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How I Tweet: Just the FAQs - http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2009...
Jannifer Stoddard, (jeff)isageek, Chris Duffy and 7 other people liked this
Did he just compare himself to Tiger Woods?
- Venkat Balasubramani
Venkat: that's a Guy Kawasaki trick. If you want your brand to be better you must tie your brand to someone with an even better brand. Who has a better brand than Tiger?
- Robert Scoble
The Tiger Woods of Twitter? Uh...is there some sort of award for number or quality of tweets? Who should I be bribing?
- Tyler Hurst
Tyler: bring cupcakes to @biz and @ev :-)
- Robert Scoble
I wonder if @foiledcupcakes delivers that far...they are fantastic.
- Tyler Hurst
I love being reminded just how much an ass Kawasaki is.
- Allan Jenkins
Arrogance aside, at least he's upfront about everything he does. I appreciate that much.
- Chris Duffy
LOL everyone hates the rich and powerful but secretly wishes they were - wait for it - wait for it - rich and powerful. Go Guy! Go!
- ScottBourne
It will be a happy day when people stop typing LOL unnecessarily in so, so many online conversations.
- Tyler Hurst
WTF? how true.but IMHO that isn't gonna happen. LOL
- RAD Moose
Tech execs: how to reach “normal” users with PR and with TechCrunch/GigaOm et al - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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The PR advice in the New York Times I read really is horrid.
- Robert Scoble
It's amazing how bad most tech companies do when it comes to PR. By the way, I laid out the best advice I ever gave on this topic back in 2003: http://scoble.weblogs.com/2003... what did I say there? Talk to the grassroots first. That is why I use Twitter and FriendFeed. That's where the grassroots are.
- Robert Scoble
I deal with this every day when I talk to NY firms. It's frustrating that they think they only way to get through to people is either cute videos or TV ads. Why don't we just ASK our customers what they want?
- Tyler Hurst
Great write-up. Surprised that you mentioned Techcrunch over Mashable. In fact, you didn't mention Mashable at all..! Any particular reasons for that?
- K N Ajit Narayan
KN Mashable isn't nearly as influential as Techcrunch is, most of my friends don't mention it. Mashable is switching to a Twitter news network, too, which makes them influential on Twitter, but not overall. Mike really has owned the tech news space and continues to do so.
- Robert Scoble
K N: also, note, I was riffing off of the New York Times article that mentioned TechCrunch and not Mashable. There's a reason for that.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, also keep in mind that most of your friends are in Silicon Valley. Mashable is very talked about on the East Coast. I think it's definitely worth considering, personally.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: exactly. Notice that Brooke Hammerling lives in New York. Even SHE doesn't talk about Mashable.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, good point - regardless, people always end up looking to Silicon Valley for their news.
- Jesse Stay
Isn't this more general than PR? The main point, as I got it, was about cynicism. Isn't any communication of opinion, whether cynical or not, contributing to the multi-faceted picture that people get of ... well, anything that we want to hear about?
- John W Lewis
Jesse: I thought Pete Cashmore even moved to SF to cover Silly Valley more.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, I agree that TechCrunch is more influential but Mashable has been coming on strong. Look at this comparison on Compete.com http://siteanalytics.compete.com/mashabl...
- Mike Doeff
John: yes.
- Robert Scoble
BTW Robert, welcome to the UK! Hope to see you tomorrow.
- John W Lewis
Mike: traffic does NOT equal influence. I can have more influence than you have by having just one reader. Think about it. If Obama read me and you had 1000 "normal" readers, who has more influence?
- Robert Scoble
Robert, is he in Silicon Valley now? Interesting. Sounds like he needs to be networking more then.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse: I've watched both work. Mike digs for news more and is more tied into the VC infrastructure here, which gets him more news.
- Robert Scoble
I know when I tried to talk to him I was practically ignored, even though it was about a common client. Not that it would have had any effect on influence. I've just had a better impression of Arrington, personally.
- Jesse Stay
Robert, I agree that TC still has more influence but still, Arrington can't be happy about that trend line on Compete.com.
- Mike Doeff
Mike: Mashable is outplaying Techcrunch on Twitter and Mashable is better at writing articles that get Google page rank, like reviews of lots of products. That doesn't equal news influence, but does get traffic. I also think Arrington also made a huge mistake deleting his FriendFeed account (FriendFeed is a top three traffic driver for me already).
- Robert Scoble
Robert, why did Arrington delete his FriendFeed account? You are right about Mashable. On Twitter, one gets the impression that Mashable is more popular than Techcrunch. But that may not hold true elsewhere.
- K N Ajit Narayan
K N: He got mad at the "mob" that formed here after his fight with Leo Laporte and deleted his account. Repeat after me, popularity does NOT equal influence.
- Robert Scoble
Arrington like like a nice guy. Yes, popularity does NOT equal influence. LoL
- K N Ajit Narayan
The chance that an individual will be sufficiently interested in something to pass it on and, thereby, create a mob effect depends on many factors (and, surely, these have been well studied?). Presumably, something must be significant, remarkable (literally), relevant, and so on. The source of the thing has an effect, I guess, in terms of credibility, reach, etc.. And for the original...
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- John W Lewis
Yeah, I always used to tell people they could get more great PR by going to parties at conferences (or better yet, throwing them) than they could get with a big expensive PR firm. When I was a big fancy magazine editor I would habitually filter out any incoming messages from big PR firms, since they were usually content-free at best, and BS-laden at worst. People who I met at parties had way better stories, rumors, and other intell for me than PR flacks!
- Fred Davis
I used to work for a technology consulting firm. Many new client relationships originated from conversations with people in neighbouring seats on flights. We often suggested dropping the advertising and giving everyone a free trip once a month!
- John W Lewis
John & Fred - yes and more yes. Talking to people is remarkably effective. Who knew?
- Tyler Hurst
well I commented here http://scobleizer.com/2009...
- Darren Stuart
The NY Times story was terribly unflattering. I can't blame Ms. Miller - some of the voices quoted were the antithesis of what I've aspired to be. If that's what she's experienced, we as a profession need to take a serious step back and re-evaluate our purpose. I was so peeved I spent my 4th trying to craft a reasonable response. (http://bit.ly/113wnu). So much for BBQs.
- AllisonWagda
Hacks continue to paint flacks as they are. But that these flacks represent what is going on in the industry and the sea change afoot couldn't be farther from the truth.
- andy
Robert - really didn't like how you generalized PR people in your article. Further, the reality is there are very few people in Silicon Valley at all who actually know anything about taking products to the real mainstream. Very, very few.
- Jeremy Toeman
Outcast was the sole voice of reason quoted in that story.
- AllisonWagda
Damn right.
- andy
Alaska Gov Palin on Facebook suggests that she has bigger plans and a national agenda she planned to push after she resigns.
Aron Michalski, Nation Hahn, Judy Jones and 6 other people liked this
she's out of her mind.
- Mike White
Oh noes!
- Phillip Stewart
She is dreaming of becoming a female George W
- Clive Sinclair
via iPhone
She's destined to be on Fox.
- Robert Scoble
i think she might co-anchor with nancy grace.
- Jim Halligan @jim
She could play bridge (to nowhere) with Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace and Sean Hannity.
- Aron Michalski
She's going to take over for El Rushbo when he keels over.....or she'll become a Libertarian and start her own radio show...either way I could care less, she's just another idiotic politician
- Mike VanLare (slayerboy)
Aron, which one of those is the dummy? ;-)
- Karoli
Jim: Palin and Nancy Grace? Jebus shit... talk about "nails on a chalk board." My head would burst...
- Christopher Carr
She's going to get paid to do GOP fundraisers while pimping her book, or some such thing, I would suppose. Her current situation is insufficiently lucrative.
- Christopher Carr
Christopher: I am hoping for a Nancy Grace spot to promote her new book or such. Best thing that could ever happen. Those two are meant for each other.
- Jim Halligan @jim
I still think the Palin/McKinney ticket has legs...crazy legs.
- Aron Michalski
I just hope it doesn't include shooting any more endangered species :( ... what a maroon.
- Sean MacDhai
via iPhone
I live in Tokyo, so I am I getting this in Japanese.. Is Palin now Governor of Facebook?
- Robert Higgins
I'm in Nagoya, it's all in English and I think it said something about gumdrops and lollypops.
- Aron Michalski
Sarah is on a mission from God, her mission is just a small part of the 6,000 year history of this young earth. She'll protect us from evil, which happens to be anything that prevents her Dominionist goals to take over the world for Jesus and rule in his kingdom, notice it ain't no elected representative Government but a Kingdom with someone claiming to be Jesus as King. Goodbye to the American Republic.
- sovereignjohn
A) The woman has a voice that could strip paint. B) When she does talk, she has NO earthly idea what in the hell she's saying. ....actually, that would be a shoo-in for cable news, now that I think about it....
- Kris Roley
OK now we have an explanation. She wants to save Alaska the money they're spending on all the ethics investigations. :loco: You. Just. Can't. Make. This. Shit. Up! I know some of you don't believe me, go look it up and come back to this thread. Fox and the WSJ are lining up behind this with a full court press. Honestly how can these people look themselves in the mirror, how can any...
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- Indio Apache
via twhirl
What frightens me most about Palin isn't Palin. It's the incredibly short memory of the public at large. Even with everything she's said, done, hasn't done, will do...there will be people out there who hunger to hear the drivel she spews and forget the rest.
- Karoli
Karoli - my fiancee and I had this same conversation today, and its more than just a bit frightening. That said, I'm optimistic that the US hasn't fallen so far from sanity that a majority would deem her an effective leader. I think the worst damage she can do is that which she excelled at during the election - spreading vitriol and hatred. Whatever its meaning, her next "calling" can't be good.
- jcunwired
jcunwired: I hope you're right. I also hope that sovereignjohn's comments above were intended as sardonic humor, because it is precisely this idea that she is on a 'mission from God' that frightens me most. The God I know would most certainly not approve.
- Karoli
The very idea of god itself is plain fraud and if someone claims that he/she is sent by god, it freaks the hell out of me.
- Krishnan Subramanian
Great. It'll be interesting to see what she plans to do.
- Judy Jones
Palin Bush 2012
- Robert Higgins
London’s Tower Bridge is on Twitter, I’ll be on the bridge later today - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
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It's amazing how many uses Twitter has.
- Robert Scoble
So you will be able to know whether it is open or closed without looking at it!
- John W Lewis
John: yup!
- Robert Scoble
the question is, which do you prefer to see - open or closed and can you time your visit right ;)
- Rachel Clarke
Rachel: I'd love to see it open, but we'll just have to get lucky I guess.
- Robert Scoble
ahh, http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE... tells me when it's open
- Rachel Clarke
Unfortunately, (based on http://www.towerbridge.org.uk/TBE... and your itinerary), it seems that you will miss the photo opportunity on Friday July 10 at 1600 when the bridge opens for this ship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) Oh, the idle research we get up to ... now how could we automate that kind of search?!
- John W Lewis
Don't miss the Tudors exhibitions celebrating 500 years since Henry VIII's coronation @ the London tower and Hampton court I went there last week it was wonderful .
- Nawaf Althani
If you're in London try and catch the Pop Icons sculpture and photography exhibition at the Mall Galleries Robert, 2 minutes walk from Charing Cross under Admiralty Arch - the exhibition is AMAZING (not just because some of my shots of Sade are being exhbited either!)
- jude calvert-toulmin
Parse the Tweet text to get the ship name,and do a Wikipedia search?? seems pretty simple to me.
- Roberto Bonini
We just added a "Best of day" link at the bottom of the page. The best part is that it works for friend lists too, so you can have a "Best of day from family", etc. Thanks to Matt Cutts for the suggestion (http://friendfeed.com/mattcut...)
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awesome, but pls bring this to the iphone too... i really miss best of day on the iphone
- Zee.
Suggested Tuesday, implemented Thursday. #wonderful
- Mitch
Nice! I was just thinking about this today, but it'd also be awesome to have a "Best of" link for user profiles as well, so it'd be easy to see which of a users (or yourself) updates/posts were the most popular
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
This is huge news for me, thanks!
