It is time

My work is finally making the transition to a telephone system where our phones will no longer ring... we'll simply hear a "beep" in our headset and be on the line.

.....lovely. That's what I always wanted. ...Guess that means the mute button will be my friend now in case I'm taking that sip of water. They've been talking about this change for a while and now it's time... for us to drive ourselves nuts.

Phoebe Prince, 15, Commits Suicide After Onslaught of Cyber-Bullying From Fellow Students

http://digg.com/d31Gxfn

"...It was an especially tragic ending for the Prince family. Anne O'Brien Prince and Jeremy Prince had moved from County Clare to Massachusetts with their five kids last year. In Phoebe's death notice, they said they moved in part so "Phoebe could experience America.''

America, it seems, did not give her a very kind welcome."

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Maybe I'll want my kids someday to experience something other than America. This certainly isn't heartening...

OOh, shiny.

Not sure how I feel about this yet. Looks cool, But I still need to try an Ipod touch first. I've always kind of wanted something like this... still...

http://www.apple.com/

(Ipad? really?)

This is scary.

1/3rd of Women in US Military Raped

http://digg.com/d31GnxY

This is really scary. "In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving."

Disgusting.

See the original image at dailymail.co.uk School decides only poor kids get field trips, others don't.

School decides only poor kids get field trips, others don't.

http://digg.com/d31GyYz

Virus amusement XKCD

http://digg.com/d31Gtj3

I am amused

D&D Still ruled as "Gang-Promoting" in Prison. ...HUH?

Wait a minute... let me see if I've got this right... You're worried about Dungeons and Dragons causing Gang related behavior for people... IN PRISON. ...Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

http://www.fark.com/cgi/go.pl?i=4968600&l=http://www.wkowtv.com/global/story.asp%3Fs%3D11876814

SoCal Schools Ban Dictionary???????

Okay... I understand the need for censorship. And I understand that ignorance can be a drive for some strange and bizzare things in our world. I accept that.


But WHAT... THE... FRAK...

BANNING A DICTIONARY FROM SCHOOLS is going just a LITTLE too far... don't you think?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/25/oral-sex-dictionary-ban-us-schools?DSF

Elder Scrolls MMORPG

OH...My...GOD...

So, apparantly, Elder scrolls is working on it's own MMO. ...NOW WHAT AM I GONNA DO??? I've been waiting so long for Star Wars: TOR, if they come out at the same time, I'm gonna be a very, VERY torn individual.


http://www.swtorstrategies.com/2010/01/rumor-elder-scrolls-mmo.html

Picture driven computing... bye bye code classes?

http://digg.com/d31GAMK

This is insane.

...Suppose, for instance, that a Python programmer wants to write a script that automatically sends a message to her cell phone when the bus she takes to work rounds a particular corner. If the transportation authority maintains a web site that depicts the bus’s progress as a moving pin on a Google map, the programmer can specify that the message should be sent when the pin enters a particular map region. Instead of using arcane terminology to describe the pin, or specifying the geographical coordinates of the map region’s boundaries, the programmer can simply plug screen shots into the script: when this (the pin) gets here (the corner), send me a text.

“When I saw that, I thought, ‘Oh my God, you can do that?’” says Allen Cypher, a researcher at IBM’s Almaden Research Center who specializes in human-computer interactions. “I certainly never thought that you could do anything like that. Not only do they do it; they do it well. It’s already practical. I want to use it right away to do things I couldn’t do before.”

http://digg.com/d31GAMK

How to make a "Working" Phazer Weapon... And so it begins.

It begins...

http://digg.com/d31G3R4

TERRORIST TWITTER

THIS guy was arrested for joking he would blow up Robin Hood Airport. ...Wait, there's a Robin Hood airport? HOW did I not know about this?

Anyway, I wonder if I could get arrested for saying I'm going to fill The Washington Memorial with super-intense Helium and let it float into the sun on facebook. Let's find out... (Sarcmarc!)


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/7016266/Man-arrested-under-Terrorism-Act-for-Doncaster-airport-Twitter-joke.html

Terrible Idea! (Sarcmarc!) =p

interesting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6995354/Sarcasm-punctuation-mark-aims-to-put-an-end-to-email-confusion.html

Lets not lie... who else has a weekend like this?

Lets not lie... who else has a weekend like this?

http://drawingboard.smackjeeves.com/comics/626704/weekend-will-wind/

Mistaken Identity

Awesome case of mistaken Identity

http://digg.com/d31FfvI

(I <3 U Facebook)

Sheep Births Human-Faced Lamb???

Our world is a very, VERY bizarre place.

http://digg.com/pets_animals/Sheep_gives_birth_to_human_faced_lamb


...VERY bizarre.

THANK YOU FACEBOOK

THANK YOU FACEBOOK FOR FINALLY INCLUDING THE 'REPLY TO' FEATURE IN E-MAIL.

Google Earth Found El Dorado

NICE.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article6982391.ece

Awesome!

Ikea hack FTW!

http://digg.com/d31F1RL

=)

Double Atomic Bomb Survivor dies in Japan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34722073/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Very sad... this man is a definitely a storyteller for generations.

I was very interested to note that James Cameron, Directer of Avatar and Titanic, visited him a month before he died, considering a movie based on the story he actually lived.

What must it be like to talk to such a man?

intriguing

Intriguing... some stats from the last 10 years

http://digg.com/d31ETv9