But no one makes love like Neil Patrick Harris is dancing? FAIL!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My brother in law in the Philippines can't be dissuaded from naming his son Elmo. I hope that unborn boy is ready to be tormented for the rest of his life. Why do parents do that to their kids?
- Bradley Farless
You know, in my heart I hope that people like NPH who seem just so damn awesome on the screen are just as cool in real life. Anyone met the fellow in person?
- Adam Lasnik
I'm sure he's a decent guy. Never met him, though.
- Josh Haley
But he sure can dance, just look at him go!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Love him when he's unicorn watching.
- Gabrielle V
Okay, I swear I am not just pimpin' good swing music, but I was looking at this GIF and listening to this song - http://lala.com/zPe9 ("Billie's Bounce" performed live by Buddy Rich) - and it matches! :o
- Adam Lasnik
Gross. I just unliked to be contrary. Yet another reason why I pulled back from FriendFeed. And why getting swallowed up by Facebook, the great leveler, couldn't make more sense.
- Rick Powell
That's right, all you horrible time-wasters you! Get back to talking about kernels and APIs! Have you no Protestant work-ethic? /sarcasm
- Neal Jansons
"Acura has announced the addition of a TSX sport wagon to its 2011 lineup, and it will likely look suspiciously like the Euro-market Accord Touring model that many people have been clamoring for. Acura confirms that the model will be based on the TSX sedan, which is itself basically a Euro Accord."
- Richard Chen
from Bookmarklet
Crone, I'm with you - how could they not know Elaine? Ella (?) in Butch Cassidy . . . I LOVED Katharine Ross. Always wondered what happened to her?
- Amy℠
She's apparently enjoying her marriage to Sam Elliot. She's been in a few films over the years, but she spends most of her time writing children's books.
- Jason Huebel
Sam Elliot - is he the dude who was in Mask with Cher and Eric Stoltz?
- Mellissa
Yep, original Stepford Wives and The Graduate
- Shevonne
i want to have naked kissy smootchy time with her...
- Morgan Haley
So? Does that make her ugly in these pictures? Nope.
- Jason Huebel
from IM
Ah ya I remember her from The Graduate.
- Rodfather
Think of it this way, m9: Everyone oohs and ahs about the new model car just out, but the classics end up being substantially more desirable...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I think it's one of those "men want most what they can't have" kinda things. Classic beauty is that much more alluring.
- Jason Huebel
I had a major crush on her after I saw "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid!" I was still just a kid, but that didn't matter to me!
- Mark "Lykkelig Nyt Ǻr" J
Huh! I just found out she was the psychiatrist in Donnie Darko! Did not realize that. (Or else I'd forgotten... it happens.)
- Mark "Lykkelig Nyt Ǻr" J
"At the time, psychologists assumed that children’s ability to wait depended on how badly they wanted the marshmallow. But it soon became obvious that every child craved the extra treat. What, then, determined self-control? Mischel’s conclusion, based on hundreds of hours of observation, was that the crucial skill was the “strategic allocation of attention.” Instead of getting obsessed with the marshmallow—the “hot stimulus”—the patient children distracted themselves by covering their eyes, pretending to play hide-and-seek underneath the desk, or singing songs from “Sesame Street.” Their desire wasn’t defeated—it was merely forgotten. “If you’re thinking about the marshmallow and how delicious it is, then you’re going to eat it,” Mischel says. “The key is to avoid thinking about it in the first place.” In adults, this skill is often referred to as metacognition, or thinking about thinking, and it’s what allows people to outsmart their shortcomings. (When Odysseus had himself tied to...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This is an interesting quote because it implies that "will power" is more about mental strategy, not some kind of mental strength for forcing yourself to do something. I have the same strategy with food -- I eat whatever I see, so in order to not eat something I just need to put it out of sight.
- Paul Buchheit
effectively "out of sight, out of mind"
- alphaxion
This is where the magic of science is: you spend time and resources to prove a proverb.
