There was a dude on Haight St. that had a unidread like that going on, and you could smell that rankness from a block down. No kidding. ewwwwwwwwww (and I have dreadlocks)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
matted fur is right....nice thin ones are fine, but as they get too thick, they never dry, and never get clean (I've had mine 11 years, they are very very thin)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That's just gross... if a religion insists on that, it's time to change your religion.
- Fa La La La Lindsay
I just saw this guy at the Powell MUNI station
- Andy Bakun
I wonder if this is the same guy I was talking about that I would see / smell on Haight St. (I thought that guy had a longer uni-dread though)......either way, this guy give dreadlocks a bad name....ewwww..
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
@guruvan Your dreads look great in your profile picture :) There should be a different name for something like this, this picture does give nice dreadlocks a bad name
- Alisha Vargas
Alisha: Thanks :-) I have one of two names for that: 1) Uni-dread-ew or 2) Tour-mat (you see those kids all the time who go on tour with The Dead, String cheese, Phish, etc and just stop being clean and have huge fat nasty dreads
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
guruvan :-) Both those terms describe it so well. Ewww
- Alisha Vargas
Interesting. I heard a story on NPR yesterday that many believe that we have hit bottom on the decrease in home values as well. I sincerely hope that NPR isn't just trying to blow sunshine up our ....!
- Jenny R.
Yeah, I don't get the sense that the economy has really improved, but all the leading indicators have been going up for the last few months and that's usually an indication of the end of a recession.
- Alex Scoble
from IM
I'm with Derrick, back to business as usual *grin*
- Rene Wirtz
Just cause it might be over, doesn't mean the effects are going to stop. Companies and persons that have tried to stick this out will still be effected. Cisco is still laying off 700 employees in the San Jose area.
- Uncle CW™
Hehe, yeah, I don't have any editorialisms to go with this bit of analysis.
- Alex Scoble
And yeah, CW, this will be very cold comfort indeed to all those people who are out of a job or soon will be out of a job.
- Alex Scoble
It will be almost like the companies that took action as soon as the recession hit will recover faster then the ones that tried to hold out.
- Uncle CW™
Can't trust a word an "economist" say's ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
It's nice, I suppose. I don't do it all the time but it's nice once in a while to take a moment to say hello and wish people a good day before jumping into the venting of world events or stressing over the daily troubles or setting off the flood of content that people may or may not be interested in.
- pea
Yeah I got over that about 10 years ago in Guild Chat in Everquest it just got really old really fast when you heard it from 100 people.
- Geoff Schultz
I guess it's cause I act the same way as I do here as I do in meatspace. I feel like I'm hanging out with a group of friends and sharing a period of time together. I usually say goodnight just the same as if I leaving a party.
- Johnny Worthington
I do it occasionally, but then someone always says "Well it's night time over here!" or something like that, making the point of doing this kind of silly.
- Brandon Mendelson
I'm not sure that I understand the need for it IRL either, but I still do it
- Davis Freeberg
I remember that there I was nine-months pregnant with a nine pounder, and the only person who offered his seat was a disabled man, while all these men with no disabilities didn't budge. I kept saying no cause I felt bad, and his response was the best. "You are having a baby, so you deserve it, and it doesn't seem like any of these HEALTHY men are getting up"
- Shevonne
People are such jerks. The same thing happened to me toward the end of my pregnancy about 6 weeks ago. All these guys were looking at me in my big belly and didn't offer to get up. But some nice young girl actually offered. I feel that the healthy *men* should've done it - not the girl. Instead, they opted to stare.
- Tamar Weinberg
When I was pregnant, I took the bus to/from work every day. I was always amazed and how rarely I was offered a seat. People would purposely look away, I noticed, to "pretend" not to see me so they wouldn't have to offer their seat.
- Rochelle
no class. hate these kinds of people. one of the things about ny that i can't stand. it's incredible to see how unaware or even selfish people are
- Cee Bee
If I was really uncomfortable, I sat down in the handicapped seats even if it was between 2 fat people. They'd normally then look at me and roll their eyes at me. Maybe you should've gotten up!
- Tamar Weinberg
by the way, did anyone actually see the URL? I think it's the longest domain name ever.
