totally got a cool idea for new schwag... two items: for new Moms, a friend feed shirt with slots for easy feeding of infants... and for new Pops like Louis, nipple with bottle attachment inserts with one nipple coming out of the first f and the second nipple coming out of the second d... saweet!
- Rob Reed
FF schwag and twins! best picture of the day!
- Sarah Perez
Mega awesome ;) Congratulations to you and your family, like the Friendfeed t-shirt ;)
- Mario Olckers
Tiny... little... eentsy... lumps of yum. There, my estrogen has officially shown itself.
- Carla Thompson
No way - they have FF onesies??? How do I get my hands on one of those?
- Jesse Stay
The Gray family Babies!!!! Sarah and Mathew look sooo cute in your arms! and sooo tiny my goodness!!... still LOL @ Rob's wacky comment..whoa!
- Susan Beebe
So, are they using the same design team as the campaign/change.gov sites? Certainly appears that way. That'd be a cool way to land a job (campaign -> presidency).
- Lee Adkins
Awesome. It has a blog. Say goodbye to traditional thinking that says "no blogs on important websites!"
- Glenn Batuyong
Hehehehehehehe ;-) Just to be different. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
where does mwahahahaha come in the scale? :)
- alphaxion
:D love to write it that way, but because of the spell check I tended recently to reduce on the number of syllables. hahahaha is usually my level of laugh for the best outta those and hehehe in a more subtle way.
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
I agree with most of those, except lol is usually between hah and haha and LOL is usually between haha and hahaha. And rofl is around hahaha and ROFL is usually around hahahaha.. but you gotta remember the original... hehe, which is around hah, but in more of a serious laugh. :D
- Ken
Where are the memorials to those who fought and died in the Cola Wars? Where is their parade? Where are the heros? Lest we forget...
- Johnny Worthington
It all ended with this... lynching :(
- Mona Nomura
"Okay, that's him taken care of, now let's go sort out our idiot cousin, Max..."
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
"Yes they deserve to die and I hope they burn in hell"... we so need a Samuel L Jackson emoticon :)
- Johnny Worthington
Manny has been killed and the platoon is looking for revenge...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
how about this one .... "Right, some bastard's glassed this wee lassie, and nay bastard's leaving this pub until we find oot who did it!" - (Begby from Trainspotting)
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
wow very creative. Maybe pepsi should hire you.
- Colide81 (James)
Louis, awesome! FriendFeed has some serious competition now - while these sites don't aggregate, I know a lot of people that use FriendFeed because of the conversation as a primary reason.
- Jesse Stay
I guess we'll see how clients design their use of this feature. In my case, I've found the Twhirl FriendFeed support hard to follow/use, I think, mostly due to how the thread is being re-displayed often. It would be cool if there was a view mode that just shows the updates in reverse order (as twitter works today) but have a button that expands that post (maybe in another floating window) with the rest of the thread around it. Something like that might make it more usable.
- Gus Perez
Gus, I agree - I hate the Twhirl UI for FriendFeed. I wish it could be done in a little better manner. The other difference is the Twitter API enables completely recursive comments, which means you can comment on other comments, and that could be infinite. Interesting problem for clients like Twhirl...
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
I'd really like to see them add a in_reply_to_status_id.network as well so I can specify not only the id it's in reply to, but the network it came from. Microblogging is much bigger than Twitter - these services should talk to each other. Twitter will never do it though.
- Jesse Stay
from twhirl
I can't wait for the day that the Internet will be just as pretty. :)
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Didn't I see this on an episode of Dr. Who recently?
- Her Lindsay-ness
reminds me of when I was a kid and decided I was going to read all the fiction books in the library. So I checked out the first five books. Nope don't remember a one.
- R. Ferguson
Ruth, you have no idea how glad I am to know that I'm *not* the only kid who tried to read the library!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
The Seattle Central Library was my favorite thing to shoot in Seattle on my recent trip. I *love* beautifully designed libraries.
- Thomas Hawk
I'd like to have every room setup as a library, I love the big old houses with the fireplaces and libraries seems very Vincent Price. My 2 favorites that I've been to ar the Biltmore Estate and JP Morgan Musuem
- clarke thomas
from twhirl
there is something romantic and powerful about beautiful libraries. To me they're the real world treasure chests of endless possibility.
- Morgan
Whoaa..... lock me in with some food, a bed & bathroom, then throw away the key. Thanks.
- Louie
I love libraries, this is a treasure.
- susan mernit
Incredible, thanks for sharing. +1 Czar.
- Aaron Krug
Oh, God. I am in love. Well done, Czar.
- Steven Perez
Gosh! Beautiful analog storage devices
- Chris Loft
I'm oddly pleased that almost 90 people have marked this as a like. Says something about the FF community if you ask me (which of course you didn't).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
This is a great list to use to add places in the world to my map of things that I still need to shoot. So many beautiful libraries.
