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2010 Jun 30 01:39 (#2614.12763):
Man, blast from the past. I got this e-mail the other day:

Subject: Are you there, Protolinx? It's me, Kingdom of Loathing.

Dear Protolinx,

Okay, I'm not good at this kind of thing, but I feel like I have to give it a try. So, here goes:

I was hanging out the other night, listening to some old mp3s, and I was just overcome with memories of when we used to hang out all the time. Remember? You were an intrepid, fearless adventurer, and I was the free-to-play, fun-and-funny online role-playing game that won your heart. Do you still remember those good times? I can't stop thinking about them.

I mean, I know things got kind of messed up at the end, and believe me, I'm sorry. If I could take any of that back, I totally would. And I know people grow and change, and you're not the same person you were then, but hey -- I've changed, too! I thought and thought about how to win you back. I figured I'd make you a mix CD, but I couldn't decide what "our song" was. So I just concentrated on becoming a better game for you, and here's what I came up with:

Remember how much fun you used to have with your clan? Alternately, remember how you never joined a clan because you didn't see the point? Either way, clans now have clan dungeons, group zones where your whole clan can work together. Crawl through sewers to Hobopolis, a vast underground vagrant vacation vista! Slide into the slime tube, and stir-fry sassy slimes!

I know I wasn't the prettiest game when we were together, so I had some work done. Almost every interface got an interface-lift. You can even manage most of your inventory via chat commands! I also came up with a way for you to automate some of the things you don't love about the game, so you can spend more time with the parts you do love.

Not only that, but there are way more animated .gifs than there were before. Don't worry; I haven't lost that low-fi edginess you love, but I'm a lot easier to play with now.

You can also have a custom title now, just in case you didn't feel like I appreciated what made you unique as an individual.

I should also say
Haiku Dungeon's been revamped.
See what I did there?

Maybe you quit because you got sick of always adventuring above the water. I admit that seems unlikely, but I fixed that, too -- there are a bunch of underwater zones with new food, equipment, mechanics, and challenges.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, trust me. I'm still the silly, clever, deceptively-complex game you fell in love with, only with about 95% more awesome.

So, I'm just sayin', if you can find it in your heart to give me another chance, I won't disappoint you.

If you don't drop by, I promise I won't bother you again. I just really felt like we deserved one more try.

Love,

The Kingdom of Loathing.
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com

Anyone else get random contacts trying to entice them back to KoL?

2010 Jun 08 06:44 (#4209.12761):
I sent out an e-mail with info on how to put your files in the right place. Hopefully you got the e-mail if you had notified Cindy that you were participating this year. If you did not get the e-mail or need any assistance, feel free to contact me.

2010 Apr 07 10:43 (#4206.12746):
Apparently this new version will only be available outside North America. 1 min NPR clarification here. The difference being that Mattel owns rights to Scrabble outside NA and Hasbro owns rights in NA. Mattel is offering new version, Hasbro is not.

2010 Apr 03 10:47 (#4204.12742):
Woo!

2009 Sep 16 05:57 (#4184.12663):
I'm friends with someone who apparently has B#=1. Does that make me B#=2? No idea about E#, though. My best bet would be Parkin or through Erskine somehow.

2009 Aug 26 11:09 (#4152.12635):
I see you copied that link from the AV Club's review of the latest Mad Men episode, anchor and all. Still, it's a pretty cool site.

2009 Aug 17 09:29 (#3850.12630):
John Flansburgh discusses tour riders with Ira Glass on This American Life. If you don't want to listen, he basically says that it's actually a good idea to have some crazy stuff in there you can find right away (like Van Halen asking for M&Ms with all the brown ones removed) because then you'll know if they read the important stuff like having enough power and safety procedures. Or the sobriety of the local crew.

2009 Jul 21 12:48 (#4014.12611):
This American Life now has a page that collects all their episodes relating to the economy, most or all of them done with the people from Planet Money.

2009 Jul 14 05:42 (#4170.12601):
I'm with natedogg and nanocindy on this, although I've only lived in the north (Philly area) for 4 of the last 15 years. I always hear people in the north complain about the snow (my family is from MN/IA) but for all the trips I've made up north for holidays recently (to OH/PA/MN/IA) I haven't seen much snow. I like to believe that I can handle extreme cold a lot better than extreme heat. You can always add more layers, but there's only so much you can take off.

2009 May 20 10:44 (#4151.12554):
The intersection of MoPac & 360 is pretty much a diamond, but stretched apart into a teardrop shape and with an extra ramp on the left from south on MoPac to SE on 360.

The intersection of 360 and 290/71 (and Lamar) looks like the full Y but with Lamar coming in on the side.

The intersection of MoPac and 290/71 is sort of a stacked intersection.

You can always tell how old the Google maps satellite images are by the missing highways. There's a big section of MoPac missing in the image between 290/71 and south of William Cannon Dr.

2009 Apr 23 10:25 (#4144.12536):
That story was also part of an episode of This American Life. The last part of the episode is about the closing of all the Circuit City stores and is pretty good.

2009 Apr 13 09:41 (#4014.12518):
I recently came across another well put together video about the whole credit crisis thing. And there's been another This American Life episode put together by the Planet Money people about banks and how they screwed things up. Also, there was a Wired article about the guy whose equation was used to justify all these crazy financial products.

2009 Mar 31 11:53 (#4134.12502):
A quick survey of users 0-20, I count 6 that are inactive (posted more than a year ago) and 3 that forgot their passwords and have another account now. (Also 2 "default" accounts and 1 admin.) So that's 8 that are still active. Anyone want to check out 20-40?

2009 Mar 19 10:05 (#4125.12451):
No, my second bracket is my (Mostly) Upsets bracket. I just saw in the settings that everyone was allowed 2 brackets and made a second one for myself. Feel free to disregard as it will stay at the bottom of the heap.

2009 Feb 23 04:55 (#3863.12409):
Continuing my trend of posting This American Life stuff, a recent episode had a good intro (the first 6 min) where David Kestenbaum (who I just recently found out has a physics PhD) relates how he and his grad school friends at Harvard applied some Drake equation logic to the probability of finding girlfriends. Results? Not good. Even better was when a single female faculty member joins in and adds her conditions for finding a boyfriend/husband.

2009 Jan 31 01:14 (#3863.12385):
This sounds like a fun book: letters written to Obama by kids - "Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country". This was mentioned on The Inauguration Show, a recent episode of This American Life.