- Tamar Weinberg
@Tamar LONGEST EVER! @Cee Bee I will have to say DC is worst! In NYC, some people offered their seat. In DC, I had old ladies pushing me.
- Shevonne
Screw waiting for the offer. I'd look 'em straight in the eye and ask them if I could sit down.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
That sort of sense of entitlement doesn't help either...
- Mona Nomura
people did this in tokyo when my wife was quite obviously preggers. diaf!
- Eric Nakagawa
this stuff kills me - when i was a little kid my mother would beat my arse if i didnt get up - people are such pigs - this is totally getting posted on insidetransit - love the idea
- Allen Stern
Total agreement with ya all. Funny Allen, my mom would do the exact same to me. The empty thousand mile stare is so common on the buses over here also. I find often that once I stand up for someone, it kinda breaks the dam and people start getting off their "fat donkeys" (:-P) at the next stops.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
<rant>when a person gets on with 3 kids and slaps them down into the first 3 seats - and then the parent just sits there and watches old people and anyone else stand - i give them the look of death - if it comes to it, i say something. this (and people playing their walkmans so loud the whole subway can hear it) is the real world - not twitter.</rant>
- Allen Stern
This reminds me of my recent trip to my mom's eye doc. I'm pushing her along in the wheelchair. Two people are ahead of us, neither one of them holds the door. Two men are inside talking on their cell phones watching me hold the door and push Mom inside. Now, granted, I've managed this enough times to where it isn't a big deal, but, come on people! Hold the door for the next person,...
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- Yolanda
I've been lucky to take trains that aren't that packed when I was pregnant the first time. Though I don't ever demand a seat since I sit on my butt at work all day anyway :p
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
im going to start "peoplewhoplaytheirmusicsoloudeveryonecanhearit.com" :)
- Allen Stern
hit them with your freaking crutches and tell them to move if you NEED to sit there. i always sit in disabled seating. they're not better than me because they're different. freaking rosa parks all over again.
- Tyler Gillies
Yolanda, that's awful. :/ I went to the post office in January, while very much 9 months pregnant, in the snow and ice, with an arm full of packages. I decided to do a sort of experiment and stood outside until someone opened the door for me. It took several people going in/out before anyone let me in.
- Rochelle
Just to add a counterpoint: sometimes, when a woman has a big belly going on, there is some ambiguity as to whether they're pregnant or...well, fat. If a woman is very obviously pregnant, then...yeah: rude as fuck to not give up one's seat, reserved seat or no. (Then again, if one is male, one could just offer one's seat up and play it off as general chivalry, I guess.)
- Chester
Chester, what I do in that situation is just get up and stand closer to the doors as if anticipating my stop. That way she won't be insulted if she's not pregnant.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
HAHAHAHHAHAHA!! I just realized *THIS IS A BLOG! HOLY SHIT LOL.... HILARIOUS Idea :)). Tons of hilarious posts updated often with pretty good titles. will actually subscribe to this thing
- Matt Kaufman
even if you're pregnant. whose fault is it that you got knocked up? plus technically pregnant people aren't "disabled"
- Tyler Gillies
@Tyler true, but many pregnant women suffer from swollen legs and feet which is normal but can be painful.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Let's just say there's a ring of hell where people who are young and fit, and occupying those seats, go. It's a place where they have to stand for hours on the worst jolting, turbulent bus that never ends, and they have to pee. Or something.
- anna sauce
Tyler, being pregnant might not be a disability but the swelling, muscle tears, bone separation, and physical pain sure are disabiling.
- Rochelle
Now, I'm the sort of person who would give up their seat for.. well, for most anyone, but I do take some small issue with the entitlement feeling here. Not from the disabled, or the pregnant. No, the comment that it should have been a man, not a girl who offered their seat up. Do my feet hurt less than a woman's after a long day?
- The Letter M
Tyler, it kind of sounds like you want to punish women for so inconveniently getting pregnant, damn us! Your mother would be proud.
- Kamilah Gill
I feel bad if a woman is standing while I have a seat, pregnant/crutches or not. I offer my seat. Probably my Virginia upbringing.
