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by Mike Masnick
Thu, Mar 25th 2010 8:28am
Filed Under:
browser, facebook, fluff busting purity, greasemonkey
Another day, another abusive bullying attempt. This time, it's Facebook, which is apparently trying to bully the maker of a Greasemonkey script that cleans up your Facebook live feed by removing annoying app notices (such as all the crap your friends are doing in Farmville and Mafia Wars). It sounds quite useful. Originally, the script was called Facebook Purity, and Facebook complained about the trademark issue (a stretch... but perhaps you could see the company's point). So the guy changed the name to Fluff Busting Purity. No trademark issue at all. But Facebook is still complaining. The thing is, this is a Greasemonkey user script -- meaning that everything happens in the user's browser -- which Facebook has no claim over. If you tell your browser to ignore certain things on a website, that should be your choice. This add-on is there to help people who want it, such that it makes Facebook more useful to them. It's too bad that as Facebook gets bigger, we're hearing more and more stories of this kind of bullying activity.
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Mike C. (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:10am
Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!You know, I never would have known (or installed and used) the script if Facebook hadn't been a bully about it. Thanks to the "Streisand Effect", not only is my news feed cleaner, but I'll be passing this along to ALL my friends and helping them install it too.
Thanks Facebook!
Brandon (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:20am
Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!I second that, now I don't have to use the 'block app' button. I can just clean up facebook using greasemonkey! Thanks Facebook!
DiscGo (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:49am
Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!Agreed! :)
Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!Here is the link for it: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/44459
Chronno S. Trigger (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:40am
Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!I just installed it to, and damn it looks so much better now.
I started a Facebook account yesterday and already my wall, or whatever it's called, was full. Now it's down to 4 posts (I only have 1 friend).
Al, 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:57am
Re: Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!"(I only have 1 friend)"
- awww, I'll be your friend...
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:26am
Re: Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!that's the sadest story I heard today :'(
Deus Invictus, 25 Mar 2010 @ 5:16pm
Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!You're not the only one I hadn't heard of it either. Thanks Streisand Effect!
Anonymous Coward, 29 Mar 2010 @ 4:11am
Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!me too...
Jeremy, 29 Mar 2010 @ 9:30pm
Re: Pretty cool... Thanks Facebook!!That is hilarious it always happens. :P
Ima Fish (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:39amYou mean there are actually people in the world who don't care what their friends are doing in Farmville and Mafia War?
It must be nice having a life.
MBraedley (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:35am
Re:I actually told a friend that she spent far too much time on Farmville, because it occupied all but two of her wall posts.
I never got a response.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:39am
Re: Re:probably to busy making sure those strawberries get picked in time.
nic, 25 Mar 2010 @ 4:43pm
Re:You mean there are actually people in the world that don't know how to hide Farmville and Mafia Wars?
Bob, 25 Mar 2010 @ 7:38pm
Re:Actually it means there's people stupid enough not to click the hide button to hide all notices from that application.
sparr (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:11pm
Hide which application?There are tens of thousands of facebook applications. Before facebook purity, I was clicking the 'hide all from this app' button at least twice a day, and making very little headway.
stimpysean (profile), 26 Mar 2010 @ 6:10pm
Re: Re:It means there are people SMART enough to no want to turn off every annoying piece of crap facebook wants you to see. opting out over and over only makes you feel smart for so long. eventually fb purity is for you.
Nathaniel, 26 Mar 2010 @ 4:03am
Same here...Only found this because of them opposing it, I feel a Streisand Effect coming on...
BoWillis, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:40am
Thanks GreaseMonkey! Oh and you too Facebook.I have to agree with Mike C. I'm installing it as we speak!
Rajio, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:43am
WowWow i'm totally installing this today. Sounds great! (why in the world would the author comply?)
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:44amcool. sounds like a nice ap, Ill have to look it up.
Thanks for the sound out Facebook ...........
Simon Jones, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:47am
This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyPerhaps it's just that I don't have many friends, or many friends that play silly games, but it is incredibly easy to block all updates from a certain app/fan page/person right there in Facebook's own interface.
I suppose this script might make it more of a 1-click solution, but really there are 2 things I find weird here. Firstly, if this many people cared about purified feeds why weren't they already blocking apps updates, and secondly, why does Facebook care about the script if it just repeats it's own functionality?
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:58am
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook already"and secondly, why does Facebook care about the script if it just repeats it's own functionality?"
Perhaps facebook will think that this app confuses people into thinking that facebook itself has less function, according to facebook, makes facebook look bad? I'm not saying their ideas are justified (if anything a lawsuit makes Facebook look worse), just trying to put myself in facebooks shoes.
A more likely answer is that facebook hired a bunch of new lawyers who now need to justify themselves and what better way for a lawyer to justify him/her self than to make legal threats and initiate lawsuits.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:03am
Re: Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyerrr...
perhaps facebook thinks ... and, according to facebook, this makes facebook look bad.
Mike C. (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:15am
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyWhile the functionality DOES exist within Facebook already, the default settings are permissive (you have to explicitly block each and every application). While I do play Mafia Wars and a couple others, I don't want to see all the thousands of stupid quizzes that people are creating all the time. I'm tired of having to block them every time a new one pops up. Of course I'm misrepresenting the number of quizzes I see, but that doesn't mean they're not annoying.
This script is exclusive by default and if you want something to show up, you have to specifically "whitelist" it. It also gives you the ability to block status updates with select text phrases in them. For example, I do not play "Zoo World", but have several family members that do. They recently posted a number of updates regarding game play that I couldn't block with the built in tools, but once this script was installed and "Zoo World" added to the blocks, the posts disappeared.
Rather handy in my book.
Jim, 25 Mar 2010 @ 5:38pm
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyObviously you don't use facebook that much, or know anything about anything.
Vtoe, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:42pm
Re: Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyYah man this sounds like a ploy to get notoriety for his buddies script.
mike, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:59pm
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyWell the thing is you have to go through every friend you know and add the option to block apps from specifically them(very tedious if you have a lot of friends). The other option is to block the app itself, since there's new apps popping up everyday it's sorta impossible to do. So we have this lovely greasemonkey script... a nice one-click solution. Think about it, facebook wanted to make it a pain to block apps... thats why theres no "ingore all apps" button.
Sparr, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:08pm
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyI don't think there is a way to block all app updates in the facebook interface. If there was, this app wouldn't be necessary.
Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2010 @ 2:07am
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyFacebook changes it's configuration layout more frequently than most people can keep up with.
From Norway, 26 Mar 2010 @ 2:47am
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyWhen you hide apps from your FB-feed, then you dont see it. Wich is fine, but all the apps still have access to your FB-info, pictures,and everything on your FB-account, AND all your FB-friends info, pictures, as well.
This is not privacy.
I use Adblock Plus to remove things i dont want in FB, and block all apps as they appear, I dont just hide it, I BLOCK IT.
