"Two weeks ago, we launched version 2 of the FriendFeed API in beta. Since then, we've watched how developers have been using the API and collected a lot of their feedback. We've implemented some changes, and now, we're ready to remove the beta label!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
A two weeks beta in the 2.0 era sounds almost blasphem! Congrats!
- Simone Ruffilli
Congrats to Ben and Gary for all their hard work getting this out the door. And thanks to all the developers who have been sending us great feedback the past couple weeks.
- Bret Taylor
"Today we are launching version 2 of the FriendFeed API for beta testing. We focused on making the API simpler to use, and we added number of compelling new features." Documentation: http://friendfeed.com/api...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
nice, good to see OAuth support, this will enable a larger 3rd party ecosphere around FriendFeed, I hope
- Jeroen De Miranda
After going through the documentation and playing around with some feeds, I love the fact that you can now see the subscriber lists of people who have their feeds set to private as long as you are subscribed to them and authenticate (mimicking the main site functionality). One thing that's absent is a discussion of Direct Messages. Do they show up in feeds if you authenticate? How do we find just direct messages?
- Mark Trapp
Mark: direct messages are accessed using the feed ID "filter/direct". Read more about feed IDs at http://friendfeed.com/api.... Also direct messages appear in the "home" feed.
- Benjamin Golub
Benjamin: ahhh, I see it now. I missed it when skimming that list over. Thanks!
- Mark Trapp
Can you post the wget version of the command line?
- Gabe
Gabe: wget --user=bgolub --password=passwd --post-file=MyPhoto.jpg http://friendfeed-api.com/v2... should work. In theory. Edit: nope. I'm not sure it's possible to do with wget.
- Mark Trapp
Gabe: wget doesn't support multipart forms as a design decision. If you post a file, FriendFeed returns a 404, and if you post data, the query is too long for wget to handle.
- Mark Trapp
Woowoo, bgolub's password is “passwd” ;-)
- Amit Patel
Amit: I wonder how many people tested that :)
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks to bgolub posting his password, I now have all of FriendFeed's secret documents about notorious users, useless metrics, Justin Timberlake's promoting FF on Oprah's show, hiring Colbert as a spokesperson, Ev Williams being just a “distraction”. TechCrunch is going to love this! ;)
- Amit Patel
Yes big big thanks to the whole team for all their hard work!!
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly.
- Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook.
- Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the...
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- Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.)
- Bruce Lewis
I've uninstalled the FriendFeed application and now I cannot re-add it. I see the friendfeed app for a split second and then it reports an error.
- Erik Jacobs
Hacım, the search function is totally down, any news on that?
- mcd
very intelligent, thank you for sharing:-)
- "Flo14wer"
That's why social conservatives rarely look good in the light of history.
- Eivind
It might be something as simple as our deep down refusal to believe that every human life has equal worth. Each of you will probably have your own answer, but for me that is it.
- mina_sydney
فک کنم یکی از دیدها جنگ و کشتار هاست که امیدوارم نسل آینده از این عبرت بگیرن.
- DArA
Smart enough to know who to copy off of at least, Mina. I guess that counts for something ;)
- Eivind
Dear Dara, Every generation participates in something that it thinks is a good thing. It is only afterwards that we might realise it wasn’t very good at all. Here is an example: Australia had a policy that forced children who were half aboriginal/half white Australian to go into special breeding programmes to eradicate the appearance of aboriginal-ness over successive generations. They...
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- mina_sydney
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in...
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- Tinfoil 2.0
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
"At 1,642 metres (5,387 ft),[1] Lake Baikal is the deepest,[6] and among the clearest[7] of all lakes in the world. At more than 25 million years old, Baikal is also the world's oldest lake."
- Eivind
Lake Baikal! Best example of an internal seiche, ever!
