"When asked about the resemblance to Mickey, a spokesperson replied, “They have square holes in their ears. They are not copies.” The spokesperson suggested the statues are unique because they incorporate the themes of old Chinese coins (the square holes), the year of the rat, the Olympics and the financial district into the design. However, children passing by the statues were seen pointing and saying, “Look! It’s Mickey!”" - Jess Lee
“They have square holes in their ears. They are not copies.” I think I just found my quote of the day. :D - Alvin Woon
"Yet, for some reason Style.com's inclusion of Allegra Versace among today's "Look of the Day" candidates REALLY got under my skin. I mean the poor girl is so very emaciated and looks so mal-developed - she is clearly still battling anorexia. And she's offered up for consideration as an ideal?" - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
I <3 this rant the only kinda cannon i trust is sammus's arm cannon I love the line punk music is a joke it's all just baroque - Cecil Sandus
a great video. I actually wrote a remix of the cannon a while back before I saw this. http://myspace.com/djrizzn. I think it's called Basket Case - Kool Kannon Remix on there. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I'm listening to the remix you posted there. Pretty cool. - Candace Holly
Hold up..Pompano? Whaaat? Fellow South Florida native, eh? Born around Pompano, grew up in Hollywood. Spent my club days down in the Miami nightlife. - Candace Holly
I lived in the FTL area for about four years... then moved back to texas after Hurricane Wilma. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
I think Wilma did it in for me too. I left South Florida the year after Wilma but, once Wilma hit I was like "Ok no more hurricanes" - Candace Holly
I miss it but I doubt I'll be moving back there again. Too expensive! Ugh the cost of rent of my apartment was insane and I won't even get into the cost on the house. Plus everyone I used to stomp around The Kitchen Club with are now gone to other areas of the US save a very few. - Candace Holly
Same here, too much has changed,though there are still some great friends there, but also there's a place that makes the best, no really, the best fresh Mozarella I've ever tasted. I think it was called Mimi's. Their Canoli are awesome also. We'd fly back just to have that Mozarella, no joke, it's that good. - sergiooo (droffset)
Oh my gosh! Yes! Mimi's in Hollywood. That place was awesome. Every Holiday we would get fresh bread and things from there. Did you ever have the tiramisu? That was the best I'd ever had. - Candace Holly
I haven't had it, but now I'm trying to think of a way to fit in a visit to South Florida :) - sergiooo (droffset)
The Kitchen Club - sounds very familiar. Was that a popular goth hangout, or am I thinking of something else? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
@Mark - Yes. It's one of the longest-running goth/industrial clubs on the East Coast. My old stomping grounds were The Kitchen, Manray (and later) Vamp and Underland. Sometimes Respectable Street up in West Palm but, not too often. - Candace Holly
I didn't go there often to the Kitchen, but I remember my ex dragging me out there a few times. I lived in FTL proper, Pompano, Hollywood (right on the broadwalk) and Davie. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Hehe you most likely saw me there but I doubt anyone would recognize me in "club" get up vs regular me. I was always in Hollywood, over near Memorial Hospital. Lived in Kendall with roommates for a short time and, Sunrise too but always ended up back in Hollywood. Now I'm curious as to who your ex is, if she went regularly, I probably knew/know her. - Candace Holly
Not sure how often she made it down to Miami without me. She was part of the FTL fetish scene. A fairly shortlived relationship that went out with a bang. Didn't end amicably. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Wow. The Kitchen. One of the first clubs I went to and I wouldn't have it any other way as I never experienced another club like it again. A quick search led me to its MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/thekitc... which had a fun read on its history. - Gus Perez
@Mark - I'll bet you money I know her then. Now you have to tell me who she is if you don't mind telling. :) @Gus - the Kitchen is still moving along. My buddies still do DJ spots and, they still host parties. That place is a South Florida legend. - Candace Holly
hilarious rant. i like the basket case pachelbel mashup too. - Jess Lee
Thanks! It was a fun one to make, though I cringe hearing it now - wish I still had the source files so I could correct some of the errors I hear. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Lol: "This blog depicts dogs so undeserving of the good name of dog that their proud wolf ancestors howl in outrage and protest from the hereafter" - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
in general i like big dogs but this blog is hilarious. - Jess Lee
"A Luther Burger is a hamburger, specifically a bacon cheeseburger, which employs a glazed donut in place of the bun." Apparently this picture is from the Google New York cafe. - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
I hope you haven't actually eaten one of these things...yuck! - Brad Collins via twhirl
Unfortunately no. But I would love to try one. - Jess Lee
5 years ago we would have never considered 'walking directions' or 'bicycling directions' or 'siteseeing directions', why not give us multiple routes, based on hills/crime/site-seeing, and color them different, maybe we want to walk a different way back. user generated gps paths would help too, but thats a lot of data to analyze. - David Lynch
"In this contest we're going to rectify the art world's mistake by placing Star Wars character, items, vehicles and scenes into classic art works. Paintings, tapestries and sculptures are all allowed." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
For those of you who were around during FriendFeed's brief stint as FestivusFeed, here is a permanent version of it, via the Bitchfest room. - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
At first I thought you took all the original entries and put them there, but now I see the dates are all recent. - Chris White
Seems to be a Friendfeed bug, the URL reads "You are now a member of the room Bitchfest" but it's not true. - Philipp Lenssen
Men of FriendFeed -- which of these would you actually consider wearing? - Jess Lee
