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Airport Security ftw! en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos!
Apparently, even the security consultants are strip searching 95 year-old women at the airport to avoid terrorist attacks.
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At least the flights are on time.

Buried as old and dupe.

my new computer tech http://tinyurl.com/399fvo

“Uploaded on July 8, 2007
by sirbrett84″

this is at least as old as it says it is on the flickr page, but ive definitely seen it in several other places before

It’s not really that a big deal. They probably have security beyond that point. At least the computers running the screens are isolated from fragile and more important equipment. probably running a tunneled VPN connection from a database server, that’s probably all the networking on them.

That system is handled by the Airport Authority and anyone who has worked with them knows they are bat shit crazy! Regardless I wouldn’t worry about the FIDs system as there is no way to gain access to them as they are a closed system.

Oops.

Photo Basement » 41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments
We should all pity the science teacher, for this is what they deal with on a daily basis.

Thanks, hilarious. Some schools make science fairs optional, some make them optional but prod students into doing a science fair project, and some *require* kids to do one whether they want to or not. Which is terrible. And which results in terrible, uninspired scien…
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dugg for:
a. the Delirium Tremens reference
b. that kid’s sweater!! where do I get one of those??

I know the guys in the Global Warming …Yeah Right! one.

Got a good chuckle out of this.

are all kids ugly nowadays?

Animal magnetism..

One hell of a stache.

Can’t believe how hard I laughed. That site just cracked me up so much. It reminds me of a kids politics project I saw at school called “CHILD ABUSE! IS ENOUGH BEING DONE?”

The girl with the “Wasted” experiment must be Jay Leno’s love child. That chin is, to put it tactfully, FANTASTIC!

science fair experiments

Funny collection of pictures from school science fairs. I think this must be an american thing because I don’t think I can remember us having science fairs at school here.

Including “Crystal Meth: Friend of Foe?” and “Garlic: The Silent Killer”

It happens all around the world

dax ever do science fair?

Crystal Meth - Friend or Foe?

Good link but this is a total ripoff of these two articles from Something Awful.

I usually did one every year but the one I remember enjoying the most involved investigating the accuracy of ancient navigational techniques (sextants, astrolabes, geometry,etc.)

Gee, do you think those girls have first hand experience with the meth?

I think they’re coming down on the “friend” side of the argument.

No “pop that corn!”?

“Fat Man to Mars”? Why would anyone want to nuke Mars? (I bet the kid does not know that Fat Man was the name of the nuke dropped on Nagasaki.)

ABC News: Autism Breakthrough: Girl's Writings Provide 'Remarkable Insight' on Disorder
Carly Fleischman has severe autism and is unable to speak a word. But thanks to years of expensive and intensive therapy, this 13-year-old has made a remarkable breakthrough… (Also, check out the very moving video linked in the article.)
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The last few comments not withstanding, this was news to me. Obviously more needs to be done so that most of these children aren’t labeled radical5 oh sorry I mean retarded, oh wait SAME THING!

When I was younger, I used to help out with children that had autism and Downs. You’d be surprised the intelligence that an autistic child possesses. Most autistic children blow above average adults away when it comes to intelligence. I forget his name, seeing as this was about 13 years ago, but there was one boy that looking at him you’d think he was borderline vegetable. He’s stare drooling most of the time, but would have moaning fits and have to wear protective gear as to not hurt himself. But what everyone thought was a shell of a child was actually one of the brightest mathematical minds I’ve still to this day ever seen. I’ve always excelled at mathematics but this boy was a prodigy. Ever since I met him I never look at those that have autism as lesser beings. Actually they have the ability to think on one track without outside interruption, which is how they can excel in music, art, mathematics and the like.

A retard is slightly less retarded… woopie…

FAAAAAAKEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m not autistic, and no one cares about my feelings, why should she get special treatment?

Oh man. They don’t describe how this breakthrough came about, or what methods they use, but I certainly hope it’s not “Facilitated Communication” (FC)–an empirically discredited method developed by well-intentioned therapists that exploits people’s implicit confirmation biases–seeing and hearing what they want. Basically, it works by “facilitating” autistic children in typing (giving them manual “support” to help them type), and it ends up projecting the facilitator’s intentions and thoughts through the child’s hand. It amounts to a highly sophisticated ouija board or “Clever Hans” set up. Except, of course, with very well-meaning therapist. But it is very dangerous, both in its false hope and its potential for misinterpretation. One father was prosecuted for allegedly sexually abusing his autistic child as “revealed” by FC. Please see: http://www.psychologymatters.org/facilitated.html

Autism Breakthrough: Girl’s Writings Provide ‘Remarkable Insight’ on Disorder

watch the video. Holy fuck. When we were kids this girl would have just been a ‘tard

it’s stories like this that make me wonder about going back into psychology or teaching.

“All of a sudden these words started to pour out of her, and it was an exciting moment because we didn’t realize she had all these words,” said speech pathologist Barbara Nash. “It was one of those moments in my career that I’ll never forget.”

This is why technology is good?helping people improve their lives.

Comes a lot of headaches.

Uh oh. Going limp.

Thetans? My god!!!!

Duh, right after the 1870s crusades and the genocide of… uhhh… umm, by the Egyptian in the… what the hell our planet’s history is fucking horrid.

baby steps…

Do you dress like a douchebag? [flowchart]
Well, do ya?
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i went through the chart the first time and i turned out ok. i went through the second time saying that i wore stripes and it said i was a douche bag. just because some one wears stripes and their not to hide their fat doesn’t mean they dress bad. this chart is extremely judgmental and who ever made it was biased to make themselves look good.

