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Excellent. - Mo Kargas

It's about time. - Zach Underwood

When I die, I want that to be done to my body :P - Michael Forian

WOW - Kate Mag from twhirl

great find ,, thanksfor sharing - johnpiercy

He should have seen that coming! - João Almeida

Yeah, the Star Wars prequels really were poor films. Something like "Children of Men" is much better film making, and without all the spaceships and crap. Special Effects films are kind of like hair bands and heavy metal guitar solos. They replace the art with the machinery of artifice. - Dean Terry

So good. they should have done this to him after the first three (made). - Morgan

love it :) - (jeff)isageek

Like! - imabonehead

*Sigh* _Another_ prequel basher. Prequels=Windows Vista. Misunderstood. - Nate Pilling from twhirl

I agree with you, Dean Terry. But at the same time, Children of Men did have a whole heck of a lot of special effects. - Bill Bittner from twhirl

Whatever you think of the prequels, this Lucas statue is EPIC! - Josh Haley

I'm one of very few people who actually kinda liked the prequels. I'm easily entertained. - Tad

HAHA!!!!!!! I laughed out loud. omg Thats better than FAIL or FIRED. Seriously. - Mona Nomura

that is awesome - jason burton

This will also prevent Lucas from destroying my memory of the original trilogy any farther. - Pete Delucchi

I was wondering how long it would take for the geek Star Wars revolt to take shape with the animated prequel. - Ed Roberts from twhirl

The revolt should have started already. Talk about milking a cash cow to death. - Arlan Koizumi

Tad... I'm with you. - Johnny Worthington

i'm sick of starwars already! - orionstarr

My theory on the prequel v original= the orginal trilogy was so open ended - it expanded the mind into this universe beyond imagination. Even in the first one - Obi Wan discusses The Clone Wars with little or no "dumbing down." A real conversation - like explaining to a teen ager old WW2 or Vietnam stories. But in the prequels - everything was dumbed down, explained - that massive universe from the first three was shrunk down and tied up all nice and neat. The mystery died - and so did the luster.... - George Smith

I agree with George. - Lisa L. Seifert

Many bothans died to bring us these photos - Josh Haley

I'm not sick of Star Wars...how could you ever get sick of that? I'm sick of the crapified versions of Star Wars that Lucas foisted on us in the last 10 years in order to sell merchandise. - Alex Scoble

I'm not even sure what's *new* about this news. A very similar story from 2005 (http://www.webmd.com/cancer...) shows the same researcher, from the same section at NIH, publishing in the same journal, pretty much the same results: Intravenous ascorbate may fight cancer, but "it's too soon to tell." Three years later? It is still "too soon to tell." Your tax dollars at work! - Karim

Either way, don't expect the drug companies to leap on this information, since you can't patent Vitamin C. - Karim

@Karim: given the state of the American patent legislature, I wouldn't be so sure :) - Frère Noël

Good point, Alex :-) - Karim

Vitamin C is water soluble so you can take as much as you want and it is not toxic, unlike with fat-soluble vitamins. Since it's water soluble, you excrete it when you go to the restroom. - imabonehead

@imabonehead Arsenic is water soluble so you can take as much as you want and it is not toxic ... oh no. Wait.... - mattpovey

@imabonehead It's not a good idea to take huge quantities of Vitamin C on a regular basis. If nothing else, it wreaks havoc on your GI tract. Moderation in all things. :) - Adam Barker

Oh Now the vitamin C is too Dangeruos - Ali R Khan

Somewhere, Linus Pauling is laughing to himself. - Heidi Moon

Linus Pauling is the man :) - imabonehead

Totally forgot to mention, when I do my weekly (or so) review, I'm using Hao Chen's GreaseMonkey Script. It's a life saver! http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Just updated the post to include the link as well. - Justin Korn

Solid advice. I really like the part about looking into their stream and analyzing what associated services mean what about which users. I'm relatively new so preventing noisy feeds is good. However, you should give a nod to the hide feature which lets me hide services from some users. I am a huge fan of that since it lets me get down to the really good bits of content being shared. - Derick Valadao from twhirl

Useful primer. - kamla bhatt

@Derick: Glad you found my post useful. As for the "Hide" function, I use it all the time, but I did not want to dig into how to deal with the noise issue. My main point was to inform users how I deal with my subscriptions in order to ensure my feed is relevant to me and my interest. In the long run, this is the best noise reducer there is (IMO). - Justin Korn

