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You know what? I’m ridiculously bored. That means its time for me to talk about something that bugs me. MySpace. It’s getting quite a bit of attention as of late. Retarded cases with teenage girls, security concerns, etc. It’s the next biggest fad. But look, the problem with MySpace isn’t really the service in itself. It’s the bloody people on the service.

Bulletins are a way for people to broadcast messages to others. While this is a good feature (for announcements and things like that), the people use it for the dumbest things. Chain letters, “if you don’t repost this in x minutes you will have bad relationships for x amount of time”, and messages with titles that don’t agree with their subject matter are three examples. If I were to post an important bulletin, such as “There’s a meeting at so and so”, it would get wiped off the list of 5 in a hurry. And I’m very sure no one looks past that main list. Bulletins are put up and only stay up for 10 days. Something’s telling me they should make it two or something, because most of them are crap and pointless.

The pictures are okay, but really, can we have a limit on their dimensions? My friends list page is offset by tall pictures. Nasty layout. And this goes for any public service, including Xanga: Can you idiots chill out with your stupid CSS code? All this bull is slowing down my computer. Why do I want to see a Windows Media movie automatically play as well as three of your picture slide galleries? Did I ask for all that?

I would love it if we all got mature, moved away from MySpace and Xanga, and got to better blogging services, such as Blogger and WordPress. I’ve been back and forth from WordPress and Blogger, but I think I’m going to stick with WordPress. I can’t directly post from MacJournal anymore, but I can deal with that. I wish everyone got a Facebook page. Their site is much more aesthetically pleasing, and it keeps people from posting all that foolishness. Sure, it’s “boring”. But it’s better. If that’s boring, then I like it.

If I didn’t have to try to reach out to as many people as possible, I wouldn’t be using MySpace. But since so many of my school friends are there and I’m class president, I have to have some way of keeping in touch with them. Heh.

Just like the title says, here are ten ways your supermarket is either aiming to rip you off or potentially messing with your health. Practical information you can use to make wise choices rather than alarmist propaganda. Possibly limited to U.S. supermarkets but still worth reading.

I highly recommend reading this article.

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Source: Newsvine – AP: Iraq Insurgents Offer to Stop Attacks

From the AP:

BAGHDAD, IRAQ — Eleven Sunni insurgent groups have offered to halt attacks on the U.S.-led military if the Iraqi government and President Bush set a two-year timetable for withdrawing all foreign troops from the country, insurgent and government officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Sounds like something to at least try to me. Read the full article and you’ll get a better idea of the situation. As far as I’m concerned, nothing else is working there, and we have people there dying daily. If we had a timetable for getting out, we could spend our money on something more worthful.

From Digg:
Classic; fly the helicopter without crashing it

Have fun with it. You know you’re bored!

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Source: Boston.com, Original Article

At 6 AM this morning, a man was killed by an Orange Line train while walking along the tracks.

The man had travelled about 200 feet from the station when the impact took place, Pesaturo said. It was not immediately known why the man was walking along the tracks, which are powered by a third rail, he said.

For one, ouch. Now I know to believe “Danger Third Rail” in MBTA stations. This is more a weird story than anything else. I doubt the train operators would’ve seen the man before the train ran him over, so what do you do in a situation like this?

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