@7

Thank you.
Just...thank you.

@6 Yes! "The Silent Assassin" by Bradbury is one of the scariest stories I've read from him.

Thank you BoingBoing for again acknowledging the wonder and joy that is Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!

Actually, at work tonight, i forced my coworkers to watch the episode that had the Steve Brule wine sketch in it. "For your wine..."

This is excellent! One of the better videos on the 'Tubes that I have seen this year.

You better lose that Pre-9/11 mentality...

#6 - Don't think its over that easily. Not only has a left a terrible reputation, but he has also left it so that whoever takes over can do much worse without much work at all.

I would totally go for those Galactic Game Trophies hanging on the wall.

"Oh that old thing? I bulls-eyed it in my T-14."

As #2 pointed out, reminds me of some old Mao posters.

@31 - "Also, 4-7 cables severed all in one area of the world. That is not events clustering together, it is not coincidence or a "sea-monster". It is very clearly an intentional act of sabotage by someone."

Thank you. I think this is very important, and gets pushed to the side too often. When 1-2 go down...Yes, it could be any of the above. When 3-4 go down...something fishy is going on, and it needs to be investigated. When 5-more go down...this is deliberate.

And what does an invading force usually do right before invasion? They sever lines of communication so the world doesn't know exactly what's going on when they invade.

Mike - I've sent a .PDF copy of Illuminatus! your way. I greatly appreciate you releasing this copy of Shike. And any work you could get towards getting Illuminatus! to the public is something that I can get behind. I have an .HTML copy as well, but there are no images in the appendices, and that's just useless.
Cheers!
-ES

Jeff said, "The fact that my country was attacked is valid, and that event changed a lot of people. Don't try and discount it, please. I'm someone who lost a friend, a man who was turned to dust by an act of pure evil. Better security might very well have have prevented this from happening."

We can argue about the "might haves" and "might have nots" all day. The point is that it didn't help, and it still doesn't help. We stop 5-year-olds and their grandmothers at the airport because of some ludicrous "no-fly" list. And yet reporters can sneak onto planes with explosive materials and swords...and this is after the "security increase". The problem is the same with computer security - whenever you build a lock, someone is going to find a way around that lock. There is no stopping that.
No matter how strong you make the lock, or complex you make it, someone is going to find a way to get past. Making it more complicated isn't going to stop the bad guys, its just going to stop the casual people who weren't really going to try hard anyways.

So - we caught a dude with explosive shoes (that experts even said would have never exploded), a bunch of idiots trying to take down a military base with the gas line (experts also said their plan was so flawed, they would have never made it inside), and some crazies in Florida who were given money and weapons by the FBI to bomb the Sears Tower (also, would have never worked). So I guess that's America: 3, Crazy People Who Are Kind-Of Terrorists: 0.

The point is, this is a really bad idea. Database breaches happen very often - even to sensitive and closed systems. We just had a meth dealer in possession of classified weapons designs from Los Alamos for goddess-sake. A hacker stole data from the Energy Department's nuclear weapons agency. And a hacker used a freely-downloadable program to hack the FBI.

If you want to give your biometric information to a central database that can be easily hacked or used by a possibly (probably) corrupt future government - go ahead. That's your decision. My decision is to keep urging everyone I know (and all their representatives) to fight against this threat to our country. You might think its 'awesome' to have to use one of these IDs to cross state lines when you want, or have to have one *and* be on a "fly-list" to move around the country on planes - but most people I know don't.

Hopefully you someday realize that the government isn't working to preserve your personal way of life - its working to preserve the society that feeds its gaping maw.

Various mirrors:

http://senduit.com/d95cdb (one week only, starting 01-29-08)

http://www.mediafire.com/?7ixexmnxeul

http://www.zshare.net/download/69851866add9a6/ (popups)

http://www.filefactory.com/file/737634/

#3 - Actually, there has been for a while:
http://www.pirate-party.us/

Cory covered them a while ago:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/06/07/us-branch-of-piratae-.html

There was an article about this a while ago in the New York Times - must have been around 2-3 years ago.
It was on page 15...at the bottom...2 paragraphs...under a half-page ad.

Dear FSM...What have we done to deserve this?

All I keep thinking when I see this is, some mugger is going to be very happy.

This will possibly become one of my favorite mini-documentaries. It combines many interesting subjects - all rolled into one and regurgitated by an interesting elderly man.
Surplus stores, the nuclear science business, and old men with money. What more can you ask for in entertainment?

Ahh - another book to add to my holiday wishlist. Disinformation Press releases some amazing books, and this looks like just to thing for getting through the winder doldrums.

Nothing makes me do EXTREME SHIT more than tripping my balls off on DMT!

Definitely one of the funniest comments I've read in a while. I lolled. Cheers for 2 DMT-related jokes on one BB page.

On a more serious note, I think that "Mountain Dew Culture Blend" is the worst soft-drink name I've ever heard.

And now we have another excellent example of the definition of "irony".

I think Logical Extremes has a fantastic point. By helping to smuggle a "bomb" past security at a place where there is already overwhelming incompetence, and where people are on edge (from random cavity searches, having their possessions taken/destroyed, and the already negative stresses of travel) - this is a really, really bad idea.
Too many "what ifs". What if not all the screeners know about the drill? What if the agent gets called away to their other duties and can't be there when the unsuspecting citizen gets caught? With their current failure rate and obvious lack of consideration for our rights, this could easily lead to many terrible events.

Not to mention the possibility of vigilantism on the part of the other passengers. This is just a terrible idea all around.

Stefan - If you're looking for something on an older machine, try out Xubuntu:
Xubuntu.org

I had a system pretty much identical with your setup and was running Xubuntu perfectly fine. Way faster than XP was running, anyways. Its basically Ubuntu but with the XFCE window manager and applications with a smaller 'footprint'.

Thank you for covering Terry Pratchett's work. I discovered him as a teenager and have been an obsessive reader for years.
More people need to hear about him. Try passing some around to people you know that read. Many a friend has gotten hooked on his fantastic writing.

Finally! This is going to be a must-buy for the "Duel Mode" alone.

Don't forget the possible Spore release for Wii. That will be top-notch and totally beat out the PS3/X360 ports.

Actually, as Jamie has stated, it is "Utinni" which is a triumphal call to nearby Jawas that prey has been located.
Optionally this will be followed by "Song peetch alay!" which is a rallying cry to signal the other Jawas to converge on the prey.

Check out the Star Wars Galactic Phrase Book and Travel Guide's chapter 7 "Jawas Can Be Your Friends" for more info.

Wooo! This seems like an awesome idea. Sent my application in immediately.

I laughed even more at this episode than the last one.

"Call the f***ing ambulance! I'm not joking!" I lolled.

Also, Richmond is still my favorite character. "Oh, no, no, no...You're not coming to the funeral, Richmond." "What funeral?" ^_^

Another good summary of DIA oddities:
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Denver_Airport.html

Topics of interest on this subject:
Positioning of the runways
Amount of cabling/etc used in construction
(Actually, pretty much anything related to the construction)
Who owns the land that it's on? ;-)