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What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.

Christopher Hitchens

It led him and two friends to launch a Web site this week provocatively called PleaseRobMe.com, a mashup of users' content from Twitter, the San Francisco microblogging service, and FourSquare, a site in which users share their location.

While little more than a gag, PleaseRobMe raises serious questions about the potential ills associated with publicizing information online, particularly a user's whereabouts.

“We're not trying to get people robbed, but helping them not to get robbed,” said Groeneveld. “We're just presenting this information in a more obvious way. And that's our point: Everyone can see this on Twitter.”

PleaseRobMe reformats the information that users make public on FourSquare to read like an alert to a would-be burglar, stating that a user “left home and checked in 12 minutes ago,” followed by the user's update: “I'm at San Francisco International Airport.”

via PleaseRobMe.com posts when you’re not at home.

1. “Cheer up it might never happen.”

Translation: I’m just some idiot who walked past you in the street and yet I already know so much about you and your life that not only can I interpret your facial expression but I feel qualified to comment about whether ‘it’ is likely to happen and whether or not that would be a good thing.

2. “You’d look much better if you smiled.”

Translation: Contrary to what you believe, your facial expression, and indeed your brain, are not your own property. While they are in the ‘public sphere’ you have a duty to your fellow citizens to maintain a facial expression that they would like to see. Also, I know that my opinion of your appearance is an issue very close to your heart.

via wolverine.

Since the official Keirsey site does not give complete results unless you pay, I dug up an alternative, free site with a Myers-Briggs test: HumanMetrics. I don’t know how good it is, but I took the test and once again, turned out to be INFJ. And below is yet another analysis of this type, from TypeLogic. (There is more on that website.)

Another free test can be found at OkCupid [ugh]. This is supposed to be a Keirsey test.

Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life. Those who are activists — INFJs gravitate toward such a role — are there for the cause, not for personal glory or political power.

INFJs are champions of the oppressed and downtrodden. They often are found in the wake of an emergency, rescuing those who are in acute distress. INFJs may fantasize about getting revenge on those who victimize the defenseless. The concept of ‘poetic justice’ is appealing to the INFJ.

“There’s something rotten in Denmark.” Accurately suspicious about others’ motives, INFJs are not easily led. These are the people that you can rarely fool any of the time. Though affable and sympathetic to most, INFJs are selective about their friends. Such a friendship is a symbiotic bond that transcends mere words.

INFJs have a knack for fluency in language and facility in communication. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity enables the INFJ to know and be known by others intimately.

Writing, counseling, public service and even politics are areas where INFJs frequently find their niche.

Introverted iNtuition

Introverted intuitives, INFJs enjoy a greater clarity of perception of inner, unconscious processes than all but their INTJ cousins. Just as SP types commune with the object and “live in the here and now” of the physical world, INFJs readily grasp the hidden psychological stimuli behind the more observable dynamics of behavior and affect. Their amazing ability to deduce the inner workings of the mind, will and emotions of others gives INFJs their reputation as prophets and seers. Unlike the confining, routinizing nature of introverted sensing, introverted intuition frees this type to act insightfully and spontaneously as unique solutions arise on an event by event basis.

Extraverted Feeling

Extraverted feeling, the auxiliary deciding function, expresses a range of emotion and opinions of, for and about people. INFJs, like many other FJ types, find themselves caught between the desire to express their wealth of feelings and moral conclusions about the actions and attitudes of others, and the awareness of the consequences of unbridled candor. Some vent the attending emotions in private, to trusted allies. Such confidants are chosen with care, for INFJs are well aware of the treachery that can reside in the hearts of mortals. This particular combination of introverted intuition and extraverted feeling provides INFJs with the raw material from which perceptive counselors are shaped.

Introverted Thinking

The INFJ’s thinking is introverted, turned toward the subject. Perhaps it is when the INFJ’s thinking function is operative that he is most aloof. A comrade might surmise that such detachment signals a disillusionment, that she has also been found lacking by the sardonic eye of this one who plumbs the depths of the human spirit. Experience suggests that such distancing is merely an indication that the seer is hard at work and focusing energy into this less efficient tertiary function.

Extraverted Sensing

INFJs are twice blessed with clarity of vision, both internal and external. Just as they possess inner vision which is drawn to the forms of the unconscious, they also have external sensing perception which readily takes hold of worldly objects. Sensing, however, is the weakest of the INFJ’s arsenal and the most vulnerable. INFJs, like their fellow intuitives, may be so absorbed in intuitive perceiving that they become oblivious to physical reality. The INFJ under stress may fall prey to various forms of immediate gratification. Awareness of extraverted sensing is probably the source of the “SP wannabe” side of INFJs. Many yearn to live spontaneously; it’s not uncommon for INFJ actors to take on an SP (often ESTP) role.

IronChef Foicite: well, there’s a lot of reasons

IronChef Foicite: i mean, roses only last like a couple weeks

IronChef Foicite: and that’s if you leave them in water

IronChef Foicite: and they really only exist to be pretty

IronChef Foicite: so that’s like saying

IronChef Foicite: “my love for you is transitory and based solely on your appearance”

IronChef Foicite: but a potato!

IronChef Foicite: potatos last for fucking ever, man

IronChef Foicite: in fact, not only will they not rot, they actually grow shit even if you just leave them in the sack

IronChef Foicite: that part alone makes it a good symbol

IronChef Foicite: but there’s more!

IronChef Foicite: there are so many ways to enjoy a potato! you can even make a battery with it!

IronChef Foicite: and that’s like saying “i have many ways in which I show my love for you”

IronChef Foicite: and potatos may be ugly, but they’re still awesome

IronChef Foicite: so that’s like saying “it doesn’t matter at all what you look like, I’ll still love you”

via QDB: Quote #151227.

1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A

2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B

3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business

Reply Mail Envelope.

4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold

in your hand.

5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away

whistling.

I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies

telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather

then my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that

they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with “It says

Business Reply Mail” I’m suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your

business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me.

Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an

added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope

so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about

the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After

yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my

demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this

very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.

via QDB: Quote #127039.

In a perfect world… spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.

via QDB: Quote #203815.

This quote from bash.org is absolutely hilarious – but also one I totally agree with:

i fucking hate when people think guys should shave their chest. Its what makes us men, suck a fat dick. shaving bodily hair is for women. my chest hair serves multiple uses such as floss, fishing line, warmth, crumb catcher, and if i wanted i could pull a shitload of it out and make a net to catch small animals or fish

(Original is here.)

I favorited a YouTube video — STUFF YOU NEVER NOTICED AS CHILD http://bit.ly/y4S0k