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Mona N. posted a link
"Keeping AMEIRCA Strong" at the RNC
"Keeping AMEIRCA Strong" at the RNC
Friday at 5:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
And illiterate apparently. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Go AMEIRCA! - Mona N.
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RNC For The FAIL! - Steve Isaacs
That's kinda how W pronounces it though. "Keep Ameirca safe from the terrsts" - Tad - just Tad
From the newclear weapwns? - Mona N.
LOL Mowna :D - AJ Batac
+1 for No Child Left Behind - Michelle Martinez
++1 for War - Mona N.
+++Michelle Martinez - Anna Haro
Hrm...illiteracy tends to make for a violent personality...interesting - Rahsheen
? - Mona N.
can't read, feel violent, become a warmonger...that sort of thing - Rahsheen
Hey Dave, did you see this? - Mona N.
Because, you know, everyone in the DNC is a perfect speller right? Then again, there is at least one prominent far left blogger who spells "Canada" as "KKKanada" so that's alright then :) - Soulhuntre via twhirl
Touche, Soulhuntre. Toouuuu-cheeee. ;) - Mona N.
So "ameirca" is making some political point similar to "KKKanada"? The latter is deliberate, the former, I'm not so sure. - Jack Carlson
@soulhuntre fess up you sneeky person ... you made an intentional spelling error ... mission accomplished! clever very clever ... how do they find talent like you? - Wes Schadenfreud
Yikes. Please duke it out by the bike racks and not here :) Thank you for your cooperation! :) - Mona N.
Nucular weapons! - nouhad
I posted another one like this with a different sign. So, either they are dumb and no one is pointing it out or its photoshopped - Adam Helweh
Ameirca, F*ck yah! - Bren
Nah, pretty sure I saw these signs on TV. - Rahsheen
newclear weapwns! - Mona N.
This is what happens when you even outsource your campaign signs. - Chris Baskind
Yaaaaay, America! LOL - Mona N.
Them Republicants shore is smart, ain't they? No wonder they vote that way. - Jody C
Quiet you unpatriotic Frenchies! Criticise the uneducated and the terrorists win! LOL. - Mark O'Neill
Nice, make fun of the dyslexic people. Or maybe his child made the sign. Question, is your spelling perfect all of the time? When you're not using spell check? I really don't understand why it is acceptable to make fun of someone when you don't agree with their political views. - ChiliMac via twhirl
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Will Cupcakes Be the Next Krispy Kreme? - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
Will Cupcakes Be the Next Krispy Kreme? - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog
Friday at 5:31 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"New York City may well be the cupcake capital of America. Magnolia Bakery of Greenwich Village has produced a list of progeny very Old Testament in length: Magnolia begat Billy’s and Buttercup, and Buttercup in turn begat Sugar Sweet Sunshine. And then there are Crumbs, Cupcake Cafe (which dates to 1988) and Burgers and Cupcakes. Los Angeles appears to be hopping on the cupcake bandwagon, but New York remains the genesis of cupcake awareness. (Los Angeles, however, gave us the yogurt craze with Pinkberry.)" - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
Ohh man, I've never seen cupcakes like those - Mo Kargas
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mmmm.... :p - Anna Haro
Cupcakes are my favorite treat. Well, after peach pie drowned in milk. - Michelle Martinez
they do the whole swirl thing differently.-- it's recessed and it looks cool. - Brandon
hmmm.... - Aline
The line at Magnolia goes round the corner all day, every day... 3 bites of sweet goo and it's gone - Sally Church
I just want to slurp the icing off.... - WarMaiden
i'm gonna sound like an a-hole, but what a load of overhyped crap. lots of great bakeries all over the city that don't get any recognition and these guys are charging like $3 a cupcake or something - Cee Bee
I hope not for my Uncle's sake. He's a director for K.K. - David Cook via twhirl
+1 Cee Bee (however, if they are the crack that Krispy Kreme original glazed are fresh out of the oven, I reserve the right reverse my decision) - Michael W. May
Too. Much. Icing. - Cecily Walker
Cecily: Too much, is never enough! - RAPatton
that right there is cupcake porn...I'll be in my bunk - Aden
Cecily: Cake only exists to hold up icing. - Michelle Jones
