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What Do You Call a Carbonated Soft Drink? [US regional differences; enlarge map] - http://bigshottexas.blogspot.com/2009...
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Pop
- Tyson Key
I have seen this before and find it fascinating especially the parts of the country where it's referred to as a Coke. What happens if you want a Pepsi or a Sprite?
- Kenton
Heh, good question, Kenton
- Tyson Key
It's always called a 'Coke' regardless of what the beverage actually is. At least that's how it is/was with my country Southern relatives.
- Derrick
But Derrick what I don't get is if you are in a restaurant that serves many different things, how would you order? I can see it if you go to someone's house and they say what do you want and you say Coke, you get what they have, but the restaurant part confuses me.
- Kenton
Strange but true: I checked http://popvssoda.com as part of my job interview preparations before taking this job in Memphis back in 2005.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
the same thing that happens when you call facial tissues Kleenex but you refer to a product other than Kleenex. it's not terribly complicated :). i call it soda-pop, which may be due to an unhealthy exposure to the Outsiders as a child. @Kenton in an environment where it's Coke, you would likely be asked what type in that situation, just as you would if you said you'd like a soda-pop and there was more than one type available.
- jocoda
Kenton, they'd say they wanted a Coke, then the waiter/waitress would say what kind, then they'd say root beer, 7Up, whatever afterwards. I always just asked for iced tea.
- Derrick
LOL Derrick, that sounds like the safe thing to do.
- Kenton
I always say "soda" in hopes of avoiding the "you asked for Coke but all we have is Pepsi, is Pepsi OK?" question because I am happy drinking whichever. They always ask though, so I guess I need a new gambit. Worse, my parents like to pull out the old "were you raised by Yankees?!" when I say "soda" in their presence.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Anyone know what an "other" might be?
- Frank Senseney
Frank: soft drink, fizzy, and cola come to mind.
- Mark Trapp
Restaurants work the same way here, at least in Texas. The waitress takes your drink order, and you tell her what you want. No one here says "coke" generically, to a waitress. If the waitress asks me what I want to drink and I want Dr. Pepper, I say, "Dr. Pepper." However, in casual conversation, "coke" means soft drink here and when someone wants a soft drink, we say "I want a coke."
- Trish R
I WANT A LITER OF COLA: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Fizzy lifting drinks!
- Yolanda
I think I say "soda." It's hard to say, because I generally call my beverage "DVC" (The right initials never stuck in my head when I switched from Diet Vanilla Coke to Vanilla Coke Zero, besides, VCZ is not as cool to say). I rarely ever use a generic term. My country-deepsouthern relatives say "pop."
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Why are people using the terms "country" and "southern" as meaning the same thing?
- Trish R
Here in Australia they are usually called soft drinks or fizzy drinks, as opposed to beer which if often called "piss". "Let's have a piss-up, who's going to get the piss?" Classy eh?
- jjprojects
The widespread emergence of using a specific brand of soda to refer to all types when many different types are vastly different from each other puzzles me. You can compare it to Xerox, but on the other hand you get the same result from a Xerox copy machine and a Lexmark copy machine while there's a drastic difference between Sprite, Coke, Dr. Pepper, et al. Reading the above comments I see how it's used, but how it's used seems like a waste of time to me.
- Tom Harrison
Pop is Michigan
- bcultral
Pop. When I lived in Georgia it was soda.
- Itachi
The blog you cite is for invited readers only.
- John P
"Tonic" is one of the "others" in Massachusetts.
- John P
YouTube - Jones' Good Ass BBQ & Foot Massage - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Meet Toby Jones'. He Offers the best barbecue and foot massage services on earth!"
- Brad Williamson
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filed under the WTF posting for the day....
- Peter Ghosh
You probably missed Wakoopa's report on state of apps, but it's a great place to find new stuff to try. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
【无声胜有声】, Daniel Rowley, Hutch Carpenter and 26 other people liked this
I keep coming back to this report and keep finding cool new things to try. Anyone else do reports like this on what people are using? Yes, it's biased toward early adopter types, but that's OK cause that's what I am looking for anyway.
- Robert Scoble
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I just leave it running, dont often think about it being up there doing its things. 'So far simonwicks has used 431 different applications for 1548 hours in total' Maybe i should make more use out of it and see what apps it recommends some time :)
- Simon Wicks
When your tweet links here instead of the original item I find myself (at 2:50AM and no I don't f'n appreciate it) wondering if Twitter is stupid, or FriendFeed is stupid, or mebbe both and you exploit that.
- Bernard (ben) Tremblay
Bernard: maybe I wanted to have a conversation with you.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter is a stupid place to have a conversation with someone. Plus, over on Twitter I can't post a photo, I can't write more than 140 characters. I can't bundle up a thread into one permalink. I can't filter spam out of search. Etc Etc Etc.
- Robert Scoble
Hah, Ben called me "incorrigible." http://twitter.com/bentrem
- Robert Scoble
A few surprises in there, who would have thought that Opera is more used then Word
- Asgeir
Except the screenshots I don't seem to find the real report anywhere. Am I missing something?
