for you kiddies out there, marmoleum is the greener version of linoleum:

http://www.greenbuildingsupply.com/Public/NaturalFlooring/Marmoleum/index.cfm

i'm with patrick (#7) -- for me, that was the best part of the whole story.

if it's a contest to see who's completely wackier, ballmer wins hands-down. dance, monkeyboy!

dr. seussian bikes FTW!

aww, pauldrye posted my comment before i could do it. great minds, sir, great (dirty) minds!

@5 - nope, it's clearly the cats that look like HIM, lol.

@ 58 -- i don't get why that's on your "bad" list. it's a classic song, and it's a fairly standard 80s video. the band could (did?) sleepwalk through it. unless you hate it just for the gold lamé 80s style fashion shirt... then i completely understand.

@75 -- "my sharona" is a perfectly crafted piece of pop. you can't sully it with your slanderous words.

@ #19 -- in billy squier's defense, it was the early 1980s. after michael jackson put out his thriller album, EVERYONE had to get on the dance video bandwagon. just ask pat benatar. she has said that she will never ever EVER do another dancing video after "love is a battlefield".

that sammy johns video should be enshrined in the smithsonian, just for showing REAL 70s vans and fashion. awesome!

uh, me? no. not at all. in fact, this is just wrong on quite a few levels.

i confess -- i have never made it all the way through this song. but, i DO love it nonetheless. the concept is brilliant, and the first half is mouth-open magic.

this is one of the great examples of why i'm glad i quit smoking.

uh, yeah -- the way to get a man to love you is to get him hooked on a drug only you can provide.

the constant creativity of the human race makes me smile, and that gives me hope.

she was amazing. don't forget she was a passionate vegetarian, too: celebrate her life by making a batch of her recipe for green dressing:
http://www.modernatomic.com/plasmatics/texts/dressing.txt

it's too bad she didn't hang around to see how much she is appreciated now.

pure WIN.
doesn't make me want to have my own lightsaber any less, though.

whenever you post these wacky machines from bygone eras, i always wonder why i never see things like this in antique stores and thrift stores. where did they all go? they must have made enough to sell, so they must exist SOMEwhere....

i think "keep it brassy!" should be the official motto of steampunk. that was hilarious - thanks!

actually, Tetsuo, i don't believe that's a casual player for WoW. the average playtime per week is 25 hours, so i think casual play would fall below that. i play about 20-25 per week, and i don't feel like i'm particularly casual, and i'm certainly not a hardcore player, either.

this was widely posted that week. my guess is the kid saw it at digg, or reddit, or slashdot, or who knows where.

wow, i love love LOVE all the planet of the apes pix. any idea how to buy a high-res version? i REALLY want a copy that one where they are hanging outside the studio next to that go-go girls sign.

oh, and hippie berkeley girl? in case you don't realize it, there's a FILTHY, DISEASE-RIDDEN RACCOON on your head...!

mellowknees owes me a new laptop, cuz i think i just killed mine by spitting coffee all over it.

brilliant. Takuan (#7) is right -- i'm sure that coke is in the process of some "guerilla" marketing scheme right now.

i've looked forward to seeing the cupcake cavalcade on the playa every year since they first appeared. this video was one of your best -- the cupcake biker gang connection is fantastic.
: )

@13 -- i heard this this morning on NPR, and i thought it was very buddhist, and just very HUMAN, too.

@31 -- thank you for storycorp. we listen to it every week, and while we jokingly call it "sobstory corp" (because it always leaves us teary-eyed), we wouldn't miss it for anything.

big love to haineux for posting that link. i am both ecstatic and terrified by hearing sinistar again... i wonder who did his voice? it's still frightening!

i didn't know that factoid, sawdust -- thank you! i can sleep easier tonight knowing that they did gary a solid.

i wish they had a photo from above so we KNOW it's a 20, instead of taking their word for it.

i missed the tolkien, warcraft, and BSG references. where are they?

yeah, easy there, Ogvor, or we'll beat you with our canes! i (like mr. astley) was a bit befuddled by this whole thing at first, but now i find it hilarious. i'm glad he's not glomming onto some sort of remix fame over it. btw, rick: looking good!

i'm with #10 -- i would LOVE to have an upright arcade version of this in my house. i have two other uprights already (omega race & tempest), so i guess i'm already on a roll. sinistar and defender would make my life complete!

and thanks for the cartoon, #12 -- i had forgotten about bob the angry flower. i used to read him religiously!

did the kitten's mother read lolcats every day, or something? i can haz heartz?

uh-oh. this sounds like the beginning of a very bad thing. if this becomes the way people resort to to get revenge on other people... frightening.

man, i loved this game. the first time i played, and sinistar suddenly called out from somewhere "BEWARE, HUMAN - I LIVE!!", i swear i crapped my pants.

