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daniel silveira posted a link

Democrat vs republican word cloud

10 hours ago - Link

Keith Pelczarski, Mack D. Male and Rachel L Fisher liked this

Very interesting! - Rachel L Fisher

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936 Little Blobs

Thursday at 8:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Alex Gawley, Keith Pelczarski, Tony, Kelly Fox and 28 other people liked this

"Last month went by pretty quickly, didn't it? One month is not a very long time, but the fact of the matter is that the life expectancy (in the United States) is only about 936 months. Life sure looks different to me when I can see my whole life displayed before me as 936 little blobs." - ⓞnor via Bookmarklet

936 is a pretty big number though, when used to count big things like months. - Alex Mendes da Costa

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@Akazilliona, your puny optimism will be crushed by ⓞnor's pessimism. - j1m

John Maeda's spring counter http://www.maedastudio.com/200... - Shakeel Mahate

I figure I have about 40 years left, and I'm starting to look at 40 1-year projects... what should they be? what would be the most impactful? the most useful to the world? running for political office, McCain's speech aside, is NOT one of them!!! - Justin Long

Well, that would depend on what you're good at... - ⓞnor

...and what you want to become good at. - Kevin Fox

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

The year old, "CIA Coke Plane" story has finally gone mainstream. Score one for supposedly unreliable internet reporting!

22 hours ago - Link

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Tudor Bosman posted a link

Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Wednesday at 9:07 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Robert Felty, Keith Pelczarski, Azeem, Michael J Cohen and 12 other people liked this

"As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling." - Tudor Bosman via Bookmarklet

oh no! Does that mean the sky is going to start falling real soon? - Chris Loft

Chris: Only if the higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, decides to start pushing it down. - Tudor Bosman

Gravity is just a theory... I choose not to believe it, therefore I can fly - Jason Carreira

Jason: "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Tudor Bosman

"The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind that it's going to hurt. That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground. Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard. Clearly, it is the second part, the missing, which presents the difficulties." - Tudor Bosman

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

Letter from someone who has known Palin for 16 years, sums it all up.

Wednesday at 7:13 pm - Link

Jeff P. Henderson, Jennifer Taylor, AlexScoble(Robert'sBro), Eugene and 19 other people liked this

Is this for real or just some hoax? - AJ Kohn

It's on the internet so it's obviously true ;-) - Kirk Kittell

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I see the author 'Anne' doesn't sign her last name. That could be written by any Obamatron. - Peter Simard

Peter, if you read the letter, she says "If you google my name (Anne Kilkenny + Alaska), you will find references to my participation in local government, education, and PTA/parent organizations." A NY Times article also quotes her: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09... - Paul Buchheit

Her "loyalty above competence" description actually sounds a lot like GWB or HRC (and many other politicians I'm sure). - Paul Buchheit

Thanks Paul. - Peter Simard

Her letter is obviously authentic -- she fought Palin's attempts to ban books at the local library and fire the librarian. Apparently the author is on Palin's permanent enemies list for standing up for free speech and against censorship. She may be able to enlighten us about which books Palin wanted to ban. Are there any would-be book banners on Friendfeed? Why would anyone who values free speech support Sarah Palin? - Sean McBride

I can't believe that McCain actually found a woman who would NOT draw Hillary supporters! - Gabe Schaffer

I saw the NY Times article but she's attributed as Ann, not Anne. I like the content of this letter and do not support Palin in the slightest. But I want to ensure this isn't cooked up. There's plenty of other stuff that is incontrovertible. - AJ Kohn

"She’s not very tolerant of divergent opinions or open to outside ideas or compromise. As Mayor, she fought ideas that weren’t generated by her or her staff. Ideas weren’t evaluated on their merits, but on the basis of who proposed them." - j1m

Sarah Palin is proof positive that the Republican Party is now dominated by stupidity, ignorance and fanaticism. Is this statement in the least controversial? Palin, the Christian fundamentalist book censor, doesn't even know basic American history. She believes the Pledge of Allegiance (with the phrase "under God") was written by the American Founding Founders!! :) Jefferson, Franklin, Paine, Madison and the rest of the celestial crew would dismiss Palin and her confederates as utter dunces. - Sean McBride

Kevin Fox posted a link

AP: Attacks, Praise Stretch Truth At GOP Convention

Thursday at 1:10 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Shellee, Carla Thompson, Kelly Fox, Jeff Eddings and Keith Pelczarski liked this

