www.aclunc.org/action... 1) Replace the Death Penalty with Permanent Imprisonment 2) Close the Youth Prisons 3) Keep the Response to Petty Drug Possession Local 4) Fix the Three Strikes Law. - Ruchira S. Datta

a comment from http://sacbee.com ------So Arnold cuts $1 Billion from California's Higher Education Systems. The simple fact is 250,000 Students will be denied Community College Access and 40,000 student slots are now removed from the CSU System. And, Arnold wants $1.9 Billion for New State Prisons, and there are no cuts to the California Department of Corrections, where according to... more... - Petr Buben

Tim Dineen

RIP John Hughes- I probably still have The Breakfast Club memorized "It's sorta social - demented and sad, but social!"

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Bret Taylor

Official Google Reader Blog: PubSubHubbub support for Reader shared items - http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2009...

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"One place that takes advantage of this pinging is FriendFeed. This means if you have added your shared items to your FriendFeed account, you and your friends will see them there within a few seconds the "Share" link being pressed in Reader (special thanks to FriendFeeder Benjamin Golub for making sure the experience was as smooth as possible)." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

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Ben, you rock as usual - Bret Taylor

PubSubHubbub is awesome. I've noticed that, thanks to FriendFeed and Feedburner supporting PubSubHubbub, entries from my blog show up on FriendFeed faster than I can switch tabs. Google reader support is sweet. - Mark Trapp

I literally checked in and pushed the last fix to make this work about 5 minutes ago :) - Benjamin Golub

I've noticed that in the past ten minutes, cool - M F

Nice work guys! - Travis Koger from iPhone

Simon

Date format - Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...

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Red:mm-dd-yyyy Blue:dd-mm-yyyy Yellow:yyyy-mm-dd Green:dd-mm-yyyy & yyyy-mm-dd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Simon

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Yellow is the one true format!! - Amit Patel

And don't forget my home and native land, a muddy color because all three conventions are used there. - Scott of Two Countries

Go RED! - τorƍue

I use YYYY-MM-DD for file naming, so that it sorts automatically for me. For normal communication with other USians, I use MM/DD/YYYY. - Ladybug Heather

Since many US websites support the "blue" format, are you, American rebels, often confused with the "red" one? - Jérôme Flipo

+1 to yyyy-mm-dd Heather. That's about the only one I can think of any logical argument for. Looks like only east asia has this right. - Joel Webber

i propose we start using yyyy-dd-mm just to mess things up properly ;-) (not really - *votes for yyyy-mm-dd) - immaterial

Go yellow, since it sorts well. :-) - Brian Johns

yyyy-mm-dd - ISO8601 FTW! For everything else I think that the blues outnumber the reds. ;-) - Andy Bold

They forgot a small region in silicon valley where they represent the date in seconds since epoch, formatted as n,nnn,nnn,nnn - Chris Lamprecht

Red is a real anomaly here -- why in god's name do we insist on sorting these things completely weirdly in the US? Month first, seriously? Drives me nuts. - Joel Webber

@Joel - and we still measure length in inches & feet, weight in pounds, etc. It's kind of embarrassing. - Chris Lamprecht

yellow makes most sense....still it would be an "anomaly" on this map - Chris Hofmann

Amit, agree but so used to the blue format of course. - Kol Tregaskes

I've never understood the red format, didn't realise it was US only though. - Kol Tregaskes

Madagascar's date format is Blue:dd-mm-yyyy - Thierry R. Andriamirado

red format follows how many people say the date "July 10, 2009". For day to day communication with people, the blue "10th July, 2009" makes sense because the day will change more freqently than any other. For the best logic and system use, the yellow "2009, July 10th" is the best especially when you look at how we use the rest of the time denominations (23 hours, 22 minutes, 21 seconds ad nausium). - alphaxion

