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The List - Who's On Yours?
It was Friends that outted "The List," (click on the the Video tab to see the clip) almost ten years ago. I have found that keeping a list is a real life phenomenon in relationships. So what is "The List?" For those uninitiated, it is a predetermined compilation of five famous people you are considered fair game, if you meet them, and your significant other can't get upset about it. The one rule? It has to be a celebrity; you can't have your mate's best friend on there (and if you're tempted to add them, we need to talk).
I wonder - how many of you out there have a list, who is on it, and are there any rules around it?
To keep you from getting all shy on me, I thought I would let you in on a couple of Toasted Rav staffers' lists (one from a female and one from a male):
Here's my list: 1) Jude Law 2) Justin Timberlake 3) Zach Braff 4) Jimmy Fallon 5) Adam Sandler
And here's Mike's list: 1) Kristen Bell 2) Jessica Alba 3) Heidi Klum 4) Kate Beckinsale 5) Christine Aguilera (not sure about this one, but what the hell!)
So... who's on your list?
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2. Ryan Reynolds
3. Christian Bale (I've loved him since LIttle Women).
4. Andy Roddick
5. Cristiano Ronaldo
Don't worry E-Rock, you're still my #1!
2. Patrick Dempsey
3. Charlie Sheen (minus the drug issues)
4. Colin Firth
5. Matthew McConaughey
2. Craig Ferguson
3. Steven Colbert
4. Conan OBrien
5. Steve Carell
My man knows that I'll never let go of Keifer but the rest he would fight ME for a date with! So this list is basically his picks for me with the exception of My Lost Boy
1) Keifer Sutherland
2) Any comedian with a late night talk show (or had been on one).
Is your significant other a late night talk show apprentice?
Mike...yes, Steve Carell because apparently a 40 Year Old Virgin and Curt wouldn't have a problem with that at all.
2. Selma Hayek
3. Katherine Bell
4. Jenny McCarthy
5. Britney Spears (2003)
I had to predate the Britney because anyone willing to these days is just weird.
If I had a significant other:
1) Anne Hathaway
2) Morgan Webb
3) Veronica Belmont
4) Scarlett Johansson
5) Keira Knightley
2) John Cusack
3) Zack Braff
4) Anderson Cooper
5) Jean Chatzky. Note- My husband added her because a) she's really smart & cool and b) these are people that will NEVER happen, so who cares if one is a chick
2. Nicole Scherzinger
3. Jessica Biel
4. Scarlett Johansson
5. Lacey Chabert
2. Nick Hexum (of 311)
3. Ryan Reynolds (no explanation needed)
4. Luke Perry (yeah, it's Dylan McKay)
5. Gavin Rossdale (just because he's pretty to look at)
1. Bono
2. Keifer Sutherland
3. Brad Pitt
4. Johnny Depp
5. Robert Downey Jr.
2. Mother Winslow
3. Jessica Biel
4. Hiilary Duff
5. Rosie O'Donnell
2. Rick Ankiel
3. George Clooney - Then, now, always.
4. Joe Mather
5. Orlando Bloom
1. Milla Jovovich
2. Shirley Manson
3. Bridget Fonda
4. Katie Sackhoff
5. Liz Phair
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Sandy, you have a Jean Chatzky fetish and I’m not sure it’s healthy. Do we need to put together an intervention?
2. James Spader
We wind each others clocks & keep short lists! I get 2 cuz he picked Michele Pfeifer, tough competition!
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.