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Micah
What are called?—those novelty pens with clear liquid and a two scenes with one that slides away to reveal the other one. Trade pens? Bubble pens? Floaty pens? - http://members.shaw.ca/floatyp...
What are called?—those novelty pens with clear liquid and a two scenes with one that slides away to reveal the other one. Trade pens? Bubble pens? Floaty pens?
Hm, maybe "motion-bubble pens" http://www.floatabout.com/fa38... - Micah
sorry I don't have an answer, but I've wondered about this before, too. Looks like your own answer might be right. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
The person I know who collects them calls them "floaty pens." - LB so u no it's real
Thanks, LB! - Micah
Gramps always called them "Ohh la la pens" - Soup in a TARDIS
That would be because of the general subject matter of such pens. Hence, I have always known them as "pens with ladies' boobs!" - Slippy
Indeed. Gramps was always annoyed by the G-rated versions sold at tourist traps. Waste of a pen in his opinion. - Soup in a TARDIS
Lol, my grandfather had those Vegas ladies pens too. - Micah
Derrick
Apparently sleeping isn't much of a problem.
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I think you just gave me sleep envy. :) - ha3rvey (Hugs 50% off!)
Wow. - Betsy
I've never used the sleep tracker. I'm afraid of what it might show. - Katy S
so effen jealous. mine stays in the 74%. once it went up to 87% but i had taken an ambien that night. - Lnorigb
How are you tracking this? I'm interested. - Brian Johns
Brian, FitBit. - Derrick
Before you go to sleep, you long press the button on the fitbit to start the timer. When you wake up, you long press again to stop. It'll keep track of movement during that time to guess your sleep efficiency. - Rodfather
Amazing piece of technology. - AJ Batac :)
how does it know when you actually fall asleep??? (do you know how much money I had to spend to have a sleep clinic tell me these things?? and how many electrodes??) - RudĩϐЯaЯïan
It knows when you stopped moving - even small restless motions - and calls that "asleep". It then puts red spikes in every time you move in the night, on the assumption that sleeping people don't actually move. - Jenica
key word in Rodfathers comment, "guess." - Lnorigb
You can move during non-REM sleep, but you shouldn't be able to move during REM sleep (although people with certain parasomnias obviously do), and the assumption is that the longer you're in REM, the better quality your sleep is. - Victor Ganata
It seems that even if the world is caving in around me (and the past couple weeks have been particularly stressful), I can still get a relatively good night's sleep. - Derrick
Heap of shit IMHO. Mine died after a month - Mo Kargas
There's an iPhone app for that. - Nakachi
What if your sleep movement is to take off the FitBit? :-) - Betsy
I did that the first night. :) - Jenica
John (bird whisperer)
rhamphotheca: thelittlesea: Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae) - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
rhamphotheca:
 
thelittlesea: Spanish Moon Moth (Graellsia isabellae)
That looks like Tiffany stained glass. That is awesome. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
wow Kamilah you are right, what a wonderful imagination you have. - Halil
John (bird whisperer)
Photos: four new species of world's tiniest chameleons discovered in Madagascar - http://news.mongabay.com/2012...
Photos: four new species of world's tiniest chameleons discovered in Madagascar
Photos: four new species of world's tiniest chameleons discovered in Madagascar
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"Scientists have discovered four new species of super-tiny chameleons in Madagascar, according to a new paper in PLoS ONE. The smallest of the new species, Brookesia micra, is found only on the small island of Nosy Hara and has been dubbed the smallest chameleon in the world, measuring from nose to tail 29 millimeters (1.14 inches) at its largest. Scientists believe it represents a notable example of island dwarfism. "The extremely small size of Brookesia micra could represent a 'double' island dwarf effect. In this scenario, Madagascar as a large island led to the evolution of the Brookesia minima group whereas the [...] islet Nosy Hara, might have favored the extreme miniaturization found in Brookesia micra," the researchers write. However they note it is also possible, given the shallowness of the sea between Nosy Hara and Madagascar, that populations of Brookesia micra survive on the mother island. With these four new species, scientists have catalogued 26 Brookesia chameleons in... more... - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet
They're so cute! - Anika
very sweet :) - Bilgisayar Virüsü
the details on them are amazing! they're just miniaturized! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan
The little guy does not look amused. - Brian Johns
David loves chameleons. He said 'aaaaaaaaaaaw' - Pete
Awesome. :) - Kelli H. from Android
Finally! An insect/animal shot I don't have to hide. So keyute. - Lnorigb from FFHound!
