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Movies we should watch again:
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The Big Lobowski
- Paul Buchheit
Pi
- Paul Buchheit
Real Genius
- Kevin Fox
Airplane
- Jim Goldstein
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Paul Buchheit
The Woman in Red
- Tony Peters
Ferris Bueller
- Nils Sandin
Brazil
- Jim Goldstein
The Princess Bride
- Jenna Bilotta
All ZAZ films (Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, Naked Gun, Hot Shots) and Most Mel Brooks films (Blazing Saddle and Young Frankenstein)
- Neal Krummell
Goonies
- Jenna Bilotta
+1 For Lobowski!
- TheHenry
Chinatown
- Karl Rosaen
bottle rocket
- Karl Rosaen
Factory Girl Edie
- simge ungor
+1 for Young Frankenstein! (and yes, I sooo need to see Chinatown again)
- Tony Peters
The Great Escape
- Matthew DeVries
The Wizard of Oz
- Eric Logan
Harold & Maude (& I 2ndYoung Frankenstein)
- Jim Goldstein
Just watched: Waynes World ..... classic
- patrick
Fight Club
- Matt Ruiz
Lives of Others
- Deepak Singh
Into the wild
- Алексей Мельчаков
just recently caught "Point Break" on netflix streaming, can't say I regret watching it again
- Karl Rosaen
The Godfather, I, II and III
- Benjamin Perdomo
Tron
- Kevin Fox
Memento
- Stephen Mack
Blast from the Past
- Kishore Balakrishnan
star wars
- chaz2b
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
- Jim Goldstein
Fast times at Ridgemont high.
- Joe....
Sixteen candles.
- Joe....
Spirited Away
- Shirley Wu
Grosse Point Blank.
- Joe....
I can always watch Harold and Maude. My fave. Boondock Saints.
- R1CC1
Something About Mary
- johnpiercy
Shawshank Redemption
- Gabe
+1 Brazil. Also Do The Right Thing
- Steve Crossan
Fargo
- Joe....
from iPod
Being John Malkovich - weird stuff.
- Joe....
from iPod
Blade Runner
- Johnny
+1 for Blade Runner
- Henner Zeller
Army of Darkness...preferably with beer and friends
- Alex Scoble
Alex - neither of those things exist on school nights.
- Matthew DeVries
I'm not a big fan of watching something I've already seen, but I could probably watch The Last Dragon again. I suspect seeing that would be a first for most of you, since it tanked at the box office. Why? Taimak is so beautiful!
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Ok, I'm looking at highlights. I know why :D
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music.
- Joel Webber
+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music.
- Joel Webber
+1 to The Lives of Others and Spirited Away; wonderful movies. And I'll add Tous les Matins du Monde, Immortal Beloved, and The Red Violin. All amazing movies if you love music.
- Matthew DeVries
Bridges of Madison Cou…no, never mind, I can't bring myself to that level
- Glen Campbell
Boondock Saints
- scott willeke
Punch-Drunk Love
- edythe
Falling Down, Beautiful Girls, Juno, Almost Famous
- Liza
Can't Buy Me Love (African Dance scene)
- Liza
Matrix?! :-o
- hIpPy
+++ edythe
- RAPatton
Better Off Dead, 3 O'Clock High, The Killing Fields
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
Rap: :)
- edythe
"How I Got In To College". Yeah, I said it.
- Kevin Fox
++ to Jim Goldstein for Airplane! and to both Jim and Ricci Krassa for Harold and Maude. :)
- edythe
Pulp fiction
- arunthampi
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Anything by Hitchcock or Miyazaki. Almost anything by Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, David Lynch, Tarantino, or Coen Bros.
- LogEx
this is an example of a discussion prompt that got messy. So I vote for two, too: Revenge of the Nerds, Moving Violations, and anything with Kate Blanchett, I mean by Woody Allen. I mean produced by Harvey Weinstein.
- Lane Rapp
The Fifth Element
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Transporter 1, 2 & 3
- Mac Sharp
Dune.
- Bwana ☠
Vanilla Sky
- Mike Bracco
1UP Bwana
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
True Romance
- Rick Cogley
Office Space
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Stalker.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Serenity
- WorldofHiglet
Riddick
- Mac Sharp
Men in Black
- Mac Sharp
Trainspotting
- Will Higgins™
Chungking Express
- Rodfather
12 Angry Men
- Dennis O'Neil
+1 Will
- Johnny
Sin City
- Mac Sharp
Kill Bill
- Mac Sharp
E.T.
- Mark Evans
from iPhone
Jason Bourne series
- Mac Sharp
Being There
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Matewan (a John Sayles film)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Mr & Mrs Smith
- Mac Sharp
The Conversation
- Cathryn Hrudicka
On the Waterfront
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Rashomon
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Men With Guns. Cidade de Deus. Not happy, but wonderful movies.
- Joel Webber
A Patch of Blue
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Escanaba in Da Moonlight
- Matthew DeVries
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (and read the book!)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Midnight Cowboy
- Cathryn Hrudicka
In the Heat of the Night
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Day for Night
- Cathryn Hrudicka
A River Runs Through it
- Mac Sharp
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Manhattan (and some of Woody Allen's other movies)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Do the Right Thing (and other Spike Lee movies)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Any of these: http://www.flickchart.com/Charts... :)
- Nathan Chase
My Brilliant Career
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Chan is Missing
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Saint with Val Kilmer
- Mac Sharp
My Left Foot
- Cathryn Hrudicka
My Beautiful Laundrette
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Gran Torino
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
Tomb Stone
- Mac Sharp
American Splendor
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Ghost World
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, and other Ingmar Bergman films
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman
- Mac Sharp
Cool Hand Luke and Hud
- Bonnie Foster
The Graduate
- Bonnie Foster
Easy Rider
- Bonnie Foster
BrotherHood Of The Wolf (Le Pacte Des Loups)
- Mac Sharp
The Last of The Mohicans
- Mellissa Jane
Wanted with Anjelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman
- Mac Sharp
BeoWulf
- Mac Sharp
A Clockwork Orange
- Gabe
It's crazy to me how consistently "Children of Men" is overlooked.
- Chip Ramsey
Alien & Aliens
- Rolf Schewe
Children of Men
- Mac Sharp
Reign of Fire
- Mac Sharp
space balls! :D
- Susan Beebe
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Blazing Saddles
- Mac Sharp
¡Three Amigos!
- Mac Sharp
Broadcast News
- Cathryn Hrudicka
King of Hearts
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Ghost and the Darkness
- Mac Sharp
Kalifornia
- Mac Sharp
Seven
- Mac Sharp
Atlantic City
- Cathryn Hrudicka
All That Jazz
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Boondock Saints
- Brandon Mendelson
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; Lolita; other Kubrick films
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Time Bandits
- April Buchheit
Vanity Fair (the BBC version and not the version with Reese Witherspoon in it - that was such a crappy rendition imho)
- April Buchheit
ForestGump
- sirishkumar
Cast Away — more than anything, I liked the skillful use of silence in the soundtrack, which you don't hear much in today's films. I'm biased, perhaps, because I interned with Sound Designer/Re-recording Mixer Randy Thom, but often I choose films based on their soundtracks as well as for visual reasons or a good screenplay.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
MANY Capra films: It's a Wonderful Life (try watching it outside of Xmas so you aren't influenced by that), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, American Madness, You Can't Take it With You
- Spidra Webster
"The Magnificent Seven"
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
To kill a mocking bird and 12 Angry Men
- Shauns
from iPhone
Matrix & The Beach
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Inglorious Bastards
- Adrian
Apocalypto + lethal weapon I II III IV
- r1lita
Apocalypse Now
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Pursuit of Happyness
- Nick Humphries
Paths of Glory
- James (!?)
Electric Dreams (not sure if that's the name but it's where the computer comes alive)
- Joe Dawson
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2001: A Space Odyssey
- Willem (@wim66) ☠
I can watch "A Christmas Story" at least once a year.
- Spidra Webster
The Departed.
- Shawn Whitmire
@CreativeSage great pointers to underrated movies - thanks.
- andrei_c
Surfs up
- Mac Sharp
Ratatouille
- Mac Sharp
Happy Feet
- Mac Sharp
L'Eclisse, The Passenger by Antonioni
- andrei_c
Conformist, Stealing Beauty, The Last Emperor by Bertolucci
- andrei_c
In The Mood For Love, 2046, Chungking Express by Wong Kar-Wai
- andrei_c
Throw Momma From The Train
- Mac Sharp
Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Mac Sharp
@andrei_c Thanks for mentioning some other great films—there are so many different reasons certain ones resonate and we remember them over time.
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Of course Rocky Horror !!
- R1CC1
Clue
- Mac Sharp
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Klute
- Cathryn Hrudicka
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Paris, Texas
- Cathryn Hrudicka
The Grapes of Wrath
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Some Like it Hot
- Cathryn Hrudicka
UHF
- Peter
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Wings of Desire
- Charles Tanton
Reservoir Dogs
- Charles Tanton
Wild at heart
- Charles Tanton
Wedding Crashers
- Charles Tanton
+1 to The Big Lebowski
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
+1 Cathryn +1 Mac :)
- Bicentennial (Franc)
I mean ++Crouching Tiger ++ Rocky Horror Picture Show =P
- Bicentennial (Franc)
+Baraka
- Bicentennial (Franc)
Seven Samurai
- Andrew Terry
That reminds me .... Rashomon (by Kurosawa, the directory of Seven Samurai). Bewitching !
