Facebook To Launch Friend Grouping

So Facebook will finally allow users to group friends and control information flow based on friend type. For guys like Robert Scoble, who have 5,000 friends (the limit), this may be a way to finally sort through the real friends from the fans. It’s a much needed feature that people have been requesting for a long time.

TechCrunch

Have An Old, Broken iPod? Get Cash For It Fast

Sure, you can always sell those old iPods (working or not) on eBay, but it’s far easier to use BuyMyBrokeniPod.

TechCrunch

Babe of the Month Olivia Munn

When bored, she’ll tweak her PC, which is easier than a Mac to “break apart and do a bunch of shit to. I’ll put in more memory or a new fan.”

Playboy

Quote

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
  – Aaron McGruder

Steer clear of these 10 illegal job interview questions

#1: Where were you born?
#2: What is your native language?
#3: Are you married?
#4: Do you have children?
#5: Do you plan to get pregnant?
#6: How old are you?
#7: Do you observe Yom Kippur?
#8: Do you have a disability or chronic illness?
#9: Are you in the National Guard?
#10: Do you smoke or use alcohol?

Why? Read full article.

The biggest sex mistakes men and women make

Men: She’s not always ready to go.  Ladies: Maybe he’s just feeling fat.

Article Link

The Web: Just another way to avoid real life

FYI: I’m not talking about me. Fortunately I’m not so unfortunate to have the same loser boyfriend from high school. Also, my mind’s been in the gutter way too long to not have heard this train coming down the track.

And as humans, we actively seek out distractions. Because when life isn’t painful, it’s often painfully dull.

MSNBC Article

Women

If you work in an environment with many women, particularly powerful women, you quickly find they “expect” the same perks men do — and that includes allowing them to do what they want, when they want.
— Posted by Attyman on MSNBC discussion board

The Best "Human Nature" Sex Stories of 2007

2007 has been a great year for sex. OK, every year is a great year for sex. But this year is especially interesting, with reports of sexsomnia, vegansexuals, man boobs, female promiscuity, double penises, horny old folks, cosmetic vagina surgery, publicly funded sex-change surgery, and the decline of marriage and co-sleeping. Among this year’s hundreds of Human Nature stories, five trends and discoveries stand out.

Slate Article

Only the BlackBerry can save our nation’s productivity

When I’m in a tight spot, my BlackBerry always helps me out. It also sends a subtle signal to my correspondents that I’m getting a lot done. An e-mail that says “Sent from my BlackBerry” gives the impression that you’re on the move but still chained to work, e-mailing from the elevator. An e-mail that says “Sent from my iPhone” conjures an image of a doofus who wants you to know he has an iPhone.

Touch-typing BlackBerry users, meanwhile, are everywhere, thumbing away behind steering wheels or with their hands tucked under the conference table during meetings. Sure, we’re a highway menace, but we’re productive.

…the work focus is inevitably disrupted by some dork who whips out his Apple phone for a demo. (Yes, I’ve seen the thing you can do with two fingers on the photos. No, I don’t want to see it again.)

Slate Article

My Sanity Score

59

Based upon your answers, you appear to be in generally good mental health, with some specific concerns or issues in your life. Most people have such issues to varying degrees — some seek outside help for them from a mental health professional like a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychotherapist, while others are happy with the way things are in their life. People with similar scores sometimes feel overwhelmed by the occasional stress in life, but usually recover and are fairly resilient.

(The Sanity Score is based upon a scientific algorithm with scores ranging from 0 – 288.)

Your specific subscores are below (subscales range from 0 – 100). Under the graph of subscores, you will find additional information regarding the meaning of any significant scores or areas that may be of concern.

General Coping
25

Life Events
41

Depression
38

Anxiety
29

Phobias
0

Self-Esteem
8

Eating Disorders
5

Schizophrenia
10

Dissociation
25

Mania
35

Sexual Issues
6

Relationship Issues
13

Alcohol
0

Drugs
0

Physical Issues
0

Smoking Issues
0

Gambling Issues
0

Technology Issues
38

Obsessions/Compulsions
25

Posttraumatic Stress
0

Borderline Traits
33

Your BMI: 26

Your body mass index (BMI) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight that applies to both adult men and women. BMI correlates with body fat. The relation between fatness and BMI differs with age and gender. For example, women are more likely to have a higher percent of body fat than men for the same BMI. On average, older people may have more body fat than younger adults with the same BMI.

