Sorry, folks..... We need money for our schools.... But we'll keep the shrimp cocktail at 99 cents....:-) - Chris Reed

It'd be awesome if they built a hotel with slots and tables themed for different charities and causes. You could play blackjack at the Breast Cancer table and know that 10% of the take would go to breast cancer research. There could be a Las Vegas Schools table and a Rainforest table and Cardiac Slots and SETI craps tables... - Kevin Fox

Vegas doesn't need money for schools. A large uneducated population is to the advantage of Las Vegas. The last thing they want are people that are good at math. - Kevin D. White

They're actually one of the last tourism destinations to do it. Local munis have been jumping on this all over the country. One problem. The economy. Numbers are way down .... except NY and FL - which are both drawing foreign visitors because of the decline in the dollar. - Charlie Anzman

@Kevin White: Come on... You don't want me to make stereotypes about Salt Lake City, do you? - Chris Reed

Chris, Morton Fox what are you buying instead of saving dollars? - Adam Thorsen

I haven't done anything yet, but have been thinking GLD, USO, and a Euro money market. - Chris White

for those with (almost) all cash in USD it might make sense to move part into renewable energy, like wind electricity etc - silpol

The ECB has been pursuing an anti-inflationary monetary policy, while the Fed has not. In addition, gas prices in Europe are already at above $9 per gallon in USD. The price of oil is a global commodity currently priced at $144 per barrel in USD. The fact that the euro has been continually outpacing the dollar keeps their oil prices down compared to ours. - Chris White

Most of my 401(k) has been in foreign funds for the last several years and has consistently done better than the US funds. - Oliver Ortega Chua

Uh oh..... "President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb" - Chris Reed via Bookmarklet

WTF? No. No no no no no no. This is not an option. We are NOT doing this. - Carla Thompson

God protect us from Bush and Cheney. - Michelle Trent

I'm sure Bush & Dick are just trying to be fiscally responsible by cutting administrative costs. It should be much easier to budget for one really big war instead of two smaller ones. - Kevin D. White

i'm guess this is a viral video for a series of stipper work out tapes... i don't trust anything I see on YouTube's top list any more... it's all viral marketing by some ad agency. :-) - Jason Calacanis via Bookmarklet

if it is, it's kinda pointless, like most viral videos. - phil baumann

That's freaking funny. - Chris Leckness

One word: Failure - Chacha

Priceless. - Granteezy

Dimitri is quite the catch. - Kevin D. White

Reason lost - Kevin D. White

"Bobby Jindahl, creationist/exorcist governor of Louisiana, has signed the academic freedom bill into state law. So that’s it then. Teachers are now free to teach a false controversy in their classrooms, introducing creationism like it’s an actual science instead of tissue-thin nonsense." - Chris Reed via Bookmarklet

Ohh, so that's why McCain likes him. Didn't realize he had this kind of stuff in him. - Carla Thompson

This is an excellent example of why it's imperative that we NOT elect John McCain. It's probable that he will nominate Supremes who will tolerate and even support these sorts of attacks on science and reason. - Tad Donaghe via fftogo

Speaking of Supremes and reason, did you see their forward-thinking interpretation of the 2nd amendment yesterday? Good stuff. - Carla Thompson

I'm glad the Supremes supported the right of law-abiding citizens to own firearms. - Tad Donaghe via fftogo

Ah jeez. Chris, I know you told me this would happen but I still ignored the data hoped it wouldn't. Well LA, don't come crawling back to science when your great intelligent designer decides to redecorate and sends another hurricane. - Kevin D. White

OMG, if I had 8K sitting around, I would TOTALLY buy that. And possibly move it around if the children were being difficult. ;) - Cyndy

Perhaps some sort of group purchase plan... - Kevin D. White

So much for the rumors they would offer something reasonable. Data rates and limits are stupid and exorbitant ... - Patrick Jordan

No unlimited bandwidth. That sucks. - Kevin D. White

"Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico." - Kevin D. White

Yet another area where the US has fallen behind. - Kevin D. White

Travel and Leisure had a survey in the last six months or so about how Philadelphia was the ugliest city to visit ever. - edythe

ah. we were in wayne, pa until I was 7 and then we moved into the city. - edythe

Sure! I know Wayne, PA. I used to meet cute girls from Bryn Mawr around there. Good times. - Kevin D. White

:) - edythe

""Testifying to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Michael Masters of Masters Capital Management said that the price of oil would quickly drop closer to its marginal cost of around $65 to $75 a barrel, about half the current $135. Fadel Gheit of Oppenheimer & Co., Edward Krapels of Energy Security Analysis and Roger Diwan of PFC Energy Consultants agreed with Masters' assessment at a hearing on proposed legislation to limit speculation in futures markets. Krapels said that it wouldn't even take 30 days to drive prices lower, as fund managers quickly liquidated their positions in futures markets."" - Chris White

These guys are full of crap and they know it or they should be fired. These guys are attempting to manipulate the price oil in their favor by playing on the credulity of Congress and the public. If rampant speculation accounted for 50% of the price of oil then there would be huge ammounts of money to be made by betting in the opposite direction and the price would crash. Why not just eliminate all futures markets? No more hedging your bets! - Kevin D. White

This is where the free market, or government, or the system breaks down. The banks and real estate industry makes some really bad decisions about housing and loans which I never agreed with at the time, The whole thing goes south, the government bails them out, and I pay for the thing I was against with my taxes and decreased value of my capital through devaluation and inflation. And then we get soaring oil prices as a door prize. - Chris White

