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Flashmob in Switzerland to protest Nuclear Power Plants, this is pretty "wow" - MDH May 27, 07:13 [youtube] 13
- sure there are problems with nuclear reactors, but killing people when they meltdown isn't one of them. it's not actually possible for modern - mafic May 27, 07:24 6
  - We are building huge wind turbines in Eastern Oregon and I just saw a news story last night environmentalists are upset - Redmond, Gemma fan! May 27, 07:28 3
    - The Wind Farm off of Cape Cod inspired some naked Nimby stuff. -- nm - Mel Profit May 27, 07:32
    - well, at least they have a more substantive complaint that the Cape Codders who didn't want it to ruin their ocean views... -- nm - znufrii May 27, 07:30
    - in the 70s and 80s and 90s they were screaming for wind power over nuclear. make up your effin' minds. -- nm - zork May 27, 07:29
  - problem is there aren't many modern reactors around - Danedukenuuk May 27, 07:27 1
    - not entirely true. CANDU reactors, for starters. been building them since the '70s. -- nm - mafic May 27, 07:44
- What? No collapsed bus drivers or airline pilots? - psilotum May 27, 07:23
- wow. very PR effective. -- nm - Mel Profit May 27, 07:17
- we can solve our energy crisis with more oil! -- nm - Beaker May 27, 07:17 2
  - a Red Bull would have solved most of the energy problems of thoose in the video -- nm - Danedukenuuk May 27, 07:22
  - and we all know that these meltdowns happen all the time..wait...oh...never mind. -- nm - Beaker May 27, 07:20
- Some of those people merit stomps - Will Hunting May 27, 07:16
Top Chef Masters Spoilers - MDH May 27, 07:04
I hate Dolomedes scriptus. That is all. I believe I found a couple of them hanging around my bbq on my deck on the weekend. They are dead now. - Shaun May 27, 06:59 3
- *shiver* -- nm - Will Hunting May 27, 07:03 2
  - How bout a pic? -- (link) - Shaun May 27, 07:08 [flickr] 1
    - *screams* but hey there is a cute puppy pic in the next slide. woot -- nm - Epiphany May 27, 07:21
I headed to my friend's house at 8AM to meet the installers who were going to be putting in new carpet - their estimated time of arrival was 8-9:30. - kelly May 27, 06:56
'Top kill' method 'stops BP oil leak' in Gulf of Mexico -- (link) - Danedukenuuk May 27, 06:51 4
- the live cam now is pretty cool - showing remote monitoring of the equipment down there -- (link) - prayformojo May 27, 07:07
- well that's good. - znufrii May 27, 06:57
- Thank God. -- nm - HdnAgnda May 27, 06:56
- hallelujah! -- nm - Andie May 27, 06:52
Uh-oh. Eddy Grant earworm. Working an order on Electron Avenue in Sth Africa. -- nm - HdnAgnda May 27, 06:44
70th Anniversary of the start of the Dunkirk rescue operation -- (link) - Beaker May 27, 06:44
Ok...so we lost power last night and we lost all of the Idol finale. Saw who won...but - Jim May 27, 06:36 13
- Xtina's performance was incredible (amazing vocal calisthenics); Janet sounded like MJ; Brett was cool; Alanis too ... -- nm - zork May 27, 07:11
- spoilers - ty97 May 27, 06:44 3
  - Ok...liked the Alanis thing a lot. Course, Alanis is one of my favorites... - Jim May 27, 06:55 2
    - spoyls - groiny May 27, 07:26
    - yep, it was a great pairing -- nm - ty97 May 27, 07:06
- Spoilers - MDH May 27, 06:39 7
  - spoils - zork May 27, 07:16 1
    - spoils - groiny May 27, 07:28
  - spoilers - ty97 May 27, 06:45 2
    - Although...(spoils) - Jim May 27, 06:50 1
      - spoils - ty97 May 27, 07:22
  - Well, they're right about one thing...without Cowell, AI is done. - Jim May 27, 06:45 1
    - I think it will change for the better without him. His schtick was done years ago and he became a characature of himself - zork May 27, 07:12
OK here's a weird one: on my computer, Caps Lock is off, but on my remote session it's on. If I turn Caps Lock on, the remote session it turns off. - JaxSean May 27, 06:36 1
- that happens to me sometimes too. switch to a local window and hit caps lock. that changes to local setting but not the remote one. -- nm - zork May 27, 07:07
A friend that lives in Shaw, got hate crimed in Georgetown last night at Sex and the City 2 - MDH May 27, 06:29 21
- Did he like the movie? - Redmond, Gemma fan! May 27, 07:26 2
  - "Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" -- nm - znufrii May 27, 07:29 1
    - well played -- nm - zork May 27, 07:30
- al sharpton? -- nm - mafic May 27, 06:45
- if there had been singing it could have passed for an episode of Glee. Glad he didn;t get hurt though. -- nm - Beaker May 27, 06:42
- horrible incident, and a horrible, horrible person, but L3 at the ending. -- nm - znufrii May 27, 06:33
- Which begs an ST poll: What comeback line should he have used? - ty97 May 27, 06:32 3
  - the back of my hand would seem appropriate. nm -- nm - groiny May 27, 07:34
  - If that's true, is your son single? -- nm - Dano May 27, 07:16
  - I don't have any issues with the one he used. - znufrii May 27, 06:34
- what the cuss? -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 06:32
- wtf??? that's horrible. -- nm - loosilu May 27, 06:31
- unbelievable (and i'm shocked someone so homophobic would even be there.) - Andie May 27, 06:31 8
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    - WHERE? NM -- nm - Daswon May 27, 07:33
    - ugh - znufrii May 27, 07:22 1
      - although... - znufrii May 27, 07:36
    - i just can't even imagine. :( -- nm - Andie May 27, 07:18 1
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  - People amaze me. I guess her true colors came out? - MDH May 27, 06:34 1
    - i'm glad your friend got her arrested. -- nm - Andie May 27, 06:36
I'm meeting someone at Five Guys for lunch today. What should I order, "diet"-ly speaking? - JaxSean May 27, 06:24 16
- Get whatever you want, run a little harder, and don't go back for a month.. - Gwaahjo May 27, 07:19
- Little Cheeseburger and the smallest fries they'll sell. -- nm - ty97 May 27, 06:27 3
  - Regular fries says 620 calories. I wonder how they measure "one serving," since they seem to put 10 lbs of fries in the bag. - JaxSean May 27, 06:29 1
    - I would guess just what's in the container, but they always overstuff. -- nm - loosilu May 27, 06:30
  - the smallest is huge. I'd share. -- nm - loosilu May 27, 06:28
- cheese, no lettuce, fried onions, fried mushrooms, jalapeno peppers, a1 sauce. -- nm - Don Homer May 27, 06:26 5
  - agreed minus everything fried - Danedukenuuk May 27, 06:28 4
    - if you're on a serious diet you shouldn't eat there at all. -- nm - Don Homer May 27, 06:29 3
      - true but IF you're going (rarelly) i hear it's one of the better places far beyond a regular McD right? -- nm - Danedukenuuk May 27, 06:33 2
        