“Well maybe you aren’t a douchebag after all.” YES!

I wish I had 4 hands, so I could give this chart 4 thumbs down

Love the flowchart. I’d like to add: are you wearing an Obama 08, Hillary 08 or McCain 08 T-shirt and if so, yes you’re a douchebag!

Do you spend more than 15 minutes a week thinking about what you are going to wear?? You are a douche bag.

exceptions: dates, interviews

Incredibly retarded. I was expecting something more “put together,” because apparently I’m a douchebag because I’m wearing a sweater with horizontal stripes and I’m not fat. I know it’s supposed funny, but its just stupid how two steps in and half the universe is a douchebag.

Do you dress like a douchebag?

30 Photos That Inspired Me to Learn Photography
A selection of 10 great photographers, 3 pieces of their work, and an inspiration to learn to shoot great photos for yourself. In a world where everyone can take photos, these are some reasons to take the time to do it right.
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Michael Kenna and Tod Hido were the ones that stood out for me.

My favorite photographer is O. Winston Link: http://lowtechtimes.com/2008/02/19/black-and-white …

Check these out… Amazing colors and light…Ken rockwell rocks!

http://www.kenrockwell.com/trips/2007-10-395/18.ht …

I have a Todd Hido hanging in my bathroom. Sorry Todd, but thats where it works the best.

I have always liked
www.francesjuriansz.com
less uber creative and more geared toward everyday and commercial photography.

against most of them sexist.

horny bastards.

Photography

a flikr slideshow with some context, would be nice….hint, hint…nudge-nudge, wink-wink…say-n’more.

A4 PAPER CUT
“My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality.”

Big wave moving towards a small castle made of sand, 2005
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I can believe that this was submitted 11 days ago and isn’t on the front page.

… holy *crap*.

Impressive art done with A4 sheets of paper

Cool ass shit.

About my paper works

My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality. I find this materialization of a flat piece of paper into a 3D form almost as a magic process (…)

Really awesome art made from a piece of paper.

Peter Callesen: “My paper works have lately been based around an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality.”

I have been sent this link at least twice a year, and it still leaves me with my jaw on the floor everytime I look at it….especially if you poke around the rest of his site and take a look at some of his larger scale paperwork.

Wonderful stuff. I particularly like the hummingbird flying towards the flower…

my brain can’t get around how some of these work!

how do you make these are there templates or is it just a lot of free time?

All cool, except for this one: http://www.petercallesen.com/index/images/web.jpg

I think what el0rg is trying to say is that it is impossible to truly recreate art work. You absolutely can not recreate a piece because you can’t be at the same time as the author, in the same place, thinking the same things, and acting on the same (e)motivations. Sure I could find an abandoned urinal and write “R. Mutt” on it, but it would never have the effect, and therefore be the same, as Fountain.

Wealth and Religiosity en Flickr: Intercambio de fotos!
Religiosity is measured using a three-item index ranging from 0-3, with 3 representing the maximum religious position. Respondents were given a +1 if they believe faith in God is necessary for morality; and +1 if they say religion is very important in their lives; and +1 if they pray at least once a day.

Crea una cuenta gratuita, o inicia sesi?n (si ya eres miembro).
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What it shows, is that you have to be an idiot to believe in magic.

And idiots dont make good money (usually)

The Alieness is kicking ass in the comments on that page.

Why were respondents given a +1 if they believe that faith in God is necessary for morality. I think it is, however, I don’t necessarily believe in God. If there is no God and no eternity, why limit yourself with often arbitrary rules if there is no atonement for bad decisions?

This is almost of statistical graph of when Jesus said, “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Very interesting.

All of you calling the graph misleading aren’t reading it correctly. The graph is not implying a causation between religiosity and wealth, merely a correlation. The interesting part of that graph is the high religiosity of the US compared to other wealthy nations.

So basically people who live in the real world where god does not exist make more real money.

This is interesting. Do wealthier nations tend to not be as religious because wealth leads to selfishness, or are poorer nations’ citizens believing in false hope due to their desperate situation?

Is Saudi Arabia off the charts?

well that doesn’t give me a good feeling, thanks

This from the comments…

because those wealthier countries worship money.

In other words.. unless you are US or Kuwaiti, you are either religious or poor… interesting concept….. I have a theory to explain this.. but the Saudis demographics kinda blow it out of the water…. and don’t get me started on some of the other gulf states like Quatar or UAE…

Look again… unless you are US or Kuwaiti, you are either religious or rich

Is Marijuana Safer Than Alcohol?
The short answer is yes. There is no lethal dose of Marijuana as there is Alcohol, and no significant changes to brain structure. However, alcohol can severely damage brain function. Many Universities across the country including both Colorado State Universities and Appalachian State University have brought arguments before their schools in an atte
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Its only time before the day finally comes where its legalized

Bottom line:

Would you rather have someone driving 30+mph over the speed limit swerving all over the road about to hit someone walking across the street.

or

Someone driving 15mph under the speed limit, mellow as can be about to hit the curb at 10mph..

Yea….ban alcohol and give us the herb.