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
What Sean said. It will also be useful to decide whether to subscribe to a user or not.
- Vishy
I agree -- soon I hope.
- Paul Buchheit
The "by list" portion is very important. Well done.
- Louis Gray
*falls on floor*
- Johnny Worthington
w00t! I got a "file not found" error on the iPhone, but I'm hoping that's temporary. This is rocking--thanks for adding this feature!
- Matt Cutts
You guys are full of incredibleness today
- Charlie Anzman
Boy, you're just cranking the improvements out! Amazing stuff!
- Rick Cogley
sweet
- Alfredo
this is good. how about also adding best of week and month and putting the same tool on searches as well?
- Thomas Hawk
Awesome...I've really missed this since the redesign.
- Mark Krynsky
And guess who comes up twice as soon as I click this new feature...? Paul Buchheit!!! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This is great but hopefully will be expanded to groups, users and saved searches too? And agree with Thomas about best of week/month too.
- Kol Tregaskes
Friendfeed, you ROCK!
- alfred westerveld
I found the link long before this post. Very cool.
- Russellreno
Can we get email/IM alerts for "Best of Day" for lists? I would love to get these pushed to me. Thx.
- Steve Rubel
WOW I love you guys I missed the feature sooooo bad!!!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
I've been waiting for this for ages. Fantastic.
- Meryn Stol
great tks a lot
- martine horovitz
I wish I could let you all see @secretscoble without opening it up. I gotta figure that one out, because the Tweet stream there is magic!
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Happy 4th of July!
- Melissa Gonzales
Hey! Could you send me an invite?
- Chacha102
Nope. I am only inviting people I've met face-to-face and who I want to follow. I'm already following you here on FriendFeed, though, which is even better.
- Robert Scoble
that makes complete sense... so after your jaunt across the ocean head over here to Hawaii :-)
- Crystal Clear
Isn't it a little rude to refer to hidden feeds? As they used to tell us at NSA, true secrets are those shared with no one.
- Jack Carlson
Jack, it is very rude to talk about a secret group, but that's one of the things I'm studying too. Humans are fun to study. SEO types are going crazy over trying to get into this account, by the way.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, really, I'm just going to say this just once - repeatedly talking about your "secret feed" is ridiculous. It completely looks like an 11yo trying to grab attention and prove he's a "popular" kid. You admit it's completely rude to talk about hidden feeds, and yet you justify it because "I'm studying humans," which is another arrogant and incredibly rude thing to say (you do not refer to people as subjects, ever). Scoble, for someone with your accomplishments, I expected better character...
- Ben Parr
Just open it up, let us follow @SecretScoble, but refuse to follow us back, whats the big deal?
- Mark
They trade Scoble nudes like baseball cards in there. That's the word on the street.
- Geoff Schultz
I can see your use of the secretscoble account to be very simalar to my use if twitter. I have started to put a cap on the people I follow, rather than blindly following everyone back, about 60% of the people in my twitter stream I have met in person, and about 20% are people I hope to meet. I have found I start missing things important to me if I go over 450. I do respond to every...
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- Luke Kilpatrick
Ben: sorry, every Twitter company is studying Twitter's users. Every single damn one. If that's rude to do, then go postal on all the Twitter developers. Mark: it's a big deal because I want to talk with a very specific audience there, not with everyone. I am studying how that changes my writing, or what I want to do. In my research of how normal people use the Internet they want...
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- Robert Scoble
"..Jack, it is very rude to talk about a secret group..." Robert, are you talking about your secret group or Jack's secret group? Hold it - some black suburbans are pulling up out front.
- James Goldman
Ben: and how will this make me more popular? Or prove to others that I'm popular? You have some weird ideas of how to prove you're popular. James: my secret group. Gotta go, the black suburbans are here. :-)
- Robert Scoble
As a uk tax payer I'm helping to pay for your blogger holiday - can I get in ?
- Adrian
Adrian: no. It's like the Suggested User List. Only less fair.
- Robert Scoble
Hmmmm... I think I was following that account on my old @freddavis account... another hassle with Twitter never giving me my account back... add me as @fucktwitter, or just follow me here ;-)
- Fred Davis
So in other words, you're finally experimenting with "the friends are the filter"... you know, the method that you were absolutely insistent wasn't as good as "follow everyone" a while ago? I'm not going to say "I told you so" but... I told you so :)
- Ian Betteridge
Great friends can be the best filters and can allow you to get a much cleaner stream of what's happening than following everyone - same story with RSS feeds - I think Ian is quite right, but maybe you are onto something different Robert...
- Robin Good
Robin, I think we're actually both right: a lot depends on what you're looking to use your feed for. Robert uses his quite differently to the way that I use it. I don't care about 99.99% of the stuff which comes up enough to need to know about it *right now* - Michael Jackson's death being a classic example. But there are certain things that I do want to know about now, and those tend to be the kinds of things that friends would pass on.
- Ian Betteridge
Robert, you could extend the walled garden concept and have an invite only blog, or paid access (that's one way to find your dedicated fans). I don't think that form of community conflicts with open formats either. Both have strengths and advantages. It behooves us to understand and interact with specific communities within both. I prefer the open type due to the nonexclusivity. For...
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- Mark Essel
via iPhone
You could do a quick mashup on your site that could authenticate with twitter and show the home feed for @secretscoble on that page to everyone, without them having to join. Couple of issues with that, though. It would also show tweets from people whom @secretscoble follows who otherwise have protected feeds. Also, basic HTTP authentication b/w your server and Twitter - not very secure.
- sameer
just take screen shots from time to time if you want to make a point about what you are seeing there. then get your friends' permission, and write a blog post about it.
- Laura Norvig
I would keep it that way scoble
- polou/indigo_bow
@secretscoble yes it is -
- Kevin Tunis
Scoble has the first premium Twitter account, because I am certain that people would pay a lot of money to become a follower.
- Bob Blunk
Bob Plunk have you been on the sauce? Just add the people he follows to your account and you have a replica of @SecretScoble. I promise you Robert is not saving all his pearls of wisdom for that twitter account. He isn't tweeting revelations that will change the world on his alternate account. It's just some experiment he is running on things such as how much attention people pay to invites.
- Mark
kewl and best ; Scoble rox lol ; http://www.youtube.com/nicomed... [WE LIVE IN PUBLIC-participant, Sundance Film Price, imdb at http://www.imdb.com/name... ] nicomedy aka ewing2001
- ewing2001
Until you figure it out, I'll use your SUL as a filter to find interesting streams I am not currently following.
- Alberto Saavedra
Aren't you a social media expert? @jlevine asked. Seems to me that's like asking you if you are expert yet at being human? ;-) I'm not.
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sure you are an expert at being human. It's like saying "I'm perfect, a perfect human being" :)
- Nicholas Orr
via twhirl
Nicholas: I'll be a perfect human being when I'm dead. For now I'm imperfect. And certainly not expert at it. Although that Obama fellow seems to be on the right track.
- Robert Scoble
Social Media Experts aren't they the Snake Oil Salesmen of our time :p
- Darren Stuart
Good point on the dead part - hadn't considered it from the perspective. At the same time I wouldn't be able to tell an expert lion from an ordinary lion, there is only a lion. sure I could say that one kills more game and so is greater than that lion that kills less, surely now I'm quantifiy attributes of a lion. At the end of the day a lion is an expert at being a lion. lion's have x,y,z attributes that I could judge one lion from another
- Nicholas Orr
via twhirl
X Experts are the Snake Oil Salesmen of our time I am leery of anyone willing to dawn the coveted and liberally distributed title of expert.
- Geoff Schultz
Great reply
- D Lets
The more you learn about anything the more you realise how much you still don't know. I believe in people willing to learn and progress, I definitely don't believe in self-proclaimed experts.
- M F
I am not a social media expert either, just an enthusiast!
- polou/indigo_bow
Based on your answer, you would qualify as a social media expert...
- Mark Harai
Wait, they didn't make a "Dummies guide to being human." drats!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
it's really hard to find new, good podcasts. Just went through 2 pages of search results here at FriendFeed and didn't find anything I wanted to listen to more than Stack Overflow and twit. Those i already knew about. :( What's your iTunes podcast window look like? hint hint, suggestions?
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Geeks and God for Drupal CMS and general technology implementation
- Peter Kelley
I don't see the ReadBurner podcast on there. FAIL. :-)
- Louis Gray
humorous: http://youlooknicetoday.com/
- Paul Arterburn
Have you tried Mur Lafferty or Scott Sigler?
- Ha3rvey
try out one of the shows at http://randomchatter.com - they have movie, tech, and other topic-centric podcasts - nice guys
- Nathan Chase
Buzz Out Loud isn't too bad.
- Jared B. Luther
I enjoy BOL too. Been a fan since the beginning. However, if you're looking for something different, try On Digital Media http://odmcast.com (shameless plug ;-)
- Steven Hatch
john cleese, stephen fry, kevin smith, Andrew Denton. Get to it!!
- thomasrdotorg
via twhirl
awesome, thanks for all the suggestions!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
NOVA Science Now, Scientific American, The Naked Scientists, the Pragmatic Podcasts, Hanselminutes, SE-Radio (though I skip most of them), Core Intuition, Late Night Cocoa, Mac Developer Network, Grammar Girl
- DGentry
NPR's All Songs Considered, NPR's Science Friday, Magnum in Motion
- samgrover
No Agenda.
- MVB
I like the BBC news podcasts....
- Mitch
I love BOL (Buzz Out Loud)...also Loaded, Twit, The Social Geeks (of course), Diggnation, Grammar Girl, The Answer Bitch, LostCasts (when LOST returns that is), ReadBurner, CNET TV, CNET Mailbag (Molly Wood is damn funny) and the occasional Tekzilla and Security Now.
- Sarah Perez
BOL is great, CNET has some damn good podcasts.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
via twhirl
FFundercats??? Ho???
- Lindsay is :)
Good call Lindsay, FFundercats, HO! Go grab it.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
My one must-have podcast is Danny Sullivan's SearchCast: http://dailysearchcast.com/
- Matt Cutts
I listen to the Gillmor Gang (I'll be on tomorrow at 1 p.m. from China, by the way) and TWiT. Otherwise I "snack" on other audio shows here and there.
- Robert Scoble
NY Times Front Page, Wall Street Journal Tech News Briefing (both are good first thing in the morning), NewsGang Live / Gillmor Gang. Leo Laporte has a few good ones like TWiT, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now.
- Rolf Schewe
I feel bad for not listening to TWiT very much while everyone else does. It is in my podcatcher but I almost always listen to it part way and then move on. The podcast is a lot of fun, but it just feels like BOL got the same things already and talked about them days earlier. I have a lot of podcasts (I do love NPR and I've found a number of great book world and fiction podcasts) and I'd rather listen to something new.
- Aram Zucker-Scharff
via twhirl
Aram: I understand that. I don't get to all of them either. usually I just listen to the ones that get talked about on Twitter or FriendFeed. Speaking of which, http://www.fastcompany.tv is my video podcast.
- Robert Scoble
These are all great suggestions -- I just scarfed up a mess of them and added them to iTunes. Thanks!
- Mitch Wagner
If you're not already listening to This American Life you're missing the best radio show ever. Fresh Air is good, too. And Wait Wait Don't Tell Me.
- Leo Laporte
gdgt
- rob
NPR is all sorts of awesome. I second "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!"
- Amy H.
TED Talks (video) always has great stuff
- Virtual Bird's Eye
via twhirl
If you like listening to non-work related podcasts (i.e. NOT tech), check out The Moth. Also This American Life.
- Aaron Uhrmacher
"WFMU's Best Show On WFMU" is HILARIOUS! I also like Studio 360 and many of the ones mentioned above.
- Brad Williamson
In the same vein as WFMU are the podcasts from RESONANCE FM, "the art of listening"
- Brad Kligerman
Oh my - where's NPR's "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me", and NPR's Car Talk, and Leo's "Security Now!" podcast? And if you're not only twisted, but actually sprained, check out Merlin Mann's podcast "You Look Nice Today".
