@#11
Yeah, I think this is kinda weird, myself.
But dude, lighten up. Milk, including human milk, is biologically designed to be expressed and consumed.
You're comparing that with forcibly removed skin lamps?? :P

Sorry to burst the "I want to believe!" bubble, but you don't have to be baked to mistake the moon for something "unknown"--happens all the time!

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=328

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/07/05/thats-no-moon-oh-wait-yes-it-is/

What's the average reflex saving throw for a terrorist NPC? Anyone have a Monster Manual entry for them? They may have to hire some epic level rogues to design the trap.

Seriously, though, anyone can apply for a patent for just about anything--doesn't mean anyone takes it seriously ot it's going to get made.

Banshee is cute, but lots of flaws.
I've been using Amarok for a couple of years now, and it does everything I could possibly want! Plus, it connects to my Creative Zen mp3 player like nothing else will.
Only problem is, every once in a while Amarok's responsiveness will sometimes slow to a crawl and eventually crash.

@#20
Unfortunately, it looks like Anonym.OS is a dead project, and with outdated configs which prevent one from connecting to the Internets.

@26.... huh?
What did MANCE01 (20) say that sounded the least bit Orwellian?

Personally, not only am I an organ donor, but instead of taking up space in a cemetery or contributing to air pollution (cremation) without giving something in return, I plan on donating my whole body upon death to a medical school or other institution that may have use for my discarded meat suit.

Shenanigans!
The son is the person who said rigor mortis had set in, not the doctors. My understanding is that rigior mortis is caused not just from lack of blood flow but from chemical changes that occur due to irreversible metabolic changes when all systems stop. Like livor mortis (blood pooling) there's not coming back from this stage.

While doctors can get flummoxed by the unexpected, I think they have a very good idea as to what happened here--no doctor (who doesn't work for the Discovery Institute) would just say "well, it was a miracle--there's no medical explanation.)

@#11: OMFG! I'm dying here from laughing so hard.
You made my week. :)

@#24: "Warning!!!! Adolescent ad hominum attack!!!
Ben Stein is a complete fucking idiot."

Actually, an ad hominum attack would be if you insulted him for something completely unrelated to the argument, like: "He wears ugly ties!"

Pointing out the fact that he's a frakking idiot is actually quite on point. :)

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FALLOUT 3 better have lizards on a stick! I'm tellin' ya!

Evidence: As you can see, scads of people are offering up tons of evidence as to why evolution is viable and working theory.
You seem to think that == "shut up."
Well, yeah, in a way I guess it is.
i.e.: Your non-scientific scientific arguments are without merit and don't belong in a conversation about science; go take them to Sunday School.

Lizards on a stick, is all I'm sayin'!

(By the way, Dawkins did NOT say in Expelled that we came from aliens. When pressed by a very annoying Stein for a hypothesis as to where life came from (which evolution does not even try to address) Dawkin's mentioned panspermia under duress as one of the hypothesis that exists. He himself does not believe that's the case.)

The newest Marvin from the movie is on there, but I'm not seeing the BBC Marvin.
Am I missing him? Surely they can't be so audacious as to have the movie one and not the original!

(Gah, this "text in error" thing is annoying!)

32: Good point!
Although, if Christianity is THE sign of the best morality, and atheism is fundamentally amoral and evil, you'd think the number of atheists in prison would still be at a higher percentage/Christians in prison much lower percentage. If not flipped.

And the Nobel thing still stands. :)
And anecdotal evidence: Nearly every atheist I know is an advocate for human rights and decency.

Weird...BB messed up my post. Where it says:

"Yet: while between 5 and 15% (depending on what polls you read) of Americans are atheist, atheists make up And most Nobel laureates are/were atheists."

should read:

Yet: while between 5 and 15% (depending on what polls you read) of Americans are atheist, atheists make up less than 1% of the prison population. And most Nobel laureates are/were atheists.

(Oh I see why: I used the "less-than" symbol before instead of the words.)

