Are you kidding?! It's totally Blagojevich... I mean, its almost an unfair fight, since it's *really* Tony vs. Rod and the rabid animal on top of his head.
- .k.t.c.l.i.n.g.
this is a tough one. i think vince has it though. he looks like a former meth addict who's quick to cut the first person that crosses him. billy mays is a more of a bear type
- Cee Bee
Oh, I hear ya, Cee Bee. It really comes down to the rawboned guile and treachery of Vince over the absolutely cold and detached ultra-violence that I'm certain is part of Billy's darker side. I can't pick a winner but I'd say fit Billy with cestus and a mace and Vince with a trident and net combo.
- Christopher Harley
IT'S BILLY MAYS HERE WITH THE ASS-KICKER THREE THOUSAND! FOUR POWERFUL EXTERNAL APPENDAGES PUMP AT TREMENDOUS SPEED PUMMELING YOUR OPPONENT! AFTER YOUR DONE, THE BEARD PROVIDES THE CLEAN UP! ACT NOW...
- teh Dork Knight aka Kenny
this is the first time i have ever used a face pack and i never thought i could look this scary. no more face pack and i think its safe to say ill never pass as a goth :D
Whew!!! As I scrolled I thought this was the "how old do I look meme." my answer was "dead."
- Valley
lmao i definately agree with dead. it looks like im decaying so much that there is just a thin piece of skin before revealing a skull - i look toooooo pale
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
LOL Friday is good, but truthfully I still think you are a good looking lady. I don't lie when I think a lady has beauty, or is a hottie. And I am pickey on girls looks, I don't think every girl I see is a hottie.
- Colide81 (James)
so Toby are you sure i should take that as a compliment or are you comparing me to the present day person?? James Friday it is, 11am - you neeed your eyes sorting ASAP! but thanks very much, i'm blushing lol
- ♥ Stephiepooos ♥
Lol no problem! Yeah I do have a lazy eye, so I ussually just use one eye to see out of. ;0)
- Colide81 (James)
that's a compliment all day long, I was just being careful to make sure you knew the comparison was with the 1966 version not the 2008 scarecrow (lol yeah a touch harsh)
- Toby Graham
"The aptly named Transition takes a stab at bridging the gap between automobiles and airplanes. Some people call it a flying car. The company designing and selling the vehicle prefers the term "roadable aircraft.""
- Seth Greenblatt
from Bookmarklet
Omg! Lmfao! Rephrase #8 first time I ate a cucumber was in 2007! Still giggling! The crewroom is a large break room for flight attendants and pilots with black leather couches. No showers! :(
- Brandy Lea
Picked up a six pack of Schwepps tonic water while grocery shopping today. Got home and realized I forgot limes, so I went back for those. Tonight, it's Bombay Sapphire Gin and Tonic with extra lime slices while watching the game. Aaahhhh.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I wish I could stomach Tanqueray 10 but, since I can't (it gives me fierce hangovers), when I drink gin, I drink Bombay Sapphire.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If I could "like" this a thousand times, it still wouldn't be enough...
- Far
Would you like another? Why yes, that would be lovely. An extra lime? Sure, I would love another lime wedge. Are you talking to yourself on FriendFeed? Well, I guess I am.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Would rather have a little vermouth and olive juice, as well as ice and olives, in my Bombay Sapphire.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I haven't a clue. I've never made a good martini, and don't know what people are using when they make good ones for me. The vermouth I have is extra dry.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I did sweet the other night, but I think I will be picking up a bottle of dry.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
I will sometimes commit the sacrilege of having a little chunk of ice in my martini because we make big martinis and I can't drink it fast enough for it to stay super cold. Also sometimes use a cocktail onion AND an olive. Had one of these yesterday - I LOVE those cocktail onions. Made up for the mediocre gin we had to use.
- Laura Norvig
This might sound insane, but... Friendfeed... change your name. After delightedly using FF for quite some time now and recommending it to friends (some who got addicted, others who simply went "huh?!"), I've come to feel the service is really NOT ABOUT FRIENDS.
