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Right now, I am feeling. . .

BadKitty

Exhausted, apprehensive, and melancholy.

And you?

Show us your Ditties!

RandallFlagg

So.. as kids, we all had 'em.

They're what made learning phoenetically easier.

Ditties. Big ones, small ones, in all shapes and sizes.

Tell us your ditties that allowed you to remember certain educational material.

I had one that taught me Indian Tribes to rattle off in quick succession:

"Iowa, Choctaw, Onondagus, Cheyenne
Mohawk, Chipawa, Kookinakee, Cree
Seminole, Paiute, Apache, Quapaw
Unitap, Arapho, Ute, Pawnee"

I

swizzlestick

Well, actually I don't. But other people seem to, so how about you put all his unfunny HoF posts in here to make way for the funny stuff?

The Milk Bar Thread: breasts and breast-related tissues

masterblaster

You got big boobs?

Then this is the place for you!

Big or small,
Round or flat,
Boobies are where,
Its motherfuckin at.

Pics are encouraged.
Aaaaand GO.

Rage against the Machine...

Sideburn27

I woke up, checked my e-mail....and won tickets to Rage at the DNC.

Called in sick to work.

Hopefully there will be some riots in Denver tonight.

Automobile and Home Audio/Video/Home Theater

volt

Yes, another one of these. How are your home theater projects coming along? Got any spiffy mobile electronics? Post 'em here.

My home theater work in progress over 1.5 years has a finish within reach.
My television is a Westinghouse 42" 1080p LCD that I bought from Woot on 4/11/07.
The receiver is a Onkyo TX-SR674 receiver that does everything I need with no problems whatsoever.
Front Speakers are Polk Audio RM50T's (from Woot on 9/14/07)
Center Channel is the RM302
Surrounds are the RM30's (from Woot on 8/22/08)

I bought a 540w plate amplifier last year sometime from Parts Express with the hopes of someday doing a DIY subwoofer installation, which I have finally gotten around to doing.

I just recently bought a simple 15" sub (from Parts Express) and I just finished drawing the plans for it, though I won't be able to build it until Thursday. The plans looked nice and I figure over the next few weeks I can take a ton of pictures to showcase both my home and mobile electronics.

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6328/plansue4.png
- sides removed for clarity
- the square inside the subwoofer is the plate amplifier

You guys have anything to share? Or ask? Do so here.

Explorer will no longer track you, free porn for all!

DrMindbender

So, Microsoft in its infinite wisdom has finally decided to add a "porn search" function to not track users on Internet Explorer when searching. The new stealth mode in the next update will allow you to search with no history, cookies, and essentially wipe out any traces of your time online while selected.

Male teenagers the world over can now rejoice knowing they may fap freely.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti cleId=9113419

Microsoft Corp. today spelled out new privacy tools in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) that some have dubbed "porn mode" in a nod to the most obvious use of a browser privacy mode.

A privacy advocate applauded the move, calling it a "great step forward," while rival browser builder Mozilla Corp. said it is working to add similar features to a future Firefox.

Slated to appear in IE8 Beta 2, which Microsoft former chairman Bill Gates promised will release this month, the three new tools share the "InPrivate" name, which Microsoft filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office several weeks ago.

The most intriguing tool, and the one that has prompted the porn mode label, was called InPrivate Browsing by Microsoft. When enabled, IE8 will not save browsing and searching history, cookies, form data and passwords; it also will automatically clear the browser cache at the end of the session.

Other new tools will include InPrivate Blocking and InPrivate Subscription, which notifies users of third-party content that can track browsing history and subscribe to lists of sites to block, respectively. Microsoft will also tweak its existing "Delete Browsing History" by adding an option to preserve bookmarked sites' cookies even when all others are erased.

"When we began planning IE8, we took a hard look at our customers' concerns about privacy on the Web," said Andy Zeigler, an IE program manager, as he explained InPrivate Browsing in a long post to the team's blog. "Many users are concerned about so-called over-the-shoulder privacy, or the ability to control what their spouses, friends, kids and co-workers might see.

"If you are using a shared PC, a borrowed laptop from a friend or a public PC, sometimes you don't want other people to know where you've been," Zeigler added.

One wag commenting on Zeigler's post quoted some of his text before shooting back. "You know as well as I do this feature is built for porn," said a user identified as "Ert."

Homework Help Thread

bump

cross posting out of parental desperation/lack of mathematical abilities:

Homework question/math question:

"Use the problem solving method "guess, check, and revise" to find the solution of the equation.<

8 - 3x = 4x - 27

I'm at a loss as I don't fully understand the question in the first place - N E help is appreciated (I should prolly start a "homework for parent thread, but thought this was the best place to start.)

Is there a gathering on the horizon for Californicators?

GhostKitty

I'm interested in meeting my fellow fazers and I heard rumor there is one in the works for Vegas in Feb/March?

What about one here in Cali? Is anyone interested in trying to pull one together?

