Be Excellent To Each Other

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looks like a pink hippo to me

We're just back from seeing Monkees Business the Musical. It's wonderful and everyone should see it.

laughs so much is painful

I haven't got Neo Sans.

Ariel is the preferred font for members of Her Majesty's Civil Service.

I've said too much.

You're..... mermaids?

Looks like a well slapped arse.

Here, once a month, the databases need about 5 hours to roll over. Which is funny, as lots of people want stuff by the end of the day, and I can't use them. In the meantime, I'll be in my rack.

Heh

Using Foursquare and facebook data, an app tells you where girls were. Until it was pulled. Clever wording, I know.

I just do not get Foursquare at all. I mean I don't understand what its purpose is or what people use it for?

Often on Twitter I see 'I am at the co-op', 'I am at ____ hospital', 'I am at the Post Office'. I guess I'm not quite sure why you'd want to tell people the details of everywhere you go (stalker's delight) or why your normal friends would care? It seems to be quite popular among American people.

It's For Squares.

Not sure if you have seen this on the news, its lucky that no one died.

Happened Sunday afternoon in Nordland county, Norway.

Wow!

...and that's really well filmed. Almost too smooth.

I *think* it's a very useful way to get user data about people's habits, so they can then receive targetted adcvertising (via things like group on) that they might or might not take up as it is relevant to their interests or habits. Also, health firms could use this is someone goes into a tobacconists too often.

aye, when i 1st hear about it Sunday night i was wondering if it was a grim April foolz joke, but people are still reporting it, and the truck driver is in hospital with broken bones. Also Mount Etna erupted on 1st of April also, coincidence? I think not!

That's a much better use of the technology than my patented "iBurgle" App.

Ok, I can see how businesses etc might welcome it, then, but still can't see why individuals use the service and choose to volunteer all if that information about themselves to the world

Badges. You get badges. And offers emailed to you from the palces you go to. And others like it.

Again I have not much to do today. However I also have stolen a corner desk where no-one can see my screen. Win.

I use it mostly because I have an app called Memento that compiles everything I put on Foursquare (plus Twitter, Facebook, my blog, Instagram, etc etc) into one place. It's nice to look back on -- a diary that writes itself.

The other major reason is, when travelling, to find cool stuff other people have left tips about. I've discovered restaurants to visit that way, and out-of-the-way plug sockets in airports for laptop recharging on long layovers, for example. This stuff appears when you check in to a place.

I don't send my Foursquare data to Twitter or Facebook, though. I have no idea why people do that.

It's useful to know where Kovacs is.

Oooh, that does sound quite interesting, as long as I can keep it private to me and other people can't see if I check in to places.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17565838 this does not look like a dove. "Tracy Emin mentored Pascal Anson throughout the project". Ah.

I do it as there are a core few of us that travel with work during the week and we use it as a game when we check in. Also we know where we are to meetup for meals etc

Should I stop

Yes, you can use it as a completely private service with some twiddling in settings.

It's worth pointing out that practically everything creepy about this Girls Around You app came from Facebook, not Foursquare.

It's not finished yet! That's a picture of it still covered in masking tape

It looks like they're still sanding it down, through multiple layers of primer, Bondo and rust

@ kalmar You can see on the engines that it's going to be aqua and yellow tho. They might pull it off if it's has a greek/roman vibe but I don't hold out much hope of that.

It looks like a well slapped arse.

Emin or the plane?

Doves are white.

Planes are white.

Should have just left it.

It definitely has more a pigeon feel to it at the moment...

I think I'd rather shag the plane.

Doves used to represent peace are always white. Because of religion or something.

Racist.

that's because they are using a colour that they have named 'dove gold'.

It's a bit like this colour I have invented. 'Dove purple'. It's almost the same as dove gold, but purpler.

Great, now T-Mobile are going to sue us.

Stop telling them where you ate on Foursquare and they'll never find you.

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE STOP FINDING OUT ABOUT ALL THE PRIVACY ISSUES THAT I WAS GOING TO ASK THEM ABOUT IN THREE WEEKS TIME FOR MY DISSERTATION SURVEY.

Thank you.

Don't ask me, I won't tell you anything.

Some days, I'm really worth my (high) salary.

Then there's the days where I'm on tenterhooks preparing for a job interview (yesterday) or awaiting the results of an interview (today)...

"If Tetris has taught me anything, it is that errors pile up and accomplishments disappear." https://twitter.com/#!/steveluvender/st ... 9315133441

Heh. I like that.

He's just earnt himself a new follower with that tweet. Good work.

That may be the most profound thing I have ever read...