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Kool Aid, Confirmation Bias, and the problem with Democracy
Wednesday at 9:14 pm - Link
Very true! My only other observation is that a candidate, in addition to winning the undecideds, has to motivate his/her own followers to actually go to the polls and vote. In the US, this is a big challenge, so you recruit a Palin or Quayle or Ferraro to rally the true believers. - Ontario Emperor via fftogo
I agree. I think I referred to that also, but it might not have been as clear. That's why I don't write about politics any more, it just depresses me. :) - Phil Crissman
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Re: Some Ruby & Rails Tricks at philcrissman.com
August 28 at 5:46 am - Link
"It looks like you're correct about named_scope, my mistake. It turns out the Rails project I am working on has the 'has_finder" gem installed in /vendor, and I mistakenly thought that what I was doing was already part of Rails. I'll have to correct the post, thanks!" - Phil Crissman
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Re: Flex and Rails
August 21 at 9:16 am - Link
":sigh: It's true. I've been busy (but then again, everyone's busy). Some ideas for new posts are percolating. Or perhaps they are steeping. Or fermenting. At any rate... yeah. I'm still here. I keep meaning to write something, but I keep having other things intrude in the priority list. I will return! I haven't wanted to write one of those "gee I haven't written in awhile" posts, so I've been waiting until I actually have something to write...." - Phil Crissman
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Re: Displaying a Gmail ATOM Feed In Google Reader
August 7 at 6:15 am - Link
"If you mean a downloadable file, you'd have to look up the PHP docs on file IO, I don't think it should be too hard. If you just need a feed, you don't need to do anything different; say the above file was your-url.com/bacn.php, you would just use that address, and an atom feed should be returned. Even better might be SimplePie (http://simplepie.org/), which was not around when I wrote this and looks very easy to use." - Phil Crissman
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“Am I the only one who doesn't give a flying fcuk about Facebook?”
July 23 at 5:20 pm - Link
No. - Michael C. Harris
Q: Does it need to be flying? You may be restricting your responders to a smaller subset of all people not giving said "fcuk" (flying or non-flying) about Facebook. - Phil Crissman
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Nope - I'm not just a member of the club, I'm the GD president. - Tad - just Tad
I am also a non-fcuk giver. - Michael Nally via twhirl
Okay I see your point. It doesn't have to fly. A regular old fcuk will do. :-) - Dave Winer
I have to give one, it's the only social network that my friends belong to!!! - Chris Rivait
You do care, otherwise you would not say that - Gabriel
@chris, I have a lot of friends who are only on FB as well. But admitting something has functionality is not necessarily the same as _caring_ about it... if Facebook ceased to exist, said friends would find accounts on some other social network. Ergo, I really don't care much about Facebook... :-) - Phil Crissman
Some of my friends are only on Facebook too. - Morton Fox
+1... though throwing a flying fcuk on the Super Poking application may be a huge hit! - Mona N.
you are not alone - Rom Feria
No, you are not alone. I care just enough to glance at FB news when it comes over Google reader. - Kreg Steppe
I wouldn't even bother giving Facebook a fcuk. Flying or otherwise... - Rahsheen
Facebook? What's that? - mace
facebook...hmmm...nope don't care about it - BCK via twhirl
What? Face...wtf? - Ronald
sounds like you have no need for facebook? - Chris Jones via twhirl
Every time they make headlines I kind of glance at those headlines cringingly from the corner of my eye -- I don't care, and I don't want to care, but I do worry that they might get up to something that will require me to care. - Tegan Dowling
not hardly - Kevin Williams
I've never signed up. My life is too action packed to make trying to maintain superficial relationships worthwhile. - Mrsth
Um...haven't used it yet and might never. - Mathew A. Koeneker
No, you are not. - Harvey Simmons
facebook's strength is in connecting you to people you know, whereas friendfeed/twitter connect you to people you dont know. - Aziz Poonawalla
Never even been to the site. Just do not care. - Evangeline
no, facebook and myspace are both going downhill. Making it have too much, or atleast trying to. - Squid