- Alex Popescu
thats what I wanted to see, thanks Robert
- Mark Essel
Holy Shit, FriendFeed is in the top 10 web apps, 2.45% to Twitter's 4.42% and Mike still doesn't think it has a chance or anybody is using it?
- Stephen Pickering
Stephen it's 2.45% of the folks that use wakoopa, may take a bit for wakoopa to get more of an average sampling (it'll probably be mostly a techy sharing tool)
- Mark Essel
re-reading the Cluetrain Manifesto. My, how things have not really moved on :)
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Smores Panini - http://www.tastespotting.com/detail...
David Cook - 2010!!!, Daniel J. Pritchett, Bob Hazlett and 3 other people liked this
"The best thing since sliced bread? Quite possibly the s'mores panini."
- AJ Kohn
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WANT. NOW.
- grant fox
Brad Williamson to Brad's feed, Media News and Analysis, Social Media, Social Media Club, Music Business, RWW: The Future of Tech
'$5 Cover': MTV's new media and music franchise | The Big Picture | Los Angeles Times - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big...
Bob Hazlett, Helen Sventitsky, 拓 | wavesand and 2 other people liked this
""$5 Cover" isn't typed so easily, perhaps because it has so many separate but complementary components. The main Web component of the series offers 15 digital episodes, each six or seven minutes long, only loosely chronological, that follow the romantic entanglements and career ups and downs of a group of Memphis musicians as they haunt bars, clubs and cafes. MTV will air a half-hour packaged version of three episodes each week during a five-week run on the network."
- Brad Williamson
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NOTE: If you like this article, make sure to join the "Media News And Analysis" group... http://friendfeed.com/media-n...
- Brad Williamson
This sounds like a great example of transmedia storytelling
- Brad Williamson
FFFFOUND! - http://ffffound.com/image...
Rob Michael (Atmos Trio), Onur Gündüz, Jeff and 26 other people liked this
I has a hotdog?
- Christian (Simply X)
The sweet little guy doesn't even seem phased by this. too cute!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Needs more ketchup.
- Louis Gray
Epic!
- Josh Haley
I had one of those today, I mean.....no I didn't.
- Matthew
Hehe.
- Kol Tregaskes
Strawberry Muffins with Cinnamon Sugar - http://www.tastespotting.com/detail...
Bob Hazlett, Vicky, Dee S. and 4 other people liked this
Ummmmmmmmm!
- Jim Connolly
yes please!
- Dee S.
Use The Gifts You're Given - http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_e...
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great visualization gift!
- michael sean wright
@graywolf I'm going to install http://yoast.com/wordpre... as soon as I can upgrade my layout. You should try it
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50 iPhone Wallpapers for Design Lovers & AppStorm - http://mac.appstorm.net/roundup...
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14 Incredibly Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets - http://delimitdesign.com/design...
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Twitter is like paused friendfeed without comments. Without likes. Without play in line YouTube videos and flickr photos. :-)
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But who actually uses the twitter interface, Robert/
- Alec Saunders
I like the old FriendFeed's speed, with the new FriendFeed design. The old FriendFeed auto-updated, but not nearly as fast.
- Jesse Stay
that is just the right statement. Too much focus on 120 chars. Time to move on
- Vivek Puri
Do you remember, well... jaiku? :)
- Claudio Cicali ♋
But who actually uses Twitter on the web, Robert? Everyone I know uses tweetdeck
- Alec Saunders
I use the Twitter web site often, as a complement to twitter clients both desktop and mobile.
- Odi Kosmatos
Alec, i do. Why? I hate tiny EXEs taking up memory that my IDE needs
- Vivek Puri
Twitter is like Friendfeed with all your friends instead of just a few...
- Stephen Foskett
FriendFeed is like Facebook without the Apps
- Eli Juicy Jones
Is there a way to collapse the comments once you've opened them?
- Pete Smith
simran, mms might have failed cause all phones are not mms compatible
- Vivek Puri
LOL! the way I tend to use twitter, it's nothing BUT comments and likes.. just not any good threading unless you have peoplebrowsr (and even then)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It's not paused because Tweetdeck, etc. can refresh automatically. It has RTs instead of likes. I agree a client needs to implement inline YouTube/Flickr/etc. but these are client issues. FriendFeed client may be superior to Twitter's web client but there are other Twitter clients out there.
- Aral Balkan
Ooh, that said you can *edit* your stuff... oooh, now that I like :)
- Aral Balkan
no one uses the twitter website Robert. I actually like having a second client open to monitor things but that's me
- Seth Goldstein
Twitter doesn't have like but it has a favourite option. If spreading the word is the objective there is always an RT =D By the way, I have been using twitter website more since the new design rolled out.. feel snappier than before esp. when shuttling betw @mentions and home
- | Balu |
We're definitely intrigued by the convergence of the Friendfeed and Twitter (and new Facebook) UIs and the implications for usability and user conventions. First thoughts here: http://bit.ly/4muyzM
- CDG Interactive
@vivek, all phones did not introduce mms capability because the takup rate was abysmal! not all phones were SMS enabled when SMS came out!
