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Obviously she got more flack for her rant about her dropping her iPad then she thought her drunkenness could handle. My advice to her is to keep pounding nails in to potatoes and keep out of how reality works. http://www.marthastewart.com/316841/baked-potato

This is a joke, mod it up nerds!

It's funny, dammit!

Not to mention assholes like me who will flag things just because its funny. For example, this is a prime example of terrorist propaganda.

a gourmet cup cake is not made the same way unless you think you can make this cup cake in the same amount of time and cost. http://www.marthastewart.com/315293/meyer-lemon-raspberry-cupcakes pay attention to the ingredients dumb ass. No that you would like it but it for sure cost way more to make then a regular cup cake.

Nope, I don't think you're imagining things. I didn't realize it myself until this article appeared and I came across your comment.

I've done some web design, and so here's my basic <theory> below, typed as a stream of consciousness. As for making something look "Japanese", I think it's a result of various things:

Rounded Corners:
I don't these are strictly Japanese (see Slashdot's header, Southwest Airlines, Expedia, BBC (UK), Virgin Group (UK)). Though, rounded corners have made websites nicer to look at (not rigid - don't round/curvy things make people generally happy? Interpret as you wish.)

Pastel color scheme presence:
This may be a Japanese thing - all the non-Japanese sites I mentioned above generally employ primary colors. Two interesting US-based website examples are: Sprinkles Cupcakes and Pinkberry Frozen Yogurt. Both sites use lighter, non-primary colors and those color shades and combinations give me a sense of "fun" instead of "corporate". Note, though, that the different color shades aren't necessarily pastel-like in my opinion. One US-based website that uses something very close to pastel colors is Martha Stewart Omnimedia. We'll have to bring in a color expert to state whether Martha's colors are truly pastel.

At any rate, I think that only certain companies can satisfactorily use pastels in the US, and that would be companies dealing with fun food (cupcakes, frozen yogurt, etc) and hobbyist home decor arts/crafts. I think this is part to how I (and maybe you) without a Japanese background/surrounding/etc interpret colors and, as part of our respective cultures, have an understanding of what those colors represent. See this Visual Color Symbolism Chart by Culture and Color Symbolism Chart by Culture for a basic review. As noted in these two charts, "Green" in the US can mean money and trees and other things, but in China green hats mean a man's wife is cheating on him. One color, vastly different meanings! More information on "green" as a color: http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/colorselection/p/green.htm.

High-Context (Japanese) v. Low-Context (N. American, German-Speaking, etc) Cultures:
I came across this article while looking up cultureal color perception in Japan: Elizabeth Würtz's 2005 analysis titled: "A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Websites from High-Context Cultures and Low-Context Cultures". In this study, she noted that Japan is a high-context (HC) culture, whereas North America (and German-speaking countries even moreso) are low-context (LC) cultures:

Face-to-face communication in HC cultures is thus characterized by an extensive use of non-verbal strategies for conveying meanings. These strategies usually take the shape of behavioral language, such as gestures, body language, silence, proximity and symbolic behavior, while conversation in LC cultures tends to be less physically animated, with the meaning depending on content and the spoken word.

What was interesting to read were two of her conclusions regarding animation and presentation of individuals+products on websites:

Animation:
Tendency in HC Cultures: High use of animation, especially in connection with images of moving people.
Tendency in LC Cultures: Lower use of

For more ideas check here:

http://www.marthastewart.com/crafts

and I keep them here:
http://www.marthastewart.com/goodthings/magnetized-pin-box

It looks cute, girls get interested in the field.

Government efficiency is an oxymoron, remember?

That seems to be the defeatist attitude the Government has been taking ever since Regan.

Sure, there are agencies which would operate better under the private sector. Deregulation of the airlines seemed to (at least initially) have some positive effects thanks to the new competition.

However, when it comes to "essential" services, the private sector falls flat on its face, simply because it's not efficient (on paper) to provide these services to some segments of the population. In the end, virtually everyone gets screwed.

Britain tried privatizing its mail delivery and post office system. Last year, the newly-privatized post office determined that there was no way it could ever run most of its rural branches profitably, and closed most of the offices, sold their assets, pocketed the money, and called it a day.