@Justin: Maybe it would make a suitable topic for a follow-up. I know the hide feature has been documented in many places but it would be really helpful to have a recent, well-written reference on how to filter out the noise within feeds you would normally find interesting. - Derick Valadao from twhirl

@Derick: I agree, it would be a great follow-up, however, I think Louis Gray's article hits home on covering how to use hide (http://www.louisgray.com/live...). If you haven't read it, give it a whirl and let me know if you still think another write-up is needed :) - Justin Korn

@Justin: ah yes. I remember reading that article. It did to a pretty good job. Thanks for reminding me. I did use some of his hints and it did a pretty decent job of keeping the talking points in focus. Maybe you are better to just link to the article in case others haven't read it :) - Derick Valadao from twhirl

@Derick: Chris Baskind also started this thread (http://friendfeed.com/e...) which has some good tips. I'm guessing he is thinking up a post on this very topic as we speak/write. - Justin Korn

There wasn't any focus I could see. Just Steve Gillmor's personal blog and the b-side of TechCrunch. - Mark Trapp

Where will Steve Gillmor post his next manifesto? - TDavid

"Farewell sweat TechCrunch IT" - sweat kinda works in a weird way, but maybe you meant sweet? - Hutch Carpenter

for those wondering if it is shut as there's no official announcement: type techcrunchit.com into a browser. Also heard that Calley is no longer at TC as well. Changes happening by the sound of it. - Duncan Riley

Man, I don't know whether to laugh or cry....or both - Bwana ☠

Hutch, I'm not sure what FSG means...I never do with him - Duncan Riley

Sorry but this blog post is not nearly long enough to be from steve gilmor, even fake steve gilmor. - sean percival

Sean, in death people become relatively silent. - Duncan Riley

So does this mean a spot opens up on the Techmeme Leaderboard for you, Duncan? - Cyndy

I was surprised to see the blog launch considering all guest posts on techcrunch.com from Steve Gillmore before Techcrunchit were getting considerable flak about the long winded and abstract writing style that was used. - Adam Helweh

Cyndy, that spot will be reserved for another Arrington/ Gabe sycophant :-) - Duncan Riley

Thought it was a great feed, I will miss it, Later TechCrunchIT - Jason Holbrook

Looks like it's back. I'm able to access the front page and articles again. - Mark Trapp

I don't think I'm on enough hallucinogens to understand that post... something or another shut down? Uh, ok... It was HItler's blog or something? That's where you lost me... - Jason Carreira

It's back! although notice the last post date. - Duncan Riley

FSG has the power to bring blogs back from the dead?? - Cyndy

Guys they have only been around for like 60 days and had 50,000 uniques according to Compete.com... I wish I had that kind of traction. If they hadn't used the TC brand someone (me and a group) would have picked it up for sure. That was a great start. Why did they not continue I wonder? Duncan help me out you know how the big man thinks more than any of us - Roger Kondrat

Roger, you would have that kind of traction if TechCrunch crosslinked with every article you wrote. ;) - Cyndy

Two problems. Nik + SG would have been paid...well Nik definitely but both were named editors so presume both. Say 80-100k yr for an editor, maybe total if they split it + other writers for the site (allocated expenses, even if they were shared between sites). 50k uniques over 2 months doesn't even come remotely close to covering expenses. Arrington is a tight arse who hates spending money. My guess is that the site wasn't growing quickly enough and they decided to cut their losses now - Duncan Riley

It's also not a space Arrington would want to necessarily own either, after all there's no magical pot of gold nor any competitor he wants to destroy, so where as CrunchGear was sustained at a loss for a long time (and could well still be losing money) there was no reason for TCIT to do so. Pure business decision from him. - Duncan Riley

also there's the sucker aspect. My guess is that it wasn't his idea to start with, that Nik cooked it up and sold it to him, with SG's support. Arrington has always had poor judgement with investments and happily spends money to support friends. Maybe charity would be the better definition - Duncan Riley

It's redirecting back to TechCrunch again - Glenn Slaven

Completely gone from all the menus too now - Glenn Slaven

bizarre, it's like ZOMG, someone noticed! What should we do! - Duncan Riley

TCIT is an idea that has been floating around for some time in Arringtonland, I was even involved with some very early discussions (nixed when Gillmor noticed I was being included in group emails). I wouldn't be quite so quick to deadpool it, but one wonders if any such closure might be related to acquisition discussions which are coming to a head. - Paul Montgomery

Does this mean the TechCrunch Tablet is deadpool'd too? - Paul Montgomery

Paul, interesting question given the initial drive came out of TCIT. - Duncan Riley

