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why does facebook keep friendfeed afloat? speculations?
Nils Sandin, Kol Tregaskes, Iván Abrego and 13 other people liked this
they forgot about it?
- chaz2b
the friendfeed originators stipulated it in their contract(s) when they went to facebook?
- chaz2b
it survives by love?
- chaz2b
its a virus?
- chaz2b
Love is all "it" needs.
- Xabaras (G.O.)
zuckerberg likes to hangout here/in friendfeed?
- chaz2b
zuckerberg = Cristo
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
first laugh of the day award = joe silence
- chaz2b
Vivid data, data, data.
- esther
I would have thought your second comment probably hit the nail on the head, chaz. I reckon the guys, apart from wanting to make some money, probably wanted to preserve the rather unique community they created. One would hope, anyway.
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
i supported #2 till some of 'the originals' left facebook
- chaz2b
There are still former FF Employees there at FB that feed the squirrels when they have time. A couple of servers is not a whole lot to provide power to and let keep running for a company as large as FB. I'm just very grateful to those that did what they did to keep it alive and those that keep it going.
- Me
i too am thankful for all that keep friendfeed going; its just odd and wondering
- chaz2b
(it took 4 reboots of just this tab (friendfeed) to get the above comment posted; somethings awry, :( )
- chaz2b
So the US government can spy on social network activity of Persians. (No, I'm not kidding -- I really think this is why it's still going)
- Steve and 4 other people
shout out to turkey, :)
- chaz2b
FB bought the founders but not the server and s/w :)_
- Peter Dawson
i thought they had (bought the software & the people). thanks for setting me straight mr peter
- chaz2b
Chaz, they did buy everything. And it's close to #2 + what Me said, the resources are pretty cheap, even before you factor in FB's availability of necessary resources. The server allotment was likely bound in the sale of the contract, then during the first few weeks after the sale Paul ported the code over to run on the new OS running on FB's servers as well as adding automation to it's...
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- Jimminy IS Everybody
thanks mr james
- chaz2b
Also, Nurse Ben.
- Le Slip Anglais
Slippy, I checked, it looks like Ben is at Dropbox now. (Edit: Ben Darnell)
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Oof, I guess it makes sense. I forgot about Ben Golub momentarily. Now it makes sense.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Louis once said we exist because of April. It was she who stipulated they wouldn't sell unless FF stayed alive.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
oh April ? really. I think thats real kewl.
- Peter Dawson
James :-)
- Le Slip Anglais
Prompted by Puck's holiday card lament. How many cards have you received / sent?
Morton Fox, Pixie and todd liked this
2 / 50 (ish - going by the number of stamps used)
- Shannon - GlassMistress
5/12 (I received a couple from people I didn't expect to get cards from. I'll be sending them cards in return.)
- Running Slow
15/45 [edit]:now that the holidays are over, more like 30/45
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
not a lot/lots
- Heleninstitches
0 / 0
- Kevin Johnson
0 / 0
- todd
3/3
- Jason
4/not sure
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
3/3 -- still workin on my list
- t-ra: not givin up
I've received 4 and am totally behind in life so I haven't sent any out yet. :( Maybe Twelfth Night cards this year!
- Spidra Webster
Revision: 4 / 50ish
- Shannon - GlassMistress
4/0
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
4/0 :/
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
12/70ish? I went a little overboard for my first ever card. It was mostly an excuse to send pics of my adorable children.
- Jaclyn aka spamgirl
Update: 3 / 13
- t-ra: not givin up
from Android
Sent 40, received about 15
- Tamara J.
I'm awful. 4/0. I have some cards left over from last year, but didn't even get stamps or look for addresses or anything. I'm a lousy friend sometimes.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
6/1 >_>
- Kelli H.
7/60. I didn't participate in my usual card exchange this year, otherwise the number would be more like 47/100. Which isn't any different really.
- Hookuh Tinypants
1/0. I didnt even get cards from my parents this year
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
15/140ish - and I still have a shitload of cards (due to printer issue) so if someone wants one, let me know. You are not required to send me one in return so don't worry. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
7/90+ I don't mind the disparity, though - I just wanted to snuggle everyone via mail.
- Pixie
Same here. I don't send to receive. I send to give love to those around me. Everyone rolls in their own way. <3
- Hookuh Tinypants
Received 10 sent 60.
- Mike Nencetti
Sent 5 received 1 [Thanks Rachel :D]
- Xabaras (G.O.)
I haven't checked the mail since Friday/0. :)
- Jenica
Received 10 sent 1. All the folks far away were sent gifts hence hang the little card from package. I suck at cards. If I gift you a tin of cookies, you receive a card. I would rather an email update if I am perfectly honest #cardgrinch
- Janet:#TeamMonique
0 and 0.
- Morton Fox
22 / 144
- Ryan Kaisoglus
The only reason I got any holiday cards out this year is because I had written a bunch of thank you cards and just rode that momentum. There are more cards I'd like to send, but I need to track down addresses.
- Fish Are LIES
1/0 - the lowness of both numbers is probably because I just moved a month and a half ago and haven't had time to update my address with anyone or do anything beside move, work and sleep.
- WebGoddess
5/0
- Jed Harris-Keith
6/5 or something like that.
- John (bird whisperer)
15/80
- Peter Dawson
Does anyone wear a watch? Apple rumor is that they are making a watch. I didn't think anyone wore those anymore.
Halil, Kol Tregaskes, Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ and 4 other people liked this
With a cell phone it definitely seems redundant.
- Lit
For medical reasons or personal preference?
- Lit
Good stuff
- Lit
I wear one of two watches. Good war to see the time without digging into a pocket for the cell phone.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
from iPod
Every time I leave the house. My wrist is a lot easier to see than a cell phone in my purse.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I would use a mechanical pocket watch if I could afford a good one.
- Spidra Webster
I never liked wearing a watch and a computer on my wrist clashes with my personal aesthetics :-)
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Some of the more successful Kickstarters have revolved around making either smart watches, or iPod nano into watches. There's a market there.
- Jennifer Dittrich
from FFHound!
Hm, fitness tracking makes sense. Eventually those will be embedded I imagine. m9m, do you really find time needs to be tracked so closely? Jennifer, why do you think there's such a market? Watches have never made sense to me.
- Todd Hoff
I stopped wearing a watch when phones started fitting in pants pockets.
- Tinfoil 2.0
stopped wearing a watch in 1999, when i started using a cell phone. my hairy wrists never liked watches.
- Mike Nencetti
I wear a mechanical watch. Almost never use a phone for the time - too awkward.
- Bill de hÓra
Todd, one of the most successful Kickstarters (in both funding, and outcome to market) was for a band that converted an iPod nano into a watch. When Apple changed the nano design so that wouldn't work, sales of the old model skyrocketed. I think we are at the point with smartphones, where a wearable interactive device would no longer be wholly niche.
- Jennifer Dittrich
from FFHound!
This Kickstarter was one of the most successful ever. http://www.kickstarter.com/project...
