The best response to this idea I've seen is this:
http://science.videosift.com/video/Bronowski-This-Is-What-Men-Do-When-They-Believe-They-Have-A

Guys, a few thousand cars is nothing to Mazda. It probably just wasn't worth their time and effort to do something else with them... they could probably manufacture 4000 new cars and ship them for the same cost it would take to test cars, pay people manage their sales and donation, work out the legal issues, whatever. The whole brand and safety thing is just something that guy came up with to answer the question.

Anyway the article about righting the ship (they were really trying to save the ship, not the cargo) is awesome: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-03/ff_seacowboys

Well if we want to pay European prices for gas, the US could just put European level tax on it....

(Photoshop's rise was also was luckily timed with the growth of the web and the growth of graphics on the web, which helped a lot I bet.)

KK says he doesn't see a pattern in what he got wrong. But I think there is one.

It has to do with technology that non-technical people from the "real world" (not the techie) world like. ebay, the sims, both were successful because they brought in respectively people who otherwise didn't or barely used the internet, and people who otherwise didn't play video games. Photoshop brought in graphic designers, artists and photographers who probably did use computers but weren't computer geeks.

All the things that us technogeeks think are cool aren't really what everyone else finds worth their time.

Microsoft conspiracy theories anyone?

(Or, slightly more likely, EDS [Electronic Data Systems] and other very well connected computer contractors...)

Also images thrown through the "emboss" filter in XV or whatever made them :)

Original sites are down, use coral cache:

http://home.mcom.com.nyud.net/
http://home.mcom.com.nyud.net/home/whats-new.html
http://mosaic.mcom.com.nyud.net/

Love the "design" including such amazing tricks as using to make the first letter in each word bigger than the rest... :D

He could have planted the parachute there to throw investigators off (or just hid it far away from where he landed, just in case it was found). Same with the money found in the 80's in the river. This is not a big area, and most of it is suburban Portland, easy to travel around. Also, the most likely suspects over the years have all been from the area and know it or could have hung around planting or hiding evidence here and there.

Hmm, actually maybe there isn't a Converter Thunderbird extension. Oh well...

I prefer "Converter" myself: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2286 .

You select something in a page, right click, and can convert units, timezones, currency. Works in Thunderbird too (or there's a version for Thunderbird).

This early DST change thing sucks IMO. It's a detriment to the mental and physical health of Americans, especially school kids (and among them, in fact, especially teenagers), to try to get up before dawn. (at least at my latitude, it isn't really light out until 7 or so, and it was of course much worse earlier in the month and last month...)

Wal-Mart and the other big retail chains do not play in the same free market "game" as small business. They get special concessions and tax breaks from towns and states to attract them. They get to play tax games by dividing ownership of their assets among subsidiary companies. They get to take advantage of their near-monopoly position in many communities to pressure suppliers into special deals. And they are able to use their national scope to force out competing business in individual communities and become a local monopoly.

And of course, they have various tricks to reduce the "expenses" that their employees present.

But if you really don't like stores similar to Wal-Mart and think that they're destructive to your community, the only way to stop them is to get involved in your local planning and government. Looking down your nose at Wal-Mart on the Internet doesn't really help.

http://blog.kiwitobes.com.nyud.net/

Too bad the design is horrible. "Well, we can just bolt the washer on top of a toilet..." How about taking the opportunity to redesign the conventional form of both?

Great, the British and other foreigners already think that *all* Americans are this stupid and small minded, just one more thing to convince them of that...

my favorite,

"Alas, the onion you are eating is someone else's water lilly"

So which counting style has the most possibilities for sleight of hand?

Like skipping bills, or double/multiple counting, or sliding one up your sleeve ...

Yeah, I hope he has $1.5mil plus interest saved in his piggy bank, someday someone's going to come asking for it.

By "Build itself", I guess the description means that the "geometry" of the game is generated at run time, by programs (procedures) running on the computer and the GPU (in most games, it's all stored or downloaded as data representing all the individual polygons of each object, and the colors and textures to draw on the polygons, which is then rendered by the computer and GPU).

Wow, great. Eskil is a talented programmer.

Having seen some of his Verse demos over the years, I'm really happy to see a full game using his techniques!

What I love is the point she mentions at the start-- that you *don't* have to think of "green" as an add-on feature with add-on cost. You just make design choices that result in lower power, lower cost, lower pollution, and longer lifetime.

I never got the logic that eating everything on your plate will somehow help starving children. It must have started either as a message to be grateful for what you have, and to show it by not letting it go to waste; or the idea that it's better for people to buy less food and then eat it all, than buy too much and only eat some of it (and over time the nuance of that got lost). Either way, I do have a problem with waste. The trick is to take small portions, and put the leftovers in the fridge for lunch!

Great. Over the past few years I've started to check the Amtrak routes and schedules first when I need to travel inter-city. Now I might start considering driving over Amtrak.

Until terrorists start blowing stuff up with car bombs ... wait, isn't this one of the most common terrorist attacks around the world??

Well, time to tune up the old bike and get some bags for it I guess...

"The home of tomorrow will be *built around* the TV set..."

100% true, sadly.

Great setting, soundtrack and acting. However, it was very linear, I found the tests of mouse dexterity almost impossible, especially as a sometimes jerky flash movie, and at the end, you have to present pieces of evidence you've collected, which was completely confounding -- the game kept rejecting the pieces I chose to present, and anyway, the pieces were just one word labels like "letter" and "note" and such, and I didn't remember exactly what they said. Oh well. Maybe I'll try again at some point, or the next episode will be easier to work with.

You all know it really won't be long now until a small bribe will simply be necessary to make it through airport security etc. at all without hassle and delay.

What was the rationale given in the court order? Or is there none.

Let's bring back freenet. http://www.freenetproject.org. Write plugins for Firefox and IE rather than their confusing proxy server, so every link in a site like Wikileaks can just be "freenet://".

#3, #33, etc.

SPAWAR is a Navy program that researches and evaluates various robots from various sources. MDARS is/was an Army program.

I don't think MDARS has any particular point, other than as an experiment in what's possible. The machine itself is complex and extraordinarily expensive. You wouldn't go into any kind of large scale production of the current MDARS design as is.

I originally thought that it was clearly a really brilliant hoax against the original trick.

But he's not complaining that they actually but it down his throat, just his mouth...

Disappointed.

huh, never thought about it.

#40: you hunted deer with a shotgun?

If the goal is to prevent transmission of disease from animal to human, this is a backward and band-aid like approach. Why not reform our overcomplex, fundamentally unsafe, national meat and food production system.

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