http://twitter.com/niczak -- I tweet about the following: Programming, databases, parenting, living & enjoying life, and involvement in lots of local activities here in Northern Nevada.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
I have most of you (didn't have Valeria for some reason, but just added), mine is http://twitter.com/jungleg -- see you on the other side ;)
- Jorge Escobar
http://twitter.com/movieguyjon - I say weird shit, bitch at random times, and will say more weird shit. Occasionally I'll post fun things too, with a smidgeon of inane. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
Pretty clever way to work in a plug for your timeline.. I like your style, Kol ;)
- Brad McCrorey
http://twitter.com/dennis_... (don't forget the underscore) What do I tweet about? Tech, fiction, art, music, politics, comics, and of course my fiction. Occasionally some Seattle or Bremerton related stuff. I also have TwitterFeed tweet my blogs, and I always tweet from Flickr.
- Dennis Jernberg
i post about film and television editing/post production, I'm a bit of a gadget nerd, and i like anything funny on the web. i love followers... http://twitter.com/toddzelin
- Todd Zelin
I'm sure you're all interesting but following 6,000 is my limit. ; )
- Liz
http://twitter.com/cgranier - I tweet about many things -usually tech-oriented, reply to everyone who @'s me, and have lately been posting a lot about #FreeMediaVE, bringing attention to the struggle against communism in Venezuela. Feel free to follow me. @ me for a quick follow back. No spammers please.
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Thank you all. I hope at least some follow me back else I'll hit my follower limit soon. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://twitter.com/casschin - I mostly post up funny/odd web gems and nerdy tech news. Occasionally, I tweet what I eat.
- Cass
http://twitter.com/Felter i tweet about all, but i don't retweet my FF message. From twitter to FF only. if you follow me in FF, you can read my tweet.
- Felter Roberto
from twhirl
You know, you could have just started feeding in your tweets here and achieved the same, right? Or would that have been too subtle?
- Mr. Gunn
http://twitter.com/glitterpoet Don't mean to offend but it's usually not religious. Porn, drinking,dancing, music,makeup....I still do healing work. I just don't talk about it much anymore.
- Gabrielle
My twitter stream is the typical... random thought bubbles, food porn pics, and shared items relating to technology, politics, and $$$. http://twitter.com/sean808080 is where you find me. Oh and I like unicorns and fairy dust.
- sean808080
@fossilhuntress or fossilmaitress (I kept getting my email cracked and getting locked out hence the duplicate); all content, linked to digg, delicious... mostly science, paleo and random banter...
- Fossil Huntress
http://twitter.com/wangyip - mostly stuff from FF (tech, startups, web apps, sometimes things about math, medicine, fitness) - I've followed a few here on tech stuff (Edit: Thanks Kol for the thread)
- Wang Yip
http://twitter.com/eoghann... - I post sci-fi news (tv, movies, books or comics I'm probably a fan of it), some tech stuff and the occasional round of venting.
- Eoghann Irving
Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live.
- Mark Krynsky
Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark.
- Mark Krynsky
Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs.
- Andrew Trinh
@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here.
- Mark Krynsky
Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;)
- Jandy
Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool.
- Mark Krynsky
I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :)
- Nine
If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here!
- Jandy
Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day.
- Mark Krynsky
Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added
- Duncan Riley
Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this.
- Mark Krynsky
I've read the instruction and still don't see the button thing to add myself. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now.
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@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map.
- Mark Krynsky
Added. Seems like there are a lot of us in the Bay Area...we must do a get together at some point.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going.
- Mark Krynsky
@Mark Not gonna make SXSW, but am definitely down for working on an FF get together. March is long enough away to make sure plenty of people have time to plan ahead. I added you on Upcoming so we can start coordinating it. Anyone else interested/want to help set this up?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool!
- Mark Krynsky
Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters.
- Ryan Kuder
Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin!
- Hutch Carpenter
For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps
- anna sauce
Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX!
- Carter ♥ HTML5
"Racetracks pretty much look the same from the grandstands or on television — a vast expanse of asphalt on which drivers do battle. Seen from space, though, you can appreciate their form and the skill it requires to drive them at the limit. Here are 10 of the best, as seen from space. We may have left out your favorite, but that’s where you come in. Tell us what you’d include and why it should be listed."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Wow. There's a depressing number of American racetracks there. I'm not sure any of them count as great. Where are Sliverstone, Montreal, Monza, Abu Dhabi, etc?
- James Myatt
Yep, the choice of tracks could have been better.
- Kol Tregaskes
I've posted a thread on Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/bGaHvj and trying out a post on Google Wave: http://bit.ly/ac2u1m Where are you from? Who are your supporting? What are your thoughts and predications of the match?
