"This is what great parents do when they want to take good care of their son, giving him all he needs to grow into a cultured, social, healthy young man: A 98-inch TV mounted flush inside his bedroom's ceiling."
- AJ Batac :)
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Where no one agreed on anything. Even this was a point of serious debate.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The evil Lord Perez had outlawed bunnehs throughout all of the Principality of FriendFeed.
- tehKenny
The kingdom was in peril (as all good kingdoms are).
- Paul W. Homer
One day, while out picking cilantro, Gunny decided he wanted some chicken and waffles.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Lord Perez asked: "But where shall we go to get the Chicken and Waffles?"
- tehKenny
Someone noticed that Gunny was picking cilantro and told him that cilantro is gross. Another person chided him that it's called coriander. A fight broke out.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The fight quickly ended when the Wild Bunnehs of Helms Deep attacked.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Soon after the fight broke out, The town Scribe Sir Scobleizer posted about it on his blog.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
As the fight was not between two chicks no one cared to watch so Perez went back to his main focus and sent all his loyal minions to the magical land of Bacon in search of Chicken and Waffles.
- SteVe C
"AND BRING BACK SOME CILANTRO!" commanded the High Time Lord.
- Steven Perez
from IM
At that point someone stole the time lord's sonic screwdriver and made away with a great cackle...Twas the Master AKA Josh Haley.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Meanwhile trouble was brewing in the land of Twitter. The citizens there were growing tired of having to speak only 140 letters at a time.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Suddenly a giant waffle Chicken showed up, brandishing a fierce clump of CILANTRO!
- Paul W. Homer
The evil Master Josh Haley ran all the way to the Land of Twitter, the Dread Lord's sonic screwdriver in tow, determined to break the 140-character limit with the Time Lord's technology, when he suddenly came upon the Giant Chicken of MySpace!
- Steven Perez
from IM
And a bunneh rabbit bearing the bomb that brother maynard carries with him.
- Martha
The Giant Chicken of Myspace was quite emaciated however, and was now only the size of a small cat. Josh Haley punted the Chicken in to outer space where it remains to this day.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
This all would have been reported on the internet, but sadly, RSS is dead.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Thankfully, the Chicken dropped his stachel of Magic Cilantro, which revived the RSS Feeds of Infotainment and powered the Great Chatter Machine.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Someone else chimed in to say that RSS is in fact not dead and that Dave Winer is quite proud of this fact, thank you very much.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The Bunneh, however, dropped his bomb on that blabbermouth and went off with Master Haley to the Land of Twitter.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Unfortunately, the Corporate IT Nazis had set up a firewall blocking them from getting to Twitter.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
As Master Haley and the bunneh pondered how to break the Firewall of Doom, the other subjects were still searching for the Chicken & Waffles Stronghold.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The small band of warriors in the lead of the search were comprised of Gunny the Brave, Alex the Scoble, Helen the Songbird, Katie the Oblivious and Shey the Sniper.
- Steven Perez
from IM
They were charged with crossing into the lands ruled by the Nomura, an army of young girls who insisted that everyone carry an iPhone.
- Steven Perez
from IM
If they could cross into those dangerous lands without being branded by the Force of i, then they would find sanctuary in the Kingdom of the Penguin, ruled by the beautiful and beneficient Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Little did the Nomuran's know, Gunny's Blackberry Curve had a camouflage function and they were able to cross their territory undetected.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
"Get rid of anything with the logo of the Window on it," said Gunny the Brave to his band, "If you carry anything like that into where we're going, the Nomura will find us and make us slaves in their Mac mines."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Quietly, the intrepid band crept across the glossy lands of the Nomura, keeping a sharp eye out for trouble.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Suddenly, there came a cry across the plain. "OMG YOU GUYS THEY'RE OVER THERE!" Zounds! One of the Nomura had found them!
