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Scientists nearly double the number of biogeographic realms - http://news.mongabay.com/2013...
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Eivind, Hieronymous Boosh, Michael W. May and 3 other people liked this
"In 1876, British biologist Alfred Russell Wallace published a map of the world that outlined how related animals were spread over the Earth. For example, Wallace was the first to publicize that North American biodiversity was substantially different from South America, and that an invisible line separated Southeast Asian biodiversity from that of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby islands. With Wallace's research came the founding of biogeography, or the study of species in relation to geography. Today, scientists with the University of Copenhagen have updated Wallace's map—nearly doubling the number of biogeographic realms—with support from data on over 21,000 species. "Our study is a long overdue update of one of the most fundamental maps in natural sciences," lead author of the new research in Science, Ben Holt, said in a press release. "For the first time since Wallace's attempt we are finally able to provide a broad description of the natural world based on incredibly detailed...
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- John (bird whisperer)
from Bookmarklet
Separating out New Guinea seems to make a lot of good sense, given how different they are from their neighbors to the west and south. I mean, obvious in retrospect.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Arbitrary depth of clustering algorithm is arbitrary.
- Kevin Fox
^
- Amit Patel
California Democrats signal they want to reform Proposition 13 - San Jose Mercury News - http://www.mercurynews.com/califor...
Jeanine W., Scoble, Alex Scoble, Hookuh Tinypants and 7 other people liked this
"The third rail of California politics may not be as deadly as once thought. Three and a half decades after the passage of Proposition 13 shook the political landscape in California and sparked a taxpayer revolt across America, voters appear to be warming up to the idea of reforming the initiative as long as protections for homeowners stay intact. And the apparent sea change in public attitudes, combined with the two-thirds majorities Democrats now hold in both chambers of the Legislature, has emboldened some politicians to take aim at the iconic measure. "It is time for a fix, because Proposition 13 is broken," said Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, who plans to introduce a bill next year aimed at forcing businesses to pay higher property taxes."
- Me
from Bookmarklet
I support reforming Prop 13. Not repealing, but reforming.
- Brian Johns
Ditto.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
what an irony!
- ؛ patrick
What if mortgages were taxed or money-out refinances reset property taxes? Leverage your now-valuable home? Pay taxes for doing so. Just hold on to your home without taking money out? Keep property taxes low.
- Kevin Fox
I would change it so there wasn't a fixed allocation to counties and make it not apply to businesses, but the basic idea of not losing your house due to excessive spending sound as a bell
- Todd Hoff
People Who Exercise On Work Days Happier, Suffer Less Stress - http://digg.com/health...
Gimminy, kartik vaithyanathan, Amit Patel and 17 other people liked this
Seems true for me
- Evan Williams
Affirms my recent decision to get back in the gym at Google. :-)
- Jeff Eddings
Yes, exercise is rewarding and reduces stress. This shouldn't be news to anyone :p
- Charles Bihis
It's been shown over and over again that one of the best ways to build a strong mind is cardiovascular exercise (see: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2008...). Yet our offices and schools aren't designed around that!
- Piaw Na
Wow, I've never seen comment spam like that here before. :-(
- Ruchira S. Datta
@ev Hi Evan..I went to school with you at Columbus High School...I can't figure out how to send these tweets..I keep trying..let me know if it works. I just heard about what you have done..Cami and you lived in Lincoln, and that was the last I heard from you..I'd love to hear from you...I can't believe what you have accomplished:-)! Michelle Loseke
- Michelle Loseke
Best. Comment. Ever.
- Kevin Fox
That is awesome.
- Akiva
hi
- raquel orcio
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS, Laura Norvig, Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart and 12 other people liked this
Not angry, just love this one so much. :)
- LB: #TeamMonique
TFK
- SAM
\( ° ͜□°)/ --(_And... It's GOOD!_) ... HOME [ 3 ]
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
- Kevin Fox
TFK? I don't know that one.
- LB: #TeamMonique
ლ（｀︵´）ლ
- Rodfather
Table Flipping... Kid?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Koala!
- Victor Ganata
＼（＠￣∇￣＠）／
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
Several prestigious universities follow University of California with ambitious new logos | Kevin Fox - http://kfury.com/several...
Anne Bouey, Mary B: #TeamMonique, Jennifer Dittrich and 8 other people liked this
:)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
I voluntarily gave that a kudo.