- Hutch Carpenter
Hutch, I used to always give up my seat to any woman in the vicinity. But, once I started riding BART regularly, during rush hour, I came to embrace equal rights...and burdens. If one were to go the chivalrous route during rush hour, one would be guaranteed of never being able to sit down, as it always ends up SRO.
- Chester
@Chester - look at it as a continuing physical fitness opportunity for yourself!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
from IM
Ha, this was just a blog I needed for writing an article. :-) Thx, Tamar.
- Ton Zijp
You bet. The sad thing and funny thing is that I am pretty sure this whole website is a parody and that the guy doesn't really have crutches, but the FF discussion certainly rings true -- and with that, I'm glad this blog exists.
- Tamar Weinberg
That website is some passive aggressive BS. Don't take pictures and post em, that's rude. Just ask the jerks to get up out of your seat. Be a Rosa Parks not a mean photog.
- Pete Delucchi
Pete, have you ever lived in NYC? And rude? Cmon - if someone really was on crutches and these jerks didn't get up, the only people who are rude are the people sitting comfortably. For real rudeness, look at this NYC subway blog: http://asleeponthesubway.tumblr.com/
- Tamar Weinberg
I can't believe the defensiveness of some of the replies to that last one, Tamar. Calling expecting a seat during pregnancy "quaint" and so on. When someone is *clearly and visibly* about ready to pop a baby out, how about a little sympathy, people?? I haven't been pregnant yet, but it looks uncomfortable toward the end. I always jump up for elderly, disabled, or pregnant riders (when...
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- Kamilah Gill
Kamilah, I think the lack of compassion comes out of not experiencing the event. Personally, before I was pregnant, I had NO idea that it would be so hard -- I thought evolution/anatomy/biology would mean that it would be tolerable and easy. The only pains I have previously heard about associated with pregnancy was morning sickness and nausea, not all that other stuff. I actually am in...
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- Tamar Weinberg
I love being a sleep-deprived mommyblogger. I wrote my convoluted rant, incorporating most of what I've shared here and elsewhere (and what FFers contributed as well - at least via links). There are also some nice pics of baby. Please comment and share your thoughts. http://mymommyand.me/2009...
- Tamar Weinberg
Hilarious! I'm so happy you posted these pictures. Sick thing is that if they didn't see anything wrong at that time- they probably won't feel like complete a**es if they saw their pictures here.
- Gekd Boutique
I commented! I will have to say that is one of the best posts I have seen in awhile.
- Shevonne
Thanks Shevonne!!! We need an ongoing discussion too... I guess I'll have to make the post/blog more public.
- Tamar Weinberg
btw today on good day ny - they reported that the mta is going to ramp up going after these people - and giving them fines - how they will do that i have no idea - but they plan to do it.
- Allen Stern
"Plastic takes thousands of years to decompose — but 16-year-old science fair contestant Daniel Burd made it happen in just three months. The Waterloo, Ontario high school junior figured that something must make plastic degrade, even if it does take millennia, and that something was probably bacteria. The Record reports that Burd mixed landfill dirt with yeast and tap water, then added ground plastic and let it stew. The plastic indeed decomposed more quickly than it would in nature; after experimenting with different temperatures and configurations, Burd isolated the microbial munchers. One came from the bacterial genus Pseudomonas, and the other from the genus Sphingomonas. Burd says this should be easy on an industrial scale: all that’s needed is a fermenter, a growth medium and plastic, and the bacteria themselves provide most of the energy by producing heat as they eat. The only waste is water and a bit of carbon dioxide."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
So why is carbon sequestration a good idea when it's all complicated and expensive, but bad when it involves burying plastic bags in landfills?
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's better to sequester carbon as dirt than as bags.
- Gabe
But if it's already in plastic bag form, why not leave it that way instead of turning it into CO2?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: that's exactly what I've been thinking. Particularly since the City of Seattle no longer allows residents to sequester food based carbon in landfills and instead requires us to burn it into compost.
- Hayes Haugen
Dirt is useful because you can grow stuff in it. Most waste products are not so useful.
- Gabe
Yes, but the choice isn't between dirt and plastic -- it's between plastic and CO2.
- Paul Buchheit
I have to agree with Paul on this one: atmospheric CO2 is much more of a pressing concern at the moment than landfill space. Though I do admire the kid's scientific spirit.
