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Re: The ALL NEW OPEN SOURCE FOOD! OSF2! FTW! OMG! › Yongfook | Web Producer and Usability Consultant based in Tokyo

spongefile — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:58:13 -0000

Love the site, especially now that I'm pregnant--I currently have nasty food aversions but should eat more, so I surf OSF just to get some appetite back. Also, this site was a big motivation in my recent actual camera purchase--no more cell cam shots from me!

I like the simplification of the rating system, but wish there was a way to "unvote". I now have some recipes I voted low in the earlier system listed in my "Voted" page.

+1 for allowing drafts to be saved without pictures...I've been using drafts to remind myself to make the recipes so I can take the pictures.

Re: Regarding questions we’ve received about five... | Tumblr Staff

spongefile — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:57:39 -0000

I suspect internal discussions may have been a bit too internal to provide the objectivity needed for a decision like this. Other options: hellbanning, reblog-blocking, community self-policing ("report this" votes vs. "like this" votes). Instead, now you're stuck monitoring a growing network of vast content in a way that is impossible to keep consistent and fair in the long run.

"Abusing" is incredibly vague(who will draw the line between that and criticism, and how?), and limiting the harassment definition, if you're going down this road, only to the harassment of other Tumblr members is just plain weird. If some woman starts a tumblog to harass her non-tumblogging ex-boyfriend, is she exempt from having her account deleted? The rest of the stuff in your policy is clear, with well-established precedence. The new clause is a quagmire of future headache.

Re: I’ve read several hundred responses from users who... | Tumblr Staff

spongefile — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:49:57 -0000

Yay! Nicely done.

Re: SNAPSHOTS

spongefile — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:23:20 -0000

Fisting? Did I hear that right? Gawd Fox is either clueless or brilliant.

Re: FriendFeed, Pulse, Jaiku: where the conversation is moving

spongefile — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:01:29 -0000

I have never understood Twitter's popularity either in the face of all these other, more conversation-oriented services. I suppose it's because Twitter became popular in the States first, and gathered enough user mass that people are unwilling to leave it now even when other options present themselves?

Or perhaps secretly, in their heart of hearts, people would rather yell about themselves in a crowded room than really listen to what anyone else is saying? ;)

Re: FriendFeed, Pulse, Jaiku: where the conversation is moving

spongefile — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:01:29 -0000

Re: 990lb, 33ft Long Colossal Squid Caught

spongefile — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:53:52 -0000

They were fishermen, didn't have tracking devices lying around. This is pretty incredible, considering they live deeper than submarines and or even sperm whales can go. (Sometimes they swim higher, obviously.)

Re: 2007/06/10/blockhunter/

spongefile — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:25:29 -0000

In Finland we have Igglo.com, which has taken this concept quite a bit further...

Re: 2008/03/22/weeatt/

spongefile — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:31:53 -0000

http://www.opensourcefood.com is the best recipe sharing site I've found so far. Emphasis is on good quality pictures of the recipe results, which means you're presented with a gorgeous tableau of tasty-looking options. Very clean and easy to use.

Re: 2008/03/22/weeatt/

spongefile — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:39:08 -0000

(Which is not to say that weeatt.com isn't any good--the emphasis seems to be more on the database-side of recipe collection, though, like most of the other recipe sites.)

Re: 2008/05/08/erik-moeller-pedophilia/

spongefile — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:27:51 -0000

It is true that children are capable of feeling sexual pleasure. Many mothers of young kids have encountered the awkward situation of having to explain to a six-year-old that masturbation isn't really something you want to do in public. This in no way changes the fact that lifelong trauma is a pretty much unavoidable result of any adult or older child getting involved (if you want to put it "nicely") in that same six-year-old's sexual development. What you do to yourself, or what you go through on your own, is in no way equivalent to what others, especially if they're more aware than you, do to you.

I think it's possible to acknowledge that children are not hallmark-card innocents without twisting this to mean that they are essentially midget adults with a concept of "consent" and can be treated as such. I suspect that Erik has no kids of his own, and is talking out of his ass out of some illusion of radically objective thinking.

Re: 2008/06/10/child-porn-usenet/

spongefile — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:33:05 -0000

Hmm. BBC blithely reports this as "US net firms to block child porn". Then I find out they're shutting down this huge chunk of USENET. The mainstream media has no clue, their headlines make it all sound so simple. It's like chopping off the hands of millions so a certain few hundred won't strangle anyone. And I doubt it will stop the proliferation of child porn in any case.

Re: 2008/07/10/lively-sex/

spongefile — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:29:27 -0000

Not to be obnoxious, but why make a video instead of writing a comment? it took you 25 secs to make one point that would have taken 2 secs to read. You're not showing anything, just talking.

Re: Microsoft’s top designers leave to give away lovely flowers

spongefile — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:57:43 -0000

I've had beers with enough Nokia designers and other employees over the years to have gotten the impression that what Scoble is describing is a lot like what happens at Nokia too, except the abuses being committed by managers, not by actual engineers. The decisions are made by managers who have no real investment in the product, and just don't want to rock the boat; they sit around in meeting rooms all day talking crap about things they know nothing about, and come up with nonsensical decisions. Then far, far too much of it is subcontracted out, so most of it is just enforced by contract, rather than having designers/coders be able to stand up and say hold on, this makes no sense, and it's going to be complete crap.

I've been a Nokia user(never an employee, and probably never after this post.. :) ) ever since their first "car phones". Their initial UI was fantastic--simple, fast, and got the job done. I've stuck with them since because they have still managed to keep the UI better then the atrocious UIs of their competitors. Even so, "better than horrible" does not equate "good".

Now that the iPhone is out, Nokia has an example of the kind of phone I know many of their designers have been pushing for for years--apps that are integrated, simple, and coherent. Unfortunately I suspect that what the managers will take away from the iPhone will be no more than "we need to add transparency and more animations!" and more of Nokia's actually fantastic human resources will head off to jobs elsewhere.