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"From the Gorge Waterway in Victoria, BC emerges “The Goblin Empire”. We are a mighty folk who have overtaken all adversaries with our spirit. Our battle cries can be heard across the Gorge and those who have heard it know to fear it. Our motto? “Go big or go bigger!” We live and paddle by this motto. Watch out — we are a team that will surprise everyone this season as we form a true force not to be reckoned with. TAKE NO PRISONERS!" - Brent Schaus from Bookmarklet

True that! I've since joined, and am loving it. - Brent Schaus

RIP Michael. :( - EricaJoy

On FB he kept turning up on "People You May Know" even a few months ago. Bittersweet to see him there. Happy Birthday to Michael. - Russian Space Lizard

Too cute! - LB: #TeamMonique

:D - AJ Batac

"A woman walked across the tracks at the Metro Center station on Wednesday night, according to Metro spokesman Dan Stessel. Stessel said that at about 9:30 p.m., the woman decided to walk directly across the tracks from one side of platform to the other. She did not use the escalator or walkways, but instead cut straight across the tracks on the upper level of Metro Center. Midway across the tracks, she changed her mind and decided to cross back to where she had been. Metro employees told her to stay in the middle of the tracks while they cut power to the electrified third rail, which they did for about four minutes. The unidentified woman left the tracks unhurt. She was taken into custody by Metro Transit PD. it is unclear what charges the woman faces." - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

Around here it's not that dangerous. A train comes once every 4 hours or so. So you've have about 100 minutes to get off the tracks. - Gimminy from fftogo

"Thrips are tiny insects, typically just a millimetre in length. Some are barely half that size. If that’s how big the adults are, imagine how small a thrips’ egg must be. Now, consider that there are insects that lay their eggs inside the egg of a thrips. That’s one of them in the image above – the wasp, Megaphragma mymaripenne. It’s pictured next to a Paramecium and an amoeba at the same scale. Even though both these creatures are made up of a single cell, the wasp – complete with eyes, brain, wings, muscles, guts and genitals – is actually smaller. At just 200 micrometres (a fifth of a millimetre), this wasp is the third smallest insect alive* and a miracle of miniaturisation. The wasp has several adaptations for life at such a small scale. But the most impressive one of all has just been discovered by Alexey Polilov from Lomonosov Moscow State University, who has spent many years studying the world’s tiniest insects." - rowlikeagirl from Bookmarklet

As they get smaller, insects can do away with many of their organs. The feather-winged beetles – twice as big as the M.mymaripenne, but still impressively tiny – have drastically reduced the size of their genitals, guts and breathing tubes. They have totally lost their hearts: at their size, diffusion is enough to carry liquids around their body without the need for a pump. - rowlikeagirl

Yes. It was okay (expectations and nostalgia run high, maybe too high), in 3D which was well done. - Derrick

*spit take* - Hieronymous Boosh

"A study published in New Phytologist shows that this artificial rain of fertiliser is now making carnivorous plants lose interest in insect prey. Plants in lightly-polluted areas got 57 per cent of their nitrogen from insects; in areas that receive more nitrogen deposition, that figure fell as low as 22 per cent." - rowlikeagirl from Bookmarklet

Whoa. - Kelli H.

I think pollution most probably will affect to human for this conversion as well :) - Mahdi E

Congrats! - MoTO #TeamMonique from Android

Keeping that in mind, y'all did great. - Mathew A. Koeneker from FFHound(roid)!

LOL, you can do it, Audrea! Good luck on your race! - Kelli H. from Android

Awesome! - Kelli H.

