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Funny and Amusing links

post anything new or old that u find amusing to kill time especially in class or what not. i will try and post new links every so often. but for now heres some. some of these might be new some might be old but post em all even if their repeats some one else might not have seen it yet. http://ogc.ath.cx/files/tmp/pingu.htm <- baseball with a twist https://umsis.miami.edu/~mwaarna/ <- my school web storage - a shitload of files games and what not that i have found amusing http://milked.free.fr/animated/malaxage1.swf <- NSFW for the guys out there http://stream.qtv.apple.com/qtv/videoc/ ... 00_ref.mov <- a tool commercial http://www.narf.at/~zaphod/colors2.jpg <- nice new little toy for the kids After a two year long study, the National Science Foundation announced the following results on corporate America's recreation preferences. 1. The sport of choice for unemployed or incarcerated people is: Basketball 2. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is: Bowling 3. The sport of choice for front line workers is: Football 4. The sport of choice for supervisors is: Baseball 5. The sport of choice for middle management is: Tennis 6. The sport of choice for corporate officers is: Golf Conclusion: The higher you are in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become. http://www.nordlan.org/~sfenne/phun/caught.mpeg < NSFW http://stu.hsivhs.tpc.edu.tw/~s113115/2 ... 170732.gif <- damn chinese http://mirrored.flabber.nl/boob.cursor/ciagnijcycka.swf <- NSFW for the guys http://www.anvari.org/fun/Political/Res ... _Bush.html http://www.kolumbus.fi/maxh/stuff/heratys.jpg <- nice awekening http://www.darmon.homeip.net/fun/barbie/barbie2.html <- in german but the pictures speak for them selve is it a bomb?? http://www.freeftvgirls.com/alexamodel.mpg <- another one for the guys NSFW http://dwd.hu/cat.swf

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Random news story of the day

OK I think this may be the one of the most WTF news stories I've seen a while! http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.htm ... page_id=34 tresedit: moved. these lambs should be considered silly doggies ...

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The no-comment random-picture thread

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shodowncon

so, on another board i frequent, well, it's a newish board but it used to be a last.fm group. anyway the other day someone said "meetup." and within three hours it had been decided upon that the last weekend of july we were all goiong to meet in chicago, drink a lot, put on a festival of all of our bands, and then drink some more. just saying if a bunch of kids on one board can do it and plan everything out within the span of two days, we probably could before the end of 2007.

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Photographic Mugshots: Part Ridiculous

since i'm new, i have no idea what anyone looks like. not that it matter s a ton, but call me curious. this is me in all my over exposed (because of shitty lighting) goodness. #euthedit: may the powers of the mugshots combine! four mugshot threads in one.

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I've been getting more interested in the upcoming election, especially since it seems like the world's about to explode with how we're doing things right now. So who're you rooting for right now? I was going to make this post specifically about Ron Paul because he's been getting so much internet publicity, but I think it's about time to open it up to a more general theme. So many people on Digg, youtube, and otherwise see the man as a saint. I watched a few videos and really like him, but then again I'm afraid of being caught up in a flurry of hype. His ideas sound so good to me that I'm worried they might not work. Then again we've been led by corporate fueled fascists for the past 7 years so it's hard to say... http://www.freecentury.com/2007/05/20/b ... ion-52007/ [note that this video has only 215 views ... which never changes even though it's being linked to hell off of digg... EDIT: It's fixed, but updating very slowly] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7yJgqnQ5Rc And then I was looking for polls to see how he was doing... and simply couldn't find many. Then I came across this site which pointed out that HE IS BEING CENSORED FROM MANY MAJOR POLLS and even left out of polls in his HOME STATE! WTF!??!?! http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/ar ... polls.html http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/ma ... ictory.htm

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Windows users, your fave apps?

What are you running to make things nice and smooth on your PC? We've had threads like this before, I'm sure, but fuck it. Some of these are freeware, some of them are payware that I've grabbed from torrent sites and wherever else. ---- http://en.softonic.com/ie/32372/TrayIt! - TrayIt!. Too much shit on your taskbar? Yeah, that sucks. Minimise absolutely any app or file to your systray just by holding ctrl when you click the minimise button. Double-clicking the icon in the systray will bring it back. TaskBar Shuffle. Got a bit of an obsessive/compulsive streak and can't handle seeing the Photoshop and Illustrator buttons held apart by some other app sitting between them on your taskbar? Use this to get some drag-and-drop shuffling going on. xplorer2 Pro. Dual-pane explorer to replace the functions of My Computer. allSnap. Another one for the obsessive/compulsive camp, this will snap all your windows together if you aren't the full-screen browsing type. Multi-monitor taskbar If you're running more than one monitor, this app will add a taskbar to each monitor and only show the apps that are running in that specific monitor. Some might find this useless, but I like the uniformity across my screens. CCleaner. Keep those useless temp files and other annoying shit files from clogging up your PC.

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Useful Online Resources

This has to be the most concise observation of my working habits that I've ever seen. http://www.digg.com/tech_news/8_Things_ ... ent_People All employers need to read this. And immediately.

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http://bringnobombs.muxtape.com/ neato. make one up.

