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Looks like part of a hamburger bun to me, Allen! - Louis Gray

Yay ketchup! It's fun when you're old enough to dip by yourself, huh, Matthew? - Trish Haley

It was his first time tasting ketchup and I'd say it was a success. - Kristine Gray

i think he will like chicken mcnuggets and honey - try that next time - Allen Stern

let's get dirty mom is there to take care of cleaning part :) - ffcode

One of our first pictures of our daughter - taken when she was much younger than Matthew or Sarah - was when her grandpa gave her a donut. The face was similarly messy...but she couldn't do it all by herself like Matthew did. - John E. Bredehoft

I WANT ONE! - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

GIMMEH - Mo Kargas

Demz for eatin', not sniffin', don't ya no? - Kurt Starnes

Now I have another problem. I IZ EATIN DEM ALL. PLEEZ SEND HALP. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

ILL HELPZ U EATS DEM - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

:D - Michael W. May

COOOOOOKAAAAAYYYYYSSSSS! OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Feast now, Little Jon - Mo Kargas

You look cute tonight, Jandy - RAPatton from iPhone

Tonight? Tonight? *grin* - Michael W. May

I need to get my hair cut SO BAD. I hate it right now. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Really? I think it looks good - RAPatton from iPhone

HATE. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

I <3 Jandy. - Derrick

No cookiehs? I haz a sad. - Danny Minick

I still haz cookiehs, Danny. But I'm taking them over to a friends' for Thanksgiving, so I probably won't have any after that. :) - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Yummers! - Helen Sventitsky

Reminds me of "wuffie" where personal reputation replaces monetary wealth in Cory Doctorow's DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM. - Liam Watts

I love that comic. Makes me chukle every time. - Roberto Bonini

Doctors are catching on to this and have slipped a "patient will not post online comments about doctor" clause into their standard forms. You don't even know you've agreed to it unless you read the whole thing, and who does that? - jjjobst

Desirable, but immensely difficult: how do you define a "person" for rank purposes? We are talking here about a huge collection of disparate things. And, what if, contrary to the online reputation, the real reputation sucks? - Nikos Anagnostou

Agree that we need a soltion for this but a Nikos touches upon is need to agree definitions of scope. Others male valid point also some further discussion and thinking required. - Najeeb Mirza

PersonRank tied to (possibly) OpenId anyone? ...Everytime I click „Like“ FF brain is assigning whuffie to the author of a message. - Mindaugas Dagys

Great analogy Liam. Loved that book. - dthree

Doesn't Googles Sentiment Analysis a step in the right direction? It infers sentiment to rank http://www.seobythesea.com/... and “service,” “value,” and “general comments.” Aspects are defined in one of Google’s papers on sentiment analysis as “properties of an object that can be rated by a user.” Unfortunately, Google is attempting to Patent this process. - Greg

Yup. This made me think of "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" too. If you haven't read it, it's worth it. - Chad McCoskey

I would say not desirable - relevance is highly relative when it comes to people, and frankly anything that ranks people by the noise they make online and how many people they can get to claim they are great... will produce the wrong kind of behaviour - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

I agree with Joelle, mostly. The exceptions would be for trolls and spammers -- it's too much work to be on a constant lookout for trolling, and I'd really like to have an automatic metric which would enable me to automatically filter out such rubbish. - Nathaniel Thurston

leo: yes indeed, and such a content filter would work well by taking into account the distance through the social graph between the author and each reader, rather than using a fixed measure of the author's reputation for all readers. - Bob Hitching from fftogo

Nathaniel - I might agree for spammers, but "trolls" are a difficult thing. Many game changing people were labelled troublemakers first, today we'd call them trolls... - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Hi Guys - I'm the author of the original article. One thing to keep in mind is that this system could be made topic sensitive. We'd be looking at total contribution/reputation for each person for a specific social graph relating to a specific topic. Is some ways this would be like mapping the Hilltop/HITS algorithms used in algorithmic text search to the social space. The similarity is... more... - Marshall Clark

The problem with any such measure is that some people will take it far too seriously - make it into something authoritative instead of something helpful - and some people will game it. I dont want to have to think about my "score" in any field and have to "work" in the way the score measure in order to be taken seriously - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Interesting post, I was just thinking today when reading about Listiti.com about how Twitter Lists plus this new form of "Track"/search on them can at least partially solve that problem: Just pick a reputable List, one that is large enough to create a thorough but vetted "universe of discourse" (e.g. Scoble's Tech-News-Brands with 500 entries). Then you're searching over that set, and not over the entire freaking Internet. This pretty much bypasses all of Google's PR machinations and their gaming by SEOs. - Alex Schleber

