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♺ @huuuze If a Zune fails to start and no one is around to see it, did it really fail?
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The Rulz: Texting while driving in CA is illegal as of Jan 1 - http://www.susanmernit.com/blog...
Nick Gerakines, Tyson Key and Robert Scoble liked this
I wonder if this applies to shooting while driving.
- Thomas Hawk
But reading ff is ok??!?!!??!?
- Brian
"But officer. i wasn't texting, I was downloading satellite imagery..."
- Jacob Nahin
Should be illegal everywhere, it's dangerous as hell. I'm just as guilty of it as anyone else.
- David Wilson
darkbutgood - A Twitter Userstyle made for Fluid.app - http://code.google.com/p...
Ed Kirk, Daniel Schildt, Nick Gerakines and 6 other people liked this
"A dark & simple Userstyle for your Fluid Twitter SSB, inspired by Pixelmator color palette & Twitterrific app. Go ahead and download it! Not only do you get a (nice) totally different Twitter, but you end up having a lightweight, native Mac Twitter client, with no API-related limitations!"
- Sambler
from Bookmarklet
I'm loving this. particularly in combination with the "yourtiwtterclient" (with it's CSS mod removed) for growl notifications, and your reload script... :) good stuff
- tycho garen
I'm wondering if the new twitter design, breaks this.
- Edgar Rodríguez
Yes it breaks the design... I'll work on it asap
- Max
awesome Max - thank you. Will look forward to the update
- Zee.
I'm still working on it. Version 2.1 will be out asap. Have a look at: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - your comments are welcomed!
- Max
really hoped for a Palin wardrobe malfunction tonight. *sigh*
Dave Dash, Nick Gerakines and albert kim liked this
iLike - Free concert in exchange for registering voters1 - http://www.ilike.com/
Anne Bouey, Dan Hsiao, Serena and 20 other people liked this
This is an app some friends and I built to encourage registrations among college students in exchange for concerts from Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, Wyclef Jean, and Jason Mraz. Check it out. By the way, alumni votes count. So help your school and help get more young Americans to the polls!
- Christopher Sacca
from Bookmarklet
OMG I am so glad you did this! I had this idea last election and someone told me it would be akin to paying people to vote which would be illegal in some way. That's what I get for listening to others.
- EricaJoy
We did a lot of research into this. Leaving it non-partisan keeps us in the clear. Or, so the lawyers tell us. :)
- Christopher Sacca
To me these things sign up uninformed, fairly apathetic voters. Often events / groups like this combine it with heavy propaganda on who to vote for. While in this case I suspect Chris has the best of intentions - I find the whole food / concert / pony ride for registration thing a bit iffy :)
- Soulhuntre
from twhirl
Well you better get used to black rap stars, black concertgoers, black voters, and a black president friend. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5ieXw2...
- Indio Apache
from twhirl
Wow. Only on FriendFeed can one find people opposed to voter registration drives. :)
- Christopher Sacca
I'm not opposed to voter registration drives. I'm opposed to rewarding people for something they should do because it's a responsibility we have in this country. And even if you register these people, it doesn't mean they'll actually get to the polls. This demographic doesn't tend to vote even when mass drives result in tons registered. I think somehow you are still missing the bigger problem here. (And again, it's almost impossible to keep anything non-partisan on a college campus.)
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I'v been to a number of GOTV concerts on college campuses and all I've ever seen is *information* about the candidate(s) made available to the concert goers. Have you seen lots of *propaganda*, Soulhuntre?
- Ayşe E.
@JMS I don't understand how making an effort to reach out to young people is so wrong. Do I think that all of these kids will register and show up? No. Just like all of the people who put stuff in their Amazon shopping carts don't necessarily end up checking out. Nevertheless, if I can help bring more awareness to the process and make it more accessible to young people, I will.
- Christopher Sacca
I haven't said it's wrong. It's great to reach out. Are you listening? I said that I think it's wrong to reward them for doing something they should do because it's the right thing to do. Have a concert, fine. Don't make it a contest though. Have something that will draw a ton of this age group in and provide them with education. Again, don't make them win it. While it may not technically be illegal, it still seems rather unethical. That's what I'm saying.
