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"...one of the greatest performances ever captured" that's a grandiose statement. i haven't seen the film, so i can't pass judgment. (Usually), landmark cinematic performances take time to distill and mature like a fine wine. i'll check it out - ray

Jason, he was awesome. Although I love Jack Nicholson, Heath was the perfect Joker. Just enough Devil inside. - Fred Tabsharani

Saw it late Saturday night, Heath was amazing, and the movie itself was as close to perfect as it gets. - Andreas Matern

The entire cast was stellar. Oldman, Freeman, Bale, Cain, Eckhart, Maggie...and of course Ledger. Freaking incredible - there were moments I just shook in fear of the man. - Ben Parr

Perfect money-making formula: Four Hot Guys and An Action Movie - chantelle

After watching the Dark Knight at a Friday midnight showing, I literally cannot see any of the previous Batman movies in the same way. - Bassam Islam

Rafe Needleman

Exclusive: Twhirl gets pushy with Identi.ca - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...

July 20, 2008 from Webware.com - Comment - Like - Share

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This version is pretty awesome. - Patrick from twhirl

One drawback to Twhirl's support is that it does not work if you use OpenID to login to identi.ca. - Hal Rottenberg

Veronica

Raise your hand if your iPhone 2.0 firmware is constantly stalling and/or freezing. Is this a known bug that I miss because I was at E3?

July 17, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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erm, not me, tho mine reboots alot.. but I must have my apps! - Socom

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hand raised here. There are a lot of freezes and hiccups where it seemingly takes a little break. - matt hollingsworth

2.0 is definitely flaky / unstable - apps crash more often, more spontaneous reboots, more freezeups etc. - Apple have supposedly got an update coming soon - can't be soon enough - Patrick Jordan

Once mine starts stalling, it's only a few minutes away from an auto-reboot. 30min-1hr of constant use in multiple apps will bring about a reboot. - ·[▪_▪]·

It's definitely more sluggish and less stable than 1.1.4. The price we pay for more choice and complexity on essentially the same hardware? - Kevin C. Tofel

Yup. Mine too. Lots of little hiccups in my iPhone 3G. Especially, web pages quitting for no apparent reason, returning me to home screen. - Len Edgerly

what bothers me more then anything, is the whole 1 hour backup that you have to cancel out of, holy ted whats up with that - Socom

mine happens the worst when i'm trying to use the keyboard. doesn't matter if it's for a txt, notes, or email. takes about 30 seconds or more to type. - Veronica

Keyboard was hella lagging earlier, i was words in front of it and having to sit back and wait for it to catch up. Restarted and all ok again now. - Simon Wicks

No problems here. It's been working like a charm (so far) - John Frenette from twhirl

major reboots for me on app launches. I had a period today where 3rd party apps would open then close - Matt Devost

Mine reboots if I play a video podcast without explicitly using the "video" tab. Before 2.0 it would just play the audio fine from anywhere. - Dwayne

Yeah, that and my passwords show while I type. That's ungood. - Alan

Mine is getting very bad signal...actually have an appt to get it looked at Friday. - Jay Martin

*hand* - l0ckergn0me

Yep its buggy when dealing with apps. Needs an update. - Sean Davis

mine is very sluggish..hopefully we will see an update very soon..hopefully there is a software issue with draining the battery too so well see better battery...at least i hope! - iJohn from feedalizr

yep. when mine was jailbroken it worked like a champ, now it hangs in the breeze whenever it wants. - grant fox

make sure you have the official release not the pre-release from the night before & try turning off push data - mike "glemak" dunn

Raising hand for the iPod Touch 2.0 firmware. Some of the Apps have crashed too. Tho I noticed that several apps have updated within the past couple of days. Rumors suggest that a newer firmware is being readied. - George Brickner

I find certain apps are causing problems (memory leaks, etc.) and that I have to reboot daily. If I don't use any apps other than Apple's, it runs pretty stable. - Jim Bergman

It's crashing almost as much as it did when I jailbroke it. Almost. - Bwana ☠

See James' take on why this happens here: http://bit.ly/1eHvyQ - Sergio Cruz

Sergio, I've tried holding the home button for 6 seconds to "force quit" applications in order to attempt to free memory by that assumption. It hasn't made *that* much of a difference, but it does help some with memory intensive apps like Mail, Safari and iPod - Bwana ☠

@Veronica I have had the same keyboard issues. App crashing not that bad. - Andy Lewandowski

Day 6 for me with no lock ups, freezes or crashes. Had a couple free apps that won't run but only those 2. - Al Degutis from twhirl

