RTFS, Ivymike, y drt bg.

Independence must be gained by those in the oppressed role. They must be the ones willing to step up and start their fight for independence. They must be willing to ask for help. Until the oppressed are willing to die for their freedom and ask for help, it is pointless for anybody else to intervene and answer a call for help that was never placed in a fight for freedom that was never started. See Iraq.

Git off my lawn!

Wow, they must really have a problem. I cannot imagine how hard it is to pick up one or two scripts going from your car to the recycle bin in the lobby, which I assume exists since they are so green and all.

Three separate thoughts on this:

1. While checking out at daily grocer yesterday, a song ends, and I share small talk with the clerk, “Gawd, I can't believe it took me all this time to recall this singer's name. I am tired.” He responds, “Who is it?” The song was Imagine by John Lennon. Now, if a young man in a (granted, a metal) band doesn't recognize Lennon, then Yoko “bitch needs to die” Ono needs all the pub for John she can get.

2. Yeah, Lennon Murphy is over the top with the “my career might end” seeing as this is the first I've cared to give her name a second thought. If I've heard her, I hit ffwd» and never looked back. IOW, I'm the reason for the t-shirt that says “I stopped listening to bands that don't even exist yet.”

3. I better remove the Lenin-Lennon tattoo from my penis. What happens if I let down a woman in bed -- does she enjoin Ono's suit upon me for tarnishing a good name?

Net-scape?

Netscape, IIRC, was a world wide web super information highway communication application or something, right?

Netscape lost me when they had about six million different browsers out at the same time. There was Netscape, Netscape Gold, Netscape 4.x, Netscape Navigator, Netscape Communicator or Commander or some damn thing and probably some other tinkly-winkly hurdy gurdy version -- they may have all been the same damn thing for all I knew -- but you could never tell what with all the (new and obsolete) shrapnel arriving on disc in the mail, on cereal boxes, in my stool, in magazines, so it was a bit mad, and since I could never figure out what the eff netscape version was the latest that I was supposed to install, esp. since I kept installing versions older than what I had had, I just gave up, used something else (wow, cannot even remember the name), and waited for Firefox to come along.

Netscape, good riddance.

Yup, #1, Nobody is in the right. But I'm going with the third baseman, I Don't Know.

BTW, how much do they charge?

I watch too much TV (not working) for I have seen many of the above linked ads on cable TV:

Coca-Cola
Assassin's Creed
HP - Gondry
Dell - Devo
The Aviator*
Honda - Rube/Cog (but years ago)
Halo - Believe
Apple - Podium

It's about time somebody finally utilized both the banner and sidebar in an online ad and did it well. I had that idea years ago. And had seen it poorly executed time and again until the other day/week when I saw the Apple (Vista) ad at Slate.

*I remember because I thought upon seeing it 1) "this is long, bet I never see it on TV again", and 2) "who had the balls to do that (maybe I should go back into advertising?" then "nah, who got fired?".

Oh, does this Lakota secession include the land surrounding Mount Rushmore? That'll go over well.

Mmmm, donuts

In 1992, I was going to school in Lawrence, KS, when five (or more) counties wanted to secede from the STATE. The funniest thing about it to me was that in the middle of five seceding counties was a county that did not want to secede. So, had the secession been successful, the new state would have been a donut! Sorta like South Africa but with a much larger donut hole. When it came to a new state name, they weren't the most creative people, either:

The state was to be called "West Kansas," and early meetings included proposals for official state bird (the pheasant) and state flower (the yucca). - wikipedia

And rainbow lollipops.

BTW, the comment above was not allowed to be posted anonymously. Some bullspit error message of "Text entered was wrong. Try again." That's pretty lame.

Can't wait for the product that auto-scrapes the SideSwipe blade. IOW, doesn't this product (video link awol) just transfer the "excess" to itself?

Three Enola Gay crew members were named after Tibbets' mother? Well, that sounds interesting but highly doubtful. Oh, the Enola Gay was named after Mother Tibbets! Yikes, guess that's my U.S. English comprehension failing once again.

Yeah, what's up with the bare feet?! I love 'em, too! But, seriously, were the clay wheels THAT slow back in the day? Hmmm, wait, memory retrieval processing... processing... processsing... Ah, yes, I used to tool around with barefeet, too, and it only took one incident to teach me. Didn't learn to wear shoes, just not to fall again. Man, I haven't thought of that day in years!!! Yup, I always knew today's kids with their five-inch-soled shoes were poseurs.

Skaterdater has an imdb page! Bicycle Girl, cool.

"Tomorrow we will bury ourselves alive if we are not immediately heard..."

Somehow, I don't really see it necessary to call this bluff. If they're dumb enough to go through with it, well, maybe they'll be taken seriously in death. Maybe.

Yup, if there was still doubt, this incident should end that. Canada, America's tuque.

Had they controlled the fall a little better, esp. where each object approaches the speaker, the answer would be harder to detect. Instead, they use the speaker to hold the object. A more finessed tilt would start flat, then go to a tilt to begin the slide, and then a return to flat, so that when the object meets the speaker, it isn't so obvious each object want to continue falling. That said, they did a great job with the phone, but the flaw there is the cord gives away the slide. And the glue bottle was probably tricky, too, due to its higher center of gravity.

But I'm willing to hear that they did both gimble and magnet. I know I'd try to get each method to look like the other if a "how'd they do it?!" viral flame war campaign is the goal. That way they can show everyone was right. :)

Methinks you're taking the criticism a little too personally. There's always gonna be the ne'er do well naysayers. Or is the criticism beyond that sort of threshold? Or is it like how a favorite band of yours starts to reach crowds you don't necessarily care for and you're not sure whether you should like the band still or find a new one to adore?

FWIW, I like electro-anachronism.

But I also like saying, "Ahhh, yes, what do we have here? Another 19th Century Victorian System unrealised then, but functioning now, eh, Edward?" wait a beat and then add "Tripendicular! Like does that totally have sprockets and gears... tubular!" if the object deserves scorn. And by* scorn, I mean, needs to be improved before public display.

*Since I used the "and by" turn of phrasing years ago and it's de rigeur for any hipster hack nowadays, I might as well show those young punks, that we 30something grandpas were using it a decade and a half ago. Can't these kids reach back more than that? Sheesh. Kids these days. Get off my lawn! Find your own language.

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So, I have to sign out from boingboing.net and then sign in again to gadgets.bb.net to comment? Oh, please, fix that.

I'm not really sure the point of this post. It's not like there is a company named Magician Manufacturing out there that is mass producing magicians to host shows with stolen tricks. And its not as if any manufacturers have been able to do much of anything about any of the Chinese knockoffs. Now that China's economy is rolling, once it is in full steam, their economy alone will fully reward IP theft without ever having to distribute those stolen IP goods outside the country. So, again, what am I supposed to take away from this post? Usually, I get it. But not this one. A little help?

Regarding dying magicians and lost tricks... that's an argument for IP, right? i.e. registered patents, etc.

I need coffee.

I liked it better when it was posted @43Folders: Writing Sensible Email Messages

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