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FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...

July 27, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

..и ещё раз помыла голову, Adam Spring, Kevin Mohr and 110 other people liked this

Welcome, Ben! - Kevin Fox

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Right on! Congrats, Ben. - Micah

Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him! - Jason Shellen

Watch out, there's a duck over there! ;) - alieb from iPhone

Data storage and scalability rock. :) - Louis Gray

Ben's feed is here: http://friendfeed.com/bdarnell - Bret Taylor

Congrats, Ben! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah Ben!!! - Rachel Lea Fox

so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris... - MG Siegler

Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-) - Kevin Fox

well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that... more... - pb:

Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :) - Simon

Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team. - Anne Bouey

Woohoo! Another Googler :) - Tim Hoeck

Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;)))) - K.D.

That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;) - Josh Haley

Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting - Roberto from fftogo

you're building a friendfeed army there :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Congrats - Özkan Altuner

Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine. - Mike Reynolds

gratz Ben! - timepilot

Welcome Bret! - Michael_techie

So, Facebook...? - Daniel J. Pritchett

Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers. - beersage

Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting. - Ken Sheppardson

Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into - Glenn Slaven

Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme? - Vezquex

I don't know.. but it is awesome! :) - Tim Hoeck

Wow, looks like somebody bumped this! - Kevin Fox

I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped. - Stephen Mack

Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart

OH HAI! - Eric

Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was! - Kevin Fox

It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs* - Jimminy, CoG of FF

I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today. - Ben Darnell

Kol Tregaskes to Kol's feed, Funny Pics and Videos

No Matter How Hard You Try, It Is Impossible To Fax A Cat #shareit

April 19, 2009 - Comment - Like - Share

Ahmet Yükseltürk, selimovski, Joan Miro and 739 other people liked this

LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

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That poor cat looks so confused. - Georgie Bestie

but it's so warm on top of the scanner! - DJF

Time for a cat scan! - Jemm

Iz I the right way up for printing? - Vicky

This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws. - Soup in a TARDIS

LOL, Soup! - Kol Tregaskes

that is one adorable kitten! - Anna Lynn M.

<3 - Furkan Tunalı

Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out... - Greg Lato

Kitty!!!! - Janice

keep trying! - Morgan

FEED ME A CAT - tehKenny

Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying. - Steven Perez

Push harder - Josh Haley

LOL@Jemm - AJ Batac :)

آخی - یک بابک

Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

1 closer....hilarious! - Jeffrey Marsh

There we go 150 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez.... - Stephanie Segel

thanks, i needed a laugh - chaz2b

FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED - Karl Knechtel

iz dat some copycat? - bora "head" basman

LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer! - Threepwood

Just one more like... please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's over two huuunddreeeed - bora "head" basman

MOAR! - Pat Hawks

I need 9 copies please ! - Faraz Mullick

A cute cat :) - Mohammad Abdurraafay

Haha, Faráz. - Kol Tregaskes

Next target, 250 likes. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Friendfeed loev faxcat :o - Karl Knechtel

;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Pussy by fax. What will they think of next? - Mattb4rd

X)) - Neya

OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic. - Alistair (alpinefolk)

You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!! - Kol Tregaskes

Kol, this thread is pure genius. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

But only almost 50 comments.. :) - Simon Wicks

Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate! - Ivan Zuzak

Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

there we go then for the 1500+!! - Jaap Willem

1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers. - Simon Wicks

Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... - Kol Tregaskes

OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy! - Kol Tregaskes

Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again. - Jason (not an Argonaut)

I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder - anna sauce

Hehe, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P - Richard A.

I'd like again if I could :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev

bump - Simon Wicks

Richard, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes

Awesomely funny! - Martha

Next target: 400 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

theres one more for you Kol - Toby Graham

Toby, you're very kind. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Cute *_* - Sybelle

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

can you spare a cat 6 likes? - Jason (not an Argonaut)

sweet - Eric Hofmann

Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT. - Mike Nayyar

Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Awesome. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

this is underfaksink at its worzt - pb:

Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" .. - pb:

Ah, OK, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :] - pb:

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

433 Like ! Wow ! - Like

Freemor, yes very cute! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

cute~ - Chan Pen

that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax. - Phil Maxwell

oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink - pb:

Just 5 more likes needed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Fax, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test) - Iphigenie

Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes). - Roberto Bonini

I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little - SteVe C

Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

They fax much better if you flatten them first. What? - The original Kevin

LOL, Kevin. - Kol Tregaskes

i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm - Iphigenie

Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED! - The Real sofarsoShawn

Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Countdown! 8 more now! - Mike Nayyar

bump for more likes - Josh Haley

bump - Roberto Bonini

One more!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

I took mine away, too much pressure. - SteVe C

Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes

I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that. - Georgie Bestie

меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот - Парадокс Смейла

Kendra, absolutely. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all! - Kol Tregaskes

did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

wish I could double like! - metalerik

Wish I could just like it at all. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-) - Kol Tregaskes

But it's a cat being crushed... - Richard A.

برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟ - نصرآبادی

Hehe, Richard. - Kol Tregaskes

copy cat - gibilix

518 like! most liked post? - Lu Tao

ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :)) - Arzu

Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

*bump* - Andre

Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!! - Roberto Bonini

OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!! - Kol Tregaskes

So we know how many people use this site. - Richard A.

So that's what Paws Printing means. - Jack&Cleo

Richard, we getting there. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Jack, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

this thread is making history. - vijay

Indeed .. this is a most epic thread - Mattb4rd

Hehe. 9 more for 550! - Kol Tregaskes

8... - The Real sofarsoShawn

7. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this" - The Real sofarsoShawn

Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get??? - Roberto Bonini

Gosh, no idea. - Kol Tregaskes

take some bets then come back in a year to check? - Iphigenie

:) - SokooteDel

Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes! - Mattb4rd

552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

560! - The Real sofarsoShawn

And back down to 559. Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo? - Susan Beebe

I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat! - Rich

Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

564! - The Real sofarsoShawn

I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken - Jason (not an Argonaut)

maybe a good way to clone cats :) - Roberto

Hehe, Roberto. - Kol Tregaskes

This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!? - Kol Tregaskes

It could! Keep bumping it up! - imabonehead

It will :) - Roberto Bonini

My next cat post: http://beta.friendfeed.com/the-fun... - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-) - j1m

No yet. Close though. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Stuck on 581. - Kol Tregaskes

One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-) - John Collis

Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John. - Kol Tregaskes

ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی - Maryaminaa

11 more to 600. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟ - Exir

هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D - Shayan

Hehe, 6 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600 - Josh Haley

Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

it's 598+3, at the moment ;-) - Andre

There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!! - Kol Tregaskes

3 people un liked :( - Roberto Bonini

I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well. - Kol Tregaskes

too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;) - Jason (not an Argonaut)

Haha, Jason. - Kol Tregaskes

614!!!!! - The Real sofarsoShawn

Whoa! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)] - pb:

Petr, who's he? - Kol Tregaskes

omg, this post passed 600 likes! - imabonehead

@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there .. - pb:

I see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

Day 11 and this thing's still going! - Phil Maxwell

Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠

whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible - Megan Craig

Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry! - Jérôme

Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography? - The Real sofarsoShawn

Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-) - The Real sofarsoShawn

this makes me laugh every darn time I see it - Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian

Who is this NShawnFW? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

kitties do like to find new spots to nap :) - Maryam

LOL, now over 650 likes. - Kol Tregaskes

این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟ - Maryaminaa

Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol? - Roberto Bonini

Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :) - Maryaminaa

Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

lol - Maryaminaa

I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture - Kevin J Hatton

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE. - WYRD 101

Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead - Mattb4rd

Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes

10 more likes for 700! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

7 more by my count! - Bec Rowe @d0tski

Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy? - aerobroken

It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or... - The Real sofarsoShawn

OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, not so bad huh? \u) - Zu from AOD

Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-) - Rick Cogley

Must try this at home! - Anthony K. Valley ©

Bumping some old great posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

Now THAT is a classic! - Allan Besselink

you have to flatten it first!!! ;) - Neda S.

This is very good humor! - TrafficBug

Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

just a couple thousand to go - Jason (not an Argonaut)

LOL - Smeerch

__awesome__ - scotu ._.,

and it got resurrected once again! - Iphigenie

I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy. - Seth Greenblatt

Bump. - Kol Tregaskes

ahahahahaha salaaa baaaaaakkkkkk - missipipi

I'm so glad this thread has been revived. The cat in the fax machine never fails to delight. - Michelle Jones

aha! 700 kişi zorla kapağın altına tepilen kediyi beğenmiş - Siminya

I've heard of cheap paper but this is ridiculous!! - Neda S.

Copy the cat - Alyn William

And there I was thinking this was the most liked post on FriendFeed. Darn, just 3rd. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Just 100 more likes to go. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

Missed this the first time around. - John (bird whisperer)

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

Wow, over 700 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes

715 likes and counting. - Kol Tregaskes

Fax Yeah! - Playing Well with Others

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

who revived that one? - Iphigenie

Me, sorry. - Kol Tregaskes

Just 40 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

all right let's do it... - Iphigenie

Love this one! - Fossil Huntress

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

#aaaf - Ali Oz

Amit Patel

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage « Ming-Ming Cheng （程明明） - http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn:8080/cmm...