I guess no one took notice that this was posted in the afternoon.
I thought the potheads had been banished like the Ron Paul heads but again they raise there stoned out heads to cry to mommy and try to rationalize the reason they are wasting their lives

420 diggs

Anytime you injest smoke in to your lungs it’s bad for them and your health. Do it repeatedly and it’s real bad - doesn’t matter if it’s cigs, weed, or smoke from a wild fire or house fire. Moderation is the key, sad part is most alcoholics and stoners don’t know what moderation is so they are doomed to failed health as they age. We all know this.

Yup Truth… I actually saw that while researching a post on my blog politicalcynic.com
Really makes u wonder why prescriptions and alcohol are legal but marijuana still is not.

Dingbats Roundup: 16 Incredibly Detailed, Useful (and free) Dingbat Fonts | BittBox
I love dingbats because (most of the time) I convert them to vectors in Illustrator and use them as very large elements in some cases. All you have to do is use the font in Illustrator and then go to Type > Create Outlines, and Bam. You got yourself a vector to work with. Here are some dingbat fonts that I thought you might enjoy.

16 diferentes tipos de fuentes para usarlos libremente en cualquiera de nuestros dise?os: mapas, siluetas de chicas, rboles, pjaros, salpicaduras, esqueletos ……
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including maps!

tipografia

Una selecci?n de 16 fuentes dingbats bien buenas

Casgliad o ddingbats defnyddiol

Castro resigns as Cuban president: official media - Yahoo! News
An Afghan child bride gets help from Hot Zone readers.
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SUCCESS!

My favourites were the plan to reduce his authority by making his beard fall out, and the Exploding Conch plot…

The CNN article isn’t bad either.

It’s already #2, don’t get impatient.

I was unaware of the sexual element to this story.

Good timing. We need to enlarge Guantanamo base.

Life On Other Planets: A Second Earth in Our Solar System
It could be that there are objects of Earth-mass in the Oort cloud (a band of debris surrounding our planetary system) but they would be frozen at these distances. They would look like a frozen Earth.
So all we need to do is haul one of those babies into our orbit, defrost it, and start populating. Earth 2, here I come!

NASA’s Alan Stern said these planets are so far away from the sun that we haven’t seen them yet: Our old view, that the Solar System had nine planets will be supplanted by a view that there are hundreds if not thousands of planets in our Solar System. It could be tha…
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Sounds like a good idea, put it in the same orbit as earth , maybe on the exact opposite side of us. At least we could manage the temperature, i don’t know what we would do about water, and an atmosphere. I have no clue how we would move a planet or if it could be done.

XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU XEEEEEEEEEEEEENUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Earth Mark II?

i think we should make a second earth out of marshmallows and colonise it. it would solve both world’s hunger problems.

I feel that until we acheive faster-than-light travel it doesn’t really matter if we find a perfect planet to live on. If it takes longer than a human’s life to travel there, not much point imho. We can’t drag planets around or get to the ones on even the outer reaches of our own solar system. I enjoy reading about them but once we find one… then what?

Perhaps we should send a manned mission to mars before we start talking about bringing planets from the outer solar system to the habital region of the solar system.

They’re just sitting in a cold, dimly-lit part of the solar system, waiting to be defrosted and colonized.

YouTube - Hillary Clinton says "Yes we will!"
Hillary was at an Ohio rally and began to chant “yes we will!” while the crowd looks on in horror..

Would you like to comment?
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No way…

Wow, that’s all I can say. She just doesn’t have the fire and energy like Obama.

She would have been better off doing the Howard Dean yell…D:

BYAAAH!?!

She probably cried after this.

She’s gonna lose. She is coming across as plain desperate.

Wait… Umm, wasn’t it HER campaign screaming plagiarism last week? Or is this just another of her campaign’s stupid comments that she’ll “distance” herself from when it doesn’t go the way they wanted?

obersalzberg
Time paradoxes are funny!
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Ive seen alot of these comics today, but i must admit they are good.
It has good artwork and funny story lines. It’s not like other comics where it’s either great artwork with crappy story (vgcats, penny arcade) or crappy artwork with funny story (xkcd…..and others)

The SS begins to doubt the supremacy of da Fuhrer.

I don’t care what anyone says, that was funny.

Hm, that could a reason. Maybe that’s why they are so widespread in the UK: a lot of people have dogs. I was sort of surprised to see a large section of the retail shop dedicated to pet food.

Plus friendly and caring SS officers and an SS corporal who actually thinks, the two biggest inaccuracies.

In Greece, too. You rarely see a doorknob. Maybe only at restaurants/bars WC doors, when they have that little thingy that if you press it/turn it, it locks the door :>

note to self: time travellers look like megaman.

Sounds like you have a few. Self-loathing seems to be one of them, though =(

Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
There are still plenty of general guidelines for application UIs. Here’s my list of 10 usability violations that are both particularly egregious and often seen in a wide variety of applications.

8. Dumping Users into the App
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There are still plenty of general guidelines for application UIs. Here’s my list of 10 usability violations that are both particularly egregious and often seen in a wide variety of applications.

Jakob Nielsen’s latest Alertbox includes some solid advice

Kill the reset/clear button; no new scrollbars; work alike

Application usability is enhanced when users know how to operate the UI and it guides them through the workflow. Violating common guidelines prevents both.

interaction design — JN at it again

using standard GUI patterns in application design.

Why are the Microsoft Office file formats so complicated? (And some workarounds) - Joel on Software
A normal programmer would conclude that Offices binary file formats:
are deliberately obfuscated; are the product of a demented Borg mind; were created by insanely bad programmers; and are impossible to read or create correctly. Youd be wrong on all four counts.

