For me, Tom Kenny will always be stereotyped as Binky the Clown.

@TheophileEscargot

Totally unrelated to this post in any way, shape or form, but it's so wonderful to see another Blaylock fan here!

Now of course, you can purchase a modern version of the Device from Mr. S as a sex toy.

"5. Do not make sexual advances unless you are given the mating signal."

So two Satanists can never mate because they will both sit around waiting for the other to make the first move? This is not a good way to grow your ranks folks...

Although from what I have heard second hand about old Anton the mating signal was pretty much "breathing".

Since it's semi-on topic I will recommend reading Connie Wilson's charming novel "Bellweather" which is an amusing take on researching trying to understand why things become popular and how fads start.

@Backload

I think there is a very, very good reason tha Stamps.com failed. The people most likely to find out about stamps.com had stopped using stamps! I do almost everything via the internet and have for over 10 years. My bills, my correspondence, everythigng gets where it needs to go without the postal system. I haven't purchased a physical stamp in...let's see...4 years. I used one stamp, and gave the other 9 to my cube neighbor.

Aha! That explains the Google graphic today - there is no link from it yet this morning.

@oogenesis

Netflix has confirmed that they are working on Mac Streaming (using Microsoft's Silverlight DRM technology), and have also announced an impending videogame console client (It will be Xbox .360, or I will buy a hat so that I may eat it)

It would be interesting to see the numbers for Unbox, just because it has the TIVO-to-the-TV link aspect going for it. I wonder if that makes much of a difference in sales?

Hmmm...based on my wildy inaccurate extrapolations from the recent MPAA correction memo, internet piracy is worth about $1.65 billion for 2007. Using your cost of $16 for a dvd that's what...103 million units?

You left out the most important number - how many movies have been downloaded using bitorrent?

I would glady donate my backyard as a Chinese giant salamander habit - they are awesome and second only the the Axolotl as neatest looking animal EVAR.

"The teacher has even complimented me on my tool!"

And now the cops are on their way to your school for an entirely different reason...

"thumbnailed"? Is that a newly approved inhanced interrogation technique?

"How do you say "Skynet" in Hebrew?"

WOPR

An explanation - http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/01/i_drink_your_milkshake.html

Looking over this list, it reads like an endorsement for Edwards, the only candidate who is fighting for your milkshake.

Obama hopes to drink your milkshake

"I find Mythbusters sort of boring. I'm not sure why, either. On paper it's totally up my alley. I think it's because the hosts are sort of dreary."

You, sir, have no soul. I find Adam and Jamie charming. I will not comment on Kari Byron, because I would probably get in trouble with my girlfriend.

In all honesty, I can see why you might not like it if you only watched a few episodes, but it (and by it, I mean the people and the experiments) really grows on you after a few episodes.

I now await the day that a school shooter takes a handful of these things before going on their rampage. After all, if videogames are murder training simulators then the abilities granted by these pills should transfer directly from the virtual to the real world.

Or not.

"I did not understand one word, where are the subtitles?"

Unfortunately, the U.S. is unable to translate Farsi, Arabic, or any other Middle Eastern language. The translators turned out to be gay and as we know, the war on marriage trumps the war on terror.

Out here in Colorado we have a couple of competeing chains that do the ebay sellin, though I haven't seen any storefronts selling websites.

I wonder what kind of bag they use for you to take it home in? (I am joking of course, the website is delived in it's very own small sealed tube that you can simply plug into the internet tube in your house using an inexpensive "T" or "Y" adaptor.

"Copyright 1999-2006 by BBspot LLC
BBspot is a satire news and comedy source and meant to be funny. If you are easily offended, gullible or don't have a sense of humor we suggest you go elsewhere.
"

However, that doesn't mean that someone couldn't hack it together. Sounds more like a project for Mike Saenz than Sierra though....

There are some possible problems that arise BECAUSE you have 3 axis controls combined with a lack of visual feedback for (as Lia put it) Player One. This could easily lead to the "Watch where you're putting that thing" problems that are frequently encountered by drunks and fumbling teens, and possibly some nasty bruises for Player Two. I'm not saying something couldn't be built like this, I just think that it's not going to be as cheap or easy as you might think. Now, one axis and rotation? that I could see being done, though still you are looking at a lot of money (heck, a vanilla machine costs in the $500 range...so 'm told).