- Rodfather
from Android
Pocket watch - love pushing stem and have it flip open revealing watch face. #anachronismFTW
- WarLord
I wear a family heirloom watch that my mother gave my father just before they were married, around 1960. It's quite unusual, the Longines mystery dial. My watch is like the one on the far right in this picture: http://i260.photobucket.com/albums...
- John Dupuis
I got a runner's watch the year I ran. Still wear it. It's good for timing things. I lost it elsewhere for a few months, and made do with the Fitbit, but now the watch has been found and I'm wearing it again.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
I went without one for about a year when (unbeknownst to me) the watchband broke on my old 'runners' watch and I dropped it somewhere. Probably happened when I was taking my coat off. I debated whether to replace it or not, but having worn one for most of my life, it felt weird not having one on my wrist. Just bought a 'cheap' replacement a couple month's ago. I seem to lose them every couple years when the band starts getting worn out or the retaining pins fail.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
That's a good look, John!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
The i-watch? Sounds a bit stalker-creepy. Then again, it's Mac.
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
Yeah, I stopped wearing a watch after I got a cell phone, but I could easily see them staying fashion accessories. And watches can be waterproof. I haven't really seen any waterproof smartphones yet. I can totally see watches merging with fitness trackers.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I stopped wearing a watch when my last one broke.
- John (bird whisperer)
For work must wear watch.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
The key for me was that a watch doesn't require a pocket or an armband to go with you on a spontaneous walk, run or bike ride. Front pockets aren't copacetic for a fat man on a bike, and back pockets aren't copacetic for fragile phone next to a fat man's ass. If I'm going for a 20 or 30 mile bike ride it's worth it to stuff my phone into an arm band so that I can use the gps tracking,...
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- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
"GPS watch" ?? Never heard of that before ... @KelliH any pics to show ?
- Peter Dawson
Only when I travel or am dressing up.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
I think it's funny that wrist watches were invented to be more convenient than the old pocket watch, no fishing around for the timepiece. Now everybody is um fishing around for the cell phone.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I should be getting one of the Pebbles once they're finally done, and I have to say the whole 'not fishing around for the phone' aspect is one of the big reasons I wanted one :D
- Jennifer Dittrich
I stopped wearing a wrist watch after I got a cell phone, and realized just how addicted I was to looking at the time, just as I was addicted to checking email. I'm happier checking rarely. If I need to know when it's a certain time, I tell my phone to beep at me instead of checking frequently. And I turned off my email notifier :)
- Amit Patel
I wear a watch.
- Dario Gomez
I wear a watch
- Halil
I like to watch. #WaitWhut?
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I would feel naked without a watch.
- Son of Groucho
I still wear a watch.
- Eric
I used to all the time, but my battery died and I kind of fell out of the habit.
- Eric - seven eleven
Pablo he's been adopted!! I know he will make his new family very happy! It is just impossible not to love that kitten!! #foxfosterkittens
Lessa, Mary B: #TeamMonique, Maggie and 40 other people liked this
che carino :)
- Laura (Goldie)
Thank you Laura! He is an adorable boy!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
its good to see animals being fostered and adopted. I makes one feel warm and fuzzy inside. We need more people like you Rachel !!
- Peter Dawson
YAY!!!! Rachel is an awesome foster mama - my Moxie wanted you to know that. :)
- Bash
I knew he'd be snapped up soon <3
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Have you ever met a kitten that was possible to not love, Rachel?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yes I have Alex! I have had one or two little foster kittens that were just kind of jerks. But most of my kittens are awesome in one way or another and I love them all. There are just some that are more special, more unique with huge and different personalities. Of course not all kittens show their full personalities till they are older, and I wouldn't notice while I have them. But...
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- Rachel Lea Fox
Considering how many kittens you've dealt with, one or two isn't bad!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Yup, out of 50 kittens I would say I have had 1 kitten that was a jerk, 1 kitten that was a little bit of a jerk and there are probably 20 kittens that stand out for being above average in one way or another with 2-4 of them that are extra special to me. And all the rest still great lovable kittens. Those ar great odds!
- Rachel Lea Fox
ROLL CALL—if you're still on Friendfeed:
DB, Just DB #TeamMonique, polymath22, Morton Fox and 55 other people liked this
Yes.
- Julian
yes
- WarLord
What's the question again?
- Tinfoil 2.0
where?
- holly #ravingfangirl
yes
- Elena
My phrasing may be off, but the year is young.
- Micah
mmm hmmmm
- Georgia
Yep
- Jennifer Dittrich
*like*
- John (bird whisperer)
Present.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Yes
- Walt Crawford
Where else would I be?
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
from Android
Whut.
- Steven Perez
Uh-huh. :)
- Anne Bouey
*butters the roll*
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
Present
- Friar Ticket to Ride
Hmmm.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Helloooooooooooooooo, Micah Wittman.
- SAM
Wassup Micah?
- DB, Just DB #TeamMonique
Still kicking -->
- April Russo
Is this one of those, "I'm interested to see who actually reads my wall, so leave a one word comment about me and then post it to your wall so your friends can do the same thing for you" kind of things? Cause ... no.
- Kristin
busy with life but still here... :)
- AJ Batac
Not really. And Internet Dad says you're grounded for making a flagrant FB comparison.
- Micah
Oui.
- Spidra Webster
I'm here somewhere.
- Greg GuitarBuster
Yep.
- Colette
Here!
- Brian Johns
I thought maybe it was one of those complete-the-sentence thingys. "if you're still on Friendfeed you're ... not too cool for school
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
... Pushing up the daisys
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
Yes. Sorry.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Grounded *with* wifi access, right?
- Kristin
Hey Micah. I'm here. Happy New Year!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
howdy.
- Marianne
I admit to nothing.
- Amit Patel
I'm here somewhere
- DJ Stevie Steve
from Android
ERROR NOT FOUND
- Mo Kargas
Yes
- Tamara J.
from FFHound(roid)!
Hey yo!
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
Yes.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
somehow
- esther
Sure, why not.
- Andrew C (✓)
here
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
I'm not here.
- imabonehead
aye!
- chaz2b
O HAI.
- Kelli H.
Present!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Yep, present!
- Xabaras (G.O.)
yess
- Julian Khazzouh (A_G)
Hello :)
- Pete #TeamMonique
Every day (as good as).
- Eivind
still here.
- Mike Nencetti
Mmmhmmm.
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
o/
- Angelo
Yep
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Well, technically I was sleeping but I'm here now. :)
- c.a.j.
NOT DEAD YET. I think I'll go for a walk.
- John Craft
*waves*
- MoTO #TeamMonique
from Android
Why, what do we win???? (Also, for the roll call: CROOOOOOOOOOW)
- Meg V. Meg
still here.
- Gunnyman™
Here!
- Shannon - GlassMistress
like a boss
- Laura Vanderbeat
KEEP TROLLING
- Anto. Ⓐ
like a boss + 1
- ratavolòira
Still the favorite.
- David Lounsbury
Often
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Here
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
*jumps obnoxiously up and down*
- t-ra: not givin up
\m/ #teamitaly
- garibaldi
three years and counting #teamitaly
- Roux
President
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Roll Call for what ?
- Peter Dawson
Do i get a prize?
- Surprisingly Monstrous
Not me.
