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A question: Do you say "dressing" or "stuffing"? And where are you from?
Yolanda, Jennifer Dittrich, rowlikeagirl and 10 other people liked this
Well, they're different things, too me.
- Anika
Stuffing. Seattle.
- Rochelle
Stuffing comes in a box. Dressing is what we have on Thanksgiving; it's made with cornbread and celery and doesn't go inside the turkey. I'm from Georgia. :)
- Laura B.
Stuffing. I got it from my mom who grew up in Massachusetts.
- Michelle Martinez
We say dressing. My family's from Louisiana.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Akiva says it's only stuffing if it's baked in the bird. Otherwise, it's dressing. He's from Texas.
- Rochelle
From Missouri: We say both and were ignorant of the difference.
- SAM
Yeah, dressing and stuffing are separate entities to me too. Stuffing is stuffed inside. Dressing dresses the outside. EDIT: from UK.
- Mark H
Stuffing. Currently in Nevada. Going back to Cali in a couple of months. My immediate family is/was not from this country, so when they started celebrating Thanksgiving after they came to California, they heard stuffing.
- Helen Sventitsky
Dressing - Texas
- Jeremy
I have a theory that the difference is regional. I suspect the dislike of the word "stuffing" is a Bible Belt thing.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Harvey, I agree with this theory. I've been in Seattle for nearly 28 years and have never once heard someone native to here call it dressing.
- Rochelle
As far as I can remember, my family has always called it stuffing. We're New York Jews.
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Stuffing - dressing is something you do with your clothes to cover yourself up (from UK)
- WorldofHiglet
I wonder if us southerners think "stuffing" has a sexual connotation. :)
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
you americans are crazy. stuffing is for the inside of a poultry, dressing is some sort of gravy or sauce for on top of something (eg a salad)
- Snipergirl
Well, Snipergirl, there's dressing, and then there's dressing.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
A salad is considered dressing? Hmm. I don't think I've ever heard (that is,in Seattle) any *food* ever called dressing. Dressing is what you do with clothes in the morning and that's about it.
- Rochelle
@rochelles no a salad dressing is what you put on salad
- Snipergirl
I think you mean SAUCE.
- Rochelle
Snipergirl salad dressing is different from dressing (mush made from cornbread).
- Anika
When I put my clothes on, it's dressing. When I stuff the turkey, it's stuffing. Oh,and I'm a Midwestener. My mom used to make oyster stuffing for Thanksgiving. So good.
- Sarah June
And even here in the States, depending on region, salad dressing can mean different things. Here in CA it means like ranch, Italian, Thousand Island, but in the midwest, it's some mayonnaise mixture made with relish that people put on sandwiches.
- Anika
stuffing
- VAL D.
Long Island ,NY
- VAL D.
I stuff a bird. Mind you, being from England, that certainly has more than one meaning.
- Ian May
Stuffing. We get it out of a box, but don't cook it inside the turkey (personally, I don't even eat it anyway). I'm familiar with the term dressing, but have never used it in this particular situation. I'm from Massachusetts.
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
@faboomama @rochelles @ha3rvey while I do admit to understanding that this is a conversation about American English only, I would probably alert you to the fact that most people in the world who speak English actually speak British English or a close variant of it (including Canadians funnily enough)- thus to many people outside the US, dressing is a perfectly valid term for what you put on salad, and is never used to denote your cornbread thingy
- Snipergirl
though i must admit that the cornbread thingy sounds OM NOM NOM NOM
- Snipergirl
To be even more pedantic, not all dressings/stuffings have cornbread. :)
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
stuffing here as well (Washington), though I do here dressing now and then. And in my circles, we rarely have cornbread stuffing, just to be difficult. ;)
- holly
Which is why they're different words to me. Dressing is made with cornbread (or any bread really), but stuffing is mostly meat-based and goes inside the bird.
- Anika
They are two different things, like Anika said, but mostly, I eat cornbread dressing. Mmmm. With cranberry sauce on the side. Oh and turkey and mashed potatoes and gravy and green beans and...
- Carmen
Just to blow my own horn, I made a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner with roasted acorn squash with a chestnut and craisin stuffing and mushroom gravy. It was SO GOOD.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
As someone in the midwest, I don't think I've ever called the stuff I put on sandwiches dressing. I wonder where they eat that stuff. Hmmmm. I do call anything I put on a salad, salad dressing.
- Sarah June
Actually, I was thinking about that, most of my family who are from the south originally, but live in the midwest now, call *any* spread to put on sandwiches "salad dressing". I wonder if that's old Southern thing.
- Anika
Maybe. The concoction sounds interesting. :-) I'm kind of plain person when it comes to sandwiches. Usually just mayo. And Ha3rvey, that sounds wonderful.
- Sarah June
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... It is gagalicious.
- Anika
Stuffing, because eating it makes me feel stuffed.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Anika, I thought we were friends. I can't believe you introduced Miracle Whip into one of my food threads. *BLOCKED*
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
*shuddder* not Miracle Whip, I think they have the name trademarked. No, this: http://friendfeed.com/fabooma...
- Anika
I thought I remembered a sandwich spread under the Miracle Whip brand name. My google-fu fails me right now, though.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Ha3rvey, I love you. However, as I have said before, I am a Miracle Whip kind of girl. :P That said, the jar of MW in my kitchen does call itself "dressing," but not "salad dressing." When I was in the UK, I put "salad cream" on my sandwiches.
- Laura B.
Okay, 'salad cream' just gives me the heebie-jeebies. LOL
- Anika
Salad cream: http://www.heinzsaladcream.co.uk/ Not exactly like Miracle Whip, but it will do in a pinch.
- Laura B.
Stuffing. New England.
- Sarah is Novembery
from iPhone
we use both.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Stuffing, I'm from all over the US (mom & dad are too, although the recipe is southern), but we always put it in the bird, so stuffing fits. And it's not meat-based - it's Wonder bread based, with bacon, celery, and poultry seasoning - yummy. In New Orleans, when they ask if you want your po boy dressed, they mean, do you want lettuce, tomato, mayo, etc., which makes sense since the po boy would be almost naked without it.
- Cassandra
Like Rochelle said, we call it stuffing in Seattle and I was born and raised here. My husband is from MN and he calls it dressing. To me, dressing is for salad. Or what you do when you put on clothes. ;-)
- Annie Anderson
Stuffing. Rural southeastern Ohio
- Michael Hocter
It's dressing. It's only stuffing when it's inside the bird. (Texas)
- Trish R
stuffing in nyc, dressing in atlanta
- Allen Stern
stuffing. Kentucky
- Amber, Random Time Lord
STOVE TOP
- Andrizzle Gizzle
"dressing"... Tennessee originally... grew up in St. Louis
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Stuffing. FL. Dressing goes on a salad.
- Alix Whitmire
from iPhone
Stuffing even if it never enters the bird. Baltimore. And in B'more you gotta have sauerkraut with turkey.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Gimme the sauerkraft. Stuff the turkey.
- Ian May
I say stuffing, but that's my Brooklyn roots. Actually, I say both since dressing is something completely different: Salad sauce, or stuffing that didn't actually get stuffed anywhere. (don't like dressing)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
STUFFING!
- Jim Hearts FF
I say stuffing regardless of whether it was cooked in the bird. Born and raised in LA, CA, USA.
- Spidra Webster
stuffing. rural canada.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
I go back and forth.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Cornbread dressing in Texas
- Greg GuitarBuster
It's stuffed in a bird, but comes out dressing.....although if you bake it in a dish, it's still dressing....New York state....English heritage.
- Bonnie Foster
Michigan: I say stuffing, but I've heard both.
- R1CC1
I say stuffing (born in the USA</springsteen>), my wife says dressing (born in Canada). This topic came up for the first time this year and I'm not sure how - I've been living with Thanksgiving in October for over 15 years now :)
- Micah Wittman
Dressing goes on salad. Stuffing goes in a turkey. Montreal, QC
- Louis Simoneau
Michigan born and bred (family from Mississippi/Tennessee). We personally say dressing and it's never something that goes inside the bird. What goes in there is 'stuffing'.
- Holli B.
Stuffing, though "bread dressing" is understood (but we'll look at you strangely if you say dressing without the bread). Mich.
- Michael W. May
Stuffing, Washington, DC area
- Shevonne
Stuffing, Indianapolis, IN area
- Harold
Dressing, from the Hoosier State
- Michelle
Dressing, if it is off of the stove, Stuffing if it is out of the bird - Olympia, WA
- Jennifer Dittrich
Harold, I wonder if I called it dressing because my parents are from the south. Interesting.
- Michelle
Stuffing, from NY
- Mary Carmen
Yes. I'm from Texas. :D
- Yolanda
I'm an Indian Priestess....What up! - http://vida.posterous.com/im-an-i...
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- Shevonne
from Posterous
Love! So cute!
- Sarah is Novembery
Come and poke my hontas, sugar.
- Derrick
*sigh*
- EricaJoy
Cool costume, Shevonne!
- Ayşe E.
Nice!
- Michael Fidler
LOL @ericajoy double sigh.
- Liz
@dcfemella but Shevonne, you always look like an Indian Princess..I mean Priestess. Can we count it as a costume? :)
- Alex Schleber
*blush
- Shevonne
great smile!
- Mary Carmen
Thanks Mary! We had a good time
- Shevonne
hawt Priestess ;)
- Nia
Where do I sign up for worship?
- Steven Perez
Cute costume!
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Smokin.
- Russellreno
Pumpkin Carving - http://www.roadofmiracles.com/2009...
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Oooooooooooooooh! Soooooooooooo cute! The little face! The ears! The eyes! The hair! Want one! (Well, let's not get carried away, but still!)
- Amy℠
This is 103% adorable.
- Sparky, a big deal
*busts out calculator* I dunno, Sparky. She might possibly warrant a 104.835%.
- Yolanda
I did it in my head so I might have been a little off.
- Sparky, a big deal
*dead* <3
- Derrick
sweet!
- Debi Toews
/gives Audrey a remote squeeze.
- Louis Gray
The new Facebook feed really rocks and shows mostly items that your friends are engaging on. This changes Facebook fundamentally.
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better or worse than Friendfeed??
- Roberto Bonini
It still stinks at memory/intuitive usage though. Here is what I mean as an example. A relatively new user goes to upload a picture. They figure it out, and then sign off. Two days later they want to upload another picture. They can't remember exactly how they did it, and are stuck trying to figure out the process all over again like they had never done it before. It's too busy. Two...
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- Robert Campbell
:-)
- Jesse Stay
Roberto: in some ways it's better but I'm still getting used to it. I miss the real time comments, though that pop up here.
- Robert Scoble
While I like it, it's not intuitive. Example: friend asked me what the difference is between the "News" feed and "Live" feed. I explained it to her, and she asked how it was better then "highlights". I preferred "highlights" for displaying highly engaged items, myself, but I see the value to the two new systems. Time will tell. Knowing Facebook, they likely won't roll back the feature, and keep powering forward.
