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    Image of Valerie Flame Valerie Flame
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
    Am I reading this wrong or are they forcing people to be searchable? Some people don't want to be found by others. At all.

    But go to that page where you used to be able to choose who searches for you an you get:

    "Your privacy settings are secured for your protection."
    with a lock box. How is putting your info out there against your will "for your protection"? What if you have an abusive ex who will now find you?
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    Image of MaelstromInTheMiddle MaelstromInTheMiddle
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
    You have to enter your password to even alter the new default settings. There are also multiple pages in which you'll have to visit to get all your original settings back, ei. all your profile pictures will be viewable to everyone unless you specifically go into a second screen and change that back as well. You also have to go into the Settings tab and change each item, posts, links, notes, photos, etc, that you post back to only friends, as it's been defaulted to everyone. Also, there is no way now to keep your profile completely viewable by only friends, as the option of who can add you as a friend only has two choices everyone and friends of friends. I used to be able to completely hide my entire profile so that only friends could see it, and if I friended someone, I had to add them because no one else could see my profile. That layer of protection is now no longer an option.
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    Image of Schm Schm
    12/10/09

    In reply to Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
    It also looks like they altered the profile picture album privacy settings - I logged on tonight and realized that I was suddenly able to see a non-friend's profile picture album. So then I just started randomly clicking on strangers, and everyone's albums were viewable. I checked my privacy settings and sure enough, my profile photo album settings were set to "everyone". Some shiesty shit right there.
    I'm not one of those people who throws a big hissy fit whenever they make changes, but damn. If they're gonna be going around quietly fucking with everyone's privacy settings, I might have to deactivate again.
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    Image of Swifter Swifter
    12/09/09

    In reply to Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
    Asking you questions you don't want to have to answer about content no one cares about.

    Isn't this the entire premise of NonSociety?
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    Image of Varnsen Varnsen
    12/09/09

    @Swifter: I think this is the premise of ordering at Subway.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    12/09/09

    In reply to Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
    Neither Facebook nor Twitter can be of any relevance to me because my work blocked them from the server.I need to just live without...
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    Edited by TheUptightMidwesterner at 12/09/09 8:49 PM TheUptightMidwesterner was starred TheUptightMidwesterner was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/09/09

    In reply to Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con
    I like the cut of your jib, Tate.
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    Image of Penscribe Penscribe
    12/07/09

    In reply to God Damn Neal Boulton Somehow Co-Opts Tiger Woods Publicity
    I missed this item. Thanks for the link back in today's item.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/02/09

    In reply to Washington Times to 'Become a 21st Century Multimedia Company,' Fire Almost Half Its Staff
    I wasn't aware that producing pure bullshit propaganda entailed that much overhead. Go figure.
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    12/02/09

    In reply to So You're Into Haggis?
    I'm more offended by the mashed potatoes.

    How can you abide by dry taters? Yah, yah, the chopped monkey ass-meat (with hair) to the right looks to be revolutionary in its repulsiveness, but, yeah, unadorned white potato is a sin against nature. The markings of a true culinary troglodyte.
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    Image of Banjo-Sea Kitten Banjo-Sea Kitten
    12/02/09

    @Spirit Fingers: well, I'm a rare one because I could never understand the appeal of that liquid meat so many people like on top of their taters.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    12/02/09

    In reply to So You're Into Haggis?
    I believe that I posted a haggis wikipedia entry in the comments, to the general amusement of those not acquainted with this special culinary item
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/02/09

    In reply to So You're Into Haggis?
    Suggested pairing: a vibrant young manischewitz that will bring out and play counterpoint to the greasy undertone of the suet.
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    Image of GregorMendel GregorMendel
    12/02/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: I read that as "vibrating" young manischewitz.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    12/02/09

    @GregorMendel:

    ...which connects nicely to the Casey Johnson-Jasmine Lennard storyline!
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    12/02/09

    In reply to So You're Into Haggis?
    I posted this Monty Python favorite in the comments long ago, but I think it's time for a replay:

    Horace

    Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay
    Horace ate himself one day.
    He didn't stop to say his grace,
    He just sat down and ate his face.
    "We can't have this," his Dad declared,
    "If that lad's ate, he should be shared."
    But even as he spoke they saw
    Horace eating more and more:
    First his legs and then his thighs,
    His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...
    "Stop him someone!" Mother cried,
    "Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
    But all too late, for they were gone,
    And he had started on his dong...
    "Oh! foolish child!" the father mourns,
    "You could have deep-fried that with prawns,
    Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
    But H. was on his second course:
    His liver and his lights and lung,
    His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue;
    "To think I raised him from the cot
    And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
    His Mother cried: "What shall we do?
    What's left won't even make a stew..."
    And as she wept, her son was seen
    To eat his head, his heart, his spleen.
    And there he lay: a boy no more,
    Just a stomach, on the floor...
    None the less, since it was his
    They ate it – that's what haggis is.
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    12/02/09

    In reply to So You're Into Haggis?
    This may be the funniest thing Alton Brown has ever done:
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    Image of meechybee meechybee
    12/02/09

    @OliversArmy: Agreed -- thanks for finding this so fast. BTW, am I the only one freaked out by the "new" thin Alton? He's looking Michael Stipe-ish thin.
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/02/09

    In reply to So You're Into Haggis?
    Dude, man, haggis is delicious.
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    Image of Signore Pinko-Panko! Signore Pinko-Panko!
    12/02/09

    @braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: One of the best foods on this planet! (By the way, that's really sly of you, making it look like I'm saying that you are, as usual, completely correct. Though, in this instance, you are, indeed, completely correct!)
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    braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. promoted this comment Signore Pinko-Panko! was starred Signore Pinko-Panko! was unstarred
    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    12/02/09

    @Signore Pinko-Panko!: It's a pretty usual occurrence. I figured I'd just save everyone some time.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    12/02/09

    In reply to So You're Into Haggis?
    Am I just starving or does that look really freaking good?
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    12/02/09

    @Matt Cherette: "Looks" is definitely the operative word there.

    I never understood Haggis. I could get on board if they deep fried it, but boiling? Ugh.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    12/02/09

    @Mike Byhoff: One time when I was little, I remember my mom boiling chicken. It was so bad (in looks and in taste), apparently, that my dad actually documented it with photo evidence. I should try to find those pictures.

    Also, ANSWER MY GCHAT.
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    Image of Signore Pinko-Panko! Signore Pinko-Panko!
    12/02/09

    @Mike Byhoff: Hmmmm, the Scots may take you up on that. They are, after all, the land of the deep-fried Mars bar.
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    If_I_Had_a_Poodle promoted this comment Signore Pinko-Panko! was starred Signore Pinko-Panko! was unstarred
    Image of Encantada Encantada
    12/02/09

    @Mike Byhoff: I grew up on the West Coast of Scotland, and (like most food there) haggis is often fried. Also, Scots tell foreigners that a haggis is a small animal that has two short legs on one side of its body so it can run around hills easily. They say that to catch them, you run toward them in the opposite direction and knock them over. It's kind of a Scottish "shooting snipe" story.
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    Image of Mike Byhoff Mike Byhoff
    12/02/09

    @Encantada: I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT STORY! Except they said in order to catch them you just stand on the top of the hill and wait for it to come to you.

    And I 100% believed it.

    Stupid Scottish.
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