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I would be happy to never hear the sound of a phone ringing again. All information should come by text, twitter or email. /endgrumpyrant
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Preach on!
- Kirk
absolutely. I can respond to those forms when I want. Besides, even though I'm supposedly an adult, talking on the phone makes me very nervous and uncomfortable.
- Craig
from twhirl
My sentiments exactly, Felicia. Everything Craig siad.
- Kristina Gerwig
Dvorak Users Dislike Qwerty Keyboard Dominance In Phones - http://www.pheedcontent.com/click...
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Ze Frank Tries to Understand Health Care Reform: Links, Pics, Videos, and News - http://www.buzzfeed.com/veronic...
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git is like a bad boyfriend: problems committing, demands to go over your history constantly, wants to be called "master"
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And what is Perforce like, then?
- Andrew C (✓)
@Andrew: Death.
- EricaJoy
Erica- you mean you can rely on it and it's peaceful? =) There's at least two products I can think of that are far worse than P4.
- Andrew C (✓)
I like perforce. Back in the late 90s, you could tell which startups had good technical people because they were all using perforce.
- Piaw Na
Nothing is certain but Perforce and Taxes?
- Amit Patel
check out Eric Sink`s blog for common pitfalls of Git... http://www.ericsink.com/
- ersan bilik
Common pitfall #1: Deciding to store your source code in it.
- ⓞnor
You definitely shouldn't store your source code in a bad boyfriend.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Oh no, there were plenty of startups not using perforce in the 90s. :-)
- Piaw Na
do you find yourself doing a git gc --aggressive ? :)
- Ahsan Ali
Ersan, nice blog suggestion. Thanks. So hands on with the technical discussion and the writing quality itself is superb. I'm subscribing now.
- Micah
Maybe there's a reason he called it "git" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Joel Webber
Project Natal : Felicia Day - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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N❍RTH 32F ℜuNNe ℜℜ✌✈, Felicia Yue, Daniel Rowley and 26 other people liked this
Lucky you :D
- Fee501st
So do you think we will all need a large environment to play the x-box in with Natal?
- Kurt Carty
This is awesome! It's almost like DDR video, part 2! =P
- Dani Figueiredo
oh wow... how was response time? It looks to lag behind a little.
- Dean "Karnatos" Michaud
Shameless link: http://www.youtube.com/watch... [You asked for a fireball...]
- Dani Figueiredo
OMG, Dani - that's fantastic! YOU ROCK!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Sweeet! Yeah, the video demos look like it lags behind what you're doing - is that true? Do you just get used to doing things a tad before they actually happen?
- Jandy
lol.
- Will Higgins™
Awesome!
- David Cook
A Quick Thought: The future's most valuable personal commodity will be the ability to focus for extended periods of time. As the Web continues to train society's brain to concentrate only on momentary digital bits, those who are able to maintain absolute awareness will flourish in the face of a world who thinks in blinks.
Kishore Balakrishnan, Björn Klose, Ho John Lee and 10 other people liked this
You think there are those that just think in blinks on the Internet? Although, that would explain a lot.
- Brent - Yes I am
I do. They think in blinks and are on the brink of becoming dinks in a wink. Seriously, though... those who can maintain an extended attention span should be able to have a leg up on the rest of society.
- Brad Williamson
Interesting.
- DGentry
Good thought, though sometimes it takes an extended attentions span to take in all those blink-bits.
- JCunwired
Touche, jcunwired. Touche ;-)
- Brad Williamson
Ubuntu developers are working on improving the software development experience in Karmic: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Desktop... Really great idea. Python FTW!
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Why Being Smart Won't Get You Laid - http://www.alternet.org/module...
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1. Smart people spent more time on achievements than on relationships when growing up. 2. Smart people feel that they're entitled to love because of their achievements. 3. You don't feel like a fully-realized sexual being, and therefore don't act like one. 4. You're exceptionally talented at getting in the way of your own romantic success. 5. By virtue (or vice) of being smart, you eliminate most of the planet's inhabitants as a dating prospect
- Cee Bee
lol @those pics, Cee Bee.
- Anna Haro
...stay thirsty, my friend!
- .LAG liked that
It worked for Lane Meyer's little brother
- Josh Haley
"He lives vicariously .... through himself." - best line in TV commercial history!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
+1 @Live4... great line... great ad series... so-so beer.
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What Adopting a White Girl Taught One Black Family | Newsweek Culture | Newsweek.com - http://www.newsweek.com/id...
