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"I'm kind of embarrassed to say this, but I grew up in Chippewa Lake, OH. My friends and I used to go into the park all the time long after it was closed. I remember the hotel, dance hall and haunted house, etc. Some kids burnt all those big buildings down, in fact the fire came pretty close to some house next to the park. If you are interested there are a lot more abandoned parks: http://www.defunctparks.com/parks..." - Mark Layton

"What you are looking at here is a sinkhole that just appeared in the Zone 2 of Ciudad de Guatemala. And it's very real." - Simon from Bookmarklet

The question is I wonder if there were any people in that particular spot when this happened? - Mark Layton

LONDON (Reuters) - Web search group Google Inc is phasing out internal use of rival Microsoft Corp's Windows operating system because of security concerns following a Chinese hacking incident, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.

The FT quoted one Google employee as saying: "We're not doing any more Windows. It is a security effort." Another said: "Getting a new Windows machine now requires CIO (chief information officer) approval." - Mark Layton

"Google posted more images that show the user interface of Google Chrome OS. The interface is still under development, so it may change until the first stable version is released, later this year." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

"Google posted more images that show the user interface of Google Chrome OS. The interface is still under development, so it may change until the first stable version is released, later this year." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

"I'm currently a BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server) admin for 200 users. I agree that businesses want security and control over the companies emails that are being sent outside the company walls! But I also just install Good for Enterprise which is similar to the BES but for both the iPhone and Android and it works just as good as the BES. http://www.good.com/enterprise" - Mark Layton

"Gmail just picked up another desktop-like drag-and-drop feature, less than a month after giving attachments that convenience. Starting in Chrome, and coming to other browsers soon, you can now drag pictures into messages to embed them in a message." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

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"Slowly but surely, LED light bulbs have been getting brighter and more efficient, but price has always been a major factor staying their adoption. Back in 2007, a single 308 lumen bulb cost $65, and the more things changed, the more they've stayed the same. Now, out of the blue, The Home Depot has stepped forward with a cost-effective alternative. For $20, the new EcoSmart LED bulb promises a 429 lumen, 40W equivalent with a 50,000 hour expected lifetime, making it cheaper and nearly as powerful as the 450 lumen, $40-50 design industry heavyweight GE unveiled last month. Best of all, it's already available for purchase (though backordered) at our source link. Honestly, we're starting to wonder what the catch is" - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

1000 lumen bulb for any price under $50 please. Thanks. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Quick calculation, it's supposed to last over 5 years. - Mark Layton

"Slowly but surely, LED light bulbs have been getting brighter and more efficient, but price has always been a major factor staying their adoption. Back in 2007, a single 308 lumen bulb cost $65, and the more things changed, the more they've stayed the same. Now, out of the blue, The Home Depot has stepped forward with a cost-effective alternative. For $20, the new EcoSmart LED bulb promises a 429 lumen, 40W equivalent with a 50,000 hour expected lifetime, making it cheaper and nearly as powerful as the 450 lumen, $40-50 design industry heavyweight GE unveiled last month. Best of all, it's already available for purchase (though backordered) at our source link. Honestly, we're starting to wonder what the catch is" - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

Drill baby, Drill!! /sarcasm - Mark Layton

"For months, the rafts that ferry Disneyland guests across the waterway to Tom Sawyer Island have been idle. No children have explored the island’s caves, scaled its climbing rocks or run across its bridges. But the island won’t be lonely much longer. Park employees will refill the Rivers of America this week after it was drained in January for maintenance. The draining took almost a week, at the end of which this question was answered: What do you find at the bottom of an amusement park basin after seven years? The answer: a computer tower, hundreds of cellphones, countless pacifiers and half a canoe, said Disneyland Resort spokesman John McClintock." - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

Hahaha, Steve! - Anne Bouey

This place can be addictive.... - Mike Nencetti

I've been ready to bail out for months now. Still waiting for a better netword to surface and as it look like I'm going to be kept waiting I guess I'll be here for a while. - JSLeFanu

“Reopening of the South Fork Bridge after flood in Nov. 1940. 1941 (?)” - Carlos Ayala

If he was a time traveler then he would know that he was captured in this picture so he wouldn't be there in the first place. Cool story though. - Mark Layton

"Interestingly, for the first time since he debuted on Fox News, Glenn Beck did not grow year-over-year: in fact, his show was down 7% in total viewers and 6% in the demo." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Too bad he didn't loose 1/3 of his advertisers also! - Mark Layton

It's a start. Hopefully soon he will find out how wonderful capitalism works out for him when he's kicked to the curb. - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

"RIM on Tuesday demonstrated the new BlackBerry 6 OS, which will be coming to BlackBerry phone models within the next calendar quarter. In a two-minute video, the company showed a range of new features, including a new Web browser, animated screen transitions, and new contextual menus." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