"there and back again" -- so, SO perfect for a pair of socks! and hey, maybe hobbity toes get chilly in wintery climes. who's to say?

waitaminnit -- CRUMB calling other people "maladjusted"? hello, pot, collect phone call from kettle...

lol -- booted from his guild, and denied tomatoes! can things spiral any further down for our dear donnie? survey says... OH HELL YES.

tom rules. that appearance on fernwood was GOLD. they must have had a ton of fun setting that one up. martin mull is hilarious as the straight man in that.

these keep getting better and better. i saw mario last week, and he's kind of grown on me. homer's going to take longer to get used to, though...

so, if you happened upon someone who could tell your future, and this person told you "you're going to die by flying sting ray", would you ever in a million years think it would actually HAPPEN? i mean, what are the odds? helluva way to go!

dammit -- i checked the listings for their tour, and they are performing in san francisco the SAME NIGHT that poi dog pondering is playing at the great american theater -- and i just bought tickets for poi dog! geez, i don't know if i could choose between poi dog and the kids, anyway. i love them both dearly.

so clearly, this magazine's target market was bored housewives, right?

didn't they do this before? i know i have some saved for desktop images somewhere...

he sounds like the british version of george bush! but, i gotta say, the last one really IS kinda funny....

see, THIS is why guys are reluctant to make grand, spontaneous, romantic gestures!

wow, they all sound just like how *i* sound playing. if they all were about a thousand times worse than they are. hilarious!

"well, THERE goes another popular expression down the drain..."

LOL -- the muppets were pure gold.

@3: ok, so i just HAD to look it up. for the easy edification of others, here's info i found about the coney island version here http://tinyurl.com/2p4fq7:

Captain Paul Boyton opened Sea Lion Park in the spring of 1895. It looked run down by today's standards and had only a few attractions. One of the most popular was the Shoot-the-Chutes, a ride he had perfected one year before at his park in Chicago. Another was the Flip Flap railway, designed by Lina Beecher. Roller coasters often get the unnecessary reputation as dangerous creations, unfortunately this was one ride where that was well deserved. The Flip Flap has made its way into the annals of roller coaster history because it was such a badly designed ride. It is hard to tell from this picture, but the coaster's inversion was different from almost every loop today in that it was perfectly circular. This may not seem like a bad idea, but it is pretty obvious Mr. Beecher was not very experienced with physics. Instead of an enjoyable trip upside down, riders experienced 12 g's as they went through the loop. The most g's found now on a coaster hovers between 5 and 6 and those a specific sitting position. In the Flip Flap a few passengers simply stepped in a "box on wheels" and hoped that by using a death grip on the sides of the car they would not fall out (which was unlikely because of the g's) or get injured. The ride had a reputation for snapping rider's necks and was dismantled after it had run a few years. However, the concept of the loop was not lost forever.

sounds FANTASTIC. more evidence that our grandparents could kick our wimpy asses.

oh, it's the special edition version -- it has the ring around the exploding death star. : )

i'm dying to get a sense of scale for these. i wish they were sitting next to a standard roll of toilet paper. it reads like a whole roll fits inside the fat end of the tube, but if so, the paper coming out of the end looks too big.

#3's story makes me want to go out and put a "Danger Bees!" sign on a random trash can in my neighborhood, just because.

i cannot imagine a more appropriate eulogy.

wow, i CAN has ceiling cat!

i can't believe nobody's made a "world of warcraft" reference yet! so, here i go:

clearly, he's a low-level rogue, and he was spotted trying to stealth in and crit on a backstab, or sap someone. run away, little rogue! run away!!

i'm cool with it being between two separate segments, too. this one made me think it was over for a sec.

i'll be the one to third the mention of how annoying and evil it is to stick an ad in the MIDDLE of a video. if this is the way online advertising is going, i'm going to stop viewing online videos altogether.

but, back to the topic at hand...