The Excel file format specification is remarkably obscure about this. It just says that the 1904 record indicates if the 1904 date system is used.? Ah. A classic piece of useless specification. If you were a developer working with the Excel file format, and you found…
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If you started reading these documents with the hope of spending a weekend writing some spiffy code that imports Word documents into your blog system, or creates Excel-formatted spreadsheets with your personal finance data, the complexity and length of th

“All of these subtle bits of behavior cannot be fully documented without writing a document that has the same amount of information as the Excel source code.”

COM automation in Excel takes half a day? Took us a whole summer.

Ideas for programatically converting to or from Office (Word, Excel) documents

Conclusions: documentation for MS office binary formats are inadequate. Use CSV/MK1 to get stuff into excell. Use RTF for word.

“A normal programmer would conclude that Offices binary file formats: are deliberately obfuscated; were created by insanely bad programmers; and are impossible to read or create correctly. Youd be wrong on all four counts.”

reality based community - scott pilutik: Scientology abuses eBay's VeRO program to practice religious, price discrimination
The CoS can delete auctions from eBay with no supervision, and has used this to delete all resale of the e-meters Scientologists use. This is to stop members from buying used units instead of buying from the official (and very expensive) source. Given Scientology’s record of fraud and abuse, should eBay give them this level of trust?

Scientology abuses eBay’s VeRO program to practice religious, price discrimination
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Why would eBay allow them to remove legitimate listings?!?!?

Type in “emeter” in ebay’s search, it changes your search to exmeter! EBAY SUCKS

I can build emeters, i should set up my own business! Thanks Wheatstone!
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Secrets/E-Meter/patent- …

Anyone notice when you search ‘emeter’ in the ebay search bar, it will change your input to ‘exeter’, even when combined with other terms. ‘Scientology emeter’ will become ‘Scientology exeter’. Either a strange coincidence or there’s some validity to these claims…

Huh, sounds like money was involved in this. A lot of money.

the E meter needs to be studied and de-bunked by scientists - anyone got one and access to some clever MIT people?

Downmodded to inaccurate. That is not direct access to the eBay database.

BBC NEWS | dot.life | A blog about technology from BBC News | Red ring of death returns
Microsoft wants consumers to believe that its problems with the Xbox 360 console in terms of hardware failure are over.
But wandering through the Game Developers Conference halls and it’s clear that the problem persists.

On Microsoft’s own stand at the show one of the demo consoles has a rather familiar problem - the red ring of death.

Wow that really is sad!! They better hope they don’t have there press conference going and are demonstrating a crucial game like Fable 2 and all of the sudden it RRoD’s on them. If that happened that would truly be Imbarrassing. I can only hope that they annouce new …
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Nothing to see here, move along, move along…

IMHO there is just no reason for a console to have any “general hardware failure’s” It goes through testing, more testing, years of development, and still comes out faulty. Maybe of Fuckrosoft tried to make something other than a PC with poor drivers, they wouldn’t have this problem…

ok point taken, but get a real video camera.. cell phone cam’s are garbage

I would probably overheat too if i was in a small plastic box.

Microsoft must have lost so much $$$ on this (and other) errors that you can better believe they might pay a little more attention next time. I’m on my 6th. No fucking joke. And I’m extremely careful with my gear…

I just got my xbox back. my replacement Mfg date is Jan 15 2008. No HDMI though, i wonder if they switch the serial number and Mfg. date to the repair date instead. I thought all consoles now have hdmi, so was mine actually made this year?

Hillarious! Microsoft’s xbox fails at the GDC. But somehow - deep down inside - I kinda feel sorry for them

Our life sentence as husband and father is brain-damaged for life but the yob who kicked him in the head is already free | the Daily Mail
I think that capital punishment should be re-introduced in Britain for cases like this one.

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I lived in England for a year a couple of years ago and there are some serious problems there with yobs. People say, “Oh, it’s like that all over” but I say it’s worse in the UK than most any other place I’ve been. I offer the following scenario to Brits who disagreed:

It’s a Wednesday night around 7:30 p.m.. Your on the NW end of the block and you have to get to the SE end of the block. On the other side of the street, there are two establishments, name and type unknown, but two groups of five people just came out of them and are loitering in front of them. Do you:

1) cross the street and walk the length of the block past the groups to get to your destination
2) walk on the far side of the street first and cross near the end of the block, avoiding the groups.

Every single brit I’ve posed this to agreed they would do #2. It’s very sad to say but this story doesn’t surprise me very much. I don’t intend to start a flamewar but the Brits I discussed this with are not from any single area, rather all over the UK.

stop linking and reporting to stories from “dailymail” already - it’s a crap tabloid, intended to make you cringe and say things like “that’s fucked up” and be completely predictable. oi!

The family of the victim should get to decide the punishment. I would opt for havening them as personal slaves working in the hospital to care for that man till the day they die or I deemed them to be truly sorry and redeemed. I would publish pictures of their lives and show others what would happen to them if they dared to do the same. Beatings would be frequent for my slaves and they would truly know what a disgusting and terrible job it is to care for someone with that kind of injury.

3 words - That’s fucked up.

I am unsure why people are so quick to condemn an “eye for an eye” justice system for being to harsh. In a justice system, rehabilitation is secondary to punishment. People who display behavior patterns that are detrimental to society should be quickly removed for a society like a cancerous growth. If the body spent all of it’s resources in an often futile effort to “reform” infected cells, it would soon die. Sure, it’s true that some people have things to offer society that may offset the effort it takes to reform them, and we must develop the ability to make objective cost benefit decisions. Gratuitous acts of random violence are an obvious indication of a personality that would be extremely difficult to adapt to the point that it would not be actively destructive, let alone beneficial to society.