- Running Slow
sometimes
- CarlC, spelling expert
Yo!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
When I can be.
- Mark Kille
Hiya! :)
- Son of Groucho
turkish tire stopper leftist intelligentsia is present o/
- Alfonker Tapir
italian meminto-lovers and turkish keps sharing tribes are also present
- Alfonker Tapir
Sucate
- Anto. Ⓐ
oh yeah!
- Pea Bukowski
yes
- lanf3anc
yes.
- MrPotts
yes
- Claudia Simple
present
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
aaahhhhYEP.
- Fish Are LIES
yep
- Cloris Leachman
Dude.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Till they turn it off.
- Eric
Yep #teamitaly 🇮🇹
- Indo (Nuvola)
x
- Ken Morley
.
- Alessiobblà
oh hai
- Fagiolina del Trasimeno
Beyler it is time for you anglo-americans to embrace your Kurdish, Turkish and Italian fetfirint brethren. both the tire stopper and memişko keps giver kinds. Pliz.
- Alfonker Tapir
(Shabuya, sha, sha, shabuya, ROLL CALL!) My name is Chris (Yeah!). Chris of Spades (Yeah!). And I still lurk here (Yeah!). On Best of Day. (ROLL CALL! Shabuya, sha, sha, shabuya.)
- chrisofspades
Chris just won.
- LB: #TeamMonique
from Android
yup
- Kevin Johnson
I can't beat Chris' post so I'm not even going to try. But yes...present!
- Tamara
here.
- Scott. Cat Herder.
>>> :) <<< to everyone ( (team)Italy, Turkey, I see you). And Chris. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Micah
Maybe...
- Jemm
Yep.
- joey
present
- Katy S
*moonwalks down the home feed* *spins* *grabs crotch* *MJ OWWWWWWWWWWWWW*
- Monique the crochet freak
Monique #wins
- Xabaras (G.O.)
Present... just. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Still here, after all these years.
- Bette Cooper
Good thing I checked "best of month".
- Bruce Lewis
I'd never seen Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin together before last night. He is her perfect straight man. I loved it.
Kelli H., Tamara J., Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ and 8 other people liked this
They're pretty adorable together.
- Katy S
I just realized I said Anderson Cooper is someone's straight man, hahaha!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
*rimshot*
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
I read online that she kissed his crotch area on camera? (Apparently earlier in the broadcast someone made reference to a NYE tradition of kissing a sardine, and this was her 're-interpretation of that.') I recall that last year she stripped down to her underwear on camera. It's funny because he clearly doesn't know how what his reaction should be, so he just laughs uncomfortably. She's totally wacky but in a good way.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
She tried to molest the shit out of him. I posted the video this morning, but realized it was in really bad taste, as I didn't watch it all the way. She kept trying to go down on him, the set of clips was about 4 minutes by itself. Edit: Link for anyone who would like to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Well dang glad we weren't watching live, lol!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
it was a train wreck. we watched live about 15 minutes before the ball dropped and our rowdy group went silent because it was so outrageous... I can't...even...begin. Most shocking though is that it was on CNN.
- LibrarianOnTheLoose
from BuddyFeed
I missed Dick Clark. :(
- Lois: #TeamMonique
We were spared all that on the west coast, thank goodness. I missed Dick Clark, too. The American Bandstand retrospective was nice, did you see young Dick Clark with young Michael Jackson? Aww.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Wow! The news item I read didn't offer much detail, so it sounded like a brief moment of inappropriateness. Not quite accurate.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
From David Zurawik's column on the Baltimore Sun's web site: "... maybe Cooper's image is bulletproof, but how much of this silliness can he keep indulging before people start to say, "Hey, maybe this is who this guy really is - a giggling clown, not a newsman"... I've been wondering about Cooper for quite a while and Zurawik crystallizes it here.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Can you imagine a male 'guest' doing the equivalent to female broadcast host? Not a chance! The censors would shut that down in a heartbeat! I don't know if 'kissing a sardine' would translate or not. #smellslikefish?
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
We are talking about Kathy Griffin, though. Inappropriateness is her stock in trade.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Actually I'm more interested in Cooper's behavior and his continuing association with her and with schlock in general. As with Zurawik's point, perhaps this is what he's been about all along. And admittedly I'm now intimately familiar with his body of work, but this feels like a sea change, or something.
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Oh god, they hosted together again? I was embarrassed by them every other year and hoped that this year would be the one where CNN finally pulled its head out of its ass. I enjoy Kathy Griffin and I enjoy Anderson Cooper. But together? It's just embarrassing. She's excessively ridiculous (probably because she's reveling in being his hag for the night) and he just ends up looking like a half-wit. :(
- Hookuh Tinypants
It's best in small doses, probably. I'll admit that I just watched about 15 minutes of it and then turned the tv off, but I generally don't like New Year's Eve shows. I must have caught them during a good bit.
- Katy S
Starmama's point about K.G. is valid. I'm sure Cooper's straight-laced image (no pun intended) is what motivates Griffin to step up the zany inappropriateness a notch. Clearly the network encourages that because they brought her back, but it'll be interesting to see if she's back for the next one..
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
That must be why I enjoyed it. I saw parts of the prerecorded broadcast but was mostly paying attention to the games we were playing.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Dang what did I miss ?
- Peter Dawson
CNN's New Year's Eve programming. Happy New Year, Peter!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
dang that bubbly wine is still got to me.. Happy New Yr Starmama !! :)
- Peter Dawson
Kathy Griffin was on Letterman last night, and she wasn't 'tempering' her statements in the slightest. Tossing out one liners "Blowin' Anderson Cooper" and so on. When the woman does her 'schtick' (no pun intended) she commits! There was no backing down.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
lol
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Dear FriendFeed, I have been included in a 'Southern' cook off challenge. I need a killer recipe.
Michael W. May, Kelli H., Scoble, Alex Scoble and 5 other people liked this
pork ribs. Southern Baked beans, want to be really unique? Try a chicken bog http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes...
- Gunnyman™
Pecan pie, perhaps?
- Katy S
mac and cheese?
- Mary Carmen
Southern fried chicken and waffles? If going for a dessert, a killer pecan pie would be good as Katy suggested. You can also go for a fruit cobbler
- CarlC, spelling expert
Derby pie (as in Kentucky Derby), shrimp and grits, bbq anything
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Mint Julep and Hot Brown
- WarLord
Southern Fried chicken ??
- Peter Dawson
frogmore stew: http://www.discoversouthcarolina.com/see-do...
- Sir Shuping is just sir
That's funny, I was tempted to post frogmore stew. I LOVE that stuff.
- Gunnyman™
Peach cobbler!
- Jen
Frogmore Stew from the tiny little burg of Frogmore SC. I've been there :)
- Gunnyman™
Chicken bog is delicious though I need to make some.
- Gunnyman™
Pablo is our 50th foster kitten!!! #foxfosterkittens
Lessa, WoH: Professor MOTHRA, Penny and 16 other people liked this
oh Hello Pablo.. welcome to FF :)-
- Peter Dawson
He's such a handsome lil guy. :)
- Bash
Woke to the sound of running water .. took me a full 10 seconds to figure it out and another 10 seconds for it to stop...Duncan (dog) peeing next to the bed. Stupid predizone!