- Louis Simoneau
Concur with Louis and Paul. Here's an interesting Penn & Teller bit about landfills: http://www.youtube.com/watch... (from their Bullshit episode on Recycling myths).
- Stephen Mack
It doesn't say what the process actually produces. They mention the feed material (plastic) and the waste material (water, CO2), but not the real products. I assumed it produced globs of carbon. Am I wrong?
- Gabe
Has nobody considered this for an artificial ecosystem? Compost your scraps for fertile soil, and compost your bags for the CO2 for the plants growing in it. Sure you'll need an airlock on your greenhouse (and an oxy mask whenever you enter it) but you'll have the best damned tomatoes on your street.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
You don't want to leave it in plastic form as it screws up the ocean large! Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... I hope they can use this to make something that would eat the plastic in the ocean rather than the sea life dying from it.
- Luke Kilpatrick
Since it said that the waste products were CO2 and water, I assumed there were also non-waste products. The good thing about landfills is that they can later be mined for all the great things that were too cheap to recycle.
- Gabe
Yeah, I think landfills have an unjustly bad reputation. When properly managed, they are a great way to deal with garbage that our technology can't yet efficiently recycle. (we're saving for the future!)
- Paul Buchheit
that's great news. now i can really finish my threat to all my damn *invincible* plastic bags! (waves fist)
- ed fry
The two biggest problems with landfill are the leachate seeping into groundwater (or contaminating local soil) and methane (a greenhouse gas). Even if you can mitigate those problems, they're difficult to eliminate entirely, making the land almost useless once it's full.
- Gabe
I wonder how long it would take if you don't grind the plastic down.
- Peng-Toh
Gabe, not to minimize the problems, but I live right next to Shoreline Ampitheather in Mountain View, which is built on landfill is proof that the landfill land is hardly useless.
- Stephen Mack
It's not just landfills, though. Take the large floating trash gyre of the Pacific, and its effects in the ecosystem. So the tiny little plastic balls in water are fake food, and animals eat them, and then die in various ways, lowering populations and making species even more fragile. Landfill may be a good way if it's contained and monitored more closely, or CO2, in various areas- such...
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- anna sauce
@anna at least he is coming up with a solution rather than just finding more things to complain about
- Chris Johnston
anna's right -- the problem is when the stuff ends up in the ocean. Landfills are a good way to keep the stuff out of the ocean.
- Gabe
Stop speculating and start experimenting!
- Dane Deasy
Paul - did you fix the word wrap issue for comments? e.g. on my blog comments cascade across the column into the right margin - http://blog.infinitelymeta.com/reef-ta... not a big deal at all. just wondering. great work on the beta btw.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
you know what Paul - ignore what I said....apart from letting people sign up directly via the widget. Then my friends/family who aren't on friendfeed can comment directly plus you get a whole bunch of new 'non-techy' members.
- Zee.
What Mona said. I suggested to WP that they add FriendFeed to the "trusted javascript list"; they responded promptly saying that they would add it to their "candidate library".
- Neil Saunders
I tried a couple of times to get it to work, but even with setting the width, the comments still sprawled outside the border of the widget and looked ugly.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Still using the original script on the front page, but did add 'Share on FriendFeed' to the Blogger post template today. Awesome.
- MLx
I created my own widget using feedburner's RSS setup and some CSS code, so as I can get my entire lifestream, as set up on FF, to show up. Since I'm a crappy web designer, I may end up using the FF widget, after all... :/ Can we also use Yahoo Pipes on the Widget? I'm thinking of using Rasheen's duplicate removal setup, once he gets it to work...
- Helen Sventitsky
i haven't because i'm trying to figure out where to put it on my blog.
- Morgan
Not sure Paul. I'm using Chris Pirillo's Social Media theme. Not a WP guru myself. Willing to test though.
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
FYI: Adding the widgets (other than the "Share on FriendFeed" link) to self-hosted WordPress requires zero knowledge of WordPress templates. You login to WordPress, click on "Design", then "Widgets", and add a "text" widget and paste in the code.
- Benjamin Golub
No because my blog sidebar is too narrow and changing the widget width cuts the text off mid-line. May redesign my blog one day when I'm bored.