On a completely unrelated note, Rez is apparently coming out for Xbox 360 and will support multiple standard Xbox 360 wireless rumble-enabled controls instead of the original, completely non-sexual haptic feedback device. Completely. Unrelated.

Oddly, I just gave one of these as a gift today. It is, hands down, the most spectacularly fucked up thing I have ever seen. Survey says - 100.

People, people - we are missing the obvious scientific conclusion here, based on the physical evidence available. Clearly, the more you look like a pirate, the longer the live.

"I'm not really sure what information the Fareham branch of Al-Qaeda could get from the photos that they couldn't find more easily online."

Clearly they were trying to get real-time information on fluid levels in the water fountains and food court drink dispensers to assist in the creation of deadly liquid bombs.

Somehow, I just love the idea of missle-firing underground scientists.

I really, really like the giant TIE fighter - is that a previously unknown heavy version?

"In all seriousness, what possible difference does it make whether the commercial director saw the bookcase cross and included it deliberately in the frame or didn't?"

The theory behind the secret cross message is this - Evangalicals use a plain, undecorated cross in their death worship cult. On the other hand, Mormons do not display or wear crosses at all, while Catholics prefer their crosses with a bloodied hippie nailed to it.

By displaying a plain cross in the ad, Huckabee is sending he message to Evangalicals that he is really one of them, while Romney and Giuliani are members of false religions, and probably eat babies when they are not busy worshipping satan or the Pope.

Is that what he is doing with the cross? Is the cros really even there? I could not say, since I am not a member of any of these wacky modern day Mithras cults.

I have to say that not only am I impressed by Neil's awesomeness to his fans, but also, that Morpheus sketch he did in the signing is freaking awesome! I think of him as a writer, but the sketch is a wonderful distillation of the character's graphic essence! God, I hope that I can grow up to be Neil!

A technicality, but it looks like while the original art is Mitch's, the glitterification was actually done by the person - www.myspace.com/colleenshutterbug.

@ Niteowl

James Blaylock's "Homunculus" is not only an excellent introduction to Steampunk, it's a great introduction to one of the quirkiest writers around.

That's another amazing lineup. I believe that I will now need to go and change my brass, steam-powered undergarments! Can I get some help with these lug nuts?

It sounds freaking amazing! I am saddened only by the lack of James Blaylock. I will however, soldier on. Stiff upper lip and all that.

"If he were maximum dictator, wouldn't it be better to just end the drug war?"

I know! Totally sucky use of maximum dictatorship. There's gotta be at least three things that would take priority over making a small sub-set of the media read an article, including, as you mention, actually ending the war on drugs.

These types of things have been around for a while, and needless to say given their paddle shape, other uses have been found for them.

Oh no! I didn't expect some sort of Saurian Inquisition!

"Like the scale-covered messiah, hatched from an egg slipped from a fire-breathing virgin's chitinous vagina"

Wouldn't that be a cloaca? All of the fire breathing virgins I know definately have a cloaca and not a vagina.

They also tend to eat their young, and issue parking citations.

"We've not had any reports on faulty drums."

Except for the one that I submitted on launch day - the blue pad does nothing, which was actually a relief; realizing that it was a hardware problem, and not me completely sucking at the drums.

Shall we start a pool as to how long it will be before an American importing one of these in his/her suitcase through the Boston Airport will be Tasered to death? I call 5 days!

While I have never had Hot Dr Pepper, I first discovered Hot Lemon Coke at a Chinese restaurant that used to be at 19th & Lincoln in SF. Ordered it more or less on a dare; turns out, it's delicious. The other odd drink on the menu, Salty Lemonade? No one was willing to try that.

"What exactly does an astronaut smell like?"

Tang.

You can interpret that however you like.

There is also a Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. episode based around this very series - Gomer, the Welsh Rarebit Fiend - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0589982/

Oh great. Now LARPers are our last line of defense against terror. Are we sure she is not just playing World of Wahabicraft, or a very comkplex and deep ARG?

Bah! A biscuit tin indeed. Either fit it into an Altoids tin, or don't bother. If someone can do it in a Smint case, THAT would be impressive.

I wonder if I can fit a dog into an Altoids tin by November to commemorate the Sputnik 2 launch?

...crap, now I am sad. Laika was a good brave dog.

@#9
"Where is that money going to come from?"

