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    Obama Era Conspiracy to Destroy Entertainment with Messages

    Saving The Beatrice Inn Is NYC's Most Pressing Issue

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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    10/16/09

    In reply to Obama Era Conspiracy to Destroy Entertainment with Messages
    "Leaked memo reveals." Yes, thank God Andrew Brietbart's inside sources were able to dig this up.

    [www.variety.com] #entertainmentindustryfoundatio...
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    06/26/09

    In reply to Saving The Beatrice Inn Is NYC's Most Pressing Issue
    I love that she was there to save her brother's club. Maybe she should run for office.


    Having worked on the city's last update to the noise code, I know more about this issue than I care to. Therefore, in compliance with said code, I will now shut up.

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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    06/26/09

    @kneetoe: Do you think the updated noise code has had any effect on noise? I tend to think that noise is a perennial political issue, but the reality is the city will always be noisy and it's really a generational battle.
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    06/26/09

    @Nic Fit: It was a step in the right direction, especially moving towards standards based on what you can hear instead of what you can measure with a machine that no one is walking around with. That said, enforcement is still very difficult, noise in the city is ubiquitous (and often transitory), and the nightlife lobby is nearly as strong as the people who got no sleep are angry.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    06/26/09

    @kneetoe: Why didn't they just give people noise meters? They cost like $20 a pop.
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    Image of LogSlide LogSlide
    06/26/09

    @kneetoe: You actually write laws to manage the public's noise level? That reminds me of the principal in Footloose who outlawed dancing and other tomfoolery. That line of work do it for you? Just curious.
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    06/26/09

    @LogSlide:


    I'm guessing you're either really young or live somewhere really boring...


    Noise in cities, what with bars, traffic, men with tiny penises who choose to compensate with large car stereos, people who get drunk and holler under their exes' windows at 4am, is kind of a big problem.

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    06/26/09

    In reply to Saving The Beatrice Inn Is NYC's Most Pressing Issue
    Well, now you're never getting into the Beatrice, even if they stay open.
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    Image of Lazy Susan Lazy Susan
    03/20/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    I left MySpace when Uncle Rupert bought them. I stopped fussing with Facebook after the press started accessing photographs to add to news stories. I'll give Twitter a shot but frankly - I feel safest here at Snark Central where the beer is cold and nobody knows my name.
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    03/20/09

    @Lazy Susan: NORM!
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    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    People who are upset over changes to Facebook need to get a life. In real life YOU actually get to control the features. Imagine that! What will they think of next?
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    Image of VoxPopuli VoxPopuli
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    So is there a way to see when people add friends? Because that was how I found some people I haven't seen in years and how people have found me too.
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    03/19/09

    @VoxPopuli: Other than going to each friend's profile, I mean.
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    Image of Accidental Billionaire Accidental Billionaire
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    Personally, if you're on facebook, you're a fucking loser.


    Day by day, this is proven. Facebook users perceive themselves as a "Clean" and "Elitist" site. Well, now we all know why the world isn't run by juvenile college shits in glorified chatrooms.


    I haven't used facebook in 2 years. If this is what matters to you, you live a dismal life. Yes, you have a voice, but no one cares.

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    03/19/09

    @Widget Economist: To clarify, I mean you're a loser by virtue of DNA and natural selection. Not just you being on facebook. Facebook is the "telling point" of your genetic abnormality.


    Also it's your bad personality and poor music taste.

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    Image of ristretto_dreams ristretto_dreams
    03/19/09

    @Widget Economist:


    Wow. Bitter much?


    Not to mention out of touch. "Well, now we all know why the world isn't run by juvenile college shits in glorified chatrooms" Except for the whole social networking (and specifically some of the people behind facebook) being a HUGE factor in Obama getting elected, the majority of media people being on facebook and/or twitter, major companies getting behind facebook as a means of connecting with consumers, etc. etc.


    You being too old/bitter/pretentious to effectively use facebook doesn't mean that it's not a revolutionary social tool that is becoming an ever more integral part of life.

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    03/19/09

    @ristretto_dreams:


    No. You are a revolutionary social tool.

