“The dizzying photo of a red faced McCain has me a bit confused. Weren't "the plumbers" the people who broke into the DNC at Watergate? Was JOE one of them??????”
Honorable mentions...M.A.S.K., Care Bears, Danger Mouse, Roger Ramjet, Inspector Gadget, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Robotech, Snorks and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Johnny Worthington
We were just talking about Voltron at lunch yesterday. Who thinks the "car" Voltron was just as good as the "cat" one? My hypoth. is that there were just too many cars, and having 5 lions was just enough :) - Stu Andrews
@Faboo Why, that's truly outrageous!! - Brian Norwood
Also, let us never forget (even though it's so slow and hard to watch now) Star Blazers and Battle of the Planets. - Stu Andrews
I didn't care for Voltron as it was too formulaic...Which is odd as I liked the A-Team and GI Joe...But the whole, we are gonna throw the kitchen sink at the monster in every episode, but oh no, that won't kill it (except for that one episode that had TWO monsters)...we always have to take out the sword last...Why couldn't they just take out the sword first and be done with it! - Alex Scoble CISSP
Stu, I had both Voltrons (*cough*... still do *cough*)... agree, Vehicle had too many 'parts'. - Johnny Worthington
I think a guy wrote this article because there's no rainbow brite, gem, etc. Not that I watch any those cartoons. Were the ninja turtles 80s or 90s? what about tinytoons? - Alan Le
I humbly submit this entire list must be recompiled in the light of the true #1, Battle of The Planets. Not Gatchaman, as it it contains all of those Japanese dramatic pauses and brooding most of us westerners just don't get. Battle of the Planets. 7 Zark 7, 1 Rover 1, and the awesome 80's cartoon voice of Casey Kasem. - Brian Norwood
Alan... Tiny Toons (and Anamanicas) were both 90s :) - Johnny Worthington
Brian: Ahhh, 7 Zark 7, there's just not enough of his wisdom in this world today :) - Stu Andrews
Nobody mentions Burt Raccoon? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... was it just a UK thing? Don't forget SuperTed, that taught children it was acceptable to name your friends after prominent physical handicaps ;) Oh and it's difficult to swim in coin pools, but possible. Thanks Scrooge McDuck - Cains
I still don't think Voltron should be number one. >:( - Mona N.
Stu, I was thinking the same thing about Astro-boy - Duncan Riley
Dust. Anybody? No? High in fat, low in fat? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. It's actually very low in fat. You can have as much dust as you like. - Kevin Buckstiegel
Dust. Anybody? No? High in fat, low in fat? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. Anybody? No? Dust. It's actually very low in fat. You can have as much dust as you like. - Kevin Buckstiegel
I would want this hehe... Danny let me know if you actually see my notes out of curiosity :) I know I'll forget to ask you later :) - Kevin Buckstiegel
JULY 16--Comedian Andy Dick was arrested this morning by California cops on drug and sexual battery charges. Dick, 42, was nabbed around 2 AM in a Riverside County parking lot after he allegedly groped the breasts of a 17-year-old girl and then pulled the teen's tank top and bra down, exposing her breasts (the incident occurred outside the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant). During a search of Dick, police discovered a small amount of marijuana in his pants pocket and a single Xanax pill for which he did not have a prescription. An "extremely intoxicated" Dick was booked into the Southwest Detention Center, where bail was set at $5,000. In May 2004, Dick was arrested on a pot possession charge while attending the Coachella music festival, also in Riverside County. - Thomas Hawk
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the joke is that he is considered a comedian - Vera Yu
I thought this partial quote was funny, "During a search of Dick, police discovered a small amount of marijuana in his pants" - Kreg Steppe