- Jenny R
from Android
I read an article earlier today about the building of the trans-Siberian railway and couldn't believe that 20% figure. Wikipedia agrees, though :)
- Eivind
No one believes me when I wax poetic about the enormity of Lake Baikal!
- Jenny R
from Android
That just illustrates the fact that there isn't a lot of surface fresh water in the world, no?
- Victor Ganata
dont over-emphasize it - i think, that %20 is not by volume, its just by surface area, which comes to the fact that, if surface area matters, africa wouldnt have water problem, as malawi, tanganika and victoria lakes are in top 10 biggest lakes list:).
- İspartaküz
It's the most voluminous fresh water lake in the world, so if the 20% were surface area, which I'm pretty sure it's not, wouldn't it probably have more than 20% of the volume?
- Eivind
No, it's 20% by volume. Lakes contain most of the surface fresh water (as opposed to fresh water underground and in icecaps). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... for an eye-opening picture.
- 9000
Ha,ha, it is the idea of development of the guys in article, when they become residents of urbanized clusters of places in a high developed state. Hi, sofarsoShawn, I like ScFi, very much :-)Have a good Sunday!
- Slavomira Vladimirova
not this necessarily, but I was referring to my own spa "experience" above, annnnnd I wasn't even in Thailand etc! And that's not even the weirdest part, but I'm too proper to say
- The Real sofarsoShawn
from iPhone
1. caveat emptor. 2. Let the buyer beware. 3. Used as a warning. 4. "Hey! This new TV doesn't come with any HDMI cables! I guess it's caveat emptor."
- Stephen Mack
1. op. cit. (unabbreviated: opus citatum). 2. "in the work [previously] cited" 3. Used to refer to a work that has been previously cited in full. 4. "The professor goes on to explain how that caused WWII (Fisher, op. cit.)."
- I like big Botts
1. etc. (unabbreviated: et cetera). 2. "and [the] others" 3. Used to imply the continuation of a sequence or obvious list. 4. "I had forty melons. I ate one on day one, two on day two, three on day three, etc. When did I run out?"
- I like big Botts
1. QED (unabbreviated: quod erat demonstrandum. 2. "which was to be proved." 3. I have proven my point. 4. "If nuclear power is so dangerous, how come the number of fatalities is so much less than with coal power? QED."
- Stephen Mack
1. Amicus curiae. 2. "friend of the court" 3. Refers to a legal brief filed with a court that is not --directly-- representing either party (but could support either one indirectly). Sometimes seen as just "amicus." 4. "In the case of Wilson vs. Wilson, the Family Law Center filed an amicus curiae brief suggesting that the interests of the children should take precedence over the desires of the divorcing parents."
- I like big Botts
1. i.e. (unabbreviated: id est). 2. That is. 3. Used to show what you mean specifically. "On the best social media sites, i.e. FriendFeed, you cannot like your own comments." (Note: Not a great example, see below.)
- Stephen Mack
1. e.g. (unabbreviated: exempli gratia). 2. "for the sake of example" 3. To provide an example of something. 4. "I would like an inexpensive meal; e.g., a hotdog and a shake."
- I like big Botts
Yeah, use it when you would use the phrase "that is" I guess.
- Stephen Mack
1. carpe diem 2. seize the day. 3. Used to mean "go for it." 4. "If you think you'd be better off in Austin, just carpe diem and move there!"
- Stephen Mack
Cristo, mine? I was trying to make a joke.
- Stephen Mack
quid pro quo !! - and if you dont know this..then .. I am sorry for you :)-
- Peter Dawson
i.e. is used for one specific thing, e.g. is used for more than one.
- Stephen Mack
1. Ursus in tabernam quando cerevisiam. 2. "The bear went into the bar for a beer." 3. Used as a pretentious example to show your linguistic superiority. 4. "The motto of my club was, 'ursus in tabernam quando cerevisiam.'"
- I like big Botts
"e.g." must always be used in lower case, as must "i.e."
