Every day, my wildest conspiracy theories turn out to be gross underestimations of the state of the world.

That's ridiculous--everyone knows the Americans liberated the Moon from the Nazis in '44.

Still, looks gorgeous.

I think it after every post of yours, John... and now I'm saying it again.

Decaf? :P

How did she taste?

"HAARP? They just study the atmosphere!" -- Scott Summers from an X-Box X-Men game

#6 posted by glace neuf , April 25, 2008 12:36 PM

ever fought the taliban..... on weed?

Beautiful.

Love it. We all pay attention :)

Decaf, maybe? :P

Those are really awesome looking. I'm seeing another sequel to Cyborg being filmed there.

Has the camp shovel served you well? (don't answer until you get back :D )

Who stands like that?

"Simultaneous"? C'mon, we need 113 frame-stuttered copies of 2G1C playing on the keyboard, or I'll scream "SHOPPED!!"

:P

I'd love to fill in my alt tags. My marketing team, however, doesn't provide them (or understand what they are, really).

I regret to inform you that you've been hornswoggled: A bedsheet will NOT protect you from bugbears. However, you're still fairly wumpus-safe.

Uh...good writing.

Admins: Keep this kid around.

.../jaw agape

...I hate this guy! ;)

Xeni -- You look like a comm operator from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow :)

I always clearly label my suitcase nukes, "A-bomb"...

Isn't it time to acknowledge that the U.S. has been under Martial Law since shortly after 9-11?
9-11-1862? Yeah.

Man, I wish *I* had AIDS...

His attempts at humor are just absolutely tasteless and insulting.

Humor is in the eye of the beholder. I always say that I'm here to amuse myself. If others are amused, that's fine, but that's not why I say "funny" things.

I could do the original version, but I frikkin' hate sit&spins...

Wim Delvoye made a lush artistic film of extreme closeups of people popping zits.

Your vivid description makes me gag.

...and where the fuck is my flying car?!?!?!?! I'll sue!!!

"old-timey" lol...

Everyone knows Republicans are Lawful. Changing laws is working within the system and therefore Lawful.

The above is merely one of the problems with McCain's MM entry.

""But if I was cold-hearted enough to turn a hose on them I would do it myself, not send my mechanical henchman after them.""

The Evil Genius personality is characterized by a superiority over others. This is generally why they aren't heroes, and aren't perceived to be so.

Don't get me wrong -- this guy has a lot more work to do before he crosses into Successful Evil Genius territory...

Steve: That's actually the inspiration. There aren't any good photos of Tiananmen Square, so I found an empty highway shot.

@#7: I tried to help. I rolled a 2. True story.
a little something I made years ago that I use as my forums avatar, when appropriate.

Play on, Player...

Shovel -- absolutely necessary.

Tarp -- absolutely necessary. Not only can you COVER if your tent leaks, you should pitch the tent OVER the tarp, to avoid ground moisture.

Don't drink your urine more than once.

...

Seriously, though, a significant portion of your kit weight SHOULD be drinking water.

#10 Jeff: You just can't stop paying your bills because you think someone out there doesn't know where you paperwork is.

Yeah, you can.

#4 posted by trr , February 26, 2008 12:39 PM

Because burning wood is so much cleaner than burning oil! And it gets rid of those pesky pollution-emitting trees!

You're an idiot.

Burning wood *IS* cleaner than burning oil. Wood leaves lots of residue which returns to the earth. Petrochemicals burn much hotter and are then chemically bound in other compounds which don't get reused in the natural cycles.

Trees? Trees regrow. You sound like you're advocating getting our energy from sperm whales.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaahahaha!

...

It occurs to me that "cleaning" a glacier is just like melting it. More laughter ensues.

This is the death of "having to describe what something looks like" -- one of my primary skills as a Game Master.

Plus, making the players draw their own maps is one of the primary burdens of being a player-character.

Va-va-voom!

This singer has always given those of us who similarly cannot sing hope for a musical career.

6 pages only? Or am I doing something wrong?

Woah (re: gerbils).

I've always disagreed with dosing pets, too. Now I know why.

IM IN UR BUSHZ PWNING UR FUDZ

"somebody is going to kill you ... like ME!" :D

Are they sure it's not just a baby?

Yes, yes, y'all.

