Does that really what atheist extremists do ? Talk about space, aliens or parallel worlds and stuff ? or this is clearly a manipulation ? and Hey check out PKK please :) The idea behind this organization is practically based on marksism & leninism so that makes them atheist as well, right ? correct me if I'm wrong. So what they do? They bomb and kill innocent people in Turkey , does not even matter if they are babies, youngsters or women.
- mcd
Seems if this was a equal opportunity parody, the Aethists would be bombing nativity scenes and Christmas trees ;)
- Johnny
from iPhone
Except I haven't heard of atheists bombing either of those things.
- ronin
I think they just throw barbed wit and strongly worded missives.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Atheists are too busy doing important things like scrubbing blessings off of highways.
- Akiva
Rene, PKK does not represent all Kurdish community in Turkey and yes, most of the kurdish people are not atheist, I agree with that and I sort of agree with the second part too, the way those govs threated kurdish people was all wrong. However, kurdish people is not my main point here, what I was trying to say and honestly I admit it seems that I am not intellectual enough to do that...
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- mcd
mcd, I don't think there are any terrorist groups that acts for the sake of atheism.
- sali
"The data show that there is little connection between suicide terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, or any one of the world's religions." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Why would other forms of violence be any different?
- Bruce Lewis
friendfeed'i ecnebinin kullanıyor olduğuna inanamıyorum. herkes bir kişi için ingilizce konuşuyor olabilir.
- otisaga
PKK is an islamist organisation AFAIK
- Onur Yalazı
tudor, hello, how are you? are they paying you well in friendfeed? will friendfeed close down? can you save my data for me? can you give me op?
- otisaga
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
Cool! can i get a daily or weekly email digest for the "Saved searches"?
- 0M0M
from email
This will be incredibly useful. Thanks to all involved in the design and execution.
- Kathy Fitch
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Franc, a rememberer
For a year or more I have been planning to submit some of my photography to Getty Images Stock Photography (through Flickr) to see if I could sell some images. I get approached semi-regularly for rights to images, but I usually turn people down because I don't really know how to set it all up. I have friends who have been working with Getty for...
...years ans loving it, but as life goes I kept putting off the submission, and putting it off more, due to life just being busy. Well I guess procrastination works for you sometimes. Today I got a letter inviting me to join Getty Images. Yeah for awesome things falling into your lap!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
That's way cool, but you may want to read some of Thomas Hawk's recent writings on the subject. He just quit and moved to a different service.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Way to go! That's exciting. Hope it all goes well.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
These are incredible! Congratulations. :)
- Running Slow
"When it comes to play, humans don’t play around. Other species play, but none play for as much of their lives as humans do, or as imaginatively, or with as much protection from the family circle. Human children are unique in using play to explore hypothetical situations rather than to rehearse actual challenges they’ll face later. Kittens may pretend to be cats fighting, but they will not pretend to be children; children, by contrast, will readily pretend to be cats or kittens — and then to be Hannah Montana, followed by Spider-Man saving the day. And in doing so, they develop some of humanity’s most consequential faculties. They learn the art, pleasure and power of hypothesis — of imagining new possibilities. And serious students of play believe that this helps make the species great. The idea that play contributes to human success goes back at least a century. But in the last 25 years or so, researchers like Elizabeth S. Spelke, Brian Sutton-Smith, Jaak Panksepp and Alison Gopnik...
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- Anne Bouey
from Bookmarklet
"Dr. Gopnik shows this brilliantly with a game she invented with the psychologist David Sobel (her student, now a professor at Brown). In the game, which has the fetching name Blickets, players try to figure out what it is that makes an otherwise undistinguished clay figure a blicket. In some scenarios you can win even if you’re applying a prior bias. In others you can’t. Last summer I...
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- Anne Bouey
"Esther, along with most other 4- and 5-year-olds tested, bested not just me but most of 88 California undergraduates who took the “and” test. We educated grown-ups failed because our prior biases dictated that we play the game by the more common and efficient “or” rule. “Or” rules apply far more often in actual life, when a thing’s essence seldom depends on another object’s presence....
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- Anne Bouey
"We're making a browser-based game that lets people build anything they can imagine. It's like virtual Lego, except anyone can contribute a new piece simply by drawing it. The 2D drawings are bounding-boxed into 2.5D objects that can be used to build in 3D space."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
"SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world. Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was "perfectly happy" to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world's second-largest religion. "I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11," Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam's approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. "What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?""
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"I almost gave in and listened to that guy defend Islam with words I didn't want to hear," Gentries said. "But then I remembered how much easier it is to live in a world of black-and-white in which I can assign the label of 'other' to someone and use him as a vessel for all my fears and insecurities." Added Gentries, "That really put things back into perspective."
- Paul Buchheit
"The Bay Lights Creators Share the Story Behind Their Monumental Art Project" -- interview by Alex Bigman with Leo Villareal and Ben Davis, the brains behind The Bay Lights (a light show on the Bay Bridge, the bridge that connects Oakland and S.F.) [7x7] - http://www.7x7.com/arts-cu...
Excerpt: "Ben Davis: I’d been working on the Bay Bridge project from a communications point of view. After Burning Man in 2010, I was exhilarated by this “city” of 50,000 people coming together and working beautifully. I wanted to bring that awe to a place where it could live a little longer. Then it clicked—this bridge could be a canvas. When I looked at Leo’s work, the hair on the back of my neck stood up. Only one artist was considered for this work. And it was Leo Villareal."