...uh, so, the candy we buy from the vending machine is... RENDERED candy?? **ohhh, i feel nauseous**

ok, now, seriously... WHAT??

there are serious, deep issues going on there, not only with her, but with her boyfriend. i can't imagine sitting on a toilet for two HOURS, let alone two years!

i saw the photo and immediately flashed on to the scene in this past sunday's simpson's, where homer was making out with the huge hunk of lamb on the spit. i swear, it's the same pose.

it's worth noting that the exclamation-prompting NSFW image at the bottom is a close-up, cropped shot of a classic painting “L’Origine du monde” from 1866 by courbet. still shocking - art FTW!

wow - i love mashups, but this one really, really doesn't work for me. i'm probably just cranky due to the time change, though.

i always wondered how to pronounce "ROFLMAO" and "OMG WTG". so catchy!

miss piggy definitely DOES have hooves. she's a pig!

i thought you guys were big burners -- i've seen these on the playa for a couple years now.

"I am an animal lover," he said.

wait, wait -- i know this one:
"...they are delicious!"

right?

oh noes! i loves da lolkittehs! pleez dont hurz dem!

LOVE IT -- even though i'm alliance. : P

thanks for this educational post! now i know (2) what happens to XP after you hit 70, and (1) why everyone level 70 is so freakin' rich.

let the speculation begin! remember, kids, the 5th cylon is NOT one of the people pictured...

how in the world have i missed these before now? omg, i think i have such a crush on mr. reilly now.

@ #9: yes, this was quite the to-do when he said this. he is a product of his culture and upbringing, but, he is also a rational, scientificly-minded man. i am sure that his mindset can be changed in this regard. even the buddha initially made the mistake of rejecting the idea of women as monks, but after a period of time he saw the error of this judgement, and he recanted. if the buddha can overcome his clinging to outdated viewpoints, surely the dalai lama can, too.

i'm with digit - banksy, don't let us down!

why the rant? so, DON'T drink it, already. sheesh!

uh, didn't isaac file for bankruptcy at one point? not sure i'd be taking any kind of advice from him, even if it did include eric-humping.

this is so full of win i can't stand it. also, thank you to #1 for the great pee-wee reference. made my day!

no video of john hodgman's talk? booo!

i agree with #3 -- crying "sellout" is ridiculous in this day and age, when all the bands from the 60s through the 90s are cashing in any way they can, and newer bands recognize that it's just good business and marketing sense. bring on the gonzo chucks, i say.

well, i think it's quite nice. : P

just to clarify, i LOVE his warcraft playing friend and things he says, i'm just glad that donny's not getting into a cookie-cutter mentality about these, e.g.: (1) set up premise, (2) choose photo with hilarious tie-in to previous episodes, (3) get interrupted, (4) warcrack buddy calls in, (5) teach something, (6) warcrack buddy again, (7) finish tutorial and end in mid-spinout.

actually, the site says it's for listing bad AND good neighbors. i did a quick search for my area, and there were only 3 listings (none of them me, whew!) and one of them was labeled "Nice guy", with three votes.

"why you're afraid of turtles"?
i don't know where he comes up with this stuff, but i for one am not through enjoying donny and his tutorials just yet. i AM happy his warcrack friend didn't buzz in this time, though.

DO WANT!
i see this shirt and a thousand hilarious moments come flooding through my head. "kipper and the corpse", anyone? que??

you'd think someone would have taken better care of them, considering what they are supposed to be. : P

harry "handcuff" houdini? what a wag!

sigh! totally, TOTALLY awesome. sometimes i love people.

shades of monty python (if the pythons were around today). awesome. ZOMG this vid FTW!!!1

wow... just... wow.

these are incredible. VERY well done. i love every single one, even the ones i have no idea which movie they are depicting!

the same thing happens when people take up buddhism and start really meditating. deep meditation can stir up all sorts of things from the deep sedimentary layers in your mind. it's not uncommon that people on retreats find themselves suddenly experiencing deep emotions, be it sadness, fear, or happiness.

it (sadly) always makes me think of john bonham, too -- especially since word has it that ballantine's was his favorite.

not a bad price if you have the space and want to open your own publishing house.

the most miserable thing about this game is how much i now want it.

awesome. once again we have to be reminded that john was no fool, and loved yoko for all the right reasons. she's awesome. yoko FTW!

it's sad when white people try to be all street. it's just WRONG. i bet she lives in nebraska.

