I have seen this, and other origami videos, on Paper View.

"...even curved toward the face..."

I don't see it.

My experience with bananas is that they are "curved toward the face", to one degree or another, only about half the time.

Look! The Earth is covered with canals!

I believe that the word “extortion” applies here.

A VP for a company that makes graphics chips says that graphics chips are really important.

Whoda thunk?

My mother turned ninety last month. Sometimes at night she gets confused about what time it is, as she lies in bed at night. A clock that projects the time up onto the ceiling would be an ideal fix. So, a few years ago, I acquired such a clock. This is why it did not work: In order for the time to be right-side-up (readable) on the ceiling above the bed, the clock on the bed’s headboard had to face the wall. Each time I set the clock to project correctly, someone would turn the clock around to face outward, which would put the projected readout up-side-down on the ceiling. Lying in bed, looking up at the clock on the headboard, the clock face is, of course, also up-side-down. My elderly mother can not read things that are up-side-down. This is to say, it is rendered useless. I could put the clock on the other side of the room where it could both face out and project right-side-up, but where it is too far away for my elderly mother to read the clock face, and too far away for her to read the time readout that is projected on the ceiling. This is to say, it would be rendered useless.

"...and basically none of the crops will grow"

In which case, cannibalism would be a self-correcting problem.

That photo looks like California State University at Northridge, which I attended back in the eightys. Oh, wait! That IS Cal State Northridge! That explains the similarity!

MOONBAT @ #10:
Thank you. I was going to do that... then I remembered that I don't have Photoshop.

Raccoons love their cat food! Here is my clip:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Heh9Pwfx9k

This last week, a skunk has been coming in the cat door to eat. Two nights ago, I used my cheap digital camera to get a movie clip of the skunk. But last night while the skunk was in, two raccoons came in as well. I only got still shots of the three of them... inside my house... wait... maybe this isn't a good idea.

Nah.

"If they find any amount - no matter how minute - it will be enough to attract a mandatory four-year prison sentence."
As I read this, I have a rerun of "CSI: Las Vegas" playing in the background. A character proceeds to explain how most money in the US has trace amounts of cocaine on it. So, any person who goes to the UAE with US cash can do four years in prison. This makes that counterfeit money from Iran look like a safer choice.
(I get all my science from "CSI: Las Vegas")

For fifty million dollars, they damn well better be working on anti-gravity!

On several occasions, I have commented to friends that the death of the audiophile (along with the death of the public pay telephone) is a sign of technological regression. It is my opinion that the quality of sound recording has regressed to the level available in 1955. (The quality of pay-phone technology has regressed to the level available in 1925.)

I am looking forward to this book. I have already ordered two copies from Amazon. I work at a group home (half-way house) in San Francisco for teenage boys coming out of Juvenile Hall. One of the copies will go on the shelf at the group home for the boys to find. Many of them do like to read... from time to time.