how about IM for brainstorming? I think it works.
Also, IM=instant notifications.
And what about SMS? some people broke up or got fired via SMS ;-) - Davide D'Incau via fftogo
". . . and sixteen other songs. On the 4th of July in 2000, Elliott Smith performed this superb quality set at the Embryo Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. Not your standard BBQ / beer / fireworks soundtrack for today -- but better." - edythe via Bookmarklet
Thanks for this. Very clear recording, great live show. I have a friend in the Netherlands who has a band greatly influenced by Elliott Smith; he is gonna love this (that band is Cloudmachine, btw, check them out: http://www.last.fm/music/Cloud... ) So, Ruud thanks you also. - Michael W. May
Hey John, TweetDeck looks to work on a series of panels: one for your friends, another for your replies. You can create more panels that have a group of your friends, making it harder for those friends to get lost in a stream of tweets. Unfortunately, it doesn't pick up all your friends when you go to create a group, and you can't modify who's in the group after you create one (so you have to delete the old group and recreate it if you want to add someone). Otherwise, it's Yet Another Twitter AIR Client. - Mark Trapp
saeba shared this... but, wanted to reshare with the pic. Now *that* is a restaurant I would definitely go to. Oh, Japan, you never disappoint. - felix via Bookmarklet
Here in Asia-large tres like that are treated like a god. They are given right away when build roads and stuff. Often in Taiwan there will be a shrine/temple built under or near by them. - Mark Forman
I think Robert means he's 2 years behind you, not that's he's under 30. I'm doing the 12th anniversary of my 30th later this year... - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, I am one day younger than edythe and I never let her forget it! - RAPatton
ahem, not that it's at all important, but i think rap is actually only one day younger than certain people whose names may begin with "p" or "e." - edythe
I was a premie, born weeks early, trying to get out before edythe, almost killing my mom in the process, but she beat me to it; even with life, she was an early adopter - RAPatton
Mitchell...I celebrated that exact anniversary in May :) - Mark Krynsky
My grandmother turned 102 this year. She raised 10 kids as a single mom since 1946. Ran her own ice-factory in Tainan, Taiwan. We're both "Fire Horses" - 1906 & 1966. - Mitchell Tsai
Zahra, thanks for linking to some of my posts. I saw the traffic in my logs :-) - Mike Fruchter
With a larger subscriber base, it is becoming harder and harder to keep up with all of your followers. I find myself going to my subscription page more often and clicking feeds to discover new blogs and content from my followers. - Mike Fruchter
The beauty of FriendFeed - it can be used in all sorts of rewarding ways! - Martin Bryant
Martin exactly. Friendfeed is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. - Mike Fruchter
it's sorta like taking a picture of the person taking a picture of you - Cee Bee
Agreed, they are such an inspiration to me as a couple, as performers and as parents. - Nicholas Kreidberg
how did you post the audio file in friend feed/! - Brian Ries
by using an awesome Yahoo! Pipes thingy that blends a whole bunch of stuff with songs that i "love" on last.fm. (and people say Yahoo! is finished. ha.) i import the feed here (as a "blog"). http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/p... - edythe
"Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display. Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small light emitting diodes (LEDs), helping turn his prototype contact lenses into a sophisticated personal display - the tiniest one possible." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
that can't be good for one's health. fascinating though - Cee Bee
How would it be bad for your health Cee Bee? Maybe it might screw with your vision some, but what else would it affect? - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
It would be the a great heads up display, but I don't know if you would be able to track eye movement to select things on the display. The gyroscopes on the lens would have to be almost nano. - RAPatton
i'm not sure but placing some electronic object of that sort directly over one's retina may have its side effects. then again, i've been on this laptop for the past 6 hours and my balls are frying - Cee Bee
I'm totally ready for augmented reality, but I think i'll let other guinea pigs work out the kinks in the system first... - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
hmm, not a fan of this nor of a cattle prod being plugged into the back of my head. though something like "The Thirteenth Floor" would work - clarke
@Phil: That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the photo. I want! - Jeremy Brooks
Very interesting. Gartner predicts that human augmentation will evolve over the next 10 years to the point where it will be feasible to enhance the performance or sensory abilities of healthy individuals. In other words, medical techniques such as sensory transference, direct brain interfaces, and nerve mapping will be used not just to restore physical deficiencies, but to enhance healthy people beyond “normal”. - Alan Cheslow