- Kol Tregaskes
USA! USA! I hope they talk slow so I can understand what is happening.
- Eric
England to win 3-0 with the two latter goals coming after I'm so steaming drunk I can't see the TV from playing the "down a shot every time Heskey falls over" game.
- Mark H
US link working fine from here in the US. I am expecting a thorough ass-kicking by u guyz on our guyz, but hoping for more of a Spain v US replay ; >
- Thom Kennon
Kol, looks like, so far, you're gonna be outnumbered here... better spend the next 2 hours rustling up some English cowboys ; >
- Thom Kennon
Halil, the link was via ABC, does it not work?
- Kol Tregaskes
Thom, hehe, well that would be down to maths. More Americans on the planet, more Americans on the net, more Americans on FriendFeed. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Where are all the England supporters? Or just anyone from the UK? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It will be fun to see England beat the Americans in something. =P England to win 3-1. Rooney twice and Gerrard once to score.
- Faraz Mullick
Things England has contributed to the world: BP, kidney pie and East India Company. THings America has contributed to the world: Apple, rock and roll, Megan Fox. 'Nuff said.
- Mike Nayyar
Im going to watch it on ITV, found it listed there, not a channel i watch much these days.
- Halil
(Let it be known: I am a huge anglophile, but I'm a bigger patriot. Also, I'm a liberal. WHOA CONTRADICTIONS!)
- Mike Nayyar
So by how many goals will USA lose do you think??? :-P
- Halil
Halil, yeah it's a shame ITV have the England match today. I really don't like their sport coverage.
- Kol Tregaskes
CBC are covering it here, so I'm not sure who will be commentating. Oh, and - IN-GER-LAND!
- WoH: Minding her Steves
Kol, i don't like anything they cover, sports, politics, news, it all sux. The ONLY thing they are good at is the occasional drama, that's it.
- Halil
Rene says you can watch the match on ESPN3.com
- Kol Tregaskes
I just checked, but ESPN3.com does not do a live feed of England-USA :-(
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
I'm thinking that none of the USA games will be streamed live, all others possibly might.
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
Kol, the link that you posted up above seems to be different than the site that espn3.com forwards to... and it seems like it might stream for me here -- maybe it has to do with it being a USA game -- actually it looks like it has to do with it being on ABC instead of ESPN --- since ABC is a national broadcast network they're probably not restricting it - and it is a different site than espn3 (espn3 doesn't have the game today)
- Chris Heath
I don't like Lampard and Gerrard together in central midfield. Milner should play central with Lamps and Gerrard should play on the left/in the free role.
- Toby Graham
Wondering what I will do when in Germany, the bbc links only work within the uk dont they?
- Iphigenie
R was too chicken to go watch it in the pub, being american and all. I thought this would be fun, considering we'd be happy whoever wins :)
- Iphigenie
USA Subs: Guzan, Beasley, Bornstein, Buddle, Edu, Feilhaber, Gomez, Goodson, Holden, Spector, Torres, Hahnemann.
- Kol Tregaskes
Referee: Carlos Eugenio Simon (Brazil)
- Kol Tregaskes
Posting that on B uzz was so much easier. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
yeah but my buzz doesnt refresh, unlike here. FF is so much more "live"
- Iphigenie
Joelle, you have to view it from your Buzz stream or inside Gmail for it to update in real-time. I think the only place it doesn't update in real-time is the thread pages, which is very annoying.
- Kol Tregaskes
Did anyone see the Nike long version commercial? That commercial is one of the best I've seen!
- Rene, Pro Button Pusher
you're right, i just followed the thread link and had i opened it in gmail it would refresh :)
- Iphigenie
Don't underestimate the US, the more interested they have gotten in football, the better they have got. Tons of money poured in the sport, and the university system creates a lot of focused and fit athletes. Could be the year they pass the line into top countries.
- Iphigenie
not a real delayed feed, i had paused it while the phone rang, and it started where i had paused. a reload cleared it but i missed the goal :(
- Iphigenie
Positive start for England. Now I'm going to be nervous for the rest of the game.
- Kol Tregaskes
Gerrard and Lampard could be the decisive force that breaks down US backline consistently
- Thom Kennon
Glad for england, they need the morale boost :)
- Iphigenie
I'm happy for Gerrard as he's always criticised for not playing as well for England as he does for Liverpool. Glad he's got a goal and is the captain today.