But there is no way in FB to block all apps automatically, you have to block every single app manually.
Not everybody knows how to do this.
Scott K, 26 Mar 2010 @ 7:37am
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyFacebook is free, but it's not really "free" free, and definitely not free to run. They make their money off ad revenue, and I was reading something the other day that Farmville (or whoever makes it) is their number one source of ad revenue.
So... Somebody writes a script that blocks all app feedback from the news feed, that means fewer people are enticed into Farmville by seeing their friends playing, means Farmville starts losing revenue, means they complain to Facebook, means Facebook reacts with threats.
Personally, I don't see it as bullying. It's Facebook trying to protect their revenue stream, which they have to do if you want Facebook to stay around.
On the flip side, if Greasemonkey wants to avoid the trademark issues they should just rename it so it doesn't have the letters F or B anywhere in the name. Go to News Stream Purity or something like that. They're trying to play games with tap dancing around the Facebook name - they should just avoid it altogether.
Ivan, 26 Mar 2010 @ 7:52am
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyThe built in application hider only blocks out items that were directly generated by the application.
As such, friends becoming fans of the app, or other user action generated items will still leak through. I think more and more of these Mafia Wars type games are doing this to get past the built in Application Hide button.
IJ, 26 Mar 2010 @ 10:07am
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyIt's quite easy for ongoing game apps like mafia wars or farmvile since there aren't as many popular ones. Block it once and it's gone for good.
What's great about FB Purity is it blocks the annoying quizzes too. It seems like every week a new "what character from the Goonies movie are you?" quiz makes it's rounds and blocking them individually is time consuming and pointless since by next week a new quiz will be going.
sean, 26 Mar 2010 @ 5:58pm
Re: This functionality exists within Facebook alreadyWRONG.
You have to manually OPT OUT of every stupid new piece of fluff your friends are dumb enough to engage in on FB.
FBpurity opts you out and gives you a convienent control panel.
FB is already a big enough waste of time and bandwidth without all the crappy apps, events, updates, adds, suggestions, questions your friends answered about you.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:56amConsidering that the full Greasemonkey script source is available to...anyone who installs (or even looks at) the script, taking it down won't do a thing. The script will just pop back up, probably with 5 different names, and Facebook will have to cry 5x more.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:06am
Firstly, if this many people cared about purified feeds why weren't they already blocking apps updates
Because, if you have more than about 5 friends, they can add annoying apps that pollute your news feed faster than you can block them. It's an arms race you can't win.
And thanks for the heads-up. I'll definitely be installing this one tonight.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:00am
Re:I have lots of friends, and it's more than possible to keep up with blocking the apps that appear. If you have a problem you probably need to block specific friends
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:39am
Re: Re:Alrighty, sit right down kid and I'll tell you about efficiency.
Now when you have a repetitive action that occurs all the time that's time wasted. Sure it might not be anything more than a second but the seconds add up. Computers were invented to keep shaving time out of our lives of doing repetitive tasks.
Lets say it takes a minute to install this script. 60 seconds of life spent.
Lets say this AC uses facebook for at least 5 years, and has a copious amount of friends. So lets say 1 new app a week for 5 years where he has to spend a second going "hide app" that's 260 seconds approximately give or take leap years, leap seconds, leaping frogs slowing the rotation of the planet.
So this AC has saved 200 seconds of life from doing a simple task that was highly repetitive and pointless. And the time keeps racking up for as long as he uses facebook.
Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2010 @ 2:12am
Re: Re:Why should I have to 'keep up' if I don't want to?
I'm not interested in anything more than chatting with my friends overseas & seeing the photo's they have shared.
Andrew Hime, 28 Mar 2010 @ 3:46pm
Re:Because, if you have more than about 5 friends, they can add annoying apps that pollute your news feed faster than you can block them. It's an arms race you can't win. No. Not really.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:07amI wonder what it would take to make this a full-blown Firefox extension...
Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2010 @ 10:45am
I wonder what it would take to make this a full-blown Firefox extension...This.
Matt Kruse, 26 Mar 2010 @ 1:24pm
Re: Re: [Firefox Add-on, Greasemonkey script compiler]The script compiler has an annoying unicode bug. See:
If you want a native Firefox Add-on to clean your stream and do lots of fun stuff, go here:
It's not FB Purity, but it's better.
Anonymous Coward, 29 Mar 2010 @ 12:58pm
Greasemonkey to xpiCopy and Paste?
senshikaze (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:17amthis sounds alot like the arguments companies/website make about ad blockers.
Really, facebook, a small subset of your users are going to use this, just back the hell off.
Call me Al, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:17amThanks Facebook for publicising this script. I'll install it once I get home.
As for the reason why they are doing it I expect its typical behaviour of companies. They want to control precisely how you experience their content much like the TV and movie industries want to restrict what you can do with your own TV... this kind of script challenges that immensely as it takes control away from them.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:25am
Re:Yea, when will web companies realize they cannot control how my browser renders there page. They can make suggestions sure, but in the end (thanks to awesome creator of GreaseMonkey) I can change anything.
ComputerAddict (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:57am
Re: Re:its not so much of how you experience their "content" as much as it is experiencing their advertising. Not that the scripts are not already out there, but scripts like this could easily remove a lot of other annoying blocks in the margins of the page as well.
Facebook's worried about their bottom line
** This post has absolutely no evidence to support this claim **
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 12:20pm
Re: Re:Since facebook's programmers have rewritten the php runtime for their own commercial use, I'm sure they understand the browser model very well. This action sounds more like an isolated technologically illiterate management type trying to justify his existence, and I don't think anything much will come of it.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:20amkey word is "Threatened"...now was the threat to change the name or to remove the script? The latter would be impossible.
dnm, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:27am
I haven't gotten threats yet.I am the author of a similar script that is admittedly much smaller (~12k downloads) on userscripts that does the same thing. I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the author of FBP is using it to make money.
rhandomina, 25 Mar 2010 @ 12:16pm
Re: I haven\'t gotten threats yet.bingo - making money off it is usually a sure way to have the hounds out for blood.
I suspect it might also have to do with Facebook's 'games' and 'apps' feeds (which don't seem to be ramped up yet, as they're not catching everything for me) - possibly penalizing apps that don't play by the rules. No complaints from users (due to users hiding everything) == apps not getting caught... Although that would be easier for Facebook in terms of not having to deal with infringing apps
Blah, 26 Mar 2010 @ 5:20am
Re: I haven\'t gotten threats yet.Troll
Malak (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:27amI'm installing this AND setting it as my status!
Overcast (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:34amYou know, I never would have known (or installed and used) the script if Facebook hadn't been a bully about it. Thanks to the "Streisand Effect", not only is my news feed cleaner, but I'll be passing this along to ALL my friends and helping them install it too.
Thanks Facebook!
