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Sorry for the duplication, I messed up. Heheh. Thanks Louis for the like twice. - Robert Scoble

Ready to enlist? - Andrew Leyden

Robert - How heavy is that huge lens? - Susan Beebe

People laughed when I brought my 600 mm F4.0 lens (I rented it) on board. They aren't laughing anymore. - Robert Scoble

Susan: heavy. And I hauled it up a TON of stairs. - Robert Scoble

I am so jealous you have no idea! - Loic Le Meur

Andrew: I almost went into the Marines for six years as a photographer. - Robert Scoble

Loic: you should go on the next trip. It's unbelieveable. It's like Davos but muliplied by 100x. - Robert Scoble

Wow, it looks really impressive. What about the water? How do you protect it from harmful sea salt water? - Susan Beebe

Loic: there's nothing like being 10 feet from an F-18 being catapulted off. Wait until you see the video. - Robert Scoble

Susan: the water is 40 feed beneath the deck. I never even tasted salt. I see more salt in Half Moon Bay. What you have to worry about is hitting lenses when walking up the stairs and jet wash. - Robert Scoble

On the trip was a former F-18 pilot too, so he helped a lot in our understanding. - Robert Scoble

Robert - unfortunately you'll never get to see the F-14 at night, which was always something amazing. If possible, get close to an EA-6B on the Cat, it will rattle your teeth and you'll feel it in your gut (I worked on the flightdeck for 10 years as part of the COD crew). - Vince DeGeorge

Stairwells are steep and narrow. My brother was a Navy Seal on that ship stationed in SD. Very cool rig! He was a medical rescue diver - jumped down out of helicopters to soldiers injured at sea and brought them back up for transport - Susan Beebe

Get Thomas Hawk on there asap! :) - Susan Beebe

Vince: I think we saw one of those, but we saw so many planes land and take off that I lost track. I'm back in the hotel. It was one of those experiences that very few people get to have and it totally changed my life. More on how later. It was a great thing to do just after Memorial Day. - Robert Scoble

Pavan: out of all the experiences I've had, this is the one that sticks in my mind as the most interesting. Both because it was extraordinarily cool, but also because it is a huge responsibility. I was the eyes and ears for a huge number of tax payers, and seeing how their (my) money is being spent is interesting and a large responsibility. - Robert Scoble

I can tell you - working on the flight deck, the excitement was ALWAYS there... I never got used to it. Of course, it's not exactly somewhere you want to feel comfortable. For any who haven't seen it, go here: http://www.pbs.org/weta... and watch Carrier. It appears they have the full episodes. Memories... now I'm ready to go back in!!! - Vince DeGeorge

Robert, also remember, that most of that responsibility falls on kids barely out of high school. The military builds character and trains you like no other corporation in the world. A modern day manager with a $3 mil budget? Ha, how about an 18 year old kid that is responsible for a $30 mil dollar aircraft and the lives of those inside? - Vince DeGeorge

Yes I'm jealous. Why was I not invited??? LOL Awesome you got to Robert. Truly fantastic! - Sheryl

Those are some stellar shots you got Robert. - Jason Hansen

This was a PR event put on by the Navy I take it? - David Lloyd

Show the world what a modern service it is now and how they are all up on blogging and stuff for recruitment? :p - David Lloyd

jealous yes, looks great - Kim Landwehr

Vince: the sailors I talked to didn't like the PBS special. They said they only put on disgruntled employees. Mark: yes, they fly VIPs, bloggers, journalists onto the carrier for these embarks so that they can get the word out about what the carrier is like. Pavan: thanks, I'm still uploading. - Robert Scoble

WOW. I can't wait to see the video. - Schneider Mike

Robert, I agree - they didn't exactly put on the best sailors, but it did give VERY GOOD insight to what carrier life is like. You have to see through some of the drama (though, believe me - there IS that drama in the Navy). I don't know, I may have a different skew on things. I wasn't what was called "Boat Chuck" - I was aviation, which is a little different world - even further, I was CODs, making it even more so. - Vince DeGeorge

