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Would you go to a restaurant and have the courses served in random order? Or have all of the food churned into one bowl?

Actually, my favorite type of dinner is sushi buffet where I pick the food and the order in which it's presented. Maybe thats just my debased tastes, though.

Yeah, I loved it man. Insightful, that.

Actually I thought it was a merman at first, with an extra leg.

What the hell is this post about? Is it a ceo popularity contest? Who gives a rats ass?

Yep, thats a horsey all right. That rat trap one IS creepy though.

Why does that look like someone's toy horsey thats been drawn on and left in the snow? Is that what the article is about? Maybe I'll go and see.

You people are a bunch of music snobs.

"Shuffle-style players pander to debased musical tastes."

Oh well, excuse me! I'm just gonna go take my debased musical tastes over here now. Ever been to a live show? You know, where people sing and dance and play musical instruments? You think they sit down and play the album from start to finish or do you think they play a selection of songs- a set, if you will, which will fill the time alloted for the musician?

Calling the set "an album" is a useless exercise, by the way. Same thing with a dj, I don't go to a show that doesn't least two or three hours and has at least two bands playing. Thats quite a bit different than an album format.

Maybe you people just have no musical imagination or something. Maybe I'll take a swing at you and say you lead sheltered lives where you and all your friends have expensive sound systems and so does your car and you never have to listen to dirty, distorted, randomized noise and just don't have an ear for it.

Maybe you should switch off that overpriced hi-fi of yours and go hit the bar once in a while. Humble yourself once in a while.

American spirit menthols have a minty cache of carbon granules for this very same reason. It doesn't get wet or anything, though.

You just make it sound so dirty.

Where's my lighter?

#178 According to "Iva Biggrudge" the Jews have over one third of the worlds "geniuses" and are god's chosen people.

Myself, I don't remember taking the survey to find out if I'm a genius or not. Nope. Never heard about how the whole world was given an IQ test to see which race was the most superior. Maybe I was sick that day.

I think, Iva, that you still don't get it. You think that you're having a scientific discussion and you point vaguely to some imagined proof, but you are really having a philosophical discussion.

Science can't argue with religion. It just can't. The person arguing for religion can always just say "I don't believe that" and the argument is over. Thats why ID has to stay out of the science classroom.

It's religion, not science, faith not fact.

I forgot this one:

I too have developed an appendage to my gut. Yep, happened around the age of 21 when I began consuming fermented grains.

Take that evos!

Oh yeah, also:

You DEMAND it of creationists. Be willing to provide it.
Put your money (actually, MY stolen tax money) where your big mouth is.

Scientists all over the world work hard all day long to prove things. Thats ALL they do. They don't say "well, I don't know what happened, guess Darwin did it!"

Thats because Darwin isn't a god, there's is no "Church of Darwin'. He was a scientist and scientists are just out there looking for answers. You see, the main difference between you ID folks and scientists is that scientists don't make assumptions. At all. There is not faith involved. If there's no proof that god made this or that, and there is contradictory evidence, then no scientist will believe that god did make this or that.

Thats where the burden of proof comes in. Scientists don't "have faith" in the scientific theory of evolution, and so if you can come up with some kind of proof that god made man, scientists will believe you. The scientists don't have to prove their point, they already have. You have to disprove them.

So, what have you got? And have a blessed day!

Snippet from "Iva Biggrudge" over at the sciam forums:

Are any of you neo-pagan [Jehova's] Witnesses out there? Would you like to fight me as well? Unlike this coward, will you answer my questions, or will you just lurk and insult like this little boy is doing me?

You got a big mouth on you, huh? Seems pretty hateful if you ask me. Kinda like a Nazi.

Dude, beijing is nothing! You should see the whole rest of the country! There are 1.8 billion people in china and ALL of them are Olympics crazy.

I for one hope I never see ads for fox news on this site or I'm going to puke all over the next maker faire. You've got one strike and I can only count to 1.

Got it?

(Zero and one)

#34 Interesting question.

I've use a windows mobile phone to try to post to my wordpress blog before and it was complete crap. In fact, it had a hard time displaying quite a number of web pages because the browser wasn't implemented well at all.

However I chucked that brick at a wall and got an iphone and can post to my blog as much as I please now. It displays web pages no problem! Cookies? Yes! Bank web sites? Yep. But that shitty windows phone, woof. It had all the bells and wistles too. In fact, if the actual phone had linux or android on it, I'd still be using it.

And don't even start talking about trying to get the damn thing to sync with my mac!