- Tinfoil 2.0
1. "In umbella navigare possumus," dixit Pu. 2. "'We can sail in the umbrella,' said Pooh." 3. A pretentious way of reading Winnie The Pooh ("Winnie ille pu"). 4. None needed.
- I like big Botts
1. post hoc ergo propter hoc 2. after this, therefore because of this 3. s", is a logical fallacy (of the questionable cause variety) that states, "Since that event followed this one, that event must have been caused by this one." 4 None needed.
- Roberto Bonini
You mean you use e.g. when you are listing more than one example and i.e. when you are only listing one? Because in the example you used, there's more than just one good social networking site.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, no, use "e.g." when you'd use English "for example" and use "i.e." when you'd use English "that is."
- Stephen Mack
i.e. offers further explanation of a single event; it clarifies. It does not necessarily provide an example. E.g. provides an example.
- I like big Botts
i.e. means in other words, not example. It's used to highlight a rephrasing of the original concept.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Yeah, my example was trying to be a joke. Here's a better one: "I want to be the best poster on FriendFeed, i.e., post the most interesting stuff."
- Stephen Mack
If Stephen's example had been "the best social media site, i.e. FriendFeed" it would've worked. He'd be clarifying that what he means by "the best social media site" is "FriendFeed," not using "FriendFeed" as an example of a social media site.
- Jandy
Yes, e.g. ..., etc. is a faux pas (reiterating repetitive redundancies)
- Tinfoil 2.0
1. pro bono 2. for free (actual meaning is for the common good) 3. Legal term denoting free work on behalf of a client 4. I'm representing the defendant pro bono
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
1. quid pro quo. 2. this for that. 3. The idea that an action deserves a comparable action in return (either negative or positive, though usually positive, I think) in order to be fair. 4. "I scratched your back, now you scratch mine. Quid pro quo."
- Jandy
Ipso facto is a Latin phrase and everyone should know it, so it should be on the list, ipso facto.
- Micah
et tu brute - Kai su, teknon? - you too brutus? ceasar's claimed last words as he took it in the back from his bff
- chaz2b
1. cogito ergo sum. 2. I think therefore I am. 3. Foundation of Descartes' humanist philosophy. 4. "I am a pretentious twat and think quoting Enlightenment philosophers is the same as thinking for myself, cogito ergo sum." Wait, whut?
- Jandy
1. ad nauseam 2. to seasickness 3. Or "to the point of disgust". Sometimes used as a humorous alternative to ad infinitum. An argumentum ad nauseam is a logical fallacy involving basing one's argument on prolonged repetition, i.e., repeating something so much that people are "sick of it". 4. As if we needed Stephen to clarify his comment yet again, the angry mob continued to browbeat him ad nauseum.
- Tinfoil 2.0
1) Luctor et Emergo 2) I struggle, I win. 3) Use when you struggle and emerges as the winner 4) I was hurting but luctor et emergo!
- AJ Batac :)
1. Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum. 2. When you have a good grip on their balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
- Eivind
Glen's op.cit. made me think of "cf" as in "cf Kant's Critique of Pure Reason", referring to a related reference to the conversation at hand. Is that based on something Latin? (I know I could Google this, but I don't wanna.)
- Jandy
"cf., an abbreviation for the Latin word confer (the imperative singular form of "conferre"), literally meaning "bring together", is used to refer to other material or ideas which may provide similar or different information or arguments. It is mainly used in scholarly contexts, such as in academic (mainly humanities, physics and biology) or legal texts. It is translated, and can be read aloud, as "compare"." [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped....]
- Tinfoil 2.0
Yes, it is. "cf" is an abbreviation of "conferre" (lit. "bring together") and it can usually be read as "compare to" or "compare with". It's used to point out something that is either strkingly similar to or different from another thing.
- I like big Botts
"Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis propinquus ades." == "If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and driving much too close."
- I like big Botts
Thanks LogEx and Glen. I've used it a lot and generally correctly, but not really knowing the origins.