2009 Jan 28 04:44 (#3784.12383):
Hey, Muxtape is back! Well, sort of...

2009 Jan 28 04:42 (#4027.12382):
DTV transition delay shot down in the House. The opposition was led by Joe Barton from TX who apparently invoked bin Laden in his arguments. Has someone come up with a name for the variation on Godwin's Law for bin Laden yet?

2009 Jan 27 07:34 (#3863.12381):
Some preliminary info on this year's Super Bowl ads. Miller is running 1 second ads, complete with hype website. GM smartly decided not to purchase any airtime.

2009 Jan 27 12:40 (#4027.12379):
Is this delay of the DTV transition really going to help anyone? This has been in the works for years now with ad campaigns out the wazoo. There will be craziness no matter when the transition occurs. Why not just stick with the originally set date?

2009 Jan 23 05:00 (#4012.12375):
The first tentative MetroRail schedule is posted on CapMetro's blog. Not too exciting, considering there are no mid-day or late night trains combined with only 7 south/3 north in the morning and 3 south/7 north in the evening. As is pointed out by a (presumably) CapMetro employee, this track still carries freight and they only have 6 trains (for 5 running + 1 backup). They will have free WiFi (as the express buses already do) so I guess we'll just see how many people start using them.

2009 Jan 15 09:30 (#4091.12341):
I may have come across it. You have to know your Steelers history when marrying into Lulou's family.

2009 Jan 07 05:49 (#4041.12317):
A report on the Bush legacy from NPR, with such highlights as "Bring them on.", "Heck of a job.", and "I'm the decider."

2008 Dec 19 10:47 (#3863.12280):
Peter Gabriel covers Vampire Weekend's Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa. Some slight lyric changes - "And it feels so unnatural, to sing your own name."

2008 Dec 16 09:40 (#4073.12248):
Jones Bigass Truck Rental & Storage was featured as one of The Five Most Terrifying Local TV Christmas Commercials. Enjoy.

2008 Nov 17 10:52 (#4045.12139):
A possible solution.

2008 Nov 11 01:01 (#4036.12114):
I'm sure there will be plenty of stories about things people will miss about the Bush presidency. The Telegraph, it seems, will mostly miss the dancing.

2008 Nov 07 01:04 (#4037.12098):
Want a job in the administration? "Some positions will require Senate confirmation while others will not." I might apply just to see what sort of things they are looking for. It's not like I'm getting a job anywhere else anytime soon.

2008 Oct 24 10:59 (#4027.12054):
I had the same experience as natedogg with my DTV converter. Even with one of those big outdoor/attic antennas mounted in the attic, we still had 2-3 fuzzy stations. With the converter they are all completely clear. The CreateTV is nice sometimes as it has lots of cooking shows and occasionally runs old 80s episodes of the Joy of Painting.

2008 Oct 16 03:40 (#4023.12010):
Really? I've sort of come to expect a certain level of quality from AE posts by mrflip. From this guy's intro page:

Thanks to the convenience of the internet, many of the headlines from the Tonight Show are only a click away at the NBC website. Below are some of my favorite headlines from recent months. Although there is not an explicit copyright disclaimer at the bottom of the NBC web-page (at least that I have seen), I feel compelled to mention that the content on this page comes from the Tonight Show web-page at nbc.com. I am in no way affiliated with Jay Leno, his wry sense of humor, or his awkwardly large chin.

Still, funny stuff. Also, he has 14 pages of it for your convenience.

2008 Oct 05 09:10 (#4012.11968):

MetroRail was originally supposed to open this fall, but was delayed by construction issues with the Kramer and Howard stops (the two closest to us, incidentally). We drove by the Kramer one today and there was barely anything there.

The fares for everything (including the previously free Dillos) goes up next weekend. See the new fare schedule here that includes the new MetroRail fares.

Speaking of fares, the Bus Riders Union of Austin proposes to cancel fares since they apparently make up only 3% of CapMetro's yearly budget. Discuss.

2008 Oct 03 10:17 (#3996.11959):
NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace's Death

2008 Sep 29 01:37 (#4008.11942):
A few that came to me in my post-ACL stupor (also, how contemporary are we talking about?):

Robert Earl Keen "The Great Hank"

The Little Willies "Lou Reed" (also band name after Willie, of course)

Bruce Robison "What Would Willie Do?"

2008 Sep 15 11:30 (#3996.11888):
Quite sad. I certainly enjoyed his writing style. But where were the 10 pages of footnotes on his obit? What, too soon?

2008 Sep 14 12:52 (#3948.11887):
Get Fuzzy's take on Palin:

2008 Sep 09 05:39 (#3955.11875):
Gordon Freeman spotted at the LHC. Watch out for the creation of interdimensional portals.

2008 Sep 02 10:31 (#3948.11845):
Vetting? What vetting?

2008 Aug 30 11:18 (#3948.11833):
A few recent posts from The Poor Man to accompany Valatan's Alaskan perspective link above.

2008 Aug 18 05:31 (#3967.11772):
A few things:

My yearbook pictures looked a lot like the 1996 photo, so apparently I was 2 years behind in fashion. No surprises there.

The 1976 photo looks remarkably like Phil's hair does now (he's been avoiding Bird's lately).

They also don't list the Eden Prairie Center on the list of malls. Another missed opportunity.

2008 Aug 12 10:05 (#3961.11752):
Reading about the pictograms reminded me of a previous Olympics that had neat icons - the '94 winter Olympics. I wasn't able to find a complete set, but just found this one photo. They are based on Scandinavian petroglyphs. I thought they were pretty cool, but I might be slightly biased.

There's a collection of icons from previous summer Olympics here.

2008 Aug 12 06:30 (#3961.11751):
Those "squiggly-line sport icons" are not just on NBC's page. They are the official sport icons from the Beijing Organizing Committee:

The Beijing Organizing Committee have released pictograms of the 35 Olympic disciplines. This set of sport icons is named the beauty of seal characters, due to each pictogram's likeness to Chinese seal script.

And yes, they are pretty cool.

2008 Jul 30 11:32 (#3948.11683):
For those of you (like me) who didn't know most of those last names on the VP list, see here.

2008 Jul 10 12:48 (#3905.11603):
INTJ
89/62/50/56
Maybe I'll try it again in a few days and see if it comes up the same. I haven't read anything about what they are all supposed to mean.

Does this thread win yet for most comments?

2008 Jun 10 05:38 (#3884.11417):
Photos of the fire damage on Austinist. Maybe Perry would like to rethink the financial impact of his temporary residence when the restoration bill gets updated to include fire damage.