This is not about deterrence or the cowardly embrace of a arbitrary moral system, fabricated by people blinded from reason by their destructive self-righteousness. This is about reason and progress. This is the difference between a diseased, cancerous organism and a healthy strong organism that will survive into the future. People like this aren’t bad, they are simply destructive, like a cancer cell or a virus. We must get rid of them, like we do so many millions of destructive bacteria in our own bodies every day. As natural selection takes it course, fewer and fewer “criminals” will be born. But, if we do not use our reason, natural selection will destroy our societies until one day a society rises up that has to courage to take the next evolutionary step forward.

Sometimes the gene pool just needs to be thinned. These 3 bad guys with no remorse or any use to the world need to be taken out to a field and popped in the head with a .22 just so it can ricochet around a bit before their lights go out. Then bury them where they fall and then go have a sandwich.

Wisconsin - State Results- msnbc.com
Just projected…

getCSS(”5562744″)Results are based on NBC News projections and unofficial returns, and are updated every five minutes. Refresh your browser to see the latest results. Candidate in red indicates the projected winner. To learn more about how NBC News projects winners a…
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congrats to Obama supporters…..now i will watch and see how this will turn out very interesting but i am glad that Hillary didn’t get her way here. Hopefully the same goes for McCain when Obama is going against McCain since Obama is the only best choice now for the sane peoples that is. Really don’t have to worry about voting since I am 17 but this will be very interesting to spectate and see what happens next. Like I literally got the popcorn & sodas out listening to all the debates etc.

Obama/Cinton/McCain supporters=SHEEPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Lary, This is Bill.

i think this is my favorite thing wisconsin has ever done

I hate to say it, but it looks like Obama will get the nomination. All that’s left to seal the deal is Texas. The hangover from drinking the kool-aid is going to be a bitch.

The Obamadable Snow Man
Obamanyous
Obama-lama-ding-dong
Mutual of Obamaha
The Obamniator
…shall I keep going?
Obama Bin Rockin’
Obama Yo Mama
The Obamanatrix
…really, no problem. I got a million of these!
ok, then. I’ll keep going!
Barak O’bama (The Irish Barack Obama)
Barak of Gibraltar
Barak O’Bar (The Official Obama candy bar)
Obamalicious.
…well. I think that’s about it for now.

…oh lookeee Hawaii results. HUMILIATION for The Hill-Billy! Yep, we can-do!

Crooks and Liars » Thousands of Students March 7 Miles To Vote
Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.

My mother and step-father had four more children together in the space of nine years after I was born, and we grew up together in a middle-class household in white america where the subject of “race” was never discussed. My earliest recollections of havin…
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Good for them, especially today, when most people wouldn’t walk two blocks to vote.

“Thousands of Students March 7 Miles To Vote. Then spend all day waiting in a line”

They are retarded, couldn’t they have driven? lol

Early voting is ALWAYS much smaller than the REAL VOTING DATE.

And there WILL be more than 2 machines and one place open on the REAL ELECTION DAY. March 4th.

A complete non-issue.

video here at youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDAiWWuvRg

It is a nice way of demonstrating that not all youth are apathetic. But the problem is just for early voting, and most counties only have one location for that….. naturally in the county seat.

But again, I admire the initiative! Heck they didn’t just drive 8 miles to the county seat to vote; they marched en masse. Kudos.

YouTube - Extras - Daniel Radcliffe
Daniel Radcliff (Harry Potter) on the TV show “Extras.”

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Dugg for the amazing last scene of the series finale. Right up there with Mash, Cheers, Six Feet Under….

Fags

……..Harry Potter! Dont’t turn gay like Dumbledore!!!! NOOO!!!

The show Extras started in 2005, look at all the bandwagon jumpers..Probably idiot Americans….DUH

…and i thought this was breaking news about a digger that finally got lucky

Ricky Gervais is a comic genius and Extras is one of the funniest shows to ever grace the small screen.

Foodsel - Welcome
Getting nutrition information from labels and fact sheets is a good start to any diet plan, but getting a handle on those abstract numbers isn’t always easy. Foodsel, a free food analysis web site, offers a visual take on a wide variety of store-bought and fast foods.

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organized by name, group, manufacturer or nutrient.

Fat and sugar visuals for common foods.

Food health nutrition reference

Over 7,500 foods registered. A wealth of information at your finger tips, neatly organized by group, manufacturer or nutrient.

Welcome to Foodsel - Over 7,500 foods registered
A wealth of information at your finger tips, neatly organized by group, manufacturer or nutrient. Visualize what you are eating. Figuring out food labels is not for everyone, but simply seeing what you …

Visualize your food? Not sure how this works.

Make Yourself Stick With These First Impression Tips | The Art of Manliness
The goal of every first impression is to stick to a persons brain. You want them to instantly like you and to keep thinking about you hours or even days after your first met them. Here are few things we can all do go give a killer first impression.

Let the person know youre listening. If it looks like youre not listening, people will be turned off. Give subtle hints that youre listening such as looking the person in the eye, nodding, and saying an occasional I see.? Also , ask questions about what someone had j…
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Get some more tats. Put a few rings in your nose, ear lobes, and lips. Wear some Doc Martens. I guarantee you’ll make an impression. Probably won’t get that job, though. Well, unless its a tattoo parlor, piecing salon, or shoe store.