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"Several pairs of eyes follow the girl as she pedals around the playground in an affluent suburb of Baltimore. But it isn't the redheaded fourth grader who seems to have moms and dads of the jungle gym nervous on this recent Saturday morning. It's the African-American man—six feet tall, bearded and wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt—watching the girl's every move. Approaching from behind, he grabs the back of her bicycle seat as she wobbles to a stop. "Nice riding," he says, as the fair-skinned girl turns to him, beaming. "Thanks, Daddy," she replies. The onlookers are clearly flummoxed."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
+1 for use of flummoxed
- Gabe
"And the time when well-intentioned shoppers followed Mark and Katie out of the mall to make sure she wasn't being kidnapped. Or when would-be heroes come up to Katie in the cereal aisle and ask, "Are you OK?"—even though Terri is standing right there."
- Robert Felty
Rob: Although that's a great example, you have to realize that when you see a 7-year-old Irish girl was walking around with a 40-year-old black woman, the last thing you would assume is that the woman is the girl's sister! The reason we assume that the white girl isn't the black adults' daughter isn't out of some ignorant or malicious stereotype, it's because most of us will never see such a pairing in our lifetimes.
- Gabe
I would love to see this more often! Cute family :)
- BEX
Vive le quebec libre! :D
- Michael Forian
BEX: Yes!
- Gabe
I dated a black guy in college back when I was still very blonde. That was about 1979. I got tired of all the nasty looks, nasty comments, and nasty questions. But it came from EVERYbody, not just whites.
- Dawn
We tend to ignore the common and focus on the uncommon. My kids are half-Chinese. In the Bay Area, it's so common, no one bats an eye. Outside of major cities in China, would catch attention, not because, as in this story, people would fear 'something's wrong', but often because of a fascination with the way mixed kids look. We kind of lock on things that are new and interesting, and sometimes we fear it, sometimes we're just very curious. I might be worried how we'd be perceived in West Virginia. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Mona posted this the other day. Nice article.
- Amani
@Gabe, I get your point, but it can happen biologically as well. I mean that a black woman, or black man, could have a child that looks far more white than black. It's not common no, but it happens.
- Lynne d Johnson
Lynne: I went to high school with about 2000 African-Americans, so I've met plenty of black people who could pass for white. None of them had red hair.
- Gabe
Gabe - The excerpt I pulled out didn't mention racism. I definitely agree with you to some extent, but I think the point is that people don't tend to do those things to white adults walking around with black children. Though also quite rare, they probably assume that the black child is adopted from Africa. It certainly is a case of prejudice, but I don't think that prejudice is all bad. For example, we assume that animals which look like cats meow. That sort of prejudice can be helpful.
- Robert Felty
@Gabe -- You made me Laugh. That's a good thing.
- Lynne d Johnson
Lynne: I'm glad nobody takes me seriously!
- Gabe
Lindsey: I think it's lack of experience, not lack of thought. I recently saw a white woman with a black boy, so I assumed he was adopted. It turned out that he is her biological son.
- Gabe
We need to stop assuming that skin color has anything to do with anything at all. We all live, laugh, love and die, and somewhere in the middle we want what's best for ourselves and those we care about. Its time we started gravitating to these similarities rather than focusing on our differences, and leave behind a world of acceptance and understanding for those who will come after us.
- JCunwired
jcunwired: I don't see how your comment relates to the article. It seems like you're saying we should not use observations about skin color to help us understand a person we don't know. Are we also not allowed to use height, age, clothing, hair, or speech? What observations may we make assumptions based on?
- Gabe
You probably shouldn't be making assumptions. Sure, it's natural, but that doesn't mean it's right.
- Rah-PM 2012
+Rahsheen. Exactly. Worth noting that black people do have "white"-looking kids biologically sometimes. It's called albinism. One of my sisters has it. What are people going to say about that? Racism is stupid and annoying. At least we're taking steps toward getting over it finally. I'm glad I wasn't born any earlier than I was. I don't know how I could have tolerated the decades of ignorance and discrimination.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
All a kid needs when growing up is loving parents. Why should race matter? Love and care matters.
- Mo Kargas
I grew up with a adopted black mother and then with a white step-mother. My siblings are white, mixed and black. Our family always thought we were what the world outside our home was, diverse. I remember the stares however.
- Anti-Racism.TV
If browsers were women. - http://www.sharenator.org/If_brow...
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"[Chrome] Extremely skinny, but very cool and friendly. However, when it comes to the bedroom, she is very inexperienced and has little to offer. [IE] For most, she's the first woman they tried. She's really easy but can get you infected." LOL
- Mona Nomura
Where is IE?
- Håkan Dahlström
I just can't get past the anorexic model
- BEX
Click on the link, Hakan. "IE: For most, she's the first woman they tried. She's really easy but can get you infected." HAHA
- Mona Nomura
from IM
They all look pretty good to me. Chrome though definitely needs feeding.