- Deborah Fitchett
I did, before Godaddy lost the location of my blog they host and I can't get it back :(
- Johnny Worthington
I had it on my old site design, just added it to my latest. Thanks for the reminder.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
I just did the other day when someone posted the link here on FF. It rocks, thx.
- Victoria Plautia
Used it as an experiment in the 'blog that posted itself' recently. Great. Now I'd like to use it in sidebar as widget. Can't change text size tho'. Too big.
- Kate Foy
Ditto Loic - but switched to the newer wider one. Would love to be able to do like 7 or 8 in instead of 5 OR 10. Try to keep the stream clean there for others. Think 7 would be perfect but one size doesn't fit all :)
- Charlie Anzman
you can do different numbers, just change the num= variable. I use num=12
- Justin Long
I don't feel like my friendfeed content meshes very well with my blog. I enjoy friendfeed quite a bit, but I don't really feel the need to try to get more people to look at my friendfeed. I did try it a couple months ago before it was really public, when I noticed it on your blog, Paul. I do use the friendfeed comment plugin. Maybe I will add a share on friendfeed button.
- Robert Felty
I did install it but I don't really like its size. I'd like something narrower and with a smaller font. I don't know if this is something I can fix with CSS magic, but that's not my thing.
- Robert Konigsberg
From my point of view: How exactly would it help the readers of Blogoscoped? What's the problem it would solve? Not everything I say on Friendfeed is relevant to the content of Blogoscoped. Now, give me a widget that I can customize to make it be relevant just to a single specific blog post and I will give it a try perhaps... an RSS feed for "comments on URL xyz" (where I can make xyz be a Blogoscoped permalink of a new post) would be interesting :)
- Philipp Lenssen
+1 to Philipp. The only widget I have on my blog is delicious tags, and I'm not even sure that's useful to my readers.
- Amit Patel
Word wrap issue for comments. Will that be fixed?
- Dennis Metzcher
thanks @Benjamin Golub for the removing of the border code. worked great.
- Thom Allen
I would use it if only for one thing: the word wrap issue with comments.
- Ryan Stanley
Just added it to www.woodysworld.tv under What's the Word. Carries my Twitter, Flickr, Youtube and Pandora. Customized CSS. I'll be changing title to "My Friend Feed"
- Jim W
When will the fact that the comments do not wrap when using the widget on my site be corrected? Please update us. :)
- Dennis Metzcher
Dennis: that is by design so that long comments don't cause the widget to be super long in narrow places. You can make comments wrap with this CSS: .friendfeed.widget .feed .entry .comment { white-space: normal !important; }
- Benjamin Golub
Yes, but I just moved it to the sidebar (it was on the bottom, because the comments weren't wrapping). I am not fond of the background color, and I don't know what to do with the CSS. http://miniaturemage.blogspot.com
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
when i use the css to wrap comments, at the beginning of each line of the comment there displays a different 'comment' symbol. very weird.
- Patrickometry
I've just learnt of this today and already adapted it to my Google Blogger, but I find I can't embed it on wordpress.com blog. Pity. It's something that would greatly add to blogs.
- George Hall (Australia)
Hi George: you should be able to embed the image versions of our widgets on your wordpress.com blog. Just pick "Image" as the format.
- Benjamin Golub
from email
Building43 is going to go even further than a simple embed. More later.
- Robert Scoble
I've added Friendfeed widgets to the About pages of coverbrowser.com and sketchory.com ... it's displaying feedback in regards to the site.
- Philipp Lenssen
"Why not?" Good Question. No blog is The Answer.
- ianf ⌘
I would like my Friendfeed page to sit in place of my blog on my website, but none of the widget styles are close enough for that (and iframing my Friendfeed page is a little much).
- Glen Murphy
This is back? I have my FF profile on the blog. An embedded widget would likely take up too much space.
- Louis Gray
I wanted but simplicity matters, so took it back.
- Burcu Dogan
Not sure. But I have helped others embed (example http://bebepool.com/arthur ) their own feed into one of my online services (http://bebepool.com - which, over the past 3 months, had 4% of new pool accounts try to use the ff embed feature. The success rate of signing up for ff then plugging in the new user account into their bebepool settings and also not marking their account Private...