- .i.m.a.r.s.o.r.a.m.a.
"The child who could wait fifteen minutes had an S.A.T. score that was, on average, two hundred and ten points higher than that of the kid who could wait only thirty seconds."
- J.D. Deutschendorf
Sometimes I worry my metacognition is slowing me down because I'm spending less time just cogniting. (that oughtta be a word.) But no, in all seriousness, I think something, then realize the thought was there before I subvocalized it, and then I go in a circle several times subvocalizing those same thoughts as I examine the process of thinking. Frustrating!
- Andrew C
Some friends and I refer to this study often, pointing out when we've failed the marshmallow test. Staying up late is my most common mashmallow test failure (sacrificing morning time to enjoy a few more bleary hours NOW), but it's easy to spot this sort of behavior and fun to have a standard vocabulary to highlight its ubiquity.
- Seth
As a parent, I consciously used this strategy to distract my children whenever they got in mischief, behaved badly or acted out. As a grandparent, I often send a box of tricks, things like super balls, an "uno" deck, paints, a book, a yoyo or top, for my daughter to use with my grandchildren when they are driving her crazy and need to think about something other than running around screaming.
- Phil Boiarski
OK, that makes sense, but let's flip this on its head - How do you instead keep your mind on something and prevent yourself from getting distracted? You can't distract yourself from your distractions. Andrew C, the word you're looking for is cogitating.
- Mr. Gunn
Mr Gunn, thanks. Though I think 'cogniting' is a touch funnier.
- Andrew C
Some chimpanzees use this strategy as well, though not all of them.
- Björn Brembs
i think bhudda had some theory on this too...:/
- Paul Moss
I'm going to marshmallow-train my kids!!
- Jess Lee
Today my 4yo daughter was having trouble waiting for a treat, so I told her (and my wife) about reading this article last night. I talked about the ability to distract - and I thought I was doing a pretty good job of explaining it in 4yo terms. When I was done with my paraphrase/lesson, I asked her if she understood. "Uh-huh," she said. Then after a few moments, she asked if we could stop and get some marshmallows on the way home. All I could do is laugh!
- Gary Walter (gwalter)
I read a different writeup of this experiment a couple years ago, when our daughter was about 1 year old. Its something that can be taught, and encouraged. She's now very good at distracting herself from something which she knows she shouldn't do or would get into trouble over. She's not easily distracted in general: she can focus quite well on something she wants to do (and is allowed to do).
- DGentry
"Since they seem to be taking requests, here’s my next one: launch an API. I can’t wait to see what developers come up with, and I’d love to use those non-Google services in a secure way without giving them my Google Voice credentials."
- Patrick Chanezon
Awesome Jeff. I'm going to show this to my 4 year old. He's mastered identifying about 46-47 of 50 states when he was 2.5 before he could read. He's been working on mastering the capitals. I think he's got 40-42 of them memorized.
- Dh'ennis Dömingö
Sweet, I'll quiz him next time I see him. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
"Saturday morning we were crunched for time but we needed to put a hot breakfast on the table; it was a long day and fruit and toast wouldn't do. We had made homemade pizza the night before, so we saved a couple balls of dough in the fridge and brought it up to room temp in the morning. We shook it out thin, slathered it with ricotta cheese and fresh herbs from the garden. The first pizza had basil and a little leftover tomato sauce, plus some green olives and plenty of Parmesan. We cracked three eggs on top and baked. Delicious! The yolk spilled out golden goodness all over the other toppings."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
The second pizza was simpler; we rubbed the dough with ricotta and a little good olive oil, then chopped basil, thyme, sage, rosemary and parsley and sprinkled it on. We baked this for several minutes, then added the eggs. Two more eggs, with salt and pepper, baked just until golden runny.
- Derrick
This sounds really good and I think I enjoy cooking breakfast/brunch more than just about any other meal.
