What a cool guy, i had no idea until i saw him interviewed tonight and thought, "wow, he's humble, smart, and taking it all in"....hope he wins! - Peter Fenton
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It was not so cool when his Rays beat the Red Sox! - Sarah Leary
"Great attitude, young artists that aren't over marketed, and a sense of humor about the craziness of the whole thing. The selection really is worth seeing, and Lisa does a masterful job of letting you…" - Peter Fenton
This was the greatest. Kinda sad that a comedy show like SNL, when creating parodies, uses direct and complete quotations from the subject. - JC unwired
@Jody - I think the writers realized there was no way they could write anything crazier or off topic than Palin's own answers. I loved Amy's Couric impression - understated, yet hilarious. - Jennifer Dittrich
"Hedy and Farzin just completed a major project at our house and having worked with dozens of AV folks in the past, I can say they are the *BEST*. three things stand out: -perfection: they get it…" - Peter Fenton
"Back to reality. Of the 50 states, Alaska ranks No. 1 in taxes per resident and No. 1 in spending per resident. Its tax burden per resident is 2 1/2 times the national average; its spending, more than double. ...
As if it couldn't support itself, Alaska also ranks No. 1, year after year, in money it sucks in from Washington. In 2005 (the most recent figures), according to the Tax Foundation, Alaska ranked 18th in federal taxes paid per resident ($5,434) but first in federal spending received per resident ($13,950). Its ratio of federal spending received to federal taxes paid ranks third among the 50 states, and in the absolute amount it receives from Washington over and above the amount it sends to Washington, Alaska ranks No. 1. " - Paul Buchheit
If you want good economics, you should've supported Paul. Politicians will always use tax dollars to placate people. This was the case in Rome before it fell and has happened throughout history. Democracy will only last until the people realize they can vote themselves treasures from the public coffer. - klecu
I've always supported Paul. You did mean Paul Buchheit, right klecu? - Gabe
"If you are ever in the market for binoculars or telescopes, this place is a MUST visit. I made the mistake of buying some binocs at REI thinking they would be fine (lazy and didnt want to go to…" - Peter Fenton
"time to "pile on"...great food, and open late....a very rare breed of restaurant in SF, and I hope they enjoy a Zuni like lifespan. the list of rhones was a wonderful surprise, as was everything we…" - Peter Fenton
"We just launched a new set of customizable FriendFeed widgets for spicing up your blog or web site. There are several ways to embed FriendFeed, and you can pick as many of them as you want." - Paul Buchheit
Thanks for more options but still JS only. :( The likelihood of any site I don't maintain allowing me to use JS is slim to non. Please add 1 flash widget? Pretty please? With sugar on top? - Erica Baker
FWIW, in http://pastebin.ca/1186734 I've put my FriendFeed badge setup. Stolen elsewhere, I forgot where, thanks to the original author. Hope it helps. - Cesar Cardoso
For those that are using the feed widget, note that you can change num=x in case the defaults of 1,5, or 10 aren't what you want. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
me again - it seems not to be picking up my default CSS values like the other widgets - it still insists on showing up as a white background black text. See http://pflix.com for example. - Mark Bean
Mark, the white is div class = friendfeed widget and needs to have the background overridden, it's set to white (obviously). The classes in the nested divs below it should inherit the new BG color. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
"Epi Dupin in San Francisco. If you've eaten at Epi Dupin in Paris, this will remind you of how awesome it is...and how lucky we are to have the sister restaurant here. The service and ambiance have no…" - Peter Fenton
"If you are ever in the market for binoculars or telescopes, this place is a MUST visit. I made the mistake of buying some binocs at REI thinking they would be fine (lazy and didnt want to go to…" - Peter Fenton
"I'm a huge fan of the breakfast here, the service can be exceptional, the food is awesome, and the ambiance is very couth. Breakfast places seem to either be fast service bad food, or painfully slow…" - Peter Fenton
I had a friend who speaks Farsi translate the comments. 1) The pink, bloody bear is called Gloomy Bear. He's a 2m tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans and is supposed to be the antithesis to cute, cuddly characters like Hello Kitty. 2) I work at Polyvore, not FriendFeed. - Jess Lee
You mean the cute cuddly bear isn't supposed to be? - Jim Norris
I didn't know you had a place there - so sorry to hear it. - Bret Taylor
thanks, we're really bummed, but big sur will still be there and we can rebuild...i hope nobody reading this EVER has loses a place near to their heart like this - Peter Fenton
Peter, I'm so sorry... I hope you can manage to have a happy birthday in the midst of the challenge. - Bradley Horowitz
Ai!! That is truly awful. I am so sorry. And not just the house, but the gardens too, all those roses ... is it all black all around there? Anything salvageable? - Stewart
