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Re: The Butter Room - Iron Man Debacle Shows Twitter's True Power

Kevin Curry — Sun, 04 May 2008 18:13:00 -0000

Joe, I had a somewhat negative reaction to this too, but in fairness I think your points could be better made. Dave hasn't commented on the quality of the movie one way or the other and he has neither endorsed nor condemned the pirating of the movie. He only reported what people were saying. In general he is only reporting what has happened, with the added bias of declaring it "powerful," which is hard to deny. Well, maybe it isn't. Sometimes I wonder if some technorati give themselves more credit than they have earned. It is, at least, notable. But, I found interesting the last sentence, "Iron Man will be #1 at the box office this weekend..." As in: despite this twitter hype bubble, the rest of the world won't notice, much less give it a second thought. Are we supposed to buy into this as "The Man" versus "The Little Guy?" Either Michael Arrington has the legal right to give a pre-preview to 600 of his closest friends or he doesn't. If he does then the complaints are well founded. If he doesn't then they aren't. But for everyone to go nuts on Twitter seems a little slippery-slopish to me. Who has facts? Probably no one. So, the real issue here for me is mob rule. The spreading of frenzied information over hyperfast channels can be sketchy. On this flip side of this coin are folks like short sellers who spread rumors over SMS in order to tank stocks. "With great power comes great responsibility."

Re: The Butter Room - Delicious Eye Candy

Kevin Curry — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:04:32 -0000

http://del.icio.us/help/

I'm using various stuff found under "Developers"

Twitter API is linked here:

http://twitter.com/help/api

Going to add some of that in next...

Re: The Butter Room - Delicious Eye Candy

Kevin Curry — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:24:30 -0000

If you don't mind limiting yourself to Windows and Internet Explorer and you are willing to install the Bridgeworks client (< 5MB install) then you can try it yourself:

http://dev.bridgeborn.com/S...

Follow the plugin link first to install

Enter any delicious user name or tagged URL in the form. The form is primed with "prestidigital" (that's me on delicious)

Re: Kevin Curry

Kevin Curry — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:00:17 -0000

I cannot even load our about page in TBR. Gets stuck in a constant do-loop "transferring from toddwickersty.net" No probs in IE7 or FF Beta 3, but FF 2 is my default so it sux.

Re: Kevin Curry

Kevin Curry — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:02:57 -0000

It seems to be a Tumblr issue. But I have other probs in FF2. AcroRead bombs all the time now on PDFs and I'm seeing these "cannot load image because it is corrupt" while I wait on image downloads to the browser.

Re: Memorial Day Food Rundown

Kevin Curry — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:35:21 -0000

I smoked some ribs Sunday, too. I also used hickory, but apple wood is a great wood for ribs if you can find it easily. Do you smoke your ribs uncooked or do you par cook in an oven? I absolutely agree that good ribeye needs only kosher salt and pepper. It's my favorite steak. Have you seen the Cooks' Illustrated video on why you need to salt them 45 minutes prior to grilling? I like smoking ribeye with hickory or mesquite...have not done that in too long. Need to get back to fish. My favorite has always been trout. Never have done a chicken, though. Boy, howdy! Ok, I'm going to go stick my head inside my smoker and take a deep breath now.

Re: The Butter Room - The Butter Room gals, Beth and Wendy left Roanoke,...

Kevin Curry — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:22:53 -0000

Nice! Exciting. Thanks for sharing.

(However, I do feel slightly compelled to reiterate, "...The Butter Room is not a political blog...")

:^)

Re: King's Grant Waterways Cleanup Results

Kevin Curry — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:07:15 -0000

Thanks. You know it. It's always been about local action. And beer...but we didn't have beer this time...until after.

Re: Kevin Curry

Kevin Curry — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:29:26 -0000

I suppose to be fair I should note that there is an update for delicious. But, it was not automatically found and it took me several tries to get it downloaded and installed.

Re: Orange Sunshine - The Grateful Dead w/ Sting opening at RFK Stadium...

Kevin Curry — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:49:40 -0000

Classic RFK stage look

Re: Orange Sunshine - Lost In The Flood, Bruce Springsteen, Berkeley...

Kevin Curry — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:30:28 -0000

solid!

Re: Orange Sunshine - Easy Plateau - Ryan Adams 9.24.06 Rock City,...

Kevin Curry — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:02:02 -0000

This song makes me feel happy

Re: Good, Cheap, and Local / Nick's Seafood

Kevin Curry — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:30:00 -0000

Ha...here I am bragging about the seasonality of the menu and...check the marquee. Rockfish in July. I wonder if I'm mistaken about the seasonality of rockfish. I thought we only got those around here in colder months. For sure, that's when local fishers go out and get em. Then again, I see rockfish at all of the other fresh fish markets. Wonder from where it comes... Oh well. I stand by the rest of it.

Re: Orange Sunshine - Bruce Springsteen, Blinded By The Light, January...

Kevin Curry — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:53:03 -0000

totally agree.

Re: Wicks Picks - It’s all ball bearings nowadays.

Kevin Curry — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:08:33 -0000

I didn't know you are Comanche Indian, Dylan.

Re: Orange Sunshine - Contusion - Stevie Wonder 2.24.74 - London...

Kevin Curry — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:36:06 -0000

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Re: Orange Sunshine - Baby Got Back - Jonathan Coulton 10.9.2006 -...

Kevin Curry — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:11:26 -0000

pure gold!

Re: Orange Sunshine - Makisupa Policeman > 2001 > Down with Disease >...

Kevin Curry — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:54:45 -0000

I, too, Phish, also.

Re: Orange Sunshine - The Real Me - Pearl Jam 7.17.08 - VH1 Rock Honors...

Kevin Curry — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:06:19 -0000

There's some serious channeling going on there. Although Vedder looks almost nervous, no?

Todd, Is that VH1's custom player? It may be the best I've experienced. I am constantly beleaguered by YouTube and Vimeo streaming. Play 3 secs. Pause. Play 8 secs. Pause. But right now I am on a connection that is barely squeezing 18Mbps with low signal strength and I enjoyed every bit of that video. Eventually the video stream did stall out for a bit, but the audio kept on rolling. And I think the video stall wasn't streaming but a Javascript call that took too long. The video fast forwarded itself to catch up with the audio to the exact spot. That is pretty damn slick.

Re: Orange Sunshine - Tailspin > Timmy Tucker > Tailspin > Kids - moe....

Kevin Curry — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:35:14 -0000

listening to it on OSun Radio right now...seamless goodness!

Re: Orange Sunshine - Mike’s Song -> Simple -> Mike’s Song > I Am...

Kevin Curry — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:15:42 -0000

aaaaaaaaaaaw yeah

Re: Orange Sunshine - The Flaming Lips 4.21.07 - Brown University,...

Kevin Curry — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:16:37 -0000

I can't articulate why, but this picture makes me happy.

Re: Orange Sunshine - Katherine Kiss Me - Franz Ferdinand Glastonbury...

Kevin Curry — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:53:45 -0000

When we were in Northern Ireland last year we listened to Radio 1 every day. Those singles were infectious, especially that distinctly British rock/pop. I created a Radio 1 play list for my iPod as soon as we got back and I listen to it all the time: Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Kooks, The Fratellis, Keane...

Re: Orange Sunshine - Katherine Kiss Me - Franz Ferdinand Glastonbury...

Kevin Curry — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:54:49 -0000

ooh! great idea.

Re: Wicks Picks - Hi

Kevin Curry — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:37:09 -0000

Hi.