On SocialToo we're assigning a rank to people based on various points assigned by other people they come in contact (via follow, dms, etc). It has the potential to become this. - Jesse Stay

Yep eBay comes to mind A+++++ Quick operator will deal with again!!!!!!!!!111one - Phill Price from iPhone

alt text: "It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing." - Kevin Fox

I first saw this cartoon via Reader on my Droid! Couldn't see the alt text tho... - Rob Shillingsburg

The Droid has some nice parts to it but overall it sucks when compared to iPhone. - Robert Scoble

hero - siniradam

Ninja Squirrels. LOL - Jimminy Fuller

heeeeeeeeeEEEEE YAAAAHHHHH! - Mike Smith

Ok I have watched that like a dozen times in a row... thx for making me even less effective today. lol - Cody Heitschmidt

Oh! I was hoping to catch this in the theaters! House of Flying Squirrels, init? - James (!?)

hahah - Nicholas Kreidberg

full of win! - BEX

Matrix squirrels - Yolanda

More like Mortal Kombat ;) - Alejandro

That second squirrel don't play man. - ronin

this made my day! - Jim Is Not Smart

my wife even LOLd! - Jim Is Not Smart

:D - Josh Haley

Ok, that was funny. - Derrick

"The House of the Rising Ninja Squirrel in Mortal Kombat." Ebert gives this 2 thumbs up, I give it 5 nuts, un-shelled. It's much better on a d-up: SLOOOOOOW Motion kick! lol - Melanie Reed

Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

That might just be the best thing I've ever seen. - Gus Cuddy

Squirrels kick ass first and ask questions later. - Christopher Harley

I'm just going to watch it twelve more times... - Pete Delucchi

awesome! - Chieze Okoye

i'm crying that is so funny. - Mark Interrante

Oh my god!!! I literally laughed out loud! - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

Soft power, hard power... - Laurent

Double Team Attack - No Fair... Loved it! - Dave

Can't....Stop....Watching! - Heather

Chuck Norris squirrel kick. Lol! - Rick Cogley

is that the groundhog from catty shack? fur-fu. flying through the air? that looks more like a Bruce Lee squirrel to me ;) - echostreamer

*dead* - Dobromir Hadzhiev

destroyed in seconds - Sercan YILMAZ

I'm sitting at my desk at the office, so externally I'm supposed to be impassive. But inside I'm all ROTFL!!! - Brome

Obviously an exponent of Squirrel-Fu... - George Hall (Australia)

http://naurunappula.com/z... <- here is a closeup pic of the another squirrel - Jemm

pwned - Matt G

@BBCScotlandNews Grey squirrel threat to Highlands: Concerns are raised about the increasing progress north of grey squirrels as .. http://bit.ly/tVY9Y They should watch your video. ;) - Melanie Reed

It's like making out with Chester Cheetos.... Or so I've heard - RAPatton from iPhone

Does it color your lips radioactive orange? - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Eeewww. - Anne Bouey

oh that is foul.... - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Well, I guess people want orange powdery lips to match the fingers - Outsanity

I love eating Cheetos and can finish a bag by myself but I'd pass on the lip balm. - Paul from BuddyFeed

in honor of Brit Brit? - Anna Lynn M.

unlike! - Jennie Lin

I found Reeces-Pieces flavored lip balm in a drug store in Santa Barbara once. It made me concurrently disgusted and hungry for peanut butter at the same time. - Bill Strathearn

I saw someone like a coffee lip balm and thought that was cool. as well :) - Bindu Reddy

liking for being disgusting and a bad idea. - Joe Silence is not Santa

I've seen other flavors but this is ridiculous! - BEX

Gross! - Kimber Scott

Oooh, how about a HOT version? Now that would be cool. - Mark Krynsky

http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2... - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Chart is woefully incomplete without reference to Aliens (especially the queen) or Predator - LANjackal

The scientific accuracy of this chart is questionable. It looks like the Megatron silhouette is from the Transformer's cartoon. The 50 foot woman is crouching. And the line from Ghostbusters is "killed by a 100-foot marshmallow", which presumably doesn't include the hat. - Andy Bakun

In my head they were totally the wrong way around! I think they just got bigger the smaller I was! - Chris Lloyd

Yumy - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

oh boy.........but my teeth hurt just looking at it! - Re Zookeeper

If I ate a sliver of that, I'd go into cardiac arrest. - Matt Stoddard

What a cookie! O_O - Nia from fftogo

This just needs happen. - Carlton Hackett

pretty sure i could finish it. need a gallon of milk and a roll of paper towels tho... - Anthony Citrano

i'm with you on that one. i'd give it a bloody good go! - Darren Heydon

for me? - Caroline

of course ;) - Darren Heydon

can I have 2 please? :) - Sasha Kovaliov(.com)

