"“It’s a dead business,” said John Dillard, who pioneered the commercial farming of catfish in the late 1960s. Last year Dillard & Company raised 11 million fish. Next year it will raise none. People can eat imported fish, Mr. Dillard said, just as they use imported oil.
As for his 55 employees? “Those jobs are gone.”" - edythe via Bookmarklet
Given the state of energy and transport costs, which will only continue to rise, it surprises me that this is not turning around. - Michael W. May
It's starting to get to the point where the idea of wrapping a metaphorical towel around my face and pretending that nothing exists but me, my friends and the people I find interesting. Everything else just seems to spell "DOOM!" - Dan Kaplan
"Keith King, the president of Dillard & Company, calculates that for every dollar the company spends raising its fish, it gets back only 75 cents when they go to market." I'm not sure if transport costs are factored into this, but domestic producers have to transport their goods also. - Ontario Emperor
I remember when I first arrived on the Reed College campus in August 1979. "Rock Lobster" was BLASTING out of one of the windows in the Old Dorm Block. In retrospect, the end of the song drags a little. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
Today? I think just two? (Checks can and shakes to find second one half full) - Louis Gray
Louis - what was your sport growing up? Surely something with hand/eye. - Hutch Carpenter
I got 194. I am merely 0.92 Louis Grays. :-( - Mark Trapp
@Hutch: Going back far enough it was cross country and track (mostly 5k-15k stuff). Also played soccer and baseball. Spent hours out back hitting driveway gravel with the wooden softball bat until it had chips everywhere. - Louis Gray
Dude. mwm ftw. I only have it on cassette. Albeit the second cassette since I wore out the first one. - Lisa L. Seifert
whoa dude you're takin' me back. i think that was like the first video i ever saw on MTV. definitely liked it way back when. - Anthony Citrano
"The song was initially called 'Morning Lasted All Day' but was changed when Paul Simon commented to Nick (to whom he was giving guitar lessons) that it wasn't a very good title." [wikipedia] - Anthony Citrano
An additional comment (I'm mobile at the moment): could it be that the third party apps that wither and die are the apps that themselves are not blessed by a sound business plan? For example, I could conceive of a service that searched for tweets that mentioned both Milli Vanilli and Slim Whitman. If I had to pay for API access, I could argue that my creativity had been stifled. But if I had chosen a project which interested consumers, and for which data existed, perhaps the money to fund API access could be found. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
@Carlotta fancypants...Best in Show FTW!!!! - Anna Haro
As an employee of said company, I completely resent these com....oh who am I kidding, they're funny as hell! The Best in Show clip hit all the stereotypes in less than 2 min! LOL!!! FTW, indeed... - Live4Soccer
Stanford historian Steve Blank on "The Secret History of Silicon Valley" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... When you go to the Computer History Museum (highly recommended), the earliest machines were all military in nature. - Jason Wehmhoener
The first one that pops into my mind is military, starting with the Internet itself. - Ontario Emperor
The commercialization of military technology. - Andrew Smith
Military.For those who haven't seen it, here's a tour around the Computer History Museum with Gordon Bell (the guy who started the museum). http://www.google.com/search?h... - Robert Scoble
Otherwise. I think it's built into the way the technology works. Military interests were absolutely a useful bootstrap, but Moore's Law is unique. Boots and parachutes and helicopters are also the recipients of a lot of interest by the military, but you don't see them getting twice as effective every 18 months. - ⓞnor
Yah, where are my seven league boots, anyway? nor has a point, but I think "useful bootstrap" is a bit of an understatement. - Jason Wehmhoener
the military invents all kinds of things; the humble M&M was invented for/by the military for field rations, hence the melt in your mouth not in your hands - RAPatton
Not Amazon - they've got too much going on. - Hutch Carpenter
Hmm...They are all too big. They would do the acquiring :P I wouldn't expect any of them to go under, unless eBay keeps pissing of its customers and stops innovating. But they have enough cash to afford to make lots of mistakes. :) I do think that they will sell Skype soon though. - Hao Chen
Craigslist will go under before it becomes acquired, but that will probably be after eBay gets acquired. It's too important/big to go under. Also, eBay: can we get an updated design please? 1998 called and it want its colors back. - Benjamin Kudria
and not yahoo, though not on your list, and not a popular opinion ... - gregory lent
eBay has a stake in Craigslist. They are even suing Craigslist. lol - Hao Chen
I ran through my cafe punch card and was eligible for free coffee this morning. Normally, I always get the smallest size because it's all I need. She offered me a larger size and, without hesitation, I shrugged and said, 'Sure, why not?' This is far more coffee than I needed or even wanted but here I am with it. - Akiva Moskovitz
One of our biggest enemies is greed (but I'll be more than happy to absorb the coffee :) - Charlie Anzman
Underlying motivation - if you turn down something for free, even if you don't need or want it, you are perceived as stupid. By the way, I'm selling a printed collection of all of my 2008 blog posts for US$1,000,000 - but I'll throw in printed copies of my 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2003 blog posts ***AT NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE!*** How can you turn that down? - Ontario Emperor
Upsize it is our motto. If I type in all caps, does this mean I get to speak for the whole world? - Mathew A. Koeneker
When my girlfriend was new to living in China, she asked a friend to teach her how to say "I'm an American, and I don't speak Chinese" but she got the pronunciation wrong. She found out later that she'd been saying "I am America and you are a camel" to people for several weeks. - Jason Wehmhoener
No wonder all the good .me domain names are already taken. - Morton Fox
You have to be careful of these folks when they give you restaurant recommendations. I've sent some to great restaurants only to have them say 'the portions were too small' Response: *eyeroll* - AJ Kohn
uhhh, did you say I could have seconds of that cherry pie? - Thomas Hawk
Oh. And Plurk *is* down. But you can check out http://plurkrastination.com for my latest Plurks....except that plurkrastination.com goes down when Plurk does. Suckers. - Tamar Weinberg
Jamie, it's a smaller community *for sure* but they are *very* engaged. Check out my assessment: http://www.techipedia.com/2008... and one at Search Engine Guide: http://www.searchengineguide.c... - Personally, I *love* the community-building within Plurk. The UI takes getting used to, but I have made some really good friends there. - Tamar Weinberg
You can share your Plurk RSS with FriendFeed and works. - Albert
I can't access my Plurk RSS feed right now. But I do know that the folks behind FriendFeed are planning on incorporating Plurk into the next batch of updates. - Tamar Weinberg
The other concern I have about Plurk RSS integration is if it gets too noisy, people will likely filter out *all* my RSS content here on Friendfeed, and there's a lot non-Plurky RSS stuff. Thus, it would be nice to treat it as a standalone feed with separate rules. - Tamar Weinberg
If you're sending the same updates to Twitter and Plurk, you'll end up with a noisy FriendFeed.(once they'll support Plurk) - Orli Yakuel
Tamar, we know you're crazy. But that's just begging for a preemptive "Hide". - Louis Gray
