"Food photography is a still life specialization of commercial photography ... The almost edible look prevalent in the best food photography is usually the result of a collaboration between the food photographer, a food stylist, and prop stylist who each play an important role in building a strong image." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... - Philipp Lenssen
can we see a picture of the picture that was on the cover of that? - Robert Seidman
Is that the Amy's brand lasagna? Not gonna lie, I really like their vegetarian lasagna - not super loaded with calories, quick to make, and surprisingly tasty! Might not look awesome but it'll definitely do. - Jennie Lin
call me crazy... this actually looks good to me... - Rob Reed
It tasted fine. Not haute cuisine, but hot tomato-y pasta stuff with only 290 calories. I just wish I could 'like' the post to indicate that I liked the food. - Kevin Fox
Kevin - I just "liked" it for you...although that picture is nasty! food in a cardboard box plate is just scary - Susan Beebe
Okay, I'm tired of seeing this. Time to hide it. :) - Chris White
frozen sumpthin in a cardboard nukeable container ,,, hmmmmm - fotographic via twhirl
I swear to god, I would rather go hungry. really. - rambn
still looks better than what I have for lunch everyday... i miss food! - Jeanette Martinez
@Kevin - uh, I just scared myself too. Wow. I'm glad you liked it... comforting though, isn't it? It looks a little better when it's done in the oven - Jennie Lin
Scary that this just came out after a few of us were talking about how to perform a ballpoint trache today during lunch. After reading this, I feel fully prepared. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet
Kevin, was your co-worker Paul at that lecture? Swear I saw a guy look like him. - Hao Chen
Believe it or not, I had never heard of him or "The Last Lecture" 'til today. However, I can see what the hoopla is about. Kevin, if you were able to take a class from him, I envy you. What the hell, I envy you anyway! - Spidra Webster
"I have to go to the bathroom. Will you help me to remove my Stormtrooper armor?"
Elvish: Horyan karita nén. Á aukola ambassenya Húrohosséva ránin.
1337: brb bio.unzip pls?
Klingon: puch vIlo'nIS. may'luchwIj vIteq 'e' HIboQ.
Pirate: Arrrh, can ye help me shuck this scurvy husk so's I can unleash a deluge? - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet
Assuming that the users will want to use your product for its own sake. - Kevin Fox
I think the first pitfall is assuming that your product has a place in the marketspace ! - Peter Dawson
I think the first pitfall is forgetting to communicate what pitfall #1 is. - Kevin Shannon
That's a good point, Peter. Yeah, there isn't a real list. I just thought of the 'complication' one and thought 'surely that can't be the biggest pitfall. Let's call it #2.' :-) - Kevin Fox
@Peter. I like your item as #1. Look's like we have a start for a list of communication design pitfalls! :) - Shivanand Velmurugan
I like to assume the user is listening to music, pretending to work, doing 6 other things and is late to go somewhere. A lot of decisions get changed this way. - Andrew Smith
People in the Blogoscoped forum recently figured something changed with Gmail but no one could pinpoint it to anything specific. Perhaps this was it? - Philipp Lenssen
Looks like the small placeholder at the top left of Gmail is now gone--could that have been it? - Sean O'Hanley
Sorry Kevin, but I prefer the newer ones. They seem lighter. Maybe they got recreated when the "Superstars" labs feature was introduced -- especially if you took the layered source files with you when you left... ;-) - Tony Ruscoe
I hadn't actually considered it. but yeah pretty much spot on there. - Geoff Schultz
I'd love a store that reliably and consistantly allowed me to purchase and download software, especially if it managed my licenses and let me re-download software which I'm licensed to own. That would be a godsend over trying to archive .dmg installation files and track serial numbers. - Kevin Fox
I wish they would. I actually wrote that up in September of last year on The Apple Blog: http://theappleblog.com/2007/0... "Solving Software Purchases the iTunes Way" - Louis Gray
I've thought it would be cool if we could do something like this for Adobe AIR. Offer an "iTunes for AIR Apps" that would make it easy for people to monetize their AIR apps and would let the user manage their apps more easily. I don't think we will, because that's not Adobe's MO, but it seems like way for us to make money and help developers at the same time. And the AIR platform kind of lends itself to that type of thing. - Ryan Stewart
