"Will a boy ever be born that can swim faster than a shark?"
-Gareth Keenan

I have a very strong desire to tag the shit out of the wall at the side of M&R cleaners.

Quoting smashmouth is almost as ridiculous as the "chair" itself. Well done, Noen!

Hicks/Takuan-
Except this apparently is where the sun does shine!

It seems they want donations in the amount of $1 or more in exchange for a credit. Mark Borchardt would be proud. Okay, so not much about the project is revealed, and it might be really crappy. How's about a buck under the name Alan Smithee just to be on the safe side?

@#1: I thought of the same thing immediately. Disordered drawer anarchy!

@#3: I'd love a wall of gradated color drawers, perhaps a simplified replica of rgb color space with drawers as pixel swatches, hmmmm.

In the future, ALL aspects of society will involve being herded around by people who couldn't graduate from high school.

I might have laughed at this if it wasn't so obviously true.

comments are the new blogs

This reminds me of a toy that my grandfather had.

It was a black box, and it had a place to put a penny on the top. The penny completed a circuit, and a little green hand sloowwwwly came out of a trap door, and then snatched the penny quickly and it was over. The cycle repeated for as many pennies as you could come up with.

Essentially it was a bank I suppose, but it was endlessly amusing for an eight-year old.

No comment.

playing a small flute heh heh heh

Another thing is that an overreaction by school officials very often cause parents to follow suit.

So, I'd lay odds that Brendon Epker expected a stern lecture/slap on the wrist but when he came home with a 7-day suspension he got his driving privileges revoked/put on lockdown/beaten with a belt and so now is not about to push his luck in the press.

Spoon? Seriously? Hyperbole much?

Uh, senior pranks are fairly common, and this seems like a pretty harmless one. There was a greased pig set loose in my school's library one spring. (Yes, it was the Midwest.) It didn't kill anyone at a red light, nuke Iran, or even *surprise* get anyone suspended.

what a black rock city you could build around those

@#4: That's a pretty low gassho.

I think the broad, even strokes of the sans serif face combined with the vigorous kerning make this logotype a polished example of visual identity that both grabs the viewer and sticks in the public's memory.

#20: Just because that's what you'd say "true evolution" is doesn't make it so.

Gooogle...

"What is it general?"
"Uhhh..."
"What is it general? Honeyyy, please say it? Please?
"Uhhh... This is stupid. This thing takes up the whole room."
"It's no fun unless you play along, will you just say it?"
"Uhhh... My Lord, the fleet has moved out of light speed, comscan has detected an energy signal..."

So, this was all 40 years ago and in the interim this man has done many commendable things in the service of the Chicago schools etc, and is known widely and very connected in politics there?

Yet anyone who is cordial or even friendly with him is a possible supporter of terrorism? Is that in any way similar to how the way the Bush and Bin Laden family get on? How much publicity did that get before the 2004 election, because I find that a lot more damaging.

But I digress, amen on #2:
two stories relating to recent Obama non-stories that can be viewed as unfavorable to Obama? in one day? before a critical primary?
It's Mark's blog so he can post whatever he wants, but I find it a little Hillaryious.

Guns matter to me, that's for sure.
And there will always be some like you, for whom it is a pet issue. You'll want to further the argument.

But with the dollar in the crapper, an unprecedented budget deficit, a policy abroad that has another five countries in line for endless war beginning with Iran, the costs of health care skyrocketing with millions uninsured, and the earth's resources less and less able to sustain human life, I would argue that there are more important issues that concern quality of life for the average American than the ability to get a carry permit or own an assault rifle. You may disagree.

Of course, the fact that this article is in the spotlight at all is proof of the phenomenon that Senator Obama pointed to (albeit in a way that was offhandedly mentioned and so quickly taken out of context).

Gun control, when compared to Iraq, the economy, health care, and the environment, could just as easily be a non-issue in this campaign. But those issues are complicated, and it is more and more difficult to have a simple one word "yea or nay" response, or a sound byte solution to any of it.

As people become less confident in their future being better than their present, or bitter about their circumstances, they seem to gravitate to issues that divide us quickly and cleanly like gun control. Fear-based arguments (zomg! ppl has teh guns!1!, or wtf!? ppl want to take mah guns!) have a calming effect because at least you know where you stand. The media and the candidates themselves invoke these issues when they want to play us, and typically when they have nothing better to say.

