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"In the late 1930s psychologist Joseph Barmack of the City College of New York was among the first to study boredom’s basis in a laboratory setting. He proposed that boredom is a sleeplike feeling, and he found that stimulants—a trio of amphetamines, ephedrine and caffeine—reduced reports of fatigue, sleepiness, inattention and boredom during repetitive tasks, such as adding up a series of large numbers. Giving money to his student subjects also seemed to pique their interest, suggesting the tiresome feelings were a combination of low arousal and insufficient motivation." - edythe via Bookmarklet
"Barmack also discovered that providing students with unlimited access to central nervous system stimulants such as cocaine, in addition to vast amounts of money, almost completely elimininated feelings of ennui and lethargy. These students also experienced an increase in libido and subsquent sexual activity. Some of them went on to invent a new form of music based on subtonic and mediant chords accompanied by syncopated drumming, which they curiously referred to as 'rock and roll.'" - Karim
oh, karim. but, hey, money and speed--that's all it takes to remain interested! - edythe
Boredom: BANE of my existence. FriendFeed takes care of a good portion of that for me now, though :) - Kamilah Gill
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Rising seas threaten west Antarctic (ABC News in Science)
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"There's a 'big gorilla hiding the closet' whose collapse could have a dramatic effect on sea levels, according to Australian researchers. Dr Bradley Opdyke, a paleoceanographer from the Australia National University (ANU) believes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) could partially collapse within 20 years, resulting in a dramatic jump in sea levels." - Patricia Hanrahan via Bookmarklet
we're doomed. - rambn
""We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan" :) *ref: well known Australian bush poem http://www.abpa.org.au/Bush_Po... - Patricia Hanrahan
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From the article: "In one experiment, one group of students was given a strong assurance that none of the information they divulged on the survey would be revealed. That should make them more forthcoming, right? Actually, the opposite was true. When the issue of confidentiality was raised, participants clammed up. For example, 25 percent of the students who were given a strong assurance of confidentiality admitted to having copied someone else’s homework. Among those given no assurance of confidentiality, more than half admitted to it." - Ginger Makela
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Hi, I created a Greasemonkey script to do this job, would you like to try it out and give me some feedbacks? http://thetinybit.com/Project/... - Yu-Jie Lin
Yes, please. I'll grab it and let you know. Thanks! - Chris Baskind
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rules of another era - Jinger in love via Bookmarklet
in fact, in belgium, if the unemployed have a half time job, they earn more than doing the same job full time. - Irma Vermaat
in fact, in many cases, being unemployed is better than working your ass off in a dirty boring stressful job. - Irma Vermaat
it's ok for the gays to marry, just not each other - orie
in fact, working is not only about money - Alexey Melchakov
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hedgepiglets++ - j1m
awwwww - niniane
heeeeeeeeeee! - edythe
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Paul Buchheit posted a message
How do I get Firefox to do this for my domain?
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is it not based on security settings of some sort? - Zee from WeDoCreative
You get it from the same company you get your current encription from (like Verisign) except it costs a lot more money. - Chris Nixon
I think this is simply the SSL certificate data. - Claudio Cicali
Most SSL sites (such as Gmail) don't show this. This is the first I've seen it, in fact. What is it called and how much does it cost? - Paul Buchheit
You need to buy an Extended Validation SSL cert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E...). Looks like VeriSign sells them for $1,500 per year and Thawte for $900. They aren't cheap. - David Recordon
btw Paul - while i've got you here & you're not flooded with comments...is there no way to link to a particular post here on ff? - Zee from WeDoCreative
that's not regular SSL that's SSL-EV ... SSL with Enchanced Validation ... it's more expensive then a single SSL cert .. read this link for more info http://is.gd/LIs - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl
it's by Verisign by the way ... - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl
Zee, click on "More" then "Link to this entry" - Paul Buchheit
David - thanks for the info. I have always wondered about the green bar in FF3 but never bothered to find out if it was a different type of SSL certificate. - Atul Arora
