I guess it really is better to burn out than to fade away.

They're all over Craigslist.

Example: http://austin.craigslist.org/bik/859594198.html

It looks like the control panel on the Tardis.

I call shenanigans.

All you see is the very bottom part as it lifts off, and then a pilot's-eye view.

At no time do you see a shot of the thing actually flying.

Thought #1: This is probably hideously expensive.

Thought #2: It does look cool, though.

Thought #3: I have a bag of cement. Maybe I could whip up something like that in my garage.

Thought #4: Yeah, right.

They need to take the logical next step and turn this into an MMORPG.

"That design has as yet only been tested using advanced computer simulations"

Get back to me when there's an actual, physical prototype.

I just want to know how they figured this out.

What was their thought process?

"Hey, here's some fresh shark! Let me take a bite! (chomp) Bleccch! Tastes terrible!"

At this point, most sane people would chalk it up to experience and not try to eat shark again.

But no. Somehow, they decided:
"Hey, maybe if I buried it on the beach for a couple of months it'd become edible!"

What I think really happened was something like this:

(coincidentally, there was a similar thread on Consumerist last week, and I posted about this there)

Person 1: We're all out of food. We haven't had anything to eat for days.

Person 2: Well, there is that shark that washed up on the beach a couple months ago that we buried. Go dig it up.

Person 1: Ew. But I'm hungry... (chomp chomp)

Person 2: How is it?

Person 1: Shut up and eat.

-- weeks later --

Person 3: Hey, how did you guys survive?

Person 1: We ate the rotten shark.

Person 3: Eww!

Person 2: No, no, it's really good! Yeah, that's it! It's delicious! Really! Not disgusting at all! No! Not at all! Here, try some...

And a new culinary tradition is born.

Chris Rock - How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

"The cooker contains a steam pressure kettle..."

The exhaust never touched the food. It was used to heat the sealed container that the food was in.

Cue this clip from Penn and Teller's Bullshit about bottled water:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPAjUvvnIc

They stuck a fake "water steward" in a restaurant, and he was going up to people with this fake "water menu" and letting people try different types of bottled water. But they were all filled from a hose in the back.

I leave all my mail on the server. Let's me get to it anywhere, and saves space on the HD.

But does it go to 11?

I like the concept of small houses and such, but a lot of the designs I see just aren't practical. As in, they lack a bathroom. Some even lack a kitchen.

Sure, you could have a group of small houses sharing a communal bathroom, but at that point, it might be more economical to set it up as a dorm-style single building. This would also keep you out of the weather on those late-night bathroom visits.