"a Supreme Court Justice (not sure which one) stated that torture is only unconstitutional if used as punishment, not if it's being used for extracting information."

Technically, that is correct. However, as signatory to the several Geneva Conventions, in the USA it's still illegal.

Messrs. Forytarz et Castran:

Welcome to the Internets, Population: Everyone but you.

"Rattus rattus brevicaudatus"

Man, that gives me an idea for a rap song...

It sounds great. I'm about out of patience with my $10 GE-Walmart special.

#126 posted by minimalniemand , February 4, 2008 2:23 PM

Ok, some of you ppl say, "guns are just tools" "used for recreation" and so on.
Now, tomorrow I'll start building a machine, that slowly rips off the skin off people and then ripples salt on the skinned body, while chemicals ensure that the person on this machine is conscious all the time.

...ok, so you're going for a CIA-genius grant, so what?

I think that's very cute, Mark :D

"Poesey" is very nice. I approve. :P

Congratulations.

That's odd... I don't FEEL like I'm getting more depressed...

That's gorgeous.

Foreign travel narrows the mind wonderfully.

Would this be the same Hillary Clinton that chose a campaign song for her US Presidential bid written and performed by a Canadian?

No, I don't think it's the same one. :/

Scrabble Gram suggests naughty answer

Isn't it your own filthy mind that has suggested the answer? It's the poor scrabbler who blames the clues... :P

by EdGore:
"I find Mythbusters sort of boring. I'm not sure why, either. On paper it's totally up my alley. I think it's because the hosts are sort of dreary."

You, sir, have no soul. I find Adam and Jamie charming.

Charming, personable, but not scientific. They said in one episode I watched, "Now, this isn't how a scientist might do it, but we're going to do it this way..." ...and that was enough for me, for the most part.

Then, I saw they had a "Ninja Myths" episode, so I taped* it. They were trying to get a (mechanical) hand to catch an arrow, but the arrow was "too fast" for the hand to grip quickly enough. But they never tried firing the arrow from further than a foot away! That was truly enough.

*Yes, taped. Shut up.

Fucking incredible! (in a good, hi-fructose-corn-syrup way)

What's In the Box: Install/restore DVDs

Cute.

In the US and A, illegal contracts are not enforceable.

What's up, eh?

Try that crap* in the London Underground, you'll get 5 dum-dums in the head!

* 'that crap' = having a name

I'm buying fuckedstelmach.ca RIGHT NOW.

#90 posted by calabanos , January 9, 2008 11:07 AM

I find it odd that the first responses to a link designed to help vegetarians prepare for some sort of disaster is to irrationally and aggressively attack the life style.

I was responding directly to the idea that vegetarianism is a "good thing," not to the article directly.

To respond to the article directly, I think everyone should have a 3-day disaster kit in their house/apartment/car.

#91 posted by cajunfj40

Eh? USL '98 here, transplanted to Denver for $. Comment tallez-vous, cher?

#86 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator Author Profile Page, January 9, 2008 8:58 AM

unless you think you can top Takuan's post, in which case you can do that instead.

The purpose of technology is to provide me with stem-cell caviar.

I think the term is "sybian" ... uh... I've heard...

#76 posted by calabanos , January 8, 2008 11:41 PM

So much fear of vegetarians. t smlls f slf lthng.

So much armchair psychiatry. t smcks f prjctn.

(Honestly, how do you discern "vegetariphobia" from people who disagree with that lifestyle?)

#65 posted by iBarna , January 8, 2008 2:23 PM

I stopped these pointless debates with strangers on obscure websites a long time ago.

That's the last straw, sir. BoingBoing is FAR from an obscure site!!!!!!

I *do* like how you chose to respond to the guy arguing about atheism in the Veggie thread, though.

in fact I debunked the "vegetarianism is a luxury" argument.

According to you. What you wrote was:

Clearly, anyone who calls a vegetarian diet a luxury as opposed to meat (which requires many times the resources as, say, soy or grain products), is deluded in their little cocoon of a world.

Which by my count is one "clearly," an ad hominem attack, and a production-input per calorie-output factoid, which, while mathematically true, is taken out of context. Sure, *today* with gasoline & tractors it takes more "resources" to produce meat as opposed to grain. How many "resources" would it take to let deer raise themselves?