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Photo Thread

Somone mentioned showing photos in the show your stuff thread, and it does make it a bit hefty, so this is a thread to dump your photos in, I havent had time to look at any of my photos recently but this is a start Amusement Parks On Fire

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http://www.lively.com/

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Discuss|Review|Recommend beer in this thread. Keep it mildly civilized or your post may be moved to I;m Drunek as fuck

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Firefox and doctypes...

I'm sure this is a simple solution, but I have an flash movie that won't play in Firefox because of the doctype, but it works in IE. Does anyone have a solution?

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hot. fucking. damn. now this is television.

Spoiler:

just finished where stringer told avon he had d killed, shit's about to go haywire. and hamsterdam!

anyone else watch this shit?

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Anyone tried blogtv.com? I think its pretty fun when its late and you have nothing to do - as a guest and as a host. I gave it a try with my girlfriend today (hosting) and it was fun. There is also a co-host feature, so 2 people can video chat at the same time and the other can participate in the chat. We should do s shodown show. The app manycam from manycam.com is pretty cool too. With it you can show pictures, videos and even your live desktop in your webcam video window. Anyway, here is my blogtv http://www.blogtv.com/People/Todoke

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i;m drunek as fuck

ajny one else as trasehd as me? lou? i know you are mofo....

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I was going to reapply for a Sallie Mae signature loan again as I've always done and I needed a cosigner. After my mom looked at it she said the rates were shitty and that we should look in to it again and try to get them consolidated before rates supposadly hike up before the end of the year. She's in the business so I'll take her word for it. Who have you used in the past? Currently? I'm just looking for a good starting point.

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What Did You Discover or Learn Today?

Tonight, I discovered that no matter what you search for on Google Images, you'll always eventually land on a page that includes a thumbnail of a chick with a dick. Even when you're searching for "anime face", and said chick with a dick is an anime chick. Oh and please, don't PM me asking for a link to the dicked up chick. So, how about you?

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JOE DAVIDIAN / KAONASHI

Joe, get in contact with me. I've sent you the invoice for my work and 3 followup E-mails. -Evan

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More people should read comics. Newsarama.com posted the full first issue of some new titles through Image comics. I read all 4 of these (plus a shit load of other stuff...) and I can attest that they are all incredibly awesome. Fear Agent

Quote:

The Fear Agents are no more. Once known throughout the universe for driving three invading alien races from Earth, they stood as a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Now, Heath Huston drunkenly scuttles across the galaxy as an alien exterminator – the last of their ranks. Combining the aesthetic elements of all three of the genres that made EC comics the high water mark of sequential storytelling – science fiction, war, and horror – Heath’s adventures take readers on monthly jaunts to brave new worlds overrun by jellyfish brains, wild ape-men and rickety robots bent on intergalactic domination!

PREVIEW:http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/FearAgent/FearAgent01issue.htm Girls

Quote:

Ethan Daniels is a typical bachelor who suffers from one, infallible truth: dealing with the opposite sex can be complicated. One night, he bumps into a mysterious woman who will change his life… and maybe even the world.

PREVIEW: http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/Gi ... 1issue.htm Battle Pope

Quote:

When he’s not leadin’ mass, he’s out kickin’ ass! After the Rapture the sole protector of the sinning masses is Battle Pope, and his trusty sidekick, Jesus. They’re the last line of defense in a world overrun with demons and depravity.

PREVIEW: http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/Ba ... 1issue.htm Fell

Quote:

Detective Richard Fell is transferred over the bridge from the big city to Snowtown, a feral district whose police roster numbers three-and-a-half people (one detective has no legs). Dumped in this collapsing urban trashzone, Richard Fell is starting all over again. In a place where nothing seems to make any sense, Fell clings to the one thing he knows to be true: Everybody's hiding something. Even him.

PREVIEW: http://www.newsarama.com/ImageComics/Fe ... 1Issue.htm ALSO... Slacker should read this if he isn't already. DMZ

Quote:

A new monthly series about the ultimate embedded war journalist trapped in a most unlikely war zone: the streets of New York City. Matty Roth, a naïve young man and aspiring photojournalist, lands a dream gig following a veteran war journalist into the heart of the DMZ. Things soon go terribly wrong and Matty finds himself lost and alone in a world he's only seen on television. There, he is faced with a choice: try to find a way off the island, or make his career with an assignment most journalists would kill for. But can he survive in a war zone long enough to report the truth?

PREVIEW: (5 pages) http://www.buzzscope.com/previewer.php?id=4846&p=1

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here are some games i've bought recently:

ps2:

silent hill 3 after i checked out some screens of silent hill 4, i started getting excited about the series again and decided to pick up sh3. i was pretty dissapointed with 2, but the screens of 3 looked pretty rad. i think the graphics are a big jump from 2. character design is nice, lighting is really nice, sound is really nice. voice acting and monster design are pretty bad. some of the voices are on par with blue stinger (dc) if any of you guys played that. i still haven't beat it, but it's a pretty neat game. i'd recommend it. it's only $30 now.
manhunt fun game. mediocre environment design. character models are okay -- better than most rockstar games. the violent deaths are over the top and always interesting. i'd recommend this game. xbox:
beyond good & evil pretty neat game. nice graphics, kind of cheesy character design, a fun game. it's only $20 for all 3 systems now, so you might as well pick it up if you've got some extra scratch.
dead or alive volleyball another game which had it's price cut, so i picked it up. i'm into these games where you can win items and stuff. i'm one of those suckers who actually got into monster rancher and the like. if you can find it cheap and aren't afraid to look like a dirty bastard buying this cheesy game, i say go for it.
max payne 2 this looked pretty rad for the pc, but since my pc sucks, i picked it up for the xbox since the ps2 version is supposed to be loaded with low res textures and slowdown. well, the xbox version has a nice framerate and resolution and the textures aren't too low res, but it still looks like ass. animation is way primitive, they chopped down the poly count big time from the pc version. it's a fun game with a nice story and great voice acting, but i'd wait until it goes on sale. it's not worth the $50 i paid for it.
splinter cell this game was $5 if i bought max payne 2, so i picked it up. i'd heard good stuff about it, so imagine my surprise when i saw it in action. graphics look like ass. like much more than max payne. it's got some nice lighting every so often, but the low poly count, gay character design and animation and extremely shitty framerate are over the top. then the frame rate looks like it's about 25fps. jesus christ, this game was made a year or two ago, not in 1995. i haven't even gotten by the first level yet. i haven't had any desire to. this game isn't even worth the $5 i paid for it.

i haven't picked up anything for gamecube for a while. i haven't seen anything even remotely interesting for gc in months. zelda was the last game i picked up for gc and i haven't seen anything else since. i'm looking forward to the metal gear solid remake, though. that looks like it's shaped up since the initial info was released. that final fantasy game looks like it might be fun to, but i'll wait for that to hit the bargin bin. i'm really looking forward to ninja gaiden on xbox. that game is looking rad as hell. after shinobi dissapointed me on ps2, i was looking forward to a good ninja game. the suffering looks like it might be kind of fun too. that's comming out for ps2 and xbox.

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it's about that time to help each other out picking through the flicks during one of the busiest release schedules of the film year. i've gotta choose between good night and good luck and capote today, both look good... anyone seen either? also, upcoming movies that look great: - jarhead - syriana anyone have any flick recommendations? hollywood always pushes movies between now and especailly thanksgiving / xmas that it's always good to keep some word of mouth open.

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Xbox Gamertags and Wii Friend Codes

Perhaps we ought to have a single thread for our friend codes and Gamertags and the like. No discussion, just how to find you online. Post them here. If you add someone, be sure to send them a message or otherwise let them know you're a Shodowner. My information: Xbox Live: Avanc Wii friend code: 8844 0539 9610 9520 Super Smash Bros. Brawl code: 3394-5738-0304

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sizzite

http://www.distortedperspective.com just aesthetics pretty much, for now at least. big update comes in a few weeks when the magazine is done & up, which will be 96 or 100 pages of content done since DP came down earlier in the year. but there are some lightbox things on this that if people get errors on i'd like to know about (even though i won't know how to fix them).

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have a good one.

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Post To _____ link/icon/widgets

EDITZ 1) What would you call those little syndication links at the bottom of many online articles that allow you to post to popular sites like digg, reddit, flickr, newsvine, /., etc...etc.. **Apparently there is not a convention on what to call them. Badges, Buttons. While common, doesn't really tell the whole story.** 2) I want our PIO's to have these at the bottom of our press release templates in CMS. I've seen it done different ways, some with links, some with javascript. What is the best way? **Looks as if a different for each. Represented (somewhat) here for shits and giggles. DIGG: http://digg.com/tools/integrate#1 DELICIO.US: http://delicious.com/help/savebuttons REDDIT: http://www.reddit.com/buttons/ NEWSVINE: http://www.newsvine.com/_cms/info/seedlink STUMBLE UPON: http://www.stumbleupon.com/buttons.php ** 3) Which sites would you include? I'm getting a pretty long list now. And now I am wondering would it not be best to put the list in a dropdown menu or something. **Meh**

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Inspirational Websites and Portfolios

I'd like to build a catalog on shodown of all the sites that really inspire us. Mostly because I'm curious about what you guys look at... partially because i just stumbled upon (har) some crazy shit. More importantly because I always forget these awesome places when I find them in class or away from my personal computer. Posting web portals are cool, too. I visit netdiver.net and webcreme.com, personally, but they don't always do it for me. http://www.sectionseven.com/ I'll add more websites as I find em. Contribute!

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anyone else watching this? apparently it stays pretty true to the book/marines story, and so far it's been top notch in writing and acting.

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Hardon Collider turns on tonight!

in 6 hours from now the hadron gets turned on http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:_0 ... ntdown.com i'm trying to get some ppl together for a party. for some reason, i just want to get really ripped when this thing turns on, like it's Y2K again or something.

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RANT!!!1111oneonewon

I am sick and fucking tired of the mac fanboys. I'm not talking about the people who like apple better than M$, I'm talking about the idiots that make up apple fanboys. Apple is playing the same game M$ has been playing for years. Ripping off good ideas and making it look like their own. They may have a marginally better product, but they're still greedy capitalist pigs. I'm fucking sick of .NET/C#, the fuckers just stole their shit from Java and made a few tweaks. I'm stick of the shitload of ASP jobs due to the fact that M$ only has ground in this market because they donate curriculum's to colleges and brainwash idiot-IT-wanna-bes. /drinking jose cuervo, thanksImGood. post yours?

