this thread is now off-topic...

ah, nevermind.

recommendation.

two m's....not two c's.

/understanding sarcasm and satire by many boingboing readers and comments?

would have been SO much better if he'd been able to incorporate some sort of bumper/segue/effect in between just like the filmstrip being turned and "popping" into place...

but a great idea nonetheless...

Gort @ #18 - the problem isn't the public school systems. it's that they are so vulnerable to us, the taxpayers and general public, to suing them out of existence. in trying to be able to answer to everyone and being so goddamn politically correct, public school systems end up being ineffective and unable to do the right thing.

wake up everyone! it's not about making every single person feel "good," it's about doing the right thing.

/unexpected rant that was my last paragraph

@Bottlekid - you beat me to it. what an odd pose to strike while being photographed by Life magazine.

i had all of those "Return of the Jedi" glasses from burger king!

note the past tense.

*sigh*

anything that was traded "bootleg-style" for a long period of time never retains much of its charm when "officially released."

still....Heavy Metal Parking Lot totally rules, dude!

while i rarely agree with Cory's heavyhanded critique of Big Business, et al....

yet another example of the bigshot CEO/CFO thinking he act/say whatever he wants because he's been been the big fish in a small pond.

i actually tried to read some of the deposition quotes out loud to my across-the-way cubicle mate. didn't go too well. ;)

@#35 Noen
Secondly, you will be joining the ranks of the poor soon enough. We've made made a deliberate choice in this country to have a society composed of the very wealthy and the very poor. The middle class is being destroyed.

i'm glad that YOU'VE sorted out Dizbuster's personal finances without actually knowing him.

don't fire away at generalizations and broad inscrutable statements with generalizations and broad inscrutable statements of your own. it's unbecoming...

link to this origami-fold-anything site?

"sparking" clean?

meh.

SPARKLING.

in addition to looking cool and totally NSFW, i might also point out that certain kinds of these ZIF crystals are able to absorb 80 times their mass/size of carbon dioxide, providing us with another small piece of the puzzle in preventing us from destroying the earth.

it also seems that there are so many "appz" for these crystals, that students had to be told to stop experimenting with them so that some results could be published.

imagine how a deicide track sounds to some arabian dude, though....

#11 - I'm not defending what occurred to this gentleman, Buckwheat. It was wrong, morally and legally.

The only point I was trying to make, and also what #10 may have been trying to say is that no one forces anyone to take a loan/buy furniture at astronomical interest rates/etc.

These businesses exist for this socioeconomic group, be they gullible or not. How stupid do you have to be to walk into one of these payday loan places and NOT expect to pay back an astronomical amount of interest, plus fees? When people walk into these furniture places Noen referenced, do you think they don't know that they're paying $20 a week for 3 years for a couch that would cost them $600 in "real" money?

Without the business, there would not be the greed accompanying it.

#2 - I know you were being facetious to a point, and I agreed with you for the most part. Your implied point that gambling (i.e., the lottery and Keno) is a "tax" on the poor is well-taken, but there's nobody twisting the poor's collective arm to buy those lottery tickets. Nor is anyone forcing anyone to go to church, eat at McDonald's, etc. There is a choice to commit to these things. Now, once they're "in," there are some pitiful tactics used to keep these people "giving," but they (like Buckwheat in this story) made the initial choice to walk in and get a payday loan/buy the lottery ticket/eat a Big Mac//tithe what little they have to a church.

M$ Mobile FTW

this post helped me kill 20 minutes at work today!

yay! :-P

is this the California Science Center or the California Pseudo-Torture Center?

unexpected shocks? replicating the feeling of falling? poisonous animals?

best science/torture museum ever!

#62 - i don't have a direct link to her, but you could just try suicidegirls.com

she was on howard stern the other day, and i was reasonably informed that she has HUGE tracts of land.

she also has some crazy/weird thing going on with a daughter/sister/niece that she has adopted. don't even bother asking me to explain it...

I appreciate that the kids were in a "no-skateboarding" zone, which certainly puts Officer Rivieri within his rights to be stern and forceful (verbally).

but, jesus, there's a point about 25 seconds in where Rivieri just loses his mind. there is no reason that he should be allowed out into the streets of B-more ever again. what would he do when confronted by an actual dangerous/aggravated situation?

i used to manage the kitchen at a Chili's. i remember seeing the nutritional information for one of the "Blooming Onions" (the deep-fried gigantic vidalia onions).

consuming one worked out to 222 grams of fat and about 2700 calories.

sweet mother of christ....

cabling.

best...new...x-treme...sport...ever!

