Perfect for my Untouchables diorama, now I only have to find a Costner figure pushing Drago off the roof.

Easily done with scissors and plastic placemats (so it doesn't maim the fragile boingboinger) or thin copper plates (steampunks only).

Hulk and Abomination hybrid

Until a steampunk Happy Meal surfaces it's not popular...hmmm...did Disney's Atlantis had one? Ok, it is.

I only drink soda. Will this increase my cred?

Without getting into the deep technical aspects of traffic and bandwidth regulations, yes it is perfectly possible, there are a number of ways to do it in fact:
1. Assign different traffic weights or routes to servers, hosts, clusters or domains (the last one is "better" because of generalization).
2. Virtual LANS to segregate traffic.
3. Treating visits or hits as hostile, meaning that filtering and bandwidth restriction can be enforced at switch, router or firewall side.

There are many hops between you and your destination, it's a matter of manipulating the "pipe flow" as needed.

Call me when it's powered by steam

So there's no intelligent design but unfounded patent.

So there's no intelligent design but unfounded patent.

And suddenly the tactical screen showed, in bright green letters: "Manchurian F-35"
And so the plane turned 180°, armed and headed base.

Agent 86: Logical, the dog day dogs throw their off-spring down a high place, all tailcurling will dissappear.

reminded (me of the)... sorry, brain was housekeeping at the moment.

Hope this ends well, but really don't think so. In any case, this has reminded my of the Limoncello bottle back home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limoncello

Abney Park's music is quite good, recommended.

Won't somebody think of the 3rd world?

In Panama we are paying $3.90 like someplaces in the US, but a $10 would certainly push us to a Chaos previously unknown here, no doubt; there's no way our economy can handle such thing.

So this is what a Black Hole is like... all info coalescencing into nothingness. Fun!

I don't see much of Diamond's specific ideas -whatever they may be- on this snippet, but a write down of Daniel's story and some seemingly common facts.
Any informed readers care to disgress?

Creation-evolution arguments aside, it's pretty amazing stuff and i'm hoping they "devolve" to dino size.

All hail wall crawling lizard lords!

Takuan asked who buys these things; if volume is not an indication of demand, they are bought by the same people who would have bought the Poker Dogs in the past. They are the untold millions. Legion.

Kind of misleading headline, like saying secret church of pot thriving in southern Cal.

Liked the Euripides quote. Anyone knows the name of the font used?

It has always stuck me as a kind of strange cuteness this birthday gift "clause", it somehow throws off all legal twisting with an image of cake and singing.

Pepik, good one! Time to raid those $1 dollar stores.

On the same vein of thought, yahoo reports the following on the SF protest as viewed by a chinese-american:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - San Francisco's large Chinese American community is divided about the Olympic torch's passage through their city on Wednesday, with some saying protesting the symbol headed to their ancestral home could prove an embarrassing distraction.

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"A majority of Chinese Americans are proud of China in the way they have raised the standard of living," said Rolland Lowe, who practiced as a doctor in the city's Chinatown for 43 years before retiring two years ago.

"China used to be called the sick man of Asia and for them to be hosting the Olympics is something they take pride in," he continued. But then he mentioned the controversy over China's control of Tibet. "They put more money in Tibet than they take out. It's not like Tibet is full of oil."

As I said, the overall sentiment is like "I'm ok, they are getting better and everybody should be happy and comply". Sad.

Someone up there said the chinese state would fall off in the long run -or something to that effect- as the preassure mounts, I don't think it's the case; in their mind they have a bussiness to take care and don't want negative publicity affecting the profits. This view is supported by the common man, who otherwise wouldn't earn it's meager pay which is better than none.
Social and political change -if ever- will come from a China transformed by the market, but I'm pretty sure this won't necessarely mean freedom for Tibet. Probably and it's not difficult to imagine, quite the contrary.

The reason many chinese oppose to the independence of Tibet is that they are now enjoying the fruits of the twist of fate that have put them in the top of the game, today. So they can't really understand the need of the tibetans and chide them for their unwillingness to comply.
Wonder what were the sentiments of the english during the american revolution?

A true boycott can't be archived as it's the same situation for oil; a great part of the solution would be not feeding the economical model and that is the hardest part.

One protest I would like to see: a crowd of silent -or gagged- runners behind the torch bearer, carrying candles.

Ah! The plight of the uninitiated.

Also thanks and RIP, Mr. Clarke. Godspeed.

Hmmm, grilled artactic cthulu with lemon and garlic.

This wouldn't have happened if they haven't turned the Hadron Collider back in the future.

Later, the artist went to a lucrative and spiritually fullfiling career at Jehova Witness Watchtower magazine.

For all I know, this might instead mend everything, including Star Wars.

In our more enlightened Panama, there are only anti Elmo pogroms.

So sad and a good way to spend time after being left for dead by an anti Emo crowd.