- mamapadawan
If you are into Social media, PR and communication, then check out For Immediate Release (FIR). Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson host this bi-weekly podcast and it is without a doubt the best communications podcast out there.
- morten saxnaes
NPR's Wait Wait and This American Life make it to my podcast list. I'm learning Danish too, and there is a great podcast called "CopenhagenCast" that is a great learning tool for the language.
- Guy Martin
Check out The Bugle and Sex Talk with Jimmy Stewart!
- Wes Hoogenboom
via iPhone
Give No Agenda a try. One of my fav of the week. Another good listen is This week in startups with Calacanis.
- Shaun Trennery
via iPhone
Skeptics Guide to the Universe is excellent, one of the best podcasts out there. Also, Seminars about Long Term Thinking is often great.
- Gersham Meharg
Savage Love (sex and relationships, about 35 minutes, weekly), Memory Palace (quirky history stories, about 5 minutes, published irregularly), 60 Second Psych (short stories about psychology, published irregularly), and I love, love, love Tank Riot (kind of indescribable--runtime 1 hour+, published every two weeks or month or so by three guys in Wisconsin), and also one called Copper Robot by some guy named "Mitch Wagner."
- Mitch Wagner
Totally Rad Show is pretty funny.
- Siddharth Mitra
Nice idea......................
- Kevin Hatton
The Moth, The Memory Palace, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Dinner Party Download, The Sound of Young America, Obsessives (video by CHOW), Studio 360, TED (audio or video), Third Coast International Audio Festival, Current Vanguard (video), Frontline WORLD (video), World Cafe.
- Rekha Murthy
The autoblog pod cast, and the truth about cars (although they are daily now, that could disappear)
- rosenbaaron
If you want some nuanced humor, check out and listen to the backlog of You Look Nice Today.
- Charles Englert
PodCastle, Escape Pod and PseudoPod for fantasy, sf and horror respectively.
- Deborah Fitchett
Twitter + World Of Warcraft=Tweetcraft - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"Yes, this was made by Microsoft. Brilliant!"
- Robert Scoble
Even if I did still use Twitter, I wouldn't need it while playing WoW.
- Beau (והאראסי) Liening
Spokesblogging for Microsoft is taking a while to wear off?
- Tim Tyler
Building43 and a bunch of other geeks are coming to London. See more on http://travelinggeeks.com/ -- YOU ARE INVITED TO TWEETUP. Details:
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http://travelinggeeks.com/united-... The Tweetup/FriendFeed meetup is on July 5th. You are invited.
- Robert Scoble
awesome - beers galore, you realise that right?
- Zee.
Zee: oh, yes! I have lots of experience with London and beer!
- Robert Scoble
I am going to be there (hopefully)
- Josh Chandler
There will be other events too, and Techcrunch's Real Time Web event is on the 10th, so we're trying to fit that into our schedule as well.
- Robert Scoble
Our schedule is here: http://travelinggeeks.com/agenda...
- Robert Scoble
Robert, do you know if there will be any Tweetups in Cambridge?
- Josh Chandler
what a group - one of them i wonder what she actually does - calls herself a "tech blogger" yet i never see her blog - and some others on that list too. hope you can push yourself through it robert :)
- Allen Stern
Josh: not sure yet, we are still arranging the schedule. How about a breakfast on Saturday morning July 11, though?
- Robert Scoble
I am sure I could do that!
- Josh Chandler
I think, I am more likely to get to the Cambridge one ahead of the London one, so, I will keep an eye out for updates to the agenda!
- Josh Chandler
Allen: it's a diverse group, that's for sure.
- Robert Scoble
Josh: let's keep in touch, if you don't hear from me let's talk on July 1st or so.
- Robert Scoble
sure, sounds good! DM me on Friendfeed, Twitter. Or email me: josh@joshchandlerblog.com
- Josh Chandler
This is not a tweetup, this is an audience! Come see your favourite geek and pay for the privilege. are you all going to be behind a red velvet rope in a VIP section?
- Rachel Clarke
I don't think that's quite fair to say. Robert is not one who hides himself behind velvet ropes. Nor is Craig [Newmark]. The others I can't speak to as I don't know them. The TechCrunch party being an "official" scheduled event might be a bit much, though.
- Andrew Feinberg
Josh, Robert - is that an open invitation for breakfast in Cambridge? I'll be in the area that weekend, I'd love to join you both.
- Jon Mulholland
Andrew, I know Robert isn't, which is why I'm surprised at it. This is very different I think from any of them doing this individually and if you look at the whole tour, I (and other's whose comments I've seen) think it is a little like that
- Rachel Clarke
July 5th. Hmm, I shall be attending a Jimmy Buffett event down the road in Shepherds Bush at the same time.
- Gilbert Harding
Tempted... :)
- Simon Wicks
Book early, save 20 quid Simon :-)
- Gilbert Harding
Yeah, just going to see if there are any hotels which are cheap and close, and if i can get any deals. Saves leaving the party early as I cant get home..
- Simon Wicks
I envy you guys :D
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Is Building43 like building 43 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond?
- Matt
Matt: Building43 was partially named for the Microsoft building, but mostly for Google's Building 43 which is where its founders sit.
- Robert Scoble
Sounds like a fun group trip, looking forward to photos and suggested spots to see. Me and my lady are in need of some travelling.
- Mark Essel
Tried to buy my tickets. Paypal's being stupid for me and not letting me add a new card, have contacted them trying to sort it out. So i hope i can still get in there while they're cheap, as i dont really want to pay £40 for one.
- Simon Wicks
Me and my girlfriend are coming now, she got the tickets as paypal still havnt sorted my account :)
- Simon Wicks
Scobes, I will be interviewing you. get ready :)- @OoTheNigerian
- Osita Oo Nwoye
Who else is coming from Friendfeed tonight then? Not seen many people put their names down here really.
- Simon Wicks
via iPhone
Honestly don't understand the auto-follow urge on Twitter. In real life, that'd be falling in like with every fan; 100% untenable for even a moderately popular person!
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Why do people feel obligated to follow those that follow them on Twitter and FF? Is it an "ethics" thing, an attempt at egalitarianism...? I seriously don't get it.
- Adam Lasnik
it can end up in a another way to broadcast to many giving the illusion that you also read what they say?
- righini riprova
Adam: I want to be able to get DMs from anyone who follows me. That's why.
- Robert Scoble
But in this case, Righini, it's the reverse. Someone has already subscribed to you (so you're already broadcasting to them), but you then automatically follow them. I understand (though loathe) the tendency of some to follow 42 thousand folks just to pump up their own subscriber numbers, but that's something different. And Robert... hmm... I hadn't thought of that! But why wouldn't @replies suffice?
- Adam Lasnik
ah! also i thought to your question some weeks ago: why do we post messages to public pages instead of private email or chat? I found an answer: sometimes we dont't know who is adapt to receive our message.
- righini riprova
That's a separate but very good point! While it doesn't explain our tendency to publicly post stuff like, "Hey, [friend], I've missed you so much!" (instead of e-mailing that), it *does* explain our habit of posting status'y stuff... because we might feel funny pushing it to a specific someone in e-mail but feel that perhaps one or more of our friends might be entertained or interested in a particular musing.
- Adam Lasnik
DMs would be the reason. Agree with Scoble here.
- Tyler Hurst
maybe the "hey [friend] how are you?" is intended to mean "hey [friend that read [friend] did you see that I speak with [friend]?] how are you?"
- righini riprova
Okay, Tyler and Scoble, I'll delve deeper, then. Why do you want anyone in the world (that's subscribing to you) to be able to DM you? I can't imagine either of you are hard to find and message otherwise. Is it simply about drastically reducing the barrier to communication? And if so, how is that necessarily optimal? ;). And Righini... true. That public broadcasting does seem like a way to indicate affiliations (even common affiliations) or signal "I am loved" or "I am loving" :)
- Adam Lasnik
maybe people is missing the dear old spam from they want to buy strange pills from Romania?
- righini riprova
Yes, I want to talk to people IMMEDIATELY. I don't want someone to pollute my inbox with non-timely banter. If I'm at an event or in a new city and that person is nearby, I want to learn about them. It's more about me connecting with them than them connecting with me.
- Tyler Hurst
Okay, now I understand the intent. But I'm still unclear why @replies would not suffice.
- Adam Lasnik
@replies require me to check them. I have DMs set up as text messages.
- Tyler Hurst
I believe that auto-follow is for those folks who are primarily using Twitter for self-promotion - they never read their followers stream anyways
- cyberjack
Sometimes @ replies are too public. Imagine if someone wanted to send scoble a tip about something hush hush. Only a DM would do there. Why not email? Well email is around too, but everybody is using twitter. If you're a "personality" that likes to be accessible, you go to where your fans are.
- EricaJoy
Easy: because I want to stay on top of the latest in porn, viagra and MLM schemes that my new followers are working on.
- Rocky
Adam: because I noticed that some people wanted to DM me and couldn't. It's a bug in Twitter (and FriendFeed's system). Sometimes you just want to have a private conversation with people. Without going to email.
- Robert Scoble
Not to mention that for some people finding their email is very difficult.
- Robert Scoble
EricaJoy: you nailed it.
- Robert Scoble
it expands my horizons, opens my mind to unfiltered input, opens (vs closed) doors...
- chaz2b
Ah, okay. So the answer seems to be along several lines: Accessibility (DMs), discovery (new info), and etiquette. Interesting. Still, despite all of these potential advantages, it does seem that adding >[x, with x being an arbitrarily large number] followers would make it quite challenging to keep up with tweets.
- Adam Lasnik
to follow MANY users just found this: http://www.baekdal.com/media... here: http://www.twitterforbusypeople.com/index...
- righini riprova
It's weird being in London on the fourth of July. The BBC says we're celebrating, but doesn't say exactly what we're celebrating.
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Hint: it's freedom from the British! :-)
- Robert Scoble
get to Grosvenor Square and you'll have your celebrations
- Prolific Programmer
via IM
I bet. Ha, seems like they are just looking for another reason to ditch work and party.
- Brian Jones
via twhirl
Tell them all is forgiven, send more Guiness ;)
- WarLord
Strictly speaking, it was independence from the monarchy "Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over...
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- Alan Dean
I thought it was about that time Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum blew up the alien ship...
- Johnny Worthington
via iPhone
"now *that's* what I call a 'close encounter'"
- erik yuzwa
Robert, tell them we celeb U.S. iPhones launching fireworks in English. USA USA USA!!
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Alan, yes, but to his credit he is said to have told John Adams the following: "I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power."[58]
- Melanie Reed
There is a good argument that says that it was simply the next step in the evolution of the "English-speaking Empire", rather as Constantinople was established within the Roman Empire and remained 'roman' whilst becoming Byzantine. In that context, the 4th of July is more subtle and complex than simply stating "freedom from the British". This was very much the position of Churchill who rather epitomised the fusion by having an English father and an American mother.
- Alan Dean
I think looking at how Canada achieved her independence and how the "Empire" became the "Commonwealth" and even that disintegrated somewhat, it seems to come down to the logistics of contiguous land mass and the resources to maintain control over time. Canada is always telling the us that their Independence was achieved without blood (although their great mythos is the Canadian Railroad...
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- Melanie Reed
Perhaps celebrating the fact you speak English, rather than German or Spanish or...........
- Gilbert Harding
I'd be slightly worried if the BBC had to explain to its viewers what Americans are celebrating on the 4th of July.
- Paul Grav
Disneyland 4th of July 2009 Finale - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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It's weird being in London on the fourth of July. The BBC says we're celebrating the fourth of July but doesn't mention what the fourth of July is all about. Funny.
- Robert Scoble
I go away on vacation and FriendFeed launches 2 huge features: themes and real-time search; really excited for both to be out in the wild!
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I'm not sure whether this means you should never go on vacation or to go on vacation more often
- Davis Freeberg
Benjamin: actually three huge features. We now have best of day on each list, too. That's how I saw this item.