- Brian Johns
Yay!
- Kevin Fox
Almost had me there. I went and checked. ;-)
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Tonight's the first night of Hanukkah. Time to reclaim the menorah from the finger monsters.
lucah, Mathew A. Koeneker, {°)) and 25 other people liked this
8 crazy monsters for 8 crazy knights.
- Spidra Webster
Dreidel dreidel dreidel, I made you out of monsters.
- Kevin Fox
Leviathi?
- Micah
Purchase of the day http://t.co/qWQ00zPs
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ellbeecee, VALZ/TEAM TRAVIS, Pete #TeamMonique and 14 other people liked this
Why isn't there a love button? #wowthatdidntsoundthatdirtywhenIthoughtitinmyhead
- WebGoddess
I actually designed the 'love' button, with rules that you could love up to one thing per day.
- Kevin Fox
If I were still designing FriendFeed, I'd make a page where you could perform group actions on friends, and sort them based on various criteria, like engagement. I wanna chop out the 95% of people I follow who don't come here anymore but clutter my feed with their tweets.
Marcel Weiß, mario leone, AJ Batac and 42 other people liked this
You know, you could always ask for your old FriendFeed job back.
- Akiva
As a short term workaround until you prune who you follow, how about mass hiding a bunch of services like twitter unless there's a comment or like?
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
It's in the API, so it can be done 3rd party.
- Gimminy
Yeah, the API may be the way to go. I don't wanna miss stuff from some important people.
- Kevin Fox
I thought all the important ppl left?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
"all the important ppl left" is not a valid display name
- Woman and Unwoman
The hell, you say. ;)
- Gimminy
Is there a Google+ community called "Important People Who Left FriendFeed" for Important People Who Left FriendFeed?
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
I'M STILL HERE.
- Headless Gnad Kicker
I have a tool to find your friends whose entries you don't like or comment: http://kapranoff.ru/cgi.... I use it regularly to weed out subscriptions.
- Alex Kapranoff
@kkapp now you have to translate the interface, or they would not know that the first form is for your frf nick and the second asks for remotekey in case of private feeds
- Woman and Unwoman
hide + "hide other items like this one" has served that purpose well for me
- Ken Sheppardson
On a sidenote, deja vu: Google+ just added Communities. Friendfeed is in my personal apps hall of fame for the best usability & tech.
- Philipp Lenssen
I stayed sane only by hiding all tweets unless they have comments.
- Amit Patel
Comments, eh? Now I want to MST3K the tweets of people who don't come here anymore. Oh wait, that would be mean.
- Larry Hosken
My name is __________ and I am _________ .
Kol Tregaskes, chaz2b, Michael W. May and 9 other people liked this
Jeff and I am wrong about what my name is
- Pete #TeamMonique
Inigo Montoya / asking you to prepare to die.
- LB: #TeamMonique
Jonas, carrying the wheel.
- Eivind
Weirdo, sleeping on my feets.
- Die Leberwurst
Tam Tam, tired of insomnia.
- Tamara J.
George McFly and I am your density.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Kelli, tough as nails.
- Kelli H.
Shannon and I am wishing I was playing with fire.
- Shannon - GlassMistress
Colleen; not sure what I want to be when I grow up.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Betsy and I am the most interesting woman in the world. *wishful thinking*
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Bandito / wondering if we need any stinkin' badges.
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
My name is Joe, and I al-ways move slow.
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
My name is Joe The Destroyer and I am assuming any damned shape I please.
- Hieronymous Boosh
Steven Perez, Time Lord Bunneh.
- Steven Perez
just Katie....eating a mint filled dark chocolate square from Ghirardelli.
- Just Kidée: Road Warrior
Rachel; covered in kittens!
- Rachel Lea Fox
My name is Melly and I am possibly wrong about my answer to your first question.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
LB / eating cookies on the sofa
- LB: #TeamMonique
Prince / not that Prince
- Pete #TeamMonique
Mary, and I'm anxious to get my game back.
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
from iPhone
Threadkilla', killin' this thread.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Slim... Shady
- Joe Boone
not important / not here
- Kevin Fox
Louis Gray, not sleeping because it's a waste of time
- Amit Patel
Jed; still figuring it out
- Jed Harris-Keith
from FFHound!
