I assume you're not in an auction based league by looking at your examples. What you have is even *more* important for auction based leagues. You want to be the guy with the most money *at the end* to pick up the best remaining talent on the cheap. Monday is draft day ... I must defend my championship. - AJ Kohn
AJ, you are right, this is not an auction league. It's serpentine format, and fairly standard. I won in 2001 (as a rookie) and was hooked, and won again in 2005. They're the only trophies on display in our home. - Louis Gray
You get trophies? Wow. I get money and a Superbowl BBQ. But I'd like a trophy. Though bragging rights for a year is always nice :) It's also a keeper league (5) so it took me until year three to win. D. Anderson (1), D. Garrard (1), F. Gore (25), M. Lynch (41) and A. Johnson (18). I've got 164 to burn! - AJ Kohn
How often do you go through your Flickr traffic logs MG? U has eegul eyes. - Josh Lowensohn
@josh - life is like a flickr traffic log, you never know what you're gonna get. - MG Siegler
Hm, interesting if they will give a preview to someone in advance, really dying to know what they are cooking now. - Svetlana Gladkova via twhirl
Also looking forward to Friendfeed Alpha after that. - j1m
Loved- "It’s probably pointless to speculate" but I so want everyone to speculate!!! All of your posted suggestions would be great MG. - Nice Fish Films
I actually saw this yesterday when perusing the Changelog Bret posted here http://changelog.friendfeed.co... and I immediately tried it only to find it redirect me to normal FF. - Mark Krynsky
Thanks Alex. I saw this last night and went on a rant to my husband about basic development best practices and how I would assume that any company that knew what they were doing would have a beta. or test. or weusethisbeforepushingitoutsoitdoesntcrash. subdomain. :D - Cyndy
I was just able to log into the FF beta site! It's so beautiful! My god....it's full of stars....... ;) - Nathaniel Payne
Nathaniel: No...words...to describe.... should've...sent...a poet? So.. beautiful... you had... no idea? - Mark Trapp
LOL @ Mark. So am I the only one that enjoyed that movie? I feel like the minority. - Chris Martin
HTTP Referer tracking can be used for so much mischief. Create google-acquisition.friendfeed.com in /etc/hosts pointing to your local web server, then post a page that links to louisgray.com or techcrunch or whatever, click a few times. There are probably easier ways. - Amit Patel
Amit, that's funny. I have used Referral logs to find new sites, like ReadBurner and Shyftr, but I think for the example you mention, I'd do some calling before posting a story, which is what MG did here. :-) - Louis Gray
"Largest Swimming Pool in the World over a kilometer long (3,323 feet), covering 20 acres and containing 250,000 cubic meters of water - Andrew Baron via Bookmarklet
That's nutty. The ocean is *right there*. A little redundant (not to mention, the ocean still wins in size!). - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
ocean is cold. they should do this in Cananda. Anyone ever been to a Canadian beach? So beautiful.... and clean. but damn cold. heated outdoor pool is a great idea - Noah David Simon
I want to see how quickly Phelps can do a length! - Joe Dawson
Forget the bar, this pool is big enough for an outdoor mall. Shop while you swim. - LiquidLag via fftogo
You know how much pee you'd have to get to fill up that pool? lol - Jim Kukral via twhirl
@Jim According to Andrew, it would take 250,000 m^3 ;-) - Kirk Kittell
I kinda wish someone would just make a definitive page with all the world record things in Dubai. I have literally seen 4 Dubai-based links in FriendFeed today. - Phil (scribkin)
We Americans look at Dubai the same way the rest of the world looked at us in the last century. - Chris Baskind
That's an apt assessment, Chris. I still get a kick out of watching public domain footage from the 1939 World's Fair, which I would guess captivated the postwar world. - Phil (scribkin)
@Chris Baskind You mean as a destination I'll reach from the bowels of a steamship only to find myself living in a rat infested tenement, waking daily to peddle fruit from a horse cart? Hey, Dubai, here's my papers! - Christopher Harley
Dubai?? That swimming pool is in Chile. - Morton Fox
Jawbones marketing campaign is great. You know what would be a good marketing move? Auto sellers offering add-on Bluetooth speaker and headsets for free in california. Or making these free as incentives to buy other services(more expensive ofcourse) instead of having ipod shuffle raffles. - Akshay Dodeja
super-guilty. women have been driving for decades staring in the rear view mirror doing their eye-liner and they're no laws against that. - Morgan
what i like about the law is that totally legal for me to text while driving, yet i can't put the phone to my ear. - faboo mama