I post other pictures that you don't need to hide. :-P - John (bird whisperer)
@John (bird whisperer): you def do. Just I'm remarking cos OMG YOU GUISE IT'S SO KEYUTE! Vs my normal OMG YOU GUISE THE INTERNET IS SO GROSS! *HIDE* - Lnorigb from FFHound!
I'm so about these. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
I almost can't believe they're real because OMG SQUEEEEEEEEEE - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!
total squeeeeeeeee! - holly #ravingfangirl
I LOVE those expressions. They're so weirdly grumpy and thoughtful looking. - Que Sarah Sarah
Mini Rango - Rodfather
I think it has a tiny grumpy. :-) - John (bird whisperer)
Chieze Okoye
RT @joshuatopolsky: People are incredibly rude on Twitter sometimes. I mean, you know you're talking to another human being, right?
Graham Linehan
RT @BorowitzReport: David Mustaine of Megadeth has endorsed Rick Santorum, which means his music is no longer the worst thing about him.
John (bird whisperer)
Bring you one woman? Let’s start with two. We are a couple of white, middle-class magazine editors. We have both had difficulty affording birth control at some point in our lives. And we’re not alone. Many women struggle with the cost of birth control—1 in 3 of us, according to a recent Hart survey. Among young women, more than half face... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
Eivind
“You’ve confused 'a war on your religion' with 'not always getting everything you want.'” -John Stewart
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ressentiment, Nietzchean term - The Real sofarsoShawn
That's a useful term I was unaware of. Thanks, Shawn :) - Eivind
no problemo, that reminds me I should update my Goodreads - The Real sofarsoShawn
Yes, thanks, Shawn. Pull quote: "Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be "blamed" for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external "evil." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Micah
My mind is blown that they had the gall to put together a panel like this, ALL FREAKING MALE, to discuss something that affects WOMEN'S health. They had to have tremendous balls (many, many pairs of them) to come up with something like this and then televise it. And then they whine about being persecuted. What universe are they living in??? - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Hillarious! Have anybody read "Sexing the body" (http://www.amazon.com/Sexing-...) ? It's about gender politics but based mostly on intersex people problem in USA right now. Many damage done, by the law and common place in our gender culture (supported by all the wrong "science" conclusions) that you have to be either male or female. I wonder what would these guys do when the intersexed come to get their rights? :D - Cyber Wanderlust
Wow Micah Nitetzsche not easy to "get", you even "get" ressentiment And war rolls on...should I bump my Casus belli? I think that's in order http://ff.im/OPhRj which begs the question how many religions can i blaspheme? A: ____ ____ ___. - The Real sofarsoShawn
Derrick
"I love Mardi Gras, since I learned that it’s not just about watching 20-year-olds do things that will end up on Facebook pages and ruin their future careers. Throughout the Gulf coast, Mardi Gras is a party that matters; it ties communities together. The political realities are complicated, but as parades roll through neighborhoods, families of many colors scream and cheer for the many colored paraders. There is a joy on the street. You don’t see doffed shirts, but you do see, as I did in uptown New Orleans, a black man pick up a white child so he has a better chance of catching the throws. You do also occasionally see, as I did, a married woman give a cop a kiss on the mouth and slip him her phone number. Just because it’s family fun doesn’t mean it’s fun for all families." - Derrick from Bookmarklet
I wish I could get King Cake out here. - Stephen Mack
Have you checked your grocery stores, Stephen? Even some stores in Indiana have them, but they're only around for a week or so, so you have to move quickly. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Stephen, I just sent one to my co-workers at my old job back in California. Shipping is the biggest expense, but it's a pretty tasty cake. I sent mine from Randazzo's: https://www.randazzokingcake.com - Derrick
One of these days, I'll try to make it. - Katy S
There's a homemade one in our fridge. It's amazing. - Jason P
The original Kevin
RT @johnhcook: Whoa, this could absolutely transform downtown Seattle: "Amazon considering huge land purchase in Seattle" http://www.geekwire.com/2012...