Overvowelling would be swell as well.

Maybe he will stall his death into a vitamin induced hypocondriac singularity.

Just sayin'

There might be some chemicals involved...contact or blown...

Article says that if swallowed one would grow a secondary but curlied tongue.

Bacon placebo, Mmmmm.

Also check Gordon Bennett's Robot Works:
http://www.bennettrobotworks.com/

WANT WANT

Curiously I'm wearing a O2 nose ring with H2 cabochons.

Thanks and godspeed, Arthur

Envy is a sin you know, not that the new ones have replaced the traditionals ;)

This mostly applies to netcitizens, most of people outside our little bright world usually just have to mind the basic stuff: food, clothing and shelter. And that's all the crisis they need.

All this would be solved if we traveled stark naked. Just sayin'

Uglyful

When it comes with selectable James Earl Jones vocalization I'll cut my vocal chords and buy one.

Ideas as opiates, go figure!

So, internal gleeking is the name of the feeling.

So, americans are proud of their freedom to choose their own authorities but are unable to see the same need on others; have a president that claims to follow God's dictates and is the decendant of another critized ruler, but are unable to accept another who claims to be a reincarnation.
By the same token, maybe you'd fare better under british rule.

Just sayin'

Well, I think I have covered two or three of the new sins on my Boch-ian painting "The Return of the Blue Man":
http://public.cwpanama.net/~ysanson/arte/arte1.html (last one to the right)

and a couple more on "Bad Roots":
http://public.cwpanama.net/~ysanson/arte/arten.html (last one to the right, too)

-click on the + sign for greater detail-

still, I would have to work on a new ones for the bioethical stuff... said that, what will I win? The Vatican as a patron would be nice, absolution nicer.

The picture lacks floating dead river dolphins, sunken cities (big dam byproduct) and the great firewall of China -wouldn't it look quite striking on paper?-. Maybe I can draw it tomorrow during lunch...

Actually, Klein is just a minion of our crow masters.

Two Gaiman posts and now crows, it's Sandman's Day at BoingBoing.

#18 you mean Homeland Security, right?

anthropomorphictoast, you have nailed it. This is no fun for anyone. What's next? Wiretapping for kids?

Soylent Rice is yummy!

Wow! Just picture old MarlboroTestMonkey7 as a Vatican Swiss Guard / Sky Marshall dressed in his medieval regalia and traveling first class!
Life is good.

Oil instead of paint would be a better deterrent. And fragant oil would be just peachy.

Call it a gut feeling. I've been taught to heed it.

So, I'm guessing that without a spiritual guidance, yoga is contraproducent, no?

Grossiful!

Maybe shaving the brow could somehow redirect the attention of coworkers and bosses.
But seriously (!), the design could be modified to show a little eyelid.

hmm, but what about those of us with glowing red irises?

And how does the kid wears the TaunTaun suit? Opening it bellywide with his/her lightsaber, of course.

The Death Star grill seems easy adaptable from existing non-deadly models.

I see no problem here, c'mon give them a break, probably the boys are subjected to far enough female authority at home.
I am, so I comment semi-anonimously.

Beware: He's not being hit, he shoots.

Today personal most rewarding use of the Internet: thank Bjarne for all the "wasted" time.

At long last, a Yes reference:

We hit the blue fields
In the blue sedan we didn't get much further
Just as the sun was rising in the mist
We were all alone we didn't need much more

So fast this expedition
So vast this heavy load
With a touch of luck and a sense of need
Seeing the guns and their faces
We look around the open shore
Waiting for something

Ever since becoming a father I can't envision valid architecture without chutes, ladders and bright colors.
Tho JenJen is right, but IF Clinton wins phallic would be the least preferred (or not?)

Chroma has the right idea there, and I see this as a better container for movie nacho and drink combo.

Stilsuit? Stilbra? Herbert?

Now, if they could extract that enzyme from clowns I would better handle my raging Coulrophobia.

Begs for a web based Flash adaptation.

UBERNYM: Bad taste is always wrong, evil is not banal, ignorance rules all.

At long last my fantasy of Isabella biting the head off a male praying mantis has been fulfilled!!!

Instant Funes the Memorious. Viva Borges.

"Operator, oh let's forget about this call
There's no one one there I really wanted to talk to
Thank you for your time; oh you've been so much more than kind
You can keep the dime"

Great news! I love Shike and hope this creates more fans, movie, radio serial, comicbook, Happy Meal, german manga, church... :)
Thanks Mike.

The story (pdf file) is on his site:
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool%20Stuff/Short%20Stories

Actually is a primitive lifeform discarded by researchers.

It's all expected as the evil empire of Scientology and Tom Vader will fall under the onslaugh of the dual might of Barney and Daniel.

Joel for President!

Remember, it's not paranoia if it's goverment sponsored!

