"President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech Thursday is drawing praise from some unlikely quarters – conservative Republicans – who likened Obama’s defense of “just wars” to the worldview of his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush. It’s already being called the “Obama Doctrine” – a notion that foreign policy is a struggle of good and evil, that American exceptionalism has blunted the force of tyranny in the world, and that U.S. military can be a force for good and even harnessed to humanitarian ends.... The remarks drew immediate praise from a host of conservatives, including former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin."
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
I would move to France if that happened Eric...lol...Immediately...
- Bill Heslin
I am just having a little fun with Mr. McBride. He has been noticeably hard on P.O.T.U.S. Obama today.
- Eric Logan
The thing is, the "praise" from Republican circles starts by deeply misunderstanding the Bush Doctrine. Unilateral defense of the country is absolutely not the same thing as preventative war. (and while I'm at it, pre-emptive war can be justifiable, but it is also not the same thing as preventative war.)
- Andrew C
A rose by any other name... And I know people get tired of me saying it, but, since the same group runs both parties, why would you expect a different outcome?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
Andrew -- I thought you were too smart to expend any effort in making excuses for someone (Obama) who has morphed with alarming speed into a clone of his predecessor in the White House. Remember those diehard supporters of Bush who found it so difficult to look at his real policies and their effects objectively? Remember the contempt you felt for them?
- Sean McBride
Obama's admittedly disappointing on Afghanistan and torture and Wall St, but you guys have to be seriously deluded yourselves on this "he's just like Bush" line if you can look at the health care reform bills and even imagine Republicans producing something like this.
- Andrew C
Andrew -- do you have any idea of the magnitude of the bad judgment driving Obama's foreign policy, and how the effects of it will more than negate any positive elements of his domestic policies? Now, under neocon/neolib prodding, he is trying to pick a fight with 180 million Pakistanis. See Jim Lobe today: Increased Focus and Growing Pressure on Pakistan...
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- Sean McBride
Serious speculation: is Barack Obama being blackmailed about the Larry Sinclair business? Is that what his big flip-flop all about?
- Sean McBride
Sean, not so sure about the blackmail thing. It's a little too tin-foil-hat, even for me. And we have to remember that the push to have a serious military presence in Pakistan began with Bush 43, long before Obama had even announced his intention to run for POTUS. This is merely a continuation of the same policy albeit with a better looking guy using more eloquent speeches. What...
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- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Mark -- you might want to take a close look at the controversies surrounding Larry Sinclair -- it's easy to Google. Often major scandals percolate on the periphery of public attention before they erupt into 24x7 spectacles in the mainstream media. Have you seen what has just happened to Tiger Woods? His career has been severely damaged. Small time compared to what would happen to Obama...
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- Sean McBride
"Often major scandals percolate on the periphery of public attention before they erupt into 24x7 spectacles in the mainstream media. " Selection bias; you also have to look at the number of tabloid stories that never pan out.
- Andrew C
Andrew -- what do you make of the Larry Sinclair story? It won't seem to go away. It's difficult to understand why he would stick to his guns so stubbornly if the story is false. For the record: I have no interest in the story per se. I don't care if Obama did what Sinclair alleged he did. But many other political players and manipulators would be intensely interested in this story, if they could use it against Obama.
- Sean McBride
"It's difficult to understand why he would stick to his guns so stubbornly if the story is false." Really? That's difficult to understand? I suppose Orly Taitz must be on to something too, because she's sticking to her guns.
- Andrew C
He doesn't come across anything like Orly Taitz, who is as mad as a hatter -- he is reporting on a direct experience, and he seems to be sincerely pissed off that the story has been ignored so far by the mainstream media.
- Sean McBride
Fair enough. Perhaps I should have said Dick Cheney, who at least doesn't come off as mad as a hatter despite a demonstrably crazy world view and a near complete inability to tell the truth.
- Andrew C
Truth is, the debate of whether global warming "exists" is misdirecting people from the important issue. It doesn't really matter what the past has been or how much we should "blame" on humans. The important thing is human beings now have the power to influence the sustainability and health of our environment. That means we can choose to take care of the world or we can choose to treat it like a trash heap. All we have to do is decide and act. Everything else is crosstalk.