Last year I went to Manhattan for 2 days on business, but I made room in my schedule to stop by Magnolia - Sex and the City had me sold. Unfortunately San Diego has not jumped on the cupcake train :(. - Jennifer Van Grove
Sigh - I remember when the line was only partly out the door. Still worth it (and going back to NYC for the first time in a year and think I might have to grab some) - George Smith
*sigh* Now I 'm jonesing for cupcakes - WarMaiden
I attribute part of this judgment to the fact that donuts in NYC are the absolute worst. Shockingly bad. - Meg versusMeg
I'll be making cupcakes this weekend now. mmmmm..... Maybe this time I can NOT melt them all over my oven. - Karin Dalziel
I'm going to back Cee Bee on this. I used to live in the neighbourhood near Magnolia and once they were featured on an episode of Sex and the City, the prices shot up and the lines grew (a lot of them made up of women tottering on ridiculously high heels and wearing "carrie" necklaces.) - Abby Martin
Sorry to be grumpy- not enough caffeine yet. Generally cupcakes=good. - Abby Martin
cupcakes rock! - Thomas Hawk
Magnolia cupcakes are amazing. We bought their cookbook so we can make them from home :) - Benjamin Golub
I haven't had a cupcake in ages. This post is making me hungry. - Evangeline
They sure look purty but were rather disappointing taste wise, dead expensive and VERY (real disgustingly) sweet. - Sally Church
Keystone cops eating cupcakes? LMAO - Igor The Troll
those are magnolia's! i can recognize em anywhere! or are they billy's? it's basically the same. mmm... me want cupcakes now - Melissa Maskevich
Is there actually any cake under all that icing? - Vicky Pearce
Yeah, I like cake, not icing. They're called cupcakes, not cupicings. - Cecily Walker
Hmmm, Cecily I think you may have to get a patent on that name :) - Vicky Pearce
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Apparently they want to put a statue as big as the Statue of Liberty in the San Francisco Bay
Apparently they want to put a statue as big as the Statue of Liberty in the San Francisco Bay
Apparently they want to put a statue as big as the Statue of Liberty in the San Francisco Bay
Friday at 9:50 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
My friend Patrick just sent me a link to this "Statue of Unity," information page. Apparently there is a proposal to put a statue one inch shorter than the Statue of Liberty on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. I took a photo a few weeks back of the statue that this proposal is based on from Union Point Park in Oakland. http://www.flickr.com/photos/t... This would certainly change the skyline of the San Francisco Bay dramatically. - Thomas Hawk via Bookmarklet
You know, I don't think this is a bad idea. What other country has two coasts welcoming visitors with giant statues? - Shawn Farner
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Looks like something from The Onion. - Tad - just Tad
+1 Tad ....and do not want. - Morgan
i was thinking "clash of the titans" when i saw it - Cee Bee
@Shawn, yes, because American immigration policies are ever-so welcoming... :( - Trent Olson
Hideous. - Tim Hoeck
wow... that is one big DYKE - Noah David Simon
Please no - Hutch Carpenter
I don't think the idea is so bad, but the actual statue is UGLY. - Shannon Jiménez
Wow, that seems like a terrible idea. And I thought the second image was to show which stars would be lost in the night-sky view. Statue's really ugly, too, on top of it all. - abacab
Statue of UNITY? Uh, no thanks. But it would be quite the contrast: Liberty on one coast, but by the time you get to the other you no longer have liberty, just unity. - Craig Eddy
Yeah I didn't like that scene in Titanic.... wait that's a what !? You want to put where?! - David Knight
pretty much shows the ugly side of San Francisco politics. maybe they should build it to be a reminder - Noah David Simon
Oh WOW. See, I thought that picture was just an example and was intentionally bad. That's what they actually want it to look like? - Shawn Farner
It used to say " give me your tired poor", now it says "no vacancies." - Roberto Bonini
That particular statue doesn't look very good, but I am sure you could do something worthy. - RAPatton
oh yeah Hideous is the word. - BeeLing
I think they should build a statue of a Giant Donkey getting ass fucked by Castro. Offshore Drilling... hey why not? - Noah David Simon
What the heck is it? - Chris Rivait
Put it in Alaska - Brian Sullivan