I still really enjoy Facebook, not really over made up with the changes but I think they are foundations for something bigger! - Joe Dawson
Facebook is for all the people in theory you know to act like dicks and brag about their shit and here is for meeting cool people who if are dicks you hide - Cecil Sandus
There are braggers everywhere in all walks of life, every friend I have there is close or someone I respect! Well close as in they were a part of my life! - Joe Dawson
No, even though I got an account s while back, I feel the same way as well... - Queco Jones
no you're not alone. - Jason Kaneshiro
I have way more 'friends' on Facebook than any other network, but I spend less time there, and engage in fewer meaningful interactions, by an order of magnitude. So, yeah, pencil me in for a failure to give a fcuk. - Derrick Burns
We're the wrong age group. Seems like the teenagers and even some of my young software engineers use it more (and in place of) email. I certainly don't understand it, but it seems true. - Bill Rice via twhirl
I won't lose face - William Meloney
All of my friends use it as well (it's that age group that Bill is talking about) and it's pretty much impossible to escape. The weird thing is, teens/young-adults are quick to use tools like Facebook and Myspace but rarely branch off of those large networks and venture into things like Twitter, Friendfeed, and the cooler, smaller apps. - Brandon Titus
Nope. It's been blah since it was opened up to everyone and all those crappy applications starting appearing. Who cares who I virtually poke, super-hug, moon, or <insert verb here>? Total ridiculousness... I use it a bit for messaging friends who aren't on Twitter or FriendFeed. - James Williams
Nope. It's useless. - Sam Lawrence via twhirl
I've visited Facebook twice this year, mostly to accept all my queued up friend requests. I'm finding that FriendFeed has really let me focus back on the true distributed nature of social apps, so I'm commenting more on blogs, tweeting, blogging myself, etc. - Patrick Lightbody
No Dave. The marketing is in full effect. I'm not a fan on the new UI and I think they are overvalued. I do however, think they are loaded with talented people. - Ryan
No one seems to use the social features much, except for the wall. The sharing stuff seems to be one-to-one, it's never a conversation :-/ - Rudolf Olah
against the tide facebook is a solid platform for storing lots of user generated content ... personal preference versus using several specialized services (youtube, flickr, etc.) - facebook is akin to a content management dashboard -especially if all the 3rd party apps are ignored. that said it is not particularly text/blog-centric ... - Scott Moskowitz
add another one to the don't care for it list. i don't have anything against it other than my slight dislike of facebook "fanboys" and zuckerberg worshippers, but i don't see it benefiting me in any way - Cee Bee
Wow, I guess I didn't realize how anti-facebook a lot of the community is... Facebook was introduced my freshman year of college, so it played a big part of my undergrad experience. It's been great to keep in touch with friends since graduation. As for the conversational piece, I think the "problem" is that most of the userbase are average users. not techno-centric. if you took the whole facebook community and stuck them on ff, the conversations wouldn't happen here either. The paradigm isn't there yet imo. - Frankie Warren
I don't anymore. - Parth Awasthi
no ... too bad the tech press cannot think the same way ... - Gregory Lent
Nope. Never used it, never will. - Asteris Masouras
No flying fcuks here either, Dave - TDavid
Never created an account with FB, probably never will. Did get notice from a professional contact that he'd tried to find me there but it still did not incent me to sign up. I created a MySpace account ages ago as it was the only place some of my personal contacts were, but unless I get notification one of them has sent me a message I never log in. - Sally Robinson
None at all? http://bit.ly/1raWrD - Michael
No. I was on MySpace for a week, didn't get it, left. - K Welch
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Lil Wayne: prince of the gift economy
July 15 at 2:23 am - Link
Whats interesting is that Wayne has been doing this long before Radiohead or anyone else decided to be "innovative." His mixtape floods are probably his best work because he's not limited by a record label or rules in what he can or cannot do. To listen to him freestyle for 4 minutes straight is nothing short of amazing. - Erica Baker
