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September 20 at 12:50 pm - Link
This was pretty interesting... I was curious, and found this article that questions some of the claims: http://www.cert-la.com/Rejoind... - Rich Bragg
Here is another related one: http://www2.bpaonline.org/Emer... - Rich Bragg
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August 12 at 11:11 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Xing, a 41 year-old man, was calling from LanTian park in the middle of the night. The lonely and disturbed man had apparently thought it would be fun to have sex with one of the steel sit-up benches around the park. The bench has numerous small holes in it, which Xing used to attempt to satisfy himself. However, once he became aroused he found that he was stuck and could not get his penis out of the small hole." - Rich Bragg via Bookmarklet
Wow, the article actually has pics. (He's tastefully draped, you don't see the penis.) - ⓞnor
Video: http://tv.on.cc/news/news.html... (he's tastefully draped and sounds like he's not very comfortable). - Gary Burd
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Flying Spaghetti Monster @ Fremont Summer Solstice Parade
July 4 at 11:57 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Finally, irrefutable evidence of a higher power -- sign me up!! - Rich Bragg
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May 7 at 7:44 pm - Link
Damn, I didn't know you could do this....I should have declared while I had the chance. - Adam Kazwell
This is great. I use to joke with my college roommates about doing this all the time, glad to see someone actually pulled it off. - Rich Bragg
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April 17 at 4:39 pm - Link
""By giving Bernie this chance, we have once again proven why we are the classiest organization in all of sports," Levine added. "Lesser teams would have overreacted to this whole curse thing and buried Derek Jeter."" - Rich Bragg
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niniane posted an entry on Niniane's Blog
March 1 at 3:06 pm - Link
I've thought about this a lot, and the answer I've come up with has changed over the years. I think my most current answer at this point is "maximize happiness". That covers a lot, from doing things in the moment that make me happy, to treating others well to increase happiness around me, to making choices for the long term that ensure my future happiness. Of course, that is assuming that there actually is a "point" of life at all, which is a different discussion. - Rich Bragg
I'd say maximize happiness while not encroaching on other people's right to happiness. And that makes things far more complicated. - Lilly Irani
I recall that it has something to do with the number 42... It seems like it also has something to do with helping people out and accepting whatever happens. - Paul Buchheit
"This reminds me that I need to write a blog post about how Chinese mothers need to stop forcing their kids to play the fucking piano/violin." Laughing at this one. Every time I see a Chinese (or Japanese) kid playing an instrument, it is indeed one of those two. Might be something to do with Suzuki...? (Suzuki is Japanese, but still...) - Voyagerfan5761
If we want to discuss it here, I should add: the point of life in equal or below 400 characters. But perhaps that'll force us to find something everyone finally agrees on. Imagine the headlines: "Meaning of Life Uncovered on Social Feed Site -- Mr. Buchheit, site co-founder, calls it quits and moves to the Fiji islands after having succeeded in providing a tool that finally solved the age old ..." - Philipp Lenssen
my japanese mom and chinese dad forcedme to play piano. i hated it and begged them to let me quit. they said ok. but then they forced me to play the electric organ instead. : ( - Jess Lee
The purpose of life is sleeping well, yet looking forward to waking up. - Chris White
My caucasian mother forced me to play the piano as a child. I love playing now, and I'm very happy that she did. :) - Alex Mendes da Costa
I'm with m13a, mostly. And Niniane, I still am amused when I reminisce upon my many piano performances. Typically, me and an Italian kid were the only non-Asians in the recital hall, and we'd look at each other, both a bit puzzled and bemused. - Adam Lasnik
On the plus side, disproportionately many of the Eastman violin students are Asian. Perhaps the maternal insistence is having real positive effects? - j1m
positive for who? - Jim Norris
(that's probably grammatically incorrect, but "whom" just sounds wrong and looks out of place with my lack of capitalization) - Jim Norris
Some of my more profound existential ponderings have come in the Wynn and other buffets..... But the true answer is there isn't one. The point of life is what you make of it. - Chris Reed
The point of life is to share things with others. Using FriendFeed. - Amit Patel
Positive as in leading to an actual career, as opposed to a punitive hobby. - j1m
niniane, that is so interesting: i remember at Caltech my friend was referring to you as the girl who walked around parties wondering what the meaning of life is. yay, that's the niniane i know! glad to see some things haven't changed. cheers, love ya :P - Huy Zing
@Amit: Exactly. :-) - Voyagerfan5761
re: Huy Zing. Oh, you made me laugh so hard. - niniane
re: all the people who said they're glad they were forced. Damn you! You're the justification parents use when they force their children to play instruments. - niniane
"to crush your enemies, and drive them before you; and to hear the lamentation of their women." Conan the Barbarian - Stowe Boyd
My chinese Mum forced me to play the piano. After struggling valiantly, I said that I wanted to quit. She said, fine, here's your violin. To bring the universe into balance, I'm going to force my kids to play Aussie rules. - Nigel Tao
Surely the best way to bring the universe into balance is to force your kids to play Guitar Hero. - Stephen Ma
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Sanjeev Singh posted a message
“Is friendfeed too noisy for you?”
