I can't imagine an elephant being that small but his look is the 'realist' of all.
- Myrna
I love the "Toby Tyler/Dumbo" like "story" it seems to tell. The posting doesn't seem to tell who really did it or did I miss that?
- Melanie Reed
yea Myrna. you know an elephant calf after birth weighs about 250 lb (113 kg)! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... do you think its possible that little elephant weighs 113 kg? compare with the kid beside it that he probably weighs 20kg
- آریـوبرزن
"Researchers found that chocolate milkshake's "natural" muscle recovery benefits match or may even surpass a specially designed carbohydrate sports drink. They discovered that muscle damage was actually lower in those players that drank the milk after training than those that drank the commercial energy drinks. The team at James Madison University in Virginia, USA, tested the level of muscle damage in 13 football players after intensive training. They found that the half of the players that were given chocolate milkshake showed lower levels than those given sports drinks. The actual performance of the two groups was, however, similar. There were also no differences between the two beverages in effects on perceived muscle soreness, mental and physical fatigue and other measures of muscle strength. This new study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting milk may be just as effective as some commercial sports drinks in helping athletes recover and rehydrate. Chocolate milkshake,...
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- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
Hmm. I used to drink a pint of chocolate milk after morning PT and after tennis or basketball. And everyone knows my addiction to mocha... which I am always turning for comfort when the muscles act up. I never connected the dots before.
- Michael W. May
In the Configuration section of the code, you can change the language From and language To settings. When viewing a single friendfeed entry, near the upper right corner by "Tools", the the link to perform the translation will appear (e.g. Translate Farsi to English). Tested/compatible with Firefox and Safari.
- Micah Wittman
yay! I've been asking about this for a few weeks. I will use firefox for FF for a while so I can use all of your scripts. edit: I usually use chrome
- metalerik
Well done Micah! Installing and taking it for a spin now. Thank you.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
@micah Just wanted to let you know that the permanent home site is giving the "The site's security certificate is not trusted!" message in Chrome 3.0.189.0
- metalerik
metalerik, thanks for letting me know. I removed the secure protocol in the above link - it got there by mistake. I only pay the piper for one signed SSL certificate, and it's on a different domain, so that's why you got the warning.
- Micah Wittman
Thank you, Brian. Let me know how you fare with it.
- Micah Wittman
Here's a recent post about people wanting a language filter where I wish for a translation button (did I mention yay!) http://friendfeed.com/friendf... I just went back there to link to this post. Hope that's cool.
- metalerik
Thanks, Micah, Awesome of you to invest the time to enable this. I am personally appreciative and I have friends that will also be, I am quite sure. :) I hope to eventually share the messages I have received as a result of signalling others efforts.
- Eric Logan
Eric, your words are very much appreciated, Eric. I hope this helps people understand each other, even if only just a tad more.
- Micah Wittman
Micah sorry to be gushing but I think this is huge. I mean really huge.
- metalerik
are you not seeing the translate link?
- metalerik
metalerik, re. linking to the post - absolutely ok (you probably saw I commented over there already too). Thanks for the feedback :)
- Micah Wittman
ok cool. I was just messing around and tried to get the from to work with "auto" vs. "fa" or whatever. I wonder why it doesn't work. Do you know?
- metalerik
I was planning to experiment with auto language detect in the next update to two. Let me look something for a second.
- Micah Wittman
metalerik, just set var languageCodeFrom = ''; (empty string) - wow, that's all it takes to get auto-detect working, and the first post I tried just now with Farsi in it worked! http://friendfeed.com/infinit...
- Micah Wittman
UPDATE RELEASE [v0.1.2] - Added auto-language detection handling (in Configuration, you can set an explicit language with var languageCodeFrom; the default is set to auto-detect). Also added an autoTranslate option in Configuration. To automatically translate title/comments when a single entry page is loaded, set var autoTranslateEnabled = true;
- Micah Wittman
No problem, K.D. This feels like the most important user script I've worked on. I hope everyone who needs it can find it :)
- Micah Wittman
thank you again, I'll share this script to other groups, the auto-detection is unbelievable cool!!
- K.D.
This is probably great, and this is going to sound like a stupid question. How do I make this work? View a single entry? How do you do that?
- Gilbert Harding
You win once again Micah! Another great script. Thanks for all the time you pour into making things easier for everyone. :)
- Simon Wicks
@Gilbert: To view a single entry click the text that says when the post was posted (e.g. "4 hours ago" or "5 seconds ago")
- Mark H
Also... awesome script. Feels like the world just got a little bit smaller.
- Mark H
Mark: Thank you, something else I have learnt today.