- Brian Sullivan
At the pole dancing convention
- Michael W. May
The pictures are the right choices for the captions, imo. Lighten up, people. It's a joke!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
I know too many "Operas" durnit...
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
I like the Firefox girl... :)
- Bindu Reddy
I'll take a mix between Opera and Safari please.
- Amani
Lindsey LOL!!
- Mona Nomura
Hahaha :D
- Joe Dawson
Firefox could be redhead.
- deerstep
Ginger, Onur, Ginger.
- Roberto Bonini
Ntng wrong with missionary style - i like chrome n missionary ( rathe than some fancy doggie style !!)
- viki saigal
Yeah the Chrome girl is HOT.
- Will Higgins™
aay, I wanted to like firefox, but chrome is just so much cooler... enough said!
- Peter Efland
funny!
- Susan Beebe
Jaj! Muy bueno!
- Gaston
mmmmmm
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
haha!
- JA Castillo
funny. I like Firefox the best. But in seriousness, the chrome gal is dangerously thin.
- Rick Cogley
I would take firefox anyday of the week :-) Out of those, how would internet explorer look? Would it be an eighty year old granny or some such?
- Richard A.
真贴切。
- Sunny
I judge IE looks very old and banged up. And as most have mentioned my pick is Firefox
- ЯIИGҜIИG
hahaha
- Shevonne
I prefer foxy one ;)
- Burçak Çubukçu
ok, Safari is the best. FireFox is second, Opera 3rd and Chrome is the worst. IE is the backup. I use Opera BTW :D
- Hakan Yuksel
why is chrome the worse?
- Rob Sellen :o)
cuz it's Google
- The Real sofarsoShawn
I don't agree.... try manging online without google....
- Rob Sellen :o)
@Rob, That girl seems so unhealty. As a man I am just considering the look of the girls :D not the actual functionality of the browsers.
- Hakan Yuksel
I love Firefox for the extensions, of course. Safari and Chrome, for me, anyway, are one and the same.
- Mike Nayyar
lol... the firefox gal sure looks great tho ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
& Google starves it's employees & keeps them in cages
- The Real sofarsoShawn
dont alot of companies?
- Rob Sellen :o)
nope, only Google
- The Real sofarsoShawn
really and how the hell would you know that lol?
- Rob Sellen :o)
the CIA & Kol Tregaskes
- The Real sofarsoShawn
huh? you are the CIA?
- Rob Sellen :o)
oh boy....
- .LAG liked that
no .lag they are women mate ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I'm not at liberty to discuss...the investigation is ongoing
- The Real sofarsoShawn
this is photoshopped... ew, gross
- Melissa Maskevich
lol... ok.. whatever, so you just state online that they ARE investigating it... which aint what I asked... I asked if YOU wewre in the CIA?
- Rob Sellen :o)
ok.. so how the heck would ya know what they are "investigating"? not sure they make that kind of info public... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
LOL oh boy...I must repeat: not at liberty...please direct further questions to Mona N. <:o)
- The Real sofarsoShawn
right... ok.. so why bother saying it at all .. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Wheres Safari?
- TheHenry
open the link
- kooki
really? not sure if this is funny or if I should be offended..why can't my browsers be men?
- Anna Lynn M.
@Ann, the next sharenator.org v.Male is all yours
- The Real sofarsoShawn
1 Opera please
- Neya
There was a time when I used opera, back around 98 or so and it served me well.
- Richard A.
The pic for Chrome is a well-known photoshop. LOL @ IE being a whore. :D
- fn (fairnymph)
Good to hear (well-known Photoshop). :)
- Mona Nomura
中文版请看这里：http://www.yeeyan.com/article...
- pestwave
哈哈 真搞
- cch
Um...forget about installing a plugin :)
- Mark Krynsky
Shawn, RE: above comment: eh? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Cory Doctorow on Lifestreaming Contextual Snapshots Using New Tool Flashbake - http://lifestreamblog.com/cory-do...
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I thought this sounded really cool when I heard about it too. Definitely something to check up on.
- Benno
Video - Amazing Dance Caught On The Jumbotron - FanDome - http://celtics.fandome.com/video...
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Do you let other people use your computer? I don't.
【无声胜有声】, Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど, amygeek and 57 other people liked this
nope.
- Carlos Ayala
Just family.
- Michelle M
Hellz nah! No one touches my Mac. They can use my PC desktop though
- Shevonne
I don't even like my family touching mine. And I have ZERO porn.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
My work laptop? No...My desktop? My fiance can use that.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Not if I can possibly help it. Computer = my job, so if someone horses around with it and hoses it up, I'm royally screwed.