Porno Challenge: Stoma F*cking!

NeutralBuoyancy

C'mon people. Give new meaning to deep throat!

Ugly people (Yet Another Picture Thread)

flurry

Find pictures of really ugly people and post them. Captions are welcome but not required.

What did you do in your summer vacation

bashturn

What I did on my summer vacation

I've known about the Kuryat talisman ever since I was a child. My uncle, a teacher of archeology used to tell me bedtime stories about it's magical powers. As the legend goes, The Kuryat Talisman had been given to Genghis Khan by the daughter of a village chief. The Khan had fallen in love with her and married her upon sight, the village had gain a strong ally and everybody rejoiced. But the celebrations were short-lived, during the celebration that followed the wedding, a hawk, flying in low from the east, dropped a rock on the bride. She lived long enough to give her husband the talisman she wore around her neck. They say that the Khan never took it off.

So when Oracle's CEO Larry Ellison contacted me in the spring and offered to finance an expedition to retrieve the Talisman, I jumped at the opportunity. After 52 hours of uninterrupted travel, I finally got to meet my team in Piro, Bhutan. Across the Himalayan Range from the high plains of Mongolia where the Kuryat tribe once rode along The Khan's army.

My team was a hodge-podge mix of aventurrers, anthropologists and archeologists.

Our logistics chief was Hans Neyberg,48, a tall German with 32 inches shoulders, a former Olympic Canoeist, he was by far the most physically fit of the team.

Pieter Neilsen, 21,our chief anthropologists at 15 he had already gotten his doctorate in chemistry from Royal University in Stockholm, the times of London ranked him as one of the 15 most brilliant minds of europe.

Delphine Delage, 27, our lead archeologist, the daughter of a diplomat, Delphine can speak over twenty languages, she is one of a handful of westerner with a master in central-asian dialects.

Jeff Goldblum, 52, American an actor accompanying us because he needed to be in Bhutan to retrieve a certain coffee cup, that the sister of his personal-assistant forgot while backpacking here in 1997 and missed ever since. He offered her to look for it, of course, not knowing where Bhutan was.

The team had already planned our schedule and itinerary prior to my arrival. Our trek would take us from the Bhutanese foothills of Piro and we would travel, mostly on foot, The western edge of Bhutan all the way to the chinese border, visiting the various Dzong temples dotting the temples. The reasoning was that If the Talisman was in Bhutan, it would be in one of those temples. There would be no high adrenaline caper, no snatching of the talisman under the cover of night, it was my responsibility to convince the monk to sell us the talisman. Money was no object.

We left piro and made our way east, the terrain would have made it useless to use trucks so we went on foot. We had hired 12 Bhutanese children to carry us and our gear, Hans wanted none of it, he insisted on walking. It was funny to see how the children dealt amongst themselves to see which two of them would carry Delphine, this was without a doubt the first blonde woman they ever saw in real life. None of them were too subtle about their fondness for her.

We got to the Ghamek Dzong at sundown, we were invited to spend the night, I requested an audience with the Rimpoche, I was told that he would meet me when "the winds will embrace the sparrow" or 7 am, whenever was good for me.

After a great meal, Hans regaled us with stories of his olympic exploits and how much fun it was to spy on Katerina Witt. Delphine impressed everyone by giving our host a short sitar recital. For some reason, Jeff Goldblum kept asking monks to please get him a Santa Fe phonebook and a roll of tape. Tired from all the fresh air and the high Altitude, I started to feel a headache, we all did almost simultanuously, I remember hearing Pieetr utter the words "Poison" and then blackness.

We woke up chained to each other in damp basement, our head was pounding. Jeff did not look too good...

Ahh fuck that. I fell in love, hard, but she didn't so I stayed home and abused myself thanks to some potent vegetation and Japanese pornography.

What did you do this summer?

Somebody chop that audio file

martygrimes

It's become popular to post stems for remixing. I'm posting a single audio file that was built by an amateur Ableton Live user. I believe it was his second time to build any sort of track. I loaded it into Logic and came out with the following mix. Anybody else care to give a shot at it?

Original track:
https://www.yousendit.com/download/Q01FblFCbEE3bUR2Wmc9PQ
Chopped mix:
https://www.yousendit.com/download/Q01FblFCbEFrUm14dnc9PQ

BPM: 115

Fantastic Contraption: That's what she said.

rustytrombone

I'm sure many of you played Fantastic Contraption after the front page. I played through the levels and decided that accessing the player levels was worth the ten bucks. There are over 900 levels opened up when you pay.

Post your user made levels along with your crowning achievements here. Here are a few of my favorites so far:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=873068
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=883182
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=867058
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=867200
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=866822

Keep those little balls a rollin'

Science, bitches

Caboose

The last science thread died, but this website just made me want to start a new thread. Seriously, is this not just simply bullshit from start to finish?

Also, feel free to discuss any other science related junk here.