I love visiting the stores and looking at all the stuff, but I've never been camping. - Anika

I've never been to camping before. I like my convience of city life. - imabonehead from Android

Inorite. Love playing with camping gear... but that's as close as I need to get to sleeping outdoors. - rowlikeagirl from iPhone

"The Flame espionage malware that infected computers in Iran achieved mathematic breakthroughs that could only have been accomplished by world-class cryptographers, two of the world's foremost cryptography experts said. "We have confirmed that Flame uses a yet unknown MD5 chosen-prefix collision attack," Marc Stevens and B.M.M. de Weger wrote in an e-mail posted to a cryptography discussion group earlier this week. "The collision attack itself is very interesting from a scientific viewpoint, and there are already some practical implications."" - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

rowlikeagirl, indeed. It's truly innovative, but yet kinda evil. - imabonehead

What are you focusing　on activity? I do G+. - Ami Iida

Hi Ami. I'm a little bit here, a little bit there. No real focus, which is kind of the problem. :/ Sadly, I've lost interest in G+. I want to like it, but I think there's too much "noise" from unfamiliar people. - rowlikeagirl

yuh artık yuha - kotak

DOMO (domo) DOMO (domo) - rowlikeagirl

(X___X) - rowlikeagirl

George Tierny Jr. of Greenville, South Carolina. Class act. - ronin from Bookmarklet

He doesn't seem to exist anymore, but you can find tweets about him still! - Heather

I wish I could join the rally this weekend, but I won't be home. :-/ - Tamara J.

Yeah, that's what I tell myself. I miss the responsiveness of a good road bike. It's a big change to average 9 - 11 mph versus the 20+ mph I used to achieve on my long commute rides. Of course, that was 15 - 20 years ago, so I don't hold those expectations anymore, but I would hope to get back into the high teens after a few months of building a base and dropping those pounds. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

I hope that if FriendFeed finally gets shut down, we get some warning so that we can move our connections to other networks. - John (bird whisperer)

WE'VE BEEN PICKED UP BY THE NETWORK FOR ANOTHER SEASON! *pops a cork* - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Happy birthday! - John (bird whisperer)

Happy birthday! - rowlikeagirl

Yeah! - Ahmet Yükseltürk

YAY!!! - lris from iPod

Tired. (See: http://ff.im/X8Bil) - rowlikeagirl

I'm well. Busy writing evals and budget planning and stuff. - Mary Carmen

Gah! when will the election cycle coverage be over? :) - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Ugh, not sure I want to watch this... - rowlikeagirl

"Although several personalities in the popular media in Australia, Britain, and the United States have negatively portrayed the usage of [High Rising Terminal], claiming that its use is exhibiting a speaker's insecurities about the statement, more recent evidence (McLemore, 1991; Cheng et al., 2005; Warren, 2005) shows that assertive speakers, leaders of the peer group are more likely to use HRT in their declaratives than the junior members of the particular peer group. According to University of Pennsylvania phonologist Mark Liberman, George W. Bush began to use HRT extensively in his speeches as his Presidency continued." - Victor Ganata

LOL! "You know that one time?" http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static... - rowlikeagirl

will there be parting gifts? - MoTO #TeamMonique

Other than teh suck they're handing out now? Dunno... - rowlikeagirl

That's really romantic. - rowlikeagirl

:( - LB: #TeamMonique

:-( - Kirsten

LOL - rowlikeagirl

(+__+) - rowlikeagirl

OMG. - rowlikeagirl

Oh no. Get well soon! - Heleninstitches

Take it easy, G-man! - LB: #TeamMonique from Android

"So, as we prepare for the series finale, it is worth pausing for a moment to salute the people behind “House,” namely creator David Shore and actor Hugh Laurie, two maestros who have pulled off a near-miraculous feat: After eight long and occasionally crazy seasons, their title character departs with all his amazing faculties and flaws intact. Dr. Gregory House is arguably the best and certainly the most influential character to appear on network television in the last decade. As played by Laurie, he answered the question many of us ask ourselves daily: What would life be like if you honest to God didn't care what anyone thought of you?" - SteVe C from Bookmarklet

Dang! I was sure it was sarcoidosis... until the comment about the 'small black thing' (paraphrase... exact verbiage may have been different.) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