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Which reminds me, I need to get a TW Nike hat. Nothing says "player" quite like one. I'll hit Dick's tomorrow - LANjackal

Password protected - Ana from Bookmarklet

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Nice :) - Prince JabaKumar

This is crazy. I bought my dress on Amazon... "Annie Hunter of Seattle, who works in marketing for a nonprofit organization, reached more than half that total when she bought four dresses for her August wedding. She bought two at a sample sale in Seattle for $3,800 combined. She bought a third dress, an Amsale, online for $3,000. “It had pockets,” she said. “I wanted pockets.” She wore it to a small wedding ceremony she and her bridegroom held in Mexico, but felt it was a bit too revealing for her formal wedding. The fourth, and final, dress she bought at a shop in Seattle, a Monique Lhuillier for $3,400. “My husband paid for the first two, I paid for the third, and my mother paid for the fourth,” she said. “Everyone contributed to the madness.”" - Ana from Bookmarklet

Our (female) high school used to graduate in white formal gowns, and the prom was all-white gowns. One girl in my class got a fancy debutante gown, then a more modest graduation gown, a second formal for the prom, and then she got married in yet another white gown. All in one summer. - m9m, Crone of FriendFeed

"Clearly this has reached the point that he has to play an addiction card to win back some public empathy, and really, you don't exactly have 52 cards to choose from here. Gambling, sex, drugs, drinking, eating, painkillers, porn … that's about it. America is always more forgiving when the word "addiction" is introduced. That is what hurt Michael Vick: Because he couldn't say he was addicted to fighting dogs, he didn't have an out. He just seemed like a mean, inhumane guy." - Ana from Bookmarklet

"BALTIMORE—In an attempt to energize starting tackle Michael Oher for last Sunday's game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ravens head coach John Harbaugh screened a copy of the inspirational sports movie The Blind Side, a film about the life of Ravens tackle Michael Oher. "If this big dumb guy in the movie can do it, then you can do it, too," Harbaugh said to rookie lineman Michael Oher while point to an on-screen image of rookie lineman Michael Oher. "This man didn't choose his lot in life. But his problems were at least as big as yours, and he put in the hard work and dedication it took to get picked in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens. Doesn't that inspire you?" When asked about being forced to watch the story of his own life, Oher said he didn't remember his formative years being so emotionally overwrought and rife with clichés." - Ana from Bookmarklet

"But, it turns out, a small group of researchers has studied the question of exercise performance and time of day, even doing studies of heart rates. And not only are performances better in the late afternoon and early evening, but, contrary to what exercise physiologists would predict, heart rates are also higher for the same effort." - Ana from Bookmarklet

When I was an active runner and bicyclist, I really enjoyed getting up early and biking into work because the commute by car (northern Chicago area) was incredibly stressful. Instead, I would ride about 8 miles over to Lake Michigan and then another 18 or so along the lakeshore, feeling exhilarated when I got there. Then I would do a quick weight workout and a 5 mile run at lunch. If I... more... - Mark "Mr Bolivious" J

"Facebook generally has good privacy controls, but they've been ignored because they are overly complicated to use. The company simplified or eliminated some options, but for almost all settings it will give users a lot of control over their content." - Ana from Bookmarklet

Thanks Ana for today's new post. I am one of those who got pretty p!$$ed about the lost chance to hide my friends list from others. This partially helped even though I preferred how it was before (hide my list from some group of people and not from all or nothing). BTW, we miss you here on FriendFeed! - Flavio

Because that's what you do, Ana. Always awake at odd hours (as am I). - O.Shane

Indeed, interesting change - Majento

Q: Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey has introduced the Square, a device that plugs into an iPhone or iPod Touch's headphone jack and allows the user to swipe credit cards. What do you think? ..... A: Gerry Saunders, Labeler: "Finally. I was getting tired of making my friends pay me in cash every time they wanted to use my phone." - Ana from Bookmarklet

Damn. That'd be vandalized to hell in American schools. And protested. - Itachi

i have a friend also named ken,does he a korean or japanese? - urin

Plug in your zip code to see the average. The disparity b/w Palo Alto and say, South San Francisco, is somewhat astounding :) - Ana from Bookmarklet

