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UBoard: Organise your desk with style and elegance! - http://smokingapples.com/hardwar...
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The UBoard is a raised platform upon which you can place your at hand things like your iPhone, notes, books, while the keyboard rests underneath. You can even keep your notebook on the platform while using a full keyboard underneath. The sides hold three USB ports, and the swivel reveals a cup holder and a place for memos & business cards. Most of all, it’s clean, white, and ultra-minimalist!
- Praveen Vasudev
from Bookmarklet
HOT! *want*
- Praveen Vasudev
Related reading: http://www.soyouwanttoteach.com/less-st..., http://lifehacker.com/5364380...
- TrafficBug
I'd like to see some computer setups that include a graphics tablet that are convenient and don't take up an excess amount of space or make you stretch awkwardly. I've considered using a split keyboard, one half on one side of the table and the other half on the other side. When drawing, one would mostly be using the keyboard for typing filenames and whatever menu selections and so on that one can't do with the tablet. Does that seem reasonable?
- SuezanneC Baskerville
Touch devices FTW! :D
- Praveen Vasudev
Clean and white is the main point. :D Still tiresome when the edge of the table is so short your elbow would be hanging mid-air (that's the table's problem though, not the platform).
- Natsuki Seika
I don't care about Windows 7 or Snot Leopard or any of that OS stuff. Who's doing the next spreadsheet or web browser?
Roman Zolotarev, Pat Rice, Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) and 2 other people liked this
Would you? Can you?
Steven Perez, Mitch, Tyson Key and 56 other people liked this
yup
- CW™
would like too
- johnpiercy
oh yeah imagine the pics
- WarLord
Oooooooooooooo.
- Alix Whitmire
maybe.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
My acrophobia is very bad so most likely NOT.
- Spidra Webster
Where is this place?
- Philippe
i don't know where this is Philippe.
- AJ Batac
Yes but not long
- Rodfather
Think I could.
- Bonnie Foster
I could now, but when I was younger? No way!
- Mark Jepsen
Probably. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Oh yeah.
- ronin
i would probably wet my pants.
- Joe Silence is not dead
If I were dead or unconscious, absolutely.
- Shawn Whitmire
Eff that.
- Danny Minick
wow.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
oh, hell yes!
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
I want to say yes but I don't know.
- pea
Absolutely! Too bad the walkway isn't clear like the Grand Canyon Skywalk: http://www.grandcanyonskywalk.com/.
- CAJ, somewhere else
Done and done...
- Fossil Huntress
oh!
- ffcode
ooooh. Fun
- Giraffes Up In The AIr
Yes
- Alessandro Marocchini
I think I could... I think I could... I think I could... but when it comes to actually doing it, more than likely not.
- Harold
I would love love love to do that, my brain however would force me to feel like im plunging headfirst.
- Charlotte M
easy in fact i'd love too. :)
- liz mellor
Yes, but only very, very quickly.
- Mellissa Claus
Why not?
- RAPatton
It's there, so...yes.
- Pete Delucchi
No. I am very very afraid of heights.
- Mary Carmen
Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat :)
- lassaad
fantastic :d
- آریـوبرزن
I am not sure if I could.
- Martha
No.
- Wulffy
Yes I could throw up from 4,000 ft.
- Chris Greene
Noooooooooooo
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
I can't even look at the picture.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
No.
- Derrick
no
- Alan Simpson
not in a million years, one of my only fears is heights :(
- sean percival
with delight :)
- Nikos Anagnostou
Totally! Love that kinda stuff
- Amy
yeah, maybe. i dunno. maybe not. hmmm.
- Morgan Haley
I suggest first trying out stepping onto the glass floor atop the CN Tower in Toronto.
- Micah Wittman
I love heights, I'd cut my arm to do it. :D
- Faraz Mullick
Why not?
- امیر؟
maybe, if it meant a good photo, but then that's what zoom is for. :)
- Grant Bierman
I found standing on teh glass floor in the CN Tower to be very difficult. Adults would literally cringe as little kids would crawl, run, and jump on the glass floor.
- Kevin Fox
Me I have acrophobia, I would need to go inch by inch when moving my foot to make the sure the ground below me doesnt falleth over.
- TrafficBug
yep
- vijay
I even don´t think I would dare to crawl to that point. And I also wouldn´t dare to look at people going there.
- Ton Zijp
Nope. I'm afraid of heights...
- Tyson Key
Rachota Timetracker - http://rachota.sourceforge.net/en...
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You want to know how you can make more of your time? You want to track your time portably but don't trust web apps to keep your data? You're looking for a time tracker that works on Windows, Linux and Mac to complement your personal Portable Office? Relax, you've just found it. What is Rachota? Rachota is a portable application for timetracking different projects. It runs everywhere. It displays time data in diagram form, creates customized HTML reports or analyses measured data and suggests hints to improve user's time usage. The totally portable yet personal timetracker.
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Wordpress Exploited – 2.8.4 Release - http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpre...
Nicholas James, Beau Liening, Sam Harrelson and 24 other people liked this
Hmmm...time to switch to MovableType?
- Jesse Stay
i don't know jesse - but as i told the guy from rackspace a few minutes ago, this is still happening way too often :( and now that it is inside google, once again i am going to lose rankings
- Allen Stern
The Wordpress code-base is a mess. Either some one needs to do a re-write, or something new needs to come out that's written well. These systems are all getting old. Of course (can't say for today), the last time I tried MovableType, its code base was a mess as well.
- Jesse Stay
I'm tempted to try MovableType though because I write Perl, and MovableType is part-written in Perl, something I'm familiar and comfortable with, and something I can seriously contribute to if it isn't working well.
- Jesse Stay
its too bad that drupal has such a crap admin and can't handle things like trackbacks - otherwise i never would have left :(
- Allen Stern
A friend of mine is finishing up his custom blogging solution. I might just give it a test subdomain next week.
- Chris Heath
from iPhone
I have an MT blog and a WP blog and WP is worlds easier for me to work with. Unfortunately, it appears hackers feel the same way...
- Dennis O'Neil
I find WP is easier too Dennis - and you are probably right
- Allen Stern
rackspace now thinks it might be an issue with the all in one seo pack - we are going to do some testing shortly
- Allen Stern
now they are running some xss scanner
- Allen Stern
Possible that your local system has been compromised? keylogger and such?
