Well it sounds like you agree with him on a lot of things, but I'm not seeing the half-truths. For example, I think most people know what 'a woman's right to choose' refers to. Paul has voted against abortion rights multiple times. Many people, myself included, feel that this is one of the many things which makes him an unacceptable candidate.

It seems to me that you are taking offense at the criticisms of someone you feel is right for the job, but rather than addressing those criticisms rationally, you've chosen to mock and deride.

I've looked into his views and I frankly have not seen any dishonest criticisms of him in here.

DCulberson: Of course! I'm such an idiot!

Sexism aside, I just don't get it. Why a buxom woman with a jackhammer? What does that have to do with Boing Boing? Am I just being dense here and it's supposed to be some Dadaistic thing or am I missing something?

I knew Bulemia had its uses.

If you outlaw pig brains, only outlaw pigs will have brains!

Father Brown, it wouldn't be hipster crass consumerism if it wasn't fit into a niche market, silly!

My grandfather worked at the DeHaviland aircraft factory in Britain during the war. It had bomb damage painted on its roof. I always thought that was cool.

Mark, you and I must have been in the same terminal around the same time assuming you took that yesterday. Cool.

Actually, Newton's law of universal gravitation has been falsified...

"That initial point, called a singularity by physicists, is a physical impossibility."

I think I have a lot of evidence to counter this...

LEV3K: Including the replicator?

"I still can't get past the idea that "you can type faster this way" doesn't really have a practical manifestation."

It is practical in situations where you have to take dictation or transcribe something. Instances where speed and accuracy really do matter.

I don't know the story behind the court stenographer's little machine, but they are incredibly fast on them and their keyboards are unlike any other I know.

Again, it's all about what you use a keyboard for. If you're a transcriber, you want to be as fast and accurate as possible. If you're a writer, you want to be able to be as free as possible with your words. If you're writing a letter to grandma, you just need the letters to appear when you press a key.

"i don't care what these people say about there being limited ergonomic improvements and speed improvements. for me the speed improvement is more than 10% and accuracy easily more than 30%. not having to stretch for the most commonly typed letters does improve accuracy. that means less moving your right hand off the home row and using your weakest finger to backspace. which is of course another source of accuracy loss, when you miss the home row upon return."

This sort of plays into what I was saying earlier. Dvorak is fine for people like yourself, but probably not for everyone.

I sort of look at it the same way I look at high-end entertainment centers. I can understand how the image and sound quality is superior, how it gives you a more theatrical experience, etc. I would freely admit that it is overall a better way to watch TV. However, I'm perfectly fine with my old 27" Magnavox standard def set with no surround sound and I am not planning on investing time or money in changing it unless I really don't have much choice- and I think most people are on my side with that.

So to me it is less about speed and efficiency and more about comfort- and by comfort, I don't mean ergonomic comfort, I mean what you feel most mentally comfortable using. I know QWERTY. I understand it. It works for me. Dvorak may be much better, much faster, etc. but the advantage of QWERTY to me is I don't need to learn anything new and I am comfortable with the layout since I've used it all my life.

It seems to me that learning a keyboard layout that very few people actually use would be a detriment to most people. I'm sure it is very helpful if you need to type faster from what people are saying, but the lost productivity in not only learning it but retaining the knowledge of QWERTY in order to use computers that aren't yours would be a pain in the ass.

When I used to have a PC, I ran XP with a Lightstep shell that worked very differently than the standard Microsoft GUI. Admittedly, I found it faster and more efficient because of the way I had customized it. Almost everything was in right click context menus, there was a tiny mac-like dock, etc.

The problems were that- a) whenever I used someone's normal windows computer I got confused for a few minutes and b) whenever anyone else wanted to use my computer (i.e. wife, friends, etc.), they were totally flummoxed.

I think much like Linux, if you are really into computers and programming and stuff, it could be a great benefit to you. But Grandma knows QWERTY from her typewriter days and it ain't gonna change any time soon.

People eschew 'better' technology all the time. Betamax was smaller and higher quality than VHS but people preferred VHS tapes. SA-CD is higher quality than regular CDs, but hardly anyone buys them. Even now, Blu Ray and HD-DVD sales are pretty abyssmal because while the quality is inarguably superior to DVD, most people in this world were fine with the quality of VHS, let alone DVD.

There's a place similar to this in North Hollywood, CA called Norton Sellers although they tend to specialize in jet and rocket parts. Great place though. I had the privilege of being on a crew filming there once and got to see their vast warehouse in the back of the store. All kinds of crazy weird electronics stuff.

Well hey, he was obviously too drunk to get the beer himself. I call party foul on the emergency services.

@Franko:

Not only do I remember Micronauts, I owned the toys and still, somewhere, have a complete run of the original comic book series. I'm a Micronaut Micronut (yuk yuk)!

@Commieneko:

Thanks, that will come in handy. I contacted him and offered to dub a dialogue track for him because I do that for a living.

Some YouTube Planet of the Apes surfing led me to this, a student film from the late '70s that was meant as a sequel to the Apes films which ties up loose ends. It's damn impressive. It looks like actual Planet of the Apes movie footage.