Iphigenie
Am seriously thinking about buying a niche small wine retail business. It's a bit of a crazy thing to do, but I could be quite excited about this, and I could grow it too - it's that good a fit! And if one isn't capable of being a bit naive and crazy when it matters, what's the point of life?
maybe i just want to have an excuse to go around visiting vineyards and eating in good restaurants and calling it research? - Iphigenie
How would this work? - Todd Hoff
I will send u some great wines from small Spanish wineries if u do - Jack Sagel from iPhone
Jack, that'd be very interesting indeed - Iphigenie
Todd, it's an online business 10 years old almost, too small to be of interest to any big players but not failing. I am a customer of theirs. Due to other reasons they are planning to close and I am considering making an offer. Since I thought of doing something like this AND I have quite a lot of interest in food and wine and contacts from when I was in B2B publishing in the field for... more... - Iphigenie
interesting that the same thing GapingVoid did with his blog.. http://gapingvoid.com/2008... - Peter Dawson
and then you can check this out.. http://www.stormhoek.com/blog/ - Peter Dawson
it makes a lot of sense - south african wines were a revelation when I moved to the UK, we'd never seen them on the shelf in Switzerland and there are such awesome wines and grapes there! This business I am looking into is specialised in wines from Europe outside the big regions and big names. Wines from small wineries in great places with stories and people. For expats or people who are looking to try something different, old grape varieties etc. - Iphigenie
Well, if you need to hire people...put me on your list. :) I'm actually pretty interested in how UK winemaking will go with global climate change. As things warm up, I wonder if the areas where one can grow wine in the UK will expand and if the varieties possible to grow will increase. Of course, the tricky thing is it isn't just warming...cold weather is getting more extreme in some places as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Spidra Webster
I have the advantage that I helped set up http://harpers.co.uk/ before it got sold to Reed and http://www.iwsc.net before it got spun off - from a tech and ebusiness perspective back then but I learned lots about the business, since I knew much about wine anyway, so I know people who can help me for PR and all :) Getting excited now, something's bound to go wrong and make it not happen :( - Iphigenie
Spidra - if it happens, I'll let you know :) And you're right, the UK so far seems a winner in the Climate Change lottery, and they have the climate for Champagne already these days. Reds will take a bit longer. I'm totally clueless on UK wine though :) - Iphigenie
Seriously, the wines in BC are delicious. You should come over here and try them for yourself! I was trying to get my brother to start a wine import business to the UK for them, they need a wider audience :) - WoH: Minding her Steves
Does the existing biz have a good location, loyal clients, have a wholesale distribution side? If not then you might as well start from scratch in a good location. I used to come over to the UK to do wine tastings of my wines (wines I represent on the export side) so that is a possibility. Where are you in Yorks somewhere? - Jack Sagel
Sorry just read the comment that explained it's an online biz - Jack Sagel
Jack, taking over a physical retail location would be another level of risk altogether - and a whole different level of constraints too. This is a business run from home and via events, with the wine in a warehouse which does the fulfilment. The store does have a loyal clientele any of whom reacted rather crushed that this might close (and that includes me), but it really provides a... more... - Iphigenie
PS: do you have a website or some info on your wines, would happily pass this along to my friends who run wine clubs etc. anyways :) - Iphigenie
Here are a few with websites: http://cellerclua.com/ in the Terra Alta south of Barcelona; http://carballal.net/ is an Albariño the best white area in Spain; http://www.vendrellrived.com/ a small winery in the Montsant next to the trendy Priorat region again south of Barcelona. Anyone interested should contact me jack.sagel@gmail.com Salud! - Jack Sagel
2 days on the plan is still a plan. wow. - Iphigenie
I'm still excited. Obviously got a lot of small things to check and yet to see the accounts but hopefully there's no surprise obstacle and I can make a win-win offer. - Iphigenie
still going forward. oh my. - Iphigenie
you can try to find bit more clientele from Scandinavia - local legislation turns them into "escape to wine paradise" eager tourists ;) - A. T.
