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<3 !!! - Anna Haro

*gets comfy on your sofa* - Sarah is Novembery

what a great movie! - Jim Hearts FF

"But they can hardly have been surprised. In the Fifties, marriage was the unassailable norm and all-pervasive expectation. Never before had such a high proportion of women under 30 been married - and never since. In the late Fifties, the probability of a woman marrying before the age of 50 was 96 per cent - against just 81 per cent in 1900 and 68 per cent in the 1990s." - RAPatton

Birth control rocks! - R1CC1

Posted via web from scobleizer's posterous - Robert Scoble from Posterous

Someone please wake me up when people stop grafting their hopes and dreams on Posterous, a me-too blogging tool with some novel shortcuts to author. - Carter Rabasa

"Just in time for Halloween, Titan Books has released Hammer Glamour, a luscious coffee table book that collects pinup images of beauties featured in iconic Hammer Studios movies of the 1960s and 70s. These ladies helped redefine the horror genre. Hammer was a UK studio whose mid-twentieth century reimaginings of popular monsters like Dracula reinvigorated the horror genre. Horror and monster movies were wildly popular in the 1930s and 40s with US-based Universal churning out franchises devoted to Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and others. But in the 1950s, horror merged with science fiction when "atomic monsters" were all the rage - and the old monsters fell by the wayside. Hammer Studios genius was in merging the early-1960s Playboy sensibility with stock horror characters, sexing up Dracula and converting old-school into something campy that gothy flower children could enjoy. They brought back Dracula as a hot, magnetic emohunk played by Christopher Lee, and gave his brides some... more... - RAPatton

"The Hammer actresses whose naughty, terrifying eroticism is captured in Hammer Glamour are still part of pop culture horror styles. And of course, sexy horror featuring vampires continues to smolder at the box office today. Marcus Hearn put together this compendium of images from the Hammer archives, organized by actress. Each section features a full page pinup, plus biographical... more... - RAPatton

"Michael Van Gorkom was laid off by Yahoo in late April. He didn't panic. He didn't rush off to a therapist. Instead, the 33-year-old Santa Monica resident discovered that being jobless "kind of settled nicely." Week one: "I thought, 'OK . . . I need to send out resumes, send some e-mails, need to do networking." Week two: "A little less." Every week since: "I'm going to go to the beach and enjoy some margaritas." What most people would call unemployment, Van Gorkom embraced as "funemployment."" - RAPatton

++Araceli - Amber, Random Time Lord

"These stunning photographs show galaxies speeding through clusters of neighbouring galaxies and being stripped of their gas as a result. The photographs are of galaxies NGC 4402 and NGC 4522 as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Astronomers estimate galaxy NGC 4522 is traveling at 6.2 million miles per hour. It’s about 60 million light-years away in the Virgo cluster. Fast-moving galaxies get deformed by the strong winds generated by their movement. The process is known as 'ram pressure stripping', where the lighter parts get stripped away. Galaxy NGC 4402 shows off the convex gas and dust disc that is characteristic of galaxies undergoing ram pressure stripping. The hot gas between galaxies in a cluster (known as the intra-cluster medium) sweeps the gas away, creating the odd shape in the process. " - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"A face appears eerily from beneath the ground at the site of an ancient port that once hustled and bustled supplying goods to the rulers of Rome. The well-preserved statue is one of many stunning artefacts uncovered by British archaeologists, who have unearthed a major amphitheatre at Potus, close to Fiumicino airport." - RAPatton

"The ancient gateway to the Mediterranean was twice the size of the port of Southampton and supplied the centre of the Roman Empire with food, slaves, wild animals, luxury goods and building materials for hundreds of years. It is now two miles inland. The excavation team conducted the first ever large-scale dig at Portus, which has been described by experts as one of the major... more... - RAPatton

