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John Worthington posted a message

“BE HONEST... How many pieces of LEGO have you ever had stuck in your ears or nose?”

yesterday at 3:54 am - Link

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Nose: 2, Ear 3 (3rd requiring medical assistance) - John Worthington

None. But my sister stuck one of thoes triangle shaped beads up her nose. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

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Nose: 4 (needing medical assistance) Ear: None, I can always dig them out. :) - Mona N.

None for me but I've been in the ER with my son twice (nose). - Trish R

None. I was never one of those kids. I also never put things in my mouth that weren't food. - Akiva Moskovitz

0 that I can remember. - Mathew Ballard

no legos, but a tic tac in my nose once. - Melissa Maskevich

My brothers did the LEGOs. I did the coins. - Bryan Clark

Never tried that, but I imagine the snot makes for good adhesive? - Josh Haley

Ear is the worst... at least with the nose you can try and pinch it out :) - John Worthington

0 even as a kid - Phill Price

I snorted rice down my nose when my brother made me laugh at the table while I was eating, but no, no lego pieces. And certainly none of the scary moustache cross-dressing ones Mona linked to the other day...http://thebloggess.com/?p=635 - WorldofHiglet

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Carl Warner's Food Landscapes or "Foodscapes" - Mighty Optical Illusions

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BAAAACON (check last few photos) - Phill Price via Bookmarklet

Justin Korn posted a message on Twitter

“AGH!! Just checked my suit (need it for the weekend) and it has a stain...how did that happen!?!”

Friday at 3:43 pm - Link

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have you had any liasons with Mr Clinton recently? - Phill Price

Thank you, Phill! - Dave Roth

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Mahalo Still Super Flat

Friday at 3:17 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Hopefully this wont cause @jasonCalacanis to kill me but new compete scores show Mahalo still flat as a board: http://tinyurl.com/yojht3 - Andrew Baron via Bookmarklet

2.5M regular monthly visitors is not good? - Mattb4rd

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Based on historical situations, it could be a very bad sign that there is no growth this year yet. I know that they talked about the site being much bigger and have invested a lot of $. - Andrew Baron

Mahalo no Boobs! Needs Silicon implants! LMAO - Igor The Troll

Can you imagine trying to pretend like your business is successful when it's not, and then going on to give advice to other people about how you do it? I think life is a series of ups and downs and if you are going to be outspoken, I think you need to admit it when its not going as good as hoped. I still could be wrong about Mahalo, its just that I havent seen any evidence on the contrary. Jason claims its going better than ever, but I havent seen the evidence. - Andrew Baron

+++ @Igor LOL - Hayk Hakobyan

IMHO Mahalo is a lovely little interstitial inbetween me and useful stuff, the internet was meant o remove the middle man, its a shame mahalo isn't dropping, sorry Jason - Phill Price

@jasoncalacanis responds/avoids w/fallacies ignoratio elenchi, appeal to ridicule&spite, ad hominem, stawman, denying the correlative, more. - Andrew Baron

Considering what I blog about I'm almost embarrassed to say I don't even know what Mahalo is all about. It hasn't grabbed my attention long enough to check it out. - Jennifer Leggio

how accurate is Compete anyway guys? Who knows what funky noise is in the stats. I wouldn't rule out Mahalo yet -- it's a sound model for a lot of reasons Jason prolly doesn't want to talk about! It's a massive SEO play and a brilliant one I might add! - Elliott Ng

Elliott, can you elaborate on why you think it's brilliant? - Andrew Baron

hmmm.just noticed calacanis is lavishing us w/more praise. oy. - Dave Winer

btw, i love that these graphs tweak calacanis. keep em coming. :-) - Dave Winer

And the graph is not a personal attack, its about the internet and his way of dealing with it is to say that you and I are going to host an afterparty for his mutts. Im surprised that no one else thinks this info about Mahalo is newsworthy, but it also confirms my own feelings. - Andrew Baron