- Thomas Hawk
Whoaa! Nice finding, Derek. Thanks for sharing.
- LouCypher
I've actually been to quite a few of these all across Europe, and they're even more awesome (and smell FANTASTIC) in person. Some are considerably smaller than the photos make them appear, which is always interesting (kinda like the church in the wedding scene in The Sound of Music...it's seems huge on film, but it's really this dinky little chapel filmed wide and high). Really great to be reminded of those visits. Thanks for posting this. :)
- abacab
This is an awesome set of photos. Proud to see my alma mater's Riggs Library included in the list.
- Ryan Kuder
at one point in my life, i moved the entire collection of books at the Peabody in Baltimore. not necessarily a fun job but it is exciting knowing that the collection will more than likely sit where i put it for the next twenty years.
- Nathan Eckenrode
We're excited! Putting in the last tweaks and doing a lot testing. We go Live 10am Eastern / 7am Pacific! The response has been great so we are bracing for a pretty big day tomorrow. Hopefully if we've done it right, there will be no fail gator. :)
- Scott Lockhart
What happens if you turn all that equipment on? The light in the neighborhood dims a little, starts to flicker, then the lights in part of the city go out, and once everything is up and running, the lights slowly come back on again. Some of the systems are always on and are never powered off.
- Peter Dawson
all the exposure to that equipment can't be good for one's health.
- Cee Bee
I'd be impressed if they were arranged in a perfect square and running a single SSH console session.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Igor do not worry for 9.99 we can have a chip implanted in you and you will have sonar vision like the dolphins! You will see 360 degrees and be Super Igor!
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Whilst I am very jealous, I am not to sure that it would not have been better with just two 30" screens. But then again I am quite productive on a 12" laptop screen.
- John Cooper
from twhirl
@Brandon, at least you get ads. Googling "black" doesn't return any ads at all. However we are told a related search is "black jokes." Well, at least there's no ads for fried chicken 'n malt liquor. Progress! (raises Black Power fist)
- Karim
aww, that is cute. I like that. they need to do that for some other searches @Brandon, agreed about the ad content, but I love that rainbow, that's nice.
- Kamilah Gill
I searched for "straight" and... nothing. :-)
- Louis Gray
@Brandon W: didn't notice that. yeah, not so great. not to plug, but you're not supposed to see that on Yahoo! search. because we don't consider "gay" by itself an adult term. and...Karim strikes again.
- edythe
As the only Gay in the Village (whoever gets that reference gets a virtual kiss), I find the rainbow flag pretty obnoxious. In fact, I burned one once in some frakin performance piece. But that's just me. BTW how did I miss this thread?
- Rick Powell
They do it for other stuff too, i saw a link off Google saying why they use the colours and other stuff.
- Nicholas James
Neat....we should all do something like this...btw I'm reading Book One of The Bartimaeus Trilogy b/c of you, also on a bus on my way to work, and liking it a lot so far.
- Snay Trivedi
thanks everyone! I look forward to your videos!
- Stefan Hayden
Thanks for the brief but informative introduction, Stefan
- TDavid
Maybe it's just me but I have trouble finding photography blogs that stick for me, with very few exceptions. I get bored with photo blogs (i.e. mostly photos, little commentary), photo technique blogs, photo equipment blogs, photography-as-art blogs, and I just don't care about photo industry blogs, etc. And for the record, yes, I know my own blog falls into one of those categories. :) The best ones for me, like Thomas Hawk's blog, cover photography from many diverse angles.
- Michael Hocter
I love looking a good photo blogs and flickr. I wish I had a good DSLR I use to dabble in film photog. I was in right when the digital was taking over. I found that a good camera and some quick reading and you will take good pics. To take great pics you have to have the eye.
- Blackopsmanners
http://www.twipphoto.com. Scott Bourne, Alex Lindsay, et. al. The associated podcast is probably the main resource for me, but the blog also has good content.
- Bill Crow
@Justin Korn (justinkorn): I've just been through my flickr contacts this week to add them as imaginary friends so why doing this I added them here, I also posted my fav list on my blog, so has killed several birds with one stone. ;-) Warning: I'll keep posting, on and on and on... ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
from NoiseRiver
The Story of the Fail Whale: How An Unknown Artist's Work Became a Social Media Brand Thanks To the Power of Community - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
Great script that retrieves Twitter and LinkedIn info and displays it on the FF user profile page. It's great when viewing the pages of new users.
- Mark Krynsky
from Bookmarklet
Suggestions welcome. I need to add in some logic when twitter and linkedin profiles are both found to only show one location. +1 Twitter because you can use location based services to update your twitter location in real time. +1 LinkedIn because it's supposed to be more accurate.
- Hao Chen
Only thing that's put a smile on my face today with all this iPhone nonsense is the Godzilla one! Seriously funny...
