Stop bringing your Private into our Public and then being upset when your privacy is intruded upon. If you want privacy, do it in Private, not Public!

Another company has already pantented this, I believe. Ever heard of Kingfish?

#9 probably just worked at an electronics store.

I'd want it with faceplates. So you could change Han into say, your mother in law. Just sayin.

I saw the video of this the other day, and I also thought it sounded a lot more like "Tell James..." and then it cut off. However, if it is reprogrammable, I bet they also have an open WiFi....

Who will hack it to say "James' Mom is dumb!"

Oh, and the "Talking Tina" Twilight Zone episode was the creepiest thing I had ever seen.

Is this really a hybrid, global warming cover-up / Spongebob ass-jabber thread? OMG! They're both about temperature.

Yay, now we can stick SpongeBob up the ass of the Global Warming Cover Up people.

wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong......yet creepy and funny, too.

Brings a whole new meaning to the term "sparkling water".

I'd like to see "failure to live" as a cause of death, though I suppose, in the end, it is more of a result.

I am glad I only read the story. Hearing it out loud may have been too sad.

I love this story. A VERY Brave Bear.

Me too! I thought I was just insane as a child until I read something about Charles Dodgeson probably having this as well.

I don't remember having it start due to an illness, but there would be the entire world in my bedroom, about the size of a beanbag chair, and I would be zooming toward it at an amazing rate of speed while at the same time falling in the slowest freefall. There was also a great feeling of urgency that I had to count all of something (people maybe) and they were spilling out of the world like beans from a beanbag, and I couldn't stem the tide because it was so far away and my hands were smaller than the beans. This was one of the most frightening things I have ever experienced. It continued into dreams, where of course, there were terrible monsters. I developed night terrors, and I remember seeing an old hag with long twisted fingernails. She would stand in the shadows in my room, waiting for me to drop the sheets too low so she could slit my throat. My parents never understood why I would complain of being so hot at night, even to waking drenched in sweat, and insist that I had to sleep with the covers as tight around my neck as I could stand. The hag was also infinitely far away and right in my face, but at the same time, she was so far away I couldn't touch her when she was up close. I remember waking up screaming in other parts of the house as well. There was what appeared to be a sinky place in my floor, and if I walked there by accident, my feet would go in, during the night, it seemed to draw my room into it very slowly. It was also far away and close. I had this only a few times as an adult, and was told to quit acting like a baby. As an adult, they were also accompanied by panic attacks. (I suppose that is what was going on as a child, too)

When I would finally manager to get from my bed to the hallway - it was very far away and my long spindley legs were never long enough to get me there in under a half hour - things became more normal. When I would try to explain to my dad that "everything was far away and I couldn't reach it" he told me the same thing used to happen to him when he was little, and to try falling asleep staring directly at a bright light, because then you can't see anything else. Surprisingly, I don't have to wear glasses from that. I developed epilepsy around the time the childhood syndrome wore off, and didn't "outgrow" it until my mid 20s.

Scary as hell at any age though.

I haven't seen any groupings yet. But I like this shot - it looks like it is rubbing it's "hands" together in contemplation of our demise.

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I have some cow magnets I bought at a local feed store. Great fun. Even outside the cow.

Mainly, farmers use this to protect the cows digestion system - wtih chambered stomachs, they stay in the first, trapping baling wire and the like, so it doesn't go further into the digestive system.

Children down't have chambered stomachs, so when they swallow more than one small magnet, there is the potential for them to stick together, even with tissue and whatnot in between.

@4 - And maybe we can teach them to be afraid to spell badly in public forums. People seem to have lost that particular fear of public embarrassment.

As for ads...well, they pay the bills.

Somehow, reading the title of this, I expected it to link to an Instructable. I think I am relieved it didn't.

It was the Thriller music at the end that creeped me out.

The rest was just strange. I'm sure his mother is very proud of this.

The hair, taken one guy at a time, isn't too bad, but it is f-ing hilarious to see the exact same cut, color and spike on every kid there.

When I was in high school, the only proof of the bad fashion trends were the yearbooks...thanks to the Internets, these kids will never outlive these pictures. I feel sorry for their future kids.

Damn, I have to go scrub my brain now.

That was....odd.

The narrator was so smug each time one got killed.

The creepiest thing was how they all kept going after each death, like some sort of Twilight Zone episode or something. And they didn't play. Kids play.

But I gotta wonder why the human child was hanging out with a bunch of mutants. Mutants with rather slow reaction times.

Disturbing, on so many levels....

I wish it were as simple as "Be Good".

If what you do hurts others, it is not good.

If what you do helps others, then it is good.

If there is a conflict - what you do helps some, but hurts some, too...

there, I am stuck. I just wish it were simple. Though I imagine that if everyone tried to adhere to not hurting others, it would make a big difference.

Thats my religion - be nice, try not to hurt people.

And a comment on the main story - someone said that the kid was also under investigation for many other blasphemous things, this being only a part of those, not the whole, or even the biggest part. That sounds more correct - it seems the news media usually distorts things like this, in this way, so it wouldn't surprise me at all to find this is yet another incidence of little-white-lies by omission.

lol if you view the add, then click "view demo" it gives the error message: This site is temporarily unavailable

He flaunted the laws, doing what he knew to be wrong, for his own satisfaction.

It's too bad he didn't find a better outlet for his creative side.

And yeah, I find it extremely hard to believe that no one knew about this for FOUR YEARS. I suspect they were waiting him out.

I read it.

Such small simple statements.

Who knew so much compassion and dignity could be conveyed in such a small reflection. A moment, a slice of time, a glimpse into the heart of an angel.

Not only does this person, and others like him, bring peace to the suffering, but to everyone who reads the blog.

