Do you know where I can get one in the Bay Area? I want one too! - Patrick Li
You're kidding. Let me know if it's good - Diana Thai
I just bought one today for my parents. GameStops are best place to get one...go during lunch and ask when they get shipments and call everyday. I called 20 minutes after they got shipment, and was lucky. - Pokai
So basically, she's saying she has no idea what love is, and she's too angry to even admit it exists? - j1m
I got way too distracted by all the blinking stars and pink background and ads and sidebars to actually read the post. Who is this person? - Robert Felty
re: j1m. No, she's just being very assertive. She believes in love. - niniane
re: Robert. She's one of the top-100 bloggers. She's the #1 blogger in Singapore. - niniane
she is hillarious....check out her review of iphone where her producers actually gave her fake china iphone instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Pokai
Arjun: Yahoo isn't an acronym. It's referring to a type of hominid-creature-thingy in "Gulliver's Travels" - possible248
The O's left for Google a long time ago - hunter walk
you can spot them occassionally down at the bottom of the search results goooo*oo*oooogle - Alex Gawley
Where'd Y and A go? Scoble told me one of those O's is worth about 5billion each! go grab it quick and cash it in (me thinks it is a lottery ticket!) - Susan Beebe
"This year, however, proponents of same-sex marriage have found encouragement in both the California Supreme Court decision and in a subsequent order by Gov. David A. Paterson of New York, instructing agencies in his state to recognize same-sex marriages performed legally elsewhere. The California court has also rebuffed several challenges to its May 15 decision, made by two conservative legal groups and by Republican attorneys general who fear that the California marriages will lead to legal challenges brought in their own states." - Bret Taylor
The current UK administration defused the issue of same sex unions by the introduction of Civil Partnerships in 2005 linked to an across the board change of relevant laws to provide parity with married couples - with the exception of those with religiious objections (who should really know better) this has gone smoothly and been introduced across the UK. Its not called a marriage but has all the advantages (and responsibilities!) of the mixed sex varaint. - Jican
It makes me very happy to see gay folks entering the light in California. I'm also very amused at how frustrating it must be to the Right. Well, I guess in a few years one of us will be proven right. Either a small percentage of the population of California will be happily married and gay or the country will lay in smouldering ruins and people will be having sex with box turtles. - Tad Donaghe
Tad: I feel a box turtle urge coming on! Hah. - Robert Scoble
@Tad - I had box turtles as pets when I was kid. Never considered that activity with them though... - Hutch Carpenter
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife." - Rick Santorum (Idiot) ex-Senator from Virginia - Tad Donaghe
Dude in the pic with "Bruce Willis" is freakin HYOOOGE! I wonder how many opponents of gay marriage have been pwned by his hand...LOL - Rahsheen Porter
Whoa, don't push Santorum on us Virginians! hehe - Jody Carbone
Oh crap - sorry to pollute Virginia with Santorum! Oops. I wouldn't wish that on anyone... - Tad Donaghe
I hope it "sticks". My boyfriend and I are waiting until after November. To have the rug pulled from under us after enjoying a few months of wedded bliss would be too much for the heart to bear. - Jason Menayan
Congrats to all the new couples, with wishes for many happy years. - Chris Baskind
In my home town in Austria, we had a case of a black man and a white woman wanting to marry, they ended up being refused by the marriage registrar. Of course, we also haven't got gay marriage legalized here. The US have problems, but in some cases, law is way more progressive than in Europe. - sebmos
@Phil: LOL! This has certainly been a momentous (and good) development. But it would be nice to see these kinds of decisions made through the legislative process. The fact that this decided in the courts will make the outcome more contentious than it would have been had the population been forced to have a legitimate conversation about the issue. The more bigoted corners of our society now have a victim card to play - and play it they shall... - Forrest Cox
@Forrest: The genius of our system of government lies in its checks and balances. In particular, an unfettered democracy would be subject to the problem of the "tyranny of the majority". Fortunately this is offset by our Constitution and our courts, whose job is to ensure that individual rights are not trampled on, no matter how unpopular that individual may be, for whatever reason. Any bigots playing the victim card are ignorant of basic civics. - Ruchira S. Datta