Kevin, yes, but why can't they manage my iTunes licenses? It's always telling me to backup my purchases. Why?? - Chris White
It would really make perfect sense for the MB Air and the rumored MB touch. - Erica Baker
I think there's a huge difference between iPhone apps and Mac apps. Let's not forget that every iPhone app is (to what extent?) screened before being approved. In theory, they could do the same for Mac apps, but iPhone apps are easier because they also happen to run in their own little space. When you close them, you don't have any nasty garbage collection issues to take care of. And, by the same token, it's way more difficult to write malware for someone's iPhone than it is for someone's iMac. - Dominik Hofmann
Dominik, I'm not sure I understand. How is it less secure to get software from an Apple-operated store than by downloading it off a developer's site on the internet? I agree that it's not *more secure* unless Apple does some proactive work following up on malware cases, but if it does it would be far more effective at it because Apple could notify everyone who has downloaded the app, and even automatically suggest an update that would remove the product after its nature is uncovered. - Kevin Fox
Def, Kev. I had a problem with my computer that required some tweaking and post-tweak the shareware I'd paid for didn't recognize me as paid-up. Unfortunately, I can't find the receipts with the serial #s so I'm screwed with SndSampler nagging me every 5 min. - Spidra Webster
Kevin, it's different because even if Apple *specifically* states otherwise, the average user will assume Apple endorses the software if it's attainable from their store. If I managed to get a track with glitches on to iTunes for an album I put out, who would most people hold responsible? Apple or me? - Dominik Hofmann
“There are at least two other Kevin Foxes in the internet industry, including a prominent one in SF, and I've never spoken to any of them. It's weird. What would you say to your not-you you?”
There can only be one...then pull out your Hattori Hanzo. - Hao Chen
Woah dude, way to bust out with the double reference! Makes me wonder if O-Ren Ishii was actually an Immortal, what with her penchant for head collecting. - Kevin Fox
When I called for my bar exam results and gave my name, the lady on the other end of the phone asked: which one? "There's more than one Robert Reed who took the bar this year?" "Yes," she said, "which one are you?" "The one that passed," I said. Fortunately, we both passed, so I'd say: "Congrats, my not-me me!" or better yet, I might just give him a commiserating "I'm sorry." - Rob Reed
This is why I am "the other Martin Taylor" - a famous Jazz guitarist beat me to it. - Martin Taylor
When I was living in Berkeley after graduating from UCB, there was a graduate student there with the same name as me. We never talked, but I would get his calls and vice versa. If we met, I'd probably have focused on the logistics of making sure people reached the right person. - Stephen Mack
How about "So, what are you changing your name to and when will the paperwork be all processed?" - Cyrus Lendvay
I was still in high school and a sports stringer at the L.A. Daily News. I was typing up a story on some high school baseball game when I heard over the office intercom, “Chris Reed, please report to the security desk.” So I leave the newsroom, go downstairs and the security guard gives me a mop and pail and tells me to clean up the men’s bathroom. I’m just a kid so I figure, “OK. Guess when you’re a young writer, you take on all the lower duties at the newspaper.” Just before I go off to attempt a cleaning only a sportswriter can give, in pops the janitor. Turns out he was also named Chris Reed. Needless to say, I was the fodder of the Daily News sports staff for weeks. - Chris Reed
There's another Hutch Carpenter down at the University of Texas. IT guy, I think. I sometimes wonder if he checks Google and wonders, "who is that guy up in San Francisco?" - Hutch Carpenter
There are 3 Rob Schonbergers in Sydney. One of the other guys works across the street, and i've met his kids, but never met him. Hi Rob! - Rob Schonberger
There are 3 other Sally Church's that I know of in the world and we are all academic Drs, oddly enough. One is a pastor at Cambridge University in the UK, one a Veterinarian in Australia, another in social services in Oklahoma and little old me, a life scientist. I often wonder what their lives are like and whether they know we all exist since we are all Googlable. - Sally Church