- Derrick
Same here. I think cause it represents a new day. =D
- Shevonne
Spent some time in London and several of the pizza places there featured pizzas with an egg cracked in the center. I didn't get the appeal then, and I don't now. Blech!
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Jen, don't knock it! I learned from a Korean friend the glorious wonder of a fried egg on a hamburger. Wheeeeeee!
- Derrick
That pizza should include crumbled bacon. Or, at least, bacon salt.
- Otto
Maybe proscuitto? It wouldn't dry out too much under the egg & cheese.
- Andrew C
Most of these pictures were tiny, so the resolution is pretty poor. All the black and white ones my mom developed herself in our closet, er, darkroom.
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
"Ok, so I’ve seen a lot of amazingly cute panda things, but this literally made me giddy when I saw it. I’ve never seen anything like it and I really want to try out the recipe. The original recipe is from an Asian website called Taro Taro, luckily for those of us who can’t read the site, wlteef.blogspot.com was kind enough to post a translation. The recipe is after the cut!"
- Cee Bee
from Bookmarklet
Ersan, nice blog suggestion. Thanks. So hands on with the technical discussion and the writing quality itself is superb. I'm subscribing now.
- Micah Wittman
"Pushbutton is a name for what I believe will be an upgrade for the web, where any site or application can deliver realtime messages to a web-scale audience, using free and open technologies at low cost and without relying on any single company like Twitter or Facebook. The pieces of this platform have just come together to enable a whole set of new features and applications that would have been nearly impossible for an average web developer to build in the past." -Anil Dash
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
A must-read piece by Anil. Whether or not he is right in his predictions will be hinged partly on how exactly those in a position to centralize -- the Facebooks, the Twitters, the Googles of the world -- respond to this trend. And in the case of Google, I'm quite certain it will act as an accelerant for the distributed web.
- DeWitt Clinton
A great part of this movement is the low barrier of entry for consuming real-time information. At FriendFeed we've long consumed weblog's changes.xml, Google's Blog Search changes.xml, and SUP feeds (present on major feed producers like YouTube, Reddit, BrightKite, Disqus, Identi.ca, etc). We then added support for PubSubHubbub and it only took an afternoon to get working (thanks Bret and Brett). If there is a faster way to get data into FriendFeed we will use it.
- Benjamin Golub
@Ben, totally. I think FriendFeed is also acting, and will continue to act, as an accelerant itself. Mostly due to simple market dynamics -- FriendFeed is not now in the position, and is unlikely to soon be in the position, of being a dominating centralized player itself. (That's not a slight against FriendFeed at all, either -- I'm talking on the scale of Twitter or Facebook, which are what really matter here.) So the alternative is to be disruptive and change the rules a bit.
- DeWitt Clinton
And for the record, I think "realtime" is the wrong name for this stuff. I prefer "low-latency", because really it's just a variable scale of speed to information retrieval. So I'd add an axis called "latency" to that of "precision" and "recall."
- DeWitt Clinton
Banjamin, please support the RSS 2.0 <cloud> element.
- Dave Winer
Dave: thanks for the heads up, I'll do some reading on the protocol
- Benjamin Golub
When Anil Dash is on, there are few better. Appreciate his in depth posts.
- Louis Gray
@Louis - +1, and this was one of his best, and most timely.
- DeWitt Clinton
i think both PSHB and rssCloud are silly. we could have added a cachebreaking callback header, and had ANY kind of content be push-updateable. (specifically; clients that supply an X-Cache-Callback: header will have the url called back on resource update, with no content. It is then the client's responsibility to refresh.) this would let us just solve the update problem without having a format war problem too. Or at least support future formats.
- joshua schachter
But how do you prevent DoS attacks with that approach? The spam concerns people have raised are important and need to be addressed. Subscription verification is necessary to prevent abuse.