- Steven Perez
from IM
Shey the Sniper tried to pick off the oncoming Nomura, but they moved too quickly from one place to another. Things looked grim.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Luckily the Nomurans were deathly afraid of bunnehs and kittehs, and the intrepid band of adventures were armed with them.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Suddenly, Helen the Songbird opened her mouth and let loose a burst of song at the Nomura. "NOOOO!" the Nomura said. "OPEN SOURCE MUSIC! WE CANNOT HANDLE OPEN SOURCE MUSIC ***AND*** BUNNEHS AND KITTEHS!!!"
- Steven Perez
from IM
Thus repelled, the Nomura retreated to their White Towers of Jobs, vowing revenge on the Time Lord's Children of Time.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Steve woke up, thinking "I have to stop reading LOTR and FF before I go to bed."
- anna sauce
Unfortunately, Steven was caught in a dream loop, brought on by a meal of bad lobster. Only the purest cilantro could break the loop.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Hopefully, his warriors would soon return with cilantro, and some chicken and waffles, and his sonic screwdriver.
- Steven Perez
from IM
As the warriors exited the land of the Nomura, they soon found themselves at Castle of the Flightless Queen, Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Standing guard at the gate was Sir Haggis, Captain of the Guard, who demanded a password from the group to gain entrance.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Alex the Scoble, who loved arguing with people, soon began an argument with Sir Haggis over whether or not passwords were legal in the Lands Beyond.
- Steven Perez
from IM
While Alex argued with Haggis, the rest of the group found the secret entrance and snuck inside.
- Steven Perez
from IM
At last Sir Haggis attempted to end the discussion by saying "You shall not pass," at which point the Scoble said simply, "Enigma" which, being the correct password, compelled Sir Haggis to open the door. He did so with an oath: "Oh, Ffing enigma!" he said.
- Vicarbott
Soon, the band of warriors were reunited and ushered before the most beautilful princess in the land, Princess Stripey Socks.
- Steven Perez
from IM
They looked up, each agape with wonder. The Princess smiled.
- Vicarbott
"Brave knights," the Princess said, resplendent in her finest rainbow gown and colorful striped socks, "take your rest tonight, and in the morning, I shall give you the map to the Fastness of Porcine Foodstuffs, where you may find what you seek."
- Steven Perez
from IM
The knights were ushered into resplendent rooms where they could refresh themselves before the feast that night.
- Steven Perez
from IM
After some rest and a wonderful feast, the Princess begged the knights to play a song for her.
- Steven Perez
from IM
And the cheers from the assembled throng were many and happy, as the band finished their song.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Suddenly, from outside the palace, came a hue and cry. OH NOES! The song had attracted the attention of the Wild Bunnehs! They were assaulting the castle!
- Steven Perez
from IM
"O NOES!" cried Princess Stripey Socks. "How will we repel the Wild Bunnehs? I need a True Hero to save my palace!"
- Ladyepiphanybug
Alas, Sir Haggis had disappeared beneath the onslaught of bunnehs.
- Ladyepiphanybug
And the Princess didst sing from the turret at the northwest corner of her fastness, "I need a hero! I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!"
- Vicarbott
Suddenly, the Lord of Time appeared on a white steed, a bag of magic cilantro around his neck and all the armies of FriendFeed behind him, shouting a mighty war cry of "DEATH TO WILD BUNNEHS!"
- Steven Perez
The Wild Bunneh's unbeknownst to the Time Lord had developed the Carrot Hole. Head Wild Bunneh gave the command, "Lettuce commence our attack."
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
The Wild Bunnehs fired the Carrot Hole at the Time Lord in a great flash of light and sound, the scene going bright orange and smelly slightly of carrot bread.
- Steven Perez
from IM
The Time Lord was wallowing in a sea of cream cheese icing. The planned worked, Roger Bunneh made five carrot general, he was hailed a hero.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
Ah, but the clever Time Lord was also a Kwitzach Haderach, and so called forth the rains to wash away the icing trap, while at the same time sweeping aside the Bunneh Army.
- Steven Perez
from IM
AHEM. NOT THE END. THIS ENDS WHEN I SAY IT ENDS.