She should pick bigger guys. She looks (not that she is fat) but that she outweighs some of them. Could be painful.

Grandmother of 8 has nothing to do with the story. Apparently the woman was hard of hearing or slightly senile, to think that she was told to wait in a no parking zone rather than the assigned waiting area.

If a 16 year old driver can figure it out, I would expect someone who claims to have been driving for quite a number of years to get it. I think she was just being stubborn and got what she deserved. Age doesn't give you any special rights in that respect. Either you can drive and follow directions or you can't.

That aside, that was a very sketchy story in regard to content and fact.

Wow. I wonder why they didn't give the kids the option to be flown home. They are old enough to travel without an adult, as long as one meets them at the other end.

It looks like chunks of styrofoam, though I have no idea if it would behave like dough if it were steeped in sewage for a while.

I thought it kind of looked like the star was lodged in her boob, myself.

I have also had trouble with BitTorrent sites while being forced to use Comcast. They do make it look very much like it is the Torrent site with the problem. Big Brother is a little too involved for my liking - I will be so glad when I can switch providers!

I think it was the last paragraph where it says Mattel killed off all but the Hacky Sack, Hula Hoop and Frisbee.

People download movies to see if it is something they want to spend an exhorbatant amount of money on at a theater. So yeah, you want to take someone out to dinner and a movie, but you don't want to drop $40 for tickets and snacks on a movie that sucks ass. So you download a couple that look promising, and pick from what you've seen.

Why don't they get in on it, rather than try to stomp it out? If I could download a certified studio lower res version at home and view it, then if I liked it well enough, I would definitely go pay to see it in a theater. They don't do this because then they would have to come up with you know, quality.

Don't make me pay $10 to see a half hour of commercials while sitting in a chair with a sticky floor, only to follow it with 98 minutes of drivel, then tell me that in 6 months I can PURCHASE the same movie I already paid $10 to watch once, but with all the parts they took out intact!

And they claim they don't understand why people pirate movies. They know perfectly well what they are doing.

I would have never gotten that far without sneezing and ruining it all. I'm impressed.

But in a capitolistic society, the wallets of the people have to come into play at some point or we'd all be holding signs on the side of the road.

Aww, it's just paper. I thought they you know, built onto something.

From what I have heard, the shows aren't "scriped" the way we think of a script, with specific lines and conversations written out and memorized. They are, however, given direction...we want you to start insinuating that you slept with her BF and create some disturbances along those lines, and act like a total bitch to these people here, but start making friends with this person.

All beautiful specimens of the art. I am not a fan in general though - pretty to see once in a while, but I believe they are too cold and alien looking to not give me the creeps hanging on my walls. Still, quite beautiful.

I thought it kinda looked like Eminem, myself. Same slouch.

I remember being very small, that when my mother took us to Sears, it was special, and we got all dressed up for it. I remember the childrens clothing had a central mannequin stand that never changed poses, and I remember feeling awed at a store that had a whole section just for clothes in my size. I certainly didn't feel special enough to deserve all that lol.

Shopping at Sears used to be a status symbol.

Very Cool. My brain would quit for good if I tried to do things this way. Love how he sees the image in the shapes, and then subtracts things until he brings it out. More 'digital sculpting' than 'drawing'.

I can't condemn Edision for being a victim of his times. Yes, what he did was wrong by todays standards; in many many ways. But 105 years ago, it was considered "cutting edge".

I suppose that the ASPCA didn't reccoment shooting the elephant because there would be no way to ensure that it would be an instant death. Though the poor thing was already dying at the time, having been fed cyanide.

This was an interesting story, and seeing people's reactions today to something that was accepted 105 years ago gives me hope in humanities ability to be humane.

At the mall near me, the rent a cops where white shirts and ride Segways while wearing bike helmets. (I wish I were kidding). Some of the store have real cops come in, they dress how they please, as long as something visibly identifies them as police officers. I doubt it curbs shoplifting, but no mall employee has gotten pistol whipped this year, either.

At this mall, there are rules for picture taking. Since it lies along a tour bus route, they can't very well ban cameras. "This is us at a MALL!" However, pictures are not allowed to be taken inside of stores...more of a "the competition is stealing our secrets" thing than anything else.

I too, fail to see how taking pictures of grandchildren (at a mall or not) is a terrorist act. The children have nothing to do with the structure of the mall. If I were the couple, I would want a statement from the security guard detailing exactly what was considered terroristic in nature, and how he came to believe that. Then I would want Mall Management to tell me that is truely their policy, or to fire the idiot.

If you had been anywhere near an Apple store during the holidays, you would know that for every commission lost, there were 3 more waiting for an available associate to help them. If they are even on commission.

Eh, I think it was just a tactic to draw attention away from the fact that somehow, the store sold an empty box. Whether by theft or plant...myself, I go with theft, because those aren't just left out in the open and surely a salesperson who handles those on a daily basis would notice the box felt a little light...?

Poor Aunt Hazel would be aghast.

I'd bet that TSA has been told that batteries in certain devices are okay, and loose batteries in luggage can't be any of these certain models.

So you could probably still bring a 9 volt to get annoying kids to lick.

There was a child in my family that just loved the pull dog toy. Was one of those ones with the crooked axles, so it bounced up and down when it was pulled, and the tail was a spring with a red bit of plastic on it...The little one would play with her stuffed toy puppies at home, but when they went out, the pull toy came with. And I have to admit, seeing a 2 year old walking through the mall with one of those trailing behind is pretty damn cute.

I think the Pirates would become teething toys for the younger set, and the older ones might be a little dissapointed that they didn't transform into something else, but this is probably a happy choice for those who are put off by all the poisonous plastics coming out of China. Assuming it isn't painted with lead paint!