"Michael Jackson appeared healthy in a video clip obtained by CNN of his rehearsal two nights before he died. AEG, promoter of Jackson's planned London shows, released the short video of Jackson rehearsing on a stage in the Staples Center arena on June 239. Jackson sang "They Don't Care About Us," a song from his "HIStory" album, as he danced along with eight male dancers."
- Jess Lee
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Yeah, but it's great that the video was released. It's amazing how sharp he looked and how well he was moving, given that he was 50 years old and also given that he passed away two days later. :(
- Dan Hsiao
so crazy, he looks fine, maybe even better than he was a few years ago...what the hell happened?!?!?
- Cassidy
Yeah, he looked like he was on top of his game and about to make a great comeback. So sad : (
- Jess Lee
We only had a 1 year lease for the old office and we managed to get this new space with 2 months free rent, so we moved before the 1 year was up. Bloomspot (the startup we were incubating) are still in our old space.
- Jess Lee
Dang. I wish we were in MTV with everyone else!!! :)
- Elad
I don't believe peach beer is a celebration of anything. Walk yourselves down to the Tied House. ;)
- Cristo the Troll™
"An underground youth culture in Japan with distinctive music, fashion and make-up, where the skin is darkened using tanning products is spreading worldwide. Young people in the UK have been learning about the intricacies of 'manba' by making friends on the other side of the world using social networking sites and learning how to re-create the style through videos on YouTube."
- Jess Lee
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This is the beginning of the end, soon men will be depilating, agonising over their imperfections and always pursuing fictional images... just like most of us women. Equality, we're doing it wrong!
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Joelle, I think the guys above are already depilating and agonizing over their imperfections...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Wow, that was really impressive! Lots of nice gems, like "Pandora—type it in and there's music playing. Watch the ads, and it's almost like paying"
- Dan Hsiao
The linked articles are informative, though where the Independent ( http://nymag.com/daily... ) writes: "Unlike H&M and Zara, however, the company's focus is not a dizzyingly fast turnover of catwalk-"inspired", trend-led designs." -- I actually had kinda mentally binned H&M and Uniqlo in about the same category, while still recognizing that Uniqlo's clothes are kinda blander.
- Andrew C
I haven't shopped at the Gap in a long time and when the first Uniqlo store opened in NYC a couple years back, i switched to Uniqlo over H&M for basics (more consistent quality). I do hope Uniqlo opens more stores in the US though, since right now i have to return to NY to shop at one.
- Dan Hsiao
Ever since I moved to NYC two years ago, Uniqlo has taken over about half my closet. But this year their stuff has been a bit disappointing (but still decent). I think there might be an intrinsic problem with a "basics" store -- they can't really do well by doing the same thing every year, and yet there's only so much you can do within the confines of "basics". I still refuse to wear thermal heathers or polos, for example, no matter how much Uniqlo pimps them.
- Mike Yang
I don't know if I like their business model but I do like their stores and their buyers. Maybe they don't like their business model either, hence buying Gap? Once upon a time Gap was great; maybe they can bring that back?
- Daniel Dulitz
Mike, I think you would look nice in a polo.
- Jess Lee
When I saw the headline a little bit ago, I thought it was like the building in Brooklyn that just collapsed. These photos...wow. It just decided to have a lie down. I hope no one was hurt.
- Anika Malone
Any structural engineers in the house? How is that possible. I'm not an engineer but I've built legos and logs and what not, and simply can't imagine what could do that short of an explosion (gas main?) or an earthquake.
- Adrian Culici
Thanks, Andrew. That article is very informative.
- Anika Malone
Aha! Sinkhole / erosion was my third guess. If something doesn't give underneath or energy is applied in a direction (earthquake, explosion, Godzilla, etc.) its simply can't topple over.
- Adrian Culici
Unfortunately, a migrant worker was killed in the collapsed building when he planned to jumped out of the window. More horribly, the buildings beside the apartment are slanting to the ground, which could be seen by the naked eyes, though the state media denied it.