Well think about it like this, subprime mortgages are good things. It encompasses microlending and helping the poor get something of real value in this world. And the banks can and should provide that. The problem was the fact that those very risky but very good items were sold wrong, as a stable item. This caused a big mess. So the real problem lies with the people who packaged the loans in such a way that they could be sold to people who shouldn't have bought them. - Andrew Burd

So now you have banks who were doing what they should have been doing on the edge of collapse. And if they collapse, because of the large series of hedges in the managed futures market, you could have an impact upon all of us that is much larger than the impact of just that bank (think in the trillions as a legit possibility). So the gov't stepping in may cost you a billion but it takes away the risk of you losing thousands of billions. While I wish this wasn't going on, I like the gov't stepping in. - Andrew Burd

Good for Powerset. They had to get picked up by someone. - Kevin D. White

Do you have a source for this yet? Or is this breaking? - Mark Trapp

Link to another post: http://friendfeed.com/e/fb96d2... - Jordan Hofker

nice - Mitchell Tsai

Yea, they called it "friendly" soil! you could grow Asparagus...but the environment is too hostile for growth, despite the pH 8 soil!! wow....wow ... wow! Check out this tweet --> http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix... - Susan Beebe

in other articles they are calling it 'asparagus soil' because the minerals and pH would grow some great spears! - Nancy Babyak via twhirl

Cask conditioned ale is great stuff - Kevin D. White

"United Fire & Casualty Co., the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based property and casualty insurer, said it was flooded out of its headquarters and expects to incur costs because it's not fully covered by insurance." - Kevin D. White

the other side... - edythe

the far side... - Michael W. May via twhirl

I was hoping for a wiki on Conservation. Denied. - Kevin D. White

"But perhaps because you did not bother even to read our paper, or perhaps because you aren't very bright, you seem not to understand that we have the actual, living bacteria that exhibit the properties reported in our paper, including both the ancestral strain used to start this long-term experiment and its evolved citrate-using descendants." This is how a real scientist calls someone a complete jackass. - Kevin D. White

is Andrew Schlafly related to Phyllis? ;) - edythe

That is a brilliant putdown. Good read. - Michael W. May via twhirl

@Michael Yeah, it's pretty savage. Scientists get kinda snippy when you criticize without even looking at the data. - Kevin D. White

"New high school student Aki pairs up with her schoolmate lover and the swim team, to take down an evil madman who's injecting their school with a virus that turns everyone into blood-thirsty killing machines." - Kevin D. White

again, i hear echoes of still another Buffy episode. Bonus points if you can name the episode and season. - edythe

Kdw: correct! Go Fish. - edythe

Damn, not on Netflix yet. - Victor Ryden

@Victor iTunes or Hulu http://www.hulu.com/buffy-the-... - Kevin D. White

business as usual - mixing inventions and innovations... *sigh* - silpol

Managers sure do like reality to conform to their fantasy. I like reality too much. That's why I got out of management. - Kevin D. White

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson - edythe

Would they also like to plan discoveries, and lay out the exact points to be discovered? %) - 9000

Btw,what's about the Google's managers?:) - Igor Poltavskiy

Does not Google management explicitly allows 20% of time to be spent on unpredictable projects? :) - 9000

"But perhaps because you did not bother even to read our paper, or perhaps because you aren't very bright, you seem not to understand that we have the actual, living bacteria that exhibit the properties reported in our paper, including both the ancestral strain used to start this long-term experiment and its evolved citrate-using descendants." THIS is how a real scientist calls someone a complete jackass. - Kevin D. White

buffy again... - edythe

I didn't intentionally create a pattern. Today just happened to be a banner day for Buffy-esque news. - Kevin D. White

no, no. it's just me. single-mindedness. - edythe

"“If there is anything I can do to make your meal more enjoyable or delicious, please let me know immediately,” said Kat Steele, in frilly white knee-high stockings and taut pigtails, as she set down a glass pot of lemon verbena tea. Then she curtsied and pranced away." - edythe via Bookmarklet

Hubba hubba - RAPatton

This is a wonderful trend. Imagine how it will help poor children in Nairobi get a bite to eat, weaken Kim Jong Il's reign in N. Korea, and stop trade in human flesh. And even if it doesn't do all that, its still frickin' HOT. - Zach Landes

@Stefan Decent internet speeds in Japan allow men and women to download or stream objectification faster than in the US. - Kevin D. White

Kevin dw: ;) - edythe

According to some research, it sure looks that way. Makes sense in a truthy sorta way, too. - Bill Sodeman

All of the research I have seen was conducted in tightly controlled laboratories and used statistics to predict possible impact. Labs no matter how sophisticated cannot reproduce the real world conditions of a coral reef. To my knowledge there is no evidence that there is a sufficient concentration in the surrounding water of chemicals from sunscreens to pose a substantial risk to corals. I would put sunscreen way down near the bottom of the list for things to worry about damaging corals. - Kevin D. White

For people interested in coral conservation I suggest the Coral Reef Alliance, http://www.coralreefalliance.o... - Kevin D. White

Facebook ads are really starting to piss me off. The next one says I'm fat! - Michelle Miller

Mine says 'Over 30 and still single?' The girl in the pictures looks like she's 19! Creepy! - Rick Schmidt

Has he "lost interest," or is he just "Lost?" Guy texting: "WAS ON OCEANIC 815. PLANE CRASHED. SORRY CANNOT MAKE DATE. TTYL" - Karim

@Karim Guy NEVER ask for directions. I had not considered this... - Michelle Miller

Just Troll him! lol - Igor The Troll