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Helping Hand - http://blog.fedibblety.com/2009...
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Maggie, April Buchheit, Robert Felty and 2 other people liked this
Gaia is hiring! Take a look at the open positions: http://corp.gaiaonline.com/careers
Robert Felty, Daniel Rowley, April Buchheit and 3 other people liked this
Where is this gaia physically located? If it is somewhere good, this might be the kind of thing Bethany would like (Rob will you pass it on?).
- Clare Dibble
I found them copulating on my upstairs deck.
Ladybug Heather, Robert Felty, Alfredo and 20 other people liked this
/hits like before he reads the word copulating...
- Louis Gray
When you then hit "turbo-like", right, Louis?
- Spidra Webster
Oh, my.
- Anne Bouey
Brown chicken, brown cow...
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Everyone knows Gary's upstairs deck is the place to do it.
- Jim Norris
GET A ROOM!
- Lynn Colton
nice cat!!!!
- Pam Gwenzi
Introduction to Tart — a general-purpose, strongly-typed programming language - http://viridia.org/project...
Troy Benohanian, Tracy, Micah Wittman and 26 other people liked this
I hadn't heard of this one before -- apparently its from Python people. Soundss nice! "Some of these motivations are: * The desire for a language that would combine the simplicity and readability of Python with the power of static typing and template metapgrogramming, as well as modern language features such as closures and generic functions. * The desire for a compiler that compiles to highly efficient native code instead of a VM. * The desire for a language which would fulfill the same role as C++, but designed from scratch with the benefit of hindsight. * The desire for a language which would fulfill the same role as Java, but more concise and requiring less verbose boilerplate."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Is there a provision for types that are dynamically bound, or is it all strongly-typed?
- Cristo
I wonder if the the nullable? feature is just as much as PITA as const in C++.
- Gary Burd
oh i was thinking how could i have liked it when i haven't even read it in recent times, good work http://friendfeed.com/jimminy
- ffcode
oh, R is going to like this, he's all for strongly typed languages. has it got aspects?
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Gary: My experience with C# makes me suspect that explicitly nullable references are going to be the occasional annoyance, not the plague of C++'s const.
- Gabe
what is going on? a new language every week! there would not be enough computers in this world to run all these languages
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Still reinventing the wheel, are we? This really puzzles me to no end..why do they think they need to create more 3rd generation programming languages like Google Go & now this "Tart" thing, when what we really need are everyday useful 4GL and 5GL languages/systems/frameworks that would really move us forward. If we keep things going the way these guys are, THE MACHINES WIN..
- Alex Schleber
Alex: What defines a 4GL or 5GL such that languages like Go, Tart, and C# don't qualify?
- Gabe
Gabe, if your average C programmer isn't confused by them, they don't qualify as 4GL or 5GL languages. ;)
- Cristo
Looks interesting. I tried to find this "Talin" person and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... As fascinating as proteins are, I don't think an individual one is up to creating a programming language. :-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Ruchira, you might find these links helpful: http://viridia.org/ and http://www.sylvantech.com/talin...
- Michael R. Bernstein
This is beyond awesome: iPhone or Droid? - xkcd - http://xkcd.com/662/
Pamela Weir, Roberto Bonini, Jenny Levine and 70 other people liked this
It's funny because it's OMFG funny.
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
alt text: "It may be a fundamentally empty experience, but holy crap the Droid's 265 ppi screen is amazing."
- Kevin Fox
I first saw this cartoon via Reader on my Droid! Couldn't see the alt text tho...
- Rob Shillingsburg
The Droid has some nice parts to it but overall it sucks when compared to iPhone.
- Robert Scoble
hero
- siniradam
Somehow it seems the iPhone will always win on hardware. You know, unless they make a Droid phone brown and able to squirt songs to other Droid phones.
- Alex Bourt
I have a baby toy
April Buchheit, Clare Dibble, Robert Felty and 2 other people liked this
It's made out of 100% real baby!
- Gabe
Yay! I love my baby toy too :)
- Georgia Diehl
Penny slept for 5.5 hours straight, WOO HOO!
Robert Felty, Dario Gomez, Stephen Mack and 3 other people liked this
That's technically through the night.