I knew Huckabee's vote count comparison was a lie, and I planned to research the facts on that today. Glad I was beaten to it. - Stephen Mack

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

Jesse Ventura Speech at Campaign for Liberty 9/02/08. Guns Are Not for Hunting and The Hell With The Patriot Act

Wednesday at 1:42 am - Link

Robert Haas, Sean McBride, Brian Hendrickson, Alex Mendes da Costa and silpol liked this

Why can't Ventura run for president? - Gabe Schaffer

Interesting.,. maybe one debate can be freestyle wrestling... - Clare Dibble

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I assume you all know that Ventura is a vigorous 9/11 skeptic. - Sean McBride

"Let me tell you sumthin' Mean Gene, politicians in Washington have been violating our civil liberties for far too long, and this year at Electionmania XLIV I am going to bodyslam those puny rights-stealing twerps and put the pride back in America!" I really dig this speech, and am a cautious fan of Ventura's, sort of like how I enjoy a good thunderstorm as long as I have a safe building from which to watch it. That 9/11 denial stuff is pretty wacky, though. Kind of like Scientology or Flat Earth. Oy. - Keith Pelczarski

Actually, Ventura seems to be much better informed about the facts of 9/11 than defenders of the official story, who have seen one Bush 43 administration official conspiracy theory after another collapse before their eyes. - Sean McBride

i have no idea about 9/11, but the pennsylvania and pentagon things have always made my bs detector go ping - Gregory Lent

Well, no doubt remains about the 9/11 anthrax attacks -- according to the FBI they were a false flag op and inside job. And the FBI doesn't even consider Osama bin Laden to be a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. - Sean McBride

I guess Ventura would know a thing or two about staged events. Seriously, though, if that's the only thing wrong with him, I'd vote for him in a heartbeat. It would help if his VP is Kucinich's wife, too. :) - Gabe Schaffer

Gabe -- funny line about staged events. :) I like the guy because he is totally real and a classical American libertarian (with a small "l"). He's the real deal. He has zero tolerance for bullshit. - Sean McBride

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Typewriters Morph Into Creepy Sci-Fi Creatures

Wednesday at 8:58 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

"Jeremy Mayer collects antique typewriters, but he doesn't display them in a curio cabinet. Instead, he tears them apart, then turns the components into sleek, sci-fi-inspired bugs, skeletons and anatomically correct human figures." - Keith Pelczarski via Bookmarklet

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Rare albino whale shark photographed - Telegraph

Tuesday at 2:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Georgia Diehl and Rachel L Fisher liked this

It's the great white whale, uh, shark. Captain Ahab would've been so disappointed. - Keith Pelczarski via Bookmarklet

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Skullcrusher Mountain on Rock Band

Tuesday at 10:47 am - Link

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someecards.com | ecards for when you care enough to hit send

Tuesday at 12:16 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Jeremy Hylton, Chad Thornton, patrick collison, Alexander Rode and 37 other people liked this

Wait, Herbert Hoover gave his endorsement already? Who'd he pick? - Vincent Ferrari

Was Hoover actually the worst, or did he mainly have bad timing? I don't recall that he started any big wars anything like that. - Paul Buchheit

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I like this one:http://www.someecards.com/uplo... - Gabe Schaffer

if starting wars is the criteria, wouldnt ie korea/vietnam be bigger? - bob

we didn't start the korean war, and we kinda-sorta didn't start vietnam - Jeremy Raines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... says "Ranking at the bottom of most polls are Warren G. Harding, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan." - ⓞnor

It's nice to see that Pat Buchanan is following in his forefather's footsteps. - Gabe Schaffer

This entry is in the most liked list of ffholic.com! Congrats! :) - FFholic.com

James Williams (willia4) posted a message

“I would pay top dollar for a prescription which could turn me into an extrovert.”

August 31 at 4:11 pm - via mail2ff - Link

I'm not kidding. Does this exist? - James Williams (willia4) via mail2ff

I'd be in line as well. And I'd actually been wondering this past week if it exists as well. - Araceli

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LOL Now I'm picturing the #CHS TweetUp as a bunch of wall flowers staring at the ground in dead silence. - Paul Reynolds

Aha! I wouldn't be in this picture you're painting because alas I have not made it to a meetup. - Araceli

Me too. - Eleonora

Do you drink? Have you tried? - Brian Johns

What Brian said. - Keith Pelczarski

Brian Johns posted a message

“Back from 5 day vacation. Not sure if I'm even going to try to catch up on FriendFeed...”