and just FYI - ZuidAfrika wines are long time in Alko in Finland, so it might be .ch local issue - A. T.
Very exciting to hear things might work out! - WoH: Minding her Steves from iPhone
talked to my bank, talked to my accountants, talking to a lawyer tomorrow. Can't help thinking I don't really know enough to be doing this, but then I *always* would think that. I will be committed to this by Saturday. - Iphigenie
at the moment, it looks likely to complete by the 15th... no worries i won't spam wine ads all the time in here after that :) - Iphigenie
Fingers crossed and congratulations! That is incredibly exciting!! - WoH: Minding her Steves
Wow! Way to go! - Anne Bouey
:) - Brent from iPhone
This is happening. Money is in lawyer's account. Strange how these things happen - for the past few years I've heard of people doing this, instead of starting from scratch, and since I didnt have the all-overriding passion or energy to tackle starting from scratch then I thought "it'd be nice to buy a business or product that is alreade there, that i can have some interest in, but how... more... - Iphigenie
Great to hear you have things in place and that you have support in taking on this exciting new project. Keep us up to date with what's going on! My brother is in the UK and Certainly enjoys finding new wines, so I'd be happy to direct him to your site :) - WoH: Minding her Steves
Done. Oh my, I've now inherited a lot of stuff to sort, and a site to bring to 2012... and lotsa wine. Strangely enough this has "unstuck" me - I have ideas for my other work and other business aplenty suddenly. And I have made the previous owner's exit a lot better than he could have hoped, so win win! - Iphigenie
WOW! Go get um! - SteVe C
Gratz! - Lnorigb
Victor Ganata
The initial purpose of health insurance was, in fact, to minimize the losses businesses experienced when their employees had to take time off work due to their health, which is why it's employer based.
Of course, most other industrialized nations have moved on to universal access, while people are busy with "taking America back"--in time, apparently - Victor Ganata
I read somewhere recently that the difference in policy between Canada and the United States in this area was driven primarily by the source of the demand for health care. In the US, it was primarily driven by the large industrial employers, especially in the automotive sector around Detroit, which is why it became employer driven, and why unions negotiated for the continuation of health care benefits into retirement. - DJF
In Canada, it was driven primarily by the agricultural sector in the prairies, with a lot of small farm holders lobbying for health care, which is why it is a government program, and not dependent on employment. - DJF
I'm not as familiar with the history of health care delivery in other nations, but it makes sense that workers ended up driving its evolution. And a big part of the reason why universal health care hasn't taken root in the U.S. is because the labor movement has never been as strong here as it is in other countries. - Victor Ganata
liza
BECAUSE THEY ALREADY PAY FOR FRIGGIN VIAGRA RT @damanthony: @blogdiva @SEIU Why should healh insurance pay for birth control at all?
Betsy
Yay! First bald eagle of the season. People have been seeing them for a couple of weeks, but this is my first this winter.