My home town in Pittsburgh: $46,966 and $78,277 --- Woah Nelly! - Tim Costantino

Q: Chelsea, the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is engaged to her longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky. What do you think? ...... A. Darla Castellano, Meat Packer: "I know I'd be intimidated having Edward Mevzinsky as my future father-in-law." - Ana from Bookmarklet

THANK YOU! I couldn't agree more: "Statistically, the better decision would be to go for it, and by a good amount. However, these numbers are baselines for the league as a whole. You’d have to expect the Colts had a better than 30 percent chance of scoring from their 34, and an accordingly higher chance to score from the Pats’ 28. But any adjustment in their likelihood of scoring from either field position increases the advantage of going for it. You can play with the numbers any way you like, but it’s pretty hard to come up with a realistic combination of numbers that makes punting the better option." - Ana from Bookmarklet

I have no problem hitting on 12's and may in vegas with a 25 dollar bet double down on 12 with a 6 showing (unlikely, but if the math is there, I will do it.) - Dario Gomez

This kind of snark isn't normally to my taste, except I remember being all set to go on a recruiting trip to Caltech and they cancelled it. Go figure. - Ruchira S. Datta

The real question is "Why do these people keep circulating rehashed old interview questions that no one ever asks at Google?" Some of these come straight out of the "Microsoft interview questions" from the 90's. - Joel Webber

"Social media experts said they're not surprised so many people have subscribed to the exciting new site, as it's the only online service in which users can post a major multivolume epic in the morning, and have it read, critiqued, and reNovelled by thousands of other people around the world before lunch." - Ana from Bookmarklet

I see that denouement is trending on http://mynoveller.com/ - Casey Muller

My mom always nags me about my prolific use of the second person, too. Dang moms not understanding our music, tense. - Mark Trapp

Been waiting for this column all week. And well, Bill makes a convincing point... - Ana from Bookmarklet

"that's not "gutsy." It's not a "gamble." It's not "believing we can get that 2 yards." It's not "revolutionary." It's not "statistically smart." It's reckless. It's something that should happen in video games only, and only when you and your roommate are both high." - Cristo

"Twenty minutes into the drive, still in the outskirts of Seattle, we were arguing about why navigation systems don't come with different voices -- for example, we should be able to have Morgan Freeman be our nav narrator or, even better, Sam Jackson as Jules in "Pulp Fiction" ("I told you to take a motherf---ing right, you dumbass!) " - Cristo

Fast-forward to 4:25... Pass interference my ass! - Ana from Bookmarklet

Still not great in low light when there's a lot of movement. Stay still Myles! - Ana

I second Gabe on the 28/1.8. That is about all I use now. I also frequently switch the white balance to tungsten when indoors with incandescent bulbs. - Robert Felty

I watched the entire game on my phone and then said many things that wouldn't have been appropriate around children when it came down to the last 13 seconds and my team threw *another* interception. But good defense all around. :) - David Cook - 2010!!!

Like for the Wall-E Cake - Jesse Stay

That is the most amazing cake I've ever seen, did it taste good too? - Benjamin Golub

Does this replace the D40x? Makes sense so you can share lenses - Benjamin Golub

I think I'm coming to the same conclusion, Ana. Situations where there's not enough light for my SD780 and I don't have my DSLR seems like a corner case that doesn't warrant the expense (and to a lesser extent extra bulk) of the S90. - Ken Sheppardson

Toe Pick! - Brian Johns

"Naked male insecurity really leaves me cold." - Yolanda

Tear-offs work for me, and I use them all the time on my Gmail account. - Tudor Bosman

Tear-offs fail to open for me so frequently that I have given up on them. - Gary Burd

Am still scouring the web for deals to Indianapolis this weekend... - Ana from Bookmarklet

Need any more Indianapolis info? Harold and I are here. - Kamilah Gill

"We are just destined to be really, really good friends who only hang out when I don't have a boyfriend, but still need male attention to boost my fragile and all-consuming ego." - Ana from Bookmarklet

http://www.garfunkelandoates.com/music... - specifically, the "i would never" song. - Andrew C