I would be more than willing to knock 3 hours and twenty minutes off of the Iraq war to cover this. At the current estimate of $100K per minute that is all it would take. Seems like a really good deal to me.

How the hell do you come up with a cover price of $8,377?!?! That is as strange and arbitrary as charging someone $9,250 per track for a copyright infraction...

Stupid. Also dumb. Now, offer a $5 per month subscription service that I can use with ALL of my devices and that provides more than Universal music and I would consider it. But tacking $90 on to the price of each of my music playing devices? That's a great deal! For Universal.

"Like the other detail: they don't want you to buy from outside the USA."

That's because illegal immigrants are buying the MP3s that Americans don't want...

The Mii cake toppers are totally awesome.

It's just a good thing that he didn't have a copy of the Gurps Cyberpunk sourcebook too - that thing is a textbook for commiting cybercrime.

@Tubman: You are correct - it is only PS2 compatibility that they have dropped, my mistake.

Important to note that the European Playstation 3 has no backwards compatibility at all for PS or PS2 games.

Does anyine have a blog that helps progressives better understand and work with adults that believe in Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy?

Good to see that more companies are taking advantage of technology that has been in use on home deep fryers for 15 years. Yea technology.

I would be interested to see a graphic that also includes WalMart "antibodies"; for example, other superstores like Target, Gemco, Costco, etc and see if their existance in an area affected the spread of WalMart

"that 'Imagine: Babyz' game is slightly frightening."

Even more so once you realize it's a first person shooter...

So, after spending a few years making toy guns in bright colors so that cops don't shoot kids with realizstic looking toy guns by accident, we are now going to make real guns that look like toys. There is something wrong this this picture.

Especially since I STILL won't be able to get a realistic looking light pistol to play House of the Dead with...

I foresee additional hoax device charges as these are taken through Boston airport security.

Afterall it looks like a gun and it has wires! It is probably a gun AND a bomb.

@shirtsonaplane

I dunno, I think my favorite is the "all I got was this stupid t-shirt" one, though I think I would to it as "and all I got was this stupid explosives belt" and have an image of a dynamite belt around the waist.

It must be hard being in a business where all of your customers are shot on sight, preventing repeat business.

Or They - let's be fair to all of the polytheists out there. At least they have an excuse for contradictory heavenly mandates.

@Mikko,

Are the rules for halal and kosher close enough that in a pinch I could eat at that Carnegie's Deli they opened in the Oort Cloud?

"Personally my biggest worry is she didn't even go through security. How far out are these powers going to extend. The roads around the airports? The city around the roads? wtf?"

Actually, if I were a terrorist just about the only interesting airline related target these days is the line going into security. You have hundreds of people closely packed together, and you, obviously, don't need to go through security to get to it.

Ever sicne they sealed up the cockpits of airplanes and people became aware of the possibility to suicide hijackers actulayyu oding anything on an airplane became much less attractive.

Airport screening is fighting yesterdays battle.

There is NO WAY to protect against a determined suicide bomber who just wants to blow him/herself up in the middle of a lot of people. Protect the airports and malls become a target, protect the malls and sporting events become a target.

Everything you go through at the airport is just theater that accomplishes nothing.

I don't understand this flexibility - either God said "You have to do things this way" or he didn't. Being in space should not be an excuse to ignore what are supposedly ineffable, supernatural laws. If god says that you need to perform some ritual, or observe somke arbitary rule, and you can't do that in space, then obviously god doesn't want you going into space.

If I find myself in McDonald's and I am hungry, can I eat just enough non-halal food to ward off hunger?

Electronics. Strapped outside the hoody. Of an MIT Student.

I call shenanigans (on security). My guess is it's some sort of harmless project.

Are you certain that the figure on the left is not one of Zaphod Beeblebrox's heads?

That's really weird. I would never, in a million years, have thought that Windows users were more interested in Steve Jobs than Mac users.

Wow, at first glance I thought it was a videogame controller. Now, of course, I really *want* a Mothman videogame controller

Perhaps the child had been taunting him with the fact that Pluto is no longer a planet?

"Dr David Cassidy of the University of California"

While I'm sure it's not as glamourous as "The Partidge Family" I'm glad that he is making something of himself. I wonder, what's it like, being the world's dreamiest physicist?

"In what universe do these constitute appropriate lyrics for children's music?"

I'm pretty sure that it's the same one where I am Emperor For Life.