Unfortunately, the soundtrack has been lost.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ik_lX81Qt0

(sorry if this is a double-post)

Some YouTube Planet of the Apes surfing led me to this, a student film from the late '70s that was meant as a sequel to the Apes films which ties up loose ends. It's damn impressive. It looks like actual Planet of the Apes movie footage.

Unfortunately, the soundtrack has been lost.

Chicken of the Sea of course.

"What kind of place is this that the ruling class are apes?"

It's a distant future, the year 2000. The president will be a chimpanzee. I know you don't believe it now, but in a few years you're going to elect a guy who worked with monkeys and then the monkey son of his VP will become president. And then they will declare Ape Law.

I wish there were more BB posts like this. REAL cryptozoology is given a bad name by the bigfoot and loch ness monster hunters. I cringe every time I see them promoted. It's doing a disservice to hard-working scientists.

That's pretty expensive for a sweatshirt with a zipper and a hood.

Oh sure, Kali finally reincarnates and you go chop her arms off. Typical.

If nothing else, it restricts the flow of oxygen to the brain which can produce euphoria and hallucinations...

Oh Franko, you poor lost soul...

Way, way too far. I thought it was mildly amusing the first time. At this point, a little bit of me dies inside each time I see yet another iteration...

I wish he would focus on more than just Disney. The Krazy Kat Homage landscapes of Philip DeGuard for the Warner Brothers Road Runner/Coyote cartoons are gorgeous.

Meanwhile, somewhere a poor Horta is missing its offspring...

Coming soon to an eBay auction near you...

Stefan, they can be watched online: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=dream+of+a+rarebit+fiend&sitesearch=

I don't know about those, but McKay hand-animated each frame of Gertie the Dinosaur. This was before cell animation too so each frame had to be redrawn from scratch.

Too bad there's not enough presidents to do this properly. There's a lot of re-use there.

D'oh! This comment system doesn't use UBB. Stupid Squid.

It's like a somewhat mis-scaled version of the stone spheres in Costa Rica.

It is a neat idea, but hurt by Apple's brilliant displays which make a low-res image like one from a web security camera not look all that great.

Sort of like this, Truthfriction5? http://www.our-picks.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/thefirstapple.gif

Damn. Their bandwidth limit has already been exceeded. I really wanted to see the rest of it.

Also, someone needs to do one of these steampunk computer projects with a mac already!

Now the next step is to genetically engineer them to spell out stuff and voila! Advertising space on mouse brains!

I know, Teresa. I was just kidding. You're doing a great job. :)

Okay, now I'm all paranoid that y'all are tracking my movements from thread to thread. :(

Jove has put out some great stuff, but they have some copyright issues that bother me. Despite the law, as far as I know, saying that anything made in the USSR before 1972 was public domain, they claim to own the rights on a lot of that footage.

Tamara R., my post was apparently deleted accidentally. I am sure it was not intentional as it makes Cory's post a little hard to understand. I am sorry I caused all this strife.

It's okay, Teresa. As I said in the original, it was an honest criticism and no malice was meant by it, so if it was deleted, so be it. I'm sorry it caused such a big flap and a headache for you.

Fair enough. Thank you for the response. Again, I meant it with no ill will.

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Terrific news! Keep the PD footage flowing!

You wouldn't have to drive it on the road. I'm sure it does great on the sidewalk.

p.s. I want one!

Does it actually work or is it just a model? Either way, it's cool, but it would be even cooler if it really worked. The article isn't clear.

Pardon me. It's Teresa. No H.

Thank you, abb3w, for the long explanation.

Theresa: I'm not saying I am in the clear, that is actually the reverse of my point. ER PLC could easily send YouTube a takedown order or myself a cease and desist and I would abide by that without complaint.

The problem with the automated system is that they would get it taken off no matter what.

Here's a great example, a Star Wars fan film. Lucasfilm acknowledges outright that fan films are not only acceptable as long as they are non-commercial, but in fact help their franchise. This automated system could knock those off of YouTube, thus actually hurting Lucasfilm.

Theresa, here is a fun video of the fainting goats.

I also recommend if you can find it, Ronson's other series, Secret Rulers of the World which profiles conspiracy theorists like David Icke and Alex Jones. Ronson does an excellent job of building them up before deconstructing them and pointing out how they are wrong.

Well I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I know since I'm not making any money from it, nor ever intend do do so and don't malign their product in any way, it's fair use.

I'm one of the people who could be affected by this. I make The Skeletor Show which redubs old He-Man cartoons. Now Entertainment Rights, PLC, the owners of the footage, have had a lot of chances to figure out I'm doing it (apart from being on BoingBoing, I've been in hundreds of newspapers, radio, etc.) so either they have their heads in the sand or, more likely, consider what I'm doing fair use since I don't make a dime off of it, I just do it for fun, and it doesn't hurt their product. I have even tried to contact them about getting the rights so I can sell it and they didn't respond. I take that as a sign that they don't really care about what I'm doing.

These sorts of measures will only upset fans. Entertainment Rights, PLC doesn't seem to have a problem with me, but this new software would take my work off of YouTube.

Now I could be wrong. They could feel what I'm doing is piracy, but they have never sent YouTube a takedown notice or even suggested what I am doing is violating copyright.

It's cases like mine where this sort of thing is going to essentially destroy what I do for my own (and others') entertainment, something that makes no money and is just done in fun.