- simran
@simran, SMS was made part of the GSM standard 24 years back. And current use of SMS is not what it was intended for. For more, you always have wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Vivek Puri
I am thinking that if know one uses the Twitter web interface then it's going to be a tough monetization unless they start charging a licensing fee for the API.
- JP Holecka - Jaypiddy
But honestly...does it even really matter? After all having the best product has next to nothing to do with whether or not you have a dominant product in terms of marketshare.
- Devlin Dunsmore
I hope FriendFeed is not trying to be the next Twitter/Facebook and stays aware of it's core-feature which was (imho) a quick & dirty way of getting good discussions running.. I don't need real time updates of everything.. HEEEEEELP!
- Dan van Moll
looooooooooooooooooool Everyone is freaking out without toying with the lists I think!!! haha This is a funny day online.
- Aaron S
I wish Friendfeed had a "dislike" button too. (Not for this post, but others...)
- Kevin Trotman
... and this is what I like about Twitter.
- Benedikt Koehler
my thoughts - http://beta.friendfeed.com/dffrnt... :)
- vijay
Alec, I actually use Twitter.com itself and Tweetdeck. Alot of users do that too.
- Nicholas James
try wordster: http://www.mrwiggleslovesyou.com/rehab50...
- frank (francesco)
You mean it's not paused? ;)
- Joe Dawson
Yeah, seriously using the Twitter website for Twitter is like driving a car out of the factory with just wheels bolted to the engine, nothing else. The API is there but you're only getting the bare magic without the proper experience.
- Glenn Batuyong
But, I keep going back to the twitter web interface. It's a matter of critical mass of something something.
- Mike Nayyar
@vivek ... case in point... people transform technologies to be useful... they have done so with twitter, they will do so with ff... being part of the GSM spec means nothing... handsets had to support it and support for it grew after a lont time and bitwise... look at the practical uses, not theoretical papers, if you want to understand trending (as opposed to "possibility").
- simran
Social Camp Memphis http://vimeo.com/3216979 See you there on March 7 # @socialcampmem #socialmem http://www.socialcampmemphis.com/
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Is it just me or does nothing else scream 'potential fail' quite like a Dollar Store home pregnancy test.
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uhm, gonna have to go with you on that one. oooph.
- ♥patricia♥
Hey. They work!
- Admiral Anika
Affordable fail?
- Mitch
actually, they have more potency than the expensive ones... the expensive ones bank on you going back to buy another one because you're sure that the throwing up and all means your preggers, but the brand name ones don't detect pregnancy until later than the dollar pregnancy store ones... at least, that's what my friend said and she has five kids and had like a dozen miscarriages.
- Trish Haley
Now dollar store condoms -- I think that is a potential fail.
- Brian Sullivan
Yes, the dollar store pregnancy test gave me 5 positives with my son ( I was in denial). I went and wasted money on the brand name one, it gave me 2 negatives because they can only gauge after a certain time.
- Admiral Anika
Everything is made in Asia now-a-days. No offense to their workers; what matters more is not who's selling it, but who's making it.
- Mitch
Maryam says the cheap tests work but that when it said yes she went and got an expensive test to make sure.
- Robert Scoble
Wow, Anika, I think I saw an episode of A Different World that must have inspired you. I think Whitley stopped at 11 tests.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
The dollar store tests are pretty popular on pregnancy boards and from what I hear they are some of the most sensitive out there.
- Heather Solos
Uh...I took more and more. I was convinced there was NO WAY I could be pregnant. But the pregnancy tests are just strips you dip. So there was like 5 in a pack. http://www.mrstest.com/product... The $$$ brand name ones can only detect after a missed period.
- Admiral Anika
Anika if you were convinced there was no way -- why would you even think to try a test?
- Brian Sullivan
I was pregnant, who said logic was involved? :)
- Admiral Anika
Ah yes - hormones are a powerful force.
- Brian Sullivan
lol Anika :)
- Nicholas Kreidberg
And that was a pretty flippant answer, Brian. You have no idea how much I never want to be pregnant ever again. So I still test. I will randomly test just to make sure. Long story short: What started as an April's Fools Day joke came around and bit me in the ass.
- Admiral Anika
strange you say this: i said the exact same thing when i saw condoms at the dollar store last night.
- mike fabio
Anika -- I think I know how you feel -- my wife and I are well past that but her immediate thought after our second was to send me out looking for a urologist.
- Brian Sullivan
That's just not the place to skimp.
- Martha
NYT says A-Rod's microexpressions in 07 told the whole story - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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When it takes multiple searches to find something in my GMail history I forward it back to myself with the failed search terms for next time
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So I guess I'm tagging my own mailbox for future benefit.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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