Maybe he was trying to compete with Nick Nolte for the best Hollywood mug shot. - Thomas Hawk
The hollywood crowd plays off this ... Jimmy Kimmel should never have him on again... He feeds off the attention acted drunk and drugged gets him and we keep giving it to him. - Cody Heitschmidt
@Outsanity but the whole quote is priceless: "During a search of Dick, police discovered a small amount of marijuana in his pants" WTF? The reporter had to have a field day with that. - Tac Anderson
oh well his name its suggest's what type of personlity he has ! - Peter Dawson
Loved it when John Lovitz punched him after the Phil Hartman hex comment - Ted
whoa!! where's the HIDE button?! damn! that's one creepy lookin' dude! yikes! - Susan Beebe
Just watched him on Star Trek Voyager last night. He was pretty good. - Jim Kukral
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Such a shame, because I still watch NewsRadio often and still love his character on there... but still am up in the air on the truth with his involvement with the Phil Hartman ordeal - Kevin Buckstiegel
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You know he did album covers before he became a comedien. He did three of America's covers including their greatest hits and History. - RAPatton
It's been awhile since we've had a weird/sad/disturbing death of an SNL alum. I was reminded of how good Hartman was when I watched the recent SNL Mike Meyers special. - Jason Toney
Hulu has the News Radio, I watched every available episode! Great show. - Vox
So many to choose from, but his understated Frankenstein's monster with Tarzan (Jon Lovitz) and Tonto (Kevin Nealon) sketches are what stick out for me. "Fire bad! Arrrr! Fire bad!" - Michael W. May
Glad I saw you post this, I have been watching News Radio on DVD nonstop over the past few months... miss Phil a ton! - Kevin Buckstiegel
Video by James Houston jim@1030.co.uk -------- DIGG this here: http://digg.com/music/Radiohea... I'm a student graduating from the Glasgow School of Art's visual communication course in a few days. This is my final - Kevin Buckstiegel
Is this vodka guy you're referring to? I don't seesmic from work. I saw this drama unfolding as I was going to bed. Lots of people saying "fuck" last night. End of days? - Michael Gaines
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why the heck do i miss all the drama or random crap that goes on? gah! - tracy apps
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ah yes, i forgot about that.. minor.. detail. someone dig up a direct link. i don't have the time/energy to search for this :-P - tracy apps
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I looked on Seesmic for the root of it and couldn't find it (you know, no SEARCH). Eric, linky? - Michael Gaines
Meh good grief, I'm still finding the parts - Eric Rice
Two things started at the same time last night: "FUCK U ALL" from vodkakid, and "who are these fuckers that need attention" from Doug (?). They both started last night around 12:30ish. They may be the root of it. There was also this mask kid. - Michael Gaines
he's shirtless, how can you go wrong with someone like that... he knows how to work the crowd! - Kevin Buckstiegel
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Oh yeah I was waiting for a video from the lulzsphere. Can you IMAGINE! - Eric Rice
At some point, the lulzsphere ain't gonna be some 'those digg people', they are gonna come and infiltrate and terrorize. Folks like Scoble etc are in no way prepared to handle that. Not at all. Everyone's definition of trolls and donnas and all that is WAY kindergarten at this stage. - Eric Rice
So to add a bit of positivity, buck up campers! Happiness comes from the inside! :D - Eric Rice
You're scaring me, Eric. Tracy, hold me. :D - Michael Gaines
don't worry.. i'll protect you starman :-) - tracy apps
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“My wife signed up for Brightkite and snarked immediately: "How the fuck do I use it?" Meaning: Isn't it arrogant that sites just assume everyone knows how to use everything? Instructional design, indeed.”