"No vacancies" my arse. There are plenty of vacancies in my neighborhood. All but one are abandoned flop-houses that were bought and "renovated" to pack in as many illegals as possible. - Craig Eddy
it might work better for the BLUE STATES if the statue were bent over - Noah David Simon
it looks very LOTR. - Chris Hollander
keep in mind this is San Francisco and all kinds of crazy people are proposing all kinds of crazy things all the time that never get done. At one point people wanted to put a casino on Alcatraz. Still, I think it's an interesting idea to have giant statues on both coasts. - Thomas Hawk
That statue looks like it should be saying something like "Shamon!" or "Woooooohoooooo!" or maybe even "Hoooooooooooo!" - Rahsheen
The first one was a gift, though, from when people liked us. I guess we'll be funding this one. :-P - Shawn Farner
lol @ rahsheen. you have a point there - Cee Bee
the French and Sarkozy like us fine. question is do we like ourselves? this statue is so reflective of everything that is wrong with the left - Noah David Simon
Here in Memphis we have a relatively new "Statue of Liberation through Christ" near my office. It is a scaled down Statue of Liberty with a cross in its hand. There's also a giant Buddha statue in someone's front yard along my daily route. http://is.gd/2g7D - Daniel J. Pritchett
Shawn, maybe we could get China to build it for us as a gift to make it less ostentatious? - Thomas Hawk
my ancestor Emma Lazerus wrote the poem on the original Statue in NY... what would her new poem be? "I HATE MYSELF?" this is pathetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E... - Noah David Simon
@Thomas Not a bad idea, we pump a lot of money into China. It's the least they could do. Like sending out a Christmas card saying "thanks for the business, Happy Holidays", except in statue form. - Shawn Farner
this would be a great prop for the next Ghostbusters movie - Chris Selland
post modern is so ugly... no cohesion.... just guilt and mismatched patterns. No doubt it came from San Francisco. Almost as ugly as the Boston building at MIT that Noam Chomsky is sitting in. - Noah David Simon
Hrm, the idea is alright, sorta, but the execution would be questionable if they used this. Also, @Noah, wtf, dude. - Chieze Okoye
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palin on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
palin on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Friday at 10:03 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"iz" - Outsanity
I don't get it. - Vincent Ferrari
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She tried to get some books banned from the public library when she was mayor of that small town in Alaska. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
It's about the book banning fiasco from when she was mayor, I believe. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
It will be a little harder for her to try to ban electronic books... - Jeff P. Henderson
Are you serious? She burned books? Anyone have any more info on this? I wanna read up. This is my biggest pet peeve (anything speech-related, that is). - Vincent Ferrari
stop mee bifo i stoppet u :) - silpol
Ban, not burn. Not a huge difference but still there. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
thanks - http://tiny.pl/8927 - William Harryman
Same s, different smell. - Vincent Ferrari
So she didn't actually do it, she just asked about how to do it. Still bad, but not quite as bad. Pisses me off. - Vincent Ferrari
Vincent, my sister says "Same smell, different nostril", which always cracks me up =) And it's safe for public use. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
:-D Nice one. - Vincent Ferrari
So do you think she was trying to have Fahrenheit 451 burned? Oops I mean banned! - Lorraine Ball
That would be the ultimate in irony. Right after that, 1984. - Vincent Ferrari
haha. Of course Biden's could read, i is in ur 'puter sending all your mp3s to the RIAA. - Thomas Hawk
i need to look into music industry campaign contributions to biden. that's always bugged me. - faboo mama
I did. Not as big as you'd expect them to be, that's for sure. - Vincent Ferrari
With pervasive DRM, it's even easier to ban electronic books. You could even ban them after they're purchased by deactivating the license! - Kevin Fox
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Shey posted a message
“Deleting my comments because I didn't agree with you is never cool, and quite cowardly.”