Jennifer Dittrich and LB: #TeamMonique liked this
o_O
- John (bird whisperer)
Oh.not good
- Peter Dawson
Yeah, and it wasnt a little pee either. He's usually pretty good about waking us up if its urgent ... no clue why he didnt last night. Guess I'm going to set my alarm and take him out middle of the night tonight; the drugs clearly make him desperate.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Poor pupster.
- LB: #TeamMonique
Advanced ET Civilizations May Be Impossible to Detect (Holiday Weekend Feature) - http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_webl...
Lit, Sergio Hugo Castro, .LAG liked that and 2 other people liked this
"“Intelligent species might reasonably worry about the possible dangers of self-advertisement and hence incline towards discretion” -- the “Undetectability Conjecture,” put forth by Beatriz Gato-Rivera, a theoretical physicist at the Instituto de Fisica Fundamental (previously Instituto de Matematicas y Fisica Fundamental) of the CSIC (Spanish Scientific Research Council) in Madrid. According to Gato-Rivera, we may find ourselves in a universe in which there exist intelligent technological civilizations but they have chosen to be undetectable, camouflaging themselves mainly for security reasons (because advanced civilizations could also be aggressive). “Evolutionary selection, acting on a cosmic scale," Kent adds. "tends to extinguish species which conspicuously advertise themselves and their habitats.”"
- Sean McBride
from Bookmarklet
The human race should make every effort to try to conceal its presence from the rest of the universe until it understands the lay of the land. Does a rabbit loudly signal to a coyote, here I am? But how does one conceal one's presence from technologically more advanced civilizations which already know all the tricks of the trade?
- Sean McBride
" Does a rabbit loudly signal to a coyote, here I am? But how does one conceal one's presence from technologically more advanced civilizations which already know all the tricks of the trade?" It's hard to imagine that earth has really been contacted by alien life forms, and it is also hard to believe that humans are the only intelligent beings. I see no reason to seek out civilizations...
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- Todd
I'm optimistic that we'll automatically camouflage ourselves as technology improves. Remember TDMA phones that could be picked up by speakers? CDMA doesn't show up on speakers. White space communications should be even quieter. I think as we make communications more efficient (encryption, spread spectrum, frequency hopping, etc.) the signal will become indistinguishable from noise by anyone who doesn't have the decryption keys and signal patterns, including aliens.
- Amit Patel
If you want to be a rabbit no wonder everyone else must seem like a coyote.
- Todd Hoff
LOL...a lot of the time I feel like a member of a vanishing wolf pack....howling at the moon.
- American
We see endless patterns of violent predation among life forms on planet Earth. There is little reason to believe that life forms across the universe behave differently. Many of them will probably be highly dangerous for us. Life forms devour -- absorb the energy from -- other life forms.
- Sean McBride
One thing is for certain: any intelligent life form that would be capable of deliberately visiting us would be capable of completely dominating us. Their technology would be far in advance of ours.
- Sean McBride
Amit -- we might be able to conceal our electromagnetic footprints but we can't conceal evidence of the physical structures we have built on this planet -- which may be visible to alien civilizations with telescope technology far in advance of ours -- perhaps in advance by thousands of years or longer.
- Sean McBride
While we are scanning the universe for alien life forms, which alien life forms are scanning the universe for us? Who is looking at us while we are trying to look at them? And how much more advanced than ours are their telescopic, scanning and data mining technologies? Where will our own telescopic, scanning and data mining technologies be in 100 years? 1,000 years?
- Sean McBride
Being afraid is understandable. It's when fear shrinks your world such that it becomes ever smaller and smaller that fear becomes disfunction and then tragedy. And you watch too many movies. Life all starts with the power of sunlight. There's no need at a certain point for life to absorb other life.
- Todd Hoff
Todd Hoff -- take a close in nature at how many species prey on other species -- use them as food. It's a jungle out there. This reality in no way causes me to "shrink" from life in all its power, glory and complexity -- it motivates me to be curious about it.
- Sean McBride
How many species do human beings consume on a regular basis?
- Sean McBride
Curiosity isn't served by hiding.
- Todd Hoff
Todd Hoff -- so you think human beings should use a loudspeaker to announce their presence indiscriminately to as much of the universe as they can reach? And without any idea about who is receiving the message?
- Sean McBride
What have we been doing? The cat's out of the bag. Even if it weren't, if you leave your house you could be hit by a car. Stay in your house and it can burn down. You are saying we shouldn't try for greatness because you are afraid. That's not human.
- Todd Hoff
I am saying that we should be as smart as possible in managing our exploration of the universe, and in searching out other life forms -- not barge around like big goofy kids, assuming that the universe loves us because we're so wonderful and so wonderfully intentioned. This might not be the case. From the standpoint of some alien life forms, we may just be food.
- Sean McBride
I get a note form the universe every morning it's mostly inspirational in nature. http://www.tut.com/Inspira...
- Eric
Did you see Ridley Scott's Prometheus? My first thought when I saw the intrepid explorers enter the domed structure was that they were the dumbest creatures in creation. In fact, that entire movie was mainly about the naivete of many human beings concerning their understanding of alien life forms.
- Sean McBride
That's a movie.
- Todd Hoff
It's a movie based on creative and reasonable speculations about how alien life forms might actually interact with us. It's certainly a scenario to think about seriously.
- Sean McBride
I'll go with Star Trek. Aliens that plant their future meals millions of years in advance, seems, well, unlikely.
- Todd Hoff
It could be that some advanced alien life forms avail themselves of whatever opportunities are close at hand for amusement, sport or nourishment.
- Sean McBride
Sure, anything could be. Isn't it more likely that they develop digital worlds and retreat into them? Nourishment under robotic farms will be trivial. You are talking yourself into never seeing the sun because you could get a sunburn.
- Todd Hoff
What I am thinking about is how human beings treat other species (*and their own species*) and how many living creatures we kill every day. Being smart, more technologically advanced, doesn't necessarily make one more respectful of other life forms. In fact, the drive to develop more advanced technology may be associated with high levels of aggression and violence.
- Sean McBride
Slavery became expendable about the same time as the industrial revolution. Our need to live by killing will also be short lived. We are getting closer. Certainly planet walking aliens are already there. And if you are arguing the universe could be really crappy. Agreed. The question is should the same people who settled a globe be afraid to step out of their shadow? Only if you want to...
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- Todd Hoff
"And if you are arguing the universe could be really crappy. Agreed." The universe is incredibly violent, chaotic, random, etc. with stronger energy fields devouring weaker energy fields in many domains. In many respects, it is not a pretty picture. It is not a peaceable kingdom arranged for the comfort of a particular species.
- Sean McBride
This discussion is largely academic, of course. We have no way to prevent prying eyes from advanced alien civilizations from using super-powerful telescopes (far more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope) from noticing the physical structures we have created on this planet. Whether they can visit us is another matter. I wouldn't rule it out. As for the human race (or more advanced iterations of it) reaching out to try to inhabit other planets -- I am all for it.