October 5, 2009 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

kartik vaithyanathan, Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™, qub and 18 other people liked this

Graphics research is amazing. This project: sketch and label something you want a photo of, then the system finds photos on the web, cuts out the parts that it wants, and composes everything together. Watch the video too. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

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Graphics programmers have the best demos. Hands down. - no name

The site is down at the moment, but here's a direct link to the video: http://vimeo.com/6496886 - Ben Darnell

This made me wonder once more how things spread through the social web. When I posted this the site was up! Then it got on gizmodo, reddit, etc. and the site went down. :( - Amit Patel

Ming-Ming Cheng just received a Google China Fellowship:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010... - Jenny Zhou

it's amazing - Yicong Liang

crazy good! - Private Sanjeev

I downloaded the client, but it doesn't appear to work and has an expiration date of "1 Jan 2011" :(. - Private Sanjeev

Tudor Bosman

How to tell if a movie is made in USA | Partial Objects - http://partialobjects.com/2011...

July 5 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Jeanette Bosman, Dan Hsiao, Simon and 6 other people liked this

"Here’s how you know this is European: if this had been made by An American, all of those dancers would be super hot. And young." [...] "To an American sensibility, sensuality out of proportion to physical attractiveness is jarring, odd. If you see two unattractive people acting sexy in America, you’re watching a comedy." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

I guess the dancing scene in the 3rd or 4th iteration of Empire is an exception. - Anika

Amit Patel

Plain Text Offenders - http://plaintextoffenders.com/post...

July 5 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Joe Beda, Private Sanjeev, Peter Dawson and 2 other people liked this

newegg stores your password instead of storing the hash :( - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

wow. that should be criminal. - AJ Batac :)

Paul Buchheit

Persistence Hunting is amazing - https://www.youtube.com/watch...

July 4 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Dan Hsiao, Oguz Serdar, Private Sanjeev and 4 other people liked this

DGentry

ID_AA_Carmack: We are filling one of our game build servers with 192 gigs of ram, which is still a bit mind boggling for me. Not even all that expensive. - http://twitter.com/ID_AA_C...

June 19 from Twitter / Favorites from... - Comment - Like - Share

Simon, Amit Patel, Kevin Johnson and Micah liked this

Chiu-Ki Chan

June 18 from SmugMug - Comment - Like - Share

Simon liked this

Leonard

Took a look back today http://randomfoo.net/2011... at my 2006 tech predictions http://randomfoo.typepad.com/ramblin...

June 14 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Simon liked this

Those are some remarkably prescient predictions. Are you making a 2016 list? - Kevin Fox

Jim Norris

There are plenty of false quotes attributed to [ex-]governor @SarahPalinUSA, not to be confused with quotes falsely attributed to her

June 9 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Anne Bouey, Simon and Johnny liked this

Tudor Bosman

Bunny rabbits compete in show jumping course: Dressage set to take world by storm | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...

June 8 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Maggie, Rachel Lea Fox, Simon and 7 other people liked this

"That rabbits like to hop is hardly a secret. But now European rabbit enthusiasts have harnessed their bunnies' natural talents to create a new spectator sport... rabbit showjumping. Invented in Sweden in the early Eighties, Kaninhop involves bunnies bouncing their way around courses consisting of several small jumps of varying height and length." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Elad

Steve Jobs can sell! Jobs presenting to Cupertino City Council yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Steve Jobs can sell! Jobs presenting to Cupertino City Council yesterday: http://t.co/srQAUum

June 8 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ, Simon, Paul Buchheit and kartik vaithyanathan liked this

Gabe

Bank forecloses on man: not news. Man forecloses on bank: NEWS - http://www.digtriad.com/news...

June 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Becca, Simon, fshamsi and 9 other people liked this

BofA tried to foreclose on a man who didn't even have a mortgage, and was ordered to pay his legal fees. After not getting paid, the last option was to sieze the bank's assets. Arriving with sheriff's deputies and a moving van, it only took an hour to get paid! - Gabe from Bookmarklet

Peter Norvig

On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning - http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

May 26 from Peter Norvig - Comment - Like - Share

Laura Norvig, klemo, Adewale Oshineye and 2 other people liked this

At the MIT 150 symposium, Chomsky said that the notion of success used by statistical language models (namely, that they successfully predict the world and allow programs to accomplish tasks) was "very novel ... I don't know of anything like it in the history of science." This essay argues that it is not novel at all, but perfectly commonplace. - Peter Norvig

April Buchheit

"In what has come to be called "social capital research," sociologists typically ask survey questions like "Do you think people can be trusted?" Respondents' answers are based on a 4-point rating scale. It turns out that there are high and low trust regions in the U.S., as well as internationally."

