FFunderlings,

After much consideration and heavy heartedness, a few tears, some lingering man-hugs and one or two moob brushes, we have decided to put the show on extended hiatus for the foreseeable future.

As you know, FFundercats has always been a boot-strapped organisation. Pressures with work, dedication required for our families and as a commitment to you, we have decided to take a long break. At this moment we can’t dedicate the time required to do the show, and FriendFeed, true justice.

Will we be back? More than likely. But we won’t be back until we can give it a red hot poke. If we are going to waste your time, we would like to put some effort into it.

When Facebook bought FriendFeed, we made a promise to go down with the ship and we will honour that promise. Josh just needs to draw a picture of Kate Winslet’s boobies and Johnny needs to have steamy hot sex with Leonardo DiCaprio in a ye olde car.

Mark may or may not still be on the bow of ship, singing adult-contemporary ballads… well… he is Canadian and his heart goes on… and on… and on.

We have been spoiled with the amazing support you have given us, and we are very grateful for it. Many of you have been there for us since Episode 1, which truly testifies to your threshold for pain.

We’ll still be around, doing this and that. Just that it will be at times other than 8pm Central/11am-the-next-day in Brisbane.

Love, Peace and Aloha,

Josh and Johnny
FFundercats

In this episode: The boys return from the FFundercation for another round of FFundery goodness. We are joined by Louis Gray for some science dropping and general reflection (while Josh battled the gremlins in the system).

We are happy to be affiliated with Moo.com and Despair, Inc.. Please click through on the links on this page to get your moo cards and a small portion of the purchase will go towards helping us FFundercats keep the show going. Thanks for your support!

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Johnny’s Pick:

So… it turns out I have a new nephew, born 5 hours ago. My sister’s labor was 32 hours. My mom, dad and youngest sister were there (as was the baby’s mom, of course). But nobody called us. Odd.

Josh’s Pick:

idaft – Daft Punk – Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger

Moment of Win:

Thanks for playing. Here’s your candy.

… Hoooooo!

Accept no substitutes.

This episode is not only special in that it is number 42, but also that it was an impromtu “W00t w00t emergency” episode thrown together in minutes on the day that FriendFeed was bought by Facebook. It is a direct rip from the ustream recording with zero editing. Please enjoy it as is and we will be back to regular edited podcasts on Tuesday. Ho!

We are happy to be affiliated with Moo.com and Despair, Inc.. Please click through on the links on this page to get your moo cards and a small portion of the purchase will go towards helping us FFundercats keep the show going. Thanks for your support!

Discussion Topics:

Friendfeed was bought by Facebook today, Monday Aug 10, 2009.

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Moment of Win:

… Hoooooo!

Episode Live Chat Room:

Hoooooo, our faithful FFunderfans!

It is that time again, when we need your help to make this podcast happen. Due to the bandwidth demands of our podcast, we are unable to use only “free” tools online. We are not in this to make a buck, but would love to have some help in breaking even.

We’ve set up a donation button on the site to help us with the cost of covering bandwidth. Unfortunately, we’re not millionaires. Any small donation would help us immensely. And we promise to love you forever, pants or no pants.

Thank you for the support!

- FFundercats

Thank you, Louis Gray, and thank you all who participated! At some point, I will get the Friendfeed comments thing working in WordPress.

Want to know what happens when someone calls in to the show and doesn’t mute their audio playback of the show? It’s both epic and loud feedback, and this time it was Steven Perez, so of course, it eventually turned into WIN!

Here is a remix of this epic event which happened while recording Episode 23 live on April 3, 2009 (or April 4th for Johnny’s little island).

Mix and beats by Josh Haley using Acid. No, not THAT acid… the Sony software music package.

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Check the scheule at http://ustream.tv/channel/ffundercats for the next live showtimes and join us as we sharpen our jackassery skills!

Thanks Carmen and Christopher!

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam

FFunderbites are small and brief clips of the FFundercats talking about various topics.

In this FFunderbite, we, while streaming live on ustream.tv,  discuss the fine cuisines involving rice, Spam, soy sauce and types of sushi. Somehow the conversation turns towards malodorous experiences in the theater. Oh OK, theatre.  Enjoy!

Music clip used for this episode: Nine Butterflies by Black Sugar Transmission. This guy Andee is awesome. Check him out at http://www.myspace.com/blacksugartransmission and http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Sugar+Transmission.

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Check the scheule at http://ustream.tv/channel/ffundercats for the next live showtimes and join us as we sharpen our jackassery skills!

This is an urgent message. The FFundercats have reached critical mass! Take a look for yourself:

We never expected to reach our bandwidth within the first 20 days of podcasting. The response to the podcast has been overwhelming.

We need your help. We’ve set up a donation button on the site to help us with the cost of covering bandwidth. Unfortunately, we’re not millionaires. Any small donation would help us immensely. And we promise to love you forever. Thank you for the support!

The Epic Fail category will feature failures of epic proportions. Here is a FriendFeed search to get you started on your quest for FAIL:

http://friendfeed.com/search?q=epic+fail &who=everyone

Mark VandenBerg, zoblue (Zulema ?’s you), Mathew Ballard, BeeLing, Heather Sillypants Mina, Andrew Trinh, Michael J. Cohen (mjc), Far, heather ?s fauns on mars., Steve, .LAG the Plumber, Stupid Blogger (aka Tina), Mo Kargas, JMS, Alex Scoble CISSP, Susan Beebe, John Worthington and Rodfather liked this

:P – Josh Haley

cute! – Susan Beebe

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE NOISE!! You don’t want the noise because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that Hide, you need me on that Hide… – John Worthington

Josh: There are people on FF who continuously talk about unsubscribing from people and how much they can’t stand noise at least once a month. Yet they choose to stay here… So don’t take it personally. :) – Mona N.

I can’t stand the noise! All of these posts about noise are noisying up my friendfeeds! Stop talking about noise! I don’t like noise! (this could totally be a Monty Python sketch) – Alex Scoble CISSP

+700 billion John – Kevin Bondelli

John, we need to hang out, seriously. Mona, you too! Hell, everyone’s invited! And Mona, I struggle with the term “personally”. Isn’t everything we say and hear taken and given by our own person, making it by definition personally? Splitting hairs, sure, but it is what it is and I don’t mind commenting on it. ;) Thanks for the support though, through this difficult time. *Sneef!* – Josh Haley

Josh: Just worry about those who are subscribed to you and if someone un-subs, it’s not anything you did or said. Don’t ever compromise who you are for anyone! There are billions of people in the world! – Mona N.

Mona… I have been thinking about if I’m to noisy or a smart-ass on here and that no one would ever take me seriously or I’d ever get ‘respected’. But then I realised I am a smart ass and I’m embrassing that whole heartedly… – John Worthington

I embrace it as well John. Long live the fighters! Wait, that’s Dune. They’ll never take our FREEDOM!!! Wait, no that’s Braveheart. I need a slogan to shout, dammit! – Josh Haley

I like Thundercats Hoooooooooooooo! – John Worthington

No… no… FFundercats Hoooooooooooooo! – John Worthington

That’ll work in a pinch, John. What about “I do! I do! I do believe in faries!” – Josh Haley