        It's the best 'fast food' burger around, yes. -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 06:33 1
        
        go - eat you hear out - and stay away for 3 months then :) - Danedukenuuk May 27, 06:35
- order that and then skip the burger, bun, and ketchup parts and just eat the lettuce and tomato -- nm - decline May 27, 06:25
- oh lordy. Yeah. little hamburger. Did you see yesterday the calorie count for the bacon cheese? It's like 900 calories. - loosilu May 27, 06:25 3
  - oof. didn't think of not getting fries. dammit. -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 06:26 2
    - FG fries, 310 calories for 1/2 order. -- (link) - loosilu May 27, 06:30
    - of course you have to get fries. - Don Homer May 27, 06:29
Wow. Once-dead Apple Overtakes Microsoft in Market Capitalization -- (link) - ty97 May 27, 06:22
SATC2 is to SATC Series, as Scary Movie 4 is to Scream. (no spoilers). - Andie May 27, 06:22 17
- a wandering, pointless clone that makes you wonder why it ever got made? -- nm - mafic May 27, 07:04 1
  - yes. -- nm - Andie May 27, 07:18
- Lisa Schwarzbaum at EW wrote a good review, I thought. -- (link) - HdnAgnda May 27, 06:33 2
  - I'd have to ask what it would take for her to give a movie a much below average grade if that review is a C-. -- nm - Will Hunting May 27, 06:45
  - that's pretty much *exactly* how i feel about it. -- nm - Andie May 27, 06:35
- I think they missed an opportunity here to add some young girls to prep the series for a re-boot. - ty97 May 27, 06:25 5
  - SATOFH - znufrii May 27, 06:26 3
    - smallish spoiler (but, you learn it in the first 3 minutes) - Andie May 27, 06:27 2
      - if it's possible, I just became even less interested. -- nm - loosilu May 27, 06:32
      - I wish I could say I'm surprised... -- nm - znufrii May 27, 06:30
  - one other observation - the cast IS showing their age. wrinkles are very visible on a big screen. -- nm - Andie May 27, 06:26
- (oh, i should add, the previews were screening in three full theatres.) -- nm - Andie May 27, 06:24
- out of curiosity, what would you estimate as the breakdown by male/female in the audience? -- nm - Don Homer May 27, 06:23 4
  - male/female= 2/98 -- nm - Andie May 27, 06:24 3
    - They were clearly drag-a-longs. Grow some balls. -- nm - Shaun May 27, 07:26 2
      - actually, gay men. girls came pretty much exclusively with girlfriends. :) -- nm - Andie May 27, 07:30 1
        