That's what makes me think he's a Republican. :-) - Dave Winer

Looks bad here but I do have to wonder what the actual numbers are. Having seen the actual mahalo google analytics in the past I can tell you the totals are already way off. - sean percival

Sean, that would be a good way for Calacanis to respond. CEOs don't generally respond to criticism (if that's what this graph is, it's just a graph after all) by saying people who aren't even associated with it (all I did was Like it in FF) party with his dogs (who I assume he loves, at least he's always saying how much he loves them). Anyway... That's how I see it. YMMV. - Dave Winer

compete = enough said. that's like quoting alexa to me. - Patricia

Well, if you look at Alexa, Compete and Google trends, they all show the same thing. What are some other ways that you like to use to determine? These kinds of sites are not always great - it depends in each case. For a site like Mahalo, I think its kinda telling because the margin of error becomes less visual on such a large scale. - Andrew Baron

This must be one of those Maslow hierarchy of needs things again. Users like me just want the internet to work and don't understand why you self-actualizers get so torqued about someone's website that seems static at a "paltry" 2.5M monthly visitors. Frankly, it's a little like P-diddy complaining that he has to fly commercial because his private jet costs too much. /shrug - Mattb4rd

Mattb4rd, maybe if Jason would speak up and do something to show that Mahalo is not a big FAIL, he could put this all to rest. Also, if Jason didn't have such a long history of ripping off other people's projects and then trying to destroy the characters of his competition, it might also help to lull the P-Diddy associations that you wot of. - Andrew Baron

mostly because you have great links in google, but when you get there you have no information that can be used. Search Gawker, see what I mean. - dan

@Andrew I'll take your word for all that. It's clearly important to you and some others. I'll just be over here ---> being a spectator. :) - Mattb4rd

wot, whilst whingeing ... lovely - Gregory Lent

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Why is everyone so fucking stupid? (Energy prices)

Friday at 1:13 pm - Link

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Bluemonki yet again casues me to giggle like a girl, ty BM - Phill Price

Mat posted a message on Twitter

“This free train wifi isn't all that bad actually. apart from slowness due to people downloading google chrome. Oops, that was me ;-D”

Friday at 12:58 pm - Link

hmmm wifi in a train, you lucky thing. - Phill Price

1001 noisy cameras posted an entry on 1001 Noisy Cameras

Sneak preview of the new blog!

Friday at 10:59 am - Link

now that looks a lot better - Phill Price

Phill Price published photos on SmugMug

A very descriptive label of the item below (although really it's in the Wandsworth Refuse Tip metal only bin) Seen on our wonder at the weekend.

Friday at 10:07 am - Link

Wonders whether you meant wander in the caption <g> - CdL Creative

yes I did - spell check isn't great. Have changed it in the originl but Friendfeed seems to be one way one time grrr - Phill Price

Scott Beale posted an entry on Laughing Squid

La Princess by La Machine, A 50ft Spider Invades Liverpool

Friday at 8:42 am - Link

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oh. my. word - Phill Price

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A 36:1 ratio is actually pretty good

Friday at 9:06 am - Link

...if you get one good shot on a roll of 36, you were doing good. That’s the ratio: 36:1. When you edit ruthlessly like that, you come out with great results. People think you’re better than you are. It’s not that you became a brilliant photographer, it’s just that you started exercising taste and restraint - Phill Price

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Every Satellite Tracked In Realtime Via Google Earth

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oh there are a few, then I zooomed out and turned debris on... - Phill Price

That is amazing, and scary at the same time. I'm not sure how any shuttle or other launch is able to avoid colliding with something on it's way up or down. - cmiper

Phill Price published photos on SmugMug

This chap was very tame for a pigeon, at the close edge of focussing.