Louis: did you get the leaked info? I didn't. Makes that decision easy! :-) - Robert Scoble

louis gray, too nice to be a cut throat publisher but still a really great guy :) - sean percival

I did not get the leaked info. But those that did are now publishing some of the details, and to share them on Google Reader seems like the wrong thing to do. I may share ValleyWag every once in a while, but I'll skip these. - Louis Gray

1UP LG. - Derrick

Sean, you don't have to be cut throat to do a good job. I say stand for something. - Louis Gray

Good for you. - Jenna Bilotta

Whoever has that stuff should drop it quickly like a red-hot potato, for what it's worth. But I don't see that happening any time soon, sadly. - Tyson Key

I admire your work ethics and probably would have done the same, myself. Still, after watching some of the leaked docs, TV show - was already known, future merchandise store - big deal lots of 3rd party companies already sell Twitter stuff, Premium accounts - not a secret we have SUL, GMAIL/GoDaddy accounts - haven't seen something unusual etc. Bottom line, I wouldn't publish a thing... more... - Nir Ben Yona

Good for you! I think that is a great decision. - Seek Ground from email

I had been wondering what your thoughts were. - Anne Bouey

Absolutely stand for something. I say it is a clear golden rule situation. Twitter could release such info if they choose to but if I received it I'd return it. If I were in the media I would definitely want to write about it but the line on not publishing said illegally obtained docs is clear and not grey. - Rick Cogley from iPhone

Much respect. - Colby

It is fun though to watch the ethical debate in TC's comments: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Colby

Colby, if you read the comments, and just do a search for "@arrington" to find Mike's comments, he is very level-headed about the situation and makes sense. I understand what he is doing, but am opting out of spreading the results. I was at a dinner with Mike on Monday and enjoyed the CrunchUp Friday, so this is not a personal issue in any way. I hope he makes smart decisions. - Louis Gray

Yes but he could end up in jail for this and that's not being level headed. - Thomas Power

Thomas, I am not a legal expert in this case, and think that there are some who are advising him, as well as his own background, so I would guess that is unlikely. - Louis Gray

bum - sofarsoShawn

"lol. if we only posted things that companies gave us permission to post this would be a press release site and none of you would be here. News is stuff someone doesn’t want you to write. The rest is advertising." -- Michael Arrington ...I think he's missing the point. - Christopher A Carr

Unless they were planning on throwing me a surprise party I think I can respect their privacy. Hint hint Twitter - Mark Essel from iPhone

Yeah I read Arrington's posts and can see his perspective but it seems like he is alienating his readerbase. I suppose that is only a small fraction of the readers though. It will be interesting to see how much they reveal, and if twitter pursues litigation (I assume they have the right...?) - Colby

Same here. I don't want to spread that nonsense. - Bwana ☠

Proud to know both of you! - jcunwired

hahaha! - vijay

*stares at vijay, throws back a...* hahaha. ha! - Micah Wittman

Micah, now we only need to put both our comments on a loop. :D - vijay

hahaha! - Micah Wittman

http://www.youtube.com/watch... Kermit - Chris Loft

bellissima, la condivido ;) - SiskaceskaB-InKLady©

Great one Chris :D - Mo Kargas

:D - Nimaa

WHY WON'T YOU STOP STARING AT ME - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

:D Booster seat! - martha

I can't stop coming back to this *looks toward Mo. grrrrr* - Micah Wittman

*halo* - Mo Kargas

Is Kermit out returning some video tapes? - Joe Pierce

kermitttt :) - Aykut Önen

gawwww! I'm back. again. :) - Micah Wittman

I love this. - anna sauce

"Slowly I turned..." - CAJ, somewhere else

Which Bale movie is that? - Jeremy Muncy

@Jeremy: Terminator: Salvation (the whole scene, I think) - Jemm

Pffffff. It's me again. Can't not stare. - Micah Wittman

Hahaha :) - Mo Kargas

I must be lame, I have no clue what this means :( - Yuvi

Yuvi, regarding the animated gif itself? Think of it as an XKCD bit, without a punch line :) - Micah Wittman

No, I thought it was a reference I wasn't getting? - Yuvi from IM

Ah. I personally keep coming back to this post. It draws me in, then I joke about it. Then I see it in My discussions feed as I'm scrolling along, so I stop once again. *loop* :-) - Micah Wittman

indeed it is a fun one to reference time and again, maybe not perfectly in line with Open Source but interesting nonetheless. - Ubuntu101 from IM

You mean the GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) itself? - Micah Wittman

Aaaaand I back. Got to see me some before I sign off for tonight. Ok, I'm good :) - Micah Wittman

