April Russo (app103)

"The Colorado couple accused of perpetrating a bizarre hoax last month by pretending that their 6-year-old son had mistakenly taken off in a homemade helium balloon will plead guilty to two charges in the case, according to a statement released by one of their lawyers on Thursday. Richard Heene will plead guilty to attempting to influence a public servant, a felony, his lawyer David Lane said, while Mr. Heene’s wife, Mayumi, will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of false reporting to authorities. Both pleas, which are expected to be entered in Larimer County Court on Friday morning, were worked out in exchange for probation from prosecutors, Mr. Lane said. In his statement, Mr. Lane noted that the prospect of Mrs. Heene being deported to Japan, where she is a citizen, was a determining factor in working out the plea agreement." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

Up at the top on the toolbar it says "Threadmarks". That's where they are hiding. - April Russo (app103)

"I began using Linux as a desktop operating system around 1993, two years after Linux was created. Countless developers, engineers and hackers were doing the same. But at that point, it wasn't what most people would recognize as a desktop OS. The credit for creating and marketing the first Linux desktop designed for ordinary users goes to Corel Corp., which launched Corel Linux OS 10 years ago, in November 1999." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

"This is a contract between a coder and a company; it has lots of options and variables but we still need to add some more (for example covering licensing terms for produced software, etc). Note how it uses an auto numbering system to number the sections consecutively no matter which ones you include." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

"A study conducted in the United States showed that women with big breasts are smarter than those who are less endowed." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

that's beacuse boobs are women's brain - Vincio

Seven Degrees of blonde Disclaimer: I am both female and blonde, and I am not offended, so don't you be. FIRST DEGREE A married couple were asleep when the phone rang at 2 in the morning. The wife (undoubtedly blonde), picked up the phone, listened a moment and said, "How should I know, that's 200 miles from here!" and hung up. The husband said, "Who was that?" The wife said, "I don't know, some woman wanting to know if the coast is clear." SECOND DEGREE Two blondes are walking down the street. One notices a compact on the sidewalk and leans down to pick it up. She opens it, looks in the mirror and says, "Hmm, this person looks familiar." The second blonde says, "Here, let me see!" So the first blonde hands her the compact. The second one looks in the mirror and says, "You dummy, it's me!" THIRD DEGREE A blonde suspects her boyfriend of cheating on her, so she goes out and buys a gun. She goes to his apartment unexpectedly and when she opens the door she finds him in the arms... - April Russo (app103)

"Stop and think about this from a user’s perspective and see the big picture and the flaw in letting Bing exclusively spider News Corp’s content: You are doing a search for something and come upon a result leading to a News Corp owned site. You click through and are hit with a “you have to pay to read this” notice. How do you feel about that? Would you like to see search results that do not contain links such as this? Do you regard them as spam? Bait & switch? In order to move to a full “pay to read” business model, they have no choice but to remove their content from Google’s index, since Google’s rules forbid showing their spiders one page and a different one to those that click through from the results page. The only thing that could be spidered on a “pay to read” model is the content on the page that says you have to pay to read it. This has repeatedly been an issue with sites like experts-exchange, which most regard as spam in their results. Even for those that do see the content..." - April Russo (app103)

"During the month of September, I decided to give up Google Reader for a month (for free) and go back to using a desktop reader (Newzie). It made me wonder why I ever started using Google Reader in the first place. Using the Today window, I can get through feeds so much faster in Newzie, and the bonus is I no longer have to switch readers to read feeds that require username/password for access, and it alerts me to changes on pages that don't have an RSS feed. OK, so there is no "like" button. But since I am using the Today window instead of the internal browser, I am seeing excerpts on a hover and only clicking through to read full articles that catch my interest. It takes very little time or effort to click a bookmarklet and share it on Friendfeed, which then shares it on Twitter, Facebook, MyBlogLog, my xFruits feed, and everywhere else that's connected to those, too. While you might not give up Google Reader for $25K, you couldn't pay me that much to start using it again. Now what..." - April Russo (app103)

"Hey ladies! Congressman Pete Sessions of Texas thinks you should pay more for your insurance because you chose to have all that crazy plumbing with its nook and crannies down there instead of a good old fashioned American penis. This was an unhealthy choice on your part… like taking up smoking." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

