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Windows Vista Source Code Leaked - http://i29.tinypic.com/10gidzr...
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HealingBrush, Kenyth, Aether and 97 other people liked this
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- mjc
I laughed out loud haha
- Mona Nomura
return LotsMoreMoney; :P
- BeeLing
fantastic - you have a fine reservoir of good material Mona
- PaulJohnson
Hardware incompatibility error; Driver incompatibility error. if (still_not_crashed) HAHA @Paul: Thank you, for your words. :)
- Mona Nomura
HOM C# :O
- Hossein Norouzi
C# doesn't use include-directives - they'd be using. That's some pseudo-C :P
- Jemm
I'd love to do similar joke about OSX or Linux, but I'd be too afraid of a mob attacking me due to blasphemy ;)
- Jemm
hahahaha!! It's supposed to be funny, you guys!
- Mona Nomura
ha ha ha *snort* ha ha. Joni, it's Mona#++SE.NET
- Kevin L
You couldn't do a "source code leaked" joke for LInux!
- Kevin L
Mona: it is ;) klecu: ah :) Now I know how Powershell got its code name.. "Monad"
- Jemm
HA!
- Mona Nomura
There's a bug in there. Where's the if statement immediately inside the if still_not_Crashed condition that checks "If(bootLog.BootsSinceLastCrash >2), throw new BSOD();".
- Kamath (नमः)
funny - but i've never had a problem with Vista - in fact I'm a Mac owner who LOVES vista. take that
- andy brudtkuhl
Hahahahahaha
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
LOL :)
- AJ Batac
Joni: Nobody makes fun of Unix-like operating systems, or they have me to answer to. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Mona - Did YOU do this ?? :)
- Charlie Anzman
That can't be it. Where's that call to sleep() ? :)
- Morton Fox
*giggle* :)
- Reuben Thum
from twhirl
I'm pretty sure I saw that in the background of an ad in Linux Format a while back, actually. Something extremely similar, anyhow.
- i80and
love it!
- Geoff K
while(!crashed) { laugh(); }
- imabonehead
Why are the Firefox name's here?
- 李华顺
lmfao at the commented out "Welcome to Windows 2000"
- Eric Kerr
omg, Akiva needs to see this
- Josh Haley
LOL :D
- Chirantan Rajhans
SearchAndDestroy(FIREFOX|OPENOFFICEORG|ANYTHINH_GOOGLE); = Awesome!
- Nicholas James
seven is just a line away
- Alfredo
How to install a CableCARD tuner in your DIY Media Center - http://www.engadgethd.com/2009...
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With Google you have to get in the trunk and let them close the lid, and trust them to keep the air supply on.
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Nearly 90% of Hulu users opt to watch pre-roll ads - http://www.smartbrief.com/servlet...
Chris Rivait, Shay Frendt, heather ♥s fauns on mars. and 2 other people liked this
It's opt-in? When did I opt-into it? How can I opt-out?
- Mark Trapp
Good question, Mark. I was wondering the same thing.
- Yolanda
it's at the beginning of a vid - it gives you the option of a long ad at the beginning, with no further interruptions - or several short ads throughout the video
- Nathan Chase
We do. It's worth it just to not have viewing interrupted. During the pre-roll ads, we get everything ready and set up.
- Admiral Anika
Sometimes before an episode starts, Hulu gives you a choice of watching a two-minute ad spot (it's usually a movie preview) or watching the episode with normal commercial interruptions. If you choose the two-minute ad spot, you're "opting in", in terms of what this article is citing. It's not really the same type of opt-in that we're used to, as would be the case with a newsletter subscription.
- Shay Frendt
I've never seen that option: I always get the 30 second ad at the beginning and then the 30 second ads strewn throughout the show. I thought they were referring to the 30 second ad at the beginning, but I've never seen a 2 minute ad. That'd annoy the hell out of me.
- Mark Trapp
Yeah, I haven't gotten that option many times...it's mostly shown up when I was playing a movie. I forgot to mention...if you pick the 2-minute add at the beginning, they don't play the 30-second spots during the episode. So I just roll the 2-minute spot, grab a gatorade or a sandwich, then watch the whole thing straight through. You wouldn't choose that?
- Shay Frendt
picture unrelated - http://skitch.com/duncanr...
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The Three-Axis Bubble Level - http://lifehacker.com/5077235...
Shay Frendt, J. D. Ebberly, Jeff P. Henderson and 6 other people liked this
wow. cool.
- edythe
WOW
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I have one of these, it is very handy for leveling your camera on a tripod. If you are shooting wide panorama's this is a must.
- Jeff P. Henderson
My Google Reader 'Subscribe to my own Friendfeed' experiment paid off.
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Chris Loft, David Miller, Morton Fox and 7 other people liked this
I subscribed to my own FF rss in google reader for some experimentational purposes.. the new charts are pretty cool.. and who the heck is subscribed to my rss feed? :)
- Tim Hoeck
Very cool. I should do this.
- Mark Trapp
good idea!
- K.D.
I subscribe to my comments and likes, just so I can track them and move them to places like delicious
- Andy Davies
FriendFeed is so simple. A bunch of "friends" sign up and dump their crap into it, we all look at eachother's crap and sometimes we discuss it. Oh, and you can also dump crap into rooms and invite people to look at it there. Why do people try to make it any more complicated than that?
Steve Chou, Kamilah Gill, Evan Brown and 49 other people liked this
Oh crap. I've been doing it wrong.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Because we have a tendency to make everything over-complicated...I mean look at big business or government.
- Alex Scoble
I signed up for FF a while ago, Rah, but I only really got into it last week. It took me a minute to "figure it out". Maybe your quote should be on the sign up page?
- Derrick
AMEN
- Lindsey is Fierce!
You seriously need to email a link to this entry to Paul Bucheit (sp) post STAT!
- Helen Sventitsky
Great explanation.
- Mike Reynolds
Rasheen really does sum it up quite well, if not in a very subtle way :)
- Ian May
Oh, and sometimes I search for crap. Or like crap. Or comment on crap. Or reshare crap into other places. Heh.
- Robert Scoble
You left out the part about liquor.
- Glen Mistletoe
LOL@glen...what?!
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
And LOLCatz...and the Shinu Iba puppy feed! It's all about the puppy feed! It's a mitzvah!
- Alex Scoble
Wait... I press what to email my grandkids?
- Outsanity
Crap
- Far
Sounds like you're channeling George Carlin very well:)
- Roney Smith
g++ -O3 -o crap brain.cpp
- imabonehead
+1 crap
- Kevin Johnson
cat /dev/random -- yeah...that's it. Simple flow of random crap...LOL.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
random crap resonating through interweb toobz
- Kevin Johnson
Rahsheen purple snarf racket sausage plenum rated cable.
- Alex Scoble
Reads better as: snarf purple sausage plenum rated cable rackets
- Kevin Johnson
80% twitter crap + 20% other crap
- Mark Frost
from twhirl
Your crap almost flew oast me before I could make a comment!
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
Some are better dumpers or discussers than others, and it makes some feel inadequate, and so they overcomplicate FriendFeed by thinking about it too much...then...awwww, crap....what was I saying?
- Pete Delucchi
But what's more enjoyable - to crap your own stuff into FriendFeed, or to admire the crap of others? Number 1 or number 2, what'll it be?
- Ontario Emperor
crap is the new bacon. oops, that went out wrong :D
- AJ Batac
I'll need a new shovel for all this crap.
- Steven Perez
I love you Rahsheen.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
<3 you too, Mo :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
best of craigslist : INTELLIGENT, cultured, 22y/o wm seeking Asian women (pref. Nihonese) - http://www.craigslist.org/about...
