So where's 'Bill the Cat'?
Acccckkk! Anyone?

The disembodied voice on the PA had no authority over you to order to do anything unless you were acting in a manner that threatened the safety of the members of the public on the platform or the public property.

When confronted by the voice on the 'box' you should have asked for a badge number and the name of the 'sheriff's' sergeant.

Then you should have asked for the name of the shift supervisor for the transit worker that cursed at you.

More than likely, all of these people were exceeding their 'authority' to prevent you from photographing anything.

Our overweight population is already consuming plenty of energy for bike riding...

1. Eat fat people.
2. Bike to work.
3. Two problems solved at one time.

This is SOP for an industry that offers products that have no real, lasting, tangible or intrinsic value. That's one reason why I still prefer paper-based books over e-books.
No book I've ever bought has ever snapped it's cover closed and said I can't read it here or there, or after a certain arbitrary period of time has elapsed.
If they're so worried about people stealing content, then why don't they make something worth stealing.

That kid looks like the milkman!

@9

Nowadays, the only time the T-Men will bust anyone for defacing currency is if they can catch them in the act

Or, if they are stupid enough to post their handiwork on flickr. With their picture.

The code:

United States Code
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 17 - COINS AND CURRENCY
§ 333. Mutilation of national bank obligations

What stupid things people do...

I've always been a 'Tit Man', great or small.

Con bò cái Thánh thần, Batman!

As a kid we would always pick up the Sunday 'Daily News' after church at the local delicatessan. Dad would never allow us to read the 'funny papers' until he did because we would always "make a mess of them with our 'Silly Putty' and what not." His favorites were 'Dick Tracy' and 'L'il Abner'. 'Fearless Fosdick' was one of his favorite Al Capp characters because of its' parody of his most favorite comic, 'Dick Tracy'.

Coming soon, 'Google Bags'™.

If it is a real human being, it explains the look on his face.

If you bought an opisometer to go along with that 'mapwatch', you'd be all set to go.

Eschew both 'Steves'.

I am totally fascinated with the graphic style that these publications are created in. Although it predates the animation style of Jay Ward and Alex Anderson, back to at least the mid-forties, seeing illustrations like these always reminds me of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Anyone out there know the roots of this illustration genre? Some links to examples maybe?

It must have fallen out of a time-traveler's wallet.

Ah, the future. So bright. So clean. So dorky.

Scha-WING!

The concern by the Pentagon over the 'off-shoring' of microchip production has been a topic that has been discussed in the semiconductor industry, ad-nauseum, for the last thirty years. There was even talk of forming a consortium of manufacturers to produce all the chipmaking equipment here in the U.S. to insure the 'integrity' of the parts and to prevent the transfer of technology to the Japanese, of all people. They didn't know what to do about it then; they cannot possibly do anything about it now.

i·ro·ny /ˈaɪrəni, ˈaɪər-/ [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]
–noun, plural -nies.

2. a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs.

The dictionary in action children.

I have been completely baffled throughout this ordeal as to how one can board an aircraft with a 'head-in-a-box' and leave it behind when one gets off the plane. Really now, it's not like it was a sweater or a pair of gloves. Hanson, what were you thinking about?

Does anyone remember 'Waterford" cigarettes? They had little beads in the 'pinch filter" that broke when crushed -like this product- wetting the cellulose filter to produce that 'turkish tobacco' flavor. Smooth.

As every fifth-grader knows, it's a Newton Scooter!

Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.

Even the government is in on it.

@16

No, you are not. Because cyanide is a federally controlled, hazardous substance, that requires permits and compliance. To deploy cyanide to prevent teenagers from gathering on your property, would create an environmental hazard, as well as a hazard to public health and safety, that you cannot control. That could be construed as 'reckless disregard' and if it were to be combined with a possible death, you would be the next one breathing the cyanide. The teenagers, on the other hand, can just walk away from the 'annoying sound'.

James Alan Fox fails to realize that this is not a 'crowd-monitoring' device but a 'crowd-mitigating' device. If this is deployed by private citizens to protect private property, then neither the ACLU or any other group holds a valid opinion on the subject.

I suggest that they ask the late Marlon Brando.

r ths th knd f thngs ppl d whn thy dn't hv jb?

N, rlly. r thy?