- Mike Nayyar
If they fix the comments and likes to push things back up to the top, highlights won't be necessary because the more active items are still seen (regarding the live feed, which is all that matters) :-)
- Jesse Stay
it is better, but hope it doesn't usher in the untimely death of friendfeed
- Stuart
Stuart: no, that won't happen until next year but you can see the trend. Twitter and Facebook are getting new features (and Facebook has 200 people working on its engineering team). FriendFeed has almost no one working on it anymore. So, next year you'll see Facebook and Twitter both pass FriendFeed's feature set. Until then we're happy here!
- Robert Scoble
Only thing I do on Facebook is play Farkle. Gotta be really bored for that too.
- MicahBear78
When you log in, you get the same News Feed as before. When you click Live Feed you see EVERYTHING in your feed - and comments and likes seem to push things to the top. But my latest update failed to show in the News Feed: it only appeared in the Live Feed.
- Michael Slattery
I like the new facebook features, very freindfeed´ish but i also miss the highlights section. I would like to have both, but maybe that´s only me
- Flynn (Michael A. Volz)
I wonder how the system used to choose what to show you in the highlights section. And is it using some algorithm to SELECT what it shows in Live Feed? (Instead of EVERYTHING as I thought above.)
- Michael Slattery
Michael, I think Live feed shows you everything, except those you've hidden. That's the difference from when they had the live feed before. Before you couldn't choose to hide people in your live feed. Also, be sure to use the filters on the left - make some friend lists and filter your live feed by friend list.
- Jesse Stay
So when are they going to allow asymmetrical friending and FoaF?THAT'S what's going to change Facebook fundamentally.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
from iPhone
FB live is really awesome - but buggy!!
- Susan Beebe
I like the direction the new features are heading, but it still needs better hide and filter customization.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Agreed. The new Facebook live feed is great and a huge step forward.
- Alex Knight
Oh, I agree so much with this post. So many people are not loving it but it really rocks. Fast and vast amounts of information, quickly being able to see what friends, family, contact, networks are up to. While updating live! I love it.
- Travis Tasset
This is circulating on FB: "If you dont like the new FB here is how you can change it back to the old. Look to the top left menu and click on MORE. Then drag STATUS UPDATES to the top. After dragging to top, click on it. That becomes your default and it is like before."
- Michael Slattery
Except it's not the same: "Status" only gives you updates, without links, photos or notes.
- Michael Slattery
Flavio Santos, Kol Tregaskes, Snipergirl and 36 other people liked this
Or: "My wife blowing bubbles into the wind"
- Johnny Worthington
L........O.........L
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
So trying to sleep on the couch Johnny
- jamar78
Ooops!
- Martha
Looks like she is having a good time,, thats the best thing..I hope you both are having a wonderful day..
- SCS Watching the Sun
There are worse things to do "into the wind"... if you catch my drift!
- Mark Jepsen
4th pic is priceless.
- Got Love For DB™?
Great series!
- Anne Bouey
Breakfast!
Michael W. May, Trish Haley, Holly Rae, FFer and 21 other people liked this
It's a "Rosebud", which is a Kitchen Sink with added biscuits and gravy.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
from iPhone
A Kitchen Sink is diced ham, potatoes, onions, bell pepper, and cheese, topped with eggs.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
from iPhone
you...bastard.
- Josh Haley
There's a lot going on there.
- Derrick
What in...
- Mike Nayyar
I'll tell you what, Mike...that right there is what we should all aspire to have in a breakfast meal. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen! *sniff*
- Josh Haley
at first glance i thought that was peach cobbler and ice cream.
- MicahBear78
Holy carp I could eat three of these right now....
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
FYI, this is at O.D.'s Kitchen in Gilroy, CA. By the way, the first half of this dish was wonderful, but I couldn't finish it all.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Glen, have I missed the book you're going to write about all these marvelous places? ;)
- Melanie Reed
You're reading it ;-)
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
IMHO Josh's second comment up there is perhaps one of the finest comments I've ever had the honor to read.
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
Well, this just inspires me to put on my headphones, fire up the laptop and finish Prof Dube's 3rd Econ lecture while peeling apples for apple crisp!
- Melanie Reed
The only thing that's missing is a good oatmeal stout!
- Melanie Reed
"Three Reasons You Need to Be on FriendFeed *Now*" - http://bhc3.wordpress.com/2009...
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Actually, I'm getting tired of Friendfeed. Most discussion is vapid, banal and inconsequential. IOW, a waste of time.
- Dawn
I love the idea of a "Personal Content Database". I always thought of FriendFeed as an aggregation site, but it sounds better as a personal content database.
- Matthew Lang
Me too Matthew. I use it that way to some degree.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Is there a way to get a friend feed onto a personal web site?
- Peter Fletcher
Thanks for posting this Steve. And Dawn, are you deliberately ironic? Regardless, this post is for those who may not have the time to engage actively here, but will still benefit from being part of the service.
- Hutch Carpenter
@Peter - try this: http://friendfeed.com/embed
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Thanks Brian.
- Peter Fletcher
Nice work but a lil late on this BNO
- sofarsoShawn
Peter, you can also embed an individual thread on your site by copying the code from the "Share" link
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Oh, Dawn, that's rich cause I blocked you for bringing vapid, banal, and inconsequential stuff to friendfeed a while back. All you have to do is look at all the items from the Google I/O conference to see just how wrong you are: http://is.gd/HaUQ
- Robert Scoble
"Personal Content Database" is quite apt (especially if we could have our service icons back) - When working in twitter and waiting for twitter's page to refresh a new post, it is quicker to jump to FriendFeed, because the post is there instantly.
- Chris Loft
@rahsheen thanks for the tip.
- Peter Fletcher
BS, Robert. You blocked me because I'm not one of your sycophants but actually challenge your assumptions, motivations and actions. Like when I said you were neglecting your blog, you retaliated against me, but just two weeks later, Arrington said the same thing and you took that seriously. But I'm just a female, right Robert?...somebody you keep calling stupid, even though I'm sure my...
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- Dawn
Amen to that!
- Calvin Ayre
Dawn, I think I love you.
- cecily
Dawn: you don't even have a clue about why I blocked you. It's cause you were arguing religion and politics and had no clue who Ralph Reed was and then you followed it up with the lamest posts on global warming I've seen that it made me wonder why I was arguing with someone so clueless (and I forget there were a few other things you were arguing about). So much for that high grade point average. By the way, I don't remember Mike Arrington ever talking about that stuff.
- Robert Scoble
BTW: I unblocked her for some reason, I still don't know why. Oh, yeah, my brother stuck up for her and so far I've seen just the lamest additions to the community, like this one here. If friendfeed's discussion is vapid, banal, and inconsequential IT IS OUR FAULT. So, Dawn, this one is on you. Good riddens, I say.
- Robert Scoble
Ahh, community.
- τorƍue
#4 Bacon
- sofarsoShawn
Yeah, right, Robert. I'm so lame that Louis Gray announced both on his blog and on FF that I'm a great person to follow. And you're comment about Ralph Reed just once again shows your bigotry against Christians, lumping us all in one basket - that far right fundamentalist basket that you once belonged to and now despise. I never did belong to it. I'm Catholic, not "born again." I've had...
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- Dawn
Btw, two people have DM'd me that Scoble is best ignored. I can't do that. Being the target of repeated and consistent defamation by Robert Scoble isn't the same as Joe Blow FFer calling you an idiot. Robert's words carry a lot of weight in the tech world. I've asked Robert privately and politely to back off and as you can see, he's refused to do that. I not only have the right to defend myself, but I have a duty to my present and future investors and to my future employees.
- Dawn
FriendFeed's usefullness to me would increase 100% if I could automatically filter out every post with "friendfeed" in the title. That way I could get rid of the constant yapping about how great it is, and actually use it usefully.
- Ian Betteridge
Bump for the good times.
- Mark Krynsky
This is a post from last may! The situation has totally changed since then
- DC Crowley
"even though I'm sure my IQ is higher than yours. Were you valedictorian of your high school? Or graduate magna cum laude? Did you get a graduate degree with honors" wow that means even i don't qualify :(
- ffcode
Tornado vs Rails: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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;)
- Paul Buchheit
awesome
- Ayman Shurafa
wow. insane!
- Caio
Looks like Tornado won!
- Private Sanjeev
love the metaphor :)
- andy brudtkuhl
brilliant. Alternative comment: this metaphor is a train wreck
- Ivan Kirigin
haha love it
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Smashing! Simply smashing...
- Chris Heath
Ivan +1!
- Kevin L
I couldn't take my eyes off of it. It was like watching a train wreck!
- Chuck Adams
so sad story :( trains are so unprotected..
- я был в лесу
physics is a beaatch for sure
- Robert Higgins
That video never gets old. Never underestimate the power of nature.
- Jim Goldstein
This highlights the need for additional Superman III technology investment.
- Jay Cuthrell
wow!! :)
- Oğuz Serdar
:)
- Micah Wittman
\m/
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
AMAZING footage. Dayum!
- Josh Haley
That was worth watching even ignoring the obviously cute pun.
- Greg Grothaus
isn't it too early for this? :)
- Mengu
Paul is probably just joking - but if he is serious about this pun i would assume it's for good reason.
- Chris Heath
and i bet paul just couldn't wait for them to open up tornado when he first saw this video
- Chris Heath
amazing
- boro
should hitler be saying something about it now :)
- vinod
MOther Nature indeed
- Mark Mason
WOW! That reminds me...I still have some video from this summer's train trip to post. Nothing this exciting happened, I'm afraid.
- Eph Zero
YEAH BABY
- Çağatay " SKYLAB " Şama
Just as I expected, it's all twisted.
- Dustin Sallings
very punny.
- winterismute
Text books seem generally expensive and insipid (http://friendfeed.com/paul...). Are there any promising open-source textbook projects? (high quality content and likely to see actual use)
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http://twitter.com/bookmaid - RIT Rochester Institute of Technology has their own text book exchange on Twitter :)
- Susan Beebe
Obama's chief technology dude (can't remember his name) headed a project like this before taking the cabinet position. The folks at Buzz Out Loud (@acedtect @Mollywood @raygun01) would know about this as he recorded a message for their 1000th episode last week and we were reminded of the program (somewhere on the east coast).
- Kevin Arth
paul - Literacybridge.org is a great non-profit focusing on this issue. there are numerous issues here in terms of language localization, cost of print and transport of books, ability to have access to and understand content, etc. many textbook programs also assume one basic fact that is not necessarily true - literacy. although i am a fan of building schools and education, the reality...
