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Using 20 Billion Data Points, Goodreads Will Recommend Your Next Book -- (link) - mara Sep 15, 06:38 2
- TFox! notice this!! -- nm - amanda jones Sep 15, 06:38 1
  - books + data? how could I not? - TFox Sep 15, 06:45
you know those applause o-meters they have on same game shows? can anyone (mara?) find me one I can print and cut out? - amanda jones Sep 15, 06:37 1
- Just an image? I'm not sure what they look like on game shows, but the one that looks like a real meter is amusing -- (link) - mara Sep 15, 06:39
it's qe for the world! "ECB says it joins Fed, BoE, SNB in coordinated 3-month dollar-liquidity operations".....nm - x Sep 15, 06:37
How was Free Agents last night? (I'm a fan of the original but it got cancelled). -- nm - LMS Sep 15, 06:33
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- Again? -- nm - amoxy Sep 15, 06:42
- Oh my... -- nm - Ender Sep 15, 06:37
- Wow. How is that even in their audio system? - Strongbad Sep 15, 06:35 3
  - that's what I was thinking. What possible use could that song ever have where they wouldn't apologize for it later? -- nm - Mel Profit Sep 15, 06:37 2
    - I would think either somebody ripped the wrong track at some point, or a lowly paid, and now unemployed, intern thought it would be hilarious. -- nm - Ender Sep 15, 06:39 1
      - these are good. Maybe they also planned to censor it at some point. - Mel Profit Sep 15, 06:42
- OMG. that is hilarious -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:33 8
  - what song is it (no sound at work)? -- nm - Don Homer Sep 15, 06:37 7
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    - N N N N N N MF N N N N N -- nm - Strongbad Sep 15, 06:40
    - let's just say in the maybe 20 words song, 15 of them are the n word -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:38 3
      - f*cking nubby! -- nm - znufrii Sep 15, 06:43
      - the story was about a 103 year old woman who still drove her own car...you can probably guess her race -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:39 1
        
        whoops! -- nm - Don Homer Sep 15, 06:40
Scarjo threatening to sue websites who keep posting her nude pics -- (link) - Beaker Sep 15, 06:32 3
- horse.out.of.barn - get over it honey. - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:34
- LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - SJOHA si Sep 15, 06:33 1
  - I am! I am! -- nm - bc/nc Sep 15, 07:03
something/one in my office smells deliciously cinnamonny/clovish today. no idea where it's from. -- nm - Andie Sep 15, 06:27
Should faking a name on Facebook be a felony? (It may already be a misdemeanor.) -- (link) - mara Sep 15, 06:24 13
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- not good for me -- nm - tRuMaN Sep 15, 06:30
- it could be classified as a high crime of treason, I'm still not using my real name - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:28
- my opinion: no, unless you are pretending to be someone else that actually exists. (like, you create an account as an ex to ruin them, etc.) -- nm - Andie Sep 15, 06:26 9
  - is defamation a felony? -- nm - colin Sep 15, 06:28 1
    - i didn't even mean defaming specifically. just being an imposter to a real person should be the problem. not a 'fake name' that isn't representing a - Andie Sep 15, 06:29
  - Bad news for Bacon. :-( -- nm - mara Sep 15, 06:28 6
    - My guess is I am protected under freedom of speech laws as mine is a parody of a famous person -- nm - Bacon on a droid Sep 15, 06:34 3
      - Read the article I linked. You may well be right, but there are startlingly few protections. -- nm - mara Sep 15, 06:40 1
        
