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A visual regular expression debugger, tester, and helper. - Rick Cogley

When I was in first grade, I was skinny and not all that coordinated. One day, my mom picked me up from school, and I barely shut the heavy car door. For some reason, that day, the seatbelt was also stuck, so I held it to me as if it were closed, but it wasn't. I was faking it. - Louis Gray

:) - Anne Bouey

The Marine Corps is sending a complement of about 50 Marines to Libya in response to a violent mob that killed four Americans in Benghazi, including the U.S. ambassador to the country. A Marine “FAST team” — for Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team — will protect U.S. diplomatic personnel in Libya and is heading there now. [...]

Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

I love that this got bumped!! - Rachel Lea Fox

\(^_^)/ - Eivind

I'm digging back in the dusty crates of memory and I think those are called sports kites. (ETA: Stunt kites!) What I do know is that me and my kids were enamored by your photos of these wonderful contraptions. - Anika

"Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation." The mission's Chemistry and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, hit the fist-sized rock with 30 pulses of its laser during a 10-second period. Each pulse delivers more than a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of a second. The energy from the laser excites atoms in the rock into an ionized, glowing plasma. ChemCam catches the light from that spark with a telescope and analyzes it with three spectrometers for information about what elements are in the target. "We got a great spectrum of Coronation -- lots of signal," said ChemCam Principal Investigator Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M. "Our team is both thrilled and working hard, looking at the results. After eight years building the instrument, it's payoff time!" ChemCam recorded spectra from the laser-induced spark at each of the 30... more... - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

Ouch, stop that? - John (bird whisperer)

its raining there, what a suprise - chaz2b

#50 is easily the worst. - Alex Scrivener

Ah, Spidra.....and there I was thinking you were a true Anglophile :-). Seriously though, this isn't a new post. Jimminy was helping my old brain to reminisce by bumping it. There are many "Americanisms" which have been adopted into the mother-tongue, but there will always be some (those mentioned above) which don't quite sit right. But still, there are some which don't sit right with... more... - Le Slip Anglais

A few years back, when I began sending newsletter subscribers occasional messages offering a class, book, or program, a few readers complained. One asked if it were possible to receive the newsletters but not the offers. As I read that, my heart sped up, the bubble machine in my chest began to blow bubbles of free-floating anxiety, and my mind raced in self-defense, justification, and fear. In principle, I know that any feedback is valuable and that when someone takes the time to write they are giving me a gift. So why did I go on red alert? Because I was coming out of the closet and it was scary. What had I been keeping in the closet? In spite of the fact that for 15 years I had been coaching and teaching self-employed folks that it’s okay--even essential--to make money, I had been treating my own money-making motives like a shameful secret. So I would market my heart out, but when it came to actually selling, I would retreat. Look Ma, No white shoes! The used car salesman* in white... - Molly Gordon

"launch window for the mission will be between 2 and 5 a.m., Tuesday, March 27" - chaz2b from Bookmarklet

imma not going to make it; g'night space fans - chaz2b

*stinkeye* - Rodfather

Phil, I'm a GReadr fanboy, so I'll be missing these share features. I can see the reason behind them too. Everything will be Google+ soon. We (us FriendFeeders) just need groups on G+ and better search features then it's got most of what FriendFeed has. I can't see G+ being an aggregator though. So if that's important then stick with FF. Personally I'm quite happy with my imports on G+.... more... - Kol Tregaskes

"According to data just released by the Tax Foundation, the top 1 percent of the wealthiest Americans earned 16.9 percent of all adjusted gross income in the United States. While no doubt that's a lot of money, it actually represents a decline from 2008, when the rich earned 20 percent of all income. That's right; the rich are earning a smaller proportion of U.S. income. In fact, there has been a 39 percent decline in the number of American millionaires since 2007. Among the so-called super rich, the decline has been even sharper. The number of Americans earning more than $10 million per year has fallen by 55 percent. Perhaps someone should tell the folks in Zuccotti Park: Inequality is actually declining. Interestingly, the decline in earnings by the rich has corresponded with higher unemployment and rising poverty overall. We are all poorer, but at least we are more equally poor. Hooray." - Alex Scrivener

ugh, Google+ is not the same thing as all of the other tools that they are cancelling. Going to have to look for another email system & photo sharing. Google keeps screwing things up. - Harold