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Ideas for Clipmarks?

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:27:44 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: I think it's been a while since anyone has done it, so let me see if I can start something up. Others can follow.

I would like to see on Clipmarks....

A list of 'Most active Clippers'
A list of Clippers with most followers
Simple interface with less drop down lists
A list of Clippers currently browsing Clipmarks
Ways to further decrease time it takes to clip, i.e, reduce clicks anywhere possible.
More RSS integration, i.e., see if Clipmarks can auto-clip latest interesting news/feeds.

More later.

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Why he Was A Babe Magnet

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:27:00 GMT

clipped by: carrerinyes
clipper's remarks: letters, but not necessarily sexual congress. A peek inside Franklin's not-so-little black book:

Deborah Franklin: The Affectionate Wife
Deborah and Ben had a close marriage, except for the fact that for 18 of the 44 years of their union they lived apart. But even if their bond lacked grand passion, it had mutual respect.

Plain and plump, Deborah, a carpenter's daughter, is first taken with the young printer when he begins lodging with her family shortly after his arrival in Philadelphia in 1723. They, as Benjamin put it, "interchang'd some promises"—an 18th century locution for engagement—a year later as he set off for England to buy printing equipment. But when his backer reneges and Franklin finds himself stranded in London, he tells Deborah to forget him. She marries a potter instead who may already have been married, a ne'er-do-well who squanders her dowry and runs off to the West Indies. When Franklin returns home after two years away, he professes guilt for having strande

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Even when he was old and rotund, Ben had sex appeal. He knew the way to a woman's heart was through her head

More than two centuries after his death, people are still trying to figure out how a paunchy, balding, bifocaled septuagenarian managed to get French ladies in a flutter. From his days as an ambitious young printer in Philadelphia to his years as a diplomatic superstar in France, Ben Franklin surrounded himself with adoring women, often much younger, usually attractive and preferably intelligent. For the most part, his loyal wife Deborah tolerated these dalliances. As she probably knew, most were never consummated. In fact, Franklin was a master of what the French call amiti� amoureuse, whose English translation, amorous friendship, gives only a hint of its true meaning: a delicious form of intimacy, expressed in exchanges of teasing kisses, tender embraces, intimate conversations and rhapsodic love