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<em>Perfect for any snooze button addict ! This sneaky alarm clock runs and hides when you don't wake up ! He'll give you 09 min. of snooze time <strong>then jumps off the nightstand</strong> and rolls in circles while alarming, loud 80 dB alarm beeps, in a random pattern while the screen flashes for a total sensory awakening.</em>



<img src="http://ah.pricegrabber.com/product_image.php?masterid=47938187&width=400&height=400" alt="" />



<a href="http://shopping.aol.com/clocky-products/?refCode=aolpartner_shopsoldseasonalevents&gads=0">Can you say HEART ATTACK ?</a>
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1217502743]<em>Perfect for any snooze button addict ! This sneaky alarm clock runs and hides when you don't wake up ! He'll give you 09 min. of snooze time <strong>then jumps off the nightstand</strong> and rolls in circles while alarming, loud 80 dB alarm beeps, in a random pattern while the screen flashes for a total sensory awakening.</em>



<img src="http://ah.pricegrabber.com/product_image.php?masterid=47938187&width=400&height=400" alt="" />



<a href="http://shopping.aol.com/clocky-products/?refCode=aolpartner_shopsoldseasonalevents&gads=0">Can you say HEART ATTACK ?</a></blockquote>




Wow... I think I need one of these!
 
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/Mars_as_art/index_noaccess.html">Mars as art.</a>



These are photographs taken by NASA and selected by artists to be of artistic merit, even if they are not of any scientific value.
 
<strong>Microsoft study confirms 'Kevin Bacon' theory</strong>



<em>WASHINGTON - Turns out, it is a small world.



The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.



With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances. </em>



<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25988549">Microsoft study confirms 'Kevin Bacon' theory</a>
 
[quote author="Girl In the OC" date=1217729071]<strong>Microsoft study confirms 'Kevin Bacon' theory</strong>



<em>WASHINGTON - Turns out, it is a small world.



The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.



With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances. </em>



<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25988549">Microsoft study confirms 'Kevin Bacon' theory</a></blockquote>
My husband and I discuss this all the time. It's amazing how close people are to one another. The six degree game always works for us. It's really weird.
 
[quote author="CalGal" date=1217739058][quote author="Girl In the OC" date=1217729071]<strong>Microsoft study confirms 'Kevin Bacon' theory</strong>



<em>WASHINGTON - Turns out, it is a small world.



The "small world theory," embodied in the old saw that there are just "six degrees of separation" between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.



With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances. </em>



<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25988549">Microsoft study confirms 'Kevin Bacon' theory</a></blockquote>
My husband and I discuss this all the time. It's amazing how close people are to one another. The six degree game always works for us. It's really weird.</blockquote>


I know, and just think of all the connections we've made to all the IHB'rs! Just shows how connected everyone really is!
 
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp&oref;=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp&oref;=slogin</a>



This is the greatest article in the history of the internet, maybe the NYT, and certainly of online blogging. If you read the Lassner blog on the OCR or the Orange Juice Blog strictly for entertainment value, this may open up an whole new level of consicousness for you. I had no idea /b/ existed. Fun stuff.
 
[quote author="Trooper" date=1217502743]<em>Perfect for any snooze button addict ! This sneaky alarm clock runs and hides when you don't wake up ! He'll give you 09 min. of snooze time <strong>then jumps off the nightstand</strong> and rolls in circles while alarming, loud 80 dB alarm beeps, in a random pattern while the screen flashes for a total sensory awakening.</em>



<img src="http://ah.pricegrabber.com/product_image.php?masterid=47938187&width=400&height=400" alt="" />



<a href="http://shopping.aol.com/clocky-products/?refCode=aolpartner_shopsoldseasonalevents&gads=0">Can you say HEART ATTACK ?</a></blockquote>


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<em>Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law is one of the people who does believe that loose lips sink ... well, not ships, but reputations and even lives. In an engaging and lively 27-minute lecture (I know, I know -- but it's worth watching), without assuming any malice on the part of the police, he explains just how you can talk yourself into trouble, and why you shouldn't talk to the police at all when suspicion wanders in your direction</em>



<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik">Linky</a>



<em>Well, as it so happens, in the very same classroom, just after Prof. Duane finishes, Officer George Bruch of the Virginia Beach Police Department steps up to the podium and says ... well ... that Prof. Duane is basically right. In fact, Officer Bruch fills in a lot of important details about how people get themselves into trouble. Watch and learn.</em>



<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08fZQWjDVKE">Linky</a>
 
[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1217809383]<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin</a>



This is the greatest article in the history of the internet, maybe the NYT, and certainly of online blogging. If you read the Lassner blog on the OCR or the Orange Juice Blog strictly for entertainment value, this may open up an whole new level of consicousness for you. I had no idea /b/ existed. Fun stuff.</blockquote>


But which is more pathetic? That sasquatch is in it for the Lulz or that sasquatch really is that deluded?
 
[quote author="No_Such_Reality" date=1217975655][quote author="no_vaseline" date=1217809383]<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin</a>



This is the greatest article in the history of the internet, maybe the NYT, and certainly of online blogging. If you read the Lassner blog on the OCR or the Orange Juice Blog strictly for entertainment value, this may open up an whole new level of consicousness for you. I had no idea /b/ existed. Fun stuff.</blockquote>


But which is more pathetic? That sasquatch is in it for the Lulz or that sasquatch really is that deluded?</blockquote>


Or (cue Eva's avatar)..........
 
[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1217809383]<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin</a>



This is the greatest article in the history of the internet, maybe the NYT, and certainly of online blogging. If you read the Lassner blog on the OCR or the Orange Juice Blog strictly for entertainment value, this may open up an whole new level of consicousness for you. I had no idea /b/ existed. Fun stuff.</blockquote>


Not a single mention in that article of trolling <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.tasteless/browse_thread/thread/3f265cf9ef49d3e1">old-school</a>. Quite possibly the <em>original</em> troll.
 
[quote author="no_vaseline" date=1217976899][quote author="No_Such_Reality" date=1217975655][quote author="no_vaseline" date=1217809383]<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=1&hp;&oref;=slogin</a>



This is the greatest article in the history of the internet, maybe the NYT, and certainly of online blogging. If you read the Lassner blog on the OCR or the Orange Juice Blog strictly for entertainment value, this may open up an whole new level of consicousness for you. I had no idea /b/ existed. Fun stuff.</blockquote>


But which is more pathetic? That sasquatch is in it for the Lulz or that sasquatch really is that deluded?</blockquote>


Or (cue Eva's avatar)..........</blockquote>


That's the same point. Or did I just grant massive lulz to Eva?



Overall, who cares. The author was roundly gamed, but even with that, unhealthy is the only word that comes to mind which is the core thing, IMHO, to remember about the interent. It's were every unhealthy, screwed-up, deluded, F.I.N.E, maladjusted misfit gets to go to escape, "bond" and attempt to make themselves feel better. Unfortunately, they congregate and behave much like a hive of killer bees.



In the ancient era, the tribe would have driven them from the group into the wilderness. The Internet is our wilderness. Yes little Johnny, it is filled with the boogeyman.
 
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