25.0 – 29.9
Overweight

General Coping: People with similar scores as yours tend to feel a little overwhelmed by life at times. You appear to express some unhappiness with the way your life is going right now.

Life Events: You’re experiencing events in your life that may be negatively affecting your overall mental health and your ability to cope with other things in your life. This may also affect your mood.

Depression: People with scores similar to yours are often experiencing some depressive symptoms. While these are often common amongst the general population, they can also border on the possibility of a depressive episode. It is unclear as to whether you suffer these problems severely enough to need to seek further diagnosis and treatment of them. You should not take your responses to this self-report questionnaire as a diagnosis or recommendation for treatment of any sort. Consult with a trained mental health professional if you are experiencing depressive feelings and/or difficulties in your daily functioning that you are worried about.

Take Action for Depression:

• Learn About Depression
• Take a Depression Quiz
• Read About Treatment Options
• Join our Support Group
• Find a Therapist

Anxiety: People with scores similar to yours are typically experiencing some degree of anxiety, which may or may not be a concern serious enough to seek out professional help. Remember that a little anxiety in normal, everyday life is to be expected and is a good thing. Nobody should be without any anxiety whatsoever, as anxiety is our body’s way of telling us that we should pay closer attention to a situation, event or person in our lives (even if that person is ourselves). Scores in this range suggests a person may be experiencing elevated levels of anxiety that may be causing some distress in an individual.
The most common anxiety disorders diagnosed are either panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder.

Take Action for Anxiety:

• Learn About Anxiety Concerns
• Take an Anxiety Quiz
• Join our Support Group
• Find a Therapist

Dissociation: People with scores similar to yours sometimes lose track of time, people, places or events, but not to the extent that it causes serious problems in the individual’s life. You can learn more about dissociative disorders here.

Mania & Bipolar Disorder:

Technology Issues: People with scores similar to yours sometimes complain about having difficulty controlling their time or use of the Internet and other technologies. They may check email obsessively, or IM friends all the time. Generally, most people do not consider this a problem or issue unless it is seriously affecting your relationships with your friends, your family members, or your significant other.

Obsessions & Compulsions: People with scores similar to yours are sometimes diagnosed with an obsessive-compulsive disorder or have obsessions or compulsions that affect a person’s life from time to time. You can view symptoms and treatment options for this disorder. This is not a diagnosis, or a recommendation for treatment. Many people who have similar scores live with these occasional obsessions or compulsions fairly well and do not seek additional treatment for them. However, you may want to consider seeking out assistance from a mental health professional if you find these obsessions or compulsions overwhelming or significantly interferring with your life.

Take Action for Obsessions/Compulsions:

• Learn About Obsessions and Compulsions
• Take an OCD Quiz
• Treatments for OCD
• Find a Therapist

Borderline Traits: People with scores similar to yours sometimes have a trait or two that is commonly associated with borderline personality disorder. Generally people with such traits do not seek out or need additional mental health treatment, but it is good knowledge to have.

Recommendations

You have 9 milder concern(s) that we’ve identified. Such concerns may be a part of an ordinary person’s usual up’s and down’s in life. However, if any of these issues cause you worry or concern, please consult with your physician or a mental health professional for further information.

Please remember, this is not a diagnosis or diagnostic test. It is only a general screening to give you a broad understanding of the mental health concerns you may be facing right now in your life.

Source: SanityScore

Smallville

“Loving someone is hard, it’s difficult. But hate, hate is so . . . clean.” – Clark Kent

Declutter Your Desk

Me liked the setup a LOT!

He’s Happier, She’s Less So

By DAVID LEONHARDT

Two new research papers offer evidence that there is a growing happiness gap between men and women. – NYTimes

What’s so bad about being single?

To which Andy replied, “You know what your problem is? You don’t want to be happy.”

And that’s when I came to my senses and realized that the so-called “experts” who were diagnosing me didn’t know any more than I did. Being single isn’t a disease, yet so many married people think they’re Jonas Salk with the miracle cure. But with over 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, maybe single people should be diagnosing married people.