- John Samuelson
"Like Saddam, we're total bad-asses. We have missiles! Godzilla! Our soldiers are all armed with flaming holy scimitars! You will drown in rivers of your own blood! Stay away."
- Chris Baskind
The idea that they only have a 75% success rate on something they deem as "an awesome display" is definitely something to be ashamed of. This is the best they can do, and it was barely a passing grade.'
- Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Louis, whilst I am amoungst those that value your opinion, that hypothetical, improbable does not lick the boots of the reality of shameful journalistic integrity, misrepresenting a nation (of people, remember), and spreading that lie as far as the eye can see. When we turn the emphasis away from the facts of what happened, we make it matter less.
- Michael W. May
the neo cons control Godzilla. Watch out it is a Zionist threat
- Noah David Simon
Louis: Three hitting your town would be a big deal, but none of these have enough range to reach your town... or any town in Israel, which is the larger concern. None of these are Shahabs http://tinyurl.com/6ch6pg.
- Steve Lynch
always remember that close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades and nuclear weapons.
- Nathan Eckenrode
I am telling you, high-rise cemeteries!
- Steve Rubel
There are more people alive now than ever have been alive in the past combined. And we can all fit on the islands off the coast of England with relative ease: we're not running out of space anytime soon.
- Mark Trapp
You must be on vacation or something, Steve!
- Sam Whitmore
@Sam - worse, I am waiting for a delayed flight to Cleveland!
- Steve Rubel
Old people shrink, dead people even more.
- Ton Zijp
is this what you think about on the #6 train during rush hour?
- Allen Stern
@Allen Ha! No. Which is worse? I think of your Amtrak video actually to stay sane.
- Steve Rubel
if you have changed 14th street to plurk station and 42nd grand central to friendfeed station, i am sending you to a shrink :-P
- Allen Stern
this is a question that goes no where. more blue state fashion hysteria. don't worry about it. The glass roof is bullshit.
- Noah David Simon
It was quite common (and probably still is in some places) for bodies to be moved or for new bodies to be buried on top of the old. Corpse-stacking, if you will. Me, I'm going to be cryogenically preserved for the benefit of future mankind. And to really annoy everyone who might otherwise have figured in my will.
- John Samuelson
Apparently there have been approx 70,000,000,000 people that have died up to this point in time. Assuming you need a plot about 2 sq meters to bury a person and all of those were actually buried it would take 140,000,000,000 sq meters of land to bury them(140,000 km2). The earth has approx 148,939,100 km2 of land so I think there is and was lots of room (unless I screwed up somewhere ;-) )
- Brian Sullivan
The world hasn't run out of grave space because people keep on dying.
- Steve Lynch
from Alert Thingy
Alot of cultures used to burn bodies, and there are a million reasons beside that. But if you look at the times when the largest amounts of people died, like when the plague came around, they had to burn the bodies so disease wouldn't spread.
- The Kid
The vast majority of the people who ever lived on Earth never got any kind of a burial as we think of it. The bodies were either lost, burned, or dumped in a mass grave. And even today, a non-negligible number of people don't opt for a burial. That said, you're probably severely overestimating the size of the human population relative to the amount of land available for cemeteries.
- Eric P
A friend from singapore told me this happened there. They dug up all the bodies and cremated them. The ashes are kept in the temples on little high rise stands. The most recent to pass are at the bottom
- gregory
Steve, You should get out to West Texas and visit Hugh MacLeod in Alpine. He'll show you plenty of space to bury folks for centuries to come.
- Jim Cahill
from twhirl
Jim... there is plenty of a lot of things... except sanity
- Noah David Simon
It was a show of hands thing so very informal. Could be 7 or 8 to 1 as well. Clearly the Pro crowd here though uses Canon over Nikon. Other manufacturers were not even mentioned. Strictly a Canon vs. Nikon show of hands thing.
- Thomas Hawk
Wow wouldn't have thought it would be an informal landslide....
- Snay Trivedi
I am wondering if the D3 will slowly get the Pros to switch to Nikon or if the cost of glass will prevent it
- William Reveal
from feedalizr
Microsoft keeps talking about the importance of backup and photo storage at this conference. Wonder if they have something interesting in this space coming down the road.
- Thomas Hawk
How were conference goers selected? It doesn't suprise me that Canon shooters outnumber Nikon shooters but that ratio seems very skewed.
- Brian Sullivan
I think Pros still clearly prefer Canon.
- Thomas Hawk
more PC users than Mac too, correlation?
- dbcohen
That's because you're all lemmings. *ducks and runs*
- cecily
So having a Canon makes me a lemming? I'm sorry that's the height of ignorance.