Monday at 9:41 pm - Link

In the same boat with catching up...no 5 day vacation, but been out of FF for 3 days - Justin Korn

welcome home. - Zee at WeDoCreative

Welcome back. When we got back from our recent vacation, I used the "best of week" list to cheat on catching up. - Keith Pelczarski

Keith Pelczarski posted a link

Shih Chieh Huang

Monday at 10:01 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Interesting art patched together from plastic bags, leds, old PC fans, etc. We saw some of his work at the San Jose Museum of Art this summer, and were really taken with it. - Keith Pelczarski via Bookmarklet

You might also like this: I used to work at a museum in Massachusetts that had this exhibit: http://www.massmoca.org/event_..., which deals with similar types of medium. Again using plastic bags and old junk for art, but in this case Tim Hawkinson had made a giant working organ out of the bags and cardboard tubes and the like. It was amazingly cool, you just don't want to stick your head in one of the organ pipe/tubes when its playing, or at least not often! ;) - Rachel L Fisher

Josh Donoghue posted a message on Twitter

“My mom just took me for a drive down memory lane and when we stopped short, she clotheslined my neck with her forearm. #70sSeatbelt”

September 1 at 5:49 pm - Link

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Sarah Austin posted an entry on Pop17 dot com

1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now.

September 1 at 3:33 pm - Link

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daniel silveira posted a link

Sarah Palin's Pregnancy Decision Map

September 1 at 10:48 am - Link

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Rafe Needleman posted a message on Twitter

“Google "starting from scratch" with own browser. This is big. http://ping.fm/Dv3Sm”

September 1 at 11:53 am - Link

Ray Metzen, Keith Pelczarski, david beckwith, Paul Buchheit and 10 other people liked this

Knol, Chrome. Are these signs of Google losing its 'authenticity' touch, becoming a follower (imitator) rather than leader? - Yung-Hui Lim

You can still do something similar to others and be a leader. - Veronica

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Yung-Hui Lim: Not at all, I say, pointing to the Big Picture - Kevin Cearns

doesn't the name "chrome" doom them to always have a chrome front end on the thing? the name needs work. - robert steburg

Robert, I agree. The comic explains why they called it this, but I think it has bad connotations. - Rafe Needleman via twhirl

Veronica, that's why I see no big deal of this, as it's more evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Definitely, not 'blue ocean' ;) Maybe that's Google's operating principles. Taking existing product ideas and make them 'awesomely' better. They definitely succeed with search engine. They're using the same principles with Knol and web browser. - Yung-Hui Lim

Will Google Chrome have any kind of plug-in architecture? Last thing I want to see is hundreds of forks of the Chrome code just because it's open source... - Jonathan Wong via twhirl

Yes, there's a section in the comic about plugins and security - Rafe Needleman via twhirl

do Batman and Robin feature? Wonder where the comic concept came from - weblivz via twhirl

Re: Google's originality. Search? er no. Web Based Mail? Web Based Maps? er no. They have however mostly jumped into a market already dominated by others and made something which has better than the rest. I'm interested to see what is new with this browser. - Stuart Woodward

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Cheney Waits Until Last Minute Again To Buy Sept. 11 Gifts | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

September 1 at 1:24 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Josh Staiger, Ňicķ, Brad Nickel, j1m and Keith Pelczarski liked this

"I looked at the calendar yesterday, and I couldn't believe my eyes—9/11 is almost here!" a rosy-cheeked Cheney said upon returning to the White House Sunday with two giant bags overflowing with gift-wrapped boxes and big red bows. "It's the most wonderful time of the year." While Cheney is known by many to be cold and taciturn for the other 11 months of the year, those close to the vice president say there is something about the 9/11 season that puts a smile on his face and a spring in his step. Each Sept. 11 morning since 2001, Cheney has come to work donning a fireman costume and handed out small, thoughtful gifts to all White House staffers. In addition, at his home on 9/11 Eve, Cheney lays out large piles of presents for his children and grandchildren underneath the colorfully lit, six-foot-tall 9/11 towers that he sets up by the fireplace." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"No, 9/11 is about the warm feeling you get when you help an elderly woman cross the street and then whisper to her that the terrorists can strike at any moment" - what kind of a pov is this ? - Krishna Gade

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I think I got it, but anyway: wat? - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

"Although Cheney himself has never received any Sept. 11 gifts, with the exception of a pair of silk pajamas from his wife and a second term in office, he insisted that he gets more joy from giving than receiving." - Roberto Bonini

For those who don't know, The Onion is humor. - Paul Buchheit

That is brilliant! - Brad Nickel

lol@Paul's last comment. Occasionally I almost forget, it's all so well produced. Heh, in some cases, Onion news items do get eerily close to the truth though. - Slippy Lane

not just humor but satire. Biting, evil, but oh so funny satire. - Sujal Shah

Keith Pelczarski shared an item on Google Reader

Report: Massive, warrantless raids on peace protesters in Minneapolis, ahead of RNC.

