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Teen Could Face Year In Juvenile Hall For Racial Remark (1)
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Gothamist (204) permalink
Washington Township Police chief Rafael Muniz, Gloucester County prosecutor Sean Dalton (AP) Yesterday, NJ authorities announced that a 16-year-old boy was arrested for saying on a Wal-Mart store's P.A. system, "Attention, Wal-Mart customers: All black people, leave the store now." Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said in a news conference, "This was an extremely disturbing event on many levels. Any statements like these that can cause harm or grave concern must be addressed as quickly ...Shared by Jay (61)Comment View comments -
Comparative Religion (19)
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Grasping Reality with All Six Feet (56) permalink
No, I have no idea if this is genuine...Shared by Abi (37) cec (6) Chris (38) Chris (21) Chuck (92) Danjones (47) danliebke (98) Jacob (60) Jay (61) jeremy (168) and nine more »Comment View comments -
Introducing Google Buzz widget for Android (44)
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Google Mobile Blog (240) permalink
Since we launched Google Buzz for mobile, we've been working on ways to make it quicker and easier to share your thoughts and experiences while you're out and about.Today, we're excited to release a Google Buzz widget for Android phones that lets you post text and photos with a single tap. Like other mobile access points for Google Buzz, the widget lets you choose to tag your post with the location or place from which ...Shared by abraham (198) Adrian (20) Andreas (31) Arnaldo M Pereira (30) Ben (89) Chung (145) codysherman (16) Darren (33) DGentry (79) dst (46) and 34 more »Explore read nine notes- Jonas said: Only a shame that my Hero still is running Android 1.5 :-)
- Jay said: I got this thing yesterday and there have already been two big Google announcements for software
- Quiketaz said: Ya tenemos widget de buzz para android :D.
- Chung said: Need to make one just like this for dishnom!
- Sal said: finally
- Nick said: Hey, that's something I don't need.
- Miquel said: Eso es ser rapido!!!! Lo instalo cuando hay menos de 50 descargas!!!! ;-)
- Tom said: c'est ça que tu testes ce matin mat ?
- LuKeNuKuM said: nice, that'll be handy...///
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Pie Verus Cake: A Scientific Approach (60)
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Hyperbole and a Half (82) permalink
I love cake. Cake is wonderful. But it is too easy to get caught up in the idea of cake. When you compare the data, it is clear that pie is a better choice. 1. Ability of enjoyment to be sustained over time The first few mouthfuls of cake are almost magical, but as eating continues, enjoyment drops off precipitously. The enjoyment curve for pie appears to be much more stable over time. 2. Unequal ...Shared by Adam (32) armyofgnomes (171) Brian (99) Calum (6) chad (2) Chad (31) Charles (21) Chris (8) Chris (33) Chung (145) and 50 more »Explore read six notes- Holly said: I am undecided on the issue, but she makes some good points. Also, I want to eat some cake and some pie.
- kimyi said: #4 speaks to me.
- kalle said: Intressant analys, men jag håller inte med om slutsatsen.
- fern said: CONCORDO 564987%
- chad said: Clearly the author is too distracted by the frosting to understand the true essence of good cake.
- gorkon said: I like pie....
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The Difference Between Firefox, Opera, Explorer & Safari (102)
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via loldwell.comShared by Aaron (29) Adieu (5) AirDiogo (37) amir (5) ant (40) Arachnid (22) autodidactic (86) bigyahu (8) blippe (359) Bonstio (21) and 92 more »Explore read seven notes- kapgar said: They are more spot-on than they realize.
- Aaron said: Beautiful
- Jay said: PBR and a Fixie.... why am I not surprised!
- Kluz said: Son los más usa'os... I'm sorry maxthoners and Caminoers :P
- dryan said: That's awesome
- Briantist said: excellent!
- rkaller said: As an avid Opera user, this made me giggle.
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Horsetail Firefall (114)
permalinkThis photo was made by Rob Kroenert on February 18th 2010 in the Yosemite National Park. Every year during the month of February, the Horsetall Falls turn golden around sunset. Amazing.Shared by Adam (13) Alex (2) Alex (530) Alexandre Verhaeghe (52) Alexey (41) Allen Sentance (1340) Allen Sentance (1310) Ananya Walia (784) Andrei (105) Andrew (137) and 104 more »Explore read four notes
- Hashim said: Gorgeous!
- kevin said: 瀑布是水构成的，所以是三点水，这个叫爆布。
- Jason Adam Young said: wow.