Paul, thanks a million - and there was me thinking it something you overlooked... :) - Zee from WeDoCreative
@paul, you may read this http://tinyurl.com/4qttny first, to know what's the different between "green button" and "blue button" (green: paypal etc. blue: gmail etc). u definitly need to pay much for the "green button" - kukoo
@David @Paul sorry for the double post just saw the question and knew the answer .. should've scrolled around first ... sorry - JohnBfromMemphis via twhirl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.... EV certs are just another scam from VeriSign, as far as I can tell. They're sold as an anti-phishing tool, but mostly they seem like a non-solution driven mostly by the need for CAs to extract more revenue from large customers. - ⓞnor
No, EV certs are just another scam from VeriSign because their regular certs are useless for determining that somebody is who they say they are. In other words, you'll pay hundreds of dollars for a cert for friendfeed.com, but they're pretty likely to give somebody else a cert for fiendfeed.com. The only way to combat this is to pay for an EV cert because their regular verification is almost a no-op. - Gabe Schaffer
@nor - Interestingly Google/Amazon dont use EV in the couple of examples I tried but eBay/Paypal do. - Atul Arora
It appears that GoDaddy has them for $400/year if you buy a 2 year cert. - Paul Buchheit
Well, a regular cert more or less says you're talking to the DNS owners of the domain listed in your address bar. Which is a service that ought to be worth about 5 cents. This one says... that you're talking with the organization that is generally known by that name? What *does* stop me from getting a business license for Fiend Feed, Inc. and so on? At some level it seems to be chasing "authenticity" which really means "will pay a bunch of money and/or fill out a bunch of annoying paperwork". - ⓞnor
What I really want is "is widely and unambiguously recognized by the community as the entity associated with that name". Where "the community" is... some big trust network centered on you and people you know? - ⓞnor
this is still far from regular idi... I mean casual consumer :) they shall say how much you are INSURED on your login when you come to this site, and insurance expressed in money, with sum signed by issuer into server side SSL certificate - only then you know for how much you are protected :) names are like talk - cheap :) - silpol
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Quite agree - Nick Lewis
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Ginger Makela posted a link
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"She comes up to the desk and tell me that there is something wrong with the copier. She is holding almost a reams worth of blank paper. When I get to the copy machine I look over it, inspect it, listen for the goblins that live inside and steal your quarters. And everything seems to be copacetic. After what seems like an eternity of conversation (she was one of those people that you have to pry what they want out of them), I finally realize that there is nothing in the copier. She was trying to make copies of nothing. All of her copy stuff was sitting on the counter. Now I can understand one. Maybe even two. But she had so many. Somewhere in the Amazon, rain forests are disappearing. And all because of her copy habits." Classic. - Mark Trapp
Maybe Librarians and Tech Support people should combine our unions, kinda like the AFL-CIO. I think I know the people being described in these stories. - Harvey Simmons
I've just recently had my qualifications accredited by the ALA (American Library Association) they sent a list of sites and societies to check out and join - why was this one not on the list!! This is only society worth considering. Thank you Ginger! - Patricia Hanrahan
Patricia, congrats on the accreditation. I don't know much about library science -- does this mean you're making a career change? - Ginger Makela
I can see it now. Samuel L. Jackson comes out of the reference section, "Motherfucker. I have had it up to here with all these motherfuckin' snakes in this motherfuckin library." - Slippy Lane
Slippy Lane, nearly fell off my chair reading that! Ginger, did my LIS studies at non-US universities so had to get the qualifications from Australia and Denmark officially recognised by the ALA if I want to get a visa to work in the States. - Patricia Hanrahan
Angry librarians are great. I'm angry-by-proxy, as a patron who gets bloody irritated by people doing stupid things in libraries. Okay, angry patron story: I was using a library a while back and wanted to check a dictionary. Ask man on desk where I could find a dictionary. Response: "On the shelf with the dictionaries". Yes, thank you so much. - Tom Morris
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Employees have to choose relocation or severance. - Ginger Makela
Any reason given? - Raoul Pop
Jeez, you got out just in time! - Mark Trapp
Consolidation. Someone decided the ROI wasn't there. Bummer. - Ginger Makela
