take me to the river
posted by max on September 06, 2006 at 12:49:13 PM
hello all my buds and budettes,
some juicy news tidbits for you this afternoon. first up: the all new ytmnd search engine with advanced search!
second off are some of the designs for new ytmnd shirts.
More news on both these items inside.
The YTMND search engine is hopefully a step in the right direction away from our independence from a gigantic list of every site ever which is impossible to navigate and kills the server. This is still a beta, and a few features haven't been added yet, most notably sorting.
The new search is much more powerful but needs some fine tuning and probably won't replace the old search for a while, but in the mean time it should be pretty useful anyway.
I know you are all happy to have shirts back, there are even more designs than those linked to, I'm working through fad shirts now (about a billion awful nedm designs) and should have a complete list within the next couple days. I'd like to start preorders this weekend.
some juicy news tidbits for you this afternoon. first up: the all new ytmnd search engine with advanced search!
second off are some of the designs for new ytmnd shirts.
More news on both these items inside.
The YTMND search engine is hopefully a step in the right direction away from our independence from a gigantic list of every site ever which is impossible to navigate and kills the server. This is still a beta, and a few features haven't been added yet, most notably sorting.
The new search is much more powerful but needs some fine tuning and probably won't replace the old search for a while, but in the mean time it should be pretty useful anyway.
I know you are all happy to have shirts back, there are even more designs than those linked to, I'm working through fad shirts now (about a billion awful nedm designs) and should have a complete list within the next couple days. I'd like to start preorders this weekend.
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"Last time I checked
it was the forum users who think they're too good for the rest of this site." We just want to be left alone. Blame max for linking the forums to the frontpage. In fact, most all of our grievances lie with him. But I guess we don't have the same rights to complain and be heard/cared about as the frontpagers, now do we?
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I wanna be bad.
You make bad look so good.
I got things on my mind.
I never thought I would.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad feel so good.
I'm losing all my cool.
I'm about to break the rules.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad look so good.
I got things on my mind.
I never thought I would.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad feel so good.
I'm losing all my cool.
I'm about to break the rules.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad look so good.
I got things on my mind.
I never thought I would.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad feel so good.
I'm losing all my cool.
I'm about to break the rules.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad look so good.
I got things on my mind.
I never thought I would.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad feel so good.
I'm losing all my cool.
I'm about to break the rules.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad look so good.
I got things on my mind.
I never thought I would.
I, I wanna be bad.
You make bad feel so good.
I'm losing all my cool.
I'm about to break the rules.
"We just want to be left alone."
come on now, you guys love it when new users come on there to post links to their new NEDM sites so you can trash them with 'care' posts. Without trashing frontpagers what do you have? you guys are like Orcs, without fresh meat to constantly chew on you just flame and turn on each other :P
Where were you when the world stopped turnin'
that September day?
Out in the yard with your wife and children;
Or working on some stage in L.A.?
Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke
Rising against that blue sky?
Did you shout out in anger in fear for your neighbor
Or did you just sit down and cry?
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Doo doo doo doo, doo-doo, do-Wah! It doesn't matter what comes, fresh goes better in life, and Mentos is fresh and full of life. Nothing gets to you, staying fresh staying cool, with Mentos, fresh and full of life. Fresh goes better, Mentos freshness, fresh goes better with Mentos, fresh and full of life! Mentos, the freshmaker!
Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer, he's a demon on wheels. He's a demon and he's gonna be chasin' after someone. He's gainin' on you so you better look alive. He's busy revvin' up a powerful Mach 5. And when the odds are against him and there's dangerous work to do. You bet your life Speed Racer, will see it through. Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go! He's off and flyin' as he guns the car around the track. He's jammin' down the pedal like he's never comin' back. Adventure's waitin' just ahead. Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go Speed Racer, Go!
Once there was this kid who got into an accident and couldn't come to school. And when he finally came back his hair had turned from black into bright white. He said that it was from when the car had smashed it so hard. Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm. Once there was this girl who wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room. And when they finally made her, they saw birthmarks all over her body. She couldn't quite explain it, they'd always just been there. Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm. Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm. And both girl and boy were glad, cause one kid had it worse than that. And then there was this boy whose parents made him come directly home right after school, and when they went to their church, they shook and lurched all over the church floor. He couldn't quite explain it, they'd always just gone there. Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm. Mmm mmm mmm mmm, mmm mmm mmm mmm. Ahh ahh, ahh ahh ahhh ahh, ahh ahh ahh ahh ahhh ahh.
jesus f*cking christ you are a tool. please stop posting religious propaganda on my
site. the fact is, we as a civilization still think it it was a gigantic feat to land on the
moon. three hundred years ago we thought the world was flat. do you honestly believe we have
the mental capability and capacity required to even begin to understand the beginning of the
universe, reality or consciousness? Yet you feel that by stringing a few theories together you
have authoritative proof that the universe was created by "god". Feel free to waste your time
with this, but don't waste everyone else's time posting controversial bullsh*t on ytmnd that
anyone with half a brain could pick apart in 15 seconds. to summarize:
gtfo
Hey Max, you know how annoying it is when play a guy in football who's like completely made out of hypodermic syringes with AIDS. and then he tackles you and and then these big robot lizards comeout of the ground, and they're all pissed off cuz they want beef jerky, but no one has any. Also it's like when you go to the store and the guy behind the register is actually an invisible chicken with an AK-47, and he like asks you a question, but it's in chicken launguage and you can't understand, so he shoots you, but then you sur...NEDM!
