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Yeah, I just wasn't sure if there was a setting I was missing - Meredith

you'll want to go into node.tpl.php in your template files. alternatively, I've found the Contemplate module pretty useful. - Elaine Nelson

I think you would either have to edit the theme you're using to exclude those elements or use CSS to hide them from view. - Glen Horton

you can choose which content types to display that info on here: /admin/build/themes/settings/global - jodie

Kaia, you were the first person I thought of when I realized it was stuck in my head. DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! - josh neff, geek at large

Hahaha!! Well you keep your eyes open and watch out for easy credit ripoffs in your travels today. - Baroness Von BusinessTime

TEMPORARY LAY OFFS! - Mary Carmen

Mary, that was the part that first came to my mind too. :D - Yolanda

Ain't we lucky we got them... - Sarah G.

youtube and comments left on a lot of blogs. i quit reading a lot of comments a while ago because the hatred was unbearable at times - Sir Shuping

Obligatory xkcd comic: http://xkcd.com/202/ - Glen Horton

lolz at the comic. thanks! - Marie drinks champagne

I love Youtube comments. they set the bar, the low bar, that is, to community forum threads. - anna sauce

I've also found them really useful if you're learning a language, because it's hyper-idiomatic and slang, and it's written, which is usually hard to find if you're not ina country. My friend from Micronesia goes there to chat with other people who speak his obscure language, and the Russian Matb language is there in droves. Anyways, a weird kind of ancillary usage. - anna sauce

Whenever I worry about the dialog on Friendfeed becoming degenerate, I look at a few comments on Youtube to remind myself what degeneracy really is. - Victor Ganata

Somehow, Obi-wan Kenobi seems appropriate here: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy." - Jennifer Parsons

as an academic librarian i am enveloped in the world of written communication. to see it executed so poorly in those youtube comments is more than a little shocking. - Marie drinks champagne

Marie, don't ever read comments on newspaper stories, either. I don't know if it's like that everywhere, but the comments on our local paper are a racist, sexist, ignorant cesspool. - Rachel Walden

That is often the case here in Seattle too, Rachel. You're not alone. - Nikki D.

greasemonkey add-on for this problem: http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons... - Andrew C

ew - DJF

wow! - Katy S

hmmm....i see their customer service policies changing :( - Abigail

also unlike. - Stephanie_Happy2010!

There's a rumor that Amazon also wants to buy Netflix: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps... - Glen Horton

thirding the unlike. Way to make Zappos un-cool, man. - Catherine Pellegrino

noooooooo don't mess up the 'flix! - D0r0th34

+1 Dorothea. Fortunately--as pointed out in the Bloomberg piece--Netflix' distributed physical presence makes it sort of a poison pill for Amazon, since Amazon would then need to charge sales tax for a whole bunch of customers. (The piece was also a useful reminder: Netflix subscribers total about 9% of U.S. households...) - Walt Crawford

saw on techcrunch that everyone that is at zapos will still be there, including the ceo...wonder if things will still stay the same - Sir Shuping

huh - marthalib

dude, they're still running that jingle today, except it's a cartoon ad. I think the voice over is the same guy. - DJF

Brings back lots of memories of my Chicago childhood. I never forgot that phone number. - Glen Horton

The topic came up during dinner conversations at the OLE Project meeting in Duke. I think my last one was circa 1997 or 1998. I was always one to take risks, I guess. - Peter Murray

These days I use PowerPoint as a backup for my Google Docs presentations. - Glen Horton

Never. - s t e v e

Probably 1998 or 1999. - Jason Griffey from twhirl

Glen -- Wow! Now that is a switch; PowerPoint as backup. Steve -- Never? - Peter Murray

I remember making slides at the university, so some time after 2000, but not for a long time. Oh! The slides might have been photocopies of print reference tools to show in class. Can't remember otherwise. - DJF

Peter, I'm probably just late to the game. Made my first professional presentation in 2004? I can't remember ever having to make transparencies for any purpose in my education or career. - s t e v e

I guess I did some presentations before 2004, but the idea that the place I was presenting would have an overhead projector never crossed my mind. - s t e v e

It's becoming less a question about projectors and more about Internet access. I export my Google presentations to PPT just in case I can't get online. - Glen Horton

Never--but I still have a partial box of laser-printer transparency sheets (but no laser printer). When I was using transparencies, PPT wasn't really an option. - Walt Crawford

Three years ago, but just b/c there was a question as to whether or not we would have the tech for the powerpoint in the room, while all rooms were slated to have overhead projectors. I would do it for the large conference in my field, too, because getting access to the tech for powerpoint (let alone internet access) is not easy because of the expense for the association (at least, that's what they tell us). Normally, I plan to not use either unless it is absolutely essential for me to have visuals. - Katy S

I do the same as Glen these days, download a ppt version from Google Docs as a backup. Last time I made OHP sheets was about 2001 -- I didn't need 'em but I took 'em along as backup to Cold Spring Harbor. - Bill Hooker