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Ayse - have I every seen propaganda at registration drives? Hell yes I have. Most campus registration drives are not "register and vote" they are "register and vote - here, use this pen provided by candidate x, along with his tasty free soda. Oh, and remember, candidate bob really cares about you!". On paper is that what they claim to do? no. In reality is it what they do? Yes. Is that what Christopher is doing? I said I didn't think so.
- Soulhuntre
As for the whole concept? Frankly i am not sure if I want people in the electorate who only registered cause their favorite band told them it was cool.
- Soulhuntre
@Soulhuntre Oh, you mean in contrast to the really sophisticated analysis so many other voters make? :)
- Christopher Sacca
@Christopher - adding MORE unthinking voters to the pool is not the answer to the ones already there. Frankly? I'm with Heinlein on this :)
- Soulhuntre
getting people to engage is the first step - and if it takes a musician serving as an effective role model, then so be it. Having spent time with will and wyclef (via Chris), i'm confident their message to youth voters is about getting educated to make informed, powerful choices, not just rocking the vote because it's cool this year.
- hunter walk
Props to you and the brothers iLike, Sacca. Love it.
- Dave Morin
+1 Christopher Sacca. JMS, what is your problem with rewarding people for doing things they "should" do, as long as the reward isn't coming out of your pocket? If I bake a pie, and decide to give a slice to people for voting, what business is it of yours?
- Karim
JMS, aren't you familiar with the fact that George Washington won election to the Virginia House of Burgesses basically by getting all the eligible voters (white land-owning males) in the county drunk on rum punch? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) Would you say Washington's actions were "not technically illegal" but "still seem rather unethical?"
- Karim
we can't have YOUNG people engaged and interested in politics, oh noes! 'cause we know how THEY vote, wink wink nudge nudge say no more.
- Karim
Soulhuntre, as for "Frankly i am not sure if I want people in the electorate who only registered cause their favorite band told them it was cool," I think it beats people who voted only because someone got them drunk off their ass. That's how Washington got his start in 1758. Madison once tried to NOT do this in 1777 (bribe the electorate) but found "the old habits were too deeply rooted to be suddenly reformed," and lost.
- Karim
"The people not only tolerated, but expected and even required to be courted and treated. No candidate, who neglected those attentions, could be elected." -- James Madison
- Karim
Soulhuntre, thx for your reply. Not questioning your response to Christopher; just curious what you regard as propaganda. Seems one person's propaganda is another's advocacy. But are we really concerned that people are influenced in their opinion by the use of a pen w/ a candidate's name on it? Seriously? When there's voter fraud,vote suppression, and outright disinformation afoot?
- Ayşe E.
you should talk to the headcount people. http://headcount.org
- Mark Foundos
Playing around with Erlang for a new project. Learning a new language is exhilarating.
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Raptr Launches in Public Beta - http://kevnull.tumblr.com/post...
Nick Gerakines and Wally Punsapy liked this
news.ycombinator.com reminds me to check out the hot action at stackoverflow.com! stackoverflow rocks, even for non-dev like me
DGentry, John Staton, Glenn Batuyong and 4 other people liked this
Stackoverflow.com is really slick. You can subscribe to your user feed on FriendFeed too.
- Nick Gerakines
Church officially apologizes to Charles Darwin. Better late than never. I guess. http://digg.com/general...
Yann Abraham, Nick Gerakines, dK and Sparky liked this
what my browser looks like right now http://skitch.com/itod...
Aviv, Sparky and Nick Gerakines liked this
I like the hahlo as desktop/fluid app, and I've been using that, but speed/pull is anoying
- tycho garen
Code Reuse in Google Chrome - http://www.catonmat.net/blog...
Nick Gerakines and Wally Punsapy liked this
A pretty good list of components for a browser.