Jess Lee, Vincent X, Mo Kargas and 9 other people liked this
"INTELLIGENT, cultured, 22y/o wm seeking Asian women"
- Duncan Riley
from Bookmarklet
looks can be deceiving
- Ian May
I believe that is white-male... and... ok, wait.. craigslist has personals? hahahhaha! So where did you meet your significant other? Craiglist. How do you say that with a straight face?
- Tim Hoeck
swear I just seen this person on Chuck.
- Zehnchu
Duncan, did you post this for Mona? j/k M :p
- Anna Haro
Anna, not specifically....but I see the parallel now :-) Mona: would you hit it? :-)
- Duncan Riley
Tim, I can't say "a chat room" with a straight face but it's true!
- Rochelle
Rochelle.. that's cool, but to me craigslist just sounds like... eBay. :)
- Tim Hoeck
+Duncan for asking if Mona would "hit it" hahaha
- Anna Haro
Classic otaku. I know people like this. An old friend of mine was so obsessed I was sure he wished he had really been born as a small Japanese girl with purple eyes the size of apples.
- Neal Jansons
from twhirl
hahaha nice @Matt
- Shay Frendt
"As hobbies go, I am an avid gamer and enjoy delving into the myriad artistic realities of animé (the origin of my affinity for Asian culture, which is frankly superior)." [I never would have guessed!]
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Since when does "anime" have an accent over the e?
- Rochelle
Hahah okay, so wait. He wants someone under 115 pounds yet she must have "some meat" on her? Those two things do not go together unless she's 4 feet tall.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, re: 4ft tall and 115lbs. EXACTLY.
- Derrick
Is he an actor? He looks familiar.
- Randy
I'm calling this out as a Something Awful prank. I love the "Traditional Ladies education". It's too perfectly horrible.
- Rob Haas
Sounds like he wants an Asian little sister he can whine at when she trips over his Xbox power cord and ruins his latest [insert game here] speedrun.
- abacab
"Firefox has crashed. Do you want to (1) Start a new session (2) Go back to doing that stupid-ass shit that crashed your browser ?"
Matt Hilton, Lindsey is Fierce!, bob and 9 other people liked this
Yet I sometimes pick #2!
- Becca
I usually pick 2 a few times until I realize I'm just as stupid-ass as my browser...
- Heidi Blanton
My addiction to iPhone and FriendFeed has definitely made me less productive and less able to appreciate what's in front of me at the moment. I lost my iPhone and found myself twitching today -- I'm not sure I'll get another one. I stopped using a Blackberry for the same reason.
Chris Luckhardt, Sean McBride, Mathew A. Koeneker and 25 other people liked this
T-Mobile G1 time?
- Brandon Titus
Oh how I understand that
- Glen Mistletoe
Brandon: that has an even better keyboard. I think I'll stay with Nokia devices that have regular phone keyboards that are hard to text into.
- Robert Scoble
We've become a society of people who walk the earth incessantly looking down at the river of noise flowing through our mobile geekery.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Productivity is overrated, Robert.
- Pete Delucchi
I don't do the smart phone thing for the reason you mentioned Robert, but FriendFeed really destroyed my ability to focus on anything for more than 30 seconds. I've been ignoring FriendFeed for larger and larger chunks of time and find myself not missing it at all after about a week.
- Mark Trapp
Hold on one sec while I twitter this....
- Glen Mistletoe
Mark: I can see myself joining you.
- Robert Scoble
Mark - I too have been taking longer and longer breaks from my dips into the river of noise here. Things seem to be evolving. Can't quite put my finger on it though.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Brian - Had to rework my lists a couple of times but readily admit I spend a too much time here. On the other hand, a lot of it has been productive in a lot of ways.
- Charlie Anzman
Agree. I left FF for about two weeks, and when I returned, something felt different. I spend a lot of time here but, as Mark said, I find myself not missing it as earlier.
- Mladen Srdić
I understand. not sure if that's good or bad. lol
- Erin @queenofspain
Totally agree Mladen. 6 months ago, it was like crack for me. Not so much anymore. Still a BIG fan, but not missing it as much these days. Interesting.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Mladen and Brian and Mark: is it because there's less and less tech news in between cute videos and pictures and funny news stories?
- Robert Scoble
I'm starting to lose interest in FriendFeed now that the general public has found it. Much like Facebook its no longer interesting.
- CW™
"with Nokia devices that have regular phone keyboards that are hard to text into" -- thanks Robert, I will inform my colleagues that ITU keyboard has this kind of reputation :)
- A.T.
Christopher - I get concerned when I hear comments like that. It takes 'a little' time but the controls are here to see and respond to what you like. Just create your own channels. Still one of the best networking and discovery games in town.
- Charlie Anzman
Christopher: I've noticed this behavior about early adopters. It happens in every online community I've been a part of since the mid 1980s (yes, that's how long I've been doing online community stuff). I thought FriendFeed would be different because you could join rooms that have smaller groups of people in them and also make a list of only your closest friends and avoid the noise. Why aren't these working for you?
- Robert Scoble
Robert, maybe: I still make sure to go through Google reader just as regularly as I always have, and I feel informed. With FriendFeed, I'm reading things I already read in reader or saw on TV. The only things it keeps me informed on is specific people, and those updates, for most people, are few and far between. You said Google reader makes you smarter: I think that's the same thing. With GReader, I can spend an hour or less, get informed about the topics that interest me, and actually have an end point.
- Mark Trapp
Not really sure Robert. I've got about 15 lists that are pretty well tuned so I get reasonably filtered buckets of noise. UPDATE: I also agree with Mark that an effectively tuned GReader is a highly effective firehose.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
It isn't the devices we use, it is us. That said, I would rather have the functionality and the negative side effects than another thing take its place and not have the functionality.
- David A. Levine
I'm absorbing so much information from the interactions and activities of others on FriendFeed that I view any loss to productivity today to fall into the category of "pay it forward".
- jcunwired
David: I don't agree with that. An iPhone is akin to living above a bar for an alcoholic. Nokia's web browsers are a LOT harder to use so I don't even attempt to use them, most of the time, where when I have an iPhone in my hands it's hard to get me to do anything else.
- Robert Scoble
I don't mean to be rude, but shouldn't we exhibit self control at some point. I love the tech news, discussions, and Twitter, but I can focus on other things when needed.
- Jeremy Franklin
I haven't really used FF and don't miss it. Twitter -- now there's another story. I got an iPhone so that I could Twitter any time/place/thing (to be fair, my PDA died 2 weeks before and I missed an important meeting as a result). I paid for Twittelator instead of using the free apps. On my desktop I have TweetDeck with one Twitter identity and Twhirl (LOVE them both) with the other. Twitter is my number 1 news source and I am finding out a lot more about my world because of the tweeters I follow.
- A.J.
Agree with Mark again. My main news sources are Google reader and rss crunchers, like Feedheads and Feedly (i don't use it anymore, but I'll give it another shot). I once started a thread for sharing via Google reader and got a fine response of about 20 people. Interesting way to get some interesting content, beside tech news.
- Mladen Srdić
These things are not bad, we are using things in a bad way.
- YAAK
I think the need to know new information before others is an addictive thing now a days. To be able to talk to others about a subject that is new is impressive. With technology, information is coming in faster and faster. We also add to this tsunami of information with our own lil nuggets. Also being able to be on the "in" faster allows you to make decisions in business and personal life before others which is beneficial at times. Just look at stock traders and how they deal with new information.
- CW™
There's some stupid stuff on FF that I could do with out, and then there's the issue that some people rather post tech stuff to rooms rather then their main feed.
- Colide81 (James)
It's all about self discipline. Switch it off when it's too distracting. If needed turn off wifi.
- Peter van Teeseling
from twhirl
@pvantees the problem is that addiction overrides discipline.