I find it odd and sad how vilified atheism is. Gallup polls show most Americans would rather have a gay Muslim as president (nothing wrong with either!! Just you'd think as homophobic and arab-phobic Americans are...) than have an atheist president.

Yet: while between 5 and 15% (depending on what polls you read) of Americans are atheist, atheists make up And most Nobel laureates are/were atheists.

(Of course, to be fair, being in prison does not necessarily make you a bad person or even "criminal" in my mind, as a HUGE percentage of inmates are in there for consensual crimes such as minor drug use (vs. dealing).)

Most atheists I know are anti-war, anti-hate, anti-bigotry, while most Christians I know are pro-war, pro-death penalty, pro-xenophobia, pro-Earth raping.

Unicorn chaser, indeed!
(Just not a pre- and post-death unicorn.)

I guess I can see how some people find this...beautiful, I guess. But all I can see is reading these peoples' quotes, the horrible sadness and loss. Sure, one woman found Hospice wonderful, another reconnected with her ex-husband...but so many of the others were keenly aware of the loss of life, beauty, chance, and hope. As I know I would be. The woman who worked all her life and just now able to enjoy retirement--stolen from her.

Granted, it's a poignant lesson to enjoy life while you can!!!

Why does this remind me of some of the "report suspicious behaviour" posters seen in the background of the film "Children of Men"?
Hmm.

Ah man, the video's been BoingBoined.
No can looksee. :(

I was terribly unimpressed by this presentation.
Oh, the metalosis video was somewhat cool, but her comment "So, science fiction is becoming reality" was the final straw with paying attention to her and her short, trite, superlative statements and assumptions and opinions presented as facts.
For example, the opinion stated as fact that "every scuba diver who comes across an orange and white fish will automatically think, 'hey, that's Nemo,." Every? Really? They will?
What was up with the video of countless logos and then the comment "So nature is wild and unpredictable"?
Or the advertisement picture of a embryo with a cell phone and the comment that "we'll be networking before we're born"? C'mon.

There are much better works on posthumanism out there, and by people who have a foot grounded in reality. Katherine Hayles is one example. Books like "How We Became Posthuman" and "My Mother Was a Computer."
From other authors: "Bodies in Code," "Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age", "Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution", and "More Than Human".

Oh nohz! The item's been removed from eBay!
Poo.

Oh how sad.
Anyone notice around 1:44, 1:45, that the guy on the left missteps and almost stumbles?
tsk

@14: OK, I don't say this often, but you're an idiot. Those countries are gray on the map, you'll notice there's no gray on the legend. That means, to most people who have paid attention in grade school, those countries are not included in the report.
They could be even worse than the U.K., but they're not included.

rosso: Thanks for the reality check. Good advice!

But I also agree with Candules: Tor does make the connection crawl to the point unusability.

#3: "Unless the "bad guys" are operating the exit nodes..."

Yikes, that's pretty huge! I mean, I guess it should be obvious to anyone who really thinks about it, that since anyone can operate a Tor node, your data could be sniffed by anyone from a government agent to a corporate front to some black-hat hacker.
This idea makes Tor a definite no-go for me.

Does anyone know anything about Steganos' anonymizer? It's $15 a month which sucks. (Free is good! But, I guess in some cases you do get what you pay for,)
https://www.steganos.com/us/products/home-office/internet-anonym-vpn/overview/

Eeep! Not Sweden, Switzerland!
Sorry. That's like confusing Ireland with Scotland.
:(

#5: Sheesh... some of you people have a really limited view of "wonderful."
Maybe it can mean "Something that makes one wonder, consider."
In this case, the Swedish sense of democracy is certainly a wonderful thing! The ability for the people to actually have a direct influence on laws? Wonderful!
Providing people with the chance to participate in overturning something Not Wonderful...Wonderful!
Get over yourself.

@15: "So it's in your best interest to cooperate with the cop. Especially if he's an a--hole like this one."

I dunno, I'm of two minds about this. Most cops are doing a public service I don't want to do--dealing with real criminals, dangerous situations, and post-crime scenes.