@Ruchira I agree. The Cali court is playing exactly its Constitutional role, and it's essentially a conservative and Federalist approach to reconciling changing societal mores and the demands of a minority. As I've commented elsewhere, we are winning this argument, and we're doing it state by state, rather than through a Federal fiat, which simply is not feasible at this time. All good things... - Rick Powell
"The people who work there are really sweet, but my nail polish is full of bubbles afterwards. Even when I do it myself at home, I don't get air bubbles like this." - niniane
The color is unexpected, as though the pig is wearing a pink vest. - niniane
I had a pot belly pig as a pet for a while as a child, pigs don't actually like to be dirty, however they only have sweat glands on their snout and feet so they need to keep their bodies somewhat wet in order to stay cool. If given the choice a pig would prefer a clean pool of water, however mud is more accessible and works quite well for them. That aside, I don't care if this is photoshopped - it is super cute! - Rachel L Fisher
If you don't know who Julia Allison is then it's way less funny, however the unfortunate camera angle is funny in it's own right. She seriously brought this dog to a club. WTF? - Jason Shellen
She's the Paris Hilton of the tech world. Sad. - Duncan Riley
"Anyone can make a bad movie; Kate Hudson and Adam Sandler make them by the fistful. Anyone can make a sickening movie; we are already up to Saw IV. Anyone can make an unwatchable movie; Jack Black and Martin Lawrence do it every week. And anyone can make a comedy that is not funny; Jack Black and Martin Lawrence do it every week." - j1m
"An authentically bad movie has to be famous; it can't simply be an obscure student film about a boy who eats live rodents to impress dead girls." - j1m
That obscure student film sounds pretty cool, actually. - ⓞnor
Oh, you think it really exists? I mean, that's probably the plot of at least 2 Lars von Trier films, but he's not an obscure student. - j1m
No, as far as I know it doesn't. I was just trying to work out how that hypothetical movie would go, and I couldn't imagine any way to make it non-awesome. - ⓞnor
It was impressing dead girls that makes it awesome. If he were impressing living girls, it would not be. - niniane
Personally, I would eat live rodents if it would help me forget ever seeing the last Lars von Trier movie that I inflicted on myself: Dogville. I believe that it technically meets all of the set-out-criteria for worst movie ever. Although it does seem a stretch that for someone as (seemingly) clever as von Trier, Dogville wasn't a deliberate attempt to make the worst movie ever... - Kevin Scott
I found _The Boss of it All_ a funny (!) non-depressing (!!!) von Trier film about a small software company. _Dogville_... yeah. Another "are art circles just an echo chamber?" question. - ⓞnor
Yeah, I saw Breaking the Waves (sadly, all of it) and I was pretty sure he was doing it on purpose. - j1m
I like B better, but are your guest room's walls still the same shade of blue? It's kinda hard to tell B's bedframe color from the pic, but would it match the room's walls? - Dan Hsiao
B, but if your house more classical then A. - Pokai
B displays strength and grace with good proportion. A is a napkin doodle, a napkin doodle made by somebody trapped in a loveless marriage. - ⓞnor
re: torque. Haha, it should be the start of the advice app, you're right. - niniane
The thing is, I was leaning 99% toward A before writing this post. I'm still leaning toward A, but now only 80%. Also, re: @nor. I can provide the strength and grace and good proportion -- the bed doesn't need to bring that. :) - niniane
Though B is a tad "swirly" it looks more stable than A. I never know why people put the weird beds in guest rooms, perhaps it's because they dont have to sleep in them. - Colby Olson
A is more classic. might ultimately be easier to work with. - edythe
I'm not planning to "work with" my bed. But thanks for being the only supporter of A. :) - niniane
um hello niniane. i support. A. A! A! get A. - Neha Narula
Oh yeah. Thank you Neha!!! I am really leaning toward A. - niniane
This does not seem like it answers the question! - ⓞnor
I like the google ad for this post: * Make Him Fall In Love - How To Become The Woman He Adores And Never Wants To Leave. TheWomenMenAdore.com - minus3
Yeah, the article's advice was rather poor. - niniane
Though I liked the idea of finding a movie that parallels the relationship, and then deciding the category of the movie. So what's yours, Dan? :) - niniane
It says that Phantom of the Opera is about bittersweet love, but I always thought it was about lust. Or at least infatuation. Have I been missing a theme in Phantom this whole time? - Clare Dibble