wtf was that raccoon doing out in the daytime? aren't they nocturnal? all the ones around our house only come out after dark, and return home before the sun rises.

i
want
this
game.

now.

hey, lawrence wouldn't lie to you -- it's a "modern spiritual"! it HAS to be wholesome: it mentions JESUS and MARY!

why didn't i see this one coming? hooray for the internets -- please don't ever let me down, and keep 'em coming. it's good that we don't take anything *too* seriously, even our jihads against scientology.

i think this is my new favorite show. these first 5 episodes have been outstanding.

i think this is awesome. i don't see any of the commuters hindered by their presence, in fact, it seems clear that people really liked it. the only one that seemed inconvenienced in the video was the guy in the cart, and even he seemed to think it was cool. if he was really put out because his life and his tasks were more important than an unplanned stop for a few minutes, he would have just pushed his way through.

what about the "elephant walk" bar? surely it's in the movie somewhere, since i think it's still around, and carries such history. i hope it will be in there. i'm so happy this movie is finally being made. it brings tears to my big gay eyes.

well, that's interesting. are we going to get an update on what is happening at the old PT Barnum house, too? 'cuz... you know... cut from the same cloth, and all....

so, waitaminnit -- when is this "cabin fever" show, and can we really see adam (or jaime?) in longjohns and sleeping cap? i can't be the only gay man in america who wished i was that piece of tape running across jaime's mustache in last week's episode...

"In Ogrimmar?"

LOL

upon first glance, my mind conjured up the face of cthulhu out of that. then i read the headline and the story, and i'm STILL thinkin' cthulhu... maybe an old one?? either way, YUCK!

wow - that was AMAZING. i almost didn't watch it, but i'm glad i did. kudos to all involved in that one, for sure.

@badc0ffee: i admit not following his link, so you may be right whe you assert that i wasn't fully understanding his argument. but in my defense, i guessed that the link was blogspam. i just checked out the link provided, and i'm still unclear as to why the site indicated is relevant, so maybe i was right all along?

i think "electronica" (while admittedly an industry-coined term) is still as valid as, say, "classical", or "classic rock". it's a handy catch-all.

thank you, Alphager - that there isn't a torrent or direct-download of the whole album listed on the main site is frustrating and short-sighted.

and Bcsizemo? if you don't like electronic music, fine -- but there are those of us who do, so please move along.

considering my character only has 72g right now, and i've worked dang hard to get every copper, i doubt i will ever have this problem. : P

art imitates life, indeed!

episode 2 totally rules, but this one gets me laughing out loud, too -- i love how is voice starts breaking as if from a combined emotional stew of stress and pain. awesome.

i think the hands out & head bobbing thing is not any particular dance, it's just them hep cats jivin' to the groove, ya dig?

what's that? superballs were discontinued??

man, a part of me just died. : (

i really don't think it's THAT bad of a painting. i know i couldn't do it, that's for sure.

FM3 is actually two guys. i have their buddha machine, and a couple "real" ones, too. they are all quite fascinating. i wish i had one that chants in tibetan, and looked as nice as the one pictured, though. but i can't spend $4 on such a thing right now. :(

i'm with you, thepez -- why the hell didn't *i* think of this??

#15 beat me to it -- the guy doing is a 50-year old programmer, not a college student. (but it's fair to say he could be both, i guess...)

i started playing WoW in october, and just got my mage to lvl 40 this past weekend. i am *very* impressed with his dedication and creativity in working his rogue this way. it's hard enough to get to 40 (let alone 70 or above, i am sure) playing the normal way, let alone adding in handicaps like this. i find his take refreshing.

i think one of the things that i find wonderful about warcraft is the creativity that gets generated by the blizzard creators and also among the players. recently on several servers there was a unofficial "naked gnome race" organized, and only level 1 naked gnomes could run. it didn't take place on the server i'm on, sadly, but i'm hoping to find a video of one. the sight of hundreds of naked gnomes running from ironforge to stormwind and down to goldshire must have been hilarious.

even if it's technically not possible for them to be fried into a hot, thick stew, i think it's a good thing that the perception persists that it *would* be the result. i mean, people are dumb enough as it is -- there's no need to have joe barbecue rigging up stuff like this on a regular basis! hear hear for fear!