"The ancient philosophers knew a thing or two about life, and even in the internet age we can still benefit from their wisdom. ... 1. Go with the flow ... 2. Remember that less is more ... 3. Work to live, don’t live to work ... 4. Beware the transience of the internet ... 5. Friendship requires face to face communication ... 6. Keep hold of common sense ... 7. Be careful lest travel change you ... 8. Don’t believe all the rumours ... 9. Don’t forget nature ... 10. Resist the virtual life" - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"He argued that good friendship – soulmateship – is only possible when friends “share salt together”. He meant that they sit down with each other, not just over the occasional meal, but over the course of their lives. " - Clare Dibble

letting travel change me has actually been a GOOD thing in my life. - Joe Silence is not dead

It has Penny on it, brother, and that is good enough for me - RAPatton from iPod

The trailer for this season was better than the episode; more mystery with characterization, less emo music please - RAPatton from iPod

One please. Uh... one... rock of crack. One crack rock. - The Bohemian Penguin

I'm gonna get nice and drunk and play some video games till my eyes bleeeeeeed. - Haggis (Sean Loyless) from IM

We're gonna pick up just a little bit of cash... just enough to have a quiet night out. - The Bohemian Penguin

WANT! - Mark Wilson

Haha! Bloody Awesome! :D - Faraz Mullick

Recipe: Using a blender, food processor, or hand-held blender stick, blend until smooth 3-4 large peach chucks with the juice from one lime and two tablespoons honey or simple syrup (mixture should be about 3oz total.) In martini shaker with ice, combine 2oz vodka with the peach mixture. Shake hard. Pour in pint glass and top with club soda. - Ginger Makela Riker

Lost Weekend on a shoestring! :) - edythe

If you think you're too busy to lose weight, we have one word for you: MUFA (pronounced "moofah"). Also known as "monounsaturated fatty acids," these plant-based compounds are the basis of the Flat Belly Diet, which can help you drop pounds and reduce belly fat. The even better news? Delicious foods such as olives, nuts and seeds, avocados, oils, and dark chocolate are some of the best sources of these healthful fats. - Lindsey is Fierce!

It's nice to look good (according to society standards) and have other people like the way you look. Also though, how do you "yourself" feel - mood swings (are they better or worse, and some people like drama in their lives), energy levels, sharpness of mind, quality of emotions, feelings in body, connections to spiritual states, mind/body/physical/spiritual ability to enjoy hobbies... more... - Mitchell Tsai

Congratulations to you both! :))) - WorldofHiglet

Hehe, Slippy! Are people still not looking at the link? Tsch. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes

TRUTH. - Brad Williamson

I just bought a ColecoVision and a Super NES. Both still work. So do my Atari 2600 & 7800, Sega Genesis, N64, and PlayStation 1 & 2. - Dennis Jernberg

"Thanks to a combination of RSS magic and Twitter API, it's possible to search the tweets of everyone in your Twitter network with Google Reader. Here's how to do" - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

This would have come in really handy YESTERDAY! Ah well, I now know the easier way to do it! - WorldofHiglet

This is a really useful tool! - WorldofHiglet

Call Me by Blondie - RAPatton from iPhone

I get to endure General Infantryman Joseph tomorrow; Julie and Julia was enjoyable. - RAPatton

Yum - John (a.k.a. dendroica) from Bookmarklet

That's just not fair. Food porn. - Shawna Benson

But food porn is a Friendfeed tradition. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

I had a blast tonight Robert! Thanks again, Mr. Incredible! - Derrick

everyone is more awesome in person. thanks for a great night, everyone. thanks for putting this together Robert!!! - Melissa

I think it is the 4th time this week; Californians have Harry Potter on the brain - RAPatton from iPhone

Sorry we don't have much else here in CA to have on the brain. Even the Pacific NW has stolen our sun apparently. - Steve C

Is the Getty in the cards as well since you'll be next door? Or universal city walk? - Steve C

Just Skirball for the three boys Today; we have dinner plans - RAPatton from iPhone

