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How on earth did I forget that; the song that got me started on them in the first place. Crap.

Hoping for a NY-themed performance of "Homecoming". 'twould be awesome.

nice to know where's Mark when you need him

Okay here are some others... Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love Radiohead - All I Need; True Love Waits (another DUH) Al Green - Tired of Being Alone; Let's Stay Together Erykah Badu - Next Lifetime George Michael - One More Try Sade - Your Love is King; The Sweetest Taboo; Paradise; No Ordinary Love; Cherish the Day Thom Yorke - Skip Divided And the majority of Sam Cooke songs.

ffs Brent, "Give Up the Ghost", DUH

Welcome here! :nice:

that's precisely what I had in mind :sneaky:

as do I

Hmm, in that case maybe it's just a silly American thing. But, let's pretend for the sake of argument that the two-space thing became standard for ending a sentence / transition to the next sentence. Do you think that could then become justification for getting rid of the uppercase letter at the beginning of the sentence?

DUDE... I just looked at Andrew Lincoln's imdb page... Apple (yes, Martin) was a flower girl at his wedding. D:

Thanks. This does help. To me, this means it's not necessary per say to use capital letters to begin a sentence. Empily's response was very insightful in regard to how it evolved. I've always viewed it as simply the standard, proper, and essentially "forced" way to indicate the start of a new written thought/statement, similar to how the period signifies the respective end. Yes, there are other words that may be capitalized within the sentence. Yes, there might be abbreviations within the sentence that necessitate other use of a period. Now in regard to period usage, in school I was always taught that when writing, and when typing in typing class, to always use 2 spaces after the period that comes at the end of a sentence. This was ingrained in us as standard and required. I don't think this was always the case, because a few people I work with still use the "old" method of using 1 space after a sentence. I find myself always having to fix this. Furthermore, it's one of the annoying things that I've had to get used to on this site. As I type this, by virtue of habit I am typing 2 spaces after each sentence; but it doesn't translate on the post. Why do I mention this? Because, in my opinion, the usage of 2 spaces after the period at the end of a sentence is what signals the transition of one sentence to another, even more than the period itself or the capital letter at the beginning of the next sentence. Where else is the use of 2 spaces "required" in written word? Nowhere. If the 2-space rule is "enforced", or given the importance it deserves... yes, I think that the "capital letter at the beginning of each sentence" rule can eventually go the way of the dodo. It would take a very influential person/company/whatever to initiate such a movement though. Too bad Steve Jobs isn't around.

the new cover and decal for my MacBook Zombie Snow White :dazzled:

I know. :bigcry: Watching the Lions play Green Bay is keeping my mind busy though. But kind of on the topic of zombies, take a look at the cover & decal I just applied to my MacBook...

This may seem like a silly question (but I'd rather have an idea before I properly respond to the original question)... is this format consistent among all languages?

omg :lol: She's got you pegged!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7i9_R2cG4]Coldplaying Raffle Winners - YouTube[/ame] *please forgive my lack of filming skills*

Winners will be announced shortly... :escaping:

New York Post under fire after cover photo shows man moments from death in New York City subway Posted: 8:24 AM By: By Michael Pearson (CNN) - The man in the picture has his back to the camera. He's desperately clawing at a subway platform, looking right at the train that's bearing down on him as he stands on the tracks. It's a terrifying, heart-wrenching image, and it's generating a lot of criticism for the newspaper that used it on its front page -- the salty, sensational New York Post. Why didn't the photographer help? Why did the newspaper publish the photo? "NY Post should be ashamed of its misuse of humanity for its cover photo of a man about to be killed by a subway train," one person wrote on Twitter. "When does cruelty end." "Snuff porn," another user labeled it. A freelance photographer captured the image Monday after someone shoved the man, 58-year-old Ki-Suck Han, from a subway platform near Times Square. Seconds after photographer R. Umar Abbasi captured the images, the train fatally struck Ki. He died at a New York Hospital, leaving behind a wife and daughter. A man officers were questioning "implicated himself" in the incident, police said Tuesday night. Police gave no other information on the suspect and this news may do nothing to quell the ongoing debate about the controversial photo. "Doomed," the headline read. "Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die." In its story on the incident Tuesday, the Post reported Abbasi was waiting on the platform when he saw the man fall onto the tracks. He said he ran towards the oncoming train, firing his camera's flash to warn the driver. "I just started running, running, hoping that the driver could see my flash," the newspaper quoted him as saying. "In that moment, I just wanted to warn the train -- to try and save a life," the Post quoted him as saying. Some critics, however, questioned Abbasi's motives. One Twitter user questioned why someone's first instinct would be not to help the man, but instead to "snap a photo of him about to die and sell it to the NY Post." Reached by CNN, Abbasi was adamant that he would talk to the network only for pay. The Post declined to comment. Media observers wondered Tuesday if the newspaper had gone too far this time. "Even if you accept that that photographer and other bystanders did everything they could to try to save the man, it's a separate question of what the Post should have done with that photo," Jeff Sonderman, a fellow at journalism think tank the Poynter Institute, wrote on the organization's website. "All journalists we've seen talking about it online concluded the Post was wrong to use the photo, especially on its front page." Kenny Irby, Poynter's senior faculty member for visual journalism and diversity programs, said what the paper did wasn't necessarily wrong. "It was not illegal or unethical given that ethical guidelines and recommendations are not absolute," he said in an e-mail. But he also thought the Post could have used another photo because this one crossed the line of dignity. "This moment was such for me -- it was too private in my view," he wrote. "I am all for maximizing truth telling, while minimizing harm, which can be done by fully vetting the alternatives available and publishing with a sense of compassion and respect." The Post is no stranger to walking up to the lines of journalistic ethics, and sometimes crossing them, with its pithy, often lurid, coverage of crime and other news in the Big Apple. "HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR," the newspaper once famously shouted from its cover. The Post shot is hardly the first news photo to generate ethics concerns. An Agence France-Presse photo that won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize generated controversy for its depiction of a girl in Afghanistan crying amid a number of bloody bodies. Also this year, the New York Times published a graphic image showing blood streaming from the body of a victim following a fatal August shooting at the Empire State Building. At the time, Poynter quoted a Times spokeswoman as saying the image was "a newsworthy photograph that shows the result and impact of a public act of violence." http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/local_news/water_cooler/new-york-post-under-fire-after-cover-photo-shows-man-moments-from-death-in-new-york-city-subway http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/picture_of_controversy_A06tIjYbasZpf2RvtNNTxM

Hey Coldplayers! Please see our most recent news regarding the MX artwork lithograph raffle here: http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5479647#post5479647

Coldplayers raised £355 for Kids Company! The raffle has ended, and we are pleased to announce that your fellow Coldplayers have donated a total of £355 for Kids Company! So that means we will be able to donate an extra £105 to Kids Company, in addition to the original donation via the £250 MX lithograph. A video of the raffle drawing for the winner of the lithograph, and the runner-up winner of the Roadie #42 photograph, will be posted here later this week. To get a better idea of your respective chances of winning: donations ranged from £5 (1 entry) to £50 (10 entries); a few people also opted to donate without being entered into the raffle. We would like to take a moment to extend a warm thank you to Coldplay, Album Artists, and all others involved with the artwork exhibition and the project for Kids Company. In particular on a personal level, I would like to thank Fraser Kee Scott (Director of A Gallery) for putting up with my seemingly incessant correspondence since October regarding this raffle; I can't thank you enough.

They didn't mention it specifically, but I wonder if they will give you a free download with the purchase? If they do, in that case you should go for the regular LP and just burn your own CD from the free download. But it's hard to say at this point because the item description doesn't mention it.

Howz about the combo package? That's what I done did.

As Austin Brock said... you can carbon date it (any video/picture) by Thom's hair.

I don't smoke. Never cared to try it, for multiple reasons (bad for you, makes you smell bad, expensive, fear of getting hooked, etc.). My mom smoked when I was younger, I begged her to quit. She was a nurse so she knew better; but that's the power of addiction. It wasn't until after my grandfather died of health issues related to smoking (he was a chimney), that she finally got up the gumption to quit. She made my grandmother quit too. After my mom quit, we cleaned off the walls inside the house and omg holy crap it was disgusting. Imagine what ended up in her/our lungs!!!

Is that blond hair, or just the lighting/reflection? With that haircut I'm expecting you to say "redrum... redrum..." Were those the "pump up" sneakers, where you could push the tongue on the shoe and air would go in the soles?