#2, i thought along the same lines: at least batboy is out and moving on with his life now that his gig with the weekly world news is over.

i agree, there's some great movies in here -- a basically flawless list -- except for ONE movie: "what the bleep do we know?"

ugh, how i hated that one. awful, awful, awful.

i say "kudos" to her for saying it's only LIKE a miracle -- not that it actually WAS one. because she told us how it happened...

wow, do i love this. i want some immediately!

count me among those who prefer the warm seat to the cold one.

i agree that this is a terrible advance in food, health-wise, but hey, if i'm camping and i can whip out a can of batter blaster and whip up pancakes for everyone in a jiffy? awe. SOME.

is there an MP3 version of this anywhere? it's awesome.

i don't care how they made it. it's hy-larious, and it made my evening. to warcraft i go!

i'm with dave x, but i also love and miss the stewart/colbert 1-2 punch.

russell means is no stranger to this sort of controversy. didn't the lakota do this before, though? i could swear i heard about them doing this years ago. either way, GO LAKOTAS!

i think this is the best cover of STH that i've ever seen!

someone in the comments posted a link to a .zip file he compiled of the complete set:

http://rapidshare.com/files/77420864/Vintage_Christmas_Wax.zip.html

grant's article is interesting, but i seriously doubt his conclusion. "w00t" came from hackers, not from dance culture. as a D&D gamer from the earliest days of that game, i can say that i NEVER heard it uttered by anyone i knew who played it, but i do know that gamers and hackers are like two peas in a pod, and the language of the latter tends to migrate to the former. gamers popularized it, but occam's razor says that hackers originated the term, not dancers -- not a lot of gamers in dance clubs!

two things come to my mind, though:

1) that maybe this is just an instance of some sort of pop cultural zeitgeist, and it surfaced almost concurrently in different areas at the same time; and

2) i know that lexicographers prefer some sort of paper trail when determining the history of things, but maybe this whole debate is also illustrating the danger we are in of losing the real story of our digital culture. no trail to follow in early BBS conversations!

to Brian (#1) - turnabout is fair play.

i agree with Wendell. indentation needed.

that being said, i can only hope that the 2G1C meme lasts only a fraction of the time that freakin' goatse has hung around. i am waaaay over goatse in all its high-larious forms.

woz FTW!

i hereby declare this the most disgusting thing i've seen on boing boing since the 2 girls 1 cup nightmare -- from which i still haven't recovered, thank you very much.

inhaling vaporized pig brains? i'm with #4 -- javier bardem's character was scary enough without *this* image entering into the picture. there's no unicorn chaser sweet enough to fix this one, i'm afraid...

bite thy tongue, father brown.

i was only 13 when john was killed, but he was (and still is) my favorite beatle (although george gives him a run for the money sometimes).

anyway, i will never forget that day. like i said, i was only 13, but it was clear to me that the world changed that day -- it's like a part of every adult i knew had died, and i felt it right along with them. i am also part japanese, so i have always been drawn to yoko, too, and have always taken up her defense when people slam her. it's been said here and other places before, but hatred of her really IS based in thinly-veiled racism, and leftover resentment (and national guilt?) from WWII.

she is an amazing, creative, passionate woman, and i think it's a testament to john's compassion and forward-thinking that he stood by her every step of the way. we miss you john, and our hearts are with you, yoko, on your hardest day of every year.

is that really the twist? i swear that the french narrator says that she's going to dance the "monkey bird".

i hope he remembered to scrape the moss off the moose's horns for the "moose moss mess" quest. it would suck to have to go back and do that all over again just to complete that one, because while the rep in ironforge is nice, the dagger that dwarf gives you as a reward isn't worth the trouble.

wow, that was really quite disturbing. well done, pleo engineers.

i agree with #4 -- we miss our shows, but we support you, writers! oh, and david cross? i will do anything for you. ANYTHING. say the word.

thank you thank you thank you. now perhaps i won't dream of albino roaches tonight, shiver....