- Robert Scoble
That means it's your turn! API!!! :)
- Tim Hoeck
Robert, wait. How do you access best of day per List?
- Micah Wittman
Micah: look at the bottom of the page when you visit a list.
- Robert Scoble
Ah Ha. At the bottom! Thank you, Robert.
- Micah Wittman
And welcome back, Benjamin :)
- Micah Wittman
The Most Incredible Collaborative Music Video You Will Have Ever Seen. http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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must watch. genuinely.
- Zee.
Yeah, this is incredible.
- Robert Scoble
see that guys? you got Scoble's seal of approval...now go watch! :)
- Zee.
Clever stuff
- Simon Wicks
Now that's collaboration! Very cool, creative use of simple technology to create a complex end product.
- Larry Hawes
That is a very cool video. And cool they used their fans for it.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I want to see how they did this.
- Morgan Collins
via BuddyFeed
Amazing creativity! and what a wonderful message of UNITY! Love it :)
- Aline Ohannessian
that's amore;)
- Patrizia Filippetti
That is really awesome. I don't care for the song, but the concept and execution is wonderful.
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
Absolutely wonderful.
- Jim Carter
Wow. Just shows what is possible in this age
- Jamie Craig
via Alert Thingy
Retweeted and Posterized it. Thanks Zee!! Great. (before anyone commented, finally get back here to thank you!!)
- Mary Anne Davis
amazing
- mikepk
Is there a making of for this video? It's incredibly amazing...
- Rodrigo Leme
Very cool Zee, thanks for sharing : )
- Mark Harai
That is one awesome music video. It definitely shows its creative genius. I bet they didn't have to spend millions of dollars to make that unlike your typical corporate commercials.
- imabonehead
Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
- Louis Simoneau
Going to Monterey, possibly Carmel-by-the-Sea soon w/ friend for the day. See/eat recommendations very welcome :)
Point Lobos is a must-see on a clear day.
- Bill Strathearn
Hey, thanks... have added that to the list!
- Adam Lasnik
17-mile drive. Pick up sandwiches at Safeway first. Enjoy!
- Robert Scoble
Carmel beach is really cool as is 17-mile drive. Carmel Valley has a lot good wine tasting options.
- Todd Hoff
agree with 17-mile drive..if you go to the Valley try Corkscrew Cafe..very nice
- Bryan Waters
Bill, Robert, Todd, Bryan... thank you! It's a pity my printer isn't working, so I won't be able to print out any maps or tourist info, etc. But at least I have my G1 (and also in-Prius nav), so that should help a bit :)
- Adam Lasnik
We like to just drive around. There are a lot of funky houses and gorgeous gardens.
- Todd Hoff
The aquarium in Monterey may be the best in northern CA.
- Greg Grothaus
The purpose of @secretscoble @k4shif is so I can study how having a private Twitter account changes the experience of using Twitter.
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Intimate conversations are way better..! :)
- Melissa Gonzales
What are the thoughts so far? Would be interesting to understand. I always feel that Twitter is really cool as a comms tool aslong as you use it that way. Its down to the individual.
- Paul Rawlings
Very interesting. Cant wait to hear about your findings!
- Sean Simkins
Sean: so far the signal to noise ratio is much like my lists on FriendFeed. I like FriendFeed better, but there are quite a few people who aren't yet on FriendFeed. The thing is, though, most people aren't on Twitter, either. They don't watch their accounts very closely and/or they don't act on them if they do.
- Robert Scoble
I don't understand why you invited people like Ijustine though? Go look at her friendfeed account, a typical day would be a dozen or so bikini pictures, a video about Apple and a bunch of tweets on some new shoes she is buying?
- Mark
@Mark, yeah exactly, that's why I stopped following her myself
- Stuart Evans
Another interesting experiment would be to allow anyone in who wanted to but to screen people before hand to make sure they weren't spammer, etc. You could create an account of tech-savy people that you could draw news from and do experiments with. Like a twitter that actually knew what they were talking about.
- Sweyn
Mark: because I've met iJustine. She's part of my experiment.
- Robert Scoble
I trust you will be documenting this experiment? Or is it all just going to be in your head? What's your hypothesis? :-)
- Mark
How will you control for extraneous variables ;)
- Mark
How did you ensure your sample was representative and could be generalised to the general population of twitter? Haha, the science-nerd part of me is coming out now.
- Mark
You will never believe who from NASAI am sitting next to for the next 10 hours as we fly to London. Who? Check it here:
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Chief research scientist.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
Anyone want to know something about Mars? You have three minutes to ask.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
Dr. Tore Straume
- OakleighVermont
Do Martians really talk like Marvin?
- MVB
He says we have to go to the moon first. Moon by 2020. Mars by 2030.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
what evidence is their from Mars that it once had a dense atmosphere?
- Mark
"It is only 10 years!"
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
i want to know the 3 biggest contributions of nasa in the last 10 years. is the US getting a return on its investment?
- lew
Moon as a test-run? There's almost nothing there worth anything
- KyNam Doan
KyNam: the moon will be a way station.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
What does he think of the mars biosphere guys in the arctic. Cooks, or science that Nasa actually pays attention to?
- Jay Shapiro
via iPhone
But his bio doesn't say anything about Mars. Says he worked on the effects of radiation exposure. Japan, not Mars.
- Kirk Biglione
can Mars be terraformed?
- Bob Blunk
Lew - Return on investment? Knowledge!
- KyNam Doan
Bummer can't do live video.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
If we can't colonize the moon, there's no way we'll be able to colonize Mars. And it'll be a lot easier to rescue a failed colony on the moon.
- Victor Ganata
Ask him what's the most interesting thing he can tell us about Mars.
- Bruce Lewis
Can you ask him if we can send Astronauts to Mars before Obama's first term is up, and if current technology will protect the astronauts enough from the radiation
- Charbax
Bob he says that is a big job with many uncertainties. He says some don't want us to do that.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
Will magnetic bubbles really be sufficient to protect explorers from radiation?
- Todd Hoff
Charbox: no. Current plan is 2019 for next human mission to moon.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
I believe NASA should send Astrunauts to Mars as soon as possible. Skip the whole Moon thing and cancel ISS and the Shuttle. Priority should be a world collaboration project using Russian heavy lift rockets and going direct to Mars for $30 Billion before Obama's first term is up
- Charbax
Does he use Wolfram Alpha?
- Benjamin Taylor
The argument is that we are much closer to having the technology to go to Mars today then we were to going to the Moon when Kennedy did the speech in 1961 So why not focus the world space efforts on fitting the Humans to Mars mission in the relatively still recent 1988 Heavy lift Russian Energia rocket technology
- Charbax
Will we use nuclear energy on Mars?
- Bob Blunk
Todd: he gave me a long answer but yes but it will need a lot of power.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
I have to go. I will answer rest when I get to London.
- Robert Scoble
via iPhone
Charbax 3 years is an unrealistic timeframe for a safe and prolonged mission to Mars
- KyNam Doan
we need to find ways of creating various things - space borne farms, various stations in between Earth, moon and mars. The more humans we can ship off this planet, the greater the impact we will have upon it and the greater amount of goods we can produce to support this number of us.
- alphaxion
KyNam: ok, i want to know what knowledge that has had a big impact. everything is a trade. i am not doubting it, but i think NASA has a marketing problem in that I cannot tell you the key knowledge we have gained and its impact. should we spend the next $ on space or sea exploration? and that is just one option
- lew
How far ahead is NASA planning? Is anyone thinking about trying to reach any of the exoplanets? Generation ships? A little closer to home, are they sending any probes out to the Kuiper belt to study any of the new dwarf planets? Any missions to the Oort cloud?
- Victor Ganata
Cool, thanks Robert. It seems like high magic to me.
- Todd Hoff
Basic science is never sexy. If we based all our research targets on market value, we may never have figured out how to make fire.
- Victor Ganata
You should definitely try to get a Wimbledon tennis final ticket for Sunday. It'd be really nice to see some live real-time blogging from there. And IBM has TONS of awesome new technologies they are showcasing at Wimbledon, like this http://www.youtube.com/watch... IBM Seer is the best Android application ever made, one of the most impressive mobile phone applications
- Charbax
Victor nobody would invest in fire. Too risky. They would invest in a new rock that was more accurate in flight because the was just an incremental technology leap. Low risk high reward.
- Todd Hoff
Robert, this is excellent thanks. I'm sure he's a bit shocked
- Jay Shapiro
via iPhone
KyNam Doan, Obama can announce the Mission to Mars for within his second term then. And the safety should not be the absolute priority. We are 6 billion people waiting for scientific results and there are thousands of Astronauts who would line up to go on a Mission to Mars even if it was very dangerous.
- Charbax
Charbax, the thing is, if we sent a mission to Mars and it failed, would we even have any hope of attempting a second venture?
- Victor Ganata
There are Astronauts that have been irradiated for years on Mir and on ISS already. So I wonder how much worse the irradiation can be for the Humans to Mars program. As long as the Astronauts can make it through the 6 months journey there, and eventually the 2.5 year journey if they have to come back.
- Charbax
We should send at least 4 teams of 4 Astronauts up to Mars at the same time, to multiply the chances of success.
- Charbax
Charbax, Of course I'm concerned for the lives of the astronauts, but safety refers also to the integrity of the mission itself. 6 months transit time each way + playtime is a lot of time for things to go wrong and blow billions of dollars into space.
- KyNam Doan
Yeah, obviously, I don't want anyone killed, but like KyNam Doan, I'm thinking that a failed mission to the Moon would be far less costly than a failed mission to Mars. And we'll definitely learn things about colonizing planets just by going to the Moon.
- Victor Ganata
The argument of the Mars Direct mission is of course it's advanced technology and we need to spend $30 Billion developing and building it, but the basic technology of building those Humans to Mars lander and return vehicles (that could also generate fuel for the return vehicles mixing Hydrogen with the Methane on Mars), those technologies are not _that_ much different then the technologies we had in the 70ies for Appollo or the technologies we have with Shuttle and the ISS
- Charbax
ask him what he thinks of the Navy's SPAWAR lab finding fast neutrons in their Cold Fusion experiments. :-)
- Karim
Going back to the Moon, unless we want to somehow Mine it for some type of ressource, I think would be a total waste of time! we can get 1000x more science out of going to Mars, and it is _not_ much more expensive. Sending a vehicle to Mars is not much different than the one sent to the Moon, it's just a different trajectory and 6 months instead of 3 days of travel.
- Charbax
Make it a one-way flight. That should cut down on the weight for fuel and increase the amount of equipment they have to create a base on Mars. Land them at the pole so they have a chance of extracting water and oxygen from the atmosphere and with enough supplies to last years on the surface while they try and figure out how we will survive there. As unlikely the success of such a venture would be you will still get people signing up for it and you know that necessity is the mother of invention.
- Sam Pullara
There are astronauts living on ISS for more than 6 months already, they eat and have a fine time up there. So why not simply put them on a trajectory to Mars and that's it.
- Charbax
Yeah, but once they're out of Earth orbit, they won't be getting those shuttle visits to resupply and repair stuff.
- Victor Ganata
Sam Pullara, what you can easilly do is send more empty ships up there. One other ship could have a lot of Hydrogen, it would mix with the Methane on mars to generate enough fuel to launch the Astronauts back to Earth 1.5 years after they land. You can if you want, land another ship close by with extra food and tools. You simply launch several ships at the same time.
- Charbax
I'm all for taking it straight to Mars, was just skeptical about such a short time frame. The one-way trip Sam suggested may be the best bet for "success." Sans family et al + spaceskills, I'd sign up :P
- KyNam Doan
Well the Mars Direct plan is essentially a one way trip, until you walk or drive over to the Earth-return vehicle that was sent before or at the same time. Also, you can send the Astronauts now, and figure out later how to send them back. In the US, there are millions of people that have to stay in small prison cells for years and years. Why can't we have a few volunteer scientists up there for at least 1.5 years and maybe more, this shouldn't take 20 years to find a solution before something is done.
- Charbax
Does NASA only take flight surgeons/aerospace medicine-boarded physicians?