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- Joyce
IMO, most textbooks betray a massive bias of quantity over quality, in part because quantity is confused with depth. If professors were doing their jobs (some are of course), they'd concentrate on distilling out the key points rather than partake of the laziness/spoils of the rigged textbook market... most textbooks are the equivalent of a public works program.
- Alex Schleber
I am planning on using an open-source book for the intro programming class I am teaching next fall at Colorado University - http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpy...
- Robert Felty
Doesn't the Wikimedia Foundation have a project for open source textbooks? EDIT: Why yes, yes they do, although YMMV. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki...
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I agree with Alex. Sometimes a good curriculum or at least a lesson plan is more important than a textbook. That's why I think a great project is Curriki.org. It is an online community, where educational resources can be created, shared and re-used in an open license environment. They concentrate mainly on K-12 curriculum, however it seems like it can be a great tool to share the...
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- Maciek Zielinski
Paul I agree that textbooks are way too expensive. As you may know, because of the way textbooks get adopted by some states, most of the kids in the country end up learning from books that were specifically designed to get approved in Texas and California. So how's this for an idea of how to give away your "lots of money": fund the development of a complete set of textbooks through an...
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- Peter
Flat World Knowledge: Check it out: Professors donate time to produce textbooks. Students get them for free. - http://www.flatworldknowledge.com
- scott willeke
Note the importance of audio to building literacy - http://literacybridge.org/talking...
- Ed Dodds
Consider also that if a person "open schools" all the way up through university material, there is no way to CLEP a degree. The US Department of Education should issue guidelines for the degrees where this makes sense.
- Ed Dodds
...i suspect that the textbook business is terrifically profitable for publishers, and that they'll fight any move to displace them tooth and nail.
- .LAG liked that
There's also http://ck12.org/ They make it easy for teachers to put together custom textbooks by reusing existing pieces of content (chapters and such).
- Meryn Stol
The South African "Free High School Text Book" project has a reasonable reputation: http://www.fhsst.org/. There are a lot of free non-textbook resources available through OERCommons (http://www.oercommons.org/)
- Nick Lothian
@Peter - curriki looks pretty interesting. Do you have any kind of harvesting facilities?
- Nick Lothian
@Nick. Yes. Curriki provides several ways to export materials from the site. Each of the 30,000 free and open source resources can be downloaded on to your computer, where they can be printed. You can also get the XML data for any resource. In both cases, you just have to mind the specifics of the Creative Commons license requirements. You can also embed a widget for any learning...
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- Peter
Here is a project that I have tried to contribute information to and one of my websites is actually listed there because at their request, it was easier for me to start a site of my own with the info I gave them, than for them to list all the book titles and links I provided them with. http://textbookrevolution.org
- April Russo (app103)
Curriki is a knowledge exchange which is the 21st century textbook. EVERCHANGING, always adding, always collaborating. When I see this, I don't just see worksheets... I see customizable games- good easy to change content. I see LEARNING ACTIVITIES, best practices, I see collaboration, I see a whole curriculum FOR TEACHER INSTRUCTION- on learning how to use and implement different...
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- Sharnon Johnston-Robinett
Ditto on Flatworld, but @scott, profs are not donating their time for free -- basic web-version of text is made for free, with chapters, learning materials, etc. available for fee-based download -- don't have to use the fee-based material, but is very nice to see business model that offers a good hybrid between paper-only and web-only content. In my classes, students often print out material because they want to work on their computers and have something "hard" to refer to.
- Mickey Schafer
Check out my new blogs on Curriki, we address this issue and hope the community will make sure we are sustainable.
- Bobbi Kurshan
Don't ask. Really. Don't.
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These boots were made for walkin'....
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
*yells* SLUT! .... ha. this made me laugh. oh what one does in search of a good shoe photo.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
The expression is priceless.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Seriously, it was the only way to get the boots in the frame.
- Mary Carmen
There are so many other interpretations to this shot...
- WorldofHiglet
Let's not explore them
- Mary Carmen
*dead*
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
No, let's not...I love the boots, though!
- WorldofHiglet
*drool*
- Carmen
You don't look in the least bit uncomfortable. ;)
- nakachi
the book cart in the background just makes this picture perfect.
- Laura Norvig
It was the best stretch I had all week. In fact I did the other leg when I was finished.
- Mary Carmen
LMAO Mary!!
- nakachi
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. :)
- Steven Perez
Cute!!
- SCS Watching the Sun
I love this picture so much. So. very. much. Mary Carmen, giving her all for the team.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
I am a complete ham and will always take one for the team if it will be funny.
- Mary Carmen
*boot bump*
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Woots for Boots!!!!!!!
- Mary Carmen
w00t!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Guess who got Popeye's? *does Snoopy happy dance*
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DAMN YOU ANIKA MALONE!! :P
- JA Castillo
liking for the snoopy dance! well, that and the yumminess.
- holly
Crap, now I want popcorn chicken...
- Joe Pierce
Oh man. I asked for spicy and this time they really did it. YUM!
- Anika
heh. Enjoy
- Kamilah Gill
I was gonna ask if you got spicy. Good show.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Girl, enjoyED.
- Anika
Love me some Popeyes.
- Curtiss Grymala
We don't have them here!
- Mark Jepsen
^ Sucks to be you! LOL
- Anika
OMFG waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaant
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Seriously, Mark. Check the website, there are Popeye's all over the place.
- Anika
That looks so good! They don't have those up here in New England that I know of at least!
- James Stratford
LOVE DAT CHICKEN FROM POPEYE'S
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Dammit...now I crave teh Popeyes!!
- Carlton Hackett
Yum, is that mashed potatoes on the side? I swear they put crack in their mashed potatoes and red beans and rice.
- Trish R
Yes, it *was* mashed potatoes. Sometimes, I take the chicken pieces and scoop up the potatoes that way. *drool*
- Anika
James, I'm in NE (just outside of Boston) and was surprised when they opened one up this summer just a few minutes from my house! Unfortunately, I've heard from friends that the service there is awful, so I haven't been yet. -_-
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
Ha3rvey: I hate chicken but now I need to listen to some Dr John.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I'm not sure if we have a Popeye's anymore. Never had chicken from there. I did go to Church's a couple times though. Comparison or no?
- Arlan Koizumi
Oh I bet that was enjoyed!!! Yummmmmm
- Carmen
Church's doesn't compare to Popeye's, in my experience. Church's tends to be greasy and bland. Popeye's isn't. Church's does have better mashed potatoes than KFC, but that's not saying much.
- Anika
By golly! There's one in downtown Minneapolis... 21.93 miles away! Probably won't get there tonight, but that's good to know!
- Mark Jepsen
Damn...I wish I had some now.
- Alex Scoble
See, now it doesn't suck to be you any more, Mark! YAY!
- Anika
Closest one is almost 50 miles away. I don't see it happening in the near future.
- Katy S
DAMN
- Caroline
Kinda sucks that I cannot eat Popeye's fried chicken. I'm allergic to dairy products which they use in their batter.
- imabonehead
snoopy dance :)
- Michael W. May
Me at my "desk"
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= couch in the living room.
- Rochelle
lol, hey Rochelle! :)
- Carmen
Hi! I love the little eyes looking over your shoulder!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Zu, yeah! It's a stuffed cat for Halloween. You can also see a ghost hanging above it. :)
- Rochelle
Ro!!!!!!! :)
- Derrick
D!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
- Rochelle
Howdy!
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
Rochelle has guest stars, too!
- cecily
Your desk sounds a lot like my desk!
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
My "desk" at home is much the same. Love that Halloween kitty peeking over your shoulder. :D
- Ayşe E.
Cute! Halloween decorations are cute, too. :)
- Trish Haley
LOVE
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
:D
- Josh Haley
I have a crush on myself because of this picture.
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You alright, for a chick.
- Derrick
I can see why.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Gorgeous <3
- Anna Haro
thank you <3
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
purty even http://ff.im/8MJd4
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Go for it. I'm pretty sure she likes you.
- Steve is older than ever
Yup.
- cecily
Prettiness!
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Adorbs.
- Ayşe E.
awesome. love that smile mo.
- Trish Haley
You say I am lonely but I am not the one posting pictures of myself on the net for attention LMAO!
- orionstarr
And once again, the picture isn't posted for attention. I get it just by being me. Unlike you, I don't have to troll for it. People post on my threads because they enjoy engaging in dialogue with me. I wonder what friendfeed must be like for people like you who have to act like assholes just to be noticed. Poor baby. You need a hug?
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I know you posted it cause it was national post on your desk meme on friendfeed day. I know you just were being trendy and cool. none the less though for attention.
- orionstarr
Actually, I posted this on Monday, before that meme even happened, but you keep working hard, and eventually you will pick a winner baby.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
Hello from the reference desk.
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ALLO ALLO!
- Chris Z.
*waves from GA*
- Laura B.
HI, IRIS! :)
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Shhhh, you guys are shouting in a library. C'mon. You know better. ;-)
- lris
Hi! Hi! Hi! *jumps up and down*
- Catherine Pellegrino
PIPE DOWN, CHRIS AND JOSH! (oops)
- Laura B.
ALLO PET!
- Kendra K
hi!
- Jenica
Excuse me, where the bathroom?
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Can I use the stapler?
- Catherine Pellegrino
(What? That's not your most common question?)
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Howdy! (Oooh, nice windows!)
- Kirsten
Kristen, that's one of my favorite things about our reference room. Windows like that along all of two sides.
- lris
Do you have a hole punch? ;) Hiya!
- ~Courtney F.
hi iris!
- holly
Hole punches and staplers are RIGHT BEHIND YOU. Bathrooms are down one floor. *makes three hash marks under "directionals"*
- lris
Can I print this for free?
- Laura B.
Yes
- lris
allo ma belle!
- jambina
HELLO
- marthalib
I've lost track of my purpose in life. Can you help me find it?
- marthalib
Uh... here's the number for the Wellness Center?
- lris
Which of these books should I check out? [actual question I fielded earlier today]
- Catherine Pellegrino
*hands Catherine a magic 8 ball*
- lris
What's the name of that green book I read three years ago? It's about a woman... in a country...
- Laura B.
Not that one. The other one.
- Chris Z.
My professor says I have to use scholarly materials, and can't use any web sources. Can you find me a journal article about Obama's presidential campaign?
- D0r0th34
Do you have any tape? Do you have an extra yellow highlighter? Do you have any white-out(tm)? Where is the paper cutter? Do you have any red pens? Do you have any paper clips?
- Joe....
Where's the bathroom?
- ÉllbeeÇee
They are one floor down...
- Joe....
Is it gender neutral - family friendly with a baby changing station?
- Joe....
Do you have a comfortable lactation room?
- Joe....
HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!
- MegvMeg
Shhhh, no shouting.
- Joe....
SCISSORS!!!!!
- marthalib
And this, my friends, is how we build social capital and foster a sense of community...
- marthalib
I iz a passionate librarian.
- lris
HAI!