Likewise, I will pass this on to all the people I know on Facebook too :)
known coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:35am
Hey be nice to facebookDidn't you see in the previous article that facebook has syphillis. It is tough dealing with that disease cut them some slack.
Red, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:38amI just make it a habit to *hide* app notices like farmville, mafia wars, etc. as they come. I mean one-two clicks I never had to see the app again, pretty easy.
Sure its slightly inconvient to do so, but I think the less I (or average user) have to manage how my browser renders each sites content specifically and just go directly to the problems source to change it (which is possible with the facebook site), seems just more of a simpler solution to me.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:39amFacebook recently gets rid of the status feed, forces everybody to view the news feed full of spam, removes the ability to filter the news feed, and gets po'ed that someone else provides the capability? I don't know what the Facebook devs are thinking lately with all unfriendly user interface changes they've made.
Rick, 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:07am
The script is redundant...Why someone felt a need to write a script that Facebook to do what you can do already YOURSELF on Facebook is beyond me.
Although it is sad that hardly anyone knows this, but you can mouse over a post for say; Farmville or Mafia Wars and click Hide - then click Hide ALL Mafia Wars or Farmville posts and never see them again from ANY friend.
I do that every time I see a Bejewelled horoscope zoo island type post from anyone and my feed is clean as can be....
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 12:24pm
Re: The script is redundant...Because it DOESN'T do exactly what facebook does. You might want to read the app description before making such an assertion, or, you know, the article.
stimpysean (profile), 26 Mar 2010 @ 6:22pm
Re: The script is redundant...The script is redundant...
by Rick
Why someone felt a need to write a script that Facebook to do what you can do already YOURSELF on Facebook is beyond me.
I do that every time I see a Bejewelled horoscope zoo island type post from anyone and my feed is clean as can be....
You wrote the above.. Don't you see the irony in your post??
How much time do you have to spend "cleaning your feed"???
Things like Ad block, and greasemonkey make the new "Web" tolerable.
JackSombra (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:12am"It's too bad that as Facebook gets bigger, we're hearing more and more stories of this kind of bullying activity."Par for the course for any growing company really
First the mindless management drones take over (you know the type, more interested in covering their own ass than anything else, unable to make a decision without a 10 committees backing them and 100's of meetings to "get everyone on board")
Due to these people being in charge and increasing costs dramatically this then leads to the accountants taking over (aka people with no knowadge of the company's actual business, but basically acting as the power behind the throne, dictating how the company is run)
And because the accountant really don't know how to run the business (and all decent managers left long ago) they then hire lots of lawyers to protect the company and the lawyers to justify their cost to the accountants start attacking everybody and viewing everything at a threat to the company
Then a few years later a new, dynamic, energetic forward thinking start up comes along and wipes them out (unless first company buys them up first) and whole process starts over again
Basically the cycle of life, corporate style
crade (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:26amThe laws to make it illegal to attempt to avoid any sort of advertisement are coming soon.
Steven Roussey, 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:47am
Facebook and AppleBoth want to own what you use. Apple has a better chance...
StarNoStar, 25 Mar 2010 @ 10:48amI stopped using facebook years ago, I'm happy I did.
Facebook can be very useful in certain situations, but for the average joe...its MUCH more satisfying to interact with friends in reality.
Anonymous Coward, 26 Apr 2010 @ 5:19pm
Re:why fb is like the best>>>>>>>>>>>>lol
Dan, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:17am
Awfully trusting...Why isn't there any link (or other details for that matter) regarding the alleged bullying? The whole story here is about the script.
Mason Sklut, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:18am
Facebook Doesn't Know Interface Design At All"UnFuck Facebook" with this handy Greasemonkey script:
Facebook you have no right to complain. It's a user's own choice!
Maybe when you guys make a better user-interface and REAL privacy options, then you can talk. Otherwise, quit screwing up your already screwed up website.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 11:52amWow...awesome script. I never knew about this but thanks for the heads up. Installed it and it works great! I think Ill add the link to my status...
Henry, 25 Mar 2010 @ 12:07pm@Rick: The problem is that apps on Facebook are whitelisted by default and you "blacklist" (i.e. block) apps you don't want to see. Unfortunately, users of the script in general hate the majority of apps so they want a Facebook where apps are blacklisted by default, and you "whitelist" those you want to see (i.e. like Nokia applications which post via their own application).
hides more than appsfor those saying that Facebook already gives you this ability, perhaps you can tell us how to get rid of all of those "is a fan of" posts.
That to me was the biggest issue, as I was already blocking mafiawars and farmville crap.
I even had to block a few friends because they were 'fans' of so many groups and pages.
Problem was, I didn't want to block people, just the fluff.
THAT is what this script does. Clears out all of the junk.
But, it's there to see anytime you want by simply clicking on the 'show' link. So, if you needed to check on who became friends with who, a quick click shows the fluff (without the clutter of content).
If his facebook page is taken down, he may still have his site http://www.fbpurity.com
The Drizzle, 25 Mar 2010 @ 12:20pmMy favorite greasemonkey app is UNF#%K Facebook.
Greyson, 25 Mar 2010 @ 12:37pm
FINALLY!Finally something to clean out all the unwanted CRAP on facebook!
Zac Morris (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 12:46pm
Latest post to the Author's FB pageHere is the latest post to the author's Facebook page:
- Fluff Busting Purity Well the corporate bullies have struck again, they are threatening to delete this page and shutdown my website too if their ridiculous demands are not met by 7pm GMT this evening. They demand I remove all references to "FB Purity" and also even more bizarrely "F*** B*** Purity" from both myfan page and my website
Seems like a thin case Facebook has, but I've seen more ridiculous cases win. Do they have a leg to stand on?
IPv6Freely, 25 Mar 2010 @ 1:11pm
Wha?I dont get it.. why do people need a script for this? Why not just use Facebook Lite? http://lite.facebook.com
Zac Morris (profile), 25 Mar 2010 @ 1:30pm
Why not lite?@IPv6Freely, Because of the Pokes baby! ;-)
People don't want to be limited by what someone ELSE tells them they should want to see. It needs to be understood that user customization is a right, not a privilege!
jonathan, 25 Mar 2010 @ 2:45pm
Facebook's trademark policies are very over-reachingWe developed an app for updating Facebook from Twitter that is now called TweetPo.st. It was originally called TweetFace until Facebook objected to the use of the word 'face' in the name. Unfortunately, we needed to use their APIs which made us subject to their draconian developer terms of service. As you said, this guy's app doesn't use anything from Facebook and it should be able to do whatever he (and his customers) want it to do.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 3:09pmBeen using purity for a while, extremely useful
not only does it keep your feed fairly clean, you're given istructions on how to alter it, so now i have no suggestions box, stuff like that
Anonymoose, 25 Mar 2010 @ 3:48pm
Here's the dopey thing...I'd actually stopped using Facebook after the last redesign. The signal to noise went to zero after they took away options to filter out specific things from feeds (e.g. joe is a friend of himself, appspam, etc).
