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Family Togetherness Time
Kimitake, Johnny Worthington, M. Serdar Kuzuloglu and 106 other people liked this
Look at them sleeping. So daggone cute!
- Hutch Carpenter
Looks like Dad got a bit of schwag, too... :)
- Mark Dykeman
awesome!
- Thomas Hawk
Where are the FF onesies?! :-)
- JA Castillo
The FF onesies are way too big. My "biggest" kid is five pounds. When these guys get 3-6 months, let the schwag wagon roll.
- Louis Gray
FFTwins FTW!
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Link bait! :)
- Andrew Baron
@Louis you are such a product pimp ROFLMAO .. god love ya and yer family :)
- Steven Hodson
awwwww
- Michelle Trent
Do they have FF accounts yet?
- Johnny Worthington
aww gorgeous :) and the babies too!
- Allison
LOL that is alll kinds of win
- Mona Nomura
I've always thought it's important to establish brand awareness early on. Good job ;-)
- Jonathon
So, what are their domains and RSS feeds? I need to add them as imaginary friends for now.
- Rob Diana
Peace. That's the word that comes to my mind :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
good thing they are always this happy. right!
- Tim Connors
I want that shirt!
- James Hull
totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet!
- Rob Reed
FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day!
- Sarah Perez
Cute as a button. Akiva you crack me up. :)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
from fftogo
@Rob Reed: Awesome!
- April Buchheit
Kinda wished I had some FF schwag to wear with the newborn on the way.
- Randy Hall
The first marriage on FF cannot compete with this.
- Russellreno
Congratz.
- Bill Bittner
Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;)
- Mario Olckers
Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself.
- Carla Thompson
No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those?
- Jesse Stay
The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa!
- Susan Beebe
cool beans! workin on those biceps!
- TheMacMommy
from twhirl
So cute!
- marinka239
bring on the schwag, very cool pictures indeed
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Bump for good times
- Jesse Stay
We added a 1-click login for Twitter users, so now it's easy for all your friends to try http://friendfeed.com
Liz, hIpPy, Adam and 418 other people liked this
To RT, click http://twitter.com/home... It uses OAuth, so no password is required, and it automatically finds your Twitter friends on FriendFeed! It also imports your profile and picture. Big thanks to http://friendfeed.com/bgolub for making all this happen! (also, existing users can go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... to find Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail friends)
- Paul Buchheit
fan bloody tastic! So we can post here and Twitterers can comment away without any complaints! The only think you need to try and do is bring in comments (about a share) from twitter into here! :)
- Zee.
This is great...should help new users quite a bit.
- Mark Krynsky
Bravo!!! Very nice!
- David Cook
nice
- Joe Azzara
thanks for making it effortless
- Vedran Agovic
That's fantastic! Keep it up guys!! :)
- Chrimmus Tad
I'm hoping this will help to entice people over here. I'd much rather talk to people via FF than Twitter
- WorldofHiglet
FrF + OAuth. Like.
- tobe
Refresh your FriendFeed to see an updated first comment from Paul, including a link to RT this news: http://twitter.com/home...
- Dan Hsiao
OK, I admit I'm dense. As an existing user will this help me find the folks I follow on Twitter?
- Laura Norvig
Cool, is it possible we could have the ability to bulk import or non-FF Twitter friends as private feeds so we can track them in FF? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Laura, existing FriendFeed users should just go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... and click on the Twittter (and Facebook and Google) icons to find their friends. Kol, not yet, but I'm hoping to add something like that soon (improved imaginary friends).
- Paul Buchheit
Thx, Paul - guess I haven't been to that page since the launch. btw, I'm definitely coming around to the new friendfeed (colors notwithstanding).
- Laura Norvig
Great to see the standards working -OAuth fro Gogole and Twitter login on Friendfeed
- Kevin Marks
That's a great tool, Paul! Found a few from Twitter and Facebook I didn't realise were on FF...:)
- WorldofHiglet
Oh man, that is suh-weet. Works really well.
- Laura Norvig
Paul, that would be wonderful, thank you. I'm keen to use FF as a kinda Twitter client. I'd love the ability to import my group I've created on Tweetvisor too but that would additionally require exporting facilities from Tweetvisor, and from asking them they've told me it's low priority (which is fair enough).
- Kol Tregaskes
That's fantastic! Sharing with all of my not-yet-friendfeedified twitter friends. Thanks, Paul!
- Eric Johnson
This IS good. Thanks for the hard work, Benjamin Golub.
- Micah Wittman
Love that you guys are making the entry more enticing. What about refining what FriendFeed is further? Like: Twitter + conversation. For new people who don't get it and most without the time to get it, simplifying the message or experimenting further with your "first impression" on your splash page might be worth a try. Example: wouldn't it be cool to have a live conversation streaming to show just how FF has a leg up on the scattered Twitter stream?
- kilbuda
this is fabulous!!!
- Angela P.
It's so convenient for new comer like me!
- tsssimon
Just tried it and it works great.