2008 Jun 08 06:19 (#3881.11404):
That no-legged runner was the subject of a Wired article last year. There was some question about whether he was eligible to compete in the Olympics because some claimed his carbon fiber running legs gave him an unfair advantage. Apparently that's been cleared up and he gets to compete.

2008 Jun 06 01:54 (#3863.11394):
This is probably old news for any Journey fans out there, but Hijinks Ensue pointed out to me today that Journey has a new lead singer. Be sure to check out the video since, as Joel from HE points out, this new guy sounds more like Steve Perry than Steve Perry. The best part of the Wired article is the rabid Steve Perry fan objecting to calling Steve Perry obsolete.

Also, Boston hires a Home Depot employee to be their lead singer.

Also also, if you wear chain mail while jamming, this guy wants you to be in his band.

2008 Jun 01 12:18 (#3866.11377):
Shelved?

2008 Apr 01 12:20 (#3798.11106):
Also, Questionable Content.NET has some crazies going on (see also Dinosaur Comics and XKCD).

2008 Apr 01 10:04 (#3798.11103):
World of Warcraft coming to consoles everywhere. Also, new class to the upcoming expansion - the Bard.

2008 Mar 28 10:34 (#3784.11055):
Work in progress (6/12 so far). They have RSS for each muxtape in case you want to track changes or something.

2008 Mar 26 02:35 (#3739.11049):
You know what else white people like? When their witty blogs become popular enough that Random House wants to cash in on the deal. My guess is that they won't be giving them away for free. I guess AE is too diverse and has too many authors to garner a book offer.

2008 Mar 19 09:29 (#3774.11008):
A remembrance at NPR.

2008 Feb 17 08:01 (#3677.10879):
Some links for voting information:

If you know your precinct number (on your voter registration card), find your polling location here (for voting and precinct convention/caucus on March 4).

If you don't know your precinct number, you can look it up here.

If you want to vote early, here's a PDF with the list of early voting locations (early voting Feb 19-29).

There's more info about the precinct convention/caucus events here and here.

2008 Feb 09 04:22 (#3719.10852):

2008 Feb 08 09:53 (#3727.10846):
The Film list is also up. Here are some dorky documentary picks:

Second Skin (YouTube) - about some MMORPG players

Nerdcore Rising (YouTube) - MC Frontalot, etc.

We Are Wizards (YouTube) - Harry Potter fans

2008 Feb 05 10:27 (#3719.10821):
Hmm. They seem to be having problems. I guess the site is technically still in Beta or something. The send button on the Contact Us page as well as the send button on the Report Problem With This Page page are both broken and do not do anything. Lame.

On another note, it seems Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell has just recently seen The Big Lebowski:

More later this week...

2008 Jan 03 12:29 (#3676.10691):
The highlight - Conan plays guitar (the real kind) while some of his staff play Rock Band. (At 5:00 if you want to skip directly to Rock Band.)

2007 Dec 19 09:59 (#3668.10662):
Apparently if you want access to avatar data it helps if you worked at Microsoft for 18 years, helped grow their gaming division from 50 to 1200 employees, and can get backdoor access to the WoW Armory data.

2007 Nov 08 10:22 (#3606.10522):
A few suggestions from Wired for laser shenanigans.

2007 Nov 02 01:42 (#3602.10490):
Hey, if they need material, I'm sure the members of this site can come up with better material than what they have done so far. I mean, c'mon... the doppler effect as a costume?

2007 Oct 24 05:45 (#3592.10446):
Wait, mrflip made a place run out of food?

2007 Oct 24 09:31 (#3591.10435):
More IMAP info from Google that I didn't find earlier, including what your mail program actions do in Gmail.

2007 Oct 19 10:51 (#3584.10417):
I couldn't find any official transcripts or anything, but the announcers at the game mentioned that someone had talked to the Indians PR guy who claimed that "they had enough trouble keeping up with who their own players were dating much less players on any other team."

2007 Oct 18 03:57 (#3583.10404):
David Pogue reviews the online TV offerings.

2007 Oct 15 08:29 (#3565.10363):
No, really. The cake is a lie.

2007 Oct 13 12:51 (#3566.10354):
I was somehow able to see it go one way (clockwise) and then when I looked at it again after reading some of the comments it was going the other way (counter-clockwise). I was not able to make it switch directions by focusing on anything. When I looked at it again after about 30 min of other browsing it was turning the original way again (clockwise). I convinced myself that it was some trick of the animated image, but someone in the comments said the file only had 34 frames or something, so it's not like it's on a timer. Anyway, all this makes my "left brain" say that it is crap.

2007 Sep 27 12:53 (#3541.10296):
It seems that Steve Vai (from the previously mentioned Crossroads clip) has become known for his renditions of the theme from Halo 2.

2007 Sep 11 11:49 (#3517.10211):
More tennis shenanigans (and easier to appreciate), Leno gets Justin Gimelstob to interview some players.

2007 Sep 11 09:29 (#3518.10209):
That's true. A little iMovie action and that video could be this one at the top of this list.

2007 Sep 09 01:52 (#3514.10189):
Tim League rediscovers the original website for the Alamo Drafthouse recently. Check out the sweet popcorn background.

2007 Aug 22 11:17 (#3485.10134):
Some answers: It looks like generally you're looking at a 4 month period. 5 months could be ok for some ales and up to 12 months for higher alcohol content beers. Some tips for buying fresh beer.

2007 Aug 17 11:03 (#3483.10129):
http://www.ronalusa.com/wheels-2002/bear.html
http://www.ronalusa.com/wheels-2002/opt-images/bear/bear.jpg

Looks like you'll have to do some searching for them second-hand. Maybe this guy will sell you his.

2007 Aug 16 10:02 (#3482.10124):
If this is the t-shirt design this year I'm going to have to get there early before they sell out:

2007 Jul 03 11:45 (#3425.9996):
There was apparently a poll on Austin's Fox affiliate for the best two episodes from each season to determine which episodes they would play leading up to the movie. Results are here. (Also, it's The Crepes of Wrath, not Creeps.)

2007 Jun 20 06:40 (#3414.9973):
Neat! It even includes cost comparisons based on IRS allowances for per mile deductions.

2007 Jun 01 09:34 (#3393.9894):
Apparently Microsoft is getting into the photo map business, as well. Here's my car in the driveway on a Wednesday (trash/recycling day). Here's LuLou's dad pulling out of his driveway with his Harley in a trailer.