        Dammit, gay was the obvious answer of course. -- nm - Shaun May 27, 07:31
ST Pop Quiz -- According to a recent study, for people who make less than $13,000 a year, how much of their income to they spend on lottery tickets? -- nm - znufrii May 27, 06:14 16
- Answer -- (link) - znufrii May 27, 06:25 7
  - that's actually what I was thinking the real answer would be. -- nm - zork May 27, 07:28
  - dayam. I was figuring $500 or so, but...dayam. -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 06:28 1
    - almost as shocking is the return of 53 cents on the dollar. - znufrii May 27, 06:51
  - and to put that in perspective... - znufrii May 27, 06:28 3
    - I have a friend who is pretty much addicted to scratch off games - decline May 27, 06:43 2
      - a *day*? -- nm - Andie May 27, 06:51
      - I've been known to drop a few bucks here and there, but nothing like that. - znufrii May 27, 06:46
- 8% -- nm - Danedukenuuk May 27, 06:21
- 7.5% -- nm - decline May 27, 06:21
- 5% -- nm - MDH May 27, 06:21
- 3.1, Bob. -- nm - zork May 27, 06:20
- 3%. -- nm - Will Hunting May 27, 06:19
- 2.1% -- nm - Don Homer May 27, 06:18
- 4% -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 06:15
- (percentage-wise) -- nm - znufrii May 27, 06:14
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- dork. -- nm - znufrii May 27, 06:12
here's what i liked about this week's Glee (spoiler) - prayformojo May 27, 05:55 2
- I liked this (line spoil) - HdnAgnda May 27, 05:56 1
  - Me too - posted it yesterday - I am anti Prayformojo - love me some Sue -- nm - Epiphany May 27, 06:52
I rec'd a Facebook e-mail from Shades yesterday suggesting I would like a page called 'Who Deleted You?' I never click on FB links from an e-mail and - HdnAgnda May 27, 05:47 7
- Poor Shades. Hacked. -- nm - HdnAgnda May 27, 06:10
- I saw it in my notifications, but yeah, I ignored it too. -- nm - nubby May 27, 06:08
- yeah, got that. those things are evil. -- nm - loosilu May 27, 06:05 1
  - Yeah. Prompted me to send a mail to my wife saying to never deal with any link from an FB mail. -- nm - HdnAgnda May 27, 06:11
- I filter all of those out from my gmail, so I don't see them anyway. -- nm - znufrii May 27, 06:02
- Yup, me too. -- nm - JaxSean May 27, 05:57
- Received the same, didn't do anything with it. -- nm - Strongbad May 27, 05:49
Obama to announce announce a six-month ban on drilling new deepwater oil wells, and canceling plans in AK and VA for exploratory drilling and new -- (link) - Don Homer May 27, 05:17 2
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- drill, baby, drill! - znufrii May 27, 05:50
Dear some of the NFL and some fans: Ever hear of the Grey Cup? Quit being a bunch of pussies. -- nm - Shaun May 27, 05:11
NBA player Zach Randolf allegedly a major pot kingpin in Indianpolis -- (link) - Beaker May 27, 04:49 8
- I'm shocked that an NBA player would be involved in that. -- nm - Strongbad May 27, 05:11 5
  - Yeah, but not like there haven't also been players from other sports (including NFL) involved with dealing. -- nm - Don Homer May 27, 05:15 4
    - NFL tests for marijuana, NBA doesn't -- nm - Strongbad May 27, 05:36 3
      - that's not dealing -- nm - Don Homer May 27, 05:38 1
        
        Oh, that's your point. Yes, players in other sports have been caught doing the same or worse. (Newton, Irvin, Strawberry, Ricky Williams) -- nm - Strongbad May 27, 05:42
      - Take that back. NBA does test, but only during the regular season and only for the past couple of years. -- nm - Strongbad May 27, 05:38
- Is this a Weeds subplot? -- nm - nubby May 27, 04:50 1
  - ~ Little boxes on the plains ... ~ -- nm - HdnAgnda May 27, 05:52
Two-year-old smokes two packs a day -- (link) - nubby May 27, 04:38 3
- I just saw that on the news. That's really twisted and sick. -- nm - Redmond, Gemma fan! May 27, 07:15
- WTF? Geez, if he were a girl they'd also have him dancing to Beyonce in a skimpy outfit -- nm - zork May 27, 06:20 1
  - I saw a set of parents to one of the girls...they were defiant and repulsive. -- nm - Mel Profit May 27, 06:55
A Skins movie is in the works. -- (link) - nubby May 27, 04:29 1
- Personally I was hoping for an Inbetweeners or Misfits movie. I never got in to Skins. -- nm - LMS May 27, 06:05
Wake up. -- nm - nubby May 27, 04:28

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