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hair falling out

so about two or three years ago i guess (i don't know, maybe more) my hair started falling out. like shedding like a cat style. if i take a shower it comes out when i wash my hair, basically it almost comes out in clumps. i don't think i'm anemic or anything, but anyone have a clue as to wtf is going on? now that i am past 25 which is when like, actual hair loss happens, i'm wondering a bit if i haven't already got a head start on that for reasons unbeknownst to me.

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CSS: Two-columns with "faux columns"

Why is a simple two-column design so fucking hard to do? In the latest revision of my site (I will launch this, I swear) I want the columns to appear to be the same length, so I'm using the Faux Columns trick, but for some reason, I just can't get the fucker to extend the background image all the way to the bottom. Can anyone help me with this? PS: I still have work to do before I launch it; I just want to get this figured out.

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hope it was a good one, just noticing the little note now.

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Funny AIM Convos

delete

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Should Utizzle install mac OS on his new fucking PC?

The world needs to know.

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winamp playlist > mp3 file cd

is there an easy way to take a playlist i've made in winamp of random songs stored in different folders obviously and easily take all of those songs and burn them as mp3's to a cd? the manual way would be to look at each song in your playlist and find it in your collection.

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Happy Birthday Yoozer!

Happy Birthday to you and thank you for always helpin' a sista out!

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hi yawls i'm wondering if any of you guys have any recommendations on where i can get a good set of pantone books? i need to order all pantone books are the new place i work for has none. any advice would be much obliged. many thanks! xox m

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Happy Birthday Frost!

Happy, happy birthday to you!!! :)

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ok, I didnt want to hijack slackers thread so .. Im looking for a digital slr, I reckon £500 is probably my limit, or somewhere around I have a bit of knowledge about photography, but not that much, looking for something that is as flexible as possible with pretty good quality results, im not bothered if it takes me a bit of time to learn, looking around ebay I got these on buy it now or very close to finish auctions canon 10D with 25-105mm - £335 ( too good to be true? ) nikon D70 body - £440 canon 350D XT body- £450 (the 20D looks way way out my price range) anyway, just looking for advice since this is a pretty big purchase for me, and dont want to waste my money on the crappy camera since I dont really know that much

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The Fucking Photoshop Color Shift

Hey guys, I'm getting my ass molested by the stupid Save for Web color shift in Photoshop. I've fixed this many times, but I can't remember how. What are the Color settings you need to use so that I export something Identical to what I'm looking at? Thanks!

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Archives & Announcements

Introductions

Hey I'm new here

I've recently joined and wanted to introduce myself :)

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Dreams

What are your latest dreams. I've been having strange dreams lately, and I've been looking their symbolism up in a dream dictionary. I'm just curious as to what the shodowners are dreaming about on a regular basis. Do you have any reoccurring dreams? What was your most frightful dream?

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Secret codes and 8-year-olds.

I'd been wanting to take my son on a scavenger hunt for some time, I guess work got the best of me and I never got around to it. One day I was reading the SA forums and stumbled onto a thread about a guy who did some secret scavenger hunt with his son, and I blatantly ripped it off. It began with a piece of mail to my son, no postage, no words other than his name on the envelope. The contents, one piece of paper with cryptic symbols on it. He was psyched and a bit concerned at the same time. He actually woke up a few nights later saying he was worried about being abducted by aliens or whoever wrote the letter. The next day I placed the codex in the mailbox. He was ecstatic. The message simply said "you will be contacted shortly" More excitement, more worries. He's got a very active imagination, I wondered if I shouldn't just end it right away with something quick and harmless. He got over the fear and kept a steady post, watching for the mailman. Every day. A week or so later, he received a message telling him to check a tinypic url, the url was a gif of more cryptic writing, it simply had his teacher's name. He received a message from his teacher [who almost blew the whole thing by telling him I'd given the message to him] the message from his teacher gave him a key and an email address and password, when he logged in, there was a message waiting from an anonymous sender, it was a Google Maps address pointing to the gas station around the corner. He couldn't quite figure out what it meant, so a few days passed before he asked if we could go there and see if anything was there. When he and his mother went there was a message waiting. No one seemed to know who'd left it. It was a crudely drawn map, very simple, with a #3 and an X. It was a map of our apartments, the X was our car-port and the key was to our storage unit. My son was cautious but excited. Inside was another tinypic url, it was a picture of our car's key fob with the trunk button circled. We checked the trunk, in it he found a Naruto Wii game with more instructions... to contact an email address and make a request. Once the request was received by this 'mystery person', a reply saying with some numbers was sent. A day later he received a Pokedex in the mail with coded letters on the pages corresponding to the numbers. When he arranged them, the next clue came. "Your assistance is required. e-mail if you accept the mission" or something to that effect. I'm sure I've scrambled the order of the clues/surprises a bit, but that's the gist of it. He's excitedly accepted his "mission" but still wonders who could have access to our mail, keys and car [he's 8]. The guy I stole the idea from ended up having the conclusion be the "rescue" of a kitten from a local shelter. I'd actually been thinking of having my son end up with some hermit crabs before I'd even read the conclusion of the other thread, pretty interesting. I'm planning on having the mission end up with him picking up some "prepaid" hermit crabs from our local pet shop. The next clue is waiting for him, hidden in a stake in our front lawn. I've sent him a coded map [the code is hidden using some fun css trickery on a webpage] leading him to the stake. The stake has another clue that will lead him somewhere else, and so on... If anyone has some really creative ideas of how to stretch this out a bit for him please post them. I don't want this to just last a few days, I want it to end in a few months, with some surprises in-between to keep his excitement level up.