Let's also not forget Soulja Boy, same kinda thing. - Eric Rice
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Are you kidding Eric? Please. Soulja Boy is nothing. like. Wayne. - Erica Baker
He used DIY media and built himself by himself, on the net, no different than any of us vlogger dorks. :) Yes of course they are nothing alike (but now that both songs are stuck in my head, I guess I got my penance.) - Eric Rice
The thing is, Wayne's stuff didn't get released to net until very recently. In the past, the only way his mixtapes got on the internet was via fans ripping and uploading the street released mixes. The thing about Wayne is that instead of fighting against it, he embraced it. He's a very for the fans artist I think. - Erica Baker
I think Eric was talking about content distribution here; appreciation (or not) of the music doesn't bear on how it was distributed. - Phil Crissman
@Phil That's my point. The distribution of Wayne's stuff doesn't really fall into the "ooo isn't he understanding of the web and progressive" idea. Wayne's stuff was essentially put on the web because of his fans and he chose to go with that method of distro rather than fight it. - Erica Baker
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lmorchard feels his Plurk has gone all to hell. Karma's down to 0.0
July 15 at 7:30 am - Link
Plurk: You're doing it wrong. ;-) Mine, too, though; Karma currently at 1.52 and falling. - Phil Crissman
Yeah, my karma hit 0 too. I suppose not logging in for two weeks will do that. - Ken Sheppardson
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Re: Taking the Plunge: Part 4
July 13 at 9:24 pm - Link
"I agree on MS Office for the Mac... I do have NeoOffice (Mac port of OpenOffice) installed, but for most things I actually tend to use Google Apps, now. The new gig is going great, thanks! I'm working with a group with a lot of Rails experience; I really couldn't have asked for a better opportunity to get started digging deeper into Rails, so somehow I think I really lucked out here. I'll try to stay tuned to what's up with AppsLab; what you guys are doing is still (to me, at least) the most interesting stuff going on at Oracle. Good luck!" - Phil Crissman
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Re: Taking the Plunge: Part 4
July 13 at 7:20 pm - Link
"Kudos for your persistence in getting Cisco VPN working... I didn't have the patience for that. Partly that was because I also had a mac at home, and there was a readily available client for the Mac... so I just couldn't make myself keep at it. I'm a big Ubuntu fan, though. If I wind up getting a new laptop that is not an Apple, that (or some other Linux distro, if I'm feeling adventurous) is what would wind up installed on it..." - Phil Crissman
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Your life will be flashed before your eyes | Technology | The Guardian
Your life will be flashed before your eyes | Technology | The Guardian
July 3 at 9:08 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display. Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small light emitting diodes (LEDs), helping turn his prototype contact lenses into a sophisticated personal display - the tiniest one possible." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
that can't be good for one's health. fascinating though - Cee Bee
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How would it be bad for your health Cee Bee? Maybe it might screw with your vision some, but what else would it affect? - Tad - just Tad via fftogo
It would be the a great heads up display, but I don't know if you would be able to track eye movement to select things on the display. The gyroscopes on the lens would have to be almost nano. - RAPatton
i'm not sure but placing some electronic object of that sort directly over one's retina may have its side effects. then again, i've been on this laptop for the past 6 hours and my balls are frying - Cee Bee
I'm totally ready for augmented reality, but I think i'll let other guinea pigs work out the kinks in the system first... - Tad - just Tad via fftogo
Re: this exact gizmo: see Vernor Vinge, "Rainbows End": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... - Phil Crissman
hmm, not a fan of this nor of a cattle prod being plugged into the back of my head. though something like "The Thirteenth Floor" would work - clarke thomas
@Phil: That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the photo. I want! - Jeremy Brooks