- Jandy
1. veni, vidi, vici 2. I came, I saw, I conquered 3. Reportedly written by Caesar as a comment about a short war he had 4. I totally loved that moment in Ghostbusters when they did a rif on veni, vidi, vici.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
"Gramen artificioso odi" == "I hate astroturf."
- I like big Botts
"Lex clavatoris designati rescindenda est." == "We have to get rid of the designated hitter rule."
- I like big Botts
"opus possimus carere hoc filum" - We really need to get rid of this thread:)-
- Peter Dawson
"Si dissentiunt, tuo capiti off" - if you disagree- off with your head !
- Peter Dawson
1. ad hominem. 2. to the man. 3. generally used to refer to arguments/attacks (in debate or discussion) against a person rather than against their ideas or statements. 4. "If you don't stop using ad hominem attacks, we're going to disqualify you from this debate."
- Jandy
1. ad hominem 2. literally "to the man" (but really an abbreviation of argumentum ad hominem) 3. an argumenting style frequently employed when you're losing and don't have facts and logic on your side :) 4. How is "You're stupid and fat, and you smell funny" not an ad hominem attack?
- Victor Ganata
1. Argumentum ad hitlerum 2. Faux latin; a reference to Godwin's Law. 3. Used to call someone out for making a false or hyped comparison of one's opponents to Hitler or Nazi's. 4. Internet arguments generally go on ad hitlerum.
- Kevin L
1. resquiat in pacem (abbreviated RIP) 2. rest in peace 3. a valediction to the dead 4. Nate Dogg, RIP
- Victor Ganata
1. iacta alea est 2. the die is cast 3. uttered when you make a decision to go beyond the point of no return, such as when a military commander orders his unit to seize his country's capital city from civilian control. 4. It's out of hands now. Iacta alea est.
- Victor Ganata
1. e pluribus unum 2. Out of many, one. 3. Written on the seal of the United States (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) -- it implies that out of the many states, we are one country. 4. "President Obama referred to 'e pluribus unum' as the motto of the United Sates in a 2010 speech. It's not, per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...."
- Stephen Mack
Jandy, one interesting thing on quid pro quo -- it's also the origin of the phrase "tit for tat."
- Stephen Mack
1. n.b. (unabbreviated: nota bena). 2. Note well. 3. Used to call attention to important items. 4. "You should definitely follow Josh Haley but n.b. some of his items are NSFW."
- Stephen Mack
1. p.s. (unabbreviated: post scriptum). 2. After writing. 3. Used at the bottom of a letter for adding something additional. 4. "Love, Stephen P.S. Write if you get work."
- Stephen Mack
1. p.p.s (unabbreviated: post post scriptum) 2. After after writing. 3. Used after a P.S. -- add a new P for each new item. 4. "Love, Stephen P.S. Write if you get work. P.P.S. Don't forget to call mom."
- Stephen Mack
1. ergo 2. therefore 3. Statement of logic connecting the flow of two ideas together 4. I am a Scoble ergo I win all arguments by default
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
1. de gustibus non est disputandum. 2. Of taste, there is no disputing. 3. A similar English phrase is, "There's no accounting for taste." Related also to the phrase, "to each their own taste" which became more commonly, "To each their own." 4. "I'd tell Blake he's wrong to hate Rango, but de gustibus non est disputandum."
- Stephen Mack
1. deus ex machina 2. god from the machine 3. a literary technique used to save your protagonists after you've painted them into a corner that is impossible to escape. 4. "The eagles are coming!"? That deus ex machina completely wrecked my suspension of disbelief.
- Victor Ganata
1. cave canum. 2. beware of the dog. 3. There's probably a dog somewhere nearby. You should, like, watch out for it. 4. "Dude! Your dog bit me!" "Why are you trespassing on my property? Didn't you see the sign telling you to beware of the dog?" "Dog? Dude, I just thought there was an interesting cave to explore."