- ·[▪_▪]·
My girlfriend pointed out that I wasn't able to watch a movie or tv show with her without thumbing through posts on Google Reader for the iPhone at the same time. I had to lose that habit, lest I succumb to a meta-relationship to go along with all my meta-interactions online.
- Shay Frendt
I'm having a hard time making the transition from an iPhone to a Blackberry Curve-- AT&T to Sprint [even though it'll save me $60/month.] I keep asking myself "How will I access FriendFeed on the go?" "How will I manage all of media on the go?" It's sad.
- © b e e n s w a n k
Sounds like a new group of 'recognized disorders' for the Psych community ... luckily, there's now help thanks to passed legislation (that was attached to the bailout bill??!!) http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/triage...
- Charlie Anzman
I got my FF addiction under control but I think I've lost my grip again. I have to get it together again. It's causing a general lack of ability to concentrate, I just want to check for something new all the time.
- xero
I've started microblogging more when I bought iPhone 3G. If thats more productive or not I don't know, but its fun. I love my iPhone!
- Svartling
There is just the need to know how to control yourself... if you know how to control yourself there will be no addiction...
- Edoardo Piccolotto
But isn't the new generation of mobile devices, micro sharing services and tools opening up a whole new form of organic communications enablement that has the potential to change everything. What if the mobile device is our communications hub/router/data store, freeing us from our desks & enabling a wider group of people to engage like never before -- Cheers, Christopher :)
- Christopher
Brien - Watching the river is a pleasure. Productivity is another kind of activity. Do pleasure and productivity mix? Fun and work?
- Jimmy Walker
Being connected is a *good* thing. However, it takes discipline. If you can't control when you use it and when you don't, it's probably best not to have an iPhone. I hope I can teach my kids this - it's a valuable skill.
- Jesse Stay
I don't surf the net that much on my BB Curve since I have my laptop in front of me most of the day. If I was mobile like you are, then I'd definitely be using my phone to access http://FFtogo.com a bunch! You're in a tough situation...I'd probably cave in and buy a replacement within 3 days! ha, ha! I was highly temped to buy the iPhone just because of your love for it, as well as numerous other buddies of mine who swear by it. However, I am a cautious buyer of new technology, and opted to go with BB
- Susan Beebe
Interesting thread.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
People that don't have an iPhone just don't realize how fully functional the mobile version of Safari is. Unless the site is Flash based or the detect it's a mobile phone browser (I'd rather they didn't do that for the iPhone), it looks and functions identical to the desktop web experience. Even crazy script AJAX-y stuff.
- Paul Reynolds
i am addicted to my blackberry. it never leaves my side.
- Krista K
GADISS: American Are So Weird!! - http://www.gadiss.com/2008...
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Jasmin Smith, Anthony Russo, Mathew™ one of a kind and 12 other people liked this
Roaches can't get cancer...they're like...tiny, crunchy supervillains
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Ha, Rah!
- Ayşe E.
Hint: When hiding a secret pickle stash, do not kiss your pickle-ravenous girlfriend after eating a pickle.
Steven Hodson, mjc, Victor Ryden and 4 other people liked this
hahaha that's awesome - "where are the pickles!!! now!"
- Shay Frendt
Whoa, MLB is instituting instant replay starting Thursday!
Mike Fruchter, Cee Bee, Morgan and 6 other people liked this
Slow down an already slow game? Brilliant!
- AJ Kohn
Weird that it's in the middle of the season...
- MG Siegler
It's just for questionable home run calls, right?
- Louis Gray
@louis, yep for right now. all the commentators are worried it will creep into other things though...
- MG Siegler
Baseball is on everyday of the year! They're worse than the Olympics :(
- Mona Nomura
Technology? In your sport? It's more likely than you think!
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
I think it should. Whiny old-ass announcers hated the DH too. :-)
- Louis Gray
I'll be a lot more impressed when they start using metal bats.
- Alex Scoble
Louis, you just grew older in my mind. You remember what people said when the DH was created? Geez, I wasn't even born for the next 11 years! :p
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
@Louis: Hey, I resemble that remark. I hate the DH. :)
- AJ Kohn
Rodrigo, no, but they're still whining about it. And yes, it appears I am older than you are.
- Louis Gray
Not a big fan of instant replays, why have refs if thats the case?
- Stepan Mazurov
Well, I dunno about the DH. I am an Indians fan, I watch mostly AL games (too many Yankees games on ESPN Sunday Night), but I always look forward to see pitchers batting over .300 in NL. It always adds some flavor when you see stuff like Clemens going to the bat at Subway Series after beaming Piazza in the Interleague.
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
this is a big improvement. everyone whines about instant replay at the onset - but it's been a big help to the NFL and the way they've managed it has not negatively impacted the games. i'm looking forward to it. it probably comes in to play less than a dozen times in the post-season and still makes a big impact in getting things right - which is the end goal.
- Morgan
i'm not even a baseball fan like that, but i despise the excuse that it's disposing of the "human element" to the game. the human element should pertain to the players committing errors, not the umpires. i don't want any game to be decided by an umpire or ref's poor judgment.
- Cee Bee
Alex -- if they used metal bats, pitchers and infielders would have a lot more injuries.
- Jay Cuthrell
Jay- I fail to see the downside to that. ;)
- Alex Scoble
Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials - http://www.noupe.com/css...
Karim, Andrew Trinh, Carlos Ayala and 12 other people liked this
Holy good god, thank you for sharing this. I'm actually excited to work tomorrow!
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
i got it from someone else's share... i shouldn't get much credit.
- edythe
it was jennifer: http://friendfeed.com/lightbl...
- edythe
Well then thank you for the REshare :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
(seeing if I can get into the spirit of things here)
- Ben Greenberg
I'm surprised that only got 80 Diggs -- never made FP. But 2000+ del.icio.us saves -- rock on. :-)
- Chris Baskind
Thanks, just what I was looking for.
- Bob Gannon
I Guess You'll Do - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"Sadly, this will be the highlight of my life."
- Anthony Citrano
Wow... that's enough to make a guy want to remain single for life! Egad...
- Chuck
If you can!!
- Anthony Citrano
ugh, that's a bit depressing. Thankfully, I don't feel any desire to go that route...not yet anyway.
- Anna Haro
Tick, tock, tick, tock...
- Hao Chen
2:43
- Hao Chen
"I will act as if I am the first pregnant person ever."
- Anthony Citrano
I just want to go ride my bike now. Alone. Too bad it's 2am.
- Chris Baskind
This makes me sad
- Peter Stuifzand
Suddenly my mess of a life seems brilliant.
- Donna Mugavero
@Donna - that's how I felt, too. As Peter said, so sad (but mostly because of how sadly true it is.) And Chris - I was out on my bike last night when you wrote that, and it was very late. :)
- Anthony Citrano
@Anthony: I have awesome lights. WAs being lazy -- riding under the stars is fun. :-)
- Chris Baskind
That is brilliant. I'm at the "bought a house" stage, and feel that it is time to just skip right to the heart failure. :-)
- Jeremy Brooks
@Jeremy -LOL!!!
- Anna Haro
"I Guess You'll Do" should be entitled "How To Suck The Life From Life"
- Michael W. May
Horribly, horribly, horribly depressing.
- Raoul Pop
Donna: yes, I hear you!
- Jason Wehmhoener
I've racked my brains and I honestly don't think I personally know anybody like this. Maybe they're so boring they've just slipped my mind. Or maybe I tend not to know such people for some reason. Or maybe whoever made this just made an incredibly cynical caricature to express their contempt for married people. I really don't know--any of these is possible.