I hate date formats. How many years finding bugs in other people's code where a particular date format is simply assumed? User entered '10/7/2009' so is that 10th of July or 7th of October? Can't rely on regional settings as the number of times that's been set incorrectly or not set at all because it's a remote connection beggars belief. And then there's the code that didn't realise that SQL Server was storing in native US format so every time it was read and rewritten to the database it flipped over. Hate. - Mark H

Paul Buchheit

Real-time search. We have it. It's here. - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

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Try http://friendfeed.com/search... It's also fun to watch the embedded search on the blog blog post (http://friendfeed.com/search...). You can see people discussing the blog post, from the blog post, in real time! - Paul Buchheit

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cooool - Dobromir Hadzhiev

coooool - zsafwan 

GREAT ! - Stanislas Jourdan

Eeee. Awesome. - Mark Trapp from iPhone

Impressive! Now you can save real time searches as embeddable widgets. That's just awesome! This is a massively POWERFUL feature. Thank you FF team! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Lol, you flipped the switch before the post came out as far as I can tell. I was searching for it and I couldn't see it. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yowsa. Makes quick easy work out of social media monitoring, don't it? - Ian Wilker

YAY!!! FriendFeed staff rocks, that's all there is to it =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Congrats Paul to you and your team! Another one bites the dust! - Jorge Escobar

WAAAAAAAAA.. meta real time search.. love the concept of embed a real-time search !! Way to Team FF -- luv u guys !! :)- - Peter Dawson

Do you guys sleep? Honestly, love the constant output and attention you guys pay to user feedback. I know this highly requested and probably not easy to implement. - Frankie Warren

Twitter Killer! - David Schmidt

Thanks so much Paul & Co. Excellent work! - Leo Laporte

hey love they way they launched search.. espcially when its close to "Search Marketing Day 2009" !1 - Peter Dawson

Thanks Leo. Jim and Gary did most of the work on this one though. - Paul Buchheit

Track is back! This is a gamechanger. - Mike Doeff from iPhone

Track is back! - Christian Burns from iPhone

Excellent news. - LPH™ and his dog P™ from BuddyFeed

I think I'm going to scream if I hear "track" again - someone please define it for me - Jesse Stay

Wow, great work! - Meryn Stol

I stand in awe of your hackfullness. - Ted Gilchrist

Good work. Much-anticipated. - Louis Gray

@Jesse: It's a dead twitter command "track keyword" sends you realtime updates whenever the word is used. Think of it like realtime google alerts for friendfeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett

I'm pretty sure Gillmor et al kept calling it "track" because that's what Twitter called it back when they had it for a week. - Daniel J. Pritchett

On a related note, live embeddable searches mean that I can hack together my own FF embeds for the pages that don't have them yet, like say "comment:dpritchett" http://friendfeed.com/search... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter never had this - this isn't "track" - Jesse Stay

you guys rock. - Karoli

...wowsers! Very nice! - JA Castillo

The blogpost said they're working to implement "keyword notifications" Jesse, that will be "track" - Frankie Warren

Twitter's brought back track, it's just no one cares. You can now have updates by keyword on Twitter pushed to you, via XMPP, just like track used to. Gillmor says that's not track. - Jesse Stay

That's why I hate the term "track" - no one knows what it is. The way Paul is explaining it, as real-time search, is a much better way of explaining it. - Jesse Stay

I guess we're still missing the realtime notifications piece that folks want. You can shape the firehose to watch terms in realtime but you can't yet get it pushed outside of FF via email or IM? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Daniel, Twitter has that right now, but Gillmor says that's not track - Jesse Stay

/me prints up a few hundred "That's not track!" t-shirts - Daniel J. Pritchett

Killer feature. I'm watching news about Honduras scrolling by. Very useful. - Chris Baskind

Jesse: Oh, i'm with you... Real-Time Search is a better term :) - Frankie Warren

BTW, integrating this into my blog right now - Jesse Stay

Me too Jesse. Making a new static page for that comment:dpritchett search I mentioned - Daniel J. Pritchett

this is definitely cool and all, but what about API? We are falling way behind on feature sets :) - Tim Hoeck