- FFing Enigma
There's no one here who would want/need to use it. Akiva has plenty of his own and Audrey can't type yet.
- Rochelle
They wouldn't want to use my laptop after finding out where I've used it. :)
- Morton Fox
Not very often.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
I don't like it. But it happens.
- Yolanda
I cringe when anyone gets near my computer.
- Mona Nomura
Not anymore.
- Rob Diana
Uh oh. Bad experience, Rob?
- Mona Nomura
This is why both my kids have their OWN computers! There are now 7 computers in this house (where either 2 or 4 people live), including my two work machines. :-)
- Ladyepiphanybug
I have no problem with it, actually. Seem to be the only one :S
- Iphigenie
They call it a personal computer after all.
- sean808080
I set up a separate account for my girlfriend, but that's mostly because booting into mine invokes a bunch of startup programs and custom settings that she has no need for.
- Eric P
Only family, otherwise don't like if someone else uses it.
- Neya
Not really.
- Alisha
Not even family. Don't you hate it when they use your browser and mess up your tabs?
- Mathieu Ayel
when its mandatory
- The Amber
i don't have an issue with this.. I do. Of course, it needs to be someone I know
- Bindu Reddy
I share with the wife. Need to remedy that.
- Damien Franco
never, not even my wife
- sean percival
I let everyone in our family use my MacBook all the time.
- Thomas Hawk
I've got my kids stuff set up though on Safari so they don't do too much damage to my Firefoxy.
- Thomas Hawk
this is the first time in 4 days that i have managed to have the laptop for more than abou 10 mins! never letting people use it again lol
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
my wife gets malware, love her, but she has a bad habit clicking OK buttons. we are a windows family so we obv. are more at risk for malware/fighting because a computer is broke.
- sean percival
I generally prefer not to, but I have let my cousin use my laptop when she's over (mainly because she's been debating buying a Mac and wanted to check mine out).
- Penguin
My desktop at home, yes. But my laptop no. It's the one I use most and has all my important stuff on it. If I leave my son with his father for the weekend and they stay at our house, I take the computer with me.
- Just Katie
I don't like to, but I don't really have a choice.
- Nine
nope. it's like letting someone use your toothbrush: very unsanitary. .LOLz
- .LAG liked that
Yea! I let my boyfriend all the time cause he will fix them for me!
- Brandy Lea
just my wife, but she uses her own mostly.
- Alan Le
Almost never... and only if absolutely necessary.
- Herb Hernandez
nope =))
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
I do but I don't like it
- Manuela
I have a stand-by notebook lying around for anybody who wants to use one. Somebody using my mbp makes me uncomfortable - I hover.
- The Fat Oracle
No. I'd let people that I trust use it, but my setup is so customized that no one can figure it out anyway.
- Nathan Howell
yes, people used to get confused on my pc, with all the custom tools, but recenly it has become pretty barebones and standard again.
- Iphigenie
I do, but only relatives and friends
- Martin Liechti
NOOOOOoooooooooo
- Susan Beebe
Not if there is any other options.
- Grant Bierman
Nuh uh!
- Great Scott! Needs a Ham
NOPE
- Shey
LOL! @ Jilly
- Brandy Lea
Nope. Everyone has their own. I have old spares in the closet just in case of a computing emergency.
- Anthony K. Valley ©
My husband can touch my computers if he really needs to but it's rare since we're both very good about keeping to our own machines.
- Carmen wBabby
Nope
- Sally Church
Only my wife, but she wants no part of it, so in practice no one
- Deepak Singh
NOPE
- Live4Emma (L4S)
Not if I have anything to say about it.
- JA Castillo
Only when necessary... there's a reason why everyone in my house has his/her own computer (or two). I hate it when Tad uses mine and closes all my FireFox tabs... Thank goodness for the Session Manager extension.
- Lindsay
Depends on who these "other people" are.
- Jordan Hofker
Its a home business computer, but i get annoyed even when my wife uses it. Mainly because it means I have to wait or find something else to do.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
Not much of a point. Everyone I know has their own laptop.
- Steven Perez
Sometimes if people come over and want to check email or whatever, , most of my friends have their own laptop/smartphone
- matthew john ernisse
I'm the only one who uses my computer but have no problem with others using it. My laptop in the other room is used by everyone.
- Kol Tregaskes
Yes.
- "Joey"
Desktop: No way. It's pretty well personalized that a lot of people can't find their way around anyway. Tablet: From time to time. I let my sister borrow it for a week to do some sketching. Eee901: I let people play with it. Girls think it's cute.
- Brooks Bishop
from Two Fedoras
I have no choice, I use a family computer, so I have to share. But when I have my own computer I will not let anyone use it.
- Colide81 (James)
Begrudgingly, under their own login!