Virtually every other industrialized nation has Nationalized healthcare, and although there are occasionally shortages of doctors to perform "lower-priority" procedures, the emergency room works the exact same way. A nationalized healthcare system also works well by reducing the economic barriers present in getting trained as a doctor (easily $500,000 in the US). Statistics also seem to indicate that these countries are generally much "healthier" than the US.

And also, most state DMVs have really cleaned up their acts. I went in for a new license a few weeks ago. The entire process took about 10 minutes, and on a busy holiday weekend at that. The staff were astonishingly friendly and professional throughout the entire process.

Even Martha Stewart approves of the job the DMV is doing.

Wow! The Doby Show join me and my sister lia in our cooking adventures!!

yeh, my friend has an iPaq and disabled it, they are pretty susepctible to noise. The Doby Show

My first impression was great, another market they'll mess up.

Now that I've seen the pictures I can safely say - BORING!

The Doby Show

God knows that this sort of unethical behavior and borderline illegal practice is totally out of place in our business community. Obviously, these punks are only getting what they deserve.

Aside from that, hopefully those involved will learn a valuable life lesson from this: If you can't play by the rules, you'd better be able to run fast and catch, throw or hit a ball really well.

PS: I wonder if any prospective students were smart enough to just look at the admission status of the *other* students... Now that would be showing the sort of sense you'd need to get to the top of corporate America.

Your wish is granted: www.marthastewart.com

when they done something wrong unlike some people

Please mark parent off-topic. This is about food, not stock tips or jail cell decoration.

to read all the comments. Did anybody suggest this?

As Martha would say, this is a damned Good Thing(C).

It is interesting to note that Paul Allen is the chairman of Charter, and has been since he bought the company in 1998. Perhaps this will give fuel to the entertainment industry to say that technology, technology companies, and anybody tainted by either, are evil? (See here.)

Nonetheless, it is important that formidable companies stand up to the entertainment industry and its henchmen. Charter and Verizon (see story) are two folks who you'd want on your side.

justen

You mean survival of the fattest, don't you?

Oh well - more competition and new ideas is always A Good Thing (tm MSO)

Online registry ideas:

• Eddie Bauer Home
• Target (Club Wedd)
• Linens and Things
  
  

In-store registries:

• Famous Barr (part of the May department stores)

Other places to look:

• Amazon
• Chefs Catalog

Believe it or not, some people *want* to give you expensive gifts. We registered for a few things that we really wanted (like a $450/set of pots and pans) and we got them! The most important stuff to register for is kitchen stuff and sheets/blankets/towels. Honestly, skip the technie stuff... most people (particularly family and close friends) don't want to buy you that kind of gift for your wedding.

If you have lots of in-town guests, use a local store. If you register at a place like Famous Barr, DON'T also go to Target. Its not worth the time and effort. If you have lots of out of town guests, do something like Target, but make sure that you don't duplicate. Target will allow you to return gifts, but only with a receipt.. but our experience was that they only allow an in-store exchange. Famous Barr was really good about taking stuff back, even things that might not have been bought in their store. If they don't recognize the item, they can probably tell you where it came from. You only have a week though... so you might consider asking for cash instead of gifts. Your poor wife-to-be is probably going crazy right now and the last thing she wants to do is traipse around unending aisles zapping cleaners and silverware.

Good luck and Congratulations!

P.S. Other useful wedding planning sites you might want to check out:

• The Knot
• The Wedding Channel
• Martha Stewart Online
• 2G Roses (These guys have GREAT prices on flowers)

I nominated Sawmill, and then stopped to think a little longer and realized how much GnuPG has improved lately. Especially for those interested in using open-source cryptography that's easy to set up and use.

I haven't followed the development very closely, but I think it's tough for even the mildest crypto-geeks to avoid noticing how so many folks have given up their old PGP keys and switched to GPG in the last year. This is a Good Thing, in my opinion. PGP was confusing. There seemed to be several concurrent versions being released at the same time, and you couldn't use some of them if you were outside the USA, couldn't use some of them if you were inside the USA, and some of them just didn't work. Finally, GnuPG stepped forward and started clearing the path, and now I'm using Mailcrypt with VM again! GnuPG kicks some serious ass!

Fortunately its very simple to do using solder and a piece of particle board. See this site for more information.