Ginger leaves, they figured why keep them open. :-) - Hutch Carpenter
yeah, i was bummed. I love the folks in the denver office including ginger - D 'gadget' Domingo
lordy... move or leave... ouch. - edythe
Capitalism-it takes no prisoners... - Mark Forman
Still, those are better options than what one would get at most other companies. - Tsega D
(FYI - I think the link is broken) - Jennie Lin
Never heard of any Dallas office, but isn't Denver just a tiny handful of people sitting half an hour's drive from the much much bigger Boulder and Thornton offices? I mean, closing that sounds more like a standard office move than a relocation... - ƃuɐʞ
Are you sad you didn't hang around for the severance or happy you don't have to go through an office closing? - Clare Dibble
Or is there a distinction between the Denver and Boulder office? - Clare Dibble
Why not telecommute? - Gabe Schaffer
Dang. I applied for a job in the Dallas data center earlier this year. Never heard a word. I guess I know why now. - Harvey Simmons
ƃuɐʞ, right. It is a handful of people. But they're pulling sales positions entirely out of CO and Dallas, so people only have the option of moving to Chicago, NY or SF, where there are ad sales jobs. Not catastrophizing here. It's just curious to me that the company spends so much money building amazing offices, then mere months later, decides to shut them down. Clare, I'm happy with my timing :-) - Ginger Makela
Clare, yeah, Boulder is a separate office. It's folks from the Sketch-Up acquisition and I think other mapping projects. - Ginger Makela
These were strictly sales offices, right? No eng? - ⓞnor
No eng. - Ginger Makela
Oh, I see... eek. Glad you got out, Ginger. :( - ƃuɐʞ
Can I have the Wii from the office? - Todd Nemet via Alert Thingy
so there is no sacred cow in Google either... our modern corp slang for downsizing is "open sourcing" - wonder how they will translate it on sales/marketing ppl, since all previous head-slashing was majorly in engineering :) - silpol
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Ginger Makela posted a link
Contemporary Castle / Missile Silo?
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Hmmm. Modern with a touch of defensive capability? - Ginger Makela via Bookmarklet
I like it - Michael W. May via twhirl
if it has any military capability, it is then only looks-like-mobile-missile-launcher -- there is nothing defensive in standing (erected) building... but somehow I am not freaked over pictures. - silpol
What were they thinking? - Shakeel Mahate
That is awesome. I love that interior space between the silos, that's some big glass! - felix
looking over the other offerings on that site... man, what you get in Denver compared to what I'm getting, not even staying in Manhattan, but moving to Williamsburg? Ouch. Sigh. - felix
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Your life will be flashed before your eyes | Technology | The Guardian
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"Prototype contact lenses that include LEDs and circuits could become a tiny personal display. Babak Parviz wears contact lenses. But he's not yet using the new contact lenses he's made in his Seattle laboratory. Containing electronic circuits, they look like something from a science fiction movie. He's now going to add some extremely small light emitting diodes (LEDs), helping turn his prototype contact lenses into a sophisticated personal display - the tiniest one possible." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
that can't be good for one's health. fascinating though - Cee Bee
How would it be bad for your health Cee Bee? Maybe it might screw with your vision some, but what else would it affect? - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
It would be the a great heads up display, but I don't know if you would be able to track eye movement to select things on the display. The gyroscopes on the lens would have to be almost nano. - RAPatton
i'm not sure but placing some electronic object of that sort directly over one's retina may have its side effects. then again, i've been on this laptop for the past 6 hours and my balls are frying - Cee Bee
I'm totally ready for augmented reality, but I think i'll let other guinea pigs work out the kinks in the system first... - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
Re: this exact gizmo: see Vernor Vinge, "Rainbows End": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... - Phil Crissman
hmm, not a fan of this nor of a cattle prod being plugged into the back of my head. though something like "The Thirteenth Floor" would work - clarke
@Phil: That's exactly what I thought of when I saw the photo. I want! - Jeremy Brooks
Very interesting. Gartner predicts that human augmentation will evolve over the next 10 years to the point where it will be feasible to enhance the performance or sensory abilities of healthy individuals. In other words, medical techniques such as sensory transference, direct brain interfaces, and nerve mapping will be used not just to restore physical deficiencies, but to enhance healthy people beyond “normal”. - Alan Cheslow