February 28 at 7:47 pm - Link
Does most of the noise come from (a) friends of friends entries, (b) people you don't know commenting on stuff, (c) subscribing to too many people or (d) other? - Sanjeev Singh
c...but I can keep up. The layout is clean enough that I can sweep a page and decide quickly what to read. If I have time I it's no problem but if I don't I glance over users that I don't find super interesting. - Benjamin Golub
no. Right now on day 2 it is just about right. - Janet Tokerud
(b) because of the fact that comments bump stuff up the feed. Paul Buchheit's Tweet soliciting 2-8 word descriptions for FriendFeed has been on my front page on and off for over a month now. Interesting discussion - but that's too long. - Jeremy Raines
yeah, it's a bit noisy for my taste. the main reason is a) - Dmitry Skavish
I wonder if friend of friend entries could be a preference. They are great when you are a newbie but present clutter perhaps once you get lots of qualified friends in tow. - Janet Tokerud
a and b. - David
I like the idea of Friend-of-a-friend entries as optional, maybe on a per-friend basis? I've noticed the friends of some of my friends are worth following, others not so much. But overall, I'd agree that the f.o.a.f. entries can be a little too much clutter. It also might make sense to make comments muted by default, and only "un-mute" when requested, or after you've commented or liked something. - Sage LaTorra
a. but the noise level ain't too bad yet - Adam Kazwell
Yes. (a) is the best thing about FF, i.e. discovering new things. (b) is bad. (c) is my responsibility. (d) I would like a 'mark as read' so I only have to see things once. Rock on. - Nivi
Jeremy, thanks for jostling me into the realization that I would be happier if I muted that thread. - j1m
Yes, mostly due to a&b, but I feel like I'm lucky to have seeded with an interesting group of friends (mostly FFers and Googlers or ex-Googlers) so their friends tend to have interesting things to say as well. It's not as personally relevant since I don't recognize some of the FoaF's names, but the level of discourse sure beats the crap out of Slashdot etc. - Chris Beckmann
Yes: With an increased population I can't keep people straight in my head so it's hard to tell who is worth subscribing to and who is not. (User thumbnails in the list would be great, far better than service logos I think.) I really like it when people add snippets or descriptions, it makes scanning way easier. I wish I could put a blanket mute on some services (Twitter, last.fm) unless there are comments. Also, dupes. - ⓞnor
Being able to delete certain feeds for a particular friend would be great. Maybe I'm into their photos but don't have similar interests so am not interested in their links. Or someone puts up 40 pix a day and I'm not a photo buff but I love their tweets and blog posts. - Janet Tokerud
You can, it's under "Options" ("Hide entries like this"). - ⓞnor
Some people are extremely active, but it's not difficult to hide their stuff. It's just a matter of optimization. ;) - sebmos
(a), definitely. - Wojciech Polak
well, (b), but probably because it's too hard to control (a). I'd like to have a knob on every friend that says how closely I follow them. Some friends go to 11 -- their single comment on a thread is enough to make me want to see it again, immediately and through several following replies by people I might no know. Other friends only go to 6, or 2: if a few of them comment on something, then that's enough new interesting stuff that it should come back to the top. It would also be nice if ff knew when I'd last read this part of the page, and, when it did pull and item up to the top, it exposed exactly the comments I haven't seen yet. - j1m
Would it be better to have lots of knobs, or a magic do-what-I-want system that learns from your behavior, or some astonishingly simple heuristic that's both very direct and easy to understand and also gives you what you want in the vast majority of cases? Facebook is a nice example of magic gone wrong. - ⓞnor
I wear ear plugs while viewing, so no, it's okay... - David Bradley
The 'friend of friend' entries surprised me a little bit. I'm still evaluating whether or not they are a good thing. It would be nice to have a switch in the setting to turn 'friend of friend' entries on and off on a global basis. - Rob Safuto
