This is awesome! I wonder if they are or would be interested in working with Child's Play on this? It would be fantastic to get all the 360s Child's Play has already gotten into Hospitals on that same special Live network!

Not to harsh your buzz, but it's "mallow."

...that is deeply absurd.

I mean, a Civic is next to useless for drifting! They're FWD! But he's got smoke coming from the rear tires! Can we get a little realism, here?

I love my Gorillapod SLR. The one here is the version for compact cameras, but if that's the kind of camera you have, I highly recommend the product!

I found this amusing, and I don't play WoW or own a (functional) Tivo.

Also: "Spong" is just so delightfully onomatopoeic!

Say it with a really loooong "ah" sound. Spoooooong!

Other people's priorites may differ from mine, but I consider this a major selling point.

The solution to that is to not run in the freaking street...

Personally, I'd prefer this to Elliot's project, as A) it's likely to be an actual product I can buy somewhere, and B) much of the music I listen to would not be stretch-friendly.

...yogurt maker?

Really?

This is something for which the market is not vanishingly small?

...really?

This was my first PC, and we got the Imagewriter (2, maybe? Not sure) at the same time. I was the first person in most of my teacher's classes who could turn in papers in different fonts. It was absurdly easy to game the system by setting line spacing to 2.2 or whatever.

It was a great machine, and still worked like a champ last time I fired it up in the mid 90s.

If this is not used 95% of the time for campfire-side frozen margaritas, I'd be stunned.

I also may just have to buy one...

Er...so far as I know, Nanos prior to third-gen had no video playback capabilities. I know for certain that's the case for first-gen, at any rate.

Sweet! I totally had the 6085 set, among other castle sets in the same period. I built some really ridiculously ornate fortresses in those years...

I've been idly wanting new skillets for a while now, and was recently extolling the virtues of cast iron to a friend of mine...I'll keep one set and give him the other. Thanks again, Joel!

I *definitely* need several of these...

I was singing and bobbing my head, Strider. It's hard not to.

You can buy the Orange Box soundtrack (or just this song) from Amazon's MP3 download store, and I had to go fire up the original as soon as I was done listening to this version.

If you need to carry a man purse around? You're probably trying to carry too much crap. Simplify!

Dude! It's the Espresso-Fucker!

Thanks for the headsup, DEPATTY!

(Am I the only one annoyed by the All-Caps-ing of our handles on here?)

Andy, if you read this, we (the Internet) cry out for more Yellowtext ! Why hast thou forsaken us?

Seriously, though. Andy is a hoot to read, and a pretty decent photographer, too.

Not only was Mario a carpenter, he wasn't "Mario." He was just Jumpman.

I've been wondering the same thing as Gadfly. Saying that Amazon is uncapable of being sane whenever the product is a download is just unfair. Hell, even before they opened their Downloadable MP3 store, they've offered hundreds (thousands, maybe?) of free downloads in DRM MP3 format for years, now. Yeah, sure, 99% of them weren't worth keeping, but I've picked up some great songs that way!

Skwid was my first handle. In places where it's insufficiently unique (or the atmosphere just seems to demand it), it expands to "Great Gray Skwid." It's lasted almost 13 years, and I don't expect it to change any time soon.

Thanks for the pointer to the Bumblebee speaker! It's the perfect gift for a friend of mine and I never would have thought of it on my own.

For great justice!

She also appears in this month's Playboy's annual "Women of Video Games" pictorial.

They may not be terrorists, Meerkat, but it's harder to deny that they're troll-ish assholes.

So I guess the Japanese (or whomever our translator here, is) mean something different by the word "buzzword" than we do, or at least I do. To me, a buzzword is something like synergize or multimedia...a word that might have once had a functional meaning, but has been exaggerated through popularity and overuse into a general purpose word used to enhance the "buzz-factor" (itself a buzzword) of something.

These might better be called catch phrases or even cultural keywords...

Clearly this is what you wear to carry gear when you're dressed in your C3-PO costume...

I think the phrase you're looking for is are bristling with nipples. HTH, HAND!

It appears to be time related. Only very recent articles that I favorite are showing up on my profile. Perhaps dating from the time of the most recent fix?

Hrrm...except, now, I just tried favoriting this one, and there it is in my profile! I'll go try some others.

Likewise. Not even one of the articles I've favorited show up on my profile.

No problems with the preview, although while we're picking nits...it would be useful if the listing of my comments on my profile page were sorted chronologically or so...

Why do octopi get all the art & toy glory? You can find octopus stuff everywhere, but squid stuff...much more rare! Is it just that an octopus head looks a bit more humanoid than a squid's? Is it the extra two arms?

*sigh*

Like Scrubb, they don't seem to be appearing in my profile when I click on the "Favorites" link.