These two need a buddy movie vehicle. *shakes head slowly* - Micah Wittman

I was thinking more like "Fast and the Furless". - Mo Kargas

Yes, expect maybe more of a Young Frankenstein meets Cannonball Run II. - Micah Wittman

Great idea, should have some hollywood buyers for that one...given the shite dribbling out of there of late - Mo Kargas

bump - anna sauce

can't...look...away - Louis Simoneau

:)) - گل باقالی

Another peek before signing off tonight. ahhh....that's better :) - Micah Wittman

*sigh* - Micah Wittman

There's been developments in this story. http://ff.im/4Tu1f - Christopher Harley

HAHAHA. - Jason Huebel

and whales? - Madhav Tripathi

whales are afraid of men - Jeremiah Owyang

WIN - Shey, Jamaican of FF

Just ask Ahab... - JA Castillo

explain? - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Just wait til Oprah and Ashton Kutcher get on here! - Sam Guzman

Without this 'toy' it is hard to sunstantiate ROI - Simon Rogers

what changes did you exactly make? - Menno te Koppele

Did scoble go to bed? Amazing. - Sam Guzman

Sam: no. I'm uploading photos. Then going to bed. - Robert Scoble

Um, I changed my FACEBOOK settings to be "for everyone." New settings that just were turned on in the past few days, as far as I can tell. - Robert Scoble

Are you not allowed any more Facebook friends? - Sam Guzman

I messed up and said "friendfeed" when I meant Facebook. Sam, yep, I have 5,300 people waiting to be my friend. I can't add more than 5,000. - Robert Scoble

Haha yeah I'm one of those people. I guess I'll become a facebook fan instead. - Sam Guzman

Oh and I don't get how you don't get spammed on your phone since you give the number our freely... - Sam Guzman

Sam: I just have started getting the first spam in the past week. I hear that multi level marketers are grabbing phone numbers off of Twitter and spamming them. - Robert Scoble

Sam: I have a system to weed out phone spammers, though. I don't accept calls from blocked caller IDs, for one. For two I hang up on any salesperson. - Robert Scoble

Gotcha. Do you get called by geek fans? - Sam Guzman

Sam: yeah, once in a while. Usually only after I post to call me, though. Real geeks are usually a little shy. - Robert Scoble

I've always promoted it as a super twitter. Get with the times ;-) - Keith Barrett

super twitter! - (jeff)isageek

Do you keep a separate Facebook for personal use because my family couldn't care less what I say re biz - Kathryn Martyn

Kathryn: Nope, I'm just one person and if anyone doesn't like it they can unfollow. :-) - Robert Scoble

Robert, my system is if they aren't in my phone book I let them leave a message. If they're some one I want to talk to later I add them to my phone book after they leave a message and call them back. Technically, I could probably get Google Voice to do this for me - I should set that up. - Jesse Stay

Robert: "Real geeks are usually a little shy' haha but true...hey, did you have your breakfast yet...hint hint - Myrna

If you search for Robert Scoble on Facebook you find some interesting things...you have a lots of fans, Robert (no surprise), some detractors (again, not really news-worthy) and then there's this group...http://www.facebook.com/group... :) I might join... - WorldofHiglet

WorldofHiglet: thanks, I didn't know about that group. Wonder why Maryam isn't a member? - Robert Scoble

More to the point, why is Alex a member?!? - WorldofHiglet

I'm also using FriendFeed like Twitter. Very cool experience. - ororodc

wow, i didn't know facebook was letting data out into the actual internet these days... - coffee

Sam: I see Oprah in another one of Robert's threads today! :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Or somone pulling her twitter feed into FF - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

It looks like that Twitter is really going mainstream- geeks no longer think it's cool - Tim Lai

What changes did you make? - Kevin Murray

The Everyone settings on Facebook were turned on at least a week ago, maybe two. I turned everything pretty much on that way, but way dismayed to note that I can't share my email address or phone number either Everyone. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

I actually never thought about Twitter when writing headlines. I usually just end up rewriting the headline anyway. Usually into a question. Why don't I just do that in the first place? Cuz I like to do stuff the hard way, that's why - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

I write my headlines for friendfeed. That way no one will read them. - Robert Scoble

Did Robert just type something? Because I don't see it. - Louis Gray

I write my headlines for my Mom. And other regular readers of my blog. If Google or Twitter likes the headlines, nice, if not, I don't care. - Bora Zivkovic

I am with Bora. Mine are targeted at friends and readers who might appreciate that particular headline. - Deepak Singh

I also don't import my blog RSS into Twitter - I don't like when others do it either. I don't see T as a broadcast place, but a conversation parlor. - Bora Zivkovic

*assumes the fetal position* - Bwana ☠

*epicfaceplam* - Roberto Bonini

OMG this is funny! which one do you like Louis?! :P - Susan Beebe