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Know anything about servers?

A server at my workplace won't boot into its OS (Windows server 2003) anymore. We don't have a real support contract because the company that sold it to us sucks. So we're left trying to figure it out ourselves but I don't know enough about servers to fix the problem. So here's the info I have... - It's got 2 hot-swap SCSI drives in a mirror setup - With the drives in their original positions, when it boots it gives a prompt that says "1:ServeRAID-6M Slot 1, Power-on self-test takes up to 2 Min(s) 59 Sec(s)" - This begins to count down until it gets to 2 mins 1 sec, then freezes - With the drives swapped, it gives an error message stating that the drive does not have a valid boot sector, followed by "Operating System not found" Anyone have any idea what could be going on here?

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Earthquake Reinforcement

Hey, I have a question for you guys who have lived in Southern California -- how can you tell if your building is earthquake reinforced or not? My apartment's in a pretty old place, and the earthquake today reminded me that it would be shitty to be crushed. Was there some building code that went in effect a while ago? How can you find out? Thanks!

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Delicious Recipes

This is my favorite recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes ... 27,00.html Followed closely by: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes ... 26,15.html

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MS Publisher file to PDF?

I have a flyer for an event that I did in MS Publisher (ugh). I need a PDF of it and can't install PDFCreator on my work computer. Does anyone have Publisher and Acrobat and can turn it into a PDF for me? Let me know and I'll email you the file.

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css/layers help! Text not actin right!

I'm using Css in my 1st all div layout, and I can't get this layer to act right and show up with the text yellow like I want it. it shows up when I test it in dreamweaver, but it doesn't follow my css directions when i upload to FTP. The words are there but its still all black text instead of color I deleted and re did the layer but it still doesn't work check it here http://c.leguerre.home.att.net/IdaYoung/Works2.htm click on the second pic web designers help!

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So, how can I purchase music from iTunes Canada? It seems it requires I change my billing address to a valid Canadian address, however none of the payment options will work if they validate against that false billing address.

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Windows Vista - Anything I should know going in?

The new computer ships with Windows Vista. I have a purchased copy of Windows XP Pro w/ SP2. Is Vista as bad as everyone says? I can't imagine it being terrible. Will I have a problem installing "acquired" software? Will music and movies "acquired" online play without fail? Can I ever go back to Windows XP Pro? Can I upgrade to the Ultimate version from Basic? Is it worth the upgrade? Is Aero really that great?

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DESKTOPS

havent had a desktop thread in awhiles...why the hell not

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3G GPS 8GB $199 16GB $299 better camera July 11th Anything more need to be said?

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any other star wars geeks?

hey if anyone is a star wars fan. ORIGINAL TRILOGY ON DVD sept. 21 4 disc set. SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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How many hours do you work a week?

I work too much. Do you? I was just reading wil's thread about freelance, and it occurred to me that I have no interest in any more work. My job by itself destroys any potential free time. How many of you are in the same situation? Is work dominating your life or just something to keep the rent checks coming?

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Baby advice.

I know some of you have kids. Okay, my son is about 7 months old now, and he's starting to get separation anxiety. Basically he doesn't want to nap like he should because as soon as we leave the room he'll start crying. It's been suggested to us by a lot of sources that we let him "cry it out." Anyone have experience with this? He also wakes up a lot during the night. Up until a few weeks ago he had no problem sleeping through the night. He would wake up occassionally, but now it's literally once an hour or more. This means my wife and I get little to no real restful sleep. And tired parents = frustrated and irritable parents which = frustrated and irritable baby, which then leads to more sleep weirdness.. it's a shitty cycle. We use a pacifier for when he sleeps and when he loses it he tends to flip out. I know this means we need to ween him off of it, but it's really hard to just listen to your kid cry and ignore it. I'm doing it right now and not only is it giving me a headache, it's making me feel like a jerk. :p I'm waiting 5-10 minutes before I go in to soothe him, depending on how severe his flipping out is.

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Shodownopaedia!

Feel free to add to the entries, but be cool. (Euth, can we install this if the thread does well?) I'll start us off: Shodowncon: Something that will never, ever happen; hence, the term is primarily used to indicate a Shodown collaborative project which will inevitably fail to get off of the ground. Mug: Used to describe any citizen of Shodown. The "mug" theme may have been started with a thread called "Bouncing Mugs! (yeh!)" years ago. Nicolas: A member of Shodown at one time, known for his one-word posts. Shotgun Rhint: A former member who loved to shit up every thread he posted in. Excommunicated.

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I'm sure it's custom, but does anyone know something close?

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Simple HTML questions.