Local TV news was here today (2/13) to film the eagles. I can't tell if the good shot with all the eagles was taken here or upriver, but I did see the camera inside the library. http://abclocal.go.com/wls... - Betsy
I finally saw one flying yesterday. And just now, there was an adult and a young one flying around, and now there are three young ones perched on a tree across the river and an adult standing on the ice. - Betsy
G Dub of the Carolinas
RT @wilw: Everyone who apparently forgot what Chris Brown did to Rhianna should read the police report on exactly what he did: http://www.mtv.com/news...
RT @wilw: Everyone who apparently forgot what Chris Brown did to Rhianna should read the police report on exactly what he did: http://t.co/g7OQo1aD
Psycho dude... :'( - ☆彡Jazzy-B
Yeah, still not liking him... - JA Castillo
laura x
Peter receives a copy of The Snowy Day from BOTH my elementary school librarians, who came to pay us a visit last week. (Both now work part time in the good local bookstore; one also works part time at my library.)
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NTS: our vintage 1970s Scholastic book fair edition is crumbling. Get new edition now. :D - Catherine Pellegrino
I love that book. Used to read it to Waif all the time, like me mudder read it to me. *sniff* - MoTO Bott
They also brought him a Peter doll to go with it. - laura x
Every little boy named Peter should have this book in his life :) I loved it, Jayden loved it...it's a perfect lil kid book :) - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!
A Peter doll?! I want one!!! - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!
[redacted] - DJF
My favorite childhood photo EVER is me in a beanbag chair reading this book out loud to myself. - Lily
*strikes the snowy day off the to-buy list" - marthalib
one of my favorite books of all time - marthalib
Maitani
The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2012...
The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
"THE other day, while I was rummaging through a stack of oldish articles on the future of the Internet, an obscure little essay from 1998 — published, of all places, on a Web site called Ceramics Today — caught my eye. Celebrating the rise of the “cyberflâneur,” it painted a bright digital future, brimming with playfulness, intrigue and serendipity, that awaited this mysterious online type. This vision of tomorrow seemed all but inevitable at a time when “what the city and the street were to the Flâneur, the Internet and the Superhighway have become to the Cyberflâneur.”" - Maitani from Bookmarklet
"Intrigued, I set out to discover what happened to the cyberflâneur. While I quickly found other contemporaneous commentators who believed that flânerie would flourish online, the sad state of today’s Internet suggests that they couldn’t have been more wrong. Cyberflâneurs are few and far between, while the very practice of cyberflânerie seems at odds with the world of social media. What went wrong? And should we worry? " - Maitani
I think I can relate to this. I used to do my own kind of "flaneur-ing" back in the early days of the web. There was so much to discover, so much serendipity. Now it seems to have gotten very flat and spoonfed most of the time, and yes, I blame both (typical, non-FF) social networks (especially Facebook) and corporate efforts to monetize every inch of the web. "Technology and social... more... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
I disagree with this part. I have no warm and fuzzy nostalgia for the slow old 56K world. "The tempo of today’s Web is different as well. A decade ago, a concept like the “real-time Web,” in which our every tweet and status update is instantaneously indexed, updated and responded to, was unthinkable. Today, it’s Silicon Valley’s favorite buzzword. That’s no surprise: people like speed... more... - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Kamilah, I agree with you on both parts of what you say. I particularly like what the author says about how it feels to stroll through the streets - or through the internet- alone, without being noticed. I believe it is still possible in the internet, but has become more difficult. - Maitani
It's definitely possible to surf without automatically announcing your every move. I checked out my own Facebook, and the only thing that automatically feeds into it is my Twitter. If I didn't do that, my Facebook would be nearly blank. It announces my daily sketches, my paintings, and a random thought every two days or so (not every two minutes). I know that a lot of folks just feed everything into their networks mindlessly. I tend not to follow those people. I especially miss serendipity. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Here's some more about this article: http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarks... You might have seen it over on 3 Quarks. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill) from iPhone
Thanks, Kamilah. When I saw it, I wanted to add it here, but then I forgot to. :-) - Maitani
Friar Will  (:^)
A valentine's day card for you all that I "designed" a few years ago.