Whoa... cool. But really, heads up display, blah blah blah... i want my eyes to glow in the dark. Then I'll really be able to fight crime with my intimidating stare! - felix
I tried an earlier version of this kind of thing during a visit to a lab at the UW in Seattle. My eyes ached in a really strange way afterwards; I mean acute pain. I don't like the display as prosthetic, because of this experience. - terra210
I'd be happy with augmented reality embedded in my glasses... I'm not much of a contacts guy anyway. - Tad Donaghe via fftogo
I can finally hook up Friendfeed right into my eyeballs! - Hao Chen
wow. so cool. - edythe
Very neat! - Mitchell Tsai
WHOA! - Sarah Perez
Next step would be flashing contacts like those aftermarket lights underneath cars. - Earl E Morningwood via fftogo
Should give these away with Kraftwerk's-Man Machine Music. Way cool-I want some. - Mark Forman
You know those "spinner" hubs/tires that some folks have on their car wheels? How about "spinner" contacts? Hopefully invisible from the user's point of view, but folks looking at you see spinning in your eyes. based on this article, you could even attach little outward-facing LED lights to the spinners... - Bruce Williams
Just add a tiny wireless receiver, and you'll get special promotions of chips and nylon socks flashed on you contact lenses when you walk past Walmart. - Dewald Pretorius
Now if it can be a camera and take a frame every time I blink I'm in. - Thomas Hawk
Thomas: If you're blinking, you're going to get a bunch of dark photos :P - Eric Florenzano
i look forward to the day when my contact lens overlords control all that i survey - Ranjit Mathoda
Interesting technology... - Daniel Schildt
"Why are you staring into space and chuckling to yourself", asks my wife. "Oh, just checking my email, got some funny ones today", I reply. - Nick Lewis
My two questionable cents: (1) power supply and (2) cooling. Much like current artificial eyes, but way harder to solve. - 9000
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So You Think You Can Dance?: PET Scans Reveal Your Brain's Inner Choreography: Scientific American
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"Even though dance is a fundamental form of human expression, neuroscientists have given it relatively little consideration. Recently, however, researchers have conducted the first brain-imaging studies of both amateur and professional dancers. These investigations address such questions as, How do dancers navigate though space? How do they pace their steps? How do people learn complex series of patterned movements? The results offer an intriguing glimpse into the complicated mental coordination required to execute even the most basic dance steps." - edythe via Bookmarklet
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I doubt that anyone who was arguing for creationism would come up with most of those 15 reasons. If they can come up with those reasons, which are all pseudo-sophisticated, and arguing for creationism they are playing devil's advocate. The creationist argument is more like "the bible told me so," or "didn't you read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe?" - RAPatton
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How long before taking vitamins and exercising in a gym is mandatory, too? - 9000
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здравствуйте. ваш звонок очень важен для вас. пожалуйста, оставайтесь на линии. - дефектные роботы
"ваш звонок очень важен для нас. пожалуйста, останьтесь в нашей светлой памяти" - Кот Шредингера
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Звонок очень важен! Пожалуйста, оставайтесь на звонке - Кот Шредингера
Звонок. Важно. Оставайтесь. - collida' fo' life
Ваш звонок не прошёл верификацию соглано стандарту ISO-7345 и подлежит немдленному аннигилированию с приминением физически активных форм влияния. ("Ты ваще бля кто такой, провода все нахуй сейчас повыдёргиваю и тебе же в жопу и засуну, пидорас, сука в три часа ночи звонить") - растворение личности
Вы позвонили в военкомат. Выберите пожалуйста звездочку, если вы хотите служить или решетку, если не хотите. - Daily Collider
@sohin, боян, я сегодня уже постил - ß.Èíòåðíåò
@dma, я утебя этот линк и увидел) - растворение личности
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The Pour - A Red Wine on Ice - It’s Not Blasphemy - NYTimes.com
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"Of course, you wouldn’t want to overdo it. Unlike the lambrusco, which you can drink straight out of the fridge, you want to take the zinfandel out and let it sit for half an hour or, if you’re starting from scratch, just stick it in the fridge to cool for 45 minutes before drinking. If chilled but not ice cold, you’ve got yourself one refreshing beverage. The same lighter-bodied principle holds for pinot noir. I recently tried an experiment with a 2004 Calera Mount Harlan Cuvée. I had a glass at room temperature, which was about 72 degrees, and the wine was flat — as weighty as a flannel shirt in a sauna. But after chilling for about half an hour, the wine was set free, offering a pretty cinnamon scent and lithe fruit." - edythe via Bookmarklet