Jason; SAHD
- Jason - The Opaque
from Android
Amit Patel / Running Red Bubble Games
- Louis Gray
Lois / putting up Christmas decorations
- Lois Loves LB and Mr. B
mudd // a fisherman http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- chaz2b
I'm the real slim shady
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
Butter/ on a roll
- DJ Stevie Steve
apocalypse / here to play
- Mo Kargas
irrelevant / irrelevant
- MiniMage
<That's not my elephant. Is it yer elephant?> Well SOMEBODY had to say it!
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Very Subtle - http://mahdiebrahimi.soup.io/post...
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وارَش, amin, Kol Tregaskes and 70 other people liked this
Ha, I wonder what that's from.
- ronin
I don't get the e980 part.
- Brian Johns
Should have been e^980. The nice bit is that would equal 128.
- Kevin Fox
If I'd known there was going to be math, I'd have been better prepared :/
- Jennifer Dittrich
It could be e • 980. Or they're doing square roots of hexadecimal numbers. I'm probably thinking about this too hard.
- Victor Ganata
The fromula is this: 128*sqrt(e*980).
- Mahdi E
This GIF is belong to the Korean movie with the name of "I need you": http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Mahdi E
(/ﾟДﾟ)/
- Rodfather
so cute :))
- پرنیا
I liked it better if she erased the top part and produced "hasta la vista, baby" then pulled a shotgun from under her skirt
- سازمان ملی سنجش
^^ lol!
- CarlC, spelling expert
:-))
- بافومه
My love was true/ Still you threw it all away/ But now you’re like the rest/ Unworthy of my best/ Hasta la vista, baby :)
- Mahdi E
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- نهال
Is there a place you go to where you're a regular and that you can be confident they'll give you what you want without you having to actually order it?
Hieronymous Boosh, Rachel Lea Fox, Micah and 8 other people liked this
Starbucks. Actually, at least 4 different Starbucks. Also, Pebbles Deli.
- Kevin Fox
El Tacanazo on Lafayette. We go there almost every week and the waitress asks if we want the usual.
- Brian Johns
If I'm with the guys from my office for lunch, yes. Our group almost always gets the same thing for lunch at a local place.
- Jennifer Dittrich
No, there isn't.
- John (bird whisperer)
For me right now, the answer is no. But there used to be a bagel place near my old house that I went to often enough that they knew. And I go to Red Rock on Castro in Mountain View each Sunday and order the same thing usually, but the staff turnover there is high enough that I have to keep re-establishing myself.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Airport Restaurant (French Fries & BBQ Sauce - ToGo) & Coffeeshop.(Strawbery-Banana Smoothie w/Whip Cream / Large Hot Chocolate w/ Whip Cream)[Seasonal] They're the only places I go often.
- Gimminy
I almost always order something different each time I go to a restaurant.
- Akiva
Go to the same restaurant twice? I might get recognizd :p
- Tinfoil 2.0
Yes, I always get the special (tailored for vegetarians) at the local breakfast place we frequent.
- joey
Nope. I don't have such a place. Even when I was a regular at places my "usual" was always wrong.
- Anika
^^^ Hah, Tinfoil. So your usual is the unusual.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Not anymore. There used to be a Chinese joint that would start cooking my meal the minute I walked in the door.
- Soup in a TARDIS
The Chinese restaurant on the way home. One time, I went in intending to get not-my-usual, but when the lady saw me at the back of the unusually long line, she mimed holding a large container. I nodded yes, and, by the time I got to the front, my large pork fried rice was ready for pick-up.
- Betsy #TeamMonique
Keys - my Breakfast is pretty much a given
- WarLord
There's a pho place in Richmond BC where I pretty much always ordered one thing and eventually the waiters started guessing what I'd order.
- Andrew C (✓)
Canton Village, unsurprisingly: I eat there weekly (but sometimes go a second time, ordering something different). Surprisingly: El Charro, where I go about once every six weeks...but the waitress knows my usual (which technically isn't on the menu: a chile colorado chimichanga).
- Walt Crawford
Scott & I are regulars at Chucks. We get the same dish every time. Always breakfast.
- Mary Carmen
The Mediterranean chicken place across from school called Chicken Maison. They always know what I want. Oh, and my Coffee Bean always knows my order too.
