i used Flock for quite awhile, but this last upgrade version quite sucks. it's very bogged down trying to be everything that anyone could ever want to use a browser for, all as the same time. now that i have the hosted WP blog, with it's built-in editor and a plug in that allows me to correctly insert photos from flickr into posts, i've gone back to the must leaner and faster Firefox. Blogged with Flock no more!
It's fun to have as an alternative. I haven't really played around much with it yet but I definitely won't be abandoning Firefox which I have set up just so, with all its nifty add-ons. Perhaps we'll see some Firefox add-ons which replicate some of the features of Flock in the future.
The Skeptics Guide #1015 - Dec 21 2024
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Live from Washington DC; News Items: The Science of Tipping, JonBenet
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The relationship at the heart of a new erotic thriller, starring Nicole
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It's time for our periodic update of good news from Angus Hervey, founder
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*02:54 The death star moon and a win for the little guys*
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Exclusion Principle
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[image: Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way.
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close while t...
Alphabetic ‘s’ for Ms.
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Recently, Victor Mair posted an image from Taichung of an apostrophe r
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Inland Waters
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The ecological diversity of inland water systems are often ignored, but
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Advent Chaxi celebrates joy!
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Day 1: Fushou Shan OolongDid you have a chocolate advent calendar? I had
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So I had a great time on my trip to Naples, Italy (I’ll have to write more
about that soon), and after returning to Shanghai I have continued to study
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Digital Ethics is a new field. What is its main focus? Carissa Véliz
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n 2022, the Optus data breach, along with the Medibank hack, saw the theft
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My Several Worlds - Advocating for Chronic Illness Awareness in Asia
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It’s been over a year since our last post. It’s not because we haven’t been
doing anything – on the
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We've just reached Colorado on our great Oregon Trail 2019 road trip.
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The NBA finals are well on its way between the Toronto Raptors and Golden
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The better the day, the better the deed, as Shakespeare didn't say. But
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Author : Christi Nogle Narrator : Tina Connolly Host : S. Kay Nash Audio
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*Words do mean things*
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bluegrass Barefoot in grass or dirt. Sunshine or candlelight. Worries
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[image: vintage vape]
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*Local personality, Gary Patterson.*
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John&Fish posted a photo:
[image: #932 黑鵯三玩]
Dear Flickr friends, you are very welcome to hear some of my piano
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If there is one thing in this life that I truly appreciate, it’s misguided
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Thank you for stopping by.
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且說第一天在yahoo看到媒體翻成笨蛋,我就覺得頗好笑,想說晚一些其它媒體應該有更好的翻譯吧。
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This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of
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Factories in China move inland
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-19/china-s-factories-turn-to-yangtze-river-to-escape-coastal-wage-inflation.html
Mainly looking for cheaper labor. I s...
File on 4
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This website is no longer being updated. Find out more about current
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website. Click on...
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Our blog is now located at radio.seti.org/blog. Come visit, update your
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Blogger.com is ending support for self-hosted blogs. This stinks, but it
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more powe...
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even ...
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4 comments:
This is too funny! I can't imagine why anyone would want a stuffed toy version of chicken, but funny all the same.
Me too. The only person I can imagine playing this is a teenage boy doing it to impress his mates or his girlfriend, but even that's a stretch!
i used Flock for quite awhile, but this last upgrade version quite sucks. it's very bogged down trying to be everything that anyone could ever want to use a browser for, all as the same time. now that i have the hosted WP blog, with it's built-in editor and a plug in that allows me to correctly insert photos from flickr into posts, i've gone back to the must leaner and faster Firefox. Blogged with Flock no more!
It's fun to have as an alternative. I haven't really played around much with it yet but I definitely won't be abandoning Firefox which I have set up just so, with all its nifty add-ons. Perhaps we'll see some Firefox add-ons which replicate some of the features of Flock in the future.
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