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"The American public likes science, but thinks that its achievements are less important than they were a decade ago. That's according to telephone surveys conducted by the Pew Research Center and the American Association for the Advancement of Science."
- Tanath
from Bookmarklet
I don't know if the poll result is really an indictment of anything; the podcast headline is a bit misleading. "In 1999, 47 percent of those polled said that scientific advances were among the most important U.S. achievements. Today, only 27 percent think so." In the past 10 years, what big scientific advances have we really had? Maybe there were some, but I sure can't name any off the...
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- Brian Chang
What? No big scientific advances? How about the human genome project for starters? The LHC (yea it fucked up, but it'll be back)? Discovering water on Mars? Realising how bad global warming really is? Discovering RNA interference? Reprogramming skin cells into embryonic-like stem cells? The first petaflop computers? - Science has been progressing at an immense rate in the past 10 years, and will continue to do so. It's a shame people are missing out on this stuff...
- laura
"NCAA Football 10" looks so much dumber (and more confusing - is it NCAA Football in the year 2010, or is it the 10th installation of NCAA Football?) than "NCAA Football 2010" or even "NCAA Football '10" - could EA Sports really not find room on their template for an extra two digits, or an apostrophe?
HAHA...nah, it's the people at work...TAKE YOUR CONVERSATION ELSEWHERE....commons area, kitchen, hallway, conference room, middle of 1st Ave...just NOT HERE
- Live4Emma (L4S)
To liberals, stop the conservative bashing, thanks. And is there that much of it still going on? I guess I've got my head in the sand and am not paying attention.
- LLL
Both sides have people treating the other side poorly. I'm sick of all of that sort of discourse.
- Katy S
Exactly! Which is why I've got my head buried. It gets old. And it's not productive.
- LLL
I study and teach rhetoric and argument, so you can probably imagine how often I feel like banging my head against the wall when this stuff starts. It's a combination of personal disgust with the situation and the desire to break out my colored pens and grade.
- Katy S
You know what I hate? Other people, that's what. Not you guys. You guys are cool, and besides I can switch you off whenever I want. But real people? They're always saying and doing stuff, y'know? Winds me up, that does.
I'll probably think of more throughout the day, but I hate it when people purposely put misleading images in the middle of their youtube videos and it's used as the thumbnail
- Cassidy
@Blake what term would you use instead of "Social Media"?
- Aline Ohannessian
Blake: I bet you also love the term "Social Graph" haha
- Mike Bracco
1) Tacking the term "social" onto everything 2) Hyping (as opposed to facts) 3) Nonsensical trends & memes 4) Pointless joke posts (especially on Digg) 5) Baseless bashing 6) Poor spelling/grammar in FB statuses 7) On FriendFeed, pointless posts by prominent people that get liked by 50 other users and clutter my Home Feed 8) On FB, no tags or captions in pics 9) Using Twitter as a copy...
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- LANjackal
Have you guys ever tried www.lunch.com? It doesn't have any of the problems 1-9 that LANjackal said and I completely agree! I HATE it when you have a constant stream of nonsensical 13-year olds posting jabs to each other, often misspelled jabs. It's a combo of Yelp and Wikipedia, so you get quality reviews on stuff you want to check out by people that share similar interests with you....
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- DJ Evoke
Thanks, but a look at the top tags on the site tells me there's not much there I'd be into anyway
- LANjackal
from IM
Adding "Please retweet!" to end of tweet.
- Bruce Colthart
@LANjackal- you're not into Music? There's also a TON of Star Wars stuff on there...Bruce- I KNOW! That annoys me like no other...hello?!?!? If I like it, I'll RT it on my own, I don't need you to tell me LOL!
- DJ Evoke
When people submit those "This is why I love Digg" stories to Digg
- Cassidy
Also: Inaccurate Digg submissions: people who title their submissions misleadingly in a manner that doesn't agree with what the link itself says
- LANjackal
from IM
Facebook quizzes..., Facebook apps, the four people that are fans of "Tickling/Smiling/Sleeping/Eating/Breathing/etc" on Facebook, the fact that when I closed my Facebook account, people called me to ask why they couldn't find my profile to write on my wall (YOU CALLED ME, JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU WERE GOING TO SAY?!). Tumblr's login is smaller and harder to get to than the signup page...