In other news: Something Else That’s Completely Obvious

great…just got done with interviews, now I read this.

Act undignified like Ron Paul, accusing the interviewer of silencing you, quoting the Constitution, and gathering a bunch of rebellious kids to shout your name loudly outside the door during the job interview.

“For great clothing tips, watch TLCs What Not To Wear.”
I stopped after reading that.

The only tip you need is to never take advice from a website that claimed to be an expert on being a “man”.

Blog : The Art of Manliness - but these tips work for women as well : When youre interviewing for a job, one of the keys to success is your first impression. If youre about to go in for an interview, maybe its time to re-evaluate the first impressio

Enfonage de portes ouvertes…

Few things we can all do go give a killer first impression.

Gdc08: Gears of War 2 Coming In November
Announcement from GDC about the release of Gears of War 2 in November.

Gears isn’t first person. As for the speed in which you go down, well I guess that depends on the difficulty level you play on. I actually like when it only takes a few shots to take the player down. Power armor or not, getting shot a few times will take just about a…
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Fap Fap Fap

Official website…
Gearsofwar2.tk

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAA GEARS OF WAR 2 WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

GoW was so average it didn’t warrant a sequel. The only reason lemmings think it’s so good is because they’re ignorant as to how good PC games are.

Finally, something for Xboys to look forward to this year, other then steadily declining sales and more RROD.

Epic birthday gift.

Because I know you care.

hope they fix those glitches

The Big Picture with Colin Boyd
Oh God, what would women do with themselves if Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds got into a posedown at the end of ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’? Word is the ‘Definitely, Maybe’ star will throw on the spandex in next year’s Marvel comic book franchise spinoff.
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Who are they going to have playing his testicles?

Perfect role for him

Will get bicep implants

Taylor Kitsch as Gambit…I hope his accent is better than most who have tried namely: Dennis Quaid (Big easy and Every body’s all American), and the girl on Heroes. Very distracting.
Sombody from Louisiana such as Harry Connick would have been better.

Does anyone know how they will deal with deadpool being able to break the 4th wall?

HELL FUCKING YES! DEADPOOL IS GOD!

Chez Pazienza: Say What You Will (Requiem for a TV News Career) - Media on The Huffington Post
Ever wondered what CNN was really like? Check it out.

During my last couple of years as a television news producer, I watched the networks try to recover from a six year failure to bring truth to power (the political party in power being irrelevant incidentally; the job of the press is to maintain an adversarial relatio…
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Very smart of them. I didn’t just add his blog’s RSS feed to my toolbar or anything. I mean, why would I when I could read mainstream news[crap on a shtick]?

“I listened to Lou Dobbs play the loud-mouthed fascist demagogue, Nancy Grace fake ratings-baiting indignation, and Glenn Beck essentially do nightly stand-up — and that’s not even taking into account the 24/7 Vaudeville act over at Fox News.”

Worth the price of admission right there.

Fuck yeah!

epic boredom

down with CNN!!! thanks to digg i know about all these new sites like crooks and liars and thinkprogress. its really exciting to see how accessible information will be in the future for everybody and how it’ll seriously change the political landscape because nobody will be able to hide anything…now if we could only teach old people to use computers!

All I have to say to that article, is FUCK YEAH!

Old ways of thinking impede progress in news reporting. . . newspapers, for one, are in serious decline. How long until some of the “bigger” ones stop making a print edition?

WOW. CNN producer gets dooced. He’s mad as hell and not gonna take it any more. (Thanks to http://www.drumsmwhistles.com for the link!)

Chez, CNN, left, blogger

CNN producer fired for blogging. Considering how much they play up being hip to the new media scene, that’s just ridiculous

HD DVD casualty report: over 1m players, recorders, and drives lost to the format war - Engadget
HD DVD casualty report

class action lawsuit… FOR WHAT???!??yeah, sucks they lost but get real. did toshiba make you buy the player? no. did early adopters know there was a format war? probably, but if you didn’t that’s really your own fault (or best buy’s - god i love blaming them). did …
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Haha, now I feel even better about getting all my hi-def content through on-demand. Waiting FTW!

Well at least they will have a comfortable spot in the junk yard next to Beta-max players, ET Atari cartridges, Microsoft BOB floppies, and 65 million kg of US beef…

Wow, you dumb fucking Sony sheep just keep falling for the Engadget/Gizmodo pandering don’t you.

Good ol’ SONY - bringing rootkits and obsolete platforms to your home for profit - welcome to the Betamax club, HD-DVD.

HD vs Blu-Ray in animated gif format: http://i26.tinypic.com/21jc7pf.gif

Am I the only one who is totally and utterly bored of this whole HD-DVD / BluRay thing? Its been going on for far to long as it is, cant we just let it all stop so that I can get on with watching movies in peace - the whole thing is almost as boring as the Obama vs Clinton thing.

*yawn*

Add it all up, and that’s about a 1.3 million customers — just a fraction of the 10m+ Blu-ray owners out there — that got boned on HD DVD. Thanks, Toshiba and Sony!

Networks Interrupt Clinton Speech For Obama - Politics on The Huffington Post
Sen. Hillary Clinton began giving a speech on Tuesday night shortly after Wisconsin’s results came in. But within minutes, Sen. Barack Obama appeared in Texas to give his victory speech, and the networks cut Clinton off. Ouch. Watch it:

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funny how the c-word gets huge praise as far as Hilary is concerned, but dare anyone call Obama by the N-word, which is equally as offensive, and you get dug down before the 60 seconds to edit your post is up. There is no intelligent discourse about politics on digg anymore, its worthless. Gonna change my feed preferences to remove politics.