The video will be up after dinner. I got more than 100 photos up to look at in the meantime. - Robert Scoble

Robert awesome pix. what lenses did u bring? 70-200 IS, wide angle, 600 mm, can u give us a list of what u used? easier than going into "more properties" on Flickr for a ton of photos - Elliott Ng

I had a 16-35 F2.8 L Series, a 70-200 F2.8 L Series, and a 600 mm F4.0 L Series. I also had a 50 F1.4 for the night stuff. - Robert Scoble

check out this thread i just started on friendfeed.. we're up to 150 comments now! http://ff.im/3pYjK - Jason Pollock

Looks like that 600mm came in handy! I'm green with envy. Looks like a great opportunity and everyone had a blast. - Jim Goldstein

Nice Photos Scobleizer! - JimmyJet

Awesome! Sign me up! Love it! Great photos! - Thomas Hawk

Did they let you shoot anywhere you wanted or were some areas off limits? - Thomas Hawk

Thomas: only two things were off limits: the nuclear power plant and the room where they were playing war games. Everything else was OK to shoot. - Robert Scoble

very cool. What a fantastic opportunity to shoot. Loved the photos, faved a bunch of them. - Thomas Hawk

I'm available to cadie - Mrsth

Civil jealousy. Must be so awesome. Your a Navy Lottery winner. - Harry

and chores. Good combination. Plus it is bonding with my son. - Robert Scoble

is playing at my house - my house... - Nathan Chase

Bonding is a good thing - Charlie Anzman

+1 for the LCD Soundsystem reference! - Helen Sventitsky

The bootleg of Daft Punk live at Vegoose 2007 = AWESOME - Vincent X

I'll leave it there for a little while before I take it down, enjoy: http://revolutioncorporation.org/Daft_Pu... - Vincent X

Robert, you should definitely grab this for your son, I'm sure he'll love it. - Vincent X

Vincent, my son loves it. - Robert Scoble

Great! - Vincent X

You aren't missing much. He's an actor that got his start on "That '70s Show", a sitcom set in the 70s. He's since made some movies, most of which are completely missable. - Alex Scoble

Hes the guy who was in that 70s show - Stepan Mazurov

that's pretty funny, Robert! was she like "you're the guy who said all the websites sucked, right?" lol. I tease, I tease - Marshall Kirkpatrick

His movie "Butterfly Effect" was more entertaining than I expected. I'd give it a 4/5 on Netflix. - Daniel J. Pritchett

He's one of the people behind "Beauty and the Geek". Gotta respect that. - Nina Jansen

He's a good comedian and seems more clever than most of recent Hollywood vintage. - Sprague D

All I can gather is that it has something to do with marching on the drumline - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

smh - Cee Bee

Due to the misspelling, one can only presume that this is an excellent representation of the average McCain supporter. - jcunwired

Really, Awesome convention poster! - Kishor

Apparently, at least one child was left behind. - Chris Baskind

Chris++ - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

If you criticise him for his spelling mistake, the terrorists win! So keep quiet you unpatriotic people! LOL!! :-) - Mark O'Neill

Is this what you do all day Mr. Laporte? Surf the Internet looking for ways to look down on your fellow Americans because their political views differ from yours? It's a shame TechTV/G4 fired you. You might just have the right level of maturity to host Hurl. Nah, maybe you're not that mature... - Laura Smith from twhirl

I enjoy listening and watching Leo, Dvorack, etc. when it comes to technology discussions. The more I see the higher echelon of FF and Twitter talk about politics, the more I wish there was a filter I could apply. I mean, this was just a funny picture that gives Obama supporters another means to look down on people who do not support Obama, but I've seen Dvorack's outrageous blog post about Palin's children, and I've read Scoble's mistatements regarding Huckabee's speech at the convention. - ComicList