Imagine if they did this with Red vs. Blue. Initially they didn't have any permission from Bungie Studies to use Halo footage, but it got so big and popular that Bungie started actively supporting them.

No one has ever had a problem with what I've done... well, not a legal problem, some people think it sucks, but that's another story. I have used the show as an example of my work to send to prospective employers and have made a lot of friends from doing it. No one is losing money on what I do since they are seeing re-edited, re-animated, re-dubbed footage which, in the end, bears little resemblance to the original. This sort of software, if it worked, would block what I do.

"It'd be easier for the casual viewer to take this seriously if the victim didn't have a pre-existing agenda."

So you think he's lying? I can show you hundreds of other cases in which they have screwed people over.

For example: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-insure7may07,1,768035.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true

I call your bluff! It's not 1:04 PDT and I can still comment! So there!

Or the Left Behind game...

Damn it. I *would* be out of town that weekend. Sigh.

They are public domain works as are all NASA releases. They do prefer it if you credit them though.

@Allison and David,

I think it, like many scientific discoveries when they first happen, might have all sorts of practical implications we don't realize. People complain about the billions spent on the Apollo program but don't remember that without it, we wouldn't have things like velcro and kidney dialysis.

Jayerandom, you're talking about a game series which prominently features giant monster attacks... I don't think they have a problem with portraying spirituality in an idealized way.

Pff. This totally goes against the true purpose of SimCity- namely to build a cool city then destroy it in as many ways you can think of.

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I'm the god! I'M THE GOD!

Also, the failed Mars Polar Lander was going to have a microphone. Then another lander mission was canceled which was also going to have one. Hopefully someday soon we will hear Mars.

Nice way to be sidetracked though, David. What an interesting field of music it is... especially to makers and their fans.

I'll be happy if they find a way for either one to work with XBox Media Center. Thankfully, there is a Joox.net compatible script. There used to be one for TV Links before it got closed down...

The concept sounds fun. Spending $100,000 on it as a cheap stunt while your region is filled with impoverished, starving people, not so much.

I'm with the editorial. People are doing stupider and stupider things with the goal of setting a world record. I guess everyone wants their 15 minutes.

The bats accept your apology, Lenore. However, they feel they are owed reparations which they expect to receive in the form of mosquitoes and other small, flying insects.

I agree, my fellow cephalopod. I think there's no reason to have such a cumbersome battery on the barrel. If it can't be charged in the holster, at least put it inside the handle.

I admittedly don't know much about guns, but that can't be good for your aiming ability. I'm not sure why a camera and light have to be so cumbersome on a gun when you can fit them in a pair of glasses.

Well that certainly should drive the price up, but I think that's still at least twice expensive as many high-end dolls.

I had a schoolfriend who's dad was a biologist who studied bats and every year on my friend's birthday he'd bring some to school in cages to show us. He also would take us out looking for bats with some sort of audio detector to catch their chirps. Needless to say, I love the little guys.

I'm not saying she's insulting all of bat-kind by suggesting they only have three bones in their wings, I'm just saying she should be a little more bat-sensitive with her stereotyping.

Please, I'm not criticizing them. I'm trying to understand I guess. I mean look at this another way... an album collector might spend $500 for a rare Velvet Underground LP, but wouldn't expect to spend $200 for a brand new CD. Essentially, I'm not criticizing the collectors, I'm criticizing the company who is, in my opinion, overcharging them massively.

In addition, the ladis ulna doesn't seem to be differentiated from the metacarpals and there's no thumb.



(Yes, I cheated)

I never said it mattered. I don't care that people are willing to spend that much money on a doll that isn't an antique or vintage or whatever. I mean I can understand people spending lots of money on originals, but I don't get why people are willing to shell out that much on a facsimile of the original. I have no ethical problem with people buying whatever they want. I just don't understand how consumers would be so ready to pay such a price for a new doll.

NE2D: Yes, but WHY are people spending so much on a hunk of plastic?

Bats have more bones than that in their wings too.

Girlontherocks needs to not use white thread when stitching something red.

And count me in as another person who doesn't 'get' Blythe dolls. If you're going to play dress-up with your doll, why spend $80+ doing it? Especially if it looks like a crappy Keane painting?

Pardon me, you said votes against, so ignore the yes votes.

FreedomJoyAdventure said: "If he votes against something, you can bet it violates the Constitution."

Please explain how the following votes listed on http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Ron_Paul.htm involve constitutional violations:

# Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
# Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
# Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
# Voted YES on restricting bankruptcy rules. (Jan 2004)
# Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
# Voted NO on allowing stockholder voting on executive compensation. (Apr 2007)
# Voted NO on raising CAFE standards; incentives for alternative fuels.
# Voted NO on establishing nationwide AMBER alert system for missing kids. (Apr 2003)
# Voted YES on requiring photo ID for voting in federal elections. (Sep 2006)
# Voted NO on restricting employer interference in union organizing. (Mar 2007)
# Voted NO on increasing minimum wage to $7.25. (Jan 2007)
# Voted NO on establishing "network neutrality" (non-tiered Internet). (Jun 2006)

I'm not suggesting it is any worse. I am suggesting that it is the sort of thing that makes him a poor candidate.

Okay, #10, but why pick the post against PR people to promote your whatever the hell it is?

I don't have sympathy for their being ignored, but I do have sympathy for his pasting up all their e-mails to attract other spammers.