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- Micah Wittman
I will sleep well tonight. (And that pic is the bee's knees)
- Derrick
these cookies are like crack. I do not allow them in my house -- I will eat an entire pound bag without stop. But perhaps I will buy a bag this weekend to celebrate that they are still around!
- RudĩϐЯaЯïan
Oh man, they are definitely like crack. I also do not allow them in my house.
- Robert Miller
I agree that these cookies are like crack. They are the shiznit for sure. They are the only cookie I don't like with milk because the cold milk makes the frosting all weird and hard and waxy like. With coffee, OMFG they are damn good. And I like the oil spill they leave in my coffee cup when I dunk 'em.
- Morgan Haley
YEAH!! that is some worthy palm kernel cottonseed oil there baby!!! woo hoo!!
- Susan Beebe
You know what it is? It's the salt. The salt on the cookie, under the frosting, somehow makes it irresistible. Too damn yummy.
- Ciaoenrico
I havent had them in years. I need to get some the next time I am at the store. Its been probably close to 15 years since I had some.
- pcnerd37
I'm not a big cookie person, BUT I know people used to love these things. Thanks Kellogs!
- Adriana
Ciaoenrico- it IS the salt! That's the key to the yumminess! You figured it out! Hooray. I finally know why I'm fatter than I should be! And I don't care enough to not go buy a bag of these on the way home tonight!!!
- Morgan Haley
Good. I was afraid they were going to disappear. Our family used to love the mixed bag.
- mark zero (Jason)
I just noticed this. Kellogg = Northwestern's b-school and Kellog = cereal...? Hm, I need to Google. BRB. *edit: they are both Kellogg. Jeez. Confusing.
- Mona Nomura
They've been on the shelf here for a bit (like 2 weeks-ish) and we've bought them every chance we get so far. I know it's my imagination, but I can't help but feel that they taste a little different. :) I'm broken.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
This guy most be highly trained - I've never seen someone react that quickly!
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
I don't think it was faked. Yes, I can imagine someone reacting that fast. BTW comments on the YouTube video are very sad (and what does race have to do with it anyway?).
- Jill Hurst-Wahl
I think the kid who was scared has some anger management issues - you're first response to someone startling you shouldn't be to knock the shit out of them. That's not healthy.
- Bill Rawlinson
the hell it shouldn't bill. i'd guess he probably lives in a household or neighborhood where abuse or violence is common. my mom has similar issues. she slugged the mailman once because he came up behind her and she wasn't expecting him to be there.
- tiffany
reminds me of that song... "Mother requested that I render you unconscious," or something like that.
- Karim
Love how the guy is always at the ready to just pummel. What a way to live.
- Josh Haley
That's what life is like when you're Marlo Stanfield. He probably thought it was Omar.
- Christopher Harley
ADMINISTRIVIA: if you look at it on the permalinked page <http://ff.im/2VHDF>, rather than any aggregate one, initially it comes up quite choppy (could be my connection though). I don't know how you did it, assume a server hack refreshing individual frames in 0.2 sec increments, but you should look at what looks like a better, no-chop implementation of animated gifs, Philipp Lenssen's friendfeeding app: <http://friendfeed.com/philipp...>
- ianf ⌘
@Glen, that's funny because the first thing I though of was, not liking the typeface. Okay, maybe 2nd thought I had. First one might have been, Holy shit! Boobies!
- ♥patricia♥
there are some really good restaurants in the bay area which make healthy/home-made indian food. Chaat paradise in mtn view is one of them
- Bindu Reddy
I do not have a cook, but I did have an Indian roommate for a while.
- Clare Dibble
Shocking ... another research experiment that resulted in dead rats. Heh. Seriously though, did anyone think that extended sleep deprivation COULDN'T kill you?
- Joel Bennett
My favorite bit from the NYT article is this conclusion about the research: No one knows how soon a rat would die if, like the insomniac subgroup Mendelson described, it merely believed it had been deprived of sleep.
- Joel Bennett
Huh...didn't realize slashdot was on FF. No need to forward articles. Yay!