2007 May 31 05:59 (#3390.9885):

I didn't include any of the ones I've pretty much just driven through (all the blank ones east of the Mississippi). There are ones I've been in for more than it takes to drive across them.

2007 Apr 29 10:24 (#3331.9698):
The Statesman has an article today about all the Hollywood movies coming out this summer. Six of them are part threes, 8 more are sequels of some sort, then a bunch of other movies, some possibly good (Knocked Up), some probably bad (Hairspray, with Travolta as the mom and Walken as the dad).

2007 Apr 05 02:55 (#3258.9537):
Also, they're letting people vote for their favorite stamp. You can apparently vote once per day per e-mail address until May 22. That should be interesting.

2007 Mar 23 04:43 (#3258.9432):
Looks like the USPS is celebrating 30 years of Star Wars.

2007 Mar 15 11:01 (#3251.9381):
It's been done already.

2007 Mar 03 12:32 (#3235.9324):
I always felt the same way about another favorite NPR show, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me. I used to listen to it every now and then in college and found out that KUT didn't even air it. They do have free podcasts, which is nice. KUT is also now broadcasting it on KUT2, their HD radio station. Both KUT stations can be streamed from their website.

2007 Mar 03 12:23 (#3236.9323):
Cool. For those (such as myself) who will probably be missing this, they apparently do this once a month:

"Independence Brewing Company hosts a brewery tour and free beer tasting the first Saturday of the month at 1:00 pm."

(From the contact page.)

2007 Mar 01 04:10 (#3233.9319):
For example, people who are cowboys.

2007 Feb 16 04:40 (#3208.9280):
Some updates.

I don't know much about how this is supposed to work, but I do know that this is a picture of their quantum processor on a dilution refrigerator, which, when done properly, can cool objects below 2 mK. Needless to say, this is not necessarily a simple task. So don't get your hopes up for buying yourself a desktop quantum computer next year to replace your aging Pentium.

2007 Feb 02 02:26 (#3194.9189):
Amazingly, I had never heard of that brewery until just now. I'll have to look for them the next time I'm home. However, you should be able to get it all around Texas. Someone should talk JV into buying some for Posse.

Also of note, if you drink a lot of Rahr and bring back the empties, they'll give you stuff.

2007 Feb 02 02:19 (#3191.9188):
Related story from Morning Edition today: Old people don't understand the younger generation's humor. (More or less.)

Also, get your "ATHF is the bomb" t-shirts while they last.

2006 Dec 29 11:22 (#3127.8976):
What, too soon?

2006 Dec 28 04:09 (#3128.8975):
The Spazmatics do a similar bit in their shows, but they don't reach quite so far back into music history.

2006 Oct 18 01:26 (#3019.8705):
That story is crazy. Ridiculously crazy. I'm surprised there isn't a movie in the works. I think this image at least shows you the extent of the crash. Now, calculate exactly how fast the car was going based on how far the parts ended up from the impact point...

2006 Sep 01 11:44 (#2905.8447):
Oh, man. I used to play Trade Wars back when I was in middle school ('93-'94) on a 286 that had become my computer when my parents upgraded to a Compaq 486. Good times.

2006 Jul 11 01:14 (#2809.8154):
One van to rule them all!

Damn you, Valatan. There goes most of the last 12 hours...

2006 Jun 27 04:51 (#2793.8069):
While perusing another source for trailers, I came upon a title I found familiar. That's right, they're remaking the ExMFC great, The Wicker Man. With Nick Cage as the lead. Apparently he's into fire these days.

2006 Jun 06 02:35 (#2761.7960):
I also noticed that Google Pages is up and running. After reading about it in this article it was down for a while. It seems like a neat tool for people who don't want to do a lot of HTML to make a webpage.

2006 May 16 02:00 (#2705.7846):
There's a link for the first song on the Adult Swim site. Presumably they'll update it as the days go by.

2006 Apr 11 01:05 (#2614.7521):
If you get stuck, you can always read the KoL Wiki.

2006 Apr 05 12:16 (#2598.7472):
I read somewhere (don't remember where now) someone suggesting that either Microsoft or Apple will eventually get out of the operating system business and the two would become one (or something like that). Vista is including a lot of features that are very similar to features already included in OS X.

On a side note (this was also on the Cult of Mac blog at Wired), those of you with an iPod should consider this skin (possibly NSFW).

2006 Apr 01 01:50 (#2585.7404):
Blizzard also announces Burgercraft, the Warcraft themed burger joint.

NI usually has some sort of thing for April Fools, but I haven't found it yet. Maybe luloutoo can point it out for us.

Sluggy Freelance has a Flash comic today.

2006 Feb 21 02:52 (#2466.6939):
Also for the EE inclined, another DIY version.

2006 Feb 14 02:48 (#2446.6843):
For those of us without the Salon membership, I'm assuming that this is the indended video. (Also posted in the comments here by Valatan.)

2006 Jan 17 04:42 (#2359.6517):
The Wired article where I read about it.

It seems they got all the images for that article from the blog (link posted above my mrflip).

And who can say that they wouldn't wear these shirts:

2006 Jan 14 12:24 (#2348.6477):
That Penny Arcade comic has a post script a few days later in the news postings:

"When we submitted John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, we were not aware that it already had proponents in centers of higher learning. Except, when they talk about it, they call it The Impact of Anonymity on Disinhibitive Behavior Through Computer-Mediated Communication. Same thing, though."

2006 Jan 11 08:23 (#2339.6434):
My SEM prof (the one who likes beer) swears by ImageJ, which is also a good, free image software (free in that we've already paid for it in tax dollars).

And if you're interested in the other candidates for word of the year, as well as other word categories and words from past years, the American Dialect Society has a press release here (PDF).

2006 Jan 11 04:58 (#2339.6420):
Hey, that's mostly just laziness. OS X's Grab program defaults to .tiff without any other options. I could have converted it with one of the many image programs, but didn't. Also, what browser doesn't handle .tiff? Safari works just fine. If it makes you feel better, I'll convert it to jpg AND png and you can fix the link for me.

2006 Jan 11 04:41 (#2339.6418):
Um, javelina, my original link is also a screencap. Appparently a very believable screencap at that.

2005 Dec 15 04:54 (#2255.6240):
Updates on the War on Christmas:

Jon Stewart continues his coverage.

A House Resolution is proposed, to which Rep. John Dingell of MI had this response.

