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Well, there is a precedent.

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Nailed it! 'nuf said...

Too bad "Host Chopper" is no longer around as it was a hilarious parody about a hosting company with a fucking chopper, I guess someone should create a LAPD Chopper parody since all they're doing is delaying the crime, not actually stopping it. As soon as the chopper is gone the criminals go on a rampage.: Here's a link to some of the content host chopper used to have: http://laughingsquid.com/host-...

This guy is 72 and he kinda seems amazing. He's active, very much mentally there, and seems to have a real joy in life. And he creates one-of-a-kind miniature engines that are works of art.

They are both just copying Homer Simpson

I like it!

I prefer the NYC approach.

Baseball cap
Google Glass

I'm not sure why asking a perfectly simple - and in the light of the above example which shows there is a difference in how Glass and a hat might be positioned, still perfectly reasonable - question (to which I do not have a preconceived notion of what the answer might be) deserved to be met with such a sanctimonious response.

Have you tried Glass? Did you think it blocked your vision less severely than a baseball cap? If so, say so, and I'll be more informed than I was.

With the cap on, looking straight ahead, the bill blocks the top half of the display. The cap itself blocks much more than the GG display which is transparent. At least on me.

Baseball cap
Google Glass

I'm not sure why asking a perfectly simple - and in the light of the above example which shows there is a difference in how Glass and a hat might be positioned, still perfectly reasonable - question (to which I do not have a preconceived notion of what the answer might be) deserved to be met with such a sanctimonious response.

Have you tried Glass? Did you think it blocked your vision less severely than a baseball cap? If so, say so, and I'll be more informed than I was.

For Americans:
French Fries are long, thin, and mostly rectangular. Like these: http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/what-are-french-fries.htm
Crinkle cut french fries are like normal french fries with a zigzag edge. Like these: http://laughingsquid.com/crinkle-cut-french-fry-shaped-cakes-with-raspberry-ketchup/
Potato Wedges are shorter, fatter, and wedge shaped. Like these: http://americanfood.about.com/od/potatosidedishrecipes/r/Potato_Wedges_Recipe.htm
Potato Chips are fried completely throughout, flat and wide, more like fried potato shavings. Like these:http://www.kettlebrand.com/our_products/#/our_products/?pid=3

Hope that helps

A well written history of BSD is available as part of "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution":

http://oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/kirkmck.html

Basically NetBSD was the transition from a "one company" (cathedral) project to some internet centered adventure not unlike Linux (bazaar), hence the "Net" prefix.
At the time the only other variant was FreeBSD which targeted i386 and was more "user friendly", from that it evolved to be a run-anywhere highly customisable OS used in computing experiments as well as toasters.

If we can put a man on the moon

REALLY?!
This is the 21st century, get used to it.

This bullshit submission has zero merit for being on this site.

A more relevant article would be a video of the submitter receiving 20 lashes from the Cat-5-O-Nine-tails!!

A placebo versus LSD, double-blind versus cleansing the doors of perception, delirium tremens versus psychedelic consciousness; thinking is the best way to travel.

I was hoping for Maine Coon.

I like it. Other suggestions out there for a while include:

Mac OS X Maru and Mac OS X Nyan Cat

Seems a little... strange but unimportant I guess that Apple already did the Mountain Lion

Link for the opt-out tool: http://laughingsquid.com/r2-d2-garbage-can/

FTFY

Man made OF lightning!
http://laughingsquid.com/tesla-coil-hat/

What I'm working on was inspired by the sculptures Joshua Harris has been building/leaving in NYC that suddenly explode into full size when a subway goes by and then collapse again to look like a pile of debris. What I've finished: electret microphone amplifier, that tells an arduino when someone's within two meters, the arduino then closes a big monster relay, and I've built a couple of monsters using the instructions on destructables.org for inflating sculptures. (Basically cut up a stuffed animal and blow up the pattern design.) Mine are humanoid shapes about 2 meters tall with arms that stick out and a bunch of tentacle-like things sticking out of their faces.

What I'm working on is the inflation system. My original thought was to use a piece of 6" PVC tubing, about a meter and change long, with about 5 atmospheres of pressure in it, and a lawn sprinkler valve that the arduino triggered, so I have a high pressure lowish volume inflation system. I'm finding that's really loud and not fast enough to get the movement I want, which is to have the monster go from a pile of invisible black rubbish to 2 meters tall in under a second -- really, jumping out at people. So I'm playing with high volume low pressure: having the arduino turn on a shopvac with its exhaust inflating the humanocthulhuoid figure.

Unfortunately I've only got a couple days left to get it all working, and I also have a wedding ring to make before I get married in two weeks, and guess which one is being given higher priority by other involved people? So maybe I'll get lucky and get it done, but most likely it'll be next year. Then I'll have time to add strobe lights on the ground pointing at it.

I've also made most of a soliton gun, using a piece of 15" diameter, 2 meter long cardboard concrete form with a constricted front, the intent being that I can blast big puffs of air from a significant distance and hit people with them: just walking along and suddenly wham a big blast of air from nowhere. It might be interesting, especially if I can time it so it hits people at the same moment as the jumpy monster jumps.

http://laughingsquid.com/mit-hackers-pay-tribute-to-gary-gygax-with-giant-20-sided-die/

of textfiles.com is more of a "digital archeologist" than this wanker, because he might have all that stuff you posted to BBSs back in the 70s/80s.