It's like an alternative to watching TV, in a literary sort of way. - Ted Gilchrist

awesome!:) - m.0

kewl! - phil baumann

Yay! This is the killer feature (once it's in the API, of course ;) - Brandon Titus

I'd love to see a blog post about how this is implemented. Real-time search has some interesting problems. - Chris Lamprecht

I take it back - I can't integrate this into my blog until I can filter it to a single list. I really need an embed for "comment:dpritchett list:e20" except lists are still virtual in that no one other than me can see them unless I use the atom export. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Awesomeness! I'm loving this right now. - Anthony K. Valley ©

Wow you guys rock! - Alfredo

I am sloooooooooooow. But what/where is the template to make the embeddable widget. please? - Marg Uerite

You're right Jesse - it's not exactly Track but it's getting a lot closer. The old Twitter Track allowed you to set up multiple search terms (e.g. track iphone) and get those delivered to your IM with zero time lag. At any time you could type "track" to see what you're currently tracking and "untrack" to untrack something - e.g. "untrack iphone". There are some third party tools that... more... - Mike Doeff

Paul, is there a way to change the title of the embed? The long search string looks kinda bad. - Jesse Stay

Mike, Twitter offers that today. Gillmor says it's not Track. - Jesse Stay

Marg, after you do a search, click the "Share / embed search" link to get the embed code. - Dan Hsiao

Jesse, are you sure? Can you provide a URL describing this feature? I think you're referring to Twitter Search (and saved searches) which is totally different. - Mike Doeff

Mike, it's in beta and available to developers, but it's back, minus SMS support: http://staynalive.com/article... - Jesse Stay

Jesse, when / where did Gillmor say that isn't track? I'm pretty sure that Steve just wants the old track brought back, with some filtering capabilities added (the old Track didn't filter out blocked accounts). - Mike Doeff

Yay! Have been eagerly awaiting this. :) - Rick Turoczy

Mike, he's said in various comments. Looks like Track to me... Heck, it's even called "track". - Jesse Stay

BTW this is on staynalive.com now (look in the sidebar): http://staynalive.com/ - Jesse Stay

for my italian friends: stica... - Alberto D'Ottavi from fftogo

Jesse - you can hide the ugly search bar with a little quick CSS - it's <h1> under an easily identified class. - Daniel J. Pritchett from IM

Daniel, good idea - I'd love to change the title more than that though. - Jesse Stay

just a few minutes work and I have a FriendFeed realtime search embedded in a blog http://www.amsterdam20.nl (web 2.0 event) - Jeroen De Miranda

Yeah - Brian Sullivan

FF guys: we like your style :) --- way to go!! - Harscoat

I think I'm going to cry - Bwana ☠

awesomesauce! - Simon Wicks

This is a really great innovation, congrats friendfeed team! - Garin Kilpatrick

Thanks, Jim and Gary! Lots of hard work for a very cool result! - Anne Bouey

HhhhhUuuuuuGggggEeeee !!! - Harold Cabezas

I want to 'Like' this *twice*! many thanks! - topo

The first step in a storystreaming platform! - Kevin Sablan

Whoa. Wow. And Yes! Fantastic work, FF team. - Micah Wittman

Good stuff although should support negative operators such as I should able to search my name in the all posts NOT coming from me. I've tried "from:-username" but it doesn't seem to work. - Ferruh Mavituna

OK, you guys are wicked talented! It's kind of scary, but I love it. So what's next? Just kidding:) - Michael Fidler

Ferruh: you just have it a bit backwards... try -from:username instead :) - Ross Miller

WOOOOOOOOOOW. Friendfeed is really pushing some cool features out :). Friendfeed is the best :) - alfred westerveld