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from Bookmarklet
"A tiny addition in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park is getting big attention on the Web. A photo on the neighborhood site Richmondsfblog.com first published a photo of a teeny wooden door that mysteriously appeared at the bottom of a tree with a small, gnome-sized gap."
- Todd Hoff
from Bookmarklet
"How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with this image of the Moon with an overlaid United States. It's roughly estimated (and others would be better at commenting on the accuracy better than me), but after some back-of-napkin math it seems about right. The area of the United States, not including Alaska, is a little over 20 percent of the Moon's surface area."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Solvang is a strange place to visit for a Scandinavian :)
- Eivind
from Android
I have been to this place. This is at the entrance to Solvang off 101. My son (4.5 yrs at that time with no knowledge of fear or getting hurt) loved feeding them and we had to buy food twice
- kartik vaithyanathan
The kids I saw there loved feeding the ostriches and emus. :)
- Amit Patel
Your Lorelei doesn't happen to live in Norco, does she? She looks very much like the Lorelei who lives next door to my cousin (not sure about the spelling).
- Soup in a TARDIS
Soup, where is Norco? My niece Lorelei lives next door to me, so I think they aren't the same. Funny that they look alike. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Norco is in CA, it's a real city now but used to be short hand for "North Corona." Your niece is a cutie! :D
- Soup in a TARDIS
I'm still an inport to CA. It's been 9 years but I've always been bad geography, so unless I go there I rarely know where things are. I'm in Sunnyvale. She is a cutie. She did not want to take that princess dress off that night and insisted on putting it back on in the morning. Being 3 is fun!
- Rachel Lea Fox
There has been an Amit Patel sighting on the Google campus! (As confirmed via pictures with my car) Let the rumors commence that I am wooing him back to the fold. Or simply say it was great to catch up with this excellent FriendFeeder in real life. Thanks for joining me, Amit.
Vegetables are unproductive and a waste of time.
- Amit Patel
Ok, so no vegetables and no sleep, if you want to be productive and not waste time. Time to get a PICC for the caffeine.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
I actually enjoy sleep quite a bit, and credit it (along with shorter working hours) for most of my creativity and productivity :)
- Amit Patel
OK, dreams are all very creative, granted. But barring any telepathic advances, the rest of us don't get to enjoy your dreams. Please try to stay awake from now on.
- Larry Hosken
If you saw my dreams you'd realize I'm a madman.
- Amit Patel
"Rapunzel is happily sitting in her tower. She uses the quiet and solitude to study and reflect, becoming a leading expert in skyscraper engineering. Someone comes along and starts randomly shouting at her through the window to let him touch her and pull her hair. Whether or not he was drunk, this is completely inappropriate behaviour. She drops hardback books on his head until he goes away."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
"Grumpy is vaguely jealous of Snow White’s new arrangement and is certain he’d have a different nickname if he got a bit of peace and quiet too. He has been seen hauling timber and construction tools to an undisclosed location."
- John (bird whisperer)
"Two women who were shot by Los Angeles police in Torrance early Thursday during a massive manhunt for an ex-LAPD officer were delivering newspapers, sources said."A second shooting, involving Torrance police officers, occurred about 5:45 a.m. at Flagler Lane and Beryl Street in Torrance. No injuries were reported in that incident. Chase said that in both instances police came across vehicles they thought were similar to the one Dorner is believed to be driving. Neither vehicle was Dorner's.
- Surprisingly Monstrous
from Bookmarklet
Look how riddled with bullets the newspaper WOMAN's car is. Anything that appears to be a blue pickup is being shot on site in So Cal today. Regardless of who's driving. I get they are hunting a very bad person but this is the third shooting this morning by police of people not related in anyway - just driving blue trucks
- Surprisingly Monstrous
You'd think they'd warn people, at least: if you're driving a blue truck, the LAPD will shoot first, ask questions later.
- Victor Ganata
The guy they're chasing murdered two people in Irvine and has shot three cops already. Nine counties in So Cal are on high alert. The guy posted a manifesto and explicited listed his targets.
- Victor Ganata
Did they not notice the newspapers periodically flying out of the windows? Also, isn't it customary to disable the vehicle, not the people inside? Good grief folks need to chill. Dangerous criminal or not, his capture is not worth shooting innocent bystanders. I don't care how many cops he's shot.
- Hookuh Tinypants
Yeah, it's pretty nuts. It just so happens that one of the targets he named lives in Torrance, so they have a security detail out there who are apparently very armed and extremely jumpy.
- Victor Ganata
Obviously not enough "good guys" with guns. Duh. =p
- ronin
It's nuts. The way I heard it on the news, it was early morning, the delivery truck had no headlights on. Still, one would think they could somehow see the newspapers being thrown or run the plates on the car... I'm glad they weren't killed. There are a lot of bullet holes there. :(
- Spidra Webster
AsABlackMan comments on I'm Congressman Jim McGovern, and I just introduced two constitutional amendments to overturn Citizens United, get the money out of politics, and restore "We, the people." - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Quite possibly. I saw one report from 2003 that two (likely escaped) flamingos were found in the North Bay, and one from 2010 that one flamingo was seen at Elkhorn Slough.
- Amit Patel
"We generate all this cash and don't have any use for it." re: SurveyMonkey's bizarre financing round. Yay capitalism. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013...