May 26 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

Simon, Rachel Lea Fox, Bruce Lewis and 14 other people liked this

"For example, the deep South and Nevada are very low-trust states, whereas Minnesota has a high trust rating. Internationally, only 2% of Brazilians trust people, compared to 65% of Norwegians. Why does this question matter so much? Low-trust geographical regions tend to have significantly greater income disparity between the rich and the poor; lower political participation rates (for example, the percent of people who vote); lower participation rates of volunteering with neighborhood, social, and philanthropic groups; lower levels of philanthropic giving; less sense of neighborhood and community. Lower social trust in a geographical region is also associated with overall poorer physical and mental health of the populations, lower longevity, greater crime, and lower child achievement in schools and on standardized tests. Also, interventions (such as reducing class size in schools) are generally far less effective in low-trust states." pp. 41-42 'The Science of Trust' - April Buchheit from iPhone

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Interesting! - Anne Bouey

How do we know that Davis's question is real? - Amit Patel

How do we know any of this is real? - April Buchheit

What IS reality, anyway? - Stephen Mack from iPhone

What is IS? - Ross Miller

What is love anyway? Does anybody love anybody anyway? Whoa, Whoa, Wa-oh oooooo. - Josh Haley

We're no strangers to love. You know the rules and so do I. - Amit Patel

Rachel Lea Fox to Rachel's feed, Photography as Art

Best Night-Sky Pictures of 2011 Named - A dazzling green aurora frames the arc of the Milky Way over Jökulsárlón, the largest glacier lake in Iceland, on March 10. The picture is a first-prize winner in the Second International Earth and Sky Photo Contest's "Beauty of the Night Sky" category. - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news...

May 17 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

testbeta, Wulffy, Dan Hsiao and 50 other people liked this

Wow! - rowlikeagirl

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I really REALLY want to see the northern lights. I've been told you can seem them from our area from time to time. So neat. That shot is gorgeous. - SAM

SAM, I got to experience them once in Alaska (and once from the window of a plane, that was cool but not as good), it was the most amazing experience ever! Definitely one of my top 10 sites ever!! I hope someday to do a trip planned around getting to see them again. The way they move is just incredible. I highly recommend trying to see them if you are able!! - Rachel Lea Fox

When I used to work in the bush in Northern Ontario, they danced most every night. If you stood on a bare bit of rock and looked up, you may as well have been swimming in them. Sometimes, they made noises, too, I swear. A lightly pulsing hum. Extraordinary :) - Brent from fftogo

Awesome Brent!!!!! Do you have photos? - Rachel Lea Fox

Um, no. That was the early 90s and...stuff ;) My girlfriend at the time may have some, though I can't promise the quality will be good heh. - Brent from fftogo

I have photos from my Alaska experience. But it was my first digital camera and they aren't that good. :( - Rachel Lea Fox

nice :) - The Real sofarsoShawn

Awesome! - Iván Abrego

Beautiful. - Mary Beth Sancomb Moran

Amit Patel

Depixelizing Pixel Art - http://johanneskopf.de/publica...

May 17 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Dan Hsiao, Private Sanjeev, JoeCamel and 5 other people liked this

New algorithm for up-scaling images. This one goes from pixel to vector form. Compare to my favorite, hq4x, which is good but goes from 1x to 4x pixel size, as well as other algorithms. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Matt Cutts

Ooh, you can turn off press releases in Google News now: https://www.google.com/account... Nice.

May 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Adriano Gasparri, Simon, Andrea Grassi and 2 other people liked this

Christopher Sacca

Lawyer next to me fell asleep while editing a document. But, he still has his pen in hand and touching the paper. Billable time?

May 15 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Micah, Mathew A. Koeneker, Suresh S and 7 other people liked this

Hi Chris GET SOME SLEEP!!! Susie - Susan Talsma

Kevin Fox

Huh. I think I know what the big tech story will be tomorrow when I wake up...

May 12 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Roberto Bonini, Jimminy, CoG of FF, Simon and Louis Gray liked this

Facebook Loses Much Face In Secret Smear On Google? http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Bruce Lewis

Tease. ;-) - Brian Johns

Tudor Bosman

Muslim group: two imams pulled from plane bound for North Carolina - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2011...