- Iván Abrego
i have tried this too and am richer by 33 Twitter friends
- jagannath rao
Nice work. Keeps getting better around here :-)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
WOW! 313 new Twitter people! Amazing what the OAuth did. Amazing. That just completely Rocks!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That was just too easy, and found a bunch of Twitter people. I just subscribed, but I hope they participate. I'm sure I'll have to trim later.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Thanks for everything Benjamin and the others, that is really great. :)
- Alp
I was subscribed to exactly 100 of the people I follow on Twitter. Added 93 more. Funny, this is actually helping me find people I *don't* want to follow in either place.
- Laura Norvig
I'm looking forward to the "advanced imaginary friends" section which lets me as an existing FriendFeed user view all the twitter updates from people that don't use FriendFeed.
- Brian Sloane
很好，继续努力
- Kunshou（困兽）
Sweet!
- Don Strickland
Just posted this to my stream then saw this, Cool stuff Paul
- Charlie Anzman
Some time ago I spent lots of time in removing my Facebook-Friendfeed integration, and didn't succeed, Facebook refused to remove it. Since that - no info about any other my services to Facebook, ever.
- orie
Happy to hear that there will be an improved imaginary friend option!
- Jacob
The improved imaginary friend feature will be great. No need to visit Twitter much then!
- Pinksy
How do we give virtual bucks to Paul, oh I see a like button here. Off to work on the influence funnel, who cares about dollars, I want eyes ;)
- Mark Essel
FriendFeed is constantly bringing new value to the service. I'm loving it!
- Amie Gillingham
its relay cool
- Kaspar Minosiants
great idea
- andy brudtkuhl
Oh Thanks i was looking for something like this
- Asahi
Is the imaginary friends feature completely disabled for the moment? Or am I just not looking in the right place?
- Mark Jacobs
Mark: imaginary friends have been replaced by groups.
- Robert Scoble
When is OpenID coming up?
- Mohammad Abdurraafay
This feature is AWESOME :) Bravo!
- Iain Baker
I just imported 8,000 new Twitter friends. Worked MUCH BETTER than last time.
- Robert Scoble
Smart move guys. A quick way to grow FF users is to tap into the current hot properties. Can't believe other Social Networks are so slow to respond.
- Neill Adamson
Paul, is there a way to sync it so that people I no longer follow on Twitter are unfollowed on FriendFeed?
- Jorge Escobar
Great news on the advanced imaginary friends. That plus the ability to comment back to Facebook posts as easily as we reply to Twitter would be killer.
- Kevin Kuphal
Finally! :-)
- Richard Joerges
Not sure why this wasn't implemented a while ago but it's a welcome addition.
- Jason Williams
None of my Facebook contacts are on ff.
- JECO Photo
So how do existing FF members use it?
- Tiffany Monhollon
Ca passe 50 fois par jour ce truc là sur FriendFeed ! C''est pas possible d'arr^ter, j'en ai marre de le voir franchement ... ^^
- Jean-Marie Gall
from twhirl
Tiffany, existing FF members should go to http://friendfeed.com/friends... to find their Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail friends.
- Paul Buchheit
Encore ?? C'est pas possible ! ;(
- Jean-Marie Gall
from twhirl
RT'd ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
@Robert cannot seem to do that with groups. What I want to do: Concentrate different RSS feeds (e.g. newswires) which do not necessarily have an account in any other social network into one imaginary friend's collection of feeds.
- Mark Jacobs
Mark, "groups" (formerly "rooms") are able to import feeds just like regular users (and imaginary friends). See https://friendfeed.com/xoogle-... for example (imports the blogs of all known xoogle startups). The only thing special about imaginary friends is that they don't have usernames (or rather we assign a random 128 bit username).
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, the DM option on imaginary friends should perhaps be removed. Also, imaginary friends do not show up on the search dropdown list when you type in their name in the search box.
- Kol Tregaskes
Paul, is it possible to automatically create "imaginary friends" from twitter following list? What I would like is to read all my Twitter in FriendFeed; many of twitterers though are not on FF, so I have to create them by hand which is tedious. Also, it would be nice to allow to add them to some special list.
- Ihar Mahaniok
Ihar, see my comment up in the middle and Paul's reply. Looks like FF are working on it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nice tool, discovered some more contacts !
- François Granger
love this guys wonderful
- Thomas Power
This must be the reason for all the new follows I've been getting over the last few days. Congrats!
- Michael Fidler
That's actually quite useful. Thank you!
- snapixel
Still would like an imaginary friend than making bunch of Groups to simulate peoples that doesn’t use FF. BTW, unlike the Facebook Connect login, when I tried logging in using Twitter, it made a new account for me on FF instead of opening my own (which also has Twitter activity added).
- Natsuki Seika
ditto to natsuki...
- Steve Austin
Wow, real nice and simply to add my Twitter friends :O
- Rosenkrieger
Good move!
- Lantrix
Is it possible to add this to a wordpress blog?
- Arturo Pelayo
@Arturo: http://wordpress.org/extend...