i'd just like to point out that, since the onset of this law, i've ridden at least three Los Angeles buses with drivers chattering happily into cell phones held to their ears. where was i when we finished resolving the whole drunk driving issue? because it must be resolved for this to matter so much. interesting that we managed to take care of that when our buses and trains still stop running an hour before the bars close. - idnan
Funny post! But I think CA should have gone one step further and outlawed using a cell phone altogether (talking, texting, browsing, email) while the car is in motion! As the post pointed out, people are now more distracted trying to use their phones without getting caught - Jeff P. Henderson
Regardless, the screenshot was hilarious! - Robert Couture
Disheartening for a brand new Mac user like myself. I had the same stance on viruses as a linux user, but now it makes me wonder... - Nikos Anagnostou via twhirl
Lesson Learned: you ALWAYS need virus protection! - Justin Korn
@Louis, Agreed, I hope his blood pressure is back to normal now ... I can just imagine the panic as he scrambled to fix something that was not broken for anybody else but you ... - Robert Couture
no worries louis - glad you got it fixed up - Allen Stern
Doesn't the latest Security Update address this? Gads. - Chris Kim A
It was my fault because somehow something I did somewhere called Allen's site into question. Whether intentional or not, it was my fault. - Louis Gray
As a former virus analyst, the headline is killing me. A virus and a trojan are two totally different things. A virus self-replicates, while a trojan does not but does have a payload. The latter is much more common on Mac OS X, while the former is not. - Bwana McCall
Gotcha. Don't be too hard on yourself; accidents are never intentional! - Andy DeSoto
Bwana - you win and I lose. I have since changed the headline, and tweaked the article to be correct. - Louis Gray
Ok I'm just catching up; you're saying your mac used a Trojan to give Allen Viagra ads on his site, and now he's off to bed with lavender body lotion? I really need to stay home on Saturdays. - jeneane is in the house
The main way that trojan was contracted was from browsing porn sites where they tricked you into installing a Quicktime codec to see the dirty movie. http://bit.ly/3eId3w - Adam Turetzky
@adamturetzky i am not clicking that link - Gregory Lent
ah interesting. One gets a virus/trojan running an untrusted application and it's an OS fault? - Claudio Cicali
Thanks Yuvi! Your analysis is awesome! I had no idea actually that 1. I shoot in Program Mode as much as I do. 2. That I use my 135 f/2 lens as much as that or that 3. I shoot at 1600 iso as much as I do. Offered up my comments on your stats and talk about why I shoot in Program Mode so much instead of Aperture Priority or Manual Mode! - Thomas Hawk
This is really helpful analysis and offers far more insight into my photos than my basic Flickr stats page. I've been meaning to do a post with some of the same information in it using Adobe's Bridge software to analyze my photos on my hard drives at home but very cool that Yuvi beat me to the analysis. :) - Thomas Hawk
Thank you so much for this post! I would've NEVER guessed you shot in Program Mode. And Yuvi, that is an awesome app. You will definitely get your laptop soon :) - Mona N.
Thomas, I posted a comment on Yuvi's entry.. but I thought I'd ask you. Do you deliberately avoid using a flash of any kind (including backfill) or have you found it isn't necessary for your photographic style? -- ok, read your article, mostly answered my question. Thanks. - Phil (scribkin)
yuvi style of analysis is really gr8.. and he's just 17 ..wait till he gets into the real world analystics and does massive number crunching at an industrial level.. his reports would be cool to read. - Peter Dawson
I think I'll do more with flash in the months ahead. I know that there are lots of creative ways to use it. It's more a matter of my comfort zone being natural light probably than anything else. - Thomas Hawk
Peter, I am worried about that, in fact. I have a feeling that we won't see much after Yuvi gets snapped up by the Microsoft or Google of the next decade and all his work becomes proprietary. And I am certain that this will happen. Not optimistic, certain. - Phil (scribkin)
@Phil, yes that is possible ..maybe he will be part of the MSR team or the Google Analystics team. However, I see that he is not just not about numbers only. I mean for Thomas images its pretty straight forward in terms XML and then digg out specifc attributes.. but if you notice his skills can be deeply used in the analysis matrix for personality types, music listening etc etc.. thats a really hard thing to map in /out.. - Peter Dawson