#2@Bionicrat2 - I'm assuming you downloaded "Issue #1," which took about 10 seconds @ 3Mbps. Perhaps there were server issues at DC? Just to state that I had no problem whatsoever downloading this....

does George Lucas receive subsidies from their soon-to-be meager coffers?

"i'm the only one who can help" at the scene of an accident...

what does that even mean?

EMTs/First Responders are just window dressing?

christ, this guy creeps me out.

perhaps it could be fashioned into a flying spaghetti monster pizza. if you squint at it just right, maybe...

#27@RyanWaddell

cockfaces...

i'm still chortling.

my favorite is "...reach up to 12 feet off the ground without using a ladder."

especially good for dealing with that irritating "cat stuck up a tree" problems.

while i appreciate news of "major" medical and scientific breakthroughs, i can't stand how they are hyped in the mainstream media, as if each new breakthrough is THE panacea for some specific ailment/condition/syndrome/whatever.

this is a perfect example, and the recent news about certain sufferers of autism having a mutation in chromosome 16. i work at a pediatric genetics clinic for a hospital, and as soon as that hit CNN and the AP wire, i was inundated with calls from patient's parents wondering if we "did the chromsome 16 test."

report the news, but don't give people false hope with a screaming headline and then burying the real facts and statistics in the 10th paragraph.

bah.

Of course, the best part is Torch's "Asbestos Room." Keep inhaling that stuff, Johnny!

I think Mark just nailed Dan Brown's next book (mystic order of typesetters).

The Gutenberg Code?

@Clif Marsiglio

your passive-aggressiveness manifests itself by you leaving a "note" in place of a tip on the charge slip, and then you exiting the restaurant without having to confront either the server or a manager.

from Wikipedia (the fount of all info, right?):
Passive-aggressive behavior refers to passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following authoritative instructions in interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as resentment, stubbornness, procrastination, sullenness, or repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is assumed, often explicitly, to be responsible. It is a defense mechanism and, more often than not, only partly conscious. For example, people who are passive-aggressive might take so long to get ready for a party they do not wish to attend, that the party is nearly over by the time they arrive. Alternatively, leaving notes to avoid face-to-face discussion/confrontation, is another form of passive-aggressive behavior.

note that last sentence. it's exactly what you did. you ran from a confrontation that, in the end, would probably have been of benefit to you.

that's waiterrant.net, btw.....

a few pointers from a cook/server/manager for many years.

-if you use a debit card at a restaurant: if you are one of THOSE people who run home and login to see how much money you've spent while out shopping/eating out, the charge that will appear (for at least a few hours, if not 24 hours) will be your total bill plus a 20% tip. this is visa's way of making sure you have enough in your bank account to cover a 20% tip. when the restaurant runs its batch at the end of the night, the ACTUAL tip (i'm relying on server honesty here) will then be posted to your account.

for example: your meal cost $78.16 and you left a $12 tip using your debit card (you cheap bastard!). if you run right home like a chicken with its head cut off and check your online statement, it will show as a $93.79 charge from that restaurant ($78.16 + 20% tip). this is usually NOT listed under POSTED BALANCE, as it is a pending charge. usually, by the morning, the bank statement will reflect your true charge.

-as far as furiously scribbling "NO TIP FOR YOU!!" on a charge slip, i'd think twice before doing something like that. you may have received poor service, but passive-aggressive BS like that only makes you more of a mark the next time you come in. if you have a problem with poor service, go to the manager right then and there.

while i appreciate hyper-criticalness in most instances.....

not so much on this one.

i'm guessing that matt figured it out. i'm guessing that most boingboing readers figured it out. perhaps it even challenged you to do some critical thinking in combining a pie graph with a clock.

@american scot:

everything i have read, particularly an interview with bernard and hooky on yahoo had them laughing at their perceived inconsistencies and half-truths in the film, stating (and i'm paraphrasing here) that at least "24 Hour Party People" was stupid fun while being full of lies, rather than "Control" taking itself so serioiusly.

regardless, i've got to get a copy of this (or go see it at least) VERY SOON!

i was wondering who would go with the goatse reference first. took until post #5! w00t!!!1!11!

just got the news that the RIAA has come after nearly 100 kids at the local university here (University of Virginia) at $750 a song....ugh.