Thursday at 1:54 pm - Link

Yeah, that's darned close. Bird photography with a 135? - Ryan Brenizer

@Ryan, it's not the first bird shot with it, but its my general lens, just happened to walk by it on a PhotoWalk. Congrats on the award btw! - Phill Price

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Casting a beady eye on proceedings

Thursday at 1:50 pm - Link

Phill, doesn't it get old posting to 3 places? I post everything to Flickr, and use SmugMug for photo that will be printed. - Trevor Carpenter

PictureSync is a great tool. Set and forget. - Chris Nixon

Hi Trevor, Chris. I manually upload it to four site (although will look into PictureSync. I ask here quite a lot if people want me to remove any but I don't get an answer and as SmugMug, iPernity nor Zooomr have stats I can't see if they get clicks (flickr and phillprice.com do get a lot of FF clicks). Still they all get aroudn the same number of hits on each site a day so unless its the same person hitting them all, it's all eyes. - Phill Price

Gotcha, I understand wanting more hits. Just curious. - Trevor Carpenter

SmugMug has stats, but they aren't very useful since they are just hits per gallery. Definitely a feature I would like to see improved. - Ben Bailey

PictureSync looks interesting. I might give it a whirl if the rain keeps me indoors at the weekend. Though if I'm posting the same thing to other places as well as Flickr I'm not sure I'd have all of the instances linked back to here. Steve - CdL Creative

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BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Base-jump goes wrong in Norway

Thursday at 10:54 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

hahaha - brilliant - Phill Price via Bookmarklet

Paul Boag posted an entry on Boagworld web design podcast

Fixed Footers without JavaScript

Thursday at 2:48 am - Link

just use a frameset, you could have done this since the 90's - Dustin

LOL a frameset - Phill Price

also, position: fixed no? - Dustin

Steve Spalding posted a message

“How To Dispose Of A Body”

Thursday at 8:41 am - Link

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scarabic officially terrifies me, read the comments, you'll know when you get there. http://ask.metafilter.com/7921... - Steve Spalding

ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun - Phill Price

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Umm..yeah. - cmiper

As a reader and a writer and a watcher of all-things-crime-related, I could've given an answer like that, too. Never use quicklime to dispose of a body. It actually helps preserve it. - Nine - Like the number

@Nine (9) But the question is, would you have? - Steve Spalding

ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun away from Nine (9) too! - Phill Price

Sodium hydroxide. I'm going to leave now. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

i like his response to his initial scary comment - "heh. top of the head." :-p - mike "glemak" dunn

Steve, no, but only because I don't read metafilter. - Nine - Like the number

Some of scarabic's tips seemed to be common sense. It's the genius details like "remove the toilet to use the bigger drain pipe" that worry me! - Paul Reynolds

@Nine Good point, I think I agree with Paul it isn't the "common sense" stuff it's the little details and the way he presents the narrative that's creepy. - Steve Spalding

Annie Mole posted an entry on Going Underground's Blog

TfL to announce fare increases on Thursday

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boooooo hiiissssss - Phill Price

Justin Korn posted a message

“Please be aware...Just received a follow from JGAMUGG4FQ2M on Twitter. I didn't click on the URL in his/her only update since it looks unhealthy. Please just be careful and watch out for this kind of stuff.”

Wednesday at 2:05 pm - Link

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95WNFR0LLA followed me earlier - was quickly blocked ty though :D - Phill Price

Any nonsensical name like that, and especially if they have just a single post with a URL and follow a ton of people...all clues to it being a spammer account. - Jeremy Hall

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Got one from QNDUMFQZLKA5 just now and blocked it - Sally Church

There are also a bunch coming from names with DADDIO in them, usually random letters before it. They have been coming in on and off for a few weeks. - cmiper

Thanks for the warning. I never even thought of this. - Jonathan (Vacation Boy)

I also got followed by a 73UWO08UUJ and found that the account had been suspended. - Larry Kless

n00b :p - Mona N.

what do you mean by "unhealthy?" - Cee Bee

I had 2 people follow me but they got suspended for weird activity already - Outsanity

I'm getting names like that becoming members on my blog. quite a few weekly. Must be from spam commenting attempts. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

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Phill Price's photo

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thanks Anna, Chris; not sure why it isn't titled though... - Phill Price