While I'm poking at issues...the "BoingBoing Gadgets the latest" header link in the sidebar points at whatever the current URL is, not BBG.

I'm pretty sure that if you're trying to breathe liquid oxygen you've got more immediate problems than decision-making.

Man, sometimes you just know you're going to see a story again in News of the Weird...this is definitely one of those times.

I met a lovely young lady at a Burn event recently who, upon my introducing myself as Skwid, immediately began removing her pants. This being a somewhat more enthusiastic response than usual, I was surprised, but she just wanted to show me the large and impressively detailed tattoo of "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" she had on her hip.

Recognizing the source material earned me bonus points!

*sigh*

I'd never make it as a torturer. My first thought was "Oh, man! They baked cookies and ate them in front of him, that incredible scent filling the air, and didn't let him have any, didn't they? Heartless bastards!"

Maybe Leno just got confused?

Ah, Automan! Perennial also-ran in 80s "do you remember?" show discussions, alongside Misfits of Science, Friday the 13th, and the Punky Brewster cartoon. Me, I loved the show, and remember it fondly. I think we need a DVD release, m'self.

Thank you for destroying whatever productivity I might have had this afternoon.

Yeah, yeah...the torch makes a decent lightsaber substitute... The obvious unanswered question, here, is "How are these things for dancing?"

I just dunno, man...this is kind of freakin' me out! What's next? The rebirth of SCO as a company with a product?

Ah...perhaps "legendary" would be a better choice, then? Mythical implies an inability to prove via direct evidence...legendary equates to little more than well known and well aged.

What pisses me off more than anything are the HDMI and DVI cables that Monster and several others sell for obscene markups. Cables carrying a digital signal need only minimally carry the signal! If they accomplish that modest goal, then there can be no possible improvement via the fancy material components that typically are used to justify the markup.

Makes me spitting mad.

I've been using this chart to guide my reading (and in my Discworld reviews) for years now...a very useful tool for interested Fantasy readers, indeed.

Wow...sign me up next to BluePez, I want one!

"they needed to subscribe to HD programming to watch HDTV"

Except for the many millions of people who are within range of OTA HD broadcasts...

"you need a special HD compatible cable to experience HD programming"

Yes, the coax from my antenna to my TV is super special... 8-/

For that matter, component and VGA cables are perfectly capable of carrying 1080p resolution, and I wouldn't call either particularly special.

Like Pork Musket, I never had the problem, but I'm glad to know it's fixed. I wonder if it's because I first registered over here, and most people probably did it the other way around?

Surely the artist of those shoes put Achilles on the heel? No? What a tragic waste!

I was interested in the Ubuntu article...but there is a limit to how many pages I will click through to read a story, and this easily surpassed it. Bleh.

I wonder if what this really indicates is that the often cited "advantage" men seem to hold on average in visuo-spatial activities is simple conditioning, rather than the sort of biological predisposition that is usually offered as explanation?

Interesting study...

Is this news again? I'm pretty sure this proposal is several years old. Did Saez acquire more funding, or something?

I was more amused by the incongruity than suffering from any indignation, I'd say. Conjuring images of a military application of this is humorous, don't you think?

Anyway, "Weapons" seems like it would be a perfectly reasonable gadget category, to me.

Military? Really?

That the demand for ivory had such terrible consequences is undeniably tragic, but it seems a bizarre turn of phrase to say that it is unfortunate that these items were crafted from it! Sad though its procurement might be, as DOGU4 says above, it's a uniquely beautiful substance, and articles made from it should be treasured in no small part because we will likely not see their like made again, and because (in the informed) they can inspire thoughtful reflection on environmental preservation and scarcity.

I WIN AGAIN LEWS^WJOEL JOHNSON.

If you're going to embark on that project, Joel, you might consider just skipping the first season. I don't think you'd have too much trouble jumping right into the 2nd, and that's when the goodness really starts.

Hmm...I dunno, there are very few references for "Irony, they name is..."

Informative! I'll be picking up Vault Zero more often, for sure.

Voyager was, in every way, the worst Star Trek series. Terrible writing, terrible acting, and entire seasons of 2-dimensional characters speaking nothing but technobabble.

Enterprise sucked for the first season, sure, but after that they reintroduced to Trek the concepts of characters that can grow and change, storylines that directly address topical issues and ethical quandries, and multi-episode story arcs that weren't deeply lame and resolved by inverting the polarity of the particle field of the week.

I still maintain that Enterprise is the only show that was doomed based almost entirely on the cringe-worthy shittiness of its theme song.

That is the most awesome thing in all the history of awesomeness.

What Coaxial said. I'm certain I've heard a variant of this story from Clark during his candidacy...maybe before.