How can we embed FriendFeed search? - Mike Reynolds

Mike - There's a link at the top of the search just beneath the red bar. - Mitch

A box will pop up, take the HTML code from the bottom of that box. - Mitch

Thanks Mitch! - Mike Reynolds

Nice the embedding code can be dynamic.... <iframe src="http://friendfeed.com/search..." frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" style="border:1px solid #aaa"></iframe> - Mike Reynolds

Thanks @Ross it works fine now, love the RSS output. - Ferruh Mavituna

tabbr likes this - tabbr

Woo! So: will this cause a FF server meltdown anytime soon? - Tim Tyler

very good! - standin

Highly addictive--great stuff! I did notice that if you do a search like [google] you'll see dupe stories streaming by quite a bit (e.g. the TechCrunch story about Google Voice shows up over and over right now). Not sure if it's possible to de-dupe based on destination url a little bit more? - Matt Cutts

two months after redesign, we have access to real-time search. good news bc my preferred search engine is friendfeed. ;) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)

We are there, in the battle against Twitter - Michael_techie

Best search engine became better :) - Chirag Chamoli

I can't say enough how amazing this is. So, I ordered a bottle of real-time translation to go with this magnificent feast of real-time search :D http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Micah Wittman

Just to show what is possible now with this feature, I've built SteroidFeed: Go here to see it as well as download the files: http://friendfeed.com/lph... Latest version is 1.01. - LPH™ and his dog P™

It's amazing! - Lizunlong

I've been waiting for this since the new UI, excellent, thank you Paul and FF! I'll give this a play later. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Micah, really looking forward to having your scripts work in Chrome. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is great. Well done, guys. - James Myatt

Awesome :D - Praveen Vasudev

great!! - Mike Chelen

Elad

idea: hold the entrepreneur equivalent of cribs where entrepreneurs show off their startups crappy offices

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I volunteer to show off mine first :) Who is in? - Elad

Kevin Fox

Cultural differences between the US and the UK

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The Top Paid App in the Singapore store is Airport Mania: First Flight. - Kishore Balakrishnan

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Is there a site that lists "top apps" from various/all countries ? - Kishore Balakrishnan

Classic... - Rob Kramer

so telling... - Brian Appleby

That says it all - Darrell Bell

So when are they going to release an app for "Ow! My balls!" - April Buchheit

@April... +100 - Harold from fftogo

+++April - Kamilah Gill

Is the UK bestseller just a re-packaging of CIA world factbook? Or is there more to it? - Hiro Asari

You see, we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them - Ryan Gerritsen

It's actually the same app, just different marketing. Yes? - Mike Beck

What does "we gotta test for moron's the UK teaches them" mean? - Gabe

Our beer-drinking football-hooligan contingent are still saving up for their iPhones. - Tim Tyler

World Cup Ping Pong here in France, don't know what that means ?! - Benoit Cazenave

"Zoom in / Camera zoom" : the Top Paid App in Switzerland - tomavana

I'd suggest that in *paying* for an app called "The Moron Test" you've already passed it. - thepete

thepete: passed or failed? - Gabe

that was really great kevin :) - Alp

Is there anything else interesting about the rest of the list? - David Chartier from BuddyFeed

Hilarious! - Vera Hannaford

crushingly depressing. ugh. - daisy

as a dual national US/UK, I can safely say I'm glad to live here. - Spotcher from twhirl

World cup ping pong is the top paid app in Italy too. And even top free app. What's the point with that? - ialla

Hehe - WorldofHiglet

Excellent catch! :) - Ozkan Altuner

The engineer in me is irritated by the simple apps make it to the top of the AppStore; the artist in me is delighted :) - Ian

sad, but funny - Rick Cogley

Proud to be an American! LOL - Susan Beebe

That says a lot. - Chuck Adams

Yes, it does say a lot. =) - Zed Darkman

Don't need no stinkin' facts... - Kevin Pedraja

But it's got a red button! - Brian Bufalo

One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after. - Neal Jansons

Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :) - Richard ¿digame? Walker

well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars - Richard Akerman

wavesand liked this.... - 拓 | wavesand from email

Laugh, sure. But your pounds sterling end up in a California bank account. ;-) - Chris Baskind

My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

Lol Amanda - AJ Batac

To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants. - Stephen Mack

got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness - Lane Rapp

Ginger Makela Riker

Basil Orange Mojito Recipe. - http://therecipegirl.blogspot.com/2008...