- Dustin Whittle
Google leaks details on Google Chrome, new open-source browser - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
Nick Gerakines, Justin Mason, Jeroen Van Goey and 3 other people liked this
OH: "NBC should run the olympics live on a cable property like SciFi." I would SO watch SciFi olympics.
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Bert & Ernie tries Gangsta-Rap - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Vince, TDavid, Holger Eilhard and 65 other people liked this
This is so well done, awesome one!
- Andrew Baron
Excellent :)
- Colin Walker
Incredible editing, dead on!
- AJ Kohn
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone
- l0ckergn0me
Absolutely speechless right now.
- Gavin
Love it
- Greg
Still crackin up on this!
- Andrew Baron
I clicked the "like" button, and then I tried clicking it again. Very nice work.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
HAHAHAHA this one is ALL kinds of awesome too http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mona Nomura
Nobody will believe me when I tell them Sesame Street sent me on a M.O.P. music kick.
- Jason Toney
So well done. :-D
- Jason Wehmhoener
ossim!!
- Yolanda
"ANTE UP!...KIDNAP DAT FOOL!" hahaha!
- Carlos Ayala
Brilliant !
- Mo Kargas
Uh, oh. Puppets, they scare me now.
- Oldengrey (Jay)
Love!
- Hutch Carpenter
I just captured a local version of this for my personal collection.
- Andrew Baron
This is cute, but do people really like that "music?" I grew up with rap, but lately a lot of the forms it's morphing into just sound like garbage. I guess I'm just getting old... *sob*
- Chrimmus Tad
This is totally awesome!!!
- Jonathan Greene
Hate to make you feel older Tad, but that song is 8 years old.
- Chris Nixon
Swell...
- Chrimmus Tad
Also, even if the music is not your style, its just so perfect for this particular performance. So zen.
- Andrew Baron
Personally, I think Bert and Ernie rock da howze.
- Chris Baskind
dead on - so impressed
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Like? More like LOVE!!
- ::Kristen::
I didn't think they could top the "death metal" skit. I was wrong!
- Iain Baker
this is great, actually Ernie and b
- Chris Conway
Bert are more hard core than your average rapper today. But not M.O.P. Those guys are def. Brooklyn bad ass
- Chris Conway
that wa dead on accurate! awesome
- Paul Rj Muller
Hah perfect!
- Nick
pet peeve: PHP apps doing URL routing with Apache rewrite rules.
Nick Gerakines liked this
... who does that anymore?
- Dave Dash
from Alert Thingy
cheers
- Nick Gerakines
identi.ca open source going after twitter reminds me of wordpress going after six apart
Nick Mutton, Brad Davis Seal, Duncan Riley and 24 other people liked this
Is SixApart still around?
- Shane Robinson
from twhirl
good comparison! ha, ha!
- Susan Beebe
Funny!
- Christine Cavalier
Competition is always good. However, I don't think we should be comparing identi.ca to wordpress just yet.
- Mack D. Male
Wither its Open source or propetry, both business strategies need to have a Revenue strategy to be sucessefull.. You get pinched for either the s./w cost or the support charges.. same difference !
- Peter Dawson
@Shane Six Apart is certainly still around and continuing to give great tools to bloggers every day.
- David Recordon
@Shane I have been the head of Six Apart Europe and still a shareholder so I am conflicted but yes, Six Apart is thriving and growing very nicely, there is room for both on the market.
- Loic Le Meur
It certainly would be an interesting development if a strong open source competitor/alternative emerged in the space.
- Doug
SixApart left the self-hosted space long time ago, they are after the people that want to blog without a fuss, mainstream people. Wordpress is for folks who care about the tool they use. I used MT and Typepad, been using Wordpress for some years now, and it was the best move i made.
- Mário Pires
Mario -- we are still going strong in the self-hosted space -- check out MT4 in both its commercial and open source editions. Great stuff happening there!
- Michael Sippey
don't worry about it Michael, keep up the good work, you're doing great!