        I will take my chances. It's way too much fun -- nm - Bacon Sep 15, 06:54
      - God bless Larry Flynt -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:34
    - right, personally, i don -- nm - Andie Sep 15, 06:30 1
      - ... don't care. but that's the line i would draw. it wouldn't just be straight up 'fake name.' like i said, that's just my opinion. -- nm - Andie Sep 15, 06:31
New brusnwick school using 2 gb USB keys and online homework rather than text books -- (link) - Beaker Sep 15, 06:24 1
- My son's middle school team posts what the assignments are on a wordpress blog. I'd love to see them go further like these guys - oblique Sep 15, 06:25
FYI. Pirates! for iPad is only $2 currently (normally $5) -- (link) - oblique Sep 15, 06:23 1
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Quakes of magnitude 6 or greater hit off Cuba, Japan, New Zealand within hour. -- (link) - mara Sep 15, 06:19 4
- This would make for an awesome opening to a movie? -- nm - Hollywood Studios Sep 15, 06:26 1
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- *expects the world to just break into pieces any moment now.* - Andie Sep 15, 06:24
- someone let the cat walk on the earthquake machine again -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:20
Denmark votes in general election as economy falters -- (link) - Danedukenuuk Sep 15, 06:17
I wonder if she realized the words "Jews should be sterilized" came out of *her* mouth too. -- nm - mara Sep 15, 06:14 6
- Hitler's mom was a beotch -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:17
- but when she does it it's cute! -- nm - mafic Sep 15, 06:16
- ...who now? -- nm - colin Sep 15, 06:16 3
  - This was linked on B2. -- (link) - mara Sep 15, 06:17 2
    - what a stupid girl -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:29
    - and he's probably not even Jewish! - colin Sep 15, 06:27
TV PSA: Wipeout 2 hour finale, Community season finale from last year -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:13 2
- Premiers: Angels Among Us (CW), The Secret Circle (CW), Vampire Diaries (CW), and Always Sunny (FX) -- nm - oblique Sep 15, 06:14 1
  - thanks for these PSAs - I'm going to give Secret Circle a shot - Gale Herrod!!! ( I love you Brian Kinney!) and rewatched Vamps season finale to - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:17
jobles claims: 428k, highest in 2 months. last week revised up. 21 of 22 weeks above 400k... - x Sep 15, 06:10 8
- Is there any good news this morning? -- nm - Walt_Disney Sep 15, 06:14 7
  - every time the data looks really weak the market rallies on the prospect of more quantitative easing!.....nm - x Sep 15, 06:19
  - i'm getting a new job! -- nm - colin Sep 15, 06:17 3
    - That's awesome, I'm excited for both of you. -- nm - Strongbad Sep 15, 06:29
    - I saw that on the BB's.....Its sounds like a great job. Congrats!!! -- nm - Walt_Disney Sep 15, 06:24 1
      - this -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:25
  - I'm having breakfast tomorrow with a girl I thought I had no chance with. her idea, even! -- nm - mafic Sep 15, 06:16 1
    - this is great news - got get her tiger -- nm - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:29
Take the who said it quiz: Mark Cuban, Jerry Jones or JR Ewing ? -- (link) - Beaker Sep 15, 06:04
Netflix has lost 1 million subscribers (4%) since the price increases went into effect -- nm - stewie Sep 15, 06:01 25
- So they lost 4% and the other 96% are paying 100% more? I think that's a win -- nm - oblique Sep 15, 06:13 9
  - 28% for me. -- nm - nubby Sep 15, 06:17 4
    - I was being sarcastic but -100% of 4% is probably less than +28% of 96% or whatever that average is - oblique Sep 15, 06:20 3
      - it's way too early to judge the ultimate upshot of their price hike on their bottom line, imo.... - x Sep 15, 06:23 2
        
        I think too that many people will return to NF when they realize there's no better way, no cheaper way; no *other* way. -- nm - amanda jones Sep 15, 06:28 1
        
        I think you are right - SM is already griping and it's been 3 days -- nm - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:30
  - I'm not paying 100% more, haven't been billed yet but it's only a couple bucks more (10%ish). -- nm - Don Homer Sep 15, 06:16 1
    - it's the lower-level users who were hit hardest -- people who had less than three discs at a time -- nm - amanda jones Sep 15, 06:29
  - You also have to factor in that they are a growth company and otherwise might've added a million customers - stewie Sep 15, 06:16 1
    - certainly not a million. I'm really curious to see what the subscriber base looks like a year from now. my guess is that most people will be back in - amanda jones Sep 15, 06:39
- to be accurate, they cut their customer *forecast* by a million.....nm - x Sep 15, 06:05 5
  - if they cut their forecast a million, it likely already contained some assumption of enrollment loss due to price hikes, yes? or no? -- nm - TFox Sep 15, 06:21
  - true, it's a 3rd quarter forecast so it's probably projecting out a month or so from now -- nm - stewie Sep 15, 06:08 3
    - I'm sure the loss of Starz will hurt them temporarily as people want to see what content they'll get to replace that -- nm - oblique Sep 15, 06:22 2
      - Though I imagine they are still trying to work out a deal. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 15, 06:24 1
        
