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HIDE HIDE HIDE no - Yolanda

oh sweet jesus HIDE! - holly

Good luck! - rowlikeagirl

Also, I am of the philosophy that you NEED to be able to drive ANY car... You never know when some emergency might require YOU to drive some random unfamiliar car in order to get someone to a hospital, or remedy some situation. And I can guarantee that you will wind up in a situation someday where you're out with friends, and the driver winds up drinking too much to drive everyone... more... - LarchOye

I'm sure this will soon be seen on Miley Sirus. - Mark Dodson

God. - Chris Greene

I agree most facts and states in the Universe are inaccessible to humans. However, a limit on knowledge does not necessarily mean a limit on sensing truth. A child can sense truth. A child can be right about something while the rest of the world is wrong. - Gus

Why would you perpetuate a lie. - Mike Nayyar

Pretty sure that was the "Greek," CAJ... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

I just saw a bug too. I tried to friend you but dialogue box said "Error in unfollowing this user" - Except that I wasn't already following you...strange. - Mike Bracco

Robert Scoble-san totemo toridesu. Anatawa totemo toridesune! - LarchOye

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a record distance (4 billion miles away), showing it against the vastness of space. In a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996,Carl Sagan related his thoughts on the deeper meaning of the photograph: "Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.... more... - Amira from Bookmarklet

"Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to... more... - Amira

Carl Sagan made a great contribution to the Voyager program. He is not only of the planet, a wide knowledge in various scientific areas. I was impressed also read many books of his work. http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ami Iida

"Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks brings our attention to Charles Bonnett syndrome -- when visually impaired people experience lucid hallucinations. He describes the experiences of his patients in heartwarming detail and walks us through the biology of this under-reported phenomenon." - Credit to Ken Morley on Bookmarklet - Fossil Huntress

Because religion is something that everyone should just keep to themselves... - LarchOye

Related to the marshmallow test discussed earlier, this is about a program designed to develop pre-schoolers self-control skills by focusing on dramatic play. Fascinating read. Excerpt: "Their language skills were pretty impressive for kindergarten students. But for the teachers and child psychologists running the program in which they were enrolled, those skills were considered secondary — not irrelevant, but not as important as the skills the children displayed before the story started, when all three were wrestling with themselves, fighting to overcome their impulses — in Abby’s case, the temptation to give up on writing out the whole title and just submit to the pleas of her friends; for Jocelyn and Henry, the urge to rip the pencil out of Abby’s hand and start the CD already." - Stephen Mack from Bookmarklet

The marshmallow test, in case you missed it: "Seeing the future in a marshmallow" -- http://evidencebasedparenting.net/... - Stephen Mack

I think the 4-page NYT article here is a must-read for parents of preschoolers. And a lot to discuss there. - Stephen Mack

Thank you! Great, as everything I like to hear from Stephen Hawking :-) - Slavomira Vladimirova

The aliens are already here and *they* are protecting us from asteroid impacts, like galactic Rangers and we are the Shire. ;-) - Rob Fisher

"A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security researcher said yesterday." - LANjackal from Bookmarklet

Because of the sunk cost bias that Apple engenders. When you've put so much $ and emotion into your love for something, it's tough to admit it's been compromised. - LANjackal

Not until it supports Smell-O-Vision. - LogEx

Sticking with 5.1 for a while, even though my gear can do 7.1. - Eric @ CS Techcast

:( - Stephen Mack from iPhone

I don't understand either Davis. This is probably because of the lobbying power of these banks. - LPH™ and his dog P™

"NASA scientists have discovered water molecules in the polar regions of the Moon. Instruments aboard three separate spacecraft revealed water molecules in amounts that are greater than predicted, but still relatively small." - mridul from Bookmarklet

OMFG! - Müjdat Korkmaz from Bookmarklet

Very interesting and useful reference. - TrafficBug

"Plurk, a micro-messaging service similar to Twitter, today added a nice new feature: Real-time conversation search. As you might expect, it allows you to search Plurk’s growing index of data to find out what people are saying about a topic right now. In its post on the matter, Plurk goes into how it thinks this is the next phase of search beyond the traditional search engines, and how social search could revolutionize things. Of course, it fails to mention its number one competitor in the field: Twitter." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Kol, twas a reply to Pandu's comment. He said he uses Plurk to broadcast his thoughts. Something which I think Twitter is better suited for. - RK

Can be used as paperweight ✓ ✓ - Nathaniel Payne

Güzel kıyaslama:) - Murat DEMİR

"It may be the ultimate free lunch — how to reap all the advantages of a calorically restricted diet, including freedom from disease and an extended healthy life span, without eating one fewer calorie. Just take a drug that tricks the body into thinking it’s on such a diet. It sounds too good to be true, and maybe it is. Yet such drugs are now in clinical trials. Even if they should fail, as most candidate drugs do, their development represents a new optimism among research biologists that aging is not immutable, that the body has resources that can be mobilized into resisting disease and averting the adversities of old age. This optimism, however, is not fully shared. Evolutionary biologists, the experts on the theory of aging, have strong reasons to suppose that human life span cannot be altered in any quick and easy way. But they have been confounded by experiments with small laboratory animals, like roundworms, fruit flies and mice. In all these species, the change of single genes has brought noticeable increases in life span." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Some species seem to be imperishable. A tiny freshwater animal known as a hydra can regenerate itself from almost any part of its body, apparently because it makes no distinction between its germ cells and its ordinary body cells. In people the germ cells, the egg and sperm, do not age; babies are born equally young, whatever the age of their parents. The genesis of aging was the... more... - RAPatton

"Think of the tangy smell of the sea, so evocative of summer holidays, the scream of seagulls and sand between your toes. Where does it come from? Ozone? Fresh sea air? Actually, the truth is slightly less tantalising: it's a gas released by bacteria. Two years ago Andy Johnston, a professor of biology at the University of East Anglia, identified that the smell of the sea came from a molecule called dimethyl sulfide (DMS). Now, he has managed to crack the entire biochemical pathway by which the scent is produced. DMS turns out to be an important chemical found in many natural processes, such as cloud formation. Birds love the smell and will flock towards tiny concentrations. It's even added to processed foods to give a savoury note: small amounts can impart the flavour of cabbages, tomatoes, butter and cream – even lemons or roast chicken, according to Prof Johnston. DMS is derived from a compound called dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), which is produced by phytoplankton, single-celled organisms found in the sea. DMSP is incredibly abundant – around a billion tonnes are formed every year." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

That's actually a really good idea. Hmmm.... - Jason Wehmhoener

Wait, what's WXL? - Jason Wehmhoener

Gosh, thank you very much! :-) - Kol Tregaskes

:-) - Kol Tregaskes

"Gorgeous, isn’t it? Drawn by artist Gregory Siegburg, it’s part of a new project called Experience the Planets, started by a talented group of artists who want to create and collect beautiful artwork of the planets so that people can get a view of them that — so far — are difficult to obtain or cannot be achieved with our probes." - Iván Abrego from Bookmarklet