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Actually, no. The owner of the site has requested that photographic leaks not originate there. I gather that there are issues of legality and contract secrecy that many of the users (a number of them professional designers) of the site have to be wary of. If clients know that designers use that site and it's rife with leaks, those designers don't get jobs, and Mr. Creamer doesn't want that situation again. Now, if a picture leaks elsewhere, it'll be there --- but it probably won't originate there. Verbal descriptions are another thing entirely, and for that, it's still a good thread to watch.

That's all kinds of cool. I've seen 8 of the 10 so far. Quite a bit of variety this year. I enjoyed True Grit and think it deserves Best Picture. I'm still ruminating on it, but as a simple vignette piece, "Winter's Bone" really impressed me.

+1. Freddy may say they're great, but I just can't shake this feeling that they're going to ---- this up too. Remember that all the players said these jerseys were great at the '02 unveiling. I've written before that the Bills unis are a lot like the formation of the team. They incorporate themes from several other teams and all the while, we're not the Buffalo Bills. We've got a Titans yoke to represent Gregggggg's 46 defense and "no fat guys," the Patriot navy blue that represents TD's days of bringing in Bledsoe & Milloy and hoping we could turn crap into gold like Belichick*, we've got a Broncos-like side gusset that represents our penchant for selecting RBs with our precious picks even when we have a good one. A so-called return to tradition by putting in a thin stripe of silver on the helmet. This team has tried to be many things, tried to copycat from some of the successes that other teams have found. We didn't know what we were. This has resulted in a mish-mashed roster and a mishmash jersey set. Time to take the Buffalo Bills identity back. Time to build on the progress that Gailey & Co. made. Back to the traditions, back to being a cold weather bully, a tough bunch of maulers who'll knock 'em all down and make 'em not want to get up. Frankly, I find it hard to root for many of the personalities that populate the NFL these days, and like a lot of people here say, "I root for the laundry." In that case, let's make the laundry look like it wasn't sewn together by a coked-up prostitute out of what scraps she had hanging around.

I guess they got the name of that facility spot-on.

Well, after all these years of The Dean telling everyone to "shiv the mofo" someone a barnyard animal finally went and did it!

So, I clicked on a link about the possibility of magnetic shifts causing the 'superstorms' we're currently seeing.... Some of this is pretty scary sh-- if it's accurate. Link 1. (Note that the copy-editing on this is positively atrocious.) Link 2.

Or Rod Woodson?

I'm now forced to watch it online. I've got a kick-a-- over-the-air antenna system, and b/c of the FCC assigning both FOX stations --- in Boston and Hartford --- on real-channel 31, there's a whole Venn-diagram-like 'tween section in northeast CT and parts of MA that can't get either. The competing signals get to your tuner and can't make anything of it. So, at least in this case, my breaking the rules is as a direct result of a bullsh-- government bureaucratic decision. BTW, channelsurfing is back on.... on a last-letters designation one might expect for, say, the European Union. @ Hopeful, it really doesn't matter if we post them, other than it may be uncouth to do this per the TBD TOS, since the feds officially cracked down on them. Rest assured, it's not that hard even for public employees to find out what iteration these sites are using now.

I'm sorry if this is sacrilege, but Whitney Houston was the first step into all this stuff where singers sound like they're undergoing electroshock treatments.

That rendition of the Anthem was a f---ing disgrace.

I believe this is the dude who beheaded his wife down the street from OBD... and who ironically ran a foundation to relieve Americans' misconceptions about Islam. You know, like, how Muslims don't just go around beheading people. Oh.... wait.... Link

That may be the biggest knock on Andre Reed --- that he had a HOF QB throwing him those balls. Which is a sh-- argument. They were a symbiosis. Likewise, if Kelly didn't have Reed, he wouldn't be in the HOF. Ten minutes of touchdowns in that video above, and that was only 4 seasons out of 16!

That's what most good QBs do. Frankly, I think getting a QUALITY TE (one who can block AND catch) in there would do just as much. Far too long we've been living with the legacy of Greggggg's H-back TEs who can't do one or the other. Kevin Boss would do a lot more for the line / offense than another RT plug-n-play.