- Kol Tregaskes
Howard is right to be losing his shit right now.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
Defense isn't doing so well for the USA team right now. Allowing England to cross midfield too much. Wow, listen to me, I almost sound like I know what I'm talking about.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
R is playing portal instead of watching. Wtf?
- Iphigenie
My parents are leaving, I think it is time to take this to the HDTV.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
As a swiss daughter of a football player married to an american i really dont care who wins (sorry), ever. I care about seeing good footie, and this is starting nicely :)
- Iphigenie
Kol: yes, there was an ad break out of nowhere; when it came back we were celebrating the goal. ITV HD. May not have occurred on ITV1.
- Mark H
I can't stand the stress!!!!!
- Martha
from fftogo
After that early goal, US has been great with possession and pace. If we lose, that goal will be looked upon rather ruefully.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
Kol: that link is blocked at work. :(
- Steven Perez
Disagree, Kol; world cup games aren't very atmospheric usually anyway since it's such a mix of fans. Horns help. Reminds me of the African Cup of Nations.
- Mark H
Eivind, not really sure. Subbed for Milner who just got a yellow card. But I can't believe that's the reason.
- Kol Tregaskes
First time we've heard Lampard's name. I suppose Gerrard is taking the aggressive role in midfield and Lampard will hold back
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
Great getting back by England then; quickest I've seen us move in years. That's Capello's influence.
- Mark H
Hmm, did anyone think that Green's hands looked a little...OILY?
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
I was really drunk during that one, Mark :)
- Eivind
I think he was screened by his back from the initial strike and so he never got square to the ball. that's his excuse and he should stick with it. every "soccer" coach in America will likely us the tape as a teaching moment when training new strikers ; >
- Thom Kennon
Oguchi is still a bit better than last world cup, but he needs more, its nice to be both alumni of the same university.
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
Re: the vuvuzela horn... according to BBC engineers it is a B flat below middle C with a fundamental of 233Hz. If that means anything to anybody then good.
- Mark H
Univision just said a funny story about the guy who was told to get out of the game to change his shirt. He was arrested because he stole the toilet seat of a store. Hahaha
- Shevonne
Where was the England bite? We were the better team but where was that killer instinct?
- Mark H
think they will just play safe and waste 10 of all watchers' minutes? fear so too
- Iphigenie
Both teams need some 5-Hour Energy for their next matches. This is going to turn into another Group of death.
- Carlos Ayala
Well I predicted a 1-1 draw. I was happy before the match if we got a draw. But I'm disappointed we let in the very poor own goal and that we didn't any of the many chances we had. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
When have we last seen the "England bite"?
- Iphigenie
@Carlos I have some. Ill give it to them. haha
- Shevonne
LOL@Shevonne. They need cases of it girl!
- Carlos Ayala
i dont think it went down on the books as an own goal. and IMO it wasnt one either.
- Carlos Ayala
Joelle: we used to have people to fear up front; Shearer, Lineker, etc. Now, it's... midfielders who sometimes score and Heskey who never does. Plus Crouch. Oooh. Frightening.
- Mark H
All in all, that was a fantastic game. Fast pace, some unlucky breaks, but overall, great effort on both sides at varying times.
- Mike Nayyar
See you guys back here- Kol, thx for hooking us up!
- Thom Kennon
Mark: Totally agree - too many media stars nowadays. Odd that the amount of money in the game in the UK seems to not have helped the quality of play :(
- Iphigenie
nice game though, all in all --shuts up now--
- Iphigenie
hey, just noticed twitter is putting icons on hashtags, cute+
- Iphigenie
Matthew, you've been watching another match then. It was definitely an own goal.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thom, no worries. Are we playing the US again then? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks for everyone joining in. I was worried we'd have no one here.
- Kol Tregaskes
I look forward to the next big match everyone is on for. What's coming down the pipe of note this weekend?
- Mike Nayyar
Algeria vs Slovenia, Serbia vs Ghana and Germany vs Australia.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll be supporting Algeria, Ghana, and Austalia tomorrow.
- Mark H
Interesting game there ... the Altitude is affecting many players.
- Amani
Although the score is confirmed as 1-1. I have an overwhelming feeling as though England lost the match and USA won it. Strange. Next match we have to beat em though
- Mehmet John Doguelli
they can only meet again in the finals, right?
- Chris Heath
Chris, I believe that's who it works. You can only possibly meet teams in your group again in the final.