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We have a ton of basil to use before it goes bad. - Ginger Makela Riker from Bookmarklet

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Yes. - Derrick

basil? interesting. no mint? interesting. - Cee Bee

I'm going to need more rum! - Kevin D. White

Kewl! - Guilherme da Rosa

Christopher Sacca

When I see a guy at the urinal looking down at his phone, I wonder if he's doing email, Twittering, or taking a pic of his wang.

May 27 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Or perhaps all of the above. - Paul Buchheit

simultaneously? I thought men weren't good at multi-tasking?!? - WorldofHiglet

bob

nrc.nl - International - Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals - http://www.nrc.nl/interna...

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"During the 1990s the Netherlands faced a shortage of prison cells, but a decline in crime has since led to overcapacity in the prison system. The country now has capacity for 14,000 prisoners but only 12,000 detainees. Deputy justice minister Nebahat Albayrak announced on Tuesday that eight prisons will be closed, resulting in the loss of 1,200 jobs. Natural redundancy and other measures should prevent any forced lay-offs, the minister said." - bob from Bookmarklet

If you believe that poverty helps breed crime...then how long until those laid-off workers increase the need for prisons? - Ryan Kaisoglus

Ryan: They know it's the only way to get their jobs back. ;-) - Kevin Fox

Jess Lee

First Trailer for Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes! - http://www.firstshowing.net/2009...

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Looks like it'll be a fun movie! I wasn't expecting the trailer to have so many comedic bits. - Jess Lee from Bookmarklet

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Yea, looks great. - Alejandro

I LOVE GUY RITCHE MOVIES! - Tyler Gillies

After LXG, I really hope this doesn't horribly suck. - Phil G

Yes! It'll be awesome! - George The Writer

Robert Downey Jr! Jude Law! Though I don't quite remember those explosions from the stories... - Paul Haahr

Looks like a 007 movie. - Ray Chen

LOL, the end of the trailer is hilarious! - Tanath

As a Guy Ritchie fan, I can only say: wow! - Rui Pires

Bah, it's from Warner :-( - Marcos Marado

and from Guy Ritchie #FAIL - sofarsoShawn

Guy Ritchie is awesome. #WIN - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Maybe in the year 2000 - sofarsoShawn

I don't remember Sherlock kicking so much ass - this isn't your daddy's Basil Rathbone. - Vince DeGeorge

Flashy, but loses the tone of the books completely :( - Aaron D'Souza

Paul Buchheit

A Low Impact Woodland Home - http://www.simondale.net/house...

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Gordon Saunders, Jannifer @wordsforliving, Lu Tao and 36 other people liked this

"You are looking at pictures of a house I built for our family in Wales. It was built by myself and my father in law with help from passers by and visiting friends. 4 months after starting we were moved in and cosy. I estimate 1000-1500 man hours and £3000 put in to this point. Not really so much in house buying terms (roughly £60/sq m excluding labour). The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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hobbits! - vijay

Spider city...shudder... - Pete Gilbert

Hobbits is what I was thinking too. Original, kind of. Now for them to enjoy the upkeep. - Richard A.

Oh yes hobbits! - BeeLing

Before reading any words my fist thought was "but Bag End has a round door". Then I realised this was not actually a picture of a Hobbit house. - Andy Kruger

That was a few years ago. I would love to awesome current pictures of that house, how jasot stood up to the elements? - Christian Burns

This house is more impressive in my opinion. Architecturally and aesthetically (and ecologically!) beautiful. http://magazine.wsj.com/feature... - Darren

alexia tsotsis

"Twitter is dead" --Newspapers "Newspapers are dead" --Twitter

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Sounds like a John Woo movie - Chris Lamprecht

Wiley Wiggins

Arduino Tutorial - Learn electronics and microcontrollers using Arduino! - http://www.ladyada.net/learn...