- AJ Batac
would you copyedit my paper?
- marthalib
Hola! :)
- JA Castillo
Can you be a proctor for my University of XXXXX exam?
- Joe....
I need peer-reviewed articles about the Jonas Brothers.
- Betsy (bentley) Vera
Betsy, *dead*
- joey
IIPA reports that there are 137 articles published in the popular musical press about the Jonas Brothers, but no scholarly journal articles.
- DJF
DO ANYBODY NO WHERE THE REFERENCE DESK IS?
- WorldofHiglet
do you have an envelope I can have? a clean one? preferably a large manila one so I don't have to fold up my very important papers?
- Miriella
Hello Iris! You look charming.
- Laura H.
Now I want to find a reference question to ask Iris, just so I can talk to her...
- Louise Alcorn
Is the lower level downstairs?
- ÉllbeeÇee
Hiya, Louise. How's life?
- lris
I'm envious of you guys' work spaces.
- cecily
So lovely. :)
- Derrick
Derrick's my new bestest friend.
- lris
Hi Iris. Life is crazy and more than a little stressful, but thanks for asking :) That helps. You gonna be at IL? If not, MLTC in March?
- Louise Alcorn
Unfortunately, no, and no. I'll be the jealous person watching all of those flickr photos flow past.
- lris
I'll make a point of stopping in for coffee in March, then! *puts on calendar*
- Louise Alcorn
WHO IS GOING TO FIX MY PAPER FOR ME?
- marthalib
Hi, Iris. I think they like you. I think they're also noticing an influx of librarians here on FF, as am I. Are you new, or am I oblivious? And Derrick's right. You're lovely!
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Louise, you look just like my late, very adored Bubbish - 1989-2004! Died of kidney failure, a complication of type II diabetes - he loved the people food a little too much.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Hi Mary. Nope, I'm not new. Been around these parts for a couple years now. Nice to meet you.
- lris
lol, MaryB, it took me a minute to realize you weren't insulting me - I forgot my avatar is a cat! LOL. That is my beloved Molly (1993-2002). I miss her muchly. She was very photogenic. More so than I, hence the avatar.
- Louise Alcorn
My husband was saying the other day that the next time we have an opening we should look for a pair that match Molly and Bubbish. They really are elegant-looking, I think, and Bubbish was incredibly loving. From my phone
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from email
Iris, you are lovely. I too will not be attending IL and watching all of those flickr photos...Your library has great light!
- Eric Sizemore
Toilet seats should *always* be in the down position. #maleresponsibility
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Thank you chaz2b
- jamar78
I should not have to look. Seat should *always* be in the down position.
- Michelle Martinez
Agree!
- Andrizzle Gizzle
When I'm working out in the desert, I always look inside my shoes before putting them on. You know, to make sure no one moved in for the charming ambiance during the night. If you don't look at the toilet, how do you know there's not a spider in there?
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
ok....I can agree and say after using the bathroom I can put the seat down out of consideration of my wife(female), why is the inverse not true? After using the bathroom why can't the female raise the seat so the male can use the bathroom w/o having "to look"
- jamar78
If mama ain't happy, NOBODY'S happy.
- Internet's Tad
For fairness... We hit the center of the bowl... Why should I have to touch the seat to lift it up where someone else has just laid monkey mustard?
- Johnny Worthington
Are we talking just seat or lid too?
- 1x29
WHAT ABOUT THE SPIDERS?
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Oh please. #yourargumentsareinvalid
- Michelle Martinez
Suddenly very afraid of Johnny's toilet
- Andrizzle Gizzle
No one hits just the center of the bowl. Believe me. I'm the toilet cleaner.
- Anika
My aim is true
- Johnny Worthington
OKAY THEN, SNAKES!
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
The seat itself should be left down. I am unconcerned with the lid.
- Michelle Martinez
I think Harvey has a spider-bite-to-the-butt story he needs to share.
- Anika
Yes. Both genders use it down, only one uses it up.
- Spidra Webster
Not if you're talented
- Johnny Worthington
To my knowledge, I have never been bitten on the butt by a spider. But I always look, just in case.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
Thank you, Spidra.
- Michelle Martinez
I once dreamed up an invention that was a small compressed air piston that would fire when the flush button was pressed. It would knock the seat down into the "default" position...
- Johnny Worthington
That would be awesome, Johnny.
- Michelle Martinez
Amen, Ha3rvey. I've never *not* looked, even in the middle of the night. But I also tend to put the lid down before I flush (to, er, contain the particles [/germophobe] lol). I figure it starts everyone off on an even playing field of having to lift something.
- PENGUIN: MAJOR CAPS LOCK
Dear Penguin, *unsub* I should not have to look. ;)
- Michelle Martinez
Put the cover down, that's what it's for. If you don't have a cover, move the hell out of the gas station and get a real house. :)
- Cristo
Yes, please put the cover down.
- Beau Liening
from iPhone
See, you don't even have to touch the seat, just nudge it with the cover.
- Michelle Martinez
But what about on the way up?
- Johnny Worthington
And girls, if you don't leave the cover down, I'm going to pee on the seat during the night.
- Cristo
Your hands are going to be dirty after the seat is down anyway!
- Michelle Martinez
Thank you, Penguin. Everybody else is all, "Ha3rvey must be crazy," until they actually look in there and see one.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
In all seriousness, I find it kinda crazy to sit before looking. I've also seen many instances where this habit carried over into women sitting on stuff for no apparent reason. "Now where *IS* that remote?!"
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
The difference being that if we don't lift the lid up, you guys don't end up falling into the damn toilet. Meanwhile we end up with a wet ass.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
I don't normally look at my own house. In public, yes. I should not have to look at home.
- Michelle Martinez
Michelle, best solution for that is not to have men in the house.
- Cristo
yes only one of us needs the seat up so if you put it up and we have to put it down we have no issues with that. We just want to know that both genders will accomadate the other. The whole I should have to look back prior to using the bathroom is not suffice b/c if we said the same and used the bathroom in the dark in the middle of the night and pee'd on the seat we'd catch Hell. So to avoid that occurring lift the seat for us and we'd likewise lower the seat in response.
- jamar78
Cristo, I have tried to kick them out, but they won't take no for an answer :)
- Michelle Martinez
jamar78, NOPE
- Michelle Martinez
I was always taught to keep the cover down. What's the problem with that? If the cover is not down when you leave the bathroom, it's rude, regardless of the position of the seat.
- Cristo
In the end, the only person's actions you can really control are your own. No matter what should or should not be.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
Look at it this way: If you are trying to sell your house, and you have people coming to look at it, do you keep the seat up? You would not, It looks bad.
- Michelle Martinez
Michelle, I wouldn't leave it down either without the cover down.
- Cristo
Cristo, Okay, agreed.
- Michelle Martinez
The toilet was invented in 1596. It has been a public used since 1775. All this time... if you don't look where your sitting, don't bitch about it. Thank you. This has been a sponsored message from The Considerate Seat. http://www.celebratelove.com/littlet...
- CW™
Lid down. That's the rule in our house. Otherwise the cat drinks the toilet water.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Lid up or down.. toilet paper rolling from the back or front.. it all seems to make more sense when cats are involved.
- Rodfather
I always put the seats down but, perhaps oddly, my Mum leaves them up! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
But it's easier to do the business when the lid is open... otherwise it'll be a mess :o
- Jemm
I grew up in a house of sisters, I was trained well. However, if there came a time when I got bitched at for forgetting one time in a hundred, I would put the lid down too next time as that was not also the custom *grin* But I had "put it down" so they couldn't bitch.
- Michael W. May
hygenically speaking lid down is best (before flushing), and 36% of japenese men pee sitting down, :o
- chaz2b
OH: "The Nobel Prize for Technology today was awarded to Google Wave" (via @stshank)
Mark Harai, Stephen Mack, Milton Ramirez and 7 other people liked this
really?
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
Apparently it narrowly beat out the Crunchpad http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...
- Ken Sheppardson
Crunchpad 3.0 is better.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Just got a job teaching courses at a local technical school. It isn't my dream of teaching at Berkeley, but it is teaching at the post secondary level.
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Congratulations!
- Abigail
Yay!
- Spidra Webster
Woohoo!!!
- Bren, Photophobe
from iPhone
Congrats!
- Anika
Congratulations!!!
- Anna Lynn M.
Congrats! What are you teaching?
- Katy S
Congrats
- Melissa
w00t! so will you be working two jobs?
- tiffany
*starts polishing apples*... congrats!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Yep, I'll be working two jobs. I'm teaching a couple of courses on Dreamweaver, but I'm most excited about the courses on human factors, usability, and information architecture.
- cecily
I'll be teaching in the Digital Arts School: http://www.bcit.ca/busines...
- cecily
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
very cool, lady. i hope you have a great time teaching!
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
I think I will. I've always wanted to teach adults, and I enjoy teaching courses at the library. I'm looking forward to it.
- cecily
good luck with it :-)
- tiffany
Congrats!
- laura x
Thanks, y'all. It's been a good day. :)
- cecily
Awesome, Cecily! Congrats!
- Laura B.
Congratulations, Cecily!
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
Congrats, Cecily. Lots of FFers getting new jobs, cool! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
\m/ it, C.!
- Ayşe E.
Rock on! Congratulations.
- Michelle Jones
COOL!
- Houseofmax
Congrats!
- Carmen
Who kicked last year's charitable fund raising goal this year???? THIS GAL!!! GO ME! (I'm very pleased with myself.)
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woot!
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
A new library record. Highest total in 15 years/
- Mary Carmen
Awesome! You rock!
- josh neff, Fun Dip of FF
:)
- Steven Perez
Totally thought that was a different finger before reading the text. (Congrats!)
- Steve is older than ever
Twitter for Teachers Workshop – Review and Additional Links - http://www.kirstenwinkler.com/twitter...
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I swear, sometimes I want to drag people by the scruff of their neck into a week-long in-person class entitled "How to not be a Jerk at Work: Being nice to people will get you a lot further in the end"
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So many in need of learnin' and so little time LOL
- martha
I really don't understand that attitude... Dead in the water today and asked someone who wrote the component I am having trouble with (and probably the only one who can fix my problem) for help today and was rudely blown off with no other resource to turn to. I would say I hope that I'm in a position to withhold help from him someday when he needs it, but I am actually a nice person and...
more...
- Her Lindsay-ness
Indeed, LIndsay, you ARE a nice person. :) Best of luck to you on solving that problem. Sometimes it takes going over people's heads.
- Josh Haley
Thanks, Josh. Yeah, the worst part about it is that I'm in a "boss transition" right now so I wasn't sure who to go to... My new boss is official on Monday... I ended up going to them both. Maybe two people on the problem will get it solved faster! (yeah, right!).
- Her Lindsay-ness
Lindsay: He's mean to you because he has a crush on you. Does he sometimes pull your hair? Or maybe eat Elmer's glue to try and impress you?