But the point is that they distract us from the issues that really matter, that have the power to unite us toward a solution, and that unfortunately are much more difficult to define.

Rectum? It nearly killed 'im!
(I'll take any opportunity to use that, really.)

The President is the decider.

Now can you give us the FOX version?

I'm pretty sure the FOX version is the exact same debate, but aired with that ticker tape thing underneath displaying things like "HATES FLAG, WOULD CHANGE DESIGN... HUSBAND TAUGHT HER HOW TO LIE..." etc.

I was startled by the negative comments that evaluate these as products, at how quickly the consumer matrix is activated. I then read the bb post again, and realized that Mark's choice of wording may have triggered this when he referred to it as a "line". As if these might be for sale at Old Navy next season. It is in fact a series of art pieces.

The artwork is of course intended to be ludicrous. It points to the environments that are designed to be intentionally uncomfortable and inhospitable, and to the lengths that we might go to to make them comfortable again. But it sort of takes the fun out of it to explain it, no?

Link not working.

"Awww mom, can't I just have the surgery?"
-Milhouse Van Houten

Ah, the pre-tazer era.

One of my favorites on the link is a skylight/bay window mod made entirely of salvaged glass storm doors. The roof was removed and it looks like a telephone booth that starts on the side of the building and wraps over the top so it is lying on its side... In Amsterdam maybe- but not here in SF without many hearings, inspections, and much public debate I'm sure.

pwned.

heartbreaking news

Now, the time is nigh. The story brings this link to mind. If you're only just now preparing, there is little hope for you. At least wear your message to save your own life!
http://store.muledesign.com/shirts/squidoverlords.php

Every orgy I attended during my teenage years occurred in the smallest room in the house. Also, I was alone.

psts bt mdrtn r brng.

I feels teh safer.

a: v fierce.

So many rational comments in this thread. I believe the signs are less effective in preventing future abuse than in inciting vigilante justice. How many flat tires or broken windshields does this guy get? How many bricks or shots fired through his living room window? How inclined do you think the local police would be to follow up on these crimes or protect him? Of course, that is all speculation. However, I wonder if he can get a comprehensive policy on the car.

As for #66, I was recently informed that an arrest for taking a piss into the snowbank in the parking lot of a Tahoe area ski resort (something VERY common up there) will get you on The List for life!

"Alice, I swear to God, if that guy in 19c presses the attendant call button ONE more time I'm going to fire up his bracelet."

Franko, the link above loops to the bb post!

My first thought is that Bush will draft a signing order right around the issue and grant the telcos immunity while he signs the rest into law. Welcome to the age of the most powerful executive branch in history.

What, hugs are a gateway to harder sins?
Good for her!

The system must be a jackpot around the holidays. My friend flew home to the east coast and had a Wii in her checked bags, a gift for her sister. Of course, the bag made it with all the Wii packaging- but the contents were gone. TSA said "talk to the airline", the airline said "we don't cover electronics".

Now this was probably a silly thing to do, checking an expensive and hard to find item. But still, it sucks because there is no accountability, and the thieves know it.

They sell this at SFO snowboarding here in my 'hood. While I prefer to carry a tool with a #3 philips for snowboarding, it is a pretty cool belt.

At least one customer of the shop has already had his taken away by the TSA however, and they're not cheap. I would check it.

teh spiderman is awesome

@Grenz #11
I got carried away with zuzu's comment, my post was mostly a response to the Freidrich Hayek article. I thought the puppet piece was awesome btw!

beautiful color

It seems that Hayek's major argument is that the variables in these types of equations are too numerous and that too much information would need to be available in real time. And he would have been right at the time he made the argument. But we do live in an age of marvels, and we are capable of exchanging a little more information than we were then. I'm not advocating it, mind you, but I am saying that what he dismissed as impossible is not, now, outside the realm of possibility.

Don't know much about makeup, but in answer to #1, yes it shows much more detail.

I recently heard David Lynch talking about HD. He said that he was watching a sci-fi short, and in the background on what was supposed to be a metal console there were clearly wood screws. He said that it will be much more difficult to build sets for HD. He went on to say that he prefers lower quality digital BECAUSE it lacks the ability to provide such details.