Thanks to FB making a fuss, I know there's a tool that makes the site usable again. Reverse SE?
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 4:29pm
What's Facebook?I keep hearing about this, but all I hear seems to be be that is it is a big pile is steaming crap. I don't get why people want to roll around in it so much.
Matt Kruse, 25 Mar 2010 @ 5:02pm
"Better Facebook" is another greasemonkey scriptWell, if this guy is getting in trouble, then surely I will shortly.
My domain is: http://BetterFacebook.net
My Greasemonkey script does a lot of what Facebook Purity does, plus a lot more. If they don't like his, they sure ad hell aren't going to like mine.
If they would spend this time improving their horrible site and minimal features, they might actually get rid of the need for these scripts. As it is, I depend on Better Facebook to make the site usable.
If nothing else, they should be finding the authors of these scripts and hiring them. Maybe then their site wouldn't need to be modified by user scripts to not suck.
Rud Thomas, 25 Mar 2010 @ 5:08pm
WowYeah buddy, bring in the bottom feeding, blood sucking attorneys!
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 5:47pmAnd people wonder why I don't join Facebook.
Condominiums Philippines, 25 Mar 2010 @ 6:42pm
I am so installing this now!I will install this application just to spite facebook.
V2, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:41pm
Get over it man...It's totally justified of Facebook to be pissed at the guy for using their trademark! You can't even use Face or Book in the names of any applications you submit to Facebook. I can't just go out and start a company called Microsoft Purity without expecting Microsoft to be pissed.
This sounds more like a ploy to get people to download the script then anything else. As others have already pointed out you can already block all notifications from any application you want.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:55pm
Re: Get over it man..."It's totally justified of Facebook to be pissed at the guy for using their trademark!"
Or, you know, not.
John Awesome, 25 Mar 2010 @ 8:53pm
Former FB purity userI used to be a major evangelist of FB Purity. Then, FB started this practice of changing their page every week or so, and then I'd have to get an update to the FB Purity script, which could sometimes take a day.
What would happen is my news/status feed would suddenly be blank. After a few times, I learned to go to the FB Purity page each time this happened. If an update wasn't available, I would simply disable the script in Greesemonkey (or just disable GM).
Each time it disabled, I got flooded with Farmarea/Mafia Skirmish/Begemmed type notifications. Eventually, I got sick of the FB/FB Purity battles and just started hiding every app that came across my feed.
Now, each time I encounter a new app, I hide in 2 clicks and the problem is eliminated at the source (unless facebook looses all my hide settings by 'accident').
John H., 25 Mar 2010 @ 9:27pm
Facebook ProductsPeople- people with a FB account- often think of themselves as FB customers: and getting such a deal. When in fact they are actually Facebook's product. And the people who use Greasemonkey or whatnot to modify their FB feed are defective product.
Tom Landry (profile), 26 Mar 2010 @ 12:51amlol-ing at the amount of folks discovering this script due to Facebook's butthurt.
Justin, 26 Mar 2010 @ 2:16am
This functionality does NOT exist within facebook...To everyone saying this functionality already exists, can you please then tell me how to block the extremely annoying "so-and-so has become friends with so-and-so" posts, and the "so-and-so has become a fan of 'something I really couldnt care less about'"? Those, more than any app notices, make this and similar scripts extremely helpful.
Tom, 26 Mar 2010 @ 5:02am
Facebook Script...We don't need no stinking Facebook ScriptI've never had that problem with Facebook...wait, I NEVER use facebook...
Txknight (profile), 26 Mar 2010 @ 5:34amI too have slowed use of it, as it is filled with that crap, I dont about your farm or fish or war or dragon you need help with, freaking facebook,
Mentifex Cyborg, 26 Mar 2010 @ 5:41am
Is a FaceBunk app available?Have never been on FaceBook but it sounds like we need to create a FaceBunk app to defeat the creeping corporatism immanent in the site stolen from ConnectU.
Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2010 @ 6:40amYep, Thanks FB! I just installed the script also! ;-)
Matthew Fedak, 26 Mar 2010 @ 6:44am
its about timeIts about time someone found away around hiding those messages that we dont want to read in the feed. I dont speak to half of people I know on facebook so why would I care about what their texas hold em or mafia war score is.
Bob Smith, 13 Apr 2010 @ 10:16am
Re: its about timeWhy would you be friends with them if you don't talk to them ... AND THEN complain about what is on their wall????
Iain, 26 Mar 2010 @ 7:19am
Yay!I'm going to be installing this, thanks!
Leave Facebook, 26 Mar 2010 @ 8:10amLeave Facebook. Just leave it. Quit the site. If I could leave Facebook again I'd leave it and attribute it to this BS.
Facebook is run by wold famous douche-canoe Mark Zuckerberg, who in the early days of the site sabotaged a competitor and hacked into the email of editors of the Harvard student paper. Now that he was some weight to throw around you get stuff like this, and Beacon. Don't give this guy any more power over your social life. Quit Facebook.
fudge, 26 Mar 2010 @ 8:51am
Agree with 'Leave Facebook'Already been there and done that.
It's just another mySpace with a lot of hype.
It was a good concept once-upon-a-time.
Too bad all good concepts in virtual reality get greedy and bloated.
fudge, 26 Mar 2010 @ 8:51am
Agree with 'Leave Facebook'Already been there and done that.
It's just another mySpace with a lot of hype.
It was a good concept once-upon-a-time.
Too bad all good concepts in virtual reality get greedy and bloated.
Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2010 @ 11:04amIt is becoming apparent that Facebook is growing too big for its britches. What people do on their own browser after content is served is THEIR BUSINESS.
I mean, really: Did everyone at Facebook suddenly start swallowing handfuls of douchebag pills?
Soft ARC, 26 Mar 2010 @ 11:36am
FB Don't try to be Bully !What FB is trying to do huh ?! trying to be big bully ?!
Don't forget that us, the users, are the one who's driving up FB's popularity and become what it is today...and now FB want to control what we want to do for ourselves ?
Jon, 26 Mar 2010 @ 3:36pm
what ... the ... fuck?I cant belive it. If i had used facebook i would used it. No doubt. I have friends and family who use it and i know i would be happy to get rid of it.
This is just stupid. So now every website that make money from adds will sue or try to stop people from using noscript, adblock, etc?
anon, 26 Mar 2010 @ 4:56pmWell, Facebook now just got a bunch of people to return to their site or spend more time there. What were they thinking?