Web 2.0 spell checkr - k. chan from twhirl

Perhaps if one admires mavericks, one spells words whatever way one wants. - jswi_jim

The democrats' signs were much slicker. With every speaker at the DNC they passed out new ones -- there were hillary ones, biden ones, michelle etc. all beautifully printed on nice sanded sticks. Not a hand painted sign in the crowd, all the perfectly the same, and no chance for a misspelling. Good stagecraft. The hand painted signs make me cringe from a design/spell check pov, but they are authentic. - Oldengrey (Jay)

What is this? The Republican Friendfeeders coming in to comment swiftboat style? Lighten up for Christ's sake! Obviously you've yet to discover what a sense of humour is. Let me know when you find one and I'll teach you how to install it. - Mark O'Neill

Geez, Mark, maybe you could lighten up a little. The Republicans were commenting on the headline, which was perhaps uncharitable and directed at them. I think Leo is great, and I think Dvorak has no problem taking care of himself. They are completely entitled to their opinions outside the world of tech. That's why I subscribe to them. We live in a great country, don't we? - Oldengrey (Jay)

Misspelling and bad grammar goes across the board, even at MoveOn (http://skitch.com/chilima...). I've been known to make a mistake once in a while my self. I know, shocking. Maybe that will be the next big tech idea. Electronic campaign posters with built in spell checker. - ChiliMac

I read a medical report once that read "cervical dysphasia" - it was supposed to indicate "cervical dysplasia" epic phail typo. No, it was not my cervix. :) - Mattb4rd

Matt: Some new kind of ventriloquism or lack thereof? - Oldengrey (Jay)

If I'm ever around one that talks, I will run. - Mattb4rd

Mark, from Wikipedia: "Swiftboating is American political jargon that is used as a strong pejorative description of some kind of attack that the speaker considers unfair or untrue—for example, an ad hominem attack or a smear campaign. Most accurately, it refers to the repudiation of a politician's personal history by people who were present as that history was made." Does the speaker (Leo) consider my comment to be untrue? - ComicList

A good VC investment is in a startup that does conversions. I'd offer up REZZING as a test vehicle. - Eric Rice

@Eric - just follow Andy Grove. Converting the fleet is exactly what he is getting behind http://www.greencarcongress.com/2008.... If you are interested in electric, also check out http://www.betterplace.com. They propose to move the entire infrastructure from localized to centralized power plants with the battery as the mechanism for delivery. - tagami

Conversion kits would be cool as long as I can still spin the rear wheels and drift it!! ;-) - Eric_T

Yeah I'm a snob, I don't want to sacrifice, performance, or the endless array of things you can do like DRIFT. Sorry, I'm Californian. Raised on the belief that you are what you drive. lol - Eric Rice

it only get 40 miles per charge? wtf? how is it going to take them 2 more years just to put out 10 year old technology? - Ňicķ

oh oh oh... I think I just ejaculated. 40 miles per charge is fine for the day to day. most of fuel is not used for long road trips - Noah David Simon

Eric Rice... I'm not sure conversion will be a feasible alternative. am I wrong? I hope u r right because if you can convert back and forth... that would be best. use the petrol for the long trips and switch into a hybrid mode. oh the options could be endless. why not on top of all this a few solar panels... or wind conversion? it is a damn moving object! there are so many options where fuel could be saved! Even after we weed off petrol. honestly I still see uses for black gold though for trucks - Noah David Simon

It always seems like the thing we want now is this perpetual 2 years away. Just please, give us the OPTION to struggle with figuring out how to charge. Shit, my Segway gets 24 miles per charge and I can deal with that. But if I want to get something better (in a nice form factor) it's from one extreme to the other. So we hack or we wait. - Eric Rice

