Ya gotta like it when Friday’s can be productive especially when it is one leading into a long weekend. Then on top of it being able to see a bunch of good stuff come through the FriendFeed pipeline. So without further ado …..

Are You Really Using FriendFeed, or are You a Poser? :: scribkin – J. Phil does a good slap down of the big boys who sign up for social type stuff then basically ignore it but at the same time bad mouth the service.

Writing Headlines For Social Media or Search Engines? :: David Risley – I have a hard enough time trying to figure out the whole SEO thing let alone write headlines for it.

The Steampunk Workshop :: The Steampunk Workshop – I don’t ever see myself having anything that has been steampunked but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying see what people do with it.

Screen Shots: How I Use RSS to Track Thousands of News Sources Easily :: Marshall Kirkpatrick – Marshall shares a few of his tricks for being a mega RSS reader

Stephen Hawking’s explosive new theory :: Telegraph – all I can say is my brain still hurts and I wish I was even 0.01% as smart as Stephen Hawking.

Amazing Radio Control Helicopter Demo :: YouTube – I just hope this guy never gets a helicopter pilots license

Girl and Cat :: Pixelaus – this was too beautiful to pass up not posting

Ten sticking points for new Ubuntu users :: Linux.com – thinking about trying out the Ubuntu flavor of Linux then this page might be worth keeping handy.