- Monique the crochet freak
Starbucks, Black Coffee
- كودن با استعداد
I forgot Subway. Generally they know, but the turn-over along with shifting schedules among the 3 locations, makes it hard.
- Gimminy
Nope.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
My local independent cafe, "People's Coffee".
- Laura Norvig
Used to be Peet's in Berkeley, two of the employees knew how I wanted my latte & made it perfectly. And they always asked if I wanted my usual first, which is important. Don't buy stuff out enough anymore to have that kind of experience, but the librarians at our most frequented branch know Jayden's tastes & make really on-point recommendations for him; and half the pharmacy techs at Walgreens greet me by name & start looking up my info without having to ask me hella questions :-)
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Mandy, that all counts. :)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
That's easy. My buddy's sushi place. I'll have a beer in front of me before I even sit down.
- Rodfather
Used to be the Building C coffee bar at Yahoo! But my usual barista left ;( (then again, so did I!)
- Jonathan Disher
Besides the local coffee areas, there is an awesome local pupuseria that the servers knew what I always wanted. It closed down a couple weeks ago :(. Actually, not food related, but there are two local Hair Cuttery places where the stylists know how I want my hair cuts. I'm particular about who cuts my hair :)
- CarlC, spelling expert
A place called Cheers...and I'm usually wearing milk bone underwear. :)
- DJ Stevie Steve
The weird little lunch place where I get off the bus before work. I always get the $1 egg/cheese/bacon biscuit and a small coffee. They start bagging the sandwich while I'm pouring my coffee.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
The little German bakery on main street here in town. It's been a long time since I had to specify my medium almond milk latte w/ extra shot and tomato cheese pretzel bun. <3
- Hookuh Tinypants
There used to be places that would begin pouring my coffee as soon as they saw me walk in the door, before I was even seated. Easy to tell it was just for me...I was the only one that ordered it half milk, half coffee, in a tall glass.
- April Russo
Dark n Stormy at a dive on Oak St in Nawlins called Snake and Jakes Christmas Bar.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Every Monday morning I have coffee at a fabulous little Italian place, and the owner now knows what I have and gets it for me. And he calls me "Bella" so I <3 him. (Okay, so he might call everyone Bella, but whatevs)
- Penny
Pebbles in Cupertino on De Anza!
- Rachel Lea Fox
The rice paddy. Pad Thai, super spicy
- Marissa
FriendFeed
- Hieronymous Boosh
When handing me surgical info brochures, the nurse told me, "Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." AS IF.
Headless Gnad Kicker, Chelle Chelle Ro Ro, Kirsten and 5 other people liked this
No, really, you shouldn't believe everything on the Internet.
- Joe Boone
On the other hand, brochures are irrefutable truth in dead tree form.
- Kevin Fox
As Jack Chick was fond of saying...
- Spidra Webster
Death Cookie (realizing this is a random comment. Jack Chick - http:// www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0074/0074_01.asp - link broken because it seems like the thing to do)
- ellbeecee
You should have asked her for the brochure on acrylic tumor preservation techniques.
- sglassme
I forgot to mention the iPad/Teletubby option as well.
- Sarah G.
lbc, I didn't realize Jack Chick had started publishing to the web. That makes my comment moot.
- Spidra Webster
Now that the old people are retired, maybe they can go along on all your appointments as medical advocates. Mom can ask the important, medical stuff, and Dad can cover the wackadoodle things.
- sglassme
...o_.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
But I like my doctors...I wouldn't do that to them. Mother told me something a few weeks ago along the lines of "When you're at the doctor, ask him..." and I was like "Jesus Christ, Mother, it's the 21st century. All my doctors are women in their 30s."
- Sarah G.
Mother also offered Mr 43 as a blood donor in case I have to get a transfusion. No word if she asked him. Because he would probably charge me money.
- Sarah G.
He is O- and you are B+, can that work? And, he would definitely charge by the ounce.
- sglassme
I just found a compatibility chart, and I am a better match for you. And, I'll even do it for free.
- sglassme
I just imagined him yelling at the nurse "you gave them the pint bag??? I wanted that back!"
- Sarah G.
Sharing is not one of his strong suits. I wonder why she didn't suggest Smiley as a donor?
- sglassme
Bon jour
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Sex in the Library: Kids Have Fun, Librarians Gripe, and the Internet Explodes | LISNews: - http://lisnews.org/sex_in_...