Filmmakers rely on some information being to small to capture, so that the viewer will fill in the picture. If the camera catches every detail- there will be many more distractions and opportunities to burst the bubble of suspended disbelief. A little Vaseline on the lens is sometimes a good thing.

Yes, if you have to ask...

Looks like cheap plastic crap to me. So, yeah, a perfect gift.

I like the attn. to detail with the file names "piss_factory.jpg", lol.

These are fantastic!
Check out his take on the Star Wars universe as well.

Well played Ape Lad! Huzzah!

Where is "Kindergarten Cop" when you need him?
Get that juice box! Get that juice box!

Oh, it comes with a BOOK!?!
Where do I flush, er send my money?

Yes, there are plenty of mindfulness exercises that won't cost you $50. Paying close attention to the little voice in your head that repeats "More stuff! More stuff! More stuff!", returning to your breath, and considering where that voice originates is one of them.

Dizzam.
No officer, I'm not drunk, I was just trying to whip something clever up in photoshop while I was driving...

forty two
Would be wonderful to have embroidered on a big, fluffy towel for the end game.

Lila, the divine game.

This is awesome! Great clip.

I love even more that people are getting butt hurt about it.

Neven, you could watch a dvd on a portable player or laptop, or read a book, or spend the six hour flight meditating!

lol @ #5 antinous!!1!

Hilarity.

The release looks to be less than ten feet from the pins. You might as well knock them down with a long stick. This would get old pretty quickly, imo.

There is now way I would have believed these were done in raster until I saw this. Wow.

How long until they can carry a tiny cam and a lethal dose of potassium cyanide?

Okay, suppose I don't WANT the $5 gift certificate, and getting where I'm going without interruption is worth more than $5 to me? This is a poor idea for establishing goodwill, imo.

It also stinks of bypassing the probable cause for an initial traffic stop. Will the "law-abiding citizens" be racially profiled?

D'oh! Never mind, noticed this was a Heathrow only deal...

Um, at no time in the last five years have I been able to walk through a metal detector while wearing shoes. Even if I had, the metal detector and xray scan occur side by side- shoes and carry on baggage/belongings pass through the conveyor at the same time as the passenger walks through the metal detector. This is based on my experience at six different airports, and is standard for US domestic security layouts I presume. I don't know where you came up with this plan, but it's pretty unrealistic.

Poor Kit Bond. He should have thought before he used that analogy. What he meant to say is apparently that waterboarding and swimming are both things that you can do in a lot of different ways.

But the way he said it, people's eyeballs turn off after "it's like swimming."

*Light bulb*
Oh now I get it! He's essentially saying that waterboarding is like a box of chocolates...

I remember swimming when I was a little kid, and these big kids held my head under water for a long time and then finally let me get a small breath and did it again and again and again. Jesus, that was torture.

I have also found wallets and bags, as well as ipods and other valuables, and returned them to their rightful owners. This sting smacks of "presumed guilty" and entrapment. It's not the same as extracting a wallet from a pocket or purse, and they shouldn't be able to prosecute it in the same way.

I'm with #2- call 911 and report "suspicious packages" and wallets. Demand that an officer come check them out. They may be terrorist devices, after all. Be sure and remind the authorities that it may be a felony to pick the item up, depending on its contents.

Wow #16, I bet you're lots of fun at parties.

I hope he went for the seedless watermelon, because... never mind.

Well I'll put in a plug for nifnaks, previously mentioned on BB, Nifer makes a wonderful noodly FSM ornament (and tree topper). Her felted wool Cthulu is superior to the one above, far more menacing imo.
http://www.nifnaks.com/creations-shop/christmas/

Wow, why did the part of my comment where I said "I

zomg! I Octophrost (The Santa of the Sea) is fantastic, and so is a grandmother who sews 99 of them! Thanks for this most wonderful post, it's just the cute overload I needed this morning.

It makes me think of and ultra light fiberglass and aluminum version with adequate stopping power and working lights and horn. Still in the shape of a large Buick or caddy though. It would truly test the law here in California, which states that a bicycle (human powered vehicle) is entitled to use of the entire lane. I'm talking about a local conveyance on streets where the speed limit is 25 mph or less.

btw, I have been hit by a car while riding my bike. It wasn't fun, and I was told it was because they couldn't see me (or were not paying attention, my opinion). This would be hard to miss!

Why should machines produces literature?
Why should people proofreads their presentations?