- Victor Ganata
I think NASA should take video-bloggers and broadcast the whole thing live in HD, it'd be the Mars HD channel. Over the years of the project, just ad revenue could finance perhaps as much as half the $30 Billion Humans to Mars project cost.
- Charbax
"He says we have to go to the moon first" - why does this sound like NASA never reached the moon and it was all a hoax. I didn't expect to hear these words I tell ya.
- Prasoon
How about robotic collaboration? Why not send the robots first to build some infrastructure collect, process resources. Once we have a very high probability that there are enough resources to build and return humans the humans land in a plush, and luxurious mars pad? Basically, I am strongly in favor of Human - Mars, but dont see it as the rush, we should have some time to do it in style.
- Robert Higgins
Prasoon: when he says they have to go to the moon first, he means they need to establish a base on the moon as a jumping off point for Mars. So, if your goal is Mars, you gotta go to the moon first.
- Robert Scoble
It was an incredible 10 hours. We tasted wine, talked about philosophy, talked about radiation and how they are building new sensors to sense increases in radiation due to random sun activity so that people in space can seek shelter in time, talked about why humans explore (he thinks we're programmed to explore by evolution), and a bunch of other things.
- Robert Scoble
All you need to explore I think is mobility + curiosity + irrationality. Those drives make for explorers.
- Todd Hoff
my faovorite NASA JPL geek is my Dad http://www.nasa.gov/offices....
- Sonya
Agree that humans are hard-wired to explore, but desire to build a way-station on Mars will build as people understand that we live on an unpredictable and active planet in an active solar system with an active sun in an active galaxy. The sci-fi movies are right; we are always close to disaster of some sort. Thus, the need for shelter elsewhere.
- Brenda Young
put simply, until we have colonies on other planets, our species is already dead. Just a matter of time.
- alphaxion
I gotta admit I love running @secretscoble -- no spammers. No SEO experts. No social media experts. Crispy clean with no crap! :-)
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You're just asking for trouble ;-)
- Holger Eilhard
How can you love/follow the stream from 500 people? Doesn't seem to me to be too different than trying to follow 5000!
- cyberjack
cyberjack: it's way different. Moves much slower. Most people don't publish many Twitters per day, particularly the folks I've added.
- Robert Scoble
Love some of the experiments @scobleizer does. Find out why here:
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When Robert does an experiment, it isn't just an attention getter or a publicity stunt. The questions he asks and experiments he does are backed by a thought process and a desired result set, an then he shares the results with everyone on his bog or ff and entices discussion that everyone learns from. Awesome stuff, he really is "Passionate about the Internet"
- Erik Boles
via iPhone
Ahh, someone does get it!
- Robert Scoble
Plus, what's really going on here is groups will soon be used to make searches. So, having "secret" Twitter accounts with different groups will let you build searches no one else will have. FriendFeed already has this and it's INVALUABLE.
- Robert Scoble
You are right Robert, it has no value. Hoarding searches is anti-internet.
- Todd Hoff
Robert, instead of creating secret groups why not cut back your current groups to a manageable number? I recently cut back the number of people I follow on Twitter from over 2000 to under 400 and have found it be a lot more useful.
- Brett Nordquist
The same thing could be done on Facebook or Friendfeed. Why not start with the right sized group from the start or cull it back to where it makes sense for you?
- Brett Nordquist
The big win of grouping and multiple followed's (grouping makes following thousands useful I think) is that it allows you to listen (Reverse asynchronous communication). If you only talk and never listen you have become a 140 character newspaper. Are YOU RAC'd?!
- Erik Boles
via iPhone
Brett: because these systems suck. If you have followers and you want them to be able to DM you you must follow them back.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: Good point. They can still reach you with an @. And I thought you disliked DMs? :-)
- Brett Nordquist
Todd: I'd love to be able to share the search results filtered by my groups. I've spent a lot of time picking some of my groups and they are bringing me huge value.
- Robert Scoble
Sorry, some things, like news tips, need to be private so @ doesn't work. I hate DMs, but I've given up because people like using them. On FriendFeed DMs are actually pretty darn nice.
- Robert Scoble
I'd like to have a local group of followers whom I can ask about doctor recommendations, best place to buy tires or find a piano teacher for my kids. I haven't figured out how to do that yet. I do know that I'm using Twitter, FF and FB for searches I would have used Google for even a year ago. When I bought an iPhone I just asked my followers which apps I should look at first. Much more valuable than searching Google or Bing. At least for me.
- Brett Nordquist
To curate exclusive groups for the express purpose of walling off information goes way beyond the careful selection of groups to monitor.
- Todd Hoff
I disagree, it is impossible to disagree with scobles.
- Geoff Schultz
I disagree Geoff.
- Robert Scoble
@pspell because by talking about @secretscoble the people I wanted to have in there see it's really me and will accept my invites. :-)
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You could always verify your account using your voice http://www.voiceboo.com then they would know its you. Was a system we did to show off vooices as it seems to be more of a problem lately of people creating fake accounts. V annoying.
- Paul Rawlings
What if you made it a Twitter verified account?
- Zachary TG
Zachary: I don't know how to make that happen and, anyway, people haven't yet gotten used to that.
- Robert Scoble
Ok, but for future reference if you decide to later, just go to http://twitter.com/help... for information on it. They may let you get one, for you are an important person.
- Zachary TG
Whats the process to get Twitter to verify an account? Do they actively contact people?
- Paul Rawlings
Just visit http://twitter.com/help... to get it verified.
- Zachary TG
MUST GET IN THE LAST WORD ALWAYS.
Sweyn, Robert DeBord, Yuvi and 92 other people liked this
Not this time.
- Logical Extremes
Nope.
- Mike Nayyar
Uh huh, right.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I'm definitely gonna script something to comment every time right after Mike does.
- Logical Extremes
Test of Logical's script
- Mike Nayyar
Ha
- Logical Extremes
Not instant!
- Mike Nayyar
Last!
- Logical Extremes
*Bump* for crowdsourcing help.
- Logical Extremes
Not quite
- Mike Nayyar
totally
- Logical Extremes
Never gonna happen
- Mike Nayyar
neener neener
- Logical Extremes
Never gonna give you up
- Mike Nayyar
I'll wait 'til you are sleeping
- Logical Extremes
I'll stop sleeping then
- Mike Nayyar
Wut?
- Jonathan Hardesty
Hello
- Mike Nayyar
You wish.
- Logical Extremes
Nope.
- MVB
dream on ...
- Tatty Gibson
</comments>
- Thomas Bøhm
Not happening.
- Mike Nayyar
Maybe I'll hook up my script to an Eliza bot.
- Logical Extremes
A sexy sexy Eliza bot, with a hot bod to boot!
- Jonathan Hardesty
WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ME AND YELLING AT ME TO BOOT? HOW RUDE!
- patricia
Assume nothing
- Mike Nayyar
How does that make you feel?
- Logical Extremes
LOWER
- Jonathan Hardesty
Also, boot is a fun word to say...
- Jonathan Hardesty
No one will win this.
- Mike Nayyar
you sure about that?
- Jonathan Hardesty
Don't trifle with me, Hardesty.
- Mike Nayyar
OR what?
- Jonathan Hardesty
You're fired
- Mike Nayyar
You don't have the hiring or firing power, considering you were never re-hired.
- Jonathan Hardesty
But I'm still here, still here.
- Mike Nayyar
and still not getting the hint. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
I think we've all been trolled.
- Karl Knechtel
YES! TROLL ROLL'D!
- Mike Nayyar
This really only puts you up at the number 15 spot...
- Jonathan Hardesty
Hmm...
- MVB
Mike is patiently waiting for his moment to strike. What he doesn't realize is that there are now HUNDREDS (if not dozens) OF US.
- Logical Extremes
I think there's only you.
- Mike Nayyar
Hrm.
- Jonathan Hardesty
via fftogo
Nope.
- Steven Perez
You and a bunch of others.
- Helen Sventitsky
that's what she said!
- Deniz Eda Göze
so it's true, boys never grow up.
- MicahBear78
Very true, MicahBear78.
- MVB
There are no winners.
- Mike Nayyar
All but one will be winners.
- Logical Extremes
That's me!
- Mike Nayyar
By George, I think he's got it!
- Logical Extremes
You darn right.
- Mike Nayyar
I win!
- Brad Butner
via twhirl
So close, no cigar.
- Mike Nayyar
Poke.
- Logical Extremes
Super Poke.
- Jonathan Hardesty
@LE Is that a regular poke or a pig-in-a-poke?
- MVB
It's a Slo-Poke
- Logical Extremes
*pokes LE in the eye* WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP!
- MVB
1st!
- Robert Kenney
NOT.
- Steven Perez
Good try.
- Mike Nayyar
hmmm.
- Chieze Okoye
Don't try it.
- Mike Nayyar
Don't even think about escaping.
- Logical Extremes
NO ME.
- Bwana
I don't run away
- Mike Nayyar
last!
- WorldofHiglet
You will have your tail between your legs when we are through with this.
- Logical Extremes
I eat babies... baby chickens... before they're chickens... EGGS
- Bwana
Only if you say so.
- CW™
But I do.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh my.
- Logical Extremes
Oh no.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh yes.
- Logical Extremes
Oh you
- Mike Nayyar
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- Logical Extremes
swing and a miss!
- Jim:Rockin the Helvetica
Listen, it's not going to happen. Just stop.
- Mike Nayyar
No, you.
- Logical Extremes
Yep.
- Steven Perez
FAIL
- Simon Wicks
No you won't
- Ethan
Sure I will.
- Mike Nayyar
nope
- Ethan
It's happening.
- Mike Nayyar
right now
- Rahsheen ™
right here
- Steven Perez
with this comment
- Rahsheen ™
Nuh-uh.
- Steven Perez
*coughs*
- Simon Wicks
But...noodles
- Bwana
Bueller?
- Logical Extremes
Winner.
- Mike Nayyar
Whiner
- MVB
Shiner
- Mike Nayyar
i like turtles
- Trish Haley
Dinner
- MVB
Sinner
- Mike Nayyar
Weird. I must get in the penultimate word. We should hang out.
- Robert Scoble
This is why I can't have nice things. But, if I wish hard enough...
- Mike Nayyar
There you go, Mike. Invite Robert as a guest on Troika...
- MVB
bugger
- Fake Elmo
If any Scoble came onto Geek Troika, we'd have to shut the thing down.
- Mike Nayyar
Next thing you know, @aplusk will be on here
- Logical Extremes
Maybe if we got Oprah on, my mom would listen.
- Mike Nayyar
That's what she said.
- Logical Extremes
Clever.
- Mike Nayyar
Looook intoo my eyes... sleeeeep, sleeeep....
- Logical Extremes
Call him and ask, Mike. I have a shiny nickle that says he does it...
- MVB
Jedi mind tricks, they're useless
- Mike Nayyar
You aren't the droid we're looking for
- Logical Extremes
Alright, here is goes: Is there a Scoble out there who wants to come on our two bit podcast?
- Mike Nayyar
Not yet. No wait. Yup no.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
Aw man. One Scoble would have been good. Two, would have been a coup de grace.
- Mike Nayyar
You'll have to settle for CNN
- Logical Extremes
And Nancy Grace?
- Mike Nayyar
*I think he's looking that way... Go!*
- Logical Extremes
You think this would get past me? NOM NOM NOM
- Mike Nayyar
What was the question again?
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA
- Logical Extremes
Pigeons
- Mike Nayyar
I. HATE. BUGS.
- Logical Extremes
So do I. *fistbump*
- Mike Nayyar
*fistwhat!??*
- Logical Extremes
MRGGL GRRRGL
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Must...keep...going...
- Mike Nayyar
O RLY? :)
- Beau (והאראסי) Liening
Don't stop get it get it.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
I can haz last word? Cheese!
- Beau (והאראסי) Liening
FFS GUYS STOP WASTING FF'S BANDWIDTH
- Karl Knechtel
I think I'm alone now. There doesn't seem to be anyone around.