- Mike Lewis
from Alert Thingy
I knew I should have brought my hammer to work with me! :P
- Mike Lewis
from Alert Thingy
PC users make smart choices in cameras, too. *hides in bomb shelter*
- No FB
Canon and Nikon are equally good for Pro use. I know many who use Canon and many like me who use Nikon. Some argue the glass for Canon lenses is superior. Perhaps.
- Photo Larry
from twhirl
When I was researching to buy my first DSLR, the consensus I found was Canon for pros, Nikon for amateurs. That was anecdotal because that's what everyone I talked to said was the practice, not necessarily the way it should be.
- Gregory Pittman
Canon is a MUCH larger company than Nikon. However, I just didn't like the feel of their cameras, and I prefer Nikon glass to Canon. That's what works for me.
- William Beem
I love how competitive it has become. We all win as long as these companies put out great products!
- Mike Lewis
from Alert Thingy
canon has been the industry standard for forever so it isn't any surprise at all.
- Damien Franco
That is quite a difference in preference. I also like Canon products.
- James Mowery
from twhirl
for the last few years canon has been killing nikon at the high end digital range. nikon has been working hard to catch up but the damage may have already been done. both companies make great cameras today and will continue to do so for years to come
- sam b-r
I use/love Nikon, but I don't care what people have...as long as it takes pictures.
- Kreg Steppe
My guess is it's about the same ratios among us amateurs using pocket sized cameras as well. Just spent sometime in BestBuy stores. Couldn't help noticing most people walk out with Canons.
- shelisrael1
Wow, you mean I can be happy because I own a Nikon and I favor the underdog at the same time. Cool!.
- Dennis E. Hamilton
from twhirl
I use Canon; it just works for me. YMMV. However, Canon's wide angle glass is not the greatest so I'm starting to look elsewhere for alternatives. The 21mm f/2.8 Distagon is insanely sharp but it's no longer in production and copies are priced into the stratosphere.
- Jauder Ho
hmm, that adds a new wrinkle to my decisions. One of the benefits(so I was told) of the Nikon is the ability to use the same lenses through the years? Personally I like Zeiss lenses, so whomever has those I tend to go w/.
- clarke thomas
I chose Canon for two reasons. The first was that it felt natural in my hands. The controls seemed to be where I would want them. The second (and perhaps more important) was that two of my friends friends have Canon. It's great going on a shoot and having double the arsenal of lenses. But I think both are great choices and the competition makes for better equipment for everyone.
- John Wright
Hmmm.. I agonized for weeks over what DSLR to purchase for my first one. I wavered back and forth between Canon and Nikon. Then, I went to the nest camera store here in Austin and ended up buying a.... Sony. It was the best bang for my buck and with the Minolta lens options available out there I have been very pleased with my decision. Of course, I'm no pro.
- Jeff Jones
@shelisrael1 - P&S cameras are a different world. The margins are razor thin and Canon is larger than Nikon; better able to absorb the costs. Nikon's recent statements indicate that it wants to focus on the higher end market. Given it's position against Canon, that's a wise move. It can't complete as a commodity.
- William Beem
I'd assume there's some selection bias in the attendees.
- Eric P
@ Mike Lewis, see Canon people can't even take a joke. I'm brand agnostic, and have even recommended Canon cameras to people who have asked. So dismount from that horse, if you don't mind. :)
- cecily
@shelisrael - I prefer Canon's point and shoot cameras to Nikon's (and just about everyone else's). The reason I didn't get a Canon SLR when I was in the first in the market? Because I have ginormous hands and the Rebel XT felt tiny in comparison to the D50 I eventually bought, and because I couldn't afford a 30D or 5D.
- cecily
We chose a Canon for our first DSLR on you a recommendation from a pro photographer.
- Robert
I'm not buying that poll. Maybe Canon has turned into Comcast and stocked the room?
- ThePicMan
And most "pro" drivers drive trucks and buses, but I'll stick to my BMW thanks. OK, not a brilliant analogy but everyone knows that Nikon has been playing catch up on the pro photography front. They have the line up now but the existing pros still have the legacy gear. it's going to be a long time before the balance shifts (if it does). Also, they used to say that nobody got fired for buying IBM, isn't that a better analogy on the photo front?
- Fraser Smith
Strange how a Pro camera poll has spawned so much debate about P&S and Prosumer models.
- ThePicMan
@clarke thomas - Zeiss has several lines of manual focus lenses that fit the Nikon and several other mounts. See http://twurl.nl/x2p15o. However, they do not have one that directly fits a Canon which will require the use of an adapter. On the flip side, due to the large diameter of the Canon lens mount, it is possible to use lens from quite a few vendors although you have to test for clearance from the mirror.
- Jauder Ho
Personally, I'm waiting to see if Zeiss will make an updated version of the 21mm Distagon. www.16-9.net is a useful resource if you are interested in lens comparisons. I would also add that the Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 looks to be a pretty impressive lens too.
- Jauder Ho