- Morgan Haley
LOL! Funny thing is, he's one of those people who I know his name and I probably know what he looks like (I think he sits a few cubes over from me) but any communication we've had so far has been via IM (and usually not a pleasant experience) so I couldn't tell you who he is walking down the hall. I try to avoid him when I can (and most people in his department because they're all like that for some reason... I think it is a hiring criteria for that department to act like a jerk to everyone else).
- Her Lindsay-ness
It's harder to be mean in person. I'd try finding someone that knows him that you know and have them convey the message. I'm not sure that being nicer to people will always get you further in the end though. Sometimes it can result in people sucking up all of your time.
- Cristo
I have to deal with someone like that, and I agree with Cristo, the more "personal" I make the communication, the more likely he is to actually be responsive. Face to face > phone > IM > email. Believe me, he's the last person I want to have an actual conversation with (he speaks in angry monotone 3 single syllable word sentences), but if I need him to do something, it's the only way it will happen. Emails and IMs are ignored. Fortunately the phone works with this guy so I don't need to see his face.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Preach.
- Derrick
And yeah, sometimes the "boss route" is unavoidable, but it sucks because it makes direct communication harder in the future.
- Jason Wehmhoener
@Cristo, I'm busy and I don't always have time to help people either, but when I don't I will usually give them at least one if not several other people they could get in touch with to help fix their problem, or point them to documentation that might help them out... I don't let people suck my time away when they can fix a problem themselves, but I also don't slam the door in their face...
more...
- Her Lindsay-ness
Lindsay, I'd respond to your comment but I'm kinda busy right now. Maybe Alex can handle this one. :)
- Cristo
Preach Lindsay. Preach!
- Got Love For DB™?
Being mean and nasty and rude is a sure fire way have your super duper important, priority one, gotta have it fixed right now computer problem put at the back of my trouble ticket stack for the day.
- Got Love For DB™?
It starts at home - I'd write their parents a letter: "Dear parents of A-hole Co-woker: why did you raise such a self entitled jerk? Warmest regards, Concerned functioning human in society."
- Mona Nomura
+1 Mona
- Mitchell Tsai
The component that I need help with is written in decade's old technology in a language that you basically have to be a masochist to want to work in anymore (there are much better options these days) so my personal theory is that that whole team must enjoy that pain and angst and use whatever opportunity they can to take out that frustration on others. It's like working with caged...
more...
- Her Lindsay-ness
What's it written in? C or C++? Those are still great languages, if used correctly. Of course, the MS libraries suck, but that's true in C# too. ;)
- Cristo
(title unknown) - http://theweaselking.livejournal.com/3424010...
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This is your brain on maple syrup. Any questions? :)
- Morton Fox
Bleagh. I don't know if I've ever seen that many cross-sections of the human body. Certainly not at one time!
- Spidra Webster
Wow, took a few passes for me to realize the progression there.
- Kevin L
One of the very first images in the sequence, of the top of the head, looks like pancetta. If that isn't awesome, I don't know what is.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
now i want a steak.
- Joe Silence is not dead
should be from the "Visible Human Project" iirc (more here http://www.nlm.nih.gov/researc...)
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
The arms don't make sense. They don't appear to be folded, but they end well before the torso does.
- Kevin L
Excuse me. Adults are talking. - Soup - FriendFeed - http://furryrabbits.tumblr.com/post...
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Too awesome for words.
- Ha3rvey (not Akiva)
isn't it, though?
- edythe
Love it.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Edythe, you made this yourself, right? Genius!
- Stephen Mack
oh, no, no! I didn't make this. I found it on Soup's feed -- http://friendfeed.com/soup... -- and not sure where she got it or if she made it.
- edythe
Happy birthday to me ;)
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ROCK ON! Happy Birthday!
- Josh Haley
Thanks Josh!
- Jorge Escobar
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
- Shevonne
w00t! Happy b-day, Jorge!
- Derrick
Thanks Shevonne and Derrick!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy birthday Jorge!
- Adrian
happy birthday, :)
- chaz2b
Thanks Adrian and chaz. This is great!
- Jorge Escobar
Hey, happy birthday, Jorge!
- Micah Wittman
Happy B-Day!
- James (!?)
Thanks Micah and James!
- Jorge Escobar
happy b'day
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Thanks MiniMage!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy Birthday!!!
- Maria Niles
Thanks so much Maria!!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy Birthday Jorge!
- Steve
Thanks Steve!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy birthday, Jorge!
- Anika
Thanks Anika darling!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy birthday! Also, wow, your wife is pretty!
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
happy bday. :)
- edythe
Happy Birthday!
- Anne Bouey
Thanks pea, indeed she is beautiful! :)
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks edythe and Anne!
- Jorge Escobar
happy bday dude!
- imabonehead
Thanks imabonehead dude! :)
- Jorge Escobar
Happy day Jorge!
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks so much Mark!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy Birthday.
- Brent - Long Live Rock
Happy Birthday - hope it's a good one!
- Andrew Terry
Love you very private pic. Happy Birthday and returns!
- Milton Ramirez
Happy Birthday, Jorge! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Happy Birthday. :)
- jan geronimo
誕生日おめでとうございます
- Robert Higgins
Happy Birthday, Jorge, and many more.
- Polly Potter
Happy Birthday!! Where is the slice of cake? :D
- hermansji.:.
Thanks Brent, Andrew, Milton, Kol, Jan, Robert (what's that mean?), Polly, hermansji and Yolanda. You guys are awesome!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy Birthday!
- David Cook
Thanks David! I need to get me some brunch pronto!
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks امیرحسين!
- Jorge Escobar
Happy bday, Jorge
- N.G. Gordon - RadarSync
Thanks Noam!
- Jorge Escobar
Have a good one man, it must be nice to have a bday in the summer!
- Jeremy Campbell
from twhirl
Happy birthday! And scritches to the puppy there, too.
- Ladybug Heather
Happy Birthday from Denmark.... :O)
- Jeannette Høvring
Thanks Jeannette!
- Jorge Escobar
from IM
Happy Birthday, Jorge!
- Ayşe E.
Thanks Ayşe!
- Jorge Escobar
Hey! Happy belated birthday, Jorge! :)
- directeur
Hai directeur! Not belated at all, it's today (it's 5:53pm here) -- thanks!
- Jorge Escobar
You guys make me want to learn Japanese. Way overdue anyway. I speak one of the few other agglutinative languages in the world (Hungarian), so might as well learn another.
- Adrian
Jorge, Yokatta ne! Otanjoubi omedetou! :)
- directeur
What does it mean, directeur?
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Herzeleid!
- Jorge Escobar
Jorge, well it's supposed to mean "Yay! Great (:re not belated)! Happy birthday!" :)
- directeur
What language is it directeur?
- Jorge Escobar
Japanese, Jorge. written in "romaji"
- directeur
Happy Bday Jorge! All the best to you!
- Carlos Ayala
hepi bört dey.:)
- Pilot23
happy bday
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Wow, I need to learn Japanese! directeur -- Thanks so much Carlos, pilot23 and MiniMage!
- Jorge Escobar
Skin Deep - Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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"SILKY straight hair has long been considered by many black women to be their crowning glory. So what if getting that look meant enduring the itchy burning that’s a hallmark of many chemical straighteners. Or a pricey dependence on “creamy crack,” as relaxers are sometimes jokingly called. Getting “good hair” often means transforming one’s tightly coiled roots; but it is also more freighted, for many African-American women and some men, than simply a choice about grooming. Straightening hair has been perceived as a way to be more acceptable to certain relatives, as well as to the white establishment. “If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed,” the comedian Paul Mooney, sporting an Afro, says in the documentary “Good Hair,” which won a jury prize at the Sundance film festival and comes out in October. “If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy.”"
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
Guess what I think of all of this?
- Kamilah Gill
from email
I think that may be true to a certain extent in the US, but I've never found anyone to have any trouble with my hair here in Vancouver. If they have had trouble with it -- and let's be real, I'm sure some people haven't liked it -- they've been nice enough to keep it to themselves. When I was in library school, I worried that having dreads would make it difficult for me to get jobs, but my hair never stood in my way.
- cecily
Honestly, I am jealous of that hair type... it stands up to all kinds of weather, hats, and seems to require a lot less day-to-day maintenance than my "good hair". I would love to have hair that looked the same even after sleeping on it!
- Her Lindsay-ness
I wish more women would just keep it real and stop burning up their hair. A woman with natural hair gains bonus points with me, and it's not just because of the hair.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I'm glad the article pointed out how it seems that no matter how a black woman wears her hair, some people view it as a political statement. In my last job, there was a white lady who would be curly-headed brunette on Monday, long, straight auburn on Wednesday and a bobbed blond by Friday. Yet, if I wore my braids for 6 weeks, then a 'fro for 2 weeks, it was *I* who went through a lot...
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- Anika
I suppose I might have subconscious preferences towards hair that is more like that of my immediate family, but I certainly don't feel like I care much about anyone's hair. Don't go messing with it on my account.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
What Lindsay said is pretty much what everyone said growing up, and throw my high school, etc. It rocks to be a Puerto Rican...sometimes ._.
- Ed F
Good point about the "making a political statement" thing, Anika.
- Ayşe E.
btw does anyone *not* think the hair in all three of those photos above looks nice? I especially like #3 but I have no idea how much effort goes into maintaining any of the above looks. I get a trim every 6-8 weeks and then spend about ten seconds brushing every morning.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Here's a link to the trailer for the Chris Rock documentary, "Good Hair." http://ff.im/6TTa8
- Derrick
Oh, well, I remember white girls in Norway going crazy with their curlers in the 80s, and the cool chicks with dreads in the 90s. It´s partly to do with trends, don´t you think ? That said, people can do what they want, but I hope nobody does it because of shame of what they naturally look like. I like a real nubian queen.:)
- Thomas Bøhm
All that I will say is that I miss the big 'fros (black and white) from the 1970s. They're rarely spotted today...
- John E. Bredehoft
The report I really want to see from the times would be about why most black hair care stores are run by Asians.
- Kamilah Gill
from email
Same reason they run most of the nail shops?
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Still, I guess straightened hair keeps stupid white people from touching it all the time ;) When I was younger I had a mate from Gambia who I admit doing this to ever so often. (But I was a kid!) No wonder he suddenly started shaving his head.
- Thomas Bøhm
+++Thomas. And Lindsay, it just not like that. It's still high maintenance. You don't just wake up and go. Even with my dreadlocks, I have to do daily maintenance.
