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I love how she just kept going with her performance despite the technical difficulties. Just like the song, she just kept dancing and singing and worked the crowd to her advantage. That's talent, imho. - April Buchheit

God I love her so much. Total fangirl. - EricaJoy

First of all, I love it :) - LANjackal from IM

Therefore any changes made to a contact that exists only on FB would be reflected only on the phone and could be lost if something happened to the phone itself. The solution to this is obvious (import all FB friends into Google Contacts, treat them as immediately editable there), but for now that's how it is - LANjackal

Either Babbler or Shazam. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Without a doubt, Portland Transit (bus tracking and trip planning for TriMet). I use it constantly. - Eph Zero

Nearly impossible to single one out. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

Malcom Gladwell had one I enjoyed more than any other so far. - Garin Kilpatrick

:( - SAM

effing awesome pic. - Blackeyed P

"Researchers discovered a genetic link between physical pain and social rejection. Psychologists at the University of California in Los Angeles have discovered that the human body deals with emotional stress in exactly the same way that it reacts to physical pain - by releasing a natural painkiller. Scientists believe their findings suggest that the experience felt by people is the same regardless of whether their body is injured. The researchers measured levels of a gene used by the body to regulating the painkillers. Researchers collected saliva samples from 122 participants to assess which form of the OPRM1 pain gene they had and then measured how they reacted to different senarios." - RAPatton

"She said: "Because social connection is so important, feeling literally hurt by not having social connections may be an adaptive way to make sure we keep them. "Over the course of evolution, the social attachment system, which ensures social connection, may have actually borrowed some of the mechanisms of the pain system to maintain social connections." The same portion of the brain... more... - RAPatton

"This is the first time that it has been proved that genes involved in physical pain are linked to mentally painful times like social rejection and breaking up with a lover, she said. The findings back up a previous study by the University of Queensland that indicated that descriptions of the agony of rejection as like a knife being thrust into the heart are more than just metaphors. Dr... more... - RAPatton

"Single and childless women have a debate on repeat, summed up by a friend who asked recently, sounding more than a little panicked: “If you don’t have kids to force you to grow up, then when, and how, exactly, is it going to happen?” I know what she means. If you don’t harvest the big guns of adulthood — scary mortgage, marriage and, most significantly, progeny — how does a girl mature? You get heaps of benchmarks in early life. You were 16: legal for sex and mopeds; 18: could vote; 21: a grown-up now, you passed your driving test, started your first job. All that remained was the intrinsically lifestyle-busting married-with-kids. The proportion of women remaining childless has doubled in recent decades, and today, 20% of the female population are unmarried and have no children. For some of us, it can feel that life stretches aimlessly ahead. Our next big benchmarks in the metaphorical winter of our lives: retirement, death." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

what bothers me is this "one model fits all" that denies the sheer diversity of style, gifts, personality and purpose of people... leaving no place for people whose own gifts, personality or inclination does not fit the model. Leaves us all poorer as a society. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

:) - Harold

Oh, I just read the list of games that you got. Oddly close to my suggestion list. 8^) You can pick up Uncharted 1 if you're waiting for 2 to come down in price. It's an excellent game. - Chieze Okoye

Yay! New meme! DO ANYBODY NO WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS?! - Haggis (Sean Loyless) from Bookmarklet

I only came across this whole WHOSE RESPONSIBLE THIS thing today. Hi-larious. - Andrew C

Some of these are great!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

The photo with the pole in the driveway looks like it was designed that way. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Oh wow. The two designs you picture ^ are straight out of my Spanish Inquisition fantasies! ... - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

They look nasty.. who want to sit in them, unless you're a masochist :o)) - Jeannette Høvring

"Twenty years ago, on the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, East German authorities suddenly opened their border to West Germany. After 28 years as prisoners of their own country, euphoric East Germans streamed to checkpoints and rushed past bewildered guards, many falling tearfully into the arms of West Germans welcoming them on the other side. Thousands of Germans and world leaders gathered in Berlin yesterday to celebrate the "Mauerfall" - the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and German reunification - and to remember the approximately 100-200 who died attempting to cross the border over the years. Collected here are photographs both historic and recent, from the fall of the Berlin Wall. Be sure to pause on photos 12 - 15, and click them to see a fade effect from before to after. (38 photos total)" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Aye - Roberto Bonini

aye - Brian Wingenroth

"If you thought the placebo effect was all in the mind, think again. Scientists have solved the mystery of why some people benefit from remedies that do not contain any active pain-relief ingredients. Research suggests that placebos work, in part, by blocking pain signals in the spinal cord from arriving at the brain in the first place. When patients expect a treatment to be effective the brain area responsible for pain control is activated, causing the release of natural endorphins." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"The sequence of events in the brain closely mirrors the way opioid drugs, such as morphine, work — adding weight to the view that the placebo effect is grounded in physiology. The finding strengthens the argument that many established medical treatments derive part of their effectiveness from the patients’ expectation that the drugs will make them better." - RAPatton

