This reminds me of the Global Tetrahedron Penguin bouncing around and tooting a horn in front of the anchor in the new Onion movie.

I kept thinking "terror" during the chorus. They are out to murder the poor gigabyte.

oooh. and It's also playing at the moolah theatre in st. louis on the weekend after next? they haven't posted show times yet but I did see it on the moolah midnight brew and view schedule the last time I was there.

@ #37 SPAZZM:
In a word. No. St. Louis has no anti-corruption task force. There are laws and regulations but it's upon the police to enforce these. So good luck getting any police in this city charged with any crime. It makes for a semi-lawless state. Which is in the best interest for many power holders and gangsters in this town.

@ #7 KURTMAC:
Pretty much. From what I gather it's essentially a trial period to see if the added cost to the budget for this "program" is worth it. You know. The whole putting a price tag on lives game.

@ #9 BUDDY66:
The "initiative" has had no sort of publicity other than a low profile article on local news websites. I live just five blocks away from what is arguably the worst neighborhood in south St. Louis. I haven't noticed any change in the police activity in the area. And I regularly drive through this area during the "golden hours" of 1-3AM.
Conversely, I did talk to someone the other day who lives in the heart of the minno-mob territory (being minnesota ave. between miami and gravois) saying they witnessed a shooting last friday night just one house up from hers and she called the police and they arrived in about five minutes. Which is very impressive for around here. So I think they are simply increasing the number of officers patrolling these trouble areas. But when asked for a description of the shooter she was kind of stuck. Most of the thug kids (usually ages 12-20) in the area have all conformed to a sort of uniform of a white tall tee and jeans or khakis. However another close friend of mine who lives just ten blocks south of this area witnessed a kid shoot six rounds into a crowd of other kids sitting on their porch (drinking and smoking. which is a practice I regularly partake in at various places around the south side) and called the police and no officers showed up at all. Probably since no one was killed and/or it wasn't in their focus area.

AND

@ #13 DOUG NELSON:
For the degradation of our neighborhoods we can blame our aldermen and I guess ourselves. My alderman Craig Schmitt, who has his heart in the right place, has done nothing but hurt our ward. With various sanctions and requirements for opening late night businesses. Granted you open a bar and you will get a few drunken stragglers on the street but you also get people on the street after 9 PM!!! And a mass amount people on the street at night is more eyes and less crime. Just some of his imposed requirements for opening a bar/club in the ward is having 30-40 percent of your income come from food sales as well as requiring to offer in upwards of 70% off street parking based upon your occupancy rating. For this to happen most of the existing properties would have to buy the adjacent property and tear it down for a parking lot. Oh, and don't get me started on how he tried to get all businesses serving alcohol to put up cameras with direct web access granted solely to Mr. Schmitt. Things like this simply cause anyone wanting to open a business in this area to look elsewhere.
Oh, and I agree about the A.B. buyout. Granted they won't immediately shut down the iconic south city factory, but it is a 156 year old complex and per area capita I would assume the most costly to run. After a buyout by InBev, I'd give it at most 10-15 years before the close it down.

Being a St. Louis resident, I'm not surprised by this. The cops here do what they want and get away with a lot more. If they actually did their job I would be less pissed by this. In other STL police news, the police chief launched an anti-homicide initiative last tuesday. And on thursday stated that there had been no homicides since the launch. WHOO! Two whole days!
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=150105

With the conveniently place handle on top, you could use it for doing curls. Beef up those biceps.

But yeah. More realistically I agree with the media center idea(s).
And I dunno if you have an iPhone, but you could use the new remote app with iTunes. If not Salling Clicker works on most phones and is a very nice remote app.
http://www.salling.com/Clicker/

or maybe just run moodstream
http://moodstream.gettyimages.com/

or neave TV
http://www.neave.com/television/

I also really like the guestbook idea.

I've been trying to leave this whole topic alone but jeeze louise!

Personal qualms are PERSONAL. and (as said before #18) this AIN'T BBC. Leave it alone.