When I was young (sigh that I just typed that) we used to get chased by police a lot for riding our bmx bikes around the college campus. We didn't have to throw bottles, or harass anyone. We just had to run away as a group when we saw a campus cop. I guess there wasn't a lot of actual crime going on, and I think the cops enjoyed it too at some level- maybe it was like a training exercise.

It was a wonderful thrill to outrun them, like some mad game of cat and mouse. We knew the area very well, and had the advantage of being able to hop over obstacles, duck through footpaths, and jump down sets of stairs, so we were difficult to catch. Of course the only real crimes we had committed were riding on the sidewalk, loitering, fleeing, and "reckless" operation of a bicycle. When we were occasionally caught, we got lectured and sometimes bikes were impounded. Today, I'm sure they would use tasers, or just shoot in the first place. Nine eleven changed everything.

Yes, as has been noted above, there is very little evidence that the use of the property has been as longstanding as the claim implies, and the "paths" could have been made in far less time. The Kirlins lived nearby and have stated that they did not recognize the property as being "used".

None of the witnesses on the Kirlin's side were given credibility, while all of the Mclean/Stevens witnesses were taken at their word.

We have and ex-mayor and powerful local attorney acting in court and executing a land grab against their neighbors. If every reasonable presumption was made in favor of the true owners, I will eat every hat I own.

I never said that my reaction would be arson, and my ethics are intact. It seems Mclean may have missed a few classes- ethics and legality are not the same thing. I was pointing out, just like DCULBERTSON #22, that actions have consequences, plain and simple. Legal or not, a move like this can be a declaration of war.

It puzzles me, is the extra land worth so much to Mclean that it justifies stealing from his neighbors and becoming a local pariah? I guess it is. If he admits that he knew he was in the wrong when he started using the land, then it is still a wrong regardless of the legal loophole.

Mclean and Stevens will have a difficult time leaving on vacation from now on- I've lived in Boulder, and matches are sold just about everywhere.

The "low carbon footprint" statement becomes a little questionable when they are flown across the pond. So, making your own seems like good idea!

I think it would be really awesome if it was a giant lcd screen and the fingerprint would change with a motion activated sensor as a person walked through the door. Like it was scanning you! You could have 5 or so different prints in a rotation.

"Some geek is trying to sidestep the creator of a fictional world and earn money off of her creation simply for summarizing it for people. It doesn’t work that way."

Actually, I think that it does work that way.

As long as the summary does not purport to be a new work of fiction based on her creation, and is only a summary or guide to what happens in her books, it is essentially a work of non-fiction. A reader would be silly to confuse the experience of reading such a summary with the original book, but might be willing to pay for having the work of reading and understanding it done for them. The quality and/or accuracy of such unauthorized summaries is of course debatable, but I believe they are perfectly legal to produce as long as they don't make claims to be "official".

Not that this isn't a wonderful thing, but it's not my favorite. It leans a little too far in the direction of tin-toy industrial decay for my taste. I prefer the overcomplicated and ornately ur-victorian. The out of period stencil typeface is definitely a sore thumb in this case. ("Case". You see what I did there?)

I suppose it means I will now have to go forth and produce a superior version of a sublimating orchestripod housing.

Even if the publisher isn't being cooperative, or even very bright, I still believe it is fair use.

The argument that something like this is of poor quality does not make it illegal. There are many very poor "unauthorized guides" out there, and it is the responsibility of the consumer to decide. This is the very reason that one would expect Rowling's own guide to have a tremendous market advantage.

Such is the world- once something is out there, it becomes a subject that may be written about, quoted, and offered for sale.

It's a non-fiction work based on her fiction, and will be seen as such in court I believe. Whether it examines themes in the the books or merely acts as an outline of the characters and events, or both, such work is protected and need not be authorized by the author. It would need to state the fact that it is unauthorized, I believe.

While I cannot make a CD of Metallica's music for sale, I could write a non-fiction book on Metallica that is unauthorized by the band. In it I could publish lyrics to their songs, because these would be important to the story. The band could (and probably would given their litigious reputation) attempt to sue me and block it's publication, but I would be within the law. That is, unless there were issues of libel.

Ooooooh there is a topper version as well, though it is pretty much too late to order it for this year. I love how the noodly appendages hang down into the tree branches!