Plus, he's got an awesome speech on the history of electronic porn, going back to tickertape machines and ham radio(think about that).

http://laughingsquid.com/jason-scott-on-the-atomic-level-of-porn-at-arse-elektronika-2009/

Satirical counterprotests of Fred Phelps are getting a bit boring, aren't they? That's basically what everyone does these days when they show up.

It's good to see the UofC is upholding its tradition of free markets, free speech and quirky behavior. Maybe the scavenger hunt needs something Phelpsian...

Satirical counterprotests of Fred Phelps are getting a bit boring, aren't they? That's basically what everyone does these days when they show up.

Others are working to bring the joy of vuvuzelas to the rest of the world. Sorta like OLPC, but in the other direction.

http://laughingsquid.com/vuvuzela-iphoneipad-app-annoy-while-on-the-go/

Oh, sure, Steve Jobs would sign off on this. Boobies? No. Vuvuzelas? You betcha.

(And yes, there's a whole bunch of vuvuzelapps for Android too.)

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Just make sure you good insurance, like Old Glory, or don't keep medication up stairs.

Must've misread you. For a second there I thought you said that it turns out that whales fail...

Congraultions, UK, you just made Boston's cops look like a paragon of sanity!

Then it could be Calvin and Jobbes!

rural folks in india have been doing that since forever.

Yeah, there are definitly gasifiers that are smaller than the 'factory size' that the summary claims. Germany, for example, had many cars running gasifiers during world war 2, since they were short on oil.

There are also DIY projects that have build cars like that:
A Honda Accord that runs on Trash
A converted pickup truck

You man like this?

I'm Linux ... And I've been configured to run on just about any hardware!

Then a toaster walks up and says, I'm NetBSD, and I run on any hardware...

"I hope my cookies never expire."

That should be on a Tee-Shirt.

This should be on a Tee-Shirt

Note: It might be, but the original is in Spanish.

Gotta love capitalism! Besides, you can avoid the hardware now anyway between VMs and straight up x86 ports of OSX.

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http://feeds.laughingsquid.com/laughingsquid "Art, Culture, and Technology"... heavily SFO-centric, and entirely wonderful.

As mentioned above, the C&D letter only serves as a notice before the litigant attempts to get an injunction (which they obviously would be unable to get, in this case). It's interesting that they also sent a DMCA notice. Unlike the C&D letter, there are rather significant penalties for sending unenforceable DMCA notices. It looks like laughingsquid.com has even had this problem before, and when the EFF sued, the judge required the bogus claimant to take an online copyright course.

It isn't like BB sent it in error though, here is a quote from Laughingsquid's original C&D post:

"One thing I wanted to mention is that before posting this C & D letter, I called the Best Buy attorney who sent it to confirm that they really meant to send it to a blogger who was just reporting on another blog post. They insisted that I was "promoting, not reporting" and that the demand letter was valid."

The problem is that the letter is nonetheless sent out on bad faith.

While the C&D to Improv Everywhere and Neighborhoodies still stands (although the shirts seem like clear parody to me) If you actually look at laughingsquid.com you'll see that BestBuy apologized for sending them a C&D for reporting about the existence of the shirts as a matter of fact, and acknowledged they were in error.

http://www.laughingsquid.com/

Best Buy sent LS.com a letter by both email and next day delivery apologizing for sending the C&D to a news source.

I am impressed.

Check out http://www.laughingsquid.com/ front page for details.

http://www.laughingsquid.com/

Best Buy sent LS.com a letter by both email and next day delivery apologizing for sending the C&D to a news source.

I am impressed.

Check out http://www.laughingsquid.com/ front page for details.

Note that it was Best Buy's *lawyers*, but he then talked to Best Buy Corporate Public Relations Group, and they rapidly figured this one out - he got a quick retraction and apology.

Improv Everywhere's site is down; here is the blog entry from laughingsquid.com: http://laughingsquid.com/best-buy-cease-desist-letter/ And the letter itself on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2103448719&size=l

They are still militant against the blue shirts, though. (rolls eyes)

I hate to defend Best Buy, but they've already admitted their mistake and apologized for the C&D letter sent to laughingsquid.com:

http://laughingsquid.com/best-buy-apologies-for-sending-cease-desist-letter/

Would it kill you to make laughingsquid.com a link instead of plain text?

Laughing Squid just received an apology letter.

Best Buy just sent us an apology letter for sending us a C & D letter just because we blogged about the Improv Everywhere shirts: http://laughingsquid.com/best-buy-apologies-for-sending-cease-desist-letter/ Here's the original C & D letter: http://laughingsquid.com/best-buy-cease-desist-letter/

Best Buy just sent us an apology letter for sending us a C & D letter just because we blogged about the Improv Everywhere shirts: http://laughingsquid.com/best-buy-apologies-for-sending-cease-desist-letter/ Here's the original C & D letter: http://laughingsquid.com/best-buy-cease-desist-letter/

Nope, because if you go a level deeper past the article, you find that Best Buy Apologized for their shoot-from-the-hip legal team. As that blogger stated, they did the right thing there - legal departments screw up, but a lot of damage control can be done by quickly and appropriately reigning them in, taking responsibility, and apologizing.