- Logical Extremes
Nope I'm here. Move along now.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
Nice try
- Mike Nayyar
I can haz fail. :(
- Beau (והאראסי) Liening
I win.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
Nope
- Mike Nayyar
Yup
- Logical Extremes
One-upper
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
Testing
- Logical Extremes
That comment was brought to you by the FriendFeed API ;-)
- Logical Extremes
Mike, you are doomed.
- Logical Extremes
Got to keep up strength, must win....
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
meh
- WorldofHiglet
feh
- Rahsheen ™
doh
- WorldofHiglet
Don't you know only I can win?
- Mike Nayyar
Dude, don't make me attach that script.
- Logical Extremes
I thought you had already.
- Mike Nayyar
Not yet, cuz it would be a big can of whoop-ass. It's a last resort.
- Logical Extremes
orly?
- JA Castillo (جاسون)
Did anyone win, yet?
- MVB
I did.
- Mike Nayyar
Dude, I'm giving you a chance to save face.
- Logical Extremes
No, you didn't. At least not yet.
- Ha3rvey
But I did, I think
- Rahsheen ™
Perhaps, Rahsheen.
- MVB
You people. Just let me have my victory.
- Mike Nayyar
Yup!
- Mike Nayyar
if you un-like then like something again does it bring ur name back up to the first of the line??
- MicahBear78
Huh. Never tried that.
- Mike Nayyar
You will be assimilated.
- Logical Extremes
Not today.
- Steven Perez
I believe this calls for it: DYSP
- Mike Nayyar
Probably. :D
- Steven Perez
Seriously. Don't make me talk stuff on cilantro, cause, I love cilantro.
- Mike Nayyar
Could CILANTRO become the new penis game?
- Mark Philpot
Listen...don't challenge Steven Perez to a cilantro game. We will all lose.
- Mike Nayyar
You will be pwnd.
- Logical Extremes
Obviously.
- Mike Nayyar
Fascinating, now, if you'll excuse me, I'll play my banjo on my exit.
- Tsali
Tsk tsk.
- Mike Nayyar
.
- Logical Extremes
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
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- Logical Extremes
You sneaky, sneaky man.
- Mike Nayyar
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- Logical Extremes
He just keeps going...
- Mike Nayyar
and going
- Logical Extremes
You're no Energizer Bunny, sir.
- Mike Nayyar
I *am* the bunny
- Logical Extremes
Space
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
So close.
- Mike Nayyar
..to victory
- Rahsheen ™
You're always so supportive, @Rah
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Please.
- Mike Nayyar
The next person to comment after this one has had unholy dealings with a goat...
- Johnny Worthington
Wait, this comment? Or the comment after this? What is this syntax?
- Mike Nayyar
Eugh, meatbag nattering!
- Mo Kargas
Porque?
- Mike Nayyar
Beef thanks
- Mo Kargas
I'm more of a chicken man
- Mike Nayyar
fried, definitely
- Rahsheen ™
Gonna get longer.
- Mike Nayyar
Truly.
- Logical Extremes
Way longer.
- Mike Nayyar
Way.
- Logical Extremes
(or was I supposed to say 'TWSS''?)
- Logical Extremes
You could have, you could have.
- Mike Nayyar
Next time.
- Logical Extremes
I'll be sure to let you know.
- Mike Nayyar
OK, thanks.
- Logical Extremes
Oh, you're welcome. Very welcome.
- Mike Nayyar
TWSS
- Logical Extremes
Not enough innuendo.
- Mike Nayyar
Depends.
- Logical Extremes
Nah. Not enough.
- Mike Nayyar
Not enough protection? Try Super-Depends.
- Logical Extremes
Penis
- Johnny Worthington
She's a young girl, talking about herself
- Mike Nayyar
You can't stop her.
- Logical Extremes
She's a young girl, talking about herself
- Mike Nayyar
I'm going to sleep.
- Logical Extremes
OK. Sweet dreams!
- Mike Nayyar
Psych!
- Logical Extremes
Damn it! Your head games!
- Mike Nayyar
I never sleep.
- Logical Extremes
Sometimes you do.
- Mike Nayyar
I'm a bot, after all.
- Logical Extremes
But you have man flesh!
- Mike Nayyar
TWSS !!!!
- Logical Extremes
That time it worked.
- Mike Nayyar
Bwaa ha ha ha
- Logical Extremes
Why would you do that.
- Mike Nayyar
It's the energy-saving mode for the bot.
- Logical Extremes
Bah.
- Mike Nayyar
Please hold...
- Logical Extremes
Pistachio!
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
I am Batman.
- Mike Nayyar
Check your DMs
- Logical Extremes
There, I've distracted him.
- Logical Extremes
Ooh, shiny!
- Logical Extremes
Nah.
- Mike Nayyar
Drunk, but present.
- MVB
Good to see you!
- Mike Nayyar
Last
- Mike Nayyar
Pinch me, I'm dreaming.
- Logical Extremes
It's no dream
- Mike Nayyar
It's my worst nightmare.
- Logical Extremes
LIVING WITH YOU IS LIKE LIVING IN A LIVING NIGHTMARE
- Akiva Moskovitz
Baby I can't live without you
- Mike Nayyar
Mike: I love you too!
- Robert Scoble
Can't live without your love. Or Robert's love. Or something.
- Michael McKean
I WUV SCOBLE SOMETHING SOMETHING
- Mike Nayyar
I'm hurt.
- Michael McKean
On and on and on
- Mike Nayyar
I hurt McKean
- MVB
So I herd u liek mudkips
- Mike Nayyar
Edgewise.
- Michael McKean
it's so lurvly
- Mike Nayyar
What I'd like to know is, who will REALLY get the last word in (and when)?
- angrykeyboarder™ (Scott)
Great question, Scott.
- MVB
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu_ElijahBailey
Doovdé!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
lol Dobromir
- nouhad
Just to be safe
- Mike Nayyar
Last!
- Kevin Nordmand
That's what I said.
- Dennis O'Neil
Eyyyy
- Mike Nayyar
<-- = {last} - N. Find N.
- Logical Extremes
You gotta be kidding me
- Mike Nayyar
what's this about?
- acedanger
It's about everything and nothing.
- Logical Extremes
Life is like a box of chocolates
- Mike Nayyar
actually, Mike, it's Laura Botts who always tries to get the last word in.
- Jim:Rockin the Helvetica
That's true, Jim. Usually when I kill a thread.
- Laura Botts
It never will end. God. Help us all.
- Mike Nayyar
you started it!
- Jim:Rockin the Helvetica
And I will finish it.
- Mike Nayyar
Just don't finish early, you'll disappoint a lot of people.
- Logical Extremes
I never blow my load early. WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA
- Mike Nayyar
Are you coming or going? Make up your mind, and shut the door.
- Logical Extremes
Too close for missiles, switching to guns
- Mike Nayyar
Stay on target...
- Logical Extremes
The Force is strong with this one
- Mike Nayyar
this can't possibly last forever
- acedanger
Or can it?
- Logical Extremes
Can't stop won't stop HIT THAT HIT THAT (Bad Diddy impression)
- Mike Nayyar
You're right. It was a bad impression.
- Jonathan Hardesty
You must know that it's an impossibility
- Mike Nayyar
No. Nothing is unpossible.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Unpossible!
- Steven Perez
Dunderpossible
- Mike Nayyar
I'm thunder struck.This thread is STILL going on???????
- Roberto Bonini
I know, right?!
- Rahsheen ™
I said what what
- Mike Nayyar
Chocolate.
- tehKenny
Salty
- Mike Nayyar
who said salty-chocolate balls? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- acedanger
No future
- Mike Nayyar
CAN YOU DIG IT?
- Steven Perez
Warriors, come out to play...
- Mike Nayyar
So how does this work
- nouhad
I get the last word. Only rule.
- Rahsheen ™
Oh I get it
- nouhad
I'm glad!
- Mike Nayyar
and back to the front page (for those of us not using the beta)
- acedanger
Well, you know, it would also show up under "Comments and Likes" too.
- Mike Nayyar
good point mike
- acedanger
I was here first
- Joe Dawson
actually, Logical Extremes was here first...
- acedanger
But I was here in the beginning
- Mike Nayyar
But not the end.
- Steven Perez
What's that?
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
got it.
- Valley
NOPE.
- Steven Perez
Stop it, Steven.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh, not this again.
- Logical Extremes
I ain't gonna stop
- Mike Nayyar
Am I gonna have to come to New York City?
- Logical Extremes
Possibly.
- Mike Nayyar
Having the last word is always important.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
Which is why I'm glad I got it in.
- Mike Nayyar
TWSS
- Logical Extremes
...and, by the way, that ended in a preposition... are you surfing pr0n again?
- Logical Extremes
said it to your momma ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Luv babbies
- Mike Nayyar
You're having them?
- Logical Extremes
I eat babbies. Babby back ribbs
- Mike Nayyar
Babby got back
- Logical Extremes
"Get in my belly! I want my baby back ribs..." http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
BAAAABY, baby back ribs
- Mike Nayyar
Then you'd want to go to Kansas City
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
NEVER BEEN
- Mike Nayyar
Never Say Never
- Logical Extremes
You still here?
- Steven Perez
I win?
- David Cook
You triflin.
- Mike Nayyar
I have the last word here.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
Nah, don't kid yourself.
- Mike Nayyar
Around here? Don't count on it. :-)
- Joey Gibson
Oh. I will make it so.
- Mike Nayyar
I will have it
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
CILANTRO.
- Steven Perez
OREGANO
- Mike Nayyar
Mini Corn Pup
- Andrew
PAPRIKA
- Michael R. Bernstein
PEPPER
- Mike Nayyar
first! w00t!
- Josh Haley
DILL
- Michael R. Bernstein
GINGER SPICE
- Mike Nayyar
PICKLE
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
YO, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT
- Mike Nayyar
The last person to comment here is an idiot.
- Robert Scoble
It's been clearly stated that I'm a dummy already, Robert :P
- Mike Nayyar
Damn
- Beau (והאראסי) Liening
thankfully our friends help us be smart Robert.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Also, I always will have Wikipedia.
- Mike Nayyar
So, doesn't look like anything's happening here. You can all go away now, there's nothing to see or talk about.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
The person who posts the next comment is a douchebag.
- Robert Scoble
am not
- Glen Campbell
Am too
- Mike Nayyar
Ahem...
- Logical Extremes
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Logical Extremes
It's ok, I love it too.
- Mike Nayyar
People use facebook?
- Jonathan Hardesty
People put faces on books.
- Mike Nayyar
and I'm sure if you watch WWE books on faces ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
WOO! ROBERT SCOBLE SAYS I'M AN IDIOT! SO. AWESOME.
- Michael R. Bernstein
The things we do for validation.
- Mike Nayyar
Aw, I'm not an idiot anymore. Oh, wait...
- Michael R. Bernstein
Round and round it goes...
- Mike Nayyar
omg! it survived the night...
- acedanger
Where it stops - here?
- John E. Bredehoft
via fftogo
pffft
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Whoever comments next isn't worth following ;)
- Nicholas James
We all already knew it was a waste of time.
- Mike Nayyar
Is this the thread about tipping? I never read the comments.
- Glen Campbell
Tip 20% unless you want Mona to come and yell at you :)
- Mike Nayyar
Also eat sushi properly or Mona will come and yell at you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If you cite Wikipedia as your primary source, Mona will likely gut you.
- Mike Nayyar
If you are a male and sit with your legs crossed at the knee rather than the ankle, Mona will come and yell at you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Mona will cut you if you lie about her commuting habits.
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
If you don't salt the water, Mona will come and yell at you.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Mona will not climb above 10,000 feet.
- Mike Nayyar
So I see you're trying to steal @calamityensues from me. *sniffle*
- Jonathan Hardesty
via fftogo
It's already done, sir.
- Mike Nayyar
Really?
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
DAIKON
- Michael R. Bernstein
last - again...
- Kevin Nordmand
CILANTRO!
- Steven Perez
Wow is this thread still going on?
- Nicholas James
Yes
- Alfredo
TA TA, folks.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
The idiots are still commenting and trying to get in the last word, I see.