"But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for - and everything I am fighting for in this election." [snip] "I am running because I still believe I can win on the merits. Because, with our economy in crisis, our nation at war, the stakes have never been higher - and the need for real leadership has never been greater - and I believe I can provide that leadership." - Ana
HRC is a whole bunch of crock. She lies thru her teeth like its second nature in their family. I dont trust her integrity - Peter Dawson
Any other women sick of this talking point: Hillary is running for us? Somehow she is the champion of our cause and her winning the nomination is the only evidence of progress in the feminist fight. - Shellee
Shellee, that talking point would indeed seem to be offensive to women. - Adam Lasnik
she has a very good chance of being president if she is persistent. for one thing she has something she never had before. Respect. She showed a will to fight and to do it on male terms. I'm not a feminist, but I saw strong character that I hadn't seen before when she was Green with Suha Arafat. I am glad she lost though because there is another fighter I like alot. John McCain. Perhaps if she continues to support America, it's allies and the troops then there is a chance for a real vision for health care that most agree with her about. She does seem to improve with age and I'm willing to bet that sympathy will grow for what she is struggling to do. She will improve her character as she grays. She got what she was looking for all year. Not the presidency, but empathy for her ideas... and she has become wise on foreign policy. - Noah David Simon
No doubt she has a real vision and I would like to see her leading, but right now I think it is important for America to stay the course and not look like we are backpedaling on Iraq. Especially with all the success in Sadr city this week that was ignored by the media. Hilary is a kinder and wiser sense of what government can do... but now is not the time to be spending domestic social programs. A Democrat in office would be a disaster. We have a war to win and McCain understands the point of alternative fuels.
"Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."
-Winston Churchill - Noah David Simon
A war to win?? You mean that country we invaded? If anything, the Winston Churchill quotes should be coming from their side. - Nick
I would rather have a good peace than spend trillions trying to win this stupid war. - ⓞnor
Agreeing with @nor, I would rather have supplies for our schools, homes for our homeless, food for our hungry. What's fascinating and extremely depressing is that with the billions we've spent on this fruitless endeavor in Iraq, we *could* have had this. Instead of killing people, we could have been healing, housing, educating people. What a concept. - Adam Lasnik
we invaded europe during WWII. I'm no pacifist. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Sir Winston Churchill - Noah David Simon
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. -Sir Winston Churchill - Noah David Simon
I am not offended by the talking point that Hillary is running on behalf of women. The primary reason I would vote for Hillary is because I think having a female president would go a long way toward advancing feminism in our country. I'm really glad Hillary ran. - niniane
When you say "ours too" which country are you speaking for? - niniane
Algeria, Niniane. But IMHO that applies for everywhere... - directeur
Hmmm....I understand, agree to some degree. - Pokai
The Romanian way is much like the Chinese way, and bothered the hell out of me while I was living there, too. I'd rather have yes mean yes and no mean no (and risk being offended at times) than have to try to guess at what the other person would want me to say. - Tudor Bosman
ever been to an Indian's house for dinner ? I call it suffocating hospitality - viki saigal
Are you also buying a mattress? If so, I suggest going to one of the mattress stores and checking out their wares in person. I think Mattress Discounters have same day delivery. - April Buchheit
I should probably buy a mattress. Do mattress stores have good bed frames? Or just crappy ones. - niniane
I would buy the bed and mattress at separate stores unless you're on a really tight budget. Keetsa mattresses are incredible: http://www.yelp.com/biz/keetsa..., and they can ship to your door. - Chris White
I know it sounds like a commercial, but the sleep number beds are the most wonderful things ever!! I was a skeptic but a friend (who was going through chemo at the time and couldn't find any other bed that made her comfortable) convinced me and I have since convinced other skeptics to at least try. It shapes so well to your body and what other bed can you change because you back is feeling a little stiffer that day and a firmer mattress would feel better. Anyway, that is my two sense. - Rachel L Fisher