I love my iPhone for everything that I can use it for, but someitmes I just want to chuck it out the window - and then I remember I waited in line for 8 hrs :/ - Jennifer Van Grove from twhirl

I have been experiencing smi-frequent Safari crashes. No random lockups as of yet though. - Patrick from twhirl

I've noticed too, on my iPod it's painful typing anything at times. - Josue Salazar

I've had apps crash to the homescreen, but only one reboot so far. What annoys me more than that is that iTunes wants to back up the phone every time I plug it in. Also, why is the contacts app so slow? - Frederic

No: seems fine here. - Chris Baskind

I find when my keyboard slows down if I hold down the home button (not just press it) until it resets to the home screen and then reenter my app or txt it is much more fluid. 2.0 needs some definate stability work. - Sidney

Yup ... freezes every couple days. Sometimes it even reboots. - Jeff Smigel

2.0 is certainly flakier than 1.1.4. Apps lock up and reboots the iPhone randomly. - Marshall Bose

Major Nelson (Larry)

Did I mention that Shigeru Miyamoto came to the Xbox booth today to look at the new dashboard and see the Xbox games?

July 17, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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I heard Reggie played some Mirror's Edge, as well - looks like Nintendo might be interested in hardcore after all - Nathaniel Payne

Looks like gaming industry celebs can all come together over games no matter where their allegiances lie. Sweet! - Patrick from twhirl

Patrick

Ping.fm / Update all of your social networks at once! - http://ping.fm/

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Update everything from twitter to blogger at once. Has support for almost all of the twitter clones as well. - Patrick

Patrick

Identi.ca - http://identi.ca/

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Twitter clone, lacking a few features. It works though. - Patrick

Patrick

Ping.fm / Update all of your social networks at once! - http://ping.fm/

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Update everything from twitter to blogger at once. Has support for almost all of the twitter clones as well. - Patrick

Patrick

Identi.ca - http://identi.ca/

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Twitter clone, lacking a few features. It works though. - Patrick

tech.newsjunk.com

[VentureBeat]: Twitter refugees find a new home (at least for this week): Identi.ca - http://x.techwheat.com/0U

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"First everyone was going to leave Twitter for Jaiku. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for Pownce. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for Plurk. Then everyone was going to leave Twitter for FriendFeed. There's just one problem. Everyone is still on Twitter." - tech.newsjunk.com

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VentureBeat uses disqus for comments. I would like to have the comments from the VB article (I just posted one myself) readable here on FF and any comments posted here, be visible there. In other words, I would like Disqus and FF to federate. I wonder if Daniel and the FF guys have had any conversations about this? Federation is the word of the day, imho. And VentureBeat is great, but imho this piece is BS. - Dave Winer

We would like that as well Dave. I'll respond to your comment shortly. - MG Siegler

dave, what do you think is BS? - Eric Eldon

As we all predicted, the conversation will further fragment with every new service that exploits weaknesses of prevalent competitors. We'll just have to keep up with it all, until we no longer have to. - Brian Solis

Very Zen Brian. - MG Siegler

Twitter clones seem to be weekly fads for all of us twitter refugees, but the big T continues to be a fallback for everyone. Perhaps twitter will be magically fixed someday and everyone will be happy... - Patrick from twhirl

What's BS is (as I said in comments on VB) is that anyone knows the outcome of all this michegas. It's true there are more users on Twitter. But Twitter itself is so unpredictable and new things that shake up the configuration of reality seem to come EVERY DAY these days, the one certainty is total uncertainty. And that imho is a good thing. Like I said I'm impressed with VB, with a name like that it could be about deals and politics, but it's mostly very practical and interesting. - Dave Winer

@dave and I responded in the comments over there. you and I see eye to eye on much of this more than you realize. i would direct you to more than just the piece that I did, but there are literally dozens. feel free to check my back posts :) ..... and yes, we realize the name issue, stay tuned. - MG Siegler

Leo Laporte

It's funny to see all the Twitterati flock to http://identi.ca - we're all so desparate for a Twitter that works. Why not just clone it?