- Ruchira S. Datta
We skipped the whole wedding part (it was just us + two friends and a judge about 9 months after we started dating), so maybe we're not typical. The funny thing is that the part where she's contemplating all the stuff she has no aspirations to do... that's all the stuff that I've come to the realization that I want to do. Now I just have to figure out how. We got to the house stage (less than a year ago) before it really dawned on me that I don't want that boring life with no accomplishment.
- Lindsay
This video really stuck with me today. Along with the term "Samasara."
- Chris Baskind
I must be some sort of mutant - my life is much more exciting and fun than that! Yeeeeehaw!!!
- Internet's Tad
I don't even know what to think....funny?.....true?....depressing?....aaaahhhh!
- David Cook
I remember this video - and I won't let it happen.
- Ben Parr
If you don't know anyone like this, you know people who deserve Academy Awards. I have known a great deal of people just like this. It's sad, but (to David's point) it's sad and depressing because it's so true.
- Anthony Citrano
I know some folks like this. Usually it's couples who really don't have much of anything in common. I totally don't understand marrying someone who's not totally your #1 BFF. I'd be SOOOOOO bored with a "normal" wife.
- Internet's Tad
Wow, that is cynical. Yikes! We need a new model for marriage and family. Jeez. That is depressing. I know there's a lot of truth to it, but there are people out there who are happily married.
- Sarah
Sarah: I agree with you re: new model. But the evolutionary leap that's needed is that we shed the fantasy of eternal monogamy. I'm not holding my breath, though.
- Anthony Citrano
Sarah: Maybe that only doesn't appear to be a happy marriage because of the tone. Life is like that from 30K feet. Most generalities are boring, even depressing. The joy is found in all the little things in between. It's about the details. While I don't disagree about the idea for a new model, I don't see this as motivation for it. And we can stand for new models for many traditions.
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HOLY SHIT! I totally know these people. I'm related to a number of these people! Wow.
- Ňicķ
(though, the dour sarcastic tone of this makes it pretty judgemental. i'd say most of the people i know in this situation are more or less happy about it... complacency and lowered expentions are actually quite practical for happiness... if you can convince yourself of it)
- Ňicķ
What makes this depressing is the sense that this woman wants "it" because it is what is normal or acceptable rather than wanting those things for her self.
- Clare Dibble
How is it that more quality applications launched in one day for the iPhone than have ever been developed for WinMo? Is it more a function of the platform or the user base?
Shay Frendt, Phil G, Yolanda and 5 other people liked this
WinMo uses the PC application delivery model which doesn't work for phones. Apple's app store is a much better way to deliver content to phones.
- JP Landry
Good point. I've used Handango's In-Hand, which provides over-the-air application delivery, but it certainly isn't as slick as the Apple solution (is anything as slick as the Apple solution?)
- Brian Pharris
Lust. Desire. Sex appeal.
- Louis Gray
Could you please back the implied assertion with an exact score or complete list from both platforms?
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I hate my WM Tilt. A phone is no longer just for making calls and sending text messages, it's use and worth come largely from the applications available for it. Trying to *find* WM apps requires far too much effort, let alone then discerning which apps are worth installing and which aren't. So many of them are poorly made and difficult to use (I would imagine because the experience is going to differ slightly from model to model). There is no central access point to find apps, let alone rate them.
- Robert DeBord
WM has been around for a long time and yet no one has been able to organize anyplace where you can find a comprehensive listing of available apps and also where the users can review them. It's such a guessing game which means it's a huge waste of time. Most of the apps I've used on my 8125, 8525 and now my 8925 have been difficult to use and the entire experience has been anything but elegant. As soon as my concerns over the iPhone's battery life are taken care of I'll be very, very happily abandoning WM
- Robert DeBord
Could be that there's a certain amount of quality control that goes into getting apps past Apple that you don't get in apps developed for other platforms. Not that there aren't a lot of clunkers in the app store already.
- Judi Sohn
And MiniMage, your request spells out the problem with WM. Where can you find such a list? How could you even begin putting one together? It's such a mess there's no way to find and list them all because they're not in a centralized location. It's such a terrible experience for the user.
- Robert DeBord
Apple's developer tools are much much better than what developers on other mobile platforms have to use. Apple does all of the hard stuff so that developers worry about the features of their application.
- Albert Willis
Hmm, Stalin had a good way of centralizing things in one place too... I prefer to have more flexibility. But to the original assertion that there are more "quality" apps for iPhone than WM -- I think many people would disagree with this (myself included).
- Alan Cheslow
@robertdebord: I know nothing about the iPhone store, but is there a list there that says which apps are quality and which are not? Judi has said there are some there that are "clunkers," so we can't assume, I think, that all iPhone apps are quality. I know there are several sites that sell WM apps from a gaggle of developers and that some developers sell their apps themselves, which...
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- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
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@MiniMage the App store has customer reviews built into it. If you buy an app you can comment on it to let other people know what you like/dislike about it. One thing I've seen in the past is when looking for reviews on a program for my WM phone I'll google it, find a bunch of links and then find that the "reviews" were paid for by the company that made the program. That's no good because I'm not really getting a review of the program and I don't really know whether it's a waste of my time to install.
- Robert DeBord
And I'm not saying that all of the apps are fantastic. I don't have an iPhone so I haven't used the app store other than browsing it to see what apps are available. My point was that the user experience on finding programs for the iPhone is far better than finding them for a WM phone, since they're centralized and you have a wide variety of user reviews to help in deciding which apps are worth spending time on. I don't know that the iPhones apps are better than those for WM but...
- Robert DeBord
it sure does seem easier to find apps for the iPhone and the entire experience from the user's end seems much more enjoyable. As for my comments on the WM programs... from my own experience they aren't great and typically they don't feel straight forward or easy to use. It's almost prohibitive to use some of them because you know how frustrating the experience will be before you even begin.
- Robert DeBord
@Alan: what are some of the quality WM apps that you're thinking of? IMO, SPB Mobile Shell is stellar (and does a good job of bringing the WM UI up to par with the iPhone), and I've found Google Maps and Windows Live Search to both be impressive. Perhaps I'm just swooning over the newness of my recently-upgraded iPod Touch, but I haven't found many other WM apps that I've been that impressed with.
- Brian Pharris
@Brian those are good, I also like PointUI, navizon, CQC, smartphlow, findme, social.fm, skyfire, bubbles, tinytwitter, last.fm, tcpmp, dashwire, also some other places to start -- http://tinyurl.com/6xga6c and http://tinyurl.com/6axaea
- Alan Cheslow
@Alan thanks for the pointers.
- Brian Pharris
Here's another good site I just noticed - http://www.microsoft.com/windows...
- Alan Cheslow
iphone: one target. winmo: 2 platforms (smartphone and pocket pc), 3 aspect ratios (standard, wide, square), lores and hires (different dpis), 3 input styles (touch screen, keyboard, keypad), 3 different framework versions (1.0, 2.0, 3.5), a wide spread of general device performance from 200 mhz with slow memory to 500 mhz fast machines, radio speeds from none to 3g, an established global audience (just as many non-english as english, would guess that iphone is very us-centric right now). I could go on
- Hayes Haugen
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You can't pay for advertising this good.
- felix
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Couldn't agree more felix. Serious passion here!
- David Ambrose
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23 pieces of furniture trying to escape from an abandoned building...
- Brandon
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@polly oo I didn't even see the toaster haha :)
- Brandon
haha, yes! :)
- Brandon
I love driving by this building with the kids. It cracks them up. The 6 year old likes the bathtub coming out of the window. I like the chairs; they look like animals with long deer-like legs, trying to figure out which way to run as my car approaches.
- Lisa L. Seifert
This is mind-bending!
- Bill Sodeman
what a nice surprise!
- Anna Haro
Eddie! Eddie! Eddie! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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I could easily fit in the gap between his eye teeth.