- EricaJoy
Unless someone takes an OpenBSD approach and extends it right down through the webserver and on through to the blog/CMS application, more than a couple (many more) vulnerabilities per decade should be expected. However, the most secure stack would have far fewer features and won't have the sizzle to which a mainstream audience is drawn.
- Micah Wittman
Micah, can you expand a bit on what you mean by "extends it right down through the webserver"? what's it? wordpress? and down through the webserver? do you mean making a wordpress specific webserver instead of apache? or on top of? i guess you can see i'm a bit confused
- Chris Heath
Based on this post, I went and checked my 3 day old, no weird plugin, WP 2.8.4 installation with my spamcheckr tool, and I find out -- I've been hacked again. No FTP ports open, WP has become too unsecure, period.
- Jorge Escobar
And I'm hosting on a dedicated EC2 instance with all ports closed
- Jorge Escobar
Chris, what I mean is the security of the "platform" depends on the weakest link of the stack. Debian + Apache/mod_php + Wordpress + Plugins + user customizations is a lot more risk exposure than just Debian. An OpenBSD approach means the whole stack is maintained with a strict, security/correctness standard—raison d'être even—that supersedes and holds back other design goals. Doing so solely within the confines of an OS is hard enough. A commodity blogging solution is a much steeper challenge.
- Micah Wittman
I've been considering moving my blog to AppEngine for a while. I've been a fan of WordPress's easy install/customizability/updates, so it's not an easy move for me to make.
- Matt Mastracci
Micah, thanks, i kind of thought that's what you meant... sounds a bit like my aforementioned friend's custom solution he's been working on.
- Chris Heath
Chris, interesting - keep us updated. :)
- Micah Wittman
fyi - rackspace sent over a log showing someone from russia logging into CN through the admin panel and manually editing the footer file. We don't know what username they used but I can assure you the CN password was a strong one. I am going to make a longer post about some very simple things WP could do to make the blogs instantly more secure - for example - why can't i turn off theme editing? i never use their theme editor - clearly if i could this wouldn't have happened perhaps.
- Allen Stern
You can always change the permissions on your themes and plugins directories so they can't be changed from the Wordpress admin
- Jesse Stay
just did that Jesse - I wonder what percentage of WP users edit their themes using the editor
- Allen Stern
i bought exploitpress.com :-P
- Allen Stern
Allen, one thing I do that I think would protect you is to use an .htaccess file to protect access to your /wp-admin directory. It gives you a lot of extra protection for only a little bit of trouble. Here's how to do it: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
- Matt Cutts
It's time for a "new Sheriff in town". We have been avoiding this for sometime, too long. And I don't know why other than the paradigm of response to bad behavior over the 7 disciplines of life has been redirection and avoidance rather than confrontation. Hackers need to be confronted. Period. Stiffer penalties not more castle moats, honeypots and double-locks. Attacks have gotten to...
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- Melanie Reed
Thanks Matt - the only issue with this is that I would have to edit the ftp each time I want to make a post away from home or the office - I guess this is what we must deal with... now I just hope my Google ranks come back - finally the viagra is out of Google for my other sites so I hope those stay clean.
- Allen Stern
Yup, that's the main annoyance. But it gives me peace of mind to know that 95% of zero-day attacks can't get at my blog, because they aren't coming from the right IP addresses.
- Matt Cutts
I want a WP-retina scan plugin.
- Allen Stern
We can't just keep building up defenses and running. We have to fight back with stiffer penalties and focus on tracking software. No more excuses. No more 'we were just having fun trolling and sniffing'. ok, boys, but let's try not to have"fun" like this next time. Thank you , Mr. Gov for going easy on me. No. That's it.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie - I don't think that stiffer penalties are the right answer. The determined script kiddies will just wardrive to find an open wireless network (or one with a poor password) and do their stuff through anonymous proxies. It's a technological failure here, not a legal one. We can prosecute a poor, dumb kid every once in a while to send a message but the dangerous ones will be getting away.
- Matt Mastracci
Matt, I appreciate that but respectfully, I disagree. I read nothing of Kevin Mitnick's exploits that indicated that he wouldn't have had a change of mind about his activities IF he had been dealt with properly in the beginning. It was his admittance of a growing lack of respect for the paradigm of response that furthered his "wardriving-hacking" efforts. In short, he was laughing at all of us.
- Melanie Reed
One thing to consider is that Kevin Mitnick wasn't hacking with the intent of vandalizing and/or spamming. He was hacking to satisfy his own curiousity. I would say that intent has to factor into this - it's the difference between hopping a substation fence to explore vs. hopping the same fence to cause a blackout. If you were caught in that act of hopping that fence, the justice system...
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- Matt Mastracci
Micah, I rang my friend up and asked him about his project and he said that he has thought about open sourcing it, but decided against it -- but i'm working on him. He said that he'd have to code a conversion tool to import your WP database, and I replied that if he open-sourced his code someone else could code the conversion tool. ;-)
- Chris Heath
Matt, there's a character in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Razkolnikov, I'll call him, "Raz" for short, who thought the same thing(being exempt from consequence of action because he believes he has more worth to society than his actions against it). In the end, he finds his theory does not pan out.;)
- Melanie Reed
I'm not sure that classical literature is the appropriate model for IP crimes like this, myself. This sort of discussion doesn't make much headway on FF, I think. ;) You do bring up some interesting points though- thanks.
- Matt Mastracci
Matt, it logically ties my point from the abstract to Drama to "kitchen table talk". That is exactly my point: it is time society stopped sending the message that "you are special" to the already over abundant narcissistic tendencies our highly individualistic society encourages. C/P was making the point though drama what happens to both the individual and society when we allow that...
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- Melanie Reed
Allen: I can't comment over on your blog (the hospital I'm in is blocking access to it), but I see that Matt is still having an attitude that I'm getting some sort of special treatment. I am not. I'm still getting hacked too, despite putting in place all these measures and others. We need Matt to work with us to fix these issues, whether they are Wordpress issues or Rackspace issues and stop blaming (in return I won't blame him in public either).
- Robert Scoble
Allen (continued): Rackspace probably is the largest Wordpress hoster outside of Wordpress.com so it's in both of our interests to figure out what's going on and get these issues fixed for our customers.