Daemon_ZOGG (profile), 26 Mar 2010 @ 9:26pm
HEY FACEBOOK!!SHUDUPAYAFACE!! It happens in the browser. And there's nothin' you can do about it. }:P In fact, I'm running a script right now that blocks my network users from viewing your stupid, flash-based facebook ads on other websites. While there's nothing wrong with facebook users.. The facebook krones are the ones being DORKS. }:P
bugs, 27 Mar 2010 @ 5:57am
stupid farmvilleI used to delete or hide friends that play stupid farmville. The bugs in the Farmville really bugs me. Thanks for the info.
Annomene, 29 Mar 2010 @ 3:01am
Isn't it obvious?FB doesn't want this script for one simple reason. If you disable this kind of messages on FB youselves, then FB knows you don't want this notices. If you use the script FB dosen't know anything. Thus they can collect less information about you.
jiml, 29 Mar 2010 @ 8:35pm
Greasmonkey vs FacebookEvil facebook. Why should they complain, if they can not clean up after themselves. Facebook cannot admit they're dirty and dirty up your environment. So, they get mad when they cannot leave their poo around. Bad software engineering. Bad company. This is worth calling the BBB.
bugmenot (profile), 1 Apr 2010 @ 12:54ami dont care if facebook is a bully. im smart enough to know who my friends are without the need to log onto a webpage in order to find out.
GreaseMonkeyRocks, 28 Apr 2010 @ 1:12pm
Facebook script best thing everI must say that I love the unf**kfacebook script is best script ever written it cleans up all the useless junk that face book has on their website it is nice that i can get rid of all the annoyances from face book and bring it back to how it use to be when it started with almost no app notifications. Face-book should just have an option to remove all those apps from your account including all the tracking information that these apps provide when installed by users. First face-book had horribly privacy agreement which was slightly improved and now they try to bully a guy that has made face-book experience better at lest for me I am sure other users out there as well. How can you punish someone who created a script that is harmless and improves usability and look of face book.
Anonymous Coward, 27 May 2010 @ 7:25pmI recall being bewildered by all those farmville things when I couldn't get on it. I agree there should be a way to disable them if you want. Those who post are posting for fellow players to interact, so those who don't play should be able to opt out of the feeds. Or maybe one should just automatically opt in anyone who plays and by default leave out those who don't-but then again facebook and zynga probably consider that cutting off their advertising!
Joe, 11 Jun 2010 @ 9:38am
Thank you Facebook.Thank you so much Facebook. If you hadn't of bullied this guy, I would have never of found this script. Now I can find it and use it. Thank you Facebook for letting me find the script.
anila, 9 May 2011 @ 2:22pm
hello i need facebook helphello i need your help i need to know is there any script of face book wich can send several wall posts my id is been hacked and the person hacked it usin it in a bad way whenever i post there that its a fake id dont reply to my friends that person delete it i want to send so many messages that he cant delte it pls if anybudy can help reply on my email i will b v thankfull
Some Guy, 13 Apr 2013 @ 7:13amI hate when site admins hunt down greasemonkey authors. I had problems on one site too for publishing 2 scripts. Year later they added that functionality natively to site. (which I'm proud of)
The Ceej, 28 Feb 2016 @ 2:52amYou mean Facebook, one of the two largest data farms in the world, and one of the most authoritarian companies in the world, that has an unholy alliance with many shady types, including governments, will go out of their way to stop one from exercising personal choice in their every day life?
NO!! That could never happen!
I mean, it's not as if Facebook does this sort of thing and worse all the time! It's not as if they regularly deliberately break userscripts. It's not as if they wilfully sabotage relationships or unethically adjust Facebook feed contents for their own "studies" jollies. It's not as if they roll back the like counts and delete comments on people they feel are a threat to them. It's not as if they hide things from people's feeds as punishment both for the poster and the person who wants to view it. It's not as if they spy on you all over the internet, and even in your offline life too...
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as well as binary plugs for the remaining few instances of encumbered code.
In other words, that is code that Sun licensed from someone else or that is patented, and their lawyers have decided it isn't legal to release under the GPL. Hopefully the community can rewrite most of it soon.
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When I listen to atheists preach the bible, which is very common these days, they use the same biblical stories as theists, but the meaning taken from these stories is very different for the atheist.
Eg: The Noah's ark story. From a Christian perspective, God saved the good people, taught the bad people a lesson they'll never forget, or remember because they are all dead, and showed everybody how powerful he is. From an atheist perspective, God committed genocide: 'Adimpleo genocide in terra' and thus, through his actions, shows the type of god he really is. Same story, very different meaning to different people.
Another example of biblical genocide is the Israelites invasion of Canaan. And there are probably other examples in the bible that may contravene other UN resolutions.
From this, I wonder if God should be tried, in absentia, for crimes against humanity, in accordance to UN resolution 96.
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Personally, I think we do this all the time. Every time we point out god's cruelty, his penchant for violence, the illogic of his "law," or the despicable nature of his scapegoat / savior, the deity of the Abrahamic religions is at the bar. I doubt there is an atheist on A|N who doesn't know that Yahweh has a lot to answer for, from expecting Adam & Eve to understand that there was something wrong with the Tree of Knowledge and Abraham's even considering god's command to slaughter his son, Isaac to god's supposed son saying that you have to hate your mother-father-sister-brother in order to follow him and the ridiculous farce of sacrificing god in one form to god in another form in order to solve a problem which god created in the first place.
And actually, god already has been put on trial, at least allegedly. The action was held at Auschwitz sometime during World War II, by a number of Jews being held prisoner there. Granted, their discussion was limited to actions regarding Adonai in the old testament, but as you can see in the closing argument, offered by one of the inmates, the evidence against this supposedly omnibenevolent deity is overwhelming.
I just found this also: Lawsuits against God.
From a Christian perspective, God saved the good people, taught the bad people a lesson they'll never forget, or remember because they are all dead, and showed everybody how powerful he is.
That's a pretty simple argument to counter, lol. It's hard to teach or show someone anything when your actions cause them to no longer be able to think, or breathe. Christians struggle with the story of Noah probably more than anything written in the bible, because it is so insanely nonsensical - regardless of whether it is taken metaphorically or literally. I'm sure most of them simply would rather that that particular story had never been written. Deep inside, they know that defending such actions runs contrary to any logical human emotion, and doing so defines them as utterly irrational at some level.
By that logic, Adam Lanza taught all those kids at Sandy Hook a valuable lesson, and we should be worshiping him for his benevolence towards mankind.
Should god be tried in abstentia? No, because it doesn't exist. I would no more try god in absentia than I would the trolls that live under the bridge and eat the billy goats gruff. Or, leprechauns, the tooth fairy, satan, Dracula, the Orisha spirits, etc., etc., etc. Besides, if you win, who you going to collect judgment from, or get justice out of?
Placing a religion, and its leaders, on trial, however, is another thing. When the allies placed Goering, Hess, Kaltenbrunner, Ribbentrop, Streicher, et al. on trial in Nuremberg, not only were the individuals on trial, but all of Nazi ideology. Same thing when Israel placed Eichmann in the dock. Ratzinger, and the clerics responsible for the cover up of child rape would be a good place to start, followed by the ayatollahs of Iran and imams of Saudi Arabia, the American evangelicals who support gay murders in Africa, and a myriad host of others.
