"I read something in the paper this morning (here in Toronto) that said over 1000 people applied for asylum in Canada, from the USA."

Ooooh, a whole thousand. And I bet none of them was Alec Baldwin.

Is Scientific American going the way of New Scientist now?

#40,
Is that the rollseyes at the fact that a few of our enemies may actually use Macs,
or the rollseyes at the fact that some Apple fanboys actually think that Macs are impenetrable,
or the rollseyes that they're not really our enemies, or what? I didn't get the memo.

Re #27
1. They're not raspberry flavored, I'm pretty sure.
2. This ain't Slashdot, I'm positive.

When I got to the Hillary for President node the options included "Expand 666 nodes"! (of course)

Yeah, because gun control works so well, right?

Why exactly are people calling that a "dress"?

FYI: Immersion gold plating on PCBs is not intended for contacts, but for a solderability preserving finish. If you pop these cards in and out a bunch of times don't expect that gold to hold up. By its nature it can only be a few microinches thick, at most. But for the purpose here, it's probably adequate.

#1,
I didn't know "the honor system" was so well defined. They didn't say "no rules", you did. You do realize that rules are not inherently bad things, I hope.

So, is the wood volume control knob a $1000 optional extra?

So John Cage's famous piece was 1:51 too long?! That's gotta be it.

I would like to purchase a license for my pet camera, Eric. And also one for Eric the fruit bat.

[pedantic sarcasm]
If you have to have a license to own a television in the UK, why not one for a camera? They're both receiving electromagnetic radiation, just at much different wavelengths.
[end pedantic sarcasm]

It must be repeated...it was a joke.

#15: Well, it certainly makes you wonder.

1. I doubt it would work, but I'd rather have a jar of water on my lawn than one pile (or many piles) of dog poop.

2. I did see in an article about malaria a picture of a bag of cow's blood that was just covered with feeding mosquitoes. Not sure what the bag was made of but I suspect it resembled skin more than a Zip-Loc bag.

3. We recently have had to put a piece of aluminum foil on our bedroom window and keep the blind shut in order to deter some robins from repeatedly bashing into the window. It has worked.

"Oregon claims copyright over the typesetting and numbering of the laws rather than the actual text of the laws themselves."

So the simple solution is to use a scanner and OCR software and change the typesetting?

The numbering? How can I say "You're in violation of ORS 3.11.2a Paragraph305" or whatever without using the numbering?

Oregon is often just silly.

1952? It was legal to sell opium in the US in 1952? I had no idea.

The 9/11 Pentagon attack was no less "egregious" than the WTC attacks. The airline passengers who died horrible, fiery deaths were not military personnel.

#16, Apreche,
Yes, Christians are monotheists, but if you are worshipping Baal, or money, or any other false god, you're not (really) worshipping God, and He doesn't like that. Like it says, You can serve God or you can serve Mammon (but not both]. He requires an exclusive relationship when it comes to worship.

Of course it's Bush's fault. Isn't most everything bad Bush's fault?

try
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/bolero.html
instead

Bolero: Ugh. Terrible horn part, except for the bit where horn and piccolo do a cool simulation of a high pipe organ playing the melody. Ravel definitely knew how to orchestrate.

"Glad to see people can be racist against their own race."

I take it you're not familiar with Affirmative Action?

It's my favorite movie of all time. Partly cuz the special effects were awesome for 1968, still are good, partly cuz the music is the best.

What's this one? Ham? I think that's what it's supposed to be anyway.

JS7A: Impressive, but not going to take down an airliner. Go ahead and stick it up your butt if you want, but you won't get far.

OT9,
I think you're right. The logo doesn't follow the contour of the hair. Photoshop or GIMP did it, not a focused-ion beam.

#24,
Oxygen (the result of peroxide decomposition) is not THAT poisonous - certainly diluted by all the air on the plane it would not be a problem. Now if you got HCN onto the plane - that could be a problem.

Same here, Chromal, but I understand that may not be enough with some dogs. Don't think I'd try biting though. Humans can use tools though.

#8 and #15,
Alaska Airlines bought me lunch (OK, a $6 voucher) when a recent flight was delayed about 2-3 hours and gave me a certificate for $25 off or 1000 frequent flier miles.

I don't think the point is to stop drinking water. But it is reasonable to question the "everyone must drink 64 ounces of water every day" rule. How was it determined? Basically it was just made up without supporting evidence.

I don't see how this is an anti-abortion tactic as some seem to think it is. Getting the info out about abortion should not make it more likely that abortions will be done.

I flew Air Canada once to Vancouver from Portland. I got delayed in the Vancouver Airport due to some terrorist threat, IIRC, but otherwise it was an unremarkable experience.
In a few weeks I will fly a long trip on Lufthansa, and I expect the service to be much better - it better be for $2000 a ticket.

JS7A: 100g of potassium is not going to be able to significantly damage an airplane. It gets pretty fizzy and generates some hydrogen, but 100g K = 2.56 mol, which means 1.28 mol H2 generated. (That's about 8.3 gallons at ordinary pressure and room temperature). When H2 burns to form water vapor, 235kJ/mol are released, so in this case 300kJ are released. If you could trap all the H2 and combust it all it once, it could be significant, but you can't - it doesn't combust fast enough - and you're much more likely to just end up with some nasty chemical and thermal burns in your rectum if your condom breaks, a bad case of gas, and to be body cavity-searched when that 100g of METAL sets off the metal detector in airport security.
BTW, 100g of potassium, a low density metal, would occupy 112 mL, a fairly large plug to put in your rectum. I wouldn't recommend it.

20 years is not even one complete sunspot cycle, as others have alluded to. Not enough data.