But when we start just accepting an attitude of "Do what they say and it'll all be over soon," it sounds too scarily like a police state at best. How far do we want to accept just putting up with someone with a badge who has power issues? In general?

BTW, I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned it--but unless I'm missing something, the cop pulls the guy over BEFORE he reached the (very temporary) speed limit sign. Seems kinda suspicious here.

Personally, I'm glad to hear about font preferences. In addition to just aesthetics, I use Zend for my coding...9 hours a day, and I'm always looking out for recommendations for clear, easy on the eyes fonts that other people know of and recommend.
(Currently, I use Optimus Prince for window titles, Univers for everything else, and Deja Vu Sans Mono for coding.)

And now I'm really interested in good, recommended text editors. And I'd take seriously anything used by someone, like Cory, who writes (a lot) for a living AND is more tech savvy than probably most of us commenters. :)
(So let us know when you fall in love with the RIGHT editor!)

Disclosure: I was an unpaid consultant on series one of The IT Crowd, and my fiancee works at Channel Four

No wonder there's EFF stickers all over the set. =)

My wife and I LOVE The IT Crowd! The seasons (serieses...es) are too short!

By the way, Evo Terra is sadly no longer associated with the Dragon Page. It's now fully under Michael R. Mennenga and sci-fi author Michael A. Stackpole.

They've been doing a fantastic job over the last several weeks discussing trends in publishing on their show Cover-to-Cover!

Evo...dunno what he's doing now, but whatever his next project is I can bet it's going to be on the forward edge of tech and marketing.

Listening to it now... the first track, "15 Steps", sounds like it was engineered specifically to prove that 160 is not low quality. :) Highly textured, full of highs and lows, positional sound.
So far so good. =)

"Vandalism, shoplifting, and bullying are not on the rise. They've been in decline for decades."

Maybe because of increased surveillance? *ducks*

Most of the time I'm right there with Cory and the fight against the surveillance state.
But as a parent, I have to say, I don't think this is a bad idea. I know where we live the chance of anything happening to my 8-year-old is remote and the news sensationalizes the tragic but rare instances of child abductions--but providing parents a means of helping keep their kids safer in a voluntary, optional, non-state controlled way is not a bad idea.

I'll never support invasive measures like implanted RFID chips! Or laws that would REQUIRE a parent to electronically monitor their kids. But this phone thing didn't seem like a bad idea. But maybe I've bought into the fear, being an manipulable parent. :)

The don't "trim the corners of your beard (Leviticus 19:27)" was a commandment not to follow the cult practices of the surrounding non-Jewish tribes. That passage had context and meaning for that time and place. It doesn't mean do it now.

Isn't that the whole problem with religions (Judao-Christianity specifically)? It doesn't say anywhere "These rules here are only to be followed until The Industrial Revolution, and these here to only be followed until polyester is invented.... Either the Bible is literal and meant to be followed word-for-word, or else LARGE amounts of extensive interpretation and assumption has to be used. And who makes those interpretations and assumptions and caveats? And who has the right to say theirs is good for everyone, when those interp's and caveats aren't in the book itself?

Good point Flying Squid. Also, that one verse condemning (male) homosexuality in the OT sure gets bandied about pretty often by people who then say the OT is null and void when it has to do with something that inconveniences their lifestyle.

Uh oh, this isn't going to end well.
Dan, if that's so, then was God/God-inspired-writer lying or mistaken when he/it/they wrote:

Psalm 119:160 “The sum of Your word is truth, And every one of Your righteous ordinances is everlasting.”

Or what did Jesus mean then when he said: “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others {to do} the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches {them,} he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:18-19

and

“But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fail.”
Luke 16:17

I mean, I'm only a regular person, not some expert in theology, but those sound like pretty stern comments about the validity of Moses' Law.

Who watches the watchers? ;)

Yikes! I know the more people who run Tor servers the better it helps everyone...but it's things like this that really make hesitant to run my Tor as a server. :(