- Ahsan Ali aka. Slick
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Top Gun?
- funkyboy
+1 For Lobowski!
- Özgür
Gattaca (1997) http://bit.ly/NDBBi
- Michael Fidler
Goodfellas (1990) http://bit.ly/XXrwg
- Michael Fidler
The Sting (1973) http://bit.ly/WUXd1
- Michael Fidler
Equilibrium (2002) http://bit.ly/gUk7L
- Michael Fidler
Excalibur (1981) http://bit.ly/3HyNJI
- Michael Fidler
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) http://bit.ly/prB3J
- Michael Fidler
Sideways (2004) http://bit.ly/SsPh4
- Michael Fidler
12 Monkeys
- Anton Tanderup
Spartacus (1960) http://bit.ly/PCOlR "I'm Spartacus"
- Michael Fidler
Casino (1995) http://bit.ly/ta7Ma
- Michael Fidler
Full Metal Jacket (1987) http://bit.ly/31yx7
- Michael Fidler
Legends of Fall
- imran
The Warriors (1979) http://bit.ly/fwLBC
- Michael Fidler
Platoon (1986) http://bit.ly/O6qoG
- Michael Fidler
The Mission (1986) http://bit.ly/236QzJ
- Michael Fidler
The Hunt for Red October (1990) http://bit.ly/2X0d4O
- Michael Fidler
The Elephant Man (1980) http://bit.ly/D8C3N
- Michael Fidler
We Were Soldiers (2002) http://bit.ly/V9Smu Excellent!
- Michael Fidler
Time Bandits (1981) http://bit.ly/DCTls
- Michael Fidler
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) http://bit.ly/ILnmJ I watch it when I'm sick; it makes me feel better!
- Michael Fidler
The Goonies, Hackers, Wargames
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Amadeus (1984) http://bit.ly/1ARfot
- Michael Fidler
Scarface (1983) http://bit.ly/Cg7dy
- Michael Fidler
Planet of the Apes (1968) http://bit.ly/17mW3H
- Michael Fidler
Catch-22 (1970) http://bit.ly/QLmeN
- Michael Fidler
Casablanca (1942) http://www.imdb.com/title...
- vinod
Good Will Hunting (1997) http://bit.ly/18BIvZ
- Michael Fidler
Groundhog Day (1993) http://www.imdb.com/title... (Again and again ;)
- Jemm
Sid and Nancy (1986) http://bit.ly/DJonx
- Michael Fidler
Modern Times (1936)
- Trent Hamm
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) http://bit.ly/68WFY
- Michael Fidler
As Good as It Gets (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title...
- Amit Morson
Old School
- Cyndi ~ @muchmorethanmom
The Pink Panther (1963) http://bit.ly/19Y7Ex
- Michael Fidler
Enter the Dragon (1973) http://bit.ly/ZnoGA
- Michael Fidler
Annie Hall (1977) http://bit.ly/Xj7YN
- Michael Fidler
Sleeper (1973) http://bit.ly/aEbKd
- Michael Fidler
Heaven Can Wait (1978) http://bit.ly/WtC54
- Michael Fidler
Shawshank Redemption
- Ozgur Gercek
Defending Your Life (1991) http://bit.ly/3xqbgy
- Michael Fidler
Little Big Man (1970) http://bit.ly/UPrF1
- Michael Fidler
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) http://bit.ly/AsywZ
- Michael Fidler
Network (1976) http://bit.ly/14ut31 should be re-made
- Michael Fidler
JFK (1991) http://bit.ly/9lg0C
- Michael Fidler
My Dinner with Andre (1981) http://bit.ly/TnJN7
- Michael Fidler
Saturday Night Fever (1977) http://bit.ly/9SFMv
- Michael Fidler
Old Boy (2003) http://www.imdb.com/title...
- chocobo
2001 Space Odyssey
- Harold Cabezas
Logan's Run
- Mark Layton
Big Trouble in Little China
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Purple Rain
- Tofu De la Moore
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Some really good suggestions. Pi, stalker, oldboy are definitely worth to watch again. I could watch the good the bad and the ugly everyday. Mulholland drive and sraight story are my suggestion.
- Mario
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Shine + Sling Blade
- Steve C
2001
- Tsega Dinka
Primer. Quite a mind-bender.
- Wade Dorrell
Some great suggestions. My personal play list now contains: The Big Lobowski, Brazil, Blazing Saddle, Young Frankenstein, The Great Escape, Waynes World, Fight Club, Memento, The Godfather, I, II and III, Fast times at Ridgemont high, Fargo, Being John Malkovich, Serenity, A Clockwork Orange, Alien, Dr. Strangelove, Teh Conformist, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Some Like it Hot. Blade...
more...
- Ken Morley
star wars series, ocean's eleven, the prestige
- Ahmet Soyata
Nine Queens - bet most people have never watched it
- Andy Davies
The Breakfast Club
- bujio
Kikujiro
- Krishnamoorthy
Went back to Versailles for the first time in more than 10 years. Amazing how things look smaller than when you were a kid.
did you live in Versailles as a kid? I lived in St. Nom La Breteche
- Steve Crossan
surely did! from 76 to 93, before moving to Brittany then Brighton. what about you?
- Fabrice Retkowsky
Wondering when the US is going to discover modern kitchen appliances.
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Yeah, wonder this as well. They're kindof stuck in the 50ies.
- Henner Zeller
Discover? You mean like invent?
- j1m
Maybe they can trade 24 hour shopping with Germany for induction hobs
- Andrew Eland
So, what are we missing?
- ⓞnor
How long are you here for?
- Steve Crossan
Ages, until August 1st. How are you enjoying your life here?
- Andrew Eland
from email
You're missing ovens that weigh less than 16 (metric) tons, and hobs that can boil water for tea in less than 10 minutes.
- Andrew Eland
from email
.. and silent refrigerators, washers and dryers with a better than a horrible user interface (esp. the opposite semantics of actions such as push/pull in many instances of these two device classes), more silent vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens with a good user interface. Many stoves here still have this wierd spiral like heating element which everyone in the world would refuse to buy except people in north america ..
- Henner Zeller
Triaging e-mail and closing browser tabs in the fifteen minutes before the next meeting.
I get in this situation a lot. I need a (preferably auto-generated) list of 10-minute tasks for exactly this moment in the day.
- Steve Crossan
Spent 30 mins with @egregor disussing the incentives of the NY Times website. Interesting stuff.
I think it would be a nice idea to do a remix project on a major news website - grab the content, redo it like it should be done.
- Steve Crossan
Milton Glaser: Ten Things I Have Learned - http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages...
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Glaser is a well-known graphic artist who came up with (among other things) the "I [heart] New York" design. (I mention this because I knew the name, but nothing about him.) This is an interesting list.
- Michael Nielsen
I'd call it an outstanding list!
- Robin Barooah
Very interesting read!
- Shirley Wu
"You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life. "
- Steve Crossan
Steve: That's a great bit, isn't it?
- Michael Nielsen
Milton Glaser spoke at TED 11. I have a hat he designed. One slide in his presentation had "the best marketing" he'd recently seen. It was a wooden sign painted white. Black letters announced Reliable Dutchman Auto Repair. We all laughed at the simplicity of the message, but Glaser pointed out that an Italian mechanic might need a different pitch.
- bill
I really wish I could use Gmail Chat exclusively. There is one missing feature: allow me to whitelist users whose incoming chats pop out in a new window automatically.
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I'd be okay with disabling the pop-up blocker (I think I have an exception for gmail anyway, for tear-off compose).
- Tudor Bosman
This would solve my problems too. Often I am working with the volume muted. I can't see the Gmail tab because Firefox is covered by my VM and I can't hear the ding.
- Benjamin Golub
I always turn off the sounds, so no ding -- I get startled and distracted too easily by my computer making unexpected noises.
- Tudor Bosman
I want to do a similar feature: when you set status to 'don't interrupt' we respond to chat request with an auto-message you can set e.g. 'steve is currently dealing with a huge outage. unless you can help him directly (rather than just ask for an update) please defer this until later'.
- Steve Crossan
Does Google Talk Labs Edition http://www.google.com/talk... work for you?
- Daniel Dulitz
Daniel: "Requires: Windows XP/ Vista" no Mac version?
- Tudor Bosman
Sorry, ummm, that might change sometime, who knows.
- Daniel Dulitz
Use Digsby. Great IM with hooks to your social networks.
- Kevin Kuphal
Labs edition is very slow (impossible to use on my Eee)
- Denya
I've been using Adium because of that limitation, which handles Google Talk. Stinks that the only way to know to check Gmail for messages is via the sound. A Growl hook would be killer, but that would require the user agent to support it.
- Mark Trapp
Gmail's integrated IM is the only reason I'm willing to use IM at all.
