Yes, yes it would be. I must have been distracted by shiny laptops...

Very cool to be covering the Big Bots. I hope you will take a look at the humorous lawn mowing robot at Phipps (I won't spoil it here). Also maybe you can find the one outside the library in Oakland because I couldn't.

Just what I need! A kitchen Dalek to exterminate dirty dishes.

What's cool about this is that the packaging doesn't seem to be all that excessive either. Instead of a disposable cushioning wrapper you get a reusable slip cover. The box looks like something I'd hold on to as well; much nicer than the corrugated cardboard you get with other computers even if it's shipped in another box.

There is something unreal about the cucumber slice.

@1 No shit.

mmmm... Digital smegma... such an accurate description.

Not a big enough antenna? This makes zero sense. Handheld GPS receivers are not much bigger than the iPhone and get turn by turn directions.

4. He is the photographer. "Joi Ito points to this fan-remix of a photo he once took" (emphasis mine)

Also known as the Ghetto Eagle... A name that also works for the Lawrenceville Giant Eagle which I will only shop at for the bare essentials despite the fact that the Waterworks Giant Eagle is more than twice as far away. I'm not sure what the store smells like but it smells like something I don't want to eat.

Looks to be the North Side Giant Eagle

There are some good ones there, but most are fairly lame. Playing off state slogans is a good idea but most of them don't do that.

@1 You use a hands-free headset like a responsable adult.

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I wouldn't worry about it. Just call the 800 number and explain the situation. You should still be covered for the flaw.

Insert sexual innuendo *here*

@7

Quantum Mechanics. It's not gee-whiz lasers and robots but divergent realities and parallel universes are firmly grounded in scientific theory.

That wonder nipple calls to me. It's by far my favorite mobile input device. My latest laptop only has a trackpad and I really miss the precision of the mini-joystick. Plus it was much easier to position my hands for World of Warcraft.

This whole idea basically breaks scholarly works. The idea that they can revoke the license if they don't like what's done with it is absurd.

I supopose the way around it is to find out what AP member paper your author writes for and go straight to him or her for premission. That is unless AP holds all redistobution rights, which is probably true.

If you have to drink it fast, you probably shouldn't drink it at all.

Reminds me of this:
http://www.afrotechmods.com/cheap/hdspeakers/hdspeakers.htm

#3

Max Payne 2 was only publised by RockStar. It was developed by Remedy Entertainment.

More proof that if Blu-Ray had faled Sony would be screwed.

You live across the Allegheny River from me. Well, across the river and downstream a bit. I agree that Shadyside is too expensive. Same thing with Southside Flats.

You can't be too far away from the vacant house that mysteriously blew up some months ago.

Can't help you with the stick, but I'm curious as to what neighborhood in this fine city you live. From the tiny description I'm wanting to say Shadyside, but I could be way off.

Doesn't seem like a real filmstrip without the advance the film beeps.

I didn't think it would be funny. Then I remembered how much I enjoy Mr. Hilter. Anway I found this to be nearly as funny.

#17 The original author had nothing to support the inclusion of the Wii on the list. He treats the Nintendo franchises (Mario & Zelda) with reverence in previous entries and then says that Nintendo is doing the "same old shit". Also apparently we are being fed "trite". I wonder what that tastes like...

Generally speaking, sales are a good way to determine the success of a console. Since the Wii continues to sell like crazy it's very hard to call it the "worst console of all time".

The SNES came with Super Mario World, not Super Mario Land, and the 32x was an expansion rather than a full fledged console. The Wii is at #1 just to bring in page views. The whole thing stinks.

The RoboCup US Open will not be hapening at CMU but at the Carnegie Science Center on the North Shore.

I don't want to sound like a total asshole, but the window to protest the Beijing Olympics has pretty much passed. Maybe they should have made a bigger stink when the IOC was evaluating host cities.

When I think harmonium I think reed organ...

@ACB: It's 473ml (roughly). Shame bad beer is a universal constant, still Stella is far from the worst.

@13

I know exactly where you are coming from and I'd argue that while this is indeed a more accurate representation of oldschool leetspeak it still goes a little too far. At least the people I remember on BBSs (dude, its plural not possessive) and IRC wouldn't go so far as to spell out every single word in such a manner. Just the ones they thought could throw up flags to the sysop or perhaps Echelon (yes, they were often that full of themselves).

There is largely nothing wrong with Windows Mobile and I wish there were more devices that run it.

Thanks for that image. Now I have to go do the dishes...

On occasion I have mis-parsed hadron as hardon. This post has made my day.

#9 If you rtfa you will see that he was traveling under the visa waiver program and could be denied entry if he was convicted of a felony or addicted to narcotics. So, yes there is a list of reasons for which a traveler can be denied entry. The fear here is that he is statistically likely to commit a crime while in the US so they don't want to let him in without doing a deeper background check via the visa application process.

The scary thing here is how people don't look any further than a slightly skewed writeup on Boing Boing. The link to the CNN story is right there and it's not a very long read.

Time to get cracking on Project: Giant Light-Bulb.

For some reason I find it ammusing that the device as it is now resmbles a 17th century neck stock.

This is the kind of stuff I love finding in Google Maps. But then again I like trying to date their sat photos based on construction projects.

#17 Plenty of good beer comes in pressurized kegs... Like just about every draught beer that isn't in a cask.

I know it's the easiest way to show a computer running, but am I the only one who finds it weird that they kept showing the monitor to prove that the power was still on? It made sense in the first video where they use a power strip, but in all of the other segments they are providing power to a single outlet.

The paths for those images are all wrong.

I'm going to have to second (or third) RadioLab. I heard about it some time ago while listening to This American Life and have never looked back.