Those are perfectly good racks! Wasteful for the photographer to leave them.

Sanyo Eneloop batteries are the best I've found. (http://www.eneloop.info/) Their www is horrible, I didn't do it! But their batteries r.u.l.e.

And I would spend the extra money (the difference is about 3 slices of pizza in NYC) on a good charger that cares for your batteries. I have a 15 minute model myself, and have been using it for 3 years with no problems. no memory or burnout issues.

"Apart from the inherent problems with that argument (don't have an opinion on a movie unless you are also a movie director?), you're claiming that only 1 in ten million people can draw that well, which might be overstating things just a little."

That's right, I was making a subjective judgement call about coop's ability to represent vis a vis the rest, because that's as much my right as someone saying she's not feminine, righteous, or won't kick your teeth in because she's hot. This is an inherently anti-feminist stance. Hot chicks run the world just as much as non-hot ones.

"At this point, I can no longer tell if the art showcased on Boing Boing is meant to be ironic, post-ironic, or post-post-ironic."

I would go for post-apocalyptic iConic. But that's another subjective call for everyone to make for themselves.

Don't question a coop drawing unless you can make something sweeter, which has a likelihood of about %.0000112

People should stop whining about advertising already.

Since the first cavewoman made a bowl of eyeless cockroach and giant rat stew in her cave (and those were good eatin's,) she then yelled at her fellow clubswingers about the quality of said soup and how she would trade a leaf woven bowl of it for a really nice rock because she wanted a better pillow.

Advertising is part of the fabric of our reality, and nowhere more so than online.

It's like complaining about air or the ground existing, you should probably get over it.

For some reason my porch CFLs burn out every 4 months, I can't figure it out (I do use them on the porch, because I leave them on a lot for security, and I dont have to sit under them, which gives me an instant headache) so the long life thing hasn't been working out for me

LEDs can be manufactured to any visible and some non-visible wavelengths so you can get any color temperature you want. Most flashlights go for the high end of the blue/white spectrum, so maybe that's why you hate them, but they can be any color.

Meh!

Compact Fluorescents are going to turn into an environmental nightmare once all you hippies who bought GE's propoganda start throwing them away.

Don't believe the hype!

Just because the manufacturers want to unload the 10 million containers of them they made in China last year and are selling them to you as eco friendly doesn't mean it's true.

http://www.newstarget.com/021907.html
etc. etc. google it. Fluorescents suck.

LED is the way. Longest life span, low power draw, minimum environmental impact, nice color temperature.

#14 posted by cavalier , October 19, 2007 6:04 AM:

"I am not a number, I"m a free man. :p"

If you live in the USA, you are not technically free, and if you use the internet, you are definitely a number.

To all the comments about not the content not being available outside of the USA, this has to do with domestic vs. international distribution rights, contracts drawn up before this scenario was even on the radar screen, another massive headache everyone is trying to work out. Just use a proxy.

#5 posted by sexyrobot , October 18, 2007 3:48 PM:

(quote:) this is something i've been wondering about for a while...why dont the networks just put their shows online with ads intact? basically their revenue comes from a) advertisers and b) dvd sales, right? putting shows (with the ads intact) on youtube (or anywhere/everywhere else) is good for:
broadcasters: viewers watching the ads=advertising revenue...greater attention=more dvd sales (eof quote)

jgb: You can research it yourself online, and it's complicated, but the short answer to this is that broadcast airings are sold to affiliates, who sell regionally appropriate advertising (but not online aprropo) alongside the national ads. This is what will happen on ip delivery systems like the web and mobile as well, with targeted interstitial advertising, it's just logistics.

As far as youtube goes, they blew it with *everyone* really fast, and are going to have to get damage control out of the way, and then think about how to make it work commercially.

So will someone in Menlo Park drive by and see what it looks like?