[shudder]
chaser, chaser, chaser please!

well, i for one question RU sirius's authority to start a movement like this...

words cannot describe how much i love this interview. well played, andy, well played.

i actually always thought they were little lips, pursed to kiss the thing you were loving. the sideways heart thing never occurred to me!

as a new (little over 1 month) players to WoW, my partner and i find this comic inspired and hilarious. we've been quoting it all week. "i swear to god, if i missed that raid...!"

the thing is, the mobipocket converter is windows only. no mac love. that's what makes it a deal-breaker for me. i want to port my existing PDF library over to my ebook reader. i think the kindle has a lot going for it, but no mac love is the deal breaker for me.

man, i really WANT this to succeed. i've been a fan and customer of amazon since the early days. the lack info about mac compatibility has me regretfully putting this in the "no, not yet" pile, though. maybe the 2.0 will be the one i want.

so, wait: up near the top you say "PDF is not supported. at all. even via the conversion process.", but aren't there converters to convert PDF to mobi format? wouldn't that work?

surely you people realize that #5 is thoroughly tongue in cheek, right?

i worship the ground john trods on. just sayin'. the man is a genius, and he knows it.

thanks for the info, Spinachy. actually, i like wowwiki, too, so that may be may alternative. i've never looked into worldofwar.net, but i think i'll zoom over there now and check it out....

as cartman would say, !@#$%!!

so if we can't use thottbot, allakhazam, or wowhead, wtf CAN we use? i don't want my page click to make some damn pedophile money!

i just discovered wowhead and thottbot this week, too (new to warcrack, yeah, that's me... i avoided it for years and *now* look where i am...)

uh, i think i'll skip watching this one, thanks. i don't think i'm up to seeing it. i'm still scarred from watching hussein's hanging. i though that would be an important thing to watch, and it was, but for reasons different than i was expecting.

ha! robert's comment made my day.
: )

mixed with oil and some dried herbs, it also makes a fine vinaigrette. :P

i think you're being too hard on yourself, joel. i didn't find you annoying in this at all.

between the micronauts and the apes stuff, i just don't know how to contain it all in my head. it's gonna esplode!

i had micronauts, too, and i adored them, but then star wars came along, and, well, the rest is sorta history.

MICRONAUTS?? grouchosuave, you are my new best friend. i rarely run into anyone who remembers them. i say FEH on "transformers" -- those johnny-come-latelys!

ok, i'll admit that i love lolcats and every dang iteration that the internets can dream up. it's just goofy fun, people. it's what makes the web worthwhile!

i agree that dr. who has always had a steampunky aesthetic, whether the creators consciously knew it or not. that's part of the doctor's appeal -- he's a DIY type of guy!

the past couple years of dr. who have been especially steampunk influenced, i think. i always get a little leap of joy when we get to see the inside of the tardis, with its seemingly-random gears and dials, and tubes and blinky things all hither and yon.

i want one. even if it IS a non-mac.

random thoughts:

1) wow, STEEL wheels? geez, in my day (late 1970s), we had thankfully progressed to better materials. those things must've been LOUD. no wonder everyone around them was distracted!

2) the mean lady with the gravel: plus ca change....

3) that headstand trick was kickass!

4) when they rode their boards under the truck, i was thinking, "hey, i used to ride like that sometimes!" -- but then they smoothly got up while still moving, and i thought, "day-ummm, i could NEVER do that, though." props!

5) that bike girl shoulda watched where she was going. she could have hurt someone!

impressive... most impressive.

oh, so what's the mystery here? i can totally see the supporting stick and the platform he's sitting on in the early part of this video. (see the photo that #1 has linked to, above)

oh, uh, never mind... i really should RTFA, RTFA.... thank you, cory! everyone please carry on...

omg, i love these. i particularly love the one on the last page, and the one with the crow's skull as the planchette.

gah, it's slower than eating a eating a charleston chew. anyone know of an alternative download? (torrent?)

i would think that a perfume named after the factory would smell like a combination of paint fumes, cigarette smoke, booze, sweat, and the smell given off by the velvet underground's cranked-up amplifiers. either way, i'm sure andy would totally love this.

dammit! a day late and a dollar short yet again. i was just dreaming up ideas for a shirt last night. oh well. at least i'm in dumbledore's army.

being gay, and having dumbledore be one of my favorite characters, i can (uh, excuse the pun) go both ways on this one:

on one hand, i love that she even mentioned that he is, because it shows kids that it's not a big deal to her. it sets a good example. then again, like #2 above says, how courageous of her to reveal this AFTER the books are done. she had seven books to do it, really, but i agree that he was far to dapper to be NOT gay. maybe we should have just clued in.

to be honest, early on, lupin was the PERFECT gay analogy character, in fact, in the azkaban book (and movie), the subtext is very clear. but then she went and paired him up (ludicrously out of the blue, i think) with tonks.