- l0ckergn0me
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!!! That's the MOBILE BOBBLE EDDIE hahahhahahahahaa
- Mona Nomura
Jesus Christ, if that head bobbles... getmethefuckouttahere.
- l0ckergn0me
Requires immense cigar :D
- Mo Kargas
The Big Giant Head
- Brian Sullivan
They say the larger the man's fake head, the smaller the box office draw.
- l0ckergn0me
I think that's a jawbone.. but look how HUGE his head is!! i can't stop laughing
- Mona Nomura
Good Lord, one could get lost in that head of his...
- Helen Sventitsky
Is that blue tooth in his ear?
- Justin Rains
Helen, you should see the one on the intersate. I look at it once a day and laugh my ass off
- Mona Nomura
Got to love the Eddie...
- John Spencer
from twhirl
HEAD... PANTS... NOW!!!
- l0ckergn0me
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Looks like a city crammed on there. One I'm glad I don't live on.
- Mark Forman
What? I'd live there in a heartbeat! I mean, not if they're still drilling. Actually...hmmm.
- Jim Stanger
Cool go get me some sea cucumbers and other anenome for lunch.
- Mark Forman
stop the drilling so I can pay $10 at pump. vote Obama so you can have a one cash crop economy of corn. makes a lot of sense.... daeeeeh
- Noah David Simon
@Noah David Simon are you just going to troll on my feed, or do you have something to say? I come here for fun. Don't harsh my mellow, please.
- Nathan Rein
nathan: there's a feature called "block" that I need to teach you about on FriendFeed. Please don't bring people I've blocked into the conversation. Thanks. I blocked them so I don't have to deal with jerks.
- Robert Scoble
mmmm looks like cake
- Eric Schlissel
from twhirl
@Robert Scoble teach away. I'm all ears.
- Nathan Rein
Great photo. It's hard to get a correct size cause my brain wants to make the boat to the right the size of a tug. So the rig looks really dinky. Stupid brain.
- Garrett
@Garrett heh it's a sea platform for smurfs
- Nathan Rein
nathan: click on his name, then select "block" at the top of the page.
- Robert Scoble
so I offended you because you don't agree? lol. who is the troll? you are drilling for bullshit. Scoble... you going to bring up a year old video I did or something? Elitist Snobs. http://simonstudiotheatre.blogspot.com/2007...
- Noah David Simon
@Noah David Simon I don't agree? With what? You haven't said anything yet. So far it's just noise. Whatever, dude. Like I said, I come here for fun. I'm not interested in being baited, and I don't care for fighting with strangers in my spare time. If you want to pick fights, find someone else's cage to rattle, OK?
- Nathan Rein
noise? that doesn't make sense... unless I can call anything that you say to be farting
- Noah David Simon
@Noah David Simon sorry if that wasn't clear. I mean, so far you're posting vague comments, only tangentially related to the original post, without any substance, and generally taking a baiting tone. That's what I mean by noise. Make sense?
- Nathan Rein
update for nathan... your comments don't relate either... do your farts smell better?
- Noah David Simon
@Noah David Simon my comments don't relate to what? All I've done so far is ask you to clarify yours.. But whatever. My bad. I'll drop it.
- Nathan Rein
Beautiful picture. And to inject some facts into the discussion, because I think most people would assume the opposite after seeing this picture, despite have over 100 platforms and almost 20 rigs damaged during Katrina, not one suffered any significant leaks and no injuries occurred evacuating personnel (http://news.yahoo.com/s...).
- Craig Eddy
good point Craig
- Noah David Simon
if anyone's curious, this is the FPSO Sevan Piranema. More photos here: http://snipr.com/2y2if. The Sevan Piranema is currently working off the Brazilian coast near Aracaju (http://snipr.com/2y2ki, http://pininthemap.com/411a23a...).
- Nathan Rein
How do you know someone is smart? I've been thinking about that this morning and looking back at all the conversations I've had and one common theme is smart people talk to you about ideas, not about celebrities.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would certainly agree!
- Internet's Tad
What about people who share stupid ideas? Like Free Enegery, most conspiracy theories, many political statements, etc etc...
- Internet's Tad
Robert, I like this and totally agree :)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
Tad: even those people are still smarter than people who tell you about what Britney Spears did last night.
- Robert Scoble
You could replace "celebrities" in that sentence with "names of people". In other words, it's ideas and concepts that are important, not egos. Even "nobodies" can have egos. Narcissism shuts out the world beyond the self, we can't learn if we are always holding up a mirror, never looking beyond it.
- Jason Wehmhoener
My dad once told me that even the dumbest person in the world can teach you something because he probably knows something you don't.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Smart people listen more than they talk.
- Randy Hall
To me the smart people are those that make a well-reasoned argument for and idea and then do two things. 1. Have the guts to put it out there to the world and 2. Have the guts to change their mind if they're wrong (or hold their ground when they know they're right)
- Morgan
I think it all depends on the topic you're discussing. I'd say someone is smart if she can engage with you on the discussion and make you think about it from a different angle.
- Bruno Pedro
Jason: it's one thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart had dinner at the Ritz last night." It's a whole nother thing if I tell you "Doug Engelbart told me that xxxx idea is interesting and he's working on making that better."
- Robert Scoble
I absolutely agree, Randy.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Duncan for example is a smart guy, but still talks about celebrities, so it's possible to do both and still be smart
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Which reminds me I need to talk to you about an 'idea' at blogher. ok. not really...more about which cam to get for the conventions. lol
- Erin @queenofspain
I agree... This is especially obvious here in LA... although sometimes the celeb mention is the nature of the business -- or at least mention of -- as Calacanis would say -- "webebrities."
- Andy Sternberg
Jason: that's true. I have yet to meet someone who is able to communicate (I have a friend with a mentally retarded son who isn't able to communicate, so we'll leave him out of this) who I couldn't learn something from. Randy: exactly. When I fail as an interviewer it isn't because I'm listening, it's probably cause I'm talking.
- Robert Scoble
Andy: when you talk to the smartest people in Hollywood they talk to you about ideas. Trends. People's work. They don't talk about "I saw Tom Cruise at dinner last night" or "did you see what they said about Oprah in the tabloids?"
- Robert Scoble
Robert: I agree. The point I was trying to make is that we can learn something from almost everybody, even those who we may think know less then us.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I think one can be smart and still talk about "Weird Al" Yankovic, because he's smart.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
Dobromir: Duncan's best work is when he talks about ideas. That's why I love Duncan, cause he tells me who has the most interesting ideas, and he's very willing to debate ideas (I've debated a few with him).
- Robert Scoble
I think people can be both highly intelligent and pretty stupid at the same time. Robert Anton Wilson said it better than I can, "When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases." And that doesn't apply to just religious dogma - any kind including political, scientific, cultural, etc.
- Internet's Tad
Robert Anton Wilson++
- Jason Wehmhoener
this is a cool thread! we need a lightbulb "intelligence meter" on FF - users vote on how smart you are based on your posts... bulb gets brighter with more votes!
- Susan Beebe
Susan: fantastic idea! Now that's smart.
- Bruno Pedro
I have a theory that being smart is simply a matter of the attention that you give somthing. Granted, Nobel Prize winning physicists dont grow on trees.
- Roberto Bonini
smart to me is someone who knows what they know but more importantly knows what they don't know - too many intelligent people who never make it to smart because they are too busy broadcasting what they know
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
That would give credence to the old saying “if smarts was electricity that boy couldn’t light up a 10 watt bulb. “
- Moved to Facebook
Social media is about inclusion, don't alienate too much with your labels and boxes
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I've found smart people treat being smart like fight club: rule number one is you don't talk about being smart. Rule number two is you don't talk about being smart. To Jason Wehmhoener's point, smart people don't spend their time making a point of how they're wrapped up in smart things or "look what a good person I am for talking to x or doing y."
