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Tub Design WIN
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 20:00
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Tagged: design , bathroom , coffee , bath tub , g rated , win Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
Is This How "The Matrix" Went?
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 19:30
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Tagged: engrish , Movie , DVD , knockoff , fail nation , g rated Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
Biology 101: Spider Dudes Are Jerks
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 19:15
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Tagged: spiders , jerks , biology , School of FAIL Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
Report: Peanut Butter Contains Traces Of Rat Feces But Life's Weird Like That Sometimes
The Onion News - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 19:10
WASHINGTON—A report released Monday by the Food and Drug Administration stated that the majority of peanut butter sold in the United States contains trace amounts of rat feces, but that, hey, life can be weird like that sometimes ...
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Super Bowl tops ratings; outage highly viewed, too - The Associated Press
Entertainment Wire - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 19:06
Philadelphia InquirerSuper Bowl tops ratings; outage highly viewed, too
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — As it does nearly every year, the Super Bowl will almost certainly stand as the most-watched television event of 2013. This year, the Blackout Bowl wasn't too far behind. CBS prevailed upon the Nielsen Co. to estimate how many viewers ...
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It Was Ferment to Be
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 19:00
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Tagged: alcohol , wine , ferment , text him , drunk texting , g rated , AutocoWrecks Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
Dell Acquired By Gateway 2000 In Merger Of 2 Biggest Names In Computer Technology
The Onion News - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 18:40
ROUND ROCK, TX—The tech world reeled Tuesday on reports that personal computer powerhouse Dell had been acquired by competitor Gateway 2000 in a $24.4 billion buyout that unites two of the industry’s top players as they look to take on perenni...
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These Kids Rock
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 18:30
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Tagged: class , kiddies , rock fist , g rated , Parenting FAILS Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
American Voices: Beyoncé, Destiny's Child Album Sales Surge After Super Bowl
The Onion News - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 18:16
Online sales of Beyoncé’s albums have leapt 230 percent since her well-received Super Bowl halftime show Sunday, while digital record sales for her former group Destiny’s Child, with whom she reunited during the performance, have soared...
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Peer Pressure is the BEST
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 18:00
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Tagged: peer pressure , do this , good time , after 12 , g rated Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
Torrent Of Soap Issues From Wildly Unexpected Part Of Dispenser
The Onion News - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 17:50
LIMA, OH—A wall-mounted soap dispenser in the men’s bathroom of Rigali’s Pizza Village reportedly startled local resident Sam Milsom on Monday night, discharging a copious jet of soap from an entirely unexpected location. Milsom confirme...
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People Don't Belong There
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 17:30
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Tagged: coming out , closets , fabulous , clothes , dating fails , g rated Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
Opinion: Look, I'm Just Going To Say It: I Collect Antique Nazi Memorabilia (by Barack Obama)
The Onion News - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 17:01
As I begin my second term as president, I am honored to continue to serve this great country as we tackle the myriad problems that face us in the 21st century.
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Once You Go Tat, You Never Go Back
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 17:00
See more tattoo regrets on Ugliest Tattoos!
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Tagged: makeup , eyebrows , tattoos , poorly dressed , g rated Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
Civilized Discourse Construction Kit
Coding Horror - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:59
Occasionally, startups will ask me for advice. That's a shame, because I am a terrible person to ask for advice. The conversation usually goes something like this:
We'd love to get your expert advice on our thing.
I probably don't use your thing. Even if I tried your thing out and I gave you my so-called Expert advice, how would it matter? Anyway, why are you asking me? Why don't you ask your community what they think of your thing?
And if you don't have a community of users and customers around your thing, well, there's your problem right there. Go fix that.
Like I said, I don't get asked for advice too often. But for what it's worth, it is serious advice. And the next question they ask always strikes fear into my heart.
You're so right! We need a place for online community around our thing. What software should we use?
This is the part where I start playing sad trombone in my head. Because all your software options for online community are, quite frankly, terrible. Stack Exchange? We only do strict, focused Q&A there and you'd have to marshal your proposal through Area 51. Get Satisfaction, UserVoice, Desk, etcetera? Sorry, customer support isn't the same as community. Mailing lists? Just awful.
Forum software? Maybe. Let's see, it's 2013, has forum software advanced at all in the last ten years?
I'm thinking no.