With all due respect to Duncan, I think it opens a spot for Cyndy .... (he ducks) - Charlie Anzman

it is again redirecting. Duncan any informed guesses on the reason for closure :-). Bye the way I posted about no new articles on techcrunchit on friendfeed about 3 days back. - Sidharth Dassani

No kidding Paul, what does this mean for the iCrunch? - Pat Hawks

My FF stats never seem to change - am I alone in that assessment? - Susan Beebe

I wanted to see if that was true (at least for me), so I've been tracking it for a while. Edythe slowly rose to the top, Ontario shot up to the top (probably due to the lastfm feeds room), and Mona is slowly rising in rank. For my who's interested in me, the bottom 2 or 3 changes frequently, but the rest generally stays the same. - Mark Trapp

I have followed Mona for a month, and she is not on my list. I have another person that is very sticky, but I have not interacted with that person for two months. - Russellreno

This sticky person Russell refers to will not be named. - Louis Gray

It's Mr. Sticky, the social media expert who shares pictures of cats. Or something. - Mark Trapp

Ok wise guys, here are the results. I stand corrected. Now vs May 30. 1) Edythe new, 2) THawk -1, 3) LGray -1, 4) Scoble -1, 5). O Emperor New, 6) RAPatton New, 7) SRubel no change, 8) Corvida -4), 9) McCall new, 10) Arrington -4. Those who fell off list - JGolberg, Paul Bucheit (don't tell him), Engtech and Chris Nixon. Corvida is Ms Sticky. - Russellreno

So the algorithm is better than my memory. Imagine that. - Russellreno

+1 for Louis. - Yolanda

It's ridiculous, but the stickiness of people like Arrington and Scott Beale makes me wonder if there's some sort of "new user bonus" to the list; that is, people you subscribe to first have a huge amount of weight over people you subscribe to later. I don't recall liking or commenting on their stuff for weeks, but it took 2 months for them to fall off my list. - Mark Trapp

Mark - Exactly. - Russellreno

i don't like that i'm on neither of those lists! - Cee Bee

Actually, mine have moved quite a bit since the last time I looked. I'm thinking they'll ossify the longer you're on FF, unless your habits change dramatically. - Chris Baskind

Both of my lists change gradually every month - Mitchell Tsai

at least two days ago on that new icon, Mark ;) - Michael W. May

Hey, to my credit, I posted this yesterday :-P - Mark Trapp

hee. well, thank you for noticing at any time, Mark and mwm. :p - edythe

Boo Yah. LOL - BISQ from twhirl

Easily my favorite trailer for a movie...it helps that i'm on the edge of my seat waiting for Hellboy II though :P - Sean Dunn

I think it's James Lipton's "booyah" that makes it. - Tim from Alert Thingy

LOL. - Jonathon

ya gotta see Kevin Spacey on actors studio ... doing the impressions ... go to youtube now; you'll thank me - Dan Covington

Jamie Foxx's Ronald Reagan impression too. Freakishly good. Love that series. - Casey

is this the best movie summer ever or what. - Karim

That seems to be the thing, you know, create a strong personal brand, then wind up as a caricature of it. I think Baudrillard referred to that as "hyperreal." c.f. John Dvorak, Andy Rooney... - Karim

I think he should have said BOOyahhh! differently. C'mon he's an acting coach!? :) Very funny... - Mario Sundar

I am very excited for this and for the Dark Knight. - RAPatton

I have not seen the first one, have no real desire to see this one, but this is a GREAT trailer! ;) - Paula Hawk

I still think the microbe/virus plushies are cuter: http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoy... - Phil G

I saw the microbe ones at the local science center; they are awesome. - Benjamin Golub

What's that noise? It's all my money leaving me as I buy hundreds of these. - Rishabh Mishra (p248)

I've been buying the microbe ones for my gf, she's a microbiology grad student. She loves them. The particle ones aren't quite as fun, but still amusing. - xero

The Antiproton looks kinda like Meatwad. - April Buchheit

Higgs boson is the cutest anyway ) - Шнява Мункер

Very cute! - Mitchell Tsai

While they may be different colors and different shapes and even upside down and inside out, they are all made out of the same string. - Geoff Schultz

For you internet-based folks out there: http://www.newyorker.com/reporti... - Bret Taylor

He ran Comdex before the casinos. It would make anyone kind of nutty. But, yes, Sheldon does seem to make an art of nuttiness. - Mitch Ratcliffe