Is it possible to create styles or hyperlinks within the <textarea></textarea> tags? is there a better way of creating a text area like that with more style/code options available? What's the best method for creating *flexible tables with no borders? [*easily manipulated with few restrictions] Is there some way to say if the browser is Firefox, Opera or IE 7+ 'use these images', if the browser is not these, 'use these alternate images' or 'don't use these images at all'? [I have some alpha-blended PNGs and they look horrid in IE, which about half of the visitors use. Is there such thing as a usable WYSIWYG .css editor?

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Need a new computer. Limited budget.

So my computer is about to die. Like...any day now. What are my options for minimal price?

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Alternative lyrics

I have a habit of changing the words in songs to use similar ones that rhyme, sometimes for fun, or sometimes they just emerge from my subconscious. Example: The lyrics to Gwen Stefani's 'Hollaback Girl' always sounded to me like they could be rewritten as: A few times I've been around that track So it's not just gonna happen like that Because I ain't no horny black girl I ain't no horny black girl A few times I've been around that track So it's not just gonna happen like that Because I ain't no Honor Blackman I ain't no Honor Blackman Ahem. While this link thinks she's singing "I ain’t no Harlem fat girl". Quote:

Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl” is one of the most baffling pieces of music of the modern age. It’s got something to do with cheerleaders—that much is clear, judging from the chanting and the marching band that’s honking and tooting in the background. Beyond that, good luck deciphering the song’s ambiguities. We were so vexed by the mystery that is “Hollaback Girl” that we have devoted countless hours to its study.

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having sex with clowns.

would you consider having sex with a clown? (in full makeup) what if that clown was really hot? discuss.

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Show some shit...

The "Show some stuff..." thread has gained a certain pedigree of quality... it's a place where people have shown their (mostly) finished stuff and professional work. The bar is high, the projects are quality, and that means one thing -- My shit isn't going there any time soon :tits: So, how about all of your random, unfinished, completely amateur work? You may work retail but your hobby is to make clay weiners -- post them here! If you want to see high-class stuff, use the other thread. If you want to throw your feces in one place with the hopes of getting some reaction, post them here. It's just about fun.

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So I noticed that the ALA conference (An Event Apart) has discounted pricing available for groups over 5 people. Just wondering if enough people around here would want to go and qualify for the lower price. It's only a month away...so I realize it's late notice for some people to budget for this. But I'm gonna see if my boss will approve it as a work expense ;) So if there's enough interest here then I'll find out what kind of discount they're talking about.

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my portfolio

hi guys, i've been working on my site and it's finally done (somewhat)... http://www.natashaisneat.com/ i have lots of new work! (or at least stuff that's never been put up.) i kind of used this site as an opportunity for practice talking about my work. i figure, i'm about to graduate, so it's useful to talk about it and kind of take my work seriously. i know some of the writing is questionable but i just wanted to get it up. edit: also, i like linking all of my friends so if you have a site and want it linked, say so.

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Twitter.

do you kids use twitter? i know jake, roberto and miasma are on there, anyone else?

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http://board.shodown.net/viewtopic.php?t=6978

Mac vs. PC: 2008 Edition

Here's another annual poll that should prove interesting: What OS do you use? This seems to be the year that Apple is riding the crest of its popularity. It's never been so popular and widespread... even at shodown (ooh wow). So, the question is this: How many of you have switched? How many remain with PC's? Did you ever transition to Vista? Did you become disgusted with both camps and move to Linux? Or are you a cross-dresser dipping in all kinds of rival camps? Here're last year's results:

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The Annual Shodown Income Thread (2008)

Here's the return of another interesting shodown factoid. How is everyone doing with their careers? What is your current occupation (or school)? How much are we all making now? The $$$ is anonymous, but it'd be interesting to hear how jobs have changed over the last year. Do you like your job? Are you forced to work more than one? Has the recent economic slump groined your groin? And finally: Do you feel your income is enough to match your lifestyle? Are you happy with how much you make? Here's last year's results:

--------------- Occupation: Flash Designer / Developer I'm currently working the same job as I did last year, and the same issues with excessive hours remain, but the pay situation has become more reasonable (after a lot of bitching and hard work). Overall I'm feeling satisfactory with it, but I hardly see daylight during the week and that continues to bother me. In another year I'm going to re-evaluate where I want to work. Quote:

Do you feel your income is enough to match your lifestyle? Are you happy with how much you make?

Even with making significantly more money than last year, I'm just barely comfortable with my spending now. I'm not sure if it's the rising gas and food prices that have done it, but I feel like you need to be making an assload of money to buy things without worrying.

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The Sweet Deals Thread

just ordered these: - 100pk Ritek 8x DVD+R - $35 after $10 rebate. - 2 50pk Samsung 4x DVD+R $48. these are manufactured by taiyo yuden, which means they're top quality. i use these to burn stuff i want to archive. the pi error rate is insanely low with these -- you get absolutely perfect burns. i'm talking like under 10 per block (280 per block is considered a successful burn if you guys aren't up on the dvd media tests). the story is, the more pi errors you've got, the less likely it is that your disc will be readable on dvd players. there's also po errors, which are uncorrectable errors -- if you've got any of these, you've either got some really bad media or a bad burner. riteks are pretty good, though. the quality seems to vary from disc to disc, though. not consistent like the yudens and not as high quality period. --- post any good deals you find here, fellas. i figure we might as well have a thread devoted to sweet deals we find rather than posting them all individually.

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No one wants to go to the movies with me.