I used to have a 1990 BMW 325is which was my first encounter of a touch interface in a car. And I think at the time BMW used a responsible amount of discretion in their implementation. The only thing that was controlled was the bass/treble/fader levels of the radio on a simple one-way slider. But for 1990 it was an impressive techno add-on to the car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_E30

I was also an addict of these pens. my high school at the time had a bookstore where each year we all had a $100 credit. most of my credit went towards these pens. I was a fan of suctioning the cap to my tongue to entertain myself during class.

however my first gadget was an apple //e. this was actually a family gadget but I put it to the most use and still have it set up in a side room of my flat. about a year later my father received a modem (of the type I can't recall) from the hospital he worked at, we had to set the telephone receiver on top of it to connect to message boards and text databases.

aaaand I remember my first gadget fixation was another gift to my father from the hospital. a motorola pager. roughly the size of a marathon baton that simply beeped and he would have to call a number and get the message from a REAL LIVE operator. needless to say, I used to love paging my dad!

Neither steam powered or punk rock. hmmm. But very pretty regardless.

I've had similar growths in my armpits. they are simply (I'm guessing) cancerous cells. Not the bad kind of cancer, just the kind where a cell or group of cells for one reason or another just keep reproducing and building on top of one another. I had the two in my armpits (both in the same location on each pit) burned off. after about a year they returned. if they are causing you problems you can get them cauterized off. if you do that, I'd be interested to see if they do grow back to see if indeed it is a similar skin growth.

not to be a no-it-all douche. but this one is about a year and a half ago.

yeah, I had to hold my tongue on that one.

That is SOOO METAL!!!

I can't wait to make a suit of armor out of this stuff for when why deathmetal band plays out.

darg... I guess no image posts.
well here ya go anyway.

http://dontclickitdude.com/gtaiv001.jpg

@ #7

I think the blueray helps with that decision.

and just to throw this one out...

@ BUCKTOWNYAT.

I wondered this a while ago. turns out the bluetooth device built into the iPhone only supports simple devices like headsets with a single button input. seems kinda dumb that a device can take a command like 'answer the phone' but not multiple key inputs...
and why we haven't seen BT headsets for music listening???

looks like one of those cheap chinese rip-offs of an apple product.

I'll be surprised if they sell a single one of these.

@ #1: reminds me of this post from last october.

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/12/carmen-sandiego-foun.html

this latest one maybe from "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego". Maybe from when she traveled to the 30's...

many ups to # 28...

however,
I think it was obamas' preemptive move on his race for the white house and securing american jobs...

Don't forget pimped poop. A lovely collection of dressed up dog poo from the Sprinkle Brigade.
http://sprinklebrigade.com/

I had this problem start yesterday (when I got a PS3 with wireless controllers).

I had to change the broadcast channel on my router from automatic to a set channel (9 in my case). It seems the macbook pros are real bad with interference. I don't know what to tell you while on a public wi-fi network.

not to be a know it all but they've been running with this ad campaign for a while now.

Link to history

I remember seeing similar ads about 10 or 15 years ago on sunday television here in St. Louis.

Nice! Multi-Touch Goatse!!!

Hey, Xeni, Cory, Mark, David, John, Joel...

I don't know where to post this exactly, but especially to Xeni (as in your past posts of iPhonity), a small request. when you post the direct link to the boing boing tv episode, can you encode it in a iPhone/iPod touch friendly format.

I'm usually on the go and like to catch up with all the FACE news.
Thanks for your time and keep on keepin' on!

-Peetr

"Wait, so on top of the $60-$100 data plan, you have to pay an additional $20 to do IMs? Thanks, AT&T."

no, the iphone data plan is $20. unlimited data plus 200 sms messages (you can upgrade for more txts' for a nominal fee). for other phones on AT$T the data plans start at $35... not unlimited.

I'm waiting for the ichat app. there are other IM apps around but I'd rather not sign up with aol or mebo or what have you...