- xiawinter
Adrian, There are many reasons why a building like this could fall over. If the foundation of the building was not sound or was sitting on unstable earth. If the structure was inadequately designed, the lower floors could collapse under the load from the upper floors. Luckily the building was under construction and no one was living in it yet. I wouldn't want to be living in any of the adjacent buildings until they figure out what caused the failure.
- Jeff P. Henderson
From one of the other comments, it sounds like the buildings were built on unstable ground or their foundations were not designed correctly for the location.
- Jeff P. Henderson
"About 130 nearby households were evacuated and inspectors were examining the foundations of seven other identical buildings in the "Lotus Riverside" compound, saying they appeared to be intact Saturday evening, the report said. The incident was a new blow for Chinese property developers, who have been severely hit by a sagging market amid the global financial crisis. Those who bought...
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- Jeff P. Henderson
The pilings sticking out from the bottom of the toppled building do not look very substantial nor do they look like they were very deep into the ground.
- Jeff P. Henderson
"Concerns over poor construction and low-quality materials have plagued China's construction industry as the country rapidly builds up its cities and infrastructure needed to maintain its growing economy. Anger over poor construction boiled over during after last year's earthquake in central China after about 7,000 schools collapsed and relatives of dead children spoke out against graft they believed led to shoddy construction. " http://news.my.msn.com/regiona...
- Jeff P. Henderson
Here's more photos: http://zonaeuropa.com/200906c... I see no re bar in the pilings that are sticking out of the bottom of the building. Definitely inadequate if not shoddy construction.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Thank you Jess, for bringing this to the attention of English speakers.
- Dallas Cao
This is why purchasing power parity adjustment of Chinese GDP is such nonsense. Shoddy construction of buildings and infrastructure in China is the norm. While not this bad, typically buildings through out the country will never last as long as a european or north american equivalents.
- Gersham Meharg
That's the secret of the double number of GDP growth for the past years, they built something that didn't last long, soon they rebuild it and then the number were double counted.
- Paul
This is nuts. I almost didn't believe it, but then I found pics from several different angles. This shoddy workmanship in China really needs to stop. It's just getting ludicrous now. Why are so many people there so keen on saving a yuan that they don't care if people get hurt or killed in the process? I know we have similarly unscrupulous businesses in the US, but they seem to take it to a much worse level in China. Perhaps because looser regulations and corruption allows people to get away with things.
- Kamilah Gill
God has been busy blessing America, and then who has time to save our chinese people?
- Paul
''God has been busy blessing America'' true.....but really i think God has been bussy blessing whole the world? right??
- Özge Lillith Çevik
Is it my impression or is the 'foundation' completely clean? No stretched/torn steel supports etc?!
- Ade
this is like a nightmare, which I had, come true, ... where Im in a house that starts to shake back & forth and then turns over .. that is where I wake up.
- Dickbuttkick
now u can see how it looks like after you woke up :) i can see that there is a big need of urban housing in china but to risk the lives of many people is just irresponsible. its houses...they are build to stay for some time i guess. they should spend a little more time to make it right
- Chris Hofmann
foundation is clean cuz reason is ground's liqudity and foundation's collapsing are so high...in that case we can easily say this ground's is not so stong probably it is clay...the most important thing is this civil engineers have got no idea about fountaion and ground type...if you meet this kind of ground you should choose deep foundation.. like pale foundation type...yes i am a civil engineer and this is my thesis
- Özge Lillith Çevik
Wow, I know where that is. Nothing like taking the time to properly scope out a location before building a high-rise on it.
- Darren Lewis
Looks like the foundation only went about 6 feet into the ground. Hell, many two-story homes in the US go down that deep. So the fact that this is a 13 story building with such a shallow foundation, it isn't surprising that it just fell over. A stiff breeze could have knocked that building over.
- Jason Huebel
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp... - "They also took samples of concrete and reinforcing steel bars from the collapsed 13-floor building" - so apparently there was some amount of steel in there somewhere...