What ⓞnor said. - Kevin Scott
i like fof. my problem is that certain people i have subscribed to are too prolific :( - Neha Narula
Perhaps some sort of a throttling feature is in order. Something that would allow you to limit the number of posts from a particular user showing up in your friends feed during a specific period of time. I think the automatic grouping of posts, like those from Twitter, helps right now. On the other hand I think that prolific publishers should consider whether or not its prudent to add every one of their feeds to this system straight away. - Rob Safuto
Totally wish FriendFeed would copy Jaiku and enable us to unsubscribe from PART of a person, not the person themselves. I want to read a lot of shared items, blogs, flickr photos, but not Twitter spam. Please, friendfeed, copy Jaiku! - Eric Rice
All in favor of simplicity. However there's a group of users that strongly feels that the foaf entries are a bit much. I've have even stronger feelings, but of the opposite type: what makes ff cool is that it let's me see all of my friends' comments, wherever they may be. If ff can capture that difference between user preferences with artificially intelligent nanorobots (awesome!), or with a single slider or checkbox (still pretty cool!), then great. - j1m
@Eric, Options->Hide Entries Like This->Even If They Have Comments Or Likes - Ryan Mahoski
I hadn't tried Hide Entries Like This before. Looks like a good solution for now. At some point would be good to have global settings as I suggested in a previous comment. - Rob Safuto
I definitely feel like I've never finished reading friendfeed... would be nice if it was like my inbox that would be cleared at some point :). - Michael
I have the exact opposite feeling as Michael. I love the fact that it's not like an inbox. - Rob Safuto
I'd say no, there are a lot of items funneled through my stream, but I use it similar to Twitter and have adapted to fast-changing information streams. - Rick Mahn
There is a lot going on, but it sure beats visiting 10 different websites. Here, you can just use the scroll wheel and feel caught up quickly. - Jason Kaneshiro
I don't think so... I've been complaining that we need the "great web 2.0 presence aggregator" and this is it. the activity isn't bad (actually the email daily option has a killer feature for me). - Sean Reiser
Not at all for me. If there's a feed that's too noisy, I filter or unsubscribe. Easy peazy. - Evan Sims
If some users are overwhelmed and not likely to find the Hide Entries Like This link under Options, and you don't want to put a HELT link beside every entry (understandable) how about a link that shows up randomly (more for new users as they get more and more content?) asking "Do you like this kind of content?" If they say no, guide them to the Options setting. - Ed Zwart
Maybe foaf items should only come to the top under some circumstances? e.g. if a new comment (1) is by a friend (2) is immediately after your own, or (3) mentions your name? And it really would be nice if the thing that hides the middle comments were smarter. I can never tell whether I need to open it or not. - j1m
I think making the existing mute options more visible would go a long way. - ⓞnor
I am starting to feel like it is getting too noisy, but only because I'm likely subscribed to too many people. I'd like to have different friend groups, so if I don't have much time, I can just start with a feed of the people I find most interesting. I'd also like a way to know which stuff I've read already, so it doesn't feel neverending, but I see that some people like that it feels that way. - Rich Bragg
Noisy? Actually, it's signally! LIke @Beckmann said, in ways it's better than SlashDot. I also agree with @Jim4's suggestion for a smarter automated “show more comments” especially for feeds and with NetNewsWire. In addition to @e3r suggestion to make the mute more visible, please also thread and let us also collapse the comments, a la Digg. Allowing paragraph breaks in comments would be nice too. - John Lam
In way of an original suggestion, how about groups, like @Rich Bragg says, but instead of a priori categories plus arbitrary groups like http://Multiply.com, use the social graph to magically group friends. - John Lam