- Gilbert Harding
Micah - This IS the most important script I've seen in a long long time and the sole reason for me to reinstall Greasemonkey on Firefox. Mad props to you.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
It would be nice to have this built into FriendFeed. Any possibility of that happening?
- Brian Sullivan
Brian, hold on, let me pickup the the red phone in the Commissioner's office ;)
- Micah Wittman
FOR ALL AVAILABLE GOOGLE TRANSLATION API SUPPORTED LANGUAGES SEE CODES HERE: http://code.google.com/apis... - Then in the script's Configuration section, change var languageCodeTo = 'en' to whatever code matches the language you want a post translated TO.
- Micah Wittman
This is great, Micah... I've been mystified why that last piece is always missing... the auto-translate from languages you don't understand. This really should be built into the low-levels of twitter, friendfeed, etc., so that static stuff is translated once and shared if poss., the dynamic stuff just cache invalidates any translations.... or something like that.
- Richard pancakhaus Walker
This is one of my favourite auto-detect translated pages so far: http://friendfeed.com/lovepho... - man, even as rough as programmatic translations are today, it really helps open up inaccessible worlds :)
- Micah Wittman
Another fun thing I learned in translation today: "what in English is called the bungee cords, but in Russian formerly known as espanderom"[translation] http://friendfeed.com/spb...
- Micah Wittman
UPDATE RELEASE [v0.1.3] - No new features in this one. Minor code cleanup. Reference copy of Google language codes added to Configuration section.
- Micah Wittman
That looks like..Scotty, beam me up shit
- Chris Harris
Micah: you might have a use for the JS script in one of my projects: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums... My friend Krishean did the script for it (the same guy that did the dragable bookmarklet hack). I have another version from him that I haven't compiled yet, that self-updates the language list, so I won't have to release a new version if Google decides to add new languages.
- April Russo (app103)
Thanks again, April. I'll check it out asap.
- Micah Wittman
SCRIPT UPDATE [v0.1.5] - Added autoProtocolMatchingEnabled and onlyUseSecureProtocolCompatibleFeatures Configuration options. Now a secure protocol (https) for the current page is detected and all script references will be set to https in that case. Since userscripts.org does not support https, the onlyUseSecureProtocolCompatibleFeatures options controls whether to use that feature (which connects with http) or not. ~~~ As requested here: http://friendfeed.com/baiyssy...
- Micah Wittman
SCRIPT UPDATE [v0.1.6] - Fix to v0.1.5 so that onlyUseSecureProtocolCompatibleFeatures only prevents feature use if a secure connection is present.
- Micah Wittman
Great work. But I found one issue that after the translation, some links are converted to plain text that no longer work.
- Yinfei Zhang
That's a good point, Yinfei. I'll see what I can do for a future release. For now, if you go into single post view (click timestamp) you will see the original html which should always have the working links. Thank you for the feedback - I really appreciate it.
- Micah Wittman
Install page now has "Alternate configuration (keepOriginalTextInRealtime ON)" for user script and bookmarklet language versions http://wittman.org/project...
- Micah Wittman
First day in over 3 months! Up to London first thing to pick up and get working a laptop. Then can get get going. Thankfully no additional trip all the way over to Newbury.
- Kol Tregaskes
Simon, I think they wanted me to start ASAP, we were waiting for a laptop, it was due Friday so contract was set to start then but what's happened was that laptop wasn't going to turn up till the 6th so now I'm taking someone else's and they are located in London. :-) The idea behind the Friday is to get the laptop working (lots to set-up) then start work proper on Monday. Sorry, was that too much detail? :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Jorge, already got one of those. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Nice Kol!!! Welcome back to the slave pits...er, work force! :)
- Joel Robert Perez
Hehe, Joel. It'll actually be nice to be a worker again. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So, the work involves a computer, will you be playing WoW? Testing Porn?
- Matthew DeVries
Hehe, no. Very mundane, even the guy I spoke to today who's working on the project said the work was dull but someone's got to do it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
"Participants to the sneak preview of 'The Ledge,' stand on the new glass balconies suspended 1,353 feet (412 meters) in the air and jut out 4 feet (1.22 meters) from the Sears Tower's 103rd floor Skydeck Wednesday, July 1, 2009 in Chicago. The Ledge will open to public on Thursday."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
I'd do a poopoo in my pants but I would do it...
- Rasmus Lauridsen
maybe it is a good way to saved suffering from acrophobia :D
- nursel
very interesting and scary at the same time
- t i n y m
Good stuff. Also: try being on the engineering team at shipping port and having to climb all over 100m cranes (did in 2006). You'll grow an extra pair
- LANjackal
I think I'd go out on it. Maybe. Looks pretty awesome. Love seeing the little girl with no fear. Little kids would zip around fearlessly in jet packs if we had em.
