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It that what it takes to get the Public Option so be it! - Maximum Health

I'm trying keep a straight face as I imagine wolf blitzer solemnly reporting this from the situation room. - Roberto Bonini from iPhone

See? Told you so. - Akiva Moskovitz

Did anyone die of dysentery? - Johnny Worthington

"Something amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about 150 miles inland, west of the port of Maputo. It is the remains of a huge metropolis that measures, in conservative estimates, about 1500 square miles. It's part of an even larger community that is about 10,000 square miles and appears to have been constructed -- are you ready -- from 160,000 to 200,000 BCE" - Neal Jansons from Bookmarklet

I think that if a technological singularity is plausible at some point in the future. it is just as plausible to think that it has already happened in the past. That link refers to some of the writings of one of the founders of a modern American religion. When you show it to current practitioners they think it is fiction. Kind of funny really. - Eric Logan

via nasa.gov Astronaut Robert Satcher uses a digital still camera to expose take a self-portrait during the STS-129 mission's first spacewalk. ... - Helen Sventitsky from Posterous

Now that's a self portrait. - Michael W. May

Wow. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

tofurkey. - Joe Silence

was just looking at Tofurkey, it DOES look like meat! (with a lot of good-looking stuffing) I agree with John (a.k.a. dendroica) tho, non-meat-like veg is better! - PetuniaGreenBeans

mensvictrix posted a new favorite picture (via): - ★Kristy

so.awesome (via matt cutts) - Jenna Bilotta

“Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing dollars in favor of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback...” | “Global central banks are getting more serious about diversification, whereas in the past they used to just talk about it,” said Steven Englander, a former Federal Reserve researcher who is now the chief U.S. currency strategist at Barclays in New York. “It looks like they are really backing away from the dollar.” - Anthony Citrano from Bookmarklet

It's likely to hit parity with the Canadian dollar by next week. - Micah Wittman

"MINNEAPOLIS—Following the Yankees' Game 3 victory over the Twins in the ALDS Sunday, Alex Rodriguez demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of the most basic celebratory techniques when he broke bottles of champagne over several of his teammates' heads. "We were all screaming and cheering, but he just laughed in this weird monotone for a minute or so, then lifted his arm straight up, smashed a bottle on Melky [Cabrera]'s head, and rubbed the shards of glass into Melky's eyes," teammate Robinson Cano said. "He fired a cork into [Nick] Swisher's face from point-blank range, too. Then he just ran around in tiny circles for about 10 minutes. It was bizarre." Rodriguez's publicist later released a statement of apology indicating that, from this point forward, the Yankee third baseman would jump on home plate with the rest of his teammates after game-winning hits, and would no longer try to lick everyone's face." - William Harryman from Bookmarklet

"Algo que no aprendimos viendo el episodio de las aguas frescas en El Chavo del Ocho es que no sólo hay de limón, jamaica y tamarindo, sino también de horchata. Olvido que acaban de subsanar los Vampire Weekend en el primer adelanto oficial (y gratuito) de su nuevo disco, que ya tiene fecha de salida, y que sin duda pasará desde ahora a formar parte de nuestro vocabulario de mexicanismos. Por si acaso, la canción que parece electrónica es pop pero sabe a tropical." - edythe from Bookmarklet

you're very welcome, Bryan. I'm looking forward to the album, too. - edythe

Wheeeeeeeeee! - Raphael, Raphael from Bookmarklet

Holy crap, that's fantastic! - Tenshi (GuitarGuy)

Topaco has some of the greatest shirts. I need to buy some of those Dr. mcNinja shirts too. - Devin

You know you have a problem when the Wall Street Journal takes time to cover sports and to cover your team's futility. Cal plays USC at 5 Pacific tonight. #gobears - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

BTW props 2 Chris for calling Oregon's score - LANjackal

"Three days later, at an all-company meeting in the same amphitheater, Hastings announced that there would be no Netflix Player. Instead, he would spin off the device, letting developer Anthony Wood take the technology and his 19-person team to a small company Wood had founded years earlier called Roku. But Netflix, which had already begun streaming movies to users' PCs, was hardly giving up on the idea of streaming them to televisions as well. Instead, the company would take a more stealthy—and potentially even more ambitious—approach. Rather than design its own product, it would embed its streaming-video service into existing devices: TVs, DVD players, game consoles, laptops, even smartphones. Netflix wouldn't be a hardware company; it would be a services firm. The crowd was stunned. In half an hour, Hastings had completely reinvented Netflix's strategy." - Thomas Hawk from Bookmarklet

what do you mean limiting them, they work in the only country they do business in. Why don't you ask why they don't deliver discs overseas too? - Richard Lawler

a little late for summer, but could be handy for crowd control at a kegger party. - Bluesun 2600 from Bookmarklet

On second thought, I think I'd rather drink the beer. :) - Bluesun 2600

I wonder if he only took movies he liked... I cant imagine theres a big black market for dvds. Thieves use bit torrent ;) - Frankie Warren

"I didn't lose anything nor find anything nor am I selling anything. I hope you are well :)" - Jemm from Bookmarklet

I need to put one up that says, "Made ya look!" - Valley

That would have been hilarious. One of my friends was just talking about how the T and G keys are in very close proximity to each other and he tried (and failed) to send a message to some coworkers with "Regards" as the send off. =D - Bryan Zirkel

LOL @Bryan's friend. - Admiral Anika

Whoooooa! - Micah Wittman

so cool - Imabug

Really impressed with this guys. . .Keep up the good work - Kasie Okoro

I'm impressed you figured out friendfeed that quickly! Major kudos to Kasie. - Frankie Warren

With video goodness! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from Bookmarklet

The new 911s, even the Turbo, manage to avoid the gas guzzler tax. Amazing driving machines. - Kurt Starnes

"IT WAS a pact that only a true friend would keep. Before one of them was sent to fight in Afghanistan for the British Army, they made a deal: If one of them died, the other had to wear a dress to the funeral. So when Barry Delaney turned up to the graveside funeral of best friend Private Kevin Elliott, he did so wearing a tight fluorescent dress, The Times reports." - Johnny Worthington from Bookmarklet

That's what I'm talking about! HU RAH! - David Cook from fftogo