- Mark Trapp
Smart people usually start talking by conditioning everything - and the first condition is for them to say they are not an expert ...
- LPH™ and his dog P™
Smart folks understand questions are important, they are not afraid to admit ignorance and appreciate that learning is a process not an event.
- Dave Martin
LPH: hmmm, the ultra smart like Douglas Engelbart (who really is the true visionary I've spent time with) just paint pictures in your mind of how the world will be someday. He never said he was expert at something, just talked about how this new world would work. I could listen to that guy for hours. At 82 he's easily the smartest person I've met.
- Robert Scoble
Michael: that's an interesting question. The biggest way I've found? The only skill not smart people have is in ripping down other people's ideas, or, worse, trying to rip down other people altogether.
- Robert Scoble
Robert, put it another way: smart people talk about the world that could be, not that the world that is?
- Mark Dykeman
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." - Donald Foster
- Roberto Bonini
Smart people simply can get the job done faster and pay attention to the hidden details that others would miss. I still don't know how to best test for it, though.
- Ben Parr
smart people are visionaries, humble and most likely pious too. Take a look at the peoples who are deemed as being smart. These are some of the comman attributes of these type of people.!
- Peter Dawson
I think it can go both ways-Charlie Rose talks about both-ideas are great, but what is with the people behind those ideas - that's very interesting! I also think its a natural human instinct to talk about others - it depends on the context. "I saw Tom Cruise last night" is the lowest common denominator. Inquiring about the dynamic of Shell's latest barrage of public vitriol and the work ethic of others in the Valley are spurned from natural human curiosity that we all share, whether we ask it or not.
- j sven
+1 for Paul
- Steven Hodson
Robert: ”Smart” here as different from ”Intelligent” – I have one story that will help us out here to identify a smart person. I had a friend at high school that knew he was not that intelligent, but he was smart: - he used to research old exams to see what the previous year tests would possibly cover on the upcoming exams. He used to collect all class notes from the top “dedicated”...
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- Joao
@susanbeebe: I dunno, I'd feel pretty hurt when the system took away my lightbult entirely.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
from NoiseRiver
@regila: all this for a "bob"? ;-)
- directeur
from NoiseRiver
I remember my dad once telling me what Eleanor Roosevelt said... "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
- Brian Sloane
the first sign that someone is really smart... they will tell you they're not but they will show you they are.
- Scott Lockhart
I'm not saying I'm particularly smart, but I truly find celeb gossip one of the most uninteresting things I can think of.
- Ian May
I think that smart people are the people that get things done. Imagine two people that have never heard or met each other and both of them come up with the exact same brilliant idea. One person brings the brilliant idea to a reality, while the other person doesn't. Which person is smarter?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
from NoiseRiver
Plug for the "highfalutin" room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms... if you want to talk about things with depth
- Ňicķ
maybe true...but everyone is smart in their own right. you might be a social media whiz but not know anything about putting in kitchen cabinets. I'm a firm believer that everyone has their sweet spots in terms of knowledge. The really smart ones, just take the time to expand that sweet spot so it's more than just a spot and more like an area.
- Don Martelli
I think a smart person can talk about both. That way he/she can converse with all people and not make anyone feel less smart than them.
- Adrienne Van Houten
Adrienne: I agree with that. But smart people never start out that way.
- Robert Scoble
What an awful generalization. That's how I know when someone is smart. When he doesn't make an implied generalization like "stupid people talk about celebrities".
- Jay Cruz
smart people think through questions and give full answers. who talks to you about angelina jolie? i agree anybody asking scoble about that is "not as intelligent," but probably nice people...unless they have no idea who you are....maybe they ask you these questions: "is veronica belmont really cute in person? or is kevin rose really a ladies man?" however, smart people are not always smart in all aspects of their lives...
- Pokai
"Smart people talk about ideas. Common people talk about things. Mediocre people talk about people." -Jules Romains
- Joe Lencioni
@Jay: You spelled know wrong.
- Daniel Smith
For the record, that was a joke ;)
- Daniel Smith
Thank's @Daniel Smith
- Jay Cruz
You know when someone is smart when they know what they're talking about and they have a good understanding. "Smart" people grasp things better and/or have ideas.
- Kevin Porter
from twhirl
Smart is not about opinions ("Stupid ideas"). You can be smart and have different beliefs. I'm wondering if they are "smart" conversations or just engaging conversations. I'm much more interested in sharing ideas than sports scores, gossip, or transitory circumstances.
- Barb Gonzalez
Ugh. Most of these comments seem to prescribe behavior to those who are "smart" - one of the only commonalities I've ever seen of truly smart people is that they make their own rules. To say they only talk about X not Y or they listen more than they talk or any other behavioral observation misses the mark with me. Smart people don't subscribe to other peoples' ideas of what they should be.
- Lucretia Pruitt
Smart people realize how little they know but have no need to try and convince others that they know a lot.
- Dossy Shiobara
Scoble, no one is "smart" or an "expert." It doesn't really matter at all. The only thing that matters is how people preceive someone to be. My blog, http://onlyjames.com/ is constantly growing, so I believe people to think I am smart. Then again, I might be a complete nutcase. :D
- James Mowery
from twhirl
I think you can define smart a few different ways as well. I think the question you're really asking is "How to determine if someone is INTELLIGENT?"
- David Andrzejewski
I have noticed that they seem less likely to urinate in their pants than the general population
- Seth Shapiro
I wish I understood this.
- Michael Markman
Takes a long time of knowing someone and seeing how they react under differents sets of circumstances. People are smart in some ways, but not in others.
- Francine Hardaway
from twhirl
When I hear the word "celebrity" I now think of Sarah Austin's Pop17 which come to think of it Robert, you have never acknowledged that I know of. Her site is about a new kind of celebrity. For her, and for me, the interesting celebrities are people who become famous because of their outstanding work. And she does not attempt to ask about shallow tips or favorite colors, but rather about their work. The people she tends to interview are micro-celebrities small in size, but important.
- Andrew Baron
Smart people don't brag about how they can recognize smart people.
- Rutger Blom
I enjoy people who talk about other change-makers in the world. People who point me towards amazing & influential musicians, dancers, physicists, politicians, chefs, etc... Sometimes the geek-world is a little heavy on ideas. I enjoy hearing about the life history & paths of unusual chemists, religious leaders, and environmentalists. Just as some of my friends have more "aesthetic sense" than others, some are unusually attuned to remarkable people, and some to innovative ideas.
- Mitchell Tsai
smart people just know
- Pokai
@ Scoble, once again you've hit a collective nerve with this thread. it goes back to what makes us human? "i'm not human without you"- Desmond Tutu re: Umuntu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... communities like friendfeed should be a place where we explore these types of questions, there is enough pablum out in this world already, thanks for pursuing this line of questioning.
- michael sean wright
I have an idea in that I'd love to get Britney Spears on Twitter - I think that would do wonders for her career. ;)
- Jesse Stay
Is smart a measurement of intelligence or emotional quotient? One's intelligence is measured and quantified, like it or not, whether intelligence is synonmous with smart, that maybe another question. One can have emotional quotient as well i.e. street smarts and it too is measurable. Intelligence is not dribble. Intelligence, for me, is the generation of ideas with vision followed by implementation. Intelligence has many forms as well albeit plasticity or crystallized. Good nature versus nurture question.
- ka3drr
I'll answer with this: the people's intelligence that I most desire and respect are the ones who are able to bring reality to the "out of the box" ideas they have. Plenty of people can speculate, but very few have the competence to bring a good idea to the rest of us.
- Tony
depressingly true...