- Robert Scoble
Thx Robert - I told the team tonight that if they can figure it out, it sure could be a great selling point. Rackspace does have excellent customer support - I mean they called me at 10:30pm on Friday night and I am not even a big customer.
- Allen Stern
don't think movable type is secure to attacks, it is just that wordpress is very poplular, a lot depends on users' browsing practices too, true wordpress and rackspace need to resolve the issues inflicting such attacks
- testbeta
The Latest Easy Peasy ver. 1.5 is Here : New Linux User - http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinu...
Pat Rice liked this
"Some changes in the latest version of Easy Peasy: It has a new look! It uses kernel 2.6.30 that’s been optimized for netbooks so that startup’s faster. Support for more netbooks! Hooray! An image which could possibly be installed from a Mac. Upgraded software like Picasa and OpenOffice.org. It uses Ext4 as a file system by default."
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
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The End of Driving: Mike and Maaike introduce the Autonomobile - http://www.core77.com/blog...
Andy Bakun, Mark Jepsen, Daryl Hunt on FF and 74 other people liked this
"Research revealed that self-driving cars, once a fantasy requiring an entirely new infrastructure, are now technologically possible, even inevitable. Savvy robotics are here and real. Advances in GPS, sophisticated sensors, and navigation databases will allow driverless vehicles to operate on the same roads we have today."
- Brad Williamson
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The "Arts & Culture" room focuses on the smarter side of the Web. Join us and embrace new insights ;-) http://friendfeed.com/arts-an...
- Brad Williamson
OMG! This is so ingenious! (Sorry, if I'm over-excited, but this is really cool.)
- Kimber Scott
Is that a bathtub in the car? o.o
- Soup
This makes me think about a futuristic place like that portrayed in "The Prisoner" back in the late 60's. (Though I don't think they had any self-driving cars... just self-guided "capture" balloons!)
- Mark Jepsen
The cars in Demolition Man were self-driving. I loved that movie.
- Kimber Scott
from email
years ago i am telling that tramways or railway are obsolete since the futur in town is the automatic electric car. no doubt on it. let's build it !
- Baptiste Cadiou
This makes me sad. I love driving.
- Leslie Poston
Cool.
- Zachary TG
Leslie: My future self's first order of business will be to set up a free-range driving park for antique enthusiasts such as yourself.
- aldenoneil
lol
- Leslie Poston
of course then I read THIS kind of story and can fully see the value in this technology: http://www.nytimes.com/2009... Yipe.
- Leslie Poston
in the future it will be so cool that we will all move around in a matrix pod autonomously. heh
- sɹǝɥʇɐǝɟʞɔɐןq
It's crazy to think that, if this idea is made into a reality, people will be getting hammered in vehicles. That's just wild.
- Brad Williamson
Cool! These look like mini RV's
- stockmanmarc
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- پـرستووو
from email
I bought these off Etsy
Pat Rice, TheHenry, شــــــهرآشوبــــــــ and 13 other people liked this
WANT!
- Iain Baker
"Hey we're taking a photo here.." (in NY accent) http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-sh...
Pablo Torres, Eric Bolduc, arda and 372 other people liked this
That makes the picture much more memorable, though. :-)
- Jason Huebel
from iPhone
Isn't that just typical!!!!
- Kevin J Hatton
One in a million. I love it.
- Adam Reyher
from Alert Thingy
That's insanely lucky.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
seriously this is not photoshopped? oh this is too funny, it's like that annoying kid that always jumps in front of the camera.
- R. Ferguson
LoL. This is a true once in a life time shot.
- Bluesun 2600
the caption could be: "forget the other 2 ... animals back there, I'm the star here". ^_^
- lelapin
precious!
- Tammy Hoeck
LOL! Adorable!
- Kevin Winn
LOL I love it!
- outofmyarse
Quelle jolie photo!! Très originale, j'adore;-)
- Gate53
Fantastic!
- Rick Cogley
Cool
- Bob Lyr
uhuh, just excellent
- TiTi
I think that must be the 'mini-wanker' the lake is named after.
- Ken Morley
I love how the camera focuses on the squirrel rather than the people
- Stephanie_Thankful
That is too funny for words. Leave it to animals to make something so cute.
- Ray H
This shot is hilarious!! This is a totally gorgeous spot. been there once.
- Nathalie, Dreamer of FF
Begging to be captioned ~ http://img.ly/2tG :3
- CannonGod
That's one photogenic little critter. <3
- Sung W. Lim
haha @ Jake Fudge. spot on!
- stefan
ROFL!
- Kaan Ertürk
It's so cute! It almost doesn't look real. Loving it!!!
- Jennifer Medlin
So awesome
- Mitch
RUN
- Caroline
love how its head lines up exactly with the horizon line. *So* much better than it would have been.
- Kamilah Gill
Unbelievable.
- Ramene Anthony
Canadian Squirel known to be very photogenic and also very friendly
- johnpiercy
lovely :)))
- گل باقالی
See more about this story in CBC news http://www.cbc.ca/video...
- Carloe Stamp
I laugh ever time I see this. It is so great.
- Jim Williams
^^)b
- YungSang
from FriendFooV2
Reporting Live from Lake Whutzthafukit this is Rocket J Squirrel
- Scratch5150
lol ( in NY accent :) )
- pinkpackrat
Isn't there a website where you can submit pictures of photo-stealers? This should totally be submitted. || Edit: Found it. http://thisisphotobomb.com/
- Miss Elle
excelent
- Rui
...it was only after Chipper received his prints from the local PhotoMat that he realized two humans had snuck into the background of his lakeview self-portrait.
- .LAG liked that
+.LAG
- Kamilah Gill
haha cute....family picture? lol just kidding =]
- Marissa
What family doesn't have a bit of squirreliness? (Squirrellyness?)
- Mark Jepsen
funny the same guy got into one of my WaterFalls shots ,, imagine that http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- johnpiercy
A real woman in ... Cheryl Cole's swimsuit | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail...
Cee Bee, Pat Rice, RAPatton and 42 other people liked this
"Ever on trend, Cheryl Cole turned heads in the South of France when she hit the beach in this lime-green, mirror-trimmed monokini. Cutaway swimsuits are one of the biggest looks for summer and this one-piece from designer Melissa Odabash - whose fans include Victoria Beckham and Halle Berry - costs an eye-watering £450. ... We asked a real woman to road-test it for us, proving that even the most gorgeous size 12 lady can't make it look good."