July 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Everyone complains so much about Twitter but refuses to leave... Do people like to complain in general? - Mona Nomura

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@Aaron: it reminds me of a chat room. a/s/l anyone? - Mona Nomura

"Ridiculously featureless." Well put. Not to mention it's really really slow. It's a good thing they have XMPP connectivity out of the box, since that's the only way it's remotely usable. - Albert Willis

its more like we flock to these other services to lay claim to our handles, or else you are like scoble and they get scooped up. - Andrea Baker

If identi.ca had a fail whale, we'd have already sighted it spout. Of course, it's really early ... - Chris Baskind

Gee. It was working fine a minute ago. ;-) - Leo Laporte

Had a look at identi.ca, but think friendfeed will be my new drug of choice - James Fridley

I kind of hate it already, and I just joined tonight. I'm sticking with Twitter/FF - Veronica

Anybody remember what Twitter looked like on it's first day live? - Ken Sheppardson

It is so horribly slow... - xero

Umm...I wouldn't say we're flocking there...just peeking in the window more like it. - Mack D. Male

On the bright side, setting up Laconica was pretty easy. But, yeah, I only really signed up there to save my name. - donato

yeah @veronica, FF is more full featured. Took me about a day to get used to it. - Harry Myhre

Well it is Canadian - Tris Hussey from twhirl

MASS MIGRATION!! I see over 1,000 unique users already in 1 day! dang this app is going viral fast!... already got an outage error... we need a "fail MOOSE" - Susan Beebe

I can't call them "tweets", and calling them "identi" is just weird - xero

Seriously, they're already moving servers apparently according to the head guy there once it finally calmed down. - Zach Flauaus

@Mona people complain but only for so long... remember - everybody left DOS years ago... - Harry Myhre

Zach: who's the "head guy" @ identi.ca ?? - Susan Beebe

i'm willing to test out any of these microblogging platforms to find one that consistently works - Chris

startups that experience exponential growth get slammed with new users... thus the performance hits on their servers = crawl - Susan Beebe

Not sure if he's the "head guy" but Evan Prodromou (evan here and on identi.ca) is certainly up the chain. I've seen him described as the author in other threads. - Ken Sheppardson

I'll stick with Twitter and Friend Feed for now. I've been to a few different places and it just doesn't feel right. Yeah, Twitter is down a lot, but I still like it. I also am liking FF too, because people can leave comments. - Molly, "sorry"

FriendFeed is MY killer app.. the rest are time sucks - Susan Beebe

Maple syrup works for me... - Mark Forman

I signed in with openid (liked that), uploaded an avatar and made a post. But I don't know if I want to put any effort into subscribing to anyone. I mean the people I want to follow (subscribe to) are mostly hear or on FF. Maybe I am just being lazy. - Andrea Baker

The twitter clones all seem to have at least one defining thing going for them, but identi.ca is very plain. It seems like twitter with *less* features. - Patrick from twhirl

Apart from communities on twitter-clones tending to be much smaller than on twitter itself, if you make a straight up clone, you will probably end up with the same technical problems Twitter has. You'd have to change something quite radical on the architecture side of things. - Horst Gutmann

Ugh, I hope people don't start using it. Now that I've finally left Twitter, I'm pretty content with FriendFeed. - Dillon K. Hoops

@Antony Jepson Maybe FriendFeed is just another Twitter Plugin:) http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter... - Igor Poltavskiy

Open Source rocks. Join now! :) http://identi.ca/scabr - Igor Poltavskiy

@Igor You have that backwards. ;) Personally I'm liking FriendFeed. It's like an open architecture FaceBook. The only things I'd change is a better mobile interface, the ability to SMS/IM in shares, and the ability to comment on/like comments. That's it. The feature I love the most is the Imaginary Friend feature. - Ivan from fftogo

Leo-friendfeed or Identi.ca? - Sohail Mamdani

Ali Shah

just learning about hindu religious art.

July 2, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

How interesting. - Patrick from twhirl

Patrick

WIKISKY.ORG - http://www.wikisky.org/

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Patrick

WIKISKY.ORG - http://www.wikisky.org/

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Wikiski - Patrick

Patrick

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music - http://www.pandora.com/

June 30, 2008 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

Creates radio stations with only you favorite artists and music like them. - Patrick

Patrick

Pandora Radio - Listen to Free Internet Radio, Find New Music - http://www.pandora.com/

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Creates radio stations with only you favorite artists and music like them. - Patrick

Patrick

Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images - http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery...

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Great Hubble images. - Patrick

Patrick

Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images - http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery...

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Great Hubble images. - Patrick

Patrick

Browsershots - http://browsershots.org/

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Test your web design in different browsers - Patrick

Patrick

Browsershots - http://browsershots.org/

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Test your web design in different browsers - Patrick

Dave Winer

Just gave another $100 to Obama bring my total up to an even $1000.