- janofran said: Amazing
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Advice: Do Not Shave Your Privates While Driving (13)
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Much is said about distracted driving. Don't text, don't talk on the phone, don't eat soup. Apparently nobody bothered to tell one Florida woman not to shave her privates while driving. Clearly, this was our mistake. Here we go: Florida Highway Patrol troopers say a two-vehicle crash Tuesday at Mile Marker 21 on Cudjoe Key was caused by a 37-year-old woman driver who was shaving her bikini area while her ex-husband took the wheel from ...Shared by Dani (83) Gambrill (113) groovysoup (67) hrhnick (64) Jay (61) Jeanne (48) Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) (276) jenx (415) mhking (158) Scott (95) and three more »Comment View comments -
Oscar Winning Film Features Xbox 360 Time Travel [Top] (20)
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Kotaku (1491) permalink
Hurt Locker trounced the competition at the 82nd Academy Awards Sunday night, winning six Oscars. The movie has been called "near perfect" by critics. "Near perfect" as in not perfect? While there have already been discussions (more here) about the film's technical inaccuracies, those pale in comparison to two far more erroneous mistakes. The film is set in 2004. It says so at the beginning of the film. That doesn't stop specialist Owen Eldridge (played ...Shared by Aaron (29) Anski (35) billtron (209) bkim (34) Brad (110) Brian (31) brianwyrick (26) Chad (294) danliebke (98) Eric (39) and 10 more »Explore read seven notes- Eric said: Ha!
- Chad said: Heh. I recognized GoW but didn't think about the timeline.
- billtron said: Oscars revoked!
- Fobtastic said: Hahahahha. Hollywood is STILL stupid when it comes to games. Really. Is it so hard to look this shit up? LRN2INTERNET. God, I hate ignorance.
- Felipe said: Quem se importa?
- brianwyrick said: LOL
- Brian said: Forgot about this. The Gears of War/Xbox 360 appearance made me angry during the movie. 0 stars.
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BMW S1000 RR. Dinner for RR. (57)
permalinkI favorited a YouTube video: From zero to 100km/h (62 mph) in just 2.9 seconds sounds very nice. But would that help in our XXXL-experiment ? Don't try this at home with your dishes. Or your mom's ones.Shared by Adam (38) akiross (17) Aron Cohen (17) Arturo (25) aspida (238) B (82) Beau (9) Bill (88) bm (14) Brett Taylor (45) and 47 more »Comment View comments
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'Futurama' is Coming Back This June! And Bender! And His Banjo! And Fry! (21)
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TV Squad (218) permalink
Are you looking forward to the carefree and sunny days of summer when the temperature drops to a balmy 80 or 90 degrees, just perfect for tossing around a frisbee, taking a walk with a loved one or just appreciating the sheer beauty and majesty of Mother Earth? Now you've got a perfect excuse to leave all that crap for the hippies and stay inside. Hitfix reports that some unidentified "Comedy Central sources" have confirmed ...Shared by Amichi (50) Anthony (23) armyofgnomes (171) Ben (67) Brenton (29) Corey (146) EkzarKun (22) General (56) Ither (127) Jason Foster (12) and 11 more »- wrongforum said: Sweet mercy.
- EkzarKun said: !!!
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Ted’s Birthday (38)
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Improv Everywhere (39) permalink
(View it larger on YouTube) For our latest mission, 30 people throw a birthday party for a random stranger in a bar. The mission was filmed with cameras hidden behind two way mirrors, and the audio comes from hidden wireless microphones (both on our agents and hidden around the bar.) Watch the video first, and then check out our behind-the-scenes report. Still Photos: Chad Nicholson. Video: Jason Carbone Mission Idea: Rob Huebel This mission is ...Shared by AKs (527) AmyVernon (549) anglemona (261) Chris (1174) Chris Portscheller ✔ (549) chris789 (636) Collin (17) Daniel (994) Dino (613) Donna Chaffins (1195) and 28 more »- Ryan said: Sharing this because a) It's interesting to all of you Improv Everywhere fans that also heard the This American Life about the first version of this mission, and b) I'm pretty sure I worked on multiple movie shoots and/or music videos in this bar, and I've climbed all over it hanging lights. It's tiny and smelly, or at least it was in, say, 1999.
- Ron said: I love ImprovEverywhere. Not only for the fun, but as a content creator, I learn something new every time I see one.
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(401): Renamed my iPod as 'the... (47)
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Texts From Last Night (316) permalink
(401): Renamed my iPod as 'the titantic' so when I plug it in it's says 'the titantic is syncing.'.Shared by 100rabh (67) AC (150) Aditya (63) AJ Batac (94) Akusasik (106) armyofgnomes (171) Beej (26) Ben (4) benwong (6) Bill (53) and 37 more »- Joel said: This would be funny if Titanic were spelled correctly.