Laura Norvig and John (bird whisperer) liked this
"We're late to the party, admittedly. But it has come to our attention that the sex columnist for U.C. Berekley's Daily Californian wrote an autobiographical column about coitus in the library -- and the Internet has reacted."
- Betsy #TeamMonique
from Bookmarklet
*crickets from Walt*
- Joe Boone
The stacks in Doe library were far more labyrinthine than the current main library's grid of rolling shelves.
- Kevin Fox
Hey, it's been a LONG time since I worked at Berkeley (34 years). I don't remember hearing of sex in the stacks back then, but I was an innocent. (I do remember some complaints about the glass floors on one side of the stacks, which occasionally had less-opaque glass squares and, with good reason, bothered women who wore skirts. But they were also closed stacks for most undergrads at the time. And, of course, grads and faculty are never perverts. Right?)
- Walt Crawford
There was an article about sex in the library in the Daily Cal about 12 years ago. It's a recurring thing.
- Kevin Fox
hasn't everyone had sex in a library?
- awd
I would've been horribly dissapointed if this wasn't on LISNews
- Blake
I've seen people having sex in the library when I was drunk undergrad. Especially during finals, this isn't shocking. I am still intrigued how somebody smuggled a live chicken into the stack... twice!
- kendrak
Getting Killed By SUV Doesn't Count As "Serious Injury," Lawyer Asserts: Gothamist - http://gothamist.com/2012...
"Attorney Jay Young, who is representing T&M, is asking a judge to reduce the amount of damages Depas-Medina's widow may be eligible for, because his death doesn't count as "serious injury." Young asserts that because Depas-Medina was killed instantly, he "did not suffer any serious injury as defined by Section 5102 of the Insurance Law of the State of New York, according to court papers obtained by the Daily News."
- ronin
from Bookmarklet
Fortunately for the widow, that argument constitutes serious injury to anyone who hears it.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
The real issue is the interpretation of the word 'suffer'. It could mean 'experience pain' or 'to undergo'. Clearly he underwent serious injury that lead to his death, but they're arguing he didn't experience the pain of a serious injury. It's a ridiculous case because the law's intent is clear, but semantically the argument holds water if not for the ridiculousness of the view that death isn't a culpable event if it's painless.
- Kevin Fox
the HCL color-space - http://hclcolor.com/
ᏓᏰ #team Monique, Kevin Johnson and Stephen Mack #TeamMomo liked this
The HCL color space is a transformation of Lab color space into something that could be easier to use. In particular, it has Hue instead of two separate axes that affect hue.
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
The gradients don't feel very natural.
- Kevin Fox
Don't know what Mo's talking about. Most people have been mobile experts since, like, almost forever.
ᏓᏰ #team Monique, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo, edythe and 6 other people liked this
WHO MAKES PURPLE GIRAFFES? NOW SERIOUSLY
- Mo Kargas
GET READY FOR SOME NPH! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Micah
Until you get sued by the estate of Alexander Calder.
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, mobile defendant?
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Damn, going back to a regular iPad after mainly using the mini for the last few days feels like hefting around a stone tablet. - http://twitter.com/ronin...
Rodfather, Marie and Anne Bouey liked this
Buster belly and innocent Pablo! #foxfosterkittens
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Penny, Patizinciri, moltogatto and 17 other people liked this
Must be Aussie cats...
- Neal Krummell
yeah, i don't know why posting from the iphone keeps flipping all the photos. :(
- Rachel Lea Fox
Pablo has a cone of shame? These two are darlings!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Pablo had a little problem with a raw bottom and not leaving it alone (not to go into too many details) I am making him leave it alone during treatment. He doesn't seem to mind much. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Look at that belly!
- Anne Graham
CEILING KITTENS!!!
- Kevin Fox
The sad thing is if you tried to turn your iPad upside-down to view these, you'd never manage it.
- Spidra Webster
You can if you hold a finger on the screen first!
- Neal Krummell
Or, uh, lock the orientation of the iPad... :)
- Ken Gidley
It's raining, yet neighbor's staff are washing his Bentley. And hand drying. In the rain. WTF? Thus concludes today's Mrs. Kravitz report.
Chelle Chelle Ro Ro, LB: #TeamMonique, Starmama and 5 other people liked this
Abner, come look at this!
