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nope, no email response. maybe it would send one if i had a posterous account and had used that to login. (i used twitter to login.) - nate beaty

dang. another example of disconnect with all these decentralized third-party services...ah well. free is still good! - Bryan Landers

well it took me 2 seconds to make a posterous account, which i've been considering for a while anyway. the other downfall to all these great 3rd party services is choosing where to express yourself! - nate beaty

i thought i was so clever when i aggregated everything (via FF api) on my website and added disqus, thinking everything would go there...but that's when i learned how few people check out my stuff! the only place that i feel like i know what's up as far as community/comments is here on FF. (looks like you get good responses on flickr, too, no?) everything else is random bang bang shoot it if it moves style communication. - Bryan Landers

Seeing it in IMAX 3D tomorrow. I've read no full reviews and I'm going in with low expectations on all fronts except the technical one which is the ONLY reason why I'm going to begin with. Well, that, and the fact that friends of mine did all of the legwork getting tickets and whatnot. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva's stepping out, yo! - Josh Haley

if kevin is on the train all of a sudden ... I'm curious. - karl dotter

Akiva, I think you'll like it for more than just the special effects. I liked the plot and acting as well. - FF's Bubba of Arizona

It's partially on purpose. The lower my expectations, the more likely I am to be surprised and impressed by the film. - Akiva Moskovitz

I saw IMAX 3d on friday and it was awesome. I'd love to see it again sometime soon but I'm not sure when we can sneak out. - Joe Beda () from iPhone

can anyone convince me further?, this is what I've been told from the amazing nate beaty: "if you love mega-cgi, hamfisted, 3-Dee, thinly-veiled native american allegory, cardboard-character driven ecodrama and purple glitterskinned 12-foot amazon catwomen who connect their ponytails to fly giant poly-eyed fantasy birdbeasts, then fall in love with 'murican soldiers with "curiously active brains" in a $500m bluescreen hollywood earth++." - karl dotter

This is such a deep UI question. - karl dotter

that video totally made my day. zooooom. vector in and bitmap on the z-axis! - nate beaty

i guffawed when they did this in Avatar. - nate beaty

wow, so should I see avatar? so much hype swirling around that my mom told me to see it. - karl dotter

my friend who was a corporate graphic designer for years mentioned he uses this. sounded like it converts photoshop to xhtml/css, which sounded cool...haven't looked at it yet though ;) re: simple web design, the closest thing out there is http://squarespace.com, but even that isn't enough for most people. i've had clients turn that down because: 1. they wanted it 'more custom' than... more... - Bryan Landers

i'd also say that 95% of those people that don't want templates but want a fancy site also don't think it's worth the amount it would cost to pay a professional to do the work for them. definitely still a large gray area. - nate beaty

then again, it's also very common for those folks to have no idea of the amount of work involved on their end to come up with *content* to fill that site, both initial content and ongoing updates! (who's getting bitter? haha.) - nate beaty

sad that susie's article got cut, but wow on lisa's artwork, will pick up a copy for sure. - karl dotter

ah, i hadn't heard. that blows. (damnit you just caused me to add more RSS feeds to my reader in researching that. gak.) - nate beaty

I'm a rss reader wuss, do you think it helps or hurts your internet time suck? I just look at the whole internet as an inbox zero. - karl dotter

Btw, what's an example of a non-creepy bed mannequin? - Bryan Landers from iPhone

why, a sexy bed mannequin, of course. - nate beaty

My guess is In this economy, every other day has been Buy Nothing Day for most people - esther from iPhone

I hasten to add that I don't think the practice of buying crap is thus more justified this year, jus saying the mindset may be a little different this year: more hunger for deals, smaller likelihood of overindulgent spending - esther from iPhone

Yup, and 1 chance to pick a username?! Pity the person who makes a typo at this moment. Anytime you resort to this type of language and interaction in your messaging, it should be taken as an indication that your UX has gone crapola. - Bryan Landers

myspace has long been my go-to for what NOT to do in UX. - nate beaty

W/ apologies to anyone who works for them: if you're using myspace, that's a fail =P - esther from iPhone

i said essentially the same thing to a friend the other day, his response: "if you're a band, what else is there?" muxtape.com came to mind, but he's right, it's come down to band pages and It's Too Painful To Migrate Elsewhere users. - nate beaty

Aha. Now this conversation is getting interesting. So, in answer to, "if you're a band, what else is there?" I have too long an answer, but the short version is: EVERYWHERE! I recently helped 2 musician friends with their own destination sites/hubs (artist_name_dot_com), each of which used no less than 5 other web services (Twitter, Flickr, ArtistData, Facebook, MySpace, Vimeo,... more... - Bryan Landers