I would doubt that there is an intelligent person who when she puts her mind to it, at least tries to stay fair and open-minded, and really digs into the material, afterwards would still find the nerve to ridicule vegetarianism or decry is as a bad idea.

Wow. How *do* you manage to walk through doors?

(I'm checking out of this thread.)

I know. Too bad you won't hear me call you a chicken.

#60 posted by iBarna , January 8, 2008 1:44 PM

hy kd, t's rl ct hw y fntsz bt gng ll Rmb n s ll whn th bg n hts.

Th "gng ll Rmb" s th rspns. "Th bg n" httng s th fntsy.

jst sht p lrdy.

N, y sht p. N, y. N, y!

By the way, luxury is what allows one to choose to be vegan, and the calories provided by meat is what allowed agrarian society in the first place, s yr "lttl ccn" whr y hv chc s th fntsy.

#61 posted by Dave X, January 8, 2008 1:49 PM

It doesn't make me a fascist to point out that you have no rational reason to continue eating meat

...Ok. So you don't want to change the behavior of the omnivores in society? Ppl bng pn-mndd s k ntl thy chs t spk gnst vg'ng?

...the sardines were delicious, by the way.

#52 posted by gobo Author Profile Page, January 8, 2008 1:14 PM I just don't trust the meat that comes out of American factory farms.

How is that an argument FOR veg'ing? It's an argument for raising your own food.

it's treated kind of like eating Kosher

Sprstts mmbjmb dsgnd t kp pr grp hlthy, frtfl nd mltplyng? Yh, gr, xcpt dn't thnk vgtrns bnd tgthr n ny mnngfl wy wth rspct t rprdctn.

#54 posted by Dave X Author Profile Page, January 8, 2008 1:21 PM there simply aren't any good reasons to eat meat, especially in our generously provided-for Western culture.

Y lt cn brng p th fct tht w'r n lxrs cltr, s w "dn't nd" mt, bt whn wnt t t t b/c t TSTS GD, sddnly th lxry cltr s prblm. Y'r VgFscsts -- vn thgh y dn't THNK y'r tryng t dctt rls fr thrs t lv by, y btry yr ntr wth phrss lk "rn't ny gd rsns" nd "rtnl thnkng"...

Dave X, I'd gladly hunt my own meat, but the "luxury culture" has bought all the hunting grounds (q.v. Robin Hood, c. 1215 AD, et al).

'm always amazed how open-minded folks are on BB

'm lwys mzd tht whn sm ppl s th phrs "pn-mndd" thy mn, "thnks xctly lk d."

Going to eat some sardines right now to stand up for my beliefs.

#45 posted by gobo Author Profile Page, January 8, 2008 12:52 PM

Who let the troll in? The one who smells like bacon grease?

What a good argument for vegetarianism! Seriously? A personal hygiene crack? ...

Hnstly, vgtrnsm jst bthrs m bcs mst f y r cnvncd tht t mks y bttr thn mnvrs. Life is dumb & difficult enough without having to "worry" about your fuel source.

mmmmmmmmmmBacon ... mmmmmmmm...

#41 posted by ralphleon Author Profile Page, January 8, 2008 12:35 PM

that's no reason to trivialize vegetarianism in our current luxury society.

Sr t s, bcs t's trvl lfstyl.

There are good arguments for being vegetarian and "meat tastes good" is a rather weak counter-point.

On the contrary, the enjoyment of food is one of the best things in life, superseded only by crshng yr nms, sng thm drvn bfr y, nd hrng th lmnttns f thr wmn.

I think there are more armed vegans out there than you think. Why do you think we're on so many DHS/FBI watch lists?

Because you're not ingesting the proper amount of free will-sapping hormones?

And, again, that extreme response may not be realistic if its just the power's been out for 72 hours. Even in Katrina they weren't hunting people for food.

I'm not saying I'm going Micronesian at the first snowfall. I'm saying that I'm not artificially limiting my options.

#32 posted by meowdip , January 8, 2008 11:28 AM

@ mujadaddy (#10)

"It's not nice to FuXX0r Mother Nature."

Your argument is one of the silliest I have ever heard. It could also be argued that driving a car, flying in a plane and even using a computer are not natural and it would be even easier to argue that they "FuXX0r Mother Nature." I don't propose that we stop doing any of those things.