The Diesel cologne has got to go -- the bottle is pretty but, oof the smell. :-) None of the shoes are me, which is often a problem with men's shoes; most of them are too conventional. Other than that, it's all wearable and most of my friends would love to see me in the new hawtness. Any new hawtness actually... Anyone settle for tepidness? Yeah. - Daniel Dulitz
Con'grats !!! Its seems to be raining babies within FF ..is that time of the year or is it because we are better conenctions and share a lot more of or life streams !! - Peter Dawson
Coming to a Hot Topic near you. Better wear Sunscreen with that. Absolutely useless in public for 3-9 months out of the year depending on where you live. - Jacob
"...and in the future, people pay good money for clothes with holes cut in them!" - Karim
Karim, don't you remember the stupid pre-torn jeans you could buy for $100 back in the 90s? - Tad Donaghe
Those are kinda cool, but will probably only survive washing maybe once?? In the close-up on the site it doesn't look like the edges are finished in any way. - Shannon Jiménez
I saw a young woman in the DB ticket station with these. They looked kind of funny, but they looked good on her (she had a body that could show them off) --- and yes, the holes were in the front. - Piaw Na
"Google has confirmed that personal data of US employees hired prior to 2006 has been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external company, were stolen in a burglary on 26 May. It is understood that Colt did not employ encryption to protect the information." - Simon via Bookmarklet
"No credit-card numbers were in the stolen data, just names, addresses, [social-security numbers]; all the info needed for a thief to open new accounts using your identity," Ouch, that hurts! - Nenad Nikolic via Alert Thingy
Argh, it kills me how frequently this sort of thing happens and yet there's no legal requirement (or enforcement teeth) to force use of encryption, nor to limit SSN data to a need-to-know basis. Victims can really be hosed in these situations while the org gets at most a brief wristslap and reputation hit for that newscycle. - Casey
Btw, for those of you exposed by this incident, you can go a step stronger than a credit alert and put a credit freeze in place. You will need to file a police report, but the credit freeze can stay in place (at your discretion) for up to 7 years and would require a call to you verifying any application for credit before it can be granted. Slight nuisance factor possible in terms of you might not be able to stroll into mobile/Apple store and get instant gratification signing up for new account, but - Casey
at least it's stronger protection and peace of mind. There's a helpful privacy rights clearinghouse / advocacy group that has advice here: http://www.privacyrights.org/f... My old links for the FTC guide 404. Good luck, I've been in your shoes and it's a pain in the arse. - Casey
If this affected you then you should have been contacted by Google already about taking steps to protect yourself. - Adewale Oshineye
Google did not contact me. Have any former employees been contacted? - Chris White
They definitely paid a visit to my neighbors. Go Texas! - Carla Thompson
Wow, Colorado is significantly lower than all the others. Any ideas why? - Jim Norris
This was posted separately and there was quite a bit of discussion about it. The Coloradans basically said that outdoor physical activity is a major part of the culture there. - ⓞnor
I say the thin air squeezes the fat out of them. - Steve Craft
Mean elevation: CO 6800ft, UT 6100ft, NM 5692ft, MT 3396ft, MS 300ft... - ⓞnor
This is obese - I don't even want to see "overweight." Colorado is the only state where it's not a granted that 1 out of 5 is obese (though by the looks of things, the average is 1 out of 4). Does this include children? Pre-edit: clicked on the article - the overweight numbers are amazing. I'm certainly in these categories - I must disclose. - Vince DeGeorge
cool chart - looks like our primary home (ct) is #3 & secondary (vt) is #5 :) - mike "glemak" dunn
Like we always said back in Arkansas, thank god for Mississippi and Louisiana or we'd always finish last! - Jesse Hattabaugh
I loved visiting Japan, where people seem to be healthily thin. It's very sad the changes since I was in high school. At a pediatric obesity presentation at Stanford, they showed a slideshow of obesity/state over the past 25 years, and it was really sad to see the whole country become fatter & fatter. An Economist issue from the past year shows that it's a worldwide trend - poor & rich countries... People were so much thinner when I was in high school. :-( - Mitchell Tsai
I had a friend who speaks Farsi translate the comments. 1) The pink, bloody bear is called Gloomy Bear. He's a 2m tall, violent, pink bear that eats humans and is supposed to be the antithesis to cute, cuddly characters like Hello Kitty. 2) I work at Polyvore, not FriendFeed. - Jess Lee
You mean the cute cuddly bear isn't supposed to be? - Jim Norris
Why is this a good idea? "SomethingStore is a fun new website that operates simply: We will send you *something*, an item selected randomly among many things from our inventory, for $10 (free shipping in the US) and you will find out what your something is when you receive it." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
exactly match one of friends wanted to do sometime last year. - Samuel Wu
This sounds like exactly the opposite of what I want. I want to get rid of random stuff from my house. :) - Chris White
Winner: Hebrew National Reduced Fat Beef Franks. Oscar Mayer Cheese Dogs got #6. - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
Hard to find the entire Hebrew National line in Honolulu. We have some national brands, and there's Redondo's - they are dyed bright RED. Yuck. - Bill Sodeman via fftogo
"Early last month, webmasters here at The Reg noticed an unexpected spike in our site traffic. Suddenly, we had far more readers than ever before, and they were reading at a record clip. Visits actually doubled on certain landing pages, and more than a few ho-hum stories attracted an audience worthy of a Pulitzer Prize winner. Or so it seemed. As it turns out, much of this traffic was driven by the new malware scanner from AVG Technologies." - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet
Hmm... is AVG forging user-agents then? Or will everyone just end up blocking them? - ƃuɐʞ
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