Very interesting. Gartner predicts that human augmentation will evolve over the next 10 years to the point where it will be feasible to enhance the performance or sensory abilities of healthy individuals. In other words, medical techniques such as sensory transference, direct brain interfaces, and nerve mapping will be used not just to restore physical deficiencies, but to enhance healthy people beyond “normal”. - Alan Cheslow
Whoa... cool. But really, heads up display, blah blah blah... i want my eyes to glow in the dark. Then I'll really be able to fight crime with my intimidating stare! - felix
I tried an earlier version of this kind of thing during a visit to a lab at the UW in Seattle. My eyes ached in a really strange way afterwards; I mean acute pain. I don't like the display as prosthetic, because of this experience. - terra210
I'd be happy with augmented reality embedded in my glasses... I'm not much of a contacts guy anyway. - Tad - just Tad via fftogo
I can finally hook up Friendfeed right into my eyeballs! - Hao Chen
wow. so cool. - edythe
Very neat! - Mitchell Tsai
WHOA! - Sarah Perez
Next step would be flashing contacts like those aftermarket lights underneath cars. - Earl E Morningwood via fftogo
Should give these away with Kraftwerk's-Man Machine Music. Way cool-I want some. - Mark Forman
You know those "spinner" hubs/tires that some folks have on their car wheels? How about "spinner" contacts? Hopefully invisible from the user's point of view, but folks looking at you see spinning in your eyes. based on this article, you could even attach little outward-facing LED lights to the spinners... - Bruce Williams
Just add a tiny wireless receiver, and you'll get special promotions of chips and nylon socks flashed on you contact lenses when you walk past Walmart. - Dewald Pretorius
Now if it can be a camera and take a frame every time I blink I'm in. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas: If you're blinking, you're going to get a bunch of dark photos :P - Eric Florenzano
i look forward to the day when my contact lens overlords control all that i survey - Ranjit Mathoda
Interesting technology... - Daniel Schildt
"Why are you staring into space and chuckling to yourself", asks my wife. "Oh, just checking my email, got some funny ones today", I reply. - Nick Lewis
My two questionable cents: (1) power supply and (2) cooling. Much like current artificial eyes, but way harder to solve. - 9000
I drove out far into the desert, away from the glow from the city, and stood looking up at the night sky in amazement while the circuitry on my eyeballs danced and sparked across the universe. - david
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“Test post for audio enclosures through the FriendFeed API, the audio of the opening scene from The Godfather. The undertaker Bonasera, asks the Godfather for justice. Contains the famous line: "Someday, and that day may never come, I'll call upon you to do a service for me."”
July 1 at 4:45 pm - Link
I can't see the mp3, at least not on the iPhone right now. - Thomas Hawk
No Flash support on the iPhone means no awesome Godfather excerpts :-( - Mark Trapp
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Works for me. Thomas, the reason it doesn't work on the iPhone is that the player is Flash, and of course, Flash doesn't work on the iPhone. - Josh Bancroft
Awesome Dave and great pick too! ;-) - Da-Chief
audio is very cool.. would be nice to be able to listen to favorited songs - Travis Parsons
The podcast connect betw NewsJunk and FriendFeed is complete, just published the Gnip interview through the API and it came through as an audio enclosure. Here's a screen shot. http://images.scripting.com/ar... - Dave Winer
Ah, I see it now on the web. Good point about it not working on the iPhone due to flash. - Thomas Hawk
I believe in America. Perfect first words for first audio post. - David Newman
Works! - Brian
hm. FF + audio = friendcast? - Frank Jurden
Worked for me in Safari, didn't with Firefox 3 on the mac (the graphic just disappeared) - Paul Haahr
Nothing of an mp3 visible on my iPod Touch - Robert van Bregt
Works fine with Firefox 3 on a PC with WinXP SP3. - Jeff P. Henderson
I'm on Firefox3 on a Mac, and it's working here. Very cool. - Phil Crissman
Nice one Dave. Working on my Mac in both Safari 3.1.1 and Firefox 3. - Larry Kless
Working here, FF3. - Antony Jepson
throw away apple stuff - it works perfect on latest (Diablo) release of OS2008 on Nokia tablets N800 & N810 - silpol
Works fine on Safari on OS X Leopard - Paul Denlinger
Workin' good on Firefox3 on Vista - James O'Malley