Whoever did this is should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law! And tased! Yeah, TASED!
(Where's the "no stick up your butt" sign when you need it?)

lol at PLANETTOM #5.

You are seeing a glorious mish-mash of styles. Oldstyle, modern, and transitional faces are all in use here. I prefer the transitional and modern for this purpose, due to the contrast between thick and thin, but mixing it up is the idea. Display faces appear in a few spots, in the case of the entertainment names at the bottom, but sparingly.

The general idea of this neo-victorian style of design is an overall mixed appearance, a "Wall of Type", to paraphrase Phil Spector. I might add that this is perhaps more difficult to do well than it appears at the outset.

I recommend the search term "engravers". Some of the results will be sans serif, which you might want to avoid in this style. The following link will take you to that search.

http://www.fontshop.com/search/?q=engravers

I counted twelve different typefaces on the poster before I stopped.

I certainly would have loved to have witnessed this, and most especially the dressed-up persons in attendance. I have dreams about alternate futures of steam plasma technology, where fastidious dress prevail and blue denim dungarees never gain popularity due to the death of a young Levi Strauss in a hydrorocket dirigible collision.

A robot is always a burden, unless it is made of felt?

I couldn't resist, the internet is clearly waiting for the lolcat response to this article!

@#2, "fringie morons" like Bruce Fein, a former Justice Department official during the Reagan administration who drafted articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton? He makes a very well-reasoned, patriotic, and ultimately non-partisan case for impeachment.

But are you arguing that torture should be acceptable under some circumstances? For instance, if the one to be tortured is obviously a terrorist, and is obviously withholding information?

So, you mentioned fringie morons. Exactly where is that line drawn?

I would buy one, but I might be afraid to turn it on.

THEY ARE WATCHING.

Yes I was going to comment on the ninja and robot aspects as well. It could still use lolcat and steampunk references, but what a work of art. (And only $10!)

Oh, I will deride a $50,000 sculpture all right. Especially if it's in a private home. But put a bottle opener on the back of it, and I say value added.

This animation is teh awesome! I really like the Anubis characters. Anubii?

I find it interesting how the mind of the reader inserts a tone to this post, as in comment #1. I read it as completely matter-of-fact, with no positive or negative judgment attached. However, it could just as easily be seen as mocking or praiseworthy in nature just because it was noted here.

Agree that the table is tilted, but still think that a magnet is used to hold items in place before they are allowed to slide.

Elmers glue will respond to magnets if you drop a few ball bearings in it. ditto a plastic pen with metal inside. What makes you think these items are unaltered?

I'm "leaning" towards jack #2's angled table theory, using a magnet to hold the item in place and then removing the magnet when the slide is desired. It has already been pointed out that the items seem to snap into place when they are put on the table. The angle of the picture in the background changes a couple times during the video, and I can't imagine whey the picture would have been bumped so often unless they were adjusting it for a reason. It is the MOST straight just before the pull-away which is the classic magician's "see, nothing up my sleeve..." I wonder if they left it unplugged on purpose or not.

Her husband "accidentally" pushed her? Huh.

Why weren't the real police called before the performance was canceled? Did this guy have a badge and a taser?

Okay, here is my best guess!

I would say that this is a free-standing compact magnifying glass for use with needlepoint or embroidery work. I think the circle in the middle was once the storage place for a round lens in a brass fitting, which had a connection (the notch in the circle) that slid on to the pointed end of the arm. The lens is missing, and so is the nice case that I imagine this once traveled in.

The cut outs on the hinged portion must have a function beyond decoration. If they didn't, one would think that they would be left off or made MORE decorative like the arm itself. But the circle with the small notch seems like it belongs to something.

After reading about the ringtones, I'm feeling Sick Again.

Awesome. I'm thinking hat, umbrella, and surgical mask for the first portion of the evening to build suspense, and then the big reveal!

Somewhere an Irish kid with a slim jim is laughing his arse off!

Bad creative copy. Three quarters of the way through I forgot all about sugar and Mary, and became obsessed with turtle safety.

That's what I thought, it seemed as if he was winking. That's why I laughed, even though I didn't know how familiar he was with the structure!

"Of course, the building on the cover is what marks it as a fable of the most fantastic sort. Neither now nor in some hypothesized futurity would the natives of New-York erect such an improbable edifice."