"From the time of Thomas Edison, scientists have been trying to develop a system that would send electric power through the air without wires. Now a Massachusetts company, WiTricity, says it will have just such a system on the market in about 18 months. The company, which has been developing its technology based on the work of MIT physicist Marin Soljacic, made the announcement at the prestigious TEDGlobal conference that ended Friday in Oxford in the U.K. The company showed how a transmitting unit, which could be placed in a wall, could power a television set several feet away. The chief executive of the company, Eric Giler, also showed how the system could wirelessly charge a G1 cellphone equipped with an antenna unit so small it could fit inside the phone case. An iPhone was part of the demonstration, too, but that phone's innards are so closely packed that the antenna had to be attached to the outside of the case." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

What sort of efficiency does this have? Are we sending 20-50% of our electricity into the world as waste RF? - Matt Mastracci

"Sherry told me this recipe was one of her two favorites. Today I tried the other favorite, Katherine Hepburn's brownies from Liz Smith's Dishing. I have to admit that I was skeptical. Katherine Hepburn's brownie recipe had made the rounds, but I'd always assumed that the attention they received was more a result of good PR than true merit and great flavor. I was wrong. Kate's brownies are marvelous. Her recipe is easy and requires just a single saucepan. Originally published in Ladies Home Journal in 1975, the recipe reminds me of my mother's saucepan brownies taken from the same magazine in 1959. But Kate's has a bit more butter, a lot less flour, and twice the nuts, walnuts instead of pecans. They are deservedly famous, just like Kate. " - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

So I had this silly idea to isolate the backgrounds from famous Internet memes, removing all the subjects from every photo or video. I'm pretty happy with the results. Like Jon Haddock's porn sans people, these photos are banal out of context. Only someone familiar with the original memes would sense something's amiss, like the set of a play waiting for the actors to stumble into history. - Cee Bee

Wow. :) - Ladybug Heather

Owner of a Lonely Heart by Yes - RAPatton from iPhone

I love my mental image of "gathering the little pandas." Have a great day! - Laura B needin' waders

"Portland is one of a handful of cities willing to pay big bucks to keep it connected with the rest of the world. The city's port authority voted this week to make a one-time cash payment of $3.5 million to Delta Air Lines Inc. to maintain the city's only direct link to Asia, a daily nonstop flight to Tokyo that the carrier had planned to terminate in September. Deutsche Lufthansa AG confirmed this week that it would end its Portland-Frankfurt route in September because it wasn't profitable, leaving Delta's nonstop to Amsterdam as Portland's sole direct link to Europe. Last year Portland lost its only scheduled nonstop service to Latin America, a Mexicana Airlines flight to Guadalajara." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Mark , I think this sound like the end of a beautiful friendship - RAPatton

"The secret world of dreams has been unlocked with the invention of technology capable of illustrating images taken directly from human brains during sleep. A team of Japanese scientists have created a device that enables the processing and imaging of thoughts and dreams as experienced in the brain to appear on a computer screen. While researchers have so far only created technology that can reproduce simple images from the brain, the discovery paves the way for the ability to unlock people's dreams and other brain processes. A spokesman at ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories said: "It was the first time in the world that it was possible to visualise what people see directly from the brain activity." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I can do that with a Sham-wow, a banana and 4 paperclips! $14.99! - ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift

"The creator of a bestselling comic designed to show the world the tolerant and peaceful face of Islam has written an open letter to his young sons explaining how the project grew out of 9/11. In the letter, written for the BBC News website, Kuwaiti psychologist Dr Naif al Mutawa, says his superheroes - inspired by the Koran and known as THE 99 - were designed to "take back Islam" from militants who had taken it hostage. The comics, which now sell about one million copies a month in several languages, are soon to be made into an animated film by Dutch media company Endemol. Early last year, Forbes magazine announced THE 99 were one of the 20 top pop culture trends sweeping the world." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

if you go to http://the99.org you can download a PDF of the introductory issue - Nathan Rein