I vote for him having to spend the next 6 months working for conservation projects in NZ. That, and he has to be Al Gore's personal towel boy for an additional 6 months.

If that doesn't scare him down the straight and narrow, nothing will.

Listening to the clip at http://www.tbo.com/video/xml/MGBBBA7WXCF.html I hear it saying "Tell James" and it cuts off.

#6 The only thing that would have made the name any better was if they could tack an 'Amalgamated' on it somewhere:

Universal-Cyclops Amalgamated Steel Corp...

Has a nice ring to it.

Between this and SYNC, Microsoft and Ford really seem to have gotten into bed with each other. How'd they market that deal?

"The innovation of Microsoft and the reliability of Ford...no wait...the innovation of Ford and the reliability of Microsoft...uhm that won't work either...

@#18 What's the name of the restaurant? I'd like to make a trip!

As an aside to this, I have been wondering for a while now what will happen as more people use the internet for porn, and having that computer there with them becomes part of the arousal? At what point does the brain associate the computer not just as what we work with, but as a necessary part of sex?

#3 Jesus didn't always just sit idly by. For example, he whipped the merchants out of the temple and turned their tables over telling them to never return to the church.

And personally I think that if Jesus were going to do someone in, he wouldn't use a gun. He'd break off a piece of the cross he was nailed to and bash in their brains with it.

This whole EULA/Anti-EULA bit reminds me of "The Big Hit" from John Woo where they set up phone trace busters, and the trace-buster-buster, trace-buster-buster-buster, ad nauseum.

Cory what happens if the next email includes a EULA at the bottom which states "Just by receiving this email you agree to all of the original terms set forth in the EULA. In addition you agree to come over and wash my dog." Are you going to go over and wash the dog?

I understand that part of the desire of the Anti-EULA is to force the issue of how ridiculous EULAs are, but I don't necessarily see this as being the best way.

#17 Bottlekid - Good question, and I was wondering that as well. What's the proper way to handle that? I mean, pushing it into the sewer line takes it to the treatment plant, but maybe they're not set up to handle those types of chemicals, but I'm just as loathe to throw all of that stuff into the garbage, as it just seems wasteful, and I'm just shifting the chemical waste to a different location...

I went to DisneyWorld over Thanksgiving with my wife, kids, and the grandparents. My mom's a pastor and she commented that for her Disney is a religion and that the majority of fans to continually trek to the parks are on a pilgrimage.

I can see how others ave arrived at that idea though I've always thought that something is a religion because it incorporates elements of faith, which I don't necessarily see Disney fans doing. Most people I know aren't praying to Mickey Mouse or Uncle Walt. Maybe it's more a philosophy?

Either way, I'd love to take this class. She should open it for matriculating on the web.

I don't necessarily find planned communities creepy, though the Catholic one down in Florida crosses the line for me. But still, I think as long as people have the choice to live there they're fine. I do appreciate the "new" style of planned communities that try and recapture some of the small town feeling by mingling small commercial and residential and placing the porches of houses close to the sidewalk to encourage more social interaction between neighbors.

I personally believe that for a long time the psychological and sociological benefits of urban planning have been ignored in a drive to throw up McMansions on every hill.

Speaking about craziness behind the scenes at Disney, Neal Gabler's bio of Walt Disney goes into great detail about the man himself and how he ran the animation studios. The drive to produce Cinderella makes every FUBAR software project I ever worked on look like a walk in the park. Granted, totally different scales of achievement and accomplishment, but still...

#9 - Guns n Roses is their classic rock!

@CPT. Tim I don't know what he was implying by saying it wouldn't have had such an innocuous ending if this had happened in the States. Which is why I'm asking. I do agree with you and #5 that a lot would have been made about the media, etc, and if that's all that RainLion meant, cool. But the sense I got from his comment was not a discussion on the media but something else.

One of the neatest things about that gingerbread house is that it actually also serves as a workshop where people make a replica you can ship home.

@Rainlion I'm not quite sure what you're implying about the US. Are you saying that we're somehow more inherently violent than other cultures? That he would have turned into a serial killer here in the States? Why exactly would that be?

LOL. I am sure that it was made in China too, which raises the image of all of the assembly workers watching this thing rolling by and thinking "WTF are the Amercians up to now?"

And then I just thought the really horrible thought: well now the Chinese have an outlet for all the extra kids they're not supposed to have. CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS!

Yes yes, I'm going to hell.

This reminds me of the slow destruction of dollars in the Illuminatus! Trilogy with the intention of destabilizing US currency.

Cory, I know the phones are kind of creepy, but we'd actually considered getting the phones for our kids when we go to Disney in November. We've been trying to think of different ways to keep them safe (they're 5 & 4) and so we'd love a way to be able to track them, specifically if they get separated from us.

We've also considered the MiGo, since it only has a few buttons and it would be easy for them to know which button called Mommy and which called Daddy.

I agree that for older children it would be kind of creepy...

All of this talk about licensing makes me think about new avenues for licensing...

How long until you're licensing your house from the builder who's intellectual property is the design of your home, and any changes you wish you to make to the design have to be run through the builder first. Yes, yes, home owners associations blah blah blah

Or, your car's design is licensed and you have to talk to Honda before you put that spoiler on.

Or maybe, Tiger Woods trademarks his swing and you have send money to him when you try to emulate what he's doing on the golf course.

Doesn't licensing have to end somewhere?

Once I purchase a CD, the contents are mine to do what I please as long as I'm not trying to make money off of it. If I want to have ten copies at home I should be allowed, just as if I'm allowed to photocopy the contents of a book for a paper or article and keep the archived copies even if the source materials exists somewhere else (i.e., the library)...or are the lot of you arguing against Cory going to say that we should all go out and purchase copies of the book every time we wish to reference it? Why should it be different between a book and a CD? And don't start yammering about ease of copy. I've seen plenty of OCR machines that could download the contents of books in mere minutes. Why is one type of intellectual property somehow magically licensed while the other is not?