- Steven Perez
from IM
NOW THEN, WHERE WERE WE? Right: So, having vanquished the Wild Bunnehs to a pocket dimension outside the Time Stream, Steven addressed his merry band of explorers, admonishing them, "Now don't forget: chicken, waffles, cilantro. And try to bring back some bacon, too. Here's some more money to help you on your trip."
- Steven Perez
Rescuing the brave Sir Haggis, Princess Stripey Socks charged him with joining the brave knights in the quest for good grub, giving a magic sword, enchanted shield, and a bag of holding containing a secret weapon.
- Steven Perez
The bag was moving, small sounds were heard. Sir Haggis was overjoyed when he glanced into this magical secret bag. A litter of babby bunneh cuteness could be seen.
- Janet-The Bottley Crue
The brave warriors woke early the next morning, refreshed from their stay at the Castle, and set off to the West to find the Bacon Stronghold.
- Steven Perez
Unbeknown to them a Elf was following them eating the Cilantro that was leaking from the bag.
- Kim Landwehr
The merry band made their way across the Enchanted Fields of Flightlessness, eventually reaching the borders of the A-List Bloggers' country.
- Steven Perez
Gunny the Brave said, "Now be careful not to get into any arguments here. The people love to argue even more than -".
- Steven Perez
from IM
He had not even finished the sentence before Alex the Scoble got into a heated debate with Michael the Errington, a well known brigand and fool, and Chris the White, a born argumentative goof. Soon, even the Songbird and the Oblivious were arguing with several well-known bloggers whether Twitter or Facebook was better.
- Steven Perez
from IM
Gunny, seeing that this matter would require no small amount of time to resolve, sat down to eat an early lunch: cilantro in a cilantro wrap with cilantro mayonnaise.
- Vicarbott
with a side of twisty fries seasoned with coriander.
- Vicarbott
Suddenly, inspired by the cilantro coursing through his veins, Gunny hit upon an idea; he whipped out his Blackberry and tweeted the following: "STEVE JOBS IS AT THE STARBUCKS AND IS TAKING QUESTIONS."
- Steven Perez
But there was no going away this day. No, Going away had been banished. The mighty over lord Steven had declared it to be so. Going away now had been replaced with
- Brent - Yes I am
singing! Gunny, with great relunctance, began to sing "We gotta get outta this place, if it's the last thing we ever do!"
- Vicarbott
Gunny finding quickly that his singing basically sucked and the curious onlookers were getting closer, decided that the Not Going away command declared by the Steve Overlord was in need of some serious fixing quickly. Gunny thought and thought and thought and came up with an Idea, a brilliant idea, and just as the Curious onlookers were just getting to curious for safety reasons, Gunny
- Brent - Yes I am
Picked up a lazer ray gun and cut all the curious on lookers in half. "That will teach you to mind your own business." shouted Gunny.
- Brent - Yes I am
Gunny began to wonder if perhaps he had been a little hasty.
- Kevin J Hatton
But it was too late. The soapy nasty evil cilantro had altered his mind, and history forever, so-
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Gunny decided that Cilantro was never going to pass his lips again.
- Brent - Yes I am
My lips are on file, Gunny said; as the cilantro was secretly dipped in acid.
- Joel Robert Perez
'Damn that's hot!' he exclaimed and began to ponder his next move.
- Kevin J Hatton
Suddenly Gunny realized that Steven shared part of his name with Perez Hilton, so..
- JazJaz
And that's when a large bucket of ice cold water drenched Gunny from head to toe; Haggis had saved him from some bad cilantro. Meanwhile, the A-List Bloggers, thrilled at the mention of Steve Jobs somewhere in the area, ran to the next Starbucks over, which just happened to be next door, allowing Gunny and Haggis to gather Helen, Katie, and Alex and make their escape, after they grabbed Gunny's secretly cloaked Blackberry.
