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I’d like to be your derivative so I can lie tangent to your curves.

• By looking at you I can tell you’re 36-25-36, which by the way are all perfect squares.
• I would love to SQL your server…
• Just thinking about you turns my software into hardware!
• Can I ASCII you to play with my WYSWYG?
• Girl,you’re like a blow-up doll v2.0
• I got a big enough harddrive if you have enough RAM.
• I Hypothesize I Can Get Your Clothes To Drop To The Floor Instantly
• Yes, that’s right. I fileshare on the first date.
• Hawt you are. A drink can I buy you?
• You and I must have the same natural frequency
• Trust me, I’m user friendly ; )
• You just initiated a file transfer of love.exe to my HEART. and i accept.

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A friend of mine recently had her account and computer hacked through a phishing attack on Facebook. I got a suspicious sounding message from her via facebook and yes, it was asking for username and password. Here’s an article that is recognizing the problem.

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/06/my-entry.html

If you don’t understand Twitter, you may not get this right now. One day you will, though. Twitter will be as common as email in the future. From the #Twialogues community.

“That which does not kill us makes us twitter.” Friedrich Wilhelm Twietzsche

“If the tweet fits… follow it.”

“A minute without twitter feels like an hour, but an hour reading some good tweets feels like a minute” – Albert Tweinstein

“Twitter all, follow a few, do wrong to none.” – Twilliam Shakespeare

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we tweet them.” Anaïs Nin

“Tweeting is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t tweet, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain

Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: an algorithm.

The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.

Google officials are reluctant to share details of the formula, which is still being tested. The inputs include information from surveys and peer reviews, and Google says the algorithm already has identified employees who felt underused, a key complaint among those who contemplate leaving.

Applying a complex equation to a basic human-resource problem is pure Google, a company that made using heavy data to drive decisions one of its “Ten Golden Rules” outlined in 2005.

Edward Lawler, director of the Center for Effective Organizations at the University of Southern California, said Google is one of a few companies that are early in taking a more quantitative approach to personnel decisions.

Read the whole Article Here.

Courtesy of http://hubblesite.org.

http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/

Came across this here. And I completely agree.

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Love this….

Once upon a time, in a village, a man appeared and announced to the
villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to
the forest, and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at $10 and as supply started to diminish, the
villagers stopped their effort.

He further announced that he would now buy at $20. This renewed the
efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to
their farms.

The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so
little that it was an effort to even see a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50!

However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant
would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers,

‘Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected.

I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city,
you can sell them to him for $50 each.’

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant again, only monkeys
everywhere!

Now you have a better understanding of how the stock market works.