"All you have to do to prevent this is sign in to Facebook and click through to (get ready) -> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one." Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge. (note: when I tried to make this change just now, the site returned an error. oh, and it might not work in Firefox either due to a 'bug.')"
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
Nice... The coming Facebook backlash is going to be interesting to watch. I give it 1 to 1.5 years.
- mikepk
And I was surprised to see my setting set to "Appear on Facebook Ads". x_x Go here---> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click "no one."
- AJ Batac
Interesting ownership of content rules over there, heh?
- Jason Nunnelley
My Facebook Ads page is blank. Maybe because I only have my stuff opened to friends?
- Anika
I disabled my AdBlock Plus to view that page Anika.
- AJ Batac
Ah, okay let me try that. EDIT: Thanks! That worked. I was already selected to not appear in ads.
- Anika
Good! Mine was set to appear to friends initially. Changed it to "none".
- AJ Batac
I went to that part of the settings and this is the popup I got... "Worried about privacy? Your photos are safe. There have been misleading rumors recently about the use of your photos in ads. Don't believe them. These rumors were related to third-party applications, and not ads shown by Facebook. Get the whole story at the Facebook Blog, or check out the Help Center."
- Tony Miller
Third party content as in FB apps? Big difference there, eh?
- Michael W. May
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup in a TARDIS
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- pb:
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- pb:
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hi all. First off, I never meant for this to take this long, honestly. I wanted to put a New Orleans spin on things so I sought out some southern goodies and AS THE GODDESS AS MY WITNESS will put this in the mail this week. I'm sure no one is interested in any of my excuses, but my life took a crazy turn right around the time I got the box.
I've quit my job, applied to grad school, got accepted to grad school, moved across the country, been homeless, started school, blah blah blah, so I'm sorry. I really am. I feel like a bastard. I just got over crazy midterms and presentations and am planning to send the box off this week. I PROMISE. No one feels worse about this than me, so again, I apologize. I never meant for this to lie dormant for this long. I hope you can find it within yourselves to forgive me and enjoy the box as it returns to being put back in the post. I appreciate your patience and I'm sorry for the extended delay. It's on it's way.
- Derrick
Thank you, Derrick! May I ask who you sent it to? Did you ship all the way back to CA?
- Trish Haley
Also, if you haven't yet shipped it, Trish R can pick it up while she's in town this week and bring it back to me. I'll make sure to ship to Aden and Michelle. I actually don't know who Chris is.
- Trish Haley
The box has been shipped and delivered to Chris. His username is @chrisofspades.
- Derrick
The previous due date was the 8th of December. The doctor today told us that he puts her as due on the 27th of November and it's going to be a girl! I'm so excited!!! =D
- David Cook
Can i ask, the Dr told you it was a girl from the above scan? In the UK, they arent allowed to tell you the sex anymore unless you ask for the 4D scan which costs!
- Alan (Giraffes)
The doc was very confident in the scan. He showed us the lack of boy parts and moved on. He said no one has ever come back and told him he was wrong.
- David Cook
from fftogo
Congratulations David!!!!!!! that is great news!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Thank you everyone! =D Debbie is already planning the girly clothes and we're going through our name book tomorrow. We both agree that we want something pretty short. Nothing more than 2 syllables.
- David Cook
Cricket and Tiger bid adieu to Flat Stanley. We enjoyed his short stay in Napa and wish him well on the rest of his journey. On to Derrick!
- Anne Bouey
Stanley spent an afternoon touring the Napa Valley. He especially enjoyed frolicking in the mustard among the vines which signals the beginning of the annual Mustard Festival. He participated in that NV tradition of wine-tasting with just a sip of Chardonnay!
- Anne Bouey
these are great. My daughters are happy to see Stanley again!
- Bill Rawlinson
"A stream runs through the center of Seoul, dividing the city into North and South, but for three decades it was totally buried beneath a busy downtown highway. In 2003, as part of a vast urban renewal project, the highway was removed and the stream was recovered and turned into a beautiful 5.8 km urban park. Demolishing roads in favor of urban parks is is a development project we can really get behind."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
I live in Seoul, its a great idea and has provided an urban park, something that really is lacking here. There only a few (2?) publicly accessible green spaces in one on the worlds largest cities. To say that they uncovered the stream and got it flowing again is a little fib. The water sources no longer exist and it uses pumped water. Still its a nice place to walk, jog and take photos.
- Mel Buckpitt
On Sunday, the Azure CTP (community technical preview) ends and commercial service begins. I will need to transition elmcity to the commercial fabric. This will entail a one-time disruption during which I'll have to delete the existing service and recreate it in another context. I'll do this late at night, and it /should/ go quickly, Murphy willing.
- Jon Udell
sometimes I open a link in a new page and when I close it, the main page reloads. The whole damn page reloads and scrolls back to the top!
- Barışnikov
from iPhone
"Jeff Luc, the son of Haitian immigrants and middle linebacker for the Treasure Coast Titans high-school football team here, recalls a game two years ago against Delray Beach, when he directed another Haitian teammate to stop an opponent slipping into his zone on a passing play. "Men li la! Men li la!" he shouted in Kreyol, Haitian patois for "there he is." The two players were looking to confuse their opponent by using imported slang from Haiti. But to their amazement, the targeted receiver taunted them right back: "Mwen la! Mwen la!" "Here I am!""
- RAPatton
from Bookmarklet
"Sports have long been ladders new Americans climb into the mainstream and into the record books of boxing, baseball and basketball. Yet football, partly because no other country's athletes grow up playing the game, has trailed other team sports in attracting immigrants. Nearly half of baseball's talent is foreign-born or sons of immigrants. Foreign-born players make up about 15% of pro basketball rosters. But the NFL has less than 5% of foreign-born players or first-generation immigrants."
- RAPatton
Sonette Ehlers, of South Africa (the rape capital of the world), has invented an anti-rape device that goes by the name, Rapex. The device is basically a female condom with teeth lining the inside that work just like the protective spikes in a parking garage… You can go in, but whatever you do, don't back out. The teeth are angled so they allow penetration, but bite like a shark as the penis is removed; supposedly causing so much pain that it will give the woman a chance to escape. Further, according to Ms. Ehlers, the device will need to be surgically removed at a hospital, which will lead to the capture of the rapist
- Niranjan
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