- Lindsay
from Bookmarklet
I agree with the commenters on the article that we shouldn't flip around and denigrate skinny women. However, I'll take "real" in this instance to mean a regular ol' gal with average genes who doesn't have $ for a personal trainer, personal chef, and plastic surgery. There are very very few women on whom such a suit would look okay. And even those women would probably look even better in another style.
- Spidra Webster
Um . . . i'm gonna call that first pic of the "real woman" shopped. And I'm not quite sure what the point is. Not all clothing types can be worn by all people. I think it's an interesting thing to point out though
- Lindsey is Fierce!
It's interesting to make plain what most women already know somewhere deep inside: catalog pictures, magazines, pattern pictures all depict a very ideal way the clothing looks, usually on someone whose build is shared by only 1% of the population. To be fair, the way the "real woman" posed in the first pic is unflattering and I'll bet they knew that. She used the more flattering contrapostal pose with the red suit.
- Spidra Webster
I would think anyone who can get away with a bikini could get away with this monokini... I just thought the article was interesting that they even went to the trouble to point out that only super skinny people look good in bikinis.
- Lindsay
I actually don't think it looks good on either one. It looks baggy on the skinny person and, of course,they've ensured that it doesn't look good on the normal one.
- Kenton
I'm not sure why women with attractive bodies aren't "real women."
- Jason Nunnelley
hmmm... that's some nice models.
- Matt Ruiz
so, if you're not overweight, you're not a "real woman." (i.e. what Jason said)
- Anthony Citrano
from BuddyFeed
Whoops, caught a bad typo of mine above. I meant "should not flip around". Duly corrected.
- Spidra Webster
Generally the term "real women" is applied to those with an average body since the average size of a woman is a 12. I'm also going to assume they mean women who aren't celebrities when they use that term
- Lindsey is Fierce!
C Cole is STUNNING.. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
@Jason and Anthony - You could say "not either a woman privileged with a small frame and naturally awesome metabolism or privileged with money and idle time to spend focusing on molding her body" but since that probably covers the majority of women, it's simpler just to say "real woman".
- Lindsay
real Women are them that really stand alongside their man.. IMHO !! having a 34-24-34 stat's is good, but will they walk the walk alongside the man they choice ?
- Peter Dawson
@Peter - For a man to be good enough to stand beside, he needs to make her feel beautiful regardless of whether she can look good in a monokini. That's the hard part... most men won't give you a second glance unless you do. They all want the models.
- Lindsay
Now this is where I'll disagree. Not all men want the models. There are many many men happy with someone to love and they come in all shapes.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Those men are a lot harder to find (I'm lucky I found one but not before having given up trying). I don't think they're the majority.
- Lindsay
I cant speak for all men.. all I know is its cute if they have the model figure..but thats not enough.. yeah like the txt sez on one of my t-shirts- "Still looking for the stripper with a heart of gold" :)-
- Peter Dawson
I think a term like "pear shaped body" is more honest. I know lots of "real women" that are in their early twenties and built better than the first model. I'd hope women are realistic enough to know that suit is going to be awful on just about any body other than a fitness model. I love a "real women," who had a brick house build at 18, a few extra pounds in the wrong places at 36. But,...
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- Jason Nunnelley
A friend of mine was gawking at perfectly built young ladies in a local restaurant one day, turned to me and said "Where did all these hot chicks come from?" I answered, "High School." They suddenly weren't nearly as attractive. Lots of people had perfect bodies at 18.
- Jason Nunnelley
The last time we had this conversation, it devolved into Lindsey telling me that I “hated fat people.” Nonetheless, I can't resist wading in (because our schizophrenic national conversation about this issue is kinda a pet issue/peeve of mine.) Lindsey: no, they do not mean non-celebrities when they say "real women" and you know it. They mean overweight women (or, to use your preferred...
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- Anthony Citrano
Doesn't matter. That is one uuuugly swimsuit.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
i hate monokinis!
- Jess Lee
I actually really like monokinis. It's like a one piece with a twist :)
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Wow, Anthony stepped into a big pile of it. All I was saying is that fit attractive women are also "real women." But, what do I know? I'm a white male. Now, if I were a wise older latina I would have something to share of value.
- Jason Nunnelley
@Anthony A size 12 isn't necessarily overweight. I genuinely thought they meant average or non-celebrity women. I won't argue this with you. We disagree.
- Lindsey is Fierce!
Monokinis only look good on women with no curves. Big, fat, skinny, small or thin. If you have a waist, it looks odd. Because it's supposed to draw attention to the waist. It creates this faux-waist. Like bustles look good on women with no curves. Anyways, interesting post.
- anna sauce
@Anthony, if you have a "perfect body" then you have to put a ton of time and effort (and therefore have the money to support that time and effort) or you just have to be lucky and have great genes. It's not fair to assume that anyone who doesn't have the perfect body is just lazy. Maybe they're actually living their life instead of spending hours in a gym because they want to impress...
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- Lindsay
Oh I hadn't thought of it that way anna . .. it makes sense. *high-five Lindsay*
- Lindsey is Fierce!
The swimsuit looks absolutely ridiculous on both women due to how it accents the hip bones. There is nothing wrong with a woman who is overweight and knows it and just doesn't care. That's not the case with the large majority. They just don't have the motivation, will power, or whatever to consistently exercise and eat healthy. It doesn't take more than an hour or so a day, doesn't...
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- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I disagree that it's easy Rah... It was a huge struggle for me to lose 90+lbs before... It was something I had to constantly focus on and constantly stay vigilant about. It was a hell of a lot of work. And then I had two months of total stress (being laid off and trying to find a new job) then two months of loss of control (staying in a hotel without a car so no choice but to eat at...
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- Lindsay
Easy was probably a poor word choice, but it's certainly not as difficult to lose weight as many want to make it out to be. It's just not that hard or impossible to lose a bunch of weight. To think otherwise is just...unhealthy, both physically and mentally.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
It is nearly impossible if you don't have time. Don't have time to go to the grocery store every week and buy the food you SHOULD be eating instead of the convenience food because you don't have anything at home... Impossible if you can't make time to exercise every day... If you're working overtime a lot...If you aren't exercising at home then it takes more than an hour every day...