- April Buchheit
"interesting parallel between the decline of rock music quality and, of all things, the decline in US oil discovery and production" - http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008...
Marco Fabbri, Kol Tregaskes, Jacopod and 29 other people liked this
So if we can get Bill and Ted together the world will be all right?
- CW™
There has to be some sort of birthday paradox around graphs. Given a large enough library of graphs, you will find a strong correlation between two.
- Joe Beda
Mean global temperature correlates quite well with the decline in the pirate population, after all. Actually, we can test causality now -- will the rise of Somali and Asian pirates bring the temperature back down? Or are the required to wear 17th century pirate regalia?
- Joel Webber
This also confirms my conjecture that there have been no new good artists since 1975.
- Gabe
This is why we must start drilling in Alaska.
- τorƍue
Will drilling in Alaska improve rock music?
- Gary Burd
Speaking of birthdays, I think a histogram of the birthdays of music critics would probably look a whole lot like the red graph... shifted 13-18 years or so.
- Ken Sheppardson
'Songs in "Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs of all Time,"' huh? That's some ground truth for ya.
- j1m
I'd like to see the graph for Pitchfork, but the lists are segmented by decade.
- Gary Burd
@Ken - "predicting oil production by music critic's birthdays". Who'd have thought we could solve the whole running-out-of-oil thing by getting Rolling Stone to hire 16 year olds!!!
- Nick Lothian
Ken: I think you might find more correllation with a histogram of drug use than age of critics.
- Gabe
Plenty of good rock out there: http://www.lala.com/#album... http://www.lala.com/#album... http://www.lala.com/#album... -- though can't argue that we're not in an age of decline
- Christopher Galtenberg
Beautiful Boy
Alex, Susan Shepard, Priyank Mishra and 10 other people liked this
Taken 2/27/09.
- April Buchheit
Support for Same-Sex Marriage by Age and State » Sociological Images - http://contexts.org/socimag...
EBrewer, Jessie, Matt Snoulten and 24 other people liked this
"The data supports the notion that younger people are more supportive of gay marriage than older people. I also think it’s interesting that, even in states that we normally consider quite hostile to gay rights (the ones at the bottom of the table), there is still a significant age difference: 18-29 year-olds in Alabama, for example, are more supportive of gay marriage than people 65 and older in Massachusetts. So, while we like to think about states as “liberal” or “conservative,” spreading out the data by age tells a much more complicated story."
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
It'd be interesting to find out if preferences for the *same set* of people change as they age. If no, then all we have to do to improve same-sex rights is wait for a generation or two to snuff it. If yes, then it's a little harder.
- Aaron D'Souza
Would like to see a graph with "has internet" (do younger people more frequently use/ more regularly access the internet?)
- Philipp Lenssen
Where's the graph for polygamist marriage?
- Gus
Waiting a "generation or two" isn't going to do a whole lot for the gay community now. This is particularly true for elderly gay and lesbian individuals who are facing mortality and unable to secure inheritances etc for their partners.
- Soup
My guess is that open-mindedness comes with actually knowing people who are gay/lesbian/etc. and realizing that it's an inescapable part of who they are and just a different manifestation of the same powerful feelings of love and commitment that everyone feels. It also probably has to do with marriage being defined as a romantic notion these days rather than a more economic and social framework in the past. As evidence for this, I have nothing.
- Jim Norris
And I may not be the strongest gay-marriage supporter out there by any means... I mean, I'm ok with it and think it should be allowed, but only as long as I don't have to get gay married myself.
- Jim Norris
Nice, Jim, nice.
- Kelly
I concur, Jim Norris. :)
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
Ah, so Jim, you support "weak" gay marriage, not "strong" gay marriage.
- Stephen Mack
Interesting. So even if attitudes by age remain constant, in 20 years, the 18 states from Pennsylvania up will be strongly pro gay-marriage, but the 22 states from Wyoming on down will remain opposed, even 40 years hence.
- j1m
And of course, the prediction is that attitudes by age will be far from remaining constant. Indeed attitudes toward gays seem to have made almost all of their progress in the last 15 years, afaict.
- j1m
"A children’s toy inspires a cheap, easy production method for high-tech diagnostic chips" - http://www.technologyreview.com/TR35...