2005 Dec 15 04:32 (#2228.6239):
"Forbes magazine gets a well-deserved tip of the hat tonight. The magazine has long been the nation's number one source of reminders that other people are much richer than you. But Forbes has upped their game by publishing a list of 15 people who are richer than you who don't even exist, the Forbes fictional 15. Bravo. Not only does your list give us new levels of non-existant wealth to aspire to, it provides hopelessly awkward nerds across America talking points when debating the liquid assets of Richie Rich vs. Bruce Wayne" ("Colbert Report," Comedy Central, 12/14)

2005 Dec 12 08:36 (#2255.6196):
The permalink (for the viewers of the future).

2005 Dec 07 03:02 (#2184.6148):
Hey, sG. How about this Action Camera? Unfortunately it's not waterproof, so no kiteboarding action shots.

2005 Dec 05 09:42 (#2231.6137):

(From Street Sign Generator)

2005 Nov 21 09:15 (#2180.5977):
Here's a link for the onegoodmove posting.

2005 Nov 17 10:44 (#2165.5948):
I think this song would be more appropriate for that group of people.

2005 Nov 15 12:17 (#2153.5926):
"Hello, world! Meet the Master Scat-Blaster, the Kaiser of Scheiße, because I'm here to POOOOP!"

2005 Nov 09 05:43 (#2141.5885):
Of course you do. How about you link it up for all to see?

2005 Nov 09 03:16 (#2140.5882):
The dailykos thread commenter recommends searching for "Texas A&M" alchemy which brings up this account of someone paying a professor at A&M to conduct transmutation experiments. Brilliant.

2005 Nov 09 11:34 (#2097.5878):
As this guy points out, it's not a big surprise that Prop 2 passed. At least we can take comfort that in Travis County, with 25% of registered voters voting, it would have failed with 60% voting against.

2005 Nov 01 05:51 (#2120.5838):
“What are you smiling about? Don’t smile!”

2005 Oct 14 03:05 (#2062.5637):
I'm not much of a baseball fan, but the one team I generally remember is the 1987 MN Twins which included Gaetti and others such as Frank Viola, Bert Blyleven, Kent Hrbek, Dan Gladden, and the Twin Cities (since fallen) hero, Kirby Puckett

Also, a note to McD: If you haven't figured it out already, GaryGaetti.com doesn't work with Safari. Firefox does the trick.

2005 Sep 14 11:44 (#2004.5422):
It seems some religious people have no problems with lions (link from the article).

2005 Sep 13 03:07 (#1997.5413):
luloutoo and I got a note like that on our door when we lived in Salado at Walnut Creek apartments. There wasn't much in the news about it at the time, but apparently it became a larger deal later on.

2005 Sep 12 10:39 (#1991.5391):
While Bad Science doesn't have an e-mail newsletter like Bob Park's What's New, it does have a nice blog page complete with RSS feed, comments on each article, and past articles organized into categories. For example, you can read all the Bad Science posts concerning magnets.

2005 Sep 02 10:40 (#1966.5327):
Apparently the diesel generator that is keeping the pictures in mrflip's last post up are also keeping Something Awful up and running (until the diesel fuel runs out, of course).

2005 Aug 29 05:54 (#1952.5274):
See, that Mars fact would have made the post more interesting. I just assumed it was somewhere in Utah or something.

2005 Aug 25 02:22 (#1950.5260):
There was a story about the US Conference of Mayors adopting the Kyoto Protocol for their cities earlier this summer. Not very many articles about it now, but I found this one. There's also a list of mayors involved here. Will Wynn is on the list.

2005 Aug 23 11:20 (#1933.5221):
I would guess the condiments=condoms=birth control. I have no idea about the sauerkraut or relish or onions. Probably just to keep things silly. But the big pile of sauerkraut with weiners chopped up and mixed in sounds pretty tasty to me.

2005 Aug 23 11:12 (#1937.5220):
One of the headlines under science and technology is Speed of Light Made Faster. It reminds me of the explanation of Futurama writers as to how space ships can move so fast in their show. They are still moving below the speed of light, it's just that the speed of light was increased at some point.

This reporting of the story is a little more science based (even has an APL link). Maybe someone could make things a little more clear for those who may be, uh, a little rusty on their E&M. I seem to recall something about group velocities not being able to move faster than c.

2005 Aug 21 10:05 (#1931.5193):
A nice display.

2005 Aug 21 09:57 (#1930.5192):
If you read the About Mammatus Clouds page, it reads:

"Sometimes very ominous in appearance, mammatus clouds are harmless and do not mean that a tornado is about to form; a commonly held misconception. In fact, mammatus are usually seen after the worst of a thunderstorm has passed."

2005 Aug 14 09:23 (#1909.5125):
I think natedogg did find the site a while back, but he didn't start it.

2005 Aug 09 10:56 (#1898.5100):
Since my odometer on my car no longer works, this is a good tool for measuring my route to school every day. It comes out to about 11.77 miles. I believe the entrance to NI is right after mile 2.

2005 Aug 09 09:56 (#1894.5089):
I've also seen the "truck balls" around Austin a few times. And I've been told that luloutoo's cousin had a pair on his pimped out truck. Or maybe it was his "beater" truck with the huge tires. She'll have to confirm that.

2005 Aug 02 10:29 (#1872.5018):
Man, sG, I was guessing you would post this at some point after I saw it in my print issue and thought I would try to beat you to it, but looks like you got to it first.

Also, if you're looking for a GT, a relative of mine who lives on the next farm over from where my dad grew up got picked in a raffle among small Ford dealers to sell a GT at his dealership in town (click on the new cars link). Apparently he's already recieved inquiries from a MN Twins player and a few others from bigger cities. (FYI, Northwood, IA... pop 2000)

2005 Jul 14 11:33 (#1814.4825):
There's a list of the more famous people buried at Westminster Abbey here. All the scientists are buried in the general vicinity of Newton, although he's the only one with a cool statue. Dirac has a little memorial stone in the floor with the Dirac Equation on it.

2005 Jul 11 06:48 (#1807.4784):
Some insights into possible plot twists for HP6.

2005 Jun 20 11:02 (#1746.4561):
The second link's parent site is also home to Math in The Simpsons and Math in Futurama sites. This is probably particularly salient for Futurama, which had an above average number of writers and producers with math/sciencey backgrounds. The Math on Futurama site notes that Ken Keeler, who wrote a number of the episodes, has a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and David X. Cohen, the executive producer, has a masters in computer science.