- Sean McBride
We have been advertising our existence here for over 50 years. If there was any other aggressive aliens near by, they probably would have already eaten us. They may be more interested in developing dyson spheres to harness the energy of stars than of eating us.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
Todd Hoff -- how many human beings would you estimate that human beings have murdered since the abolition of slavery -- 200 million? More? We are incredibly dangerous to ourselves, not to mention to other species.
- Sean McBride
"As for the human race (or more advanced iterations of it) reaching out to try to inhabit other planets -- I am all for it. - Sean McBride"......Not me...maybe its my age, but I think the universe is maintained , kept intact ,by a very delicate balance and we shouldn't go around poking at it too much.
- American
I have no idea what's out there, but I wouldn't chum the waters before diving in. I wouldn't think that Earth or humans would have much to offer civilizations as advanced as any that could contact us. Anything useful could be found elsewhere with much less effort.
- Todd
My doubt is: why we don't have already solid evidence of advanced civilizations doing planetary engineering, building "Dyson spheres", etc, or at least its radio signals? All of them have chosen to be undetectable? Maybe the technological societies like ours have a very limited life span (in an astronomical sense) and then self-destruct before they can left a heavy imprint in the...
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- Sergio Hugo Castro
Perhaps there is a universal natural law: any technological civililization capable of destroying itself, will. The shelf life of these civilizations all around the universe may be very short indeed. Trillions of civilizations at our stage of development may wink on and wink out at a fast clip all the time. Enjoy it while you can.
- Sean McBride
Another possible recursive universal natural law: all advanced technological civilizations self-destruct soon after they figure out that all advanced technological civilizations self-destruct soon after they figure out that all advanced technological civilizations self-destruct -- and so on. Perhaps this is the most important insight human beings can attain. :) The main result of all...
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- Sean McBride
Now your starting to sound like Ted Kaczynsky who stated in his manifesto that the good parts of technology could not be separated from the bad parts.
- Eric
Actually this idea lies behind zillions of dystopian science fiction novels, short stories and movies imagined by the human race for a century now. One wonders why this idea has such a powerful hold on the human mind -- perhaps because it is an intuition grounded in reality.
- Sean McBride
Will cyborgs take over, while the humans get in the way? Kind of like in the movie AI?
- Yo. Shark Dog.
from iPod
This Joe, maybe they already have …
- Amit Patel
I think this is relevant about the self-annihilation danger: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment...
- Sergio Hugo Castro
Perhaps Sean all advanced technological civilizations become so self satisfied and comfortable that they become timid? Forgetting the struggle that made them what they were. I hope that is not the case.
- Todd Hoff
Sergio -- amen to the George Monbiot article. Currently the human race is destroying its own habitat -- its physical ground of being. And we seem to be powerless to control our own collective behavior.
- Sean McBride
Todd -- it just occurred to me that it is difficult for us to speculate broadly about the behavior of advanced technological civilizations scattered throughout the universe since, so far, we have only one sample to study -- our own. I am not timid about aggressively forging ahead in every conceivable dimension as a species, but I am increasingly pessimistic about the likelihood of our species (and perhaps all species on this planet) surviving the effects of that bold aggression.
- Sean McBride
With no data, what do you base your pessimism?
- Todd Hoff
We have a great deal of data to demonstrate that human beings are ruining their own planet. And they continue to do so, despite all the alarming data and warnings to back off.
- Sean McBride
Survival pretty much requires the inability to process probability correctly and the ability to discount tragedies visited on others. Yet humanity is a process for overcoming those weaknesses. That it doesn't happen in the straight lines you would prefer is more a statement about your unrealistic expectations than it is about human beings.
- Todd Hoff
I think we have enough data to be pessimist rather than optimist. If the actual trends of extreme aggression to environment reverts, then will be more room for optimism.
- Sergio Hugo Castro
What data is that? We have 7 billion people living in relative peace and prosperity. People have never cared about the environment as a distinct entity in all of human history. Is it a surprise that it will take time? Pessimism is not only unjustified, it does nothing to bring about the future you want.
- Todd Hoff
Where do you get "People have never cared about the environment as a distinct entity"? You don't know about Native Americans who were happily living within their means in harmony with the ecosystem? They are not the ones who killed all [most] of the Bison.
- Yo. Shark Dog.
No doubt about it: the human race as a whole could learn a great deal from Native Americans about how to treat the environment. We need to master those lessons immediately. But it may be too late -- the current juggernaut over the cliff seems unstoppable.
- Sean McBride
The environment becomes a distinct entity when you have a population density and technology capable of killing it and you develop the sensitivity to care about killing it. It becomes a true other. That is thoroughly modern.
- Todd Hoff
Todd Hoff: how concerned are you about global warming and climate change issues?
- Sean McBride
Why?
- Todd Hoff
ET come and went, it got feed up with all our bickering and fightin
- Peter Dawson
Why? To what degree do you think they will affect the fortunes of the human race?
- Sean McBride
Peter -- the ETs in Ridley Scott's Prometheus decided that it would be a good idea to eliminate us entirely -- an interesting experiment gone awry.
- Sean McBride
Of interest: MAD with Aliens? Interstellar deterrence and its implications - http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0606
- Todd Hoff
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I wish I could get a blow up of and make a poster of it ITs kewl
- Peter Dawson
This is relevant to my interests.
- Steven Perez
Excellent, thanks Rochelle. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
What is your dinning/kitchen table most made of? (wood, glass, plastic, other [specify])
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Wood
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Dining table is mostly wood; kitchen table is a wooden structure with a metal top. The latter is also rather old (it belonged to my grandmother, and possibly my great-grandmother).
- John (bird whisperer)
Wood.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
wood, steel and copper
- Bren
Nuclear glass composites
- Mo Kargas
Wood (walnut - it is one of these: http://geekchichq.com/furnitu....)
- Jennifer Dittrich
wood
- holly #ravingfangirl
wood
- Surprisingly Monstrous
ALL THIS WOOD.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
Wood
- Soup in a TARDIS
Glass
- Pea Bukowski
from FFHound(roid)!
Wood.
- Janet:#TeamMonique
from FFHound!
Wood.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Wood. And the memories of old meals.
- Pete #TeamMonique
Painted metal and probably wood and linoleum/laminate.
- Meg V. Meg
Wood
- ᏓᏰ #team Monique
Wood. It's old, and handmade. My parents found it second-hand when they were a young couple.
- Kirsten
wood pulp and glue
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Wood. Both the breakfast room table and the dining room table.
- Walt Crawford
Wood, lots of wood, with a big lion paw pedestal and the tabletop looks like a huge multi-tone wooden daisy.
- April Russo
Wood
- CarlC, spelling expert
from Android
Wood. It's a really cool table that was my grandmothers. It folds into a small side table, which is how we use it. Unfolded once, it's a table for four...with the three extensions, it seats 12. We don't have any chairs.
- Greg GuitarBuster
wood
- Kevin Johnson
wood
- Peter Dawson
Bone, muscle and fat, mostly.
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
Old ass rickety wood with brass caps on the bottom of the legs that leave suspect-looking rust stains on the linoleum.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Wood
- Just Kidée: Road Warrior
wood (ish) and tile top
- t-ra: not givin up
Plywood with 2" square tube steel legs.