        the starz deal with blockbuster/dish likely means that will not happen....nm - x Sep 15, 06:32
- AND - I just dropped on the 12th - no way they counted me in that - so there numbers are only going to get bigger -- nm - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:03
- that is a lot of customers but not a huge percentage. so someone do the math - lets say half the people left agreed to the price increase? - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:03 4
  - I disagree -- I think any slide backwards is significant. -- nm - amanda jones Sep 15, 06:04 3
    - I hope its significant to them. If they were smart -they put out a price program to woo people back. - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:06 2
      - they're not raising prices to be greedy, as content providers continue to overvalue their streaming assets Netflix doesn't have much choice - stewie Sep 15, 06:14 1
        
        " greedy" is debateable - they could have cut expenses else where? they could offer new products and bring in more business - they could have made - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:32
- Does that include people who dropped streaming or disc but stayed on, or the total who left completely? -- nm - Don Homer Sep 15, 06:02 2
  - it's total subscribers, so it would not count people that changed plans -- nm - stewie Sep 15, 06:03
  - and does that count people who are still active but going inactive? (my subscription expires 9/29.) -- nm - amanda jones Sep 15, 06:03
Dina Lohan says Ali's changing look due to puberty -- (link) - Beaker Sep 15, 05:57 4
- considering she had clearly gone through puberty several years before ... -- nm - loosilu Sep 15, 06:04
- Dina is a lying ass beotch -- nm - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:04 2
  - she must be the worst mother in Hollywood. -- nm - loosilu Sep 15, 06:04 1
    - agreed -- nm - Epiphany Sep 15, 06:05
Rate this FF trade: - Beaker Sep 15, 05:53 3
- Devry Henderson? With Colshton and Lance Moore Out, Henderson - amoxy Sep 15, 06:02 2
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  - my other RBs are Chris Johnson, Benson and Turner and my other WR are Dez Bryant and Fitz...I need a QB more than another WR or an RB switch -- nm - Beaker Sep 15, 06:07
SAT reading scores drop to lowest point in decades... -- (link) - Don Homer Sep 15, 05:40 2
- As the number of graduating seniors who have taken the test continues to increase. - Strongbad Sep 15, 05:54
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Houston has the most spam-infested craigslist I've ever seen.. finding a place to live will be challenging. - colin Sep 15, 05:31 2
- are you still considering RV trailering? -- nm - Epiphany Sep 15, 05:36 1
  - i don't think we have time at this point.. at least need something for 6 months. -- nm - colin Sep 15, 06:16
Library Hold Notice: Thor - oblique Sep 15, 05:28 3
- Foolish mortals. A mere library cannot hold Thor -- nm - prayformojo Sep 15, 06:16
- Yay! -- nm - mara Sep 15, 06:10
- yeah, it works quite well, doesn't it? for me it's awesome because I walk past the library anyway almost every day. -- nm - amanda jones Sep 15, 05:54
Grr. Amazon is annoying me at the moment. I ordered something long ago that is finally shipping soon, but have to change my cc info because my - Don Homer Sep 15, 04:58 2
- their customer service call-back system is pretty good. - prayformojo Sep 15, 05:28 1
  - Yeah, I was still having problems so I ended up just ordering it again (same price) without any problem. - Don Homer Sep 15, 05:31
Meg, if you're around...my final # was 202. - Will Hunting Sep 15, 04:48 2
- kg?? ;) -- nm - Don Homer Sep 15, 04:58 1