- Steven Perez
The intrepid band of heroes knew that they would soon need supplies, as their cilantro had been tainted by the dreaded IMHO Virus, a known cilantro-killer in the land of A-List Bloggers; luckily, Katie, who was usually oblivious to such things, knew of a secret stash of cilantro, borracho beans, Spanish rice and flour tortillas, so they headed off to the Mexican Restaurant at the Edge of the Mountain.
- Steven Perez
Soon after sitting down, they realized that a cloaked figure in the corner had been watching them with great interest from the moment they entered the restaurant. The Scoble began to be anxious, "I know that cloak, Haggis" he whispered.
- Vicarbott
The cloaked figure, short and stout, made its way silently to the table, withdrawing its hood to display its large red mouth and row of sharp teeth, saying, "Greetings, fair travelers. I am Domo-Kun. I am here to lead you to our ruler, Princess Pea Awesomesauce, and she will grant you a boon for your trip. But first, finish your enchiladas before they get cold."
- Steven Perez
So the band of warriors had some yummy enchiladas and sopapillas, along with the finest tequila.
- Steven Perez
After their meal, Domo-Kun led the band to the edge of the mountain and said, "Now we must ride the wind. When I give the signal, we will jump off this cliff and be carried by the Rocs of Ages to the Stormhold of Pea. Get ready!"
- Steven Perez
From far away, a great raptor's cry echoed across the wide valley, soon joined by a chorus of calls that could have come from no ordinary birds.
- Steven Perez
"Sweet!" cried Gunny, through cilantro-colored teeth. "I've always wanted to be in a story like this!"
- Vicarbott
Katie handed Gunny a toothbrush and said, "Better hurry, cuz I think we're about to go flying."
- Steven Perez
At the rave, Gunny was given some cilantro laced with X. He passed out.
- G Dub of the Carolinas
Katie smacked Gunny awake. "Focus, man! The Rocs are coming. Finish brushing your teeth and get ready to jump!"
- Steven Perez
The flapping of wings became louder and louder as the Rocs, huge winged raptors from legends long since past, came into view, preparing to sweep the cliff and pick up their passengers on their journey to Domo-Kun's homeland.
- Steven Perez
But first the winged wonders ate at the base of the tree with all the dead bodies.
- Brent - Yes I am
"Stupid Rocs," growled Domo, "always getting distracted." He produced a bone whistle from his robes and let fly with a silent blast of noise. The Rocs looked up from their meal and flew towards the travelers on the cliff.
- Steven Perez
"OK," said Domo. "On my mark ... ready ... ready ... NOW!"
- Steven Perez
The group of warriors leapt from the cliff onto the backs of the swooping Rocs, all of them easily landing on the soft downy surface. The Rocs pierced the air with their battle cry and flew high into the air towards the Stormhold of Pea.
- Steven Perez
Gunny, with freshly brushed teeth looked around dazed and confused.
- Brent - Yes I am
Suddenly, there was a trembling and shuddering deep within the heart of the world, as the light blue of the Principality of FriendFeed changed to a darker, more evil hue.
- Steven Perez
OH NOES! The world around them had changed to resemble Teh Evil Kingdom of BookFaced!
- Steven Perez
"THIS WILL NOT STAND!" cried the Time Lord. "WE MUST SAVE THE KINGDOM BEFORE IT CRUMBLES INTO DUST! Or, at least, before stuff like search and posting files doesn't work anymore!"
- Steven Perez
Leaping from his throne, the Time Lord hurried to his lab, where his podcast partner, Time Lady Amber of Spence and her assistant, the lovely Lady Shevonne, were tinkering with a circuit board.
- Steven Perez
"Hark!" cried Lord Steven. "Time to get it in gear, you two. Fire up the TARDIS and let's go! We have to gather our forces and prepare for the assault!"
- Steven Perez
i was as bruised as the bloody Knife held in my hand " how was i going to be clever with the police walking up the stairs i just woke and there were dead animals around me it was a upmarket hotel in Barbados a dead horse a donkey bleeding and some other thing that are to disfigured too be identified how do i explain this "How procedurals , nok nok its the police yes just a moment as run...
