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    SMOKING HOT: Amazon Deal of the Day 6/27/08 + Gold Box Deals

    Amazon is running a series of not Nintendo Deals today. The deal of the day is Super Smash Bros. Brawl $25.99 Plus more gold box deals, such as: EXPIRED Super Mario Galaxy 34.99 Super Mario Bros. for Nintendo DS 22.99 More to come
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    Neighbors leave their dog out all night

    Its one of the residents of a 4 unit apt. building, not sure who, but I think they just tie it to a chain outside and it barks for hours! Is this usually illegal?
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    What should I be for Halloween?!

    What should I be for halloween?! I cant decide. I dont want to wear something too bulky and hard to move around in. I put the ideas I had in a poll.
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    Logic/Math Puzzle

    Suppose I have two envelopes full of money and let you choose one. You open your envelope and find X dollars. Then I tell you that one envelope contained exactly twice as much money as the other. You are allowed to either keep the X dollars you have, or switch and keep the money from the...
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    Lease question: Is it normal for landlord to get a credit report?

    What do you guys think? Someone who wanted to sublease my room backed out when she found out our landlord wanted to do a full credit check on her, and says it is not normal. She is a law student, so I dont think she is hiding a bad credit history, she just claims it is not acceptable to...
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    What is that website of the guy who works out and plots his progress

    i know someone here knows what i'm talking about, do you remember the url?
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    What would be a good board game for an 11 year old girl?

    Something interesting for that age group, but not too simple just based only on rolling dice or having an obvious optimal strategy. Any suggestions? favorites of your kids?
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    Mortal Kombat vs. Streetfighter

    discuss...
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    threadless.com $10 sale

    they are usually $15, but are on sale for $10 till wednesday. Check it out. Threadless.com
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    BASSHUNTER omg eurodance

    This guy is pretty awesome, not only are his songs good and catchy, but look at the lyrics, he is singing about playing video games and about falling in love with an IRC bot. http://basshunter.m0o.eu/anna/index_en.php http://basshunter.m0o.eu/dota/index_en.php in the video he is telling...
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    I think we should get rid of the dollar bills and use coins instead

    Maybe we could even use $5 coins as well.
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    Death by fan!!!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death Has anyone ever heard of this. A friend of mine told me and claims that a lot of Korean people believe it, but I doubt any more of them believe that than americans believe in spontaneous human combustion... anyone heard of this ... or believe in it...
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    Dog chews through laptop AC adapter

    The dog chewed between the part of the cord between the power "brick" and the computer, and supposedly the computer was acting "funny", but then after the AC adapter was unplugged from the computer the funny business stopped. It also no longer charges the computer properly. Could such a...
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    "Skinny mirrors"

    I just found out that most retail clothing stores have mirrors that are warped to make you look skinny. Did most of you know about this?
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    Chinese kill 50000 dogs because of rabies

    Full Article, MSNBC
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    Guarana Antarctica

    its so good, but hard to find. Anyone else have this in the US?
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    Black sunglasses

    I love wearing these black sunglasses all the time. Whos with me??
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    Fruit trees on backyards

    It seems like way more people should have fruit trees in their backyards. I can think of no good explanation other than people not feeling motivated to plant them because the probably take a few years before they start having much fruit and the payoff is too far in the future. What do you...
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    Do you brush your teeth after lunch?

    well.. do you?
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    How difficult is it to replace a front bumper

    So my front bumper is cracked up on my 01 ford Focus, nothing is hurt besides the plastic bumper itself. The shop wanted $550 to replace it, but on ebay or other online stores it seems I can get the entire front plastic bumper in the right color for around $200 shipped. Anyone know how...
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    Cutting hot peppers then touch your face

    Suppose you are dealing with some hot peppers then accidentally touch yoru face and your eyes are burning really bad. What can be done to ease the pain.
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    Do you avoid spyware? can you spot a spyware infested download?

    See what you get on this quiz: (stolen from /.) http://www.siteadvisor.com/quizzes/spyware_0306.html I got 7/8 :D
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    Living in the Bay Area (with danger of earthquakes)

    Lately I was thinking about how I would not want to live in the Bay Area because of the "Huge future earthquakes" that will happen "not if, but when" Housing costs aside, would the strong possibility of quakes make you think twice about living in the bay area, (or moving to another...
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    Simple Excel question

    Hi, Suppose I have a large matrix with either blank or nonzero entries and I want it to fill in all the blank entries with zeros, there has to be some simple way to do this, anyone know how?
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    TAX REMINDTER THREAD

    I did my taxes a month ago but never bothered to mail them out! Good thing I remembered today! They need to be postmarked by tomorrow. Edit: I know there is an official one, just thought I'd catch peoples attention who might have forgotten.
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    PSA: Contact Lense Users

    :|
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    The Found Film Festival

    These guys were in Atlanta last night, it was really quite funny. Their show was basically a bunch of videos they found at garage sales, in the trash, or thrift stores that include home videos, training videos, other things, that they do comedy between. They are touring around the country...
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    Deep Fry Fest!!!!!

    Ok, so we had the deep fry extravaganza tonight. Here are some pics for you guys: Twinkie.jpg Oreo.jpg Burger.jpg Other things fried include: pickles, sinckers, squid, Some kind of "fish balls", sweet potatoes
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    I made pizza dough!

    I followed this recipe It was pretty easy, the only annoying thing is waiting two hours for the dough to rise. pizza.jpg
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    Deep Fry Fest!!!!! We will already be doing Oreos/ burgers/ Candybars

    A friend of mine is throwing a deep frying festival at his house next weekend with the goal to fry things that you do not usually fry (why bother, we can just go buy them). The ideas so far were bananas, hamburgers, oreos, candy bars. Any other good ideas? If you come up with something good...
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    Bill Gates is Awesome

    As much as so many people think he is evil, he gives so much money to good causes, how can you hate him?
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    Woman has 16 kids and is going for more!

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/parenting/10/12/sixteen.kids.ap/index.html EDIT: fixed link
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    Check out my next car!!!

    :confused:
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    Gas Stations in Atlanta

    I had to get some gas today in Atlanta, I actually had an empty tank, but a lot of the stations were closed and crowded. I found one that still had gas by my house but it was over $3 a gallon and it was totally packed with crazed people. I wonder how long this is going to last. I do...
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    Man wields swords, Huge hammer at police.

    Link OK THIS IS A REPOST!!!!!!11111111111111111111111111111111111
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    Most Overdue PC Innovation

    I'd have to say, why isnt their a nice easy to use program that can go fetch and install updates/drivers for all your software/hardware at the click of a button. (For Windows)
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    Space flight. POLL!

    Suppose NASA offered you a spot on the next flight. Would you go?
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    WOOHOO!!! got a class action lawsuit settlement check in the mail today!

    That is less than the postage. I'm sure it COST american express a lot to mail these checks to everyone, but the only people to really "win" in a case like this are the lawyers, I bet they got millions.
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    John Stewart for President 2008!!!!!

    What do you guys think? 1 If he ran under the democratic label could he get past the primaries? 2 Could he win? 3 Would he even want to do such a thing?
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    Fireworks! .. should not be lit in your hand.

    This was at a bbq I had yesterday Vid