- Piaw Na
EU gives 2.5 million Euro's towards the development of Minix- http://translate.google.com/transla...
Didn't that happen already in the 80s?
- Steve Crossan
I guess I'm too young to have any knowledge of that ;-). But I'm always thrilled when money is being invested in Open Source.
- Kasper Sorensen
NumPy docs are more intuitive than I expected. Good job NumPy! Much better explanations of covariance & correlation than wikipedia.
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And to think you made fun of their name.
- ⓞnor
Have you tried scipy? It is built on top of numpy. All sorts of scientific and statistical functions.
- Robert Felty
Wikipedia's description (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) seems more comprehensive than Numpy's (http://docs.scipy.org/doc...). Presumably what you liked were the simple examples in Numpy's documentation and the lack of explanation about how the measure is actually defined? It's more of a "plug in your numbers here, get your answer out there, handwavy explanation of what it means, hope you like the result!".
- ⓞnor
In general I've found wikipedia's explanations of mathematical concepts to be unhelpful for learning purposes. They're more definitional and less tutorial. Mathworld is better in a lot of ways -- I like their definitional explanation of covariance (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Covaria...) better than wikipedia's, though I doubt Niniane would find it helpful.
- ⓞnor
+1. Also true of their definitions of economics concepts & similar.
- Steve Crossan
I used a NumPy documentation page with more examples than the page you cited (http://www.scipy.org/Numpy_E...). I found the combination of definition + examples to be better than wikipedia's lack of examples. Also, NumPy places a higher priority on explaining the relationship between covariance vs correlation vs variance, which I found very helpful.
- niniane
NumPy is awesome especially when paired with Sage. I really wish more schools would teach these apps rather than the commecial competitors.
- Kevin D. White
Have there been any good rock songs released yet this millenium? All of the great songs (to my limited knowledge) came out in the 70's and 80's. Is rock dead?
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I can't think of any, but I was a teenager in the '70s, and still listen to Classic Rock
- Seth Greenblatt
Everybody loves that stuff that was made when they were kids. If only you were 15 you'd appreciate, er, whatever it is they're putting out now.
- j1m
While I must, due to my age, first state the disclaimer that nothing will ever be better than 70s and 80s rock, there is the occasional gem, such as this from 2003: http://www.youtube.com/watch..., and this: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Benjy Weinberger
BTW I assume you meant 'rock' in the narrow sense?
- Benjy Weinberger
Oh, and also, Arctic Monkeys, who are pretty much the future of rock. E.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Benjy Weinberger
Rock lives, though it can be harder to find with the proliferation of pre-packaged corporate tripe and the rise of punk-pop and such. Even if you don't extend the definition of rock to include punk rock, there are lots of bands who have been making good rock. Some examples from the 90s include Metallica, Foo Fighters, Smashing Pumpkins, Jane's Addiction, etc., and this millennium we've seen some killer rock from the likes of The White Stripes, System of a Down, Wolfmother, etc.
- Keith Pelczarski
I think another confounding factor is the dizzying variety of media available now. When we were growing up, television was the big three networks plus PBS and maybe a UHF station or two. There were a few big competing radio stations per city, and the relatively scarcity of media offered a shared experience that served to reinforce the musical canonization of the Beatles, Stones, Who, etc. Now with so many choices available for entertainment, it can feel like nothing really makes it to the top of the heap.
- Keith Pelczarski
Finally, in the immortal words of Pete Townshend (belted out by Roger Daltrey)... Long live rock, be it dead or alive!
- Keith Pelczarski
Although he also said "Hope I die before I get old" and that didn't pan out...
- Benjy Weinberger
I think that he and his still-rocking senior contemporaries have passed into the "undead rocker" phase. ;-)
- Keith Pelczarski
++ Keith's 90's rock. I know a very small handful of bands after the 90's but I'm sure there are more. I need to know more about more recent stuff.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I like Beth Orton; not sure if girl + a guitar counts as rock, though.
- Clare Dibble
I would consider Red Hot Chili Peppers to be rock, and they are still rocking!
- Robert Felty
Rock is certainly not dead when things like this are released: http://www.last.fm/music...
- April Russo (app103)
Foo Fighters: Best Of You
- Johnny Worthington
King's X, Panic Channel, Chickenfoot, Dramagods, Sick Puppies all give me hope for the future of rock.
- Josh Haley
+5000 to Josh for mentioning Dramagods!
- holly
I wish they were still together, but at least I got to see Extereme after they stole the Dramagods drummer. That was a pretty good show. King's X was with them.
- Josh Haley
I traveled to Vegas to see that show! definitely agree that there is good rock out there still. though I guess it all depends on your definition of rock. for me, that's much broader than it used to be. so much good music out there, I am discovering.
- holly
Bon Jovi - Have a Nice Day, 2005: http://www.amazon.com/Have-Ni...
- AC Delco
Velvet Revolver is not half bad: http://www.youtube.com/watch.... But yeah, classic rock still is the best.
- Nikhil Dandekar
The Strokes - Last Night. Plus anything by Louis XIV. There's been a lot of good rock songs in the last 10 years but hard to say how many will last to great. QoSA, Kings of Leon, The Killers ? Ting Tings? Arctic Monkeys? all good I reckon. The hard thing's to find a new rock song that has that killer rock song thing but also feels really original. Last Night sounds like the Stooges etc. Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl's a pretty great song, but has the same thing.
- Steve Crossan
@benjy that The Darkness thing was insane. What happenned to them? I think they retired.
- Steve Crossan
Matthew Yglesias » Charging for Content - http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archive...
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"The solution, if you want to charge people for something, is to find an area in which there’s no competition. And that means, slightly paradoxically, information that nobody cares about. If you’ve got a big blockbuster about Jane Harman, AIPAC, Alberto Gonzales, and surveillance then tons of people are going to be interested and everyone’s going to want to spread your info around. If you make the article free, then everyone will read your article and at a minimum you’ll get a ton of hits. If you charge for it, the traffic will just gravitate toward people who are summarizing your report. But if you have a subject niche that only 10,000 people care about then you could image a situation in which in 5,000 of those people are willing to pay $1 a month to subscribe. That’s $60,000 in revenue, so as long as it doesn’t take many staff-hours to cover this subject it can make economic sense. But it wouldn’t necessarily make economic sense for anyone to bother competing with you in that niche. There just aren’t e"
- j1m
from Bookmarklet
"n a competitive marketplace, the price of a good should converge toward its marginal cost. In a digital world, the marginal cost of distributing a given piece of information to a new person is about zero. Consequently, competitive pressure should drive the price down to free. The solution, if you want to charge people for something, is to find an area in which there’s no competition. And that means, slightly paradoxically, information that nobody cares about."
- Steve Crossan
Trouble with this is, the natural extension is, just publish the niche content and forget about the mass market. Obvious counterargument - you need the mass market to get the traffic. But not if search/collaborative filtering/global sharing works - then the niche should find its market. So: you need a) to make shareable abstracts and b) have a global subscription system with syndication (so you don't have to sign up to lots of places - think iTunes). Maybe
- Steve Crossan
$1 a month? More like $35 for a scientific paper, or $5,000 for someone's competitive report on the state of an industry. Pay content online tends toward higher price points, not lower. Unfortunately, that kills a lot of auxiliary use, and for niche content auxiliary use -- the long tail of curious browsers and cross-domain users outside of the defined target audience, in short the *interested public* -- is a large part of the social value of information.
- ⓞnor
Palo Alto is dying :-(. Z Gallery, Wolf Camera, Rococo Harmony, and one of the rug places, all gone since last I noticed.
still queues at most of the big restaurants on Friday & Saturday nights though.
- Steve Crossan
How about the cheesecake shop
- Rob Schonberger
Also, the apple store? Borders?
- Rob Schonberger
@Steve, yeah, it could be just a blip. there's always some churn. Still, 4 empty storefronts at once seems like a lot. And the Walgreens is still being rebuilt, not sure if that counts.
- j1m
@Rob, yes yes, many stores survive. Those and many others. Caffe del Doge, for example.
- j1m
Never been to Caffe del Doge in Palo Alto. i've been to 2 of them in Venice though, not bad. Also, Bondi Junction is similarly pained, and there are plenty of shops for lease in Bondi Beach too, so I think theres some funny correlation between Palo Alto and Bondi Beach. go figure.
- Rob Schonberger
Just tell me one thing, my fave, Red Rock Coffee on Castro in MTV, is it still there?
- Rob Schonberger
I think that correlation may be called "global economic downturn".
- ⓞnor
Or, "the apocalypse?"
- j1m
Do not go to Cafe del Doge. I enjoy being able to find a table whenever I walk in. Thanks.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor is to blame for Palo Alto vacancies? :P
- Rob Schonberger
there is churn - some new places are opening. ZGallery and Wolf - it might be hard to find new tenants for those big spaces. but the current crop of new small shops add nothing: l'amour frozen yogurt, mediterranean wraps and a dessert shop. it's a bit sad. somebody open a taqueria! please!
- David Vasileff
Rug stores are always "going out of business".
- Darren
hence my use of the past tense -- these places are all emptied out, signs gone, everything. Also, Tudor, we all go to cdd already.