June 30, 2008 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Weren't you mad at him for treating you like an ATM? What changed your mind? - Josh Bancroft

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I'm waiting to see what he does with FISA. - stretta from twhirl

Dave, just elect a Dog, it is cheaper! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I thought what if he has a terrible month in June and I didn't do something to help, how would I feel then. All right I'm an ATM. I guess there are worse things. - Dave Winer

You have a problem with FISA? How about Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Protection Act of 2007 - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Watch the video on my post http://www.igorthetroll.com/blog... - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

I understood why people supported him a few months ago - but now that his true nature is showing (a Chicago politician who will sacrifice any position to win votes) I think all that's left is "anybody but McCain"... the same election we have been having for decades. - Soulhuntre

I pegged Obama as soon as he denounced his Reverend. I call him the False Prophet. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Today he denounces his Reverend, tomorrow he will denounce Israel. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Soulhuntre: really? When I was touring Congress last week several congresspeople told me that McCain used to be a much more centrist candidate than he is now (even Republicans were saying that). He's turned toward the right to win over religious folks. And if you can't see a difference between Obama and McCain, I don't think you are looking very hard. - Robert Scoble

Obama is like the Wizard of Oz. An amazing performance as long as you ignore the real man behind the curtain. - Michael Tefft

I am glad people beginning to see through he Obama gauze! I is all a staler facade! - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

wasting your money! - Csturm

Wasn't the man behind the curtain an accomplished engineer responsible for the success of Oz? The only reason for the curtain and the light show was because people didn't listen to him without it. - Kevin Fox

Well done Dave. Better to contribute to the decentralization of money/power influence. - AJ Kohn

Obama just gave $2,300 to Hillary and his wife too (another $2,300) to help w/ her debt. - Pokai

Yes,you will find obama hiding behind the curtain in the oval office if/when we get attacked again. - Csturm

It's good that Hillary's made it clear that all future contributions to her campaign are to pay off the campaign's debts other than her personal loan. She's acknowledged that she's not going to get that money back. - Kevin Fox

No Kevin, the point is Obama presents himself as much more than he is, Everyone seems to think he is the second coming instead of a junior senator in his first term. - Michael Tefft

@Michael: What about Obama's policies do you disagree? You have a perception issue which is subjective and an experience issue which can be debated by going back to past Presidents - so which positions do you disagree? - AJ Kohn

check his voting record and find more no votes them anything else. http://www.votesmart.org/voting_... - Csturm

Michael is right. Obama is a PR *image* and most of his supporters are in love with the image he has created and know very little about the substance. Obama is a knee-jerk reaction to Bush. - David Risley

I think people make their own judgments on how to perceive him. You may perceive him as unqualified because most of his experience is not at the federal level, but I believe your metaphor is disingenuous because it implies, without substantiation, that he's trying to deceive people. - Kevin Fox

Having worked for a Dem Fundraising Company in Chicago for 3 years, I am surprised they aren't trying to call you for more. - Michelle Trent

I agree with David Risley. Obama supporters are more about hate Bush than anything else. They would support almost anyone over another 4 years of Republican leadership. If you doubt my point about the hate Bush attitude look no further than San Francisco's childish and boorish effort to name a waste treatment plant after the President. - Michael Tefft

Trolls? Already? Brilliant. Will no one rid FriendFeed of this troublesome beast? - John Craft

No, Kevin, he has been caught trying to deceive people. Have you forgotten the Rev. Wright issue. I didn't know he was saying all those things. Just like President Clinton said "I never had sex with that woman." - Michael Tefft

Obama must of wore ear plugs every Sunday for 20 years. - Csturm

Tell me again why anyone with a brain _shouldn't_ hate Bush? The man is the worst president since Harding. I feel sorry for his successor. Bush has destabilized the economy, made the world a much more dangerous and divided place, and his imprudent tax cuts for the richest Americans have created the largest national deficit ever. It's not about ideology - it's about competence. - Leo Laporte

stolen from my buddy: Barack me, Obamadeus - Juan Aguilar from twhirl

John, I am not only a Troll but a Jew and Israeli. Be careful or I will eat you alive. lol Oh Robert is a such a Potz. He is trying to measure who will be the best candidate for US president based on their technological prowess. I guess the qualities for dealing with Iran and North Korea is the ability to use iPhone! LMAO. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

For all the Obama alarmists: How could such a bad person have made it so far in the process? Seems impossible with all the media coverage - Grant

Good one Igor. - Michael Tefft

@ Igor I am a Jew too and I feel Obama has NOTHING against Jews - Grant

I'm struck by the number of knee-jerk postings, and slagging of Obama. The current President has been so incompetent, and generally set us back in the rest of the world's eyes. Obama represents a new generation, and by definition, he has to be a politician first to get elected. It's just that I do believe in his values and his hope for a better future. Change does begin with one person. - Henry Burger

In your not so humble opinion Leo. - Michael Tefft

So Leo, if someone doesn't hate Bush they don't have a brain? Did you sign the petition to name the sewage plant after Bush? - Michael Tefft

