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Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
Voyager I and 2 had experienced subtle course changes after passing through the heliopause. Something massive was out there, and we just got lucky that those two old probes left the solar system where they did… The Object didn’t appear...
Commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
Voyager I and 2 had experienced subtle course changes after passing through the heliopause. Something massive was out there, and we just got lucky that those two old probes left the solar system where they did… The Object didn’t appear...
Commented on What MP3 player should I buy?
3rding using your existing G1. You are still using the G1, right? Google's Listen app is free (I haven't tried it) but use Doggcatcher, which works great for me....
Commented on Android developers pledge to make open equivalents to Google's proprietary apps
wow, that headline doesn't quite match the content of the article. Cyanogen isn't working on replacements for the Google apps, he's just no longer distributing them. He's going to keep a backup of the original ROM, and extract the Google...
Commented on The death of "locational privacy"
Privacy died a long time ago, it's time to stop cuddling by the dead corpse. For those who would like to track me down, my location is updated automatically at http://rishel.org/location...
Commented on What Do Pirates Call Augmented Reality?
That's not an eye-patch, it's a Heads Up Display....
Commented on Moon Landing Pics: "Gee-Whiz" Afterthought
has anyone taken the a high res version of the visor reflection and flattened it out? I'd like a better look at what Buzz was looking at....
Commented on Photos of famous people with their faces turned upside down
somewhere, someone is masturbating to this....
Commented on The Chappe Optical Telegraph
and I really thought Pratchett had an original idea when he was describing the "Clack Towers" of Discworld...
Commented on Video: Thank god, it's the Comfort Wipe
I bet this product would be of big help to Centaurs. Boing Boing Gadgets: something really went wrong for us Westerners when it came to pooping...
Commented on Desk with treadmill
my office has wifi and a gym in the basement. I've got a 4" x 11" x 4' cardboard box sitting on top of the treadmill to hold my laptop and I have my office phone forwarded to my cell....
Commented on Anecdote as Data: Dimmable CFL light bulbs don't quite work right yet
you want a cold cathode dimmable bulb. I'm using ones like this in my dimmable ceiling fans. They do take a few minutes to get up to maximum brightness when you first turn them on, but it is an effect...
Commented on Frog eats Christmas light, gets illuminated
#2, I think you right. As a kid, I used to be constantly playing in a nearby creek. closer to fall when the water was cold but before the frogs burrowed in for winter they'd get real docile and let...
Commented on Everything is Cancer: "Green" tungsten bullets may be carcinogenic
as someone currently wearing a tungsten wedding ring, I am not happy about this news....
Commented on Today's anniversary of the pencil eraser
@thelibrarianne: A Single Lipman? sorry, Lipman's only come in pairs. *rimshot* I realize this isn't actually funny if you think about it for more than a half a second....
Commented on European criminal mastermind's DNA turns out to be tainted forensic swab
sounds like a day job in a cotton swab factory is the perfect cover....
Commented on Glitter Is the Swiss Army Knife of Emotions
that thread is like The Complete Internet, Abridged. it also told me about http://fuckyeahneilpatrickharris.com, which was missing from my life and I didn't even know. DIDN'T EVEN KNOW....
Commented on Tweet Week: Follow us on Twitter, win prizes
does Brownlee not want to participate? cause I already follow him. he's @DrCrypt, and his parakeet is @HumbertHumbird...
Commented on Android Jailbroken, a sentence so stupid I can't believe I have to type it
the scary part is that I can now telnet into my phone as root without a password. Pork Musket (#1) totally nails it. this isn't JailBreaking. it's more like.. PushingOpenADoorThatWasn'tShutTheWholeWaying...
Commented on German traffic cops angered by British driver who mocks traffic cams with a Muppet
That driver is an Animal....
Commented on Review: A few days with the T-Mobile G1, the first Google Android phone
#4, the G1 has a capacitative touch screen, multitouch was left out so Apple wouldn't sue them. It's an IP issue, not an technology issue....
