I'm tired of reading about cool things that have been made that I can't buy. Surely there are some cool designs actually being produced.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_153.html
Some more insight.

Corey, I didn't know you had a new book called Little Brother. You should post about it more often...

I really freaking want this. A lot of stuff is posted on this blog that's cool but I would never buy. I would absolutely buy this thing...provided it's less than $10-15, WHICH IT SHOULD BE!

I watch a good amount of news and have never heard these analysts say anything too egregious and out of line with the rest of the discourse, both from major media and online. So maybe a line was crossed with this operation, but the effects have not been devastating like the article implies. This is the style of The New York Times: report on a problem and use subtle phrasing and language to lead the reader into feeling outraged without providing evidence to support the outrage.

I'm in college and a republican--pretty moderate, but a republican--and recognize that it's assholes like this that gives most republicans a bad name. I think they get caught up with the silly part of politics: hating the opposition, focusing on insignificant parts of fringe ideology, etc. For instance, I went to a group meeting for class and was wearing a vaguely liberal looking shirt (the woot one with the corporate logos saying "BUY" and "Consume"), and the first thing the two College Republicans do is call me a liberal...they went on to spend the rest of the meeting making stupid jokes about hating the environment and children (sarcastically, but still).
On the other hand, many young liberals simply talk about hating Bush and conservatives without having any knowledge of what they're talking about also.

I really don't understand farm subsidies. I understand why they were instituted in the past, but, today, couldn't that food actually be grown and sold--either to the UN and distributed where it's needed, to other countries, etc? Besides, I didn't know bacon and ham were so cheap in the first place.

I guess Lori Beth Denberg has fallen on some pretty hard times.

link isn't working? page is down?

Cool, stuff. Lots of neat pictures and designs, but they don't seem so straightforward and simple--plus, it's 60 bucks for a case of twenty.

It's easy to hate because it wreaks of pomposity, but I think that's pretty cool. We need more people breaking the rules--landing planes on golf courses, driving cars across baseball fields, swimming in public fountains. More fun.

I like it. Where do I buy it?

There are so many posts here of great products that aren't actually for sale. It gets disheartening sometimes.

What happened to the post on the leaked Pentagon report on climate change? There were problems with the permalink earlier. I was hoping somebody found the original leaked document online so I could read it for myself.

Fun toying with the government, but at the expense of the kid? If they're trying to prove a point, why not change their own names?

nice video...but geeze, getting old seems kind of sucky. no offense to the old folks there--just an observation.

Haven't they fought crime in the past pretty successfully without this? We should just ask if it's actually necessary...that is necessary for the stated purposes. Beyond those, I'm sure there's plenty of applications that they can use this for...

I also tried watching Smash Lab, but it was unbearable. It seems pretty pointless. The things they're "testing" are not things the people don't know about. They're not discovering anything new, they're just taking cars and crashing them to retest things we already know. That's what makes Mythbusters cool, they're testing things that I've wanted to test myself but don't have the resources and things that haven't been tested. It's annoying when they get caught up in just getting a big explosion on mythbusters, or lack the scientific accuracy they really need, or test things that are already proven...which seems like exactly what Smashlab is all about.

Plus, Discovery was running that commercial nonstop for the past few weeks.

Did any of you stop to look up the posters for hostel or saw? They show decapitated heads and severed limbs, but no actual people being tortured. The MPAA didn't say the movie can't be released, it just said the poster that would be put on theater walls and billboards and on internet sites, the one depicting torture, couldn't (shouldn't) be shown.

There's nothing political going on here. In my opinion, movies like saw and hostel are terrible, both in general and for society, and shouldn't be made. A documentary like Taxi to the Darkside I guess serves a purpose, but I still won't want to see it.

At least the Honda Cog commercial was a real rub goldberg device. This was more of a long line of dominoes and then other objects knocking each other over. Plus, the absence of a single continuous shot is dubious.

I don't understand. Was the download DRM or crippled in some way? Or was it just a fully functional audio file? If it was the latter, this is still a very good thing. It doesn't mean they reamed the trust of their fans. They still let fans pay what they want for the music. They still attempted a very new system and could perhaps be the launching board for a much better way of experiencing music.

Hmm, not that funny.