2005 Jun 16 05:27 (#1743.4551):
It seems these people say no. They claim that tabbed browsing is too new and not universal enough to be HTML controlled.

2005 May 12 11:41 (#1671.4379):
Man, 10 whole chapters? I only got to Ch. 3...

Einstein: Well, we’re going to need a Solar eclipse, some clocks and some guys with big moustaches.

The Universe: I don’t think the moustaches are strictly necessary.

Einstein: I know, but this is serious science and you can’t do serious science without serious facial hair.

2005 Apr 28 10:45 (#1630.4260):
Maybe I should just stick with my car.

Some excerpts:

Scarborough also determined that Volvos were the most ''Democratic'' cars, by 44 to 32 percent, followed by Subarus and Hyundais. But although a lot of old Volvos on the road are driven by Democrats, the customers in Volvo showrooms no longer fit the old stereotype, according to a survey of 163,000 new-car buyers last year that was conducted by CNW Marketing Research of Bandon, Ore.

All surveys found that nothing is more Republican than a big pickup. ''The No. 1 vehicle bought by millionaires is the Ford F-Series pickup truck,'' Mr. Spinella said. ''They're farmers, ranchers, contractors, independent businesspeople. They basically work for themselves and they have substantial assets.''

The survey also found that minivans skewed blue, just as Chely Wright surmised in her song. At first glance, this might seem odd, because Republican car buyers tended to have more children -- 3.5 on average, versus 1.7 for the Democratic buyers.... Because the Democratic women get more of a say in the decision, their families end up with more minivans than S.U.V.'s.

2005 Apr 14 08:24 (#1561.4137):
There's a little article in Wired News about finding neat things in the satellite maps. Also, there are plenty of new posts on the Google Sightseeing page since this was originally posted with more added every day. All sorts of fun.

2005 Apr 12 09:19 (#1575.4085):
Not to be confused with Bill Nye the Leadership Trainer.

2005 Apr 08 02:24 (#1561.4059):
In the comments for LUECKE there is a link to an explanation of why it is there. It talks about it at the bottom of the page:

"By clearing forest so that a pattern would be visible to landing aircraft, a landowner outside Austin, Texas (see also aerial photo in Lisheron 2000), created a target that is also useful for evaluating spatial resolution of astronaut photographs. The forest was selectively cleared in order to spell the landowner's name 'LUECKE' with the remaining trees (figure 10). According to local surveyors who planned the clearing, the plan was to create letters that were 3100 ´ 1700 ft (944.9 ´ 518.2 m)."

2005 Apr 01 11:51 (#1533.3965):
Not a joke in itself, but a good story about one.

2005 Apr 01 11:28 (#1533.3962):
And for all of you who haven't been to Slashdot today here are some more fun items for the day:

Bush Cancels Shuttle

Paris Hilton to Publicize Linux

iCopulate - for hot pod on pod data transfer action

2005 Mar 25 08:04 (#1498.3887):
This link on the page gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Taking it to the next level."

Level 12 Boyfriend
Class: Graduate Student
New Skill: Cooking dinners for girlfriend and self while she works hard at her real job obtained after a class upgrade.
Available Upgrades: Habitation upgrade, Social Interaction Space upgrade
Note: Pet also increases in happiness and loyalty with Habitation upgrade
Available quests: Installation of garage door openers, Interior decoration, Chart new route to RLM

2005 Mar 21 09:42 (#1480.3832):
Another article re: NASA funding and scientific research. (Bugmenot.com if you don't have a login)

Let me know if you thought this, too, but there was one quote which made me think, "NASA administrators totally do it from the top down."

2005 Mar 17 09:07 (#1478.3808):
Apparently inspired by Post-It Trogdor the Burninator at MIT. Nice.

2005 Feb 22 12:15 (#1363.3526):
This article's writer could have used a thesaurus for the title.

2005 Feb 20 08:15 (#1348.3494):
Maybe someone who was at lunch last Friday who knows this guy Anil can recount the story, but I'd thought I'd find the IMDB history link, which is here. Who knew that IMDB was 15 years old?

2005 Feb 11 11:49 (#1309.3390):
Here's proof that we went: Becky and I got pictures with Belding himself.

2005 Feb 03 05:08 (#1282.3277):
Hey, we've got a sweet ass search function AND a homepage icon that changes color OnMouseOver. Not just on the front page, but EVERY page.

2005 Jan 31 01:25 (#1268.3249):
zieglerfe must have been on one of his breaks from AE when this was posted.

2005 Jan 27 10:18 (#1254.3218):
Just so you know, natedogg, because I clicked on that book on Amazon, I am now being recommended the following books:
Toygasms! The Insider's Guide to Sex Toys and Techniques by Sadie Allison
Sexing the Body by Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Real Thing by Miles Orvell
White Women, Black Men by Martha Hodes
Devices and Desires by Andrea Tone

Thanks, natedogg.

2005 Jan 13 06:12 (#1183.3068):
I didn't read mrflip's link (not wanting to go around Washington Post's registering process) but a quick Google News search found that Univeristy of Chicago also recently started a similar magazine, Vita Excolatur. For another account, including a small image of the first issue cover photo, see this person's blog post.

2005 Jan 12 01:41 (#1178.3049):
I also had a Game Gear which was my first and only game system until I bought my Xbox in 2002. I think I got kind of bored with it, even though my sister eventually had one, too, and we had a tennis game which could be played with the two linked together. Also, I definitely remember one of my friends having the TV tuner and thinking it was awesome.

2005 Jan 05 09:54 (#1158.2961):
Here is a nice page with the overlayed Nickelback songs in convinient Flash format. If someone can find the Nickelback/Avril song, that would be great.

2005 Jan 05 12:36 (#1155.2951):
First a cell phone and now this? It's like I don't even know you anymore, Javelina!

2004 Dec 19 10:02 (#1103.2835):
I talked to one of my friends who is a little bit more in the loop politically (he worked for Edwards before the primaries) and says that their claim is true. Bush did get the highest number of popular votes in American history, but Kerry got the second highest votes. Population growth... population growth.

2004 Dec 17 11:17 (#951.2832):
PJ - ahead of his time when it comes to expensive hobbies/toys.

2004 Dec 16 01:30 (#1096.2828):
While I don't actually play any sports games (I'm about as bad in video games as I am in real life), I'm always up for some Halo 2 action. Just send a friend request to DonCarlo.