Friday at 9:33 am - Link
If I'm being an ass/troll, fine, delete the comment. But if you don't want to hear what I have to say, please block me and I'll do the same - Shey
omg . . . people do that? I always think someone did that to me and then I realize I don't know how to look properly - Lindsey Smith
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Some people are serious control freaks. - Mark Trapp
Yikes, had no idea people can delete YOUR comments here, that is cowardly - Sally Church
People have the right to moderate comments that are offensive/out of line. Most people don't even know that they are being offensive, so I give the benefit of the doubt. Anyone who's been following me for a while knows I try not to be an idiot -- so if you're gonna delete my comments, at least tell me why. - Shey
What post did you comment on and have the comment deleted? Maybe we should all avoid commenting on this individual's posts to save time. - Brian Sullivan
See also: Dave Winer, who's deleting comments of mine on posts of his. It would seem that I don't even retain a copy of my comment if he moderates it away, either. I don't really think this kind of revisionism bullshit is cool at ALL. Don't wanna get comments, then don't fucking post, or go private-feed. Seriously. - abacab
"If I'm being an ass" I deleted one comment in my feed once for precisely that reason. It was clear that this person wasn't properly ever a friend, ally or anything resembling productive follow. I have a private feed for a reason: I want to engage "friends." Otherwise, it's open season for attention seekers, energy creatures, trolls and bozos who seek to provoke - rather than productively contribute. I have plenty of right leaning pals in FF who I happily engage because they are intelligent and respectful. - melmcbride
Mind you, Dave's notorious for deleting comments on every service he can--his own blog, etc--when he doesn't like them for any reason at all. So I'm not really surprised by his childish behaviour as much as I am confused by FF providing a mechanism for allowing it. - abacab
Shey is NEVER an ass. Shey and I likely don't agree on plenty but he's dignified in his interactions with people. And even if he posts stuff that I might not like (or vice versa) he knows enough (as I do) that making passive aggressive remarks on each other's feeds is an expression of hostility. - melmcbride
It's not Dave Winer, I know he deletes comments all the time, unfortunately that's just how he is. Gotten kinda used to it now. Thanks Mel :) - Shey
"Acacab" Maybe if you actually wrote under your name, a mark of accountability, people wouldn't be inclined to delete your comments and feel more trust towards you? - melmcbride
I haven't seen a delete comment feature other than for your own posts... - Outsanity
Personally, I would like to see a standard comment in place of the deleted one. "A comment by <name> was deleted.". That way people can see what happened. Transparency is key. - Rob Diana
...said melmcbride who requires authorization for a subscription. - Josh Haley
Rob's idea is a good one I think - Brian Sullivan
Now that I have blocked a couple of people, I guess I would like a similar feature for blocked comments as well... there was a post earlier today that looked like people were sniping at each other when in fact they were sniping at the person I had blocked. - David Muir
I second Rob's idea. That's a measure of accountability as well. - melmcbride
melmcbride: Umm, yeah, that's it. Sure. Say hi to Dave for me. - abacab
Rob Diana's idea is a great one. Thirded and Fourthed. I'd also like to still retain copies of whatever comments/etc I made that someone else moderated away. It's still my content, after all, isn't it, and not something someone else gets to decide to throw away? - abacab
I delete personal attacks when I have the power to. I have no problem with people disagreeing with me, that's what the attackers claim they're doing when their comments get deleted. I like disagreement, it's how I learn (one way) and sometimes I even change my mind when I hear another point of view. But someone saying you're a hypocrite isn't disagreeing, and they're entitled to say that, but not in my space. - Dave Winer
I also think it's important to block trolls so we can have intelligent discussions that are above the "neener neener" level. Again, they can host discussions in their space that are at their intellectual and emotional comfort level. I don't mind discussing things with children, as long as they maintain their manners. - Dave Winer
well said Dave - Kyle Lacy via fftogo
Hear hear! - melmcbride