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- Gratten
"Zounds!" said Lord Steven. "The time fractures are getting worse. Now other realities are beginning to bleed and merge into our own. We have to find the others quick so we can seal the breach and defeat the enemies of FriendFeed!"
- Steven Perez
Throwing up the chronal shields, the Time Lords and his companions streaked across the cosmos towards the Stronghold of Pea, hoping that the intrepid band of heroes mentioned way back when in the story were acquitting themselves with honor and dignity.
- Steven Perez
Making a brief stop at the Castle of the Flightless Queen to pick up Sir Haggis and Princess Stripey Socks ("No, you can't do drunken karaoke now! Yes, you can bring your PSYCH and SUPERNATURAL box sets with you! Yes, Sir Christian can come, too!"), the TARDIS made its way the Land of Domo-Kun ahead of the BookFaced Wave of Destruction.
- Steven Perez
"My old Palm worked extremely well for this, but you can use your ingenuity to come up with other ideas if you don’t have a Palm. Basically the result you’re going for is a bright screen that’s completely white. I accomplished this by making a perfectly white image file in Photoshop, sending it to the Palm, and viewing the white image in fullscreen at full brightness. I have heard of...
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- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
"The rest is just a matter of alignment and timing. The general idea is to get the negative on the scanner glass, and pin it down using the light source. You may have to place a book or something on top of the light source if it doesn’t weigh enough to press the negative flat against the glass. Line everything up as well as you can, but don’t obsess, because you can always straighten...
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- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
I don't know why I never thought of this. It's so simple! We'll see how well this works with the G1 (stupid CHIN!!). I can't believe I'm hating on the chin. *sob*
- TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
Zee I am so happy for you - I know how much you adore her. :) Congratulations again and may you have a fantabulous life together, filled with joy, love, and laughter! Best, Mona
- Mona Nomura
This has been coming up in my feed all day and I have not begun to tire of it at all. Lovely! Congratulations again!
- Vicarbott
Wow. Congrats Mucho! A long, healthy and happy life for the both of you! Remember how much you love each other right now, because down the road a few years, you might wonder where you are, how you got there, and who is sleeping next to you in bed. It's hard, hard work. But it's worth it!
- Morgan
Congratulations. And enjoy the rest of your vacation!
- Meryn Stol
Beautiful girl and beautiful ring.....congratulations!
- Bonnie Foster
"[...] At One is a sofa which has been devoured by its obese occupier,” says Kingsnorth. “It tells a story of a relationship between a person and their sofa and the evolution of their bond through time spent sitting together. [...]"
- ˈpɛbə
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It's quite repulsive. But I understand the artist's intention.
- JazJaz
Summer movies tend to crush box-office records, dumbfound critics, and be terrible. Our STAFF AND READERS tell us about the movies they know they shouldn’t love.
- JazJaz
from Bookmarklet
they here on ff all so positive and don't want to have "hate" button... so we have to live with "like"... consider it "quick share"... obviously it's terrible :(
- minus-one
@Dick You are missing the point of "like." It means that it's something that caught the person's eye, and they want to share it with their subscribers.
- Shevonne
This is really sad =( I can't even look at the video
- Shevonne
We click 'Like' to share it with more people. Are you new to FF?
- JazJaz
doesn`t sharing with subscribers also work when typing a comment? Im not sure.
- Dickbuttkick
True, but sometimes, words can't express everything.
- JazJaz
You're right, but sometimes, you don't know what to say, so you like it, so then others can see it.
- Shevonne
I do agree that FF could have come up with a better word.
- JazJaz
JazJaz: when I click "like" it means "I would 'like' you to see this." No more no less.
- Robert Scoble
@scoble I get it, but new folks like Dickbuttkick don't.
- JazJaz
I know how its "technically" meant for sharing. but it just went against my ethics having the sentence at the top "YOU and 3 other people liked this". especially in respect and decency for the dead girl. so I guess posting a comment for resharing something I dont like, is the better way for me. Take it as kinda pinpointing out a flaw in FF that suggests an altered meaning ... while some people are "liking" it like every other lolcat pic without thinking about that.