- Saxtus
hi me sid m new member of dis site.........
- Sidra Kanwal
Really tough day. One of the toughest of my life. Fast Company TV is being restructured and had to lay off my friend @rocmanusa
Franklin Pettit, david beckwith, Iggy Mwangi and 68 other people liked this
Well, this day turned out a lot worse than I expected it to be. Sigh.
- Robert Scoble
Damn. That sucks. :(
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Well crap... that is not fun. Hang in there Robert (sending rocmanusa a tweet now)
- Brian Roy
I hate that you had to let him go, Robert. I'm sure with your massive following you'll be able to get him hooked up with something else fast.
- David Wilson
Hang tough Robert. Keep business and personal on different sides of the room.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
Sorry to hear that, Robert. It always hurts when it hits close to home...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
That truly sucks. Sadly, there are a lot of other folks out there right now going through a similar experience.
- Kevin Pedraja
maybe you can spread the word on his skills and help hook him up with a new job? surely someone is out there who is looking for someone with his skills?
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Sorry to hear :(
- Tyson Key
:(
- Steven Perez
Sucks but think big picture. If "this" is one of the toughest days of your life you have led a very very charmed life and should be counting yourself one of the luckiest peeps alive. Walla, now you have the attitude adjustment to go forth and help friend where possible. :)
- Steve C
:o( Sorry to hear it.
- Nurse Katie
Steve: agreed. My life is very charmed compared to many people's lives. My mom dying and my divorce were worse, but this sucks.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry to hear Robert.
- AJ Kohn
:( Sorry to hear Robert.
- Roberto Bonini
That is really unfortunate, I'm sorry to hear that.
- Jeremy Peronto
Not easy at all. I hate that we're going backwards.
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
It's happening all over. Hope that doesn't add too much to your workload.
- Phil Boiarski
Robert, so sorry to hear that on behalf of RocMan - please send my regards to him. He was one of the hardest working people there.
- Jesse Stay
Wow that is incredibly harsh. It's tough enough when you have to lay off employees in general, let alone someone you considered a friend.
- Devlin Dunsmore
from twhirl
Hang in there buddy. Have unfortunately had too many months of that. Call me if you want to talk to someone.
- Patrick Moorhead
Sorry to hear about @rocmanusa. One of my business contacts was laid off yesterday, so it's all over. And Peter, sorry to hear about your layoff.
- Ontario Emperor
Sorry to hear this about Rocky :(
- directeur
that's too bad. Rocky's a great guy and was a fantastic video editor, producer, friend. Tought times indeed.
- Thomas Hawk
Oh wow, that would SUCK big time!! My heart goes out to you...he was a dear friend and collegue to you... I am sorry **** HUG **** . That is scary too isn't it?!
- Susan Beebe
Sorry, Robert its tough when your friends are laid off
- Kim Landwehr
... big hugs for rocky .. buy him a few beers
- johnpiercy
Bummer Robert. Heartfelt wishes and best of luck to your friend rocmanusa.
- jcunwired
sorry, sometimes i think it's harder psychically on the person doing the layoff than the one cut
- Dan Perlman
from twhirl
That is hard, Robert. I feel for you. @rocmanusa good luck finding something! I am sure @scobleizer will have a great word to help you out! Will root for you!
- Robert Couture
from Friend Deck
Robert that really sucks! And Rocky, I'm sorry to hear you were let go!!!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nothing harder, Robert. I once built an entire news department, only to fire everyone after a 2 year run.
- Doug
Didin't realise it was Rocky till now. Now that really blows, man. Sorry. It sucks. :(
- Roberto Bonini
This is sad. Robert, how many people does Fast Company currently employ?
- Michael Forian
Dozens. Not sure of the whole number because Mansueto Ventures has Inc magazine too.
- Robert Scoble
That sucks, sorry to hear it - and hope Rocky gets straight into a great new gig ...
- Patrick Jordan
Sorry, Robert. It's happening everywhere, but that doesn't make it any easier.
- Louis Gray
Robert, I would only ask you one thing to make yourself feel better (regret is easy-action is harder) and think outside the box: Given the reverse, what would you like your friend to do for you? How far would you go to protect him or her? This is the kind of innovation, gentlemen (and ladies) that we need right now. Rather than hope, DO. DO everything you can to help your friend get a new job. And don't give up until its done.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie: I already have talked with a few people trying to find Rocky a job so I absolutely agree.
- Robert Scoble
{hugs} - I'm laid off too. It's a great time for an entrepreneur to grab a bunch of us talented developers and go into stealth mode on some super awesome new web site. I'm game for sure!
- Chrimmus Tad
Robert: Then you will both be blessed. I will be praying for you both until I hear its accomplished.
- Melanie Reed
It's tough, but i guess it wasn't coming out of the blue. Sometimes good companies just get into this mess because of bad timing. The good news are that some of them might survive the crisis, the bad ones are that no one really knows when this thing is about to end.