That's where you & I differ.

Also linking to a sketch showing that we have an omnivore's tooth structure doesn't really prove that it dangerous to be vegan. In hunter-gatherer societies meat was a rarity. We ate it, but not a lot of it.

We ate it because we didn't have a choice in the matter, calorically speaking. Animals are good at concentrating calories in their tissues. It would have been dangerous not to eat it.

In the kind of disaster being discussed here I would probably have to abandon a strict vegan diet, and I would probably eat meat if I really had to (although I'm not sure I would really have to). I certainly wouldn't worry about a little whey in bread found in the remains of a grocery store.

So your choice isn't really one of morality -- rather, it's one of smugness, bred from comfort?

#13 posted by Dave X Author Profile Page, January 8, 2008 10:11 AM

Not all us vegetarians wwould go so easy, y hnt-hppy fls. Defending myself would present no ethical issue-- I just wouldn't eat you afterward.

My dogs might, though.

Ooooo, noooo!!! Not the dooooogs!!! However will I Indiana Jones-quickdraw BLAM!! BLAM!! .... Oh yeah.

...

#14 posted by SednaBoo Author Profile Page, January 8, 2008 10:13 AM

And I bet most of us don't even have a emergency stockpile.

Y LT r my mrgncy stckpl.

Bl: S hrng htmn sn't mrdr?

Yr thcs r th thcs f mrn.

Everyone saying that "vegetarianism is a fine ideal" and "vegetarianism or veganism are fine personal choices" is dangerously wrong.

"It's not nice to FuXX0r Mother Nature."

I for one will be hunting humans when it's time.

I take back all the rotten things I've said about Ohio over the years.

Free the Mammaries!

#5 posted by theRat , December 24, 2007 6:58 AM

http://dresdencodak.com/cartoons/dc_028.htm
Fantastic!

to show that maybe this game shouldnt be taken so seriously is pure genius!

You disrupt my fun, you go on my list.

Taking a game seriously -- pointless.

Ruining someone else's game to play Vicarious Buddha -- actively dickish, and not-Buddha. Not-Buddha at all.

"Team Roomba" needs to get some fresh air.

It's okay to chuckle at inspired assholishness.

Oh, absolutely agree. I just don't think that was "inspired." Dropping an Anarchist Doll onto Target shelves -- Inspired. Blocking a doorway in an FPS with no team damage -- not so much.

if you aren't playing TF2, you should.

Is there a free trial for Orange Box? When the gameplay vids for Portal first started trickling out (8 months or so ago), I was intrigued. However, as a staunch RtCW:ET player, having teleporters in an FPS kinda bugs me -- I don't even like modded Wolf levels with teleporters. :P

You owe me x minutes of my life back, JJ.

That's what you get when you turn off team damage, Valve.

Although, the game looks really good in that vid. (previously I'd been slagging it for its cartoony play, not its cartoony look -- and in this vid its look .... is kinda cool...)

I thought I had the world's most powerful phone here, Apple!

Oh, Joel... You've been hornswoggled.

It's a cool phone.

It's a neat phone.

But you can't even receive picture messages.

a AU$100 web cam with a bevy of attachments that be used to stuff it into your local Katie Couric

I don't think that means what you think it means.

Did I miss the memo that David Icke's dreams all came true?

Tom-- Taoists et al make the mistake of all failed mystics: they believe they are capable of penetrating or meaningfully elucidating the mystery.

You mean 'Bad Taoists.'

Don't forget the Owl of Bohemia.

Chief Scientist Eric Yarger used the principles of Faraday’s law of induction.

...which is also used by EVERY ELECTRIC GENERATOR on the planet, EVER (not to mention flash drives!).

The technological application in the form factor is the innovation, not the mere use of Faraday's Law of Induction.

Cory: If you're going to do a "word count" for a short story market, you need to start with...

...a program that counts words for you?

:P

/lazy

It's not nice to futz with Mother Nature...

"That's it. VOIP is nice, but unnecessary and I find results in too many people trying to talk over each other."

I call shennanigans that you've actually been in a game before :P :D

"They seem to have removed that part of the agreement."

Perhaps they realized that copyright does not prohibit the act of READING the copyrighted text...

As far as the GoDaddy credit card breach "RUMOR" it appears to be just that -- rumor, and guilt by association.