- CAJ, somewhere else
I need sleep atleast for 5 hours, otherwise I am not at my best next morning. A nap for even few minutes helps me to recharge. I think sleep as a way to charge the batteries which discharges while we are awake.
- ashish
Why not post on this thread or with images on separate threads (yes all the results are images, so you can use the FF bookmarklet to share if you like. The group is here: http://friendfeed.com/wolfram...
- Kol Tregaskes
Hiro, I guess you get different results them me? My so-called "emperor is Gordon Brown and Elizabeth II. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Ha ha. Kol, Alpha knows where you are, based on the IP address, so for me, it showed Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
- Hiro Asari
Ethan, I don't think it's been aimed as a Google-like search engine, not at the moment anyway. I think I'd find this very useful. Weather forecasts, time zone comparisons and the dictionary (just add define before a word and you'll get a dictionary definition) are a few very useful searches I prefer here over elsewhere atm.
- Kol Tregaskes
Hiro, hehe. I like that it does that. Though it's obviously not accurate enough to know exactly where I am in the UK. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Try "islands of Japan". It's missing the second biggest island, Hokkaido.
- Hiro Asari
I like the way it interprets equations - as the example says, searching for something like x sin(x) gives you a huge amount of info, including step by step calculus with friendly and useful working. For school, this is going to be useful.
- Rich
I gotta admit, after playing around with it some more, it's pretty good for some things.
- Tanath
I'd say it's more a competitor to Wikipedia than Google - W|A and Google are just totally different things.
- Rich
Google does the easy stuff - what pages have this term in. W|A is doing the difficult bit - interpreting the inputs and then using it to compute more information.
- Rich
Much of that is stuff that can be found by Google too, though.
- Tanath
Rich, was just about to say that. Yep, more a Wikipedia competitor than a Google one.
- Kol Tregaskes
I asked, separately, who, what, why, where. Where was the only thing it thought about (and replied with a geoip). the other questions were just definitions
- Andrew Leyden
Their servers must be taking a beating. Won't even load on my end.
- LANjackal
I like the versus results ("apples versus oranges", "apple versus microsoft").
- Rui Pereira
Overall, it does what it says. I could see using it often but not for the same reasons I would use Google. The fact that it links out on some searches to Wikipedia may not be a good idea. While Wikipedia's concept was good, Wikipedia is often 'gamed' by users for a variety of reasons. Wikipedia's improved ... but far from perfect. Think their link out to Google, Yahoo and Live.com was sufficient for alternate sources.
- Charlie Anzman
I don't like that it hangs Firefox indefinitely.
- Raphael, Raphael
Charlie, does it? Oh. I've seen sources for Wikimedia but not Wikipedia.
- Kol Tregaskes
Think I might stick with Google. Not getting anything from my ego searches.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I don't think that's what it's for Chris ;)
- Alejandro
It's useful for a lot of things. When I search for "time Paris" not only gives me the time there, but it also shows mine, with 2 clocks side by side. Pretty cool.
- Alejandro
It's a research tool, it's not like Google but the potential is there to be a Google competitor (be it a long way off). Wolfram Alpha has some very interesting uses. Hopefully it will be stable enough to give a proper go tomorrow.
- Kol Tregaskes
It's alright although its very good at mathmatical questions ;)
- Nicholas James
The engineering abilities of this is pretty good. Would of made college homework a little easier.
- Hunter
Really interesting to experiment with it, some info you just want to have as a PDF as suggested, it's great to have it around. Was waiting patiently. 9)
- ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0,
FriendFeed is more fun when you have lots of subscribers, because they'll comment on your posts and you can have conversations. Unfortunately, I'm too lazy to work at getting subscribers.
"The Chiron Transportation concept transforms between both a big rig and a locomotive. Powered by an algae-based fuel cell engine, the Autobot-wannabe also comes with a satellite tracking system for navigating railways efficiently."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
It always pisses me off when people say that... no offence :P
- Michael W. May
None taken, but really look at the first photo from left, she looks very similar.
- Mycaptain
I don't see her appeal. I don't think that I've seen her in anything - maybe that's it.
- BEX
even in the photo stream of this link there are very similar photos. although I like her acting and I like katy perry as well, It seems to me that they are somehow similar.
- Mycaptain