My father has been doing this for years. I used to scoff at him until I tried a pinot noir at a bbq - now I think, what a sensible man. - Patricia Hanrahan
ha. :) - edythe
How about rosé? It's THE summer wine!! - Rubin
Wine... I know so little, I love so much - Michael W. May
We don't do rosé here. We opt for the fruit wines produced by Pesak Cellars: Guava, Blackberry, and Pineapple being favorites. - Akiva Moskovitz
I'd be busted if I go anywhere near any type of wine. How cultures differ :) - Yuvi
@Akiva I know a bunch of NY restaurants where you can get some nice côtes de provence rosé... - Rubin
Wow. People still drink rosé? The 70's will live forever. And as for the concept of chilled red wine? (*casts gaze floorwards and shakes head in silence*) - Slippy Lane
Slippy Lane, when you live in Queensland 'room temperature' is not the best way to drink red wine :) (*room temp is generally an average of 32C or 90F) - Patricia Hanrahan
Move somewhere cooler then! Philistines :-) - Slippy Lane
Rosé is still a big summer hit in France, especially in the south. - Rubin
Immigration officer: 'Whats your reason for applying for permanent resident status in this country?' Me: 'So I can enjoy red wine in a civilised fashion' :-) - Patricia Hanrahan
How long has Rosé been made? The 70s? Really? ;) - Michael W. May via twhirl
Room temperature generally means 70F, though some reds (pinot noir, shiraz, and some merlots, individuals vary as with all things wine) are generally better closer to 60F. - xero
yuvi, soon enough you shall be able to do whatever you please. i hope. - edythe
yeah, rose has become cool again. - edythe
i used to love drinking rose when it 1st caught on,yummy. All foods and beverages should be enjoyed in what ever way user wants. Silly traditions should be ignored when it comes to food. - Mark Forman
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An excellent advice on the subject - Alex
second this :) - silpol
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Neither I nor my wife are big fans of public displays of affection. - Akiva Moskovitz
My wife does not like public displays of affection. On the other hand, I had called in a favor at my homecoming game to proclaim my love on an electronic scoreboard in front of 15,000 when I was in high school. - RAPatton
I have always been a fan of contact and affection anywhere. None of my past partners were :| - Michael W. May via twhirl
All I can say is that she and I aren't welcome back to Walmart anymore! - Adam Lasnik
I'm not a terribly big fan of the whole open display, except at airports. I've only ever been involved in distance relationships and for some reason seem to lose it completely whenever saying goodbye at an airport is involved! - Patricia Hanrahan
Patricia, I dated my wife long distance for 5 years and I totally get the airport/airplane thing. Always hard. - RAPatton
*nodnod* - Michael W. May via twhirl
Sweet story... Some days, my wife and I still hold hands when we're walking together. This usually makes the kids start going "ewww..." THAT'S when I kiss her. :) - Harvey Simmons
So true> "So, don't take it for granted. Take those extra seconds to kiss them again and again and again before they leave". - Russellreno
That's great! It's nice to see couples that still care enough about each other to not worry about public displays of affection. - Jeremy Brooks
*sigh* Kissing... Thanks for that, Edythe! :-) - Lisa L. Seifert
I prefer to be a participant than observer - Mrsth
one particular farewell in particular (now almost defunct) airport circa 20 years ago was big turn in my life - little I knew how deep my feelings would be about that many years later... *sigh* - silpol
The husband and I practice the '3 ft rule' - if either one of us comes w/in 3 ft of the other, either one can & should initiate a kiss before moving out of the vicinity! We often remind each other with "Ah-ah! 3 foot rule..." and a smile! - Lucretia Pruitt
@lucretia That's soooo cute! - Michelle Miller
My wife is slightly uncomfortable with PDAs, but we still get good reviews... an older lady in Walgreen's stopped us to tell us how nice it was to see people expressing their love in public. - Roger Benningfield
Mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaa t o this thread :)- LOL - Peter Dawson
@Lucretia Pruitt-See great tips on FF- I'm going to institute that at once with Thomas Hawk!!:-" - Mrsth
@Patricia Hanrahan- That just makes my eyes well up!! - Mrsth
wow. it's so awesome to read everyone's views on this. :) lucretia, that's excellent. and, harvey, you and your wife rock. i think maybe that's a good goal for parents who want to keep the romance alive: make the children go "ewww." yeah, Lisa, ditto on the plaintive sigh. - edythe
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