- Andrew C
Would be cool if Friendfeed could convert posts to my chosen language and visa versa. I'd sure like to be able to read and respond to these posts!
- Jeff P. Henderson
FF is so amazing that it collects users' comments from all over the world with different language, so how do you English-speaking guys read Chinese ? I suppose most of Chinese users read English with no difficulty.
- xiawinter
Everybody is welcome to join the group "Say Chinese in FF" if you have interest in Chinese language or information,which has more than 1000 members--http://friendfeed.com/chinese...
- kelvin
I am very curious, the buildings is slowly going down or a sudden fall? If it is the latter, not less likely to break the glass, especially the top floor. ----- 我是很好奇, 那個樓是慢慢倒下去的 還是轟一下子倒下去? 如果是後者, 玻璃不太可能不破的, 尤其是最上面的樓層.
- JohnDu™
"He was an incredibly dynamic force and power that was not to be underestimated. When he used it for something good, It was the best and when he used it for something bad, It was really, REALLY bad. Mediocrity was not a concept that would even for a second enter Michael Jackson's being or actions. I became very ill and emotionally/ spiritually exhausted in my quest to save him from certain self-destructive behavior and from the awful vampires and leeches he would always manage to magnetize around him."
- Ionut
Quote from Lisa Marie: "When he used it for something good it was the best, when he used it for something bad, it was really, REALLY bad." You know it.
- Kevin Fox
Does anyone know if Moon is a scary movie? I know it's sci fi but I'm wondering if it has horror elements (I hate horror films). I'm trying to avoid Googling it so I can avoid seeing spoilers.
plot keywords from IMDB: Astronaut, Computer, Moon, Space Travel, Male Rear Nudity, One Word Title. Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi. So, no horror, it seems.
- Marco Mariani
'User-Selected Content basically is a feature inside a user-generated content or social networking site. Using this feature, the users don’t have to create the content themselves. They just have to choose from a library of content in order to create an event between members easily and quickly."
- Jess Lee
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At our company we built our own email server and most of use thunderbird. Very few oldies still use outlook plugin we have. I said bye bye to Outlook long time back.
- Kiran Patchigolla
I don't agree. They heard, and they responded - "We are using Word as the rendering engine." Which is much more than I was actually expecting from them.
- Andy Bold
Wow. How can they see that picture and still think it's an acceptable rendering engine? Don't they make this thing called Internet Explorer that renders HTML. This really is a mind boggling stance.
- Aaron Hood
Doesn't make sense to me. It's clear they're willing to radically change the UI and otherwise break compatibility - Office 2007 feels very very different from previous versions and won't animate animated gifs.
- Andrew C
Quick poll: How many people reading this spend a significant amount of time formatting their email beyond basic font alterations and tables? The type of HTML work that this affects? You cannot include professional work that you do in order to create heavily formatted and lay outs for mailshots, etc. I am genuinely curious as to how much this really affects the average user.
- Andy Bold
@Andy Bold: I never write heavily formatted HTML emails but I receive a lot of them, especially from retailers and services I've signed up for.
- Jess Lee
The reason they switched away from IE was based on security. They felt it was better to use a separate engine that doesn't have any scripting support in their email client to reduce the attack surface.Maybe with IE8 in restricted mode they could go back to using IE, that is, of course, assuming that they can distribute it without being sued.
- Russ
Microsoft is between a rock and hard place. IE is too integrated into the kernal to be considered safe for handling email, and they are being forced to exclude it from European versions of Windows. HTML email is the tool of spammers and virus writers. Word is notoriously bad at creating HTML. If you were Microsoft would you produce an email client capable of using say Firefox as a rendering engine?
- Gilbert Harding
IE isn't anywhere near the kernel, it's just a wrapper around the Microsoft HTML COM control. That however is used by a large number of third party apps so removing it isn't easy. They could remove the IE icon and application, just not the actual rendering engine. If they were going to use an alternative engine it would be Wekbit. My experiance with Gecko is that it's just too much of a...
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- Russ