upon further reflection, i also kind of feel bad about this revelation because it's another example of the "if your character is gay, you die" plotline that gets put forth all to often. that is NOT a good example.

i have that "internet ouija board" shirt, and i totally love it. i can't believe this guy has any sort of case. that owl's been around for years online, and he freely posted it online in the first place, didn't he? what did he expect? and wouldn't his *lawyer* be contacting the t-shirt guy, anyway? i smell a get rich quick scheme...

ouch. ouch, ouch, OUCH. that was painful to listen to, for sure. what i found MORE painful, though, is just how sad it is to see them performing that song at their age. poor eddie robotically doing his jump at the same point in the music every time it rolls around, and diamond dave having no money maker to shake, or the even energy to shake it if he did, apparently.... gah. it's all just sad. leave me to my memories, please!

yay, something that combines the worst of both technologies. and what about the speed issues? CDs spin really fast, and their spindles are much larger than the spindles on conventional turntables, which also spin much slower. are they selling a pop-in adaptor for each disc, too?
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well, i pound away quite quickly on my iphone, and it's because i spent more than a "few minutes" letting the software get used to how i type. now, i am quick enough to do what i have to do. i don't really care about how fast some kid in japan types.

i've carried my iphone in my pocket as long as they've been on the market, since i purchased mine on day 1 -- there's very few people in the world who can say they have carried it for longer. most of the damage claims i have seen online and other places are due to circumstances NO phone should be expected to survive (crunched in the mechanics of a recliner, run over, etc.), and most were just people being careless. if you don't treat your expensive piece of technology right, you deserve to pay to fix it.

as for the battery, it's rechargeable. in all the hours of use i've had with it, with movies, online and offline use, and using the phone itself, i've never had a problem with the battery life.

ok, i'm done.

she's my new heroine.

um, Meg & bricology... have you ever even USED an iPhone? speaking as someone who owns and uses one, both of your posts make zero sense to me. i carry my phone in my pocket, and have since june, and it has absolutely NO scratches on it anywhere. it's called device convergence, and it's a beautiful thing. the less i have to carry, the better, imo.

ugh, unicorn chaser, please...

i have no question, really, but being a fan of the simpsons since the tracey ullman days (and a fan of mr. groening's since before that, with "life in hell"), i just wanted to extend my warmest thanks for the simpsons.

uh, isn't this an example of cory's "whuffie" concept brought to life? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie)

hell, with both this and "idiocracy" coming to life on a daily basis, i don't know whether to be excited or scared.

not sure i'm getting the unicorn chaser after wil, but hey, it was cool. (and no "kthxbai, ttyl wil"??

ps -- thanks for the ipod/iphone support link!

my favorite part is the guy going "WHOO HOO!" at the end.

doesn't anyone call him "lord british" any more?? sigh, the gaming history lost on today's youth...

thanks for the clarification, johnny teapot -- i am impressed that they paid for all that, and i feel better about the whole thing as a whole, i suppose

that being said, i guess i'd be more willing to consider it "Art" (with a capital "A") if it were better explained as to what they were trying to show with this project: that it's possible to live solely on stuff bought at a mall? that malls are notorious space-wasters? that our mall security setup is weak and full of holes?
hmm...

yay, BBTV! i love it! but... podcast? PLEASE? my iphone would look even schweeter with BBTV on it!
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what's not mentioned anywhere that i can see (unless i missed it) is how they got all the stuff: did they pay for it? swipe it? dig it out of dumpsters? a combination from the above? if they paid for all that, i'm impressed, but i find myself doubting they did. still, it is quite amazing that they hauled all that stuff up into that space unnoticed, and remained unnoticed, for four years! the artistic statement may be suspect, but the accomplishment is solid.

that was pretty sweet, but the "CORN ON! THE COB!!" coda put it over the top, in my opinion. pure comedy gold!

wow, thanks for the link to the explanation, phasor3000! at first i was thinking, "come ON... wtf??" -- i knew there was something sly going on. who would've guessed it was simply SCIENCE?

as yet another person who grew up in denver (littleton, actually) in the 70s, i have to agree with so many others here who have said that it was THE cool place to go for a birthday. i have very strong memories of casa bonita from back then. (can anyone else here sing the jingle? do they still have the *same* jingle, i wonder? why mess with perfection?)

i also concur that the food is awful. but that's not why we go there, now is it?