2004 Dec 14 12:20 (#1089.2812):
There are a number of things you could put in a thought bubble for this guy's picture:

"I'm making so much money I'm actually able to pay off my college loans."

"I went to Haverford back when they had a football team."

"I went to Haverford back when they didn't let those women attend."

2004 Dec 09 04:40 (#1071.2769):
Or you could just do what I do and listen to it without the movie on your mp3 player. If you've seen the movie enough it's pretty funny just to listen to it.

Oh, crap. Did I just admit to that?

2004 Dec 03 11:41 (#1046.2692):
St Paul throws a similar event every year. While their site doesn't have pictures posted, I found some here.

2004 Dec 02 08:49 (#1041.2673):
(Bah! I know I put the link in. Let's try again.)

What can I say? Jesus is effing metal.

(Apparently it didn't like my capitalized HTML tags.

2004 Dec 02 08:46 (#1041.2672):
What can I say? Jesus is effing metal.

2004 Nov 28 04:01 (#1019.2577):
What? Too much?

2004 Nov 28 03:47 (#1019.2576):
I'm sure posting this qualifies me as definition 4A, but I particularly liked definitions 3.1 and 5.

2004 Nov 28 03:41 (#1018.2575):
You know, for kids!

2004 Nov 24 04:38 (#1011.2558):
I particularly liked the angry flaming grizzly bears.

2004 Nov 22 12:22 (#1002.2541):
Also, it seems you have to re-login after you change your password. Is the login still set by just making a cookie with your username and password? That was kind of lame in the old version since your password was just in plain text in a cookie on your computer. This might be good information for people who might be use the same password for everything.

2004 Nov 01 10:02 (#909.2184):
This is not something that some people want to hear (I won't name names) but is a relief or at least a hope for other (again, I won't name names). From his page on carbon:
"Diamond, because it has historically been kept expensive by the DeBeers cartel, has not found many uses outside of jewelry. Small manufactured diamonds are used as abrasives, but even they are a bit expensive. In the summer of 2003, however, we witnessed what is very probably the beginning of the age of cheap, large synthetic diamonds, with two companies, Apollo Diamonds and Gemesis entering the gem market with manufactured white and yellow diamonds respectively. Since diamonds are in fact dirt common even in natural form, and since they are really not very pretty as gemstones go, their value may well utterly collapse over the the next decade or two. The idea that they are valuable is, after all, a pure invention on the part of DeBeers, and as such it's unlikely to survive changing conditions."

2004 Oct 27 05:52 (#889.2145):
mrflip, you're just mad noone made any comments when you posted this story 16 days ago.

2004 Oct 23 05:04 (#870.2105):
For those who don't know (I didn't):
meme - A cultural element or behavioural trait whose transmission and consequent persistence in a population, although occurring by non-genetic means (esp. imitation), is considered as analogous to the inheritance of a gene.

2004 Oct 21 01:14 (#856.2076):
The FAQ points out how it doesn't really care if people really want to be people who are not dictators nor sitcom characters. It also makes fun of people who can't answer correctly and can't spell when they add new people or questions and makes fun of itself when the questions aren't really questions.

2004 Oct 21 11:50 (#856.2072):
I have actually seen Grace Under Fire. According to TVTome.com, it was on for 5 seasons. However, shows like Get A Life or The Critic that were only on for 2 seasons it guesses with no problems.

2004 Oct 12 12:51 (#819.1939):
Train of thought of a internet junkie:
1. See Ali G hosting above flash cartoon.
2. Look up Ali G on IMDB.
3. Look at bio.
4. See that Sacha Baron Cohen gave Class Day commencement speech at Harvard this year. As Ali G.
5. Remember that Conan O'Brien gave class day speech some years ago and look for list of past speakers.
6. Find Conan's speech.

2004 Oct 07 11:45 (#783.1871):
This reminds me of this contest Penny Arcade ran during their expo in August. They had a group of 128 people (I think) in a single elimination competition. Each round was a competition on any game on any console (not chosen by the competitors, of course) and the final round was an original Pong setup. For pictures of the winner's new stash, see here. Not quite the vast number of consoles of the auction mentioned above, but HUGE numbers of games.

2004 Oct 05 12:27 (#769.1831):
I knew I had heard of Wil Wheaton when his name came up last night. But not because of his role in Stand By Me. Oh, no. I had heard of him because he was on Star Trek and the artist who draws one of my favorite web comics wrote about him when he went to a Star Trek Convention in Tulsa.
His website looks pretty cool, though.

2004 Sep 30 11:32 (#745.1781):
Oh, also (and this came from a question from natedogg at the show), I thought everyone should know that they named their production company Rooster-Teeth so that they could call their company Cock-Bite with out using the word "cock".

2004 Sep 30 11:29 (#745.1780):
Oh, wait... I knew I'd find it. Apparently they're only doing Strangerhood every two weeks. And according to the Red vs Blue site (see link above) they've already written most of the new season.

2004 Sep 30 11:26 (#745.1779):
I'm wondering if they're going to devote less time to Red vs Blue so they can do two shows at once. When we went to see them at the Alamo last weekend, they said they spend something like 40 to 60 hours a week making one episode of Red vs Blue and sometimes up to 90 hours. That doesn't exactly leave a lot of time for new things.

2004 Sep 30 05:47 (#731.1772):
I think there's also a song about apples by the Barenaked Ladies which could segue into any number of songs, I'm sure.

2004 Sep 20 05:42 (#694.1606):
According to the Death Clock, I will live to be just a month short of 99 years old. So much for males dying young. Although by that time, the average life span may have increased.

2004 Sep 16 03:18 (#677.1573):
You should totally pass this on the the new gradmisc e-mail list.

2004 Sep 15 03:23 (#673.1556):
So at the voting statistics page I saw that in 2000, Alaska and Montana somehow had more than 100% of the voting age population being registered.

2004 Sep 14 03:34 (#664.1538):
Hey, the Lamborghini is a whole 28.5% off and at a two day minimum that brings the total to only $3998 (plus tax and idiot insurance).

2004 Sep 10 10:28 (#655.1514):
So before I actually realized who TheClaw was and how the nickname might have come about, it reminded me of two episodes (1, 2) of one of my faviorite web comics. It has a long running plotline which I find amusing.

2004 Aug 27 04:53 (#597.1360):
The blink tag must not work on my home computer with Windows and IE. I've heard this from Laura and her computer, too. Thank god for that. (It does work on Mozilla in the grad lab, though.)

2004 Aug 24 09:50 (#588.1343):
This was actually posted in last week's What's New? column. The paper is pretty entertaining.

