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We didn't get much response in the LED thread, so I thought I'd just go ahead and start another one specifically for CF. I'm just curious how many other folks have made the switch. I suspect I came a little late to this game -- some of our friends have had them for a while now. I bought a bushel of these things a few weeks ago and shoved them into various sockets all around the house. My main motivation was actually just because I'm so tired of changing lightbulbs! As I understand it replacing one 75 watt incandescent lightbulb with a comparable compact fluorescent light saves 55 pounds of carbon per year. Wow.

Well now. i found a video from BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7250000/newsid_7258200/7258220.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1 that tells to people : "Freezing temperatures in Estonia have turned the country's famous Valaste waterfall, into stunning ice sculptures." And i see it coming from rather many sources... in fact in estonia we don't have cold... just +10 to -10 and usually during winter we get one -30 week. We even dont have normal snow anymore only ocasional ice... Somewhy media tries to show the thing that happened in -1 celcius and frikin strong north wind to be something that in Freezing temperatures... and often with tal…

well its been a week or so since ive been here and i come to find that there is a new format, and my first impression is i do not like it. Perhaps i am a wee bit retarded, but is there anywhere you can click to take you directly to the forum index? i found i can navigate by visiting a recent thread, clicking the section in the path of the thread, and then at the bottom of this page is the forum jumper tool. Example : bioelectricity, is in general biology, in biology. So i click that forum, and then i have the forum jumper. This works fine, but isn't there a more straight forward way to navigate the forums? The new-fangled bloggery deal does look neat though. i'll hav…

Hi, I want to buy my elder brother a PSP this summer for his birthday. I want to start straight way looking. I was wondering which retailers will be the best to buy from...Argos is the only one I know. And aslo do you think PSP is worth buying because I know people who are opposed to PSP (they say its watse of money). By the way Its in the UK i want to buy from... I live in London!

I am looking to see can math beat the market. meaning stock market. i've taken the S&P 500 from January 1, 1987 to January 12, 2008. Supposedly I've started with $1000. I have no idea where to go from here. any suggestions?

There are potential risks in any procedure and LASIK is no exception. The most common potential problems that can occur during laser vision correction are blindness and death. Blindness simply means that while the procedure may not have improved your vision, at least you're not dead. Death is slightly more serious. It means that your heart has stopped and that can possibly lead to permanent deterioration of the body. Some more serious side effects include loss of bank account, giggling from others and eyeballs that jump out on springs. All of these symptoms shouldn't prevent you from paying for LASIK surgery. There is also a chance of being slapped a lot for being so …

Can someone help me with a stock market question?

so how many fully intact satellite fall into the earth's atmosphere? they make it such a simple and ordinary task of shooting down this one on thursday, but really, what are the odds? a bet is on. okay so...the bet is off...the satellite will enter our atmosphere with grace, i'm sure...if it even does. the big deal is that skylab is the last satellite to crash into our atmosphere as they so eloquently put it. or was it. well, anywho, skylab was 100 tons and this satellite is 2.5 tons. not to say size matters, but...well.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article3393161.ece What a coincidence. Just as this forum is kicking off a debate involving the dreaded Re****** , appears an article in my morning paper (Times uk) headed "Why do we believe in G*D? This appears to be a stub of the main article. Sorry about that, but would not want to short-circuit the inventiveness of debaters. Oxford University academics have been given £1.9m and 3 years to find out. Seems a snip at the price. I am surprised it can be answered so cheaply. "They will use the cognitive science disciplines to develop a "scientific approach to why we believe in G** and other issues aroun…

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1037220/ Neuromancer, William Gibson's thoroughly unadaptable seminal cyberpunk classic, is being threatened with yet another movie adaptation. You may recognize my avatar as one of the multitude of awful looking Neuromancer book covers. The latest adaptation attempt (many have failed in the past) is by a no name director with a single feature film to his credit: Torque. I have not seen Torque, but judging from its critical reception there's not a lot to hope for. They've cast Hayden Christensen as the lead role, the down-and-out Case the Console Cowboy, who is presented with the opportunity to resume his status as one of cyberspa…

anyone else here into it? there`s Hip Hop stuff too

I think the meaning of life is to be happy. I think to be happy you need somthing to look forward to. I think a human always wants more... like smarts, or toys, or looks or like anything. i think we all work to get that want... then when we get it were relly happy. but then we want more still i think a bad person wud say were never satisfied...so y try... i think its wut seperates humans from like puppys and stuff cuz we always want more. i think wanting more is good tho cuz it means were always lerning more and improving r way of life. i gess u cud say its bad for planet... but so is a rock from space hiting us and killing us like the dinasores. …

http://www.howmanyfiveyearoldscouldyoutakeinafight.com/ I got 29.

y does a girl have to have you know whats for u to like them. they dont do anything unless you have a baby. i think its unfair cuz like like girls that dont have them yet boys dont like them as much. and then when a boy likes you ANYWAYS everyone hates him even tho they never met him if a boy likes u even tho you dont have you know whats.. id say he likes me for me... unlike boys that only like girls with you know whats.... dont you agree? so if a boy did like me even tho i didnt have then dont you think he would be nicer then the others.

Hey, I just resized a lot of my illustrations to Avatar Size! http://www.flickr.com/photos/14304964@N05/sets/72157603878486870/ There's 160 to choose from, between robots to interesting semi-professional orange characters. E-mail me and let me know which one you use! Leo

do you believe that we eat 150 spiders every 2 years becuase they crawl into our mouths at night when we sleep?

My first post: I think I was 15, and I spelled "intelligent" wrong.

hi. so i met this boy shopping. he works at american eagle. he is super cute and like twice my height and weight and he asked me for my cell number today. i gave it to him and he says he has a crush on me. im textings him now and im not sure wut to say hes relly cute tho and like im gessing he is like 15 or 16 and i no im not aloud to date but hes relly cute lol i gess im half saying this cuz im super excited but also im scared he will think im immature wich im not and i dont no what to say lol i was just like wondering wut boys his age like in girls pls like alot of my frends make fun of ballet and so i no boys dont like that and ya.... i tryed to…

An inventor has constructed a perpetual motion machine. The device, which he has dubbed the Perepiteia, runs on an endless supply of media stupidity: http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/300042?746

What is trolling? I make no claim to being a seasoned internet surfer. Some things are still greek to me.

According to this article we will soon see a host of gadgets that recharge themselves or other devices' batteries by converting natural movement energy into electrical power. http://www.news.com/2300-1008_3-6229842-1.html?tag=nefd.pop I thought that was kinda interesting in part because I'm currently reading "Pushing Ice" by Alastair Reynolds (pretty good book, btw), which features a lot of tech like that. The original article in Science is here, but it's subscription-only: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/319/5864/807

Check out this beast: http://exilim.casio.com/browse_cameras/exilim_pro/EX-F1/ 60 frames per second still images, 1200fps video, 12x optical zoom, 36 to 432mm equivalent, and it shoots true HD. Droool.

Hi, I was just curious to know how many of you people have heard of multan and its history. Its my city of birth but is very historical as well. What you know of it then?!

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