MSN Dating & Personals

Blu-ray/HD DVD war to run another 18 months

Gownder said Blu-ray’s content advantages are somewhat diminished since the recent decision by Viacom Inc’s Paramount studio to commit exclusively to HD DVD. HD DVD hardware prices have also dropped into consumers’ preferred price range, he said.

“Weakened by these developments, Blu-ray needs to offer a viable hardware model at the $250 price point by Christmas 2007,” he said in the report. “The Blu-ray camp must also stave off further studio defections, and employ more aggressive promotional tactics to counter HD DVD’s recent momentum.”

Forrester said typical owners of high-definition televisions are not willing to pay more than $200 on average for a new HD DVD or Blu-ray player.

“Failure to alter strategy would open up Blu-ray to a possible upset defeat at the hands of HD DVD,” Gownder said. -Reuters
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Note: I own Xbox 360 HD DVD player.

Bud Light Opera

I thought it was hilarious! Wait until the very end. Video available here.

Dealbreaker: The Wine Bar

Shortly after I turned twenty-eight, I was asked on a date to a wine bar. From what others have told me, the wine-bar date seems to be a modern right of passage for those in their mid-to-late twenties. I know very little about wine. It’s not that I don’t like drinking wine. I buy bottles, four at a time, at Trader Joe’s (total: $8.96). Wines with names like Rabbit Ridge and Ravenswood, Clay Station and Yellowtail. Wines with colorful logos on glossy black labels, from vintages like 2006 and vineyards in Lodi, California.  – Nerve.com

Beware the Tapeless Camcorder

By DAVID POGUE

Tapeless camcorders have arrived, but be aware of price, capacity and picture quality.

Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap

By MICHAEL FITZGERALD

Software radio could offer an elegant solution to a vexing problem: how to have a single handset communicate across multiple networks.

Darker Me

says…

Too Bad
Life Sucks
Not My Problem
Deal With It

Get a Good Night’s Sleep

Link to Get a Good Night’s Sleep | Life Skills : RealSimple.com

Nicole Scherzinger – Whatever U Like

Nicole Scherzinger – Whatever U Like
Uploaded by Nicole-Scherzinger

Quote

“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.” – Vince Lombardi

Smallville Promos

Their marketing dept. is doing good job!

Laura Vandervoort aka Supergirl on cover of Stuff Magazine and

Erica Durance aka Lois Lane on cover of Maxim Magazine.

Palm Struggles to Shine Again

Palm Inc.’s death knell has been rung over and over – on Wall Street, in headlines, and by a growing number of discontented fans.Whether on death watch or not, the smart phone pioneer is struggling. Palm has been pummeled by deep-pocketed rivals and maimed by missteps, and it remains shackled to an aging operating system.

The Hard Stuff

The sporting event that marriage most resembles is the three-legged race, where the object is to sprint forward while strapped to another person who is impeding your speed, grace, and mobility. In many ways, it’s nice to be strapped to this person, even when he stumbles, and so we have to figure out a way to run the race.

You said that taking this job was his decision to make, and you were “confident he’d make the right one.” This implies that if he made the “wrong” choice — the one you disagreed with — then it wasn’t his decision to make after all. The fact is, you both have a say, but he has more voting power because he’d be the one on the job every day. You can only tell him, as you put it, what “makes sense” (to you), and what you believe is best for you and your kids. If you push the issue, he may take the job only because it means so much to you, and resent you for it.

MSN Lifestyle – Relationships

Quote

As long as a person doesn’t admit he is defeated, he is not defeated – he’s just a little behind and isn’t through fighting.
- Darrell Royal, Texas football coach

Miss Information

I don’t like it when other people are happy either, Other Brother. It bothers me to see them so joyful. I live in a bar soaked neighborhood and sometimes I just want to open fire with an Uzi. Saturday night I almost punched a group of drunken kids for jostling my bag of kitty litter as they reached for the Red Bull display.

Moment like those, all you can do is take deep breaths. Channel Oprah’s spiritual healer du jour and breathe, man, breeeeeeathe.

Give your brother and his perfect partner two years, and one or both will be secretly fantasizing about living the single lifestyle. Couples think singles have it made. Singles think you never feel any pain once you’re in a couple. It’s life’s big wacky sitcom, and it never changes. 