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- Clark Baumgartner
Tweeting/FB updating about every mundane detail of your life...NO ONE CARES!
- DJ Evoke
@DJ that's the point of twitter/FB status updates..., It's like saying you don't like youtube uploads on youtube.
- Clark Baumgartner
@ Clark....Sorry, I don't care about someone going to the gym, taking a shit, waking up...They should be for sharing info on movies/restaurants, etc that they just ate at and liked or info on upcoming shows, or sharing music, etc. I don't mind if it's every once in a while, a nice good morning and maybe I'm soo tired but, I just don't care about hearing the mundane details of someone's...
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- DJ Evoke
@DJ Evoke, I think it could get annoying to hear about peoples' bowel movements, but that's kinda how twitter/FB started. Other uses kinda just developed after people started seeing it as a platform for something more than just a way to share what you ate for lunch. Though, there are some people (family, friends) where I want to see random, "purposeless" updates.
- Cassidy
I deal with annoying FB statuses by checking them via Digsby's FB chat feature only. That shows only the people who're online and is a lot more manageable. + it allows me to use the site without actually having to be on it
- LANjackal
from IM
@LANjackal- thanks SO much for that suggestion- I'm going to look into it! @Cassidy, you're right- I want to see the random BS updates from friends and family, just not complete strangers that I could care less about...I know that sounds harsh but, once you belong to a couple of these things it gets tedious to scroll through.
- DJ Evoke
Too many apps to try out, too few people to try them out with
- Steve Joseph
tiny urls, multiple retweets, hashtags in the middle of sentences
- Sivan Mozes
using any social media tag which I do. Only I use it and most of my visitor don't know what is that.
- Arafat Hossain Piyada
people who complain about the way other people use social media.
- Laura Norvig
baseless bashing and the profusion of FB poke/tickle/hug/heart/kiss/kick/kidnap/smack/thwack/bleep apps (disclaimer: I'm addicted to the Zynga and Zyngalike games, so I probably tick some people off)
- MiniMage (FakeLifePerson)
@LANjackal - add 'Social Media Evangelist' to #9 of your list.
- Andrew Eglinton
I hate memes and animated gifs. Retweets too.
- Paul Grav
..ppl that use ping.fm to blast the same boring crap to 9 different socnets. rly? your group of Twitter friends aren't the same as ur fb and ff buddies? lol!
- Sean MacDhai
from iPhone
Funny that you asked. I am annoyed by my own posts that get duplicated or posted more than twice because of the other sites that I aggregated(?) with other social sites. FF for example. I attached a lot of my social networks to it, then a post hits twitter, then twitter hits FB, then FB hits my blogs and you got the idea. Then my twitter and friendfeed end up receiving and reposting the same post that originated from soup.io for example. Any suggestion?
- RON08
Sites that limit the No. of characters in your password and won't let you add special characters $%&#@
- Franc ☺
Facebook mail from groups. (fan pages are better than groups as you don't need to spam people's mail boxes to get a message across, you simply use the status for all to see, so with that, consider deleting your group and move it all to a fan page instead) :D peace.
- Franc ☺
Mine, when people keep on posting advertisiment without getting involved in the conversation.
- Abad A. Perez
I was thinking about this very subject last night till I got Overwhemed.
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
It is one word. I was separating the words for emphasis. edit: And I'm overwhemed with the response.
- Yolanda
Yolanda, its ok to admit that you thought over whemed is too words. Really.
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
lulz. Brent, i d i d n o t t h i n k t h a t i t w a s t o o w o r d s. o r e v e n t w o w o r d s.
- Yolanda
I understand Yolanda - Pats her shoulder - this will all end soon and you can get back to things that won't drive you wonkers.
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
So, it is one word and whelmed is a word by itself but it kinda means the same thing as overwhelmed but that doesn't make sense because "ordinary" and "extraordinary" don't really have the same meanings.
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Z, this is English we are talking about here... it doesn't make sense at all.
