You've got to love when the rest of the world starts seeing us like this

dangit ... why do these reviews refuse to give us the screen resolution. I don't care how big the screen is if the native resolution is too low. 1280x768 is the lowest I'll go and only HP has that so far.

It seems 9/11 did indeed change everything.
Welcome to Amerika.

sad.

I just signed up too. Even if it does get used for marketing it seems like a fun concept.
I'm pretty sure things will be less wonky after they hype dies down.

I wonder if "Meekrob" is on the list.

It looks like an interesting "game".
Too bad it's console only.
No GTA IV for me.

Boing Boing is the only place I've seen this story.
Are there any corroborating links?

That is too funny.

"after successful self reassembly, the unit stands up and continues in its task - *foomp*"

Even robots love a well timed pratfall.

I was going to get one of these and throw ubuntu on it, The I thought i might go for the more beefy tablet PC that HP has. I think though, That I'm just going to live with the laptop I have and get a 1080p LCD TV instead.

Untitled 1?

Generic reply.

This reminds me of Mr Garrison's vehicle from South Park.

I plan on getting an HP 2133.
The Eee PC is nice but I'd like more HD space and higher screen resolution.

I hope they put little knives in the the suit too. You can't really experience being old unless you include chronic pain.

Industrial ultrasonic sinks have been around for years. I remember cleaning parts in them back in the 80s, and they were old even then.
this will be a good commercial application of the technology if they can keep people from breaking things.

ugh, I have no desire to watch this any more than that video of the kids in Florida beating on someone.

Now someone doing stupid to themselves ... that's ok.

Percolated coffee or instant coffee ... that's a tough decision.
I'm having Midwestern Lutheran flashbacks.
Quick, someone get me a cruller.

I remember all our film strips having a "boop" in them too.

I works well as a mammoth repellent, but that's about it.
I've had bags of water hanging all over the house and haven't been attacked by a single mammoth since I put them up.

For 400,000 euros it had better fold out, Jetsons style, into a mansion.

I poked around the Seattle area and one thing I've noticed is that the map seems to be highlighting neighborhoods with lower property values.
These property values are lower for a reason.
To be really meaningful they'd have to cross reference the housing and transportation data with some crime stats, school quality, and access to services.

Wow, It's the 21st century version of SCTV's "Tex & Edna Boil's Organ Emporium"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv-82Q0ofs8

I'd totally love living in a renovated missile silo ... for a few weeks.
I'm sure it would get old pretty quickly.

The biggest con is the remoteness. I've lived in the suburbs, the city, and the sticks. Out of all three I prefer the city or the suburbs. Living in the sticks was a pain in the ass.

Now ... if I could convince the city to issue permits for me to excavate something like a missile silo, then we'd be talking. I'd totally spend the money on something like that.

That was so funny it brought a tear to my eye.
Good Stuff!

It's too bad projector bulbs aren't as easy to make as car headlights.

Every few years I toy with the idea of getting a projector instead of a new TV but scrap it due to the bulb cost. 52" isn't big enough for me. I want a 9'x6' screen to watch my movies on.

... evil ...
Peggle is evil
I love and hate Peggle.

I've gotten through every level and managed to completely clear about 10 of them.

Now if someone comes out with a decent eBook reader for the iPhone I'll have no reason not to get one.

How about the Frogurt?
Is that ok?

I really liked that song, the video was even cooler.

I now have a DVNO channel on Pandora.
http://www.pandora.com/stations/4fe36774cb627be82c86db8a2aeea1bce7c5e7241f96d370

It's funny because it's gross!

/I lol'd

I stopped playing "D&D" years ago in favor of a custom system designed by some buddies.
It takes all the best elements of all the gaming systems and wraps them up into one nicely packaged database.

Our last team was a Gnome, an alien from Dark City, a Kzin, and some other random races from books we'd read. Have a race that's not in the system, work up some reasonable stats and viola ... you're playing anything from a Wookie to a dragon rider from Eragon.

Real geeks roll their own.

I had no idea this was in the works.
This beats ANY upcoming MMO hands down if they can do it well.

1. do quests to earn bricks or tokens to buy bricks
2. design and create your own cool toys in game
3. fab cool toys from game for purchase
4. profit!

I could see myself spending hours trying to finish that quest for that one piece I need for my robot/car/spaceship ... then spending hours crafting it ... then spending the cash to have it shipped to me for real.

I'm 40 and I still love legos (and I love a good MMO, so this could be dangerous)

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail! ...

Eve Online = Spreadsheets in Space

I've played it off and on for years.
Most of the time it is far too slowly paced to keep me interested.
I'm currently not playing it ... although I'm tempted to give it a look with the updated graphics.

I liked Old Man's war but it reminded me very much of Starship Troopers in the way that the band of buddies do their thing over the course of the story.

I've not read Forever War, is it any good?

What I see so far is
Waterworld (flooded) + East Enders (london soap drama) + Mad Max (Gyrocopter) + Eon Flux -ish art = I reserve judgment for later.