I'm pretty sure I'm the only Jason Wehmhoener, but my middle name is Reed (no joke!) - Jason Wehmhoener
"Really, your name is Andrew Smith too... Huh, imagine that." One of them is clearly evil though judging by the looks I get whenever I fly. - Andrew Smith
There is only one Russell Limprecht. My uncle in LA received calls for Ken Norton, boxer. I found there is a author named Russell R Reno after I selected that name. - Russellreno
@Andrew: Neat! I found a second Chris Reed here on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/chrisr. No, he doesn't clean up the place but turns out he's also a PR guy. - Chris Reed
There's one more of me on FF: http://friendfeed.com/settings... Considering how many contacts we have in common, I'm almost surprised neither of us is subscribed to the other. - Kevin Fox
There used to be a not-particularly-famous NFL player and another not-particularly-famous NBA player named Shannon Taylor (my maiden name). Now that I'm Shannon Jimenez, my name's a lot less common, but Google tells me there are others out there (I still show up first, though!). - Shannon Jiménez
Huh, I haven't done a vanity search for a while... I'm all of the results on the first page except one. That's... never happened before. I feel weird. The only other me that came up lives in Texas and works for a foundation repair company. She's definitely a relative. Weird. - Karen
The not-me crowd includes a professional bodyboarder in hawaii, a drummer for a punk rock band, and a CS PhD who lives in LA. The last one and I had very similar email addresses, so I would often get emails from people trying to reach him, including his Mom. I like that they all exist-- they provide security-through-obscurity on google searches for me. - Josh
I know there's at least one with my name. I don't know how else the AIM name "robertdebord" could have been taken :p Also, from what I gather via google it seems there's a Robert DeBord that's a Native American Indian which for some reasons strikes me as very fascinating. - Robert DeBord via twhirl
The problem with having an Indian(East) name is that, it is impossibly long to be used in full, and there are several hundreds if not thousands of people sharing the short form. FF being a geek only site (for now), has 2 shivanand's and 20 results for shiva, (7 with firstname's as "shiva"). http://friendfeed.com/settings.... How in the world someone supposed to find me! :) - Shivanand Velmurugan
"You really like grapes, don't you?" Do a Google search for Steve Spalding, and you'll understand. - Steve Spalding
Folks, you need to search http://HowManyofMe.com. Seriously. It tells me 500 John Lams live in the US. I wonder how well it finds uniques. - John Lam
howmanyofme.com says "More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Harvey are male." um... - Harvey Simmons
HowManyOfMe.com said there are 2 or less of me, or possibly none at all. But in fact there are 3: a guy in Flushing, a guy in Morro Bay, and me. I know this because they appeared on my credit report, which I wasn't supposed to see... - Daniel Dulitz
@Daniel - that site is pretty neat. When I was "karen padham", I was the only one in the US (and Canada...and maybe the world!). Now there's over 3K Karen Taylors in the US alone... - Karen Padham Taylor
i was trying to figure out who took my pokai user name on FF? - Pokai
glad to say that I have never had this problem, nor do I foresee having it in the future...8^D - Chieze Okoye
13-15 alter-egos on the Internet now. Only one in 1993, and we both played ice-hockey. Never spoken to any of them, but I've thought about it. - Mitchell Tsai
@Daniel. Firstly, that site displayed a porno ad! Plz be warned, http://howmanyofme.com is not work safe! Nice site though. There several hundreds of people that match, either my firstname or my lastname, there is only one Shivanand Velmurugan! yay! - Shivanand Velmurugan
When SGI's slogan in the late '90s became "At the core of your business," an engineer shook his head sadly and told me, "If you're a Unix workstation manufacturer, the word 'core' should never appear on any part of your advertising." - Stephen Mack
But no one I know uses the word "core" to mean memory -- that usage died with the so-called Iron Age (as the Jargon file notes). Everyone I know uses "core" to mean "dumped core." Does your experience differ? (As the Jargon file notes, Unix preserved the usage when they chose to name the memory dump feature "core dump" but the Jargon entry is implying that it was sort of intentionally-retro-named.) - Stephen Mack
