I can't help but be reminded of the Replicators from Stargate SG1. Those giant queens, producing hundreds of self-replicating metal-eating death bugs. Houston is fuxxrd.

I am Ironman.

What is the economic footprint of a Clif Bar?

How is this supposed to "raise questions." Cars are faster than bicycles. When cars are given the necessary space to accelerate, they can go places... fast. Traffic is what happens when TOO MANY cars try to go the same place, at the same time, on questionably-designed roadway systems.
Also, their statement, "In a city ruled by cars, why is it that you can get places faster on bikes?"
I think that's only true during rush-hour, or serious traffic back-ups.

While I am most definitely an advocate of bike-use and HATE fossil fuels, I don't really agree with this unnecessarily cerebral, arrogant technique for "spreading the good word." Do you honestly think that drivers are going to infer anything besides "look at that dick on the bike. I hope traffic clears up so I can hit him with my car."

Anyway, not a great campaign strategy for bike use.

I'm really surprised that this cockroaches thing was such a hot button issue for Boing Boing readers! Srsly, gys... hvn't wrrd bt nm-cllng snc th schlyrd. nd vn thn, knw th dffrnc btwn n nslt nd cmprtv mtphr.

Y GYS R NMLS, MN! NMLS!

HUGE TRACTS OF LAND

Spicy-chili DIM-sum?

Boxthor was right by me when this went on.
Boxthor was kind of a dick, sure.
Boxthor was right about that medic.
Boxthor doesn't realize how much fun it is to nag at people who flame.
Boxthor got flamed back.
And all was well.

...And then I got hit by that train, but I took some scout with me.

...friggin' scout. Tryin-a hit me wif teh metal bat. Spycheck my ass.

"TechShop seems like something many people desire to have in their city; I wish them the best in successful franchising."

Franchising indeed! Let's get a TechShop in Metro Detroit please. I mean, I love my shop and all... but CNC plasma cutters? Win.

http://wbd.ytmnd.com/

Best Brimleytmnd I've ever seen.

Wow, If I spent that much time in a car with XENI JARDIN (nice shirt, btw) I wouldn't yak so much.

I'D SAVE THE CONVERSATION FOR OUR PICNIC ON THE BEACH LATER, LIT BY BATTERY-POWERED XENON LAMPS.

Oh yeah! BoingBoing should be covering AKFest! It's a sweet audio festival, BoingBoing Gadgets needs some press representation there! Hop on the Livonia, MI audio festivals bandwagon!

ROSSINDETROIT:
I had that very Toshiba! I returned it, though, because I knew HD-DVD was a dead thing, and I liked the idea of a simple upscaler better.

Haven't heard the LM4780. Is that the 60 Watt?

If you're really in Detroit, you should check out the AKfest from AudioKarma this Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.akfest.com/

I think it's gonna be sweet!

Shanling is OK. They have a really nice CD player and Headphone amp combo which is nice, but vastly overpriced. When it comes to CD players though, the first-run playstation is still the best I've ever heard. Even in systems that have a net cost in the hundreds of thousands.

It's amazing the kind of sound you can get on the cheap. Shanling is definitely NOT "the cheap."

There was a great episode of TNG where Geordi took a video recording, converted it to a holodeck program, and traced shadows by interpolating shape and size based on distance and comparative location. WHERE IS GEORDI WHEN YOU NEED HIM!?

But yeah, caustics.

lol,

china syndrome

"Isn't it sad to feel the least safe in the presence of the people who claim to ensure our safety?"

That's exactly it.

This makes me sad. It's a weird feeling, seeing this sort of thing coming from such an authoritative institution as the police. I know it's nothing new, or special... this kind of treatment has existed for ages... but I guess I just can't express the complex thoughts and feelings I experience when I see incidents like this. Something about authority abusing their power in such a way. It makes my gut feel tight. It's almost like nervousness, or anger. The sort of feeling where you want to DO something DRASTIC, but you understand the futility of any action you might take, and become further frustrated.

The emotion is best described using lengthy streams of raving, frothing colorful metaphor and extreme profanity, but I'll try to avoid that.

Is anyone here familiar with the Chrysler Turbine Car? It was made in 1963, I think, and as opposed to a regular old gasoline engine (300 moving parts, dangerous exhaust, inefficient and fuel limited) it was powered by a STUNNING turbine (read: jet) engine. The engine had only 60 moving parts, it ran on ANYTHING that burned (gas, ethanol, jet fuel, vegetable oil, tequila... you name it) and it's exhaust contained Nitrogen Oxides, which were a problem in the 60s, but now could probably be fed back into the engine and re-used like a NOS system in a modern day muscle car.