I haven't donated anything to anybody. I count on my tax dollars to fund the election - Michael VanDervort from twhirl

You may want to save the $100, if Obama gets elected you may very well need it-- that is unless you can take advantage of the inevitable new social programs ;-) - Mark Nassal from twhirl

@Grt of merit as one calling him a secretant - There is also no real evidence to support the claim that Obama has anything against Jews. That claim has about the same amount of merit as one saying that he is a secret muslim. - Patrick from twhirl

Oops, major drag mishap at the begining there, ignore the first line of that comment ; ) - Patrick from twhirl

Of course all the knee-jerk postings are only from those who don't think Obama would be the best choice for President? I guess we should all just fall down before Obama and start worshiping. Is that knee-jerk enough for you. It is hard to spell out in a few words why I don't like Obama, so call me a knee-jerker. BTW it is not about Bush, it is about that other guy that never seems to get mentioned, McCain. Remember him? - Michael Tefft

Look guys, I do not know if it makes sense, but I believe in God and I pray to God. When Obama denounced his Reverend that is an insult to God. He did not need to denounce him, he could have said, "I do not agree with him." Then the Dems pass FISA under Obama. That is another slap to freedom. I respect all people and religions, I just do not trust Obama.Oh and Dave sorry for not spelling g-d. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Give this a read. http://www.nytimes.com/2008... - Csturm

Good article. I read it before. People with opinions see what he is about. - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

First off, I applaude anyone who backs his politics with his wallet. However, I have to sayBush's tax cuts turned around the econ and pulled us put of the Clinton resesion. The tax cuts were NOT for the rich, I do payroll for a small business and people making less than $25,000/yr got a real reduction that made a difference in there lives. I guess that's why Dems hate small business, we know the economic truth. - Robert Hafer from fftogo

Look Bush is not the issue here. He got us in Iraq, that was a mistake. What do we do next? - Igor The Troll יִצְחָק

Does anyone remember what the PIN number is for Winer? I need $100 ;-) - Karim

Obama clearly has a Charisma of 18 and everyone just failed their saving throw vs. Charm. - Akiva Moskovitz

the clinton recession? we had the largest budget surplus in years that 43 squandered - Sean

Sean, you as have many others have been lied to about the phantom surplus. The "predicted surplus" was a projection based on the false assumption that the economy would continue to grow at the pre-increase rate, which, of course, it didn't because of the tax increase. The so-called surplus never materialized. The economy was bad the day 43 took office, do you really think he wrecked in his swearing in ceremony? Every time the tax rate has been reduced, the revenue to the government increases. - Robert Hafer

Just reading through these comments, it's easy to see why politics is so devisive in this country. Each person sees through their own rose colored glasses. - Henry Burger

All I see amongst these same anti-Obama comments are rehashings of old rightist propaganda that weren't true 8 years, or 4 years ago and or now - aka this phantom surplus of Clinton that indeed existed and was squandered by the following administration. And as for Obama changing his position? Helllo!! McCain's done that so many times over the last two years. He cuddled up to Bob Jones University, suddenly believes we should be in Iraq for years in spite of the cost he knows our military in lives. Shame... - Matt Mendelow

I'm always amused at how people often take an 'If you're not with me, you're against me' stance when it comes to this stuff. They like to lacquer on assumption-fueled accusations and, worse, play a kind of equivalency game through which they excuse the wrongs of one side by pointing out the wrongs of another even if there is no connection between the two. Can't people just deal with the fact that sometimes people are not going to agree with you and are sometimes going to have good reasons not to? - Akiva Moskovitz

Unfortunate use of money. The gift that will keep on taking, especially if elected. - Jim Bednarz

Jason Calacanis

Jay-Z doing Wonderwall... fairly dope. - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

June 30, 2008 - Comment - Like - Share

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Great introduction to his set! - Joe Dawson

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DAMN! As much as I've found FriendFeed clunky, confusing, noisy and disorganized, this...THIS...makes it all worth while. DAMN. This is f'ing cool. Jay-Z's badass man!!! - Michael Chin

Looked like a really crappy lip-sync job. What'd I miss? - Paul Whitaker

It boils down to two people richer than the rest of us getting pissy with each other ;) - Michael W. May from twhirl

This is pretty awesome! I wonder if he was actually playing that guitar part at the begining. Looked like he wa just using the axe as a prop to me. - Patrick from twhirl

@Abby oh, just read your comment, makes sense now :) - Paul Whitaker

LOL-- he did a pretty good job - Chris

Patrick

Pownce - http://pownce.com/

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