I am not sure if I will term it as noisy. I may find the information overload overwhelming sooner than later. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman
Not yet ... plus you have the option of removing someone's Twitter stream if you are already following them on Twitter and they Tweet a lot - Deepak
Need ways to mark a story as read, no matter what comments later pop up - Huy Zing
Huy, the nearest thing to that is "mute comments on this entry" under the options button for each post. - Slippy Lane
been thinking more about this. Where it's not noisy there are things that could be added to FF to cut down the noise. I've blogged some if it here (http://seanreiser.com/node/213) - Sean Reiser
Hehe, not now we have "Super Hide" it isn't! :-) - Slippy Lane
Much noise,but sometimes great signals - Igor Poltavskiy
No, I have my computer set to mute. But seriously, it's all about your connections. I don't mind my FriendFeed-stream at all. It's nice that I don't see all of Scoble's tweets :) - Mike Reynolds
Both a and b, but only through you and Paul. You guys are high profile, so the set of your friends is a huge crowd of strangers drowning out people I actually know. - seth
muting all sounds on my windows computers is the only way i can coexist with them, so...what friendfeed sounds? - edythe
oh, ha! you mean "noise," not sounds. - edythe
(a), though it's not that noisy yet. - Ruchira S. Datta
No. There's usually plenty of interesting stuff in the first page of my feed. I use the "hide" and "unsubscribe" features quite a lot. - Alex Mendes da Costa
you bet...but I find twitter way noiser - viki saigal
Wow! This was fantastic. Sorry if it's yesterday's news for you old FriendFeeders. I just saw this today. What a great "noisy" discussion. :-) - Mitchell Tsai
Yes. Mainly for a. and then b. - Aditya Kothadiya
(a). Might be nice to have a way of only showing friend of friend entries that pass a certain user-defined threshold. For example: "only show me friend of friend entries than have more than N likes or comments". - Simon
I think I've mentioned this before, but I think services should adapt based on how long it's been since you last looked. If I look every hour, I want more detail than if I look every week. If I spend an hour on FF every visit, I want more detail than if I spend five minutes on FF every visit. Combine expected time I have with what's changed since the last visit to generate the list. Friends, commented, liked are ranked higher; friends-of-friends, duplicate, and similar posts are ranked lower. - Amit Patel
I think the irony is I would love the option to follow every single one of the people I follow on Twitter on FF, regardless of whether or not they have an account -- but that would just make FF noisier and noisier. - Sean Quinn
FriendFeed is no more noisy than the Sunday Los Angeles Times. I don't care about 50% of the LA Times, and I never read more than 10% of the LA Times, but I don't complain that the Times is "noise." I don't complain about noise on FriendFeed (or Twitter) either. - Ontario Emperor
friend feed too noisy? not a chance! - Chris Jones via twhirl
not really, I just scan. It would be nice if I could identify the hot spots in 5 min or less though. - engtech
The real question is how relevant is FriendFeed. - Mike Reynolds
I love the fact that an item about "noise" has generated 60+ comments. :) - Ontario Emperor
I feel like the value of Friendfeed is your ability to manipulate, interpret, and communicate through that noise. Web 2.0 is about channels, fields, lines neighborhoods of communication and the more you survey what is out there, the more opportunity you have to see. - Anthony
Oh yeah! Too much!! We need a very good client app! - Jigar Mehta
no, not at the moment at least. i enjoy reading public feed of the service. - Jansen Lu
I notice that Sanjeev has unsubscribed from me. So I guess the answer is "yes" for him, and "no" for me. :-) - Robert Scoble
Sanjeev never subscribed to me. He is one of the quieter FriendFeeders, which is fine. Everybody has a role. - Louis Gray
Robert, I still get your stuff through friends-of-friends. :) - Sanjeev Singh
No. I only follow 36 people, I genuinely care about and I use Filter: Friend to explicitly read their outputs when the noise gets deafening (or just loud) like after my recent extended 3 day bank holiday weekend. - Andy C
You too Loius :) - Sanjeev Singh