- Nir Ben Yona
Bummer. :-(
- Lisa L. Seifert
Sorry to hear that
- Adam Sherk
Sorry to hear the news. Rocky rules!
- Brian Ziel
From the *Wish It Were Not True Dep't* the likely future of Rocky's (and certainly millions of others) INBOX: Month 1: So sorry! Hugs! Month 2: Don't worry, something will turn up. Month 3: Dude, it's just a rough ride for everyone. Month 4: Maybe you should go back to school. Month 5: You just have to "reinvent" yourself ... yes, AGAIN. Month 6: Why didn't anyone speak up back in February and help Make #BasicIncome http://usbig.net/ Happen?
- michael silverton
i hate to say this but this should have been private :( there are just things that shouldn't be made public - especially by a boss. good luck to rocky in any case -
- Allen Stern
Sorry Rob for the bad news ... hangin in there rocky .. all the best wishes
- johnpiercy
ooottttaaayyy, that's dreaming. i was finally persuaded the other day to live in the world how it is, not how i would love it to be. (don't you agree you gotta' spot me this one, Robert?) absolutely *not* at Rocky's expense; for honestly, the situation sux beyond belief *heaving sigh of complete empathy* really, we have to think about this on a serious massive scale; we all heard Davos, what are we *doing* about it? are we really going to just sit around believing business as usual will return any day?
- michael silverton
"Furthermore, the regular rhythm of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years meant that everyone would know when the next release was due, thereby giving fairness and equity to both creditor and debtor.[45][46] Hudson therefore maintains that not only was the Levitical legislation a significant advance over the prior attempts to deal with indebtedness, but this legislation was also eminently...
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- Melanie Reed
Sorry to hear that.
- Steve Rubel
Hard for both of you for sure. Hang in there @rocmanusa.
- Micah Wittman
Already heard that, and I'm sad for both of you. Read my blog from today:-)
- Francine Hardaway
And I hope you didn't do it by email. Like someone did to me.
- Francine Hardaway
Not that it make sit better, but I want to add my sympathies, as well, to both you guys. I know it's not easy to let good people go -- or, of course, to be the one let go, obviously!
- Woodrow Jarvis Hill
I'm a big fan of Rocky but I agree with Alex, not sure if this is appropriate way to announce a layoff... it could come across as being more about you than Rocky, you seem to be getting more sympathy than he.
- Tom Foremski
I hear you, Robert. It is an awful feeling.
- Pete Delucchi
You could keep Rocky as a contractor and you'll need to credit him on all the videos he Edited.
- paul mooney
Good talent is rarely out of work for long. Good luck to the both of you.
- MarkCarras
Sorry to hear, Rocky is a fun guy. Looks like a roadie, but much nicer.
- sean percival
ouch. :-) best of luck to Rocky...
- Mitchell Tsai
:( ... I met Rocky and u while you guys were in HK last year. Can never expect the world change so quickly for the worst.
- Clarence Chiang
Well the good news is they got rid of Ed Sussman already. That had nothing to do with economics
- Marc Canter
Here's where FF fails. "I had to lay off my friend" and FriendFiend says 49 people "liked this." So sick.
- Michael Markman
Robert, I've had to layoff friends. Several times, and it never gets easier.
- Seth Greenblatt
from NoiseRiver
Sorry to hear that, I had to lay off my wife at the end of last year, we have worked together for 12 years.
- John D Reasor
Francine, I agree. I have had the email layoff experience so I can understand how you feel.
- Melanie Reed
This story really illustrates what a CEO friend of mine brings out constantly:is your relationship transactional or relational? Its the paradigm that needs to change. Business and its practices and thoughts have infiltrated our thinking for far too long. The phrase "It's just business." is going to go from grimly and begrudgingly accepted to the painful resentment needed to change it and our behavior towards one another. There are other ways.
- Melanie Reed
Resorting to what's always been done, is indicative of running out of ideas. btw- the CEO I mentioned wants to fight the "Transactional" way we treat all our relationships when it comes to business.
- Melanie Reed
Francine: i did read your post. Damn. I try never to deliver bad news through email. I hate it when people do that to me and I try to treat others the way I'd like to be treated. Allen: good point, but Rocky announced it on Twitter first and for better or for worse I live my life, good and bad, in public. It isn't always comfortable and it isn't always the best thing to do, I'm sure. But I chose to live my life in public and if I only shared the good stuff in my life you'd be seeing an incomplete picture.
- Robert Scoble
Also, my goal now is to help http://www.twitter.com/rocmanu... get a job. One advantage I have is my public network. By getting a crappy situation out here it might help. Already I've talked to a couple of people who saw this news and needed a good video editor.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry to hear Robert and it is great you are helping him. One of the big benefits of social networking
- Rob Cairns
++Melanie, there are global structural changes underway that could well open the door to these paradigm shifts, but prepare for a painful, and stubbornly lengthy transition. What if http://tr.im/ItIsThatBad ?