- Anika
Ok, I'm misinformed then... but you have to admit it stands up to wind and humidity MUCH BETTER than my limp requires-a-bunch-of-products-just-to-get-a-little-body fine hair. I would love to be able to ride in a car with open windows (or a convertible or a motorcycle for that matter) and not worry about how my hair looked when I arrived wherever I was going.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Once again, not true. If I was wearing an Afro with wind blowing at me, it will be unkempt. Humidity just makes it frizz way more. Hats? Forget it. Once again, even with dreads, if I wear a hat or a scarf, I'm not taking that off until I get home. I had to use a lot of products in my hair even when I wore it natural.
- Anika
Because they see a business opportunity, Kamilah? Because they know that black women spend more on hair than any other ethnic group (I think the last statistic I heard was something like black women make up 80% of the purchases in the hair care market)? Plus, they also have community networks in place so that when people emigrate to the US, they can get a business started up without having to go to banks to ask for loans. It isn't nefarious - it's business.
- cecily
Meanwhile, my boss is a white guy with an Egyptian background. His kids all have full heads of curly hair. He chemically straightens his and slicks it back. You'd never know he would look more like the ladies in these pictures if he didn't do anything...
- Louis Gray
Actually, it doesn't stand up to wind better, just differently. When I'm on my bike or scooter, I tuck the ends of my dreads under my helmet to protect them from wind damage. Humidity just makes natural, unprocessed hair "draw up" (it's like a sponge), so in many ways it gets more tangled and more difficult to work with. Unprocessed black hair is extremely fragile. We just have different methods of dealing with it than white folk. :)
- cecily
That reminds me...gotta fix my weave...
- sofarsoShawn
My brorther has very curly, kinky hair, He manages it by keeping it extremely short. I remember white kids making fun of his afro when we first arrived in the US. As soon as he got to really make decisions about his hair, he went short and has kept it like that ever since.
- pea ♥ fierce as a woozle
Oh, and Freepers? FUCK YOU for picking on an 11-year-old girl. Bastards.
- cecily
i think black hair *is* political (in the personal-is-political sense) though. it's still viewed with suspicion and disdain in some quarters, both black and white. there is a history behind *why* we straighten our hair. and yeah, i think there is something radical and self-loving about not doing it.
- tiffany
Cecily, I said nothing about black hair stores being run by Asians being nefarious. I just wonder why specifically Asians (I guess mostly Koreans?) tend to get into the business. If it's such a good opportunity, why haven't some other groups gotten into it more? Where do they get all these special connections? Why is there not a bridge between whatever it is that they're doing and local blacks? It's all too shrouded in mystery. Maybe there's a language/culture barrier.
- Kamilah Gill
I stopped straightening my hair when I moved to Vancouver out of necessity. The one time I got my hair straightened here, the woman who did it did such a horrible job that I really didn't have a choice but to cut it off. I could've done an afro, but I am a klutz when it comes to handling clippers. When I went natural in Atlanta, it was because the only hairdresser I trusted to do my...
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- cecily
anika & tiffany: i like your comments about the "political statement"/"politics." Cecily: 80% of the hair care purchasing market?!!!! Wowsa. That's a huge percentage. And even if that figure isn't totally accurate, just the idea that black women make up the lion's share of hair care purchases is pretty eye-opening. Especially considering the kind of money some women's magazines (Lucky)...
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- edythe
“If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they’re not happy.”" Ha!
- edythe
That number is also huge considering how tiny/non-existent "ethnic" hair care products are in stores. The Target nearby just halved their offerings, no longer selling the 4 products I used to use.
- Anika
Definitely agree with tiffany about not straightening your hair being "radical" and "self-loving." I'd also add "sexy" and "powerful."
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
I just read the Henry Louis Gates essay "In the Kitchen" about hair, it was very interesting.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I wish my hair would let me do something with it.. Sadly, 1 cowlick and 2 or 3 strong crowns mean I can't do anything without it looking horrible. I guess this might be why it is giving up and falling out on me ;)
- alphaxion
anika, to your point: yes. i was just using several hair products and showering and so forth and i was thinking about how small the section for black/other hair is at the Eagle Rock Target. And also how unattractive most of the packaging seems to me.
- edythe
Yes the packaging tends to be unattractive, and I dislike the way that our hair products are segregated from the other stuff like there's something abnormal about us. While I'm on the subject, I don't like having a separate section for "African American issues and fiction" books at the bookstore, either. No other group gets separated out that way. Maybe a display to help find the books, or a list or something, but having them separate from other books probably narrows the potential audience considerably.
- Kamilah Gill
Cecily pretty much nailed it as to how black hair behaves. Mine is much like that although I have more of a mix (genetically and color-wise now, black and white), so a bit less kink, a bit more fine, fly-away, I'll-do-what-I-want hair. So letting it go natural works for both me, and my hair. :) I've never worried too much about whether my hair was a political statement or not, though others might have thought it was when I was coloring, straightening, or otherwise torturing it.
- Bette Cooper
Since I'm a child of the 60's and 70's, I always "suffered" with very curly hair. The other girls wore it very long, and ironed it....yes, with an iron....but there was no way I could do that. I loved the 70's when the Afro was in because that I could do with no problem. For whatever reason, straight hair has always been the desired for years now. Now, I wear it short and curly and...
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- Bonnie Foster
+10 for natural hair. Personally, I'd just like to have a little more. :oP
- Ken Morley
This is the funniest photo I have ever seen! (Updated: let's caption it!) - http://venturebeat.com/2009...
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Haha! Yeah. That's pretty funny.
- Harold Paxton
Maybe he will listen to Scoble!
- Steve Rubel
I think I should be worried. My 3 yo just asked me, "Mama, why is that (edit!) man pointing at Barack Obama?" How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind? o.O
- Anika
I call Scoble by the nickname "that" all the time
- Steve Rubel
LOL I fixed it. This heat is making me drop words all the time.
- Anika
People recognize Michael Jordan's silhouette too - remember the cologne logo?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
"How does my 3yo recognize Obama from behind?" - I remember reading about a study that found that you are actuallly more likely to recognize someone from behind.
- John Craft
Dude....look at those ears. It's like a fingerprint.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
LOL @Rahsheen. I guess so. I just didn't think my kid has had the opportunity to see the POTUS from behind, like ever.
- Anika
Actually, I can't recall having the opportunity either, but it looks like him to me :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
That's funny!
- Robert Scoble
"That's the way, I like it" :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
Guess what, daddy? It's Bawack Obama's birthday!
- Adrian
Caption contest: "President Barack Obama ponders new Supreme Court nominee."
- Steve Rubel
Caption contest: "President Obama was being briefed by the FBI today on the most wanted men in America .."
- Matt Martin
Yes President Obama, my name is Robert Scoble, I currently work for Rack.. SQUIRREL!!
- Matt Martin
Caption: "Are YOU following me on FriendFeed?!"
- Jason Miller
Haha! Thats a good photo.
- Nicholas James
Caption: "Unfollowed, O. Here's why: ___________"
- Adrian
LOL Adrian....You win!
- Bill Heslin
*dead* @Adrian.
- Anika
Barack: Wow, look at the way that guy points. He should be president, not me. Who is he? No, never heard of him. I know an Alex Scoble. Are they related?
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Adrian wins. disable comments.
- chrisofspades
Disable comments! :)
- directeur
Haaa haha haaa. :)
- Micah Wittman
"Oh no! He's in my Twitter, and he's here too?"
- John E. Bredehoft
Social Obama looking at a Social Robert Scoble's picture? This one is great!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
++Adrian Malone "Caption: "Unfollowed. O. Here's Why;______"
- Robert Higgins
Security Briefing: Anything goes bad during your Presidency, well... just "Blame Scoble" -that guy on the screen. Oh yeah, he's a huge geek that tweets so much the Twitter servers crash often, thus the famed "fail whale" image shows up. :) hehe!
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
The Internet Wants YOU. - says Uncle Robert.
- Sarah is Novembery
Does this mean Twitter would be down or no? :)
- Christian Anderson
from iPhone
Ever notice that rappers constantly say "You know what I'm sayin' ?"- But are never saying anything at all?
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It's not just rappers, but whoever is saying it, it's annoying.
- Derrick
No, but Oasis does it a lot.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I think it's just them being courteous. They are attempting to confirm success of the communication process. They also use 'Know what I'm talking about?' when inquiring. When there is a need to clarify or emphasize something they have said, they often use 'That's what I'm talking 'bout!'
- Morgan Haley
*Standing ovation*
- Josh Haley
Actually, isn't it usually "kna mean?" So you're supposed to understand what they mean even if they aren't necessarily saying anything.
- Victor Ganata
*Accepting Award at Podium* "Thank you! Respect! I just want to thank Jesus. Jehova God All Mighty. For helping write my #1 hit single. It's called 'Suck Yo' Mama!'. Peace!"
- Morgan Haley
Kna mean?
- Victor Ganata
many people say "um" frequently and do not realize it. I think it's the same for this phrase, you know wha... (oops)
- Mike Nencetti
Knawahdahmeen?
- Morgan Haley
Mike: Um, like, um totally. Like, totally! I, like totally um, like know what you, um, like, mean!
- Morgan Haley
I saw an interview with some rapper a while back, can't recall who it was, and he used "knam sayin'?" like a comma. Q: "Who are your influences?" A: Lots, knam sayin'? Like Snoop Dogg, knam sayin'?, Dre, knam sayin'?, Run-DMC, knam sayin'?, James Brown an shit', knam sayin'?. Etc.
- Joey Gibson
I kna whut you say.
- Jimminy
It's the same as "you know?" and "right?" Or as in the Japanese "ne?" It's a discourse/pragmatics marker, which is sometimes exaggerated to indicate status as a member of a cultural/language group. Big deal. And there are rappers that have lots to say. White people's high rising terminal intonation ("up-speak") annoys me, like, much more?
- Christopher A Carr
if anyone here in this thread were interviewed for TV (or radio), they would be amazed and horrified how many times they um'ed and used other filler words, watching themselves on TV.
- Mike Nencetti
I work with a guy who is a pretty big deal in the art world who spent a lot of time in New York City; he said it was there that he picked up on the, "know what I mean?" which peppers his speech like the aforementioned rappers, albeit, in a very upper middle class, well-to-do type of affect.
- Derrick
I would just stare at the camera blankly. Not saying anything. Perhaps drooling a little. Just. Staring.
- Morgan Haley
I don't know what you are saying.
- CW™
It´s like when Norwegians end a statement with ", ikke sant?", which literally means ", not true?". Seeking confirmation (and actually even worse, assuming that it probably is false, heh).
- Thomas Bøhm
These are all examples of speech disfluency. It's random crap you say to keep the conversation flowing because you don't really have something to say that second, but not saying anything or silence would probably be awkward. Everyone does it, from what I can see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Also related to conversational turn taking. Sometimes you want to stall to keep your conversational turn.
- Christopher A Carr
Ah...true, Christopher. Hadn't thought of that :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Well, this linguistics education of mine is occasionally good for something... ;-)
- Christopher A Carr
Ah...hadn't noticed you was all edumucated and stuff...LOL. Interesting :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Meh, not too exciting -- just a State U undergrad linguistics edumacation.