- Loic Le Meur
if identi.ca intefaced here then it would be bye bye twitter
- Noah David Simon
Michael, i used the commercial MT when it was released, but after a year using it, i felt that as far as changing things (for the non-programmer) wordpress gave better options, it was not a question of being free. Perhaps now MT is a good contender, but in order to switch i would have to loose some years of experience with wordpress, and that does not appeal to me a lot.
- Mário Pires
Loic, since you are so active on FF may I ask here when privatization of videos is going to be implemented?
- Mona Nomura
Mona privatization of videos? Which videos? I am not running FF :) Seesmic only ;)
- Loic Le Meur
Maybe, but I still like FriendFeed better. Twitter certainly is in trouble. Many services ready to just about eat their lunch
- David Jacobs
@Mario -- totally understand your commitment to WP! For your next blog, though, we'd love it if you tried MT. :)
- Michael Sippey
Loic, thank you for your response. Videos and / or profile of my Seesmic account :)
- Mona Nomura
Mona, thanks for your interest, we will have groups/privacy features I hope beginning of august
- Loic Le Meur
Yes six apart still around got another interview request from them this week
- Fred Grott
checking out Wufoo, a really great hosted form service: http://wufoo.com
Nick Gerakines liked this
Have you tried Google's survey forms, not quite as fancy but good enough most uses. http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008...
- Cartwright Reed
Twitter Status - Measurable Improvements - http://status.twitter.com/post...
Clint Ecker, Ontario Emperor, Rishabh Mishra (p248) and 5 other people liked this
Twitter rocks
- orionstarr
I will say its gotten much MUCH better since I joined last month.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
Go Twitter! Go Twitter! *Raising the Roof*
- Rudy Amid
What Happens When Arkansas Spectators Watch a "Cage Fight" Turn Gay - http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive...
David Thomas, kamla bhatt, Dave Roth and 37 other people liked this
Lured by $1 beer and the prospect of "hot chicks" and "hardcore fights," thousands of Arkansans were duped last month into appearing as extras in comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest staged mayhem. Cohen and his confederates organized cage fighting programs on consecutive days in Texarkana and Fort Smith. Both cards ended with two male grapplers (one was identified as "Straight Dave" and wore camouflage) tearing each other's clothes off and, while in underwear, kissing down their opponent's chest. This man-on-man action triggered Fort Smith fans to throw chairs and beer at the ring, according to one cop present at the city's Convention Center.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Sacha Baron Cohen is such a provocatuer!
- Larry Kless
from twhirl
The new film stars another of Cohen's creations, Bruno, a gay Austrian journalist who interviews subjects about fashion and entertainment. It is reportedly titled, "Brüno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Males Visibly Uncomfortable in the Presence of a Gay Foreigner in a Mesh T-Shirt." The June 5 Texarkana promotion was adverstised as "Red, White, and Blood." The June 6 matches in Fort Smith were dubbed "Blue Collar Brawlin'"
- Thomas Hawk
How did I not hear about this?!
- Roger Benningfield
Brilliant. He's not a comedian -- he's an artist.
- Chris Baskind
Bruno ist sexy
- Andrea Baker
Genius
- Mike Doeff
Perhaps this is unkind, but since there's been so much 1938Media talk today, I'll just say it: Sacha drinks Loren's milkshake. THAT'S how you do politically charged comedy. He cuts left, right, and center, but usually hits the mark in a way that is both irrefutable, precise, and hilarious.
- Madsimian
The thought of Bruno drinking Loren's milkshake is causing me to LOL.
- Clay Newton
The guts Cohen has to stage these things - it's awe-inspiring
- Kevin Briody
Someday, Sasha is going to end up dead from one of these stunts.
- Justin Whitaker
@Justin, I like the word "stunts" because the first time I saw SBC, I thought My god, this guy is so brave--he does the sociological version of "Jackass," which, in my opinion, takes a lot more "balls" than stapling your scrotum to your leg. And I agree with the previous comments about his brilliance--he's amazing!
- Anna Haro
I think the guy is genius he really puts himself into these roles but I agree one day he is going to push it too far. Let me find a clip of Bruno on YouTube which is hilarious...