The article has been updated with the official GoDaddy "Not us!" press release, and the comments allude to an admitted TJ Maxx credit breach.

World War II in Europe was sparked not by invasion and annexation of Poland, but instead was due to the Nazi Saucers having stolen the Moon out of the sky and sealing it in the Underground Sea, via Interlaken, Switzerland.

"The Greatest Generation" don't like to talk about that, now do they?

Think about it -- Why would turning off your lights during the Blitz have any effect on Nazi bombing runs, unless there were no moonlight illuminating the landscape???

After the US enveloped Switzerland (before the Soviets could seize it!), the Operation Paperclip scientists assisted the Americans in transporting the Moon under the high deserts under Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.

This is the reason why the images of the Apollo Moon "Landings" a) have no stars and b) convince the naked eye.

They were filmed on a soundstage... ON THE MOON!

It's true©

Kayin:

there are people fighting and sacrificing themselves for freedom and democracy across the globe,
That's debateable.

and this is what we do with ours.
I'm not a fan of bowling, either, but that's a little harsh.

Note to self:

Buy electrical tape for stolen iSights.

Define "logical," as you use it here.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden:

The demolition-style collapse of the towers was a huge piece of luck.

The lack of intervening supports between the central column and the skin meant that when floors collapsed, they fell straight down as a unit. Their falling weight tore loose the floor underneath them, and the floor under that, and so on. That's why the buildings fell straight down in that extraordinary fashion.

What about the center? What brought that down? That had been standing for more than 30 years, holding the same amount of weight. I don't have a problem "believing" that the floors would've stripped straight down, like the wrapper of a straw, but what about the central support columns of the building?

(This, however, is just wishful thinking:)
7 Wall Street wasn't built that way, which is why it collapsed in a giant heap like a normal building. ....you forgot to add "that has been purposefully explosively demolished."

Joel Johnston:

How is that I hate Star Wars but still swoon over LEGO Star Wars stuff?

Perhaps you're dead inside.

"Fistfight"?

That's SO insensitive

Well, apparently I am.

But forgive me for thinking that a 142 nanosecond-lifetime particle with 2x(9.1093826(16) × 10−31 kg) mass was not an atom.

Wikipedia in fact refers to it as an 'exotic atom' ... and this 'atom' wouldn't have a nucleus, just a pos and neg orbital cloud. Very counterintuitive.

addendum

...as the positron & electron mutually annihilate each other!

Article has a MAJOR error, but BBC doesn't accept comments:

These short-lived, hydrogen-like atoms consist of an electron and a positron, a positively charged antiparticle.

Uh, no. You mean antiproton, not positron. A positron is a negatively-charged electron.

Tough to make an atom out of two "electrons"...

"Gaslight" ?

"Post-Dickensian" ?

"Archeo-Industrial" ?

...system "to systematically collect and analyze all terrorist-generated content on the Web."

1. Define everything as terrorist-generated content.

2. Track all terrorist-generated content.

3. Profit!

*henna, which is red.

It is verboten for a Muslim man to tint his hair with anything but henna.

Secondly, we have all legal aspects covered. While I of course cannot delve too much into this, our system is perfectly legitimate and set to shake things up a bit.

Glad to hear it! Good luck, Grooveshark!

You guys might want to get a copyright lawyer on-staff, as soon as possible.

@complainers: *Yawn* Wake me when it's stem cell caviar.

@#16 This is utterly barbaric and unacceptable. In my country, you'd be doing jail time for something like that.

Whaa? What country is this?

#6 posted by Mark Frauenfelder Author Profile Page, August 31, 2007 10:35 AM:

#4 -- that's an unusual way to describe the size of the gargoyles (Photo of the cool0looking beasts here: http://filmer.blogspot.com/2005/05/dia-luggage-gargoyles.html), but what do do you think it means? I'm too dense to draw any conclusions from it.

Well, I wanted people to draw their own conclusions, but the most basic one involves a 5th-grade boy traveling via DIA in a suitcase. With John Mark Karr?

There are two (Bronze?) gargoyles at DIA, sitting in open suitcases, overlooking the main reception terminal.

The plaques under the gargoyles talk about the artist and the sculptures, but the phrase used to describe the gargoyles' size is "about the size of a fifth-grade boy" ...

...Draw your own conclusions...