- j1m
@David, there is that upscale Mexican (I think) place next to the Italian grocery on Hamilton.
- j1m
Cafe del dogge huh. Ok. Ill try.
- Rob Schonberger
j1m, yes, reposado opened recently. I like it, but as you say it is upscale, $10 for 3 tacos, not really a quick place for lunch. I was also disappointed with LuLu's that just opened in town and country. Sancho's Taqueria was supposed to open on Lytton in January, but it still hasn't opened.
- David Vasileff
@Rob Red Rock is still there, but the coffee is much better at Barefoot in Santa Clara. :-) And they pull Barefoot beans pretty well at Bistro Maxine. How long Borders can stay open is anyone's guess now that they're only "Amazon when you can't wait until tomorrow." It's now easier to get reservations at places. There are more empty tables. It's not falling off a cliff, but it is down a lot.
- Daniel Dulitz
That Borders? Yeah, there's no way that's still there past Christmas 1999.
- j1m
It's just the beginning, IMO. Has Facebook moved to their new building in old PA yet? Commercial real estate is the next shoe to drop.
- AC Delco
Editorial - The Torturers’ Manifesto - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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"In one of the more nauseating passages, Jay Bybee, then an assistant attorney general and now a federal judge, wrote admiringly about a contraption for waterboarding that would lurch a prisoner upright if he stopped breathing while water was poured over his face. He praised the Central Intelligence Agency for having doctors ready to perform an emergency tracheotomy if necessary."
- j1m
from Bookmarklet
"These memos make it clear that Mr. Bybee is unfit for a job that requires legal judgment and a respect for the Constitution. Congress should impeach him."
- j1m
Incredible, I can't believe this is the New York Times. It's as if they suddenly discovered the rule of law: "And if the administration will not conduct a thorough investigation of these issues, then Congress has a constitutional duty to hold the executive branch accountable. If that means putting Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales on the stand, even Dick Cheney, we are sure Americans...
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- j1m
Huh? Has the nytimes previously editorialized in favor of letting torturers off the hook?
- Larry Greenfield
I'm always surprised when they stand up for doing the right thing. I mean, aren't you?
- j1m
They apologized for the war for a long time. I think they're trying to make up for it.
- Steve Crossan
This is well and truly nauseating. Not that I think any of us are terribly surprised by much of it. The issue of accountability comes down to whether we are a nation of men or a nation of laws. I'll be the first to admit that there are cases we should let slip, but allegations of torture is not among them.
- Joel Webber
Feeling totally weird in an awesome way after an IA session with Carole Mudge. Among other things, I just want to giggle all the time.
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Isn't it wonder-ful how body and emotion are so interconnected?
- Daniel Dulitz
IA?
- Steve Crossan
Integrated Awareness. It's a type of bodywork.
- Daniel Dulitz
I prefer disintegrated awareness ;). Actually though it sounds interesting -- is it good?
- Paul Buchheit
Oh, it is very good, Paul. Carole has been 6 years at Google doing it, you should have tried!
- ana
At first I was scared of IA. I had just moved to California and it sounded like so much bizarro New Age crap. And then Babette convinced Alice and me to see Carole. After that it still _sounded_ like bizarro New Age crap, but I was really confused, because it clearly felt awesome. Steve and τorƍue, it's hard to explain. IA people would probably say something about balancing and energy fields -- I've forgotten -- but unless you were born in California I don't think you'd understand.
- Daniel Dulitz
In terms of a behavioral description, IA is a type of bodywork that involves very gentle physical touch (sometimes little physical touch at all) and which elevates emotional connection to a first-class subject. It can include both verbal and nonverbal elements together. One thing all these years of California stuff has taught me: all material media of communication (sound waves, light) are puny and insignificant compared to the immaterial kinds.
- Daniel Dulitz
It's very good - and when you listen to the theory - it may not be science, but it's also not hard to relate to - it's based on reasonable ideas about physiological and psychological development and the effects of interpersonal interaction.
- Robin Barooah
Carole described IA once as "massaging your nervous system from inside", which I think is a pretty good description, but might not make much sense if you haven't experienced it.
- ana
And ana, I guess that's why you want to giggle all the time. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
Usually bodywork has emotional connection as an element, but it's not the subject of the work (the physical body is). IA is much more explicitly about "energy flow" from person to person.
- Daniel Dulitz
To be honest, I haven't had enough IA work done to really see that explicit emotional connection as element that clearly.
- ana
Maybe it's just me.
- Daniel Dulitz
Mmm, dunno. There is definitely something to the way Carole asks you about "what's going on with you". I just haven't visited her often enough for a statistically significant sample, that's all I'm saying.
- ana
Annoyed with Obama's plans around high-speed rail. Why not spend the money on better airports/air-travel. America is a very vast country and convenient air travel seems like a better mode of transportation than high speed rail. Am I missing something?
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I wish there were more options in Canada
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
The problems with air travel are cultural (annoying security, etc). In some ways, that's harder to fix, because it means acknowledging that the security is bs.
- Paul Buchheit
In theory a rail system can be more efficient in its fuel usage. Depends on the design.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Trains have fewer emotional problems because fewer people are scared of trains (a very large fraction of people are fearful of flying, even before 9/11).
- Paul Buchheit
Umm. How about we have better more automated security. You could walk through some sort of an "safe" x-ray corridor and have your hand luggage/shoes checked. I am sure we have the technology to design something like that. Spend the stimulus money on that
- Bindu Reddy
I think for a lot of people who are afraid, unwilling or unable to fly, we need more high speed options for connecting the country
- Lindsey is Fierce!
more trains, less cars.
- MikeAmundsen
I see. I didn't realize that there were so many people who didn't like flying. One thing high speed rail may be good for is a good alternative to driving
- Bindu Reddy
And also I feel, scaling air travel for many people can be highly expensive, compared to trains. With my Indian background, cannot imagine air travel replacing train anytime :).
- Karthick R
Trains also work better for smaller cities/destinations because it only takes a few min for a train to stop but hours for a plane to stop.
- Paul Buchheit
That said, planes are clearly better for very long distances and I agree that airports should be made less annoying and painful.
- Paul Buchheit
Chris, I have travelled by train both in Europe and Japan and while it is fun I don't think I would want to hang out in the train for more than 3-4 hrs. It's pretty convenient for short destinations/trips but the last time I took the overnight train from Paris to Milan, I really disliked it. I simply went back to flying which in Europe is not so bad as the security is more lax.
- Bindu Reddy
Airport capacity can never compete for quick and easy commuting or quick hops. Airports take all of your day and I see no way for that to get any easier anytime soon, even with an infusion of cash.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
I would MUCH rather have adequate high speed rail systems than improved airports. I have to fly from NJ to WI regularly to visit family and I absolutely hate the flying experience from A to Z. I would LOVE to be able to take a train to WI.
- Robert DeBord
I am all excited about these plans. Also, high speed rail is the fastest and most convenient transportation mode at certain distance range (50-200 miles), if you count in downtown-to-airport travel times, traffic and security.
- andrei_c
I couldn't disagree with you more. I think high speed trains are far too long in coming. They move more people more efficiently, are more cost effective, and high-speed rail tech has come a long way. If I could get to SF in 2 hours via high-speed train I'd consider commuting. Because flying takes me 3 hours minimum.
- Karoli
I have to disagree, I've been waiting for High Speed Rail for a long time. Air travel is a such a pain in the butt now. For short trips, HSR is perfect, and easy!
- Michael Fidler
from twhirl
OK, I totally agree with trains being good for short distances and as replacement for cars. I thought I heard Obama talking about some sort of corridor across the country. Did I get that wrong?
- Bindu Reddy
Even better, I thought they were only considering short trips. Good news!
- Michael Fidler
he mentioned Lincoln building the transcontinental RR during the Civil War...and talked about identifying major cities as hubs, but I don't recall any specifics around a national route. He was pretty specific about how effective it was to link up major cities within 100-300 miles.
- Karoli
For air travel, you have to get to the airport several hours early. A real pain. The shinkansen in Japan was great b/c you could show up a few minutes before departure.
- Mike Reynolds
OK, I am reading the news article again and it only mentions high speed corridors. So that would mean only short distances? Ah, my bad. I have been conjuring up images of travelling all the way from SF to Seattle on train... If I could get from SF to LA in 2 hours, I would love it. You prob. want to add an extra 1 hr to get to the train station. But still 3 hrs beats the current 5-6 hrs driving.
- Bindu Reddy
I traveled from LA to Portland by train with my daughter a few years back. It was magic. But impractical for anything other than vacation. If i could zip up to SF via high speed or from SF to Portland, or Portland to Seattle, I think it would rock. As the great-granddaughter and granddaughter of lifelong train employees, I have a deep love for them.
- Karoli
Cell phone access, WiFi, corporate entertaining in the designated cars (full bars), sit down eating, decent toilets and scenery
- Johnny Worthington
will i have to pay for 2 train seats too?