- Kol Tregaskes
yeah, after the group stage it moves to a single elimination bracket tournament and the two teams from each group that pass get placed on opposite sides of the bracket so they can only meet again in the final (or i guess the 3rd/4th place game)
- Chris Heath
you didn't show your work echostreamer? B-
- Chris Heath
Proofs are World Cup problems first encountered in geometry. The object of a proof is to show the domination of Germany which proves my theorem (That Germany rules this World Cup), written as a list of math statements. Sometimes Youtube clips are added to explain if the statement is a given, or can be concluded from a given based on a proven theorem. I offer as my math proof - Michael Ballack - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- echostreamer
Hey, Laura's sister. :-) Thanks, Lois, I might do if I remember. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I don’t have access to a comp while I watching F1 anymore.
- Remo
I was out for lunch on Sunday - sorry :)
- Roberto Bonini
Wish I could join in, but my work schedule means I'm usually watching F1 hours after they happen.
- S of 2C
Is it on for tomorrow? (Saturday, May 29 2010)
- Remo
Yeah but not posting a thread unless there is a surge of support here. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
No on interested in a live chat? Just give me a shout or 5 and I'll do it but not enough people have joined in in recent weeks. Happy either way. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
There's a bit of a clash today as it's the England match at 1:15pm BST too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Jake can't seem to put his iPad down, can he? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
It's not like he can pop it on the desk. Although he could have a pit girl carry it for him.
- James Myatt
if only you could bold an announcement in FF like you can in Wave :D [oh, and my username on Wave is the splendiforously original "adamlasnik"]
- Adam Lasnik
Guys, please read the title and the first comment. This is not a request for invites. This is for users who already have an account and want to share their account name. For invites see this thread: http://ff.im/91M9R
- Kol Tregaskes
My Wave ID is erier2003@googlewave.com. Feel free to add me and we can Wave!
- Eric Geller
Still don't really know what this is (Or Google Voice for that matter). This is like high school all over again. The cool kids are ignoring me!
- James Ferguson
i'm with the google wave woudl be really cool, if i had people to wave at crowd. jviddy@googlewave.com
- Jamie Vidamour
Everyone, read the title and first comment. This is NOT an invite thread!
- Kol Tregaskes
my plan didn't work. still trolling for an invite at dzinrgeek@gmail.com
- amarquart
Blimey. I must be going mad, is it not clear that this is NOT an invite thread. For invites see here: http://ff.im/91M9R
- Kol Tregaskes
Not sure if anyone else woudl find it useful, i'm going to add a load of you as friends and create a wave just to try stuff out in. Feel free to remove yourself from the wave or use it as you feel. Also feel free to add anyone else you think might want to be in on it
- Jamie Vidamour
Shockingly, I am robdiana@googlewave.com
- Rob Diana
Kamilah, you are kamilah.gill. You can find this if you click on yourself in the Contacts sidebar. You address (like everyone) is shown there.
- Kol Tregaskes
Karoli: is that your google wave nick or are you sniffling? :)
- Ahsan Ali
I'm sniffling because I don't have a google wave nick. Despite two invites, there is still nothing in my inbox. I am not in with the in crowd. :(
- Karoli
<- Waves hello! :) I'm at holger.eilhard@googlewave.com
- Holger Eilhard
hello holger, can you pls send me invite? fatihkurtoglu@gmail.com
- mfatih
Invite came today! I'm jalada@googlewave.com. As part of the second/third 'Wave' of people getting invites looks like I don't get any to share out.
- Jalada
M Fatih Kurtoglu: Sorry, I don't yet have any nominations to give out...
- Holger Eilhard
Hey, I'm in too ! :)) tagyboy@googlewave.com
- fwed
Just got my invite this morning as well. FF embed seems to be working fine. I've tried the Wolfram Alpha robot but didn't get it to work yet.
- François Dongier
librarysupporter@googlewave.com in my wave. :)
- MLx
Glad to see more and more people getting in. What we're waiting for is proper group support (a few weeks hopefully) then let the games begin! :-D
- Kol Tregaskes
Anyone have a spare google wave invite to send to me? email me at zaldor at gmail ! TY!
- Les Zaldor
that is a test from the wave that has this thread embedded.
- Nathalie
I will as soon as I get one WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
- Martha
banane@googlewave.com <-- writing this from wave. neat!
- anna sauce
marco.nunez@googlewave - FINALLY! like i said on twitter - i feel like the kid who got a nintendo 1 christmas too late when everyone had already beaten super mario bros!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
denise.straessler@googlewave - stupid me had no idea i wouldn't be able to select a different name .....
- denise
Wow. Thanks Kol!!! Here's mine for all ya'll to add - walt.ruppar@googlewave.com - although I just added like 150 of the above. While also deleting my pity pleads for an invite... ;-)
- JR
I have Radio 1 set on alarm for sometime before 7am and wake up to Chris Moyles. I'd like a DAB alarm clock to I can change to 6music though.