Maybe it's just how you're [not] using the service. I consider about 85% of the people I'm subscribed to as friends and would offer them a sofa to sleep on if they needed it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Is this going to turn into a duplicate of the "logo looks unprofessional" thread?
- Andy Bakun
You know Apple, Inc. doesn't really sell apples, right?
- Mark Trapp
I'm actually *friends* with fewer than 10% of the people I'm subscribed to/from here. I bet for Louis Gray, it's more like 1%. People subscribe to people they find *interesting*; that's why the no-reciprocity-required "friend" system of FF rocks. But the name is a misnomer, and it confuses & upsets potential FF'ers. Several of my real friends have tried but quit FF because "none of my friends are on it!"
- Adam Lasnik
The word "friends" says it's about people. "InterestingFeed" doesn't seem to have the same kind of socialness to it.
- Andy Bakun
When I explained to one of them, no, no, it's not like Facebook, it's not "keeping in touch" with people, it's finding cool and fun and useful stuff from *people you find interesting*, then she got it (and stuck with FF). "FRIENDfeed" creates unrealistic and, IMHO, plain inaccurate expectations. Dunno what you should rename FF to, but I seriously think you *should* rename it. And you know what? The name (with its expectation) initially really frustrated me, too.
- Adam Lasnik
I tried to use facebook but there are very few faces and even fewer books. What about facefeed or feedspace?
- Andy Bakun
heh, damn, you all are too fast! FF either needs bigger text blocks for those of us who have more to say on a subject, or some of us (ahem, me) need to learn to be more succinct :P.
- Adam Lasnik
I'm with Akiva. All these folks who post interesting stuff are now officially my "friends". What's in a name, anwyays?
- Laura Norvig
Akiva, that's fascinating (that you're actually close with so many people on here). Maybe I'm just too detached. But -- particularly when trying to get non-geek friends into FF -- I have seriously encountered this problem repeatedly. One of them even commented that "I don't want online friends. I have enough real friends" and while that came across as a bit brusque, I can understand her point.
- Adam Lasnik
I've been mildly teasing a friend of mine about how lame his Facebook updates are ( http://friendfeed.com/mutantn... ). The stuff on FF is much more interesting, no matter what the name is. Do sump pump updates really draw people into Facebook?
- Andy Bakun
You know, I've been on Facebook and they have more than faces there. I've seen photos of entire people. They should change their name.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Everyone on here is my Friend. They give me their opinions on stuff and answer my questions. It is a 'Friend' feed. Besides, this conversation is a waste of time. They won't change their name because already to many people know it by the name
- Tyler (Chacha)
I agree with Horst. Content is King. It is impossible though, not to interact, share and connect with the friendly people here at FriendFeed. Mark, perhaps Apple Inc sometimes sells lemons?
- Chris Loft
I totally agree in spirit... Facebook should be Friendbook and FriendFeed should be PeopleFeed or one of the first names "Simplist". FriendFeed is powerful because you follow ideas and interests, not "friends". I don't consider many people on FF "friends" and that's perfectly fine.
- Steve Isaacs
PeopleFeed? Soylent Data is PEOPLE!
- Andy Bakun
from IM
Consider that, as a participant in FriendFeed, the "friend" is because you are being a friend, not because other people are your friends. Golden rule and all. FF is a publishing and aggregation platform first, a consumption platform second (or these are at least on equal footing). Does FF support lurkers (pure consumption), or would they be better off lurking somewhere else?
- Andy Bakun
from IM
Bodybook? RandomPeopleWithContentFeed? Neither quite have the same ring to them...
- Tyson Key
What about del.icio.us? You can't eat it, so you don't know if it's delicious. Flickr has static pages that don't flicker, too. ;)
- Tyson Key
Google doesn't have a gooey center. I want my money back.