I gave it a lot of time to think about it, and I think I've come to the conclusion that I miss the old top 15 setup, even with all its flaws and how it could be taken advantage of by night posting. this new setup just doesnt work for me, and takes way too long to update with its first refreshes. I also tend to find it 'demotivating' - I think others might have seen the night thing as a sort of deadline to make something cool, now I just dont really care. :/
Should be top 30, two sets of 15, and have the first set stay up a little long than the second each rotation. It's important that everyone sees the same sites every day, because that's what parody is based off of, popular knowledge of its subject. Just like the old days when it was the same sites on the front page forever, it spawned so many fads.
max can't do it all by himself, I propose a regulating sanctioning body of 12 elect members that do more than moderate, they delete users, sites, and keep the site fresh and clean. These Users would have to be responsible and like the supreme court must vote on which sites to be considered for regulating.
BLUE WHALE
Balaenoptera musculus
CLASS: Mammalia
ORDER: Cetacea
SUBORDER: Mysticeti
FAMILY: Balaenopteridae
GENUS: Balaenoptera
SPECIES: musculus
The blue whale is one of the rorquals, a family that also includes the humpback whale, fin whale, Bryde's whale, sei whale, and minke whale. On land an animal the size of a blue whale would be crushed by its own weight without the support of large heavy bones. Because its body is supported by water, as a sea animal, the need for heavy bones to support its weight disappeared. This, plus the availability of a large food supply, have made it possible for the blue whale to reach such an enormous size. The blue whale makes deep and rumbling sounds which can be felt as much as heard. These low-frequency sounds travel long distances through water, allowing blue whales to communicate with each other over hundreds of miles of ocean.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The blue whale is the largest mammal, possibly the largest animal, to ever inhabit the earth. Its body is long, somewhat tapered, and streamlined, with the head making up less than one-fourth of its total body length. Its rostrum (upper part of the head) is very broad and flat and almost U-shaped, with a single ridge that extends just forward of the blowholes to the tip of the snout. Its blowholes are contained in a large, raised "splash guard", and the blow is tall and straight and over 20 feet (6 meters) high. Its body is smooth and relatively free of parasites, but a few barnacles attach themselves to the edge of the fluke and occasionally to the tips of the flippers and to the dorsal fin. There are 55-68 ventral grooves or pleats extending from the lower jaw to near the navel.
COLOR: The blue whale is blue-gray in color, but often with lighter gray mottling on a darker background (or with darker spots on a lighter background). The underside of its flippers may be a lighter color or white, while the ventral (underside) of the fluke is dark. The blue whale acquires microorganisms called diatoms in the cold waters of the Antarctic and North Pacific and North Atlantic which give the underside of its body a yellowish green caste. Because of this yellow color, the early whalers gave it the name "sulfur bottom."
surface characteristics
FINS AND FLUKE: Its dorsal (top) fin is small and triangular or falcate (curved) in shape, and is located three-fourths of the way back on the body. The fin measures only one foot (30 cm) at its highest point though its size and shape are highly variable. Its flippers are tapered and relatively short, about 12% of the total body length. The flukes are broad and triangular. The rear edge is smooth with a slight median notch.
Length and Weight: The longest blue whale ever recorded was a 108-foot adult female caught during whaling efforts in Antarctica! In modern ti
Mating and Breeding: Recent research indicates that blue whales reach sexual maturity between the ages of 6-10 years, or when males average about 74 feet (23 m) and females are about 79 feet (24 m). Calves are born at intervals of 2 to 3 years and gestation is about 12 months. Calves are 23 to 27 feet (7-8.2 m) long at birth and 3 tons (2,722 kg). Calves nurse for 7 to 8 months and are weaned when they reach 52 feet (16 m) in length. At that time they weigh about 23 tons (20,900 kg). During the nursing period, calves consume 100 gallons (379 liters) of the fat-rich mother's milk each day, gain 200 pounds a day, or 8 pounds an hour, and grow 1 and 1/2 inches in length a day.
range map
Distribution and Migration: Blue whales may be found in all oceans of the world. They migrate to tropical-to-temperate waters during winter months to mate and give birth to calves. They can feed throughout their range, in polar, temperate, or even tropical waters.
Natural History: Though they may be found singly or in small groups, it is more common to see blue whales in pairs. They are sometimes seen in larger groups and loosely defined concentrations of 50-60 have been observed. They are fast, strong swimmers, capable of reaching 30 mph (48.3 km/hr) when alarmed, but they usually cruise along at about 12 mph (19.3 km/hr).
Status: Because of their enormous size and speed, blue whales were safe from early whalers, who could not pursue them in open boats with hand harpoons. But in 1868 a Norwegian, Sven Foyn, revolutionized the whaling industry with the invention of the exploding harpoon gun and by using steam and diesel powered factory ships and catcher boats. He also perfected the technique of inflating dead whales with air so they wouldn't sink after being harpooned. The whaling industry began to focus on blue whales after 1900. A single 90-foot blue whale could yield up to 120 barrels of oil, and the blues were killed b
Bibliography:
Calambokidis, J. and G.H. Steiger. 1997. Blue Whales.. Worldlife Series Library. Voyager Press, MN. 72 pp.
Reeves, R.R., Stewart, B.S., Clapham, P.J., and Powell, J.A. 2002. Guide to Marine Mammals of the World.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Sears, R. 2002. Blue Whale, Balaenoptera musculus. - In: Encyclopedia of marine mammals (W.F. Perrin, B. Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen, eds). Academic Press, San Diego, CA. pp.112-116
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