Lorenzo Von Matterhorn was born somewhere in Switzerland in the spring of 1974. The exact date and circumstances of his birth are unknown since he was immediately placed in a basket and tossed in a river. Young Lorenzo rode the pristine Alpine glacial melt waters for hundreds of miles before a young Milanese woman discovered the basket along the banks of the river Po. Some say it was this first early journey to Milan that fueled his love for both exploration and fashion. The woman would raise Lorenzo as her own, naming him Lorenzo after her father and giving him the surname Von Matterhorn to reflect his Swiss heritage as well as his uncommonly large penis.
- Mike Nayyar
from Bookmarklet
It's like the whole Chinese food syndrome thing. MSG is not inherently toxic. Japanese scientists even found a taste receptor specific for glutamate which they call umami. Glutamate participates in multiple metabolic pathways. Could some people be sensitive to high concentrations? Sure. But it's not something that should be banned.
I just like it when it is used in high concentration for it to be noted (it is one of the triggers for my mom's chrohns), much like a lot of other additives or foods that people might be sensitive to.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Do food labels/restaurants over there not have to state that?
- ☆ Mellyboo ☆
The labels do, but as far as I know, restaurants don't have to (though many voluntarily do). There's small amounts that naturally occur in some foods (soy sauce), but it is an additive in many others (dried bouillon, seasoned salts) that many people don't think about.
- Jennifer Dittrich
It needs to be clearly labeled, regardless of the amount. My body can't handle the stuff. I'll spare the details.
- Kevin Johnson
I side with Penn & Teller who did a blind experiment that demonstrated that the majority of people can't determine whether food has MSG in it or not and that a lot of people who think that MSG makes them ill are full of shit.
- Akiva
Yes, but maybe they don't *want* to be full of shit and that's why they're avoiding the MSG. ;-P
- Spidra Webster
I mean, people can be truly allergic to things like Benadryl and albumin and insulin so there are probably people who really do have terrible reactions, but it's most likely nowhere as prevalent as it's reported.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I agree. I don't doubt that some people might have reactions to it but the level at which it's report is kind of preposterous.
- Akiva
And now I'm craving Chinese food. THANKS.
- Spidra Webster
Think it also gets confused with the bad reactions people can have to lots of fried food, and many American Chinese Food recipes have been pretty high in that.
- Jennifer Dittrich
from FFHound!
Chinese food syndrome is a very real thing. My first experience with it was as a child. My mother would take my brother and I to the same local Chinese restaurant about once a month, and each and every time I would get sick. I was light-headed, like the worst case of flu ever, nauseous, the inside of my stomach felt like I had swallowed a whole tray of ice cubes, and I'd break out in a...
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- April
Well, my only real point is that people can have idiosyncratic (but totally reproducible) reactions, just like with any other food allergies or drug sensitivities but MSG is not toxic to humans in the same way, say, arsenic or plutonium is poisonous to everyone. But probably most people can tolerate it without effects. And if we're talking superhigh concentrations, I actually suspect people are reacting to the sodium rather than to the glutamate.
- Victor Ganata
I don't think it's the sodium in my case, since a daily staple of my diet used to be over-salted fried potatoes, and I never had that reaction to large amounts of sodium chloride. Maybe some swelling of my feet and hands after prolonged use, but never any of the symptoms I got from MSG.
- April
The movie was just okay overall, but I totally have jumbled crazy dreams like the ones that make people go insane in the movie. I just had one like that last night. The depiction of an over-the-top dream was exactly right.
- Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
"When I saw this recipe, I was instantly thinking of other flavors you could stuff into the bread. Anything that works on pizza would be great here. I went with provolone and mushroom this time. I'm sure it would be great with pepperoni and mozzarella, bacon and cheddar, or just plan old cheese. If you guys make this, you have to come back and let me know what flavors you made."
- Steven Perez
from Bookmarklet
Thanks for the Valentine's card Tam! You'll always be my valentine. <3 Brent, thanks for the Pantone post card! The winds off the lake today were strong but I was warm. <3
bacon cheesesticks? plz explain. bacon inside the stick? bacon bits on the cheez?