Particularly with Brightkite, they force you to search for a location before you can check in. That threw me for a loop. Why can't I just say "This is where I am?" Why do I need to search for it first? - Mark Trapp
bright kite has a number of issues before it's ready for prime time. one that gets me every time is the performance of its sms interface. if you search for something in your area to do a check in, you may well be gone by the time brightkite comes back with the results of the query. FAIL. - sean808080
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@Mark, I beleive the search returns results that can be placed on maps vs. you typing whatever you want and they trying to figure out where you are. - Tsega Dinka
Tsega, sure, but why not let me say "This is where i am" and do what Google Maps does: if I type something it doesn't understand, it says "Did you mean this?" Right now, the only cue of where you're supposed to check in is a microscopic question mark next to "You have not checked in" that tells me I have to do a search first. - Mark Trapp
Um..yeah I had exactly the same reaction. I couldn't figure out how to set my location. I still find it clunky. When I was trying to do the company lookup the first time I fought with it for 30 minutes and finally gave up and manually put in the information. I now know how to but...um I use this kind of stuff regularly. If I can't figure it out there is something wrong. - Goldie Katsu
Well, she's one step ahead of me... I haven't signed up. :) - l0ckergn0me
Thats the reason I have not seen that site after I signed up!! - Jigar Mehta
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<yawn> yeah I feel her on this one </yawn> - Mark Forman
I think the most "beta" part of beta releases is the UI/how to portion.Most techies don't know how to talkie. - Mark Forman
was just thinking of how much of a bkite noob i am. they have complex sms codecs to learn. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I disagree about holding hands when services are still in beta and invite only. I would expect a released version of a service to do better. Getting an invite and being a early adopter comes with some strings - broken software and no manuals are usually at the head of the list. - Doug Brooks
None of this stuff is prime time until it can be properly sold to the masses with a DUH. Also, Brightkite (which I do actually like) isn't the only one here, we could probably list the services that run on geek assumptions. - Eric Rice
I'm sure other people have similar rules, but my rule is the 10/10 rule: the user must grasp how to begin using your software within 10 seconds, and must be able to use it without supervision or help after 10 minutes. Granted, advanced things might take more time, but they should have a working knowledge of how to do day-to-day things in 10 minutes. Any more time, and it's back to the usability drawing board. - Mark Trapp
@mark t: i like that. beta or not, user friendliness should be in the top five of the list. - edythe
Yeah, I really do like bright kite, the idea an implementation is great once you get past the how do I get info in here? I spent more than 10 seconds looking for a check-in button. - Goldie Katsu
Eric - your wife is a savvy Web 2.0 app user. Start-ups that fail to clearly guide the user with a nice, simple straight-forward walk thru on the 1st login to introduce them to their app are missing a huge opportunity to demonstrate the key features of their product. If the user doesn't see these features they will NOT see the *value* in the application and the will not use it. Attrition rates are much higher for apps where there is no up-front training on the 1st login. - Susan Beebe
Usability testing is the solution. Sit some people down in front of the screen, ask them to perform a task. Sit back and watch. Its amazing how quickly you find out that what you thought was obvious, is completely missed by everyone. Doing a Beta release in and of itself will not solve UI issues. - Kevin Shannon
Does anyone have a spare invite to BrightKite available? - Joe Dawson (beta)
Joe, email me at mark@itafroma.com and I'll hook you up. - Mark Trapp
Brightkite.left me too wondering why I was wasting my time - ⓃⓄⒶⒽ ⒹⒶⓋⒾⒹ ⓈⒾⓂⓄⓃ
I like BK, but when you are in the exact same location for a few days, it's kinda retarded, conceptually. - Eric Rice
Eric, yeah: I've been wanting to use it in earnest for the past few days, but... I haven't gone anywhere. - Mark Trapp
It's as much as "why should I use it" as "how do I use it." - Leo Laporte
BrightKite was alittle hard to figure out at first, but once you get the hang of it - it's a pretty powerful social feature. I don't really have any friends on BrightKite but using it hand-in-hand with Twitter is great. - Aaron Myers
it's only interesting when you check in away from home/work. it would be especially interesting to see places within a given geographic radius where the most people have checked in. geographic serendipity. also, hopefully, they'll get this working with gps - rob zand
So far, I like it. It's a little tricky to figure out at first, especially posting from the web site using my blackberry, but I think I've got it. The problem is, I haven't gone anywhere since I signed up. :) I'm interviewing for a new job with about 50% travel, and I'm thinking it'll be a lot more useful then. - ha3rvey
The one thing I do find interesting with it is doing a search for a place where you are going, have been or are curious about and see the activity there. - Delete Me
signed up for it, used it a couple times, but too much of a hassle to keep telling it where i am. my friends can txt me or twitter me for "where i am" info. - Chris Harris
BK is quite boring when I'm just going from home to work and so forth, but when I go places work or vacation it's kind of cool. I do have issue with the foreign place names being in the local language, such as when I'm in China, I get all china symbols. Being that I'm not a manual reader, it took some time to figure it out, but I got it going after a bit. - clarke thomas
i've been loving brightkite, however it makes me realise that i should be getting out more. i also stopped checking in when at home, as i don't think that counts as interest to the public. - Kevin Buckstiegel
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I used it a few times but when I didn't get the results I thought I'd get by doing things I gave up on it. I don't want to have to remember different commands to make it do what I think it'll do without them. - Bob
