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anything underwater

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Replace plastic bags with recycled home made cloth bags. http://www.morsbags.com/

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whale sharks

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• A reply on Conversation: Live Q&A with Sherry Turkle: How has digital technology changed the kind of communications you have with your friends, family & co-workers?

  Apr 12 2012: Hi Douglas, if your problem is those people using different networks, you could consider using an app that combines them all, like e.g. Tweetdeck: http://www.tweetdeck.com/
  
  You can just log into all of your accounts from there and it will display all entries in the same UI. That would fix the issue I am reading into this comment.

• A reply on Conversation: Live Q&A with Sherry Turkle: How has digital technology changed the kind of communications you have with your friends, family & co-workers?

  Apr 12 2012: Oooh, but that sounds like fun! Boys and girls who already wanted to practice their morse skills would have a very effective way to do so! Morse is really useful for lots of things, like for secretly talking to your best friend next to you even though both were just told to stay quiet. :D

• A reply on Conversation: Live Q&A with Sherry Turkle: How has digital technology changed the kind of communications you have with your friends, family & co-workers?

  Apr 12 2012: Hello Sherry! Thanks for the reply!
  
  I agree this can be very moving, but even those people would probably prefer a real life conversation. After having had so and so many online discussions, arguments, debates, brainstorming sessions or whatever, for certain types of conversation, nothing beats seeing the reaction in people's faces.
  
  It's sad how it is hard to get those reactions though because people are withdrawing, since faking a communication is so much easier than actually having one, it doesn't involve, well, "involvement". You can just close the tab. Especially when it comes to something that goes further than exchanging facts, actually debating, having insights, inspiring each other, and speaking to people's hearts I suppose. Thanks for your talk by the way, I much enjoyed it and sent it to all my friends. :)

• A comment on Conversation: Live Q&A with Sherry Turkle: How has digital technology changed the kind of communications you have with your friends, family & co-workers?

  Apr 12 2012: I find it interesting how online and offline persona can be so different that I cannot deal with some of my offline friends online (maybe because they spam me with game requests on Facebook, but mostly because they have a way of writing that I interpret in a way or that sounds so odd that I take offense when reading it). Or the other way round - I had an online friend years ago and his dialect is so strange that I have to resort to written language to understand him.
  
  And on the same line, it also helps when talking to friends that speak a different language and have a strong accent - both sides have more time to parse what the person said and nobody has to feel ashamed for mispronouncing things. This works well with some of my international coworkers, and/or also friends.

• A reply on Conversation: Live Q&A with Sherry Turkle: How has digital technology changed the kind of communications you have with your friends, family & co-workers?

  Apr 12 2012: And there is a certain superficiality about it (e.g. if you disable it = no birthday greetings, if you change it = people congratulate you on a different day), so it's turning more into a reaction instead of an action, or something, say, "emotionally valuable". I got 100+ birthday greetings last year on my Facebook and this year when I disabled it, around 5 (from my family). :)
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  A comment on Talk: Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object

  Feb 28 2012: What a marvelous talk! I wish we could get more of those objects to speak to us like the Cyrus Cylinder does, and deliver such important and hopeful messages! And if we're lucky, more people like Neil MacGregor will interpret for us. :)
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  A comment on Talk: Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus

  Feb 8 2012: I only just found out about the tragedy that caused the talk to show up on the front page. But on the upside, it allowed the ones that missed his message previously to listen to it now. Thanks, Mike, for your message and your work!
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  A reply on Talk: Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work

  Feb 2 2012: It would be very complicated to look elliptic grammar up in an online dictionary, too. In my experience they tend to check orthography. I'd say your sentence fragments are fine.