I agree Pat.
I wonder what the first step would have to be in order to start such a process against the all those involved in the Catholic church. It shouldn't be to difficult, there is already lots of evidence and precedence, by way of convictions, against a few priests.
The problem would be to prove they knew about paedophilia in the church and that they tried to cover it up.
I agree with Pat. It would be like trying to charge Santa Claus with breaking and entering, or Frankenstein with graverobbing.
Real people can be held responsible for their actions though, and not be allowed to hide behind their religion as an excuse.
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I've been away for a while, but alas I always seem to find my way back.
There are some very exciting things in the pipeline...
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It's been a while...here is some of what I got up to in no particular order :P
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I love this SG playlist homework!!
Here are a few songs that get me in the mood ;) @missy @rambo
What songs get you in the mood?
Some fun SG homework! Make a 'getting ready to go out' playlist! Yes please! @rambo @missy
I like to listen to music that will get me all amped up for the night ahead :D
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So @lunar and I had loads of fun this weekend streaming for SG periscope. If you missed us.... it's your lucky day :)
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Hi everyone!
Although I've been a member for a year.. (time flies) this week is my first time I'm actively joining the forum.
I have a question to all you people about baked cookies/ and other goodies for bentos.
So far I've made Anzac biscuits and Museli bars (easy as!).
What else would you suggest?
I do make my bentos the night before, so they stay in the fridge and that with the moisture inside the bento box makes the cookies go soft :(
Does anyone have any suggested recipes for baked nibbles that wont go soft before hand?
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rolling them over, one onigiri at a time.
My best advice is don't refrigerate baked goods, especially along with the food in your bento. You should wrap them separately to isolate the moisture from the foods in your box so it doesn't affect the cookies/breads etc. Wax or parchment paper inside another layer of cling wrap or zip bags works well.
I like making energy bars out of dried pitted dates and nuts. You don't need a recipe really, just pick nuts, seeds, dried fruits, and spices that you like in a proportion that will stick together once it's blended. I soak everything in water for an hour (then drain it, of course) so it will blend together well in a food processor. Then I take the mixture and flatten it in a Pyrex glass 9x9 inch (25cm) square pan and cook it near the lowest temperature in the oven, say 200 F or less, for just over an hour. You can cut the resulting product into whatever size rectangles are appropriate. Use them for a snack or dessert-type item in your bento box; you shouldn't have to worry much about the texture changing over half a day due to moisture.
How about mini-muffins? I even have a category just for bento-friendly muffins:
There are also these gomashio cookies, which are a bit tricky to make (esp. the gluten-free vegan one) but sort of interesting and very filling:
The Big Onigiri.
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How about homemade granola bars? They're pretty healthy if you put the right stuff in them, and whenever I make them, they turn out so hard that a little extra moisture would be welcome.
(I don't have a recipe I can post--I always just go to www.recipezaar.com and start scrolling until something looks tasty.)
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Tanuki - Thanks for your reply! I was hoping to save a bit of plastic ^^ but now i think about it, i could resize old ziplock bags for the cookies!
Maki - Thankyou! Actually now you mention it i did make your miso pumpkin muffins! They were sooo good! My brother and I ate a dozen before the were popped into the freezer ^^
The vampire face was made with simple nori letter punches "l" and "v" and a normal office hole punch - i cant make onigiri without putting a face on it anymore!
Amanda - Actually Granola bars are what we call Muesil bars. - I got a bag of muesli, added melted butter, golden syrup and honey. mixed them together and baked :) lovely bars of goodness. But the fruit in the mix made it a bit chewy... so now Husband has to make sure he's not on the phone as he munches on them ^^
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they are so delicious >_<
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I made these a couple of days ago, got distracted by the baby and forgot to combine the dry ingredients together before adding the wet ones to them. Even without the baking powder having been distributed throughout the flour they still came out beautifully.
(*But Maki's thread where she asks for help measuring cup sizes was invaluable, I had no idea the US cups were of a different size to the measurements I have in my kitchen that say "1 cup" until I saw that thread and tried to contribute - no wonder none of the US cookies recipes I had tried to make were that good!)
My mother was having the same problem with European recipes, until I pointed out the ml measurements that were also listed in the recipes. When she went by ml, they came out fairly well just not to what she is used to flavor wise. It seems that American cookies are far sweeter and have fewer spices than their European counter parts, so to my mother and her decidedly American taste buds she leaves out most of the spices and adds more sugar to make them more to her liking.
I've got a great banana bread recipe I got from one of my favorite baking books, Baking Illustrated - I usually replace walnuts with chocolate chips. If you do it in mini-loaves or muffin tins, that'd probably be excellent.
I like the idea of zucchini basil muffins.! The addition of vegetables in anything is a beautiful concept that only Mums could have thought of! hahaha!
My silicon muffin cases have gone missing... I did a massive egg tart session before the wedding, but now I'm back into cooking mode, they have gone missing! So all muffin baking has ground to a stop while I try and find them. :( or buy replacements.
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"Tyson is a big, strong, powerful guy," Forehand said. "He is seeing the ball good right now. When you are seeing it good, and hit the ball with authority like he does, the ball is going to go out of the park sometimes."
But that 4-3 lead would not last long. With Ashcraft on the mound seeking his fourth save of the season Belmont struck back capitalizing on two hits, an error by LU's center fielder and a passed ball which allowed Dom Veltri to score from third to tie the game.
"We gave them a one base error on a single that put him on second," Forehand said. "In that situation we have to secure the ball and get it in. They bunt him up and then we have a passed ball that scores a run.
"That is not a formula for success. We put ourselves in that spot. It is our own fault that we didn't close that game out. When you hit a home run in the 10th you are supposed to win that game or the other team is supposed to beat you. You are not supposed to beat yourself."
Belmont prevailed in the 11th when Alec Diamond singled through the right side to score Scott Moses who had opened the inning with a single to right center.
"They got us in the 11th," Forehand said. "They did what they had to do."
Instead of a save, Ashcraft, the last of six LU pitchers, was credited with the loss evening his record at 2-2. But Forehand had nothing but praise for Ashcraft.
"I can't say enough about Tyson," Forehand said. "He has been our guy. He has gotten big base hits to knock runs in. He has come in to save games in the end.
"It was set up for him to do it again tonight. He did everything he had to do to help us win that game. We just didn't close it out for him."
The Bisons are 14-28 overall. Belmont is 28-11.
This Friday, Saturday and Sunday the Bisons return to Atlantic Sun action when Stetson visits Ken Dugan Field at Stephen L. Marsh Stadium.