- Dickbuttkick
Well, kinda. That's one of my senior year pics and a pic from my senior prom. Both of 'em were closer this morning than my actual year book, so it's what you're getting. Tina, 1996, SC Governor's School for Science and Mathematics.
- FFing Enigma
beautiful Tina! I graduated in 83 and I skipped out on senior pics. I'm pretty sure that I had a mullet (we called the bi-levels back then) with spikes on top. *shudder*
- BEX
"Where's this shy geek you speak of?" Dude, did you not read the first comment? Governor's School for Science and Math: we were ALL geeks...
- FFing Enigma
Whatever, Tina. All I see is a Southern Belle I would have enjoyed the honor of being rejected by.
- Josh Haley
Thanks Shevonne =) And Josh, that reminds me of another picture I might actually have to find my yearbook for: I dressed up as Southern Bell (the phone company at the time) for Halloween my junior year.
- FFing Enigma
Depends on what u mean by fight. King Kong vs. the T Rex in peter jacksons remake was an amazing scene.
- Shauns
from iPhone
The ladder fight in Once Upon a Time in China and Neo vs Agent Smith X100 in Matrix 2 are both great fights but Ong-Bak has the best fight scenes i have ever seen.
- Steve
I would have said the Matrix, but the scenes were just too CGI. I would say the Bourne Trilogy again for some intense action. Special mention to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.
- travispuk
from iPhone
The Bourne movies. Amazing tension for two straight hours. You feel drained, and that music! To die for!
- Rick Cogley
maximum risk, jean claude van damme vs russian guy at sauna
- رامین
For me it's probably Ong Bak. Crows Zero has some great scenes too (not so far from that corridor scene from Old Boy).
- Brome
Correction "Kiss OF the Dragon" ;) and yes, all the fight scenes in that movie are amazing. Li doesn't use a firearm in a single scene
- LANjackal
from IM
The ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA movies. Jet Li without the Hollywood speed bumps for four movies. Teh awesomesauce.
- Steven Perez
from Android
Jet Li's FIST OF LEGEND, Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Tony Jaa's ONG-BAK.
- cdogzilla | downgraded
Drunken Master 2 (Jackie vs 5, Jackie & Lau Kar-Leung vs 100 in the restaurant). The Protector has an unbelievable 4 minute single shot where Tony Jaa runs up a large building, kicking tremendous ass along the way, and there's those three one-on-ones he has as well. SPL doesn't have a lot of fight scenes, but Donnie Yen vs Jing Wu is outstanding. The Cowboy Bebop movie has some...
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- Andrew C (✓)
If you're going to include the Matrix lobby scene, you might include a few other gunfight scenes - The Killer, Hard Boiled, Shoot 'Em Up.
- Andrew C (✓)
Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood (1935). He also directed the Adventures of Robin Hood and Casablanca.
- Zach Landes
IDK i think if we are going on raw fighting film talent Bruce Lee is pretty epic. Bourne really has a lot more to do with the filming of the sequences that enhance the feeling of the action.
- Geoff Schultz {TF}
The Matrix, Kill Bill, 300 and House of Flying Daggers (the bamboo fight sequence was brilliant)!
- Frank Da Silva
Jet Li's 'Kiss of the Dragon' is one of my modern favorites. I've heard that they actually had to slow down the footage, because Li was simply too fast.
- Will Higgins™
FIST OF LEGEND with Jet Li. Sorry, the others don't hold a candle to the final two sequences in this movie.
- Andrew Leyden
The Bourne Films for the striking realism and They Live for the sheer length of that scene. Honorable mention to Ong Bak
- Robert Davies
The greatest fight scene in movie history and it takes until this far into the comments for someone to identify it? Sheesh - The best scene ever is clearly the Sword Fighting scene in The Princess Bride. It's inconceivable that I'm the first one to mention it.