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    Image of mattymcd mattymcd
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    Um...Gawker? Mocking Facebook? For copying Twitter? Does anyone else find this hilarious, yet sad?
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    03/19/09

    @mattymcd: Let me be more specific. Gawker: I love you, you're perfect, don't ever change. But let's be serious, the last redesign of this very site pushed it straight into some serious twitter territory. And I'm not complaining about, in fact I like it, but let's leave the kettle out of this, OK pot?
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    Image of Owen Thomas Owen Thomas
    03/20/09

    @mattymcd: I think you need to refresh your understanding of my position on the matter.
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    Image of fuzzywhat fuzzywhat
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    I hope they're listening...the other day they added your own profile pic to EVERY comment box in the feed, people freaked out and by the end of the day they were gone. It gives me a slight ray of hope.
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    Image of Schm Schm
    03/19/09

    @fuzzywhat: I still see my picture next to every photo comment box. It freaks me out because at first glance it looks like I wrote something there.
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    Image of Cassi Haggard Cassi Haggard
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    I would say the problem is that they took away some of the sorting control. They already had a live feed under one of the tabs in their previous system. Before I had tabs where I could look at just status feeds, or just photos, etc etc. That worked. Why don't they find a happy medium between the old facebook and the new facebook? Rounded corners & design changes to don't bother me, but the loss of some features that I used all the time plus the difficulty of finding certain features makes this a lose. There are some nice new features with the new facebook, keep those, but give me my tabs and everything back.
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    03/19/09

    @Cassi Haggard: Try creating friend groups as a form of filtering. I find that a great way to review what my close friends, coworkers, and other are doing, all in a batch, and quickly.
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    03/19/09

    @automata: I really liked the tabs, I think that's the most annoying thing to me.
    And the HUGE font.Ick.
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    I hate that it doesn't seem to let you edit down the amount of status updates you receive from annoying people who post 3 times a day. Before, you could just hit "see less about X" - now the only way to clean up your page is to de-friend them, which is kinda harsh.
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    03/19/09

    @Wendy_Kroy: Also, there is still an "X" in the upper right corner. try that.
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    03/19/09

    @automata: Got it. So maybe my gripe stems as much from my computer aptitude than the redesign. But I'll still jump on the anti-redesign bandwagon anyway, because I am inherently cranky and enjoy having things to complain about.
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    Image of Wendy_Kroy Wendy_Kroy
    03/19/09

    @Wendy_Kroy: I meant "as much from my lack of computer aptitude as the redesign." Yeesh. I guess spending all your time online DOES make you illiterate.
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    Image of ChanRasit ChanRasit
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    People say this furor will die down in a week, but users really hate it. It took away all the best features and replaced it with the worst.
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    03/19/09

    @ChanRasit: After getting used to the last change and actually getting more addicted, I wasn't against them changing it up again. But I have been trying to give this one a chance, and I just don't want to use it. Maybe now I'll check it like twice a day, or just log on when I see an email notification. All the addictive gossipy little things I loved in the live feed are completely gone, so it's of no use to my procrastination anymore.
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    Image of BxgrlJeri BxgrlJeri
    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    The whole navel gazing thing is a bit overdone.
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    03/19/09

    In reply to The Facebook Faithful Turn Against Mark Zuckerberg's Redesign
    The worst thing about the redesign is people's quiz results showing up constantly in the news feed because people have nothing better to do than to take pointless quizzes. I think earlier there was a quota of how many of these useless results would be shown on the main news feed page.
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    03/19/09

    @i'm a bottle: Try hitting the "X" in the upper right. You won't see posts like that any more.
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    Image of HeyThatsMyBike HeyThatsMyBike
    03/19/09

    @automata: See, but that makes me not see things about that person anymore, not that kind of message. So while I may not care that my high school crush should live in Australia, I still very much want to see his cute ass tagged in random pictures.
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    03/19/09

    @HeyThatsMyBike: @automata: Yes, those quiz results will continue to silently mock me. Clicking the "X" is throwing the girl I secretly like out with the proverbial bathwater. The question is whether I would want to be with someone who obviously enjoys completing inane and vaguely exhibitionistic Facebook quizzes.
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    Image of barb95 barb95
    03/20/09

    @i'm a bottle: I'm New York City! And which Cullen am I?
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    03/20/09

    @barb95: I don't know whether to be ashamed or proud of the fact that I had to Google "Cullen."
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    Image of LuigiPolycaon LuigiPolycaon
    10/31/08

    In reply to The Doomed Quest To Make Marketing Meaningful
    Did the writer read the entire article or just rolled his eyes after the 1st few paragraphs? The goal of "purposed based marketing" is to connect a practical and personal reason with the decision to purchase the brand. He used Pampers and Safeguard soap as 2 examples. If you read the article in WSJ, you'll understand.
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    Image of Hamilton Nolan Hamilton Nolan
    10/31/08

    @LuigiPolycaon: The writer did in fact read the entire article.
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