If you ragged on every guy who has his position changed position from where he played in college ball, you'd be knocking a LOT of guys. Levitre wasn't drafted to be a T (and yet, in a pinch the last couple of games last season, iirc, he wasn't horrible at tackle). Many NFL LBs were DEs in college. BTW, Wood isn't a DT, and I'm sorry to burst your balloon, but he's a big boy who carries himself well.

Actually, they can't. Any sale of an NFL team must be met with the approval of 3/4 of the other franchise owners. Link Don't try to apply the workings of the real world on the NFL. You'll usually be wrong.

Tom, is there a link for this report? I checked BBC right now, and there's nothing but a Breaking News bit that Mubarak saying to ABC News he "wants to resign immediately, but fears chaos" if he does. He also said he will never leave Egypt. Link

That's like the old floral-patterned sofa in the basement. In January, everyone says it has to get thrown out once the snow melts... and yet, five years later, it's still there. Sometimes, initiative needs to be taken when the will is strong, or else it'll never get done. Leave Mubarak in power for 8 months, and their army soon will become very political.

WaPo: Egypt protests show George W. Bush was right about freedom in the Arab world I'm not saying I totally agree with this piece, but... ----- +1 History repeats itself is going to be the narrative of the 2012 election. Especially if the current polls hold and Mitt Romney --- and his Reagan hair --- gets the nomination.

Actually, they also featured a team that printed a mouse heart on a standard printer (I believe it was an HP) that had been jury-rigged for the purpose, and which used stem cells in the printer cartridge. And then, they got that heart to beat. I don't know. The tech is advancing rapidly. It may be ~10-15 years before it gets to testing human hearts and trials for those who are far down on transplant lists, and have nothing to lose. So, 40 years until it could get more perfected and the cost down... it's an estimation.

The NOVA Science NOW series had an episode (titled "Can We Live Forever?") a couple of weeks ago where they showed organs being generated from stem cells on bio-scaffolding. They showed mouse lungs "breathing" in a jar and said they successfully transplanted into a mouse. Hearts, skin, showed one woman whose esophagus was repaired, and said some injured Iraq/Afghanistan vets will be getting stem-cell-generated ear transplants later this year. The scientists involved said the timeline to where we'd routinely be growing people new organs from their own stem cells is about what DC Tom said --- probably four decades.

Well, there is a point. A lot of things, even benign, naturally-occurring materials, uncontrolled in mass quantity have the potential to cause destruction / disease. Look at wood chips / sawdust. In small quantities, it's harmless and, actually, even beneficial. Gather a large pile, and it is classified as "hazardous waste" b/c there's a serious risk of fire because it generates a lot of heat near the core of the pile. Same principle with grass clippings. I don't know the whole deal with milk's possible problems, but having had some experience with expired jugs in the fridge, in a spill of mass quantities, there's certainly the potential for large-scale bacterial proliferation. Milk, like water, seeks the lowest level and seeps into water systems. With 10,000 - 20,000-gallon tanks, yeah, it might not be a bad idea for farmers and dairy transport companies to have a plan for containment if they spring a leak.

When this house was re-built in the early '70s my uncle acted as the GC, and while 2x4s were/are code, had them use 2x6s for the trusses. His words: "You'll be able to drive a tractor trailer on this roof." Professionally, he was a master electrician and later, a reputable building official in a mid-size city nearby. Several of those 'X-is-code-but-we're-doing-Y' upgrades that have really saved us over the years.

And yet, another entity with his same brand of genius will show up here inside of a week. Don't be fooled by a join date either... this particular troll has gone through many already and has made plenty of aliases for future use so there's the impression that he's someone who's been on TBD for a while, but is 'just discovering' PPP.

But, there is Joe Lieberman... and, now, Dick Blumenthal. They both like to be on teevee more than is healthy for a normal person (or is that "more than is normal for a healthy person"?)

Two feet at UConn/Yukon/UCan't? A couple of towns north, when I walk my dog in the clearing, I'm thigh-high and I'm still not close to touching ground.