Dave, you are the best! This is terrific on XP Pro in IE7, nice UI, good navigation. I'm sure we'll all have Mike Arrington's voice chatting with us soon <vbg>. - Bill Claxton
Works in Firefox 2.0.0.14 in Ubuntu 7.10. This is pretty neat - Andy Breeding
Awesome! - americanm
Working good on Safari here. If this player can be included in the AIR clients like twhirl, I'd be all set! - Dave Senior
friendfeed should provide a link to the mp3 file then. That would work on the iPhone. - Josue Salazar
Working great for me. Safari on OSX 10.4.11 - Tsega Dinka
I'm having issues with flash player 9.x on FF 3.01 - Ricardo Rabago
It works in IE 7.0 with flash player 9.x - Ricardo Rabago
Funny we haven't seen more podcasts showing up in FF as a result of this feature. Should I start a podcast feed just for FF? - Dave Winer
Since you mentioned it I'll put a quick plug in. CS Techcast is pumped into Friendfeed via our RSS. Check it out. - Eric @ CS Techcast
Love the clip :) (FireFox 3 - works perfectly) - George Smith
Dave, check this room out: http://friendfeed.com/rooms/fe... - Kevin C. Tofel
Buffering forever, even after the load indicator is all the way across, but I've been having Flash problems since Firefox 2.x (now using 3.0 on XP)--never have been able to properly diagnose. :( - steplow is Steve
No issues with playback here. Wish it did a countdown of remaining length, though. - Tim Cooper
Closed and restarted: now it works--didn't change any other settings. Happens like that all the time. Weird. - steplow is Steve
Works fine for me on Firefox 3 + Flash 9 on WinXP. Bada-bing! - LouCypher
Once I click play, there seems to be no way to stop or pause the audio (other than turn the volume down)..otherwise it works great - Peter Cattell
before i hit play, there are two funny looking small play buttons above the blue play button.. FF3/WinXP - mike
Any chance for audio support with Mail2FF? - Christopher Harley
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Re: http://blamescoble.com/blog/2008/06/09/pingfm-invite-code/
July 1 at 5:48 am - Link
"Yes, I think the codes only last a short time. You should be able to find the current one with a brief search, if things are still as they were a few weeks back; they were being shared liberally." - Phil Crissman
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Re: Long Sign-Up Forms Considered Harmful
June 25 at 7:00 pm - Link
"Right; I agree. In cases where a username is automatically public, then using the email address would be a faux pas. One simple option would be to simply truncate the email before the '@' and use that as the user id. While it might be relatively easy to guess the address using the major domains used these days (it's still relatively few people who use their own personal domain as their main email channel), it would at least be mildly obfuscated. But even if one includes a username field, that would (hopefully) be only 3 fields: username, email, password. If you send an email to the new user right away (before you encrypt is and save it to the db) advising them of what password they signed up with, then you don't need a second field for the password; if they really did fat-finger it or forget what they entered, they could just check their email. There are always exceptions... sometimes you need a little more information from a new user. But in most cases, I think you can leave that..." - Phil Crissman
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Do People Seriously Use Google to Find Porn?
June 24 at 9:45 pm - Link
Absolutely they do, but those looking are more likely to be non-US visitors than standard visitors. Here's one cut from my blog stats showing Google porn seekers: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=st... - Louis Gray
"Organizing the world's information" ... all the information. - Phil Crissman
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Google is the leading search engine for all kind of information.. Don't you think? - Muthu Ramadoss
I don't understand why, but having said that turn the safe filter off on Google Image search and type in a porn-like word. You'll be surprised..and even perhaps shocked. - Duncan Riley
porn-like word...hrmm..okay..::types in pr0n::...::shock:: - Hao Chen
it doesn't have to be a porn-like word. just enter any female name and there it is. - Mladen Srdić
Was that a j/k Duncan? :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
if so, it was funny. - Mathew A. Koeneker
Unfortunately, p0rn makes a lot of online money. I'm sure Google "accidentally" makes a killing in p0rn ads... - Anthony Farrior
Why do you think I turned off my Google search history? MUA-HA-HA - Phil (scribkin)