Teenage boys pay more for auto insurance than teenage girls. Why? - Pat Rice

"ONE in 40 dogs in circulation are fake – making it the most counterfeited animal in the world. The alarming figure, revealed by the RSPCA, represents 37 million dogs – 0.52% of the total 1.4 billion hounds worldwide – and is part of an ‘upward trend’ in canine forgery." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

what do you mean, fake, they're not dogs? - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

You take two cats weld em together and iron on a good looking dog face. LOL - Rasmus Lauridsen

i think Dr. Oz gave the same advice on Oprah. - Mike Nencetti

my husband is now talking shit about toasted marshmallows with rather gory details. - April Russo (app103)

Quote from: Perry Mowbray on Today at 06:38:34 PM she emptied a whole can of hair spray onto the spider before she realized that it was not insecticide.  Hairspray might not kill them but it sure makes it easier to dispose of them when they are so stiff they can't move. (it's my weapon of choice for flying stinging things like wasps, for just that reason) - April Russo (app103)

"But does a person have to respond to police questions if he or she hasn't been arrested? A police officer generally cannot arrest a person simply for failure to respond to questions. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees the "right of silence." This means that unless a police officer has "probable cause" to make an arrest or a "reasonable suspicion" to conduct a "stop and frisk," a person approached by the police officer has the legal right to refuse to answer questions. Indeed, a person who has reason to believe that he or she is a potential suspect should politely decline to answer questions, at least until after consulting an attorney. This general rule may not hold true if the officer suspects the person of loitering. Laws in effect in many states generally define loitering as "wandering about from place to place without apparent business, such that the person poses a threat to public safety." Under these laws, if a police officer sees a person loitering, the... more... - April Russo (app103)

"There are times when blogging can be tough and it feels like we have just run out of ideas for our blog posts or as a freelancer we sometimes think there’s nothing else to write about. Where does the muse go when we are feeling like this, and how can we get it back? The muse doesn’t go anywhere, we just have to find the spark that will ignite the muse back into action and keep us writing. There is no need to ever run out of ideas for articles or blog posts, you could write 100 posts per day and still never run out of ideas. However, if you ever feel like your head has been emptied and you have no more ideas left, just take a look at some of these tips and you will be sure to connect with your muse again." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

"News Corporation is paying more than $1m a month to rent an empty office complex in Los Angeles that it has been unable to sub-lease since scrapping an ambitious plan to move MySpace and its other digital businesses there. The company is locked into a 12-year lease worth about $350m that it signed in August 2008, when the number of people using MySpace was increasing and the social network was running out of space in its Beverly Hills offices. The deal commits News Corp to 420,000 sq ft of space in Playa Vista, near Los Angeles International airport. When it was signed Peter Levinsohn, the former president of News Corp’s Fox Interactive Media unit, used a memo to staff to hail the deal as “the single biggest real-estate transaction in Los Angeles in the last 25 years”. But since then, MySpace has lost market share to Facebook, while News Corp revealed last week that its social network will receive $100m less than it anticipated from a search deal with Google after failing to hit traffic targets." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

Actually, the building is Fox, not solely MySpace and houses IGN, RottenTomatoes, and a few other Fox properties. :) - Mona Nomura

"A Delta Air Lines flight at John F. Kennedy International Airport bound for London Heathrow Airport was delayed and the passengers were switched to another plane Sunday night after someone reported seeing an onboard intruder: a mouse in the cabin. The 147 passengers had waited for about a half-hour for Flight 001 to leave the gate, when a crew member announced that the mouse sighting meant the plane would have to be cleared. The passengers were escorted off the Boeing 767 and booked on another airplane, said Carlos Santos, a Delta spokesman. Mr. Santos said the airplane was being inspected to determine if a mouse actually was on the plane." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

How dare that mouse try to catch a flight without paying for a ticket! - April Russo (app103)

"Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. In an interview with Sky News Australia, the mogul said that newspapers in his media empire - including the Sun, the Times and the Wall Street Journal - would consider blocking Google entirely once they had enacted plans to charge people for reading their stories on the web. In recent months, Murdoch his lieutenants have stepped up their war of words with Google, accusing it of "kleptomania" and acting as a "parasite" for including in its Google News pages. But asked why News Corp executives had not chosen to simply remove their websites entirely from Google's search indexes - a simple technical operation - Murdoch said just such a move was on the cards." - April Russo (app103) from Bookmarklet

I really need to create a master list of clueless assholes and the companies they own, and make an effort to never promote their content or use their services. - April Russo (app103)