Next time he can claim being a papparazzi looking for the next hot Paris photo and all doors and underwear will his for the taking.

Hmmm... thank you Xeni.

Periplaneta Russiana, indeed.

Now, maybe they can lend one or two roaches to the japanese, to pilot the origami plane they plan to send down from orbit.

Whitman, I second Specialist on the sources for power on electrical cars being renewable FIRST. Without that we are only transferring the problem elsewhere, no visible polluting, but someone somewhere is pumping oil to the system.

But beware, the day we all move -willingly or not- to electric motors not necessarely means that we'll get the same power levels. We might have to lower our expectations, and be "happy" with that.

The preocupation lies in how discrete it's influence would be. Yes, there are inherent but somehow more visible dangers on fully established and industrialized tech, risks that we have learn to live with, be it oil spills, overpopulation, lead paints on toys, etc.
Like nuclear (Chernobyl) or biotech(Gulf War), nano carries an stigma that we may be playing with fire.
That's why I think we shouldn't be too hasty to condemn these backward thinking luddites, security should always be a valid concern.

Coupled with a BFG, I'd would lay waste to this level.

Almost as dangerous as rolling fiery cotton balls.

Viral marketing for the new X-Files flick.

Trick and threat if you ask me.

More enjoyable while listening to the Jonathan Coulton's song "Mandelbrot Set":
Pathological monsters! cried the terrified mathematician
Every one of them is a splinter in my eye
I hate the Peano Space and the Koch Curve
I fear the Cantor Ternary Set
And the Sierpinski Gasket makes me want to cry
And a million miles away a butterfly flapped its wings
On a cold November day a man named Benoit Mandelbrot was born

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Mandelbrot%20Set

Without the white buffalo blessing this is doomed to fail.
Just sayin'

IMHO, not a matter of culture or religion, but education, knowledge. I'm not apologizing, but it's another world.

For some reason I find this incredible

On the manufacturer and support sides, fewer models to sell translates on a simpler/cheaper stock parts model. Also makes more sense -although this is almost impossible to conceive on most companies- to focus on a few well designed articles than be host to a large amount of designers.

This reminds me of the upper management of *some companies*, they have -and demand- the most powerful laptops and desktops but rarely or never use them to their fullest. No paradox for them tho, but for the rest.

Joel, this post is the most sensible thing I've read today as it echoes my misguivings about air travel. Said that, I advise you to shift your thoughts to what comes after you arrive; in my experience it's better -and logical- not to narrow your focus on the air trip, but visualize it as part of the day's continuity. Everything passes.

Murray, the reason why it works is because it's Japan, land of stalked people disguised as dispensers. Nuff said.

Maybe you could bridge this using Alchemically significant elements. Great Idea, tho.

Also, Logical Extremes, cremation isn't exactly eco-logical. Search the net for info and look at the cost of death video somewhere around here.
I think Disney could implement a discrete system for the mourners to address this problem while generating a revenue. Not Mickey canopical jars, mind you.

In Panama, it is an almost lost battle against the developers, who seek to erase all traces non-crowded living and replace nature for concrete. I made a picture of it:
http://public.cwpanama.net/~ysanson/arte/arten.html (last one to the right).

Hey, hey, correction in order:
One Willmina Gates of Boston, MA, sent a long note to this newspaper denouncing what she called "the unbridled hubris of science which seeks to replace the honest labor of men for souless machines". "What if not evil would arise of such endevours?", she writes, "the country will never allow it's citizens to surrender their minds these stupifying mesmerizations", to what this reporter says "Amen". News article in an american newspaper, 1871

The last one (New York newspaper bit) seems like a time traveler account, steampunkish is you will. AND NOW, ABUSING OF YOUR TIME AND THE INHERENT CHARACTERISTIC OF THE NET TO CONTAIN AND DISEMINATE UNVERIFIABLE INFORMATION I'LL VENTURE A WIMSY EDIT:
«A known embezzler has been aprehended for newly attempting to deceive the gullible but decent citizens of New Jersey with a device he declared able to "completely replace the written page as a means of communication" and "usher the dawn a new era of information". Afterwards the exhibition which was plaged with what the man called "bugs" and "screen of death" but seemingly called the attention of a cadre of invited learned men, the device was promptly destroyed and the ex-con banished to the borders of town.
One Willmina Gates of Boston, MA, sent a long note to this newspaper denouncing what she called "the unbridled hubris of science which seeks to replace souless machines for the honest labor of men". "What if not evil would arise of such endevours?", she writes, "the country will never allow it's citizens to surrender their minds these stupifying mesmerizations", to what this reporter says "Amen". News article in an american newspaper, 1871

Lest not forget Shike: Time of Dragons and Shike II: Last of the Zinja.

@mingross: lice can be used to add movement to a stop motion Star Trek's Dribble.