will know more tomorrow, but it looks like a total loss... - Peter Fenton
Sorry to hear this, it looks like such a beautiful area. - Jim Norris
My husband and I were greatly saddened and distressed to hear about the destruction of the Stone House and so much of the surrounding area that was dear to my husband's father, Harry Lafler, who-- as you know-- built the Stone House in 1925 and homesteaded Lafler Canyon in 1909. We are following the story on the Internet but would also appreciate hearing from you when you know the extent of the damage. - Joanne Lafler
Joanne, amazing you found me! i'm heading down today, hoping to see what's there, hoping to the high heavens that the stone work remains....will send an update once i know more - Peter Fenton
Thanks for your reply, Peter. I found you through Denise Sallee, who was the first to inform us about the ravages of the fire. The house has not been in the Lafler family since the early 1960s, when John's mother was in a bad financial way and had to sell the remaining Lafler property in Big Sur, but John and I had spent our honeymoon there some years earlier and we still feel a strong attachment to it. More than strong! John hardly remembers his father, who died when John was only five, so the house was a tangible connection. We have not been up there for about 25 years, when we had permission of the then owner to scatter his mother's ashes. I am in the final stages of writing a biography of Harry Lafler, and I never imagined that it would end this way. So yes, please, let us know how much of the structure survived. I suppose that at some time we might wish to pay our last respects, if that is all right with you. you are ever interested in seeing photographs of the early history of the house-- - Joanne Lafler
.just back from the remains of house, hill still on fire we had helicopters above us dumping water as we climbed up the smokey hillside. heartbroken, but also still felt the magic of the place. i'll post photos tonight. needless to say i shed more than a tear. joanne. pls email me at pfenton@benchmark.com. would love to share photos, etc - Peter Fenton
lost a 5000 sq ft studio in a fire once, you pick up and move on, but even last night i dreamed about it, 20 years later - Gregory Lent
WOW... a BABY Buchheit entered the world while I wasn't looking...amazing! great secret there Paul!! Congratulations on your new addition to your family!! :-) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
We definitely want feedback. I literally had six versions of the algorithm running in parallel, and this is the best one according to our qualitative assessment, but we need more data to really improve it. Let me know if you see too much of something or missed something you think is important - it will help me debug quality issues. - Bret Taylor
@scobleizer: It also does a bit of what you want for individual services as well. Here are the best Twitters from the past day: http://friendfeed.com/summary?.... Click the service icons to restrict the "best of" view to a single service. It doesn't let you send the link out to anyone since it is entirely personalized, nor is it the generalized search interface you described, but it is a step in that direction. - Bret Taylor
Also looks like the date can go from 1 thru 30. greater than 30 reverts to 30 - Atul Arora
Bret: that's very cool. It's amazing how few things I actually have missed. But, this will be useful to check in on. One thing I do wish it had was "big things since last time you were here." - Robert Scoble
Next? I'd love to have a way to see a true reverse-chronological view of the "Everyone" feed, but let me filter by "n" Likes and "n" Comments. - Robert Scoble
How about, do a time stamp of the last time Robert logged in, and every hour afterward, do a screen capture of every single update from everybody he follows, save it as a massive PDF file, and send it to him via e-mail attachment. Repeat every 60 minutes. - Louis Gray
perfect! now i only need to convince most of my friends to update their webbrowse behavior. most of them still didnt make the jump too rss and sharing is done mostly by skype :( - Chris Hofmann
Great addition. I'd also like to see it applicable at the individual user level. - Mark Krynsky
Been really looking forward to this since seeing it mentioned on "The Dan Farber Show"! In typical FF style, great feature with simple, clear implementation. Yummy! - Matt Harwood
This is very cool. As soon as they provide an Atom feed of this, it'll be the most kickass service ever. - Eric Florenzano
hmmm, this is my top post. Nice one - Andrew Smith
This is a great addition, shows that they are listening to what people want! - Joe Dawson (beta)
Very nice feature, for me, given the addiction, I suspect the "day" one will be the most used to make sure I didn't miss anything good. :) - felix
Bret: Yeah!! Great feature!! I've been waiting for this one! woo hoo! :) - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
Feedback: 1-day, 3-day, and 7-day look pretty good. 14-day and 30-day summaries seem swamped by the last 7 days (Maybe searches in 10-30-days should have older items weighted heavier than in 1-3-7 day summaries). Awesome! This really helps with the "Page 11" (Search past #300-399 fails design). My Friends feed (of 149 people) only goes back about 4 hrs. Everything past that is lost... Wish my regular Friends feed would save 24+ hrs. Nice job Bret! - Mitchell Tsai