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- Lindsay
If I could quit my job I'd love to spend an hour or more every day doing some exercise, but I'm working, plus doing sidework, plus family, plus basically another part time job at my dojo... there is no time.
- Lindsay
Rah: I'm sure you've heard this before but it's nonetheless true - weight loss is not the same for women. Their bodies are programmed to survive and bear children, not build muscle. It's a different process than the way men lose weight.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
It's only an hour or so out of every 24. It will greatly increase the quality and longevity of your life overall. You don't need a gym membership and you can involve the whole family. Even the crappiest little fast-food hole in the wall has some item on their menu that is less unhealthy than the rest. Sure, women's bodies are "programmed to survide and bear children", but that has nothing to do with shedding excess weight. Building muscle usually has nothing to do with it either.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
I don't really want to see anyone in that swimsuit.
- Richard Lawler
i think the "real" woman looks pretty damned hot in both suits, but that's just me. i do think she looks alot more comfortable in the red one-piece, however.
- Joe Silence is not dead
I agree Dead Silence
- Mo Kargas
After seeing this pop up a bunch of times, I'm still not feeling the monokini – on either model. The red suit looks good, though.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Weed ...I'm with you: Red, ftw!
- .LAG liked that
I don't know. i think the "real woman" looks kind of hot in both suits. i like how the red with the heels looks retro.
- edythe
I think not all swimsuits (or clothes) are for every BODY. I'm a "real" woman and I use the dressing rooms to see if it's flattering. I'm a waif. You gotta play to your assets!
- R1CC1
I hate the style of that swimsuit. It's like "look at my sides!" I don't think anyone can look good in it. Seems like the least complimentary shape ever. (imho >.>)
- Heather
I think we all agree the suit is ugly. It's not flattering on any model.
- Jason Nunnelley
Well, some can put it on, some don't
- Ryo / Fuck Facebook
Women have different body shapes and sizes, so there will always be a swimsuit that is unflattering.
- Shevonne
note: it's not flattering on the celebrity either
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
@Lindsay: you *completely* missed my point about the “fat, lazy” remark. And saying that I've made clear I “don't respect any woman who doesn't meet [my] conception of beautiful” is an absolutely fucking ridiculous thing to say. Not too far above Lindsey's remark about me hating fat people. Ask any woman in my life if my “respect” for them is at all predicated on my desire (or lack...
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- Anthony Citrano
Aside from the ppl who do not take care of their bodies beauty can be many shapes. Shift over to include men. I will admit I hated how I looked through my twenties and hid. I still have the same body and love it. Realized it was what I have and time wasn't going help. I know what I can pull off. The rest is confidence. And illusions. Not everyone will find me attractive. Ppl tell me to eat which is rude. I love curvey women. My daughters are curvey. I encourage them to love their shape. <3
- R1CC1
Anthony, I love to see someone else get the sexist jerk card thrown at them :) Apparently, you don't take it better than I do. Defending whether or not you respect people is just plain silly. It's silly that you need to, doubly so that we often do it. Your statement is not a position of personal taste or opinion. It's fact. Americans are killing themselves with this high self-esteem fatty syndrome. I'm not in the best of shape, but I'm aware of what too heavy is and most Americans are too heavy. [part1]
- Jason Nunnelley
You can tell fat women to go ahead and eat the extra bon bons because they should love themselves and accept who they are, but be sure to tell them to accept the diabetes, heart disease and increased risk of cancer while you're at it. I also think the Barby Doll perfection crap out of Hollywood is bad for girls' self image - got two of them, and they're beautiful the way they are. But,...
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- Jason Nunnelley
This fucking REAL WOMEN shit is on par with EAT A CHEESEBURGER et al shit. Many, maybe even a very significant majority of women, could be very thin if they starved enough, which requires neither time nor money. I am not suggesting anyone do this, but it remains a fact. Also, when has 'real women' as a phrase EVER referred to thin chicks? No one has EVER called thin women 'real women',...
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- fn (fairnymph)
Producers for "Heroes" are desperately trying to regain some of their lost audience by revealing Hayden Panettiere's character will have "girl-on-girl love scenes" next season - http://www.contactmusic.com/news...
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"It's just girlie fun at first. But it might progress into something more serious. It depends on how viewers respond."
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
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they know their market.
- vijay
They're gonna need more than that. *immune from their tactics*
- Derrick
I've got a pretty good idea how some of the audience will be responding...
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
This gets so old. Every time a show is in trouble, they reach into the bag of tricks and pull out the girl-on-girl. It used to be cool; now it's boring.
- Joey Gibson
That is just stupid. I just watched the last 10 episodes of Hero's this weekend. Although the year started off weak I felt it got better towards the end (except for Sylars storyline). This move is just cheap and pointless.
- ChiliMac
what an original idea! oy.
- amygeek
Why couldn't such scenes be between girls who don't look like troll sausages?
- Anthony Citrano
What? was "NOT WRITING GARBAGE" not in their bag of tricks?
- Geoff Schultz
The state of Heroes aside, I'll take a bite out of that sausage, thanks.
- Roger Benningfield
"troll sausages" just made me snort!
- Joey Gibson
Heroes lost audience because of its generic use of stereotypes and poor-quality, overly complex, repetitive plots. The promise of girl-on-girl action might be enough to bring in some entirely new viewers, but I don't know if they want *that* kind of audience.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
Yawn. They need to kill off more of these characters and add some new ones. They can start with her.
- Cole Jolley
First, I think they need to kill off a few writers and directors.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
am I the only male in history that gets bored, not excited, at the thought of 2 girls going at it? Why would I ever get excited at something I'd be refused access to should I encounter it in meatspace? ;)
- alphaxion
:o are you serious? lame lame lame. We all know that it is Ando on Hiro action that everyone wants.
- Josh Haley
huh? what?
- .LAG liked that
Oh, geez. As if Heroes hadn't already jumped the shark a half-dozen times. Bringing in girl-on-girl is like the ultimate jump the shark.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Liked for how ludicrous this is.
- Chieze Okoye
It's all fun and games 'till a nipple pokes an eye out.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I think is their problem - they don't write storylines, they write episodes, and they decide where the story will go based on what the viewers think. This show is so far up it's own ass.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
That would only be interesting if Heroes was on HBO. In other news, either way I still love Heroes.