- Jason
Karoli, sounds real interesting.... I have never taken the train in the US. I should try it sometime. Though I have taken trains in other places including India, Europe and Japan. In India a lot of travel happens on trains but the travel time can be crazy. Sometimes as long as 2-3 days! Some ppl love it though :)
- Bindu Reddy
Chris, not as many ppl live close to the Townsend caltrain station ;) It's about 8-9 blocks for me as well
- Bindu Reddy
Ah OK even closer :)
- Bindu Reddy
Acela for example sucks as far as high-speed trains go, but it was a pleasant way to go NYC<->BOS. Downtown to downtown is a huge win; it saves 2 hours when you count the taxi/AirTrain ride, security, and waiting latency. Something better than Acela on that corridor would be costly but wonderful.
- Daniel Dulitz
Trains are far more convenient for short and medium distances, especially between city centers.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I love highspeed rail. I can walk into Boston South Station, buy an Acela ticket from a kiosk, and walk onto the train in 5 minutes. Less than 4 hours later I'm in downtown New York. During the whole trip I can get up, walk around, buy snacks, use my cell phone, access the Internet, or recline my seat enough to comfortably sleep.
- Gabe
Aha, what you're missing is that what's wrong with air travel wouldn't be fixed by money. It would be fixed by instilling an attitude of customer service in the people who run airlines (not possible), replacing security with something extremely fast (e.g. lineless), and, putting airports in easy-to-get-to places downtown (not possible, and also not desirable when you're not actually flying)
- j1m
As one of the people freaked out by air travel, I am all for this high speed rail plan. I would gladly take a bullet train from SF to DC if it meant I didn't have to fly.
- EricaJoy
45 mins downtown to airport; 45 mins flying time; 45 mins airport to downtown; assuming traffic isn't snarled. 2hrs 15 mins total commute for air travel. High speed rail; 11/2 hrs total, downtown to downtown. 45 mins saved and very much more efficient use of petroleum. Save the oil for flying to Europe & Asia.
- Alex Williams
High speed rail as a service is competitive vs. plane journeys < 1.5 hours. On the other hand, it's not very economical. Generally only works in Europe where it's subsidized.
- Steve Crossan
Oh, trust me, Steve. there will be an entitlement bill or an EO that will subsidize these for decades.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Airlines are already very heavily subsidized, far more than rail. Without subsidies air travel might not be competitive at all.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Anyone whose has ridden TGV or Shinkansen would not be making that statement. If we had Japanese/German/French-like tracks and trains, a trip from SF to LA would probably be <3hrs door to door with far less hassle. I used to ride DC to NY every weekend, 2hr30min, hop-on/hop-off. Trains are greener to operate, and our airports are already congested and subsidized. All I can say is, it's about time. HS intercity links are the way to go.
- Ray Cromwell
Ray, I am completely on-board when it comes to having trains for short-distances (journey is about 3-4 hrs.). I thought that the plan was to have more trains for longer distances. Also our airports do need a lot of improvements and it would be good to upgrade them as well.
- Bindu Reddy
Even on long distances, a train ride could be enjoyable. A 200mph train could make a coast-to-coast trip in 15 hours. You'll have dining cars, shopping cars, sleeper cars, ability to take your own car (not rental) with you in some cases, much more freedom to walk around. Stop-overs are less of a hassle. I took an 8-hour sleeper in the EU one time, I slept better than 99% of times I've flown. It would be an option for some people.
- Ray Cromwell
@Ray: Shinkansen FTW! Does anyone know of a reputable source for efficiency numbers on rail (normal, high-speed, etc.) vs. air travel? I've always assumed rail would be much more efficient, but have no evidence to back that up. Assuming that's correct, it seems to me that a carbon tax ought to nudge the travel market in the right direction (though I suppose short-term subsidies might still be necessary to help with massive capital expenditures required to get decent rail built).
- Joel Webber
I think Obama's PDF proposal includes graphs of efficiency. Of course, Reason/Cato foundation will chime in and tell you rail travel is an epic fail, even in Japan, where apparently 90 million people ride it daily, but somehow Reason thinks they're losing ridership to cars and that cars are the way of the future there. I used to have real respect for those guys, but on climate change, energy, and other matters, they've turned into zealous spinmeisters instead of trying to approach things with an open mind.
- Ray Cromwell
It is several orders of magnitude easier to make trains that run on solar/nuclear/wind/geothermal/wave/etc energy than aircraft. With aircraft, you have to start messing with hydrogen or biofuels, both of which we don't know if it'll scale well enough to work for the current load. With trains, as long as the overhead lines have electricity, all is good.
- Wirehead
Many times, air travel is a nightmare, because of crowded airports, weather, waiting uncomfortably. If high speed trains can help with that, I'm all for them.
- Stan Scott
Rail for freight is very efficent, they've been udon hybrids for a long time (diseal-electric), OTOH, I took Amtrak from STL to KC, I would have made better time driving and it would have more pleasant to go by oxcart.
- Robert Hafer
Bindu, have you seen the proposed lines? ( http://friendfeed.com/e... ) The lines are relatively short; there's no cross-country lines here.
- Andrew C
How about job creation point of view ???
- Parvath
From the standpoint of infrastructure, I think plowing massive amounts into roads will be less efficient in stimulus. Our road infrastructure is mostly saturated/built-out and it's in maintenance mode now. High speed Passenger rail is in infancy here, like a startup, a lot of innovation will occur, a lot more engineering work will happen, in addition to lots of blur collar skilled labor soaked up. Or, we could outsource everything to German companies. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Additionally, there are engineering challenges unique to some corridors that will require custom solutions, so it will serve to stimulate renewed interest in civil engineering careers. A country can't stand to lose engineering talent in making/producing real things. Software and financial services are great and all, but we need to be able to make stuff too.
- Ray Cromwell
All my cousins live in Germany, and one of my programmer cousins used to ride a train across the country every other day, he said he got more work done on the train than in the office. He had internet access and didn't have to wear a seatbelt. Plus, he didn't have to own a car.
- Phil G
Airports are ruined. Your not going to get the security back to normal for that travel for a really really long time. Too many people see airflight as a form of weapon. Rail trains can only go in a planned direction and it will bring money to the local communities they travel through either through work, and stops for tourists.
- CW™
I took the Caltrain today from Santa Clara Station to SF to see the Giants game. (disapointment that was) it was nice to not have to drive. I was able to sit back, pop open my laptop and do some work. I didn't need to worry about anything other then missing my destination. Also it was packed! Tons of people used this service today. Granted it was a brilliant day in SF and everyone was up beat and enjoying it. If I was working in SF on a daily basis I would be taking this transportation. Its just easier.
- CW™
Saying that trains suck because Amtrak sucks is like saying the Internet sucks because AOL sucks.
- Wirehead
Man, I never got any shiny disks from Amtrak!
- Adam Lasnik
If someone were going to give you a prize for winning a contest and the prize had to be $100-$150 worth in value. What would you like to win?
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maybe 1/3 of a Kindle?
- ⓞnor
$150 in cash.
- Alex Scoble
gold.
- imabonehead
Gift certificate to Powell's Books.
- Ruchira S. Datta
@nor, ha ha :) I have discovered the Kindle is not such a great prize. There are quite a few people who are not into books and simply don't want one :)
- Bindu Reddy
@Bindu , so then maybe 1/3 of a kindle would be all they need
- Fedor Karpelevitch
the contest. Duh!
- Kevin Fox
As far as universal gifts go (if you exclude cash equivalents) I believe food is a winner. A nice wine/cheese/etc.. basket or something.1) anyone can use one 2) if he already has one it is not a problem 3) it is not something people buy for themselves every week anyway.. And you can always find something at pretty much any price point.
- Fedor Karpelevitch
You could have a celebrity speak a personalized message. Some cost $149, many seem to have sold out though. http://www.liveautographs.com
- Philipp Lenssen
@Fedor: It may be hard to find food that is non-perishable in $100 quantity and acceptable to everyone. I don't drink, nor eat cheese with animal rennet; others have different issues.
- Ruchira S. Datta
the personalized autographs sounds pretty neat.. Esp. since there are lot of celebrity fans :) the food has to be something universal. Something like chocolate maybe. I wonder if it is easy to give away iphones
- Bindu Reddy
Kevin may not win the contest but he won the thread...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Perhaps a giftcard, Bindu. Like a Visa or an AMEX one. The recipient can choose anything they want.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Amex/Visa gift cards are pretty appealing to everyone.
- Jess Lee
Kevin and his wise-cracks :)
- Bindu Reddy
Magnetic Letters! Then I could spell "A WINNER IS YOU" on my refrigerator
- Larry Hosken
Larry, was that a NES "Pro Wrestling" reference? o.O ..also I'm with Alex, cash is a good reward in any situation.
- Joe Pierce
$150 in lottery tickets. It's something people wouldn't buy for themselves but wouldn't mind receiving.
- Tödd Nëmët
Gram of Coke might be really effective incentive for a certain kind of person. :) I have feeling it is more expensive than $150 though. Jess/Mark, seems like the gift card is the simplest/most sensible way to go.
- Bindu Reddy
half an hour of market research :)
- Paul Lindner
Paul you are on FF! Wow, i didn't know that. Good to see you here
- Bindu Reddy
An Amazon.com GC.
