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Virtual communities - exchanging ideas through computer bulletin boards By Howard Rheingold, University of California at Berkeley; Stanford University This is an essay originally published in Whole Earth Review, Winter, 1987. Reprinted in the Journal o - Howard Rheingold

"Prune’s dish is undoubtedly Gabrielle Hamilton’s homage to the roasted marrowbones at the London restaurant St. John, Fergus Henderson’s temple of off-cuts, shot game and rare-breed meat that has no close equivalent in the United States — Henderson’s is a place that moves rolled spleen and roast squirrel the way Junior’s sells pastrami sandwiches. Like the Prune dish, Henderson’s bones are served with coarse salt and a salty mound of parsley chopped just enough to tame the marrow. You scoop a bit of the marrow onto a slice of toast, garnish it with the parsley and sprinkle on a few grains of salt — the flavor explodes in your mouth, beefy richness almost beyond description, punctuated with crunchy bursts of salinity and finally tempered by the bitterness of the herb. Eating marrowbones is as old as civilization — in a Norse legend, the mischievous god Loki prods a mortal into snapping open the roasted thighbone of one of Thor’s goats and sucking out the marrow. It is a transgressive act, feasting on an es" - edythe via Bookmarklet

There are some great mutton hotpot places in Taiwan, some featuring those big marrow bones to tap with a straw. Flesh rush! Thanks Polly for your insights from the dog eat dog world of restaurants.. - Mark Forman

i always liked sucking out the marrow of chicken bones growing up. a friend's mother loves sucking on all bones...but will only do it alone so no one can see her. - edythe

There is an Indian place in Singapore that offers mutton marrow bones in copious red sauce(chilli and tomato) looks like blood. Everyone sucks it through traws. Might be able to find on Youtube under No Reservations. He did about 3 or 4 Singapore shows. This was more recent one. here is link http://youtube.com/watch?v=snK... - Mark Forman

Hang in to 3:40 for the whole thing to take an unexpected turn... - Sacca

oh, that is sooo good! Thank you! - JA Castillo

No lack of faith, but still disturbing. - Dan Hsiao

"less mind, more core" - Robin Barooah

http://pixdaus.com/single.php?... - Mitchell Tsai via Bookmarklet

this begs for a Caption Contest :) - Steven Hodson

This is my KISS impersonation. - Judy Jones

go ahead, make my day? - Harry Myhre

"You don't want to know what I just licked." - possible248

There are some Twitter alternatives coming that use Google's App Engine - Louis Gray

agreed with the post as it applies to Twitter but maybe I am hung up on the multipurpose use of the term "microblogging". Are tumblr and posterus microblogs? FriendFeed? Are the architectures for those "wrong"? - Robert Seidman

It seems that the most difficult part about these new messaging services is that the architecture has to accommodate the ability to slice and dice the messages to create a unique stream based on friends. - Caleb Elston

Doesn't Jaiku use App Engine now? They seem to be having issues architecturally - Jesse Stay

A lot of speculation -- based on pseudo reverse engineering -- it would be interesting if FF commented on this. This goes to the core of what is the essence/power of FF I think. - Brian Sullivan

Brian - you're right. Call it empirically-based speculation. Interesting to hypothesize the "why" of the bounce-to-the-top algorithm. - Hutch Carpenter

Great post Hutch. I'm very interested in the algorithmic stuff behind FF. On twitter, I never used the Favorites feature because they have no meaning behind. Here I 'like' all the time. I also like seeing the stuff that my network liked and commented on. - Alan Le

Excellent post Hutch, I know Darwin would agree. Thanks for the mention :-) - Mike Fruchter

Two small addenda to what I've seen with Likes. (1) It seems that you can "resurrect" an old item with no Likes by Liking it. The first Like puts it back to the top. (2) I actually did put an old item back to the top of FriendFeed by Liking it. Happened with one of Frederic's Last Podcast posts. Steven Hodson even commented on this happening (http://friendfeed.com/e/4e549e...) - Hutch Carpenter

I was thinking if i could have themes or skins for friendfeed to give it a personal look or something I might just point my domain name jeffisageek.net to it and have it be my home page since it has everything i do on it now anyways. - (jeff)isageek

Jeff - Agreed, I've been thinking of doing the same thing. Just wish we could style it a bit. Swurl is kind of what I'm thinking. Let me have a custom header and sidebar, put the content in the middle and I would just make it my primary page. - Kevin Shannon

yeah, make FF a skinable app /page.. then we can all have phun :)- - Peter Dawson

WANT! - Michelle Miller

"JM: They all go complete gaga about him and say he McDreamy. Hello! He not McDreamy. He can't make up his mind about anything. First go one way. Then go another. He complete confuse. I can't believe he brain surgeon. [...] Who going to let such confuse person operate their brain? Why anybody think he so-call good catch? Plus he have rat face. I don't like it." - David Vasileff via Bookmarklet

JM: I don't like watch that show Bones. That girl, she have funny eyes. She have the crazy coyote eyes. Such ugly. I can't stand it. - Robert Seidman

Happy 4th of July !!! - Atul Arora

Happy 4th July from the UK - it's a working day here :( - David W

:) - RAPatton

Beautiful, fascinating, cool and yummy at the same time. How can you beat it? - Lindsay Donaghe via Bookmarklet

Now we just need a cute lady with big feet to step on all of it. Oh yeah baby! - Tad Donaghe

triple like!! - edythe

i've seen this in person. the artist then lets the jello naturally decompose and mold giving it the appearance and analogy of an old(er) urban center. looks real pretty when lit up - Cee Bee

cee bee: wow. cool. - edythe

"In the end, you can't change your body chemistry. But you can wear one of four Centers for Disease Control approved repellents. Sprays and lotions including DEET, Picaridin, Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus or IR3535 (which has made Avon's Skin-so-Soft lotion a popular choice) have all been deemed effective and safe to keep the bugs at bay." - edythe via Bookmarklet