Plug-ins scare me a little, especially with such a small range. What happens if you misjudge, use too much AC, go uphill too much, etc... and find yourself out of juice? People complain about their iPhone's running out of charge cause they can't carry an extra battery. What happens when their *car* runs out of charge? - felix

Nisan and other Japanese automobile manufacturers are ready to bring out electric powered cars by 2010 as well as Chinese car makers.Please read my Newsvine article about electric powered cars http://igorthetroll.newsvine.com/_news... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

hey Felix... get ready to get jumped! old fashioned like ;-p ...as for the options they are exciting and I think it is a reality that we are entering into. It is very exciting! I think what we as friendfeeders should do is start to educate ourselves on how these things work. One of the problems with todays cars is the grease monkeys can't play anymore and the cars have specialists for every bolt. It is exciting that America is leading the innovation here and is inspiring other countries to keep up.... - Noah David Simon

it is very important to keep focused on the next step... and that next step is in education. the population needs to know how these things work. If the population is informed of the nuts and bolts of how these machines work then they can't be lied to by salesmen trying to sell a "people's" machine for more then it should be worth on repairs. We need to keep informed on all schematics. - Noah David Simon

example of automobile scams today is year old cars are selling for a few thousand dollars and yet yearly insurance is the value of the cars we are driving... I mean WTF!? We need to make sure we aren't told by the car people that because our cars are electric that they are more disposable. - Noah David Simon

Heh I think our work flow with a car differs from a communication device. Jason: Well I'm LA-friendly and yeah well, I recognize that both norcal and socal have the same level of pretentiousness, but one is more in denial than the other. The other wears it like a BADGE OF HONOR. :) I think Valley people are the worst because we ain't so hive-individualistic like SF... we have that social hybrid thing going on. :P - Eric Rice

I alreeady had a car that ould go back and forth between gas and CNG. It was fine. Any ybrid is fine for the bridge to plug in cars with longer battery life. - Francine Hardaway

The interesting part is that "Chevron oil" holds the patent for the lithium batteries that where used in The Toyota RAV4 EV manufactured from 2001! Around 2005 they withdrew the patent license from Toyota preventing the manufacturing of an affordable electric powered car. http://igorthetroll.newsvine.com/_news... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

In America GM took a huge risk by not going hybrid and instead going pure electric. I don't buy that theory at all Igor because the profit margin on an electric battery that they were sole patent owner of would of been more profitable for an oil company then the oil itself. Chevron makes one ninth of what our government makes off of taxes on petroleum. My real suspicions as to who would be hurt fiscally by dropping petroleum lie with the Democrats. - Noah David Simon

The fact is the "Green" movement has become the "Greed" movement and we need to make sure Chavez, Obama and Pilosi do not get into power. A close to free market is the real "Green". When oil is hard to get then we will have alternatives... we already know oil is hard to get... so the market is demanding otherwise. I'm not going to be fooled by the BLUE STATE TYRANNY anymore. Gore has investments in big oil as well. These people running our Senate want 2 turn America into a self hating "Green Ghetto" - Noah David Simon

Noah I am just quoting the facts! So why Chevron took the lithium battery off the market? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

could be many reasons. Government pressure? OPEC and Saudi pressure? - Noah David Simon

The Saudis don't pay our government shit! Chevron has to lick their balls. - Noah David Simon

but Chevron itself is like a Jew working for a bunch of Cossocks during a pogrom - Noah David Simon

Haha! You hit the nail square on its head! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Let's just blame it all on @aManDaChapel "she" is the root of all evil. lmao - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

co-signing onto "doucheless cars." - @baratunde

Eric, my dad has a collection of old Street Rodder magazines, and theirs an awesome article from like 69 I remember reading on converting a VW Bug to electric. - Clay Newton