- Kol Tregaskes
Quay Radio to wake up to because it's a commercial station and therefore so awful I'll have to get up. Once I'm downstairs and sorting out breakfast etc then it's Radio 2.
- Mark H
I don't wake up to music; it's too easy to fall back asleep. On the way to wirk I listen to the Classical Music station - no ads, no chat, no lyrics. It eases me into my day. On the way home it's Alternative. And sometimes I sing along.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Chris may talk more, but he's much more interesting. Chris also has much better taste in music. Scott thinks he's funny, but he's way too childish.
- James Myatt
I can't stand Chris' opening 'cheesy' tune, he's been using that for far too many years and no redo will help.
- Kol Tregaskes
The opening cheesy tune is epic. Its my sign of "you're early/late for work" If im in the car and i hear it, then Ill be on time for work. Chris is much easier to listen to. Scott (who is a nice guy and i got to see the Scott Mills Musical in Edinburgh earlier this year), you just feel he plays far too much r&b songs. Its a shame Mark Chapman has left the show.
- Alan (Giraffes)
I don't listen to either but Scott Mills was a local radio DJ around my parts (er, region (er, here in Hampshire (man, that's a lot of double entendres to avoid))) so he gets my vote.
- Mark H
"One in three members of the public matched a picture of Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, with the name of Peter Griffin, the protagonist of the cartoon sitcom. The survey of 1,498 people found more were able to identify a picture of Alex Reid, the new husband of Katie Price, than recognised Gordon Brown, the prime minister."
- M F
from Bookmarklet
I'd rather have Peter Griffin from Family Guy than that fascist.
- James Myatt
"The 24th annual Tough Guy Challenge took place last weekend, on Sunday, January 31st, on South Perton Farm, near Wolverhampton, England. Despite being billed as "the safest most dangerous taste of physical and mental endurance pain in the world", this year's race still attracted over 5,000 men and women - all of them signing a disclaimer saying "It's my own bloody fault for being here". About 600 racers did not complete the course this year - the winner being Paul Jones of Oswestry, England, completing the course in one hour 18 minutes. The Challenge is annual event to raise cash for charity with funds going to the Mr. Mouse Farm for Unfortunates. Special thanks today to photographer Mike King, who was kind enough to share 16 of his great photographs of the 2010 Tough Guy Challenge below. (31 photos total)"
- James Myatt
from Bookmarklet
I'm pretty sure my brother was running in this. All I got was a facebook status update saying "Tough Guy 2010 ... Done".
- James Myatt
"Snow blanketed Great Britain on January 7, 2010, as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite passed overhead and captured this image. Snow covers most of England, from the east to the west coast. (The large image shows snow cover over the entire island of Great Britain.) The cities of Manchester, Birmingham, and London form ghostly gray shapes against the white land surface. Immediately east of London, clouds swirl over the island, casting blue-gray shadows toward the north."
- James Myatt
from Bookmarklet
If you’re angry about race, but not particularly interested in understanding why, you probably like Crash. If you’re black and believe in the curative qualities of yet another “dialogue around race,” you probably liked Crash. If you’re white and voted for Barack Obama strictly because he was black, you probably liked Crash. If you’ve ever used the... - http://misterjt.tumblr.com/post...
I refused to watch it after hearing a reviewer describe it as "an important movie about race" without actually saying anything substantive about how that was true. Just wasn't interested.
- Jennifer Dittrich
My hatred of Crash is like a searing white hot point burning in my brain. I hated it so much I was texting Akiva about how much I hated it while I was still in the cinema watching it. When it started winning awards I literally started screaming obscenities. What a piece of shit.
- veo
I agree. It's shit. Definitely the worst ever winner of the "Best Picture" Oscar of all time. It's only popular because of it's A-list cast and because it's pretending to be balanced and progressive.
- James Myatt
Because of veo, I'm probably going to die young.
- Akiva
I mean: Because of veo, I will never see Crash and I share his hatred for it by proxy.
- Akiva
Until this post, I don't think I even heard of the movie. Ah, blissful ignorance shattered forever.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I literally watched up until the last ten minutes. I couldn't take it any longer. I have no idea how it ends and don't care.
- Derrick
As an LA resident, I hated it. Nobody interacts like these people. You never ever run into the same people all the time in this city and Terrance Howard's emasculated man-child was on some bullshit. "Hey mayne, it's real hard being black in these LA streets, mayne." Ugh.