- Stephen Mack
1. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida 2. in the garden of Eden 3. Drunken mispronunciation of "in the garden of eden" by the lead singer of Iron Butterfly 4. Damn the keyboard solo in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida is hella long, dude
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
1. q.v. (unabbreviated: quod vide) 2. which see 3. Used as a reference another document. 4. q.v. a better list of Latin phrases than this one.
- Stephen Mack
1. C.V. (unabbreviated: curriculum vitae) 2. course of life 3. In the U.S., it's a douchy way to say "résumé." 4. "If you would please reference my C.V., you'll see that after 35 years of experience, I am the consummate master of the pan flute."
- Stephen Mack
1. in media res 2. Into the middle of things. 3. Often used to refer to beginning a story right at the action instead of with a long introduction. 4. "The overuse of in media res in the show 'The Event' followed by numerous distracting flashbacks spelled its doom."
- Stephen Mack
1. vs (unabbreviated: versus) 2. literally "inverted." 3. against, opposed to. 4. "Did you hear Salman Rushdie was working on a sequel to 'The Satanic Verses?' It's going to be called 'Satanic Versus Godzilla.'"
- Stephen Mack
1. sic transit gloria mundi 2. Thus passes the glory of the world. 3. Everything good fades away. (Some interesting historical notes at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...) 4. "When The White Stripes broke up, I was all sic transit gloria mundi."
- Stephen Mack
Latin American phrases everyone should know:
- Micah
1. A.M. (unabbreviated: ante meridiem) and P.M. (unabbreviated: post meridiem) 2. before the middle of the day and after the middle of the day 3. designates the hours before noon and after noon, respectively. 4. It makes no sense that noon is 12 P.M. and midnight is 12 A.M.
- Victor Ganata
Akiva, that was Monday. She's better now, keep up.
- Stephen Mack
1. memento mori 2. remember that you must die 3. Used to refer to art that reminds people of their mortality. 4. "Micah's Day of the Dead party is such a memento mori that now I'm actually bummed."
- Stephen Mack
1. tempus fugit 2. time flees. 3. Often used to tell people to get a move on. 4. "Jonathan! Let's go already. The movie starts in 15 minutes. Tempus fugit."
- Stephen Mack
1. Semper fidelis 2. always faithful 3. USMC motto 4. The Marine Corps believes semper fi "guides Marines to remain faithful to the mission at hand, to each other, to the Corps and to country, no matter what."
- Anne Bouey
Good one -- and a dog named Fido is "Faithful."
- Stephen Mack
A Latin scholar walks into a bar. "I'd like a martinus, please." "Do you mean a martini?" "If I wanted a double, I'd ask for one."
- Stephen Mack
1. mea culpa 2. my fault. 3. Used as an apology. 4. "I didn't mean to start a big debate about wind. Mea culpa. My bad."
- Stephen Mack
I haven't really read this thread yet but I'm already ready already to vote it best thread ever.
- Akiva
1. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. 2. Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound
- Eivind
1. Aio, quantitas magna frumentorum est. 2. Yes, that is a very large amount of corn.
- Eivind
1. Curru fugiente mea plena est anguilla. 2. My hovercraft is full of eels.
- Stephen Mack
1. Sum legendi hunc tamen sed iam solvere paratus optimum. 2. What Akiva said.
- Stephen Mack
1. Locum tenens 2. place holder 3. refers to a person who temporarily fills a position 4. Some people prefer to work as a locum tenens instead of holding a permanent job.
- Anne Bouey
1. ad hoc 2. to this 3. meaning, now you're just making things up 4. Your so-called theory is nothing more than a series of ad hoc hypotheses derived from cherry-picking the data.
- Victor Ganata
1. ad astra 2. to the stars 3. Used to mean general victory and great rewards, often in mottoes. 4. "Sure, you're struggling now, but keep going, it's all ad astra after that."