- Mathew™ one of a kind
The show definitely lost its vision and is off my DVR list and my Hulu subscriptions. Sorry NBC and whoever else was responsible, but you ruined the show, and I have even less of a reason to watch you now.
- Chieze Okoye
Hollywood always throws us women under the bus like this. Ratings lagging? Make us crazy, slutty, wasted or lesbians. Watch the Hayden is hot PR campaign to start soon, similar to the Meghan Fox one that just ended. So obvious, Hollywood.
- Patricia
@Patricia: yeah, Hollywood never throws guys under the bus.
- Anthony Citrano
I always knew that heroes was written without direction and in reaction to what fans speculate etc. and this proves it
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Andrea, exactly. The Heroes writers never seemed to have a good sense of where the show was going (except maybe the first season), and listened way too much to the fans, changing direction EVERY EPISODE.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Y'know, Thomas Dekker's character (Claire's HS friend from the first season) was probably going to be gay - the Myspace they set up for the character was hinting at it every way possible - but they backed off from it midseason. IIRC, rumors were it was cause the actor was uncomfortable with it. I dunno.
- Andrew C
Andrew, yes, he was intended to be gay, but Dekker flat-out refused to do it.
- Slippy "WildBeard" Lane
In the 80s, when a show started lagging in the ratings, they added a baby. Now, they make girls kiss each other. My, oh, my, how far we've come as a society.
- Akiva Moskovitz
@Akiva, you are so right!
- Joey Gibson
Akiva, now they add a pregnancy, and then a miscarriage, because they can't actually figure out how to write a show with a baby in it.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Obama Interrupted by Duck Ringtone - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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TV vs HDTV - http://bobrik.tumblr.com/post...
Николай Белоусов, Pat Rice, Carlos Canau and 23 other people liked this
EXACTLY.
- Joe Silence is not dead
http://twitpic.com/7xm5a - AWESOME.
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Great find!
- Fossil Huntress
Dezeen » Blog Archive » Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud - http://www.dezeen.com/2008...
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"MANNED CLOUD Cruise Airship, Paris, France Living in the sky, watching the Earth from above. Rediscovering the marvel of traveling, experiencing contemplation. Exploring the world without trace Manned Cloud is an alternative project around leisure and travelling in all its form, economic and experimental, still with the idea of lightness, human experience and life scenarios as the guiding principles. The spiral of Archimedes is the driving force of this airship in the form of a whale that glides through the air."
- A.T.
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воздухоплавающий кит!
- β-Кот Шредингера
failwhale!
- esther ♥ ♫
@Esther why fail? it looks really stunning!
- A.T.
I am in LOVE! The only thing I like more than helicopters are airships!
- Dan Messer
It does look like a whale....
- Justin Long
Yes, manned flying whale. It is beautiful though.
- Thomas Bøhm
from BuddyFeed
I've often thought we should bring back the luxury airship cruise. Just no hydrogen this time.
- mikepk
It would be 1000x better if it was it's own city.
- Captain Bubbles
a.t. of course it´s mega-awe! it wasn´t meant in a negative way. I guess we all love the fail whale? somehow?
- esther ♥ ♫
hmmmm, ok :)
- A.T.
Fly.
- Michelle
will it 'splode?
- MicahBear78
"Since this behemoth gets its lift from helium, there's not much danger of a fiery hydrogen explosion like that ill-fated Hindenburg, so we're thinking it might be fun to float around the world in a luxo-hotel." http://gizmodo.com/337228...
- A.T.
It's a lovely dirigible hotel.
- Bill Sodeman
Looks nice but there's no way I'm getting on that thing. I'm definately not sold on airships.
- Tracy McLaughlin
@Tracy it is good that everyone has a choice ;) but you can love iphones and macbooks then, lol
- A.T.
Wow.
- thepete
Wait. Is that real or just a concept? I can't find a mention of it definitely being real or not. :\
- thepete
if it were implemented, you've been seen it already :)
- A.T.
Modern airships do exist, just not on this scale yet @DannySullivan took a ride recently http://daggle.com/my-zepp...
- Gordon Saunders
Easy Homemade Cheese Sauce Recipe (not GF) - Associated Content - http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...
Ted Russ, Pat Rice, dbcohen and 12 other people liked this
"Forget boxes of pasta with powdered "cheese" sauces of questionable origin that will keep on the shelf for years. For great flavor, high quality, and knowledge of what is actually in your food, rely on this homemade cheese sauce. All natural ingredients and so easy to prepare, you'll never trade this easy sauce recipe for "convenience" foods again. The lack of radiation-yellow color is an added bonus. The recipe makes quite a bit of cheese sauce as written. Cut all ingredient amounts in half if you need less sauce, or refrigerate the excess to use later."
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
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Oh yeah - cannot beat the home made!
- Andy Bold
Not Girl Friend?
- Matthew DeVries
Not Gas Face? No Gay Friends? No Girl Fatties?
- B. Hatin
Not gluten free =) Ideas for using cheese sauce: homemade macaroni & cheese (either stove top ala the box or as a base for baked mac'n'cheese), top your veggies, use romano & parm for alfredo sauce, stir into broccoli/peas/cauliflower, top your nachos, CHILI MAC (nom!).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
mmm cheese
- holly
somebody say my name :)
- Alfredo
Bonus for the Non gluten free from the get go. :)
- Steve C
I try, Steve =) You should be able to easily make the same sauce using cornstarch (remember, use half the amount cornstarch as you would flour!).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
June 13 & 14 - CARE 3 Peaks Challenge for IT teams supported by Computer Weekly - http://www.carechallenge.org.uk/IT
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"A call to all IT professionals! Whether you work for an in-house IT department or a multinational IT company - this is your event. Take on the most infamous UK mountain challenge: the highest mountains in England, Scotland and Wales in 24 hours!"
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
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tempted to create a virtual IT team to do this - anyone? :)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Make: Online : A Twitter-enabled toilet - http://blog.makezine.com/archive...
Mert Akbulut, John kowal, ElijahBailey-Zu of FF <0, and 24 other people liked this
ROFL
- TheHenry
Lordy be I thought slot machines in the toilets in Las Vegas was bad enough :)
- Anne Bain
Does it twitter the weight of the "load" at each flush?