- John Craft
I think I should have opened with a less radical premise. But I'm disappointed that I either failed in communication or there's a kneejerk ignoring of one of my core points. Outside the geek-o-sphere, people who join FF (from my experience) *find few or no friends here*. Their friends are on Facebook. And, more importantly, in meatspace. They don't want online friends. I would like FF to find a way to compellingly speak to and invite and support these folks to make FF a richer place for all of us.
- Adam Lasnik
What about Google? It didn't leave a slimy mess everywhere, last time I used it. In all seriousness, FriendFeed is fine, and it sounds good.
- Tyson Key
So then they should get their friends on FF. When I joined Facebook, not many of my friends were on it because it was a new service. Same when I joined Myspace, Twitter, YouTube, Friendster..Your core point is a moot one.
- Mattie Kenny
I'm with matsie. Spread the word. Annoyed with kisses from vampires and being poked on facebook? Want a more serious online interaction? Try friendfeed. Use the different services on the internet like you always have, but have everything show up in one easy to find and navigable place. There's a whole internet out there, friendfeed will help you find it, and you'll help others find it.
- Andy Bakun
from IM
My. Friends. Are. Not. Geeks! At least not the ones I'm emphasizing here. They don't have 42 accounts online, a Flickr, a Posterous, a Whazhoodat etc. etc. etc. To them, Twitter is something a bird does. I want them to understand that there's interesting stuff to see, learn, talk about here, without them feeling obligated to sign up for other services, share a ton with strangers, etc. I think I'm fighting SSB (Severe Selection Bias) in this conversation <sigh>.
- Adam Lasnik
I don't have anyone on here that is really my friend. I mean I don't feel I connect very strongly with anyone, but I still love friendfeed. I know someday my friends will care about Friendfeed, just like it took time for them to care about Myspace, FaceBook and so on. I think of my self as a pioneer among my friends. I venture into the areas they won't go cause I know one day they will follow and I can tell them about the things that are so new to them. I'm already a native friendfeed user.
- Colide81 (James)
Adam, I think you're finding that line between FriendFeed the service and FriendFeed the community. The problem, imho, is that in essence FF has become an enhanced BBS or newsgroup of sorts. The community aspect took off, yet the service itself has almost become secondary to that... (notice for instance how the most popular posts are almost always done manually and not automatic... people almost skip the automatic ones now because the problem of "the noise" was never defeated).
- Ňicķ
FriendFeed is a fun place for those who get into it and join the flow of these dispersed strangers who happen to be forming an online community here, but it is, sadly, not a easy life-enhancing service for the uninitiated.... (the real tragedy is that anything you can do on FF you can pretty much do on Facebook.... but not vice versa)
- Ňicķ
Okay, so if FF doesn't appeal to people who consider Facebook to be The Internet®, what can be changed to bring them into the fold? Agreed Adam, the stereotypical facebook user doesn't have accounts on different internet sites. In that case, FF doesn't offer them much out of the box. This is, in my mind, not a deficiency with FF. In the same way that a hammer doesn't offer a way to tighten screws, but no one makes claims that they should. Different tools.
- Andy Bakun
Okay, many good points here :). Perhaps, as you're suggesting, Andy, I'm trying to nail my friends...er, I mean, pound my square friends into a round role, um, you get my point. Maybe, as much as I enjoy FF, I have to realize that 1) it's not for everyone. 2) my definition of "friends" may be indeed different than others' definition :)
- Adam Lasnik
I will agree that if your friends, or anyone, isn't on friendfeed, they are squares (L7, baby), yes. That's what we need: peer pressure. Peer pressure has seemed to work so far for me to get people onto FF, but it is an uphill battle against the likes of facebook (and the facebook sump pump updates).
- Andy Bakun
I think it's bad to frame this as a FF vs. FB battle. They're both very different, IMHO, serving not only different people, but different interests. I like them both, and view them as complementary, not substitutional.
- Adam Lasnik
I merely have been using FB, and twitter, as wellknown stand-in names for the stereotypical services that compete for mindshare with FF, acknowledging the fact that most people will only use one service/account regularly, and a lot of the people (not all) that are on those two services would actually get significant benefit from switching to FF.