- Sarah Perez
Most of the time no, but don't get asked by people that often.
- Richard A.
No, never.
- Christian (Simply X)
Letting people use your computer is like letting people use your wallet.
- Dave Winer
Nope. If it's necessary, I log out and log them in under the guest account. Trust no one.
- Jeremy Brooks
I struggle with this.. my wife likes to use my home desktop. I bought her a laptop, got her a nice desk as close as mine is, desktop mouse.. still likes to use mine. I might put a new password on it since the hints don't seem to be working. Am I being a jerk?
- Andrej Kyselica
Yes, with a very restricted user account (basically, internet only).
- Jennifer Dittrich
I let people use my computer....as I watch intently over their shoulder...LOL. EDIT: My desktop has always been off limits to anyone. Unless you have the only accessible computer, there is nothing wrong with locking everyone out of it. It's YOUR computer. They can use THEIR computer.
- Rah-PM 2012
no way
- Elvira
Depends on who it is and why they're using it. But I had an ex that used to take my laptop and start using it and not understand why it bothered me that he would use it without asking. Had he asked me, I might not have minded so much but the fact that he didn't made me hate it.
- Tamara
Desktop, yes. Laptop, no.
- David Cook
Yup! We have different accounts. :D
- Randy
Nope.
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
When asked, but hardly ever.
- Rodfather
Not really, mainly because my computer scares and confuses people (screenshots: http://friendfeed.com/e... ), and besides...most people can't use my vertical mouse. The only person that is comfortable with the layout of my desktop is my daughter (hers is similar), but even she can't use my mouse.
- April
Only if they can touchtype dvorak ;)
- mjc
No. We have an iMac that we all can use, I have a MBP and I bought my hubby a MB Air so he wouldn't touch my stuff! (I, however, am allowed to use the Air :P )
- Penny
Yes, but I'm such a freak about it (make them login under secure guest acct) that they don't ask twice.
- Abbas Haider Ali
I have an account for my fiancee and her daughter because I trust them. Otherwise, nope.
- JCunwired
I don't like people logging on EVEN with guest accounts - I think it's cuz SO many people don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Gross.
- Mona Nomura
Depends :)
- انجل
It annoys me when people think they can just sit at my computer and use it. I also can't stand using other peoples computers. They are Personal!
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
Sacred. Just like my phone - or any electronics for that matter. You touch you DIE.
- Mona Nomura
Only in extreme circumstances, like when the GF needs to check e-mails or somethin'
- Sean Dunn
Not even then - you touch. You DIE!!
- Mona Nomura
sometimes my wife, but i cringe when she does. it is my livelihood after all.
- cjmart
Nope, I but don't have a choice... My bro needs it for school.
- Ron
nada.
- vijay
Yes. My daughters
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I have multiple computers so that visitors do not have to use my main ones.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Thats what I do normally, I have a second "public" computer set up for the others.
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
Only my laptop, only at work, only when it's very necessary and only if I'm running Linux. Otherwise (or the desktop), no, sorry. Too much potential for unforgivable error.
- Jack&Cleo
Oh my god. I never let ANYone touch my Linux machine - are you CRAZY?
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
no. not anyone. period.
- Karoli
nope, unless it's an emergency.
- imabonehead
No way
- Justin Yost
Not even with an emergency - I look stuff up fir them...
- Mona Nomura
from fftogo
One time I had a fresh Linux install on when a friend stopped by, I had Fluxbox on there. He asked if he could use it so I said ok. He had no idea what to do. That was a little fun.
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
Joe, ha that's awesome....should have left it on the CLI to see what they would have done lol
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
I wanted to have a laugh at his expense, not watch him get confused and smash my computer to bits with his confused fists.
- Joe "Looptid" Pierce
no way, when I used to allow people...something would always go wrong. I have now been problem free for several years.
- Rajiv Doshi
I will still blame my wife for everything wrong with my comp, even though I never let her use it. So, there's not even any need to let her use it, and I apparently can screw up my comp fine all by myself.
- Peter Efland
Only people who use mine are fussier than me so I don't mind :)
- Nicola Quinn
Yes, but I create a guest account for them, first
- Özkan Altuner
If you let someone into your house you can let them use your computer, sayz me.
- Kostantinos Koukopoulos
yes, I created a guest account with no install rights
- Olivier
Not any more, I have another one for guests.
- Michael Fidler
NEVER!!!
- MAS
I do
- Joe Dawson
Hell to-tha NO!
- Brad Williamson
No no no....I have my computer and a seperate computer for the kids to trash.
- John Flynn
No, no, no ... but they can use the one in the guest bedroom (junk room)
- Kate Foy
Not this computer. I mean, I prefer to give them access to the ones I'm not sitting on all day.
