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30km! - Johnny from iPhone

Woohoo! - Kelli H. from Android

i'm doing that at work too. - imabonehead

Liked for git, puppet, and "devops" - Brian Johns

I will have a vintage globe which will tastefully match the wood paneling of my control-room/office. - Brian Johns

Mine doubles as a Death Star! It just looks like the Earth for camouflage. - Andrew C (✓)

This is so awesome! - Yvonne from FFHound!

The cupcakes.......no.... - Janet:#TeamMonique

"If you're not intimately familiar with big-league soccer or why David Beckham became so famous in the first place, watch this video. The seven-minute clip shows more than two dozen of Beckham's free kicks for goals, mostly when he played with Manchester United and Real Madrid before the Englishman joined the Galaxy in 2007." - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

"At Ford and elsewhere, a common response to the brutal intensification of work was absenteeism and high quit rates: in 1913, Ford's daily absentee rate was 10 percent, while annual turnover exceeded 350 percent. To reduce turnover, which was costly to the company, Ford doubled the daily wages of his most valued employees, to five dollars a day. This strategy was successful in stabilizing the labor force and reducing operating costs" - MoTO #TeamMonique from Bookmarklet

I'm pretty excited :) - Brent Schaus

*high fives* I can't wait to see your progress. Go Brent go! - Tamara J.

Thanks, Tam-Tam :) - Brent Schaus

In defense of pie charts ;) - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

bwahahaha - Amit Patel

"From the state that brought you the nation's first ban on climate science comes another legislative gem: a bill that would prohibit automakers from selling their cars in the state. [...] What makes it "unfair competition" as opposed to plain-old "competition"--something Republicans are typically inclined to favor--is not entirely clear. After all, North Carolina doesn't seem to have a problem with Apple selling its computers online or via its own Apple Stores." - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

My mother used to buy oleo (margarine) when she was a kid. It was white and had a dye capsule, and she got to mix it all up to make it yellow. I think she said it was sometimes pink. - Betsy #TeamMonique

Built-in extender. Yum. - ronin from Bookmarklet

Yeah I'm sure Canon had Nikon's in mind with this since Canon wildlife photogs have been clamoring for it for awhile now. - ronin

You found 9' sq. in California; that's like $1000. ;) - Jimminy IS Everybody

Jimminy, it practically is!!! We are crazy thrilled. Betsy, we moved it, on top of the garage. It is all kinds of awesome! SteVe, thanks. We love it. We got it last summer. We knew what we wanted for a long time, but it took many years to actually find it. - Rachel Lea Fox

*applause* - Anika

And he's a sane man, so I don't foresee any running-incurred injuries. At least not any serious ones lol - Brent Schaus

"You have to remember that these are people from the future. There’s nothing interesting to see here that they don’t already have. They have technology and civil rights and cuisine that you and I can’t even begin to imagine. You don’t visit small towns unless you have family still living there, and when it comes to time travel, family doesn’t really work that way." - Victor Ganata

we should at least have a couple future historians drop by wanting to know correct pronunciation of Boehner.... #postapocalypsehistoriansobviously - WarLord

I think part of what I liked about Connie Willis' time-traveling historians is that they do actually have the best of reasons for visiting both exciting and mundane locales. They're also just a hop and jump to the future from here, so being fascinated by near-human history doesn't seem misplaced or odd, since it echoes our own interest. - Jennifer Dittrich

Yes. Mostly Cristo's. - t-ra: not givin up

sometimes? my own. :P - Smaller Joe Silence

I sometimes think humans are wired to focus on the negative. It seems like you are more likely to hear someone say "man, you wouldnt believe the day I had" and have the description be of its trials and tribulations and not its positives. I have an FB friend who is lovely in person but all she ever posts on FB is how terrible things are. If you knew her only from FB you'd think she was all doom and gloom but she really isnt ... I have a hard time not reminding her how good she's got it sometimes. - Shannon - GlassMistress

"The woman, 52, had been hiking with two friends when she fell about 1,000 feet (300 meters) down the side of a steep mountain. Police believed she died from injuries sustained during the fall, the Daily Mail reports. Vultures are known to be able to sniff out the gaseous chemicals emanating from a dead body more than a mile away. "When we first went out in the helicopter looking for the body, we saw numerous vultures, without realizing what they were doing," said Maj. Didier Pericou, of the local police, as quoted in the Daily Mail. But by the time the police reached the body, there was little left to recover. "There were only bones, clothes and shoes left on the ground," Pericou said. "They took 40 to 50 minutes to eat the body."" - John (bird whisperer)

I remembered the practice in Tibet as I was reading this. - John (bird whisperer)

Probably more dangerous behind 3D gun than in front of it, though from what I've seen I'd be OK with my chances in front of it too... - WarLord

"NEW YORKER Rorie Weisberg forked out $45.00 for a one-ounce a bottle of facial gunk that promised a full night and day of “lasting perfection”. The Orthodox Jewish woman did so because she wanted something that would last her through the Sabbath. The product had to be long- lasting because it is verboten for observant Jews to apply make-up between sundown on a Friday and Saturday night. Lancôme’s new Teint Idole Ultra 24H foundation held out the promise of a full 24 hours of beauty enhancement, but apparently failed to deliver. So, according to this report, Weisberg “can’t look good and stay holy at the same time”, and she’s suing the make-up giant." - April Russo from Bookmarklet

She has to sue for unspecified damages? She can't just ask for her $45 back? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

...and of course, this being the Internet-age, she's now now been ID'd: http://lgti.me/15OGLik ...married four times, guy next to her is fiance #5 - .LAG liked that

...and weirder... http://lgti.me/15OKLiO - .LAG liked that

Exactly, but who makes the laws? The rich make them for the rich!!! Who caused the global economic crisis and who is paying the price and being punished? Not the culprits that's for sure, it's low income families, disabled/sick/elderly vulnerable people, essentially all the poor people, while being double hit with being unable to better themselves because they can't afford to go to... more... - Halil

send them to Finland for recycling - we have progressive tax scale and merely love richy boys ;) they dig escape through corporate tax rate and taking over government. But I don't loose hope for population squeezes their balls again. - A. T.

"In a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket coverage of two true-crime stories led two news anchors to conduct an odd "satellite" interview from the very same parking lot, background traffic and all." - ronin from Bookmarklet

I'm sure they had to keep the shot tight due to all the press and they didn't want audio bleed over when crazy Nancy started her HN show (she's loud if you hadn't heard), but that is kind of funny. - Eric - seven eleven

Holy crap, even if you're not buying the printer yourself, just printing the gun parts themselves would cost $1,500. - Victor Ganata

Happily, many using 3D printers are more altruistic: http://youtu.be/WT3772yhr0o - ʎəlɹoɯ uəʞ