I don’t see any problem with it no matter who it is. Obviously you’re gonna feel disappointed if it’s your guy (or girl) but if one person is giving a speech and the person who just won something came on, then go over to the one who who and switch the other feed to another one of your news channels or web site. Until the day they can do a split feed on one channel where you can choose which audio/video feed to listen to, going with the winners is usually best practice.

That said, I think she’ll try to do the same thing if she ever wins another state and Obama is giving a speech. Total mind games now.

While I’m an Obama fan [only because of his electability do I favor him over clinton] I think your all being dicks, lets pick on someone who wants the best for our country?

Hillary is now trying to use the fear card like GW so often does. She claims Obama does not have the experience to lead in such dangerous times. I really was not sure who of these two to vote for. Hillary’s recent attacks have made that decision very easy now.

Nobody cares if the quarterback who lost the Superbowl is going to Disneyland.

let’s waterboard the bitch:)

MSNBC did the same, the dismay of the Clintonite they interviewed after the speeches…

Awwwww. . . liddle Tilon must be lonely and frustrated. Doesn’t like been a sheep. Funny.

Tilon is all hat no cattle. But hey, variety makes the world more nutty thus more interesting.

How long are you going to keep playing their Media shell game?

Yeah, all that free publicity from the controlled mainstream media for Obama isn’t an accident at all.

Time to stick a fork in her yet?

CIA Operation Similar To Tactic Obama Advocated, Bush Criticized - Politics on The Huffington Post
“In August, Sen. Barack Obama had made the argument that, as president, he would target Al Qaeda officials in Pakistan even without the country’s acquiescence — the type of attack that, six months later, proved to be successful.” The White House had earlier criticized his position. Naive/inexperienced indeed…

To be sure, not everything is known about the extent and execution of the CIA’s operation. But, on the surface, it carries similarities to Obama’s stated approach towards Pakistan’s terrorism problem, the same approach Bush trivialized.
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Great. Maybe you will be interested in my photos on Tallhub—dotcom. I signed up a dating profile there with my most beautiful photos. The men there said that I am really sexy, if you want to view my photo gallery, just search the user name slendertallgodness and you can find me.

I just love how Obama supporters tout him as anti-war, when his statement about Pakistan makes him just as much a war-hawk as the neoconservatives.

Obama doesn’t want to respect the sovereignty of other countries, and would rather we go in and execute military strikes based on intelligence* without the permission of said country. I can never vote for a man who says he would do that.

* Iraq ring a bell? Despite all the “intelligence,” I see no WMDs.

Obama needs to be sent to gitmo, not the white house. Like HE originally thought of attacking militants in pakistan. Fuck that, fuck him, and fuck his fanboy supporters. Enjoy the muslim kawk you fags.

“If Bush had done this exact same operation, you would be crying “war crime” for him invading a sovereign country.
The hypocrisy is astounding!”

–Just a sec. Isn’t the article saying that the CIA, under Bush, *did* do this? The hypocrisy is astounding, yes, but the source of it lives on Pennsylvania Avenue.

National security is what we should be doing. hunting for hidden enemies and throwing away our liberties is what their doing.

Wait, so Obama said it was good - so it was good. But this is just the sort of thing that Dick Cheney would love. In fact, this is something that is almost fundamentally neo-con. Wait, what?

Yes, but Obama still had to have been wrong when he said it.

Thats odd, I thought Bush also liked the idea of screwing around in other peoples countries without their permission. I didn’t realise that Bush was against that and it was actually Obama who invented Assassination!

NBA Halftime Proposal - CollegeHumor video
I’ll leave the digg community to do the name calling…

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FAIL!

At least he has his beer.

Epic Fail

Why does she run in the backstage area afterwards. He goes into the one on the opposite side of the arena. Wouldn’t they have ridden together, what about their seats? Her reaction seemed fake too. SHENANIGANS!!!

Oh c’mon people, that shit was a prank. They even said it during the commentary. She’s one of the worst actresses. The dude was pretty convincing but the girl couldn’t carry the performance. Look at her expressions again and tell me if she’s authentic.

Depressing.

Video: "How to Speak"
larnin’ to talk real good
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Patrick Winston is the author of the classic “Artificial Intelligence” textbook, which introduces Robbie and the Blocks World in LISP

Lecture by Patrick Winston (in QuickTime format) about techniques for public speaking. In the talk, he exhibits many of the techniques and offers up advice on how to employ them in your own talks.

“…Professor Patrick Winston of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offers tips on how to give an effective talk”

harvard speaking

How to give an effective talk with examples

Norwegian Police Deal Massive Blow to MPAA Lawyer | TorrentFreak
Pirate-chasing lawyer Espen T?ndel has been told by the police that they will not spend their valuable resources chasing file-sharers. Undeterred, T?ndel wrote to the Department of Justice demanding a meeting about the polices decision. They responded all right - and denied him a meeting.