- SAM
kauri wood
- Todd Hoff
Metal and laminate
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Wood
- Guy
All wood, though I'm realizing that the table top is veneer over laminate or particle board. And HEAVY! Whatever wood the chairs are made (the stain is cherrywood) is hard, but really brittle. When I opened the carton one of the legs had snapped off cleanly in the box. I exchanged it, but it left me wondering how smart my 'on clearance' purchase actually was. Looks really nice, though!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Glass.
- Mark H
wood. fully.
- grizabella
mostly wood. it and the matching chairs started out as bourbon barrels many decades ago.
- Marianne
Wood.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
There's a lot of wood showing here.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Glass and wood legs
- Pier Luigi
My lap.
- Kelli H.
Wood
- Ubikindred
Dark wood, heavily carved legs. The whole dining set is designed to look Elizabethan. It was my mother-in-law's.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Wood. It's the same kitchen table my parents had when I was growing up (they gave it to us after they moved to a different house a few years ago)
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Wood.
- Rochelle
Flight delay. Flight delay. Grrrrrr. So close to home!
:(
- Jennifer Dittrich
ooch. I just got notifications that many flits are cancel.take care and hope you get home soon !
- Peter Dawson
We are waiting for the plane to get here.
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
:-(
- Kirsten
It's here! It's here!
- Mary Carmen
from iPhone
Bon voyage!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Sadly, Another Gun-Free Zone “Success” Story : - http://theintelhub.com/2012...
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"The lesson is clear: good guys with guns save lives. And while bad guys may be evil, they are not stupid. They don’t typically target gun stores or police stations to perpetrate their crimes. No, they consciously select areas where their victims are disarmed by law."
- Racism Occupied
from Bookmarklet
yeah but why woudlthe "good" guys need guns in the 1st place ? Guns are bad.. simple as that. The cops in UK dont carry guns. and never had to
- Peter Dawson
This is a very complex issue. American Society is over saturated with guns and is the largest exporter of guns. (ask Mexico)....Can you imagine the drama involved in any attempt to disarm Americans?
- Racism Occupied
What Drama ?? The Drama is that more innocent are getting shot rather then the perps !
- Peter Dawson
BTW. .this is not a complex issue.. just ban guns. simple. Why do you all need guns ? If you want to go hunting go to a hunting lodge, hire a gun and go hunting, return the gun when done.
- Peter Dawson
What Drama?? Armed Insurrection based on the Rights allotted in the U.S. Constitution...That Drama...
- Racism Occupied
Maybe the Rights allotted in the US Constitution are inccorect in the 1st place !!
- Peter Dawson
Is a voluntary "Turn in your Gun" policy going to work? NO....Is a House to House search for Guns going to work? NO...
- Racism Occupied
Did I say its going to to be easily to work it out ??
- Peter Dawson
As a person of color with both Native American and African American (slavery) Heritage I would say the Rights allotted in the US Constitution are indeed incorrect in the First Place...
- Racism Occupied
"Did I say its going to to be easily to work it out ??" That is the drama I referred to...
- Racism Occupied
^^^
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Yet Sadly enough, you link to an article which promotes guns et al. An article that was penned by "Erich Pratt is the Director of Communications for Gun Owners of America, a grassroots lobbying organization with 300,000 members." . Note the "Lobbying" which means that they (lobbyist) indeed belive that their rights to carry and bear arms is Correct and you support that line of thinking ?
- Peter Dawson
I don't support this "line of thinking". I posted this article to lend balance to perspective on this issue. The Rights to Bear Arms is Constitutional not a conspiracy theory...The Right to Bear Arms is Correct according to U.S. Law...Don't personalize my postings sir...
- Racism Occupied
Dont get me Wrong, but I certainly think that the Right to Bear Arms was purposly included so that certain vested interested parties could continue to preserve their own interests. That being said, in todays time and space. that have very little relevance . Look at what happened the day before at Mall, look what happened a couple of hrs ago at a elementary school. It just seems to be getting worse and US Citizens need to begin to push for change .. !
- Peter Dawson
I agree: "US Citizens need to begin to push for change .. ! "
- Racism Occupied
Back to the original post and link, the though is that if someone (or everyone) at the school was armed, the shooter would have been stopped sooner, perhaps even before he killed anyone. The sanguine acceptance of this logic, which is a staple of the unrestricted gun rights playbook, is ridiculous. Who's to say the school wouldn't have then become a free fire zone, with even more people...
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- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
"purposely included so that certain vested interested parties could continue to preserve their own interests." Sounds like the lament of the Slaves and Native Americans
- Racism Occupied
++Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
- Racism Occupied
gilmore gang is having a good convo on this http://www.building43.com/realtim...
- Peter Dawson
Breaking News + Raw Footage: School Shooting in Connecticut 27 dead - http://www.liveleak.com/view...
Not good .. at all. At times I feel sad, that I get cutting edge stuff
- Peter Dawson
Gun control in the US ? Its time to kick to the curb the 2nd Amendment and make sure that no more babies are slaughtered. Time for US to wake up .. else its just slowly going downhill !!
I'd say it's not a slow decline at all :-(
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
ok its a fast decline.. so let get cracking and change the law's !!
- Peter Dawson
I really can't comprehend how fucked you have to be to do something like this.
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I know. I have no words
- Gunnyman™
seriously. i don't even.
- Marie
I just can't. Babies. They're babies, and the people who care for them.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Some people are just broken.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
did you hear about what happened in China? http://www.bangkokpost.com/news...
- jambina
Just saw that on the CNN ticker
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
I saw that earlier. My heart hurts for all the murdered children :-(((((
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Shooter was a father to one of the kids in school. ..This is just sad
- Peter Dawson
What is it about the phrase "thought leader" that makes it sound so lame to me?
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The fact that it sounds like something out of Orwell, perhaps? As in, it's so ridiculous that it sounds like it was made up for a political novel.
- Katy S
I guess in an earlier era, they would've come up with some neo-Latin, neo-Greek, or French word to make it sound less lame.
- Victor Ganata
What Katy said. Plus it raises the questions of how much thought they're actually leading and how much they're actually thinking.
- John (bird whisperer)
I think it's partly also context: people who use it tend to be big fans of TED-ish wankery too. Edit: always happy to find an excuse to repost this link - http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-s...
- Andrew C (✓)
LOL
- John (bird whisperer)
Like a pied piper, a thought leader leads thoughts away from their parents. Beware!
- Amit Patel
in my youth such a person would be "a leader" -- more modern hapless (tedlike) redundency
- WarLord
I think the far better term is "visionary"
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
thought leader = village idiot !
- Peter Dawson
"Visionary" could work much better when describing someone else, but I still think it's a bit much for a self-description….
- Victor Ganata
SUPREME THOUGHT LEADER
- Andrew C (✓)
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
- maʀtha
It was used in a meeting today. I kept in my comments ;)
- Pete #TeamMonique
Perhaps the idea that thinking is a competition.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I'm amused by the possibilities: "dux cogitator", "protophrontistes", "premier penseur" :D
- Victor Ganata
I'm kind of liking "lead thinker" or "lead cogitator". I like the idea of making the thinking more important than the leading. I think "lead cogitator" will be my title on any project I'll be involved with from here on out.