- Marie
From Papa John's - it's basically their cheesesticks, which are basically garlicky pizza dough with cheese on top which are then topped with bacon. http://order.papajohns.com/menu... My pizza was free. The cheesesticks were not.
- Katy S
"LinkedIn is connecting with investors. The dominant professional networking site was one of the few bright spots Friday on Wall Street. Its shares skyrocketed nearly 18% to $89.96 in the single biggest one-day jump since its initial public stock offering in May. LinkedIn’s stock has doubled in value since the IPO. The jet fuel powering the professional networking site: its fourth-quarter earnings, released Thursday. Revenue more than doubled from the previous year to nearly $168 million. The Mountain View, Calif., company earned $6.9 million, surpassing analysts’ expectations. And it forecast higher in 2012. LinkedIn expects its revenue to rise as much as 65% this year to $860 million."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
"The so-called "hacktivist" group Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack on government and law enforcement computers in Alabama on Friday in response to what it called the state's "racist" immigration law."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
"On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to [Bank of America]. [...] Bank of America is the stock of the moment for high-frequency trading, the supercomputer-driven buying and selling that barely existed a few years ago and now accounts for as much as two-thirds of U.S. trading. "
- Andrew C (✓)
from Bookmarklet
""The movement of Bank of America stock on most days has nothing to do with Bank of America," says Joseph Saluzzi, co-founder of brokerage firm Themis Trading. In other words, the stock moves because it moves. "
- Andrew C (✓)
Hooray for the government-backed dog track!
- Andrew C (✓)
"Sometimes high-frequency traders don't even profit from the trade itself. They buy and sell shares at the same price and make money by sending large orders through the exchanges. NYSE, Nasdaq and others want to attract the most traders. So they offer rebates of 20 to 32 cents per 100 shares to traders who send in large orders. On the electronic exchange NYSE Arca, traders who can move...
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- Andrew C (✓)
WTF NSFW - Anus business PLEASE HELP - for the love of god do not let this get to the front page. disgusting details about my anus inside - http://www.reddit.com/r...
met ezgi bir oturuşta 5 adam dövüyormuş akıllı ol
- ula$ ツ
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- OSMANOVİĆ
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- OSMANOVİĆ
ahaha bunun videosu komik olabilir bence :P
- ula$ ツ
ilk kullanışta olacağını düşünmüyorsun herhalde (:
- ula$ ツ
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- OSMANOVİĆ
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- OSMANOVİĆ
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- OSMANOVİĆ
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- OSMANOVİĆ
You can now get a daily or weekly email digest for anybody's feed on FriendFeed. You'll get a daily or weekly email with the most popular posts from that person's feed. To get the email, click the "Email/IM" link at the top of anyone's feed, and select the "Best of day" or "Best of week" email option.
Thanks to Kevin for doing a great design for what turned out to be a more complex set of UI options than we had originally anticipated, and thanks to Tudor for implementing the email backend.
- Bret Taylor
I now get the FriendFeed Feedback posts as a Best of Day email so it doesn't fill up my feed, but I don't miss feedback. I also set up a "Best of Day" email for my "Technology people" friend list so I get a pretty good overview of tech news every day via email.
- Bret Taylor
This is a really cool idea Bret, I wish you can make that an RSS feed option as well. I'd be much more likely to read summaries in RSS than in email.
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Casey: Thanks for the tip. What's the 7 before the "?" mean in the URL? The number of likes or replies needed to be included?
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
this is killer, the random influx of email during the day was kinda getting fail-ish. I love the daily digest.
- Drew Lucas
Very cool! Any way to get archives of previous months? (especially helpful for those of us who leave the internet for weeks at a time...)
- Mitchell Tsai
Just curious - at what time of the day will we get these emails ? Midnight US-Time, or will it respect our timezones ?
- Ahsan Ali
Ahsan: it is somewhat random right now when the emails are sent, but we built in the backend capability to control what time they are sent, and we plan on exposing that control to users in the future. Right now, it is kind of random - sorry!
- Bret Taylor
But what exactly is "Best"? Is it anything that has a certain number of likes/comments?
- Laura Norvig
@Bret LOL THAT WAS MY PROJECT! I will release it tomorrow. But you've also did it and killed my friendfeed application **sigh** But mine has multi-reporting weekly-daily-monthly at the same time and adjustable entry count!