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Lets get physical!

Okay, so I'm trying to get back into shape or in women speak, "lose weight." For the past two months I've been going to the gym every single day with a few breaks here and there because of the pain from arthritis. I've lost about 7.7lbs so far and I'm not really sure how far I want to go. My other goal is to ward off the Thanksgiving bulge. I normally don't gain weight after Thanksgiving, but every year I think "this could be the year." Anyway... Anyone else in the same boat? Any of you fellas weight training? Any tips or suggestions?

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i just got a spam PM. i guess they're on to euth's methods.

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Please post pics or info on cars that are less wellknown. I guess it largely depends on the part of the world you are in, so for some it will not be that unknown at all. But still, maybe it will be an interesting topic for car enthusiasts if you see a car here that you don't know much about. Nissan Cefiro AKA Ceffy. This car is pretty common in Japan and Australia etc., but I don't think there are that many in Europe and the USA (guessing).

I've also been intrigued by the Toyota Soarer, which today has evolved into a model for the elite Lexus brand of Toyota. The Soarer is, according to what info I can find, on par with the iconic Nissan Skyline.

Most people recognise a Mercedes, even if they don't care much about cars. The 190e Cosworth was a monster of a car and some people say that to this day, it is still one of the best they ever built.

People joke about the color, the fact that it is a station wagon, the image of the Volvo brand. This thing will destroy almost anything, in speed but also literally should you ever collide with one. Volvo 850 T5-R, limited edition of the 1995 Volvo 850.

The Ascari KZ1 is much more recent but not that widely known. It is not a very practical car, luxury and comfort wise, but it's extremely fast and agile.

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Resolutions for the new year.

2008 Resolutions Work - Paint more. Get better at it. Buy(and read) some books on technique and theory. - Create a portfolio website. Deadline: March 1st - Create a sketch blog and update it at least once a week. Deadline: March 1st - Get more gigs doing sketch cards. - Print business cards. Deadline: March 31st - Reguarly attend Pompsicle. Once a month at least, starting in March. - Launch and maintain a web comic. Deadline: June 1st - Finish my pitch to Zuda.com Deadline: April 1st - Complete at least 3 comic pitches. - Answer e-mails quicker. - Meet and friend more local artists. Life - Exercise and lose weight. Exercise 4 times a week. Mon., Wed., Fri., Sun. - Take more photos. - Eat right. Try cutting out meat or limiting to just fish. - Stop drinking soda. - Pay off my debt. - Buy a new desktop. - Buy a new car. - Take a vacation. Misc. - Don't put important things off due to anxiety. It's rarely as bad as you believe it's going to be and if it is then it's better to get it done with.

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Parent-proof backups for Windows?

I live in Chicago; my parents live outside New York and I'm home with them for the weekend. My mom has gotten herself a 500GB Western Digital MyBook external HDD in order to back up her computer. I need a backup program for her. The MyBook came with a program called Memeo AutoBackup/AutoSync, but holy fuck, is it ever slow! I started a full backup on her laptop's 34GB hard disk at 3:00 p.m. today; six hours later, it's still going. Shit, I could write down all the bits on her hard disk faster! Now, I drive a Mac, so I use SuperDuper. What I'm looking for is something similar for her Windows computer: a reliable, easy-to-use backup program that won't take days to back up. I'd prefer something that gives her a perfect copy. (I was hoping to set up RAID-1 mirroring, but as it turns out, you can't use that with external USB HDDs. What software do you recommend for Windows backup that's parent-proof? (I.e., doesn't require too much work from them)

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output folder contents to word/excel?

Is there some way/app to create a list of folder contents [filenames] to a text file of any sort?

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Google/Youtube ordered to release...EVERYTHING!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7488009.stm This is such BS. It is a sad day for the interwebs and privacy rights.

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Nevermind. I found a solution. Ignore my retarded shit.

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EURO 2008

i'm losing a good amount of money today (fucking french idiots) but i have to admit i like how holland is playing right now. and yes, i have money on italy. thanks a lot lou. oh yeah. go germany.

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Help me find some photos for reference!

I need clear, fairly large photos of these: - Pentagon - Tanks - Downtown San Fran - Payphone - 70's era telephone - Paramedic - Communications headset (military) - Police Barricade - FBI Agent (suit, sunglasses, etc.) - Black Apache Helicopter - Stadium - Armadillo - Red Square - Meteor crash site - Basil Cathedral - Interrogation Room - Couch - Chainsaw Any help would be immensely appreciated. I've got a week and a half deadline and need to find reference for the rest of the book. Help a brother out.

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dang the new mac pros are fucking cheap leopard looks pretty good guess ol' steve heard the cries that macs are too pricey. hopefully there's some more price cuts and i might just have to pick up an apple next time i'm in the market macrumors.com has the live feed from wwdc, still goin on.

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What's your living situation?

It's Friday night and I'm home by myself... which means one thing: I'm resurrecting polls from 2007 to see how people's lives have changed in the past year. Last year's results:

http://board.shodown.net/viewtopic.php?t=6938 What's your current living situation? How much are you paying for rent? Do you have permanent property (a house/condo)? How have things changed for you over this past year (for better or for worse)? Were you affected by the housing market crash? ----- I'm currently living by myself for $1250/mo. It's a pretty old building but in a nice neighborhood... and you can't do much better than that in a decent part of the LA area. Going from a roommate to living alone is a pretty interesting transition, full of ups and downs. It makes me feel kind of old too. I hope to figure out life and put money down on property within a few years.