ooh, what's this? ok, same thing I already talked about. awesome! - Kamilah Gill
Bret, you are an absolute genius. Every time I hear you speak (or write) I am just more and more impressed. - Alex Hammer
Search by service for Top 100 YouTube pictures, Blog articles, Google Reader/Del.icio.us articles, Last.fm songs... We can search for "&service=picasa&num=100", "&service=flickr", "&service=blog", "&service=googlereader","&service=delicious" See http://friendfeed.com/e/34f7f6... for multiple Top 100 searches from the past 1-2-3-7-14-30 days. - Mitchell Tsai
Hmm.. And this is the first item in my personalized recommendations? I guess it works :) - Dimitri Glazkov
What's very VERY cool is that service filters work with this as well http://friendfeed.com/e/02adb6.... EDIT: I just saw Mitchell already posted this feature. I should have known, he's always on top of these things :) - Bwana
Nice, that was the thing to do. I hope to get something like that for Twitter and I think it's still possible to make. - fbrunel
I bet FF hires Mitchell to code up queries!! LOL good stuff here Bret & Mitchell!! - Susan Beebe (Santa Claus)
@Bret: I'm sad you don't support APML. - directeur
Susan: I'm just too lazy (and retired May 2007). Now I code in Excel & FriendFeed (rather than Fortran 66 & Cobol). I just bookmark my own FriendFeed posts in Safari & Firefox rather than make too many Safari bookmark-sub-menus. Getting too lazy to write HTML or LAMP. ;-) Headed to Yosemite in a few days after the Harmony Festival this weekend - Robert Scoble's Ansel Adams visit was too tempting :0) - Mitchell Tsai
Awaiting for more kick-ass features from FF! Great work! - Winston Teo
This is great Bret. FF keeps getting better. - Michael Carter
Hmmm. If the list of most popular posts contains only posts which I have liked, commented on or clicked through, does that make me the most popular friendfeeder ever? ;-) - Slippy Lane
Are there plans to extend "best of" to FF rooms? Depending on the number of members and activity, that could be really interesting. - Tom Landini
This is so incredibly awesome. FriendFeed just returned to the same level of utility (for my usage patterns) as before the launch / noise onslaught. :-) - Kevin Scott
awesome, thats useful! now i need direct messages, go one - Alexander Oelling
I find it interesting on how this feature is at the top of "best of the month." Seems kinda pointless. - possible248
Finally back on a full computer after a nearly two-week absence (no, I didn't go to Peru, I went to Alabama). Looks nice. - Ontario Emperor
Great addition! Next feature request: let me filter by people I really know vs. people I just like to follow so I can see what my "real" friends are doing at a glance. - Dave Hanson
"*WARNING* AVOID LATE RESERVATIONS (after 9pm) *WARNING* I really hesitate to write a negative review, especially for restauranteurs who give their life to creating a wonderful experience for others.…" - Peter Fenton
"Unfortunately, people are not good at picking a job that will make them happy. Gilbert found that people are ill equipped to imagine what their life would be like in a given job, and the advice they get from other people is bad, (typified by some version of “You should do what I did.”)" - Jim Norris
"It’s simple, proven advice, but few people take it because they think they are unique and their experience in a career will be different. Get over that. You are not unique, you are basically just like everyone else." - Clare Dibble
Question: how much money do you need to have a sex life? - Amber
Not much... many people have a sex life on a college budget... - Ross Miller
Is that really why few people take that advice? Do very many people even hear that advice often enough to separate it out from the heaps of other advice they get? Don't get me wrong, its excellent advice: switch careers early and often, you'll find that some make you much much happier than the first one you try. But it's good advice because, ahem, people are unique. - j1m
“It’s true that money impacts which person you marry, but money doesn’t impact the amount of sex you have.” - Evan Parker
“Going from sex once a month to sex once a week creates a big jump in happiness. And then the diminishing returns begin to set in.” Well, I guess that answers that question. - ⓞnor
penelope trunk kind of reminds me of niniane - Neha Narula
Firstly, I thought there was some recent research that revealed more money actually does result in more happiness, and the earlier "diminishing returns in salary increase after basic needs are met" was faulty. Secondly, I wish the article would clarify what they are categorizing within "sex". Thirdly, why does Penelope Trunk remind Neha of me???? Though I do wish I had a name like Penelope Trunk. Damn that's a good name. - niniane
I guess you both have the made-up-name thing going on... - Jim Norris
Is her name made-up? Anyway I've been reading her blog for the past 15 minutes. At first I liked her style of writing. But then I realized I haven't laughed once. Her blog isn't funny at all. It's anti-funny. So now Neha's comment offends me. Fuck you Neha! - niniane
“All we really want is to get paid and get laid.” ...thats the last line and theonly thing in the entire blog that resonates with me - all else is pure tripe - viki saigal