@Louis I think Sanjeev is the only FriendFeeder not subscribed to me yet. Gotta catch em all! - Benjamin Golub
Not too noisy, but too repetitive. How many times do I need to see that Google has Notes? - TranceMist
Repetetive indeed, how many times do I have to see this old thread revived with no way of me telling quickly how many comments are new. (ok ok, m'ing now...) - j1m
Maybe comments can be DATED/TIMED? - Mitchell Tsai
It is sure noisy (repetitive & low quality contents). There are various ways they could rank the contents. Probably they are working on it as they have not announced anything new for awhile & they are hiring. - Nikpay
Yeah, it is. I used Yahoo Pipes to separate out direct friends from indirect ones, but still I find it to be too much. - Robert Konigsberg
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Rich Bragg posted a link
February 23 at 3:28 pm - Link
"His basic idea is that, for humans who cannot establish emotional or sexual connections with other people, they might form them with robots." - Rich Bragg
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Tudor Bosman posted a message
“Jeanette and I are engaged!”
February 19 at 12:05 am - Link
Congrats Tudor! - Rich Bragg
Congratulations! - Paul Buchheit
Congratulations : ) - Jess Lee
Congrats! - Sanjeev Singh
Congrats! - Philip Zeyliger
Thanks all! Side note: a few months ago, Jeanette said that she'd kill me if I proposed with "I can has wife???!" - Tudor Bosman
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January 28 at 11:11 pm - Link
"...baseball-playing entrepreneur who's offering investors a small piece of his (potential) future income. Is this the wave of the future?" - Rich Bragg
Reminds me of Bowie bonds. No relation to Barry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... - seth
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
It looks like Camilla's going to be a big sister.
January 9 at 4:46 pm - Link
Congratulations! :) - Dan Hsiao
Congratulations! - Bret Taylor
Congrats! There had already been rumors of this, thanks to FriendFeed :) - Ana
Congrats! - Derek Collison
So happy for you all! - Karen Padham Taylor
Alright! That's great stuff! I think FriendFeed should start helping to pick names... - Louis Gray
Congratulations! - Susan Shepard
Congratulations! Gmail, Camilla, Friendfeed; how many children are you going to have? :) - Tudor Bosman
Congrats! - Phillip Kast
Congratulations! - Kevin Fox
Congratulations. - Paul Appleby
Yeah, we need help renaming Camilla's blog since it won't be about just her for much longer. - April Buchheit
+1 - j1m
congrats! - Sanjeev Singh
congrats paul! - Harjeet Taggar
Congratulations! - Rob Schonberger
Congrats Paul and April!! How about BBB: Buchheit Baby Blog - Rich Bragg
Congratulations guys! - Misha
Congrats! - Mustafa K. Isik
hooray hooray hooray! What terrific news! - Jane Manning
Congratulations Paul! - Ra Roath
Congrats!! - Jing Lim
Congrats!!! Thats really wonderful!! - Rachel L Fox
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Rich Bragg posted a link
January 7 at 8:31 pm - Link
When I was job hunting in 2002, Sport Vision was my #1 choice, but they weren't hiring, so I ended up at Google... - Rich Bragg
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
NPR : Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect
January 5 at 2:15 am - Link
"So the idea that the placebo effect applies only to subjective things is really one that we have to dismiss." - Paul Buchheit
How to implement this? - niniane
Well, it turns out that if you chew your chocolate really well, you can actually burn more calories than you are consuming. Trust me. - Rich Bragg
I'm pretty skeptical of this. It doesn't say anything about possible changes in diet due to the increased self-esteem of thinking they are exercising all the time - Chris White
I was under the impression that purely psychological therapies having objective physical effects was already established, such as guided imagery and immune system cells. see http://www.breastcancer.org/tr... - Karl Rosaen
I'd be happy to subject the finding itself to skepticism, but is the distinction the critic makes about subjective/objective effects of placebos even coherent? Even if it was, aren't all the classic demonstrations of placebo curing of illnesses, which, you know, are examples of objective phenomena? - j1m
