Loved the concept, signed up for the beta, stopped playing the week I got in because it had Firefox constantly grinding along at 90% CPU use.

I don't care if it spits cupcakes out of my Firewire port, if a Firefox extension makes my music skip, it gets uninstalled.

If it weren't so ungodly expensive, it would make a nice centerpiece to this scale model TARDIS I'm building...

Some psychological warfare might help here. If you make a point of greeting all the potential problem customers in a friendly and obvious manner, it could lead a few to have second thoughts... and more to the point, it's a good way to subtly call their attention to the unloaded, non-functional gun that ought to be on the cashier's side of the counter.

These birds are taking drugs so they can make better music and get laid.

And yet, the creationists still say humans are such a special case...

Seems like a great case for You Thought We Wouldn't Notice. This is at worst artistic theft and at best a sleazy move, depending on how MAKE projects are licensed.

To all you meatspace hackers considering adding speed bumps - PLEASE make sure cars can go over them at the advised speed limit without lurching up and crashing back down. There are a few unassuming-looking "speed humps" on the FAU campus that might as well be curbs.

I expected #1 to link this one: http://wondermark.com/d/355.html

It sucks for all one million of these people, but seriously - 30% growth on dead ants? How obvious can a scam get? Don't these people have the internet?

Oh, right.

Why does their flash video interface even have a fullscreen button if that's all it does?

It reminds me not so much of rotoscoping as it does cel-shaded CGI. The terrible motion-capture like stumbling through imaginary scenes doesn't help, but when someone sits still under good lighting, the technique it's well worth its flaws.

I could absolutely see Williams Street lifting this effect for a new show.

Ken Hansen - being female is not a crime, arbitrary laws be damned. Law & morality are orthogonal axes.

Is it possible to blaspheme Islam in Sudan without inciting hatred and insulting the religion? I mean, I know this is nonsense from all angles, but it's kind of like charging her with assault, murder, and manslaughter for killing a man with one stab of a knife. The charges are trumped-up already, redundancy will not help.

Huey Lewis & The News - I Want A New Drug (for those unfamiliar with the original).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xQeUiTwzClU

I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this. The Culture Minister of Russia has a say in what Russians can show at art galleries in France? I suffer from the geographic ignorance common to Americans, but last I was in Europe, the two nations had several sizable countries separating them.

"Customs officers confiscated the montage from a British art dealer last year when he tried to take it to London." Wait, what? So it's legal to have, but not to leave with?

I can only hope for the sake of users' coworkers and caretakers that future products let users control their computers with a sing-song hum instead of the meditative focusing noises in the video. It sounds like the test user has his mouth open, which would lead to a dry mouth after less than an hour of casual web surfing.

Consider also the ability to tell what sort of task someone is up to by the complexity, tone, and change frequency of their pointing. A manager with disabled employees could close his eyes and pick out which are making diagrams, which are navigating through documents, which are doing spreadsheets, and which are slacking off to play Tower Defense with just a few seconds of careful listening.

Alex Jones (British playwright), not to be confused with Alex Jones (raving anarcho-libertarian filmmaker-radio host-agitator).

Filmed in amazing SHAKYVISION® with fun-ruining explanation beforehand!

Alabama: the thinking man's Kansas.

So how long before the backwards denizens that support this nonsense elect a rube who'll treat it like the war on drugs? Crackdowns, seizures, "medical" vibrators... it's an Onion article with the potential to happen in real life.

As I understand things, tasers were originally only supposed to be used as a nonlethal alternative to guns. I like this policy. I certainly prefer cops who will just knock my ass down and lean on me to cops itching to use their stun guns, especially since the latter seems to think they're some perfect Star Trek stun phaser.

Maybe it's time we went back to having cops hit people with sticks. It works well enough for the LAPD, and nobody is ever confused or unclear about what happens when you smack someone with a blunt object.

"...Battlestar Galactica, recorded off the air illegally..." Ah yes, life before the Betamax decision. How strange. And right before that, the notion of studios undercutting pirates by selling films on tape. Did it really take years for these bureaucracies to realize they could legally get rich doing exactly what others did to illegally get rich?

It's amazing that pre-release availability dates back into the 70s. Ralph Smith was very clear and intelligent: people want it, people can get it, people will get it. You can't stop the signal.

This is certainly in line with their other dumb move for this generation of iPods: 5G-compatible third-party docks with video-out are now broken. Jobs, in his infinite wisdom, saw fit to ship products that were compatible with last-gen technology if and only if said technology had an Apple logo on it (and more to the point, an Apple lockout chip inside it). A friend tried to defend it by saying dumb customers would've whined to Apple if cheaper, unlicensed third-party products didn't meet specifications. I don't buy it for a second. Now dumb customers and smart customers alike will complain to apple WHEN, not IF, their perfectly functional docks fail because their brand new hardware thinks they owe Apple more cash.

I have a 3G that's served primarily as an external hard drive for the last five years or so. Unless Apple gets its act together and stops trying to be Microsoft, I'll buy Meizu knockoffs before I shell out for a new iPod, shininess and multitouch be damned.

I feel it's necessary to mention this:

http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=211
http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=212

I find this especially funny in light of Canadian musings on the legality of Google Street View. Big, obvious cameras taking video of anything already visible from the road is an invasion of privacy, but Mounties reading your dirty IMs to parliament is perfectly kosher. Right.

Oh god, the wires... the shot of the back with a hojillion eighth-inch, banana-plug wires devoid of markings or labels beyond their color is terrifying. The man has a tablet screen and triple-monitor setup. Didn't they assume that in the future, we'd have advanced to the point of hiding the computer's central nervous system from pets, children, and clumsy users? It's like if Intel made a film about computing in the year 2030, and their wristwatch PCs boasted gigantic heatsinks.

See also the infamous Dutch dub of the Ducktales opening: http://dutchdt.ytmnd.com/