- Yolanda
whem (hwlm, wlm) tr.v. whemed, whem·ing, whems 1. Absolute BS, lacking in any meaning what so ever. 2. To overwhem. [Middle Brunglish whemen, to overdrive with BS, probably alteration (influenced by hemen, to Bury in stink material) of wheven, from Old Brungle -hwefan (as in hwefan, to Stink it up royal)
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
Rules for the english language are not to be used by the layman. They should only be applied in strict laboratory conditions after a full risk assessment by health and safety. Rules for the English language are subject to change at any time and for any word or group of words.
- Sir Slippy of Slippington
Sir Slippy, You failed to Overwhelm me with your dissertation.
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
Don't worry, Brent, I'll take care of that unwanted capital 'O' for you. :-)
- Sir Slippy of Slippington
Actually I stand corrected. Whem is of some actual use after all - http://www.whem.com/ It also stands for World Harvest Eagle Ministries. Go figure.
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
Are there any "Being an asshole for success" self-help books out there? Time to turn over a new leaf. Conscience, you're fired!
- Sir Slippy of Slippington
I love how Governor Patterson chose a lieutenant governmor without even thinking about the NYS Constitution. Yeah, I know he wants to solve the stalemate in the State Senate, but there must be other ways to do it. I mean, he said he checked and said it was okay, but it's unconstitutional, according to Andrew Quomo. I wish both sides would get...
i only call my wife "hon". she calls me "darling"...that is, whenever she isn't calling me "fat-assed saint" or "white ghost". :P
- Dead Silence
Sparky - I had never met this guy. I still don't know his name. He asked me a random question and when I gave him an informative answer, he thanked me and called me "hon." That's a major no-no. Friends are a different matter.
- Katy S
Do NOT move to Baltimore. Everybody is addressed as "hon."
- m9m
Does Baltimore count as The South? I can forgive regionalisms. This was a smarmy patriarchal "hon" used in the upper Midwest.
- Katy S
My grandmother once ranted about this (helps to know my grandmother is a drama queen) and proclaimed she'd rather be called shithead than 'honey'. My father started using that as her nickname...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
LOL @ Tina. Maybe the man is southern? It's common for southerners to do that, especially older men towards younger women. It's very common for strangers to call you "sweetie," "hon," "sugar," etc. They don't mean anything by it.
- Trish R
I'm a Southern man. I have been known to refer to a woman as hon, or darlin. It's genetic. I haz a sorry.
- Gunny The Fuzzball ™
Yeah, I know that about the south. He did not sound the least bit southern. He really did come off as smarmy. Trust me, I can tell the difference. Gunny, it's ok. Like I said, I know it's common in the South and when southerners do it, it really doesn't sound like it did coming from this guy.
- Katy S
*starts calling every woman "hon" cos he's from the South and apparently can get away with it...even tho he doesn't have a Southern accent*
- Dead Silence
DS - not every woman who isn't from the South makes regional allowances like I do! Some take serious offense to any and all uses of "hon." It is seen as a term that belittles and condescends.
- Katy S
Dear Laydeez: We are Man. We are genetically predisposed to feel affectionate towards and protective of female Laydeez such as yourselves. Some of us will use terms of endearment that we grew up hearing from our families and so forth. Please don't be insulted when we use them, we's just bein' nice.
- Sir Slippy of Slippington
LOL! Slippy is dead on with that one. I have to catch myself sometimes because I don't want females to think I'm patronizing them or something.
- Rahsheen ™
When trying to excuse a seriously low salary for a position as to "the Economy is bad" is really poor on your part. You need someone with certain skills and experience to handle the position that is more like a team of 3. Your not going to get Mad Tech Skills/Customer Service God experience on India Call Center wages in the California Bay Area.
Make all the reassurances of friendship you like, but if you don't actually communicate anything to me, I can't offer anything in return. That's not friendship, that's just acquaintance
Dude, I don't want any of your bootleg camcorder captures of new movies. Maybe you've forgotten, but I introduced you to bittorrent. Please don't ask me again.
Crap. Have you ever upgraded & PAID for a whole year of premium service, then FORGOT you'd done that?? I could have been using this service all this time and had even been paying for another service that duplicates the main features!! Now I only have 2 months left before the next year's bill is due! I could seriously STRANGLE myself!!!