Paulo Gaspar, Felicia Yue, Dan Hsiao and 18 other people liked this
"In 2006, Michelle Khine arrived at the University of California's brand-new Merced campus eager to establish her first lab. She was experimenting with tiny liquid-filled channels in hopes of devising chip-based diagnostic tests, a discipline called microfluidics. The trouble was, the specialized equipment that she previously used to make microfluidic chips cost more than $100,000--money that wasn't immediately available. "I'm a very impatient person," says Khine, now an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. "I wanted to figure out how I could set things up really quickly." Racking her brain for a quick-and-dirty way to make microfluidic devices, Khine remembered her favorite childhood toy: Shrinky Dinks, large sheets of thin plastic that can be colored with paint or ink and then shrunk in a hot oven. "I thought if I could print out the [designs] at a certain resolution and then make them shrink, I could make channels the right size for microfluidics," she...
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- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This is pretty cool... making PDMS microfluidic chips is like making jello mold devices. You can make your jello mold out of just about anything, just usually people use high grade silicon, because people already understand really well how to etch it precisely.
- Clare Dibble
Cool. I didn't know those were still around.
- Gabe
I loved shrinky dinks!! :D
- Susan Beebe
Generation specs: Stopping the short-sight epidemic - health - 06 November 2009 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
ǝuǝƃnǝ, Private Sanjeev, Victor Ganata and 8 other people liked this
What causes nearsightedness? It doesn't appear to be genetic. Spending lots of time outdoors while growing up seems to greatly reduce the chances of being nearsighted.
- Amit Patel
"Near work, such as reading, had always seemed like an obvious contributor, since short-sightedness appears more common among highly educated people."
- Clare Dibble
"Playing indoor sports turned out to have no benefits for the eyes, whereas even physically inactive time spent outside was beneficial"
- Clare Dibble
"The result? On average the children in Sydney spent nearly 14 hours per week outside, and only 3 per cent developed myopia. In contrast, the children in Singapore spent just 3 hours outside, and 30 per cent developed myopia. Once again, close work had a minimal influence; the Australian children actually spent more time reading and in front of their computers than the Singaporeans...
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- bob
My optometrist was very impressed that my myopia is getting better. He thinks it's because I take off my glasses to read, but now I think it's because I spent a lot more time outside than others.
- Piaw Na
My myopia stopped getting worse when I started going out more, but there were so many other lifestyle changes at the time that it's hard for me to say whether it had an effect. For example, when outdoors I also exercise more :) (hiking, mostly)
- Amit Patel
Our 9 month old son loves being outside. Maybe this will mean that he won't be as near-sighted as I am.
- Robert Felty
FWIW, I've heard that sleeping with a night light can cause myopia...
- Andrew C
This peripheral blur theory sounds very interesting. I actually only need my glasses to drive or watch TV/movies... I should get back to what I used to do for years, which was go without the rest of the time. I've needed lenses for nearly 20 years now, but the progression (degradation) has been very very slow.
- Andrew C
Gave the boy his first haircut
Clare Dibble, Sinan Ata (tr), Mona Nomura and 25 other people liked this
Don't look too closely or else you'll see all my mistakes. The boy is very squirmy. :)
- April Buchheit
from email
How handsome!
- Anne Bouey
Colour photography in Pre-Revolutionary Russia - http://eljenmajusmasodika.blogspot.com/2009...
Jérôme Flipo, Kol Tregaskes, bob and 12 other people liked this
"Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a chemist turned photographer ahead of his time who undertook an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian Empire for Tsar Nicholas II. Between 1909 and 1915, he completed tours of eleven regions, traveling in a specially equipped train carriage which had been provided by the Ministry of Transportation. What made this project remarkable was his use of an innovative technique for taking photographs in full and extremely vivid colour. He was able to capture colour by using a camera that exposed one oblong glass plate three times in rapid succession through three different colour filters: blue, green, and red. To view his images, he printed positive glass slides of his negatives and projected them through a triple lens magic lantern. The images were projected through the three lenses and, with the use of colour filters, superimposed in full colour on to a screen."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I feel guilty that I feel this way, but color really helps me relate better to people of that period. I was just watching that link to color film footage of London in 1927 and felt the same way. There's something that makes it so much more real and empathizable even though other things you'd think would be barriers (strange hairstyles, clothing) are still there.
