"We rarely give much thought to the humble toilet paper roll – and why should we? It’s just a piece of cardboard, destined for the recycling bin, a carrier for a necessary but unremarkable household supply. But perhaps it’s the very banality of this material that gives Anastassia Elias’ tiny, delicate sculptures such surprising vitality."
- Brian Sullivan
from Bookmarklet
What does it say about my sons that their block buster Christmas gift, the one they will be most excited about, this year is a collection of books? - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Com...
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes is their big gift, and I think they will be very excited. It is just interesting that they are at an age where most of what they will recieve is either a book or a game. I think they've read most of Calvin and Hobbes already, but this edition will make sure they haven't missed anything
- RAPatton
I wonder if I should put some of my book tokens towards that...
- Pete
Funny, my wish list is all books and games and I'm 31!
- Kyle Hebert
Exactly, Kyle; they are growing up.
- RAPatton
from iPhone
My kids LOVE Calvin and Hobbes. LOVE. They sit there reading them for hours. Actually, the voice that my oldest son uses to read the part of Calvin is quite annoying. :-D
- Jason Huebel
Cause these books are AWESOME and they have good taste.
- Uncle CW™
It means your sons are the big awesome! LOVE!!!!
- Mary Carmen
I'd really like to get my hands on the Peanuts collections. The early stuff is so different than the late stuff.
- Spidra Webster
That they are as awesome as my girls who read the Calvin & Hobbes books reapeatedly for several years. And that they will have an enhanced vocabulary as a result.
- Rochelle Rochelle
My wife's been buying me these kinds of collections for Christmas for a few years now. I've got this one, The Far Side and a good chunk of the early Peanuts.
- J Wynia
I was always most excited about the books that I received at the holidays. Good for you and them.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
"Are there any desserts more likely to cause controversy than the trifle? It's a dish which is vastly more than the sum of its contentious parts, with the inclusion of each layer often hotly contested in households all over the country in much the same way that the Lyonnaise debate what should go into an authentic cassoulet. Of course, in the case of the trifle, the issue of most import is – should it, or should it not contain jelly?"
- M F
from Bookmarklet
I LOVE trifle! (and yes it should have jelly)
- Vicky
+102 for Bill Waterson references in picture Kevin or words Sinterclas
- Steve C
cute but what happened to festivus this year?
- Laura Norvig
Merry Christmas to the FriendFeed team. You guys rock! FriendFeed reacts quickly and you're adding wonderful features all the time (Thanks soooo much for the "edit" feature.)
- Mitchell Tsai
Happy Holidays FF crue -- you've made this an excellent and memorable year for many of us. Facebook couldn't have done it without you! :)
- Christopher Galtenberg
w00t you gave me the best online year in 15 years!!! ;p Thanks a lot, everyone, for what you've done here XD
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
Sigh. Sometimes it is the little touches, like seasonal logos or easter eggs, that mark a site as a living project, and that you really miss when the developers have all moved on to something else.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Fletcher turns 1 on Thursday. I can honestly say that a Schnauzer is the perfect dog for a family with three boys. Perfect temperment, energy level and size. I <3 my four-legged buddy.
- Jason Huebel
from Android
"Subvert the patriarchy and get your kitty buzzed with a catnip-stuffed Katpon! My cat Laz (pictured looking his most innocent) has been a serial tampon molester for years. And what's not to love: they're small, chewy, and slide really well when you bat them across the bathroom floor. I thought I'd finally broken him of the habit until I woke up a few mornings ago to see his head sticking out of the cabinet with a you-know-what clamped firmly in his fangs. After 4 years of battle, I finally sat down that morning with my hook and started to design Laz a Katpon of his very own. When he climbed up in my lap while I worked out the prototype, I knew I was on to something. The amount of fun he had chasing it up and down the hallway clinched it: Katpons were a hit."
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
Ha! My friend has been doing this for years for her cats! The first time I saw her then 13 yo cat playing with one I just about died. Then she told me that she rolled and stuffed them with catnip.
- Admiral Anika
Rock'n Roll müziğinin kralı Elvis Presley'nin gençlik yıllarında çektirdiği bilinmeyen fotoğrafları Londra'daki bir sergiyle gün yüzüne çıktı. TARZA BAK :)
çağatay o kelimeleri duyunca birinin kafa saldıgını hissederim :D
- €Lyaz
bir de böyle amcalar var tabi... Allahtan erkekler genelde kıskançlık krizine girmezler. Yoksa "Bu ne lan karizmatik havalar, bir duruşlar böyle!" diye kafa atasım gelebilirdi.
- Serkan Canıberk
serkan iyiye iyi diceksin abi yanlısmıyım :)
- €Lyaz
I'm very excited. To get ready i've been reading all the Arthur Conan Doyle books! :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Yeah. Not sure why I see him as a Churchill derivative character
- Mo Kargas
Because we've been brainwashed by Hollywood that Watson looks like a Churchill look-a-like...
- Jax
Rachel, based on the trailers I've seen, there won't be much Conan Doyle in this beyond the names 'Sherlock Holmes' and 'John Watson.'
- John Craft
Mark, he was fairly fit but had some issues with his leg in some of the first short stories. However after a year or two of the stories his leg issues disappeared from the stories all together and he ran after Holmes without issue. And Holmes is often described as "being prone to uncommon fits of energy" and doing miraculous things.
- Rachel Lea Fox
John, I would agree based on the previews. Though I do hope they will stick to the original personalities.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Perhaps he snuck into Holmes' cocaine to trim some of the weight off.