- Tamar Weinberg
Other than my wife, no way - I have a very weird thing about people using my computer...
- Adam Bullied
nooooooooooooooooooo
- Jorg Jansen
NO!
- frankiecarl
I have an old laptop I set up as a guest computer. I don't care if they mess it up as long as they stay off of my machines.
- amygeek
What Michael Phelps Should Have Said: Smoking pot shouldn't be a crime. Or the public's business. - Reason Magazine - http://www.reason.com/news...
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"You’re watching the Super Bowl tonight. You’re watching 300 pound men smash each while running at full speed, in full pads. You know what the average life expectancy of an NFL player is? Fifty-five. That’s about 20 years shorter than your average non-NFL player. Yet you watch. And cheer. And you jump up spill your beer when a linebacker lays out a wide receiver on a crossing route across the middle. The harder he gets hit, the louder and more enthusiastically you scream. Yet you all get bent out of shape when Ricky Williams, or I, or Josh Howard smoke a little dope to relax. Why? Because the idiots you’ve elected to make your laws have, without a shred of evidence, beat it into your head that smoking marijuana is something akin to drinking antifreeze, and done only by dirty hippies and sex offenders."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I can not STAND people that touch my LCD. Finger grease = Do Not Want. What's your pet peeve?
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I know a guy that likes to point with a red ballpoint pen, and left a red dot on my laptop screen!
- Alan
That's my pet peeve as well. Please don't touch my screen. That's why i'm not so sure about the multi-touch features in Windows 7 that encourages this behavior.
- Alan Le
My boss slider her fingers all over my lcd, 'this over here la la la' etc. I have screen wipes on hand.
- Simon Wicks
worse then finger prints is people who draw on their lcd's with their pin when they are pointing at things.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I hate this as well and co-workers are always touching the screen with gel laden fingers and then I have to follow them. I go crazy - use machine arrow or just point! OR wear a glove on the other hand too.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
having to use company ie "public" computers. Ranks up with public bathrooms, only sometimes less maintained.
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
My biggest pet peeve? People who park the wrong way...you know, pull up so that the driver's side is against the curb. Who the eff are you, Starksy or Hutch? GRRRRRR.
- Derrick
Drivers who don't use their signals/blinkers. That may be my biggest pet peeve.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
OMG Alan if someone did taht to MY screen? I would HULK SMASH their head in.
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Derrick...I'm Hutch
- Hutch Carpenter
I used to freak out on people who touched my LCD. They're all dead now, so it's not a problem anymore.
- Josh Haley
*grabs a slice of extra cheesey pizza, picks up Mona's iPhone and rubs the screen into the pizza*
- Shey
Thank you, Mona - it's good to know I'm not alone 8-)
- Andrew Terry
People who misspell things, know it's wrong, and don't care. I hate the whole "as long as you understand it, who cares how I spell it?" attitude.
- Rochelle
Rochelle must HATE any communications from me then...
- Sparky, lurking
Rude people. It seems like no one is polite anymore. No one says please or thank you, or holds the door for you.
- Michelle M
i agree michelle, i can't stand rude people. it doesn't cost a thing to be kind and polite yet some people are just plain bastards
- Cardeen winedrunk
I don't know if anyone mentioned it but microfiber clothes are AMAZING to clean off high gloss screens. Yes, like the shamwow.
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
a wet countertop. if there is any kind of towel around, that shit is inexcusable.
- Nakachi
Plus it ends up stinking - and sheep skin works best for streaks ;)
- Mona Nomura
Commercials! (With the exception of the Superbowl and funny ones) I don't like then on TV or on the Radio.
- David Cook
+eleventy billion, Hutch.
- Derrick
People who point with their middle finger.
- adolfo foronda
+infinity Rochelle. That ties with the use of "I could care less" instead of "I couldn't care less" and hearing people chew as my top pet peeves.
- Hookuh Tinypants
You think mine's bad? Read Alan's. Seriously, if someone left a red dot on my laptop screen, someone will be hurt REAL BAD.
- Mona Nomura
Srsly, Mona, I wanted to relieve him of his arm. But luckily, it was a work computer.
- Alan
David Cook, it's not the commercials so much, as I realize they pay for the networks, but the fact that most of them are so dumb, or trying to sell you crap like junk food or soda, and there are way too many of them. I can't enjoy something on the history channel, when there's a batch of commercials every 7 mins. It's too distracting that often.
- Ian May
Oh, and I was able to clean it off quickly. A few months later, he was pointing at a 100-year-old newspaper with another red pen. Got within a quarter inch of the thing.