- Bill Rawlinson
kediye de ablayada maşşallah :) sağlam kas yapmıştır abla öyle tutacam diye :D peluş fln olmasın sakın? o kadar et öyle kolay kalkmaz :D
- Emre BAHADIR
Şöyle bir yorum gelmedi iyi ki: "İnsanın satanist olası gelir..." :P
- Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu
Özer baba aklımdan geçmedi değil ama sanki bunu görmüştüm fake diye bişiler geçmişti ya
- ArmaN ACAR
"Two dying stars at the edge of the universe and further away than any detected to date have been discovered using a new imaging technique..... A supernova occurs when a massive star more than 50 times the mass of the Sun dies in a powerful bright explosion. Normally scientists find supernovae by comparing pictures taken at different times of the same patch of sky and looking for changes. A new light could indicate one of the explosions. The new technique involves blending together pictures taken over the course of a year, and comparing them with image compilations from other years."
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from Bookmarklet
*thinks about the nature of time and mortality and has a huge feckin panic attack*
- Joe The Sausage
Damn Dead Silence, that's not quite the reaction I was hoping to inspire with this post! But it is pretty overwhelming sometimes to think about how expansive it all is and how insignificant we seem in comparison... :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
from iPhone
The original Star Trek was beloved by fans, in part because the science was not entirely far-fetched. More frequently, Hollywood gets it wrong--and sometimes it goofs on purpose. Here are 10 Hollywood moments--identified by Phil Plaitt, an astronomer, author and writer of the blog www.badastronomy.com--that defy the laws of science. Maybe we can learn a few lessons.
- Shey
from Bookmarklet
bah, forbes.. learn that you need to start when I decide.. Not cycle thru it then pick up another list to cycle thru when I don't even have your tab active yet!!
- alphaxion
better question: how many films are there out there that would NOT flunk science class?
- Iphigenie
The Chromomulator takes the top 100 Google searches at the moment (from Google Trends) and scours the web, collecting related news, blog posts, pictures, and videos for each search. If you need to know everything about what's hot on the net right now, the Chromomulator can tell you.
- JazJaz
I love this site. The Friendfeed presentation that will be posted tomorrow was my first in Prezi and I absolutely love it.
- Keith - @tsudo
I've started using this in a lot of my Physics lessons to great effect - really nice bit of software.
- Rich
I've heard this can be somewhat difficult or time-consuming for the everyday person to learn how to use. Do you think this is true?
- Jannifer @wordsforliving
this is fantastic, i have presentation on wed will use this
- Robert Higgins
Jannifer - It does have a bit of a learning curve. Took me a couple of hours to get used to it but it was well worth it.
- Keith - @tsudo
It's strange I found the limitations of design elements make me much more creative. It's as if you were only giving a palette of 6 colors but you found ways to make a painting even more interesting.
- Keith - @tsudo
How Harry Fucking Potter book 7 is that shit?
- Johnny
It's dawned on me just now that those endings are kind of similar, although I'd venture that the Harry Potter film series' ending will be much better..
- Jonathan Hardesty
Every single movie these days some sort of Messiah complex
- Mo Kargas
Johnny, you just ruined harry potter for me! I don't read the books, but I watch the films. :)
- Simon Wicks
from iPhone
I guess I shouldn't tell you about the part where Ron bonks Hagrid in a hot steaming pile of Red-Head-on-Giant sex
- Johnny
How many "He is The Chosen One" -movies are there, anyway? Every time I hear it in a movie, I barf a bit in my mouth :o
- Jemm
The term Monomyth (often referred to as the hero's journey) as used within the field of comparative mythology refers to a basic pattern supposedly found in many narratives from around the world. A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- JazJaz
The more things change, the more they remain the same..
- JazJaz
Transformer heaven was ridiculously funny, could not stop laughing..
- Jacob
@Jacob: If I believed in heaven, I wish it was full of awesome transforming robots
- Jemm
I don't believe in heaven at all, but now that I hear you I have to say, yes it would be frickin' cool to awake in Transformer heaven, perhaps even become a Transformer..