"We have to make sure that we play smarter," Forehand said. "They already know that, but I want them to make sure they get the message that what happened is not acceptable. We can't consistently win games doing that. We have to learn from it and move on."


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The Bethel College football players will finally get to start hitting someone other than their own teammates when the Threshers host Haskell Indian Nations University at 7 p.m. Saturday at Joe W. Goering Field, Thresher Stadium.
Bethel is in the throws of a 14-game losing streak, 16 games if you take away a forfeit win against Sterling in the 2011 season.
The game marks the debut of BC coach Marty Mathis, who helped lead Marian University of Indianapolis to the NAIA title last season.
"We're getting over the hump," Mathis said. "We're starting to put together a team. We started with 37 (in spring practice last season) and went down to 20 players returning from last season. We have a solid 20 guys. To that, we're adding another 15 transfers, so that gives us 35 upperclassmen. We're getting 60-odd freshmen, and they're still catching up to the other guys. It's been tough, but they're learning from each other. We've got guys at different levels and different parts of the country starting to learn to communicate with each other and with the coaches."
Mathis said the biggest challenge in the pre-season has been to change the culture.
"We need them to start believing in themselves, both on the field and in the classroom," Mathis said. "They're main goal is to get an education, but we also want them to become good players."
Mathis said the defense is a little head of the offense in terms of experience. The team had two intrasquad scrimmages. In the first one, the offense performed better. In the second, he called play about even.
Haskell is coming off a 1-8 season, winning the season finale against Trinity Bible College of North Dakota 39-34. The win snapped a 20-game losing streak. When taking a forfeit win over Waldorf College in consideration, it's been 23 games since the Indians last won on the field.
The Indians' leading rusher from last season is Canku One Star, who had 50 carries for 423 yards and four touchdowns. One Star is listed on this year's roster as a corner back. Chris Dupris had 82 carries for 271 yards and three touchdowns.
Quarterback Dominic Panzy hit 59 of 146 passes last season for 439 yards with three touchdowns and 11 interceptions in five games. Maverick Lang hit 29 of 67 passes in three games for 279 yards with three interceptions and two touchdowns.
Will Wood led the team in receiving yards last year with 135 on 22 catches with a touchdown. Wood is listed as a running back on this year's roster.
"They have some good players," Mathis said. "They have about 80-plus players. They did a good job recruiting. They did win their last game last season, so that gives them some momentum."
Mathis said he didn't get to see any film on Haskell. There were some videos on You-Tube, but the quality wasn't very good. He said Haskell appeared to run a spread offense and a cover-4 and cover-3 defense.
"At Marian, we were in the Mid-States Football Association, the toughest conference in the NAIA," Mathis said. "We saw all different types of formations on offense and defense."
Mathis said the team needs to be ready to play "a six-second game on every play. If you can do that, you can beat anybody in college football."
Mathis named Bo Pratt the starting quarterback for Saturday. He said there are three running backs who are competing for the top spot.
Other players Mathis said other players who have stood out in pre-season include defensive back Shakee Bellamy, linebacker Josh Kaufman, and defensive linemen Garrett Garcia and Leland Brown.
"I'm just happy to have this opportunity to be a part of this effort to turn things around," Mathis said.


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In the fictional post-apocalyptic world of Fallout, the Pip-Boy 3000 is a late-model version of a wearable computer device manufactured prior to the nuclear war that devastated the Earth. Earlier versions of the Pip-Boy functioned as the interfaces in the prior Fallout games. According to a developer diary entitled "Creating Collectibles" by Bethesda Product Manager Pete Hines on the official Fallout 3 Web site, the idea for the special collectible hit while sitting in his office after a discussion with producer Todd Howard investigated how such a device might be replicated in the real world as a collectible. The design is life-size and functions as a digital watch so that the collectible would not be "...just an inanimate object that sat there."
The remainder of the "Survival Edition" of Fallout 3 is identical to the "Collector's Edition" of the game and includes a copy of the game, an artificially aged lunch-box sporting "Vault-Tec" iconography, a five-inch Vault Boy bobble head, "The Art of Fallout 3" hardcover book and a "Making of Fallout 3" DVD. The Fallout 3 "Survival Edition" will retail for US$129.99 ($119.99 for the PC version). The game is currently slated to ship this October.


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JERUSALEM — About a month before their religious order's 800th anniversary celebrations, some U.S. Franciscans visited the Holy Land. The weeklong peace pilgrimage proved to be a reminder their founder, St. Francis of Assisi.
The order is no stranger to the Holy Land. St. Francis visited the Holy Land after 1220, and his order has been there ever since. Today the Franciscans are in charge of caring for most of the holy sites in the Holy Land.
But this early-March peace pilgrimage wasn't so much about churches and religious sites.
The Franciscan group from the New York-based Holy Name Province focused on encountering those who live in the Holy Land — Palestinians and Israelis.
Father Jacek Orzechowski, co-chair of the province's Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Directorate, said the visit gave him hope that there can be peace.
"Cynicism is a buffer against making a personal commitment to working toward justice and peace," he said.
Noting that St. Francis was "very daring and bold in overcoming propaganda," he said Franciscans are called to be "bold and strengthen our commitment to overcome a great deal of misinformation bordering on propaganda."


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According to this morning's Sunday people Real Madrid will allow French International Striker Karim Benzema to leave in January for a fee around £17 Million.
This is sure to alert the likes of Arsenal who are light in that area as are Chelsea and Manchester United are also said to be following this situation very closely.
It is no secret that Madrid have been made aware that they will need to sell players to realign their finances after securing Tottenham Hotspur's Gareth Bale in the Summer.
Benzema's availability will no doubt fuel more speculation that they will be making a move for Liverpool's want-away striker Luis Suarez who it is believed was holding out for a bid from Madrid in the summer which did not materialise due to Madrid concentrating on the Bale deal.
Benzema who had his best season under the now Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho in the 2011/2012 campaign which saw the Frenchman score 32 goals in 52 games for his club this contributed heavily to a very successful campaign for Madrid who ended Barcelona's dominance by securing their first La Liga title since 2008.
At just £17 million you would imagine there will be a very long queue from Europe's elite clubs lining up to take Benzema he is a bargain at that price, he is still only 25-years-old, in many ways he is the ideal striker; quick, strong, has very good movement, good in the air and is a good finisher.
Arsenal have had to bring back Nicklas Bendtner due to a lack of cover for Olivier Giroud in that position while Chelsea have only three strikers in Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto'o and Demba Ba.
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OXFORD University has reacted to pressure from residents by redrawing plans for its new science centre in Headington.
The university says it is to reduce the size of the £45m Big Data Institute by almost a quarter with more landscaped areas, following concerns about the scale of construction on the new campus.
The news came as Oxford University this week revealed its total spending on building schemes will reach £1.8bn over the next decade.
The Big Data Institute will be the flagship development on the science and research campus taking shape on the Old Road and Park Hospital sites, where nearly 3,000 people will be employed.