I generally use program mode. Once you realize that you can stop down the aperture on the 5d by turning the little vertical knob behind the shutter button, it makes aperture priority mode a lot less necessary. - Owen Byrne
FWIW, Lightroom gives you the same info. And I never got why there's so little love for program mode out there... these days, the automatic functions on a camera are a lot smarter than any photographer. Further, RAW gives some wiggle room, and it's not like I don't see the shot right away on the LCD. For that percentage of cases where the camera doesn't get it right, I drop into manual. For the most part though it's rather nice to just set it and forget it, and give my full attention to composition. - Eric
Thanks to Yuvi for the data and thanks to Thomas for sharing/explaining this in terms that a novice can understand. I think many of us have been conditioned to think that we're not "real photographers" if we're not shooting manual. - asiriusgeek
yuvi will be a fashion model who dabbles in bollywood/hollywood films and is known as a geek among his friends - Gregory Lent
Removes large logo, allows for a custom title, setting bg color, define width & height and display in a scrollable iFrame. - Mark Krynsky via Bookmarklet
I already jumped up preparing to write an article. then I read the thing. that Loren Baker is one headline-whore, I tell ya. that letter from yahoo means not there is a deal like the headline cleverly suggests, it is instead full of ifs and thens. - marcel weiss
Yeah, the unconditional tense is incorrect. It should read Yahoo WOULD sell to Microsoft at....if.... - Andy Roberts
The upcoming new version of Facebook is getting quite similar to FriendFeed. Do you think it could be a direct competitor? - LoreArtifex via Bookmarklet
Users are going to hate the fact that their combining the news feed and the wall. I know facebook really want to push the newsfeed, but I think they are going to have another user backlash on their hands. - Gabe Ragland
I'm all for combining the newsfeed and the wall, I'm tired of having to scroll past a dozen different walls to find the Facebook original wall that I want to write on, this should make it easier to find. - Shawn Kirsch
So what happens to the Wall post count now? - Joe Dawson
I like this new version of FB. I think they will put News Feed as default view inside the home, plus two other "switch view" options like the actual Wall Posts and Post by the User. The good thing is that it is very quick, few refreshes and much more Ajax. - LoreArtifex
About Facebook vs FriendFeed: this is not their goal probably. They want to manage the social graph, not interested to become a FriendFeed clone. But I think that the ability to manage all our actions, sources ad informations inside FB and to show them inside the river of news will be pretty useful. Maybe they should take Note and Link and merge them together to create a more powerful tool, just like Share Something. - LoreArtifex
"WTF! Is this goddamn amateur hour?" Heh. Nice rant. - Jeremy Zawodny
This guy needs to take a look at his hardware and do some house cleaining of his OS, he's having problems that typical iTunes users don't have. - Shawn Kirsch
I feel his pain. ITunes on Windows is weak. Importing is slow, the user experience is not standard and every time I update (which is required almost monthly...) I have to make sure to remove the Apple software updater, which is always installed even though I state I don't want it and which is, in a word, crap. - Sprague D
Shawn, most Windows users don't deal with audio that's on a network volume in iTunes. iTunes handles that particularly poorly. Last I used it, I don't think any of the i/o code was threaded, so it ends to just lock up the whole ui for 10-20 seconds at a time. - Clayton O'Neill via twhirl
Agreed, it feels like running an app on Windows 3.1. Why does it take 50% CPU to download podcasts? That software is so weird. - Eric @ CS Techcast
Sucks ass, period. Go with foobar or Songbird or even Winamp before iTunes on Windows. - Michael W. May via twhirl
I never had an iPhone upgrade go smoothly on Windows I always got a "-6 error occurred". With my powerbook no problems. Lame. - Michael
agreed iTunes on Windows machine sucks really bad, so does Quicktime as a matter of fact sometimes I wish there was WinAmp for Mac - Dobromir Hadzhiev
It's nice that they have the API limit moving up, but it still doesn't offer the response time that I desire. When I'm on Twitter, I'm interacting rapidly with people, and I have a lot of stuff flowing by very quickly. I need GTalk integration to work again. Updated right away, without the need for a client to request updates, and I can respond right away. Anything less and my Twitter use is too frustrating.