- Steve de Mena
The Original Human TETRIS Performance by Guillaume Reymond - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Wolfram Alpha is Coming -- and It Could be as Important as Google | Twine (computational knowledge engine) - http://www.twine.com/item...
Mike Bruder, Leisa Fearing, Wildcat and 73 other people liked this
I want to see this.
- Robert Scoble
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This should be exciting. Remember, Wolfram discovered cellular automata, too.
- Akiva Moskovitz
So long as the beta isn't called Wolfram Hart, it'll all be good.
- WorldofHiglet
Akiva, I believe it was actually John von Neumann (in '40s...working on self replicating systems he followed suggestion by Stanislaw Ulam to use mathematical abstraction rather than having one robot physically build another robot). For those of us in school in the early 70's our first exposure to CA was via an article in Scientific American (Martin Gardner's Column) on John Conway's "Game of Life." Wolframs' work was considerably later....(I think first published around mid 80's) but oh what work it was!
- David HC Soul
Sorry, Akiva but Wolfram didn't discover cellular automata von Neumann did and the NYT article from several years ago was talking about Wolfram playing with the Game of Life created by John Conway in the 70's.
- Jimminy
I was being sarcastic. His whole pompous 'new science' deal and all that.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sorry Akiva - right over my head; it must be too late at night for an old guy like me.
- David HC Soul
Looks like it will be a giant, general-purpose expert system.
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
S'all right. I'm barely keeping it together myself.
- Akiva Moskovitz
++Higlet
- Amber, Random Time Lord
My goodness - #WolframAlpha news is incredible. I've been so looking forward to hearing about something like this.
- Julian Edward
Robert, I too want to see this... the potential for this is really amazing. Einstein would go nuts for this, huh?! This is a great milestone in mathematics and computing science
- Susan Beebe
Hi folks -- it is indeed very cool -- I was blown away by what I saw. It is really something new and impressive. Only Wolfram would take on something so ambitious, and actually pull it off.
- Nova Spivack
Hmm... what's stopping Google from creating something similar? I guess because of what the article highlighted: hidden in the article is a big red flag for me, " ... there are potential biases in the answers one might come up with, depending on the data sources and paradigms used to compute them."
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
I have to add a note: Ever tried searching for "who is the mother of britney spears" in Google? Try it.Or, for a more acceptable kind of question, try "what is the capital of bolivia"
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
http://www.trueknowledge.com seems to do the same thing..impressive service.
- Mahesh CR
Pandu I believe that the idea of Wolfram is to answer other questions i.e. "What was the level rainfall on X day in X". Also Mahesh they're is a conversation going on over on Twine which explains the reasons why it is different in the comments.
- Nicholas James
I've noticed a pattern over quite a few years: Internet services that are pre-announced with a great deal of hype often fail. Services that simply and quietly open up shop, like Google, and which rely on word-of-mouth to communicate an exciting experience, are more likely to succeed. NEVER pre-hype your Internet service. Let the service speak for itself. That being said, from its...
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- Sean McBride
If it takes that many words to describe it I'm thinking it's not going to pan-out.
- Kevin Gamble
I dunno, I remember google having a good amount of hype long before I ever used it, I don't think it did "pre-launch" but certainly long before it was well known and at a time when other search engines results were still competitive.
- Richard Lawler
Have any pointers to the Google pre-hype? I don't recall it.
- Sean McBride
This all seems to rest upon some interesting advances in Knowledge Representation, which might be of use even if the service doesn't pan out.
- Seth Greenblatt
Where are the research papers underlying the knowledge representation approach here? Wolfram's team worked entirely in stealth mode?
- Sean McBride
I have a friend working on this and he is raving about it.
- Mark Krynsky
Mark -- where is the headquarters for this project?
- Sean McBride
reminds me that we still have no clear picture of how mind works.. and i don't think we could ever possibly have..
- Hayk H.
Hayk -- we know quite a bit about how the mind works, and will learn much more. Cognitive science is a viable endeavor.
- Sean McBride
Sean, that is true. But compare the amount of money, resources, time and effort put into finding out how the mind works, combine it with all previous endeavors of humanity and contrast it with results we have - IMO not much. Processing info in as organic and natural a manner as human mind is the objective of this project. I am going to be cautiously skeptical in my expectations about it, although I already see the hype that gathers around it - reminiscent of Turing's machine some 70+ years ago.
- Hayk H.
Sean, my friend is based in LA but I don't have details on where the rest of the team / offices are located.
- Mark Krynsky
Where Sergey Brin once said "If it doesn't exist, you cant find it" Wolfram is saying the answer can be constructed from the question. Notions of what 'does' and 'does not' exist are going to be pulled in for questioning.
- zeroinfluencer
Wolfram and his team are smart. I look forward to seeing what impact this has on the community. I wish that he would do more work in "productionalizing" his research in emergent behaviors.
- Will Hawkins
Garden Planner - http://www.smallblueprinter.com/garden...
tinypants - Hagitha of FF, Carlos Ayala, sofarsoShawn and 11 other people liked this
Try online for free (can print but not save), download a trial, or buy it for $19.95 "Arrange plants, trees, buildings and objects using an easy to use 'drag and drop' interface. Use tools to quickly create paving, paths and fences. Then produce a color print out of your design."
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
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This is pretty darn close to exactly what I've been looking for.Woohoo!!!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Been thinking about something like this last week. Awesome!
- Paul Wade
remember, no raisins, what if there's a meetup?
- sofarsoShawn
Shawn, I promise you I'm not growing raisins. I do have some invasive porcelain berries that are kinda like grapes, but I'm yanking those out.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Amazon.com: The 99 Most Essential Beethoven Masterpieces: MP3 Downloads: Various Artists - http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Nicholas James, Penguin It's Cold Outside, Anirudh S and 27 other people liked this
File this under: you gotta be kiddin' me! Amazon's MP3 store is selling this for $1.99 today. I figured there was no way it was 99 actual tracks (or they'd all be like 7 seconds long), but I was wrong. 99 tracks of classical for two bucks. Roll over Beethoven!
- Kevin C. Tofel
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has Amzon opened thier Uk MP3 store yet? Cause i'd love to have that.
- Roberto Bonini
Wow, great selection of stuff. How can I pass this up for only $1.99?
- Glen Mistletoe
You can also get it in the Amazon UK MP3 store, although it is £5.99 over here, still a good deal.