Michael, Malex, notice I said 'most of the time'... of course there are a (very few) exceptions. Considering the track record of PKD films, I don't have my hopes up for this one.

@Gaetanomarano: By 'curious' do you mean 'makes no sense and is poorly done?'

"There is no getting off this list. If you're on it and have something appropriate to say to me, use a different email address."

I believe we have found a flaw...

Crap. Did I actually misuse the word 'your?' Apparently senility has come early for me.

Well let's say your right and Ron Paul put his name on a newsletter that then put out racist information... Don't you think that someone who can't even pay attention to what people are doing with his name and approval might not be the best candidate for public office?

Whether he wrote those words or not, what sort of person puts his name on a newsletter and doesn't bother to check whether or not the newsletter in his name represents his views?

TM is a racket. The U.S. rate for the course is $2500.

Also, from Wikipedia's page on TM-

Kropinski v. WPEC

In a civil suit against the World Plan Executive Council filed in 1985,[71] Robert Kropinski claimed fraud, psychological, physical, and emotional harm as a result of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs. The district court dismissed Kropinski's claims concerning intentional tort and negligent infliction of emotional distress, and referred the claims of fraud and negligent infliction of physical and psychological injuries to a jury trial. The jury awarded Robert Kropinski $137,890 in the fraud and negligence claims. The appellate court overturned the award and dismissed Kropinski's claim alleging psychological damage. The claim of fraud and the claim of a physical injury related to his practice of the TM-Sidhi program were remanded to the lower court for retrial, and the parties then settled these remaining claims out of court.[72]

Butler/Killian vs. MUM

Two lawsuits were filed as a result of a stabbing at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa on March 1, 2004[73] The families of the murdered student and a student who was assaulted earlier in the day have sued MUM and the Maharishi Vedic Education Development Corporation. Their separate suits, filed on February 24, 2006, allege that the twice-daily practice of Transcendental Meditation, which the university requires of all students, can be dangerous for people with psychiatric problems. They also charge the university with failing to call the police or take action to protect students from a violent, mentally ill student.[74][75]

Can you please provide evidence that these were not Paul's words? Forgive me for not taking you at face value, but your posting a big screed there where he says racism is bad doesn't mean he hasn't said racist things. David Duke said racism was bad too. Claimed he wasn't a racist.

I admit it's been years since I read it, but I seem to remember there are some fantastical elements in it...

Paul is also a racist. From here (and elsewhere too):

Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, “If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”

“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal,” Paul said

Paul also wrote that although “we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”

"According to Simon, the total shoot took just 24 days and "the entire budget of the picture was less than the majors spend on catering.""

That's supposed to be a good thing? I'm all for independent and low-budget productions but most of the time they don't work very well with sci-fi unless you're looking for a laugh.

Also, aside from her non-speaking role in Dogma, has Alanis Morisette done any acting since You Can't Do That on Television? And wasn't the protagonist in the novel a man?

Your screed would be far more believable, Boodle33, if you were able to spell, punctuate and use English grammar possibly.

Oh, and if you gave some evidence to back up your claim.

"What's more, their passports now show permanent evidence of "DENIED ENTRY" that was hastily crossed out in pen."

I'm guessing it's not too difficult to get a new passport in Finland. It isn't here in the U.S. You just 'lose' your old one.

@#16: Some people even have all their albums!

It's okay, we don't drug traffic just like we don't torture. Nothing to see here...

No need to get all huffy, Halloween Jack.

Yeah, I also think they're pretty tacky. You can't beautify everything and I think in the case of a satellite dish, you're going to have a real hard time making it both attractive and functional. To me, this is the satellite dish equivalent of fake wood paneling on a station wagon.

Damn it, why are these things always in white? If I wear white, I'm a stain magnet every time.

Great. Just what we need. Using science to promote ignorance.

I read it, but it has a lot to go over. I'll try to comment about it soon. Just didn't want to leave you in the lurch.

Pyros, I have nothing to add because you put it better than I could have myself. :)

Cows don't eat trees, they eat grass.

I suppose you're right, Pyros. The predictions fail to see the potential of the invention, but I think that's going back to the old chestnut of necessity being the mother of invention. People don't understand the way to practically use something until someone finds a real need.

The Wright plane could go a few hundred feet, slowly. Other planes of the era did similar and failed, to the point that in 1908 in The War in the Air, H.G. Wells predicts that by 1914, the airplane would be deemed impractical and another heavier-than-air flying machine (an ornithopter) is invented. I think the issue here is that many of these inventions, to realize their potential, you need some far-sightedness.

However, many of the lines don't call the inventions useless... like the telephone one. They said 'the device is inherently of no value to us,' which is the important thing. They were not saying it would not be useful, just not to them. And they were essentially right (until the last few decades anyway).

So I think you have three different types of 'predictions' (for lack of a better word) here- excluding urban legend quotes that is. The first is the truly stupid statement:

"Space travel is bunk." -- Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957, two weeks prior to Sputnik orbiting the Earth.

I mean that's just phenomenally stupid since there had already been non-orbital high-altitude rocket launches before Sputnik. A modified V-2 rocket with a fly for payload did it soon after WWII in the U.S.

The second is the short-sighted statement:

"The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage." -– Charlie Chaplin, actor, producer, director, and studio founder, 1916.