Dave, my comment isn't "your space". And since the comments are completely wiped, once you've decided to be offended--and let's be honest, you're VERY easily offended, and you DO have problems with ANYONE that disagrees with you, unless you can spin it back at them to make them look stupid--no one else gets a chance to decide for themselves if you're being too...fragile or "personally attacked". Even in your reply now, you're belittling ppl that disagree with you as children. Who's neenering who here? - abacab
I also agree with Rob. Also because it holds *me* accountable. I've deleted comments of my own for some of the reasons mentioned here. Sometimes it's just easier to be an ass to the internets than it is to deal with the real issue. But I would think twice about commenting in the first place if I knew people would see that I'd cleaned up my act after behaving like a child. I like playing with the big kids and want them to like me, after all. How's that for transparency?? :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
שלום - Eyal Rofe
I'd like to know who is deleting comments. If they have the nuts to delete comments, they should also have the nuts to own up to it.Dave has done so above, so who else is going to take responsibility for their actions? - Rahsheen
indeed. censorship sucks. - Thomas Hawk
Rahsheen, I respect you a lot here, but isn't painting Dave as having balls for owning up to deleting others' comments a bit of a stretch, when all we have to go on is his word that they were nuke-worthy? I REALLY don't think people like Dave will like transparency of the "comment from X deleted by Y" variety, as it will show the extent to which they go to sculpt and stroke their profile|reputation|ego...but I believe it should be implemented as a feature here (and anywhere else). - abacab
I'm surprised someone would delete Shey's comments. I don't think I've ever seen Shey be a jerk, troll, idiot etc. I do delete comments on my feed. Some people who comment are just being jerks for the sake of being jerks or weighing in on the discussion with nothing to really contribute. When that happens, I'll delete their comments. - Candace Holly
And getting back to Shey (sorry Shey), I don't get why anyone would delete anything the guy's ever said, either. I've yet to see a post of his I didn't find interesting or funny or both.. - abacab
If FF had the ability to rank comments or 'dislike' them then it might help to prevent trolling/flaming/etc in a DIGG-like style. As a user receives positive feedback their comments are given more prevalence. Granted, even that can be abused by the HERD mentality. Either way, I think comments should not allowed to be outright deleted. - Steve Sebestyen via twhirl
being blocked by dave winer, who i quite like, was a shock, but i just picked up my pixels and moved on - Gregory Lent
Each of us functions as a kind of micro-community manager for our feed. Modeling by example and response, we tell others what we will and will not tolerate. Some of us simply don't engage feeds where obnoxious behaviour is tolerated. It's up to each of us to decide whether or not we want to engage a moderated feed. I respect other people's choices to moderate or not moderate their feeds. It's not for me to tell them what *I* think they should tolerate. - melmcbride
melmcbride: I TOTALLY agree with you. One thing about FriendFeed is that it hasn't turned into YouTube or Digg commenting by idiots. The fact that we can delete comments is a HUGE part of that. I will delete comments from people who are disruptive to the conversation. To those who don't like that, just start your own top-level conversation -- I can only delete comments in comment clusters that I start. I can't delete comments here, for instance. - Robert Scoble
I havnt met anyone that is really disruptive enough to delete a comment - d e f c o n
I have deleted posts in the past but because they where insulting my other subscribers and not providing any constructive dialog. - Geoff Schultz
[FriendFeed suggestion] Could you guys link deleted comments - from (a) manual deletion (b) people deleting accounts - to a "lost" area in each person's account? One of my good Harvard friends just deleted his Facebook account due to a SPAM virus which had a domino-effect on all his activity (he was a very active networker). - Mitchell Tsai
@Rob: +1. A simple notation that a comment by [person] was deleted would suffice IMO. - AJ Kohn
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Robert Scoble posted a message
“Basement of hate. This is a picture of the Berlin Wall and the garage wall underneath the building that held the Nazi headquarters. When you visit this site you can feel the hate. It's something I can't describe. The pictures on the wall and stories show how hate built.”