- Ross Bennett
Those people jumping on Leo for driving a Mustang are missing the point. What's important is his total pollutant footprint. How much pollutants does he pump out period? Is the guy who drives to the store 5 times a day in a smaller car more of a polluter? Why is everyone hung up on CO2 when there are so many other lovely chemicals to worry about pumped out by autos? The whole climate change debate is very sterile. Pumping out dioxins and hydrocarbons is bad period.
- Fergal Barry
I agree with Jerry Pournelle. With what we've learned about the fudging of the data, it's time to revisit the global warming issue and see where REAL science leads us.
- Don Smith
And damn those Ice Age men for their pollution!
- Craig Eddy
I wonder, did Leo ever apologize for insulting Callie Lewis about her opposing view on the topic? And why didn't he lambaste Jerry the same way?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Let's do something about it! Um, what?
- jeff hammond
Simple, nuclear power. GreenPeace be damned.
- Schadenfreude
Yes, a Mustang AND the Escape. But besides that you work for a conservative radio station. Surely if Rush spoke with you, there would be sparks. Especially after this Climate Gate situation. You Leo of all people should know the truth. Those emails and source code were not stolen by elite black hat hackers who used brute force and password crackers. They were on an OPEN FTP SERVER. And...
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- Oren Gravenhorst
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Internet's Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent Smorgen Bleg
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark Jepsen
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark Jepsen
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
Don't shoot me Santa Claus, I've been a clean living boy, I promise you, did every little thing you asked me to, I can't believe the things I'm going through...
- Otto
It's all part of the Santa reboot. Hollywood should now do a Santa Origins story, directed by Michael Bay of course.
- Jerry Perez
gittii giittii giitttii giiitti santa gitti :D
- ELyaz
Saaantaa!!! Did it smell like cookies? lol
- John Tastad
makes getting down the chimney a lot easier.
- Morgan Haley
On Dasher! On Donner! On Cupi.....Oh SHIT! On Fire!!! On Fire!!!!
- Morgan Haley
English speakers: there is no need to pronounce Copenhagen as "Copenhah-gen" It is not more authentically Danish if you pronounce it that way. You see, Danes call that city København. If you want to be more authentically Danish, call the city that. If you use the English name for the city, pronounce it "Copenhay-gen".
It's a bit silly that every language has to rewrite the names for other countries' places. Why can't we all call places by what the locals call them? But in the absence of that, yeah, might as well not be a poseur.
- LogEx
Is it really officially "Copenhay-gen" in English? I feel like I've heard it "Copenhah-gen" as a matter of course, not as a way to be more elite/authentic. Both sound equally acceptable to me, neither sounds more pretentious or anything than the other.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Jandy, maybe you just hang out with more high-brow types than we do ;)
- LogEx
I just call it "Buying Haven" and be done with it!
- Mark Jepsen
I was just trying to figure out which I'd naturally say if I weren't thinking about, and I have no idea. Probably because I'm thinking about it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
I tried four times to correct my above comment, changing the "I" to "I'll" but was foiled each time! Anyway, for what it's worth, København literally translates as "Buying Port" or "Buying Harbor" because of its origins as a trading center...
- Mark Jepsen
+LogEx. Once I was old enough to learn for myself that foreign places had their own localized designations (or at least pronounciation) I thought it pretty stupidly ego-centric to keep using the Western/Anglo version we made up for them.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
The worst part of it is that we're not even consistent! When I was a kid it was Peking and Bombay. Now it's Beijing and Mumbai, which is fine, but why didn't we get it right in the first place. Maybe we'll just rotate the "preferred" name on a bi-decennial basis?
- Mark Jepsen
But yeah, generally I agree with LogEx. Is it that hard to say "Italia" or "Praha" or "Firenze" instead of Italy, Prague, and Florence? No. But if you actually used those names in English, it'd be way pretentious. You'd have to get everyone to do it first, like Mark's examples.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Grand prize to anyone who can say Göteborg. Or any town in Finland.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
"It's a bit silly that every language has to rewrite the names for other countries' places." - not really, it makes sense to re-write the name to a rough phonetic equiv. in the target language. That's what people are getting at, I think, having it sound similar. On the other hand, we'd have to learn where the heck Suomi is :) http://translate.google.com/#en|fi|...