May 7 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Louis Gray, Bruce Lewis, Bret Taylor and 7 other people liked this

"An airline is investigating the removal of two imams from a flight headed to North Carolina, ostensibly because passengers felt uncomfortable with their presence of the pair -- both clad in Islamic attire." [...] "The two -- who hold high religious positions in the Muslim community -- were headed to North Carolina for a conference on prejudice against Muslims, or Islamaphobia." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Now their participation at that conference will be with a whole new level of first-hand knowledge. - Stephen Mack

Remember when we all felt bad about the Internment of Japanese at beginning of WW2? We're almost there... #binladenmadecowardsofusall - WarLord

Karen Wickre

A hideously, wonderfully awful front page http://twitpic.com/4u5aqi (via @erincarly @irenerojas @geneweingarten @peter_tl @oliverburkeman)

May 6 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Simon, Stephen Mack, The Real sofarsoShawn and 3 other people liked this

Here's the cartoon in the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news... - Simon

April Buchheit

YouTube - Kung Fooled - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

May 6 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Simon, kartik vaithyanathan, Dan Hsiao and SteVe C liked this

Hilarious!!! - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Kevin Fox

Nice Reddit question: "Non-American Redditors, what are some things you LIKE about Americans?" http://origin.reddit.com/r...

May 5 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Ryan Kaisoglus, Simon and Rob Michael (Atmos Trio) liked this

"Say "our huge penises", please say "our huge penises."" -- Benjaphar, 10 hours ago. - Simon

Kevin Fox

Okay, I'll say it. Did anyone else watch the Royal Wedding and think, "Hey, Prince William looks a lot like Bret"?

May 3 from iPhone - Comment - Like - Share

Bret Taylor, Peter Fedin, Serhat Çulhalık and 12 other people liked this

+ 1! - Oguz Serdar

I've never seen the two in same room, same time. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

No, I thought he looked like Brett (a different person). - Gabe

Amit Patel

Amazon.com: FarmVille For Dummies (9781118016961): Angela Morales, Kyle Orland: Books - http://www.amazon.com/dp...

April 16 from Bookmarklet - Comment - Like - Share

Aaron Draczynski, Suresh S, gkhn and 20 other people liked this

From a review: “This is a fantastic book. I don't know how I managed from day to day without it. For instance I was getting worried that zombies would take over my farm. I was relieved that this book explained to me that that was a different game altogether and that they are completely separate, and the zombies from the game I had not signed up for wouldn't rise.” - Amit Patel

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From a review: “ I was also glad they pointed out that I could not play the game without a web browser...which actually solved the first problem I ran into” - Amit Patel

From a review: “After spending many sleepless nights and taking off work for a month, I still am not successful at this game. All I do is work and work on my farm, but I still haven't beat the game.” - Amit Patel

From a review: “I no longer have to cry myself to sleep at night, now that I have it for comfort.” - Amit Patel

I can't believe such a book needed to be written. - Morton Fox

I wonder if any sociology or psychology theses have been written about Farmville yet. - Laura Norvig from iPod

Demand media is writing books now? - Todd Hoff

Kevin Fox

Blog post: What’s the difference between Scott Adams and crazy antagonistic writer Jacqueline Howett? « fox @ fury http://fury.com/2011...

April 17 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

Bruce Lewis, Tudor Bosman, Louis Gray and 5 other people liked this

Hah! I forgot all about Jacqueline Howett. - Akiva

Here's Scott's pseudonymous Reddit comment page: http://www.reddit.com/user... - Kevin Fox

Kevin Fox

I kinda wish there were a tool for identifying FriendFeed zombies en masse: People who look like they're still active on FriendFeed but really only have imported items and comments imported from their Delicious or Google Reader feeds. You can check by hand, but it'd be cool to tell at a glance if your comment to them here will ever be read.

April 12 - Comment - Like - Share

Joe Beda, caj needs a haircut, Do not try this at home! and 21 other people liked this

The image I have in my mind after reading your post is of a frontier town with functioning traffic lights and billboards, with empty streets. - Shakeel Mahate

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Guilty. - Phil Ashman

Wait- isn't everyone on Facebook a zombie? - David Lounsbury from iPhone

I'm not a robot... but I did stay at a Holiday Express last night - David Bruce

How do you distinguis between zombies and infrequent visitors? - Adewale Oshineye

April Buchheit

Mexican Monday: Happy Birthday, Jim!!