Mosquitos love me :( I'll wake up in the morning with four bites; my boyfriend next to me will have zero. I can't think of a single redeeming quality about skeeters. Grr. - Jennie Lin via fftogo

my body temp seems to be a little higher than the average bear, but my blood must taste like piss because i hardly get bitten or stung by anything - Cee Bee

karim, i will invest. :) - edythe

edythe, thanks :-) slightly confused now because I'm reading citric acid can substitute for vinegar. citric acid is used mostly in soda pop, which is likewise acid. i hope i just didn't invent the soft drink... lol - Karim

"Regardless of mouse weight and diet, resveratrol worked wonders. At two years of age, or the mouse equivalent of senescence, the mice were more coordinated than their non-dosed counterparts. Their bones were thicker and stronger, their eyes free of cataracts, their hearts beating strong. At the cellular level, tissues displayed gene-level changes almost identical to those produced by caloric restriction. The mitochondria of resveratrol-taking mice also proved healthy. Mitochondrial degeneration has been implicated in a variety of diseases, leading some researchers to believe that heart disease, cancer and dementia -- all the so-called diseases of aging -- have a common root. "The mice had tremendous health benefits from taking resveratrol," said de Cabo. "If any of those parameters translate to humans, it will be tremendous." When Sinclair and de Cabo's mice started taking resveratrol they were one year old, roughly equivalent to 35 human years. The success suggests that the drug's benefits could be en" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Sign me up. - j1m

Ah, the great days of Nic Roeg. Filmspotting? - j1m

I had never seen it and now I want to. - Michael W. May via twhirl

In sight. In space. In sex. Awesome. the IMDB comments imply that there are *too many* breasts in it, too. Pure 70s gold. - Mark Trapp

Feel.so.old. I first saw it as a midnight movie more than 30 years ago. I liked it, but think Labyrinth holds up beter. - Robert Seidman

Thank you - Pat Hawks

That is just BRILLIANT. - Lucretia Pruitt

Slide 46, 48, 70. - Hao Chen

Wow, an excellent presentation of what social media is. The statistics shown at the beginning are amazing! - Jeff P. Henderson

It was rather cool, very simple to understand, I am going to be using it when i chat with clients - Lantz via twhirl

some amazing stats and numbers presented here for sure. ;) - Garry Conn

Rock-have great trip. - Mark Forman

Sea World, Zoo, Coronado, La Jolla, catch a game at Petco - do it all! - Vince DeGeorge

Yeah it will be nice to get away for a bit and to spend some time with my brother who I hardly ever get to see. - Lindsay Donaghe

Enjoy your vacation! - Winston Teo

Preach it Dawn! - Mark Forman

:-) - Dawn M. Armfield

A post borne out of FriendFeed discussion - MG Siegler

A business model that has a foundation on locking up user data to keep switching costs high seems like a recipe for long-term disaster. We've seen several times that "open-ness" of data or knowledge generally trumps locked-down-sown-up0tight-"mine mine mine"- perspectives on data. Facebook (and others) need to figure out how to keep users, make a dollar or two and still share user data. The overall benefit to the community at large (and to Facebook) will be larger than if they just horde data. - Tony Haenn

@Eric Look at twitter. If they didn't let summize (or hashtags, or the other dozen services) play with their data, would they be nearly as popular? Would they have survived the system meltdown they are currently struggling through? I don't think they would have. A closed system there would have died an ignoble death. Openness from an information standpoint leads to strength and innovation - Tony Haenn

@Tony I totally recognize the mutually beneficial innovations that can stem from open services. Facebook is just at a point where it needs to start making some serious money and it's not clear how being open is going to help it do that, at least right now. - Eric Eldon

debate still going on in the comments with blake ross http://venturebeat.com/2008/07... - MG Siegler

"Anthony showed us the Top Ten: DIY Charging stations, but if DIY is not your thing, Kangaroom has a bamboo charging station that will save you the effort. We managed to get our hands on one to try out. If you only have three things that you have to worry about charging on a regular basis then this little bamboo box comes highly recommended...as long as your gadget charger plugs are on the small side. Click through to see what I mean and for more pictures." - edythe via Bookmarklet

great account of how the investment in Gnip came about - David Vasileff

is friendfeed publishing to Gnip? - Tim Connors

Good video. I'm buying one in the UK because it does everything I want except video (although hopefully Qik will come to the app store if the SDK allows it to work on non-jailbroken phones). I'll probably get a Flip or similar to cover the video side of things anyway. - Martin Bryant

Thx Martin. I think video should happen, there's a video app for the 2G if you've got it hacked, no streaming, but it proves that it can be done - Duncan Riley

Nice perspective - but I am not getting an iPhone - the area im which I live doesn't have a 3G network... so it would be a fancy phone... but that is about it... Oh, and they need to get the flash support sorted - Dave Gray via twhirl

Good video. I'll be lining up on the 11th ... - Patrick Jordan

We're doing the EXACT same thing here in Japan Duncan. July 11th... sleeping bagging it outside of Softbank stores in Tokyo, Nagoya, all over. Check out our progress as we'll be reporting it at http://www.iphoneinjapan.com - Robert Sanzalone

I opened that in a background tab to read later and then spent a few minutes wondering... - Robin Barooah

they should monetize with adsense for white noise - peter

+1. Great design in general. - DeWitt Clinton

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