- Internet's Tad
I think I would die if I stepped out on that, but I would try anyway.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
Bear with me a moment while I attempt to retrieve my scrotum from my abdominal cavity...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
This is so awesome. I would kill to have something like that in Montreal
- Robert D'Alesio
You probably couldn't get me to go further than the 5th floor, let alone, the 103rd floor, plus out on a glass floor hanging over the city. Sorry Mr Wonka, but I'll take the stairs.
- Tim Young
I hope they keep a cleaning crew or a mop handy.
- George Brickner
*Gulp* I doubt I'd last even 2 minutes standing on that...
- Tyson Key
I agree...if the device is that beautiful and at that price point, it's too hard to pass up.
- Craig Eddy
Definitely. Its a beautiful piece of equipment. I dont have a netbook or a laptop. Just my trusty EEEbox which doesnt take up any space, but there is times, id like to still be on the sofa and check something quickly or surf while im waiting for a program to come on, or the girlfriend to bring me my dinner. :)
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
This is nice. @dezertsnow, check this out. Do you wanna? ",)
- jan geronimo
yeah it looks nice in that picture but what is it ? from what i have read so far its just a browser on a touch screen . No OS, No storage, has anyone seen this thing running yet? how will it be better than a netbook? or even an ipod touch?
- tony bland
Tony, the post should explain. It's a Web tablet. No hard drive. No keyboard. No apps to slow it down. Just a browser. Supports Flash, unlike the iPhone.
- Louis Gray
yeah thanks Louis i got that, i'm just eager to know more.
- tony bland
It's only a rough 3D rendering. Long way to go baby.
- dstamand
if they manage to produce a product that looks like the render and also is cheap then it will do well. however if apple join the party all bets are off. Also the render looks little like a large iphone/touch so they need to get to market first.
- Darren Stuart
I just don't know anyone who DOESN'T want one of these.
- Jolie O'Dell
very cool... I'm amazed they followed through, should be nice!
- Tim Hoeck
Total cloud computing. No apps or storage to slow it down. I assume since it boots from the web, that no internet, no go (may be a big downside). I wish I had one of these a few years ago on my travels. Very keen to see when it comes out.
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
that's a good point Alistair with out an internet connection this thing is just an expensive tray, cant see this beating netbooks or iphones any time soon.
- tony bland
It still has some computing power built into it. I'm sure it'll be hackable for other uses. I'm sure Arrington will decry that, too.
- Darren Landrum
Interesting NY Times coverage (showing NY Times being displayed) - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... - this is something that it seems inconcievable for Arrington to pull off on his own - no doubt he needs powerful partners (or purchasers) -- could it be that the Times is involved?
- Brian Sullivan
@ Brian Sullivan I think you may have something there, though it wouldn't be necessary. It is probably sufficent to get the NYT to do a story by just showing their webpage on the CrunchPad Demo.
- Phil Boiarski
The only reason this doesn't flat out kick the kindles ass from here to the VFW at the edge of town is the lack of eInk. Because the eInk only needs power when it changes it's sick on battery life. Like years or something between charges.
- Matthew DeVries
I think Tablet Computing is the future, but this device seems really crippled.
- Internet's Tad
I don't disagree with that Tad, but isn't this just an eBook reader with some tablety potential? I don't think it's going for a tablet price point.
- Matthew DeVries
It's not an eBook reader, though. It's just a web browser. You won't be buying books and reading them on this or even viewing your PDFs on it.
- Internet's Tad
Yeah, you're right Tad. I was going off an old article I read where this was supposed to go after the Kindle, not the fabled apple tablet or the Android tablets that are in the pipe.
- Matthew DeVries
I do think, though, that the upcoming tablet computers WILL be used as e-readers. But e-reading will just be a small bit of what they'll be used for.
- Internet's Tad
Reminds me of a PepperPad without the thumboard.
- Rodfather
I just subscribed, and kept asking myself ?how could I have missed it? I thought all graphic enhancements so far were for Firefox only. Apparently, however, I didn't miss it by more than 2 minutes! Thanks.
- ianf ⌘
LOL! Yeah... "Oh, that looks good... a little closer... maybe a little closer... Stupid weeds." You take lovely pictures. I want to steal a cluster of your grapes. :-)
- James (!?)
Thank you and this plant has eaten up my papyrus, bamboo and lemon tree. We have over 40 bunches on it so far. I have loads of them!
- Admiral Anika
I just wish my stuff would ripen. But I did get a wonderful surprise. I found that that my butter lettuce is growing wonderfully under the romaine, mesclun and kol rabi that bolted the last few weeks.
- Admiral Anika