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Facebook’s profiles have less room for style modifications than Myspace’s profiles do. I find this to be a good thing because it keeps a sense of uniformity on the site and keeps the interface clean. I felt a bit iffy about the appearance of Facebook applications. While I do like a few of them (such as Weekly Schedule), I heavily disapprove of most. Some applications ask that you invite a certain number of friends before you get results, and some seem relatively pointless. Most annoying, however, is when users have a large number of applications on their profile, pushing down the wall and increasing the height of the page. The more I have to scroll down your page, the less likely I am to post on your wall.

My main point for this post, however, is about coloring Facebook’s profiles. I was invited to a group called something like “Official Petition for Colored Profiles on Facebook” and I very quickly rejected it. First of all, there’s more than one “official” group for them, and more than one “official” group against them. I don’t know who gave the group creators the right to throw around the word “official”. But, more importantly, I don’t support colored profiles. If Facebook presented the option to throw a hue in on your profile that every user would see, Facebook would lose its uniformity. You would be going from a standard blue to a red to a pink to a lime green. Also, I don’t think it’s good to trust some users’ color choices. Some may use a background color that makes the site unreadable, and if they do, people that use Facebook may see it as disgusting and not want to use it (I don’t use MySpace because I find many of the profiles ugly, and I guarantee you I’m not the only person that thinks that). I think it’s best that Facebook stays the blue it is and keeps the same layout. That’s why I much prefer Facebook over Myspace.

Source: Boston.com
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand—It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field — coming to rest right next to a sign reading, “Jesus is Lord.”

Read it; it’s short enough, and it’s in the good old Odds and Ends section.

Source: ESPN
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The word is that Major League Baseball will try to incorporate instant replay to determine debatable homerun calls in the Arizona Fall League, and if they have success, they will extend it to the Majors. I think that instant replay would be a great addition to baseball. There was one time I was watching a Red Sox game in which a play that was actually a homerun was determined not to be one by the umpires, and instant replay from the broadcasters showed that it was in fact a homerun and the umpires got it wrong. Things like this happen because let’s face it, these umpires are human. Sometimes they make errors about what’s a homerun and what isn’t as well as things such as whether the base runner made it to the bag before the baseman caught the ball. Things like this should be reviewable when a manager or player believes the call was wrong. Such debates would ensure the call was right or wrong and it would also prevent those very violent-looking arguments between managers and umpires. Sure, instant replay will slow down the game a little, but I’d rather spend a few extra minutes making sure something is right than making a game speedier with the chance of a bad call.

The MLB should give it a shot. I’d be surprised if they didn’t like it.

Source: Boston.com
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My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.

Hillary Clinton

I’ve read comments on Digg and Boston.com, and barely any of them defend her. She might have opened a can of worms with this…I hope it hits the TV news stations so everyone knows she said it.

There are two types of chemistry. We have a way of working with people on a one-on-one basis, which is individual chemistry. Also, we have a different way of working with two or more people at once, which is group chemistry. A group’s behavior is more complex than the behavior of two people.

Confusing introduction, yes. But here’s an example. Let’s say that I know a Person A. Together, he and I have decent conversations and we work well together. Let’s say I also know a Person B that I like to talk to and I get along well with. Individually, People A and B are great to have around. But what if People A and B meet each other? It could make our friendships better – “the more, the merrier,” they say. But it can also make our friendships worse. What if People A and B, when together, behave in a way that I don’t like? Have inside jokes that I don’t understand? What if they, inadvertently or otherwise, make me feel like a third wheel? As much as it is a benefit for them that they have met each other, it comes at my expense. People A and B become inseparable; joined at the hip. Since I can only deal with them individually and not both together, I end up spending less time with both of them merely because they met each other and are such good friends.

Perhaps it is selfish, but I do not think it is always beneficial to mix your friends together. There was an episode of Seinfeld in which Elaine calls Susan, George’s fiancée. George immediately becomes insulted by this, as his “worlds will collide” and the two different Georges, “independent” and “relationship”, will collide and “kill independent George”. I found this episode especially funny because George’s reasoning made sense to me and Elaine thought he was crazy for suggesting such a thing. I do not think it is a common thought that people like to separate their “worlds” or “bubbles,” but I firmly believe in it. I like to keep some friends isolated from others because I have such a great one-on-one chemistry with them. Once friends start to mix, bad things can possibly happen and then it may be hard to leave one group if something bad happens. Connections are sometimes bad; WWII started mainly because there were so many alliances. All these groups who had ties to one another and had to follow suit with their treaties led to an all-out war. Similarly, it may not be best to have people so deeply connected, either. What if something goes wrong?

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