The industry just doesn’t want to understand, that there is no way that (file)sharing can be stoped. It’s in human’s nature. Ever since first printing mashine was invented “piretes” copied the works of Shakespeare, Goethe etc. - thanks t…
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Basically, Norwegian ISPs refuse and don’t have to to give any information whatsoever about their customers to anyone but the police where the charges are being dropped left and right. in the cases they actually get one through, they rarely have any identity on the person behind the IP address and it ends up in the garbage at KRIPOS (National Criminal Investigation Service) because they think it belongs in a civil court. something that just brings them back to square one because they can’t get any information on the IP addresses.
It’s mentioned in the article but just thought I might as well point it out. Sorry about my rusty English though!

T?nde has spread so many lies about file sharers that I’m almost ashamed to live in the same country as him. I’m glad that the police has stated this, because it’s just wasted money. Just as the war on drugs.

If I was this lawyers’ kid(s) I would upload the piss out of everything I got, so his IP would show up on list of people to sue.

?wnd is an understatement…. p?wnd is much better :)… good job Norway!

What a round mouth.

Awesome!

I’m glad the police are getting tired of this bullshit, they have real criminals to catch, thieves(real ones), rapists, murderers, and then comes this wanker lawyer demanding them to chase around kids who download, FUCK OFF.

YouTube - Prodigy Of Mobb Deep Speaks On Ron Paul And Obama
Recent interview with Prodigy of Mobb Deep about the candidates.

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MOBB DEEP
SHOOK ONES KEEP RUNNIN

Thank you theghoul, I’ve been saying since the beginning RP would be the best president in an ideal world. Sorry that we don’t live in one. I love Ron Paul’s foreign policy, domestic policy, and definitely his economics. It’s just when you get to the nitty gritty stuff like legalizing all narcotics(Has anyone on here been to Amsterdam and seen the junkies?). I also think NO taxes is quite a leap from our current state. The markets would pull us out in the end, too bad there would be big problems first.

I’m sorry, even thought I love rap and respect Ron Paul, I can’t take anything Prodigy says seriously. He’s a fucking clown.

Man, I want RP in the white heezy, but America doesn’t seem ready yet.

Prodigy knows what time it is.

America IS ready and Merica wants a man like Dr. paul in the office. the problem is, the mainstream media has effectively blocked him out. There should be a law against media bias, censorship and domination. Oh wait, there once was, and it has recently been shot down. WAKE UP AMERICA!

Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements
Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.

Considering the high value (and correspondingly-high price), Apple held its own pretty well among US mobile phone competition last year. And we’re not just talking smartphones, either.
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lets get some .net 2.0 apps running linux. That would help me a ton…

Does anyone know if photoshop elements 5 will install and run in the latest wine and latest Ubuntu?

wooo good work google!

Next up, sketchup. Google did more for us by bringing WINE to where it could run picasa than they ever would have done by making their own native port. I want to see Google apps bundled on some of these: www.dell.com/ubuntu
Perhaps they’re already in the partner repos..

Who cares about Dragon? Couldn’t they find a more relevant application to make work better in Wine … like iTunes or some of the cool PC games? Dragon sucks on Windows - it can’t be any better on Linux! Who (other than those who need to because of a handicap) wants to TALK to their computer?

That’s all good and well, but where is the tutorial to get Dragon working on Ubuntu? I’m upgrading Wine as I type this, but have no idea if it’ll work or not. Seriously folks, this is fantastic news, but quit digging useless ad-laden articles and please start focusing on Wikis and such.

google is helping improve the wine code; such improvements have led to photoshop working better in linux under wine

Always a good thing when an Internet powerhouse lends developer support to popular Linux solutions.

Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.

Kevin - Cool, how can you not love The Google?

chris_pitzer: sounds like photoshop works on linux now: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/pos t/20080219-google-intoxicates-linux -users-with-wine-improvements.html

» Mysterious Ads for “Obay” » The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century : Joey deVilla’s Personal Blog
Its obvious that the product doesnt actually exist and that its some sort of viral marketing. As for what it’s meant to promote, most people with whom Ive spoken to about the ads think that its some kind of jab at parents who are following the disturbing trend of medicating their teenage kids out of normal teenage behavior.

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I can think of one organization that wants to put an end to psychiatry and pill pushers in lieu of their own methods. I once saw a video Tom Cruise did for them. I think they’re scientists of some sort.

Dugg for being, “some kind of jab at parents who are following the disturbing trend of medicating their teenage kids out of normal teenage behavior.”

I don’t think that Scientology would be this subtle without something about them on the ad. They want people to join them more than anything else.

Good thing it isn’t in Boston, they might think it’s a bomb.

Same ads are here in St. Kitts on the buses

phht! It wouldn’t be Scientology, they totally stand for OBEYING! just not the medical treatment kind, the brain raping kind.

whoever it is seems to have a pretty decent budget.

You've Been Had! The Government Is Wasting Your Tax Dollars!: You've Been Had! | Your Tax Dollars | Reader's Digest
“Almost a decade ago, the federal government dropped $100 million for an Earth-monitoring satellite that never made it into space. Today it sits in a closet in Maryland. Cost to taxpayers for storing it: $1 million a year.” - That’s just one expense… You’ll want to read more.

How Uncle Sam spends nearly $1 trillion of your money each year.
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“Fiscal efficiency? What is that?” - US Government

I was wondering where that trillion dollars I had stashed away went.

Some of that is taken directly out of your paycheck before you’re handed a salary (payroll taxes or FICA). So the waste inherent in Medicare is indeed your money being wasted.

What the hell are you talking about? Do you not realize there is something called corporate income tax?

enlightening. frustrating, but enlightening.

Iraq? Subbing the banks with loans?

What was wrong with the article? Are you saying that the publisher is equally as relevant as the content of an article?