- Jason Toney
Not reality. Honesty. Nothing about that movie was honest. Not the characters or the interactions. EDIT: See, Training Day, the tv shows The Shield and The Closer as much more honest portrayals of police and race in LA. Also, the lesser seen Boomtown and Southland.
- Jason Toney
To further my rant, the real problem with Crash is that it equates racism with prejudice and the moral of the story is that "we're all prejudiced so nobody's at fault for racism. Particularly you, white people." #getthefuckouttahere.
- Jason Toney
a sure way to have hate for this movie? Go see it with well-meaning and well-loved white friends who are very uncomfortable talking about race who, after seeing the film, LOVED IT.
- Jason Toney
We had Paul Haggis (writer/director of Crash) at school to come talk to our students. It was all I could do to bite my tongue and not go off on some ish that might've cost me my job.
- Derrick
My vitriol for the film stems from two things. Firstly the fact that it's a three hour movie and uses that entire running time to POUND the same SERIOUSLY FLAWED moral lesson over and over without any hint of subtltey. It's totally ham fisted and treats the viewer like a moron. Secondly, it completley apes PTA's "Magnolia", which happens to be my favorite movie. The structure is almost...
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- veo
I'll only say that for many of those who are not around diversity in daily life, being hit over the head repeatedly is a good thing.
- Michael W. May
"Crash" is the sort of movie that portrays the diversity of a big city in the way that folks from small white towns think "diversity" happens. As a native NYer, I say pah. PAH. (Also, got to meet the screenwriters through my mfa program, they were actually decent guys in person.)
- ωαřмaiden ☆TeamOtto☆
I looked at at least two pages of every user who posted. I just started learning, so I bookmarked about 20 pages that I'll be coming back to. This was nice, thanks!
- Ryan Massie
I didnt really want to add everyone i know on friendfeed to my facebook, i like to keep them seperate as much as i can. but you know what, fuck it http://www.facebook.com/simon... add a note saying you;re from friendfeed if you add me, then i can group everyone up :)
- Simon Wicks
Thanks, Simon. I've not started going through these yet. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm only going to add the people i actually talk to on here. I have a lot less people on my follow list than you, so its a bit easier for me :)
- Simon Wicks
Remember, guys. According to FB, you're only allowed 5000 friends. Spend them wisely.
- James Myatt
As if we weren't before? Were they really that many people here who didn't also have a FB account, even if they didn't list it in their profile? I've been with FB since 2004
- LANjackal
Well, with this news it is pushing me to start using my real name for web services and to kill (or at least slowly stop using) the tomit persona that I have used for many years. Find me here... http://www.facebook.com/ronaldb...
- Sullivan
I'm on Facebook, but I don't have a name in my profile URL (yet; I'm still new...). But if you want it, it's http://www.facebook.com/profile... -- if you friend me, tell me you're from FF.
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't freaking have one because I never wanted to sign up for Facebook. :P Now I find out that through no fault of my own I'm technically a Facebook user? GAH.
- Cheryl Jones
I do not use it much LOL I just post to it from other sites so to fill up my friends stream, I do get messages and some status in text. Anyone who really wants to add me, use the facebook link on my profile. :o)
- David Gross
www.facebook.com/drodzand you won't see much since I got the privacy settings on max in Facebook. Just another reason why I think Facebook is completely different from friendfeed. I hope they keep friendfeed running because I use both services in diametrically diverse ways.
- David Rodriguez
http://www.facebook.com/waltrup... ... Deja Vu... didn't we do this already one? LOL! If you send me a request, please just mention FF. KThnxBye.
- JR
http://www.facebook.com/kimbers... (I can remember if I commented on this already. I don't see "You" on the list, but I'm tired. So, hopefully, I didn't. If I did, oh well.
- Kimber Scott
Thanks Rob, I had forgotten my username for I always used my email address to login - I found there is a settings > username > change thing that lets you change your username once and then you get a facebook.com/username url!
- TrafficBug
I am thinking about just using my Public Page more. Keep my regular profile for family and coworker data. Follow me here if you want more of the type of posts I do here of Friendfeed. http://www.facebook.com/pages...
- Sullivan
Good luck, and please keep us posted. They are being such douchebags...
- Brent
You all remember the Consumerist not backing down from the Cash 4 Gold retaliation http://consumerist.com/2009... right - they held their ground, light was shed in a dark corner, and justice prevailed. It's not always that clear cut, nor easy, and battles can be lost; but it's right. It's a completely different set of circumstances here, but the principal of it is universal. All the best, Anthony.
- Micah
@WoH: thanks, they be fixin' it soon, I trust.
