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  1. Not just about the shirts by MagicM · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Best Buy Hands Out Cease & Desist Letters for Christmas

    I'm sure Best Buy isn't just after them for having blue shirts. This is more likely a form of "payback" for the embarrassment that Improv Everywhere caused Best Buy in 2006 when 80 people showed up at a NYC Best Buy dressed in blue polo shirts and khakis. (Flickr and YouTube coverage.)

  2. Can I run my MacOS Apps by davidwr · · Score: 2, Insightful · on How to Turn Your PC into a Mac

    When I can insert a commercial Mac DVD or download a Mac .DMG installer disk, run the installer, and run the apps, then I'll have a PC that looks and feels like a Mac.

  3. Re:monkey by l0cust · · Score: 1 · on LCD Screen With Embedded Optical Sensors

    Uh.. monkey? I am really sorry dude.

    I did hear about someone got his dreams of marrying Natalie Portman crash and burn after he saw the developed photograph, one person joined the new weighloss reality show as a result of that joke email and atleast one incident from the era of Black&White monitors where someone threatened to kill the person who started that stupid joke after facing serious identity crtisis as a result of the picture produced by that wonderful embedded camera.

    Its ok. We are here for you. Beauty is only sin deep anyway.

  4. Re:Yay SF! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Google Geek's Photos of the Famous

    Our mayor is cuter than your mayor !


    Your next mayor laughs at cute .
  5. Re:zombies .... by mingrassia · · Score: 1 · on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage

    The flesh-eating zombie attack was back in May ;-)

    No, this is in fact due to a real power outage.

  6. my laptop was sent without return instructions by laughingsquid · · Score: 5, Informative · on Microsoft Laptop Recipient Auctioning Laptop

    There seems to be quite a bit of misinformation here regarding my "agreement" with Microsoft (there wasn't any) regarding what I can do with the laptop. I've updated my blog post with the following:

    As I mentioned in my original post on the laptop, the only communication I received about this was an email from Edelman. The email stated that Microsoft was sending me a "present" with "no strings attached" (those were the exact words used in the email). They did not include any instructions at all regarding what to do with the laptop. Also, I did not receive the same email as the other bloggers, including the follow-up email that was sent by Microsoft to Marshall Kirkpatrick asking him to return or give away the laptop. I have asked Edelman for an explanation regarding this inconstancy, but have not yet received one. So just to be clear, I was never sent any kind of instructions on what to do with the laptop and I did not sign anything, including an NDA.

  7. Re:Classic question by DieNadel · · Score: 1 · on OpenBSD 4.0 Released

    Hmmm, no... this would be NetBSD.

    Check this cool picture as well.

    I could use a security-enhanced toaster at my office though...

  8. Open Source Cream Cheese, yeah Cheese is the word. by layer3switch · · Score: 4, Funny · on The Molecular Secrets of Cream Cheese

    We have Open Source Cream Cheese now? Oh sweet lord of mercy! All we need is Open Source Bagel and Open Source Toaster. Oh wait, we already have NetBSD.

  9. Article that doesn't suck. by Kadin2048 · · Score: 2, Informative · on Biggest Obstacle of Nuclear Fusion Overcome?

    Too bad the link on their front page is broken (and requires giving zip code + age before you can get to the "Oops! Page not found" result).

    I Googled and found this, it's got some links to some cool amateur photos of the implosion:
    http://laughingsquid.com/2006/05/11/trojan-nuclear -power-plant-demolition/

  10. Zombie Walks in Seattle 10/29, 10/31 by billstewart · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft's Vigilante Investigation of Zombies

    Zombie Walks in Seattle - Boingboing seems to be a hotbed of articles on upcoming zombie mob activity and pointers to pictures of the events afterwards:
    Vancouver Pictures San Francisco.

  11. Re:Survival Research Laboratories, Seemen, etc. by Jamie+Zawinski · · Score: 2 · on Robots Battle to the Death!
    SRL is cool (I've seen them many times) but the thing they are sorely lacking is a sense of pacing. They build these really cool machines, but watching their shows, the experience one mostly has is monotony. It's not unusual to spend half an hour in the middle of the show wondering whether the show is over now, before some machine starts tearing some new machine apart.

    Sadly, the SFPD seem to be on SRL's mailing lists these days, so they don't get away with much any more. For the last few years, the Fire Marshall has tended to show up before the show has even gotten underway.

    If you like SRL, you might also like Seemen: here's an announcement for one of their recent shows: news:344de302.1085384@news.concentric.net.

    Some like-minded links are over at Laughing Squid.