I hope that's a joke, because I laughed! It is the Flatiron building, obviously. Since it was built in 1902, it was certainly modern at the time.

http://www.greatbuildings.com/cgi-bin/gbi.cgi/Flatiron_Building.html/cid_1101917214_Flatiron_1.html

Yeah I was wondering about context- I have an immense respect for all three of them!

It is a shame that the primary enduring memories for so many are the CBS animated specials and the marketing of insurance. The daily four-panel strips are such a treasure, and really where Schulz shows his genius.

I love Clowes' work, but a comment like that may have been playing to the crowd a bit. His defining characteristic, and one that's served him well in the marketplace, is that he's a hater.

His opinion doesn't surprise me, although I don't agree. I'd like to see the non-paraphrased version to see if it's as mean-spirited as yours.

Cartooning isn't about competition... well, it isn't to me anyway.

oooh the bipro version looks pretty awesome! Did you pick it up? How much do you think it weighs? A dealbreaker for me would be if it was so heavy that it was carry prohibitive.

I think it's ripe for refinement and pimping! One could make this into a sick ride with the proper ornamentation/customization. Lotsa chrome and a faux teardrop tank with flame striping? Maybe some woodgrain, brass, and antique gauges? Kidding, but not really.

As a sensitive little kid in the early 1970s, I found "Peanuts" and in it suddenly appeared comic strip writing that wasn't talking down to me. It was emotionally challenging at a level that even then I found refreshing, as I was both Linus and Charlie Brown, with a little Snoopy in there for good measure. I found the obvious humor, and then the grief and loss, the bittersweet tinge like summer turning to fall. I love it still, and I cannot wait to read this book.

Much later, I would be reminded of the genius of Charles Schulz when Calvin and Hobbes appeared. Watterson's inks were so expressive and Calvin's fantasy life explored some fairly rich existential terrain, even while careening over cliffs in a wagon with a tiger. I imagined Schulz's influence on Watterson, and saw his strip as a familiar depiction of the child's landscape with the complexity of life left intact. I was not surprised when I read a wonderful introduction to "The Essential Calvin And Hobbes" provided by none other than Charles M. Schulz:

(I will quote an excerpt of that introduction here without the slightest thought of copyright infringement.) "Bill Watterson draws wonderful bedside tables. I admire that. He also draws great water splashes, and living room couches and chairs and lamps and yawns and screams, and all the things that make a comic strip fun to look at. I like the thin little arms on Calvin and his shoes that look like dinner rolls."

Whether it be on the basis of craft or content, for my money I can think of no two better. Or two more deserving, for that matter, of membership in the mutual admiration society.

Another great episode.

As long as we're talking tech issues, there's something in this one I haven't noticed before. When you go to the two-shot with your guest and turn to profile, both of your noses iz gettin cutted off.

This is most likely due to the green screen bouncing too much light into your semi-reflective faces. The green screen is too close, too hot, or both.

Well, it's certainly NOT slander.
It MIGHT be libel.

I'm sure it's possible that a journalist could happen to steal a bio from a photographer who was a contributor to Nerve just like Mr. Cowling was. But then, as Xeni points out, there is no money underneath my pillow AGAIN today.

Also, the text in question, aside from the parts stolen from Ms. Breslin, does not have the quality usually associated with a "writer". So.

Plagiarized, and not even well. Breslin's is well crafted, while the stolen copy feels pasted together. It's also riddled with syntax and tense errors that weren't present in the original. I wonder if he thought he "fixed" them, or if he just isn't a very careful copyist? I guess someone who has to steal their own bio isn't so very bright in the first place.

zomg! Matthew 1 iz makin me liek rofl!1!!

Always lolz @ GYWO, awesome.

Sean,
I love it when people sigh in print, it builds drama. Did you by any chance *read* Squashy's explanation of that comment (at #41)?

Ah, I did wonder if anyone would miss the reference. It's based on a quote from Ann Coulter herself: "The earth is yours. Take it. Rape it."
Yes, it is ugly.

Also, 10mm=1cm.

@NOTYOU #2, haha so funny. I think he would look smashing an a tiny knitted Mr. Toad Harris tweed suit!

In the spirit of lolcats this one came pretty naturally, and was fun to make:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/67479501@N00/1484481304/

It's not intolerant, it just expresses my opinion. I've heard a lot less tolerant expressions on the O'Reilly Factor btw...

