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Wait, Justin Timberlake bought Myspace? -- (link) - TFox Jul 1, 08:30
I do not get today xkcd. I must be too old. -- nm - sycor Jul 1, 08:26
ooh car talk! maybe you guys will have an idea for us. this fall we want to purchase a more commuter-friendly car. 30 mpg +, four door, somewhat - kare Jul 1, 08:13 11
- sedan or hatchback or minisuv? -- nm - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 08:19 1
  - sedan, por favor. -- nm - kare Jul 1, 08:20
- mazda 3? -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 08:16 8
  - this is actually what jeff is liking. -- nm - kare Jul 1, 08:20 7
    - We have a mazda3 hatchback - love it. Doesn't fit kieran very well, though, if that sort of thing is on your mind. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 1, 08:30 1
      - yeah, that might be a consideration. do you just mean it's kind of tight getting him in and out? -- nm - kare Jul 1, 08:32
    - simlar in function to the Matrix, but I think the design is more guy friendly. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 08:21 4
      - he had a mazda 6 for awhile. super nice. -- nm - kare Jul 1, 08:24 3
        
        I hear good things. Next time I'm shopping I think I'll look at a 3. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 08:24 2
        
        I'm looking at that, a Honda Fit Sport, or a used Auid. -- nm - lileve Jul 1, 08:26 1
        
        Audi -- nm - lileve Jul 1, 08:26
Dead woman found in public pool. Of course, she had been there for days while people were swimming and no one noticed. -- (link) - TFox Jul 1, 08:11 28
- ACK! I made the mistake of reading the comments! -- nm - ty97 Jul 1, 08:20 1
  - people are stupid. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 1, 08:22
- Gawker commenters noted that depending on intensity that sunlight reflects off the surface and other refractive properties of light, it's entirely - Hotkiss Jul 1, 08:19 1
  - at the pool where I swim they vacuum the bottom every night. they would never miss something like that. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 08:20
- I need to know how hot it was before I can judge. nm - Dignan Jul 1, 08:16 4
  - The woman, or the weather? -- nm - JaxSean Jul 1, 08:18 1
    - well, she should have been plenty moist. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 1, 08:20
  - Because it's Dignan, my mind went to the "sexy" connotation of "hot" before the temperature connotation. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 08:17 1
    - Obviously. nm - Dignan Jul 1, 08:18
- Days? Bones and CSI tell me that's unlikely. The corpse would have exploded. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Jul 1, 08:16
- yeah, pool staff...fired. How do you close a pool with someone floating in it? -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 08:16 9
  - It probably wasn't floating. -- nm - mara Jul 1, 08:16 8
    - the article says they found it when it floated. (this takes a couple of days of decomp) - loosilu Jul 1, 08:16 7
      - Obvie. I meant when they missed it. -- nm - mara Jul 1, 08:23
      - I'm not sure that's better. "Hey, what's that body shaped lump at the bottom of the pool?" -- nm - Reagen Jul 1, 08:17 5
        
        I swim several times a week. Trust me someone would have seen a body. People complain about a bandaid in the deep end. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 08:18 4
        
        I would have spotted it instantly with my perfect color acuity. nm - Dignan Jul 1, 08:19
        
        I mean to say, they would see it in the pool where I swim. Either this place has BAD maintenance, or the water is unbelievably cloudy, or something. - loosilu Jul 1, 08:19 1
        
        hard to see under the layer of moss at the top. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 1, 08:20
        
        apparently not. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 1, 08:19
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  - The part weirder than not finding it is the part about how she died. - TFox Jul 1, 08:18 4
    - This is the kind of article I no longer give any creedence to. A few days later we'll find out about all the inaccuracies (or never hear of again).. -- nm - mara Jul 1, 08:24 2
      - This pool is maybe 10 miles from my house, so when they crack the case, I'll try to update for you. :) -- nm - TFox Jul 1, 08:25 1
        
