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I'm thinking about taking the plunge into a digital reader. I really like the B&N Nook because they have a new function where you can loan books between Nooks for 14 days at a time. I can read a friend's copy or vice versa, and it moves from one reader to another, and then back again. But the Kindle 2 is bigger, lighter and seems to have a bigger following. I admit to knowing bupkus about the Sony e-reader. Any suggestions or reviews? Try to respond ONLY if you have one of these things since I can already make crap up about things I don't own.

own or play with a Spirograph when you were a kid?

Were you coordinated enough to keep the little wheel's gears meshed with the bigger wheel, or did your pictures look like mine: beautiful except for that straight line skittering across the front of the drawing!

How is your life different than the way you thought it would be when you were younger?

Better? Worse?

Ok, so lets say that when you were younger, years ago, someone asked you to describe what you thought your life, your job, basically everything about the 'future you' would be like. You did this and then placed the description into a time capsule.

Now lets say you opened up the time capsule and read the description. How does your real life now compare to what you imagined it would be like when you first thought about it years ago?

Better? Worse? How?

Blind people, help me out please!

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I'm checking out the commentary following Palin's speech last night and am surprised (no, really I am) to see the type of comments that are crawling out of the woodwork. After getting past the nasty toned rhetoric made so popular by the likes of Michael "oughta try a salad" Moore, I have seen several posts that look surprisingly like the following:

"I votgn for OBAMA since I are losted my job. it am bushs fault and i mad to not be get a job. No mccaine, since mccane not no change and i need change to have a job."

I have this suspicion that these people are actually deluded into thinking that the reason they lost their job is by a concerted effort from the GOP as opposed to the fact that (I think) their employer just finally realized they had hired a stupid $%&^* and just cleaned house.

I suppose my question is: Even if Obama gets elected, don't they realize that prospective employers will still know these people are unemployable? How will this change things?

Who is the hottest famous female (right now) in pop culture to have never been filmed or photographed partially or completely nude? This includes photo shoots, films, sex tapes, wardrobe malfunctions and paparazzi candid gotchas and slips. Of legal age, if you please...

Hello! How do you go? I am pleased to meet me! Are you for scuba?

Why is Yahoo mixing up the order of answers on YA? Try voting and #3 becomes #7 and it looks as though they are trying to remove the advantage of being first. Does anyone know about this?

We are seeing so much in the news about this Fundamentalist Mormon cult and questioning returning the kids. Am I the only one who is wondering why no one is commenting on the fact that polygamy is ILLEGAL?! How is it that these adults are not being prosecuted?

what is for dinner tonight? I'm in a rut and trying to figure out a good meal that is interesting and not just plain crazy (escargot stuffed with caviar and jello or other nonsense)

Best suggestion that makes me go "yum" gets the 10.

Ok, so we are traveling to visit the UK around Christmas this year (from the US). We are renting a car to get around. One of the days I would like to take the Chunnel and use it to go to France and ultimately visit Normandy Beach. Are there any restrictions to my ability to take a rental car into another country? If so, are there addendums you can purchase that would allow this sort of thing?

Thanks in advance for the info. Oh, btw, we plan to use one of the major rental car companies (Avis, Hertz, Alamo, etc) as opposed to something like Fred's Rentals.

You know, the photos of Miss New Jersey that were supposed to be "oh so bad"? Well, she did a GREAT thing and said F-U to the blackmailers and released them herself.

They are really nothing to get blackmailed over. the only thing it makes her guilty of is being a bit of a dork, imho.

Your thoughts?

What stands out as the best bargain you ever found at a garage sale?

I found an old carrier for 45rpm records at a garage sale (like the ones girls would take to sleepovers in the 50s and 60s). It was completely filled with just about every Elvis Presley 45 and 45EP (extended play--four songs instead of two) ever made--mint condition most even had picture sleeves instead of the regular paper sleeves. She had them priced at 5 cents each, I bought the entire box for $2. I paid for an entire year of college (tuition, books, living expenses, fun etc) with the proceeds.

Ok, so why is it that the same churches who rail uncontrollably against the "sins" of gambling are the same ones first in line with their hands out when one of their parishoners hit the lottery?

Wouldn't you think that members of the radical islamic community who are so up in arms about the Rushdie knighthood should spend their time on affairs concerning their own people, border, government, etc etc (ie focus on their own affairs and keep their snoots out of other country's business)?

You would think that members of these "offended" groups could better spend their time upgrading the things in their country to maybe bring their people into, say, the 17th or 18th century? Better to figure out how to bring clean food and water to your people and eliminate the hatred and racism that dominates the middle east than to dork around getting upset at what some completely different country in a completely different part of the world does within the confines of their own borders! Or wait, is that how they exert the control over their people?

Did anyone else read in the news that another Holocaust diary has emerged, one from a 14 year old Polish girl named Rutka Laskier? For all the inhospitable and horrible things people do to one another even today, it really bothered me to read some of the things detailed in that diary. I guess evil has been raising its ugly head for many years.

So my question is this: People of the day turned a blind eye to those Nazi butchers and allowed the horrors to continue. Have we learned our lessons, and what things can/should we do as common people to keep this type of evil from gaining a foothold again on humanity?

I just tried a new cologne that gave me a SPLITTING migraine for over a day. What colognes or perfumes react badly with your body? What symptoms do they present?

Jack was the only person to visit the funeral home in the season finale, almost driving him to suicide. Since this is supposed to be post-rescue, who was in the casket?

Do you think he went "north" or "south"?