Crap!

I'm gonna go ahead and disagree. I see two different shades of grey, I see blue squares and yellow squares, and thats brown and kind of an egg yolk there at the bottom.

I don't believe in optical illusions, now that I know about quantum physics, no matter how many copies of photoshop you throw at me.

hot

is a "t" one teaspoon? Or tablespoon? Or cup and a half. Yea, cup and a half, two cups, sounds just about right.

So can you pass out negative whuffies to people cause you don't like the look of their face? Cause they're black or gay or a woman? How many can you give? One or more than one? Can you bet them? Trade them? Steal them? Perhaps there could be some kind of whuffie black market? What about people that think differently, say those who give negative whuffies for dyed hair and positive whuffies for self mutilation, could they? Whats the point of it all? If i was to go around discriminating against whuffie poor people, could I be punished by having my whuffies taken? Who gets them? Can I give myself whuffies?

If you can buy whuffies with money does it retain it's moralistic base?

Somebody go over the whuffie concept for me, please? I just listened to down and out through the getting a leg up podcast, and I'm still not quite sure. Can you give all your whuffies to someone? Are the units whuffies or is it whuffie as like fish. Is there a moral code that computers run to objectively award whuffies based on definable actions? Why the word whuffie? Why not "morals" as the name of the unit? What does the Bitchun (is that right?) thing have to do with it? Am I supposed to have gotten all this stuff from the book or did I miss a forum somewhere that spells it all out?

I wonder if those types of staircases are building code compliant. I wouldn't bet on it.

Faunoiphilia (FAW-nay-FIL-ee-uh) - An abnormal desire to watch animals copulate.

Quick, someone tell me the word for the normal desire to watch animals copulate.

Is that a big wave crashing through the wall on the right?

Tyj for the Japanese. Though I've seen this before somewhere. Oh yeah, for helping soldiers huge load boxes of bullets to kill people with.

Just a guess, but you fill the nonstick with water then pam the mold.

Oh, ouch, dang, nevermind, thats ufka'd up. Wikipedia'd.

ehem, *cough* whats the significance of "zyklon"? And also, thats gas burning ovens, right?

I was gonna say something snippy, but let me just say that stuff with fire, in my opinion, is not automatically cool.

So which type of batteries are lithium metal, I've never head of that. What about LiPo, which are they? What are a123 batteries made of?

Burn the witch!!

In most places in the us, the cops wouldn't have even stopped them, preferring not to do the paperwork and instead just pointing and laughing.

So is it poop or not?

I know, lets take a boingboing tv field trip to a tannery and find out about their trade?

How many average US families can squeeze into the cab of a pickup? When I say "pickup," btw, I'm referring to a vehicle with two doors and a bench seat. Bucket seats are nice, but if you get up to 4 doors, buddy, you've got a van with a truck bed attached. Pickups are for one or two workmen (and maybe a dog) plus tools and/or materials. Not families.

I smell a rat. The bill in question here is the Higher Education Act Reauthorization which is like 800 pdf pages long. Does anyone out there know who introduced the DRM language into the bill or is someone at cnet holding an anti-democrat bias?

Another superhero based podcast is the "Secret World Chronicle." In it's second season already, this podcast follows a group of heroes as they battle against a group of robotic nazis. It's highly enjoyable.

feed at:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/secretworldchronicle/

Dave x:

There are lots of reasons people like to listen to books rather than read them. I for one listen while I work and I appreciate every chance I get to hear good fiction on my ipod.

You can buy a device that does this same thing except it's the size of a fat ink pen and it's made mostly out of metal with a little bit of plastic for grabbing on to. For finishing trim, I think, or people that shouldn't be nailing stuff in the first place.

Hope there's a box of wetnaps next to the machine...

Also, what about a nice technical pencil lead, I can't find anything in my local shops and it really annoys me.

To me, it seems like this guy wants to sanitize the situation. I don't think that respecting people who lived through katrina means removing them from the harsh envronment in which they were placed. My mother is quietly going insane in a fema trailer as the only inhabitant on her block. The crack heads on the next block were rubbed out with an ak-47 that blew the entire side off their fema trailer and the cops didn't even come out to take a body count until the next day. The guy inside bled to death, even though my mom was on the phone with the cops when the gunmen drove past her. Tell me why a picture of some dude in a generic setting is going to do this tragedy some measure of justice.

"How many gunshots did you hear?"

"Um, it sounded like 'Aht-aht-aht-aht-aht-aht-aht'"

"So, a lot?"