- Robert Scoble
YES! SCOBLE CALLS ME AN IDIOT AGAIN! STILL. SO. AWESOME.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Scoble doesn't like me :(
- Mike Nayyar
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva Moskovitz
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
I don't really care who wins
- Glen Campbell
101101001000001010110101
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
I could translate that, Tad, but I'm too lazy.
- Mike Nayyar
not last
- Ethan
Okay guys, really. You don't need to add any more.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
It's ok Chris, I insist.
- Nicholas James
Hmmm.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
Oh you silly people.
- Mike Nayyar
lolwut?
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Nuh uh.
- Steven Perez
This is pre-post for Dec. 31,2101 Last Word.
- John D Reasor
Holy crap, how did you know?
- Mike Nayyar
The Shadow always knows.
- Steven Perez
Science.
- patricia
Fiction.
- Steven Perez
Channel?
- Mike Nayyar
No. 5.
- Steven Perez
Is alive.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Yes, I am.
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Logical Extremes
As you wish
- Steve C
No.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
You cannot win.
- Mike Nayyar
blah. if i say i've won, then i've won. that's the way it works.
- patricia
Nah.
- Mike Nayyar
totally
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Boatlly.
- Mike Nayyar
indeedarino
- Jonathan Hardesty
via fftogo
I'm glad you agree, Jon.
- Mike Nayyar
Muahaha!
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
Oh come on now.
- Mike Nayyar
No.
- patricia
yes
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Mebbe.
- Steven Perez
CINNAMON
- Michael R. Bernstein
SUGAR
- Steven Perez
Def.
- Mike Nayyar
plarn
- Mo Kargas
The Last Word
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
The Last Word™
- Mo Kargas
Jesus is the reason for the season
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
PARSLEY
- Michael R. Bernstein
CILANTRO.
- Steven Perez
Oh not this shit again
- Mike Nayyar
hellzz yeah...what'dya expect
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I demand originality and creativeness. Then again, we're 450 comments deep into this idiocy.
- Mike Nayyar
good luck on THAT! heh.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
so I guess I can't use "that's what she said" again.
- Deniz Eda Göze
A man can dream, a man can dream.
- Mike Nayyar
Yes, I can.
- Rahsheen ™
Yes, WE can.
- Mike Nayyar
No... the other WE.
- Logical Extremes
The Royal WE.
- Logical Extremes
She?
- Mike Nayyar
Oui.
- Logical Extremes
Wii.
- Logical Extremes
Bee.
- Mike Nayyar
C.
- Logical Extremes
why is always the last word again?
- patricia
NARF.
- Steven Perez
jarf
- Jonathan Hardesty
via fftogo
Stop that nonsense.
- John E. Bredehoft
via fftogo
OK. I will stop, right now.
- Mike Nayyar
why?
- Fake Elmo
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Don't stop till u get enuff
- angrykeyboarder™ (Scott)
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
.......... that's your face????!?!?!
- Johnny Worthington
Isn't it pretty?
- Mike Nayyar
Pretty as in model pretty or pruuuuddy as in 'My name is bubba and I like your mouth'?
- Johnny Worthington
Well, that was always the plan.
- Mike Nayyar
You know what's REALLY strange? More people than ever have started subscribing to me then ever before!
- Mike Nayyar
If it gets to that, I might just stop using FriendFeed from acquiring acute carpal tunnels.
- Mike Nayyar
Not so fast.
- Logical Extremes
I've been going slow!
- Mike Nayyar
Super-slo-mo.
- Logical Extremes
I've seen worse
- CW™
Plus, I like to think this is filled with somewhat entertaining banter.
- Mike Nayyar
PARSNIP
- Michael R. Bernstein
I stick to spices like cumin, thanks.
- Mike Nayyar
You would.
- Logical Extremes
Oh, Logical, you know me too well.
- Mike Nayyar
I'm not so sure he does.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Well, do you also, Hardesty, now that you have a fancy new phone.
- Mike Nayyar
Yay - Robert Scoble thinks I'm a idiot!
- Kevin Nordmand
Nah, Scoble loves you. All of the Scobles.
- Mike Nayyar
Love is nice :-)
- Kevin Nordmand
It's all warm and fuzzy and comforting! Like chicken pot pie.
- Mike Nayyar
I don't know of any chicken pot pie that's fuzzy... :-/
- Jonathan Hardesty
It's not that it's fuzzy, it makes you FEEL fuzzy.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh good. Not sure I could handle the fuzz. Texture issues, mind you.
- Jonathan Hardesty
Texture is important for digestion.
- Mike Nayyar
Are you having fiber issues, Mike? Maybe that's contributing to your 'obsessive' Twitter personality ;-)
- Logical Extremes
This thread just won't go away.
- Louis Simoneau
Kind of like Mike himself. :P
- Jonathan Hardesty
Indeedarino!
- Mike Nayyar
C'mon people, 2 hours went by on this one. No Slackers! Am I gonna have to open up a can of "all scritpy and junk" whoop-ass?
- Logical Extremes
wow this is still going?
- andy brudtkuhl
So close, so close...
- Mike Nayyar
But yet so far
- Logical Extremes
no where near
- WorldofHiglet
Hopefully getting closer.
- Mike Nayyar
Whut?
- Steven Perez
Porque?
- Mike Nayyar
Porkies
- Logical Extremes
Porky's 5: It's Not the 50's Anymore
- Mike Nayyar
Will this never die?
- Mohomed Abdullahi
Not as long as you keep bumping me from the last comment!
- Mike Nayyar
This could be the downfall of Al Gore's internet - this single thread.
- John D Reasor
You hear that Al Gore? SUCK IT.
- Mike Nayyar
The last person to post a comment is a loser :-)
- Shakeel Mahate
Ha - you just called yourself a loser, Shakeel...oh, wait.....doh!
- WorldofHiglet
Sea cow.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
FIRST POST
- Steve Lacy
WHAT YOU SAY!
- Steven Perez
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
- Mike Nayyar
ALL YOUR POSTS ARE BELONG TO US
- Logical Extremes
It was the Pax.
- Steven Perez
So it is written.
- Mike Nayyar
So it shall be done.
- Logical Extremes
pork pie
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
- Logical Extremes
Pork Roast.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I have the swine flu.
- Mike Nayyar
So we heard.
- Logical Extremes
It's quite virulent.
- Mike Nayyar
That's why I'm staying 5 states away from you.
- Logical Extremes
TWSS
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
It burns.
- Mike Nayyar
There's a cream for that.
- Logical Extremes
How is it applied?
- Mike Nayyar
Conservatively..
- Jonathan Hardesty
via fftogo
from the north to the south
- WorldofHiglet
From the back to the front
- Mike Nayyar
Never that way!
- Logical Extremes
From side to side
- Mike Nayyar
Slip'n'slide.
- Logical Extremes
Jazzercise
- Mike Nayyar
Spinning.
- Logical Extremes
Cycling
- Mike Nayyar
Shuffling
- Rahsheen ™
I think we're starting to do that (cycling). You know, the infinite monkeys theorem predicts that we will eventually repeat.
- Logical Extremes
Do the hustle! DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO DOO
- Mike Nayyar
slide slide slippity slide forget about your troubles and your nine to five
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
-- word --
- Colby Olson
Not the last.
- Mike Nayyar
fail
- Ethan
Yes, this thread is full of it.
- Mike Nayyar
CILANTRO.
- Steven Perez
hellz yeah
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
FRIED ONIONS
- Michael R. Bernstein
Pickles.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
*walks back in playing the banjo* Whoa, still going on? Well, last is still best I guess.
- Tsali
banjo?
- WorldofHiglet
he'd look kinda silly trying to stroll on in here playin a drumset..
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
THIS IS WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE WHEN DOVES CRY
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
I AM THE WALRUS
- Mike Nayyar
coo coo
- WorldofHiglet
Have you unsubbed yet?
- Mike Nayyar
cachoo
- Dennis O'Neil
cover your mouth when you sneeze please Dennis. :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
BEER ME
- Mike Nayyar
Hi Mike
- Logical Extremes
Hi Logical!
- Mike Nayyar
How's it going?
- Logical Extremes
Quite well, thank you for asking.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh, my pleasure.
- Logical Extremes
I'm glad I could help make you happy!
- Mike Nayyar
If Mike comments after this he hates babies, lolcats, and baby seals.
- Joshua Schnell
Well you know what? That's a dirty, dirty lie.
- Mike Nayyar
This statement is false.
- Logical Extremes
I don't lie... it's against my religion.
- Joshua Schnell
Is your religion LYING?!
- Mike Nayyar
They might be FLYING
- Jonathan Hardesty
Anybody want a peanut?
- Logical Extremes
Not partial, sorry.
- Mike Nayyar
No more rhyming now, I mean it.
- Logical Extremes
yeah rhyming is such teen shit.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Those silly teenagers will never ever quit.
- Mike Nayyar
They think they're legit.
- Logical Extremes
The sit around, talking around, begging to be hit.
- Mike Nayyar
But it's only faux wit.
- Logical Extremes
This is the song that never ends...
- Brad Butner
via twhirl
It's the mothereffing D-R-E
- Mike Nayyar
"I have no response to that" - Angelica Graynamore (Joe Versus the Volcano)
- Logical Extremes
But I do.
- Mike Nayyar
*deep sigh*
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
Does sighing actually count as the last word? Of course, it's moot at this point, but still . . .
- John Craft
MMMMMMONSTER THREAD-D-D-D
- Mo Kargas
CASHEWS
- Michael R. Bernstein
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rahsheen ™
Wow losts of comments...shame this is the last comment though.
- Nicholas James
in your dreams, Nicholas!
- WorldofHiglet
I'm glad I don't have such silly thoughts.
- Mike Nayyar
Me too.
- Logical Extremes
Glad we can agree on this too!
- Mike Nayyar
We do.
- Logical Extremes
Good thing!
- Mike Nayyar
It truly is. It would be a shame to disagree.
- Logical Extremes
No one likes to disagree.
- Mike Nayyar
last word. to your mother
- Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
Careful, mother's day is coming up...
- Mike Nayyar
Oh, you don't even want to go there.
- Logical Extremes
I'm quite scared to, actually.
- Mike Nayyar
"You will be" -Yoda
- Logical Extremes
"You'll be dead!"
- WorldofHiglet
We're wanted men.
- Mike Nayyar
Speak for yourself
- Logical Extremes
(well, I am wanted on one planet)
- Logical Extremes
More planets than me!
- Mike Nayyar
Awwwww, no one wants you?
- Logical Extremes
I want to be wanted :(
- Mike Nayyar
I want you to want me. I need you to need me. Oh, wait.
- Logical Extremes
I wonder if this will become the most commented thread on FriendFeed (eventually)
- Nicholas James
It just might, 'cuz eventually I'll tire of paying attention and just attach a bot to it.
- Logical Extremes
I'm not even replying to people these days in this thread. Just saying stuff.
- Jonathan Hardesty
That's pathetic Jon.
- Mike Nayyar
What were we talking about again?
- Logical Extremes
We were talking about ingredients. Like BEANS.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Pssht, who needs ingredients
- Mike Nayyar
I'm cooking with gas.
- Logical Extremes
I'm cooking with awesome.
- Mike Nayyar
Oh fine, you win. Oh wait.
- Logical Extremes
Come on, come on. You know you want to give it to me. Wait, what?
- Mike Nayyar
You'll get it alright. Just probably not what you were hoping to get tho...
- Far
That makes me sad. So sad.
- Mike Nayyar
*nods* I'll bet it does!
- Ladybug Heather
I might be crying right now. Maybe.
- Mike Nayyar
*burp* - Excuse me.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Oh, you are excused. I wonder why no one in FriendFeed shuts this down. ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME? I TOUCH THE SKY EMER EFFERS!
- Mike Nayyar
i ain't skeered.
- Carmen
I am scarred, though.
- Mike Nayyar
Pffft - call that a scar?
- WorldofHiglet
Let's end this here, shall we? /thread
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
We should, but we won't.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
I will
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
NARF NARF.