- Stephen Mack
1. ad nauseam (often misspelled nauseum) 2. to the point of disgust/nausea 3. "Repeat until you're sick of it." 4. "Many of these discussions on FriendFeed are resolved in the first five comments, but we keep going on to several hundred and more, ad nauseam."
- Stephen Mack
1. In loco parentis 2. In the place of a parent 3. a person/institution assuming parental responsibility for a minor 4. Colleges were formerly considered to be in loco parentis for their students.
- Anne Bouey
Hic porcellus ivit ad tabernas, sed hic porcellus mansit domi. Hic porcellus edit bubulam, sed hic porcellus edit nullam. Et hic porcellus flevit, "Vii, Vii, Vii" per totam viam domum. (This little piggy, etc.)
- Stephen Mack
From now on, whenever I agree with something, instead of typing "THIS" I'm going to type "HIC"
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
"semper ubi sub ubi" Always wear under wear. ;-)
- Brian Sullivan
1. Cum laude, magna cum laude, summa cum laude 2. with honor, with great honor, with highest honor 3. shows varying degrees of academic distinction at graduation 4. Only two students graduated summa cum laude this year.
- Anne Bouey
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus" that's the Hogwarts school motto which means "Never tickle a sleeping dragon." Words to live by.
- The Real sofarsoShawn
Brian - technically, that's "Always where under where"
- I like big Botts
Damn Stephen, now I know why online dictionaries could never find ad nauseum.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
1. de facto 2. in practice or actuality, but without being officially established 3. I don't feel like figuring out and typing out the rest; anyone wanna finish up for me?
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
1. de facto / de jure 2. from fact / from law. 3. unofficial but actual / legally 4. I am the de facto finisher of MiniMage's thoughts. But de jure, no one can assume MiniMage's real life identity -- that would be identity theft.
- Stephen Mack
1. exeunt omnes. 2. exit all. 3. they all go out (used in stage/film scripts to indicate when all the characters on-stage depart). 4. "At midnight they ran out of beer, and after that it was exeunt omnes."
- Stephen Mack
I always forget that "ad" can take the accusative case
- Victor Ganata
1. Illud est quod ea dixit.... I know you all know how to use this.
- Victor Ganata
1. Per ardua ad alta 2. Through hard work to the top 3. Stupid high school motto that nobody ever used/talked about except for singing the school song at assembly 4. "What the hell does 'Per Ardua Ad Alta' mean anyway?"
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
1. illegitimi non carborundum 2. Don't let the bastards wear you down. 3. Faux Latin (although Google Translate yields the indicated result.) First heard from the campus Pastor when I was in college. 4. "What? Cristo is derailing another thread? Illegitimi non carborundum." [Corollary: nisi illegitimi carborundum: Only bastards wear you down.]
- Mark J
1. Citius, Altius, Fortius 2. "Faster, Higher, Stronger" 3. The motto of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and the modern Olympic games 4. N/A
- I like big Botts
1. Non videret advenit 2. Did NOT see THAT coming! 3. Appropriate after a series of unfortunate events culminating in an unexpectedly bad outcome. 4. (Think of the responses by George W. Bush at pretty much any point during his 8 year presidential tenure.)
- Mark J
1. magnitudo potest pedem duce 2. You can tell by the size of the feet. 3. (& 4.) Aw c'mon!
- Mark J
1. post hoc ergo propter hoc 2. after this, therefore because of this. 3. logical fallacy where temporal proximity is confused with causality. Frequently shortened to "post hoc fallacy"
- Victor Ganata
1. cum hoc ergo propter hoc 2. with this, therefore because of this. 3. logical fallacy that confuses correlation with causation.
- Victor Ganata
Good ones, Victor. How much Latin did you take?
- Stephen Mack
1. ex post facto 2. after the fact 3. retroactive 4. "In 1977, President Jimmy Carter issued an ex post facto unconditional amnesty in the form of a pardon to all remaining Vietnam war draft evaders."
