• But we're of the opinion that your Facebook profile is just that: yours, and showing two little faces to every person who searches for you (or glances at your Twitter or clicks on your blog or looks you up on LinkedIn -- avatars be er'ywhere) is just a little...strange.

    CNN: Hey, you two, dial it back just a little

  • Among the prisoners in Be'er Sheva is Abdullah Barghouti, a man Israeli's regard as their most dangerous prisoner.

    BBC: Inside Be'er Sheva prison

  • While the walls of the Inspiration Mars spacecraft will initially be lined with water-filled bags to guard against cosmic rays, their contents will be gradually replaced with er, byproduct that will be dehydrated through the bag (possibly using polyethylene) to reclaim and purify water for drinking.

    ENGADGET

  • And for much of the TV audience, wrestling will never be as, er, viewer-friendly as beach volleyball.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Badminton Boys

  • Certainly, the simple addition of bananas to the Starbucks mix seems to be working more, er, smoothly than the previous big innovation, the hot breakfast sandwich, which required bulky additional equipment and confused customers and baristas alike as to where the sandwich should change hands after heating.

    ECONOMIST: Innovative things to do with a banana

  • Sure, there might be a sort of, er, climax.

    FORBES: Lap Dance Tax v. Amazon Tax?

  • An attack on a British mainstay would be tough for Britons to, er, swallow under any circumstances.

    FORBES: Brits Might Pay 20% Snack Tax--Americans Would Sue

  • Pet ownership may well be in the eye of the er, pet holder.

    FORBES: Congress Bites At Pet Exemption

  • Keep in mind there may not be a "kid-certified" ER within a reasonable distance from your home.

    CNN: How to find the best ER for your child

  • Comparative wine production statistics for China are a bit problematic because much of the wine produced is not pure grape wine but may be mixed-fruit wine, and the rules on what can be labeled Chinese wine are quite, er, flexible.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Thus, it could be given before tests prove that a patient in the ER does not have a hemorrhagic stroke.

    FORBES: Brain Repair

  • Oh, and we mean that not just figuratively, but literally as well -- they could actually be caused to burst into flames by some ne'er-do-well half-way around the globe.

    ENGADGET: Researchers expose printer vulnerability, turn LaserJets into literal time bombs (update)

  • So even if they are in the ER for a real emergency, they will be referred to an appropriate primary care facility or patient-centered medical home before they leave.

    FORBES: One Great Idea for Reducing Health Care Costs: Keep Non-Emergencies Out of the ER

  • It should be noted that if you are older, have a history of coronary disease and previously placed cardiac stents (high risk), the coronary CT angiogram would not be an appropriate test as a triage tool in the ER.

    FORBES: Coronary CT Scans May Save You (And Your Hospital)

  • They're campaigning incredibly hard for Labour and I think that for Clare Short to, to call for a hung parliament, er, a hung parliament that may not be able to deliver the manifesto pledges that we've got to tackle poverty, inequality, improved schools and hospitals.

    BBC: Hazel Blears

  • She was from Shoreditch, sir, which is about as Cock-er-ney as it is possible to be (or was back in the 50s - now it's full of ruddy eejits in very thin jeans ashamed of their parents' wealth and exhibiting a complete failure to understand that they are the laughing stock of the rest of the London populace).

    BBC: WI v England: Third Test day three as it happened

  • Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google's soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets... er, internet.

    ENGADGET: Google's Android OS early look SDK now available

  • Anoth-er, Muhammad Muham-mad Taib, will be challenged by a field of state chief ministers and cabinet members. (Abdullah is the third incumbent.) And Razaleigh cannot be written off.

    CNN: Yes? No? Maybe? Too Late!

  • As noted by the current incarnation of the GOP candidate, when a patient turns up at the ER with severe stomach pain, that patient will be treated until her condition is stabilized.

    FORBES: No Health Insurance? No Problem. Romney Says That Freeloading In The ER Is Now All Good

  • Geriatrician Bill Thomas, who helped Holy Cross design the seniors ER, says traditional emergency rooms were set up to be good at treating trauma and to treat it quickly.

    NPR: An Emergency Room Built Specially For Seniors

  • "Er, I would like to know if my son will be happy in his life, " I say.

    BBC: Hong Kong: Where worlds collide

  • It is comforting to know that physicians such as yourself are still here, especially in the ER, who look for and identify those who may indeed be shopping, seeking, or otherwise abusing controlled substances.

    FORBES: Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse With A National Online Database

  • The researchers maintain that another Kenyan fossil, KNM-ER-1470, currently designated as H. rudolfensis, should be put back with fossils from Olduvai Gorge into H. habilis.

    BBC: Fossil key to human origins

  • The ER is not the appropriate location to treat these uninsured patients, yet they come to the ER for services that aren't needed there when they should be going to specialized clinics.

    FORBES: Leslie V. Norwalk

  • And it calls for powers for regulators to punish former directors, rather than accepting an assurance that they're off quietly to spend more time with their pensions, and, er, not to worry, chaps, they won't be troubling the financial sector again.

    BBC: Carrying on banking

  • He, if I'm ever going to see my partner of thirty years, I can't make him come to Luton all the time, I have to be able to have a proper family life sometimes, which I can't do unless I have er, you know, I, I share the costs of the Southampton home with him.

    BBC: Andrew Sinclair interviewed Margaret Moran MP

  • The American government put in a friendly word (Bill Clinton's friend, Vernon Jordan, has since become a senior adviser to Shinsei) and the Japanese were persuaded that a serious effort would be made to rebuild the bank (it may have helped that the adviser to the Japanese government was, er, Goldman Sachs).

    ECONOMIST: Face value

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