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It's time for me to change my avatar, but I cannot choose between these three pictures I have. Please voice your opinion! Note: There is no multiple choice. 1 2 3

i may buy some of these.

2 seconds ago I got this PM from a "mrs dainey". Unfortunate, if it is true, but nonetheless it sounded like a chain E-mail. Did anyone else get this? (If you want I can post the whole message.)

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There have been alot of missing posts and threads lately. For instance my thread linking to that onlinr comic, or the post about switzerland in the one world govt. thread.

hi, when i take a photo of my self i look totally diffrent than i do in the mirror any reason for this and what one is more like my real self

Hi My situation at present is that I use a large MD player to record my lectures. It's really too large to carry in my pocket to listen to music as it has inbuilt speakers etc. I have 2 real choices I can either get a digital media player, playing hopefully mp3 and ogg vorbis files, which would not support my powered mic so I'd have to carry my md player in my rucksake for recording lecuters. OR I could get a hi-md player that would allow me to record my lectures and fit in my pocket so I could use it for listening to music. But this would mean converting all my music into atrac, but would allow me to easily to swap out my music collection with other …

Catchy titles aside, nobody's actually suggesting that Microsoft or PowerPoint killed the shuttle. The idea here is that poor information management, perhaps spurred on by misplaced/inappropriate use of tools like PowerPoint, contributed to the loss of Columbia. This has come up before, but this particular op/ed piece (see link below) takes an interesting look at it. I know a bit about this problem from first-hand experience (as I'm sure many of us do). I teach MCSE and other types of computer training courses, and I've "done the PowerPoint thing". Nothing puts students to sleep faster, quite frankly. Today I won't have anything to do with them. I walk the roo…

Another tragic story regarding bizarre weather... 4 dead as typhoon slams Japan TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -- A typhoon pummeled southwestern Japan on Tuesday, causing floods and landslides that left at least four dead and 14 missing, and paralyzing transport. Officials ordered more than 100,000 people to flee their homes. Four people were killed, 14 were missing and 51 were injured, NHK television reported. A 75-year-old man died when a landslide crushed his house in Miyazaki on the southwestern island of Kyushu, NHK said. At about 2 p.m. (0500 GMT), the eye of Typhoon Nabi made landfall at Isahaya near Nagasaki on mountainous Kyushu, Japan's third-biggest m…

A friend of mine showed me this...genius. http://catsinsinks.com/

wtf, $3.00/gallon and still rising, something needs to be done

For some reason my Installer Service for Windows XP home (I know, no surprises there, typical Microcrap ) is encountering an error and won't let me install or de-install programs. My comp's not in safe mode. Is there anything I can do to fix it? Is there a file with settings? Or do I need to download something, in which case, where do I go to get what? I'm actually quite desparate.

I thought we might just post here places where you can donate or contribute in some way to the relief effort for Hurricane Katrina victims. Here's the one that's linked to Amazon and Google: American Red Cross/Amazon.com Hurricane Relief http://s1.amazon.com/paypage/PELYGQVJ8Q7IB/103-4951205-6402255 (If that link doesn't work, just go to amazon.com or a9.com and look for a big button at the top.) http://www.google.com

I don't mean to make light of anything, but as I look at this I'm getting an errie sense of "god game gone bad". Maybe I spend too much time playing computer games, I don't know. Before: And after:

I have a question about yellowing rubber. I am a shoe collector mainly jordans. There is a problem with a few shoes with yellowing rubber on certain parts of the shoes. example on the pictures below here are some pictures of what they look like brand new and here is some pictures of what they look like when the rubber is yellowed it has been said that the yellowing is caused by a reaction with oxygen. i was wondering if anyone knows a way to get the yellow out of the rubber. i heard the oxyclean works but have never tried it. if anyone could find an answer to this problem they would be a hero to thousands of shoe collectors.

Hurricane Katrina has gotten me thinking. I wonder if we need to change the way we report on, and warn people about, hurricanes. Science has made vast improvements in prediction, and while that's certainly a good thing, it seems to have lead to misunderstandings amongst reporters and people in general about hurricanes. Here in South Florida the current death toll is up to a whopping eleven people. That's a huge number for a category one hurricane, but what's really staggering about it is that almost all of those deaths came after the hurricane had passed! And the first two came from people driving around during the storm, underestimating its potential. The othe…

Who here has had one? ive had one once, once i realised i was dreming, i was able to partily control the dream(my own actions). why do dreams somtimes look and feel real? ive had one where i heard the people talking, as if they were real.

Well everyone is bitching about the price of gas these days and I guess that's good, but most people are forgetting what higher fuel prices really mean. Go to any store and take a look at all the different products in it. How many do you think where made within a few miles of the store? How many were made within 50 miles of the store? 100 miles? 500 miles? Now take a moment and ponder how these products got to your store. Some may have come from over seas, loaded on large cargo ships, unloaded at ports onto trains, carried across the country, then loaded onto trucks where they were finally unloaded at the store. A lot of fuel goes into this process. Now consi…

Well, um. Don't expect to see me on for a while.. damn caveman (what I call my stepdad) took the computer for no reason, so i'm pretty much limited to the local internet cafe. I'll probably have to work for around five months to save up and buy a kickass computer. Until then.. see ya.

someone asked me what science was and i said the study of everything am I right?

What is a scientist? Is there an empirical way to proving someone is a scientist? Is someone a scientist if they are a beginner or expert? Is a scientist a beginner who is learning science? Is a scientist an expert in the field of science? Is a scientist one who simply likes science? What is a scientist?

If we lived in a world where everything was free, and you didnt need to work in order to get food, a house etc, but things (like litter collection, running hospitals, building new houses etc) still needed to be done, would you still work? Vote for all options that are applicable, and remember to vote for one of the first two options to give an overall stat for the amount of people who would work. Vote is annonymouse, so you can reveal your lasy-ass spongyness without fear of reproach

I wrote this article, and would appreciate it if you guys could sort of fact-check it before I put it in circulation. Might be offensive to some with rigid morals. The facts aren't highly specific and were done from memory, so I'm sure someone will have something to edit. Thanks. There are roughly 6,446,131,400 people in the world. Each one has his or her own unique view of the world, conceptions of what makes it tick, moral structure, etc. What’s to say yours is the right one? Because it makes sense to you? That’s no way to establish objectivity, no matter who you are. What makes sense, then? Well, to borrow the idea from A Devil’s Chaplain by Richard Dawkins,…

Katrina now has winds in excess of 160 mph. She will hit somewhere on the gulf coast - probability is high for New Orleans. Link to "The Weather Channel" http://www.weather.com/newscenter/tropical/ I suspect that this storm will ultimately affect a large part of the eastern US. I remember Camille...in case anyone has any doubt of what a Cat 5 can do.. http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricanecamille.htm http://www.angelfire.com/ms3/n5ycn/camille.html If you live in the strike zone, I hope you've already left the area. Maybe we can use this thread to keep in touch with one another as the storm progresses.

is it just me or are the weather shows in britain dumbing down quite a lot. i just kind of noticed just now that i haven't seen a single isobar chart on tv for over 3 years. and today, on a whole map of britain there were 3 symbols(one in Wales and 2 in England). Scotland and Ireland were completely missed out. WTF is this all about. I usually use the met office website anyway.