"McCain aides said that the senator's journey to the Internet will span five days and will take him to such far-flung sites as Amazon.com, eBay and Facebook." - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet
Yeah, but I wanted to talk about it with *my* friends. Is it a social faux-pas to try and enforce comment consolidation of someone else's entry? - Kevin Fox
I just noticed how useful it was for Scoble to post that crosslink here -- I wish Friendfeed would find and display these crosslinks automatically. One often misses interesting discussions for lack of crosslinks. - Sean McBride
Kevin: I don't know. I figured your friends might like to know about an interesting conversation going on with my friends. :-) I wish FriendFeed would show where other places a conversation is being discussed. - Robert Scoble
Whoops - hope I didn't step on Kevin's toes by endorsing the interesting crosslink. - Sean McBride
Sean: yeah, I guess Kevin wanted to open a private room here for him to discuss this ONLY with his friends. I think FriendFeed needs to have a construct to make that possible. Maybe my taking items like this into a room where only the friends of that person can get into it? - Robert Scoble
Robert - Kevin raises a valid point when you think about it -- no doubt a software solution is available upon reflection. In any case, I am enjoying the crosslink. - Sean McBride
So my comment about consolidation was intended mostly to initiate a conversation on the subject. Success! To my mind a lot of the value of FriendFeed is the ability to have conversations scoped by friend connections. I actually saw Michael Markman's twitter first, and decided I liked the story, and would like to share and talk about it with my friends, rather than the strangers who were talking about it on that thread. Personally, I wouldn't want someone siphoning off my conversation to the stranger conversation, because the point of my sharing the item is to talk about it with people I know. Also, in this particular case, the phrasing "We're already talking about this over here -->" felt more like an accusation rather than an invitation. Thoughts? - Kevin Fox
Kevin: get over it. I'm going to keep joining these things because I want MY friends to see all conversations on a topic. :-) Of course, if you take it into a room, then I'll probably leave them there. I don't get why you didn't just "Like" the original item, which would have shown your friends the item and gotten them involved in the conversation. What, you don't want your friends to hang out with my friends? I don't get the value of having just your friends see something... - Robert Scoble
Kevin: my thought: Friendfeed should be infinitely flexible. Users should be able to organize conversations every which way, with any level of inclusivity or exclusivity. You've got a valid point and raised an important issue about social protocols here. - Sean McBride
By the way, I'd love to debate this face-to-face on video. I bet it would get something very interesting going. It also explains some of the design behind FriendFeed and why many people I show it to say "it's too noisy." - Robert Scoble
uh oh - I'm not going to be asked to choose sides here am I? ; ) - Marco
Scoble is operating in the Walt Whitmanesque universal embrace of the cosmos. :) - Sean McBride
Marco: no. But it would be interesting to know your thoughts. - Robert Scoble
"I wouldn't want someone siphoning off my conversation " , Kevin I agree. There are topic and threads which are 'yours' , regardless of whereelse the conversation maybe happening. I would not want (a) somebody to inject themselves into my thread and hijak the conversation (b) to redirect my friend to another thread. We kinda forget our common good sense manners when we get into convos on FF. Both items(a and b) , would be considered rude inturruptions in RL life . Just my way of thinking and I maybe wrong ! - Peter Dawson
I admit, I liked this thread for the FF comments, not the article. - Hao Chen
Robert: It didn't sound like your purpose in commenting was to make sure your followers saw this conversation, but to consolidate the conversation into a single thread. Please don't twist this into a 'what, my friends aren't good enough for you?' I believe that conversational diaspora is a good thing, and that artificial comment consolidation is not. If I had something to say in the other thread I would have not had any qualms about contributing to that conversation but, as I said earlier, your comment read as if you were trying to create a single conversation and cut my own conversation with my own social circle short. If that was not your intention, then I apologize. - Kevin Fox