2004 Aug 20 04:49 (#572.1310):
The 9 minute audio of the game is great.
"I roll over to this one here. Wait, can I do that?"
"Check your tumble skill level."

2004 Aug 20 04:28 (#574.1308):
He was in Berk's QM class with Laura and me our first semester here. He would follow Berk up to his office every day to ask him questions. Also, after seeing him in class three times a week, it was pretty obvious that he only wore the same four Hawaiian shirts all the time.

2004 Aug 19 03:33 (#568.1292):
Yeah, I think we established at some point that you were entering Laura's birthday correctly into your PDA, but forgot to write the 0 for Feb 20.

2004 Aug 04 07:17 (#520.1171):
Hmmm... they picked me as a Food and Wine Connoiseur:

"You know which wines go best with which foods, and you can make New York City's finest sommalier feel like a kid at a keg party. You wanna take that Emeril guy and beat him with a stick, but really - you've got more class than that. What people love: You know the best restaurants and what their specialties are. What people hate: Every waiter in town wants to mangle your pretentious ass."

While I do like to eat and drink, I think they left out the most important elitist for this particular message board: the Technology and Electronics Aficionado.

2004 Jul 29 10:26 (#505.1142):
One of my friends sent me this in an e-mail. I have no idea why it happens. Someone should look it up.

2004 Jul 27 03:02 (#498.1130):
I was thinking that this Tom DeSanto guy has come a long way from Logan's Run to X-men 1 and 2 and this new Transformers movie when his IMDB entry informed me that he is working on a remake of Logan's Run. Maybe they'll be interested in using the Fort Worth Water Gardens again. (Fish, sea-greens...)

2004 Jul 12 04:38 (#447.1005):
More link-less posts. You'd think he'd learn...

2004 Jul 07 06:01 (#430.972):
I believe it's actually Turkish Wizard of Oz, not Star Wars. L and C might not make it to Wizard of Oz, but I'm all about Red vs. Blue and some disc golf.

2004 Jun 30 11:16 (#409.922):
I had no idea that the Astros played in Minute Maid Stadium. I knew many sporting arenas had been selling out to various corporate sponsors, but I had never really bothered to look up all the names. For one thing, I think it's pretty lame that the Ballpark in Arlington is now Ameriquest Field.

2004 Jun 25 03:58 (#397.896):
Actually, Nate, SC just lifted the ban on tattooing last week.

2004 Jun 08 12:03 (#333.713):
I found the 15 minute version. I didn't actually read through it, but I'm sure it's hilarious.

2004 May 25 12:19 (#296.620):
If you notice on the complete listings page it says that one ticket can be good for a double feature, so if they are showing two movies in one night you can go to one and then just stay for the second. If you schedule it right you can see 20 movies for $41.

2004 May 24 01:35 (#293.617):
Now we just need to figure out how to access all the other cameras in the various locations on campus if solely for the purpose of checking to see if the media rooms in RLM are avialable for ExMFC.

2004 May 20 11:18 (#282.578):
I like how the article points out that "Donald Trump characteristically has all the angles covered, giving $2,000 to both President Bush and Mr. Kerry." Might as well be fair.

2004 May 14 01:33 (#271.550):
Again, for those who don't follow the links or who try the link after the new issue is up:
Bathroom Too Disgusting To Shit In
AUSTIN, TX�The men's bathroom at area rock club Emo's was declared too repulsive for the emptying of concertgoer Max Risdy's bowels Saturday night. "The floor was covered with water, there was toilet paper and garbage everywhere, and it smelled disgusting," Risdy said, wincing at the memory Monday. "It was really not the kind of place you want to leave a big pile of digested food matter after squeezing it through your rectum from the depths of your bowels." Risdy added that the area near the music venue's stage was too loud and crowded.

2004 May 11 11:32 (#265.528):
In case this link stops working at some point, or for those who don't really follow the links until after reading comments, here's the story:
The Google Terrorist
It was the lead item on the government's daily threat matrix one day last April. Don Emilio Fulci described by an FBI tipster as a reclusive but evil millionaire, had formed a terrorist group that was planning chemical attacks against London and Washington, D.C. That day even FBI director Robert Mueller was briefed on the Fulci matter. But as the day went on without incident, a White House staffer had a brainstorm: He Googled Fulci. His findings: Fulci is the crime boss in the popular video game Headhunter. "Stand down," came the order from embarrassed national security types.

2004 Apr 27 06:07 (#235.441):
Actually, this was done by the same people who did Red vs. Blue. They have it on their site here: http://www.redvsblue.com/appleswitch.shtml
If you don't know about Red vs. Blue, it's pretty interesting stuff, too. Apprently they made a DVD of most of the episodes. I'm not sure where you can get said DVD, but I'm sure there will be info on the site.

2004 Apr 21 04:12 (#223.419):
I knew there was a reason I needed a bigger tower for my computer! Damn.
Or you can just disconnect the fan in your computer and let the heat from the electronics cook things on a little aluminum foil inside your case.

2004 Feb 17 11:58 (#116.225):
Ooops. Damn my occasional cut and pasting incompetence!

2004 Feb 01 02:29 (#81.146):
Check out some of the other things in this guy's main directory. Apparently he was involved in making a fuel cell powered gokart. Also, he has some pictures that seem to be of a deer that got hit by a small prop plane as it was landing somewhere in Canada. It's in the directory deer, but be warned - the pictures are a little gruesome.

2004 Jan 27 12:30 (#64.113):
Alright. It doesn't take much prodding for me to tell things. I remember sneaking into a movie when I was in middle school. It was an R rated movie so we bought tickets to a PG or something. Not exactly getting in for free or getting a two-for.
Yes, my senior year of college we saw two movies for one a total of two times. The first time we paid to see Showtime and snuck into 40 Days and 40 Nights, two very mediocre movies indeed. I think for 40 Days they should have just junked the sound track and dialog and put in some 70s porn music or something equally ridiculous.
The second time I paid to see Spiderman and snuck into The Scorpion King primarily because some of my friends were fans of wrestling/The Rock and all the ridiculousness involved. Best scene - the swords that caught on fire and continued to burn through a 10 minute fight scene.

2004 Jan 22 05:50 (#57.85):
"You really need an evolutionary biologist to know if Dean's shriek is a signal of evolving to a higher form of life or the sign of a death struggle" -- UPenn prof. Kathleen Hall Jamieson (New York Daily News).

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