- michael silverton
Extraordinary: "I chose to live my life in public and if I only shared the good stuff in my life you'd be seeing an incomplete picture." -- RS. I've pointed this out before to others, and RS doesn't need my approval in any way; but this is indeed one of the foundational tenets of @scobleizer's revolutionary lifestyle. I suspect 80% of "followers" haven't the first f'ing clue of the road he's traveled to this point. Yes, Robert, talking about you in ur own thread. Nulle bastardo carborundum, including me.
- michael silverton
That sucks! all the best to your friend.
- Kahlil Lechelt
Thanks everyone. Got to keep as upbeat as possible.After all, nothing lasts forever. This is yet another test of character for me. I'm up for the challenge. I have to be. Robert, thanks for the memories. Good times, yeah? !!!
- Rocky Barbanica
oh no. I'm sorry to hear that friends
- Jeremiah Owyang
Geez, sorry to hear about this, you guys were a great team. Lots of hard news for Rocky at all once, keep your chin up, you have mad skills!
- Phil G
it is a sad day for you both, I'm sure. In this hyper connected world this is becoming all too common. We choose to work with people we know and like and then when the business changes... I've been thinking a lot about companies laying off people, then asking consumers to buy. Hey, we're all the same people on both sides of the spectrum.
- Valeria Maltoni
sorry to hear Rocky and Robert, really sad. Good luck Rocky.
- Loic Le Meur
Ugh, the recession is leaving nobody untouched.
- jjprojects
Perhaps what we need is some outside expertise in Social Collapse Best Practices http://friendfeed.com/e...
- michael silverton
DeleteMe Uncensored - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I just got banned from this group.
- Andy Roth
yeah, it's where I spent 99% of my group time on Flickr. It was a *very* uncensored place (i.e. not for people who are easily offended). A few of the admins starting censoring there and then added everyone in the group as an admin in order to kill it. It's a shame there were over 35,000 threads there. So we started a new version of the game here: http://flickr.com/groups/dmu2/
- Thomas Hawk
I'm serious when I say if you join this group on Flickr and are active that you very well may be offended. It really is uncensored and that has attracted some people who definitely want to push the limits of obscenity in some cases. But if you have a super thick skin it can be an interesting photo critique group.
- Thomas Hawk
the one you were banned from Andy was the old one. This is the new one that was started today.
- Thomas Hawk
Crazy idea, good luck!
- Nir Dremer
I like this idea. I wish I had seen the previous version. Just posted a photo to get deleted..
- John Ford
Joined. I also got banned from the last one. I'm joining this one because Thomas is a known face in the group.
- Dylan Parker
I just got banned from it too! Well from a group called "Del*teMe Uncensored! Come in and suck Thomas Hawk's 5D Flickr Group" - their words not mine, Thomas!
- Kol Tregaskes
haha, yeah as the group imploded people could change the title of the group to anything that they wanted. A bunch of people were admins and so they mass deleted everyone who wasn't an admin in the group and hence all of the you've been banned notices.
- Thomas Hawk
It was an interesting 4 year experiment in having an uncensored group on Flickr but ultimately it failed. We're not allowed to mention certain Flickr staff by name in Flickr groups and when I mentioned one Heather said that the post had to be deleted or she'd delete the group. So hence the new group.
- Thomas Hawk
Oops. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I'm just hoping this group will give me some incite as to how I can improve my photography. If I can get 1 or 2 good pieces of advice per photo I will be happy.
- John Ford
hopefully John, but it can be brutal too.
- Thomas Hawk
Just joined. Never been a part of a group like this. So far, it's pretty fun. Good criticism of my photos. I'm quickly headed for "delete" territory with my first submission, but it's all good!
- Matt
Same here, Matt. First timer in that group. Interesting experience so far.
- Bob M. Montgomery
from twhirl
My first submission was doomed for failure; I posted it purely to see if the criticisms were useful. They pretty much are.
- Randy Hall
I forgot I was a member until I got banned. I thought it was kind of weird, but that explains it.
- Eric P
Microsoft on Intel's Anti-Linux: “This is a Nightmare” - http://boycottnovell.com/2009...
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Oooh, salacious details, I like!
- Randy Hall
Oliver Cromwell's death mask, warts and all | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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"He loathed vanity so much that he insisted his portraits depict him faithfully, 'warts and all'. And even after his death, Oliver Cromwell's instructions were followed to the letter. This death mask shows the puritanical Lord Protector of England in all his grizzled, lumpy glory. There has been no attempt to conceal the growth on his lower lip or straighten his crooked nose. All in all, the mask doesn't make an attractive artwork - though that probably won't bother the person who buys it this week. The plaster cast, made around 350 years ago, has been put up for sale at auction by a private collector."
- RAPatton
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Ken Kaplan, New Media Manager at Intel: The PR Metamorphose - http://delbourg-delphis.com/2009...
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From the page: "Today, PR is not about messages, although they are in there. It's about telling stories that connect to trends and that are helpful to people, Ken says. You tend to want a better laptop next time you want to buy one. At that point, we want to be there when you need it. We want to help you."
- Ken Kaplan
Nice article, bro! And I shed a tear at mention of Bozman, I miss you guys!