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Measuring Tweets (75)
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Twitter Blog (145) permalink
As a member of the Twitter analytics team, part of my job is to measure and understand growth. The graph above tells a story of how we've grown over the past three years in terms of number of tweets created per day. Please note that tweets from accounts identified as spam have been removed so the counts in this chart do not include spam.Folks were tweeting 5,000 times a day in 2007. By 2008, that ...Shared by 007bond (19) abraham (198) Adam (145) Al (18) AnthonyBaker (31) Avi (218) bebal (14) Bernhard (0) billhelm (62) BJ (40) and 65 more »Explore read 13 notes- hiro said: API制限ついててこれってすごいよなぁ。なかったらどれだけひどいことになっていたか
- Ed said: WOW!
- Bernhard said: Von wegen Stagnation - 600 Tweets pro Sekunde, plus 1.400%:
- billhelm said: This is a pretty crazy growth curve.
- Al said: Wow -- 50 million tweets per day. Amazing growth.
- peefeeyatko said: när planar kurvan ut?
- ryan said: Holy crap look at that graph.
- Jrome said: It's a bit lower than I'd heard.
- Dougal said: Impressive numbers.
- portorikan said: TPS reports. Nice!
- Mayuresh said: Staggering growth
- Marius said: Virker ikke som Tweeter er helt dødt enda gitt...
- Trevor said: I was there back in Feb. 2007! This graph is insane.
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Spying school district update: turned on webcams 42 times, FBI isn't sure that's legal (17)
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Engadget (4935) permalink
Remember the Pennsylvania school district that was accused of remotely flipping on the webcams of students' laptops? As if the civil suit filed on behalf of those students wasn't going to be enough trouble for the Lower Merion representatives, now it seems the FBI wants to know just what's going on, launching an investigation into the practice. For its part the district said that it remotely activated the cams 42 times, and that it only ...Shared by Chris (521) CtrlBreak (23) Dean (58) Gord (81) Jay (61) jayman16 (167) Matthew (11) mikelite (156) Mohammad (13) Quicksilver_Johny (0) and seven more »Explore read four notesComment View comments -
California Town To Start Charging Up To $400 For 911 Calls (21)
onThe town of Tracy, California has come up with a new plan to make money: you'll have to pay between $48-400 to call 911. I wonder if Tracy is planning on giving the caller the bill over the phone--they might be able to chain 911 calls together by giving the first caller a heart attack, thereby prompting someone else to call, and so on. Money! Here's the pricing breakdown: if you want unlimited 911 calling ...Shared by Alex (14) Anuraag (55) bitwiseplatypus (5) Brandon (43) Bryce (122) INCyr (96) Jay (61) jbruin (36) Jon, the Beartato of FF (27) Misty (74) and 11 more »Explore read six notes
- jbruin said: this can't be legal!
- bitwiseplatypus said: Possibly the worst idea ever.
- INCyr said: Wow, this is a horrible idea.
- Rizzn said: This has to be a joke.What do taxes pay for again?
- Warren Whitlock said: the concept of 911 appears to founded on the "we're all in this together" mode of thinking.. It has to be paid for, but is this the way? If you call and things go bad, having paid entitles you to compensation too?
- Anuraag said: ?!
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9 Links We DARE You To Click (10)
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Woot! - One Day, One Deal (134) permalink
By now everybody's hip to using URL-shortening sites to fit links into tiny spaces, like tweets. But what do you do if you don't want someone to click on a link? You run it through ShadyURL for a web address you'd have to be crazy to click on. Come and have a click if you think you're hard enough: http://5z8.info/b... http://5z8.info/b... http://5z8.info/h... http://5z8.info/d... http://5z8.info/i... http://5z8.info/i... http://5z8.info/b... http://5z8.info/5... http://5z8.info/d... What terrifying URLs can you generate with ...Shared by Anna (219) Big (7) Caleb (59) Chip (36) Daniel (370) Ian (6) Jay (61) Matthew Imakyure (11) Patrick (158) Walter (23)- Ian said: The Internet has been beaten.
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Lego Cubestormer robot solves Rubik's Cube in sub-12 second whirlwind (video) (59)
onRobots born with the sole purpose of solving the Rubik's Cube are nothing new, but we're pretty sure we haven't seen one crack the code in under a dozen seconds before. The Cubestormer, which is built from a myriad Lego Mindstorm kits, recently took hold of the famous block and lined up every color without breaking a sweat. Oh, and did we mention that it took less than 12 seconds? It's worth noting again, either ...Shared by a (124) Aaron (21) Abilash (7) amykhar (0) Andy Bryant (2) Ankur (13) ant (40) Ari (9) Asier (7) Cam (75) and 49 more »Explore read nine notes
- Jake said: WANT!!!
- duskstriker said: Awesomeness
- eric said: cool!
- Pat said: I never did figure the system out this is sweet
- Double said: NI's Lego Mindstorm is awesome.