- Victor Ganata
The word "cogitator" definitely needs to be in there. Maybe cogitator prime?
- Ken Morley
Cogitator Primum?
- Andrew C (✓)
Even better :)
- Ken Morley
Premium Think Leader with Techron
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Think Unleader! Down with leaded thinking!
- Andrew C (✓)
Hehe, Victor, isn't that true of most superlatives? Unless you are Ali, calling yourself The Greatest, probably isn't going to fly very far.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
That's why it's so weird to see people use "thought leader" in their self-descriptions unironically :D And extra-weird when they do it and talk about themselves in third person :D
- Victor Ganata
Victor: Based on my experience, those who think of themselves as Thought Leaders (capital T and L) are also those who are likely to refer to themselves in the third person. Because, y'know, [self-]Important People are like that.
- Walt Crawford
You can't see me! - Indy is all hopped up and ready for the kittens to be let out to play!
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Both piggies!
- Katy S
Yup! She wants to play with all her babies!
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
wheres the kitties ?
- Peter Dawson
no way, impossible to see you!
- marco barsotti
Peter, they only recently got big room privileges to be able to play with the big kitties, and only then when we can supervise. I didn't have time at that poing even though Indiana clearly wanted it. They are all playing somewhat now. The babies are still a bit intimidated by Indiana, but also curious.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Can We Fix The Problem Of Unreasonable Tech Searches At The Border? - http://readwrite.com/2012...
"It happened on the border. In May 2010, Pascal Abidor, an Islamic studies doctoral candidate at McGill University, was traveling from Montreal to New York City when he was stopped in the tiny border town of Champlain, New York, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents. Abidor, who is of dual American and French citizenship, and is not a Muslim, triggered agents' worst fears. When they turned on Abidor's computer, they found pictures of Hamas rallies; thumbing through his passport, agents saw stamps from past trips to Jordan and Lebanon. The pictures were part of Abidor's doctoral dissertation, the travel part of his research. But that didn't matter to the agents. Abidor says he was handcuffed, taken off the train, and detained in a cell while agents interrogated him about his belongings and his interest in Islam. Hours later he was freed. But his laptop remained in custody for 11 days. When it was returned, Abidor later reported, there was evidence that his personal research files, and even photos and chats with his girlfriend, had all been opened."
- Morton Fox
from Bookmarklet
would keeping your files in the "cloud" reduce this crap or would they just demand to see what your dropbox contained?
- WarLord
yeah u can fix the problem.. dont be trust your gov
- Peter Dawson
Long-maned Wonder Horses - http://www.retronaut.com/2012...
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did they name this horse rapunzel ?
- Peter Dawson
I never saw these pictures of Sarah Jessica Parker.
- babeuf
ahahaha babeuf! :)
- grizabella
:D
- eli☼Kìr
Thirty six months ago today, I married the love of my life and my best friend. It hasn't always been easy, but we've stuck together through high times and low (but it's been mostly good). I love you Cassie Scoble and I'm a very lucky man, indeed, to have you in my life. Happy anniversary! - http://itmanager.blogs.com/notes...
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Happy anniversary you crazy kids! :))
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Happy anniversary!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Happy anniversary
- John (bird whisperer)
Happy anniversary! :D
- Jennifer Dittrich
Happy anniversary. Amazing to think it's been 3 whole years since you two had your live-streamed wedding.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Happy anniversary
- Soup in a TARDIS
Happy anni To you and yours !!
- Peter Dawson
Happy anniversary!
- Kelli H.
Happy anniversary to you both!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Happy anniversary!
- Kevin Johnson
Wow, has it been that long? I remember watching the wedding! Happy anniversary, Alex and Cassie!
- Trish R
Happy Anniversary!
- Anne Bouey
Good morning, FriendFeed. - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Busy day today. Can we just skip to later?
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
table bunneh!
- MoTO #TeamMonique
Good morning, Steven :)
- Eivind
Good morning.
- John (bird whisperer)
Yes BUNNEH! But remember, drink OR drive!
- Xabaras (G.O.)
Barry! :)
- Steven Perez
Good morning, Eivind. :)
- Steven Perez
Good morning, John. :)
- Steven Perez
Good morning, Xabaras. Ah, but I have a TARDIS. :)
- Steven Perez
Belgian Bunneh!
- Pete #TeamMonique
Pete! :)
- Steven Perez
Morning STeve, pass me the beer pls
- Peter Dawson
Good morning, Peter. :)
- Steven Perez
'Good Morning ''Steven!..................:-)
- Nispell
Good Morning Bunny How's your 12/12/12 so far. Here by the big river, word for today is COLD!
- WarLord
I will skip with you anytime Mr. Bunneh
- VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS
Good afternoon, Nispell. :)
- Steven Perez
Good afternoon, WarLord and WarDaughter. :)
- Steven Perez
Hey, Val. :)
- Steven Perez
Four months ago today, Colleen and I started dating. It's the best decision I've ever made (along with actually contacting her this summer for the first time in years). I'm a grateful, happy man, and it's all her fault.
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Congratulations. I wish you many happy years together.
- Uli - Sent to Coventry
hehhe.. see how he throws it in @da end.. .."and it's all her fault" "
- Peter Dawson
@Peter Dawson: Haha! It IS her fault! :) I've never been happier!
- Jed Harris-Keith
from FFHound!
@Uli™: Thank you!
- Jed Harris-Keith
from FFHound!
Aw, thanks, babe, and everyone for the good wishes. I got really lucky. It's a hell of a thing to wake up every morning happy, especially for a non-morning person like myself.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Creaming my butter with my sugars.
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Cookies!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
dirty... ohh. :)
- Jason
Sugared butter is seriously one of the things I miss most about not being able to bake cookies. I cannot justify making sugared butter by itself, especially after purchasing the size jeans I'm wearing for the first time in probably close to 10 years.
- Katie
Y'see I thought CAKE!
- Heleninstitches
tease.
- peamageddon
Hmm.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
And I keep coming back to this and thinking oh so very many thoughts. SO MANY. I might have issues. Maybe. :D
- peamageddon
So that's what we call it now! :P
- Morton Fox
++Morton !!
- Peter Dawson
The penis: Cross to bare | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/news...
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"God’s Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis. By Tom Hickman. Square Peg; 234 pages; £12.99. Buy from Amazon.co.uk THE problem with penises, as Richard Rudgley, a British anthropologist, admitted on a television programme some years ago, is that once you start noticing them, you “tend to see willies pretty much everywhere”. They are manifest in skyscrapers, depicted in art and loom large in literature. They pop up on the walls of schoolyards across the world, and on the walls of temples both modern and ancient. The Greeks and Japanese rendered them on statues that stood at street corners. Hindus worship the lingam in temples across the land. Even the cross on which Jesus was hung is considered by some to be a representation of male genitalia. Yet the penis has also been shamed into hiding through the ages. One night in 415BC, Athens’s street-corner statues were dismembered en masse. Stone penises were still causing anxiety in the late 20th century, when the Victoria and Albert...