"RIM on Tuesday demonstrated the new BlackBerry 6 OS, which will be coming to BlackBerry phone models within the next calendar quarter. In a two-minute video, the company showed a range of new features, including a new Web browser, animated screen transitions, and new contextual menus." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

"Just as the truly left-wing health care approach (a single-payer system) was eliminated from consideration before the process even began, so, too, have the truly left-wing candidates to replace Justice Stevens (Pam Karlan, Harold Koh) been ruled out as "not viable." As a result, the moderate-progressive compromises (i.e., the public option for health care and Diane Wood for Stevens' replacement) are falsely depicted as some sort of liberal extremism, merely because they're the least conservative options allowed to be considered. Contrary to how she's now being cast, Judge Wood is a very cautious and law-based jurist who resides far from the furthest left end of the mainstream judicial spectrum. In fact, one of her most distinctive attributes is the uniform respect and collegial relationships she has with her conservative colleagues on one of the nation's more right-wing courts." - Prosey BUTTONS!

"Wood's ability to craft legal opinions to induce conservative judges to join her opinions is renowned, as is the respect she commands from them through unparalleled diligence and force of intellect. As a political matter, she'd have a long list of right-wing judges and professors at Chicago (where she still teaches) lined up to vouch for her, thus blunting efforts to depict her as some kind of Far Leftist." - Prosey BUTTONS!

I miss those days when we had hope of a single-payer healthcare system. - Mark Layton

it sounded like something fell on the roof of our office and bounced once. - Carlos Ayala

The finger of God. - Mark Layton

"Boston researchers have taken a major step ahead to the development of an artificial pancreas, which conquers the fear that the most recent endeavors, of precariously low blood sugar caused by shot of too much insulin." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

The team is now preparing for lengthier experiments as they get ready for what they expect will be approved by the Food and Drug Administration in as little as seven years. - Mark Layton

"Boston researchers have taken a major step ahead to the development of an artificial pancreas, which conquers the fear that the most recent endeavors, of precariously low blood sugar caused by shot of too much insulin." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

"Health care in the U.S. costs twice as much as in most other countries, mainly because the administrative costs of maintaining a private insurance system soak up nearly one in every three dollars we spend on it. And a big chunk of that money goes to buy politicians. The health care industry spent a record $266.8 million last year making sure nothing got into the bill that would seriously threaten its profits." The battle for universal, equal access to care still lies ahead, and it won’t be won until those of us who are victimized by the health care system have more political clout than those who profit from it. - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

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"Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO)--who's running to replace retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) in this year's midterm elections--has a position on health care reform that may prove unpopular, even with conservative voters. Blunt says adults with pre-existing conditions should not be prevented from suffering discrimination at the hands of insurance companies. "Access for kids who have pre-existing conditions, who would be against that?" Blunt asked a group of health care professionals in Springfield, MO. "But access for adults who've done nothing to take care of themselves, who actually will have as I just described every incentive not to get insurance until the day that you know that you're going to have medical expenses--that's a very different kind of story." There's an added layer of irony here, which is that, at the beginning of last year, House Minority Leader John Boehner appointed Blunt to chair the GOP's health care task force." - Alejandro from Bookmarklet

Al Franken: "[for them,] life begins at conception and ends at birth." http://www.blueoregon.com/2005... - Andrew C (✓)

"Health care in the U.S. costs twice as much as in most other countries, mainly because the administrative costs of maintaining a private insurance system soak up nearly one in every three dollars we spend on it. And a big chunk of that money goes to buy politicians. The health care industry spent a record $266.8 million last year making sure nothing got into the bill that would seriously threaten its profits." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

That sucks. - Mark Layton

"In recent years, numerous Web sites have sprouted up for the general public to compare charges of doctors, dentists, therapists and other health providers. Some even let patients offer what they would like to pay." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

"In recent years, numerous Web sites have sprouted up for the general public to compare charges of doctors, dentists, therapists and other health providers. Some even let patients offer what they would like to pay." - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

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I feel your pain. Our 3 year old daughter has them one a month. It make you feel like the worst parent when you can't do anything to comfort them or make them stop crying. If it makes you feel any better I've done research on night terrors and they won't remember anything about them. Hang in there. - Mark Layton

Huh. Well, he hasn't had any since I went back to my old routine of laying down in the bed next to his bed while he falls asleep. Interesting. We'll see what happens starting Wed. when I'm gone for four nights in a row! - Laura Norvig

"The bad press keeps coming for the Republican National Committee. Fresh on the heels of a scandal over a nearly $2,000 charge to the RNC at a bondage-themed nightclub comes word that a fundraising mailer the organization sent out included a phone number leading those who called to a phone-sex line offering "live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl who will do anything you want for just $2.99 per minute."" - Mark Layton from Bookmarklet

hehe - "The phone sex line was only discovered, in fact, because one of the people who received the mailer called the number to complain to the RNC about the fact that its fundraising solicitation looked like a government document." - JCunwired