Whoa... cool. But really, heads up display, blah blah blah... i want my eyes to glow in the dark. Then I'll really be able to fight crime with my intimidating stare! - felix
I tried an earlier version of this kind of thing during a visit to a lab at the UW in Seattle. My eyes ached in a really strange way afterwards; I mean acute pain. I don't like the display as prosthetic, because of this experience. - terra210
I'd be happy with augmented reality embedded in my glasses... I'm not much of a contacts guy anyway. - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
I can finally hook up Friendfeed right into my eyeballs! - Hao Chen
Next step would be flashing contacts like those aftermarket lights underneath cars. - Earl E Morningwood via fftogo
Should give these away with Kraftwerk's-Man Machine Music. Way cool-I want some. - Mark Forman
You know those "spinner" hubs/tires that some folks have on their car wheels? How about "spinner" contacts? Hopefully invisible from the user's point of view, but folks looking at you see spinning in your eyes. based on this article, you could even attach little outward-facing LED lights to the spinners... - Bruce Williams
Just add a tiny wireless receiver, and you'll get special promotions of chips and nylon socks flashed on you contact lenses when you walk past Walmart. - Dewald Pretorius
Now if it can be a camera and take a frame every time I blink I'm in. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas: If you're blinking, you're going to get a bunch of dark photos :P - Eric Florenzano
i look forward to the day when my contact lens overlords control all that i survey - Ranjit Mathoda
"Why are you staring into space and chuckling to yourself", asks my wife. "Oh, just checking my email, got some funny ones today", I reply. - Nick Lewis
My two questionable cents: (1) power supply and (2) cooling. Much like current artificial eyes, but way harder to solve. - 9000
"The cinematic world was today celebrating the rediscovery of missing scenes from German director Fritz Lang's legendary silent film Metropolis - thought lost for 80 years, until they were found in the archive of a museum in Argentina.
Key scenes cut from the science fiction picture - either because they were considered to be too brutal or too long - will now be available for the first time since May 1927, when the original version was last shown in Berlin, where it flopped badly." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
It looks like she is wearing something very similar to what they use in korean salons in Los Angeles - RAPatton
This film was brilliant and visually seems to have inspired many other Sci Fi classics - Angel Aviles-McClinton
hmm--wonder if these would make the movie somewhat more interesting... [ducks] - edythe
good emote ;) The film is more enjoyable if you pretend you've never been to a moving picture before and just read everything H.G. Wells and Jules Verne have published. - Michael W. May
Hum... NoiseRiver was supporting this two days before :p - directeur via NoiseRiver
Very cool. If you go back a couple days, it has the proper timestamp format e.g. Tuesday at 12:15pm etc. I guess the question is what time zone are these based on. I'd guess Pacific time due to FF being in the Valley/Bay Area. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
About time too! :-) I think they should either allow me to pick my timezone or detect my regional settings so that the historical date/time always displays correctly for my timezone. - Tony Ruscoe
The great thing about the timezone issue is that it doesn't matter much. Small time deltas are done relatively "6 hours ago" so time zone doesn't come into play. Long time deltas are done absolutely and since FF doesn't ask what time zone you live in are likely off but it doesn't matter too much because it is a long time delta and thus it's ok to be off by a few hours because is 2 weeks ago really different from 2 weeks and 1 hour ago? Brilliant. - Benjamin Golub
I like it. The only problem I see though is it also displays over people's names when you hover over their name. It gets in the way. - Nick Munson
Translation to local time is pretty easy isn't it? FF (server side) doesn't know the time zone you are in -- but the browser can - Brian Sullivan
@Benjamin, that's completely true. So I'd argue why bother displaying the time at all for comments older than 24-48 hours. (Philipp's been doing that in the Google Blogoscoped forum for years: http://blogoscoped.com/forum/) @Brian, absolutely. - Tony Ruscoe
Congrats Franklin. It's always nice to see the little guys getting some exposure. Louis Gray is truly a class act, but we already knew that. :-) - Mike Fruchter
*snort* As long as it's not Tori Spelling style. - Cyndy
Congrats Franklin, can't say you didn't deserve it - Dobromir Hadzhiev
I'd recommend you post an entry trying to measure the "Louis Gray Effect" in terms of RSS subscribers, or another metric you feel appropriate, in a couple weeks. - Denton Gentry
"It's been a so-so year for movies, but it's shaping up to be an excellent year for trailers." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
"The importance of a good trailer isn't lost on filmmakers. Last year, while discussing his "There Will Be Blood," director Paul Thomas Anderson told The Associated Press that the only disagreement he had with the studio was over what he called "the YouTube incident of 2007."