I don't think you understand what I am saying. Chevron is powerless. They can't even make decisions that they profit off of for fear of immediate price punishment. The oil companies have their hands tied and they want out of this business more then we do. They can't move out of oil fast enough to be able to survive without petrol. OPEC could easily go to Chevron and say hey boys we decided to sell the petrol to the Chinese government for twice the price. - Noah David Simon

like I have said in the past. if you want oil company PR... then turn on PBS. that is who supports public media. they don't want the Iraq war because it was bad for their business. They would of made more money selling Iraqi oil to France or Russia for twice the price... an American market is a disaster for Chevron. That is why Obama --> Europe and OPEC are in conspiracy. - Noah David Simon

and here we are trying to tax our oil and make it too expensive for the consumer,... we been bamboozled.... but not by Bush. Bush got fucked by oil back in 2000 when he was informed the prices would go up. We got screwed because the Democrats are the oil money! - Noah David Simon

Yeah. It pisses me off that we have to "look forward" to a new electric car. One. Why cant we just walk in and, you know, buy them? From multiple car manufacturers? Arg. - Andru Edwards

so who wants to make me a big shell that i can wear while on my segway so i can fake people out? lol - Eric Rice

Eric I'm going to hit your Segway with my bike. - Noah David Simon

I did the math and a person spending $40,000 would get a return with four and a half years. by 2013 there will be legitimate competitors and by 2016 there will be conversion in my estimates... old cars might be still of use because chances people won't use them much next decade... so the conversion thing will be soon - Noah David Simon

Noah, I drive a Segway, a bike and a 4x4, BRING IT ;) - Eric Rice

Conversions FTW. I don't want some sorta of space egg, I want my current car converted. Make it so. - Mo Kargas

Mo: come on though, there's something endearing about the stormtrooper helmet that is Aptera (.com) - Eric Rice

Nice article Marshall. Really good subject to talk about. Great PR skills is fantastic, and rare. As with most things it comes down to definition. If you want someone in PR to 'build awareness' then that's crap. If you want someone who understands the media, knows how to position you, knows when to put you out there and works in with your over all strategy - then that's a good start. At... more... - Mick Liubinskas from FriendFeed MT Plugin

This is a great well thought out and balanced post. There are always a lot of angles to consider, word of mouth is always the strongest way to gain visibility, but then you also need continued support with reputation management and another pair of eyes to take your vision and put into a well thought out and concise press release and even conversation with those who would not only be... more... - Pierce Mattie from FriendFeed MT Plugin

Merlin Mann reported major syncing issues on twitter today as well. - Morgan

i.addict - ''a_a@FF''

Happened to me twice, right from the beginning...I'm out of it. - Nir Ben Yona

was this on your iPhone or a computer? I had that with contacts.. after research found out to delete account from iPhone and re subscribe.. then it found them all again! Let me know how you get on.. - Tom de Grunwald from twhirl

Apple have got to do something about this. slowly, surely it's affecting loads of us. Not good. - Tom de Grunwald from twhirl

(holding his blackberry and treo tightly) - Andrew Feinberg

Tom: it was on Windows Vista. - Robert Scoble

This is why Exchange is the defacto standard for business communications. Apple needs to do better. And I'm sure they can. - Roberto Bonini

I was an iTools user back in the day. When that turned into .mac I paid the first year then I abandoned it. I was outraged - even then - that Apple was charging an arm and a leg for unreliable services available reliably elsewhere for free! - Nicholas Helke

@Roberto I haven't seen anything do mail + calendar + group scheduling better than exchange. Microsoft's problem is they insist that Outlook is a part of Office when they could spin off exchange/outlook/entourage/windows mobile into a separate company and do very interesting things. And I'm a die-hard Mac user, too. - Andrew Feinberg

WHOA!! EPIC FAIL.... damn! good thing you had synch up to Google..dang! iDelete! - Susan Beebe

This happened with .Mac as well. I used to sync my Entourage/Exchange calender with iCal across multiple machines using .Mac. One morning I woke up and my entire Entourage/Exchange calender was empty. Had to have IT restore it from backup - Tom Wentworth