- Randy Hall
Live Video Blooper (Censored Nudity) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Oh, thats funny.
- Colby Olson
Root beer: The revival of an all-American - Los Angeles Times - http://www.latimes.com/feature...
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"Root beer is back. That's right, root beer -- the dark brown stuff, cola's elder brother, the foundation of that most perfect of soda fountain drinks: the root beer float. Not too long ago, you were lucky to find more than a couple of brands of root beer anywhere. Today, if you look around, you can choose among old favorites, regional brands that have become available here and a raft of novel brews that expand the very definition of root beer. (For good or ill. When you add sage to your recipe, my friend, I just don't think you're really making a root beer anymore.)"
- RAPatton
"The name "root beer" was coined by Charles E. Hires, a Philadelphia druggist who introduced it to the world at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. He had conceived his concoction of ingredients as a root-based equivalent of an herbal tea, but he soon found that it worked better as a soda fountain drink. Immediately, people all over started marketing their own root beers, and there came to...
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- RAPatton
"As a result, sarsaparilla was considered such an innocent ingredient that, as late as the 1950s, the heroic new sheriff in a cowboy movie would walk into the local saloon and ask for a "sasparilly," showing how pure and fearless he was. This would be the equivalent of going into a tough bar and asking for root beer. However, sassafras is no longer considered innocent. In 1960, it was...
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- RAPatton
"There has never been a single recipe for root beer, so it is not at all unprecedented for modern makers to include vanilla or other spices. Licorice is also a traditional ingredient, so you can't fault people for experimenting with the similar flavor anise. A lot of sodas began including caffeine in the 20th century, so it's natural that power-drink versions of root beer have sprouted...
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- RAPatton
Love. Funny, was thinking about Root Beer the other day. Mmmmmm....
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Lindsey, you just like the biting part, admit it
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
IBC is the nectar of the GODS.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Thomas Kemper makes great root beer - they had their offices and brewery in the same building I worked in when I lived in Seattle - we got the occasional free samples for being good neighbors
- William Harryman
Can I like this +100? Simply for the revival of root beer. Neat to know the info about the sassafras.
- Ragani Harris
mmmmm, root beer float...
- Kenton
most australian root beer is too licoric-ey for the root beer drinker in our household (not me, i think you have to grow up with the stuff to like it) - so I would love for the brand revival to mean more root beer available in the UK
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Spidra, there is a decent alternative (although not a cheap one) that I like. Although I am usually particular about root beer, and it does not capture the brown sugar/mollasses flavor as well, I discovered I actually like Zevia's Ginger Root Beer http://www.zevia.com/product... (about $1 a can). It is not a perfect root beer substitute, but when avoiding sugars & artificial sweeteners, it is the best option I have found.
- Ragani Harris
We hosted European exchange students for 3+ years, and we would always make a point of having them try root beer. None of them cared for it.
- Ontario Emperor
I loooooove root beer.
- Damien Franco
root beer's good stuff. some think it tastes too "medicine-y" so i guess it can be acquired taste, but i love it
- Cee Bee
it's super-awesome with BOOZE in it, as well :)
- Iain Baker
+1 Iain, root beer and vanilla vodka is the best
- William Harryman
William, that sounds perfect!
- Iain Baker
Unboxing (and even more unboxing) of the Seal Shield - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Richard/Hauntshade, Daniel Rowley, Quasar and 4 other people liked this
Don't shippers package things like that so that it stacks (and fills) neatly in their trucks?
- Randy Hall
But does make wasting vertical space in the track really make sense there?
- Horst Gutmann
Few things make sense in the world of shipping.
- Randy Hall
Poor Ann Coulter: Where will all that venom go now? | Crooks and Liars - http://crooksandliars.com/david-n...
Duncan Riley, Randy Hall, Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah and 2 other people liked this
"No matter how tempting it might be, we're not going to be mean-spirited and all schadenfreuden over your recent jaw wiring, like some people who are celebrating the fact that it apparently will shut you up for awhile."
- Dave Winer
from Bookmarklet
The Guild - Episode 1: Wake-Up Call - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Kim, Randy Hall, Jennifer Dittrich and 4 other people liked this
I *love* The Guild.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Can always share some 'Guild' love!
- Shawna Benson
Having been one of the people in Felica's WoW guild, I shudder to think of some of the -- uh -- archetypes represented here. Thank god I am a casual gamer. Nevertheless, The Guild is awesome and enjoyable, even if some of the jokes bring back unpleasant memories.
- Randy Hall
BTW the episode of Legend of Neil I'm in is posted! http://www.atom.com/funny_v... NSFW :) I play a fairy!
Hao Chen, , donato and 10 other people liked this
Yes, it's already under discussion on WHEDONesque. ;)
- The One True b!X
that was insane.
- Percival
Oh, how I wish i could remove black censor bars with my MIND.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I love this show.
- Sam Ee
It appears that Michelle Miller is rubbing off on that fairy
- RAPatton
The fact that I'm still(!) doing Twilight Princess makes Legend of Neil even more hilarious!