It says the world ended ... apparently it didn't because there are still enough people and planet left to provide a story.

I'll give this a while but I'm "meh" on it from the first 6 pages.

Looks like the video has been pulled.

I SO want the Han Solo Mini-Fridge.
Even a full sized version would be too sweet.

I think George Bush said it best at Ground Zero when he dedicated the new freedom tower...

Six years ago patriots brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in security, and dedicated to the proposition that all are potential terrorists.

Now we are engaged in a great war on terror, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under GOD, shall have a new birth of security -- and that government over the people, by the corporate, for the money, shall not perish from the earth.

wow, too cool.
I had a lot of the sets he designed.
My kids still play with what's left of them when we are over at my folks house.

The one thing that really disappoints me with the current crop of Lego space sets are all of the custom parts that only have one or two uses. (I'm looking at you Bionicles :P )
I always liked the space sets that had the most general utility parts that could be used for lots of things.

I think it's the trade federation.

A communications disruption can mean only one thing: invasion.

It's a good thing they didn't try this in Boston ... or in an airport.

The gestapo would be all over them.

They must be talking about a different Falco ... the only one I've ever heard of is the "Rock me Amadeus" guy.

Or this is some kind of joke.

Do NOT question authority in Amerika.
No matter what the authorities say, they are right and you are wrong.
Authority figures in Amerika are infallible.
Any questioning of authority will be treated as the terrorist attack on our glorious homeland that it is.

This sounds like the beginning of an episode of Outer Limits or a B-grade sci-fi movie.

I use encryption built in to micortorrent. I also only accept encrypted connections from others. Comcast doesn't need to know what my packets are.

I also cap my upload speed since Comcast has seen fit to make the upload speed an order of magnitude or more slower than download speed. If I don't, my connection becomes unusable due to BitTorrent hogging the bandwidth.

Lastly, I use Peer Guardian. This handy program keeps a blacklist synced with a main server out there. It blocks connections from known vigilante groups.

@Dan Wineman, Thanks for the tips.
The vacuum pot I have is one of the manual glass ones.
I don't have a burr grinder. I'd love one but can't really justify the expense. I have a plain old blade grinder right now.
As to the coffee ... yes, the beans are crap and I'm just trying to make the best of a bad situation. It is old, stale, and wasn't really that good to begin with. I wouldn't serve it to guests, but it's not too bad for daily drinking. It's still beats the free office coffee. I'm just to cheap to throw it out. The salt was a trick I picked up in the Navy trying to stomach that stuff. The sugar I just add ahead of time because I know how much I like and it means I don't have to add it later.

With the process above I can definitely see how I'm over-extracting. All of this has pretty much been trial and error for me. I like to experiment to learn rather than reading up too much on a subject first.

I think I'll go home and try a lighter roast and a finer grind to see what the super awesome coffee bong can give me.

I've got a vacuum coffee pot that I call "the super awesome coffee bong".
I got it for my birthday about two years ago after expressing interest in it to my wife.

It turns out to make a surprisingly mediocre cup of coffee.

I've perfected my coffee making technique to give me exactly the pot of coffee I like.
1. Roast green coffee beans past second crack until they get a nice and dark oily sheen.
2. Let the beans rest for at least a day.
3. Add together one pot worth of beans, 2 Tbsp of sugar, and a pinch of salt.
4. Grind the dry mix to a fine powder
5. Combine mix and one pot of cold water in a large sauce pan.
6. Bring to a boil while stirring.
7. As soon as it boils, turn off the heat.
8. Let hot bean broth stand for 10 to 15 minutes.
9. Stir and pour through cone filter into coffee pot to remove grit.

Sometimes I skip step 9, but I've found I actually like not having the grit at the bottom of my cup.

This reminds me of a YouTube video I saw about a year ago.
Avatar Machine

This reminds me of the birdmen from highlander II

so, boobs are OK ... unless they are on TV in which case they cause irreparable harm and cost millions.
Bush is OK if you pay to see it in a theater.
But, penis is never OK under any circumstances?
Talk about double standards!

I love to confront people with the fact that the paper ass-gaskets offer only psychological protection and are no different than sitting on the plain seat.

I, for one, lick doorknobs and never wash my hands ... so there!

That's SERGEANT Detritus to you!

Since it has it's regular horns too wouldn't that make it more of a Triceratops?

Proximity vibrating alert when mobile is more than 5m away.
This is almost worth it alone.

now ... if if it could only be done the other way around and have a "hot/cold" mode to help you find your phone after you've set it down the night before. The closer you get, the harder or more frequent the buzz pulses get until you find your phone. (not sure if bluetooth has a signal strength API in the spec)

Gee ... someone could make a whole "Internet shock meme" ornament set.
Goatse
Tubgirl
Lemon Party
and the all new flavor of the season ... 2g1c

Why do I hear the computer from Portal in my head when I read these signs?

Do they have cake?