- Alp
@Bret please consolidate me or I won't code new apps with you api! :-)
- Alp
Alp: we were not trying to withhold data. Later today the documentation will be updated to reflect the ability to obtain "Best of" for users. The feed id will be USERNAME/summary/N (similar to "Best of" for lists)
- Benjamin Golub
Hi Ben, that is pretty funny, I tried that URL earlier today to see if it has been secretly released :)
- Paul Kinlan
Bret: While Twitter struggle to keep their fail whale under control, you guys are developing stuff like this. Amazing - Thanks!
- Jim Connolly
awesome feature, this will be highly useful for my corporate group ideas / content sharing; projects, etc.... THANK YOU :)
- Susan Beebe
Great work. I especially like that it works on lists too.
- Meryn Stol
my inbox might say different, but I like that :-)
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Wow, this is really neat! And it links into the idea I expressed earlier, re: reducing signup friction / enabling limited guest privileges. Imagine if I could embed one of my FF rooms on my personal web site, and enable people to subscribe to that feed by e-mail with just a couple of clicks... rather than saying "you can get e-mail notifications but you have to sign up for Friendfeed first." "sign up" -- though admirably lightweight on FF -- is still a huge barrier.
- Adam Lasnik
is there a love button cause I dont like this option I LOVE this option..great work guys
- (jeff)isageek
Three options I would like (1) Can I select "top 100" instead of "top 30"? (2) Could I select both "best of day" and "best of week"? (3) How about older timeperiods? I'd love to get an e-mail with stuff from last week or Mar 2009? Start & end dates? Anything to help me read FriendFeed off-line would be great since I spend long periods off-line at festivals (especially during summer time) or overseas. - Awesome job guys!
- Mitchell Tsai
So this works on groups too, cool! But we still cannot see Best of for groups on the site on friends lists. :-( I have several friends lists that include just groups and when I select to view the best of the page it's empty (even though if I got to the individual best of for those groups there are entries there).
- Kol Tregaskes
does anyone know of a web service that can do this? (I'm thinking weekly email updates of my favorite feeds/people) I don't think there's anything like friendfeed ..
- Friendfeed's Francisco
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
I don't mind it publishing to my wall, but I don't want it to be my status update. It worked fine before y'all fixed it! (Go ahead. Roll your eyes.) ;)
- Shawn Zehnder Rossi
I get that cannot publish message all the time, because I specifically took away its permissions to publish to my wall. If the FF app gave me some sort of control over what it put on my wall, then I'd give it permissions to do so. As it stands, if everything I posted to FF made it to my FB wall, I'd be defriended by 90% of my friends rather quickly.
- Otto
Yay for new publishing methods! stream.publish FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I don't want to publish my friendfeed updates to facebook, they're too many. I blocked it and i'm always receiving error messages on facebook.
- Oscar
On the same environment, I saw that lite.facebook.com is fast as hell! With proxies, my comments gets directly inputted while FriendFeed takes a couple of seconds, one step at a time. And the message, as Oscar said, is always present if you decide to stop FriendFeed from posting to said service when you have the application on FB. It (script) thinks it wasn't decided, as if it was the...
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- Zu from AOD
Mine failed to post the most recent entry to my wall for unknown reasons. (I have it configured to use privatebrlewis@friendfeed rather than my regular brlewis ff account.)
- Bruce Lewis
I've uninstalled the FriendFeed application and now I cannot re-add it. I see the friendfeed app for a split second and then it reports an error.
- Erik Jacobs
Hacım, the search function is totally down, any news on that?
- mcd
Well, you know I'm completely in love with Ramona since my last visit. I suspect my reaction to Peter will be the same. Much love (and an extra scritch behind the ears to whomever would like it most) to you all!
- Louise Alcorn
Thank you for sharing the pic! :) Love to all of you.
- Laura H.
How well I remember those initial days after bringing each of our children home for the first time. I knew our world was changed forever, and was nearly overwhelmed by the awesome significance (and responsibility) that those moments represented (but in a good way.) Enjoy this very special time.
- Mark J