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Sorry... Had to.

But Bill has always been like this. You just don't see him do this unless it's on-air--and then it makes good ratings for him.

I know that people are going to get up in arms about the ultrasonic 'laughs' are actually 'screams of terror' and not even watch the part where the rat actively searched out the researchers hand afterwards--but not to bite him, and the rat wasn't cowering in the corner.

I will give them one point though: animals are smarter than we give them credit for.

Good thing I don't download music. Streaming Internet radio is so much more easy and legal.

I say, as I type on a portable computer that weighs less than 3lbs, connected wirelessly to a router that can transmit hundreds of bits per second, that is connected to a DSL modem, which is also connected to a telephone line that runs down to the CO office of my phone company--through the digital switching equipment, out to the thousands of routers on the Internet, then back down to a computer somewhere out there in cyberspace to be processed by a CPU...

All of them with millions of transistors silently switching away...

Thank you, Mr. Sparks. Your tiny (in physical size) contribution to the world has made an unparalleled change in it--forever.

These have been around forever. They work wonders--when they work at all.

Oh, and the cut to your SIM is not anywhere near the circuitry. The only electronics in your SIM is under the gold contacts. Everywhere else it is just plastic.

Just snip off the last 2mm of the card, and slip the shim and the SIM back into your new phone. Done.

Dealextreme.com has these too, and they all work just about the same.

@Rob: They are fairly easy to make.

All tube-meats (Frankfurters, hot-dogs, bologna, 'wursts) are basically pureed down to a almost-liquid state. Then they are injected into a tube/casing which may or may not be removed at the factory before shipping to retail outlets.

Normally they are extruded through a single die--a circle, square, whatever--and then packaged. However, when you want a design...

Simply color some parts of the meat darker pink/red with food coloring. Then, in a process that is not unlike the stripes in toothpaste, simply allow the colored parts to be injected in the proper places inside the meat that is travelling out of the machine via a mold that looks like the outline of the picture.

Ship your laptop ahead of you before you get there. Done.

"The mark of a good engineer is a simple solution."

Umbrellas could so use a nice infusion of carbon-fiber. Imagine an umbrella that was 1/3 of the weight of a normal umbrella--and would lift you off the ground before it would flip inside out.

Now that's an umbrella I would spend $200 on.

Another great has been taken from us.

'tis a sad day indeed. I think I am going to go out and smell the sound of cars honking for a while. Then go and taste green for a bit.

Santa's Knee: Now THAT'S funny!

Those look like Mousetrap hands... Best. Use. Ever.

Yeah, I have to agree with Ployntabs--no particular starlet sticks out from the others.

At least the girls from Death Proof were stacked.

@dmonbot: Buy a PSP and put a CFW on it. Play all the GBA games you want on a nice big screen, with perfect ergonomics for long play sessions.

Best investment I ever made.

Wow. Each and every day we become more and more like sheep being led by dumb Shepard's off a cliff while they are saying, "Think of the children!".

Yes. Indeed. Think of the children, and how we are raising a nation of sissies and wimps.

Our children's immune systems are becoming so weak because we sanitize everything they touch--so they get sick more often, and with much more symptoms.

We over prescribe medications to make our children sit down and behave in class--when all they would need is to go outside and burn off that energy and they would sit still and learn.

We teach them that if someone is threatening you, that you put your safety in the hands of others--when the problem could be solved easily by protecting yourself and not letting you become the victim of people who want to take things.

With each passing day, I am less and less proud to be an American. No longer does this country stand for what it once did. Now we are the bully forcing kids to play by our rules--but we are 3rd graders taking on 12th graders. The world has been around for a lot longer than America has. And they don't like a new kid coming in and telling them what to do.

We need to just stop, come back home, and secure the home first. Stop sending jobs overseas, stop giving cuts to the rich, and stop coddling the weak and stupid.

Just. Stop. The. Stupid.