- Randy Hall
awesome.
- mjc
I was implying the baby fever the fairy has at the end. You have to watch the whole thing. Baby Fever, catch it!
- RAPatton
exactly! If that isn't baby fever what is!?!
- RAPatton
the fairy might just be my new favorite character you do! awesome!
- aug
LOL! Having just watched Disney's Faries w/ kidlet (twice) this week-end, that was so disturbingly messed up. Thanks, being hypoglycemic, I needed that to balance the sugar still in my system. Best.Fairy.Evah!
- David Monroe
from twhirl
that rocks! the oscar goes to....Felicia!
- imabonehead
I Did This in 1999... - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Randy Hall, Thomas Hawk, Mitchell Tsai and 6 other people liked this
funny mouse faced
- Mukund
If someone started lolhumans.com, this should be the first image
- Outsanity
did it taste good?
- Richie Keith
um. EW
- Mona Nomura
Ball mouse? Scary...
- Dennis Laumen
I dare you to do the same but this time with a mouse from a public computer on an international airport :)
- George The Writer
I was hoping that was old, that shirt is old school :)
- Douglas Porter
from twhirl
Who needs lolhumans when there's already a lolgeeks? http://lolgeeks.com ;)
- Nathaniel Payne
+1 to lolgeeks.com !
- Candace
strange. look at the glasses! haha
- Ryan
All hail geeks!!!
- Roberto Bonini
Not as funny as when you did this... (video) http://drop.io/0rxlag7...
- Jim Williams
You ate a mouse? hehe Well, for 2008, you'll need to bite into a wireless one. ;)
- Daynah
Video proof that Chris Pirillo had an iMac before. - http://drop.io/lt1hijm
- Jim Williams
Menomenah song! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Nick Mutton, Derick Valadao, Dread Pirate PJ and 47 other people liked this
I played this video for my one-year-old niece the other day and she could not stop laughing. That was the plan.
- Steve Rubel
No! Not the puppets again! please! :) (I swear I'm kidding)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
OH G-D not again - now im going to be freaking singing this all night and i need to go to sleep now!!! DAMN YOU WINER! and here i just interviewed your company yesterday! yet i cant stop watching
- Allen Stern
This is a song we sing with the kids all the time. I do the mamomena part and the kids to the "do do do do" part Oops. they say the thumbnail on the screen and want to see it right now :)
- Christian Burns
This is a song often sung in our house - kids love it!
- Bora Zivkovic
There's a town in New Jersey that always makes me sing this: Manalapan do doo do doo do Manalapan Doo do do doo....
- George Smith
CAKE did a cover of this song on their "B-Sides and Rarities" album, give it a listen here: http://www.last.fm/music...
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
:D
- edythe
Haggis I am now dizzy from watching that cover video :)
- Allen Stern
Dave is evil... this will be stuck in my head for days now... Thanks Dave!!
- Les Zaldor
I had this stuck in my head all day today as well... No good!
- Justin Korn
ok - now im about to lose it - ive been whistling this song for 50 minutes - how will i get to bed now - dave you are getting a noogie when we meet!
- Allen Stern
OK, let's see: Menomenah!
- Björn Brembs
ABSOLUTELY LOOOOOOOOOOVVVVE IT!
- Jes Tu
One of my son's favorites these days. In addition, have a look at the Muppets' Hugga Wugga: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ansgar Wollnik
ok - so the train took forever to come, it's humid and the only thing that kept me smiling was singing this song - people probably thought i was a bit nutty from all the smiling :)
- Allen Stern
Love it
- Natallini
I remember there was an even better one at the time where he goes totally insane at the end - does someone have a link to this one?
- Denise Young
Being a Steeler fan, I'm more partial to this slightly different take: http://www.youtube.com/watch... ;)
- Steve just Steve
Cake Wrecks - http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
Jay Wiegmann, Kyle A Koch, Randy Hall and 6 other people liked this
Feature suggestion for Twitter - http://www.scripting.com/stories...
Kenichi Matsumoto, Dave Martin, Mike Fruchter and 7 other people liked this
I went and created my Identi.ca account based on this post. I find it interesting that it ties so nicely with OpenID...
- Randy Hall
Functioning for more than 8 straight hours?
- James Joyner
@James, without degrading services(ie XMPP or @replies) as well
- James Williams
No need. You can can accomplish the same thing (I have) by feeding the RSS from your Twitter Favorites to Twitterfeed, which then pushes them back to your account. As long as you don't favorite more than 5 tweets every 30 minutes (and Twitterfeed is not visited by the whale) you're covered.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
From Dave's post: "I'm sure Twitter-only people are sick of hearing it, but FF has mystical qualities that I'm not sure anyone fully appreciates. It reveals little bits of itself to you slowly over time."
- Hutch Carpenter
Mystical or not, having support for imaginary friends is a start.
- Ignacio Rodriguez de R,
Al Dente: Almost Edible Photo: Homemade Oreo Cookies - http://www.aldenteblog.com/2008...
