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I guess this has been going around so I'll bet most of you have already seen this. This is a humorously written complain letter about the food on a flight from Mumbai to Heathrow. If you haven't read this, be sure to view the images to do the text justice. Apparently Sir Richard Branson, target for the letter, has taken this like a good sport. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/4344890/Virgin-the-worlds-best-passenger-complaint-letter.html

my friends hooked me up with a few pills of 15 mg dexedrine, and i was wondering what exactly this stuff does and if it has any long term effects?

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A little different, but very interesting: http://armorgames.com/play/3260/magic-pen-2 btw, when you get to the level with "the square block to push" it's good to know you can build squares and add hinges to them - I didn't realize that and had to use 71 odd wedges and a lot of gravity!

My wife tried to contact the Inland Revenue, after they wrote to her in her maiden name, so she could update her details and give them her new name. She quoted her maiden name, her new name, her address and her National Insurance Number. They wrote back saying 'Sorry, but we can not identify you from the information you have provided us'. They wrote to her first, she gives them her name address and NI number..... and yet they still can't work out who she is.

As I have grown older, and hopefully wiser, I have developed a feeling of being more connected to the things around me. The killing of a spider or an ant, now feels damaging to myself. The last time I had to cut down a tree, I felt as if I had changed a part of something beyond that tree. Something beyond my knowledge. I have wondered if all things in the universe are not somehow linked. Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't all things on earth spring from the same(original)matter and energy? Therfore, am I not just as connected to the first rock as I am to the first human? Am I alone in this sense of a giant collective ONE?

In your fackbook inbox there could be a link there that sends you to you tube.The message says " There is a video about you on the street." DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK!!! It will tell you to update your video codecs, when you do you got the worm. I just seen this on CNN.

Can anyone recommend an easy-to-use daily log program, not necessarily connected to the internet? In other words, an offline record keeper, a register of events and activities, maybe listed under different headings. Preferably a free download. And remember, I did say easy-to-use. Something the village idiot could cope with. Thanks.

i recently got a letter form the Nouveau Tech Society. http://www.nouveautechsociety.com/BDL1.php they are such losers. i don't even want to know what they want from me. it is probably a cult. it goes on like that for 8 pages. does anyone know anything about this Nouveau Tech Society?

as some of you may alreay know, my shed was destroyed by wind several months ago, in a few days time I`ll be having a brand new one but there is still a problem with theives on the site so I came up with a rather brilliant idea (though I say so myself). wouldn`t it be nice to know if someone had broken in so you could catch them in the act! well here`s how: you`ll need an OLD mobile fone, the reason is that the old ones don`t switch off after inactivity and are cheaper and larger (making them easy to work with). take the fone appart and locate the mebrane keypad and solder 2 wires to either side of the Green Send button. reassemble the fone and attatch …

İs there link between race and IQ?

Hey YT, just out of idle curiosity, do folks across the pond actually refer to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington it as "11/9"? I know you guys show your days before your months by convention, but I know you also get a lot of our news and entertainment media over there (in fact I imagine that far more British people know that we do our dates "backwards" than Americans know that British do theirs "backwards"!). Would the average person know what I meant if I said "9/11"? Just curious. (Edit: Moved into a new thread. I'm going to move this over to the General forum since it's not really about politics and doesn't follow our posting conventi…

Okay, so I've been playing catchup on all of BSG for the past few weeks. I've watched four seasons! And I just watched what I believe is the latest episode: entitled "No Exit" I really liked the show when it started out, from a hard SF perspective. FTL drives that basically meant you're causally disconnected from where you "jumped" from after you jumped? That's cool. I liked it! But more and more, I'm not liking the end. This episode did about as much as they could to reveal the "final Cylon" without revealing him (OR HER??? lol not spoiler) And let me say I am... confused? UMM SPOILER ALERT STOP READING HERE IF YOU REALLY CARE. Whatever you do don't …

It's a little late, but to all a happy and adaptive Darwin Day! Woohoo.

I need some help. My daughter's school has a 5K Fun Run race as a fundraiser every year, and we wanted to put some interesting facts in the school newsletter about how much 5 kilometers really is. I'm looking for things along the line of, "5 kilometers is roughly 50 football fields", or "running 5 kilometers is like running more than half the height of the tallest mountain in the world". If you have anything you think may be intriguing or interesting to elementary school kids about 5 kilometers, please post it here.

Since politics (except in France) do not like "foie gras" (fatty leather) creation, by over-feeding birds (this stores fat in their leather) does anyone know how to transform normal leather (cheaper to buy) into this..?

this is a truly hypothetical situation but just to see the results in putting up the unofficial race for unofficial SFN president. if you want to join i guess just P.M. a moderator

What's the deal with YouTube's new "turn down the lights" feature? There's a lightbulb icon above the videos and if you click it, the screen darkens around the video viewer.

Does anyone on here live in the California/nevada area. I'm coming over from England to work as a stage manager/technician in South Tahoe NV. It's only a five day event, afterwards I plan to hire a car and go on a mini adventure across the wild-wild-west. Money is tight, thus does anyone have a spare couch suitable for a weary traveller to sleep on? Would love to actually speak face to face with people on this site, as opposed to reading/posting. I've been a fan of SFN for years and log on everyday. Thanks in advance Tom

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/singularity-uni.html Scientists at NASA and Google have come together to create Singularity University, a nine-week seminar on technological singularity, i.e. a fancy word for when robots take over the world, or something. Personally I'm all for this!

according to North Dakota's House of Representatives: Thoughts?

I'm going to a state university so its $6900 a year. I got a $2500 scholarship. Now with the new stimulus package, they extended the hope scholarship to include people with income of $160,000 or less and they bumped it up to $2500 for two years. So thats $6900-$5000= $1900 plus a $200 tax credit from NY state= $1700 to go to a great university. Just like that, Obama saved my family $10,000 because my sister is in college too. My family is actually making money off of this because with all my sisters scholarships she only pays $500 a year but she still will get the 2.5k which we can use to pay my $1700. So we gain $300 a year for going to college. There is another stat…

it's been stupid-cold here the last few days. yesterday the windchill temperature was -27°C (246K). today it's a balmy -16°C! the snow is so deep that they're picking it up with backhoes, filling up trucks and dumping it outside town to prepare for the next snowfall.

Not sure if any of you have seen this, but for any questions that prompt a 'for goodness sake, Google it', here's the solution for anyone who raises such a question... For example... Hey everyone, so what is dark matter ? http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=what+is+dark+matter+%3F I hope a wiki version will be available soon.

Was watching that story on Michael Phelps and his bong incident and I just about tossed my cookies listening to that formulaic apology to a public that he doesn't even owe won to. Granted, perhaps it was all self motivated for self interest to limit the damage to his commericial appeal - his wallet. Fine, but I get the feeling anymore that we're forcing our role model expectations onto people without their consent. I'm not even concerned with the auto-presumption of guilt associated with using a legally sold product with a legal prescription of use. I would just like to see one of our "Role Models" apologize for an out-of-touch traditionalized public that has…