- Piaw Na
Carbon credits.
- Antonio Piccolboni
Gift certificate for Best Buy. or Amazon.
- Helen Sventitsky
Vodka.
- bnoise
massage
- Steve Crossan
I agree with Steve... but at least 2 of the hour long massage sessions...
- Harold
Antonio -- I have carbon credits for sale...from our solar array. http://tiny.cc/blogdoug Welcome to buy. Re: prize. Depends on nature of the contest, is it genius programming, prefect prose, or wet tee shirt mud wrestling? The the last contest category is from Wikipedia, not my idea. I would like someone to win a luxury fragrance from my company. Any further non-commercial questions?
- Douglas Hopkins
Cash.
- Melinda Owens
thanks for all the suggestions! I went with the gift card suggestion - http://friendfeed.com/e...
- Bindu Reddy
In the wak of the newspaper execs' hissy fit - http://www.dailykos.com/storyon...
"Local news? Newsroom cuts in search of ever-higher profit margins have decimated local coverage in the age of corporate ownership. Local TV is filling many of those gaps, as are citizen bloggers. Don't laugh at the notion of citizen journalists -- the best Oakland coverage anywhere, bar none, comes from the muckrakers at A Better Oakland. It truly beats the shit out of anything the Oakland Tribune or local TV stations are doing"
- j1m
from Bookmarklet
Funny I've been surfing for stuff about media tonight also. Found this very good Frontline series - just watched the first part: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh...
- Steve Crossan
Reminds me once again of the amazing facts. They lied in order to take us to war and a lot of people died. More amazingly, despite the almost total failure of the media, *we all knew* they were lying all the way through. We found out they were lying afterwards for sure. We all still know. The memoirs have started to come out admitting it. And yet the small numbers of journalists who put out stories to this effect were hounded and not defended by their organisations. The BBC ended up apologising ...
- Steve Crossan
... their director general resigned, and they've been on the defensive ever since. Media organisations don't need a brilliant plan to combat the web, they just need a spine.
- Steve Crossan
The other day I was discussing investigative journalism with ⓞnor, and he said something like, They took a pass on the entire Iraq war -- just when were they going to start investigating? (I'm sure I've got this wildly wrong and he'll correct me.)
- j1m
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- Steve Crossan
Sisters make people happy, brothers breed distress: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
"Researchers quizzed 571 people aged 17 to 25 about their lives and found those who grew up with sisters were more likely to be happy and balanced."
- Steve Crossan
Scotch drinkers: what do you recommend that is balanced yet complex with an average price tag? Not a gift.
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Crickets from FF? :(
- Mona Nomura
Define average price tag. Have you tried Oban?
- Alex Scoble
Reshared to the drinking room: http://friendfeed.com/rooms...
- Rochelle
Reasonable price for scotch - under 200?
- Mona Nomura
Glenlivet. But I don't drink much Scotch.
- Steven Perez
Oban is about $62 a bottle or so at Bev Mo. It's the fav of the Scobleizer.
- Alex Scoble
You cannot go wrong with Macallan 18. If you want something truly impressive, check out Macallan's Cask Strength. (Obviously, I'm a Macallan fan.) Balvenie makes an excellent Double Wood that has a unique flavor.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva - you're the third person to say Macallan 18. And I love when you go into details. Btw, Macallan - is it salty, oakey, smokey, or sweet?
- Mona Nomura
I'll second the Balvenie Doublewood - 12yo, better if you wait until it's 20 :)
- Glen Campbell
It's a scotch, so it tastes like dirt.
- Alex Scoble
Alex, I am going to punch you in the throat and then giggle like a little girl.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It's a got quite the oak streak but it's definitely on the sweeter side. If you want sweet and can afford it, the Balvenie 21 is unbelievable. Speaking of, I think I'll have a bit now myself.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It's true. Because of the peat they use to dry the hops or barley or whatever scotch tastes a bit earthy. When you find a scotch that doesn't taste earthy, let me know.
- Alex Scoble
How will I be able to properly let you know WHILE I AM REPEATEDLY PUNCHING YOUR THROAT, ALEX.
- Akiva Moskovitz
You won't. Especially if you are drinking scotch because after the first sip you'll say "damn, he's right...it tastes like dirt."
- Alex Scoble
You, sir, will suffer the suffering of a thousand sufferers who are suffering the suffering of a thousand other suffers who are suffering a slightly different but equally potent suffering than the first thousand sufferers are suffering.
- Akiva Moskovitz
It doesn't all taste like dirt. It all tastes like rubbing alcohol.
- Rochelle
Macallen 12 yo (or better) if you can afford a few extra $$, otherwise Bushmills
- Threepwood
I should read the other comments first....heaps of other Macallen fans here :-)
- Threepwood
You know how I know what scotch tastes like? Because I drank half a bottle of it one Thanksgiving. 1/4 bottle of Macallan 15 year and 1/4 bottle of Macallan 18 year. Dirt!
- Alex Scoble
Mona..Macallen 18 tasting notes are online if you havnt seen them before -> http://tinyurl.com/c8m3zf
- Threepwood
Akiva has a glass of some kind of scotch right now and I can smell it from across the living room.
- Rochelle
Alex, that's the equivalent of stuffing several different kinds of sushi at once. You, sir, lose.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Rochelle, it's the Balvenie 21. Holy crap is it quite not terrible!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, I was hungover for three days after that, so yeah, I lost. Ugh. And now I can't drink scotch anymore. Yuck.
- Alex Scoble
Canadian Club. 22 year old if you're feelin' fancy.
- Andrew Smith
Oban double matured. Amazing. Macallan 18 year too is quite good
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Alex, now I understand. That'd do me in, as well. It's why I can't drink tequila anymore unless it's silver.
- Akiva Moskovitz
But blancos have no flavor. :(
- Alex Scoble
although i have been leaning to Bourbon lately. Basil Hayden FTW!!!
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
The Macallan that people have been mentioning is good. I also like the Highland Park 12 year and Glenfiddich 12 year.
- Aaron Hood
i can't get into Glenfiddich
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
If you could get in to a bottle of any of the scotches, Jeff, that would be quite the magic feat.
- Alex Scoble
Now I'm craving mashed potatoes and scotch. Great.
- Mona Nomura
There's worse things, Mona. You could be Derrick craving some motorboating.
- Alex Scoble
OMG I need to sleep but I can't get off FF!!!
- Mona Nomura
Yeah, Mona. I know EXACTLY what you mean.
- Alex Scoble
one more vote for Macallan. 12 year old if you don't want to spend a lot of money, 18 if your budget is a bit higher.
- Tudor Bosman
I actually recommend Irish Whiskey. It is same family of whiskey. It is smoother than Scotch Whiskey because it is filtered 3 times. Scotch is filted only twice. Two brands - Jameson or Bushmills. Also, they are so pure that no hangover from it.
- Pokai
I too like the Oban 14, but it is made by the "classic malts" people. Compass Box Oak Cross is a different choice that is not too smoky or peaty.
- Sarah Miller
Laphroaig (i like). if you like peat & smoke. de gustibus, of course. keeps youngsters with undeveloped palates away ;)
- jacek
Isle Of Jura, or Caol Ila
- Iain Baker
What jacek said about Laphroaig. Also, Oban. And, of course, Lagavulin, but I don't think it qualifies as having an average price tag.
- Kevin Pedraja
Talisker, Bowmore are wonderful, drinkable, reasonable
- Barry Parr
For reasonably priced scotch, another vote for Balvenie Doublewood. Great stuff. Macallan 18 year old is great though pricey. Glenlivet has an unfiltered special reserve that is outstanding. I'm not nuts about Oban, Laphroaig and the really peaty scotches, though your taste may be different.
- jcunwired
Besides the other 2 I listed, I am really enjoying Dalhwinnie double barrel. It's so creamy and vanilla we are contemplating trying it on ice cream - if we find an ice cream worthy of the experiment.
- Sarah Miller
+1 Jamesons for the best brand / blended / standard priced. And I'm a Scot.
- Steve Crossan
My Dad became a Scotch drinker when he was in Europe because he couldn't get bourbon. His brand was Cutty Sark, which is a blended whiskey as opposed to a single malt. Glenfiddich is popular with my customers, but then some of the still drink Dewar's.
- Robert Hafer
Hang out on Friendfeed if you are in a mood for a thoughtful / intense discussion, Hang out on twitter and casually chat, Hang out on Facebook and comment on how fab. your RL friends and their babies look...
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True or False?
- Bindu Reddy
Not really sure, I don't spend much time on either Twitter or FB.
- Yolanda
Mostly true I think. But then again I'm no expert...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
True execpt for Twitter, which is the least conversational "social" site I've used.
- Andrew
not that simple, I use twitter for activism all the time.
- Tracy Viselli
There's also whimsy on FF
- sofarsoShawn
Interesting... I think one reason Twitter may be good for casual conversations is how easy it is to use on a mobile phone. Anytime you are hanging out waiting for someone/something you can @reply to someone else.
- Bindu Reddy
Theoretically - Yes. But in practice, I always end back up on Twitter. FriendFeed definitely fosters more 'intense debate', but for me Twitter offers a more dynamic social-informational context.