- Spidra Webster
It's surprising that he was able to take so many good photos of people. That's almost impossible to do with multiple exposures.
- Gabe
You can see the motion in the shot he took of the kids on the hillside.
- Spidra Webster
Spidra: yes, the shot of kids on the hillside (http://www.loc.gov/exhibit...) appears to be the only one that isn't posed.
- Gabe
I know what you mean, Spidra. Somehow the detail of color make the people more real and their way of life somehow more relevant.
- April Buchheit
Me (after Camilla kisses my belly for some reason): "Aww! Camilla, thank you! You're so sweet! Are you my lovebug?" Camilla: "I'm your lovemonkey!"
Tudor Bosman, Robert Felty, Josh Haley and 5 other people liked this
Watch out for that one ;)
- Clare Dibble
I would say that in general monkeys are more desirable than bugs.
- Gabe
"If You Want To Be Popular...YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BE SKINNY!" - http://imgur.com/SrW5N
Jim Norris, Felicia Yue, Robert Felty and 8 other people liked this
My, how times have changed.
- April Buchheit
Must Tumble this!
- Anika
"Tells how to gain weight and keep it!"
- Gabe
That model looks pretty skinny to me already.
- Robert Felty
Back before they invented pizza and hot dogs.
- Cristo
Penny smiled at me, and it wasn't a gas smile!!
Robert Felty, Ruchira S. Datta, Stephen Mack and 2 other people liked this
Pics? :)
- Stephen Mack
I'm not a fan of gift cards. They are a ripoff by the stores. Many gift cards lose their value after a short time if not used, and they restrict the receiver to one store.
Amit Morson, anna sauce, Rob H. and 9 other people liked this
/takes back Xmas gift cards intended for Cristo
- Louis Gray
Louis, those gift cards were for free visits to your blog. :)
- Cristo
<reconsiders>... /takes them back anyway
- Louis Gray
That's why I like Amazon gift cards...they have none of the limitations of which you speak.
- Alex Scoble
I always buy the AMEX ones for people.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
In retail, "breakage" is the percentage of gift cards that are never redeemed. Financially you have to recognize the liability forever, unless the state allows the retailer to start siphoning off the worth of the card over time. The breakage rate in general is astounding. For some types of retailers' gift cards, up to 40% are not redeemed, meaning the retailer gets to keep the cash as profit.
- Stephen Mack
I believe CA state law doesn't allow Gift Cards to be devalued...
- Ken Gidley
In WA gift cards can't have an expiration date. (I'm also not generally a fan of them, as they're restrictive, unless I know that is where someone shops all of the time.)
- Jennifer Dittrich
MVB - The AmEx ones slowly devalue, as well. I think the key in buying gift cards is to make sure that they are from a store (or restaurant) that someone uses regularly. If you buy me a gift card for a place like Cabela's, chances are I'll never use it, and will probably end up giving it away. If you buy me a gift card for WalMart or Outback or something, I'll definitely use it.
- Curtiss Grymala
I won't ever buy a credit card gift card. For one thing they charge you a fee when you purchase it and they always seem to have odd rules too. I just don't go there.
- Alex Scoble
Please send all unwanted gift cards to me, care of me, 1149 W 190th Street, Suite 1000. Gardena, CA 90248. Thank you.
- Morgan Haley
Morgan, you're probably just going to get a pile of poo in the mall now. :)
- Cristo
I'm always on the fence with Gift Cards. As Stephen Mack clearly stated, there are many cards that are never redeemed. This could be due to the person lost it, doesn't shop there or always forgets to bring it. I try to give cards to those that I know have use the ones I've given in the past. If I didn't hear about your restaurant experience or find out what you bought, it makes me rethink the following year.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
BTW- "breakage" is never a term I want to hear from someone at TiVo. I'm still quite happy with my two Lifetime Series 2s (upscaled to 1080i), thank you very much.... :-)
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I cannot agree more. Gift cards are just a way to get out more cash out of your pocket.
- ashish
Gift cards scream "I'm socially responsible enough to know I need to get you a gift at this point in time, but here, you pick it out, I can't be bothered."