- Miss Information

Someday…

No, I don’t think I’ll buy the game, old man. :-[

A Window of Opportunity for Macs, Soon to Close

By RANDALL STROSS

 The Mac’s presence in the retail world remains limited, a shame given the rare opportunity for Apple to gain market share that opened up when Vista arrived.

However, the opportunity for Apple that has been opened by Vista’s introduction is temporary. Mr. Kay, of Endpoint, described a Microsoft operating system and its thousands of certified supporting hardware vendors and the two million device drivers as forming an enormous flywheel.

“It takes a lot of energy to spin it up,” he said, “but once it gets going, it’s virtually unstoppable.”

- NYTimes

Payback

Porter: One man… you go high enough you always come to one man…

Nontraditional Jobs for Men

The U.S. Department of Labor defines a nontraditional occupation as one in which 25 percent or less of a particular gender works. Women have made great strides in working in male-dominated fields, such as law enforcement, politics, firefighting and the military. And now there are many men who also have been successful in stereotypical female careers. – MSN Careers
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We’re coming after you women! No escape!

Google And IBM Both Launch Free Office Products

First up, Google rolled out their long awaited presentations capabilities to Google Docs. Google continues to insist that this is merely a “feature” added to the Google Docs offering, but obviously, this is a light version of PowerPoint.

Last week, IBM threw its support behind OpenOffice, and the new free “Lotus Symphony” suite is going to be based on that platform.

- Techdirt Article

N.Y. Times to stop charging for site content

As of midnight Tuesday, the Times will discontinue its TimesSelect feature, which cost $49.95 per year or $7.95 by the month. Home delivery subscribers were able to sign up for free. – MSNBC

SoCal College Offers YouTube Class

Here’s a dream-come-true for Web addicts: college credit for watching YouTube.

News from The Associated Press

Stupids

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
  – Scott Adams

Emily Deschanel

Plays Dr. Temperance Brennan on Fox’s ‘Bones’. I like her and her character.

This Week

Aries (Mar. 21-Apr. 19)
If the eclipse brings up health issues, just remember that these are advance warnings. Just like when the car starts rattling, you get the tire fixed before the engine explodes. (That’s technical jargon, there.) So take care of yourself, visit the doc or start that exercise routine. They say the secret is to find an activity you like; a half-hour of sex burns 100 calories, just so you know.
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Seems right on, I’m waiting for doc report on 20th. As much it hurts to drag my ass around, I can’t seem to get myself off of my lazy ass. Probably because I have death wish.

Iron Man Teaser Trailer

Available here! Yeah it looks kick ass!

Ordered New Earphones

My Shure E2C bought in June 21st 2005 is finally giving up on me. Two year warranty expired. :-[ Ordered same model from Amazon. I have special ears dammit, your normal earphones don’t do it for me!

Looking for Mr. Clean (and Single)

New research says that live-in boyfriends are more likely than husbands to help with house cleaning. And guess who reports better sex lives?

One Reason to Watch Oprah Tomorrow!

David Letterman will be special guest on Monday, September 10!

Don’t smoke kids!

For the writers

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
  – Stephen King

58 min with Sprint!

and I still don’t have an RMA#! Why the hell do I even bother to deal with them? Because I’m a cheap bastard, I like to have stuff for cheap. I rarely call up customer service so I could care less. Maybe I’ll just keep this extra phone they sent by mistake. Looks like they didn’t charge my card, just billed me! MUTHA FUCKERS! The person on the other side of phone had no clue what the hell they were doing! Who should I blame for this! Most likely they’ve outsourced service! FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCK!

Men want hot women, study confirms

Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.

CNN.com

Letterman to make first appearance on ‘Oprah’

Letterman will tape the interview, a rare appearance on someone else’s show, on September 10 at Madison Square Garden in New York, Winfrey’s production company announced Wednesday.

CNN.com

Avoid Xerox!

At all costs! I never wanted to get their DocuMate 152 scanner. Had to get it because user wanted something small. Now we are all paying the price. After 1-5 months of back and forth, they finally decided to take exchange it for another one! I HATE XEROX! They have made this whole process unnecessarily difficult! This was NOT WORTH the $500 price we paid! YOU SUCK XEROX! LAST TIME I BUY ANYTHING FROM YOU! (Unless I’m forced somehow).

Quote

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
  – Evan Esar