Actually, the only thing that frustrates me in this thread is that by the time I finish writing a comment, 5 other people have written new comments, making it look like my comment was written with the awareness of those comments. Ugh! Definitely a user experience issue. :-P - Kevin Fox
You know, I'm sure Michael Markman didn't appreciate the siphoning off of comments from his thread when Kevin Fox, authoritative Friendfeed person tons of people are following, reposted the same link. Or maybe it's good to just not worry about where conversations are going? Isn't that the value of Friendfeed? Who cares who's siphoning from whom? Who cares where links are re-shared? Oh, and hey, one more for the road: maybe it's better to assume good faith before having a public, highly visible, comments brawl. - Mark Trapp
Kevin: I wanted to do both. Your friends should know about an interesting conversation happening about that topic somewhere else, and should be able to discuss it amongst themselves too, here. Personally, you should have loaded a comment that made it clear what your intent was. If I want to talk about something with just my friends, I would have loaded a comment with a link to the original, but with a comment saying "I want to talk about it just with my friends, to see what you think." - Robert Scoble
Re a F2F conversation on video: that would be cool. I've been meaning to write a blog post on 'who owns the conversation'. I've got some concrete ideas on the subject, especially how it pertains to conversations about blog posts that happen off-blog, but I also don't feel any one person has the right to speak for others in a 'this is how things should be' kind of way. Definitely one of those social issues that is still contested because it's so new. - Kevin Fox
I actually just made a private room last night just for my real friends (in case any actually decide to join). I think a private place to have conversations is probably a good place to start for people who don't want want to fully expose themselves online. Also, time can be a limiting factor some times and when it is they're the ones I'd most like to engage with. That being said, it would be cool to view all the public conversations on a particular link, so I can jump into the best one. - Raymond
There should be an easier way to view all the conversations on a particular piece of content. FF should connect all the threads in the background through some unique identifier for the content (like the URL that this link points to), then let people decide whether they want to view just their friends' comments or those from extended community (including imported Disqus / Intense Debate comments for the same URL). - Joe Lazarus
Now we know why McCain has not visited The Internet - Shakeel Mahate
@scobleizer on the original McCain/internet piece or the discussion over comment fragmentation it has morphed into? lol - Marco
In Geoff's best McCain Voice "I need The Googles installed please" - Geoff Schultz
don't have to read the article... the title is priceless - Rob Reed
I'm not quite sure what is "historic" about a septuagenarian visiting the internet. Are we meant to be impressed? My mother is 72 and does quite a number of tasks online, as do many people of her age and considerably older. - Ian May
Apparently Kevin because Robert stumbled on your thread, he was already your friend or perhaps in some other way in your Friendfeed vicinity -- and you say you wanted to discuss this with friends -- so from his point of view your entry may have looked like a dupe. And dupes among segments of friends are indeed a problem on Friendfeed. Nobody minds the dupes we don't notice, but we may mind having the conversation on the same thing split up among segments of our friends. - Philipp Lenssen
@Kevin - allow sub-comments which are comments to comments to make it easier to allow people to talk the person who's talking. Again making this a simple UI is of a challenge as it may soon turn out to be ugly... Also, please allow to scope your post/comment to only your friend/family/colleagues etc So that you dont want every one to see them... I sort of agree with your point of the need for having private/protected/public conversations on FF. I even posted this in the ff-feedback room a few weeks ago. Looking forward to some progress in this direction :) - Krishna Gade
@Mark Trapp... thank for looking out for my feelings. But I don't feel any ownership in discussions about something that Andy Borowitz wrote. Now, if I had written the original piece, I might feel differently. - Michael Markman