- Richard ¿digame? Walker
So funny how this post was just lying here quietly then suddenly got discovered! a) I have no problem pronouncing Göteborg albeit with a slight American accent. (b) Even the Swedes call København Köpenhamn but that's a direct translation over to Swedish of "Buying Harbor" while Copenhagen doesn't mean anything in English (c) The Chinese themselves have changed the name of their capital...
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- Spidra Webster
Ahhh, but then say you try to say the local version and pronounce it wrong when asking for directions or something...suddenly you're heading in entirely the wrong direction and you don't even know it. I once tried to order a beer at a bar in Switzerland and ended up drinking Ovaltine! At least if you pronounce the Westernised version CORRECTLY then...it's a start. :)
- Amy
I've always said HAY not HAH, and that had the approval of a one-time Danish friend.
- Ian May
If you wanted to be cool (at least in Norway) you would just call it "Køben" (with a "ch" sound at the beginning) :)
- Thomas Bøhm
"ch"? Kinda like how Swedes pronounce, "att köpa" then?
- Spidra Webster
I always pronounce it "Copenhäagen-Dazs"
- Jim Norris
Spidra: Exactomundo. Swedes do that too. Whilst the Danish use a normal "k" sound (as you´re probably familiar with)
- Thomas Bøhm
This is difficult to explain without sounding creepy but... There is nothing as beautiful than a woman who has just showered, in her pajamas, still damp hair and no make up... It's just hard to... well... find or ask people other than Rachael to let me photograph them like this... I know, weird, but you know...
Your feedback is appreciated. Your bitterness is not. Sorry your life sucked for a bit, but you could have done a better job of informing me to put my credits on my UTube videos than passively aggressively accusing me of being a rip off artist. :p
Oh crap, I made the mistake of responding, and now I'm finding out that this guy's a paranoid loser says he's an original and who thinks EVERYONE steals from him. He stopped short of accusing me of doing so. Finally did a Google search on him after his 2nd email to me and found his myspace page. It's not bad, but, er, it was original around 1982, hon. Sorry. Conversation ends now...
- Helen Sventitsky
I got my first 'computer' in 1982. A Sinclair ZX81, and I bought the 16K RAM pack too. I think many Myspace pages would look a lot better on it, than they do on a machine with millions of colors.
- Ian May
Myspace pages would better on any computer other than a PC or a Mac. :D
- Helen Sventitsky
I still recall the day the bottom of my 100 munchin box broke and I lost most of the contents to that cold Boston street. I did try to rescue as many as I could but ultimately I was left with only around 90%. :(
- Noah Belson
"This week, Rupert Murdoch wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that exemplified this clever strategy. Aptly titled “Journalism and Freedom,” the article belittles the fair use doctrine and demands compensation for news content online, while going on to wax eloquent about the ideals of the Founding Fathers and the First Amendment. The problem here is that the right he claims to value above all else, the freedom of speech, is precisely what prevents media companies like News Corp. from claiming ownership in the news. Facts cannot be owned, so while News Corp. can certainly prevent third parties from reproducing stories in full, it has no right to control the facts within those stories. This is not a peculiarity of copyright law; it is a protection of the First Amendment and an effort to create the informed citizenry Murdoch claims to cherish."
- LogEx
from Bookmarklet
"What is fairly new, however, is for the press to use language about the importance of the First Amendment to argue for a copyright policy that would explicitly limit free speech. In other words, in order to save the First Amendment, we have to limit the First Amendment. Irony is dead... It is truly sad that the institution that has historically defended and benefited from the First Amendment more than any other is now leading the charge against it. That’s not just irony; it’s hypocrisy."
- LogEx
I love how everyone is trying to redefine everything. Don't like what the bible says, rewrite it and redefine the words. Don't like laws, redefine them.
- CW™
Doublespeak is the verbal weapon of choice of those who want to control.