Meh. I'm still using Exchange at this point. - l0ckergn0me

That 1% is getting bigger. Having lost all my contacts, without a backup, I can sympathise. A week away from returning MobileMe. - Tom Tubbs

Uninstall Mobile me: http://www.tech-linkblog.com/2008... - Paul

I am using Google Calendar and soon Exchange on the big corp. network. - Susan Beebe

Perhaps I'm lucky. I don't use Mobile Me, Exchange or Outlook. Gmail does a grand job for my needs! - Ian May

thanks. i was debating it. now i know to stay away - Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)

Seems a bit harsh to go telling everyone to STOP using MobileMe, I use it through exchange and works fine. I did have an issue with the ical being corrupted last week, but tracked that down to a beta version issue with Omni Groups OmniFocus 1.1 slashing things up. Are you SURE it wasn't called by another program? - wayne Mulqueen

I want my money back - I feel like I was scammed by Apple on this - Jesse Stay from twhirl

wayne: if you think anyone listens to me, you got another thing coming. But if I get one person to backup his/her calendar and contacts before running it, then it'll all be worth it. - Robert Scoble

I just don't even bother with it. I use Outlook <-> GCal <-> nuevasync.com - Chris Ridenour

robert: guess you could look at it that way...I did as soon as I saw your post. With all the new apps coming out for the iphone at the mo, there are bound to be conflicts with other progs. Guess it is easy to stick it to Apple seeing as they have had other issues. - wayne Mulqueen

wayne: if I were the only one having these kinds of problems, I would have kept my mouth shut. But lots of others are too. Walt Mossberg, who isn't known to do negative reviews of Apple stuff, said in his column to stay away too. So I have good company. - Robert Scoble

why app makers don't listen to every power users? - Pico Seno

that you do.. - wayne Mulqueen

Pico: in Apple's case its secrecy keeps it from really testing out a ton of different scenarios. My brother-in-law worked at Apple and he said he couldn't even tell his coworkers what he was working on. So, there is a culture internally which keeps them from testing stuff out with a huge number of people. I think that's why buggy junk gets into their products. Safari on my iPhone keeps crashing, too. Opening up some screens on the iPhone takes six seconds, and my battery often drains just sitting there. - Robert Scoble

What a disaster the mobile me service has been... - Tim FitzGerald

This study is total BS. Read the comments after the article. - Michael Tefft

I agree with Michael. This is a fascinating article if only that it highlights how easily we're willing to accept conclusions drawn from poor reasoning. Autism is an incredibly complex disease (which I have studied a fair bit and hope to conduct research on) and many types of children are partial to watching television at a young age. Think of all the personality types that would lead one to want to watch tv and we quickly realize that this relationship is just that-- a relationship. Let 'em watch tv :) - Derick Valadao

Read the comments + "correlation does not prove causation" - Chris Stevenson

TV has a huge effect on children and brain development. Not forgetting to mention behavior. However, autism is not linked to watching TV There is tons better research out on this topic.. - Katybeth

how do u say? the horse and the shite? - adolfo foronda

My friend mentioned to me that tv can cause development of ADHD. http://www.whitedot.org/issue... - Daynah

This is from a 2006 correlational study (not causal) testing the trigger hypothesis. http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty... - LPH™ and his dog P™

Well, you know what "They Say".... - Stephen Roberts

God this is insanely bad science. As stated, correlation does not equal causation. What else started in the 80s? Hummm, hey, personal computers is the cause of autism! Cordless phones is the cause of autism. John Hughes films are a cause of autism. Anyone with a cursory knowledge of autism knows that it long went unreported and that the higher incidence is, in part, a product of better diagnosis and reporting. Report=RED SHIRT. - AJ Kohn

In time this will be more accepted as the correlations become more and m ore clear over the years. Next up, the affect of video games on children -- worse than autism, eh? - Prokofy Neva