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Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex 272

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:40PM from the nice-feed dept.

When an UK man was asked to be the best man at a friend's wedding he agreed that he would not pull any pranks before or during the ceremony. Now the groom wishes he had extended the agreement to after the blessed occasion as well. The best man snuck into the newlyweds' house while they were away on their honeymoon and placed a pressure-sensitive device under their mattress. The device now automatically tweets when the couple have sex. The updates include the length of activity and how vigorous the act was on a scale of 1-10.

Submission + - Firefox Beta score 93 on Acid3 test

Submitted by

CodeShark

on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @10:49AM

CodeShark writes: "Mozilla released their latest Firefox 3.X beta today (3.5b4), and increased their score on the Acid 3 test to 93 [on my XP laptop], with tests 70,71, and tests 75-79 being the final challenges. Curiously though, the current release of the top Acid3 performer — Apple's Safari browser still not only rates higher(I got scores of 99 once and 100 most of the time) but is usually faster by a little (1.1 sec avg. vs. 1.4 over ten runs apiece) but only because the new Firefox beta was all over the map — frequently better by 25% (.85sec) or tanking badly with rendering times in the 2.5 — 3 second range, and both suffer performance hits on one test (#69)

What think ye all? what kind of results are you seeing, especially in other languages and on other platforms?"

Comment Good stuff! (Score 2, Insightful) 1364

by tomrobst on Tuesday November 22, 2005 @07:13PM (#14096004) Attached to: Darwin Evolving Into A Tricky Exhibit

It's posts like these that bring out the best of Slashdotters. Every time anything even slightly related to Darwin/Christianity/Religion is mentioned you can bet that there's going to be 700+ comments and yet they all remain reasonably intelligent and some good debates - and no comments like

|0053r n00b y0u kn0w n07h1n6 4b0u7 r3|1610n 0r 5c13nc3. 1 ru|3!!!!!

In relation to the topic at hand it seems to me that a large proportion of people study lots of theories/evidence for ID OR evolution and tend to concentrate on one side of the debate. I think most people would be hard pressed to remain impartial and not develop there own views and then, probably without realising it, begin to find more information which backs up the views which they are developing. It seems that what happens then is as people reinforce their own views they tend not to study the other side of the argument as much and try just ask the other party to prove what their saying all the time while putting across the evidence for their side of the argument.

Look through the replies to the post - a lot of them are based on "Prove evolution" and then "Evolution has been proved you prove ID" and then "ID is proved you prove evolution" and so on..

I think there is common ground between ID and evolution and they do not always contradict each other. I'm a Christian but I believe that natural selection has happened and is happening. As many people point out it's often the extremists, who are a minority, who give a bad name to both camps and make it seem like everyone in that camp holds their point of view...

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