- Mark H
Yeah, I have sympathy for the plight of newspapers, but then again those companies can pull dick moves like what the AP tried with the Obama poster thing. (Shepherd Fairey based it on an AP photo, but the photographer retained copyright and thus the AP was totally out of bounds to act as if it owned the photo.)
- Andrew C
Just noticed that retweets don't get published here. That's a good thing, I suppose. Although, I don't mind the retweet function nearly as much as everyone else seems to.
http://nedroid.com/ - it's the tater tot-looking creature. Him and the bird Reginald make quite a pair and go on adventures of whimsy and randomness :)
- Jon, the Beartato of FF
yeah, retweets using the internal twitter function don't get fed out of twitter via RSS. I noticed that on our website the other day ... after I purposely retweeted some stuff I wanted to show up on the site! If you retweet the old way, of course they will show up.
- Laura Norvig
That's one thing I don't like about the new retweeting method. A lot of times I RT stuff because I want it to show up in my Twitter RSS feed.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Music service I don't need: Vevotato.
- Dave Friedel
AT&T to iPhone users: DontUseSoMuchDatatato
- Dave Friedel
I'll be here all week folks. Don't forget to tip your servers.
- Dave Friedel
would Bearonica be friends with beartato?
- Fee501st
Yeah, it bugs me a wee bit because I don't want to spend ages on twitter checking to see if I missed anything exciting (I used to just see them here). Not exactly a huge issue, mind you.
- Amy
rss search with rt as search. Would that work. Or topify?
- Richard A.
from fftogo
The #NewRT functionality is a little like taking away your comments here on FriendFeed. It sucks. Even Twitter creator @jack has voiced his concerns.. it's just not very social anymore, see here: http://businessmindhacks.com/post...
- Alex Schleber
It shows up on your FB Fan page V! So is it something on FF end?
- Fee501st
In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, President Obama touched briefly on the issue of climate change, lumping it in with a laundry list of “soft” issues like economic security, food security and education. Here’s the excerpt, which came very late in the speech: ...a just peace includes not only civil and political rights – it must encompass economic security and opportunity. For true peace is not just freedom from fear, but freedom from want. It is undoubtedly true that development rarely takes root without security; it is also true that security does not exist where human beings do not have access to enough food, or clean water, or the medicine they need to survive. It does not exist where children cannot aspire to a decent education or a job that supports a family. The absence of hope can rot a society from within. And that is why helping farmers feed their own people – or nations educate their children and care for the sick – is not mere charity. It is also why the...
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- Eric Logan
from Bookmarklet
Simon Linnett "Unless governments cede some of their sovereignty to a new world body, he says, a global carbon trading scheme cannot be enforced and regulated". http://www.smf.co.uk/assets...
- Eric Logan
yep, the real objective is a world government, the rest is just to fool the fools!
- ovigia
For me, "search everybody" works very slowly, "search my friends" gives a service unavailable error.
- Neil Saunders
It was working for me last night but is broken now...damnit, anyone got $10M to build something for us?
- Cameron Neylon
Yes, that research group with the recent grant to build "FB for Science", they have the money and the mandate. Now, how do we get them to build a FriendFeed instead of a Facebook?
- Bill Hooker
In early next year my grant to do something like that should be decided :-)
- Björn Brembs
Okay, I'll admit it, I don't get it the reasoning in the "let's make the girls wear skirts" all the time in WI where it's currently 0 with windchill of stupid cold.
there was an oz episode like that. it made my eyes leak. the prisoner was training him for a guard who spoke mostly spanish at home, and the prisoner had taught the dog to obey commands in spanish, to everyone's surprise. Of course, the prisoner was the one responsible for said guard going blind, but hey, you get your feel goods where you can.
- Baroness Von SmashAHomie
temporary dyslexia caused me to read this as a news story about puppies who train prisoners to be guide dogs. That would be cool as well, though not as cool as the real segment.
- Jim Hearts FF
That would be pretty neat, though. :)
- Laura Lou Who
Alex has asked me to handle the game for this upcoming week, because he will be involved with wedding stuff this weekend. Since I know he might not be around to get a vote in, and also to provide more time for the rest of us, I'll accept absentee & preemptive votes for the week 44(Dec. 14-18).