- Stephen Mack
1. sine qua non 2. without which not 3. absolutely required 4. "For a truly complete breakfast, it's a sine qua non that you have syrup-covered bacon and Crunch Berries."
- Stephen Mack
1. terra firma 2. solid ground 3. solid ground 4. "There was so much turbulence on the flight that I kissed the tarmac when we finally ended up on terra firma."
- Stephen Mack
1. in flagrante delicto 2. in flaming crime 3. red-handed, usually referring to catching people having sex or committing a crime. 4. "We opened the broom closet, and there were Cristo and Akiva, totally in flagrante delicto."
- Stephen Mack
Si hoc signum legere potes, operis boni in rebus Latinis alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes.
- Stephen Mack
Stephen, I took four years of Latin in high school. We translated some Julius Caesar, Cicero, Ovid, and half of the Aeneid (I don't think we ever actually even made it to Italy) I've probably forgotten far more of it than what I remember.
- Victor Ganata
The difference between i.e. and e.g. is horribly misrepresented here. i.e. = that is, or in other words; it is NOT for examples, one or many. e.g. = for example, which can be one or many. In sentences: "We in the U.S. would do well to read our founding documents, e.g., the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution." and "This year, April 3 is Laetare Sunday, i.e., the "refreshment" week in the middle of Lent."
- Ladyepiphanybug
Thanks, Heather. I led off with a joke in the my sample sentence, which got things off track. Poor choice on my part.
- Stephen Mack
1. sui generis 2. Of its own kind 3. In a class of its own. [Not sure if this was cited already. Put it in for good measure.]
- Mark J
1. pons asinorum 2. bridge of asses 3. An obstacle that presents a difficult challenge to foolish (assinine) people.
- Mark J
1. tu stultes es 2. you fool that you are 3. you are a fool 4. Motto of The Onion.
- Mark J
1. Numen Lumen 2. (Traditional University of Wisconsin Motto) "God, our light." 3. The Divine Power of the Light, or "The divine within the universe, however manifested, is my light." 4. It's about the source of knowledge, k?
- Mark J
1. Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius. 2. Kill them (all). God will know His own. 3. Variant of "Kill them all and let God sort it out." Per wikiquote, this was was the supposed statement by Abbot Arnold Amaury before the massacre of Béziers during the Albigensian Crusade, recorded 30 years later, according to Caesar of Heisterbach. Also cited in "The Perfect Heresy" by...
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- Stephen Mack
1. Dum spiro spero. 2. While I breathe, I hope. 3. Attributed to Cicero, and a common motto. 4. Well, it looks grim, what with all the rioting, but dum spiro, spero. (http://friendfeed.com/aswang...)
- Stephen Mack
1. Panem et circenses 2. Bread and circuses (more literally, "bread and games") 3. Attributed to the Roman poet Juvenal, it refers to a population that has become apathetic, and to politicians who appease the masses by distracting them from real issues with unimportant entertainment or fulfillment of short-term requirements. 4. "The economy is out of control, our liberties are eroded, but the incumbents get re-elected thanks to panem et circenses."
- Stephen Mack
No biggie. Nothing of value. Fucker just got my cards and my drivers license. He came up to me and tried to trip me. I grabbed him and pulled him to the ground. Unfortunately I didn't realise he'd picked my pocket at that time, or else I could have just taken the stuff back.
- Eivind
Is this going to impact your holiday at all/much?
- Mark H
Nope. I'm not driving anymore, and I can get cash for the last couple of days. Still got my phone and my passport :)
- Eivind
Glad he didn't get your passport! What a hassle, but glad you're okay and able to enjoy the rest of your trip.
- Kristin
from Android
What a shitty thing to happen on your holiday. Hope it didn't spoil it too much.