Basement of hate. This is a picture of the Berlin Wall and the garage wall underneath the building that held the Nazi headquarters. When you visit this site you can feel the hate. It's something I can't describe. The pictures on the wall and stories show how hate built.
August 27 at 10:11 pm - Link
Oh yeah... there is that gut wrenching feeling again... I really don't like that place - John Worthington
The history that took place on this site is stunning. Something I've always wanted to visit to understand more. The hate built starting with everyday words by everyday people, grew into little stupid laws that codified that hate, then moved to bigger actions. Only time to stop it? When it's simple words. Something I need to be reminded. Who says words don't matter? Not these walls. - Robert Scoble
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Words are our most powerful technology. - Tad - just Tad
:'( +++Tad - Anna Haro
Berlin is a very sobering place to visit. So much to see but so little of it is due to a happy past. - CJPhoto
I can't like this. Not even for bookmarking. What angers me is that people forget this lesson of history, and atrocities are repeated every day. - Mo Kargas
Oh wow, Robert. Thank you SO much for sharing this, and your words. It blew me away... I love technology - Mona N.
Mo: I understand that. There's no love in this building, that's for sure. By the way, this is my first test of FriendFeed's new photo upload. Worked great! Love how the photo shows up on my blog's sidebar too http://scobleizer.com - Robert Scoble
I still have a tough time watching the documentaries. The pics are important. - Charlie Anzman
Yeah, the new FF image handling is great. And that's a powerful picture. - Chris Baskind
But I rather upload the photo to Flickr to keep it in my photo library and let Flickr update FriendFeed, FaceBook, etc. Not sure I see the benefit of uploading the photo to FriendFeed. - Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
Liking to show my "dislike" - Jesse Stay
Robert. You are right about the 'little stupid laws'. That is why the versions currently being passed in Italy against the Roma are so worrying. - mattpovey
There's a lot of really emotionally powerful stuff like this in Germany. If you're travelling about a bit, make sure you take the chance to go to Dachau, near Munich, too. - Mark Ng
Mark, indeed. Dachau is the one that really brought it home for me. The stark and sterile nature of the whole place really demonstrated how much of a systematic process this was. I was there in winter and I stood in the parade ground for about half an hour just to try and get a glimpse of what it was like. I couldn't hack it. Knowing that hundreds of people stood there for hours on end chilled me more than the conditions... - John Worthington
Can I also note that Germany is a great place with wonderful poeple... It is one of my favourite countries. Beer Halls = All sorts of drunken win. While there is no relation to this topic, I think it is not said enough :) - John Worthington
My mom grew up in Germany, so I agree. - Robert Scoble
We still have chips of the wall from that exact spot, hacked by my 6-yr-old daughter with a claw hammer one weekend after the Wall fell open. - Bernie Goldbach
@john it was the ovens that did it for me. But I second your note about great place, wonderful people. The Germans are some of the best people in the world. - Mark Ng via twhirl
if you can feel it, and if it is not your imagination, then "energy" or "vibration" are not weird concepts, we just don't know how to measure them .... - Gregory Lent
A good friend of mine visited some of the Nazi places, and he described feeling sick at his stomach as soon as he was getting close to them. I agree with Gregory, the "energy" is real, it just doesn't have mass or volume so it is harder to quantify. - Charlene Kingston
Completely agree... when I visited Auschwitz in Poland (years ago), it was not the horrific pictures, nor the "information" I had about the place but this gut feeling that overwhelms you once you set foot on those premises... Writing this I can still feel it. - Philippe Borremans