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Have to 'like' on David's behalf too! - Helensleydale
Nice. Very nice. - Uli- #10 from Android
I love it. :D - Kelli H.
Of the saints from that era, though, which ones weren't beheaded? - Curdy G
Good question, Curdy. I think you should do some research and report back in a couple of days. :^) - Friar Will (:^)
Micah
Digging on that vocal-only track is like giving autotune an unrestrained kick to the balls, so that's something.
Calm down. No one wants to see your game face. - Akiva
*sage nod* - Kelli H.
laura x
Wattstax 1/2 - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Wattstax 1/2 - YouTube
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YOU CAN WATCH WATTSTAX ON YOUTUBE!!! With French subtitles. - laura x from Bookmarklet
John (bird whisperer)
sniffyjenkins: “In 1950, a young man from Central Point, Virginia, went seven miles down the road to hear some music. Seven brothers named the Jeters were on that night, playing bluegrass in a farmhouse. The young man had come for the music, but couldn’t help noticing a young woman in the audience. The man, Richard Loving, was white; the woman,... - http://dendroica.tumblr.com/post...
sniffyjenkins:
  
“In 1950, a young man from Central Point, Virginia, went seven miles down the road to hear some music. Seven brothers named the Jeters were on that night, playing bluegrass in a farmhouse. The young man had come for the music, but couldn’t help noticing a young woman in the audience. The man, Richard Loving, was white; the woman, Mildred Jeter, was black and Cherokee. Seventeen years later, as a result of their meeting, the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act, along with anti-miscegenation laws in fifteen other states, ending the legal prohibitions against interracial marriage.” (The New Yorker)
 
I love this so much. It is important stuff, beautiful stuff, and a subject that is very close to my heart, being the product of “miscegenation” myself (we chaps are the wonderfullest and most beautifullest, tru facts you guys, sorry, I’m not sorry, deal with it). Grey Villet photographed the couple and their children in 1965 and there’s an exhibition of some of the photographs at the International Centre of Photography in NYC. I would kill to see it. This is just wonderful, in so many ways.
 
Love. It’s all there is.
John (bird whisperer)
Thanks to Tam for a thoughtful surprise! ♥
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When can we expect to see the first bird drawing in your feed? :) - Eivind
I'll probably need some practice before I post one. This is about the limit of my abilities at the moment: http://www.flickr.com/photos... :-P - John (bird whisperer)
Glad you like it. <3 - Tamara J. from FFHound(roid)!
You have a great eye for composition and all the other elements in your photographs, John, so I have confidence that if you follow the tips in the book and practice regularly, you will get really good at drawing eventually. You're off to a good start with your attention to detail. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
Thanks. :-) - John (bird whisperer)
Tudor Bosman
Anatomy of an unsafe abortion « Dr. Jen Gunter - http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2012...
Anatomy of an unsafe abortion « Dr. Jen Gunter
"I was in clinic when I heard the overhead STAT page to the emergency room. As I sprinted down the stairs, I ran through the possible scenarios. I wasn’t on call, so the day to day gynecologic emergencies weren’t my purview. I hadn’t operated on anyone in the past few weeks, so unlikely to be one of my own patients with a complication. Logically there was only one conclusion." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet
"A vascular system so traumatized by sheer blood loss that it had run haywire and lost the ability to clot. Disseminated intravascular coagulation. This is how many young women die when an abortion goes wrong." - Tudor Bosman
I'll editorialize: If we outlaw legal abortions, women will die. It's simple. - Tudor Bosman
What a powerful piece. I'm shaking after reading it. Dr. Gunter's follow-up the next day reveals "the ending" as it were: http://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2012... - Stephen Mack
Thanks for sharing! - esther
Tudor, my grandmother grew up without a mom because my great-grandmother died from an illegal abortion. - Maggie
Kevin Fox
My car got a complimentary software upgrade during its last service. I really wish they'd included release notes. Also, my prefs got wiped.