- Brett Slatkin
this continues to be a fascinating thread
- Steve Gillmor
An other world's view of "realtime" internet broadband is four 1080p HDTV (or 4k) streams sent & received per display. ASCII text or HTML or xML are kinds of data in the cloud, but a picture is worth... and a video/sound is worth... and full duplex HD send/receive is worth... so "realtime" user experience is apparently subjective
- Reese Jones
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."-- Shakespeare said it best
- heather
Of course what counts as speed is always relative, but increasing speed to the point of approaching simultaneity has been the general trajectory for awhile now. Trends used to last for years and years--whole decades, even. Now we have "trending" news and sentiments that flock, roost, and flit away fast, like those birds that settle together on a wire or in branches for just a moment, but restlessly rise again moments later, practically before the stragglers have managed to land.
- Kathy Fitch
This would be a great time to take up study of emergence again
- Kathy Fitch
sigh, places i'll never get too cause the flight is too damn long, :o
- chaz2b
But I've lived there and I <3 Portland more. *smug*
- Christopher Harley
You know you wanna come here for Gnomesex.
- l0ckergn0me
I'd love to visit sometime. I like the space needle. ha. Probably because I'm from Toronto and we have the CN Tower. They just add so much to the skyline...
- Josh McConnell
See Robert, I wasn't trying to go there. I was hoping it was a simple typo. LOL
- Admiral Anika
Anika: nothing with Chris is simple. :-)
- Robert Scoble
except his lust for gnomesex, thats pretty cut and dry.
- Geoff Schultz
Damn iPhone. Always tries to spell Gnomedex as Gnomesex. Two different conferences, really.
- l0ckergn0me
I should definitely check out Gnomedex... to compare the two, ya know?
- Tim Hoeck
Sure, blame the iPhone. *looks for "from iPhone" tag* =)
- Admiral Anika
You know, as a Little Person, I object to these jokes about midget porn. :-P (*sits in a corner in a huff*)
- Ladybug Heather
(* wants to know what the hell is so wrong with any variety of Little Person sex, anyway. The very BEST things come in small packages! *)
- Ladybug Heather
Chris, that background was just photoshopped in and you know it! Think you can get away with that when another geek (me) knows what's up...(jk) ;P Srsly though, <3 that pic! :D
- Taylor Marek
@Ginger: Way too high! I could never wear those. I'm tragically clumsy and can't really go past 3 inches. 4 inches if there's a 1 inch platform in the front.
- Jess Lee
Guys: Look at the first result not the conversion by Google. LOL
- AJ Batac
@AJ: Yup, that's why I posted it. Ginger & I are just having a tangential discussion about the heel height : )
- Jess Lee
I just got the croc Tribute Toos and they HURT like CRAZY. Let me know how the CLs work for you - they hurt my feet too.
- Mona Nomura
Tribtoos are so cute! I thought they would be comfy because they're 4 inch with 1 inch platforms so at least the heel isn't too high. Are they stiff? Also, just to be clear, I do not own those 5.5 inch Louboutins and would never consider buying them -- I can't do anything past 3 inches!
- Jess Lee
I bought the 105s (the 5" with 1" platform). I can walk fine - I just need to find a shoe person who'll properly redo the insole and linings (I'm not in NYC anymore) since the heels are soooo high, all my weight is on my ball and HURTS when I'm on my feet for an extended period of time. Though those shoes make me tower over people so I love love LOVE them :)
- Mona Nomura
"This is the church of St. George located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. I would say that this the most incredible rock church on Earth. The whole structure was carved and chiselled from a single piece rock, a structure which itself had to be isolated from the mass of rock that now surrounds it."
- M F
from Bookmarklet
Who said they are quitting FriendFeed?
- Jim Connolly
Robert: u r better that this. We value ur input and contributution. You will never need any cheap tricks so dont. U r better than that.
- Paul Rawlings
Thanks for the post! Sorry about the bugs, I'm moving house this weekend and whipped this up during a break. It didn't get the usual testing and debugging effort.
- Mike Demers
klaus: It's semi-live... The server periodically fetches new tweets from Twitter. There were too many words in the song to run the searches right from the browser.
- Mike Demers