I was in Berlin in Feb and saw the Topography of Terror.There is a bad vibe there.However I think this (from a trip in Poland was worse and much more disturbing).http://inao.blogspot.com/2006/... and the fact that the Nazis then sold the hair.http://inao.blogspot.com/2006/... - Ina
No need to go to Munich for Dachau; there's Sachsenhausen right outside Berlin. Before the Ostblock fell, it was an even more interesting exhibit for some slight revisionism to fit the communist POV. It's since been 'fixed'. You get a pretty good (authentic, real) vibe there like at Dachau or any of the others more complete/preserved camps, imo. - abacab
You're probably not going to able to see it on this trip but the Kehlsteinhaus (Hitler's retareat in the German Alps) is a must-see - Cains
here are my photos from dachau - http://flickr.com/photos/allen... - it's near munich and worth the trip - as you walk down the long road to inside the compound, you can feel the screams - i thought i wouldn't be emotional there, but i was. there were a lot of people sitting on the benches crying - Allen Stern
Never forget! - Fu_
All it takes to create another such situation, is an out of control economy, and the refusal to believe that those outside your social group are at a disadvantage. We tend to think this is something that was a fluke, but it is much closer than we think. This is why it is important to think for yourself, and not follow blindly the opinions of your group. The bottom line to prevent something like this is stupidly simple: be willing to share. - terra210
The deepest human sadness in my life was visiting Dachau, concentration camp in Germany when I was a boy. - brittenhouse
Very powerful picture and description Scoble. Thanks for sharing this. - Corvida
Interesting. I have noticed the "feeling" of places and situations before (never like this). The recent case was when I visited the great Buddha shrine at Kamakura, in Japan. As I approached the statue I was overcome by this great sense of sadness and compassion. The other odd thing was that on returning from the same trip, as soon as we were in the departure lounge of Northwest at Narita, it didn't feel like Japan any longer. There was this sense of frantic busyness and anxiousness that I had not experienced anywhere else on the trip. Quite odd. Years ago I was at a Judy Garland concert in Cherry Hill (under a tent). It was a wonderful small venue. Ms. Garland was having a hard time and I had this feeling of rapaciousness from the audience, as if I was swimming in a tank of sharks. It was tangible and scary and I felt badly for her. - Dennis E. Hamilton
A friend of mine who lives in Berlin took me here and I just remember feeling a real sense of sadness. - Mark Wilson
I went through Checkpoint Charlie when the wall was up and I was scared spitless when I I had to pass the guards. They also took all my western money and issued me useless East German marks that I couldn't spend OR re-exchange on the way out of East Berin. - Francine Hardaway
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Reason #176 Proving The Internet Is Scary
Reason #176 Proving The Internet Is Scary
August 28 at 9:28 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Now you could go on for days trying to understand what's happening in this picture. What you really need to be concerned about is what's in the box under his bed. Is it something that he's not proud of, like: guns, Guitar Hero and body hair? Or perhaps it's something too good - too good for the world. Yes, that's it, it's something that the world isn't ready for...yet. - Mark Wilson via Bookmarklet
wow - Cee Bee
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ummm... Do not want!!!!! - Tad - just Tad
Is that a kid's bed? Geez. Hello, Basement Man. - Chris Baskind
wtf is he?? - Kemal Yaylali
that's just wrong, on so many levels - Damien Franco
If that's wrong, baby, then I don't wanna be... oh, wait, no. That's just wrong. - Akiva Moskovitz
step one, cut a hole in a box..... - Matt Musgrave
This is a perfect example of why "Like" is not a good moniker for flagging something as interesting. - Vincent Ferrari
*cries and hides behind you guys* - Yolanda
+1 Matt - Rodfather
Too many questions! Why take such a picture, and where would you use it? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
GROSS! Why oh why did I hit refresh? - Trish R
Yikes! - Lindsey Smith