Yes, this is probably true. But I have no doubt that the mind/brain can influence the body's natural ability to fight sickness. I just think there are more variables in this scenerio. It's also kind of counter-productive if it incents people to eat twinkies and skip going to the gym as long as they "think healthy." - Chris White
niniane, just pay your friends to dupe you, Bulworth-style. - j1m
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Rich Bragg posted a link
January 3 at 4:19 pm - Link
"When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift." - Rich Bragg
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Rich Bragg posted a link
January 2 at 10:20 pm - Link
"Levitt's research suggests women's flatulence is more ... aromatic." - Rich Bragg
"the colonic calliope". he says the sugar in beans is indigestible; I thought it could be with the right enzymes, which can be produced if you have the correct intestinal flora. hmm - ⓞnor
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Bret Taylor posted an entry on FriendFeed Blog
December 17 at 6:55 pm - Link
We will be performing of Festivus Feats of Strength at the FriendFeed holiday dinner tomorrow :) - Bret Taylor
So... is this FriendFeed holiday dinner open to the general public? - Louis Gray
...Sir Isaac Newton’s birthday (doesn’t rhyme all that much but i like it) - sahu
More interesting will be the Airing of Grievances... can you guys record that and post it on YouTube? - Rich Bragg
Also, you just reminded me to order a Festivus Pole too -- I was already meaning to do that this year... - Rich Bragg
Unfortunately, no (it is at my house, and we didn't cook enough!). But we will be having a FriendFeed party in the new year, and you will be invited :) - Bret Taylor
Wow, a FriendFeed party! I look forward to it. - niniane
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Rich Bragg posted a link
December 17 at 1:08 am - Link
I've always wondered about this: "Because of the geometry of the game, the potential for one mammoth individual to change hockey is staggering. Simply put, there is a goal that's 6 feet wide and 4 feet high, and a hockey puck that needs to go into it in order to score. Fill that net completely, and no goals can possibly be scored against your team. So why hasn't it happened yet?" - Rich Bragg
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Rich Bragg posted a link
December 11 at 1:56 pm - Link
I have successfully convinced Kristen to give all our nieces and nephews gift cards this Christmas, yay! - Rich Bragg
So this means the store is the product. "Things 12-14 Year Old Boys Might Like And Which They Wouldn't Normally Get, But Which Won't Offend You Too Much, Inc." - ⓞnor
Yep, which means there is still the "thoughtfulness" of selecting the store which best fits the bill for each recipient. - Rich Bragg
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Rich Bragg posted a link
December 11 at 2:01 pm - Link
This *should* be the future of football, if only there were any owners out there that insisted the team use real data to optimize performance. - Rich Bragg
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Ana posted a link
November 30 at 12:39 pm - Link
Lame article, but worth it for this quote alone: "What if the Pats left Chris Hanson inactive for the Jets game and played without a punter? Wouldn't that be the ultimate slap in the face? 'Know this going in, Mangini ... we're not punting.'" - Ana
I'm glad to see the occasional sports post on here... - Rich Bragg
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Paul Buchheit posted a link
The Brick Testament
November 29 at 12:12 am - Link
The Brick Testament is the best thing on the whole internet. - Paul Buchheit
I'm disturbed that the Bible says if a man rapes a virgin, then he just has to pay 50 silver pieces and marry her, and there is no punishment. - niniane
I have just read some of the press articles about The Brick Testament. A certain (scary) part of society does not really seem to "get" the nature of the site :) - Mustafa K. Isik
@niniane: Let's hope that people, religious or not, resort to using their common sense a little more - even though the 21st century has been rather disheartening in religious matters so far. - Mustafa K. Isik
Wow - Rich Bragg
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