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In other news: Facebook continues to suck.

Apparently they’re testing a service that allows internet telemarketers to pay to message you.

Today we’re starting a small experiment to test the usefulness of economic signals to determine relevance. This test will give a small number of people the option to pay to have a message routed to the Inbox rather than the Other folder of a recipient that they are not connected with.

Several commentators and researchers have noted that imposing a financial cost on the sender may be the most effective way to discourage unwanted messages and facilitate delivery of messages that are relevant and useful.

Suuuuuuuure that won’t get abused. 😆

TF2 continues to get more awesome.

Awhile back Valve and Adult Swim started a colab during “Pyromania”. If you signed up for Adult Swim’s newsletter you would get a genuine Robot Chicken hat. Then later on there was a TF2 sketch on Robot Chicken:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qdu_ZXHS-c

But it doesn’t end there. Today at the TF2 blog and Adult Swim it’s been announced that some Adult Swim items will be making an appearance in a future update.

I’ve never purchased anything from the Mannco store, but this is tempting. 😀 It would also be nice to see the scouts as Hank and Dean, Dr Weird for the Engie, Harvey Birdman for the spy, Black Dynamite for the Demo and… I could take an entire day naming them off!

Because we’re not stupid enough yet…

A sixth grader brought a gun to school to protect himself in case of a shooting. Here’s the aftermath.

KEARNS, Utah – A 6th grade student brought an unloaded handgun to West Kearns Elementary School Monday.

The 11-year-old boy allegedly told other students his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school for protection following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.

The boy reportedly pulled the gun, a .22-caliber pistol, out of his backpack during recess Monday morning.

“At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me,” said Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s fellow 6th grade students.

Granite School District officials say students didn’t notify teachers about the weapon until 3 p.m.

“Once the teacher knew there was a weapon in the classroom, the student was apprehended in 30 to 45 seconds and immediately brought down to the office and the police were on site within five to 10 minutes,” said Granite School District Spokesman Ben Horsley.

Granite School District sent a pre-recorded message via telephone to the parents of West Kearns Elementary students at 5:30 p.m. By then, some of those parents had already heard about the incident from their children.

God bless America. :usa: :headdesk:

Cooked tiny shrimp in teriyaki

I decided to make this last night. Made for a good snack tonight. 😀

1/4 cup of sake
3 tbsp of sugar
3 tbsp of soysauce
32 tiny shrimp, clams, or tuna bits

Combine the sake, sugar and soy sauce in a small pan, then add the shrimp and boil for two to three minutes. Take shrimp out of pan and put into a small bowl and continue to boil teriyaki mixture for about 10 minutes until it thickens into a sauce. Return the shrimps to the pan and cook for another minute. Set in a bowl to cool. Serve cold as a side to a Japanese meal or as part of a bento box.

Well… That didn’t last long.

Instagram is a service that allows people to share pics via their smartphone. They originally reported that they would be selling peoples photos with or without the users permission. It seems not many users liked that though, which caused Instagram to buckle down.

Instagram apologized to its users today, saying it will “remove” language from its legal terms that would have let it sell users’ photos or use them in advertisements.

Sometimes you can’t trust anything with “gram” in it.