Before the deconstruction of these 'cold war fortresses', there used to be a place in Kearney Mesa (an industrial area north of San Diego, Ca where GD had one of it's main research facilities, http://tinyurl.com/4gzbmp) called 'Missile Park'. It had inert engineering samples of many of the Sixties era missile systems that GD produced at that time and they were surrounded by swing sets and slides for children to play amongst the delivery systems for some of the most terrible weapons ever created by humankind.

I distinctly remember when the demolition of the facility in Kearney Mesa was started in the early 1990's. The demo contractor left the Atlas missile that was in front of the main building entrance standing until all the buildings around it were leveled. It stood, alone, amongst the destruction taking place around it, like a testament to the destructive power that this system was capable of delivering. It was truly a surrealistic sight to see that gleaming stainless steel behemoth sitting amidst acres of empty ground, where once 'cold warriors' had toiled to keep us free from the 'evil empire' of Communist oppression.

Sadly, Missile Park, along with virtually all traces of this era in American Cold War history, have vanished from the San Diego landscape. They have been replaced by non-descript industrial parks -or huge parking lots for new cars being rail-dropped into town- that pay no homage to the struggles of the engineering minds that once toiled within the walls of those 'freedom factories'.

@51 - ROTFLMAO

#37 - the sun alone doesnt have the same effect because air doesnt bend light, while water does bend light...

Well that explains why mirages of beatiful oases are figments of the imagination of dehydrated desert travelers. NOT.

A ray of light changes direction everytime that it encounters a change in the density of the medium through which it it is traveling; the effect is called refraction. That's why sunsets are red and the shimmering 'puddles' of water that appear in the distance on those hot roads in the summer disappear when you get close to them. It's also the principle upon which the lens of your eye works. Oh, and by the way, the sky is blue because of Rayleigh scattering.

If you have a pair of anaglyph (red/cyan) 3D glasses you can see some of the subtle 3d effects in this little film. Pretty cool!

@ #2 Kudos

We now have definitive proof of who the originator of 'hello.jpg' really was.

Fabulous!

IMDB lists the USA premiere date as April 9, 1953:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046036/releaseinfo

Hot on the heels of this release was one of my all-time favorites, 'It Came From Outer Space', which was based on a Ray Bradbury short story entitled, 'The Meteor'. It featured Richard Carlson of 'The Day The Earth Stood Still' fame and the always beautiful, Barbara Rush. This film featured excellent 3-D effects which have to be experienced from a good print of the film to be appreciated.

Check out the EULA on the page for the camera:

http://tinyurl.com/2b8mm3

scroll to the bottom to read.

Obviously this is NOT your average brownie box camera.

How about, 'You Suck At Sendmail' or 'You Suck At Exchange Server 2008'?

Fabulous stuff. The angst is palpable, even.

Aw, quit your whinin'. You should be happy that you're only payin' $250 or so for a lamp. If you were runnin' an IMAX/OMNIMAX projector you'd be payin' $6000 plus for a lamp.
Honestly!
Cheapskates.

Mr. Chalayan, this is my lawyer, Mr. Dewey, of Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe. He wishes to discuss your use of my footwear design...

I've wanted to kick the 'King Kameamea Biatch' Feinstein in the face for so many years now. But you people keep votin' her back into office...

I want to know; is the 'Oven In The Round' a 'Lean, Mean, Fat Burnin' Machine' like the George Forman Grill, or is it just designed to; "...point the way to new informality in the home."?

The sight of this is nauseating.

My money is on any of the following:

Anguirus
BabyGodzilla
Baragon
Battra
Biollante
Destroyah
Ebirah
Fairy Mothra
Fire Rodan
Gabara
Gigan
Gigantic Flying Rock/UFO
Godzilla Junior
Godzillasaurus
Gojira
Gorosaurus
Hedorah
Kamacuras
King Caesar
King Ghidorah
Kumonga
LittleGodzilla
Manda
MechaGodzilla
MechaKingGhidorah
Megaguirus
Megalon
Meganula
Meganulon
Minya (Minilla)
Moguera
Monster X
Monster X II
Mothra
Oodako
Orgo
Rodan
SpaceGodzilla
Super MechaGodzilla (MechaGodzilla + Garuda)
Titanosaurus
Varan

I hope I didn't leave any of them out.
You KNOW how they get...

If you listen really carefully -with what may be left of your R&R dulled hearing- you can hear the track playing in his headphones.

Rock-Kon!