- Kluz said: Chale, las máquinas con legos lo pueden todo, resolver rubiks en segundos, pero a ver que se aviente una chilenita
- envirotex said: Faster! Faster!!!
- James said: Alright, that's a pretty rad use of LEGO Mindstorms.
- Lorenzo said: @Daniele.Tullo, riesci a fare di meglio?
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South Korean iPhone users turn to sausages as a cold weather 'meat stylus' -- Engadget (75)
onApple and HTC might each be trying to patent a fancy capacitive stylus, but it looks like the good people of South Korea have stumbled on a decidedly more low-tech (and delicious) solution to using their phones in the winter: sausages. Apparently snack sausages from the CJ Corporation are electrostatically compatible with the iPhone's capacitive touchscreen, leading many to use them as a "meat stylus" in the cold weather, rather than remove a glove. And ...Shared by Abhimanyu (0) Adnan (16) Alec (4) Alex (2) Alex (14) Alisha764 (12) Andrew (41) arturopelayo (243) Badweather (6) BenMarvin (7) and 65 more »Explore read 18 notes
- Cristian said: This is ingenious and hilarious.
- Jeff said: Haha
- Mark said: This is wonderful!
- Mingque said: Sausages...HAHA
- k said: I sooo need this for next winter.Thanks June!
- meta said: I've got your meat stylus...
- Jesse said: Magic winter meat wand for iphone.
- Mark said: Next time we are headed to Tahoe we have to pick up some sausages.
- pisces said: 韩国人民太油菜了。。。。
- microft said: há que dar uso a salsicha no tempo frio! :D
- Tjowens said: wow, that is disturbing. Now we don't just kill animals to eat them, we kill them to make fake fingers so we don't need to remove our gloves.
- Ryan said: the problem with capacitive touch screens.
- Kian said: Hahah... smart? delicious.
- Lloyd said: Koreans always playing with their sausages.
- Dee said: So. Many. Jokes to be made here...
- Ramine said: This is awesome
- Tee said: South Korea has the fastest average broadband speed (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0908/) AND they have delicious iPhone meat styluses? Could it be heaven?
- Alisha764 said: U can buy gloves that work w/iphone, like ones @krafty pointed out http://bit.ly/aARlJz, or you can use a sausage like those in South Korea!
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Olympic Torch Relay nearly complete (67)
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With only two days left until the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, the 106-day, 26,000 km overland Olympic Torch Relay through Canada has nearly come to a close. Back in December, we featured 33 images from the first 44 days of the journey. Today, we bring you highlights from the last 73 days, as torchbearers bring the flame ever closer to its final destination, Vancouver's BC Place, to light the ...Shared by a (124) Aaron (0) Alexander (79) Alexander (12) Amir (0) Andrew Smith (11) Angie (11) Beej (26) Bijou (77) Braceta (4) and 57 more »Explore read seven notes- Andrew Smith said: Almost there.
- Jay said: Sharing before Bryn does. The torch relay is a joke now after that China debacle.
- Miss said: The Olympics is one of about 5.7 things I have not yet become cynical about. All you people that tell me I'm a fool and hate athletics for the sake of hating athletics can suck it.
- Braceta said: The Big Picture is always mind-blowing...
- Josh said: If you thought, Canada surely can't make this silly tradition any sillier! You were wrong.
- Mmmbacon said: Is there a site as consistently good as The Big Picture?
- Dre said: Beautiful fire.
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Vancouver forecast: light winds, unlimited visibility (56)
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The view from Whistler Mountain is something everyone should see: a range of rugged mountains, trails of snow, fir trees and placid lakes below. It's changed since I lived there some years back — there are many more houses, and far better chairlifts — but what remains is the rare feeling of being free, in nature, about to tear into peak snow.In time for the Games in Vancouver and Whistler, we're thrilled to be bringing ...Shared by aemkei (4) AlbertoL (9) Amish (13) Andrey (0) anthonybrown (13) B (4) Bill (59) Bryan (38) Carl (30) cassondra (2) and 46 more »Explore read seven notes- Eric said: The Street View from the slopes in Whistler is fun. You can jump to other venues too, but there's not much to see in Cypress Bowl. (We're a little short of snow there. Shhhh.)
- Raj said: Too far!
- kuroki said: I just had this idea this weekend. Google stole my idea.
- Fake said: スノーモービルでストリートビュー撮影
- Gine said: Ma pensa te... Google Street View pure sulle piste da sci: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/help/maps/streetview/gallery/#the-games
- Dre said: They need to get this on some mountain bikes. :D
- coolnalu said: Google在本土还是算是呼风唤雨的。将现实带到网上的能力总是令偶惊异。这种做事的力度比其他资本主义企业还是好很多的。
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