The link to the tunnel project is the one of the other secret installations. Also awesome, in an underutilized space...

http://www.tapeart.com/green/3year/tunnel/tunnel.html

lol at "An area with stuff in it."

It most certainly is "squatting" par excellence, in an area of private property that these kids had long identified as underutilized. I find it beautiful that this went on unnoticed for FOUR YEARS.

http://www.trummerkind.com/mall/Living_in_the_Mall.html

I think this is the most awesome thing ever.

haha phasor3000 FTW.
lol even harder at "/rimshot"!

Standing by my original comment (#44). Why weren't MEDICAL personnel involved right away? Why is it now our knee-jerk reaction to physically subdue, restrain, and isolate someone who causes a disturbance? I agree something had to be done, but we cannot assume that one response fits all situations. This woman was obviously unstable; shouldn't our police officers have been sensitive to that fact?

We need to look at where we're heading as a culture. That means asking ourselves if someone in such an agitated condition should be chained to a bench and left alone for any amount of time. Even if she was throwing a fit, she was taken into custody. That means she was in the CARE of the police. Custody means charge or control, but also "safekeeping".

(Notice I am not stating that she was entitled to special treatment because of her social status. Perhaps we would not even be hearing about it if she was "Jane Doe of Idaho" as another commenter put it, however.)

Again, it's tragic, because it seems that Ms. Gotbaum's death could have been easily avoided through just a little compassion.

Errr, more "human than human."

@Anon #18:

Here we have the director himself saying that Deckard was a replicant; that he always was intended to be. The message in the original film was altered by the VO, the omission of the unicorn dream, and the added happy ending.

What wouldn't make sense? Why would there be "plot holes"? If you think about it, everything still makes sense, and makes even more sense in some cases. Like Rachael, He doesn't KNOW he's a replicant. He may begin to suspect it, but not until finding the unicorn at the final scene does he KNOW. It's the "aha" moment, and the theatrical release took it away.

"Mr. Deckard, have you ever tried that test on yourself?"

Also, we DO see Deckard's retina flash briefly in the kitchen scene. More real than human, we like to say.

With #33. This is tragic, and I believe it is a sign of the times.

The police are ultimately responsible for anything that happens to a person in their custody, including that person harming themselves. We should not forget this.

Why wouldn't such a distressed and vocal prisoner have had non-stop observation? If she seemed mentally unstable, wouldn't a medical evaluation at a hospital have been advised? Why was this not considered over arrest since she had not committed any crime more serious than disorderly conduct/creating a disturbance? It's hard to imagine that they would leave her alone for even a small amount of time if her behavior was so out of hand that police were involved in the first place.

From the original situation to the end, it would seem that many opportunities were missed to compassionately diffuse the situation and avoid Ms. Gotbaum's death.

Skeptical, It's called a "point stop" in this tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxOj4SKs1kw
He says that heavy [casino] dice are pretty much required for that trick. He also says that it requires experience. I believe it is done without trickery, by lining up the angle and plane of the stop perfectly with the existing stack. With hundreds of hours of practice, no doubt.

Sick.

Wow, there are cups specially made for dice stacking? The logo is right-reading while the cup is upside down.

He gets up an leaves at the end of every trick. (to turn off the camera, I know) But still, I couldn't help thinking about the recently posted Nintendo controller pipe...

"Since this was a metal chair, I would not advise doing an MRI ;)"

Haha yeah, oops. CT scan.

@#14: I believe it has something to do with "first do no harm". If the patient's condition is stable, even with a big chair leg in his face, it's wise to see what is being affected internally before yanking it out. X-rays, or in this case, an MRI can reveal a lot in a short amount of time. There are cases on the books where a projectile was actually preventing internal hemorrhaging or spinal trauma, and the removal of the projectile started a survival clock ticking in which doctors needed to act quickly to save the patients' life. In this case, some surgery might have been advised before the chair leg was removed.

Do Native American kids get to make them? *cough*

2900 US Dollars.
Now THAT'S uncomfortable.

I don't know if it's teh antique. (Or if that even matters. It's awesome. $200 might be the going price for awesome.) There were definitely reproductions of this lock produced. The key appears to be stamped out of sheet metal, and fairly shiny.
Skull and crossbones = buyer beware, aaaar.