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Dan — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:11:47 GMT

The Romney video doesn't really come off that bad. I think that since you expect him to say something awful everything he say seems that much worse.

Empire State Building Jumper? Complete douche. How bad did you want the security guards to say, 'OK' and then let him go?

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tony g — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:29:47 GMT

an entire section of our local paper's friday edition is devoted to "faith". here is the online edition:
http://dailytimes.com/religion.lasso

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Darrel In Edinboro, PA — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:56:12 GMT

Will:
There was a wrestler from Pennsylvania who used a similar, but far less dangerous, "flip" move to escape from another wrestler's grasp. His first name was Corey, and his last name escapes me. I believe he wrestled high-school in the late '90s. He would flip right over backwards in what seemed like the proverbial "blink-of-an-eye", and escape from his opponent. I remember being amazed by the speed of the move when I first saw it.......
This new guy's move looks like he could twist his ankle off if he's not careful....

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KRW — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:28:26 GMT

What Dan said, but add Winehouse to the thought on the jumper. How often these celebrity fools ruin their lives and then we hear all their "real friends" and relatives speak of doing everything they can to "save" them. Please let them go. If they want to kill themselves, that's their choice so long as they stay in their bungalows and penthouses and do not take any uninvolved innocents with them. If those people want to "save" anyone, put the effort toward those who had nothing to live for in the first place. When these celebrities get "saved", they are rarely humbled by the experience and only further glorify themselves and their destructive lifestyles with a book, TV show, or some other waste of trees and/or energy.

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Norma, Los Angeles, CA — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:51:49 GMT

I saw the Jerry O'Connell spoof video earlier this week and it is HI-larious!! He got the maniacal laughter down perfect!

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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:41:05 GMT

pool info via:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/23/wpool123.xml

crystal lagoons
Fernando Fischmann
pulse oxidation disinfection

via wikipedia:
http://www.crystal-lagoons.com/

no photos, but here's one detail and some criticism:
"150 in-wall sensors to surgically clean only the dirty parts"
http://newpaper.asia1.com/printfriendly/0,4139,148152,00.html?

also, for future pools and aquaria etc.:
http://www.cityscape.ae/PressReleases/pressrelease_details.aspx?ID=127

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@sim, Chicago — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:40:26 GMT

Hey Will,
The feed for Clicked on my RSS reader suddenly filled up with 30 posts from other, what look like msnbc, blogs. What's going on? Is anyone else experiencing this? It's disillusioning. Is the end nigh?

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Will Femia — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:46:02 GMT

Sim, yes, you're not alone in experiencing weird blog behavior. The answer has to do with some kind of back-up server trick the tech folks were doing and an interesting lesson in how the code tells browsers what to cache. It's either fixed or on the way to being fixed so it shouldn't be a problem anymore.

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@sim, Chicago — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:07:42 GMT

Aha, Thanks Will.
Sanity has been restored. God bless the techies.