- Alan
My pet peeve are people posting their pet peeves which in turn remind me of mine. Now I'm peeved! :)
- Mark Krynsky
can someone loan me a rich husband, cute baby, and the keys to their newly decorated home so I can fit in better on Facebook?
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Heh, I understand. I have no kids or pets to share photos of there! I can't help on the rich part but can on the husband and baby part. Interested? Dial 1-555-LEKEVBO. Visa/MC accepted.
- Kevin Leroux
Why Text Remains King of the Web - http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009...
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I'd like to comment on your post Steve but fear it may not be a good comment
- Allen Stern
yeah, always surprised me the lack of comments and discussion for his videos on fastcompany. I think you're right regarding the text element but also frankly videoson the web (at least for me) just a) you never know what ur going to get b) it's not skimmable as u said c) playback on nearly all browsers is never smooth. One final point though is the length of the interviews...I always feel like I have to reserve time for them and by the time I do, it feels too late.
- Zee.
See, Allen, that's text too!
- Steve Rubel
from IM
i could do a video :) too bad the bloggerking is on a tour of australia right now - he'd be perfect for this
- Allen Stern
@Allen only if it has trains. More trains please. I watch those.
- Steve Rubel
when are we meeting - it's been too long!
- Allen Stern
Allen: Bribe with NBA or NFL tickets. Didn't you learn ANYTHING from Robert's thread? SHEESH!
- Mona Nomura
Allen we need to, I agree. But only if I get to be in a video. It's king of the web ya know?
- Steve Rubel
from IM
@Mona Too late for NFL tix. Unless someone gets me into the Super Bowl (us lowly PR people don't go - only the ad guys/gals).
- Steve Rubel
Steve: you're right but doing video was the best thing I've ever done for my career.
- Robert Scoble
This is so on the money. Just left a comment on the blog, but my reason is that I can read it a heck of a lot faster than I can watch it.
- Karoli
@Scoble, I don't doubt it. And I love what you're doing and it's where the ad money is flowing too - but I do wonder about the attention issues.
- Steve Rubel
Wish I could post this comment in audio or video but text still remains the king of the web.
- Sweyn Venderbush
steve - i'd totally love to come by and do a video interview with you - and @mona - i didn't read any of robert's silly booster threads this weekend :)
- Allen Stern
Allen, in the video do I get to say "Ronk-onk-oma. The next stop is Ronk-onk-oma followed by Spe-onk." Then I am there.
- Steve Rubel
from IM
wait - let's do it ON the LIRR! off-peak of course
- Allen Stern
And, purely from a user's point of view... text is extremely efficient to consume (even for a visual person like me). Audio requires more effort. Video monopolizes several senses, and several distinct chunks of the brain. Videos need to be occasional, short, and impactful.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Great post and text is certainly king and in some ways I hope it stays that way.
- AJ Kohn
It think it should be an integration of different tools. The written word is always on the top and will stay so. A real hard-cover book is hard to beat. Online text is easy to scan, using different tools like RSS feeds, and then to decided to read more about. I am using a video email tool there you could see the response rate and follow the statistics in a neat way. Who has read it, how...
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- Martin Lindeskog
front office:text,back one:code.
- Igor Poltavskiy
Video always feels like too much of a commitment to me. It's supposed to grab your attention for some length of time. Text is just faster, easier, simpler.
- Nathan Howell
Nathan: do you watch the Superbowl in ASCII? You must be very fun to take on a movie date "no, dear, I would rather just read the Amazon movie reviews."
- Robert Scoble
When I want to be entertained, I watch video—movies, TV, YouTube, whatever. But when I want something explained to me, if it's not face-to-face, then it's gotta be text. I don't have time otherwise.
- Victor Ganata
who brought the whale?
- NoahDavidSimon
Video, podcasts and text all have their advantages and disadvantages. The problem arises when either of them is used for something for which there's a better match (e.g. reviewing a phone in video form - would be better if done in text with some pics and perhaps an embedded video of something specific). Another thing you might not be aware of: text is much easier to deal with for us people for whom english is a second language.
- karchesky
Girl: Would you sign...my chest? Me: Um. Seriously? 15 year-old me: SAY YES, DUMMY! Me: Yes? <sign, sign> Guy in line: You are my hero.
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Scriptwriting in the UK: Joss Whedon's Top 10 Writing Tips - http://dannystack.blogspot.com/2009...
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It really takes the steam out of an angry text message when the iPhone changes the word to "Duck!"
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Lol, Was it "What the Duck" or "DUCK YOU"?
- Fee501st
duckin' a
- Josh Haley
Everybody's a ducking comedian on FF. WTD?
- Paul Reynolds
+10 Paul
- Yolanda
from NoiseRiver
Worse when queue turns into steve... I'll meet you in the Steve...