        you are now a suspect. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 1, 08:26
    - this. I just read it, and they obviously saw them hit, so you'd think when she didn't come up, or go home with them, they'd ... uh ... notice. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 1, 08:21
- dude. -- nm - kare Jul 1, 08:14
- how many people swam in a pool with a corpse in it? -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 08:13
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I'm bored. nm -- nm - groiny Jul 1, 08:06 3
- go play a flash game! armorgames, newgrounds, etc. -- nm - Prius Owner Jul 1, 08:10 2
  - effing prius owners! damn your opinions! -- nm - colin Jul 1, 08:10 1
    - hehe -- nm - lileve Jul 1, 08:11
Amy from b2 I get about 25-26 mpg driving the kids to school and to my work. - Inigo Jul 1, 08:04 1
- Apologies. I totally eag'ed that subject line. -- nm - Inigo Jul 1, 08:04
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- offs. - Mel Profit Jul 1, 08:12
- Yes, this is where we should be wasting our money. Stopping something that the voters in those states made clear that they want. - Krusty Jul 1, 08:07 4
  - I'm really surprised they haven't started exploring legalization because of the potential windfall legal sales would bring. -- nm - Mel Profit Jul 1, 08:29
  - Yeah, we'll get right on that - the law enforcement community Jul 1, 08:11 2
    - Whups. Shoulda been a reply to ML. -- nm - con_carne Jul 1, 08:17 1
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- And that should put enough of a damper on the proposed RI centers to keep them from opening shop. -- nm - TFox Jul 1, 08:03 2
  - Same in NJ too. Just a terrible idea. -- nm - Krusty Jul 1, 08:07 1
    - What we need to have is gay stoners getting married on both coasts. Why is that so hard to understand? -- nm - con_carne Jul 1, 08:18
First Google+ security "issue". If you don't turn off re-sharing, your stuff shared with one circle can be reshared to anywhere -- (link) - oblique Jul 1, 07:42 11
- Can't that happen in Facebook though? I mean, any one of my friends can take a post of mine or a photo and share it with their people. -- nm - Jim Jul 1, 07:50 6
  - Sort of. If I have the privacy set to Friends only, they can't see it -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 07:51 5
    - But if I'm in your "Friend" group, can I share the post? - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:56 1
      - Maybe, but the original item security still applies so that only my friends would see it (assuming I set it that way) -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 08:14
    - I'm just thinking though...if a friend downloaded one of your photos...then uploaded it to their album...then they share it with everyone they know... - Jim Jul 1, 07:52 2
      - Sure, but technically that's not the same "item" in terms of the security and it shows as your photo, not mine -- nm - oblique Jul 1, 08:14
      - There was a race to find something that could be called a privacy problem. This is the thing they found first. - TFox Jul 1, 07:54
- I don't get why people would think it couldn't be reshared to someone in another of your Circles. - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:48 3
  - I think that's the issue Google's created for themselves. They've created this idea of circles, but enable data to travel outside that circle through - Will Hunting Jul 1, 07:59
  - I think the point is that it can be shared with people *not* in another of your circles. -- nm - mara Jul 1, 07:50 1
    - I think they have something like that in place. Maybe it's this that's a little unclear. - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:54
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- I averaged 20.3 on the way to work this morning. -- nm - decline Jul 1, 07:46
- four-cylinder? I am stunned at how much reduction in fuel economy I see adding one more lousy cylinder. this said - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 07:45 3
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    - One thing: try keeping track of the mpg yourself. - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:51 1
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- big deal. -- nm - Prius Owner Jul 1, 07:42 17
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    - You lack imagination. You've got a Thule, right? -- nm - Reagen Jul 1, 07:47
    - can you fit three kids in a camry? I would guess no. -- nm - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 07:46 14
      - sure. 3 people fit in the back seat. And the Prius is *huge* on the inside. It's like a TARDIS in many regards. - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:50 5
        
        *fondly remembers going on weeklong road trips with my whole family - 6 people - in a station wagon* - loosilu Jul 1, 07:51 3
        
        *waves at loosi sitting in the backwards seat* -- nm - JaxSean Jul 1, 07:55 2
        
        that's where the luggage is. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 07:55 1
        
        (but sometimes I crawled up over the luggage to take a nap and fantasize about escaping) -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 07:56
        
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      - depends on the size of the kids -- nm - znufrii Jul 1, 07:49
      - need third row, pretty sure. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 07:46 6
        
        where's the third row in a camry? "just sit on the trunk, honey. no no. not *in* the trunk. on it!!" -- nm - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 07:47 5
        
        You can do 3 across the back seat if the car is wide. The Sonata has 3 carseat latches. - Amy Jul 1, 07:48 3
        
        I had rental sonatas for two weeks in maine. they made me want to cry. you can't touch the other side!!! -- nm - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 07:53 2
        
        This is so hilarious! I say that all the time! But it's so comfy. It's like driving a sofa to work. -- nm - Amy Jul 1, 08:01 1
        
