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One of my projects for work is to add friends to our Myspace account, post new promotions, and generally maintain the account. I used to be a big fan of Myspace, and would check my personal account quite a bit. But because of this continued exposure to it, I detest it. These are some (personal) basic rules any Myspace account (and website in general) should avoid. The reason: they drive me to the edge of sanity.

1. Why on God’s green earth (or web) would you have 50 trillion pictures of yourself, all on you main page. There is NO CHANCE that ANYONE is going to wait the 10 minutes for your page to fully load to view them.
2. Lose the chintzy themes, the ridiculous quips, the seizure-inspiring colors and objects.
3. If you’re page is wider than the screen and anyone has to scroll over to view the other half of your page, go to hell. Not only will no one do this, they will never return.
4. Lose the corporate branding. If you’re a girl, everyone knows that you like Coach, you don’t have to use it as your background.
5. If you have music on your page, make sure it doesn’t annoy the be-jesus out of everyone that visits.

Basically: don’t be a darsh.

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NASA recently released 3D images of the sun.  In the lower right hand part of the screen, you can see an eruption occurring.  Eruptions like this can disrupt power and knock satellites out of orbit.

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I have a lot going on in my life right now. But I have taken time to remember those that lost their lives in the Virginia Tech shootings. I found a news article about this and was sickened by the complete malice and hatred created by the Westboro Baptist Church. Even with all the issues in my life (a LOT right now) I can’t help but count my blessings that I didn’t grow up with this mentality.

Why did this happen, you ask? It’s simple. On April 16, 2007, this nation, through the offices of your military and conspirators therewith took a shot at the servants of God — your marksman was limp and lame and he had terror all around, so he did a lousy job. But what you get for your trouble is that your God shot at you! The LORD your God sent a crazed madman to shoot at your children, and he didn’t miss. Get this straight — God sent this South Korean madman to kill 31 of your children at Virginia Tech. Was God asleep while this took place? Was he on vacation? Of course not. He willed this to happen to punish you for assailing His servants.

-godhatesamerica.com

This is the kind of bigotry, hatred, and anger that makes me wonder where are world is going.  These people’s god is not mine.  These people just want to shock others, I can’t imagine having so much hate, much less any.  I pray for them.

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I’ve always wondered what goes on at these.  Some dignitaries or business executives meet up to talk about what?  World domination? How to further destroy the economy? What war to start next?  My prediction: golf.  This is the ONE thing I’m confident all people at that level have in common.  I bet thats all they do.  At that level, it doesn’t seem like anything can actually be accomplished by just meeting with someone else.  It’s not like any of the talk will be binding, because everyone has to go back and check with their “people”, who check with their people, who then make sure the facts or opinions will actually make sense.  It stands to reason that these meetings are just a bunch of old men bragging about what percentage of the world they control and what they shot at Pebble Beach last week.

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When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde

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