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...recurring pattern. It's very exciting and pleasant and agreeable and wonderful in the first half of the process. And then you kind of get reminded that It's still a movie, and it's not yours, and you go off and do something else, and the film comes out and it's OK but it's not what you hoped...
...trying to kill you. 7. Take nine shots when Benicio del Toro’s back turns into a pair of boobs, and his front turns into a minotaur. Then take two more. 8. Take four shots every time Johnny Depp takes off his hat to reveal male pattern baldness. How’s that for ‘fear’? 9. Drink a responsible amount every time your mom-instincts kick in. Anything from thinking, “Use two hands with your revolver, Benicio!” to, “Haven?...
...difference between users of the two sites is to examine where people go after leaving their MySpace or Facebook page. MySpace users count multimedia and photography sites (such as YouTube, Flickr and Photobucket) as the most common sites visited after dropping by the site. Facebook visitors have a similar pattern, visiting sites like Slide, YouTube and Flixter. The one stand-out difference between the two is that, owing to Facebook's heritage as a social network for college students, 5% of those leaving the Facebook domain continue on to websites within the educational category. The most fascinating point lies...
...This pattern is an indication that beyond the unique demographics for each site, many users choose to use both, and that users have a threshold for more than one social network. The addictive nature of both sites should serve them well for future growth...
...grades and takes a job after school, the second-born may go the slacker route. The third-born may then de-de-identify, opting for industriousness, even if in the more unconventional ways of the last-born. A Chinese study in the 1990s showed just this kind of zigzag pattern, with the first child generally scoring high as a "good son or daughter," the second scoring low, the third scoring high again and so on. In a three-child family, the very act of trying to be unique may instead leave the middling lost, a pattern that may continue into...