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Paul Buchheit

Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...

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"What happened, Arreguín-Toft wondered, when the underdogs likewise acknowledged their weakness and chose an unconventional strategy? He went back and re-analyzed his data. In those cases, David’s winning percentage went from 28.5 to 63.6. When underdogs choose not to play by Goliath’s rules, they win, Arreguín-Toft concluded, “even when everything we think we know about power says they shouldn’t.”" - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Wow, interesting. Also: is that a record for colons in an web page title? - Ted Roden

Entertaining Gladwell Blink-like piece. If the little guy is creative he has a better chance of winning, I agree. But this works only if the big guy won't adapt. So all you big guys out there: get a move on! :-) - Daniel Dulitz

I think it's emblematic of game-changing startups. What's fascinating to me is how long a company can hold on to that "work immensely hard and break all the rules phase." What impressed me about Microsoft is that they did it for a full 15 or so years (between 1985 and 2000 when the Anti-Trust suit went on). I wonder if there are any companies that regularly exceed that. - Piaw Na

Piaw, drug cartels have adapted successfully over long periods of time. - Todd Hoff

"Why, then, did weak teams play in a way that made it easy for good teams to do the very things that made them so good?" - Because a good team can easily break the full court pressure of a poor team which leaves the basket open for an easy score. Concentrating your players in a coordinated team defense is a better strategy. They probably won because they used a novel strategy teams hadn't prepared for. Since this is an iterative game teams will adjust next year. - Todd Hoff

Todd++ The article gravely understates the faults of the full court press. As well, top college teams don't use it because _they have to recruit star players who want to go to the NBA_. And they don't use it in the NBA because you can't use a gimmick defense in the league and not get beat in the playoffs (edit: because the playoffs are seven game series each, so teams can adjust). So a college team won't get star players if they're all about the press. - Andrew C

is this another case of the insiders nay-saying the unconventional strategy? so what is your take-away from this entire article? - Serge

Serge, Gladwell covered some of this territory before in Blink when he wrote about the Red Team (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) trouncing the conventional military in a war game simulation. So breaking the rules as a means of success is well established. Hannibal's campaigns against Rome and a million others have show this. One interesting question is why do people so... more... - Todd Hoff

"So breaking the rules as a means of success is well established" - see also Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru! (sorry, but someone had to do it.) Serge, my take-away is that not enough teams in that league devoted enough time to learning how to break a full court press. It's just a matter of inbounding and passing. Once broken, the defending team is badly out of position to defend a basket... more... - Andrew C

And the league doesn't spend time training for it because there's not enough payback for doing so.. .Until someone does it and wins. :-) - Piaw Na

Sure. I guess my problem with this basketball example is that it's not quite like the wargame example, where the computer program found dominant strategies for a game with underspecified rules. (Since the real point of the wargames was to produce viable real-world strategies.) Here, the coach was exploiting a temporary flaw (inability to beat the press), but it's presented as on par with discovering that, say, the wargame's rules favoured immobile but heavily armed ships. - Andrew C

Joel Webber

Possibly the most ineffective spam I've ever received.

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Turns out formulabisnis.com (Oddly there's no link in the email) is some sort of Indonesian "make money fast on teh internets" scam. I do not think that word means what they think it means. - Joel Webber

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This type of spam might be used to (try to) add noise to spam filters. Spammers rarely waste their time. :-( - Daniel Dulitz

I actually got Fuck You spam 2 days ago. I was going to reply "fuck you too!" but decided to be the bigger man. - Robby Stein

Actually, spammers do waste their time quite a bit. I've gotten plenty of spam from obviously misconfigured spamming systems ("Dear [[NAME]], ..."). I think it's cheap enough that the cost of error is low, and it's not like they have a brand to protect by not being sloppy. - ⓞnor

MUST BUY SOME - Robert Konigsberg

Well, short, succinct, direct to the point. Lacks some sophistication but the call to action is strong :) - David Eedle

Nelson Minar

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda. I love Unix.