8F is a lot, but no one, and I believe that's really NO one that actually knows anything about it (Ted Turner obviously excluded), is saying that the global average temperature is going to increase by anywhere near 8F, much less 8C, in as short a time as 30 or 40 years, or even 100 years, are they?

No comments about whether or not BoingBoing erred in posting those instuctions?

#23 Noen - citation please?

Congratulations, Mr. Hofstadter, on your remarkable insight. [sarcasm]

Ugh. Food comes from farmers, not from "ideation teams".
I do have that book, though. Never read all of it... maybe someday... I did enjoy the section on ice cream.

Please note that the US only recently ratified the Hague Convention and it is not yet in effect although adoption agencies have been working to meet its requirements in advance.

Only those adoption service providers who have been accredited, temporarily accredited, or approved by either COA or CO will be able to provide adoption services for Hague adoption cases after the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption enters into force for the United States on April 1, 2008

If you plan to adopt from overseas, make sure the country and agency you choose comply with the treaty.

What about the Tisch1017 post is suspect? Most of it is questions. As for the phrase "Director of an orphanage", I would imagine that anyone who has adopted a child from a orphanage would use such a term.
I don't doubt that child trafficking occurs in the world, but it depends on the country and the adoption agency. The Hague Convention provides a measure of protection for the children involved in intercountry adoption and the State Department *does* have a warning on its site about Guatemala. That does not mean that all countries are in the same boat.

Guatemala Status of Intercountry Adoptions and the Hague Convention

June 13, 2007

The U.S. Department of State continues to caution American prospective adoptive parents contemplating adopting children from Guatemala that the U.S. Government cannot recommend adoption from Guatemala at this time because of the ongoing problems in Guatemala’s intercountry adoption process. Although U.S. consular officers currently continue to process adoption immigrant visa cases, each case is now subject to greater scrutiny than in the past and the process may be slower as a result.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) office in Guatemala is taking up to 60 days to review initial documents and up to four business days to review final adoption documents. Please see their notice to the public. The consular section of the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala will generally issue appointment letters the day after USCIS completes its review of the final adoption documents.

If it looks like I am a propagandist, it is only because I am currently adopting from overseas and so am somewhat familiar with the process.

They really don't look like they were *worn*, especially the 'n' key. It looks more like an acute trauma, to use a medical analogy (how appropriate!) like heat or solvent damage. pH doesn't really explain it either. To damage plastic typically you need a very high pH. Not something found on human skin. Metal corrosion, OK, polymer degradation, not so much. As for acetone in fingernail polish - yeah, but only if she used the keyboard before the stuff dried.
Finally, if the 'n' and 'm' keys look like that, then what do the 'e', 't', 'a', (all more frequently used than 'n' and 'm') and space bar look like??

Pipenta,
how does being against killing unborn babies support the assertion that one is an "asshat"?

Bob,
So it's really a *homicidal* robot?

I'd say a gun with a remote-controlled, timed mechanical device to operate the trigger does not constitute a "robot". I could be wrong.

Might be true and all, but you don't say it to someone who's lost their children in a fire.

"Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Not exactly an apropos quote. Guess it should be "Better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you an asshole..." in this case.

Noted.

Archimedes tells me that FNARF is an ID10T.

Pretty wealthy as well as happy eccentric. That's a big house for Japan.

They "blew the box up"!?
It looks like one edge was torn part ways down.
They're hyper-competent, those Ft. Wayne bomb squad guys!
Or is that just the fancy evidence container, a used cardboard box?

They "blew the box up"!?
It looks like one edge was torn part ways down.
They're hyper-competent, those Ft. Wayne bomb squad guys!
Or is that just the fancy evidence container, a used cardboard box?

Who cares whether one says LEGO or LEGOS? It's a made up word for freekin toys! Get a life.

Hmmm...he was a smoker. Do you suppose that's what did him in?

Thank you #11!
Anti-social criminals, not "pranksters". It can only encourage such behavior to call it other than what it is.

Because burning wood is so much cleaner than burning oil! And it gets rid of those pesky pollution-emitting trees!

Nearby property values also decline. Darn unintended consequences, again.

Yeah, maybe the UK should do that. Doubt they're going to put a foreigner on a US stamp.

I wonder how many people who use the phrase "drink/drank the Kool-Aid" know where it came from. I remember when it happened.

I wonder how many people who use the phrase "drink/drank the Kool-Aid" know where it came from. I remember when it happened.

So, Mark, your first name and your brother's middle name are the same? Or you both have the same middle name and you go by your middle name? Either way, it seems odd to me. I don't know why.

I prefer real onions, thank you very much.

What Savaqagela said!
Boooo!

a healthy mind would look at this image and not be certain what it depicted?

hogwash.
it's a guy riding a horse up a hill, like the president said. as for the rider's character, that's another story.
looking at this image and not being certain what it depicts, when it is basically a photorealistic painting of an outdoor scene, strikes me as the response of a schizophrenic, not a healthy mind.

"Ethiopian" came from a Greek word that means "burnt", as people thought African skin looked like it was burnt.

Maybe it's part of the economic stimulus package: it'll stimulate RFID companies?

Can't see the videos anymore. Bummer.

Warren,
perhaps you don't understand: this script doesn't do anything for "all of us". It works only for those who install it.
And I don't think it's Mark's script - it's from the person called "Crash".

Anne Marie Helmenstine on her Chemistry blog (chemistry.about.com) mentions trying this after seeing a report of someone doing at Make (http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/01/how_to_make_fireballs.html).
She mentions it's important to use cotton as it doesn't melt and burn you like polyester or nylon could.
I'm not gonna try it myself. I don't like getting burned.

She doesn't look all that happy either. Maybe she realized just then that the cake looks better than she does.