Dale Gribble could get them I bet.

Sweet. But the neatest bit was the Google ad in the middle of the article: "Childrens Playhouses
Now From Only £98."

Ironic or something I guess.

Surely a missed opportunity in not calling it a Pork Sword?

You've got a novel coming out?

@10 But this has nothing to do with formats 'coming and going', the format's going to carry on, it's just peoples ability to play the songs will cease.

What do you mean by archival copies? Dumping you tunes to CD? Ripping them to drm-free mp3? Either time-consuming or, technically, illegal.

I'm not going to get too annoyed over this, I'm sure there's a clause in the eula that sez they can discontinue the service at anytime, so, y'know, if you agree to their terms you can't really moan later...

A couple of parachute mines were dredged up in my locale (Thanet, SE UK) late last year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/7041372.stm

We didn't know about them until they were detonated, one helluva shake for a couple of seconds.

@Melou

"on occasion I have been shouted at by other passengers (oddly, normally British passengers)"

Ah, you know how us brits love our queues. Scorn upon anyone who seeks to subvert the queue hierarchy. ;)

a "blistering" investigation?

choice word.

Or buy a pair of Grados, look remarkably similar.

$19, pah... $3.40! :)

At everyones favourite store, DealExtreme.com: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.7891

Ones that read other formats too start at around $5/6.

anyone else think Michael McKean should play Ron in any future bio-pic?

#2 "AN AUTHORITY IS SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS NOTHING LOUDLY"

Kind of ironic being all in caps isn't it?

@IKIGEG:

About missing the first ten minutes, they definitely left it intentionally unclear as to whether her grandson was alive or not until the end. I thought it a little unneccessary, not exactly exploitative but muddied the waters emotionally... I guess I like a documentary to give me the facts rather than play around and imply (suggest?) things that aren't true to build tension.

The grandmothers husband got straight to the point: like something off a slab in the morgue.

Congratulations! If she's anything like my daughter (3.45 years) it'll be a blast.

We had an aluminium version of this when i was kid, 30 years ago...

First electric kettles then this, my heads dizzy with the possibilities... ;)

I see things like this quite often out the windows of my office; it's seagulls believe it or not. Vicious critters, pecking the pigeons apart...

the addition of an rfid reader (to read passports/identity cards) and wifi connection would allow the hub to ascertain whether the users have valid licenses to the material they want to listen to.

missed opportunity methinks.

"I'd give up anything, say anything, do anything."

Which is why they do it and why it's worthless intelligence at the end of the day.

Cheers Chris.

So, in my ignorance, what are all the holes for? Save weight? But aren't hammers meant to be heavy?

Bit disturbed as to why so many of the protestors have injuries of some description..?

So the court officers had to arrest themselves? Interesting...

Sounds interesting, reminds me of The Great Egg Race, anyone remember that? (UK show, early/mid-80s I guess). Teams had to build elaborate contraptions to carry out various egg related tasks.

Pandaterror said: "I read in another article which mentioned that she was planning on writing her own reference."

If this is true then this wouldn't simply be a case of suppressing the competition, would it JK?

@Teapunk: I agree to a point (living in Europe too) but then our PM (UKs) goes and says our relationship with the US is our most important one... I worry we're going to get dragged into all kinds of weird shit (again...)

He should count himself lucky, people have been Taser'ed for less.

I think the subtitle is a little misleading, sounds like the book explains how all scientists and engineers resolve the big faith v. science questions.

Whereas the vast majority of scientists I know couldn't give a hoot for the argument (or religion for that matter...), just get on with the interesting stuff.

Ricochets are my favourites, I'm sure they used the same blasted sample in every western shoot-out ever made.

Especially great when it's really out of context, y'know, gun fight in the middle of a desert with no where for the bullets to ricochet off, no cliffs for an echo etc.

Absolute fave was a an old Bill Travers film where he's being chased through the scottish highlands by a guy with a shotgun. Yep, the shotgun makes a cool richochet sound when fired...

@Clif

neat anecdote, great summation.

I remember reading this stuff when it was reprinted in Flipside zine (late 80s?), kind of thrilling but, well, dangerous. :)

People who want to blow things up will find a way, almost always through legitimate channels.

For the record, there have been plenty of '2D' animated films and series before, some based on the original books, some on original scripts.

Though I doubt this new version will scale the heights of the 60s, live action versions (only being *slightly* sarcastic :))

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055526/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058663/

No, no criticism of DP here either, just commenting on the use of the term in the original text.

"Mongolism"?

Well there's a term I thought fell out of polite use a long time ago...