- SAM
Why is it socially responsible to give people things at particular points in time? Something is seriously wrong with a society that depends on consumerism to thrive.
- Cristo
Convention? i.e. Birthday, Christmas ect... I think gift cards are cop outs at these times... gift cards given randomly=awesome.
- SAM
Why are we required to give gifts for birthdays and at Christmas? We have other conventions in society too, like when cigarette smokers their leave butts on the sidewalk when they're done with them.
- Cristo
I think gift giving can be a symbolic/thought filled/beautiful gesture even if, and sometimes especially when tied into a cultural convention. I just think the style/extravagance/consumerism aspect has gone too far... as we Americans and humans in general have a tendency to do.
- SAM
I have another convention that I've been following. It's called Craiglisting all the gifts that people give me and not buying stuff for people they don't need or want.
- Cristo
Are you completely anti-gift Cristo? If so, why?
- SAM
+1 SAM. These gestures are done with special yearly occasions because unfortunately we don't do them everyday or very rarely for no reason. So, it's a lazy way for us to remind yourself that you are appreciative of that person for all those times you never acknowledged it throughout the year.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
SAM, no. I give lots of gifts, but I rarely do it when I'm "suppose to." The reason I don't like receiving gifts unless it's something I really want, is because it creates extra work for me. This is more acute of late as I've been getting rid of stuff for the last three years thats accumulated over a lifetime. I also don't like the waste of natural resources and pollution that are caused by all the consumerism when it's unnecessary.
- Cristo
I agree on the "receiving gifts unless it's something I really want" part. That's why I personally like Gift Cards given to me (but from specific places).
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Anybody ever say "I already have this" or "look, my 50th Hawaiian shirt" while sitting around the Christmas tree? But my absolute favorite gifts are the ones engraved with your name, with your birthday or anniversary, and maybe your social security number, just to make sure you can't get rid of it. :)
- Cristo
Yes, I have admittedly. It's hard not to show disgust but some people are just horrible gift givers and they just don't get it. BUT it's the thought that counts even though I'd rather of had no gift than the one actually given (year after year). People know I'm picky, I sense you are too but their are still people who it's not clicked. Try to open that one gift up with a smile, get rid of the gift later.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
I like a lot of what you and Mark are saying here... For me... gifts=good if they a) have thought behind them b) hit the target - i.e. are actually useful/appreciated by that person. Otherwise, i'd rather do without as well. Bad gifts to me just say someone doesn't really know me or has picked something up in haste to just go through the holiday motions = useless consumerism. What are some great gifts though? What's the best one you've ever gotten?
- SAM
+1 Ken! Fun tip: if you have an expired gift certificate, take it on a CA vacation or give it to a friend in CA. You can use them here.
- Friday Lo is Friday!
A Snow Blower. Why? It wasn't because it was expensive. The December before I had just moved into my first house. As a joke, I left on my parent's answering machine a message that apparently I sung "All I want for Christmas is a Snow Blower" during a major snow storm after shoveling. Naturally I completely forgot about this event. The next year, they got me one and I didn't expect it....
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- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
The only thing that comes to mind in recent years is leather driving gloves and a case of wine (Opolo) I liked. When I was a kid, there were lots of gifts I loved. E.g. Flexible Flyer sled, G.I. Joe stuff, bike, trampoline, swing set.
- Cristo
Cristo, I wish everyone had your attitude about gifts!
- Friday Lo is Friday!
I am happy to get anything............
- VAL D.
It doesn't take a lot of money to come up with the perfect gift. What it takes is thought, and that thought is easy when you really care about someone. If I told you the best gift I ever got wasn't for me and it consisted of a couple of used books, a bag of rice, some chopsticks, ginger, soy sauce, etc; would you believe me? http://cranialsoup.blogspot.com/2006...
- April Russo (app103)
In Germany per law gift cards are good for X years no matter what the gift card says about its expiry date (e.g. minimum 2 years, not sure exactly). Not every store owner knows this law though, and service is often bad in Germany, so good luck investing energy to stand up for your right :)
- Philipp Lenssen
Yeah, gift cards don't lose value in CA.