- Stephen Roberts
I still have no clue who these A-listers are that people talk about but I'm interested in ideas both from other people and also sharing ones I come across. Celebrities? Phooey, give me an original thinker any day.
- Sally Church
Pop culture aficionados are not necessarily stupid. I think the smartest people can carry on a conversation about nearly anything, and like it or not popular culture is a great source of inspiration for many ideas.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Hmmm, how about... Methinks "smart people" think about having conversations with people (aka "intellectual celebrities") with whom they can talk about ideas and... Sigh... It still goes back to Howard Bloom: http://users.ucom.net/~vegan... —I'm a Zen Buddhist, but I still do think "God" is fair... As in, I can brainstorm pretty well, yes, but I'd die in the Aussie outback if you put me there. :P
- asepsotic
Thats a great observation. If only we could make those ideas a reality :) You are a fun guy to talk about ideas with.
- Christian Burns
Is this where we talk about Paris Hilton ?
- Eric Berlin
Eric: my niece says Sean Faris is hot. I don't even know who that is. Off to the Google for me! :-)
- Robert Scoble
I think I have a trump card. go look at The Inquisitr..there's some pretty intelligent posts on there and, also talk about celebrities. You can tell someone you are talking to is smart by the way they treat the subject at hand and, how they deliver their portion of the conversation.
- Candace
Funny you should mention him, Robert. I'm working with a website, and he's one of our celebs on it. The odd part, for me, is that we have all of these B+ list celebs, and I don't know any of them.
- Bradley McSpinn
I put it to you that smart people talk about people rather than ideas
- Jim
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Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis | Environment | The Guardian - http://www.guardian.co.uk/environ...
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"Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than previously estimated - according to a confidential World Bank report obtained by the Guardian. The damning unpublished assessment is based on the most detailed analysis of the crisis so far, carried out by an internationally-respected economist at global financial body. The figure emphatically contradicts the US government's claims that plant-derived fuels contribute less than 3% to food-price rises. It will add to pressure on governments in Washington and across Europe, which have turned to plant-derived fuels to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and reduce their dependence on imported oil. Senior development sources believe the report, completed in April, has not been published to avoid embarrassing President George Bush."
- Jason Wehmhoener
from Bookmarklet
When are we going to end this corn-ethanol foolishness?
- Morton Fox
The thing I struggle with is that corn, while abundant using modern agribusiness practice, is not a terribly nutritious food source. Yes, we should be sensitive to the effect of biofuel on global food prices (obviously) but an even tougher question is, how can we feed the world diverse nutritious foods, not just corn and corn products?
- Jason Wehmhoener
And now I heard the other day someone suggest that natural gas-powered vehicles are a great idea because "natural gas is cheaper." It won't be if there are more natural gas-powered vehicles on the road and it's tragic what that would do to home heating prices in the winner. Find a fuel that we're not already relying upon...Remember: supply and demand, rinse, repeat.
- Chris Reed
Is it really that biofuels are "to blame" for high prices, as opposed to high oil prices? (Well, subsidies mean that this isn't really a market situation.) Having more options seems good, even if that means the prices of substitute commodities starts going up as well. If cars can be fueled with oil *or* LNG *or* biofuels *or* electricity, then that creates more elasticity in all of these markets, which means we get fewer price shocks.
- ⓞnor
Like, if we want food (or heating) to be available to everyone, then we will need to pay for it. Stopping technology that converts one commodity into another to try to keep the price of one commodity down seems shortsighted. (We shouldn't subsidize it, though, which unfortunately we do and that's lame.)
- ⓞnor
I don't think it would be so bad if we actually could choose. That way, we can choose either gasoline or ethanol depending on whichever is cheaper. The problem is the Federal government actually MANDATES that a certain percentage of ethanol in our gas. That's what's raising food prices. To make matters worse, the Fed imposed a tariff on Brazilian ethanol, which is made from sugar cane and is far cheaper.
- Morton Fox
I think there may be some promise in cellulosic or algae-based biofuel. A world where cars are basically plug-in electric but some include small fuel-fed generators for long trips and odd circumstances, which can be fueled with a variety of combustible liquids, might not be totally unsustainable.
- ⓞnor
Or, you know, nuclear RTGs in cars would work too. I finally got a nuclear-powered keychain flashlight, but it's totally wimpy!
- ⓞnor
Wait, what? A nuclear flashlight?
- Jason Wehmhoener
the report may be "secret," but this strikes me as common sense. Keep in mind: industrial agriculture requires lots of oil (for the machines) and natural gas (for the fertilizers). When we run out of those, we run out of biofuels too. James Howard Kunstler, FWIW, argues that we end up burning just as much fossil fuel to produce biofuels as we would if we just used gasoline; don't know how accurate that is, but it sounds plausible to me.
- Nathan Rein
If we're going to subsidize anything, shouldn't we think about subsidizing fruits and vegetables?
- Jason Wehmhoener
Jason, I think it's because fruits and vegetables don't have good lobbyists.
- ha3rvey, not a sweetheart
Alternative fuels should be created in the marketplace...once government comes in and falsifies reality, all types of distortions take place. I only hope that if an alternative fuel ever catches on, it is done without government interference....then we'll know that the situation is genuine.
- Chris Rossini
This is only making news now?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Nuclear flashlight: it's just a tritium-powered glow-stick. I'm only calling it a flashlight to be silly. But it is on my keychain: http://www.dealextreme.com/search...
- ⓞnor
It's a ripple effect. Corn is a major ingredient in ethanol. It's also a major component of the feed for our proteins (beef, chicken, pork, etc). As demand for corn increases the price for the proteins increase as well. Freight is a component as well but if the manufacturers and distributors play their cards right these costs can be differed a bit through fixed price/futures contracts. The bad news is that these costs are usually end up being paid by the end customer.
- Richie Rump
ESPN - Shanteau plans to put off cancer surgery until after Beijing Games - Swimming - http://sports.espn.go.com/oly...
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"Shanteau said he learned just a week before the Olympic trials in Omaha, Neb., that he has testicular cancer. His doctors cleared him to compete in that meet and he surprisingly made the team in the 200-meter breaststroke, finishing second ahead of former world-record holder and heavy favorite Brendan Hansen."
- Chris Reed
from Bookmarklet
OMG. Driving DC beltway and got passed by a Lamborgini Contach. THERE'S a car not to have a fender bender with!
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07/07/2008 - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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This is the answer to those crazy PETA people!
- Robert Couture
People Enraging Tofu Advocates!
- David Silvernail
I've also seen "PETA: People for the Evisceration of Tiresome Activists." (Never on a bumper sticker, though.)
- Pat Rice
I was a huge fan of peta.org until PETA took it away. http://www.mtd.com/tasty/
- Slobokan
I like the sound of that club. Where do I sign up?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? Lisa: No. Homer: Ham? Lisa: No. Homer: Pork chops? Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal. Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.
- Andrew Smith
I like the one that says "Red Meat, Because the West Wasn't Won on salad"
- Andrew Leyden
I work for Cabela's and that's a very typical saying for our corp. headquaters
- Garrett
spotted a shirt in wisconson- "vegetarians= bad hunters" made me smile ... mmm....bacon
- michael sean wright
on the other side of the car is the mean people suck sticker, correct?
- Pete Delucchi
I soooooooooo want one of those stickers! lol awesome
- John Blanton
Brian: Humans contribute just as much, if you skin and cook them right...
- Ian Betteridge
very telling presentation of chav lifestyle
- Ralf G.
One of my all-time favorite bumper stickers!
- Craig Eddy
OMG that's too funny!
- Susan Beebe
Exposure: two billion photos, in your pocket - http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r...
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"Exposure is a Flickr browsing client that makes it easy to see what folks are up to on Flickr. Browse your own photos, your contacts, or stranger's photos easily and using all that bells and whistles one would expect from a full fledged iPhone app. You can also comment on photos, favorite them, share them via email and more" [If this is a taste of things to come, Friday can't come fast enough. I will have this app.]