While editing the movie last summer, Anderson decided to enliven things by cutting a trailer, which he posted on YouTube. The simplicity of the process — not dealing with the studio or the Motion Picture Association of America — was "like a filmmaker's fantasy."
" - RAPatton
My brother watches the trailer every night! - David Ambrose
I love trailers, always have. Often they are better than the movie I am seeing or the actually movie when it comes out. They are usually succinct and full of promise. - RAPatton
"Steinman says that the musical, Bat Out of Hell, will be based on the songs from the three-album cycle. Described as a Cirque du Soleil-type spectacle, Steinman wrote both music and lyrics. Steinman is really excited that Stephen Clarke (Stripped) has signed on to collaborate with him on the musical’s book." - Patricia Hanrahan via Bookmarklet
Not too sure how I feel about this. Come on - Bat Out of Hell musical?? Then again I did really enjoy Tanz der Vampire (http://inthestigs.blogspot.com...) and do have a soft spot for complex, bombastic, wall-of-sound and big squeally guitars. Think I may just go and see it ... maybe. *edited: Steinman wrote the music for TdV - Patricia Hanrahan
hmm... I've seen snips of Meatloaf's concerts and am left wondering why he isn't adapting this for the stage himself. The albums already tell the story and the concert theatrics are already halfway there. - Michael W. May
Steinman orginally choose to collaborate with Meatloaf due to his theatrical background - it is the original Wagnerian Rock. As long as Steinman is the key figure in this it should be a lot of fun. He had little to no input when they moved TdV from Germany to Broadway for the English remake Dance of the Vampires. It sucked! It still holds the record for being the biggest financial flop on Broadway. - Patricia Hanrahan
I use Weight Watchers Online and then shoot for three points below what they recommend. My weight tends to swing over the years. I hope to get it to stay here now. I don't exercise so I overcompensate by not eating! - Steve Rubel
twenty pounds in two months by cutting the size of meals and having a veggie/fruit shake for lunch. Benefits: cloth fit, cholesterol down to lowest level in three years. - Joe Buhler
Congrats Steve...I lost several pounds just by eliminating evening snacks--bare minimum after 7:30.. - mark ivey
That's cool. I'm down 10 pounds myself - eliminated dairy and avoided wheat whenever possible (pasta, bread), and processed meats. Soy yogurt tastes pretty good when you get used to it. - Jason Kaneshiro
Congrats Steve. I've lost 13 pounds since early May by refraining from overeating. Wanted to lose weight to help with the Walt Disney World Marathon I'll run in January. - Mike Reynolds
Congrats! I'm down 6 lbs in 3 weeks--no more alcohol, or chips (Hi My name's Matt, I'm a chip-a-holic. "Hi Matt" <applause>) plus I'm working with a trainer. Ugh! - MattKelly
Awesome! I lost about 8 pounds of my "New CEO 15" - Mitchell Tsai
Not working for me, yet, but awesome idea. I'm using FF2 on XP, btw. - Hao Chen
I see it but identica is over whelmed at the moment. - Russellreno
Thanks, Hao. I know it works on FF3 on Windows and Mac. I need to find a windows machine to test ff2 on. :P - Brad McCrorey
Error: document.getElementById("status_textarea") is null. Man you should use DOM method instead of "innerHTML" and "addEventListener" instead of "onclick". - LouCypher
Lou: I'm happy to hear suggestions. From the time I found out about identi.ca to the time I released that script was less than 2 hours. Sorry it's not perfect. - Brad McCrorey
Limitations of MySQL for this application may be why Twitter is spending a bunch of money looking at file system-based and other options for their nextgen architecture. - Ken Sheppardson
The identi.ca db architecture is such that, compiling a user's stream will result in a very heavy db load when the person follows many folks. Exactly the same issue that Twitter is trying to solve. - Dewald Pretorius
Perhaps, but I have high hopes that the brightest minds in the world can fix this. It is open source, after all. - Hao Chen
Agree, Hao Chen. Twitter's been at it two years full time with significant venture funding and still have problems, so it's apparently not something that we're likely to see solved overnight with off-the-shelf PHP library ORM libraries and basic MySQL tables. This could take a while. - Ken Sheppardson