If you are in the military there is no 12:00 AM...Time goes from 23:59 to 00:01
- Alex Scoble
Military time is the only clock to live by, but it just sounds silly in English compared to French. Unless I'm just more used to military time in French being used as normal time.
- Richard A.
Alex - 23:59 to 00:01 is 2 minutes? It really goes from 00:00 to 24:00 (i.e., 24 hrs) except that 00:00 and 24:00 are the same.
- Victor Ryden
No, there is no 24:00 or 00:00 in the military. So yes, you get this funky 2 minute period at the end of the day, beginning of the next.
- Alex Scoble
Day starts when the Sun rises, 12:00AM is the middle of the night!
- John D Reasor
I could've sworn I heard the phrase "zero hundred hours" uttered when I rotated through the Naval Medical Center. Computers all change the date at midnight, no?
- Victor Ganata
According to most calendars the day finishes at 59, therefore the new day is from zero. You have to add the new calendar day if the event/occurence goes beyond midnight.
- Richard A.
"Fire District 6 said it 'strongly advises people to not put their tongue on a metal pole during extremely low temperatures -- even if someone triple-dog dares you to -- because it will get stuck.'" BWAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!
- josh neff, geek at large
this is making the rounds of all the local news shows. I am still howling. HOWLING, I say.
- holly
The is why Christmas Story should be required viewing for young kids.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
"More precisely, this map will be scary for people in the US. It's a time-lapse video of unemployment rates over two years - the darker the color, the higher the rates. Welcome to the jobless future."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Bummer. Texas is at 8.3%. It's only around 7% in Austin and San Antonio, but things are harder down at the border (above 11%). This state has been bleeding construction jobs badly. http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news...
- Steven Perez
Strangely enough, the county that I am does not seem to change at all. Unfortunately for me, the area I am looking to relocate in is mired in dark red and purple. :-( When it comes to wildlife jobs, the unemployment rate around here might as well be 100%.
- Jenny R.
My kids have different personalities and taste. Ever since they were little, Cebastian preferred things you would usually consider “boy stuff,” while Isabelle preferred things that you would think “girl stuff.” However, with this difference comes another one. Learning. I know that I shouldn’t compare my children, but I am doing it out of [...]
- Shevonne
People learn differently. I am extremely visual. A good teacher will recognize which method is appropriate for a student and tailor parts of the lesson delivery.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
You're right. I felt awful yesterday when went to this group I have the kids in. The boys who in my daughter's grade were reading with no issues, while she was struggling. =( I feel like I am doing something wrong.
- Shevonne
I understand why you feel that way. Through observation you should be able to see how she interacts on her own with learning toys. That's how best to present new material to her. Absolutey not a gender thing.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
BTW I use the same techniques now to quickly understand how to sell to people.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from iPod
Shevonne, I would continue what you're doing, and a tutor might be a good idea. I don't know how old she is, but I was retarded as a child except in mathematics, I was unable to read until about 2nd grade(7-8) with the help of special ed which involved 1-on-1 and Small Group interaction 3-4 students for the teacher. This helped me build my basic phonetic and comprehension skills, which...
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- Jimminy
@Jimminy She's six and in first grade. Your story makes me feel a WHOLE lot better. I know she is bright. I just need to find the best way to teach her.
- Shevonne
I'm sure she'll be fine, especially with you there to help her and she sounds very bright and ambitious. It sounds like you've found a set of ways to help her learn, and there is always room to add more or more efficient ways later.
- Jimminy
"A group of bicycle-riding vigilantes are on a mission to repaint bike lanes on 14 blocks of Williamsburg roadways after they were sand blasted away at the request of the Hasidic community. The religious group in the area reportedly said the bike paths on Bedford Avenue posed a safety and religious hazard. Hasids said the scantily clad hipster cyclists that occupy the lanes make it difficult to navigate through the neighborhood and make it hard for them to obey religious laws that looking at members of the opposite sex in certain states of dress. In addition, they said the bikers would constantly disobey traffic laws. A source close to Mayor Bloomberg told the New York Post that the lanes were removed to appease the Hasidic community before last month's election."
- bcultral
from Bookmarklet