Never completely forgot I think but in a way I half forgot, I mean did not think about it and didn't act although I didn't completely forget, it was procrastination. You think you have plenty of time to start using the service and then time goes quickly. It's like those people that pay the gym for a year go twice and then keep saying tomorrow, tomorrow and they hardly ever go again.
- M F
Right! I know I purchased the whole year thinking I had plenty of time to utilize it, then life problems happened and it shoved it to the back of my mind. Meanwhile time was flying by, then my memory goes into FAIL mode, I seriously hate seeing money go to waste like that. I quit getting gym memberships a long time ago for those very reasons you mentioned M F.
- Jannifer Stoddard
If it doesn't have a children's room, then if they know their kids are loud, then they shouldn't bring them.
- Shevonne
Loud children do not belong in an academic library. Those libraries are not designed or intended for children. If a kid can be quiet and read next to mom/dad/whomever, that's great, but children who need to be entertained will be miserable there (and will make everyone else miserable, too).
- Katy S
The mom says to me "yes, there's a baby in here. That's my kid." when I came out to see what was going on. Not even sure why they were here other than to check email. Go to the public library to do that and you can also have your kid entertained. Sorry, I'm a grump about this stuff. Probably one of my few pet peeves when it comes to the library. I'm pretty lenient with other stuff, like...
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- LLL
I completely understand. I use to teach more non-trad students, and occasionally we'd have a situation in which a child was brought to class. Fortunately, the 2 or 3 times it happened in my course, the kids were old enough to behave and sit and color/read/or something. Also, the parents asked first and said they would leave w/child if there was any sort of disruption. However, I have...
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- Katy S
Oh yes. I remember a few of those times too. And I usually got spanked when that happened. We had a parent during spring semester who was bringing her child with her to class (no permission) and the kid had SARS.
- LLL
Oh that is one of my most annoying pet peeves, ESPECIALLY when it comes to the library. Whenever I go there, I want it to be quiet so I can read or research something and cannot stand noisy children in places like that! Those parents have no respect for others! I honestly don't understand it. I never allowed my kids to disrupt others. And since neither of mine were quiet or still, I...
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- Jannifer Stoddard
It's so annoying when some parents view places like that as a form of free entertainment for their kids. I've seen so many just let their kids be extremely disruptive and it's almost like they want other people to babysit or entertain their kids. Maybe I just don't have that much patience. But whenever my kids were acting up, I removed them from the premises immediatetely or at least take them aside & give them a strong warning and notice of consequences if they did not settle down.
- Jannifer Stoddard
I ate my dinner late yesterday because I had to wait for FIVE hours at my eye doctor's. I'm not upset about that though, because he's a retina specialist and he had an emergency in the early afternoon. I was more peeved at the other patients getting upset. When you have an appointment like checking the retina, it does take longer and the doctor.
does have emergencies that come up. Why I'm bitching is that I had a late dinner and I had a Caribbean tofu sandwich for dinner. Well, that made my gallbladder go nuts and I ended up in the ER with a gallbladder attack. The doctor didn't seem concerned though and gave me an IV painkiller. I'm now feeling good. I just have to realize Caribbean anything means spicy. Spicy foods are a no no for me. D'OH
- Molly
The "new rules" on FF indicate to me I can't or won't meet the prerequisites. I admit... I haven't the time. If someone can make a "it's you, not FriendFeed" argument, I'm listening, attentively!
- Richard Walker *cultUtee*
from Bookmarklet
I've been pretty reluctant to come to any "conclusions" but I don't think it's ever going back to the way it was... unless they turn off real time.
- Richard Walker *cultUtee*
I'm totally gonna steal from Steven Perez and explain why FriendFeed isn't working for me anymore. Here's why. (scobleized argument follows)
- Richard Walker *cultUtee*
simple yes or no question.. one hour, one ferris bueller video, and one set of trained pet *crickets* later...
- Richard Walker *cultUtee*
You can always turn off real time while you're visiting here. Otherwise, if it's not working for you, then it's not working for you. There are a lot of old features I want back NOW. I'm not happy with the changes at all, but RT is the least of my issues with the site.