@J.Phil LOL - Tyler Gillies
@louisgray ahem... so "used ipod" and "redmond, start your copiers" are lexikon of pr0n? :))) - silpol
Matthew, simply making the point that Google Image Search is a great porn repository....so I'm told ;-) - Duncan Riley
Sadly,porn is banned by our government system（GFW） .of couse peoples who baned it must be offen use google to fin porn. - Chris Qie via twhirl
I see search terms for pr0n-like stuff (BTW, does ANYONE have ANY idea how hard it was to type that post and not type pr0n every time?), but obviously, if they are getting to any blog I'M writing, they are way off base. :) There are tons and TONS of pr0n search engines, link sites, etc. that I guess I assume only the amateurs are searching on Google. @Chris, try Tor. ;) I double-checked with the husband, who agreed that the only thing it was really good for was locating celebrity sex tapes. - Cyndy
ahah,tech block is not problem for me,but I am not interested in it now.To find porn in SE,I think Altavista is better than google. - Chris Qie
What's depressing is that some of you SFW blogs probably have more pr0n hits than my NSFW blog. :-( - Rick Powell
My neglected personal blog, Sharp Skirts, gets some very creepy search terms in it. Very creepy. And yes, most are through Google. - Carla Thompson
try having 'sexy' in combination with 'books' in your blog title. add references to scandinavia (mainly sweden) and you get some rather disturbing searches, nearly all via google (also some highly amusing ones). naive me didn't think about such things when deciding what to call it. - Patricia Hanrahan
I wonder if they actually find any pr0n that way. We may see the search terms, but obviously they aren't finding what they are looking for, right? Unless there's something some of you aren't telling me. ;) - Cyndy
Cyndy, a good way to find out what they are finding out... is to go to your referral logs. Find a "R or X Rated" search and usually those terms are clickable. If you click it, you'll see what they see from google.com or images.google.com or whatever. You can do it in the name of research for your blog. - Louis Gray
Cyndy, There's Youtube for Porn.. infact there's a lot of them and finding them is not that difficult. Anyone accessing Internet can do that. - Muthu Ramadoss
Now Muthu, I didn't say I didn't know how to FIND pr0n. I was just saying I couldn't believe n00bs use Google to try to find it. ;) @Louis, I'm thinking that if they are far enough down in the results to get anything *I* may have written, they aren't finding much of interest. ;) - Cyndy
ha, cyndy. defending your pr0n search skills. :) - edythe
Cyndy: I'm #2 overall for "porn themes" and #4 for "soft sex video". That's what I get for writing about smut in Google Video. - Louis Gray
You know, I thought Louis was joking, but on a lark I tried those searches and lo and behold ... he's serious. I still get some traffic on my Augusten Burroughs review where I mentioned a chapter titled 'Holy Blow Job' *shakes head* - AJ Kohn
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Re: Schroedinger’s Glass
June 24 at 10:23 am - Link
"Pavlov, Pavlov... I can't picture his face, but the name rings a bell.... (ducks)" - Phil Crissman
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Tad - just Tad posted a message
“Anybody else wish we could see avatar pics on posts and comments?”
June 23 at 7:36 pm - Link
YES - this is a long overdue feature for FF!! - Susan Beebe
It won't fit... And that will scare me! All this crowd looking at me from the screen :) - directeur
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YES! - JA Castillo
It should be an optional feature directeur. I have tons of real estate on my widescreen display - Tad - just Tad
hrmm maybe if they were very small. Need to keep clutter to a minimum in FF. The FF haters already whine about too much stuff going on don't they, especially in the web interface (I am fine with it and quite enjoy the interface). I personally don't mind hovering over the username to see avatar/info. I'd rather see time-stamping on comments way before more visible avatars. - Matt Hooper
Posts yes, comments no. How it is now feels clean. - Julian Baldwin
No. It's not a display size issue, it's an ugliness issue. - Neil Saunders
You can hover over user names to see avatars - Susan Beebe
Yeah, but I wanna see the lil pics next to people's names. Again, those of you with tiny displays would be able to turn it off... - Tad - just Tad
Nope. What's wrong with hovering over people who say interesting things ? - Michael C. Harris