- Christopher A Carr
It's a New York thing. I'm from NY but lived in Florida for a year and everyone that said that I could tell was a New Yorker. If you've watched a few old black-and-white gangster films that take place in New York you'd hear it a lot more than you would from rappers.
- Hugh Isaacs II
++Christopher
- chrisofspades
Maybe that's why other rappers are always saying "What, what?" - Maybe they're responding to the rappers saying "You know what I'm sayin'?"
- Curtiss Grymala
Thomas: Yep. Which to me seems the same as Spanish "...,no?"
- Christopher A Carr
THIS!!!!!!!!!!!
- Kevin Winn
from Nambu
Well-educated upper class Brits often lard their conversations with "yes?" -- which is essentially a synonym for "you know what I'm saying?". It seems to be a speech mannerism that cuts across all cultures. (I'm not a big fan of rap -- neo-psychedelia is my thing. But I was impressed by Public Enemy in ancient days.)
- Sean McBride
Because that's how we roll... you know what I'm sayin'? :)
- Morton Fox
STRIPHANGER - Here's Proof Nude York is the Naked City - http://www.nypost.com/seven...
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"A strip club isn't the only place in town you can see a pole dance -- amazed passengers on an L train watched in awe as a naked young woman competed with straphangers for space on a pole. The performance by actress Jocelyn Saldana, 19, lasted just 30 seconds, and some of the passengers probably thought they were hallucinating or dreaming. Most were blasé. But one woman started screaming and an elderly man next to her got the shakes. That free show in mid-June -- as well as similar ones from Times Square to Chinatown -- were the creation of photographer Zach Hyman, 22, whose portraits are never under-exposed. The photographer and his volunteer models don't spend much time on location. The model quickly disrobes and Hyman gives himself only 30 seconds to fire off 10 shots with his Hasselblad 500 film camera. Alex Reisner, a 20-year-old Columbia student, had a very appreciative audience when she disrobed in Chinatown. When Hyman snapped her jumping in the air in the middle of the...
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- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
this picture has been staring me in the face for the last hour. It's right here on the table at the restaurant.
- Jim Hearts FF
a woman in chile did this too... except she wasn't naked. she was wearing a thong and bra top http://news.bbc.co.uk/2...
- tiffany
I wish I could afford to live in NYC, although part of me wonders if I would like it, or could even handle it.
- Derrick
Yeah, I don't know if I would want my naked bits touching any part of the L. I've seen people urinating, throwing up, bleeding, etc on NYC trains.
- Jason Huebel
...this kind of thing never happens on BART! the Bay Area needs more young, hot, commuting exhibitionists, I think. .LOLz!
- .LAG liked that
NYC is a special brand of awesome. it's also stressful and draining. what i love about it is that so much of the city's offerings are *world-class,* and there are so many scenes: hipsters, finance, preppy, international jet-set, 3rd-world immigrant, high art, low art, etc. i think about moving back quite often
- tiffany
"People see a naked woman and they smile," he said. "They see a penis and they freak out."
- Kenley Neufeld
I heard about some girls doing a pole dancing routine on NYC subways a little while back.
- Rafael Robayna
I'd be so grossed out. Like, "are you touching that pole? with your naked body? Ew!" germs-wise.
- anna sauce
I don't think these subway pole dancers were naked but it would be pretty nasty if they were.
- Rafael Robayna
.LAG how would one pole-dance on BART? There are no poles
- anna sauce
Wow, hard-core art. The part about the article I enjoyed the most was: "But one woman started screaming and an elderly man next to her got the shakes."
- Kittyburgers
What is offensive about a naked body?
- Kevin J Hatton
Fat-rolls, would be my guess.
- Kittyburgers
from IM
Anna... you're right, no poles on BART, but can't we get some good-looking nudity once in a while, for the sake of art? .LOLz!
- .LAG liked that
It´s MINE! - Titmouse not letting go of his bowl of peanuts :P, - http://pixdaus.com/single...
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it's funny :))
- Bilal Poyraz
funny is right LOOL
- Myrna
Birds are soo lovely! I used to have two canary birds at home ^_^
- AgentRouge
lovely
- tinkirikbel
titmouse. who named this bird anyway? crazy ornithologists!
- Morgan Haley
Morgan,lol
- Myrna
Really great shot!
- Gourmet Traveller 88
GT88 I think its cute and peanuts is one of my regular dailyfoods.
- Myrna
Adorable!
- Ladybug Heather
beautiful !
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Its mine I tell you! All mine!! Psssh! should have read the heading before commenting:D
- Deepti
Fantástica!! Gracias.
- cazandogrillos
The Next Web: "How to do almost anything with Posterous" (would love to see them become the next Friendfeed) - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Do you really think it'll be the next friendfeed? Maybe Facebook will buy them out to really screw with us.
- Seth Goldstein
If they start to let me pull in stuff more easily and browse it the way I can my friends on there now, potentially yes.
- Steve Rubel
from email
Nice introduction:) Next FriendFeed, maybe. If Posterous can post like FriendFeed my Google Reader shared items to Twitter I think that for me is all that I need, maybe Facebook too
- krzychukula
I love Posterous. I moved both of my Wordpress blogs over and use it exclusively by posting via Gmail. I do wish that it would allow themes similar to Tumblr.
- Lee Hebert
How can you email a file of more than 25 MB to your posterous blog? One tip I need to know.
- Amani
Is there an email address for Friendfeed? friendfeed@posterous.com doesn't work.
- Ben Hanten
I adore Posterous and see it literally as a blank slate with many options. If you look at many of the amazing ways others are using it, you realize it is the tip of the iceberg.
- Liza
It's a great tool, love using it. I'm still tweaking mine but I'm getting there :) http://jeunelle.posterous.com/ - http://jeunellepunk.posterous.com/
- Jeunelle Foster
A lot of people think so ! Great tool !
- Desirade
Thanks to you, I'm giving it a try.
- ickledot
Guy Kawasaki was all about Posterous last year at Blogworld.
- David Almacy
In September 2008, Posterous was talking about giving users access to themes. Almost one year later... still no themes. :(
- Kevin Donahue
The best things about FriendFeed being declared "dead" by Scoble:
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1. Bots won't come here.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I don't get it
- Shari Weiss
We'll just sit here and twiddle our thumbs.
- Heather Solos
*tap shoes*
- Adam Jackson
We can actually get some peace and quiet around here.
- Adam Reyher
2. Spammers won't come here.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
3. Scoble won't come here.
- jef
uh oh hope I didn't sway you :-)
- Brian Hendrickson
*a bot has entered the conversation*
- Byron McCollum
That life after death is much better :-)
- testtest
3. Late adopters will assume it really is dead.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
No celebs and no ghost writers
- Benjamin Taylor
yay! no spambots. Haven't seen one since I joined.
- PJ Edwards
4. Lame companies will stop developing for it's API.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ploy to avoid Palin Death Panel.
- pourmecoffee
Benjamin: Demi's not been back then? :( :)
- 1x29
One Gear...Oh that was frightening to see!
- Benjamin Taylor
Nope she posted once and that's it, just like Guy Kawasaki. I don't get why people don't get how fun this is
- Stephen Pickering
5. Celebrities will post once (hi Demi) and then go back to Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Oh, yes it was :| :| :| :D
- 1x29
FriendFeed can escape the country to avoid taxes now that everyone thinks it's dead
- Gary
Have you really declared it dead? You think FB is going to take the bits they want and dismantle the rest?
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
People will get interested in this "dead website" and join it. If not ,people already present here will leave and make it really dead.
- ashish
To where, Cayman Islands?
- jef
It's BBQ time, Scoble's started drinking
- Stephen Pickering
6. Facebook will have a little more time to copy its best features since Google will assume it is dead.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I don't get it.
- Michelle McCormack
I like #5
- shaun mclane
Stephen: I am sober. Not a drink today.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
The majority of those types of celebrities though just want to say something themselves. They are not interested in listening to anyone saying anything back. Sadly, for the good few we inherited once Demi had said Hi :)
- 1x29
What a concept! I'd like to send you a list of things to declare dead ...
- Bill Brandon
from Nambu
Photar, HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
- Stephen Pickering
Photar: heh!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Michelle: What don't you get?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Mark: Who said they disliked Demi? For the record, I don't dislike her.
- 1x29
Someone asks the question on Tiny thread "Can we keep Robert Scoble off tinythread?" Scoble shows up and comments - http://a.tinythread.com/2lvfVw9... That made my week Robert.
- Benjamin Taylor
LOL Photar
- PJ Edwards
That deserves a sub Photar...lol
- Bill Heslin
Feel free to add me up! http://friendfeed.com/tomit I'm going to keep using it till it's gone!!!!
- tomit
No More Amimated Gifs
- johnpiercy
from iPhone
7. Now none of Scoble's followers will come here and muddy up the place.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Benjamin: "Scobleizer →Um, hello." Gotta love it :)
- 1x29
Yes this makes a lot of sense to me and that's why I'm sitting back and ain't goin nowhere.
- Jeunelle Foster
Oh so its like an island, a little haven in the internets
- Stephen Pickering
How many more reasons does he have yet?
- jef
I wiped my shoes at the door. No mud, see?
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
jef: I am still thinking of good reasons.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Just ate, will go walk dogs now, see if I can follow this thread via iPhone
- Stephen Pickering
Things you call dead haven't yet got the chance to be born.
- Meryn Stol
Quite, Robert will only post good reasons - it confirms his lack of muddying the waters :P
- 1x29
Shari: what don't you get?
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
I guess you really don't like that Facebook bought the company.
- jef
Meryn: I had 46,000 followers here before I declared it dead. How many does a service require to be "born?"
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
By using FF, is Robert Scoble actually declaring it undead? Does that make it a zombie service? FF of the Living Dead...
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
jef: Facebook is a great company but if more than 1/10th of the team is actively working on FriendFeed in four weeks I will give $50 to the American Red Cross.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
No more beta testing!
- PJ Edwards
For those that don't get it, commenting on one thread is like being all together talking and chatting about a set topic/thread [well, it is to me, anyway :)]. Saying you 'don't get it' is like walking into a group of people talking in a cafe (no coffee here though) and asking what on earth is going on. We're just talking :)
- 1x29
Robin: remember what it means when a blogger declares something dead.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
It's....dead? So we're wandering the FF mall looking for brains (and LOLcats)?
- WorldofHiglet
Robert, do you mean 1/10th of the FF team, or 1/10th of the FB team?