Every detail of this pic is so classy: from the bed frame *giggle* to the hobby collection *cackle* to the hair *blech* to the speedo *explosive puke* - Carmen
@Carmen You forgot to mention that he's holding his "gun" - Lindsey Smith
why understand if one can hit HIDE ? this guy has enough *worms* in his head, let him make one hole in his own skull when time for that comes. - silpol
@Lindsey Thanks *more explosive puke* - Carmen
My eyes! To his credit he did lay out all of his "toys" in a fairly well organized pattern.. but still MY EYES! - Nicholas Kreidberg
sexy, smart and guitar hero...hold me ack - Grizzled Librarian
Mark, I thought we were done posting pics of ourselves from back in the day. - Josh Haley
Oh no I was eating my lunch and suddenly this pic appears, damn... - George The Writer
Wonder who he's voting for? :) - Charlie Anzman
Weirdest thing... the pictures name is august2009. Do we have the first confirmed picture of John Titor? - (teh)Kenny
there goes my Oreo. FriendFeed refreshes and I toss my cookies - Chris
Frick, where's the hide link?!? Feature request: The ability to hide just the image. Seriously. - Joanmarie
+1 Josh . . . lol - Lindsey Smith
Joanmarie, I 100% agree with your comment! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
+100 Josh! - Mark Wilson
Bump for all the haters. O HAI - Josh Haley
and what's over the curtain..? (sorry fro my english) - Federica B.
I didn't read all 30 comments, but did anybody point out that it was just plain wrong to post this? (i'm now removing whats left of my lunch from my stomach) tyvm and good day! - acedanger
Where's Chris Hansen when you need him? - Mark Wilson
seriously? 25 people LIKED this? Your posts are magic, Mark. - Tim Hoeck
Perp..Peeerp - Gordon Swaby
@Tim what's not to like? A dude in a speedo with a mullet and far too many guns for one man to own who likes to rock out on his baby blue futon! That's not magic, that's just common sense! - Mark Wilson
mmm... hungry for his bottom - Melissa Maskevich
I hope he's shooting blanks... - Tracy
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Mad Men: Paul Denlinger posted a message
“Wish Don Draper was running for president. Beats the heck out of the current choices.”
August 27 at 7:11 pm - Link
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Alan Le posted a link
NY Times Presidential Poll Tracker | RIA pedia
NY Times Presidential Poll Tracker | RIA pedia
August 27 at 10:44 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
The NYTimes always produce such interesting visualizations - Alan Le via Bookmarklet
Look at me lost in that pan shaped red ocean. Someone please save me. - Geoff Schultz
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By the way, don't say save me too loud in this state either, they will line up with their various renditions of the same book. - Geoff Schultz
I'm a "too close to call," but still a typically red state. I miss my blue state comfort :( - ::Kristen::
Just a question: What's with Texas and McCain? - AJ Batac
This is actually a USA Today visualization, being the red-headed step child of New York Times visualizations. Also looks like the data is a direct rip from http://electoral-vote.com. - Mark Trapp
@AJ, Texas is home to the three R's: Red voters, Rednecks and Republicans. George Bush lives here, and we'll probably get stuck with Dubya after his term as well. - Trish R
http://pollster.com has something similar along with the electoral votes. Should be a nice site you the Obama fans among you - David Knight
Thanks Trish. Cool! I mean to your comment not the Texas and McCain thingy. - AJ Batac
And of course, the United States as a whole is "Too close to call." - James Ferguson
I like this site http://www.fivethirtyeight.com... - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
Trish - never heard the three R's comment before. Clever! - Abby Martin
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Adam Turetzky posted a link
Friendfeed Beta with Fluid app
Friendfeed Beta with Fluid app
August 25 at 6:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Looks pretty! (beta.friendfeed.com loaded in Fluid.app with Headsup setting). - Adam Turetzky via Bookmarklet
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Extreme ironing, an adventure sport for people who like laundry