August 31 at 10:08 pm - Link

Brian Johns liked this

Is the frequency and brashness of this type of police thuggery increasing, or is the coverage, or both? It shouldn't really be a surprise, I suppose, given the Bush administration's total disrespect for our civil liberties (not to mention the constitution). The legislature should be ashamed of themselves for going along for the ride. January 20th can't come soon enough! - Keith Pelczarski

Uh... "Not Like"? - Brian Johns

Paul Buchheit favorited a video on YouTube

Pat Buchanan Loved Obama's Convention Speech

August 29 at 8:17 pm - Link

Steve Olson, Tom Stocky, Keith Pelczarski, Paul Haahr and 18 other people liked this

Say wha? *insert cartoon jaw dropping like image here* - AJ Kohn

A very honest analysis. You've got to give him credit for that. - Jason Carreira

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PB FTW! - martinmedia

@Jason Who are you and what have you done with the real Jason Carreira? - Cyndy

Despite some of his fringe beliefs, Buchanan has always been a true thinker in a traditional sense, and not always wedded to the blind faith that replaced the party of Reagan with the fanaticism of Bush - Duncan Riley

Buchanan has become much more sane in recent years. - William Harryman

Pat Buchanan sounded rather dynamic reading Obama's text. - Chris Baskind

@William, let's not take this out of context and go too far. He's still a nut. - Jason Carreira

I say we all pitch in and get him some reading glasses. Waddaya say? - AJ Kohn

I said "more sane," he still has a ways to go. But I have seen other examples in recent months where he seemed to have a clue. - William Harryman

I don't get it. Seems so out of character. - Andrew Warner

Doesn't make up for all the other things that have come out of his mouth... - J. Abdul-Qahhar

It's just bizarre. There's clearly some professional admiration here - the man was a Nixon speechwriter after all - but I doubt that covers it. I'd love to know what his agenda is. Hatred of McCain? - Paul Haahr

Searching for [buchanan mccain] turns up lots of references to Buchanan saying that McCain as President would make "Cheney look like Gandhi." No love lost there. - Paul Haahr

Kevin Fox posted a message on Twitter

“Another Kevin Fox keeps using my email address when booking hotels. Next week when he checks in to the Hyatt there'll be a message for him.”

August 28 at 3:50 pm - Link

Hutch Carpenter, Jeff Eddings, Denton Gentry, Dan Hsiao and 15 other people liked this

You should get there first and check in. - Braden Kowitz

I'm suspicious. Why is he using your email address? Unless they're just sending it to the address they already have on file (not realizing it's a different Kevin Fox). You should call and make sure they have the "right" Hyatt rewards number (yours). - Cyrus Lendvay

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He's using kevin.fox@gmail.com, an email I don't use, but which I have. Sometimes it's a hotel, sometimes a UPS package, sometimes a conference registration. I don't think it's nefarious, just that he probably has a similar email address but forgets... - Kevin Fox

Maybe he couldn't get kevin.fox@gmail.com and so went for something very close (kevin.foxx maybe) and always forgets? - Benjamin Golub

you should hire a local to leave him a bag of $#it at the front desk. - Dustin

Ben: That's what I suspect. Dustin: Why? I don't harbor him any ill will. I just want him to know he's using my email address by mistake. - Kevin Fox

Better, you should leave him flowers with a note letting him know he's using the wrong email address. - Cyrus Lendvay

I'm sorry, I guess I'm just a little too fresh off of my recent Ebay scam where I was ousted $800 and a lens. - Dustin

Is his address in some of these reservations? At worst you could send SnailMail[tm], an ancient communication type which uses a very inefficient, but generally reliable transport mechanism. If the message is of considerable size, just be sure it's using the African Swallow transport rather than the European. - George Saj