- phil baumann
Tracy - activism? i.e. pushing specific ideas to your followers?
- Bindu Reddy
Chris, we know you hate twitter :) Actually the commenting on FB photos sometimes gets to me... esp all the baby ones
- Bindu Reddy
I agree, the ease with which one can tweet with your cell makes up a significant % of tweets. What else do you do stuck in traffic? However I've recently gotten a twitter jump in @'s and DMs
- sofarsoShawn
I detest baby photo shares: save them for a wallet or there should be a room. They go redundantly like this: awww cute baby :o) with a bit of variation I'll concede.
- sofarsoShawn
Bindu - The friends on Twitter I have don't check Twitter very often so they don't @ reply to me. And I don't know personally know anyone who gets updates from their friends on their phones.
- Andrew
sofarsosean - no rooms on FB as you know. The recent jump in @s is likely due to a lot of people reviving their dead twitter accounts after all the press twitter got. Some of my RL friends are finally on Twiiter and have been DMing me
- Bindu Reddy
Chris, agree there is some truth to that. However some of these tools really make your more connected with your friends and more happy. Kinda of like how people used to be thrilled with gmail/google a few years ago which is why people can't stop talking about them.
- Bindu Reddy
I enjoy Twitter. Quick and dirty overs, a bit like CB radio really I guess.
- Ian May
Ian - I see what you are saying. Love that analogy
- Bindu Reddy
What I dislike intensely about Twitter is that it's entire interface and service is set up as competition of who can get the most followers and follow the least. The running total is in your face perpetually.
- sofarsoShawn
Chris, what do you mean, you don't use CB radio... You are out of it :)) sofarsosean, yes there is definitely a big competition to get more followers which might benefit Twitter but does get a bit tiresome
- Bindu Reddy
& for some users is definitely their top priority for using Twitter
- sofarsoShawn
Bindu Not just pushing ideas, pushing action--phone calls to legislators, email campaigns, using social media to spread a message very quickly to influence lawmakers, etc.
- Tracy Viselli
Now taking note of Bindu's original question: has anyone ever discussed as much via Twitter (and don't even dare use more than 140 characters). How could your answer not be true?
- sofarsoShawn
+1. I'm in exactly the same twitter/fb/ff manifold as you Bindu
- Steve Crossan
Why do we expect each service to be all things to all people? In my toolbox I have a wrench and a screwdriver: both are tools but used for different purposes. Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook are all tools, but they are different tools for a different purposes. Just my too scents.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Mark - Amen to that.. I was making the observation as to how these tools have evolved for me and was wondering if everyone else thought the same way :)
- Bindu Reddy
I have a toolbox. In my toolbox is a mutltool. My multitool does everything. It is all I need. It has the friendfeed logo on it. I am happy. All my other tools are sad.
- Alex Scoble
Alex/Chris really.. when are you guys going to forget about this. You guys need to "kiss and make up" :))
- Bindu Reddy
Forget about what now, Bindu? :)
- Alex Scoble
Seriously, I wish we could block Alex and Chris from each other. ;-)
- Kevin Fox
OK, I am trying to help but Chris that sounds mean, unless it is supposed to be funny.. I am sure Alex won't delete your comments again. You guys sound like me fighting with some of my girl friends :)
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu it's like two brothers wrestling in the yard. Just let them be.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Mark, OK fine :)
- Bindu Reddy
Naw, Bindu. If Chris passes a line in the sand that I put in a discussion, I'd delete his comments again. I reserve the right to delete comments on my threads. He might not like it, but that's the breaks. But to say that I did it because his point of view doesn't agree with mine? Pish posh. Pish posh, I say.
- Alex Scoble
What does that say for me that doesn't like Facebook and doesn't get twitter, but I'm here a lot?
- CW™
CW, It says that you like long addictive discussions :)
- Bindu Reddy
Just CW, it says you aren't in to shouting in a crowd, you actually talk to your friends instead of IM them and you have found that some people share interesting things and enjoy good conversation.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Well said Mark...
- Bindu Reddy
Probably why I subscribe to both you Bindu and MVB! Thourghly enjoy your posts. :)
- CW™
I should print more "Social Media Expert" cards...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
If I had to sum it up in a few sentences, then I would say you nailed it, but there's a lot more going on at each of these sites you mentioned. BTW, I still think socialmedian is the best place for intense debate. FF is wonderful too, but they happen quickly and then I rarely see the same post come up again.On socialmedian I've seen some discussions span several weeks. The comments are well thought out, and can be longer than many blog posts I've read. Lately,the dicussion has been on the light side. Sucks!
- Michael Fidler
Photos worth seeing
- Steve Crossan
IQ48 - Здаровыя Лосі! - http://likaholix.com/mahanio...
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Most interesting and professional young music band in Belarus.
- Ihar Mahaniok
from Likaholix
Bindu, I really need ability to add several links to a description :). here, for example, their last.fm page would fit.
- Ihar Mahaniok
Most interesting and professional young music band in Belarus sounds like a new MTV music award.
- Steve Crossan
Steve, could you pursue this with MTV and make them to introduce a new award next year? :))
- Ihar Mahaniok
Having breakfast at the Goog tomorrow, but oh must it be at 8 am?
Want to have coffee after?
- Steve Crossan
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A few photos from a vacation last weekend in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- Simon
Beautiful as usual, Simon. You are an amazing photographer.
- Bret Taylor
Rachel and I are going there for our Honeymoon!!! Staying for a few days before taking a cruise along the coast up to Venice. These photos are amazing.
- Kevin Fox
These are amazing. Nice work Simon!
- Karen Padham Taylor
Thanks :) The city is so picturesque that there is a photo to be taken regardless of where a camera is pointed! Kevin, you'll have a fantastic time. It's a great that you are going to stay for a few days since you can then visit the old town at times other than the afternoon and avoid the crowds from the cruise ships.
- Simon
Damn these are awesome. My favorite is the harbor. Serious kudos.
- Jim Stanger
Wow. Truly amazing photos!
- Jeff "RESPRES" Turner
from twhirl
Very special, out of the ordinary photos -- love the blue tints. I want to visit this place.
- Sean McBride
Stuart, I just prefer SmugMug because of the UI from the visitor point of view. I think it makes browsing a little simpler and more intuitive for the occasional visitor, and I think it looks a bit more elegant than the Flickr interface. I have thought about moving over to Flickr though.
- Simon
wow please let me know if you do so i can see your uploads more regularly.
- Mrsth
Wow, these photos look fantastic....
- Bindu Reddy
Brilliant. Reminds me of Myst :).
- Steve Crossan
Simon, Stuart: I agree, Smugmug is far easier for the casual user. Flickr is a community site through and through. Would be cool if they incroporated some gallery features. But then, one could of course develop something like a Smugmug interface for Flickr with the API and maybe have the best of both worlds. Do you get a lot of views/interaction from the Smugmug community or do you use is mostly as a gallery site for "external" visitors, Simon?
- Ole Begemann
Morrowind, not Myst. Gorgeous
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
Simon, you need not dedicate yourself to one online gallery. They're not mutually exclusive. Why not use them for different purposes? Also, see http://tabblo.com and http://zooomr.com.
- John Lam
Simon, did you set your camera to Greenwich Mean Time? All photos seem 2 hours later than as reported.
- John Lam
John, I used to have accounts at multiple providers but converged to one out of laziness and convenience. All the times are GMT. Local time was GMT+2. I find it easier to sync with my GPS tracklog when everything is GMT, particularly when I happen to be travelling to multiple countries and timezones (although this vacation was just to Croatia). Ole, about 98% of the visits to my SmugMug site are from non-SmugMug referrers.
- Simon
myst 7? :)
- Chris Harris
The Matt Cohler Exit Interview - http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
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"Early Facebook executive Matt Cohler announced his departure today to join top tier venture fund Benchmark Capital. I spent nearly half an hour this afternoon talking to him about his decision to join Benchmark Capital, his predictions for Facebook and a variety of topics that we touched on via various non sequiturs. Joining us was Benchmark Capital General Partner Bill Gurley as well."
- Paul Buchheit
Q: "You announced today that you are leaving Facebook in the fall and joining Benchmark, yet you are going to stay on as a special advisor at Facebook. What does that mean? Because it doesn’t mean anything as far as I can tell. Does it mean your stock will continue to vest?" A: "Well I can’t comment on that.." - kind of weird to leave before the IPO or buyout if it doesn't continue to vest - esp to become a VC!
- Nick Lothian
I think the most important thing for a product centric company, which Facebook of course absolutely isn’t ..." Really? That's kind of scary.
- Steve Crossan
American Film Institute: 10 Top 10 - http://www.afi.com/10top10/
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The American Film Institute apparently picked the top 10 movies in ten genres. Would be curious to hear what everyone thinks.
- Bret Taylor
Yeah, I would like to know what everyone thinks too...especially because I work for AFI.
- Michael Carter
wow, Godfather
- Zahra HB
cool list. but i'm looking down into each category top 10: why no Chariots of Fire (sports) and why Terminator 2 instead of Terminator 1 (sci fi)?