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
Even if they don't lose value, a huge percentage are never redeemed -- lost, stolen, or stuck away somewhere, possibly because the recipient has no nearby locations.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
April: "What it takes is thought, and that thought is easy when you really care about someone. " -- Thought is rarely easy for me these days. Figuring out what people want that they don't already have seems like an unnecessary waste of time unless I'm an expert at something they are not.
- Cristo
And "the thought" in my case, is not to give me anything. That is the thought I am most appreciative of.
- Cristo
Would Jesus have wanted Christmas gifts?
- Cristo
@Cristo That's the thing, you don't have to "figure it out". When you care about someone, they are in your thoughts when you are apart. Those thoughts will guide you if you let them. You will see (or hear) things that remind you of them, constantly. That is where the gift ideas come from. Buy whatever makes you think of them. I can't shop for people I don't care about. It's forced...
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- April Russo (app103)
April, it's good you know how every other person thinks and feels. I must be from an alien race.
- Cristo
My gifts are not based on what they think and feel. I give from my thoughts and feelings.
- April Russo (app103)
So do I. Which is why I don't subscribe to corporate calls for gift giving at specified times of the year.
- Cristo
It took a long time to get my husband to understand what I was talking about and stop giving me cash for Christmas. I got really tired of it one year and handed him back the cash and sent him out and told him to spend it on anything and everything that reminded him of me. He never made it past the supermarket on the corner and I ended up with some odd gifts, but it showed me what was...
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- April Russo (app103)
The gift I give my wife is helping to clean out all the crap people have given us. It's the thought that counts, and the thought should be "Don't waste resources and fill people's living spaces up with crap."
- Cristo
If you read the blog post I linked to, you would have seen that the most thoughtful gift I was referring to was when someone made my daughter smile, by applying the same gift giving principles I was talking about. He cared about me, and therefore listened to me, and got to know my daughter through me. He sent her a gift that was so perfect for her, yet none of her real life friends knew...
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- April Russo (app103)
April, I don't remember if I read your blog post. My general principle stands. Are there exceptions? Probably. But the reality is that as a macro phenomenon, it's not a net good. And sorry if I didn't read your blog post, but I'm not too into blogs. I'm on FriendFeed for the conversation, and not much else.
- Cristo
Also, why was your husband giving you cash as a gift? Seems weird. My wife buys whatever she wants, so the only time I need to give her cash is if she hasn't gone to the ATM lately.
- Cristo
Maybe I come from a different world than you. There are no ATM machines and we rarely ever have money in our pockets. I usually don't get what I need, nevermind what I want. I usually have to make due with whatever we have and make it work in ways it was never intended.
- April Russo (app103)
Um, okay. If you are poor and live somewhere that is technology repressed, I feel for you. But shouldn't that motivate you to save or work towards changing that position? It doesn't seem like a good argument for the consumeristic gift-giving I'm arguing against.
- Cristo
My gift giving usually isn't very consumerist and I am frugal to a fault. And I am working to change that position I am in, but currently we are in a very deep hole and it is taking a long time for me to dig us out of it. If you want to help, I have some software on my site you can try, and if you like it you can donate what you think the software is worth. http://appsapps.info
- April Russo (app103)
Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem Of Hell - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Niels Provos, Maggie, Tudor Bosman and 18 other people liked this
I don't get it. People actually pay for points on their games?
- Piaw Na
Piaw - it's a trade of money for time.
- Andrew C
BTW, I had no idea the scams were this bad. I have friends who work at some of the "bad" gaming companies named here.
- Andrew C
Maybe this is part of the reason that Apple is so restrictive about iPhone apps.
- Robert Felty
Robert, Apple's review process can't discover apps that do this -- they can't tell whether the ad unit that shows a legitimate ad during the review process suddenly starts showing scammy lead-gen a week later. I'd look at it a different way: scammy lead-gen shows up everywhere that content providers don't attach value to having a satisfied user (email spam, search engine spam, etc.). The best way for FB to avoid this is to make their platform useful for nontrivial app authors. Looks like they're trying...
- Daniel Dulitz
Good point Daniel. It seems like it is a pretty difficult thing to police. Maybe they could create a blacklist of advertisers.
- Robert Felty
Its not always the advertisers, its how the offers are presented. Tatto Media suggested we block people from seeing more than 3 articles on our site without forcing the user to fill out an offer of their choice. Of course we didn't implement this and it wouldn't drive the user experience we are looking for.