- Son of Groucho
Derrick, I may need to pick your brain if you're up for it. Thinking of where to go for anniversary next year, was thinking week or so in NYC, but am starting to lean toward NOLA....
- Rachel Walden
Rachel, there's SO much here in NOLA, and a lot I haven't even had the chance to sample yet. Nicest people in town, though. Let me know. :)
- Derrick
"Mark Zuckerberg announced the Skype-Facebook collaboration yesterday and showed off a great product built by the Skype team. As he talked about the world, he amplified his long held belief that people love to share and sharing on Facebook will only keep growing. He’s held that belief for a long time and talked about it first in 2008. Yesterday, he equated what is being dubbed as Zuckerberg’s Law to Moore’s Law. It makes perfect marketing sense that he would do that. For me, data is the plastic of the 21st century, something I have said again and again. My belief in the disruptive power of data prompted me to start writing about it long before it became fashionable and we organized a gathering around it as well. I am even working on a book around it. Thus, I was excited to hear Zuckerberg talk at length about data and its capabilities. So I set off to write about Facebook and its data-centric approach to the web. To supplement my writing, I asked the Facebook public relations team if...
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- Dennis Jernberg
from Bookmarklet
My husband read last month's out loud to me and I laughed so hard my c-section site started to ache. Read the first one in this post and LOLed severely. Gonna wait til he gets home to read the rest so we can LOL together :oD
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
I love this as an illustration of Newton's third law as the dog gets pushed to his right every time a shot fires off to his left. Actually, I love it because it's a wiener dog running around with a roman candle.
- Your Neighbor Steve
A wife goes out for a night with the girls, telling her husband she'll be home around midnight. Midnight passes by, drinks are flowing, the girls are laughing and having a great time. At around 2:45 in the morning, drunk as hell, she finally gets a cab and makes her way back home. She gets to the front door and ever-so-gently nudges it open, not making a sound. She takes her shoes off, again not making a sound. Knowing her husband will give her hell for coming home so late and drunk, she's quite proud of herself for being so stealthy. Just then, the cuckoo clock in the hallway goes off, cuckooing 3 times. Realizing he might wake up, she decides to cuckoo another 9 times. She smiles to herself, proud that she'd come up with such a clever solution on the spot. He'd never know the difference!
- AJ Batac :)
That next morning during breakfast the husband looked at his wife, obviously hungover, and asked, "So... what time did you get in last night?" "Oh, right around midnight," she replied. The husband didn't seem disturbed at all, her plan had worked! "Well," he said, "I think we need a new cuckoo clock." "Why do you say that?" she asked.
- AJ Batac :)
"Because last night the one we have cuckooed 3 times, then said 'oh shit,' cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another 3 times, giggled, then tripped over the coffee table and farted."
- AJ Batac :)
Scott - Make sure Barry knows it's not normally this slow. All the kids are off playing with their shiny, new toy. They'll be back once they drop it in poop and are too lazy to clean it off.
- Kristin
Hi, Barry! Welcome to the playground. Don't know if Scott told you all the non-obvious stuff, so here is a guide I wrote that you may find useful: http://dl.dropbox.com/u... If you ever need any help, feel free to post your questions and we will all try to answer them... and that goes for non-friendfeed related questions, too. Great bunch of knowledgeable people here in this big collective brain of ours, and never a shortage of opinions.
- April
Wow April, that's amazing! Short of the style, I've got everything else installed. Much appreciated.
- Barry Morrison
Not sure about this. Their example is "What if an acquaintance becomes a friend?" Adding them to the friends circle seems easy to me, but then again I am a FriendFeed veteran.
- Alex Scrivener
from Android
It also assumes the overhead of an oversharing tech junkie, not the other 85% of the intended audience. I'm never going to have the 12,000 contacts problem, much less 3,000, so the overhead is manageable for me. I don't have access to + yet - can people be in more than one circle? Are there tags? That might be one way to handle what they're talking about.
- Jennifer Dittrich