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HOWTO Make a Sesame Street YipYipYip costume

June 21, 2008 10:30pm

#8 sum.zero: please stop signing your posts; that happens automagically. Plus, Seseame Street rocked my socks. Oscar was my hero :p

Oregon folds: Legislative Counsel's Committee says Oregon's laws aren't copyrighted

June 20, 2008 11:23pm

The masses want their plasma tvs. :)

Plutonium spill in Boulder, Colorado has spread

June 20, 2008 10:09pm

I'll make sure to let you all know when I die of plutonium poisoning.

Silly store name

June 20, 2008 6:51am

Sarahfenix: Please stop yelling, you can make your point(?) without the caps.

I'm going to be pedantic now: the problem isn't with the fact that the store sells cheap shit. The problem is that the store could be selling really really expensive shit (see Bently et al. above) and could easily claim to not be misleading their customers who, presumably, were looking for the genuinely cheap shit. This according to the sign out front.

Happy Shopping!
0.o

Lovely curved bookcases

June 7, 2008 9:43pm

completely lovely. a bookcase like that for smaller rooms that could hang on the walls above a bed, dresser, or desk would be really cool also.

And Muscato, I loved the staircase bookcase too; I love books and the ability (facilitated by things like this) to stick them anywhere.

Canadian border guards to check iPods for infringment

May 28, 2008 11:29pm

@RossInDetroit

The next time I cross the border it will be with as little as possible with me and an ironclad and verifiable story prepared.

Reason for detainment: Overly prepared story; clearly expected to be questioned.
Recomendation: Federal Pound me in the ass prison.

American Style.

Enjoy!

Whedon fans vow to save Dollhouse from cancellation -- eight months before initial airdate

May 28, 2008 10:05pm

every Buffy episode I've seen (and I admit there haven't been many) have made me mildly nauseous, but I love firefly. Conclusions? Wait and see.

Of course then I'd have to get cable first. Hmm. It's seeming less likely; I'll have to wait until it's canceled, then released on dvd, and then see whether it was worth saving.

Explosions rock the Moon

May 22, 2008 9:55pm

Then again the Moon is a very weird place.

I just like this. :)

Man trains rat to sit on cat to sit on dog

May 22, 2008 9:31pm

@thievedrelic: If nothing else the guy has been through Boulder. I've seen him there a couple times (read: I've seen the dog/cat/mouse a couple times)

California Supreme Court rules for same-sex marriage

May 16, 2008 11:19pm

@ #93 GregLondon:

Anyone who seriously thinks the main reason people are fighting gay marriage is because of taxes and not because of, say, bigotry, is creating strawmen and feeding them mud-pies.

I'm not arguing this. I think that genuinely most of the people who get mobilized to vote for those kind of amendments (when can I vote so none of them are allowed to procreate or pass their twisted views on to their children?) or laws, I'm just pointing out that, most of the time, there is a financial component as well. It's part of the picture, and probably the portion that anyone thinking about or working on the tax code deals with more than, Are Mr. and Mr. Smith banging without my consent?

California Supreme Court rules for same-sex marriage

May 16, 2008 3:08pm

@ 70 GregLondon:

If there's one thing I've noticed, it's how much the government is motivated to tyrannize the institution of marriage because of what taxes they get from it.

(cough)crap(cough)

They do. They get more money from every gay and lesbian couple in a committed household relationship because they are not married in the eyes of the federal government, and thus have to file individual tax returns, as LargeMarge and others have mentioned a couple times.

The reasoning behind the argument that Marriage shouldn't be a state-sponsored contract is that then it can be restricted according to the will of that government; e.g. the current institution.

Regardless of that and whether it's a good idea (I think so, philosophically), I though that generally we'd all agreed that separate but equal never turns out to be equal?

MSI Wind review: Te enamorarás! Yes, it's an Eee-killer

May 15, 2008 8:37pm

When do they release the upper model without XP? That might be the best deal of them all.

AntiPhormLite confounds BT's spyware by simulating random browsing

May 15, 2008 8:31pm

I was wondering the exact same thing. For now I have Comcast though. Vigilance!

Graph of solar radiation in the US (Southwest is best)

May 12, 2008 5:11pm

@#15 Antinious, there are several cities (countys?) where utilities are required to pay you the wholesale (not retail) rate for any power you put back into the grid. So it's something, if it's not a money machine. I can't think of any places where that's the law, but I know there are a few, and they're increasing.

Great tits cope well with warming

May 9, 2008 7:57pm

@#14: But all I really want to do, is ... Sing!

NO WE'LL HAVE NONE OF THAT!

I wonder if those tits sing... :)

Think Like a Dandelion: advice for understanding reproductive strategies in the Internet era

May 7, 2008 10:29pm

living in the west, I'm a fan of xeriscaped laws, unless I need some place to run around. It's harder than you might think to run through waist-high grass.

Ira Isaacs, "poo porn" producer about to go on trial for obscenity, interviewed

May 7, 2008 3:57pm

@#1: if you could convince your 86-year old aunt to fellate your poodle, that alone would be mark of genius.

Nelson Mandela and the ANC are on the US terrorist watchlist and need waivers to enter the country

May 6, 2008 4:10pm

I have to agree with the commentators who point out the ridiculousness of needing a bill to get someone off the terror watch list. How many bills did they have to pass to get everyone(?) on in the first place?

Camera shop offers customer bribe to remove bad Amazon review

May 6, 2008 12:20am

I'm formally submitting my application for the “elite little club.”

Takuan, Antinious, and Arkizzle, I await your decision. While I wait, I'll just enjoy the complimentary trolls.

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