Chris... why bed and mattress at separate stores? That seems long on both budget AND time. And Niniane, what about IKEA? OW! $*#(@ that hurt... ouch ow!!!!!!!1 :p - Adam Lasnik
Adam, Keetsa (and other memory foam mattress stores) specialize in mattresses, so they often only have standard metal frames. I tend to like wood platform beds that sit only a few inches off the ground. We recently bought a Keetsa mattress and really like it. We're going to have the carpenter who's working on our cabinets make a platform bed for it. - Chris White
But you can buy memory foam + cute wood bed at IKEA, no? :) - Adam Lasnik
IKEA's beds (like most of their furniture) are rectilinear, minimalist "budget modern" style. I rather like that, but I'm pretty sure Niniane would rather sleep in the gutter than on a MANDAL (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/cata...) or a MALM (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/cata...). - ⓞnor
IKEA is the best bet. Eco and egonomical :)- - Peter Dawson
IKEA - not quite - a bed is supposed to last for a long time - IKEA stuf does not - gets all creaky and wobbly within a year - viki saigal
if you assemble it properly, an ikea bed will last a long time - Charles Hudson
If you are around a store Dania has some awesome bedroom furniture of awesome quality for a moderate price: http://tinyurl.com/37wz6. Either way if you want to do it right you're not going to escape for less than 3k (mattress/box/bedroom set). But it will last for a long time. - Brandon Werner
Leksvik (from Ikea) is not bad, but it only comes in one shade. MALM is okay too. - niniane
Hm, I would have thought MALM exemplifies everything you hate about guy taste. Straight lines, black surfaces, hard edges. It only needs steel and glass to make it complete. (I wonder if anyone makes a steel and glass bed frame?) - ⓞnor
I am relieved to know that Niniane isn't thoroughly disgusted with my (lack of) fashion sense. Er, clothes aside :D - Adam Lasnik
Served Warabimochi for a job well done! lol - Igor The Troll
We did buy a bed from Overstock.com ( http://www.overstock.com/Home-...? ) and we're happy with it. Putting it together was slightly more difficult than putting together IKEA furniture (mainly because the various parts are heavier). We love it, and it seems to be holding together well (unlike the IKEA bed that it replaced). - Tudor Bosman
Now, how cool would it be - though rather unlikely - if that guy actually reads that blog post. He might have long forgotten about that event, but I figure reading about it might make him go: Hey, wow, that was me! - Thomas Frütel
Now if he were to read this post and get back in touch with you would make for a Bollywood box office hit !! But serously I think that was really a nice tribute - clearly it left a lasting impression on you ! - viki saigal
Thanks Niniane, that post made me feel gratitude to those in my life that bring me reassurance. - Clare Dibble
I've often thought about writing people notes in the ether where only Google could find them, either because I don't know how to reach them or because it's been too long to talk to them out of the blue, but writing something *about* them that would come up when they google themselves seems interesting. - Kevin Fox
Wow. What a tragedy. We are so conditioned to luxury in this country, it is hard to read that and sit here at my laptop, in my air conditioned house, close to my children and not weep for those people... - Jeff Day via Alert Thingy
Thanks for sharing this article Niniane. - Shakeel Mahate
What gets me angry in stories like this are comments like "They were accompanied by a reporter." ... Do you mind if we follow you around and film you? How degrading, especially at a time like that. - John Mueller
What a sad story. Thanks for sharing. - Patrick Li
*Sigh* similar and more stories abound in China and India - and it makes you wonder- what value is ascribed to life by societies in different ecnomies - SAD - viki saigal
"Unfortunately, people are not good at picking a job that will make them happy. Gilbert found that people are ill equipped to imagine what their life would be like in a given job, and the advice they get from other people is bad, (typified by some version of “You should do what I did.”)" - Jim Norris
"It’s simple, proven advice, but few people take it because they think they are unique and their experience in a career will be different. Get over that. You are not unique, you are basically just like everyone else." - Clare Dibble
Question: how much money do you need to have a sex life? - Amber
Not much... many people have a sex life on a college budget... - Ross Miller