Hopefully they aren't planning on going through Logan International in Boston.

that's "Animal" ... not "Monster".

I forgot to mention the Not Another EBook reader.
NAEB ... BAEN backwards (no business affiliation)

ripped from the site:
Operating System: Linux
Applications: MP3 player, Ebook Reader
Notes: On release of our version the ebook reader software will support ebooks in the following formats: RTF, HTML, PDF and PRC, both secure and unsecured. (Mobipocket)
Price: $375.00 plus shipping. Includes: 1 1GB SD Card, 1 set of earbuds, 1 usb to mini-usb cable, a leather cover and a wall recharger.

This is yet another device not enough people will buy.

A reader needs to work with every file format out there.
It needs to support DRM for the file types that need it but be open enough to still accept file with no DRM.
Removable media, yes.
USB connectivity, sure, but you don't need it if you have removable media. If it brings down the price, leave it out.
Wireless? it's not really necessary. It's ok if it's not locked to any service provider.
Web browsing, no, it just jacks the price up.
Audio, no, it just jacks the price up.
For the people that want wireless, web and audio, make a separate model with the extras.

Just give me a $200 reader with good contrast and DPI that lets me read without getting a headache.

Do not look in to laser with remaining eye.

Unfortunately, from the spec sheet at InFocus, this thing doesn't seem to be worth $500.
http://www.infocus.com/Products/Projectors/IN1_AUD.aspx
There's no DVI or HDMI inputs and it has a native resolution of 640x480.
Even if you wanted to watch 1080p you couldn't.

I'll keep cruising eBay and Craig's List for my next projector.

I was just looking over a set of Aqua-Dots at Costco last night.

GHB was never on my list of drugs to try or I'd give a report whether the North American ones were drugged up or not.

Fight back. Don't fly.
Boycott air travel in the USA.

I thought the Eloi were supposed to be pleasure seeking morons, not "highly intelligent" in any way at all. I remember commenting on this when the story first came out.

wow ... All it needs is a place to mount it on a stick and you can use it as a mace when everything is open.

Unfortunatley ... This area is not really shown on Google earth.
A few miles off shore all they display is ocean topology (topography?).
They don't show the surface.
It might be worth their while to do a few flyovers and see what they can see.

Do you think they'll find it odd that a lot of little old ladies born in 1901 read the NYT online?

The map is a wee bit simplistic and ignores China and Japan.
I suppose if you still ignore China and Japan it could be a map of state acknowledged major religions over the last few thousand years. But then you'd expect at least a smattering of small dots for the Jewish diaspora. This map has Judaism completely disappear until the founding of Israel.

I can't remember the last time I was in a Wal-Mart.
Maybe 7 to 10 years ago, tops.
There isn't one in my town and the closest one is about 45 minutes to an hour away, I think. I haven't been there but I've seen it from the freeway.

No child left behind ... unless they aren't able to meet standards ... then they get kicked to the curb.

You could use that and a jar of olives to make Lard Peeps for everyone at easter!

Hoax device!

I just hope they make sure that humans play only humans too.
There's nothing worse than chatting up some sexy elf chick only to find out she's actually human in real life.
eew

Boy ... I think I'm a record holder here.
A few years back I cleaned out two tons of used electronics from my garage. Stacks of old PCs that had been rendered obsolete, electronics waiting to be "salvaged" for parts. Stuff like that.
I decided that it had sat so long that I really wasn't going to use it as planned. So, I bit the bullet and hauled it all off to the dump. The only reason I know how much it weighed is that the dump charged by the pound.

The sad part is that I've still got about half a garage of crap still left to get rid of.

Just remember not to take it to the airport.

When did it become illegal to carry homebrew electronics into an airport?
These people need to lighten the fuck up.

I believe it's time for a line of clothing that has random electronics embedded into it.

I wonder if they realize that everything they see in a browser window is a copy for personal use.

Welcome to 21st century police state U.S.A.
Everything is fine as long as you don't cross the imaginary line.

The first thing I thought when I saw that was that it was a Morocco Mole toy of some kind.

This would be cool in the kitchen if we couldn't already see the TV.
Heck ... give the think a digital input and you can use it as a monitor for a kitchen PC.

To get past not seeing the food they could put a camera in with a view of the food.
Then they could give you the option of a PIP or full screen view of the food.

Mind you ... the light in my microwave has been burned out for years and it's impossible to replace, so I'm used to not seeing the food.

I know a few burners and I'll have to see what they think of this.

To me, BM just seemed like a big party in the desert to either get drunk and stoned, or a big party in the desert where you go to mess with people that are drunk or stoned.

When you get a critical mass of people that like performance art, or consider themselves performance artists you are going to have some nutjobs.

I think they should now change the nature of how and when the man burns. Make it a challenge to be the most ingenious and inventive person to get past the security measures set the man on fire.

GW asked "Is our children learning?"
I'd say the answer is a hearty "they is!"

I'll agree with the others.
It's nice to have comments!

Priceless.
Premature burnination.