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"Russia's Lukoil has won the rights to develop one of Iraq's largest oilfields -- the 12.9 billion barrel West Qurna Phase 2 field. This upcoming mega-field is seen as the 'crown jewel' of 15 fields offered during the second post-war licensing round. It's just the beginning of what will likely be Iraq's oil renaissance." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

America fuels radical islam with every drone strikes and its many dead bodies we term collateral damage. We should ask why we are a target and what policy by us or our surrogates like Israel makes a well to do Nigerian strap on explosive before boarding a plane.... - WarLord

Heh. :) - Derrick

Oh wow, that sounds delicious. And no ice needed. :) - Arlan Koizumi

YUM! - josh neff, geek at large

Wish you could come over and join us for dinner Josh. There's also sparkling wine in the fridge. - Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)

"The Problem We All Live With done by Norman Perceval Rockwell is arguably the single most important image ever done of an African-American in illustration history. This piece is the most requested work at the Norman Rockwell museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. What makes this piece so monumental? Why is this piece so popular and even controversial? First and foremost, it was done by Rockwell, the pitchman for conservative imagery for almost fifty years. “A painting like this depicting this subject matter, done by somebody who is embraced by the most conservative elements in our country would make these people stop and think that maybe there is a problem. And the problem is racism. Purely and simply.”-Murray Tinkelman, Chairman of the Hall of Fame Committee, Society of Illustrators" - Derrick from Bookmarklet

Rockwell left the Saturday Evening Post because they wouldn't accept the social justice pieces, like this one, that he did. I have a print of this hanging in my front hall. It's one of my favourites of his. - DJF

Thanks for that..I was hoping so and Happy New Year Darren - VAL D. Zone

I'll stop for tonight - Johnny Worthington

Joe, you inspired me: http://friendfeed.com/joshuam... - josh neff, geek at large

So are lasers - Mo Kargas

some of my family hates my sarcasm. does this mean I have stupid family? - Jackye Chan

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani - johnpiercy

sorry Robert - VAL D. Zone

wow - jbrotherlove

It was! And if you like mid-century modern furniture and art - they have a whole exhibit inside the molecule from the 1958 World's Fair. - Jason

It's for your own protection - Davis Freeberg

TH - what's the issue at hand? Are you able to get around it or are you stuck? You could just change the parent folder of what you are copying to "EVERYONE" and you should be good to go. EDIT: just realized this is from last week....how did this pop back up? - Justin Korn

"Meaning Tool is a semantic engine that offers users a chance to extract concepts from text using specific semantic trees. As mentioned, you define your categories of interest by creating search parameters and training them with related websites or RSS feeds. Similar to Open Calais, the service appears to use the linked data standard to retrieve data via dereferenceable URIs on the web." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

"We have a lot of oops moments in life. There are things we just can't undo. Unfortunately, like the tree, we are unable to take back what we eat. This is a big problem on holidays when it is so easy to overeat. We've all spent way too much time lamenting and wishing desperately that we had skipped the extra slice of pie, or at least left off the scoop of ice cream. Mindless overeating can spoil the holiday and ruin the rest of the week (ex. I-ruined-it-anyway-so-why-not-keep-going approach). One of the major "ah, ha" moments I've had as a counselor, is that people who are really successful in life are those individuals who can make a mistake or have a mishap and not let it overwhelm them. Because one thing is for sure-oops moments are inevitably going to happen (i.e. the Christmas tree incident). Ideally, we will all eat mindfully during the holidays. (Click here for tips to avoid stress eating and to obtain some mindful eating strategies). Even people who work very hard at eating... more... - William Harryman from Bookmarklet

I think that is true for a lot of people Alix - the problem is that many people gain between 2-5 lbs each holiday season. Most of the stuff people enjoy this time of year doesn't tempt me, so I guess I am lucky. - William Harryman

"That’s the thought that ran through my head, as I read about China’s $3.4 billion copper-mining effort southeast of Kabul. It’s “by far the largest foreign investment project in war-torn Afghanistan,” according to the New York Times. And it’s hardly China’s only investment in an American battlefield. Earlier this month, a consortium led by China National Petroleum Company won an auction to develop Iraq’s Halfiya oil field, which is believed to hold 4.1 billion barrels of black gold." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

I strongly suggest reading the original NYT piece here http://www.nytimes.com/2009... before jumping to any conclusions, folks. However, there's no question that the Chinese have outplayed us economically, commercially and diplomatically over the past few years. None of this means the Chinese are necessarily getting a free pass though, their engineers and... more... - LANjackal

"Solar power technologies could generate 15 percent of America's power in 10 years, but only if Washington levels the playing field on subsidies, a report by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says. That means either rolling back fossil fuel subsidies, as President Obama proposed earlier this year, or increasing subsidies for clean energy, the association says." - Sean McBride from Bookmarklet

Silicon is the main elemental component of solar *electric* - as opposed to thermal - panels, and as far as I know it's not a rare element - LANjackal from IM

via themovieblog.com via themovieblog.com …Posted via web from Tantalizing Tidbits // - Shevonne

Love! I can't wait to take pictures while snorkeling. - joey

Good testing practices help make good code. Automated unit tests, written by the developer and run often during the development stage, is a good testing practice. TDD uses those sorts of tests, but its focus on test-first, with failing test cases that reflect missing code, exclude important tests in the development process. TDD can easily be modified to handle these other cases, but the result is simply "good unit testing", without the test-first aspect that makes TDD what it is. - Meryn Stol

"My response will be they learned good practices, but those practices don't require TDD and can as easily be learned without TDD. " My response is TDD is a mechanism for making sure those practices are put into practice as the act of creating tests tends to create better code. Though I agree completely that test case selection is given little thought in TDD. These tend to get pushed to system tests. - Todd Hoff

That makes my head hurt. - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

No comment on the debate, but Alex that first sentence was beautiful! If you don't mind I believe I will use a reprise in the future :D - LAST DAY OF WORK

"Time and time again, it has been documented that regular exercise has many health benefits including lowering risks associated with the comorbidities of obesity. With only 30% of Americans trying to lose weight meeting the National Institutes of Health exercise guidelines of 300 minutes/week, a study in the January/February 2010 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior explores the paradox that exists - an antidote for obesity and its comorbidities is exercise, but the majority of obese Americans do not exercise. Investigators explore and compare the barriers associated with regular exercise in health clubs between overweight and normal weight individuals. Researchers at The George Washington University Medical Center examined overweight individuals' intent to exercise at health clubs by administering an online survey instrument based on Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior. This theory is based on (1) one's attitude toward the behavior in question, (2) the perceived... more... - William Harryman from Bookmarklet

AND SCREW YOU, BRET FAVRE. - Steven Perez

Anyway, Go Saints! - Rene Wirtz

You can hear everything I say now. Now what I can be recorded yaarrrr! - polou/indigo_bow from Bookmarklet

Yet another reason for Verizon users to gloat. CDMA FTW :) - LANjackal

Just proves Nothing is secure when it comes to electronics items... - TrafficBug