Laurence Gonsalves

Crazy stuff ! - Jonathan Maïm

wow I love that Google blogs about stuff like this - Todd Jackson

http://perspectives.mvdirona.c... - Amit Patel

lol, why? - Zee. Just Zee.

Yes why? - Brian Sullivan

and most of all you can always use :) in the comment - Niki Costantini

I liked that for you Mike. - todd

I don't understand who sees the comments. Is it only the commenter? - Paul Buchheit

@Paul - scroll to the bottom of a page and click "see all notes on this searchwiki" to see others' comments. It seems that other people's comments are a tool of last resort. - Daniel J. Pritchett

Wow, that's hidden. It still doesn't seem to work though. I left a comment from one account (yesterday) and viewing it from a different account I don't see the comment, but I do see other comments such as "First" :( - Paul Buchheit

I imagine the bad UI is a deliberate choice to test the general idea without full-scale writing. In any case, this is more feedback for the ranking engine, and spammers are fairly easy to sort by their behaviour. - Jeremy Dunck

No. - Chris White

The problem (at least for me) is that it requires too much attention. I can't be on the phone with somebody and listen to a podcast. I can't watch a video while trying to get work done. - Gabe

+1. I can read much faster than most people will talk. I have no desire to watch most people. And I don't want to read slides and graphs with ugly compression artefacts. - Joel Webber

They love computers! - orionstarr

LMAO - orionstarr

"Given a failure and rescue, Switzerland would probably have to follow Iceland in a rush application to join the EU (which might have its hands full rescuing some of its own members). It’s a safe bet that the end of secret bank accounts, “wealth management” through tax minimisation and the like would be part of the price." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"UBS has a $2 trillion balance sheet; Credit Suisse has another trillion on top of that. Call it $3 trillion between the two of them, which is about ten times Switzerland’s GDP of $300 billion or so. Now that’s what I call too big to save. Oh, and did I mention? At the end of 2007, Credit Suisse was levered by more than 40 times; UBS was levered by more than 64 times. A 16% fall in UBS’s assets would wipe out not only all of its equity but 100% of Swiss GDP on top." - http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blo... - Paul Buchheit

I think we have enough leftover to bail them out too. - Mike L

Henry C. Wallace and Henry A. Wallace both served as Secretaries of Agriculture and they were actually a father and son Cabinet legacy. Henry A. admired a spiritualist who designed the set for Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' and to whom Wallace claimed he awaited 'the breaking of the New Day' when the people of 'Northern Shambhalla' would create an era of peace and plenty. He then became Vice-President under FDR. Later, editor of The New Republic. Then he created a new breed of chicken. - Chris Wetherell

"The image may be one of a large 20-cm wide Xenophyophore. Xenophyophores are single cell animals called Protists. As benthic particulate feeders, xenophyophores normally sift through the sediments on the sea floor. and excrete a slimy substance; in locations with a dense population of xenophyophores, such as at the bottoms of oceanic trenches, this slime may cover large areas. Local population densities may be as high as 2,000 individuals per 100 square meters." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"Xenophyophores are essentially lumps of viscous fluid called cytoplasm containing numerous nuclei distributed evenly throughout." What makes an organism multi-celled? I would have thought multiple nuclei, but apparently not. - Gabe

its cell membrane certainly doesnt look too simple - bob

Cat purrs for the mic. low rumble recorded for you. sent by blog from me. - Majento via Bookmarklet

I'd like a web page (not API call) such that if I post a feed to it via an HTML form, the friendfeed user will be asked where to add the feed (home feed, room, ...) and then sent back to a page I specify in another post variable. - Bruce Lewis

"The trouble is, single-celled critters aren't supposed to be able to leave trails. The oldest fossils of animal trails, called 'trace fossils', date to around 580 million years ago, and paleontologists always figured they must have been made by multicellular animals with complex, symmetrical bodies. But G. sphaerica's traces are the spitting image of the old, Precambrian fossils; two small ridges line the outside of the trail, and one thin bump runs down the middle. At up to three centimeters (1.2 inches) in diameter, they're also enormous compared to most of their microscopic cousins." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"'It wasn't a gradual development of complexity,' Matz said. 'Instead these things suddenly seemed to burst out of a magic box.'" I forget, was the magic box on the third day of creation or the second? ;-) - Karim

Not sure... let me contact Clarke on the shortwave and get back to you. - Michael W. May

to report impact location: http://miac.uqac.ca/MIAC/fireb... - Jérôme Flipo

Those Canadians aren't used to seeing light in the sky after 5pm, so they were probably calling the police by the thousands. - Gabe

Wish I was there. - Michael Ryan

On top of that, a failtacular way of going for Live contacts, seems like a scraper rather than using the actual contacts service Microsoft provides just for this purpose. - Chris Charabaruk

@Steve: You misunderstand. FriendFeed can't find friends via Twitter. Or any other service, for that matter. And it should -- there's no technological reason I can think of that prevents them from adding this functionality. - Chris Charabaruk

That's true,I got what you mean.I wish I can add my Friendfeed buddies to Twitter,Facebook etc and vice versa. - Steve Chou

RSS feeds REALLY need some variety on FriendFeed. Those orange icons blend together too easily. - Daniel J. Pritchett

There's a large variety of differently-coloured feed icons. FF should get those set up and let us set different feeds to different colours. At the least, it'd make things less monochromatic. - Chris Charabaruk

Oh, and I love the new real-time view and FF in general by the way :) - Mads

I need to figure out how to make this work for my blog. I include pictures in most posts but they aren't coming through to FF. This should be doable with a hosted WordPress blog served through FeedBurner, yes? - Daniel J. Pritchett

I just installed a MediaRSS plugin for WordPress. We'll soon see if it shows up on my FriendFeed. - Daniel J. Pritchett