Why don't we start using THOSE in cars. The ultimate hybrid.

I used to be into the positive, forward-thinking, "the future is today" type thing. Where science and technology will unite mankind and we can use our combined human knowledge to solve problems. Maybe create some kind of technological singularity and expand into the universe beyond our planet, beyond our galaxy, into total universal diffusion or something equally Roddenberry-esque... Y'know, riding a soliton wave hand-in-hand into tomorrow.

However, seeing as we've created an entire society based on a single dangerous substance (petroleum) which can't be replenished... we seem to have waited (as a nation, as all of humankind) too long to do anything real about it. Next thing you know, shipping costs increase, food and other necessities can no longer be easily accessed, people get hungry, people get edgy, power plants can't keep the lights on, people get angry, people get thirsty, people get... 457 AD.

It's hard to look towards the future with that nasty Hubbert Peak Theory blocking all the sunlight.

It's butter 'cause Obama....

Paula Dean had better not visit Japan.

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, nothing really... I just feel as though I need something stronger."

Now let's just hope somebody can penalize the fat woman who parked in front of a hydrant in the video of a few posts ago.

Font-based robotics: It's the way of the Futura!

Patty Cake! PATTY CAKE! PATTYCAKE PATTYCAKE PATTYCAAAAAKKKKEEE!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAH!

This is why it's important to really... chew... your food.

You know what else acts as an effective insulator? My wall covered in oak-mounted baby seal and panda heads. That's good for the environment too, because it rids it of the scourge and infestation of fuzzy little mammals!

Shock the Monkey.

"... but what about us?"

"We'll always have Bat Country. They're everywhere!"

The Germans wore grey, you wore two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls.

You commentors dont no anything about sinec ima sinectist and I kno that brains is can be mesured with a special calipers an one time i had this guys brain an i mesured at an the calipers seaid for an i had this chicks brane and i mesured it an the calipers seat to so sinecs is gthe truth an you cant argue with sinecs.

also cokcs.

What, pray tell does Sir Wallace look like?

...SAY WHAT AGAIN!!

Rick Astley is rolling in his grave... in a perfect world...

I kid of course.

Throw in a barrel roll, add a couple of epic maneuver, dip the whole thing in chocolate rain, and you've got yourself a fish biscuit. How'd you do that?

And he said the word, and we... ATE IT!

HOT DOG!

Surrounded by a thin, thin 16mm shell. And inside? It's delicious. That's "Arnie's Whole Beef Halves" We Deliver!

Thirsty?

Why always DisneyLAND, Boing-Boing? It seems like DisneyWORLD should be the focus of your Disney-obsessed articles. It's bigger. It's more Disney-like. The environment is so attractively artificial and controlled. Everything is so cool and manufactured and monitored. Disneyworld feels way more like some kind of futuristic commune than a theme park. And you know what... if you can get past the whole "big scary corporate mouse overlord watching everything you do and slowly ushering you into an era of highly-policed bovine citizens"... it's kinda comfy there.

Is it just because you live closer to Disneyland? Is it because Disneyland shot first? Is it the humidity? Do tell.

"Technologies gives us the means to switch genders, inhabit new forms, modify our own bodies."

Imagine how crazy THAT'S gonna get when the Holodeck eventually comes along... I can't wait. Second Life: The Next Generation

Send your question to www.audiokarma.org. Post in the Loudspeakers forum or General Audio. You will likely be given a detailed answer to about any question you could ask.

(Not a troll. Just a fan.)

No matter where you are, if you put on these things, you -might- get sucked into an oxygen/gravity vacuum.

If I call John Kerry, am I gonna get his cell phone number? CAN I TELL HIM THAT HE FORGOT POLAND!?

lol, Dr. Who reference. The current Doctor is apparently Asian.

I'm shocked that Webster didn't pick up on this, but Woot comes from an ancient form of the Norwegian, 'Wøüd' which, when translated out of context, means, "HHAHAHLOLOLOL U GOT PWNT HAHAHA FRAGFRAGFRAGLOLOLOLOLOLHEADSHOT"

It... thing... have... sliding... with... boxes.... of... it of theys.

It....

Of theys.

Although OCTOPODE is technically correct (and sounds much cooler) it is not the standard accepted plural form of Octopus. I say, let's everyone start using octopode, octopede, octupulike, octopusules, octapsules, and all other kinds of crazy made-up plurals to throw-off the boys at the Word Regulation Facility.

Anybody out there know of a Mac equivalent? This is just what I seek... but for the wrong OS...