fazyluckers is amazing. check it out.

1 The first article title on the Wikipedia Random Articles page is the name of your band.

2 The last four words of the very last quotation on the Random Quotations page is the title of your album.

3 The third picture in Flickr’s Interesting Photos From The Last 7 Days will be your album cover.

4 Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result.

stolen from YH which was stolen from NT, which was stolen from somewhere else

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I know many multiple people have blogged about how to improve StumbleUpon, and while some have not been added, some have. Hopefully this will get noticed. I don’t even care if the people who Stumble this don’t look at anything else on my site, I just want to propose suggestions and additions. Let’s see if it works.

First of all, I personally have over ten thousand stumbles, and lately I’ve been feeling kind of nostalgic, so I want to Stumble all my old thumbs-up pages again. Not everything I want to get is new. Sometimes you just want to experience deja vu.

Next, the ability to trace a Stumbled picture to it’s origin. Have you ever seen a really great image, and clicked on it, only to go through six or seven other Stumblers before finding the original image? This really bugs me. If you see my Page, you’ll see that I review a lot of pictures, most coming from other Stumblers. But I don’t comment about their page, I just title a photo we both happen to like.

Third, I’m sure everyone has once or twice submitted a website to StumbleUpon. Ever notice the various parts of the Discovery page? Let’s take a look, shall we?

Well, to start, the topic list is wrong. It should be based off of the Stumbler’s most often used topics. If this was so, a person like me who stumbles Linguistics enjoys the process more, because it is not tailored to a universal Stumbler, but rather to my settings. Then comes the tags, which, like topics, should be based on frequency. So, say I am searching for Bedouin Soundclash music, the tag Bedouin-Soundclash would be first, followed by other recent tags. Also, the Adult shouldn’t apply to every Stumbler; instead, if a Stumbler is rated ‘R’ or ‘X,’ then it should appear. I’m a very ‘G’ rated person, and I don’t think I would randomly Stumble a site with “nudity or adult content.”

That’s it for now. These are not required, but it still improve on the current design. If you up with any, please share. That’s how they get noticed. Thanks, and spread the word.

Odd phobias of mine:

Fear that my legs will get crushed by a car that’s alive
Fear that I will accidentally grope someone while putting on something using my arms, e.g. a backpack or jacket
Fear of getting axed in the back while peeing
Fear of waking up and getting stabbed in the face
Fear of getting killed while my back is turned

etc.

I am crazy.

It’s amazing how time flies. The last time I posted was in October. Today’s my seventeenth birthday. In exactly one year I plan to tell everyone just who I am. I still think just as much as I did six months ago, I just never got back into the habit of writing it all down. I lost a whole lot of amazing things. Starting today I will rework my writing strategy, and instead of writing daily thoughts, I’ll be like everyone else and post long papers of personal opinions. Sound good? And begin.

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Finally, airport security done right.

John Tierny of the NY Times wrote an article at appeared in my local newspaper, and I loved it. I’m going to write down a few quotes. Now.

“Three years ago, officials at the Dulles Airport conducted a little experiment to improve security on international flights. The wanted most passengers to spend less time in line at checkpoints. Today of course, this idea sounds terribly dangerous. Who can afford to worry about passengers’ convenience? Let them wait for hours. Take away their Evians of mass destruction. Last weekend, even reading material became suspect. Who would on a six-hour fight need a book anyway? Stop making trouble and watch the movie!”

“Instead of looking for things, the screeners looked at people. They were looking for unusual behavior such as sweating, rigid exposure, clenched fists. A screener would engage a passenger in conversation, and ask questions he wouldn’t have been trained to expect, like whether he’d seen a Redskins game the night before even though the Redskins hadn’t played. The screeners were looking for telltale body language of someone trying too hard to act natural.”

“The screeners caught no terrorists, but they consistently found people with something to hide, often a forged visa, a stolen airline ticket, drugs or other smuggled goods.”

“Scott McHugh is confident this type of screening would have flagged the Sept. 11 terrorists “or the latest plotters in London.”

“Terrorists will always come up with something new. As long as we keep looking for things from the last plot, we’re inconveniencing 99.99 percent of the people with not real benefit.”

“The TSA should be trying to anticipate new terrorist tactics, like the bomb plot uncovered in England, but it had to raid its research budget to pay for the screening program. It should be looking for new ways to identify dangerous passengers, but it’s too busy following Congress’ mandates.”

“Anyone serious about blowing up an airplane is off somewhere else working on something new.”

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I absolutely love this idea because it’s ingenious. Checkpoints check what? Luggage, because that is usually where people would hide a bomb. But terrorists, there are not that usual. They wanna blow up themselves (in the case of suicide bombers) for cryin’ out loud. Odds are, every checkpoint will check the Muslim man with a turban, a beard, and three bags, but not every one will check the average Joe, who’s nervous and only has an Evian and a Blackberry.

As I say, luggage doesn’t show emotion, so it can’t look guilty. People, on the other hand, can show guilt, nervousness, nausea, anxiety, unease, and apprehension. Most people judge others by what’s on the outside. If you look like a terrorist, you must be a terrorist. The question is what does a terrorist look like? And how can you catch them?
-Mat

MJM 7:00 PM “positive thinking is for pessimists”

Mordecai

Phillidelphobia: fear of the East Coast

Paycheck, the movie

right click, print selection

google religious books, the bible, torah etc.

“my brain skipped a beat”

“Is it just me, or am I cold?”

societist: a person who thrives in society, but nowhere else.

Misheard Lyrics “We are the kids of Warren Peace”

–Jesus of Suburbia – Green Day