Is that really why few people take that advice? Do very many people even hear that advice often enough to separate it out from the heaps of other advice they get? Don't get me wrong, its excellent advice: switch careers early and often, you'll find that some make you much much happier than the first one you try. But it's good advice because, ahem, people are unique. - j1m
“It’s true that money impacts which person you marry, but money doesn’t impact the amount of sex you have.” - Evan Parker
“Going from sex once a month to sex once a week creates a big jump in happiness. And then the diminishing returns begin to set in.” Well, I guess that answers that question. - ⓞnor
penelope trunk kind of reminds me of niniane - Neha Narula
Firstly, I thought there was some recent research that revealed more money actually does result in more happiness, and the earlier "diminishing returns in salary increase after basic needs are met" was faulty. Secondly, I wish the article would clarify what they are categorizing within "sex". Thirdly, why does Penelope Trunk remind Neha of me???? Though I do wish I had a name like Penelope Trunk. Damn that's a good name. - niniane
I guess you both have the made-up-name thing going on... - Jim Norris
Is her name made-up? Anyway I've been reading her blog for the past 15 minutes. At first I liked her style of writing. But then I realized I haven't laughed once. Her blog isn't funny at all. It's anti-funny. So now Neha's comment offends me. Fuck you Neha! - niniane
“All we really want is to get paid and get laid.” ...thats the last line and theonly thing in the entire blog that resonates with me - all else is pure tripe - viki saigal
Yeah, that's one of xkcd's "things", You should click thru to the site to see the mouseover. I only discovered them after I'd been reading xkcd for a few weeks (how slow am I, lol) and it brought a whole new level of understanding to the whole thing for me. - Slippy Lane
Love XKCD. Hate FF breaking the mouseover. - James Polley
... breaking the mouseover makes you click through to xkcd though... right... I mean otherwise you'd miss the hidden message! - Ross Miller
بچههاي فرندفيد: اقايون/خانوما. بياين حال اين خارجكيها رو بگيريم و تو اين كامنتدوني شروع كنيم در مورد اين تصوير كامنت بگذاريم.لطفا نظرتون رو در مورد اين تصوير بگين - mhmazidi
@mhmazidi اتفاقا این وب سایت رو خیلی وقته که دنبال می کنم...کمیک های خیلی خیلی جالبی داره...فقط یک کمی سنگینه و گیکیه به قول خودمون ...چیز جالبیه بهش سر بزنید گاهی ... (اسمایلی این هم سهم من در کامنت فارسی) ه - Selma
it would be nice if friendfreed could perform some basic translation if the user set it that way ;) - Hernan Garcia via twhirl
Ich "mag" Hernans Kommentar. [Translation: I "like" Hernan's comment.] - Philipp Lenssen
hehe ...i think we have managed to provoke some curiosity :D - Selma
@mhmazidi می تونم هدفتون رو از این حرکت بدنم ؟ - Navid Kashani
Yes it is Farsi (Persian) language ...and no ...as a professional translator I have not seen any efficient automated translation system for it yet (some students here are working on that), especially since the lines here are written in a broken informal style which makes it even more difficult to convert. - Selma
Selma, care to comment on the general jist of the conversation that took place in this thread? - Mark Trapp
Oh lol…definitely... sorry! Dr. Mazidi just commented there to share the picture with the Persian Friendfeed users as well as letting the English users know we do need a translating system ;) … I commented on the fact that I have been regularly following xkcd (I'm not a geek…it's just a phase that I'm going through :D) and advised others to do so as well… Navid was wondering why we were commenting in Farsi … we were also wondering if it might tickle other people's curiosity … our experiment proved effective! :p - Selma
I love this!! Thanks Bret!! who created this? too cool! - Susan Beebe
Haha, thaks Selma. I was wondering what was going on :) - Mark Trapp
Am I the only one who finds it annoying that this story is constantly being pushed up due to comments? I understand the point, but I've seen this on my FriendFeed every day for the past week and a half - Bartek Gniado
bart: my subconscious had the exact same reaction. I love xkcd but I was getting sick of this one. I guess it's time to start using the hide function. - Alex von Halem
Bart, hide feature, I believe you two haven't met. I'll leave you two to get acquainted. - Mark Trapp
@Mark Good point ;) I totally forgot about it - Bartek Gniado
I guess it's a happy Endangered Species Day for one species. Not so much for the rest. The WWF's Living Planet Index declined 30% between 1970 & 2003. http://snurl.com/29751 - Kevin D. White
Popularizing the pygmy pig as the perfect pork will insure its perpetual persistence. - torque
