At least we aren't making Fake Alex Scoble accounts. That means we like you.
- Shawn Farner
Actually, Shawn, the one I just blocked was a Fake A Scoble account. :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Why can't they concentrate their efforts on people who are asking for fake accounts to be made? Where's Fake Steve Ballmer on FF? Fake Glenn Beck?
- Shawn Farner
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions.
I disabled Friendfeed wallposts a while ago to avoid duplicate aggregate streaming there.
- John Lam
Orpheus' music was so powerful that no one could resist it—not even the fairest maiden. He chose the lovely Eurydice to be his wife. But their joy was brief. As Eurydice walked through a meadow shortly after their wedding, a poisonous snake bit her. She died, leaving Orpheus alone and deeply saddened. Overcome by grief, he decided to travel to the land of the dead to get her.
- Azeem Baloch
It looks like people are solving it, so hopefully I'm not spoiling it: Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Tab, Return. It's a variation of the Konami code (which nets you 30 lives in Contra) adapted for the keyboard. Figured out the first part from Paul's clue, but it took going through the minified Javascript to figure out a) that they didn't use the original Konami code like Google does and b) what they used for keyboard equivalents for "select" and "start."
- Mark Trapp
AWESOME! but didn't the code net you 99 lives?
- Keith - @tsudo
In Contra it was 30; not sure what it was in other Konami games.
- Mark Trapp
hahah man that's intense. i guess they know their audience :)
- Frankie Warren
The Legend of the Mystical Ninja: U U D D L-Button R-Button L-Button R-Button Start. 30 lives. I'll never forget that ;p (there also was that B A B A variation too..) GG Mark.
- Zu from AOD
Stephen, very happy to see new features like this, but I think the "death" part is the major users reducing their activity. I'd love to see some support from Facebook in promoting FriendFeed more to encourage those users to go back. Or maybe they don't want to? Regardless, bonus for me! Thanks Benjamin - you're awesome!
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, fair enough but major users always did come and go. Some of the departees who left said they were doing so because there was no new development. Clearly not all development is halted. Last week Paul hinted that FF may receive a major new feature, and characterized his participation as "20% time" -- I'll take that.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I backed down off the all caps. The group "best of" is really useful, love it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Stephen, I agree - I'd just like some confirmation that Facebook cares about all this so I can know whether to focus my efforts on Facebook or FriendFeed or both.
- Jesse Stay
I noticed the best of on the iPhone the other day, wrote it out on a cake and then ated it.
- Josh Haley
Jesse, I think you should focus where your users are focused. What do SocialToo users want? But if they want Facebook focus, you should still keep an eye on FriendFeed, since the future Facebook will look a lot more like FriendFeed.
- Bruce Lewis
Paul Buchheit said the FB acquisition was attractive because of shared vision/direction. I would be surprised if a lot of that vision wasn't already embodied in this product right here.
- Bruce Lewis
In the event of a real life emergency whom on friendfeed would you expect to be first in line to help out with whatever was needed? Gonna have to exclude family members because theoretically (and practically in my world) that goes without saying.
Nakachi & Vicster are closest to me & I know they got my back <3
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Anyone. Why would I point out names of people, forget someone and be the cause for disappointment?!? Not liking this for the redundancy of the question. Either we're all friends or we're not. Aside from some being fambly or on the way to being one.
- Chocolate Connoisseur
RAP and I would be there with GF cookies, at least. :D (Cookies fix EVERYTHING.)
- Pixie
In the event of my own real life emergency, countless friendfeeders had my back and I am eternally grateful to them. There are so many beautiful souls in this community. <3
- Kelli H.
I think it depends on the type of emergency. I know if I can get to my computer and post, there are plenty of people that would be willing to help if they can. This has already been proven. The type of emergency that might make me suddenly go missing, however, I am not sure how long it would take before I am missed and whether or not a special effort would be made to contact/locate me...
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- April Russo
Depends on the emergency and what kind of help was needed. Emotional support, I can think of several. Professional support, even more. When it comes to things like money, blood, or a liver lobe I'd say no one.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Considering where I live, probably Johnny. But I know pretty much everyone would be behind me (even if just to look at my bum).
- Headless Gnad Kicker
"The major difference between the researchers’ technique and ordinary holography is the use of a prism to adjust the light beam’s angle of incidence in combination with a thin silver film to produce the surface plasmons. When the angle of incidence is controlled appropriately, the silver film is excited to produce surface plasmons, which in turn cause the white light to reach the hologram in the three primary colors of red, green and blue, producing a floating full-color stereoscopic image."
- Jemm
from Bookmarklet
"A Scottish firm has been forced to rename its round doored, round everything holiday cabins from “hobbit houses” to something less specific. The Hungry Hobbit Cafe and Sandwich Bar, which has operated under that name in the town where Tolkien grew up (after his family left South Africa for England) for six years, has also been ordered to change “signs, menus, aprons and other items would be expensive for the small business.” One Southampton pub has operated under the name The Hobbit for twenty years, and, since it can neither afford a defense against Zaentz’s lawsuit or afford the full rebranding that his lawsuit demands, is facing closure."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
"Fortunately for the The Hobbit pub, it has a set of very powerful voices on its side in the battle: the two titans of British tabloid The Sun, and the Telegraph, and one titan of English sensibleness and wit: Stephen Fry. Fry is playing the role of the Master of Lake-town in The Hobbit, so if there was any one capable of getting the right people looking at the issue, it’s him, unless it were the very hobbity Peter Jackson himself."
- Jessie
The Tolkien Estate is a bunch of arseholes.
- Akiva
Neil Gaiman is championing this too, as I recall.
- Soup in a TARDIS
I wonder if a personal name change would be much cheaper. I know in the US, you have the right to use your last name in your business name, so if that applies there too, legally changing his last name to Hobbit might solve the problem.
- April Russo