Forums are the dark matter of the web, the B-movies of the Internet. But they matter. To this day I regularly get excellent search results on forum pages for stuff I'm interested in. Rarely a day goes by that I don't end up on some forum, somewhere, looking for some obscure bit of information. And more often than not, I find it there.
There's an amazing depth of information on forums.
- A 12 year old girl who finds a forum community of rabid enthusiasts willing to help her rebuild a Fiero from scratch? Check.
- The most obsessive breakdown of Lego collectible minifig kits you'll find anywhere on the Internet? Check.
- Some of the most practical information on stunt kiting in the world? Check.
- The only place I could find with scarily powerful squirt gun instructions and advice? Check.
- The underlying research for a New Yorker article outing a potential serial marathon cheater? Check.
I could go on and on. As much as existing forum software is inexplicably and terrifyingly awful after all these years, it is still the ongoing basis for a huge chunk of deeply interesting information on the Internet. These communities are incredibly passionate about incredibly obscure things. They aren't afraid to let their freak flag fly, and the world is a better place for it.
At Stack Exchange, one of the tricky things we learned about Q&A is that if your goal is to have an excellent signal to noise ratio, you must suppress discussion. Stack Exchange only supports the absolute minimum amount of discussion necessary to produce great questions and great answers. That's why answers get constantly re-ordered by votes, that's why comments have limited formatting and length and only a few display, and so forth. Almost every design decision we made was informed by our desire to push discussion down, to inhibit it in every way we could. Spare us the long-winded diatribe, just answer the damn question already.
After spending four solid years thinking of discussion as the established corrupt empire, and Stack Exchange as the scrappy rebel alliance, I began to wonder – what would it feel like to change sides? What if I became a champion of random, arbitrary discussion, of the very kind that I'd spent four years designing against and constantly lecturing users on the evil of?
I already built an X-Wing; could I build a better Tie Fighter?
If you're wondering what all those sly references to Tie Fighters were about in my previous blog posts and tweets, now you know. All hail the Emperor, and by the way, what's your favorite programming food?
Today we announce the launch of Discourse, a next-generation, 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet.
The goal of the company we formed, Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc., is exactly that – to raise the standard of civilized discourse on the Internet through seeding it with better discussion software:
- 100% open source and free to the world, now and forever.
- Feels great to use. It's fun.
- Designed for hi-resolution tablets and advanced web browsers.
- Built in moderation and governance systems that let discussion communities protect themselves from trolls, spammers, and bad actors – even without official moderators.
Our amazingly talented team has been working on Discourse for almost a year now, and although like any open source software it's never entirely done, we believe it is already a generation ahead of any other forum software we've used.
I greatly admire what WordPress did for the web; to say that we want to be the WordPress of forums is not a stretch at all. We're also serious about this eventually being a viable open-source business, in the mold of WordPress. And we're not the only people who believe in the mission: I'm proud to announce that we have initial venture capital funding from First Round, Greylock, and SV Angel. We're embarking on a five year mission to improve the fabric of the Internet, and we're just getting started. Let a million discussions bloom!
So now, when someone says to me …
You're so right! We need a place for community around our thing. What software should we use?
I can reply without hesitation.
And hopefully, so can you.
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Goodell: 'I'd Definitely Let My Son Ruin Football'
The Onion News - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:35
NEW YORK—In response to accusations that his policies are hurting the game of football, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell told CBS’s Face the Nation Sunday that he would have no problem letting his own son ruin the sport.
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You Had Me There For a Sec
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:00
Can you at least fix your toupée?
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Tagged: signs , gay , dad , g rated , Parenting FAILS Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
5-Year-Old Alabama Boy Misses Fun 'Bunker Grandpa'
The Onion News - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 15:25
MIDLAND CITY, AL—Hours after an FBI raid freed him from the underground bunker where he had been held hostage for six days, 5-year-old Alabama boy Ethan told reporters that he already misses his fun, super-cool Bunker Grandpa.
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Slain Navy SEAL sniper had new book in the works
Entertainment Wire - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 15:16
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A publisher says a former top Navy SEAL sniper and best-selling author who was fatally shot at the weekend had a second book in the works.
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The Joys of Music Class
FailBlog - Tue, 02/05/2013 - 15:00
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Tagged: Music , class , Recorder , School of FAIL Share on FacebookCategories: Entertainment, failblog
