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Astronomical calculations on World of Warcraft

July 1, 2008 11:12am

I use a coordinate plugin that gives distance to objectives. I've teleported a character to the far north of one continent while accidentally leaving a far-south waypoint active and found that it's roughly 18000 yards (10 miles or so) from top to bottom.

So there's that.

The wit of wisdom of Sen. Kit Bond on telecom immunity

June 24, 2008 12:15pm

Don't forget Monsanto and Ralston-Purina, Anonymous.

Tokyo Giants baseball food is beautiful

May 18, 2008 9:01am

I hear tobacco juice is a great fertilizer.

Mechanical gas-pumps choking on $4/gal gas

May 16, 2008 4:44pm

Am I seeing things, or does that sticker suggest that they're selling FORTY octane gas? What the hell runs on that?

Get involved in production of community-made SF movie: Artemis Eternal

April 29, 2008 8:08pm

Am I the only one seeing an intergalactic goatse here?

Permanent Vacation: two PCs endlessly bouncing vacation autoresponders to each other

March 19, 2008 1:46pm

That happened to me a few weeks back. Two execs for a company that we host mail for went on vacation at the same time. There's nothing like cleaning 3000 identical emails out of the inbox, especially if it's not even your inbox. That send "only one response to each sender's address per day" feature is really nice. When it's on.

Objectivism in Bioshock

February 15, 2008 6:25pm

That's simple: It's because they know Rand Objectivists are stupid and psychopathic.

Fixed.

Tussaud's bad wax heads up for auction

January 25, 2008 2:11pm

Man, I thought the second from the left was Quentin Tarantino.

Split Thump: Oakley Still Making Jerk-Ass MP3 Player Sunglasses

November 6, 2007 7:34am

I beg to differ, some sunglasses are worth more than $20--just not the stuff at the mall kiosk--those things are $5/dozen in Santee Alley if you know where to look. Oakleys used to be of decent quality, but since they've started to make their stuff in China, the materials have been complete crap--rubbing alcohol will ruin the finish, which, I can tell you from extremely long experience dealing with glasses, never happens. Except with new Oakleys.

The various Thumps have been really stupid ideas from the beginning. I appreciate that they're trying to unify electronics into wearable devices, but the execution really, really sucks, and the price is ridiculously high--hello iPod and mall shades! About the only thing I can actually see a non-fatally-lame person using them for is jogging, except that wearing the damn things more or less makes you fatally lame.

Uh, I should say something nice, too: The sound quality is sort of decent.

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