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you forgot 'sudo', I hope :) - Chris Lamprecht

The good news is that no one will type that by accident. - Seth

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Paul Buchheit

Now that Ashton Kutcher has won the One Million followers race, I'm officially announcing the race to One Trillion followers!

April 16 - Comment - Like - Share

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You're on - Jesse Stay

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let's not waste any time boys! - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Please don't give the anonymous hordes a new goal. Because they will go there. - Phil G

but can we scale it to find out if you're right that is the question :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

so your check will be for $1,000,000? :) - Bwana ☠

how is shortcuts coming ? .. any contests there? :] - Petr Buben

twitter's servers? are you high? those things are toast after the races of a gajillion to a million.. selling accounts was part of this race....it's Over - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

maybe paul & bret & co can build some server mojo for that project. twitter sure as hell can't - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

at 10 followers per second it should only take you about 3,169 years to reach a trillion followers. give twitter another 2, 3 millennia and they'll probably have the scaling thing licked by then - Karim

i wish they would charge over 2000 followers. - Richard A. from fftogo

+1 Karim! and another +1 Richard - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Are you trying to bring Twitter down, Paul ? :P - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I could care less...however, PLEASE DON'T TELL OBAMA WHAT COMES AFTER A TRILLION!!!!! LOL (seasidesoul) Disa Albanese - Disa Albanese

I think I can beat you :) - Nicholas James

Fred Wilson

Shopping with the gotham gal for clothes for me. The secret to our 28 year relationship is we don't do this very often.

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Paul Buchheit

The new ui includes some useful keyboard shortcuts, but there's one "shortcut" that's not included in the FAQ. Can you find it? http://friendfeed.com/about

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We need a pause key binding, stat! - Victor Ganata

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Will I win a cookie? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

the space bar moves the page down - Alejandro

Not a cookie Tina, but you will get 30 of something. - Paul Buchheit

i see... - Alejandro

Hm, something tells me Oliver North might know... - Mark Trapp

it would be good if the space bar would activate the "pause button", though. ;) - Alejandro

++++++++ Alejandro S. - johnpiercy

Is it that hitting the Delete key sends me to the Direct Messages screen? - Kevin D. White

shift + backspace shows my subscriptions - Alejandro

Kevin and Alejandro: delete/backspace should just go back one page (it's built into the browser). You were probably on your DM page. - Mark Trapp

@Mark yep <-- Whisky + Keyboard = dangerous combination - Kevin D. White

Autobacon? - WorldofHiglet

Please god, let WorldofHiglet win. - Kevin D. White

I'm not playing anymore :) - Alejandro

Random pic from Leather Donut's stash? - Internet's Tad

Control-alt-delete brings up a secret dialog box. - Jim Norris

Gah! Tad, I hope not! o_O - WorldofHiglet

Alt+F4 closes the app? - jcunwired

When I press the special key it plays a little melody. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Internet's Tad

You know, this could all just be Paul's little revenge for all the "Make it Stop" "It's Ugly" "Mommy!" that we put him through on Monday. - Kevin D. White

Found it. - Mark Trapp

please share! - Alejandro

Where's the fun in that! I can show you a screenshot, though: http://beta.friendfeed.com/itafrom... - Mark Trapp

O_O - Alejandro

This can't be right, I'm sure p stands for pause. - j1m

shift + backspace or spacebar seem to be undocumented keyboard shortcuts... Come on Paul, share , share - Tweet Feeds

? goes to the search box just like the documented / - which places focus in search box - Tweet Feeds

I wish I could move between conversations by using up and down arrow (or something similar) and then having something like "h" available to hide the item, "l" for like maybe. But easy hiding would be most important to me. Get all the BS off my screen. :) - Meryn Stol