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- Son of Groucho
from Bookmarklet
A stocking filler? ;-)
- Son of Groucho
Maybe next year.
- Eithne Herd
It wasn't a request, it was a description! :)
- Son of Groucho
Haha, in the comments on The Economist site there is much pearl-clutching about the picture ERMAGERDAPURNURS!!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I didn't notice the 141 comments! Some of these folk are very easily offended aren't they? With so many genuinely obscene things in the World, like children starving in Africa while billionaires look for ever more ingenious ways to avoid paying tax, they really should get a reality check!
- Son of Groucho
"Tom Hickman, a Sussex-based writer and journalist, tells the story of its ups and downs with enthusiasm... God's Doodle is seminal work." Well, no one can accuse The Economist of not having a sense of humor.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Also, I've known people who "see" penii everywhere, even in the most unlikely objects, and I just want to say "Why are you so obsessed about this?" Yes, monoliths and obelisks and even those classic cast iron stanchions that hold the bordering chains along Amsterdam sidewalks (complete with a hole at the tip)... yes, it's normal to make the association there. But when the most...
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- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Well I bet you are glad you got that off your chest!
- Son of Groucho
:D reminds me of this Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch: http://www.youtube.com/watch... :)))
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Pah!!! Thanks for bringing this to my attention! :)
- Son of Groucho
Indeed. Higlet, he demonstrated by example the very point I was attempting to make, and much more effectively. ;)
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
SoG, I've been carrying that load around for far too long... it's such a relief to finally express it and release myself of all the pent up pressure! #okaystoppingnow
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
And don't even get me started about those Danish bike parking devices that resemble a human posterior erupting from the pavement as if to expose it's buttocks in a most protrusive manner, all in the guise of providing a means of clasping a bicycle wheel betwixt the offending buttocks! OUTRAGEOUS!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Then they should go to the Ajantha and Elora caves.. to see karma stutra bare all 3d pixs carved in stone : => https://www.google.com/search...
- Peter Dawson
and another linky http://news.softpedia.com/news...
- Peter Dawson
According to the USDA, 46,609,075 Americans were on food stamps in 2012. - http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
46M ?? Thats like 12 % ofthe popluation ??
- Peter Dawson
European Roma descended from Indian 'untouchables', genetic study shows - Telegraph - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
ᏓᏰ #team Monique, 9000, lucah and 25 other people liked this
"Roma gypsies in Britain and Europe are descended from "dalits" or low caste "untouchables" who migrated from the Indian sub-continent 1,400 years ago, a genetic study has suggested."
- Maitani
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" Gypsies have long believed they have origins in India, citing common Sanskrit words in their languages and photographs of darker-skinned ancestors in South Asian clothes, while earlier research has offered some scientific support for their suspicions. Now a study led by Indian and Estonian academics, including Dr Toomas Kivisild of Cambridge University, has confirmed their origins in the Indian sub-continent, and even identified the location and social background from which they emerged."
- Maitani
Originally posted by Jessie http://ff.im/19pk9b
- Maitani
They're still known as Egyptians in England, though, it seems :)
- Eivind
Oh wow.
- esther
Fascinating.
- CarlC, spelling expert
from Android
Dienekes: "The Romani, the largest European minority group with approximately 11 million people [1], constitute a mosaic of languages, religions, and lifestyles while sharing a distinct social heritage. Linguistic [2] and genetic [3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8] studies have located the Romani origins in the Indian subcontinent. However, a genome-wide perspective on Romani origins and population...
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- Maitani
wel its was well known that EU gypsies come from India..but to class them as "dalits" thats racits. But trust the Indians to have various classes.. they invented racism 3000BC !
- Peter Dawson
Razib Khan: The origins of the Romani determined definitively http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp...
- Maitani
Dienekes: Roma Origins once more http://dienekes.blogspot.de/2012...
- Maitani
Who wants a geeky Christmas card? Due to printer error I am suddenly in possession of 140 extra Christmas cards. Normally I try not to go crazy with cards since we get personal ones printed but since I suddenly have them I want to spread the cheer. Plus our card is awesome and geeky this year (my new profile pick is a clue to style but not geekery)
chaz2b, WoH: Professor MOTHRA, Headless Gnad Kicker and 5 other people liked this
If you would love to get a card from Kevin and I send me your mailing address. You can send it to me by DM, comment or by email. My email address is phoenix at gmail.
- Rachel Lea Fox
Rachel, we got yours yesterday -- the kids loved it and recognized you two right away. Thank you!
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Oh and to those who have gotten their cards (Stephen) sorry if the mailing label only listed one person in you family instead of the whole family. That is what they were supposed to be fixing when they made the mistake, but something went wrong and instead we just got extra free cards.
- Rachel Lea Fox
140 cards.. seems like u had a twitter problem ,, LOL
- Peter Dawson
Label looked good to me.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
LOL Peter!! But I don't twitter! Stephen, did it list the kids or say the Mack Family?
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
It listed me and both kids by name. (Although it said "Sammie" which I thought was cute.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
opps! i like "ie", it's a bit of a habit with me. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Oh man, is this still up for grabs? I love mail!
- Colette
Colette, YES!! Give me your address!
- Rachel Lea Fox
wanna send one to the other side of the pound?
- Xabaras (G.O.)
I can totally do that Xabaras!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Night Owls, start sending me addresses!! DM me or if you can't send it to my email which is in the first comment!! I do not require cards in return, I'm just sharing the love and the way too many awesome cards I have! I am happy to mail outside the US. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Done!
- Xabaras (G.O.)
Me! Me!
- Anne Bouey
Anne, didn't yours arrive already? You should have gotten it. Did your address change from last year?
- Rachel Lea Fox
No, it hasn't arrived. The address is the same, but the mail delivery always gets a little goofy this time of year. :)
- Anne Bouey
okay, well it should be there any day!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Holy cow! I am gone all week from work and they've been so great and accommodating, but today I got the best surprise from them. They just called me in and gave me a 10% raise. I am so grateful and speechless.
JA Castillo, Amit Patel, #cryptic and 46 other people liked this
Yay!
- Anne Bouey
Congrats!
- CarlC, spelling expert
from Android
Thanks. I guess they missed me while I was gone. :-)
- Tamara J.
from FFHound(roid)!
Oh, thats so kewl. like xmas come early 4 u :)
- Peter Dawson
Congratulations!
- John (bird whisperer)
Hard work and long hours pay off, it seems.
- Tamara J.
from FFHound(roid)!
Yay! That's such great news - congratulations! :D
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yay! Let's hope those long hours don't continue. :)
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Fabulous!
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Mazel tov!
- Akiva
That is AWESOME. Yay! <3
- Hookuh Tinypants
Congratulations!
- Stephan Planken
from iPhone
I hope that bit of good fortune will help carry you through the more difficult times, Tam. :)
- Kelli H.
Thanks, guys. It was great to be back and trying to get back to normal. The raise was icing on the cake.
- Tamara J.
It's a well-earned raise! Congratulations!
- Fish Are LIES
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