        I guess were mine v6s, I'd have minded less. but it was like driving a *slow* sofa for me. - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 08:03
        
        getting tied to the roof if we didn't behave was always a favorite threat of my mom's -- nm - znufrii Jul 1, 07:48
Happy Canada Day! Who wants to join me playing tunes in the Slackertalk listening room? -- (link) - con_carne Jul 1, 07:42 10
- How do I get in? Searching for "Slackertalk" gives me nothing. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 08:18 4
  - The link should take you there. If it doesn't, copy and paste this after you log in. http://turntable.fm/4e0ce21a14169c1aff0007c9 - mara Jul 1, 08:26
  - I made it a private room when I created it. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 1, 08:23
  - Thought the link I provided would be enough to get straight into the Slackertalk room - con_carne Jul 1, 08:21
  - nvm -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 08:20
- Oh, cool. *queues up the uke version of Miserlou* -- nm - mara Jul 1, 08:12
- (This one's for Pippy!) -- nm - con_carne Jul 1, 07:54 3
  - I tried to open it...what is it? -- nm - Epiphany Jul 1, 08:03 2
    - MSIE users may have trouble. I think the site tells you to be on FF or Chrome... -- nm - con_carne Jul 1, 08:13
    - Oh, hi. :) - con_carne Jul 1, 08:10
Stephen Fry playing God in Holy Flying Circus. - LMS Jul 1, 07:26 2
- So, they're making a movie about what happened after Python released Life of Brian? - Krusty Jul 1, 07:36 1
  - It's a BBC4 film showing this autumn from one of the writers of In the Loop. - LMS Jul 1, 07:44
Open an ING Direct checking account today or tomorrow and get up to $126 free... -- (link) - Don Homer Jul 1, 07:25 3
- close your ING Direct account today and avoid the pain of CapitalOne fees. -- nm - colin Jul 1, 07:40
- BUT MAKE SURE YOU GET ONE OF US TO REFER YOU. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 07:32
- winnING -- nm - Charles Jul 1, 07:25
I'm awake!! -- nm - Bacon Jul 1, 07:24
the account numbers of credit cards are 12 digits. the last four digits are check digits and the security code is different to that. am I incorrect? -- nm - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 07:22 6
- almost correct. (i looked it up). the last digit is the check digit - decline Jul 1, 07:34 1
  - I make out with your wallet. thanks for googling for me. -- nm - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 07:54
- yes we now have 2 Sec codes a 3 digit and a 4 digit -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 1, 07:25
- I think you are correct. I didn't know the last four were called check digits. I meant the security code in the BB. -- nm - lileve Jul 1, 07:23 2
  - so because those check digits are radom, being off by *one number* is virtually impossible. the check digits were designed to prevent keying errors. -- nm - mandy, queen of scots Jul 1, 07:24 1
    - Yes. Guess my wonder was before websites asked for those security numbers that are embossed on the backs of cards. -- nm - lileve Jul 1, 07:26
Should Math Be Taught In Schools? -- (link) - psilotum Jul 1, 07:21 [youtube] 4
- Yay! -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 07:35
- no way, it's too hard -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 1, 07:28
- That is so obviously fake. -- nm - Jim Jul 1, 07:25 1
  - I'm so obviously not smart. -- nm - Jim Jul 1, 07:26
color differentiation test. it's hard! -- (link) - loosilu Jul 1, 07:21 23 1
- 4. -- nm - Jelly Jul 1, 08:36
- 38 (I blame my monitor) -- nm - psilotum Jul 1, 08:14
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  - can you see that all of those are very subtle? -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 07:47
- what's a "hue order" ? -- nm - my niece and nephews si Jul 1, 07:42 1
  - taking care of city business in Vietnam? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 1, 07:43
- We've done this before. -- nm - mara Jul 1, 07:40
- "You have perfect color vision!" nm - Dignan Jul 1, 07:37
- 52 -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 1, 07:37
- 107 -- nm - Bacon Jul 1, 07:35 3
  - do you have any color weakness that you know of? -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 07:36 2
    - Nope -- nm - Bacon Jul 1, 07:36 1
      - to him every CSI victim is royalty -- nm - Danedukenuuk Jul 1, 07:40
- Holy crap that's involved. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 07:32 4
  - 7. Weakness in blue/green. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 07:42 3
    - did it tell you that? -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 07:46 2
      - Yeah when it gives you your score there's a histogram of the spectrum. -- nm - nubby, grit eater Jul 1, 07:49 1
        
        I didn't get that. just the score. -- nm - loosilu Jul 1, 07:50
- well, I'm sure someone will accuse me of lying. I got 4. I'm sure this is because of painting. - loosilu Jul 1, 07:28 2
  - Liar. nm - Jim Jul 1, 07:30 1
    - see??? - loosilu Jul 1, 07:32
- 23 -- nm - decline Jul 1, 07:26
- 34 -- nm - Strongbad Jul 1, 07:26
*kicks Comcast in the jimmies* -- nm - znufrii Jul 1, 07:21
Word. -- nm - Jim Jul 1, 07:18

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