Commented on Home of Ralph the Swimming Pig to be bulldozed
I thought, oh, well that makes sense, he's such a Disney fan, but couldn't get a job in the Magic Kingdom, so he decided to be a castmember at another Florida attraction. But then I kept wondering, was this at...
Commented on Roomba Pet: Meet Humbert Humbird
the Roomba mounted perch will need to hang off the back of the Roomba, spoileresque. Otherwise the top of your Roomba would slowly become covered in poop, then you'd need another tinier Roomba to patrol the top of your main...
Commented on Exilim Cellphone hits FCC
Casio isn't a member of the OHA, are they? I'm have a beautiful dream that this baby could run Android....
Commented on Exilim Cellphone hits FCC
what OS will this beautiful chimera run?...
Commented on I will now bitch about Twitter in 140 words or less
go to summize.com (now search.twitter.com)) and search for "@joeljohnson" or "to:joeljohnson" and you'll get a stunning reproduction of a replies page. I used this while my replies page was down, but it is very odd that yours still is....
Commented on Apple finally — FINALLY — sues Psystar
I was also wondering if this was some attempt to get all EULA's invalidated, but sadly have to agree they are probably not that clever......
Commented on Milt Stein's Supermouse -- better than Carl Barks?
@GoGoGadgetBlog: I had the exact same thought. That "Gorilla" looks like it was drawn by someone who had never seen a gorilla and only had what one looks like briefly described to him....
Commented on Two nice laptop hardware touches
Is one extra cable for your ethernet really that much of a pain? Now if they could also mix in a connection to my speakers and USB for my external mouse and keyboard, oh, and firewire for my camcorder connection--...
Commented on <i>The Keynote</i>: Dramatic coverage of WWDC 2008... in several acts!
woohoo! my reality distortion line made it into the play! (I'm einstein on freenode)...

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jg.fw commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
Will (Bloop) Found was proud to be born in Riverside and he rarely left. Now, naturally, he and his family travel a lot. When he was thirty one when he had The Idea and it took him three years to secretly build the spaceship Jupiter II out of wood. After he was in orbit, Will freely published everything about The Idea on the internet. It changed the world. He was proud it did, even though the changes were unexpected. But Will was most proud of the Riverside newspaper's headline printed as he orbited the Earth: "Found in Space"....
echogoblin commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
He floated outside the ship, holding the dull silver sphere clumsily in his gloved hands. Turning it, he found a raised square in the center. He thought he might report in, take it inside to examine. But… Impulsively, he pressed down on the square. And was suddenly inside a dull sphere, lit from nowhere, floating free. “Zephraim to Alpha, over.” Nothing. “Zephraim to Alpha.” He wouldn’t panic. Not yet. He looked around: dull, featureless. Except for the little silver sphere in the center of the chamber. He floated to it, picked it up. Examined the raised square in the center…...
H33T3R commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
I have spent 25 years searching the depths of space, galaxy after galaxy, world upon world. In a dark tavern just outside of the city Geisler on planet Morpha, there he was. Smaller than I expected, but still mind boggling that after so long I finally found him. I walked up to him and asked him for his autograph and Captain James T Kirk set his drink down and said, “ I don’t do autographs, you Denebian slime devil.” He handed me a headshot and I went home. What a douche bag!...
wgkelly commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
“He after this,” the bodyguard presented a sleek electronic-looking cube. “Charged right in and started hootin’ when he grab it.” Cortez waved back a patrolman. “Says it his. Saw it on Cribs. Knew right where it at.” The bodyguard made a low huffing sound that Cortez placed finally as a laugh. “Needs it to get back home. Some kind of space man.” Cortez studied the bruised up cracker in the squad car. More cars arrived every few moments, drawn to the address more than the call. “The man’s name really Marion?” Cortez wanted to know. “Naw, man. Name is Mister.”...
Rob Beschizza commented on 100-word fiction competition — win an HP MediaSmart EX495
Thank you all for your entries. Holy crap. Winner to be announced ... soon?...

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