Ctrl + W = it miraculously increases your productivity :) - Jeanette Bosman

Hm. 'gh' isn't working for me anymore. - Rodfather

yeah - gh isn't working either. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

GH hasn't worked for me yet... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

what happened to gh? - Tweet Feeds

sweet! press the key sequence: up, up, down,down, left, right, left, right, B, A, tab, enter, then see the psychedelic colors :) - Chris Lamprecht

I wish "p" and "P" activated the post box on my Favorites feed. I don't ever leave that except to post. - Jesse Stay

it's the last one here, isn't it? http://www.threadless.com/... - Alejandro

I explained the key sequence to my gf and she said, "oh that's from mortal kombat" ... I was more of a street fighter II kinda guy :) - Chris Lamprecht

Weird. For me it's BA, and I only get a black box. - Ken Sheppardson

That was the Konami code that let you play forever no matter how many times you died. I used it a lot in Ikari Warriors, Contra, and Lifeforce. - Victor Ganata

yeah. i give up. i must not be doing it right. even checked the source. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

You're right Ken it is BA, not AB ... - Chris Lamprecht

So does that make it pause, too? That's all I want. - Jesse Stay

? place focus in search box also - 0M0M

awesome. good call on the select/start keyboard equivalents. - Aaron Fowler

Ha ha! Very cool! Brings back memories. - Sam Grover

It's an Easter Egg in time for Easter! - Jesse Stay

keyboard shortcuts(sc) are EXTREMELY important. look how nice Gmail got it! .. also here "?" needs to be help. sc need to be CONTEXTUAL! .. what the heck are we pressing "ctrl-w", when "w" would do?? WHY Google home still doesn't have "/" ?? are they sleeping? :] http://www.google.com/support... ...... ...... ..... did you know shortcuts in Deutsch actually means " short cat" ? .. Kurze Katze , short Katze .. well, maybe its time to log off, on the other hand {:] - Petr Buben

Jon McAlister

Google App Engine Blog: Seriously this time, the new language on App Engine: Java™ - http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009...

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So the next language should probably be a Mono based C# support? :-) This would certainly kick Azure a bit if it was also integrated into Visual Studio. - Eran Sandler

Tom Stocky

Histomap of World History - http://www.kk.org/cooltoo...

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I saw this on the wall and couldn't tear myself away for like 20 minutes. There's such depth to it -- you immediately get value from far away and the value keeps increasing the closer you get. (Click the images to see more detail.) - Tom Stocky

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As a kid, we used to have a big book with a fold out map like this, based on the biblical account of history, and with really neat illustrations. I wish I remembered the book's name, but histomaps are really cool. - Mark Trapp

Ah, this is the one we had: http://www.exodusbooks.com/details... - Mark Trapp

Wow, that looks really cool, too -- though it seems like it might be a bit more complex, requiring a key to understand it completely. - Tom Stocky

It wasn't as visually impacting from 10 feet away as this one you have here must be, but it was surprisingly readable from a foot or so away. On each of the branches, there were labels running along the branch indicating what civilization they belonged to. - Mark Trapp

What is the horizontal scale? People? Land? Subjective greatness? A good visualization should promptly reveal its meaning. - Antonio Piccolboni

Judging based on the pictures and my working knowledge of the civilizations, I'd say it's largely based on geographical reach and cultural influence, relative to the other powers shown at that particular time. Most histomaps I've seen tend to use that as the metric, anyway. - Mark Trapp

Funny, it looks like the graph you get in Sid Meier's Civilization series of games. :) - Ray Cromwell

Sounds like it's high time to make a rigorous version of this map. I propose the horizontal scale be share of world population under the same rule or belonging to one political system and the vertical scale, in sw eng style, be man*years. - Antonio Piccolboni

Paul Buchheit

Bret is demoing the new FriendFeed ui

April 2 - Comment - Like - Share

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