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
- آریــوبرزن
"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
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
Thank you, Brian. Let me know how you fare with it.
- Micah
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
Eric, your words are very much appreciated, Eric. I hope this helps people understand each other, even if only just a tad more.
- Micah
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Thanks again, April. I'll check it out asap.
- Micah
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
SCRIPT UPDATE [v0.1.6] - Fix to v0.1.5 so that onlyUseSecureProtocolCompatibleFeatures only prevents feature use if a secure connection is present.
- Micah
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
Install page now has "Alternate configuration (keepOriginalTextInRealtime ON)" for user script and bookmarklet language versions http://wittman.org/project...
- Micah
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
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
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.
- iTad
I think I would die if I stepped out on that, but I would try anyway.
- Rah-PM 2012
Bear with me a moment while I attempt to retrieve my scrotum from my abdominal cavity...
- Mark J Colonel Colonic
This is so awesome. I would kill to have something like that in Montreal
- Robert D'Alesio
If I want to fly or levitate I'll expose myself to cosmic radiation like anyone else
- Sean Reiser
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. :)
- Alan (Giraffes)
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
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
I think Tablet Computing is the future, but this device seems really crippled.
- iTad
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.
- iTad
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.
- iTad
Reminds me of a PepperPad without the thumboard.
- Rodfather
"I wanted to put Capucine's popularity to a good use, and with the help of several awesome persons, we have set up a project in order to raise money for Edurelief, a development organization based in Mongolia, who helps providing school books to Mongolian kids."
- ◄ 道 ► D/\\/|I|D ッ
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. :-)
- Moody (Sweet FA 4 Life)
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!
- 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.
- Anika
These are some of your best garden pics. I like the banana one best - the distorted light through the water droplets... righteous.
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
Thanks, it only took the right lighting and camera, but mostly lighting.
- Anika
If you think about it, It's pretty awesome that it can capture macro-y things like this, turn around and image the moons of Jupiter.
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
Today new data about unemployment in US: further 467k people in the middle of the street. 6.5M jobs lost since the crisis began. Only economic shocks generate political changes. Let's take this in mind when talking of italian politics
- Paolo Landi
Kol, you need a job? Naw! I need one. Aeronautical Engineer. Hire me.
- Will Higgins™
I with ya! Been looking for 6 months now.
- Sullivan
Kol, I would honestly love to help you, but you're looking for a job in the UK and that's not exactly my neck of the woods. But, I'll keep my ears and eyes open for you. Who knows? Gaming right? What's the unemployment rate in England?
- Michael Fidler
Meeeee. My graduation day is in 2 weeks.
- Charley M
Oh, that would be me too - get really hungry some days.
- Chris Loft
Amani, I'm about 1-2 hours away from London. I want to move to SW of London at some point though. Kent is too far away from town. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Mike, I'm a data-monkey, so Excel/reporting/Business Objects/databasing, etc. I've done some tech support, website maintenance and testing in the past and don't mind a bit of admin. I've been a project co-ordinator on several telecoms projects too. That's about my level.
- Kol Tregaskes
Network admin, video editor, writer and presenter here still in the search for a job (or payment for my podcast)... That and I'm going slightly insane waiting to find out if I have the rocketboom gig or not >.<
- alphaxion
Breaking news : 74% of the people engaging in FFFriendship relations are unemployed. They all gather around a graphical totem stating "I NEED A JOB". No official from the US, UK, France or any other country made any comment about this phenomenom.
- Zackatoustra
been doing freelance work, but would really enjoy a little more stability ;)
- Mike Chelen
alphaxion: tried generating revenue through advertising?
- Mike Chelen
No point when I'm only getting an average of about 20 to 50 views per episode. Thanks for the likes BTW :)
- alphaxion
part of the advantage is to become familiar with the tools & methods. and if every one of those viewers clicked an ad (yeah right) that could be $10 an ep :)
- Mike Chelen
I'm more interested in sponsors than rolling ads, since I don't like how intrusive they are. I can control how I advertise sponsors, at the least. The ideal solution is a distribution deal so I don't have to assail people with advertising in the show (just around it on their site). Tho getting more viewers is my primary concern above earning money from it.
- alphaxion
alphaxion: finding that balance is one of the most important aspects & challenges, maybe web page ads would be a good compromise? to get more viewers, how about making a friendfeed group for the show :)
- Mike Chelen
I do have a room where the feed from the site is pulled into, along with many other feeds http://friendfeed.com/electro... I have one with the name of the show, but I plan to use it for whenever I increase my writing team (stories etc would get posted into there for commentary). The site they're on (www.verticalslice.tv) gets even less traffic. Besides, I'm loath to use ads like those. I'm great at stifling myself ;)
- alphaxion
Last night a guy came to my door asking to wash my car for cash. While he worked I found out that he was a mid level manager at a large company last year. Now he can't even get a cashier job at Target, so he's going door to door washing folks' cars. After I paid him, I went in and put on some Woody Guthrie.
- Mark Traphagen
from iPhone
While on the doll I'm supposed to apply for 2 jobs per week min. I've just written up my last 2 weeks worth of job hunting and have applied to over 20 jobs! They just look at my slip every fortnight and say 'well you've been busy'! LOL. 3 month review in a couple of weeks, I think I've hit their min. requirement and then some. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Actually, though I find it a chore to write up every time, it's quite useful. I'm now over 1 job application a day! I really like the look of this job though: http://ff.im/4KNSG
- Kol Tregaskes
alphaxion: how about making a dedicated room for the verticalslice videos? more writing would be great, it would still be nice to have all the videos in one place and hear what people thought :)
- Mike Chelen
from IM