If you look at film up to that point, he was pretty much right. Movies were like a carnival attraction until then. An interesting curiosity, but without much of a compelling storyline and, more importantly, no dialogue. It took people like Chaplin to bring stagecraft to film. It took the innovation of himself and others in the late teens and early twenties to transform film from a novelty to a huge entertainment medium.

The third is out of context:

"The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most." -- IBM, to the eventual founders of Xerox, saying the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production, 1959.

Note the word is in that sentence. It's not a prediction. I think it is obvious, considering how expensive the first Xerox copiers were, that IBM thought the market would be too small at the manufacturing price to be able to sell it successfully. Photocopying technology had existed since the 1930s, so it is not as if IBM had no idea what it was.

A lot of them are out of context definitely. For example-

«This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.»
A memo at Western Union, 1878 (or 1876).

Bell's original telephone DID have too many shortcomings. Until the 20th century, you had to practitally shout into them. The film Topsy-Turvy has a wonderful scene reproducing it.

The fact that until the 70s, Western Union continued to use telegraphy to send messages, I don't see that quote as a bad prediction at all.

A lot of other quotes are similar- the claim of airplanes being useless for warfare for example. The Wright Flyer and other early airplanes WERE useless for warfare because they were basically wood and paper. The airplanes used in WWI were only usable due to some major improvements to design.

In other words, while there are a few very silly predictions in there, many of them make perfect sense in the context of the time in which they were said- usually because the invention of the time really was as useless as they claimed it was.

Someone likes to plagiarize from Wikipedia...

TV is bad for kids? I can't speak for anyone else, but Sesame Street helped teach me to read and Mr. Rogers helped teach me compassion.

Please someone let hoodies stop being fashionable again. Please.

He doesn't look all that awesome.

Maybe that photo above would be more believable if it didn't use cheese since mice don't actually eat cheese...

Last I checked my passport, Peterus, yes. Bush's dad doesn't think I should be a citizen though.

Well I'm glad someone is stopping terrorists, because the government sure isn't.

Remember: When waterboarding, don't cross the streams.

I love Harpers, but someone needs to tell their e-mail people how to use paragraphs.

Someone needs to knee Glenn Beck in the groin. Repeatedly. And put it on Pay-Per-View.

On the (very minor) bright side, we're getting incredibly beautiful sunsets right now...

Maybe I'm missing something, but 'WoW Player' and 'Farmer' aren't mutually exclusive...

Face it, you 'Japanese aren't weird' folks... dried squid is a popular snack in Japan. 'nuff said.

I'll definitely read the paper. I read anything where LOTS of various WORDS are CAPITALIZED for EMPHASIS.

I've been lobbying Nature to do that for years, but they're too set in their ways.

Usually when a gay man is said to have a beard, they mean his show wife/girlfriend...

Meanwhile, in a man-sized safe in the West Wing of the White House, Dick Cheney is rockin' out.

This would have worked 40 years ago before Japanese hunters and developers killed off the white-footed vending machine in its natural habitat. These days, seeing a vending machine walking around would just be weird.

Looking at it again, I realize that it's snoo.

It is not a wormdo. It's clearly a hammerfor.

"All right, sir. A leprechaun led you here."
"Yes, officer. That's correct. A leprechaun!"
"Okay, sir, now what about the pants?"
"The pants?"
"You're not wearing any pants."
"CURSE YOU MAGICAL IRISH BASTARD!!!"

I'm surprised I'm the first to mention that Logo was essentially a very slimmed-down, highly restrictive form of lisp. Not only did it teach us kids who used it how to program, it also taught us the basic concept of object-oriented programming which seems to be the norm these days.

Yep, Batman kicks it before they get to the surface.

Not only does Felix look similar to Mickey, but the cartoon mouse seemed to be a particular favorite of animators at the time. I'm guessing because it was a simple shape and easy to caricature.

And think about how crazy this is... if you draw three overlapping circles and put them in just the right places, Disney can sue you for trademark infringement.

Since Adam West is only in the first 15 minutes of the movie (or so) I don't think it's appropriate to say it's starring Adam West. I mean the chimp got more screen time!

You could solve both insulation and sound problems with some drywall methinks.

Cpt. Tim: "but if they only keep part of their faiths history accessible to the people willing to pay out a very high premium, then its quite similar to what Scientology does with OTIII"

Or the Catholic Church (again) with pedophile priests?

I think the best use ever of shipping containers would be in a giant game of Jenga played with forklifts.

I'm guessing it's a more even price in Euros, Edgore.

Good, because making a drug illegal makes sure no one ever does it again. Look how well it's worked for marijuana in the U.S.!

With a price like that and a limited run, you'd think they want the conspiracy theorists around..

I have to wonder if dying so young from this heart condition might be connected to all of the elective surgery...

Or a coroner's report. Shocking yourself with an unregulated piece of equipment sounds like a great way to trigger arrhythmia

Re #6:

Ah yes, the wonderful architecture of the 1920s and 1930s.

The grass is always greener...

Do the shelters work? Well, no one has died from being hit by a bomb while in one yet!

There is no money. It's a fan translation.

I realize that SimCity strives for more and more realism in the game, but I still enjoyed the simplicity of the original the most. There are too many necessities now for me to just have fun with a city.