The university says it will create more open spaces, without having to cutback on the jobs created or the pioneering work undertaken.
But the university is sticking with plans for a 460 car-space car park, despite concerns about the impact on congested roads Spokesman Matt Pickles said: "After feedback received at the two consultations, we have made some changes to the project.
"The most significant development has been in the landscaping where we are providing a greater proportion of planting.
"This will soften the overall appearance of the development and provides external spaces for people to enjoy. We have now reduced the scale of the Big Data Institute by 22 per cent.
The basement has been reduced by 664 sq m and central features of the building have been moved in.
"To ensure the space feels active we have also increased of area of clear glazing around the entrance to allow better views in and out of the building."
More than 400 people will be employed in the Big Data building.
A detailed planning application is expected to be submitted early next month, with the university hopeful of starting work in October.
Patrick Coulter, of the Highfield Residents' Association, said: "In principle we welcome any changes which help to reduce the impact of the development on the local environment — hopefully the proposed additional landscaping and reduction in scale of the Big Data building will do this."
Many residents, however, will be disappointed that the building's height is not being reduced.
Sietske Boeles, of Divinity Road Residents' Association, said: "There has been a change in attitude with the university friendlier and ready to listen to suggestions.
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The velocity of idealized traveling waves on the ocean is wavelength dependent and for shallow enough depths, it also depends upon the depth of the water. The wave speed relationship is
Calculation Any such simplified treatment of ocean waves is going to be inadequate to describe the complexity of the subject. It is certainly a subject that has been studied thoroughly, but no single model is going to apply to all cases. Some of the things that have been learned will be summarized here.
It will be presumed that ocean waves obey the basic wave relationship c=fl , where c is traditionally used for the wave speed or "celerity". The term celerity means the speed of the progressing wave with respect to stationary water - so any current or other net water velocity would be added to it.
The shape of an ocean wave is often depicted as a sine wave, but the the experimental waveshape is described as a "trochoid". A trochoid can be defined as the curve traced out by a point on a circle as the circle is rolled along a line. The following sketch is adapted from Bascom.
The trochoid shape does approach the sine curve in shape for small amplitudes, but you can perhaps see that the shape is different, with a narrowing of the peaks of the trochoid compared to the sinusoid. This narrowing or steepening of the peak becomes more pronounced as the wave amplitude increases.
The discovery of the trochoidal shape came from the observation that particles in the water would execute a circular motion as a wave passed without significant net advance in their position. The motion of the water is forward as the peak of the wave passes, but backward as the trough of the wave passes, arriving again at the same position when the next peak arrives. (Actually, experiments show a slight advance of the water with the waves, but that advance is small compared to the overall circular motion.)
The illustration above, adapted from von Arx, shows the direction of the water motion at different points along the wave.
Bascom describes wavetank experiments where the circulation of the water was studied. The circles summarize the total motion of the medium when a full wavelength passes. It was common practice to inject droplets of oil which were whitened with zinc oxide and adjusted to have the same density as the water. The orbits could then be traced out on the sides of the wavetank. It was found that there was a small progression of the orbits in the direction of the wave propagation.
The fact that the water motion at depth flattens into a forward and backward surge is readily observed by scuba divers on shallow reefs. The effect of waves traveling overhead is translated into forward and backward motion of a diver suspended over the reef, and can be seen in the motion of soft corals and vegetation.
All of the description of waves above applies to long-wavelength waves which von Arx calls "gravity waves", implying that they are mainly controlled by gravity and inertia. Their wave speeds increase with wavelength, a behavior that is called "normal dispersion". For waves shorter than 1.73 cm, the surface tension of the water exerts a controlling force and von Arx calls them "capillary waves". Their speed increases as the wavelength gets shorter, a behavior that is called "anomalous dispersion". The minimum wavespeed at wavelength 1.73 cm is 23.1 cm/s. The following dependence of deep-water speed on wavelength is adapted from von Arx.
The small ripples or capillary waves are observed first when a fresh wind blows over smooth water. They have rounded crests and v-shaped troughs. Von Arx describes these waves as the way the wind gets a "grip" on the water since they are numerous and move slowly before the wind. Stories are told of seafarers who first observed these capillary waves when the wind was rising and later experienced the swells of the gravity waves, so it was thought that the capillary waves were the first mechanism by which the wind gave energy to the water. As the gravity waves build up, their wavelength tends to lengthen and speed increase until it matches the speed of the wind, at which point they can no longer extract energy from the wind.
The trochoid form that is attributed to ocean waves changes shape as the amplitude increases for a given wavelength.
Trochoid wave models
The shape change is illustrated at left for a single wavelength, but the peak tends to become narrower and steeper as the amplitude increases for a given wavelength. Bascom reports experimental evidence from wavetanks that suggests that a ratio of 1:7 for peak height to wavelength is the maximum and that an angle of 120° is the minimum angle for a peak. Above this ratio the peaks became unstable. The bottom wave sketch is scaled to that 1:7 ratio of peak-to-trough distance compared to wavelength.
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This blog post is inspired by this blog and my reply by Steve Hamm.
Steve writes: "Japan already has a sophisticated alert system that notifies people by SMS to their mobile telephones when the beginning of an earthquake is sensed. But people don't always respond with the urgency that's required."
This got me thinking. Based on anecdotal stories and video posted on YouTube, it hit me that there is another factor at work: that the victims simply didn't know *what* to do. Japan has a very fancy, automated earthquake alert system that tells you that something really bad happened but not what to do next.
Steve writes that IBM Research is working on simulations and ways to communicate to the general public the seriousness of the warnings -- simulations of what 'could happen'. I think that's great, so that they understand the warnings and take them seriously. What I'm concerned about are those who *want* to take them seriously but *can't*.
For example, in the YouTube video I linked to, it seems to me if the driver went straight instead of left that they would have immediately started going uphill. Instead s/he turned left and was caught in the flow of water & debris. Very interesting video, for sure.
What is needed is to not only warn that there "is a problem", but then to add "what to do about it". Given your GPS position, the type of danger, etc. then correct instructions could be sent to the phone. For example, in the tsunami situation it could have sent 2 kinds of instructions: if you are in a building, you must go to a floor at least XX meters above ground. If you are in a car, follow this routing to the evacuation route (or to a 'safe' building).
I can also imagine (and was discussed on the news) that visitors and ex-pats would be completely clueless if they are in an unfamiliar area. Even worse if you don't speak the local language. So - the system should be fully integrated to alert you of the danger in your native language, tell you what happened, what to do and where to go. Once the disaster is abated, you should then be able to register somewhere so others know of your status, locate emergency shelters & supplies, and generally find ways to survive. All this should be location based and in your language too...
Sounds like a System of Systems approach is needed!
Sounds like a System of Systems approach is needed!


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