- RobinDotNet
from iPhone
What if Facebook starts to promote it and it gets millions of users, then what? hmmmmmm
- Stephen Pickering
Steve Gillmor declared Microsoft Office dead and it went onto make billions more dollars.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Heh: the iPhone misspells Gillmor. I fixed the spelling but now I know why everyone adds an "e" onto it.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
making money and being dead are mutually exclusive
- Steve Gillmor
The *idea* of FF is not dead though. The ability to do what we can here is ALWAYS going to be required. The set up here is the closest thing we have on the internet that replicates just talking to a group of your friends. But it affords you the opportunity to get in on conversations globally on whatever interests you.
- 1x29
I believe he Steve also said RSS was dead..He likes to call things dead doesn't he? :)
- Bill Heslin
Ohai Steve! lol
- Bill Heslin
yes I do and yes they are
- Steve Gillmor
and FF is most certainlt NOT dead
- Steve Gillmor
Well, I think it's dead too. At least, it never became very popular as much as Twitter, did it?
- jef
we can use the health care savings to treat twitter addicts
- Sherry Reynolds
Stephen: The problem I have with FB taking it is all the rubbish you'll no doubt get packaged with it. FF is so clean. No poking. No pointless gifts. No adopt an imaginary something. No signing up for a 3rd party app just to see what someone sent you (even if it was sent without their knowledge :))
- 1x29
Steve, will it be integrated into Facebook, and as Robert said, no one actively working on the stand alone site, or do you think the stand alone site will continue to get better?
- Stephen Pickering
jef: I get more engagement here than on Twitter and I have gotten many times more new followers here this week than on Twitter.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Oh, I meant "RSS".
- jef
What the hell is wrong with you Robert? FriendFeed is still ticking away; you have no association with it and therefore no right to voice its status.
- Mitch
Lots of people became aware of it because Facebook bought it
- Stephen Pickering
jef: Twitter already and fundamentally lacks the benefits of FF though. It's might have more *users* but it's pretty much reached it's purpose already.
- 1x29
Like me stephen
- PJ Edwards
I should have clearly pointed "RSS". I wasn't referring to FriendFeed.
- jef
See!, thanks PJ, what do you think so far?
- Stephen Pickering
FF of the living dead....what we need is Jesus....he can resurrect us
- Jeunelle Foster
Mark Zuckerberg = Jesus
- Stephen Pickering
Twitter's design almost ensured 40% of tweets would be pointless. FF comments by definition are only as pointless as the conversation itself. It is inevitable that a FF type service will eclipse a twitter type service.
- 1x29
jef: my favorite Tweets come here via RSS. Both are definitely dead!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
He's more like Beelzebub to me in the matter of FriendFeed. I mean "Zuckerberg".
- jef
Mark Zuckerberg = Jesus and/or Beelzebub .....Stephen Pickering & jef.... hahahahaha
- Jeunelle Foster
I think it's amazing. I didn't know Live interaction was possible other then IM, Stephen.
- PJ Edwards
40.5% of tweets are pointless babble. what is the ratio of comments on this thread?
- Sherry Reynolds
Well, I'm quite a Twitter guy. But, yeah, RSS is definitely dead or dying.
- jef
we are exercising the power of social media, even if it's pointless
- Jeunelle Foster
FriendFeed couldn't get traction. They've married some folks who know how to get traction. And Facebook's married some folks who know how to do real time. Both services will benefit, and so will the "users" or "sharecroppers"
- Stephen Pickering
If RSS weren't dead why would Dave WIner be rebooting it? If Office isn't dead why would MS be moving to the cloud?
- Steve Gillmor
But Office on the Cloud is still Office, no?
- Stephen Pickering
not so far Stephen. eventually sure. What's the micromessage reader in Office called?
- Steve Gillmor
Hmmmmm, I don't know. I don't use office. Or do you jest? :)
- Stephen Pickering
deadly serious :)
- Steve Gillmor
Sherry: who cares? We are all dead! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
What is micromessage reader BTW?
- jef
you're looking at one jef
- Steve Gillmor
Ah. I get it.
- PJ Edwards
If others think it's dead, perhaps that's good - take a look at these http://scienceblogs.com/waltatr... and http://friendfeed.com/waltcra... and http://scienceblogs.com/waltatr...
- Bora Zivkovic
You mean you are a piece of software in Office, Steve?
- jef
Damn, must go walk dogs, and don't remember my FriendFeed password so can't log onto it from iPhone
- Stephen Pickering
no jef, FF is a micromessage reader (among other things)
- Steve Gillmor
Okay, then does Office have one in its suite? (Didn't know)
- jef
not that I'm aware of
- Steve Gillmor
feels like I'm being mocked here, but what the hell? ;)
- jef
Who's doing the mocking? I rebuke them in the name of Jesus
- Jeunelle Foster
not mocking you, follow the thread. Pickering asked whether Office in cloud will be Office, I said not until it has a micromessage reader.
- Steve Gillmor
Oh, sorry. Missed the one. Thanks!
- jef
The whole "RSS is dead" is a broad sweeping statement positioned to get a rise, and meaningless without context. Why? How? What exactly does that mean "RSS is dead" Its usefulness serves people, then its very much alive.
- Benjamin Taylor
Well, I said "RSS is dead" in a view point of consumer. Do you know anyone what RSS means or does?
- jef
the context defines the meaning. It means that RSS has moved from a disruptive technology to a mature one, and is now being disrupted in turn by micromessaging
- Steve Gillmor
Makes complete sense, in that context. I had a different understanding of the meaning behind that statement.
- Benjamin Taylor
understandable given the noise from those who want to attack the messenger
- Steve Gillmor
The best thing? It's somehow reassuring to see just how passionate the FFish subset of folks is about community.
- Kathy Fitch
yes Kathy, by contrast FF continues to disrupt, and particularly a willing Facebook.
- Steve Gillmor
Just made the original comment because of the "dead" thing in Robert's post and your RSS is dead comment from awhile back was the first thing that came to mind. I'm actually glad I said it now, because I understand your position on that comment much more now Steve. And btw, is there plans for Gillmor Gang to come back, or has it come back already and I just missed it? Thanks
- Bill Heslin
WIll have something to say about that RSN Bill
- Steve Gillmor
Is RSS a zombie now? or is it still too early to tell... by the way, dead = no productivity innovation happening, imho
- Alberto Saavedra
from Nambu
k thanks..
- Bill Heslin
So "dead thing" is like "no more innovations from a certain service or product"?
- jef
google RSS is Dead for what I actually said
- Steve Gillmor
sorry RSS Rest in Peace
- Steve Gillmor
You mean Google Reader?
- jef
You did?????
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I use ZGoogle reader almost not at all these days, but that not what I said.
- Steve Gillmor
I did what Roberto
- Steve Gillmor
google as a verb.. Gee, feels like I'm becoming some kinda Troll here. Didn't mean to but, sorry about that anyway.
- jef
you're doing fine, jef. relax
- Steve Gillmor
BTW, what kind of understanding did you have on "RSS is dead", Ben? Just out of curiosity.
- jef
Steve: Nothing. I was asking Robert :) Its news to me that he said that. I think this is the early adopter's early adopter's view.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Robert didn't declare FF dead in the title to this post. He's giving a list of implications of it being "declared dead by Scoble." It's a subjunctive use of the phrase - something imagined, a thought experiment.
- Nick in Manila
Ah. Right. I think there is life in the old girl yet....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
9. You can move back in with your blog. Ya'll can get married and live happily ever after.
- Stephen Pickering
That is good... Robert's back to blogging thing didint last very long....
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
not dead, but honnestly it will make some return to coding and this is good.
- abdellah
So RSS is dead, Twitter is about to be pronounced dead, and Robert Scoble is declaring FriendFeed "dead". What would we have then?
- jef
Blogging. Which, really? Also dead. I think all we have left is wikis, email, and cocktail napkins.
- Sean Gallagher
Honestly. Declaring something "dead" because it doesn't have that new-car-smell anymore, and somebody's trying to, heaven forbid, *commercialize it* is just a sign of tech-ADD. CORBA was supposed to be dead, but it's still alive. COBOL was supposed to be dead, but MicroFocus is still making money. Hell, even DOS isn't dead, or filesharing, or the music industry, or old media. They just don't have that magical infinite potential of the blank piece of paper anymore.
- Sean Gallagher
However....Friendster? Dead. :D
- Sean Gallagher
@Sean by that definition, punch cards aren't dead. http://www.wired.com/wired... (their site is http://www.cardamation.com/ )
- mjc
Punch cards are a valid storage format. I bet I could do RSS on punchcards.
- Sean Gallagher
Sean: Rss benefited at the beginning of this cycle, and it made a huge difference. This is happening now with realtime. Your last sentence would only be improved by removing the word "just." Don't know what the "commercialized" reference means, nothing wrong with any of this making money. Oh and the music industry -- that's just plain dead.
- Steve Gillmor
Yeah EMI is going to default, as media say.
- jef
:-))First time that I can enjoy the dead ,Today I checked the new tools of Google reader and they are doing well ,,, Wave is coming and we can all feel it
- Johni Fisher
dead or alive who cares.
- Pam Gwenzi
Now I know your high Steve Gillmor..lol...The music industry will never be dead. :) your just plain crazy...hehehehehe...
- Bill Heslin
but in a good way...lol
- Bill Heslin
The Create a bundle to share is the first step for the real time RSS that is dead 2
- Johni Fisher
the last time the music industry died, the Beatles showed up
- Steve Gillmor
bundles should incorporate OPML
- Steve Gillmor
"the last time the music industry died, the Beatles showed up - Steve Gillmor " I'm ready for the Beatles!! Bring 'em on!
- Amy Flynn
wondering when gwave is going to be dead
- Jim Posner
Ashton, Oprah and Ellen will finally sign up.
- Erik Boles
Ellen would be cool...keep the other two....lol
- Bill Heslin
Jim, it needs to be alive first :-) so, anytime after October or whenever KISS apps arrive to Wave platform
- Alberto Saavedra
Zombies, says @RobinDotNet? We have ways of dealing with zombies, both on a computer system and in real life. (wonder if the new Tron remake will have zombie processes...)
- Don Faulkner
from BuddyFeed
Declaring it dead means we all feel sorry for it, and use it all the more! (resurrection syndrome)
- Sandra Large
10: Scoble no longer has to pretend that his "followers" are "friends". Facebook will make it so.
- Phil Calvin
FF..please don't die=(
- zʍıɔ
It is far from dead. But we will not get all the Bots and the security issues that Twitter has
- Rob Cairns
Hey I wanna Sue FacePOOP fer Giving me da Boot! Can U recommend a Razor Sharp Lawyer!!
- Billy Warhol
i stopped recommending friendfeed. This place is just way too cool to share it with others ;)
- Sascha Pallenberg
a collapse into FB by FF beyond feature cherry picking would seem rather myopic... think FB Labs to foil Google Labs and push leading edge adoption that is a safe distance from the close fisted FB silo -- sizzle and promise at a controlled feature grafting rate
- Jay Cuthrell
from BuddyFeed
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