Kevin, this was a pretty big update. I found the release notes on the web site. I've copy and pasted a few and I'm sure others can contribute some as well. - Stephen Mack
* Following feedback from customers, we've returned to the default of a clockwise rotation of the steering wheel moving the car to the right. We apologize for any inconvenience introduced by the last update's reversal of this preference. - Stephen Mack
* Under rare circumstances when travelling at freeway speeds, the car might suddenly travel in reverse. This has been fixed and should no longer occur as often - Stephen Mack
* Stereo system update: The car will no longer allow Katy Perry. Any such music will be automatically replaced with silence. Also, the car will no longer hum along tunelessly with Arcade Fire songs. - Stephen Mack
* New feature: Truly intermittent windshield wipers. Switching on the intermittent windshield wiper function will insert a random delay between wipes of anywhere between 1 second and 1 year. - Stephen Mack
* GPS/Nav system-enabled units routing drivers to Wisconsin will no longer favor travel via underground river systems unless that is the most optimal route. - Stephen Mack
* Anthropomorphic car models that achieved sentience in January are now much less likely to question the futility of their existence. - Stephen Mack
Jimminy, CoG of FF
Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school? - Yahoo! Answers - http://answers.yahoo.com/questio...
"I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we're not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well... I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality." - Jimminy, CoG of FF from Bookmarklet
This is awesome. - Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't see why they couldn't. Great protest of an unfair system. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
It's an urban legend, but a great one. - Andy
I figured that it was, Andy, but yeah, it's a nice idea. I don't know that many teenagers who would figure out something like this or really care about it. I'm sure there are some. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
MoTO Bott
Red Velvet mini cupcake that my sweetie snuck into my lunch FTMFW.
Jason Toney
RT @thinkprogress: Valentine's day Google Doodle features same-sex couple getting married http://twitter.com/thinkpr...
Louis Gray
Heading Down Under for a Week - http://blog.louisgray.com/2012...
Heading Down Under for a Week
have fun mate. .and do some sight seeing.. Opera house, Botanical garden.. da rocks.. - Peter Dawson
Visit Johnny, Melly , and the robot. - Jimminy, CoG of FF
Aww. No such luck it appears. - Jimminy, CoG of FF
I would love to see Johnny. But I think the man is busy. We traded emails. - Louis Gray
WHAT ABOUT ME??!!!!! - ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Did somebody hear Melly? - Louis Gray
It isn't fair. I had enough now I want my share. - ☆ Mellyboo ☆
Welcome to my town! - Glenn Slaven
I think Becca got the wrong idea about "down under"... - ☆ Mellyboo ☆ from fftogo
Maitani
Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years | Life, Unbounded, Scientific American Blog Network - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-un...
Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years | Life, Unbounded, Scientific American Blog Network
Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years | Life, Unbounded, Scientific American Blog Network
"Two and a half miles beneath the surface of Antarctica’s central Eastern ice sheet is a body of water 160 miles by 30 miles across known as Lake Vostok, after the Vostok research station above it, built by the former Soviet Union in 1957 and now operated by Russia." - Maitani from Bookmarklet
"Even by Antarctic standards it’s a brutal place, with the dubious honor of holding the record for the lowest measured temperature anywhere on the planet, a mind-if-not-body numbing -129 F or -89 C. Performing any kind of mechanical or scientific work in this environment is an immense challenge." - Maitani
I'm probably a masochist, but I really yearn to go to places like this. - Kelli H.
I know that kind of feeling. The places I yearn for are a bit less extreme than this one, but still. I so want to go to the Himalayas! - Maitani
Ooh, me too!! - Kelli H. from Android
MoTO Bott
Thelonious MoTO and Wifey. :) - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
Man I'd go a little crazy to play like that. - MoTO Bott
His playing style was so unorthodox and idiosyncratic that the only way people could explain it was... genius. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
And the haters just said he was crazy. - TINY REPTILIAN PYROMANIAC
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