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Sandra, NYC — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:47:25 GMT

I just sent Poop tetris to my friend- he love this stuff. Yes, I do enable him.

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animalkah — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:02:00 GMT

Thank you for sharing the opera clip. It's one of the most uplifting things I've seen in a long time. Brought me to tears.

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Sam — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:25:43 GMT

The first time I saw that spoon prank was in the (admittedly cheesy) movie "Extreme Days." That was six years ago; since then I must admit I've suckered my fair share of victims with that little prank. I don't know whether that movie was the first to feature the prank, but it was the first time I ever heard of it.

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Kevan R, Salt Lake City — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:42:29 GMT

Safari is by far the best browser I've ever used. Give it a fair shake!

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Joe S, West Chester, PA — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:12:41 GMT

The new weather.com new radar has crashed my IE several times also. You are not alone.

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Don Tuite, Califonria — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:21:32 GMT

Which is tackier? Celeb has watch stripped from wrist while greeting idolizing fans, or Celeb takes ten seconds in the middle of things to remove and stow watch he fears will be stripped by fans?

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DanE, chicago, IL — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:42:17 GMT

I side tracked a good majority of the office with that Nikia scale site and the consumer reports car crashing which manages to work through our websense virtual nazi service. Great Clicks today thx!

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LA Marlowe, Richmond, VA — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:22:14 GMT

Hang in there, Will! It sounds like you hit summer doldrums a little early. I find that tall drinks with rum and moderate exposure to direct sunshine and fresh air helps. In response to the Paris parody, here is a comic I saw on boingboing, in the style of the Archie/Veronica/Betty comics, that I thought was pretty classy.

http://www.milkfat.com/pariscomic.htm

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kim, warrenton, va — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:00:46 GMT

your opening paragraph sounds as if you're stressed. take as much time as you need will...we'll survive without daily posts. maybe take a vacation

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Randall K, St. Louis, MO — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:10:58 GMT

Here's a link for you Will, but click this only if you are in the mood to have your mind blown:

Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfPeprQ7oGc

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Sterling, Tallahassee, FL — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:31:33 GMT

Regarding the watch issue, perhaps it was getting snagged on people (their skin, wrists, rings, other watches, etc) and he didn't want it to hurt anyone.

Imagine how the evening news would have looked if his watch got caught in someone's hair and he didn't know it as the bodyguards continually attempted to move him forward. That would look really great, huh?

Granted he could have taken it off in the car or whatever but maybe he didn't know he was going to get 'this' reaction from the people and decided to just go with it.

Just a thought.

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Tim C Knoxville, TN — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:52:13 GMT

Downloaded Safari at work and it sucked. Load times for me were horrible, it couldn't even find its own start page on apples site, and to be honest it just didn't perfrom very well at all. Maybe Steve Jobs is taking Bill's tactic of hyping the cr@p out of a product first then dealing with the problems later.
*Note: I'm usually pretty lenient when it comes to bugs in software, we are talking about millions of lines of code, people that keep wanting the software to do more and more, etc but it really irks me when Jobs is quoted about how much more fast and how much more safe safari is.
Tim

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Jennifer, Rochester Hills, MI — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:11:05 GMT

There are a couple of anime series on DVD that I'd recommend to anyone who likes more complex shows and is out of stuff to watch this summer.

Noir may help with the post-Sopranos withdrawal. I haven't seen The Sopranos myself, but what I've heard makes me think the endings were similar in a way.

And one of my personal favorites is Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. You're lucky if you pick it up now, because you get to watch the first two seasons all in one go.

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Will Femia — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:21:35 GMT

Randall, I saw that on Digg last night and I remember linking to it when it was new but I think it may be part of the lead in today's entry. I was looking at a tour of the new (absurd) creationist museum and then I saw that video. On the surface it's hard to say who's doing the most crazy talk.

Sterling, in those first few seconds you can see a few people kind of get hooked on the watch by their fingers -- either trying to take some piece of the man with them or just by chance of getting their finger stuck in the strap - so I agree safety was an issue. Also security. Assuming the strap wouldn't break, you probably don't want that kind of handle available.

I'm pretty sure he knew that kind of reaction was coming since spontanaeity is not really a Hallmark of this administration but certainly he's unpracticed at this kind of engagement with the crowd. At least we can say he's a quick learner. :)

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LV — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:55:33 GMT

I'm a Mac user and I love Safari. It's better than IE, and I prefer it to Firefox too (Safari is exponentially faster for me, for one thing). But I'm not using Safari 3. It's unreasonable to start using a beta product and then b*tch that there are problems. Of course there are problems - it's a beta! Wait for the final product, and then give it a try.

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Howlin' Hobbit, Seattle, WA — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:05:24 GMT

The Formula One Racing folks have already gotten the view of that crash from the stands removed from YouTube.

Interesting that they can claim copyright on something someone else filmed. You'd think they'd just insist nobody brings in motion cameras if that was their position.

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JVM, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:19:31 GMT

I think the more impressive performance on Britain's got Talent was 6 year-old Connie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqVqJ1HLHNo

JVM

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Alex, Lawrence, KS — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:27:27 GMT

That "27 skills" link reminds me of how "we're all winners" is now how society is raising children. If my daughter is raised to be "non-competitive" and gets last place, but still gets a medal...what is there to encourage her to try harder next time?

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J. Schultz, Toledo Ohio — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:30:38 GMT

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I thought I was going to die if I read another peeved review of the Sopranos finale. You said everything I was thinking. People seem to react angrily when a show doesn't end the way they foresee it, yet the Sopranos was never that type of show. It always took you in a direction you didn't expect. People who paid attention and understood the themes behind the show could grasp the ending... it had me thinking about it the whole next day. Now that is a success.

Here we see a family in denial. His children, despite his best efforts still have a foot in the "Mob". And whether it is that second, in a week, or in a few years, Tony will either end up like Sil or like June.

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Will Femia — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:53:40 GMT

JVM, is it just me or is this show better produced than the U.S. version(s)? There's something about the way the cut to the rapt audience and make the music swell that makes the whole thing so much more compelling. I'll be interested to see how they treat the duds.

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Stephen Simmons, Sneads Ferry, NC — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:18:29 GMT

Oh great, 27 more things for teachers to have to teach because the parents are to lazy or uncaring to do it themselves. If you wonder why there is a crisis in education in this country, just look at this list and then what teachers are expected to teach in school. They are expected to do a perents job because the parents can't/won't and still teach their subject. Change the name of this list to 27 things that parents should teach their children

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Haley, Vincennes, Indiana — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:25:03 GMT

I'm with Stephen Simmons. Many of those items ARE covered in basic cirric., but it's just not called "Life 101." In Indiana, Economics is required to graduate; students where I teach do a 6 week "game of life" where they have to invest, pay bills, buy vehicles, and deal with a potential cash crisis. Students also have to option to take classes in automotive, cooking and nutrition, and child care. I teach my own students in Public Speaking to create portfolios to track their progress and organize materials that they can carry on to college (because it's not plagarism if you dust off work you've done before in a previous class). I'm 24, and I have been teaching for one and a half years at the high school I graduated from. In the 6 years since graduation, I've seen parents raising unrealistic expectations and making rude demands of teachers instead of creating reasonable goals WITH their children.