- Joe Dawson
Do you think that someone should tell him that there are lots of people in that part of the country who carry loaded guns?
- Paul Denlinger
This is the clip - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Joe Dawson
This is brilliant.
- Nick Gerakines
The forum posts captured by TSG on pages 3 and 4 of their story are interesting. The Arkansans who went to the fight will come out looking like redneck homophobic brutes in the movie, while a lot of their 'anger' was provoked or staged according to the eyewitness accounts. Not to say that the posts aren't homophobic, so in the end Sasha is just holding up a funhouse mirror to the denizens of the flyover states: it exaggerates the picture, but reflects reality.
- Alexei Tolkachev
"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." -Ayn Rand
Nick Gerakines, Lora Lufark and Christopher Sacca liked this
From Ayn Rand, I like that. In politics, I don't like that.
- Hutch Carpenter
Metaweb's Freebase Now 60% Larger Than English Wikipedia - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Sean McBride and Nick Gerakines liked this
so what does that imply? they are sucking out external data...
- Hooman Radfar
hilarious Digg story about Twitter: http://digg.com/comedy...
Drew, alan, Arjun and 22 other people liked this
Ha! Awesome...wanted to click the older tab for more...er..not.
- BISQ
Nerd police advisory: Hilarious, but in a real zombie outbreak, one of the first things to go would be the power grids. Twitter would look the same way its going to look in about a month: completely empty.
- Juan Aguilar
from twhirl
it is not reallistic. There is a whole page there without someone saying," I'm so bored."
- jered reynolds
from feedalizr
hahahah lmao
- D.J.
as someone commented on digg -- i was upset to not see: "BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIINS" :)
- Hillary Hartley
Hillary just made me literally LOL. Thanks for that!
- BISQ
It's like the Onion of Twitter.
- David Cohn
hahahaha, thats awesome
- Jesse McPherson
LMAO that's awesome!! Up to 4k+ diggs, too...
- John Tyra
We all know Twitter would be broken far before any Zombie attack...like it is right now.
- Ian Kaumeyer
I didn't really laugh til I saw the tweet about the problogger post- THAT was funny :-) http://tinyurl.com/576dq9
- Brian Carter
I'm a bit tired of the whole zombies, ninjas, and pirates thing.
- Ari Braginsky
I'm not getting it......... tired I guess.
- ChaCha Fance
No more Jolly Ranchers at the Yahoo cafeteria! Times must be tough!
Nick Gerakines, l.m.orchard, Wally Punsapy and David Recordon liked this
Improv Everywhere's Human Mirror - http://improveverywhere.com/2008...
Dean Terry, Jack Baty, Nick Gerakines and Paul W. Swansen liked this
MyYahoo 2.0 Goes Live for All; Developer Platform Coming Soon - ReadWriteWeb - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Wally Punsapy and Nick Gerakines liked this
interesting ComScore stats on user start/homepages... not sure i completely believe the stats, but even if they're anywhere close then 3 observations: 1) MyYahoo still killing the field 2) iGoogle made a lot more progress than i had thought 2) MyMSN/MyAOL losing a lot more progress than i realized, and 3) Netvibes probably an acquisition target for someone. would be interesting to compare stats with a few other services like Hitwise, Quantcast, Compete.
- dave mcclure
from Bookmarklet
I agree, Dave - those comscore stats seem suspect, for MyYahoo at least.
- David Gutelius
thought netvibes would have bigger share
- Tim Connors
@David Suspect how?
- Sam Pullara
Wow, Apple dropped the price on the high-end (with SSD) MacBook Air by $500!
Larry Kless, Rishabh Mishra (p248), Duncan Riley and 4 other people liked this
Lol, my "extra" MBP had it's warranty just invalidated... so I was looking at the MBA
- Dave Dash
from Alert Thingy
Yeah, price drops. Haven't we learnt from the iPhone episode not to rush out to buy Apple products on the first day?
- Morton Fox
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