I think someone has a trust fund...

Reagan on a useless piece of paper? Sounds about right to me.

The band's website has this awesome ly hilarious mp3 on it. I remember this speech used by Negativland in their song Michael Jackson. Man is it wild. Google the Church Universal Triumphant to find out who these loons are.




...and the movie Ghostbusters.

They can't hid as long as our childrens is learning.

Technically, this was not sped up. If it were, the pitch would raise and I would wager be beyond the range of human hearing and probably beyond the range of most speakers too.

They just used the time compression feature on any one of a number of current digital audio programs, but time compression does not speed things up, it removes. It uses some complex algorithms I can't pretend to understand to take out the 'least important' bits of the sound, then removes those gaps to make the file shorter. Usually, it's just shaving off bits of silence, but when you do it overkill like this, it's just taking lots and lots of random, very short, cuts out of a very long file.

I think you're right about the small labels getting big and that's great because it's virtually the only decent music coming out anymore.

But it's just amazing to me that after cassette tapes, VHS tapes, CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, the entertainment executives still don't get that people will happily buy a product they think is worth their money even if you can get it fairly easily for free. This is why salad in a bag sells so well.

That's what the knife is for, Mitch.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. The music and movie industry aren't losing money because people are pirating, they're losing money because their movies and music suck.

If they actually worked on quality rather than churning out Big Momma's House 7, people would SEE MORE MOVIES and BUY MORE MUSIC.

Is this THAT hard to understand?

I get the two on the right, but is the Bulldozer just there to piss parents off by giving the kids an easy way to push food they don't like off their plates?

And here I always thought it was the reference section in the back of a book.

I wonder if their mascot is a clown in seersucker...

That's nothing, you should check out South Texas Farmer's Union Magazine.

Why do the people who do these things tend to be religious? Just once, I'd like to see a huge junk art piece like this not have to do with Jesus.

Although personally, I think you should all get the Logitech QuickCam Orbit MT and do the show with bunny avatars.

@#2: Especially since the hosts are the writers of Boing Boing. But I'm sure Xeni appreciates being told she's Annie Lennox's lost younger sister.

I don't know, Ananghbai, maybe it's because they're not accountable to any government and are above the law. Maybe it's because they do things like get drunk and kill people for fun. Maybe it's because they are better-paid and better-equipped than our own troops despite the money coming from the same source.

Gosh, all kinds of reasons people focus on Blackwater.

Okay, I get that Dad is taking his hunchback son and nose-picking daughter to see Speed Racer's slot car collection, but why is a young Bobby Kennedy with them?

He has no idea where they came from?

I guess he wasn't breast fed.

Thanks to No Child Left Behind, the statement on the poster is now, sadly, the literal truth.

I guess with TinTin, you can't complain about the lack of expressive eyes in motion capture animation...

I don't see 'add razor blade' in the instructions anywhere...

Well, Unusual Suspect, I'm no lawyer, but doesn't a term of service agreement require the person making it to offer a service to which you agree on terms? I'm guessing that's what is to stop them.

Wow. We're outsourcing our own laziness.

Alabama can't legalize dildos, because they're too busy electing them to office.

Damn it, Tommy, get out of my head.

"The Daily News reports that authorities say they did not use pepper spray or a Taser on Gotbaum."

Sure, the one time a taser might have helped, they don't bother...

Matt Berry is also the co-star and co-writer of the sketch comedy show Snuff Box with fellow Mighty Boosh cast member Rich Fulcher.

Here's one of my favorite sketches- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7129874042885090030&q=snuff+box&total=116&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5

National Lampoon put out a book of these years ago called True Facts: The Big Book. Great stuff.

Aren't blogs already essentially like this for the most part?

I bet someone's already working on a brain-eating lake amoeba movie...

Columbia House ads used to look like that too.

Since the site is written by multiple people, I think they are entitled to have differing viewpoints.

Sorry, Mark. I don't see what's pleasing about it when it is bigger...

ELECTRIC vaporizers are expensive. Glass vaporizers are a few dollars and are the size of a cigarette.

http://americansmokeless.com/index2.htm

I've been staring at it for a long time and I just don't see Karl Marx.

But then I don't see the image of jesus on an underpass when they show that either.

Yes, put a flame very close to plastic. Great plan. Marijuana is about as non-toxic as you can get as long as you don't smoke it. It amazes me that more people don't vaporize.

I'd say easily outraged, Teresa. But their outrage easily amuses me.

Well if chimps aren't people, explain P.E. teachers.

I wouldn't say NOTHING is wrong with the Swastika. That's like saying nothing is wrong with giving people the finger because some cultures think that's a sign of affection...

I wish the 99 cent store made me that happy. :(

The Alex Jones and David Ickes of the world will have a field day with this one.

Well... he still did go crazy and he definitely made some crazy paintings, so I'm still going to call him a crazy painter.

Just don't tell me Van Gogh was actually quite well-adjusted. I don't think I could take it.

Sorry, JacobDavis, I have no stomach for internet anger. I'll just dmt yrs s th bggr pns nd move on.

@jacobdavis: Although Christianity is the largest religion, the majority of people on the planet are not Christians, so I think there's a little hole in your theory.

Other than the taste difference between using sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, European coca-cola tastes pretty much the same as American.