- Anika Malone
It's not that I can't handle RT - it's the unintended side effects of hgow or whether stuff can ever get noticed... it's much much more important when you make a post... and that makes the time issue even more constraining
- Richard Walker *cultUtee*
from Android
It would be a lot better if I could "unpublish" or "delay for publication" or easily modify the "to"... if something isn't working I could figure out whether to add certain rooms, or whatever...
- Richard Walker *cultUtee*
"What was called a horrible situation was taken care of on Friday by Angola Police and the Steuben County Humane Society after nearly 40 cats were found in an empty Angola apartment. Angola Police Detective Tim Crooks says police were first notified of the situation late on Thursday after neighbors saw several cats jumping out a second floor apartment window at the Top of the Hill complex on North Cross near Carlin Place. Police found the apartment was filled with feces and dead or dying animals. Some of the cats were as young as a week old. Crooks called the apartment an absolute mess and its condition was one of the worst things he has seen during his years of law enforcement work. He says 29 of the cats were taken to the Humane Shelter. Other cats were either dead or had escaped by jumping out a window. The apartment had been empty for about two weeks and Crooks says there was no food or water left for the cats. Crooks says no arrests have been made but they are looking for the person who last rented the apartment. He adds criminal charges will be pursued."
- Katy S
from Bookmarklet
The shelter is having a free cat adoption day this coming Saturday. They already had way too many kitties. Wish I could take some more in.
- Katy S
Whoa! I am going to send this to my parents - who also live in Angola. (Speaking of which, would you like to meet some time when I am visiting them?)
- Laura H.
This is so one sided. I left those cats plenty of food and water
- vosey
from iPhone
Sadly, the 29 cats the shelter took in had to be euthanized b/c they were so sick. They are still finding cats in the general vicinity, so hopefully those kitties are healthy and can be trapped and found good homes.
- Katy S
Fwd: does *cultUtee* scan for anybody? It's like "amputee" pretending "amp" is limb and "utee" is ... you know... the "ectomy" or "otomy" thing. Crashintame Carotomy. Cultintame Cultotomy. (via http://friendfeed.com/reechar...)
Also - praying is just meditation, expecting a response is calling on the supernatural.
- Sir Slippy of Slippington
@Kim, well, isn't it? An activity where you ask for advice and/or forgiveness from a mythical "deity," who may or may not have existed in the past; may or may not have had pimples and bad breath; may or may not had been more often wrong than right (as most of us are); and so on. So believing in that deity's powers of whatever (=as in "addressing prayers" to) is not believing in supernatural?
- ianf ⌘
*thinks about bursting into a high pitched rendition of "I'm Your Lady And You Are My Man" but decides it wouldn't help*
- Johnny Worthington
Goddang! "Hay Paw! You need yer walker?" FML...Seriously.
- Sue Radd
Hey, be fair, this is very difficult territory for a guy. "Do I introduce her as friend? Lover? Intended? Casual screw? Occasional aquaintance? Person I secretly hate? Dinner?"
- Sir Slippy of Slippington
Safe to say Friend. Then it leaves it open. Granted it could piss her off considering she may think its more. But if you want a title change then put in the proper forms.. ;)
- CW™
I used to work with a guy who referred to his girlfriend as his "lady friend". I mean, on a regular basis. It became a running joke with the rest of our department. Because it just sounded so damn seedy...
- tinypants (Amanda H)
I am now a firm believer that is what is the past is the past. Tried to be friends with this guy once again, and he is causing drama. He got all pissy when I left camping early, then wrote me a two-paged message, and now I get on FB real quick, and he IMs me saying that he is upset that I told people I wasn't feeling it. Who cares?!
I wasn't feeling it means I was damn tired and wanted to go. I told him that he needs to let go of this drama cause it's ridiculous and got off FB. Honestly, I don't need this shit and drama. I think I am going to end this friendship before it starts.
- Shevonne
Thanks, all. The sore throat complaint appears to have been shortlived. He's still running a fever at night and early in the morning - I don't know what the heck it is/was. A little runny nose with it. I think it's on the way out.
- Laura Norvig