- Veronica
"I do hope they will stick to the original personalities." - It looks to me that Guy Ritchie has been as faithful to Conan Doyle, as Cubby Broccoli was to Ian Fleming.
- John Craft
Before Iron Man, only movies i think i watched with him in them is, Us Marshalls and Natural Born Killers
- Fee501st
Even if they don't stick to Doyle's plans, murder mystery + Robert Downey Jr = awesomeness. Fairly sure of it. :) But I can't say I'd imagined Watson looking REMOTELY like Jude Law, I'd have gone stockier.
- Amy
I don't think it's an issue of "Was Watson Jude Law hot?" but more "Can Jude Law make a believable Watson?". From what I've seen on the previews, I think he can. Of course, in the roles Law played when he was younger, he looked more like a mannequin than a hottie to me. He looks much better in this.
- Craig Roth
Ach, he's an ok actor, I'm sure he'll do a decent enough job. :)
- Amy
She has curled into a circle in the basket and fallen asleep now. That is a happy kitten. There was some junk in the basket before, but she kept looking at me and looking at the basket and the fireplace so I went over and moved the junk out and put a blanket in the bottom and moved it just a little closer to the fireplace and she just got right in. So happy!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh she totally does Katy. But I"m okay with that. I keep looking over at her and how content and happy she is all curled in the basket and it just makes me smile. I couldn't be happier about my spoiled kitten!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Indiana is teasing me!!!! Indiana likes to carry my slippers around the house. Sometimes she even brings them to me, which is ultra cute. As of yet though I have never been able to catch her in photos or video. Kevin and I have both seen her do it, but when she notices us watching her she instantly stops and meows at us.
This morning she has two of my slippers out (you can see one just behind her there, and the other back and to the right a little farther) and has been starting to pick them up. But when I move my iPhone towards her she notices and stops and then lays down and looks at me, as shown above. Little schmuck is teasing me!! I will get her on video someday. It is the funniest thing really. She even meows with the slipper in her mouth, which comes out sounding funny!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Just like when my cat makes these odd clicking sound vocalizations but refuses to do it when there is a microphone around.
- April Russo (app103)
they are just like when you take your car in because it is making that noise, but it won't make that noise at the garage. Except here our kitties are doing it on purpose!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
That's funny. Meja likes to take one of my slippers and play with it. I tend to find it way across the room. She doesn't like me to take photos of her either, none of them do.
- Tonica
Tonica, Meja doesn't like her photo taken in general or just not with the slippers? Indiana LOVES her photo taken, she will pose for me. But for some reason not with the slippers!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oops. I guess I should learn to keep my different accounts straight. So, I guess it's obvious now that Camilla and Tonica are the same person. :) Meja and my other cats hate having their photos taken at any time. Unfortunately. Sometimes they're so cute I can't resist trying and once in a while I get a reasonably good photo, but not often.
- Tonica
"ZooBorns is no stranger to adorable ocelot kittens, but we thought this interaction with Litchfield, Arizona's Wildlife World Zoo's new ocelot kitten was too cute to pass up. Thanks to vileoxidation for the great pics."
- Rachel Lea Fox
from Bookmarklet
If anyone needs xmas present ideas for me (cough KEVIN cough) this right here is an excellent idea!! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
won't it grow up and rip your face off whilst you sleep?
- Jenna Bilotta
Jenna, I just won't let it sleep with me! ;-)
- Rachel Lea Fox
"The ocelot is mostly nocturnal and very territorial. It will fight fiercely, sometimes to the death, in territorial disputes. In addition, the ocelot marks its territory with especially pungent urine. ... The ocelot will sometimes take to the trees. Ocelots hunt over a range of 18 km2 (7 sq mi), taking mostly small mammals (deer, various rodents), reptiles and amphibians (lizards,...
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- Spidra Webster
Spidra, just look at those eyes!!! and those ears!!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Definitely cute. I recommend getting a Bengal kitty. Slightly safer. ;-)
- Spidra Webster
I can't have any by my Nym and Indiana. But it's fun to dream.
- Rachel Lea Fox
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Among the great and the good of British pop starring in tonight’s Children in Need concert on BBC One, from Sir Paul McCartney to Take That, the only name that might seem to stick out for some people is Muse. Aren’t they the Radiohead-lite band from Devon, who sing politically loaded lyrics against the system and all it stands for? In fact, Muse, while managing to retain something of their outsider status are right now bigger than any of the other acts. They sell arenas out faster than Coldplay; their last album, Resistance, went to the top of the charts in 20 countries (number three in the States); and they have two enormous stadium gigs lined up for next year, plus a groundbreaking tour of Eurasia, playing countries bands usually don’t get to play."
- RAPatton
"But it is precisely this level of showmanship and ambition that has caused the most resistance among the more serious-minded rock critics, who prize the virtue of authenticity above all others. Muse sit at the other end of the spectrum to the blue-collar aesthetic of Bruce Springsteen or Manu Chao. The lyrical excesses, too, of Matt Bellamy, often full of paranoid references to a...
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- RAPatton
"Muse’s lyrics, says Bellamy “have to match the epic nature of the music”. For the single, Uprising, an enjoyably strange mix of the Dr Who theme tune, Blondie’s Call Me and glam rock, he sings, “Paranoia is in bloom” and talks of “drugs to keep us all dumbed own” with a glorious singalong chorus of, “They will not control us./We will be victorious”."
- RAPatton