- Matt Ellsworth
Video: The 11/3 Project | The Daily Show | Comedy Central - http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch...
Robert Felty, April Buchheit, Rasmus Lauridsen and 5 other people liked this
Hilarious.
- Mycaptain
How to play piano like Philip Glass - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Rachel Lea Fox, Robert Felty, Ryan Kaisoglus and 5 other people liked this
Hehe that's cool
- Rodfather
Amazon has The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler Vol.I for FREE at http://bit.ly/3YBxj0
- Nolan Alston
Wow nice heads up Nolan
- Rodfather
But If We Started Dating It Would Ruin Our Friendship Where I Ask You To Do Things And You Do Them - The Onion - http://www.theonion.com/content...
Brandon Titus, Josh Haley, Alfredo and 32 other people liked this
"We are just destined to be really, really good friends who only hang out when I don't have a boyfriend, but still need male attention to boost my fragile and all-consuming ego."
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
"Don't worry. You're so funny and smart and amazing, any girl but me would be lucky to date you. You'll find someone, I know it. And when you do, I'll be right by your side to suddenly become all flirty and affectionate with you in front of her, until she grows jealous and won't believe it when you say we're just friends. But when she dumps you, that's just what we'll be."
- Dan Hsiao
The conclusion of this article finds the Onion in top form.
- Andrew C
translation: I am not into you like that. You don't do it for me in that way. Never did. never will. Sorry, but only sort of...
- Morgan Haley
The "my mom says hi" part is a nice way to twist the knife a bit.
- Brian Chang
brutal....
- Ňicķ
Sad, but true.
- Joel Webber
Uh...after 14 years, i married my male bff.
- Daisy
http://www.garfunkelandoates.com/music... - specifically, the "i would never" song.
- Andrew C
Happy Birthday to Paul Buchheit!
Jason Huebel, Fedor Karpelevitch, Shakeel Mahate and 83 other people liked this
Nice.
- Maxamad
Happy Birthday, Paul! And thank you for FF. It's being a great help to me just now.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Happy birthday!
- Becca
Got the image here: http://www.labnol.org/interne...
- AJ Batac
Writing "Don't be evil" 500 times..penance for selling out to Zuckerberg? :) Happy birthday, Paul!
- Alex Schleber
Happy Birthday!
- Shevonne
;) so many birthdays this week. Happy B-day Paul!
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I just opened the link and I'm kind of astounded. I had no idea what a deep influence Paul had over at Google. Created GMail? I am in awe. That plus Friendfeed and many other accomplishments. Happy birthday, Paul. I know we get fussy here sometimes about you, but that's only because we love so much what you helped create, and we're terrified at the thought of it vanishing.
- Kamilah Gill
Happy Birthday, Paul!
- Anne Bouey
Happy Birthday, Paul!
- Kevin Fox
Huge happy b-day PB
- Christopher Galtenberg
Happy Birthday Paul
- Helen Sventitsky
Happy birthday, Paul!
- Tödd Nëmët
Last day of school - http://blog.fedibblety.com/2009...
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Maggie, Robert Felty, Paul Buchheit and 2 other people liked this
Bye-bye, icky daycare germs!
- April Buchheit
In 1st grade I thought indenting a paragraph meant writing the first word REALLY HARD so it dented into the paper. #childconfessions
rowlikeagirl, Alex Schleber, Kol Tregaskes and 27 other people liked this
lol.
- Maxamad
I used to have one paragraph per 8 1/2 by 11 page.
- Louis Gray
lol
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I used to dip my Cheeto's in Elmer's Glue and eat them that way.
- Curtiss Grymala
When I was 3 or 4, I used to look at my mom and grandpa's old photographs and I thought the world was black and white until 1960.
- vicster
i used to pick the fuzzies off my blankets and stick them up my nose. i have no idea why.
- dr. princess ninja val
i used to suck on the heads of burnt matches. but i know why... for the buuuuzzzz... ;)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Too funny!! You took it literally!
- John Tastad
Holiday Lighting Win - http://failblog.org/2009...
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- Kevin Fox
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LMAO That's so incredibly awesome.
- Anika
=)
- Micah Wittman
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