@7 You know, I saw the first cover and thought "Frank Miller" because of the shadows and ink lines on the clothing. Yay for the new cover, yay for the bestsellingness, and yay for pixel-stained technopeasantry!

On the bike, I get at least 53 miles per burrito. Let's see Toyota top that!

I must be exceedingly lame, 'cause I can't find the server, either.

I hope his thumbs hold up. Twenty-five hours is a *lot* of button mashing.

You know, I'd love to donate, but I'd also like to know what the story is. Or might be. Or something. Could we get just a little more of a hint than that it's "about questioning what society expects of you and what we accept as normal"?

I think we're all missing the most important point here: that Pinkberry is overpriced crap not worth getting worked up over in the first place.

I just like the title "Rogue Archivist." Do his business cards have some kind of skull-and-crossbones-Dewey-Decimal mashed up logo?

And, just to get meta, a bunch of MeFi users recreated these shots in this Flickr pool, though without the Hires.

Mark, that link takes you to the About page. The Donkey Kong story lives here.

Cool story, thanks!

Hey, I got caged, too! Flying from JFK to LAX last December. The best part was seeing the elderly, wheelchair-bound man who was caged with me have to *get up* from his chair so he could be frisked.

The TSA is in serious need of a nut punch.

When does Merlin Mann get his MacArthur Genius Grant?

Seriously, guys...Cloverfield's out, you can knock off the viral campaigning.

No, JJ Abrams directed it. Here.

Wow.

That was one of the weirdest things I've seen on screen. I now have Carol Channing singing the theme song stuck in my head.

I got my Tivo set for this. Can we have a follow-up thread for post-film discussion?

I enjoyed these photos...

Me, too. If by "enjoyed" you meant "was turned into a quivering, fetal mass in the corner." Eesh.

"Read my scripture!"

(Transmet fans will know what I mean.)

When my wife and I got engaged, her Great-Aunt Pinky (her real name was Juanita, but she had red hair and the nickname stuck) started making us a quilt. Pinky died about four months before we got married, so her daughter finished the quilt and gave it to us on our wedding day.

It is a beautiful thing and incredibly comfy.

Better that than the Farked Noodles.

Sounds like the ruler of the Universe at the end of "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe."

I agree, ringmod76. The TSA seems like half its staff are indifferent, and the other half are busy covering the agency's ass. Glad I only have two more flights to make this year, and then I'm done until January 2009.

This is very, very cool. As this controller becomes more refined and starts incorporating more SL commands (thought-controlled object construction? Sweet!), this is going to make virtual worlds that much more powerful as a storytelling/meeting/prototyping medium. And as virtual worlds start adding more gestural controls, this rig will live up to the promise of "Snow Crash."

I just hope they can filter out user frustration when the grid crashes.

...for she is, in some sense, both Canadian and a science fiction writer...

Yeah, I'm still trying to figure out how being born to British parents in Persia, growing up in Rhodesia, getting educated in England, moving back to Rhodesia then settling in London translates into being Canadian in any sense. I mean, yay for the Commonwealth and all, but, dude.

And Josh Michtom @7 wins!

A nun and a Muslim walk into a security line...

This picture needs a Lubavitcher, just for completeness's sake.

And it's Rob Cockerham @29 for the the thread win!

Dan must have thought-stealing powers, because I was thinking the same thing.