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Football: England matches unlikely to be shown on terrestrial TV | Football | guardian.co.uk

Wednesday at 1:44 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

...and so English football fans discover the torrent. - Chris Nixon via Bookmarklet

...or the pub! - Phill Price

Hopefully that doesn't include the US market! In fact, I wish they (FSN+Setanta) would show the games in HD!!!! - Live4Soccer

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Palin Spoof

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Don't be alarmed, it's jut a really good Photoshop job. - Jeff P. Henderson via Bookmarklet

yeah she normlly totes an MP5 - Phill Price

More on the original photographer and past precedent with such edits here "Manipulation or Fact? The Politics of Photo Manipulation" http://www.jmg-galleries.com/b... - Jim Goldstein

Stefan Hayden shared an item on Google Reader

How To Keep People From Reclining Seats on Airline Flights

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I tend to just push my knees - Phill Price

I tend to bump into their seat A LOT, and make excessive use of the tray table; up, down, up, down, up, down, etc. - Dave Roth

As much as I would LOVE to use this... I never could. I also can't recline my seat. Being 6'4", I'm kinda sensitive to the banged knees and crushed laptop results. I usually just lean forward and ask them not to recline. But I secretly wish I could just be passive aggressive. Damn manners! - Scott Henderson

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YouTube - 'Pushers' pushing people on a crowded Japanese train

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someone I know tried this in London when they came over here. Needless to say it didn't go done very well! - Phill Price

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Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson and Selenium

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these ARE the droids you're looking for - Phill Price

Kyle Lacy posted a message

“Women with British accents are hot.. plain and simple.”

September 1 at 1:01 pm - Link

Evangeline, AlexScoble(Robert'sBro), edythe, Dobromir Hadzhiev and 21 other people liked this

agree! - Mladen Srdić

Men with Jamaican accents are sexy...plain and simple. - Jasmin Smith

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what about woman with a bunch of accents? so many open possibilities! - Mladen Srdić

Jasmin, i am a male and i agree. (: - Mladen Srdić

+1 Mladen. - Yuvi

No. Tracey Ullman, while talented, isn't hot. The person who hosted The Weakest Link. Margaret Thatcher. That having been said, I'm a sucker for the presenters on Sky Sports News. Murdoch actually hires brunettes over there - sometimes... - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

@Jasmin Agreed! - Shey

ooooo okay.. married couple in the house - Kyle Lacy

lol! - Jasmin Smith

A woman with a bunch of accents? Meryl Streep? - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

It's totally true. They make me want to chew Orbit. - Shawn Farner

you have not met scousers then... You'd think they had a speech impediment - Zee at WeDoCreative

Ontario: speak for yourself; Margaret Thatcher was a fox. - Mark Trapp

And just when I was starting to feel good about my accent (which is rather an odd one), Ontario Emperor goes and shoots that down in flames. To add insult to injury, I'm a brunette with a funky accent *sobs* - Patricia Hanrahan

PAtricia: SUBSCRIBED - Kyle Lacy

accents period - Michael W. May via twhirl

Fabulous! - Josh Haley

:) - Vicky Pearce

Patricia - Hugs. - Russellreno

mp3s or it didn't happen - Harvey Simmons

Patricia, wav or mp3 sample or it didn't happen ;) - Michael W. May

That request, dear sirs, strikes me dumb. - Patricia Hanrahan

+ 1 Jasmin - Gordon Swaby

*practices Jamaican accent in mirror* - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Female Irish accents make me faint, Scottish woman accent ain't too bad either. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

There's some strange folk on here, Maggie Thatacher.. hot? Are you kidding? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

So Rahsheen .... how are you doin'? *wink wink* - Mladen Srdić

North Indian accents anybody? - Yuvi

Male viewpoint: "Accent" = women talking to me. - Iain Baker

I think anyone with a British accent is hot - Lindsey Smith

++Iain - Mladen Srdić

+1 Iain - Kyle Lacy

bollocks!! - ::Kristen::

lol Iain. :-) - Corie Allison

I'll have to wade in here on behalf of males with Scottish accents. Hot or not? - David Petherick via twhirl