Nothing's wrong with it Michael, I just want an enhancement. :P - Tad - just Tad
please no... everyone is afraid of me. - Noah David Simon
Working on a greasemonkey script, will update with URL ASAP - Jason Wehmhoener
I am only asking for one more toggle. I think I would turn it off after a few days. - Russellreno
Nope, not me. - AJ Kohn
nope, thats one factor that further separates FF from things like FB and Myspace. - Anthony
it's an ugliness issue. Neil - Were you hovering over my name? - Russellreno
Yes bring it pls. - Noah Carter
@Russellreno lol; no, I was referring to web design. - Neil Saunders
Yes. I would also love a rotating smiley face if possible. This is all I ask. - Josh Lowensohn
Alright DAMMIT - I demand marquis and blink tags!! EVERYWHERE!! mwuhahahahahahahahahahahahahahdlfkdjh;lgjkn;dglk c;lm.fkgnlsjhgprhj;.v m - Tad - just Tad
I have that...but it's called Socialthing.. :P - Mike Lewis
See what you've done?? Next time he asks for something just say: yes! :) - directeur
Here you go: http://userscripts.org/scripts... I like it! - Jason Wehmhoener
That'd probably be awesome if I knew what to do with it Jason. :) - Tad - just Tad
Oh God, I know you were satiating a request Jason, but man is this awful: http://www.flickr.com/photos/i... - Mark Trapp
If you are using Firefox, you can install Greasemonkey from here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-... then go to the url above and click the "Install this script" button in the upper-right corner. Refresh friendfeed, and voila! - Jason Wehmhoener
Jason - Wow, i installed your script and my monitor lit up like a Christmas tree. Looking at some of the avatars I see "it is an ugliness issue'. - Russellreno
Problem solved. Next..... - Russellreno
If you hate it, go to Tools > Greasemonkey > Manage User Scripts, click "friendfeed avatars", then click "uninstall" - Jason Wehmhoener
i don't wish i could see avatars on the comments. too messy. all i have to do is hover. - edythe
Greasemonkey to the rescue. - Phil Crissman
Gah, my eyes, the goggles they do nothing! - Glenn Slaven
Uninstalled. I was wrong, I turned in off after a few minutes, not days. Props to Jason though for his efforts. - Russellreno
How about 1 avatar only on the main post, not the whole messy lot! - Susan Beebe
Susan: lemme try... - Jason Wehmhoener
Mouse hover FTW! or not... - Mark Forman
Here's the version with avatars for the original poster only http://userscripts.org/scripts... - Jason Wehmhoener
mouse hover > clutter (!) - Mona N.
I ask why people's faces? I just want to see their genitals - Noah David Simon
Not really - we've got the avs in the pop-ups. Keep the minimalism. - Cyvros/fyc
Wow, that Greasemonkey script totally proved the avatar point. Displaying the original avatar in the post sounds cool, but it seems kinda pointless for one user's FriendFeed page. You're only going to see one icon put in a dozen places. - possible248
...getting used to the avatars. As much as I was for such a thing (thanks Jason!), it does look cluttered now. - JA Castillo
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Jennifer Van Grove posted a message
“Ben & Jerry's lovers everywhere, my new favorite flavor is Imagine Whirled Peace - caramel and sweet cream ice cream, fudge peace signs & toffee cookie pieces...so good! What's your favorite flavor?”
Ben & Jerry's lovers everywhere, my new favorite flavor is Imagine Whirled Peace - caramel and sweet cream ice cream, fudge peace signs & toffee cookie pieces...so good! What's your favorite flavor?
June 19 at 2:25 pm - via twhirl - Link
That's my fiance's new favorite too; Phish Food is still my favorite though. - Benjamin Golub
Dave Matthew's Magic Brownies mmmmm. - Frankie Warren
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Whirled Peace is sitting in my freezer at home already. Cherry Garcia® Ice Cream is my fav! - Michelle Miller
Ooooh. Fudge peace signs and toffee cookie pieces. Can. not. resist. I hate you Ben & Jerry. - Robert Seidman
Chunky Monkey I think. But yours sounds delish! Share? - Downtown Rob via twhirl
Karamel Sutra, the cookie dough one and the one with the peanut butter cups in it - Outsanity
Phish Food FTW :) - Phil Crissman
I'm also obsessed with Coffee Heath Bar and Everything But The... - okay why did I start this, I'm craving B&Js right now ;) - Jennifer Van Grove via twhirl
@jennifer Yes WHY!!??!?! - Michelle Miller
Phish Food and Chubby Hubby in a dead heat, with Cherry Garcia a distant third. - Madsimian
The West Coast Ben and Jerry's factory is in my hometown of Henderson, though they don't offer tours (snap). -