- Mike Hellers
Bit steep, maybe next month (in the Uk store, I mean). Thanks for pointing this out Kevin
- Roberto Bonini
This is £5.99 in the UK store, which is still pretty cheap. It must cost more to get it through the tube across the Atlantic. I just ordered a copy of "The rest is noise" by Alex Ross (http://www.therestisnoise.com/). I'm planning to learn a lot more about classical music this year.
- David Owens
again i say iTunes who? downloading this collection now before amazon realizes they made a boo-boo
- Jay Martinez
wow Happy Tuesday present! thanks!
- idnan
just finished my download. for some reason itunes refused to import 4 tracks. so i have a folder on my system with 99 tracks but only 95 playable in iTunes
- Jay Martinez
This is a great find thank you.
- Sloan Bowman
Great find
- Warner Crocker
Beethoven is one of my Heros. The Straight Dope: Was Ludwig van Beethoven of African ancestry?
- bcultral
this is a great fine. is it just me or does the windows iTunes app grind your computer to a halt?
- Gabby
Awesome find! Thankyou!
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
And @Gabby iTunes for Windows is teh suxxors but, what alternative is there to sync an iPod, get iPhone apps and catch podcasts?
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
These are all exerpts, but I am going to gladly play thorugh them and add them to my big random mix in Windows Media Player.
- Dennis E. Hamilton
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This will go nicely with the 'Complete Works of Shakespeare' I got from wal-mart with the "Only 1.99" sticker on the cover.
- Robin Barooah
this is the top download on Amazon right now
- lisa.ong
Amazon is doing it again!! 99 Perfectly Relaxing Songs - On March 24, for ONE WEEK ONLY, Jade Music will make 99 Jade Music songs & chants available for 99 cents on amazon.com!!! Jade Music is choosing 99 of their most relaxing songs, ranging from Gregorian and various chants from around the world, to classical pieces by world famous composers.
- brianstreet54
when is amazon mp3 download gonna be available for the rest of the world... not sure if they realise... but majority of the world's population lives outside North America!!!!!
- Kunal Malhotra
+1 Kunal. Agree with you completely. There's a vast untapped market for downloadable music outside North America. At least in India, where I come from.
- Anirudh S
Garlic Pork Chops with Oven Fries - http://www.5dollardinners.com/2009...
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10 privacy Facebook privacy settings you should know about http://adjix.com/bg74 More on Facebook at http://facebook.alltop.com/
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interesting...
- Zafarali
A local grocery store has put out a PDF on how to feed your family for $3/day. - http://www.groceryoutlets.com/mailers...
xero, FFing Enigma (aka Tina), Russellreno and 3 other people liked this
Thought you might all be interested in seeing it! Looks possible, I think.
- Rochelle
I thought I was doing great on $8 a day.
- Russellreno
Very cool, off to read!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Need a job? Apply to become a Census enumerator - http://www.wisebread.com/need-a-...
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By Xin Lu The Census Bureau produces an important set of demographics data about the United States every ten years. The 2010 Census is coming up soon and the Bureau is hiring thousands of temporary workers to help with data gathering. The recruitment starts now. The Bureau has set up a great website detailing the recruitment effort for Census enumerators. The Census enumerators are meant to go out into their communities and confirm the addresses of almost everyone. The pay is quite good and varies by the geographic location. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area the pay starts at $22.00 an hour. This is a good temporary opportunity for those who want to make some extra money and learn something about their own neighborhoods. The enumerators must be at least 18, score well on a written exam given by the Census Bureau, and submit to an FBI background check. Additionally, a valid Social Security number is required and the enumerator must have transportation to do the work. The Bureau is...
Less Telemarketing On The Way - http://www.thefrugallifenews.com/2009...
Pat Rice liked this
"Press 1 to opt out" is nice. "Press 2 to charge phone spammer $10 for interrupting your dinner" would be even better.
- Pat Rice
Microsoft set to unveil MobileMe competitor next month - http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs...
Tate DA FF MVP, Craig Eddy, Marek Blazek and 11 other people liked this
Please oh please oh please! Make it free and support it with profits from other areas of the business. Apple's product is so expensive that Microsoft would garner serious positive attention if they put out a free, better MM competitor.
- Eric Geller
Windows Live (mail, contacts, etc.), + Live Mesh Mobile for sync of everything else, such as photos, already *are* free, if you know how to set it all up. @Eric, I think the business you're asking for a "free" MM competitor are the telcos (Verizon, T-Mobile, etc). They're the ones who want attractive, competitive packages pre-configured on phones they sell.
- Wade Dorrell
Probably true. I just wish I could get a cheaper, MM-like service so I could sync web services with my iTouch. Right now Apple can restrict such services to only its own, so it makes more money. I'm currently using NuevaSync but it seems to have stopped working since they implemented multi-calendar syncing.
- Eric Geller
@Eric, oh, when you mean competitor, you mean an equivalent for MobileMe that works on existing iPhones/iPod Touch. That isn't what I was thinking of. Devices are getting cheaper, and although whatever you've got now is great, more are around the bend, and telcos want you to buy them/re-up subscription. I mean competitor in that space.
- Wade Dorrell
Yeah, we were on different wavelengths there. But what you say is very true. Maybe someday NuevaSync will be bought up by a telco, and their service rolled into and/or used to streamline the telco's own syncing solution.
- Eric Geller
Don't tell me, let me guess: SkyBox will only work with phones running Windows Mobile 6.5, which hasn't shipped yet. It won't work with any existing phones, but especially not with the Sidekick I bought last August (even though Danger is now part of Microsoft).
- Pat Rice
Please, take all my important stuff and keep in on your cloud. You are angels and you would never do anything with my data that I might not like. Saint Ballmer is my Shepherd, I shall not want my own Terrabytes.
- Phil Boiarski
You can have MM functions for 'free' on your own WebDAV server
- Robert Hafer
What's the likelihood of it being IE only? Support for CalDav? IMAP? Or am am I expecting too much?
- Paul Grav
7 Tips for Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden - http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog...
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Early January. Though it’s the dead of winter, many of us are dreaming about our summer vegetable gardens. The seed catalogs have begun to appear in the mailbox. Kris and I received eight of them today: Images of summer… It might seem crazy to start thinking about a vegetable garden in January. It’s cold outside! But believe [...]
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