I get an error page when I try to access the picture. Here's the full text of the error.

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Interesting. In the photo group it says that the place was apparently expected to be finished and ready to be moved into by vacationers in 'late 2007 or early 2008'...

I once saw a definition of the difference between Music and Muzak: Music is designed to elicit an emotional response, while Muzak is designed to suppress emotional responses. Not exactly true, but a fun statement anyway.

Gee, and we don't even have to invade to make these changes happen? Amazing! (heavy sarcasm)

What I find bizarre is that she put instant coffee in a percolator pot, as if she had brewed it.

Well said, Takuan.

I dunno, to me the term 'suicide robot' indicates a robot that turns itself off voluntarily.

Jesus walks into an inn, holds up three nails, and says, "Can you put me up for the night?"

To me it's reminiscent of Roger Dean's designs for the same basic kind of building methods. Unfortunately his own website does not have an exterior view of the model of his basic design, but does have a series of interior views of the model.

Actually a montage from various episodes. I could swear I saw this at a sci fi con many years ago. Still, it's darn groovy.

I liked the apparent remote control aspect better than the open top super slow sub feature.

Velocity Girl, check out Cooking for Engineers.
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

It wouldn't look so out of place if the general house design was more curvilinear.

Well, well, well, well, well. Many happy returns, happy birthday to the new owner of such a prodigious array of names, best wishes and all that.

I remember them too, rather fondly. And Tang, and yes you can still get Tang. I recall I used to make it at bizarrely strong concentration. But I also recall the sticks as being quite tasty, and not rubbery at all. A bit fudgy, really, kinda like tootsie roll, but not as dense or chewy. As to nutritious, supposedly they were very nutritious. The concept of course was that they were a source of all kinds of vitamins and whatnot, just the thing for space travel where you have to account for every gram or so of weight that you carry. I imagine though that to my older palate they might well be horrible.

Of course most of the 'details' about the 'Philadelphia Experiment' have been shown to be fictitious, but it does make for a fun casual connection to Asimov and friends at the time. Hmm, might be a fun tongue in cheek or even semi serious book that could be made from that idea. Asimov and buddies each involved in different ultra secret projects and all becoming suspected by the Feds because of the initial link to the guy who wrote the story about the bomb. There could be all kinds of hijinks with various hyper secret agencies both investigating others and hiding their own stuff from everyone else, while the authors sit back, wryly amused at all the gummint shennanigans.

YES! Finally! I've been waiting for exactly this item for years now!

Crash, I think the idea with stage magicians is that what they do is entirely for entertainment, and they never seriously claim to be workers of supernatural wonders. Hence the term Illusionist that some prefer. With this point of view, they see anyone who does pretend to real supernatural powers as almost certainly (99.9999999% or some such)phonies and charlatans, often criminals bilking gullible folk out of lots of money. That was Houdini's crusade- fake spiritualists and mediums.

Let's see, it needs....post it dispenser, highliter, flashlight, key ring

I agree, Corey. These ideas are a fascinating look at how folks once imagined the future. Of course the city of the future would have to be laid out with these straight lines in the design before the tall buildings get built.

I grok ya, 14, I grok ya.

I think part of the whole outrage is that these people were in the country for only a few days. Somehow I doubt that the 'apology' and the news that they'd be welcome in the mall again came before they had to go back to Spain.

I agree largely with Blackbird. If she was (contrary to the story) working with the police, then it was entrapment, plain and simple. If she wasn't, then she should be charged as well, since she initiated the incident.

Or...or...tell who's in the country legally?

MATTYMATT, I was thinking pretty much exactly what you just wrote.

Looks cool, but what about a roof and walls?

What I love is in one cutaway they have an Ammo Room. Just for ammo. And in a couple the rocket exhaust is vented into deep places in the earth, rather than the river. Might be one reason Mole Man was so upset! And who in the world would want to ride in an ICBM type missile??

I've long been a fan of the Dymaxion, and this immediately reminded me of it.

And pink for girls is not that old. It seems to not have been firmly set until the '50's, and before that it was reversed. In the early part of the 20th century pink was for boys and blue for girls.

Peaceflag, if you take the trouble to read the text below the movie window you will see that they do indeed tell you it took place over six hours.

Also, as I recall, torture has been recognized for centuries as being of no real interrogation value. And again, if I recall properly, it has also been outlawed by just about all 'civilized' nations for as long. This is exactly what was routinely done by many of the people reviled as the most evil people in history, yet now our government is claiming not only is it not torture, but that it's necessary? Good grief!

Oops, should read 'there you go'

I did a quick google image search. Here's the link to the first page of it. I had to chop it up a bit, but the you go.

http://www.google.com/images?q=great+pacific+
garbage+patch&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=
1B2DVFA_en___US207

The old Carol Burnett show had fun with using unexpected sound effects at times, such as the standard telephone ring instead of the standard doorbell chime. I think the most overused effect in recent years is the hawk/falcon screech. It seems to be used in virtually EVERY scene where you either cut to an outdoors shot or someone walks outside.

Yes, from what I've read about this, the production values are such that they're even reproducing old stains and whatnot. They're essentially trying to make the documents as close facsimiles of the originals as they can.

Cool looking, definitely. From what I could find about that engine, it's used for motocross bikes.

Well 'said' New Challenger.

Although I don't think he ever said so specifically, I always figured that old HPL and pals really did use some of the squids, anemones and sea slugs and whatnot as inspiration.

The link isn't working.

Looks good. Keep up the good work.