Called the ‘Ticker’ by internal Facebook employees, the social networking company is slowly allowing more users to view a real-time feed of friend actions to the right of the main Facebook News Feed. This unfiltered flow of news shows actions such as comments, like clicks, new friend connections, photo uploads and status updates that friends are creating on mutual friend pages as well as non-friend pages. It’s basically a feed of every single interaction that a user does on Facebook.
The Ticker is designed to replace the Most Recent filter on the Facebook News Feed, which is absent from the new design. Users will only have the Top News option to view on the wall and have to rely on the Facebook algorithm to dictate the most interesting stories. The algorithm watches how many times you visit a friend’s page as well as the number of comments and likes you make about the friend. When a user clicks on a story in the Ticker, it appears in the main feed in the middle of the page and the user can make a comment.
Is this software company trying to keep Australians down-under? If this screenshot is to be trusted, they are charging a much higher price for the same item compared to the cost for the United States. Is it shipping? Or is it a VAT tax (ie: Australia’s fault)?
Why aren’t these common in every studio apartment? We got rid of the beed that folds into the wall in the 50s and never replaced it with anything nearly as useful. Wtf people?
I think I know what happened here… First the setup: in the 2010 midterm election, things were looking bad for Democrats, and they turned out to be. But Democrats kept control of the open senate seat in Delaware made vacant by Senator Biden becoming Vice President Biden. Barack Obama’s Illinois Senate seat was won by a Republican, Mark Kirk, and Bidens seat was marked as an easy pickup for Republicans at the beginning of the race, which would have been an interesting symbolic victory as the opposition party took both senate seats of the sitting President and Vice President. but it didn’t happen that way because of Christine O’Donnell who played the “pesky kid” who Scooby Doo’ed the Republicans track to grab the seat.
A guy named Mike Castle was running for the Delaware senate seat but the Tea Party wing of the Republican party did not consider him sufficiently conservative and so Christine O’Donnell, who had ran against Biden and lost the last time around, ran against Castle in the primary and beat him for the Republican nomination. While Castle, Delaware’s only congressman at the time (that one congressional seat is now in Democrat hands) and the states former Governor was widely popular in the state and expected to win in a landslide, O’Donnell instead lost in a landslide because she was portrayed as ditzy, a religious nut and way too conservative for the state.
So now it’s awhile after the election and she has a new book talking about it and is making the rounds to promote it. Piers Morgan asks her a bunch of Socially Conservative and religious based questions which she was specifically told by her handlers to stay away from since that is what gave her such a bad rep in the first place. Indeed she started this strategy on debate night against her opponent, now the junior Senator from Delaware, Chris Coons, where she stuck to fiscal policy and legislation. Clips from her appearances on Politically Incorrect and an MTV special form the 90s where she espoused her hardcore Catholic religious views were being played everywhere and sinking her credibility as a viable candidate. So when Morgan brings these subjects up again, she keeps trying to steer the conversation away until finally coming out and saying “I don’t want to talk about this shit” (not an actual quote). Piers naturally responds “why the fuck not?” (more accurate, but still not a verbatim quote) and she doesn’t know what to say other than to repeatedly ask him to stop asking such questions.
On the one hand, Piers is asking these questions precisely because they play to the negative stereotype O’donnell is trying to clear her name of, but on the other… c’mon. battle it out with him instead of being the outraged Duchess at the tea party (pun intended) and chiding him for being rude to his guest. Her minders in the studio with her go as far as to stand in front of the camera as they direct her to walk out of the interview. Bizarre…
The same thing happened with Miss California on Piers’ predecessor, Larry King and I mean exactly the same thing: her handlers told her to not ruin her image further with this religious and social conservatism crap and she got frustrated when the host of the show she was on wouldnt oblige that request.