Yes, but the point is they don't have a non-cop out answer.

Also, if Jesus made Old Testament law null and void, why do so many Christians revere the 10 Commandments?

I swear, I do not get religious people...

@Kevitivity:

I assume you're basing this on the accurate pre-columbian census that was taken every year by the tribal councils, right?

Seems like a pretty extreme way to get a book deal...

When the white man came to our land, he brought the gun and the dog. He raped our women and took our homes for his own. He has perverted our people with firewater and the children now follow christianity. He has violated all treaties we have signed with him and we now live on a small piece of land miles from our holy grounds... but hot damn is that a good shoe!

Oh, pardon my geocentrism. I should have said a needy school in your own country. My apologies to the many non-American Boing Boing readers.

There are probably a lot of people like myself who don't have kids, but would like to check out the XO and play with it for a while. However, I would like to suggest that after you've had your fun with it, donate it to a needy school in America. Plenty of them would love to have one and, let's be honest here, you only want it because it's new and different.

Twain also trademarked his name. On the other hand, the guy invented a shirt with a drawstring at the bottom that he thought would replace suspenders. Why a belt wasn't sufficient, I couldn't say.

"I'm sorry, I'm revoking my license on that tattoo. But don't worry, I have a scalpel..."

Everyone's a critic.

Excellent points, Phasor3000. I've said something similar for ages- if Bush did 9/11 because he wanted to go to war, why didn't he pin it on Saddam? It would have been a far better justification than non-existent WMDs

Warning: Sick joke-

Now he really IS trapped in a box!

I keep telling this to conspiracy theorists (a group of which I am not a member):

Let's say they are absolutely right, that it is a conspiracy created by the Bush administration, let's say, even, that the craziest conspiracies are right- that they were remote controlled drone planes that crashed and then they also blew up the buildings... just assume for a second that it's all true-

What difference does it make?

A) Even if it's true, most people won't believe it.

B) The damage has already been done.

C) There's nothing us peons could do about it anyway.

D) A government powerful enough to orchestrate an attack like that already has so much in control that they ain't goin' anywhere.

So I am not going to attack the conspiracy theorists' beliefs, I simply don't see what difference it makes if they're right. We'd still be in Iraq, we've already gotten rid of Haebas Corpus and legalized torture, etc.

So let's say you're right. Good for you. You know THE TRUTH(tm)... I'm sure all the soldiers that are going to die over the years we'll be stuck in Iraq will really care.

Can't both be stupid?

Personally, I don't think we should make monuments to ignorance.

"All that CrimsonReading.org does is it allows undergraduate textbook shoppers to view Coop prices alongside those charged by other retailers, such as Half.com and Amazon.com."

That's like saying 'all piratebay does is host torrent files.' While it's essentially true, it wouldn't fly in most countries other than Sweden.

Like it or not, the prices of the coop are their intellectual property and they have a right to protect it under U.S. law.

On top of that, you have to remember that the roots of the internet were at DARPA, meaning our tax dollars paid for the infrastructure. If you paid taxes in the last 30 years, you've helped pay for the internet.

I honestly can't get too incensed about this when they're tasering kids for trying to talk.

Or... skype could just invest in better servers themselves.

You can already do that, Mike. ISPs already offer multiple levels based on bandwidth. It just isn't regulated like it could be.

Whoops. I meant KNOW. Stupid brain.

If the worst happened, which tier would BoingBoing be on? Because I couldn't live without you guys.

If you let the animals carved from vegetables sit in silt for a few thousand years, they will become minerals! It's a trifecta!

Hey... CANTSTOPTHESIGNAL... I need someone with a martyr complex. No where I could find that person?

Do I have to hail it? Couldn't I just give it a friendly nod?

So I'm the only one who read this and thought, "someone get this poor guy a girlfriend!"

Your posts are being deleted? Those fascists!

Oh wait...

The bronze age was in the 7th century AD?

Antinous: So you knew two nuns who run guns to the Patagoniuns? Were they having fun when it begun or did the nuns who ran guns get undone? Did they move a ton of guns? Would you shun a nun with a gun?

I used to have a copy of Upski's Bomb the Suburbs. I wonder what they would do if I brought that on a plane with me.

For those not in the know, 'Bomb' in this case refers to covering a place with graffiti.

Carsten- That is different, yes. Wasn't it illegal in the U.S. to crack macrovision for a while? (Maybe it still is?)

And how do they plan to stop it? Ban the sale of CD-Rs and DVD-Rs? Can you go over the border to, say, Austria and just buy them there? Are they going to do home inspections to make sure you haven't made personal copies? How can they insure those copies weren't legitimately burned from an iTunes purchase? How about iPods in general? Is putting your CD collection onto your iPod an illegal copy?

What about older tech- can you tape a TV series with your VCR? Record music with a cassette?

I have no idea how they could even begin to impliment this.

@#6

"Who is to say this innocent nun is not in fact an al-Qaeda operative? A better question might be 'who wants to take the chance'?"

I want to take the chance. I would rather take the 1 in a bajillion chance that there might possibly be a nun with a bomb to avoid the indignities of someone being paid near minimum wage frisking people at random.

Seriously, people... we've had air travel for over a century now and somehow we have avoided every other plane blowing up or crashing into buildings without all this crap. Would frisking have discovered the box cutters the 9/11 terrorists used? I doubt it since I am sure they weren't stupid enough to make it obvious if they were stopped.