- Andy Bakun
from IM
Friendfeed is a bit complicaated when you are starting out, I don't think many 'non-geeky' type of people would quickly fall in love with it.
- Frederick Bvalani
from IM
@Adam If you're friends aren't geeks and they don't use multiple services than FF is pretty useless to them so why are you even pressing this issue? There is absolutely no reason for FF to change it's name. It's a community to aggregate your various feeds and build relationships through conversation on those feeds. You can build a relationship with someone you know IRL or someone new who you have only encountered on the site. Either way you're building relationships, FRIENDSHIPS, if you will.
- Mattie Kenny
relationshipfeed sounds like a dating site for lonely, hungry singles.
- Andy Bakun
from IM
@Andy Which is exactly why it's called Friendfeed. The "friend" connotates a positive relationship built through the service. That's why it's not Enemyfeed or Blockfeed. I don't even understand why we are discussing this. I feel like this is the most ludicrous message left in FF Feedback in a WHILE.
- Mattie Kenny
Blockfeed. Nice. I used to hang out on a MUD called Zen, where you could just connect and contemplate the universe, there was never anyone there but you, it was peaceful, and quiet, no one to bother you.
- Andy Bakun
from IM
@Andy Sounds nice. Very peaceful. haha.
- Mattie Kenny
The annoying thing about the name is it come out of the keyboard as freindfeed too often.
- Peter
Nadia, you should go to Wordpress, and if you can host it on your own site, so you can have more control.
- Shevonne
Thanks you guys for your input, I am looking to combine website and blog together and both domains to point to website. I am in the middle of changing website as I am not thrilled with the Template I am using, thinking of using http://www.mrsite.com/ can anyone tell me why word press is better specifically. Thanks.
- Nadia Harper
So I should use wordpress? I had been using blogger.
- orionstarr
Wordpress + passion + writing skill and voicel + daily updates = blog win
- Tony
Thanks for your advice guys, I will check it out.
- Nadia Harper
No one likes an update-slow blog. AwkwardthingsIsaytogirls.com was a great blog by a funny guy until he stopped posting halfway through a story. Eventually I gave up and don't even bother to check it for updates now.
- Amanda
Hey Nadia, I suggest you to check WooThemes they give a few great WP theme for free http://tinyurl.com/6kfw5d, just click on Free on the top menu
- Mert Erkal
Thanks for all of your help, I guess what I am asking is, what can wordpress do that other blogs cannot ?
- Nadia Harper
Well my misc blog is on blogger and so is my "workout blog" I've considered wordpress for future blogs since I see it is more widely used and seems to have more features and templates available. Blogger is very easy though to.
- orionstarr
What I have observed is that many bloggers start with Blogger because it is easy but if they get successful or more serious about it or want more control over their design they move to WordPress. If you want something super easy, though, you might check out BlogHer.
- Laura Norvig
If you start with blogger or wordpress.com then remember that if your blog develops a good pagerank and good rankings in the search engines then you will lose that if you move it to your own domain because your pagerank will belong to blogger etc... Might not be as important as it first appears, but it is worth setting up your own domain IMO
- Rob Cooke
Start by choosing a topic that you are very interested in and that people are willing to spend money/time reading about.
- Micheal Savoie
Get a domain first, then hosting, then install wordpress in the cpanel through fantastico... then you can upload... themes, plugins and widgets... those 3 things make it really amazing!
- David
Out of Seth's creations, I have to say I prefer American Dad... Family Guy is a great sketch show, I just wish they would realise it is one and stop trying to pretend that it has a plot. American Dad however is a fantastic animated sitcom with much more fleshed out characters and each episodes plot is well defined and developed.
- alphaxion
Very cool to see so many likes and comments around this beer on Friendfeed! Brooklyn Brewery is also coming out with an amped up version of this now! (even more of a sipper because its been aged in bourbon? barrels for a year). A bit more pricy though probably worth it.
- beersage