- Rich
Revealed: New Felicia Day Website!! Designed by @dane_hesseldahl. http://feliciaday.com Wordpress awesomeness! :)
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Very nice.... Should help with keeping up with The Guild. As opposed to, The Joneses :)
- Mike Shields
Woah! Flirty...well said.
- Kirk
THanks you guys! I also kept the FriendFeed widget on there so ppl can comment and I'll read the comments here more often too, win win!!
- Felicia
xkcd - A Webcomic - Google Trends - http://xkcd.com/522/
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Reshare via Roger Chen haha http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Mona Nomura
ROFL @ babby formed. Man! you can't make that stuff up even if you tried on purpose :-D
- vijay
xkcd RULES. Morning, vijay!
- Mona Nomura
from IM
Hi Mona!
- vijay
Dang it - they outed me!
- Jesse Stay
vijay, unless it's a Monday, Wednesday or Friday ... and your name is Randall Munroe ... and you can garner over 700 blog post comments (that aren't spam) on a single post http://blag.xkcd.com/2008... ;)
- Micah
Didn't know xkcd had a blag! But man is that post cracking me up... "“Luke, I am your grandma” - 320; Luke, I am your third grade teacher - 0." ROFL :-D
- vijay
Encouraged Commentary | DontTrustThisGuy.com - http://donttrustthisguy.com/2009...
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"Recently, I’ve begun an expedition with jQuery. My first major experiment has been in improving the commenting system on this blog. Sparked by an email discussion with Tomas Carrillo I’ve implemented a handful of small interactions which make it much easier for you to get involved in the conversation."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
wingsuit base jumping - http://vimeo.com/1778399
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Full screen: http://vimeo.com/moogalo...
- Paul Buchheit
Cools damn cool, but utterly utterly insane!
- faulkner
intense!
- Mark Schulz
whoa!! do not do this at home kids!
- Susan Beebe
reminds me of the opening credits of "Heavy Metal" where the guy brings in a 1960 Corvette from earth orbit. :-D
- Karim
I've seen this before, but where the heck do they land? And how?
- Piaw Na
at the bottom with a chute
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Every time this pops up I misread it as "wingnut base jumping."
- Jim Norris
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Let me tell you what I think of people who quote Eleanor Roosevelt...
- Ken Norton
having intermittent internet access is an order of magnitude worse than having none at all
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New feature: Mouse-over shortened urls in messages to see the original full url. (feature first discovered by Jess Lee in http://friendfeed.com/e...)
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I think the UI is probably too subtle, but it's a start to solving the short-url plague :) http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Paul Buchheit
Nice feature, thanks for that.
- David Wilson
Nice! I like the UI myself, probably too complicated for most people. A hidden gem of FriendFeed usefulness.
- Brandon Titus
Paul - Does it also work in comments. I guess not too many people put short urls in comments. e.g. http://bit.ly/qLLn
- Atul Arora
Great feature, but the image keeps making me wonder why that tooltip isn't going away... ;-)
- Jason Wehmhoener
Been waiting for this, Thanks!
- Majento
Atul, it doesn't currently work with comments, but fortunately people don't put them in comments for the most part (there's really no need to since we clip them on display).
- Paul Buchheit
Great useful simple feature! Thanks FF!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Thanks Paul. Very useful feature.
- Atul Arora
Thanks for adding this Paul. And to reply to your question about why I like this instead of looking at the status bar - I don't. I think my original request was to have the full title of a link in the title attribute, which seems to be a moot point now, since it seems that long titles are no longer truncated. So I got a bit confused about long urls. But nice feature anyways. Redundancy is often a good thing, at least when it comes to trying to convey information.
- Robert Felty
Thanks Paul. Can you also detect a Rickroll? j/k :D
- AJ Batac :)
Ah yes, more tools to deter rick rolling. Love it.
- Mark Krynsky
If you are worried about the load on the other systems just change the text of the link on mouseover rather than the title. The hover is too hard to discover.
- Sam Pullara
Rock on. Nice feature, and it's nice that it works with multiple url shortening services.
- Matt Cutts
And is that the feature you were taking about in riddles two days back?
- Varun Mahajan
Nice addon. Tinyurl's can be a big headache since you dont know where you are headed to.
- Sidharth Dassani
from fftogo
Nice....
- Roberto Bonini
Paul, I've started a conversation on the pros and cons of FriendFeed. Looking for people to add to the list. http://friendfeed.com/e...
- B2B Specialist
@timbray Providing OpenIDs is support; accepting them is stronger support. Combining OpenID with OAuth is better still.
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The hiatus for both Battlestar and Lost is long enough that not only have I forgotten what was going on, I also might not care.
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