  - number of M & M's in his mouth - Epiphany Sep 15, 05:37
Good news everyone...Swiss banking giant UBS said Thursday that a rogue trader has caused it an estimated loss of $2 billion -- (link) - Beaker Sep 15, 04:40
When President Obama visited Solyndra's plant in Fremont two months later, he gave a rousing pep talk and declared that "the future is here." -- (link) - Strongbad Sep 15, 04:35
wake up. - kelly Sep 15, 04:34 3
- ~put on a little makeup~ -- nm - Palin Sep 15, 05:36
- ugh, been awake for hours now. Frickin Alex was up half the night. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 15, 04:59
- that's what i'm sayin! -- nm - prayformojo Sep 15, 04:37
Initial Survivor thoughts: - Beaker Sep 15, 04:14 1
- (spoilers) - oblique Sep 15, 05:30
I would watch a TV Cop show written by the guy behind Boomtown starring Vincent D'Onofrio. -- (link) - landbeck Sep 15, 02:29
Sometimes you start feeling so lost and lonely. Then you'll find it's all been in your mind Sometimes you think someone is the one and only - zeitgeist Sep 15, 01:53
good news wiggum! "X" is now a gender option on Australian passports -- (link) - moles Sep 15, 01:22
I am amused that hulu sometimes has a problem showing the video due to buffering but neeeever has a problem with the ads. -- nm - Qale Sep 15, 01:03
Deadline is suing the Hollywood Reporter for reporting on Deadline's scoops. -- (link) - Mop Sep 14, 22:37
Shocked to see that Fox News talking head Megyn Kelly went to the mat for Chaz Bono (and gays and lesbians, too) -- (link) - Mop Sep 14, 22:30 3
- "There is still good in her, I feel it!" -- nm - Reagen Sep 15, 05:40
- I actually think she's a pretty good reporter most of the times I've seen her. -- nm - JenBro Sep 14, 22:42
- and against the pink toenail polish hater nonetheless.3 - znufrii Sep 14, 22:36
Wait - reading BB's -Pixie was in a sex tape? Huh? -- nm - JenBro Sep 14, 22:20 2
- alone -- nm - peglegpete Sep 14, 22:25 1
  - I'm not sure that's any less disturbing - hee! -- nm - JenBro Sep 14, 22:30
Ok, Ringer was interesting enough that it gets season-passed. Though (spoilers) - Stephen Sep 14, 22:09 1
- agree to the IM - I am going to give it two more episodes so it had better step it up. *future spoiler consideration* - Epiphany Sep 15, 05:39
Get me more shots of Ozzie come out of the water bare chested. Oh, yeah, that's the ticket... -- nm - Survivor Producers Sep 14, 22:03 5
- No, Papa Bear! -- nm - RC si Sep 14, 22:05 4
  - Ernest Hemingway died and went to Survivor. -- nm - Mop Sep 14, 22:07 3
    - He reminded me more of Richard Dryfuss -- nm - oblique Sep 15, 05:31
    - he can fish -- nm - zeitgeist Sep 14, 22:19 1
      - If he keeps wearing those baggy shorts in the water, we're gonna be eating a lot of eel for dinner. -- nm - Mop Sep 14, 22:31
My pick for first show canceled: Up All Night. Also, reminder that there's a new episode of Archer tomorrow. - the wrong element, bad guy Sep 14, 21:59 2
- NBC's banking big on Up All Night. This is one of those shows that NBC will drag into a second season through pure will. -- nm - Mop Sep 14, 22:04 1
  - I hope it gets funnier. The ads were much better than the actual show. I did not really get into the characters at all -- nm - oblique Sep 15, 05:32
Heh, just caught the Geico 'Easier Way to Save' commercial....funny. -- (link) - MojaveMeg Sep 14, 21:51 [youtube] 1
- hit it, mr. butters -- nm - moles Sep 14, 21:52
Clozapine! -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Sep 14, 21:48 2
- Worst. First. Ever. -- nm - The Ruiner Sep 14, 21:48 1
  - Sildenafil -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Sep 14, 21:51

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