tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5226392024-08-30T10:32:24.696-05:00The trick to flying is to throw yourself at the ground and miss.<br> <em>- Douglas Adams</em>ToddZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17547666731592844103noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-522639.post-43966038448940268222007-12-04T09:23:00.000-06:002007-12-04T09:31:36.403-06:00

Here's the current list of sites blithely sending user-specific activity information to Facebook as part of their incredibly bold privacy-violating Beacon advertising scheme.(Sites I'm particularly surprised at and disappointed in for participating in this are bolded.)AllPosters.comBlockbusterBluefly.comBusted TeesCBS Interactive (CBSSports.com &amp; Dotspotter)

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YouTube and I seem to have different ideas about the purpose of the "Favorites" collectionvs. the "Video Log" (variously referred to on YouTube as Vlog, Video Log, and Video Blog). Favorites, to me, is stuff I'll want to look at again, and not necessarily foist on others. The Video Log is for stuff I've checked out that might be interesting to others. I Vlog many, but Fave few. Why is there an

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Google To “Out Open” Facebook On November 5: "The meeting was so secret that all attendees had to sign confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements strictly forbidding them from discussing what was shown to them at the meeting. Notwithstanding that NDA, I’ve now spoken with three of the attendees off record to get an understanding of what Google is planning."Then Arrington goes on to blab the

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Screamin' Stones from the band HunterI'd never heard of this Polish "soul-metal" band before. This song combined with 9/11 imagery is pretty potent.

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TwitterNotes: Clever, but I'm not sure this is actually a great idea. I know people are starting to use Twitter for more than the original "what I'm doing" bulletin purpose, but the more tangential stuff we push into the service, the less useful it's going to be. Do you really want to see people's personal reminders to themselves in their public Twitterstream?

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Dokken is playing at the nightclub in the local AMF Bowling Center tomorrow night. I won't comment on that except to say that I'd go but it's sold out. However: guys, come on, hire some kid to Photoshop my mom's Nissan Altima out of the background of your tough-rock-gods-in-black promo photo.

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"Here’s my comparison between the three Tracks front ends. As you can see, I didn’t even bother checking out the extra bits for tracks.tra.in or Personal Tracks. That’s because the deferred start date is that important to me."Aw come on, why post a "comparison" for the world to see if you didn't bother to fill in all the fields? What good is this to anyone who doesn't share your exact same

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Susan Sarandon talks about the Wachowski Brothers' SPEED RACER:Tommy Lee Jones: What is the movie about? Susan: It’s a cartoon called Speed Racer which they’re now making into a movie. What the stories about is John Goodman and I are mom and pops and he makes racing cars and it’s about the corruption of sports by corporations and of course while we were doing it all these horrible things were

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For his study, McCue put 20 ball pythons, 22 ratsnakes and 20 western diamondback rattlesnakes through 168 days of starvation. Weight and other measurements were taken at regular intervals. After the 168 days, McCue chemically euthanized each snake and pureed it in a blender in order to better conduct chemical analysis.

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A traumatic memory may be debilitating because it carries with it the original associated emotions. Scientists have now developed a way to dampen the emotional component of a bad memory for test subjects, allowing them to remember every detail but not experience the emotion. In another experiment, they appear to have completely erased a specific targeted memory in lab rats. Now that's interesting.

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A genetic mutation called the "after-hours gene" may explain why some people are night owls, it is revealed in Science journal today. The altered gene, named "after hours" or Afh, is a variant of a gene called Fbxl3, which had not been linked to the body clock that keeps our metabolism, digestion and sleep patterns in tune with the rising and setting of the sun.The discovery involved scientists

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So these armed muggers tried to hold up a tour bus full of US seniors in a rough neighborhood in Costa Rica. The worldly travelers chased off two of them, while one 70-year-old retired serviceman put the third in a headlock and "broke his clavicle", killing him. Killing him! The clavicle is your collarbone! The thing you broke when you fell off your bike as kid. The thing they don't even do

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The inspiring story of one man's relentless search... for the place depicted by his Windows wallpaper.

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This video segment is hilarious thanks to the videographer whose equipment failure led to the priceless lyrics of the song which replaces interview questions. (There was little to be done, though, about his thoughtless placement of the interview subject: standing outside on a dismal overcast day in a bleak rustbelt alleyway, while talking about the majestic birds of nature. WTF?)

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50 degrees out in Wisconsin on Jan. 1. This bodes well! Unless it's just faking us out... maybe it'll be 11 out tomorrow.

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Mohammed Yusef Mullawala wanted a license to transport hazardous materials and to learn how to drive commercial tractor trailers. There was nothing unusual about that, until he told his teacher that he only wanted to learn how to drive forward, and he wanted to learn fast."That was enough to raise a red flag" at the driving school. No kidding.At least some of the potential terrorists are

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At the University of Chicago they've noted that shy lab rats die sooner than adventurous ones. Too soon, though, to extrapolate skydiving humans outliving whuffos.

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ForecastAdvisor.com presents the National Weather Service Digital Forecast Database forecast for your area, and shows the historical accuracy of the NWS and other major weather sites. Cool! Now if they'd just track the accuracy of our local meteorologists...

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Ginormous, multi-queen nests of yellow jackets have begun filling up abandoned cars, houses and barns in Alabama."We're not really sure how this multiple queen thing works... It could be that the daughters of the original queen don't leave the nest or that the queens have developed some way to cooperate."

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"Driving on the highways is safer today than ever before" despite the 1995 repeal of the old 55mph federal speed limit, "the most disobeyed and despised law since Prohibition." Though Ralph Nader claimed that "history will never forgive Congress for this assault on the sanctity of human life," death, injury and crash rates have fallen sharply since 1995.Ha ha!

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On May 10th, 1963 the US Air Force launched a spacecraft containing 480 million tiny copper needles packed densely together in blocks of evaporative napthalene gel. Upon release, the tiny needles, 1.8 cm long, 0.0018 cm in diameter, began spreading out across their entire orbital path. Within two months they formed a ring encircling the globe, 2300 miles out.Here's why...

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"I don't have any hair products. I don't know how I'm sliding by as a girl."

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A University of Michigan study shows a negative impact of smoking on memory, problem solving and IQ, which "was most pronounced among those who had smoked for a number of years."

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Author Dan Simmons recently shared his account of the Time Traveler's warning of the impending Century War with Islam.“Ahmadenijad,” he said softly. “Natanz. Arak. Bushehr. Ishafan. Bonab. Ramsar.”“Those words don’t mean a damned thing to me,” I said as I scribbled them down phonetically. “Where are they? What are they?”“You’ll know soon enough,” said the Time Traveler.“Are you talking about . .

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