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
The nice thing about my parents visiting is that I get the full report by the time I wake up. Over Thanksgiving one of the people across the road was having their foundation repaired, so we all spent a lot of time staring out the window at all the goings on.
- Sarah G.
For Rachel and Kevin Fox from Matthew and Sarah. Obviously. Foxes!
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Elisa, Pinbaords, Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ and 16 other people liked this
So they'll get aliens in return?
- MiniMage
Adorable! And Minimage, I think it has to be aliens or monsters! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
Louis will get 50 shades.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
from iPhone
Oh my they are SO BIG and CUTE!
- Eric - seven eleven
I want to be there with a video camera (what's a video camera?) when the FF offices get torn down.
Laura Norvig, Micah, Me and 12 other people liked this
Use an electric imp to stream it.
- Gimminy
I've got an AR.Drone. I may totally do that.
- Kevin Fox
Wait, doesn't Ben live in the server room? Someone should warn him. They'd need to go in, he won't hear the phone if he's on the treadmill that charges the batteries.
- Le Slip Anglais
from Android
What if we just watch via Google Maps? http://goo.gl/maps/JLGeI
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I hope Eye-Fi moves out first, or they're gonna have a really bad day that day. (They do have a new site, and a moving date planned, so don't worry.)
- Brian Johns
;_;
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
Make sure you zoom in uncomfortably close on the Indian (Native American) man standing to the side so you can see the tear drop from his eye.
- Josh Haley
Did we miss our chance to light the building on fire that was stuffed to the brim with wood tables and cardboard boxes? http://goo.gl/maps/r52uf
- Ross Miller
I think we did, Ross...
- Kevin Fox
Looks like they might be building condos or apartments. You guys could go in with the Evernote and EyeFi folks to get a unit and turn it into a museum...
- Ken Sheppardson
The best mistake I ever made - http://kfury.com/the-bes...
WoH: Professor MOTHRA, imabonehead, Juan Pablo González and 12 other people liked this
I wrote a little something!
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
Nice. happy accidents
- Laura Norvig
interesting, though, that your teachers didn't flat out say, "I can't write you a recommendation that is going to do you any good."
- Laura Norvig
Yep. That would have been a nicer way for them to handle it. I did have other teachers I could have gone to, but I was idealistic and felt a recommendation from someone who knew me better would be better than one from someone who would write a generally positive recommendation.
- Kevin Fox
Will you send this post to your teachers? :)
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
My next choices would have been my Physics teacher who knew I was brilliant (I was better at Physics in high school than I was at anything else) but whose class I didn't do *any* assignments, since assignments were 10% of our grade and tests were 90%. The tests had extra credit, so as long as I scored more than 100% on the test I'd skip the next assignment. Then two weeks before the end...
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- Kevin Fox
Ahmet, after I graduated they got married and started a family a few years later, and one of them passed away a few years after that. He had a chronic illness for a long time, and I figure his widow and their daughter have enough going on in their lives without me giving them a backhanded compliment. :-)
- Kevin Fox
You were a horrible procrastinator in high school? I was one of the best.
- Brian Johns
badum-bum
- Kevin Fox
;-)
- Brian Johns
Good read. Glad it worked out in the long run. I'm sure I would have demanded to see what they wrote after I got 6 rejection letters...
- Ken Gidley
I already had a BMUG pang earlier this week. Now I do again. Those were the days...
- Spidra Webster
How one woman hacked her way to sensual bliss | The Verge - http://www.theverge.com/2012...
Steven Perez, imabonehead, esther and 15 other people liked this
"Unsatisfied with an off-the-shelf product, Micah Elizabeth Scott (aka Beth) did what any experienced DIYer would do: hack it and rebuild it to her liking. While some use their modding skills to create custom video game controllers or Kinect-powered trashcans, Beth took her expertise to the bedroom. In an extremely in-depth and technical write-up, Beth tells a tale full of reverse engineering, ultrasonic tranducers, and an Arduino Pro Mini, all in the name of creating her perfect vibrator."
- ronin
from Bookmarklet
I think this woman self-loves herself.
- Akiva
This is relevant to my interests.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
I think I found my doppelganger.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
This product would be made significantly cooler with an imp. In addition to active control, you could record 'performances' and play them back, among so many other things.