- Jacob
@Beau, Damavand is the highest peak in Iran with a special place in Persian mythology and folklore. Located in the middle Alborz Range.
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
It's gorgeous. I would love to see it one day.
- Beau Liening
i have seen milky way just one time when i was in Iran. it was marvelous.
- Mahdi Ebrahimi
Not a perfect solution, perhaps, but there's a Firefox extension called Add to Search Bar that lets you add search for any site to the search bar. Just install the extension, then you right-click in the search field on any site and select "add to search bar," and it's there. Pretty handy.
- Jandy
"The Tea Party phenomenon, which began with anti-tax rallies staged across the country on April 15, 2009, will continue as activists in almost every state are planning similar events on July 4. Notably, white supremacists are again planning to participate. As they have done with other political and social issues, for example, promoting the Ron Paul campaign and using the immigration debate, white supremacists and anti-Semites are planning to exploit Tea Parties to disseminate their hateful views and recruit a larger following."
- Steven Perez
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Michael, you do know about Ron Paul's amazing 1990s newsletters, right? ( http://www.cnn.com/2008... ) And yes, I know he disavowed them in public. That just makes him a weasel. They were published under his name.
- Andrew C (✓)
I'm pretty good at understanding the other side(s) of a story, but I will NEVER understand this stuff.
- Lis
Andrew, if I were to create an internet news letter or a blog under your name, write defamatory comments, wouldn't you take offense? He's a weasel for because he told the public it wasn't true? Because he let them know his true stance on racism? CNN rehashed this story several times in order to gain the popular belief in the public that Ron Paul is a racist, and it seems like you fell for it.
- Michael Forian
Think of all those innocent children growing up in these families :(
- JazJaz
i'm gonna hide this cos i don't wanna start doing my Evil Dead 2 vomiting again.
- Joe The Sausage
"if I were to create an internet news letter or a blog under your name, " - then that would be very different from Ron Paul **who published the newsletter that bore his name**. http://www.tnr.com/politic... The gullible ones are the Paulites who bought his excuse that he wasn't responsible for that content. It's not just the newsletters, it's his decades-long associations with the racist right wing.
- Andrew C (✓)
"In other words, Paul's campaign wants to depict its candidate as a naïve, absentee overseer, with minimal knowledge of what his underlings were doing on his behalf. This portrayal might be more believable if extremist views had cropped up in the newsletters only sporadically--or if the newsletters had just been published for a short time. But it is difficult to imagine how Paul could...
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- Andrew C (✓)
Or Sara Robinson http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007... : "As I said below: Either the man is a straight talker who means what he says, and says what he means -- in which case, he stands by all his words, and is willing to defend them as his own. He started the newsletter, he hired the writer, he approved the copy, he paid for the words to be...
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- Andrew C (✓)
Andrew, the Ron Paul I know is not a rascist. I also misread the CNN article (I was switching back and forth between my laptop and iPhone). I thought it was a newsletter that Paul was unaware of and unassociated with and only using his name. I do believe Paul when he says that he had no idea of the rascist writings in the newsletter because of his outreach to the black community in the 13th district.
- Michael Forian
from iPhone
I'd be willing to accept that Ron Paul is not a racist, but he has deep and numerous ties to those who are, far too many for me to believe he 'hates white supremacists and anti-semites'. http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007... Not when he keeps on repeating their talking points, slightly cleaned up for mainstream consumption.
- Andrew C (✓)
Well, I think it's more like they have numerous ties with him. They like his approach on foreign policy and of course his economical sense. One reason he has these morons after him is because he's upset when it comes to the US funding the Israeli military (and frankly, I'm a little ticked too). Far too many people say that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim, I still don't believe them!
- Michael Forian
It dawned on me at about 4am last night when I was finishing my review that 2500 words might not be enough to fully describe the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen experience. Additionally, I really didn't get much into the plot, as I was so busy explaining why it was a fundamentally shitty movie. So I took a little time to interview myself about the movie's story in order to help you understand what RotF is all about. Hope it helps!
- JazJaz
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