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So my coworkers are talking about the idea of changing our schedule around. They want to create a proposal for switching our 5 day week into four 10-hour days. But I really like the fact that I work full time and yet am always done by 4 p.m. So my suggestion was 5 days, but one of them could be a work-from-home day. What do you think?

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FUCKING SPORE.

Hey, I know a lot of people on here were talking about the game Spore. Well, it comes in September, but they released a "Creature Creator" recently. I wager it's a precursor to the full game and you'll be able to make creatures now that you can integrate into your Spore worlds later on. But anyway, my point is that this editor is addictive as hell and fun. There's a free trial version, but the full version is only $9.95, so I went ahead and got it. You can also pre-order Spore if you want. http://www.spore.com/ftl If you end up installing it, my Spore screen name is jackpocalypse. You can share your creations and whatnot. And yea, you can create dick monsters and other hilarious shit. Here's a few creatures I made.

You can also record animations of your creatures and automatically upload them to Youtube using the game. Of course I had to make a video of my dick monster... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-3gSsUITk

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Converting a Flash Widget to a Mobile Web App?

I have a client that wants to convert their simple Flash widget to a Mobile Web App that works on as many phones as possible.... Any suggestions on how to convert it over? I'm new to to this...I'm thinking of converting it to a simple iPhone like Web App that's just HTML/Javascript - Do the iPhone apps work on other mobile phones? I know Flash has some templates for different mobile phones, etc. Don't know what direction to go in though :confused:

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George motherfucking Carlin is fucking dead.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/06/23/c ... index.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_carlin I'll absolutely miss you man, you made me laugh in my youth, enlightened me in my adolescence and inspire me to this day. im memoriam Fuck. Shit. Piss. Cunt. Cocksucker. Motherfucker. Tits.

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Phantom product actually sells!

Phantom, the company which up until now had an incredibly apropos name, has actually released, sold and shipped a product. http://phantom.net/content/products/index.html I played with one at CES 3 fucking years ago. It was a pretty neat idea and I think I might actually snag one.

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Anyone know what font this is? I realize that's a shitty picture, but time is not on my side right now.

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Geforce 8400 GS on older PC

I built a zombie PC with all kinds of different parts and it does what it needs to do. It's got onboard video (SiS 741) though and it sucks. So considering I have an Xbox 360 I decided to spend a couple of bucks on the cheapest Geforce in the 8-series range, the 8400 GS. It'll arrive tomorrow, but perhaps someone here has some experience with this card, or other cards in this range, so I can get an idea of what to expect. I'm not looking for a gaming monster, but I would like to play Spore for instance. Doesn't have to be super high res with highest settings, just acceptable play. Someone told me that since it's a PCI card I would need to have a (blue) PCI-Express slot to get any kind of performance. I don't have that slot and will that impact performance much? Thanks.

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I installed a new typeface, everything seemed ok. Shut down my laptop as usual. Next time i started it up and tried to run word/excel/photoshop etc it was saying pretty much my entire font library was corrupt and needed to be deleted. I have them all backed up so i deleted them and tried to reinstall them...but im getting the same errors. Any one else experienced this before? I'm down to about 7 fonts which dont seem to be effected. Any ideas would be much appreciated. Cheers

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Anyone purchase toys on a regular basis? I bought these yesterday at a heck of a bargain. $40 for the entire set during a sale at my local comic shop.

...and this at a local vintage toy store.

The shops pretty neat. They had old original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, Thundercats and the rest all brand new in the original packaging. It was like being 8 again. Plus I'm painfully addicted to buying these when I find them. Their about 3 - 4 inches high and garner extremely detailed paint jobs. They make good use of the space on top of my computer monitor.

So...any other toy nerds?

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Text align and margins not working with CSS inside of cells.

I've got some text in a cell, it's set up like this: <span> words <br> <span style="color; alignment; margin;>words I need centered</span> <br> more words </span> For some retarded reason [most likely my ignorance] it completely ignores both the alignment and margin tags for all of the encapsulated text. Am I going about this the wrong way? I need a paragraph, justified with margins of about 20px both sides, but sometimes I want the text to be centered... Using <center> tags breaks the certification, about which the client is being a complete stickler. [why, god? why?] Do I have to end the first span, do my centering, then create a new one for the rest of the text? Yes, I'm still a complete n00b with css and html. The text is inside a cell in a table, if that matters.

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Tanks in the streets, soldiers in the capitol building, all TV and radio seems to be off the air and phone lines are jammed. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/19/D8K81MQG3.html I've been reading conflicting reports saying both that there are rebels waiting to take over and that there are rebel soldiers already occupying the capitol. Not sure exactly what this means for Thailand, considering how little we know about their gov't and social structure here in the US... I can only hope whatever the outcome that their nation gets tougher on sex slavery as a result. That was one of the selling points of Bush in 2000 for women, he was hard on the international sex trade, nothing's come of it so far [surprise surprise] but maybe the results of this coup can strangle the area that supports their thriving sex slavery industry.

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