Once again, none of the airport security measures post-9/11 do anything but provide a band-aid solution to a problem that is probably unavoidable. As long as you have public transport, you'll have someone trying to use it to kill people.

I'm not a squirrel, Mark. I live in the water and change colors and sometimes leap out of it using my mouth as a jet. And I have no fur. And I'm a cephalopod. But thanks for the info. :)

@#2: Hahaha

Also...

I always wondered... if we ever colonized another planet and Muslims emigrated there... how would they face Mecca during prayers?

Well of COURSE Hobbits are a different species from men. I mean they live underground and have hairy feet and pointy ears.

Wait, so on top of the $60-$100 data plan, you have to pay an additional $20 to do IMs? Thanks, AT&T.

I think I have this porn on DVD...

This has nothing to do with the topic. I just thought it was funny that Cory thanked Xeni and included a link to her site. I have no idea how we would have found Xeni's site without that.

@#16

No, because this is England and they don't use dollars.

A little research revealed that he uses a computer-plotted laser cutter to make these which disappointed me a little since I had this picture of him working away with a little knife, but I'm sure it still took tons of work and planning and the execution is beautiful.

Dear Google,

Seeing mold all over the oranges is useful to me as a consumer too, but I'd prefer the oranges without the mold.

Trust me, I don't have to be told when coke introduces the new Coke Negative with -1 calorie.

Just a thought... could this be misinterpretation of a far more reasonable policy set in place to stop students using the store as a library rather than buying the texts?

Did you ever feel like you'd been cheated?

@PHASOR3000:

I agree with that measure, but I was referring to all of the ridiculous pre-flight stuff. All the extra we have to go through now- pouring out liquids, showing off others in clear bags, taking off our shoes, etc.

I seriously doubt any of that has stopped any attacks.

@#13: Or the Corby Trouser Press.

I was actually thinking... what, of all the new security measures put in place since 9/11, would have stopped those attacks? They were done with box cutters, something which the old metal detectors and x-ray machines should have turned up.

How many planes have been blown up with shoe bombs? How many have been blown up with secretly smuggled liquids? Yet THESE are the things we're worried about. What's to stop someone from putting semtex up his ass like a cocaine mule... we can't prepare for everything, but I don't see how we have been made any safer by all of this.

Not flying is not the solution. That's being like the luddites in the 18th century, destroying the machines that made everyone's lives easier.

This really makes me feel good about my flight to Dallas on Thursday. Sigh.

I wonder if the force impact and the heat from the meteor could have awakened some long-buried sort of dormant virus or bacterium to which we have no defence for...

Don't you people understand? We must end our dependence on snake oil and move on to alternative fuel scams!

With Zwigoff and Clewes doing it, I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt, but that joke was old when Mad Magazine did it in the 70s.

Or, I can just follow them by coming to Boing Boing...

They could send up a rhoomba vacuum and clean up the place. I hear the moon is really dusty.

Oh, and I just noticed... despite everything being electronically controlled, there are always people to work the machine. I wonder when the idea of automated machines not requiring humans arose?

Apparently, while everyone's lives would change in 90 years, their clothes wouldn't.

Since her uncovered skeleton is actually a former skeleton which has been replaced by the stuff that fossilized it, isn't the Smithsonian cast just as 'real' as the one that was dug up?

(Note: I'm not a scientician)

NASA: Airplanes- TO THE MAX!

"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department."

Oh wait, I think that one has already been used.

Sorry to hear it. She was one of the few authors who put their Christian beliefs into their works that I still enjoyed reading despite my atheism.

To #8:

Even if that's true, SHE'S ON A PLANE! Everyone faces the same direction and the seats are tightly packed. How would anyone see up her skirt in those conditions unless they were making a real effort?

To #8:

Even if that's true, SHE'S ON A PLANE! Everyone faces the same direction and the seats are tightly packed. How would anyone see up her skirt in those conditions unless they were making a real effort?

I think the fact that it purports to be a fire protection company fits the irony bill nicely.

Never mind, found it myself. It's huge- http://www.copyright.gov/fedreg/1996/61fr19371.html

Thanks, Mark, but my name is Daniel, not David. :)

That is great news! Can anyone find a list of all of the items covered by the case? Wikipedia lists a handful, but implies more.

He doesn't NEED to do it for money. He's a multi-millionaire. He shows what a multi-millionaire is capable of, not us.

A "true hero?" Whose life did he save? What dangerous criminal did he capture? Sure, it takes a lot of bravery to do the stuff he did, but calling someone a hero for doing dangerous stunts for money is a bit silly when there are actual heroes doing really heroic things in the spirit of altruism.

I hope the man is all right, but I would not call him a hero. That goes to the people trying to find him.

Great. My irony meter just exploded.

You shall find fortune in abundance.

Lucky numbers: 12 35 7 9

If you aren't thirsty, the terrorists win.

Did you ever want to be monitored all your life?

Did you ever want to be kept on an electronic leash?

Did you ever want to get fired from your job when the boss wasn't even looking?

You will. And the company that will bring it to you? AT&T.

Oh sure, THEY make the bargain with the gods and all WE get are these 10 plagues.

It will never work as well as the snake oil engine.