- Bwana ☠
from Bookmarklet
@pearsonified No one ever accused Kid Rock of being a cunning linguist.
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The number one way I find people to add on FF? Nope, not FFs recommendations, finding little white bubbles next to people making interseting comments in conversations. These are the people that I want more of. Folks that participate intelligently are far more valuable than A listers who don't.
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Agreed, when I find a thread I really like, I tend to add a bunch of commentors from it.
- Phil G
I'm only just now starting to use FF, even though I signed up months ago...and I agree, this tool is far more useful than even twitter.
- Jeremy Botter
I agree 100% Tom. That is how I have been finding a lot of people. I am relatively new to FF so that and friend of a friend posts are the only ways I am finding people.
- Matt Donders
Personally - that's why FriendFeed is differentiating itself from a lot of other sites. It caters to those active people that want to discuss, learn, inform - which makes it a resource that I come back to over and over again...
- George Smith
I'm in absolute agreement but have to admit that I've added some of the A listers just to see who's talking to them intelligently. Granted, the ROI's a little low, but sometimes watching the fawning is reward in and of itself. <insert sarcasticon here>
- Linda Mills
You get what you give
- Dave Martin
Good point, this is one of the reasons why I'm spending more time on FF now - great way to discover and interact with new people that have relevant information/comments to share
- Gabriel Biguria
So very true. My page of "recommended" friends is nothing but a bunch of A-listers that would fill my FF pages with mostly junk, and not a lot of substance.
- Brandon Wood
ditto ditto and ditto - just added Gabriel and Jeremy in fact
- Marco(aureliusmaximus)
When I am looking for people that share my interests, I search for a headline I really liked on the everyone tab and check out others who shared it and see what they are all about. It is kind of time consuming but fun.
- Geoff Schultz
we use the same technique
- Fred Grott
I'd also add that you don't have to add a whole lot of people to get quality content thrown into your FF stream. I'm slowly adding people and the value of FF went up 10 fold.
- Otto R. Radke
The goal of adding friends here is to have intersting stuff in your Friendfeed. And you do that by carefully watching the dicussion not just in terms of comments and likes ( as mentioned above multiple times), but what items are posted by people. Thats whats I look for.
- Roberto Bonini
I've been getting annoyed at the amount of junk, repetition, and endless Twitter vs. FriendFeed talk from the so-called "A-listers". It's high time to start unsubscribing and find some new "friends".
- Matt
the ancient toad style of social networking
- Anthony
Actually if you do that you soon realize that there's more content by interesting people here than time you have to read that. Then, the question stops being how to find interesting people (that you'll keep finding and following) but how to reduce the noise...
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
So Marcos the task at hand is to become Jedi of the Hide button and learn how to fine tune everything.
- Mark Forman
Hide is awsome, but I'm feeling it is not enough. I hope noiseriver ends up being the solution, but... it still hasn't the hide feature implemented :-)
- Marcos Marado
from fftogo
Hah! I just added everyone in this post who I wasn't already subscribed to.
- Thomas Hawk
Ha! Prepare to be inundated with my brand of minutia!
- Geoff Schultz
If the same friend of X comes up often, and I find them interesting, I will subscribe to them.
- Hao Chen
No white bubbles here for me.
- Robert Scoble
Thomas: I do the same thing too
- Sally Church
I get zero comments on FF to my posts. I'm not A-list of course. I'm more like a lesser known Baldwin brother.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
LOL @ Scoble's comment!! ha, ha!
- Susan Beebe
@Jason Participation is a two way street.
- Hao Chen
amen brutha!
- Scott Jarkoff
I, too, am just getting more involved in this social networking thing ...
- Robert Couture
This taps into what for me is the stand-out experience FF. 'Common Interest' is _one_ facet, but there's more going on in deciding to Subscribe or not. It's like a first impression in person - the brain takes a bunch of behavioral cues builds a profile in seconds upon which decisions (sometimes lasting) are made. To balance the split decision weakness of not enough information, just cruise through the person's feed for 'background check'. All common sense I suppose.
- Micah Wittman
Yeah but I frikin HATE the moment I add 1 person from a thread i like, I get bumped out of the thread & have to go back & search for it again to see if I want to add anyone else.
- Mrsth
@mrsth, I agree 110% w/ that. It's easier to open a new tab then scroll down and locate the topic again...
- Czar
Nah...I add completely based on superficiality and looks. :-P
- Live4Emma (L4S)
@Czar- ah I didn't realize you could do that. I'll give it a whirl. Thx!!!
- Mrsth
@Carlos Perez- Ahh. that explains alot. You can only see my legs:-)
- Mrsth
i guess just a 'me too' here would be totally wrong.
- MLx
I think the only way to find those interesting people you don't know is to subscribe to the popular people. I've been finding some interesting folks that way. Otherwise, no one posts comments to your own stuff. Oh, to be unpopular. Sigh.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
That's exactly correct. I don't auto-follow. I add people who comment and like and share things I'm interested in.
- Louis Gray
wow, that's a super-excellent observation. i'm taking the hint with a few 'white-bubble' folks here too. altho i wonder if the FF folks shouldn't cue that behavior up with mouse-over info on the bubble icons... i had no clue why the color was showing up at first. (then again, i'm often an idiot)
- dave mcclure
awesome. this reaffirms why i like ff better than twitter. the failwhale is kind of endearing, though.
- Marissa "malouie"
Couldn't agree more! The Fancy Pants people are too fancy, I just want interesting conversation(s)!
- Cheryl
Totally agree!! Wish I could get some of those people as my friends too!!
- ChaCha Fance
I can't stand FF posts with more than 10 comments. I want to filter them out but there is no option for that.
- Sam Pullara
What client are you using? twirhl makes comments on FF OK, but just OK. It's a shame that we're all this way and still don't have clients that support threaded conversations as good as tin or slrn on usenet...
- David Molnar
from twhirl
Good tip:)
- Igor Poltavskiy
david let's agree on 'as good as on usenet' - i never could stand neither tin nor slrn *g* but yes. it is now 10 years ago that most decent usenet clients had a feature set still not rediscovered for everything feedish ...
- Nicole Simon
Agreed as well I look out for the white speech bubbles as well to see what value they add to the FriendFeed community!
- Joe Dawson
and little like icons ;)
- Tyler Gillies
Occasionally I'll wander over to everyone and 'browse'. it's really eye opening as FF grows
- Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I like doing that too, but we need a language filter badly!
- Hao Chen
The number one trick A-listers use and I never liked? " hey I'm here now on friendfeed, comment on this if you want me to follow you". I don't want them to follow me because they are important. I want them to follow me because they feel I'm important to them!
- Alexander van Elsas
Agreed- when I see opinions I like from someone several times, I check to see if I've subscribed to them yet.
- Brian Carter
My first time on FF and I like the interaction I'm seeing. The "white bubbles" are a great way to find new and interesting people.
- Tom Newman
That's a great way to find friends with whom you can actually talk and count as friends. And the comments are a great feature of FF. I'm just getting to know how to make FF useful for me...
- Dan V
I haven't found FF list of recommendations terribly useful either. Although this is a bad example, because it brought me to this entry.
- TDavid
The criteria of "participate intelligently" is a relative word. What is "intelligent" to you may sound "stupid" to others? I guess the more appropriate term would be "value-adding to the conversation".. But I agree 100% on how "comments" can really uncover hidden gems!
- Winston Teo
I do this too. I consider the comments a kind of signaling (a concept I learned from economics). Too bad there are so little interesting people in FF (to me at least, my interests are a little "off" from the median).
- Meryn Stol
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