- Anthony Citrano
While I agree that Demi Moore is starting to take this too far, at the same time I do have to say that the guy who did the Photoshop work should have at least checked to make sure that things were lined up correctly. Photoshopping a image is one thing, but not keeping an eye on your work is another.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Demi needs to sue the ham-handed p'shopper. She's definitely missing a chunk of hip, unless she's an alien. Talk about shooting the messenger!
- Rick Cogley
At Edenbridge? LOL, no it's barely got a platform let alone room for a flashmob. ;-) The platform wasn't even salted this morning, neither was the path leading up to it. It's a completely ignored station. It doesn't even have a ticket machine as it's not manned in anyway. We have to rely on getting tickets while on the train and a ticket inspector to have enough time to get down the...
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- Kol Tregaskes
I was freezing standing around for ages too. :-( Not a good start to my last week of work.
- Kol Tregaskes
I'll bet it was. Small stations are more exposed. I went to some unusual places on my UK trip but I don't think any of the stations I went to were quite that small.
- Spidra Webster
Cambridge-KGX trains were fine today. No more than the usual delays of 3-5 minutes.
- James Myatt
"One of the good things about meteors is that you don’t need any equipment, just your eyes and a bit of patience. Even in a so called ’shower’ it is rare to get more than one meteor a minute, don’t be surprised if you see nothing for five or ten minutes, then two in a row."
- James Myatt
from Bookmarklet
For me it was college and in particular Business Studies. Why? A very good teacher.
- Kol Tregaskes
College. Went to a small, liberal arts school. Great environment, and I learned how to learn, if that makes sense.
- Alex Scrivener
Tough one, I liked both primary and high school (our whole year pretty much all got along), uni 1st time around was 4 years of drunken insanity with awesome people, and 2nd time around was shedloads of work with yet more really awesome people. I wouldn't change any of them given the choice.
- Amy
High school. It was wild and you didn't need to think about anything :D
- LouCypher
the current phase.. learning anything I want, and dont need to sit for an exam :)-
- Peter Dawson
@amy, you pretty much describe what most uni students go thru :)-
- Peter Dawson
"Fifteen of the best rising music stars have been named on the longlist for the BBC's Sound of 2010. The list is designed to highlight the most exciting musical talent for the coming year and the artists have been picked by 165 UK-based tastemakers. They each named their favourite three new acts and those with the most votes were put on the list. The top five and winner will be unveiled in January. Little Boots, Adele and Mika are among the previous Sound of... winners."
- James Myatt
from Bookmarklet
Based on previous years' lists and winners, I'm sure most of these guys are awesome. Shame most of them won't have records out yet.
- James Myatt
Huh-uh - I guess someone is going to appear on Google Street View. :)
- Olivia Lovag
What is the normal turn around time from the car taking pictures to appearance in street view?
- Brian Sullivan
Other pictures I have seen of Google transport carrying out shots for Google Maps Street View have had the Google logo on the vehicle... I have never seen any of them in the UK yet. Heh
- Geoff Jackson
My brother saw one in Manchester, probably a year ago. I suspect that Google are taking a more incognito approach these days after all the objections from the general public: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- James Myatt
"Police forces across the country have been warned to stop using anti-terror laws to question and search innocent photographers after The Independent forced senior officers to admit that the controversial legislation is being widely misused."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
"However, unnecessarily restricting photography, whether from the casual tourist or professional is unacceptable and worse still, it undermines public confidence in the police service." Good to see ACPO are beginning to see the same thing that photographers have been thinking for years.
- James Myatt
"Section 44 of the Terrorism Act allows the police to stop and search anyone they want, without need for suspicion, in a designated area. The exact locations of many of these areas are kept secret from the public, but are thought to include every railway station in and well-known tourist landmarks thought to be at risk of terrorist attacks." - I dare say a terrorist would get better...
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- Roberto Bonini
"Photographer Martin Parr told the audience at a recent event organised by the British Journal of Photography (BJP) that he believes it is possible that street photography could be banned in the UK within five years. "
- M F
It looks like if it is not a crime now it might be one soon
- M F
Now is the time to forceably resist this ridiculous trend!
- Son of Groucho
Not quite sure how, but it's getting pretty ridiculous.
- James Myatt
Exactly, that's what worries me, most people are indifferent, oblivious and occasionally even happy when civil rights are eroded.
- M F
My big hard drive (where all my important documents are -- photos, music, tax returns) is showing signs of failure. No bad blocks that I can tell (yet), but the occasional characteristic "ATA command failed, controller reset" sound. Given how cheap disks are these days, I'm going to build a RAID setup next.
