Looks like Mr. Johnson needs to hire some better quality shadowrunners next time. Setting fire to the R&D facility to cover your tracks is a rookie move at best.

If he survived the freezing process, that is.

We can't stop here! This is bat country!

@#17 erzatsen:
While you're right about Fallout, it doesn't drive the point home nearly as well as the thorough cataloging of game releases compiled on the Duke Nukem Forever list:

http://duke.a-13.net/

I'm going to get my pointing and laughing out of the way now, because when it comes out, I expect I'll be too busy playing.

So, depending on how old the new title holder is, this may very well mean that there are now no bloggers who were born in the 1800s.

Watching this video, my first thought was "Pool's closed, due to sodium." I need to start cutting back on my internets.

This is one of the reasons I like Sonic Drive-In as a fast food chain. Both the Breakfast and Lunch Menus are available all day long.

Now I just need one that stays open 24 hours like many McDs do.

@ #3 PEPSI_MAX2K
It would have been more epic if it actually worked. I mean, it's an elavator to nowhere, people!

You would prefer a Stairway to Heaven perhaps?

Who likes the little little duckies in the tub? I do, I do, a-chicka-quackquack.

Wow. The MSE droid is huge when compared to the scale of the other characters. Then again, had they done it to actual scale in relation to your standard Lego minifig, you would have needed tweezers for it.

@#10 Doug Nelson
You call that interneting?
This is the version you should have linked to.

Since the Bubo angle has been adequately covered, that leaves me with one thing to say:

O Rly?

You know, I always imagined Grey Goo to be much more granular than this.

So, to sum up, you really can "tell by some of the pixels, and from having seen quite a few 'shops in [your] time."

I know that Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is discounted above for being generic fantasy setting #6319 (even though some of us like that sort of thing). ES4's expansion, Shivering Isles, however, is an absolute delight.

Set in an otherworldly realm of a god of madness, the landscape itself reflects its patron's rather bipolar nature. A study in contrasts, as stunning and evocative as one half of the island is, the other half is deliciously dismal and creepy.

And then there are the NPCs. Much like Alice's Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat's declaration of "We're all mad here," could easily apply to the populace of the Shivering Isles as well. Each character you meet is certifiable in their own special way, making for some very interesting conversations.

@ #13

It's more common than you think.

And remember kids, running a microwave "dry" causes extra wear and tear on the emitter because all the engery is refected straight back at it. Put a mug of water in the back corner so that you have some moisture in the cooking chamber to absorb some of the microwaves.

Man, that Fragmaster Mobility Assist Mk. IV moves faster than Walt Flanagan's Dog!

And from having seen quite a few "shops" in my time.

So, the moral is, cheaters never prosper?

I'm making a note here:
Huge Success!

Along the same theme, there's also the Atari 2600 Label Maker.

And here, I was expecting this to be this blog entry that Metafilter linked to earlier today. I don't know which link I like better.

$420 in setup fees? What are they smoking?

Other Obvious jokes:

This guy's smoking lead to him catching Koffing. Then his Koffing evolved into Weezing.

#2 posted by standard_grey , April 17, 2008 2:56 PM

I was going to post something about lieking mudkips but decided that was too obvious.

I was thinking something along the lines of "So I herd you liek nicotine," myself.

You're right though, it is too obvious.

Dutch Forced Convection Oven.

#11 posted by giantnegro , April 10, 2008 2:45 AM

Does it scare anyone else that William Gibson is spending his time staring deeply into the eyes of Dick Cheney?

There's nothing unusual about William Gibson contemplating mirrorshades. One of the foundation blocks of cyberpunk is that people look cool and scary at the same time while wearing mirrorshades.

This was posted 15 days too early. Should have saved it for 4/20.

Does anyone know where I can get an MP3 of Numa Elevator Theme?

Bruce Schneier blogged on one solution to this a while back: Travel with a starter pistol in your checked luggage. The starter pistol counts as a firearm for the purposes of checking luggage, so your bag gets extra tracking and more importantly, they insist that you use a lock that the TSA's master keys can NOT open.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/expensive_camer.html

I CAN HAS 7.62MM AMMO?

Young Qymaen jai Sheelal, long before they implanted him into that droid body and he became known as General Grievous.

Jane! Stop this crazy thing!

This was to be expected, what with D&D moving the gnome from the Player's Handbook to the Monster Manual for 4th Edition.

And here, I thought Games Workshop had a trademark on floating tentacled space skulls.

And real geeks need to understand that Wizards of the Coast bought out TSR almost a decade ago.

Photographer Peter McCready has done several Qucktime VR Panoramas of the same subject:
http://petermccready.com/portfolio/05091901.html

Just keep clicking the black and white navigation arrow in the lower right corner, he's got 8 more of these after this one.

The alternate timeline "Star Wars Infinities" comic book mini-series' take on Empire Strikes Back had the carbonite-slab-as-desk idea, but because Infnities was intended to be deliberately off-canon, it was a frozen Boba Fett that Lando had put in his office.

Compare and contrast to the protective gear and procedures used in a Biosafety Level 4 "Suit Lab".

Yes, but will it translate any spoken language into brainwaves undertsandable by the recipient, in real time?

This, from the man responsible for the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSJ-uFvlkMY

Just sayin'.

It would seem Anonymous needed some extra funds for the Feb 10th Scientology protest.

And when using Monster Truck Announcer Voice (tm), you are obligated at some point to comment that while you paid for the whole seat,
"YOU ONLY NEED THE EEEDDDGGGGGEE!"

Even if YT's poon had used steel cable, the wheels of her plank would be insulation enough.

It's like they took Nightcrawler's BAMF! visual effect from the X-Men movies, and bottled it.

Did Wired invent the banner ad?
Pretty much. The first one they sold was to AT&T for AT&T's future-forecasting "You Will" ad campaign.

While some of that campaign's technology predictions have become laughably paleo-future (it's hard to "Tuck in your baby... from a phone booth," when the cellphone has nearly eliminated the phone booth in the wild) AT&T's "You Will" banner ad with it's question of "Have you ever clicked your mouse right here?" was easily a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And here, I always thought the climax to Disneyland's Carousel of Progress was when they gutted the ride to send to Orlando, replaced it with "America Sings" and killed an 18 year old park employee with it. She was working the re-tooled ride as an usher/hostess, and got too close to the walls of the rotating stage.

http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/amersing.asp

Is this any worse than the Hello Kitty Assault Rifles on the same site?

http://www.kittyhell.com/2007/12/28/hello-kitty-ar-15-military-style-rifle/

http://www.kittyhell.com/2007/12/16/hello-kitty-assault-rifle/

http://www.kittyhell.com/2007/10/09/hello-kitty-ak-47/

You know, back in '94, HotWired was the first website I ever tried to visit. The catch was, at the time, my buddies and I didn't know which lab on campus had computers with NSCA Mosaic installed, and had no idea what Lynx was. Took us a half hour to figure out that you couldn't get there from FTP or Gopher.

I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.

That gum you like is comning back in style.

Considering the season, I'm shocked no one has linked to G.W. 's cover of John Lennon's "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" yet.