- Kevin Fox
If this post doesn't make it to Best of Day, I don't know what I'll do.
- Spidra Webster
Louis just called me 'bitch'.
Micah, Jonathan Hardesty, Gimminy and 8 other people liked this
I think the important thing is that you tried
- MiniMage
This is Lovefest, not Hatefest, Kevin.
- Louis Gray
I had to screen cap this and put it in my FriendFeed scrapbook because this is now my favorite post ever.
- Akiva
You know, I bet just because Hostess is closing doesn't mean there won't be Twinkies. Someone will buy the brand/recipe and keep going.
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But it does mean we're in store for the Great Twinkie Famine for at least 6 months... Remember that time when you couldn't buy white and pink animal cookies for a while after Mother's Cookies went under? Like that.
- Kevin Fox
EVERYBODY PANIC AND STOCKPILE
- Headless Gnad Kicker
For some reason, I want to eat all Twinkies.
- Rodfather
This happened when Mothers Cookies went bust. We all went insane about the thought of no more circus animal cookies, but they have remained.
- kendrak
I once found an old Twinkie in the back of an upper shelf in our cupboard, well after the days when we were still packing lunches for the kids. Judging by the condition of the wrapper, it had been there for some time. Spouse estimated that it had been at least 3 years since she had purchased a box of a dozen individually wrapped Twinkies, as this one was. The wrapper was a bit covered in 'shelf dust' but the Twinkie within looked very much like the day it was purchased. #ShelfLifeofaHundredYears
- Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ
Hello, the people on Friendfeed!
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:D
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yay, you got my message. :D
- Gimminy
I'm your monkey!
- Kevin Fox
I was just checking to see if it still worked. It looks like someone may have had some problems with it, 2 arduino and your laptop's USB?
- Gimminy
Yeah, I think they were just kidding. Certainly not *my* laptop's USB. The printer douesn't touch any laptops or arduinos. Just the wifis.
- Kevin Fox
BTW the URL for the printer is http://fury.com/imp/print.php
- Kevin Fox
Search works. ;)
- Gimminy
I do have one question, is there any plans for an alternative method of setting an Imp up without Blink-up?
- Gimminy
What's the use case?
- Kevin Fox
@Kevin can you show us the printed texts?
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
Kevin, I can't remember. I may have it written down somewhere at home. Mainly it's because I don't have a phone to use.
- Gimminy
You can send the check to my paypal.
- Joe Boone
I did just think about how much I want a small printer beside my desk though. I could send test reports to it.
- Gimminy
Though I guess if there was anyway to write to the network config section through the pins, it could lead to undesired behavior.
- Gimminy
LOL You should pay in Beenz.
- Gimminy
Har. I did a day of promo work for Beenz.
- Spidra Webster
Hi Kevin
- yasin
Thanks Kevin.
- Ahmet Yükseltürk
Lennon Cihak, Minnesota Teen, Denied Confirmation For Supporting Gay Marriage On Facebook - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012...
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What does it mean to go through Confirmation?
- Rodfather
Confirmation is the sacrament in the Catholic church where a person becomes a full adult member of the church.
- Dario Gomez
In this case, conformation.
- Kevin Fox
So it's an important rite of passage. So if he's denied, in the eyes of his church, he just stays a dumb kid?
- Rodfather
One space or two?
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One.
- WebGoddess
Depends on what comes before...
- Heleninstitches
One. Two is for typewriters.
- Rachel Walden
^ This. ^
- Akiva
One.
- John (bird whisperer)
One. Two is like crossing your 't's and dot your 'i's manually.
- Kevin Fox
One.
- ronin
Unless, of course, Julian is talking about houses, in which a second vacation space is grand. Or parking spaces, where you're a douche if you use more than one.
- Kevin Fox
I'd also like to have more than one space per document, Cristo. ;-)
- Kevin Fox
Parents just don't understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch...
Kevin Fox liked this
Needs more dubstep.
- Kevin Fox
RT @mezzoblue: Someone just got fired. http://twitter.com/mezzobl...
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Worked fine in my email...
- Kevin Fox
They probably uploaded a new image soon after it was caught.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
what am I missing?
- Sir Shuping is just sir
Is it that white line in the middle?
- Spidra Webster
What Spidra said.
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
from Android
ahhhh, ok that makes sense then.
- Sir Shuping is just sir
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