Twitter @thattalldude - Shawn Kirsch via FriendFeed MT Plugin
100 requests/hour! finally some good news from twitter. - Alan Le
Does Twitter have an iPhone version of the FailWhale ready for this weekend? - Bill Sodeman via fftogo
Some real good advice there. I am not sure how I feel about the tip on composition, but everything else seems interesting. I have recently started to get LOW and shoot up on subjects and wow what a difference. - Matt Donders via twhirl
Best one is tip 5, get the subject out of their comfort zone. I think I'm going to be emplying this one myself soon. - Saul Mora via twhirl
Matt - be careful of the "double chin" effect when using the "looking up" technique. It is one of my favorite as well, but some people will despise you :) - Justin Korn
I take the WORST pictures - but I think I could use some of these tips to improve them... - George Smith
Good article here. Gotta visit FriendFeed more often. Would have missed this. - E. Christopher Clark
These are great. I've always shied away from portraits but they're something I'd like to get into more. - Nick Munson
This initiative will amend the Constitution of California to defend and safeguard the inalienable rights of the People against infringement by governments and corporations, providing for the lawful growth, sale, and possession of marijuana. Marijuana will be taxed through a system of stamps and licenses--a $5 stamp will be required for the sale of an eighth ounce of marijuana and a $50 annual license will be required for the growth of one marijuana plant. To protect participants and encourage participation in the system, such licenses and stamps will be available anonymously in stores where marijuana is sold. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
"We also hold these truths to be self-evident-That, as an intoxicant, marijuana is far less harmful to the health and safety of the People than alcohol--That, as a smoking substance, marijuana is far less addictive or harmful to the health of the People than tobacco" - Julian Baldwin
exactly why I've supported any of my friends who partake in marijuana related activity..I always tell them alcohol is far worse for the mind and body and tobacco is sad because who wants to watch someone become addicted - Julian Baldwin
Dialing UHAUL right now (just kidding, I use Ryder) - Kathleen C
Oakland is hemorrhaging death right now from a territorial drug war that's been going on in the City for the past few years -- a tremendous amount of blood and violence. It would be nice to take pot away as one of the crops that they are dealing out on the streets and give people an alternative to fueling more gang violence. Won't make gang violence go away, but could take a major drug away from their economy. - Thomas Hawk
I'm not sure it will never happen Steven. That's what they said about gay marriage too in California and it's happening. California is a progressive state. I could see California voters getting this on the ballet and approving it. They already passed an initiative decriminalizing medicinal marijuana. This would be the next logical step. - Thomas Hawk
I read research recently that scientists are trying to extract the anti-inflammatory element of THC that interacts with the CB1 and CB2 receptors to help diseases like Alzheimer's without getting people high - Julian Baldwin
Thomas - agreed with your last comment. I saw that flash site recently (sorry for no link) that showed deaths on a map over a sliding time period. Very grim. - Phil (scribkin)
The big problem with legalizing marijuana is how other countries might perceive the legislation and point the pot smoker stigma towards the government - Julian Baldwin
@thomas marijuana is a low level drug compared to the alternatives that would be adopted for those earning an income selling drugs - Julian Baldwin
The federal govt will never allow it. This is unfortunate as there may be plenty of legitimate medical purposes. - Ryan
I would like to see more "Green" states. All kidding aside, I think Thomas raises some great points not only about the voters but about trying to reduce 1 of the forces driving street violence. Julian: I have been prescribed Marinol and it just doesn't do anything for my physiology (nausea, weight, etc). - Mathew A. Koeneker
LEGALIZE IT! for shits sake. Republicans support this too. Obama are you listening? - Noah David Simon
it wont happen due to quality controls and not any way to really tax it unless they implimplented more jobs for the farms. thou if they did they could also make cord from the stalks(hemp) and just think how the economy could rise from that!!! - Charles Rice via twhirl
This is amazing news! A good friend of mine is rotting away in federal prison right now for running a medical marijuana enterprise out of Oakland, something that is currently perfectly legal under state and local law. This helps to exert pressure on the feds to get them over the tipping point on this issue. Be nice to see the corrupt and morally reprehensible "drug war" end once and for all, in my lifetime! - Eddie Codel
Obama should be talking about this. He is the first major Presidential candidate who has admitted to active marijuana use. Instead he cowers away from it and won't touch the topic. - Thomas Hawk
I would like to add though that this will never work because it will bring the criminal element to wherever it is legal. this needs to happen on a nationalor federal level. Perhaps that is the price we pay for making this illegal in the first place... but I just thought I should warn you. Legalize it anyway on moral grounds. I'm a Republican and I am for the legalization and normalization of marijuana. I smoked it in Amsterdam and I believe in moderation it is a good thing. - Noah David Simon
Julian, legalizing pot would not get rid of street violence in Oakland. But it would take a major income source from their economy. Even though it is a low level drug, it is one of the most heavily purchased and consumed. The impact on the drug economy would be substantial. They, of course, would do everything that they