Hot i would say. Why do i find every accent hot? - Mladen Srdić

(*Puts on Britannia costume and attaches 'I am a patriot' badge*) cI would just like to point out that there are over a hundred completely distinguishable regional accents here in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland and Ireland. I have yet to hear an accent that can be defined as "British" (*removes costume and puts semi-subversive and linux missionary badges back on*) :-P - Slippy Lane

(I kept my sarcasm hat on all the way through that post) :-) - Slippy Lane

@Slippy - you forgot the English principality of Wales - Phill Price

Keira Knightley....say no more - Duncan Riley

MEN with british accents are hot. unfortunately, though, as far as genetics go, the brits are not exactly blessed with the best looks. it's true. there are exceptions. but sorry, it's true. - Melissa Maskevich

It's true: most of us are ugly :^( - Timothy Griffin

++Duncan. - Mladen Srdić

@Slippy. Last I heard, Scotland was part of Great Britain. - Paul Grav

@Paul: Scotland is part of the United Kingdom. England and Great Britain are the same place. This fact notwithstanding, my point about the "british" accent still stands, lol! @Phill, oops, a slip of the keyboard. My apologies to the Welsh, of course. - Slippy Lane

agreed. - edythe

Everyone always apologises to the Welsh. - Nine - Like the number

hehe - Michael W. May

When we're not apologising *for* them. Oops, did I say that out loud? lol - Slippy Lane

depends what part of britain ... - Gregory Lent

lol, did you read the comment stream, Gregory? :-) - Slippy Lane

Phill Price published photos on SmugMug

This is image 10,000 from my 400D, in just over 8 months of owning it. It's one of the many (rusting) pieces that are over Hammersmith Bridge from the meetup on...

September 1 at 11:24 am - Link

Congrats on the milestone! - Eric

thanks Eric! - Phill Price

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Rent Lenses Wherever You Live - TWIP

August 30 at 9:33 am - Link

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I can recommend http://borrowlenses.com. I'm just finishing up a 4 week rental of a 70-200 f2.8 and a 1.4x teleconverter and both were superb - Dave Cohen

Anyone know of lense rentals in the UK? - Roberto Bonini

I can't vouch for them as I've never used them, but you could give here a go http://www.calumetphoto.co.uk/ - Chris Nixon

Thanks. I'll take a look. - Roberto Bonini

Roberto - I've used them number of times - although never by post although they courier overnight. £1k deposit though, so dont break it, proces are around £35/day, weekends = 1 day. - Phill Price

In Germany the place to look at is http://lensavenue.com/ (for Nikon & Canon only) - Holger Eilhard

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Behind the scenes: Redesigning and coding the Highrise sidebar modules

August 31 at 6:15 pm - Link

whilst ruby is over my head this is an interesting piece merging hi code and business logic - Phill Price

Steve Spalding posted an entry on Forum | How To Split An Atom

Sync Google Calendar and Contacts to iPhone Wirelessly

August 31 at 2:36 pm - Link

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this works great - although I use the plaxo contacts with the google calendar to sync - Phill Price

Hmm. I'd like to sync Google Calendar as one of the calendar colours on my iPhone but still sync the rest via Mobileme. - Martin Bryant

I'm not a huge MobileMe fan, but I'll look into it I am sure it exists. - Steve Spalding

I still want to know how to do this WITHOUT using Exchange, as I already use Exchange for my work email account... :( - Nathan Chase

Without using Outlook, iCal or Exchange I think you might be out of luck. :( - Steve Spalding

Andrew Baron posted a link

David Byrne & Brian Eno New Album Free Online

August 31 at 3:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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From David Byrne: "Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. The name of the new record is Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. For the most part, Brian did the music and I wrote some tunes, words and sang. It's familiar but completely new as well. We're pretty excited." - Andrew Baron via Bookmarklet

STREAMING free, sadly - Phill Price

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