This is happening to me too! There's another Jeanette who continually uses my email address for online purchases. I get her order confirmations all the time. Boy does she buy some crazy stuff... - Jeanette Martinez

This is happening to me too! There's another Kevin Fox who has taken control of my gmail account, and is sending me flowers at every hotel I visit. - Amit Patel

+1 Amit :) - Dan Hsiao

I got an email receipt for another Keith P. the other day for a book on eugenics and nazis and stuff. Oy. - Keith Pelczarski

+1 as well. My notes were from his circle of friends, and I even found the guy due to another address. When his friends still did it a year later, I created filters to reply back to them all with the same note then delete it from gmail. It's gotta be a little confusing to the sender to get it right back... with FW: on it. - Jason Silverstein

Rachel L Fisher posted a link

Inhabitat » PREFAB FRIDAY: ZeroHouse Shows Nothing is Everything

August 27 at 10:53 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Keith Pelczarski, Ragani Harris and Dave Lovely liked this

Want! - Ragani Harris

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Do What With My Mom! | WorthaLaugh.com

August 26 at 7:40 am - Link

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ha - Ross Miller

yikes! - Skye Miller

Keith Pelczarski posted a message

“Embedded video playback bug?”

August 26 at 10:23 pm - Link

I wasn't sure where to file FF bugs, so I'm hoping that one of y'all who follows me will notice this and forward it to the appropriate Friendfeeder. When playing back an embedded YouTube video on FF, clicking on the more comments link stops the playback and closes the little embedded window. Unexpected and a bit of a bummer. Could y'all look into fixing that? Thanks! - Keith Pelczarski

Kevin Fox posted a link

The Styrobot | Geekdad from Wired.com

August 26 at 12:34 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Why did I just recycle all my styrofoam?? - Kevin Fox via Bookmarklet

Heh... I had a similar thought when I saw Michael Salter's styrobot (http://michaelasalter.com/artw...) at the SJ Museum of Art. Salter's bot is over 20 feet tall, and it's showing as part of the robot exhibit until October 19th (http://www.sjmusart.org/conten...). We rather enjoyed the whole museum, but Salter's styrobot was particularly excellent. - Keith Pelczarski

Keith Pelczarski shared an item on Google Reader

Bad Dad: Celebrity Baby Names

August 24 at 10:36 pm - Link

Bad baby naming isn't just limited to celebrities. My Mom says that she went to school with twins named Mac and Ernie McInerny. Oof. Also, I'm not sure which surprises me more: 1) that someone knew the real name of "Puck" from the Real World or 2) that he was included as a "celebrity." I was not surprised that his child's names include "Bogart" and "Peyote." - Keith Pelczarski

Jessie Norris posted a link

An amazing economics experiment and how it got field workers to pick a lot more fruit. - By Tim Harford - Slate Magazine

August 23 at 11:02 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

Keith Pelczarski, Anne Bouey, Daniel Feygin, Roger Benningfield and 5 other people liked this

"Bandiera and her colleagues proposed a different way of adjusting the piece rate: Managers would test-pick the field to see how difficult it was and set the rate accordingly, thus preventing the workers from engaging in a collective go-slow. (If the managers made a mistake in their estimate, and the pickers didn't earn minimum wage, Farmer Smith would make up the shortfall with an extra payment. This rarely happened.) The economists measured the result. By the time the experiment was over, Farmer Smith's initial skepticism had long evaporated: The new pay scheme increased productivity (kilograms of fruit per worker per hour) by about 50 percent." - Jessie Norris via Bookmarklet

bob posted a link

6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

August 23 at 10:02 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Anthony Citrano, Olifante, Piaw Na, Ňicķ and 8 other people liked this

"Basic math—which the child has blissfully yet to learn—clearly demonstrates that the number of years before he will be released from the horrifying prison of formal schooling, is more than twice the length of time he has yet existed. According to a conservative estimate of six hours of school five days a week for nine months of the year, Bolduc faces an estimated 14,400 hours trapped in an endless succession of nearly identical, suffocating classrooms. This nightmarish but undeniably real scenario does not take into account additional time spent on homework, extracurricular responsibilities, or college, sources said. "I can't wait until school is over," said the 3-foot-tall tragic figure, who would not have been able, if asked, to contemplate the amount of time between now and summer, let alone the years and years of tedium to follow." - bob via Bookmarklet

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FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments

August 22 at 12:29 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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hahaha - Emily Miller via Bookmarklet