@Ian May It's a comedy bit that combines a) McCain's having disparaged Obama for not visiting Iraq and b) McCain's boast to the NY Times that he's learning to get online. - Michael Markman
Andy's piece is well-written. Thanks for sharing, Kevin, wouldn't have seen otherwise. - Stephen Mack
Why is this thread being highjacked to discuss FF features?! I thought it was about McCain visitng the "Internet" :) - Shivanand Velmurugan
This thread keeps growing and still going nowhere. It is really simple: if you want to discuss things only with your friends, make a private room just for you and your friends, and post "friends only" stuff there. No one else needs to find you've created a separate thread of "their" topic somewhere else. - Dread Pirate PJ
I have a very simple model of ff, which is perhaps a lot like Kevin's. I come here to discuss things with my ff friends. Many of them are people I don't know at all in rl, but it's important to me that these conversations are mostly with the same 100-200 people, over and over again. As a result, rooms are not very useful to me, since when I comment on something in a room, it is not automatically placed in the feed of all my friends. Rooms are at least useful for finding content and resharing it..... - j1m
The feeds of people with very many friends, like Robert, are not very useful either. With so many people commonly commenting on his thread, I mostly don't remember who any one person is from one encounter to another, and for me that makes conversation a lot less fun. So Robert's feed, also, is mostly useful for resharing. - j1m
I do really wish that ff would organize feed items that share a url, by presenting them all (that is, all the ones I can see) right next to one another, or joining them into a single nested feed item, that has the different conversations hanging off of it. - j1m
I made a private room with just myself in it so I could discuss this. - Chris White
Joss Whedon, Doogie Hauser, Firefly, Buffy, etc. If *Any* of these words mean anything to you, then this should too. If you have 24 minutes free, watch it! If you have 48 minutes: Watch it twice. Acts I and II are out and Act III comes out on Saturday, but on Sunday they all come down and you have to pay to see it. - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet
Just watched two of the three episodes today, and will watch the third tomorrow. Thanks for clueing us into this! Really damn cool! (and reminds me, unsurprisingly, of the fine "Once More, With Feeling" musical Buffy episode :-) - Adam Lasnik
Just watched Act I and it's delightful. Out of the names you mentioned, I am familiar with Doogie Hauser only. Now I am going to look up the others too. But before that, Act II and III. Thanks. - Vinay
I have to agree. I have yet to try lobster bisque, but my experience with lobster ravioli just makes me cringe and bleagh when I think of bisque. - Dread Pirate PJ via NoiseRiver
I don't know about this. There's a place on the Hudson that I had really great lobster ravioli at; come to think of it, I can think of a few places that make it really well. West coast problem? - Mark Trapp
On the other hand- pumpkin ravioli is often so much better than expected. - Abby Martin
I've had great luck with lobster bisque. Last was craftsteak in vegas. - Chris White
Lobster bisque is awesome when it's done right. - David Worrell
Lobster, in general, is more hype than substance. That's just the way it rolls. - David Risley
The promise of a great lobster experience always tempts. But you're right, all too often the execution doesn't live up to the expectations. @Abby, I've had good butternut squash ravioli so I suppose no reason pumpkin couldn't work out well, but I can't say I'd see it on the menu and decide to order it! - asiriusgeek
source: Pacific or Maine Lobster??? Maine is better!! - Susan Beebe
Best omelet in the world is maine lobster sauteed in a little butter with brunoise of red pepperr and a little bit of some kind of relatively sharp cheese. - David Thomas
@asiriusgeek- the idea of pumpkin and pasta was scary- but with the right spicing can be glorious. Lobster? Not so much. Some people adore it but to me it's just too rich. - Abby Martin
had a nice baked lobster sushi roll the other night. so good my wife and I almost cried eating it. - Mark Schulz
Would it be a bad thing to admit that I've never once been to Facebook's website? - Cyrus Lendvay
@Chris, @Cyrus. I have yet to join facebook, even though many of my friends are on it. I already have my own website, where I put actual content that some people find useful. I am not very interested in being poked. - Robert Felty