2. custom-built, small, cheap-ish OpenSolaris / FreeBSD box with ZFS, and two (mirrored) hard drives (or four, for twice the space and striping). This requires more work, but it gives free snapshots.
- Tudor Bosman
3. ReadyNAS NVX (sadly, they factored "snapshots" into the enterprise NVX version, not the home-office NVX Pioneer version). Expensive, but probably the least hassle to set up.
- Tudor Bosman
Andrew: a click as the heads reset, then a half-second whirr (during which your computer is likely frozen) as they realign.
- Tudor Bosman
I have one of these: http://www.amazon.com/gp.... Price was right for me since I didn't have a desktop to cannibalize and everything I wanted worked out of the box (Time Machine and media server)
- Benjamin Golub
Ben I've been looking at that WD. My concern always is ... 2TB is too small :)
- Deepak Singh
Go with the OpenSolaris/ZFS box. (Or FreeBSD 8?) You can then install custom software (Crashplan?) to do offsite backup also. You can build a 4x1.5T setup for $600-900 depending on the CPU/RAM.
- Joe Beda
Deepak: they do have a 4TB version (2x 2TB disks), which is of course 2TB if mirrored.
- Tudor Bosman
Joe: I'm kind of leaning that way myself. I don't need a lot of CPU, as there will be only 1-3 hosts accessing it concurrently.
- Tudor Bosman
So now I'm looking for recommendations for a small, well-ventilated micro-ATX case with at least 4 drive bays. Hot-swappable would be nice :)
- Tudor Bosman
After my raid issues of the last week, I've decided on the following plan: One master 1.5T disk and one 1.5T 'delayed mirror' disk that gets synced up every 24 hours. Once every few months I pull the delayed mirror off, call it a snapshot, and store it off-site, and replace it with a new 1.5T drive. This system protects against single-drive faulure, catastrophic site loss (theft/fire),...
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- Kevin Fox
I wish there were some sort of open source Drobo project. At a minimum, it could just be a list of suggested cases, motherboards, etc for a ZFS appliance.
- Ken Sheppardson
Question: What are you trying to protect from? RAIDs are great for high throughput (striping) and high uptime (mirrors). If you're not overly concerned about either then I'd suggest a more traditional incremental backup solution.
- Kevin Fox
Ken: There's FreeNAS, I'm sure that people on their community have some advice. I just haven't looked at it yet.
- Tudor Bosman
Kevin: I'll need some form of offline backup as well. Recovering 1TB+ of data from offline backup is bound to be painful, though, so I'd rather save that for catastrophic events (ie. things an order of magnitude less likely than a disk failure)
- Tudor Bosman
'k. I'll only add that I had a 4-disk RAID array that went south because of directory problems. The fact that the data was redundant didn't help recovery one bit (and actually made it harder). As of this morning it looks like I got the data back, but I've learned not to trust RAID as a comprehensive parachute. Data corruption can happen lots of ways, and not all of them are protected by RAID.
- Kevin Fox
Ordered a box with five 2TB WD drives (Newegg had them on sale, 5 per customer limit). As I don't really need more random read bandwidth than a single disk, it will be RAID-Z, and likely using FreeBSD 8. I'll post updates as I build this thing.
- Tudor Bosman
I'd like to make IT too! Keep us updated!
- CantorJF
from iPhone
"Twitter is over capacity. Too many tweets! Please wait a moment and try again." Didn't know people had so much to say about Charlie Weis
- David Damore
It's been down for at least five minutes already. This is the longest I've seen the fail whale in months.
- Robert Scoble
so are you starting to get the shakes? How long can you go without tweeting?
- Ben Reierson
Responding to high error rate 21 seconds ago Starting about 10 minutes ago, we began experiencing a very high rate of errors and we are working on the underlying problem.
- David Damore
would be more productivity if there was no FF ( twitter backup )
- Mihai Secasiu
So what was trending when it went down?
- phil baumann
Dave - sure. Interesting use case. Definitely spam would be something Google would have to work on.
- phil baumann
not sure what was trending but there was quite a lot of activity on #Spill - in Oz our opposition party is having a meltdown and are spilling the leadership in 30 mins time
- Hilary Talbot
Phil: That was really interesting. Surprised that that shooting never gained traction on Twitter. Did it ever trend? Seems like it was all about Mr. Woods the past few days.... and shopping
- David Damore
Hi everyone. Hope you are all surviving without twitter lol. Great to see you all here.
- snysctt
Glad FF is the backup! </sarcasm> ...seriously though, I'd prefer people do one or the other. I don't reply to most of your comments because you're on Twitter and I refuse to get a Twitter account. Lame service.
- Scott Carmichael