- Steven Perez
DYSP, etc
- Mike Nayyar
I don't think so (and you thought the rollout would distract me eh?)
- Logical Extremes
Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
"Where's the commode in this dungeon? I gotta take a squirt." - Mr. Pink
- Logical Extremes
in the twitter room
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
in the waiting line
- Steven Perez
CHOCOLATE
- Michael R. Bernstein
O rly
- Mike Nayyar
rly
- Logical Extremes
Wowzer.
- Mike Nayyar
zoinks
- Jonathan Hardesty
via fftogo
Jinkees!
- Mike Nayyar
I got dibbs on last word.
- VariXx
Not the very very last word?
- Mike Nayyar
nope
- WorldofHiglet
nope
- Frank
NUH HUH!
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
UH HUH
- Mike Nayyar
This is the next-to-the, next-to-the, next-to-the, next-to-the last word
- Anthony K. Valley ©
nope, me!
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
I can't follow that.
- Mike Nayyar
wait, where's my wife?
- Ken Stewart | ChangeForge
neener neener
- Yolanda
I wonder what percentage of all FriendFeed comments are in threads like these.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
If it's anything like me, at least 10-20%
- Mike Nayyar
If it's anything like me, at least 5% (jumping in, not bothering to expand the long thread to catch up)
- Jonathan Hardesty
I expanded...Do you smell that?
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
I suddenly felt a disturbance (Akiva already said this I think, 200 comments ago)
- Mike Nayyar
I think I heard a shot.
- Steven Perez
Through the heart?
- Mike Nayyar
HEARTS OF PALM
- Michael R. Bernstein
DARLING YOU GIVE LOVE
- Mike Nayyar
I don't see a headset, who are you talking to?
- Logical Extremes
Jesus man, Jesus.
- Mike Nayyar
SWEET BABEH JAYYYSUS ?
- Mo Kargas
How many freaking MMOs can the iPhone have?
- Mike Nayyar
THE SHADOW KNOWS!
- Steven Perez
PAPRIKA
- Michael R. Bernstein
CILANTRO!
- Steven Perez
Again, no more spices or herbs in this thread.
- Mike Nayyar
Salt?
- Logical Extremes
This one's getting hot, nice play there Mike, it'll keep going for a while.
- Zu_ElijahBailey
This is still going? I guess I just contributed to it.
- VariXx
It will continue until Mike dies, most likely.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I could call my people...
- Logical Extremes
That you could...
- Jonathan Hardesty
still epic.
- Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
and still going
- acedanger
Never stops.
- Mike Nayyar
negative, Sir. me last!
- imabonehead
This is not Oliver Twist.
- Mike Nayyar
Not even close.
- Logical Extremes
Oh, some day, I will.
- Mike Nayyar
Some day.
- Logical Extremes
NOT TODAY.
- Steven Perez
omg still?
- andy brudtkuhl
Still.
- Steven Perez
CARROTS
- Michael R. Bernstein
ITS OVER 9000!
- Alfredo
Well, over 600, soon to be 700, for sure.
- Mike Nayyar
You could end it, right here, right now.
- Logical Extremes
700!
- Mohomed Abdullahi
and 1!
- Rahsheen ™
no, 2!
- WorldofHiglet
Word.
- Scott Mueller
There are several words in this thread.
- Mike Nayyar
Yes, a number of them.
- Logical Extremes
A very impressive number them, as it so happens. I'm quite shocked.
- Mike Nayyar
Meh
- Logical Extremes
Meh yourself, Logical.
- Mike Nayyar
How do I do that?
- Logical Extremes
pure talent
- WorldofHiglet
WHY IS MY THUNDER BEING STOLEN
- Mike Nayyar
Thor was mad at you.
- Logical Extremes
Time to go to Valhalla
- Mike Nayyar
this is still going?
- Chieze Okoye
It won't stop.
- Mike Nayyar
Add to the fire!
- VariXx
Now Zeus is mad too.
- Logical Extremes
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Logical Extremes
Wikipedia, to the rescue!
- Mike Nayyar
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Logical Extremes
He serves platters now?
- Mike Nayyar
Also, chicken and rice, in NYC, is awesome.
- Mike Nayyar
my scrolling finger just cramped going through this thing.
- grant fox
I wouldn't even expand the comments now. Just believe that it's long.
- Mike Nayyar
and after you read this, you'll probably hide it hide it with another comment.
- Alfredo
I believe it.
- Steve Lowe
Last
- Chacha102
Not quite.
- Mike Nayyar
This is the last comment and anyone who comments after this comment has a void comment. Period
- Nicholas James
You missed a period.
- Mike Nayyar
OMG! Are you pregnant?
- WorldofHiglet
YES!
- Mike Nayyar
Aww - congratulations!
- WorldofHiglet
Oh, that's the big news. You were just distracting us with the job thing.
- Logical Extremes
You discovered my secret plan...
- Mike Nayyar
mine
- Chacha102
Take it. It's yours!
- Mike Nayyar
Alright then.
- Logical Extremes
Good thing you did that.
- Mike Nayyar
I know, isn't it?
- Logical Extremes
"There are 10 types of people in the world. Those that can read binary and those that can't."
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
There have been 13 (inc. this comment) comments since the last comment was posted.
- Nicholas James
So, what are you wearing?
- Steve C
null
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
CELERY
- Michael R. Bernstein
We are winning the fight, Bernstein
- Mohomed Abdullahi
Always really? Thinking not.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
CILANTRO!
- Steven Perez
Achoo!
- @CrystalinaB
blah
- Chacha102
Whew, I thought Logical got here before I did.
- Mike Nayyar
Nope, after ;-)
- Logical Extremes
SOB!
- Mike Nayyar
*offers tissue*
- Logical Extremes
FENNEL
- Michael R. Bernstein
OH NO WHAT HAPPENED HERE
- Mike Nayyar
Nothing to see here, move along.
- Logical Extremes
BACK IN YOUR DUMPSTER, NAYYAR.
- Jandy
I is moving.
- Mike Nayyar
had a movement --^
- Logical Extremes
Whew. Thank god for laxatives.
- Mike Nayyar
Smooth move.
- Logical Extremes
Whoo!
- Mike Nayyar
MOOO
- Michael J. Cohen (mjc)
Poo.
- Mike Nayyar
CHEESE
- Michael R. Bernstein
Marmalade.
- Bwana
Pomade.
- Mike Nayyar
hmmm shredded Scottish marmalade <yum> what sort of bread, thread is this?
- Chris Loft
Screamade.
- Mike Nayyar
Blue
- Jonathan Hardesty
oh what the hell
- Erin @queenofspain
Nope, not famous yet
- Rick Bucich
The next comment was originated by a self centered typist.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
dave - i'm sure you didn't intend that at me (might be fitting though) - http://friendfeed.com/glemak...
- mike "glemak" dunn
yup
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
I'm last...again.
- imabonehead
good work ima!
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
meh
- WorldofHiglet
What's all this commotion?! Keep it down, I'm trying to plan my hostile takeover of IHOP over here.
- Penguin ♉
IHOP? Go for Denny's at least.
- Mike Nayyar
IHOP rules! Denny's customers DROOLZ!!!
- MVB
yes
- WorldofHiglet
APPLE BUTTER
- Michael R. Bernstein
Shame these comments are still void and my prior comment was the last comment
- Nicholas James
Meh, I was biding my time.
- Mike Nayyar
So do you.
- Rahsheen ™
I just lost the game.
- Akiva Moskovitz
We were playing the game?
- Mike Nayyar
"The Game" = Getting the last word always - "last" generally words but my prior comment was the last comment ;)
- Nicholas James
Actually THIS is The Game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... and you just lost.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva: You lost because you thought of "The Game" ;)
- Nicholas James
You guys are lucky I'm not moderating these comments...yet.
- Mike Nayyar
Don't we know it!
- Logical Extremes
Sheesh.
- Jonathan Hardesty
moderate this, nayyar!
- Jim:Rockin the Helvetica
NAYYAR CANNOT MODERATE. HE MUST GET BACK IN HIS DUMPSTER.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
Don't tempt me.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will moderate it to the offical last comment aka. Mine ;)
- Nicholas James
Nah.
- Mike Nayyar
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Logical Extremes
LE: Someone is going to go "last" again and it will continue ;)
- Nicholas James
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Logical Extremes
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
I see everything ;-)
- Logical Extremes
Logical made it into a competition and now alot of people want to hold the title as the last comment on this thread. It will eventually stop when people give up and/or another one is made ;)
- Nicholas James
NOPE.
- Steven Perez
CHIVES
- Michael R. Bernstein
Just wait. The more caps lock I see, the more tempted I am to moderate.
- Mike Nayyar
The more you tighten your grip, Mike, the more comments will slip through your fingers.
- Logical Extremes
+100 LE
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
Well that was just awesome.
- Mike Nayyar
Except, now I have a force choke.
- Mike Nayyar
First!
- MVB
KALE
- Michael R. Bernstein
last!
- WorldofHiglet
Smorse!
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
LAST WORD.
- Chris Charabaruk '_'
Mast word.
- Mike Nayyar
LAST WORD.
- Steven Perez
Fast word.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
ORANGES
- Michael R. Bernstein
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
- Jonathan Hardesty
Yes
- Nicholas James
Whoo hoo!
- Mike Nayyar
heh
- Jonathan Hardesty
CILANTRO.
- Steven Perez
CORIANDER
- Michael R. Bernstein
huh???
- Roberto Bonini
Porque?
- Mike Nayyar
Porky Pig
- Logical Extremes
sqwuzzle
- Chacha102
GREEN BEANS
- Michael R. Bernstein
Red beans.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
And rice
- Mike Nayyar
How nice.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
LAST
- Nicholas James
ZOMG FIRST! ...wait... LAST!
- Danny Minick
DAIKON
- Michael R. Bernstein
L to the A to the S to the T
- Nicholas James
O_O
- Bwana
o_O
- WorldofHiglet
0_0
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
^.^
- Morton Fox
☠ ☢ ☣
- ∫ani625↔∞
hey....them ain't words!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
This thread needs more comments.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
PEANUT BUTTER
- Michael R. Bernstein
...jelly time
- Logical Extremes
CABBAGE
- Michael R. Bernstein
Gracious no......
- Roberto Bonini
I like eggs and butter; I like toast and jam.
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
The last word in the english dictionary is zfigy. Did I win?
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
no
- Chacha102
Oh you sillies.
- Mike Nayyar
This is the end, beautiful friend.
- John E. Bredehoft
LAST
- Nicholas James
CINNAMON
- Michael R. Bernstein
CILANTRO.
- Steven Perez
Again with this cilantro.
- Mike Nayyar
I will not get the last word, it is obvious, but I will get the 854th comment.
- Robert Scoble
More like 866 AMIRITE?
- Mike Nayyar
Let this thread be a shining example of what obsessive compulsive person can when he can't let go.
- Mike Nayyar
What he said.
- Logical Extremes
Really? This thing still hasn't died?
- Mathew™
Why would it?
- Mike Nayyar
You definitely can't have the last word dude... Just quit while your ahead
- Gordon Swaby
you ain't getting it either
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I want candy
- Baroness Von Cut-A-Bitch‽
LETTUCE
- Michael R. Bernstein
Bah,give up people...sheesh
- Gordon Swaby
Yeah, seriously.
- Mike Nayyar
Ha.
- Gordon Swaby
Gordon: No-one is going to give up. Well about 85% of the people on here already have...its just time to wait for the remaining people to give up and let me post "LAST"
- Nicholas James
BASIL
- Michael R. Bernstein
RATHBONE
- John E. Bredehoft
Wrath of Khan
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Raging boner?
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
YO.
- Steven Perez
No, I Do
- Chacha102
tttttttttTOP
- Steve Lacy
GINGER
- Michael R. Bernstein
*epicfaceplam*
- Roberto Bonini
still more?
- WorldofHiglet
Please let this end? The last word is always.
- Dave - SustainedEuphoria
There's always room for Jell-O!
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