"The latest studies on antidepressants suggest that at least 75 per cent of the benefit comes from the placebo effect. GPs also observe that patients report feeling better only days after being prescribed antidepressants, even though the direct effects take several weeks to kick in." - RAPatton

"Sometimes a single driver can vastly improve traffic." - AJ Batac from Bookmarklet

Glen, unfortunately, variable speed limits on the motorways here in the UK don't actually work as well as you might think. During heavy traffic, most drivers look up at the sign as it changes from 50 to 40 and think "If only". The other problems are the speed cameras in those areas - we have two types. To avoid being caught by the normal cameras, drivers zoom between cameras at 80+mph... more... - Slappy Line

"How does your smile rate on a scale of zero to 100? If you worked for Japan's Keihin Electric Express Railway Co., you'd know—on a daily basis. The Tokyo-based train company is using a "Smile Scan" system to evaluate the grins of its 530 station staffers at 15 stations when they report to work each day, Japan's Mainichi Daily News reported earlier this month." - Jenny Morman from Bookmarklet

Nice Meryn :p - Jenny Morman

"A few days ago, I was extremely upset. It's too complicated to explain the whole situation, but an encounter left me feeling anxious, agitated, under attack, and sad. I did what I could to resolve the situation, but I still felt terrible. When I have a day like this, I try to make it a Good Bad Day. I take the steps that tend to make me feel better or, if they don't make me feel better, at least give me the kind of day on which I can look back with satisfaction" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

1. Exercise, 2. Do something nice for someone else, 3. Stop ruminating. 4. Connect with someone important to me. 5. Tackle a nagging task. 6. Do something silly and lighthearted with my children. 7. Act the way I want to feel. 8. Ask for help. 9. Go to sleep early. - Todd Hoff

ty mr hoff, :) - chaz2b

... into the house she went. As the man was getting ready to edge the lawn, she came out again, marched to the mail box, opened it and then slammed it closed harder than ever. Puzzled by her actions the man asked her, "Is something wrong?" - AJ Batac

Awesome! - Ladybug Heather

Dave tells this one, only the drink is a Harold. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

You would think the name of choice would be Jimminy - Tony C (Unrated) from fftogo

:-) Only if it's a cricket... - Ladybug Heather

"A recently study by Dr. Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary concluded that procrastination is on the rise. According to Steel’s research, in 1978 about 15 percent of the population were considered moderate procrastinators. Today that number is up to 60 percent, a four-fold increase. While procrastination is to some degree a natural phenomenon and can’t be completely eradicated, you can use the following ten strategies to to get in the habit of getting things done." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

of course, i procrastinated in reading the article. - Valley

me too. I procrastinated in posting this article to FriendFeed. :) - imabonehead

"The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US’s money supply — is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble after bubble” in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York." - bcultral from Bookmarklet

Of course it is a ponzi scheme how else would it work. - Geoff Schultz

My favorite is Tall Horse Cabernet Sauvignon. It's South African, I think http://www.tallhorsewines.com/ - Shevonne

Alexander Valley Vineyards cab. http://www.avvwine.com/ - ben smithson

:) - Brandon

i think it's related with the karma idea the more you smile the better world be ... but what about the morrissey's song it says "the more you ignore me the closer i get" :D:D - Engin Erkan

He'll bite you.... HAAAAAAAaaaahahahhahahaa! Oh, and I do NOT have a dog named Chunks! - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Oh, and Kevin there are a couple of audios from be floating around FF. Not many, as there was confusion between me and my external microphone for many months *headdesk* - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. ~ John Steinbeck, novelist, Nobel laureate (1902-1968) - M F

Have you tried salary.com to start? Don't know of any that particularly compare salaries. - Justin Korn

Glassdoor.com - Daniel J. Pritchett from iPhone

indeed and simplyhired have some as well (from what I remember), though i'd say stick with glassdoor for more accurate ones - Wang Yip