- Pokai
GF II the GF I-only time sequel better than original which in the case of GF one- a msterpiece no mean feat, Aliens another example of sequel being better than original. The Right Stuff, Once Upon a Time America, N xNW to name a few that weren't one there. Lists always so limited and subjective. Edward Scissorhands and Donnie Brasco pretty brilliant too.
- Mark Forman
Interesting no single top 10 - maybe to make you look through categories. Overall looks good for 'big' American movies. Everyone'll have their pet grumbles - mine would be: no Gladiator in epics (Reds? really?); Outlaw Josie Wales rather than Unforgiven; would be nice to see David Mamet in mystery but I guess not big enough films; some great films don't seem to fit the genres: Do The Right Thing, Taxi Driver. Glad Groundhog Day got recognized - great and underrated. There should be a Bill Murray category.
- Steve Crossan
I saw this article earlier and decided to completely skip over it. I don't think its easy to pick top 10 movies in any genre, and I know I wouldn't want to be the one who does it!
- Ian Rathbone
GF I is the best.
- loading...
Sci-Fi: Not a bad list, but it's Terminator 1, not 2 that deserves the list. I could make arguments for Gattaca, Road Warrior, The Matrix and Buckaroo Banzai on the list.
- AJ Kohn
Whoever built that site: thumbnails are quicker to download if you actually use smaller images, not browser-resized large versions :)
- Philipp Lenssen
I'm surprised they don't have a "Drama" category. Shawshank Redemption should be on that list!
- Karen Padham Taylor
I watched To Kill A Mockingbird as a 12 yr old from the back seat at the drive in. Boo Radley had me spooked for 90 minutes.
- Russellreno
Have to echo the T1 v. T2 comments. But more importantly, how does Matrix not make the sci-fi list? Also, I always preferred "The Longest Day" to "Saving Private Ryan". And it's a little weird (albeit understandable) to have an animation category without anime . . .
- Mike Yang
Sleepless in Seattle in a top 10 list? Ouch!!! Jungle Book needs to be there in the animation category. I'd put Rear Window at #1 in mystery and Usual Suspects higher. My favorite movie is the #1 Epic. The Matrix (how did that not make it) and Empire Strikes Back need to be on that list. And they need categories for Casablanca and Shawshank (unless I missed something)
- Deepak Singh
Titanic #6 in Epics? Verrry interesting... I'm curious what the criteria were but I guess in the end it's simply subjective. Personally, I'd put The Lion King as #1 and have Monsters Inc somewhere in the list for animated films.. and maybe The Princess Bride in romantic comedy. I agree Shawshank should be in there somewhere.
- Shirley Wu
Here is the complete press release with all the criteria and voting info: http://tinyurl.com/5sez38. To your question about epics, AFI defines epics as a "genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the past. Their scope defies and demands--either n the mode in which they are presented or their range across time. By this definition, Titanic is an epic. Btw, Shawshank was ranked #72 in the latest AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies
- Michael Carter
Bret, a special request: Please create a special movies room where you periodically put out movie topics for debate "best action movie" and we debate or put up different movies for people to *like* to create a FF list. we can debate, etc. also, you can put up additional topics like "hulk (old vs. new)." if you create the room (and administer), then the intelligentsia would follow to create a lively debate....
- Pokai
With so many other Hitchcock films included, for me personally, it's sad not to see "Marnie" get a mention. Grossly underrated and along with "Rear Window", maybe Hitchcock at his best? I also agree Shawshank should be in there somewhere!
- Emma
I almost completely agree with this list but might put Annie Hall ahead of City Lights for romantic comedies. UPDATE: I see it's #2, fair enough.
- MG Siegler
the searchers is such a damn good movie. i had to watch it about 10 times for one class in college. And it really doesn't get much better than the top 10 mystery list in itself.
- MG Siegler
I just added this to my tivo guru guides, i already subscribed to the AFI 100 and it's been great to see the movies that are 'classics' but I somehow always overlook. On this new one, I want "The Secret of NIMH" in animation, "Two For the Road" in romantic comedy, replace "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid" with "The Magnificent Seven," and I'm somewhat not displeased with the other lists.
- grant fox
Good list, but it would have been nice to see a Documentary genre!
- Dean Terry
I would complain that it's missing 2 of (to me) the best movies, Rosemary's Baby and Raiders of the Lost Ark....but, oh, look, it is in fact missing those entire genres. Surely horror belongs among the top 10 genres worth making a list for? Surely Action/Adventure belongs among the top 10 genres, and, actually, among the top 3?
- j1m
@nlothian if you get an offer, and aren't tied to London, I'd consider MV seriously
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Thanks - sorry I didn't notice this at the time. I'm not tied to London, but it's probably going to come down to London or Sydney. Plus, I think if I try for another office I'll probably have to go though the whole process again, which is kinda going on a bit too long already...
- Nick Lothian
I tried private messaging you on twitter. Any particular reason for not recommending London? I'd really appreciate hearing it! mailto: nlothian at apache dot org
- Nick Lothian
@nlothian you wouldn't have to go through the process again in reality - once there's an offer, you can pretty much pick (subject to visa constraints). My thinking was, if you're going to move a long way, I'd go to HQ. There's no doubt there's more challenges the further away you are from there (not that it's not great; but challenging). steve dot crossan at gmail - mail if more. BTW is this for PM/Eng?
- Steve Crossan
Garden Variety "I am leaving Google" blogpost. - http://bindureddy.blogspot.com/2008...
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For a moment I thought you were announcing your own departure!
- ⓞnor
They just don't want to burn any bridges. What's so hard to understand about that?
- m13a
When people look for a new job, they can expect to be Googled. Most prospective employers find it unappealing when they see a candidate bash their previous employer. Of course, it might also be that they had one of the best experiences of their lives and are eager to strike out on their own. This is actually the case for a lot of people leaving Google (especially those who tend to have high-traffic personal blogs).
- Kevin Fox
Bindu, I'm curious if you're including my recent post as an example of an ex-Googler's goodbye that is "garden-variety" and "scared of speaking out?" I agree with Kevin that it seems that many people who both a) leave voluntarily and b) want to talk about their change in employment are also likely to be people whose experiences were mostly positive. This includes me.
- Chris Wetherell
It might just be that people don't see the need to comment on the bad as their lives have now moved past that.
- Edward Ho
For some, leaving is like graduating from college. After 4 years, you do something else.
- amar
The question is not why googlers don't (necessarily) have an ax to grind when they leave... it's why so many people stay so long in places where they do have bitter terrible experiences.
- Clare Dibble
Firstly Chris, no this was not directed at you or anyone in particular. This was just a random discussion we were having yesterday :) I am also not suggesting anyone at Google has had a terrible experience. In fact, I do believe most people have good experiences.... However, I do believe every experience has both pros and cons. In Google's case - many more pros than cons... All we were wondering is how could it be that we never hear a con...
- Bindu Reddy
Like with any venture, there were often frustrating times, bad decisions, and lame people. But, the company and the leadership were so head and shoulders above anything I have experienced elsewhere in terms of their dedication to users, ethical compass, and empowerment of young, inexperienced employees, that I feel a deep loyalty and gratitude for working there. Did they get everything right? No way. Is it getting worse? Yes. But I will always feel lucky to have worked there.
- Christopher Sacca
I also have to say, I agree with Kevin's comment that high-traffic bloggers are likely to have had good experiences. Since these people tend to be more influential than others, constructive criticism from them can sometimes make Google better... There is always room for improvement ;)
- Bindu Reddy
Less so now, but it seems that those that were there near the beginning-ish were part of something that is being immortalized in American pop culture. Kind of like happening into Jack Keroak as a drinking buddy. You had a sense you were part of something exciting and important. Except instead of being stranded in Denver without your clothes or your girl or whatever, you made money out of the experience as well.
- Clare Dibble
Why are high-traffic bloggers likely to have had a good experience?
- Gary Burd
@Gary: This was my reasoning, may or may not be the same as Kevin's. If you have a high-traffic blog, it is most probably because you are well-known in the blogosphere for having launched/designed/run a fairly successful/well-known product(s). All said and done and in-spite of all the frustrations, launching/running a successful product can be a very rewarding experience at Google. So that leads to the conclusion, that most high-traffic bloggers have had a pretty good experience :)
- Bindu Reddy
@Chris White: No doubt there are a lot of people from Google who are influential that are not bloggers. In fact the vast majority of influential people at Google don't blog.. That said, Googlers with high traffic blogs tend to be more influential than your average Googler.
- Bindu Reddy
I would also add item #6: "Everyone I worked with is a super duper genius, and the person replacing me is super duper genius-er".....again, not to say it isn't true, just seems to be included in all the goodbye posts.
- Adam Kazwell
@bindu "constructive criticism can sometimes make Google better ..." sure - but the place for that is a mail to LSE, or maybe an internal blog post. You post anything public, even 'constructive', and that becomes the story: Another Superstar leaves Google with Parting Shot etc.
- Steve Crossan
@steve: you are prob. right what with the tendency for the press/media/blogosphere to sensationalize every thing
- Bindu Reddy
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