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"From flickr. I guess they could also be considered homemade Hydrox cookies. I've never been a fan of Oreos, but these wouldn't last long in my house."
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Just what's missing with my coffee here, they look fantastic
- Mo Kargas
A warm Oreo dipped in Milk sounds great. If you work at an Oreo plant post on this thread. Do they let you eat them straight off the production line?
- Franklin Pettit
A friend of mine interviewed at a honey bun plant. The employees could go down to the plant floor and get a warm honey bun anytime they wanted.
- Franklin Pettit
Another I'm sharing with the Foods room. yummy for my tummy. ETA - nevermind... :)
- Yolanda
Even better than the real thing
- Michael W. May
Oh. My. Gawd. Yum!
- Lisa L. Seifert
So um.. recipe please!
- Colby Olson
Holy crap! Driving home from set I was listening to NPR...guess what they just featured? http://www.npr.org/templat... Total geek out moment!
edythe, Ben Wern, Timothy Shey and 3 other people liked this
kcrw or kpcc?
- robert steburg
Grats! The production really is top notch, and you three all have beautiful singing voices. I've already paid the $4 for the season pass at iTunes.
- Randy Hall
Good for you guys!
- Travis Seitler
Yes I heard this this afternoon! More great PR for you guys. Confirmed that NPR is still cool (even though they cancelled the BPP). LOL @ the NPH = Cuddly, white, polar bear comment.
- David Monroe
from twhirl
As always, you're my hero.
- Timothy Shey
ABBA – Dancing Queen - http://www.last.fm/music...
Alex Kapranoff, Michael Nielsen, Steve Spalding and 9 other people liked this
yay! this song makes me want to rollerskate!
- carlotta fancypants
and for me it wakes up memories of latest trip on Helsinki-Stockholm route, disco on that ferry ;)
- A.T.
YEEEEESSSS!!!
- Anna Haro
Does this last.fm listing only appear in FriendFeed if you "Love" it in the desktop app? What about in the iPhone app?
- Glenn Batuyong
from twhirl
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."
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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
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/archive...
- 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
throw away apple stuff - it works perfect on latest (Diablo) release of OS2008 on Nokia tablets N800 & N810
- A.T.
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 @ CSTechcast.com
Love the clip :) (FireFox 3 - works perfectly)
- George Smith
Dave, check this room out: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- 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. :(
- Steve Lowe
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.
- Steve Lowe
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
Hard Life: my youngest is complaining that there is too much chocolate on the S'more he just made.
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wow, beautiful
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
new headshots?
- robert steburg
Simply stunning.
- Mike Shulman
(picks his jaw up off the floor) I see you deleted some of them? :(
- Percival
Just took a few off that didn't warrant being in there, too many as it is :)
- Felicia
Those are some great shots
- RAPatton
...Ah bless - I'll send you an umbrella then you won't get caught out next time it rains :)
- WorldofHiglet
I will be there to make sure the umbrella is intercepted. Let it RAIN! :)
- Percival
I need a new Avatar picture, which one would crop into a square well for like, Friendfeed, Twitter, etc?
- Felicia
jail_11
- Erhan Erdogan
blue_horz_2 or Jail_5
- Adam Turetzky
*head about to expode* Cant make up my mind! ><
- Percival
glasses_1
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Der, just thought to view them in thumbnail form, which is what they will end up being in the end anyway. Me der...of course I could crop one too...
- Felicia
I vote for either of water_11, jail_10 or jail_hs
- Dread Pirate PJ
from NoiseRiver
oh, I changed my mind: jail_full is excellent. I recommend that one. Crop as needed. Great smile. :-)
- Dread Pirate PJ
from NoiseRiver
I dont know why but glasses_3 is calling out to me. they are all so good though!
- Percival
You either look incredibly familiar to me or remind me of someone and it's freaking me out.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Or any of the Flower_X photo's, something about the park that brings on the win.
- Percival
jaw dropping wow
- paul
My votes go for: purple_smile, cardigan_2_full, flower_3 or flower_4
- Mauro
@Felica let us know when you've got a winner! :)
- Percival
Nice pix, kiddo.
- Jim Stanger
well, I picked one of the outdoor ones, but I might change it. Bah, too many decisions!
- Felicia
Interestingly British take on critics vs. bloggers. Read it! http://ping.fm/rde9b
Randy Hall liked this
I've felt this way about blogs versus newspapers for quite a while now, having seen bloggers (even wine bloggers) scoop newspaper stories by weeks, if not months. The ridiculously local focus of some bloggers (and their ability to get tied in locally in a way that regional newsrooms can't) means that a blog can break a story that eventually gets picked up (or found on its own) by a newspaper or newsroom for broader dissemination.
- Randy Hall
How to take screenshots with the iPhone 3G http://hellotxt.com/l/Xibd
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Very nice pat, Good tip. (Incidentally works on Iphone v1 of course with 2.0 s/w upgrade.)
- Mike Coulter
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