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The author did an excellent talk on this subject on the YUI Theatre wesite:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=1040890 (Flash Video)
http://us.dl1.yimg.com/download.yahoo.com/dl/ydn/yui/theater/souders-performance.m4v (M4V)
definitely worth a watch

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Look at the playdough type substance holding the wires down. That and the wires make it look very suspicious. What a stupid girl. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. I don't understand how smart people can lack so much common sense.

By the way, a great way to hide a real bomb would be to hide it as tech art or some sort of wearable attachment, so I don't buy this "they should know a real terrorist wouldn't put it on the outside" baloney.

I read an earlier post saying it was "just a breadboard".... yea, yea, yea. Ma and Pa flying in from Utah would know that. Mmmmm'kay.

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Then you pull the keycaps from the keyboard, fill the washroom sink with soapy water, and wash the keycaps. Dry 'em with a paper towel, and put them back on. The whole process, including making the keycap puller, takes about 20 minutes, and your keyboard is back in action. You can also dust out the guts better with the keycaps off.

Of course, you have to remember which keys go where... :-)

How appropriate, this http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20070606/lba070 607.gif was in today's paper.

Layne

People who rely on anti-forensic tools simply are not familiar with Thermal Crypto-Analysis Method. This method is very cheap and effective. Any person subjected to this method very quickly feels an urge to share all secret passwords and keys. Take a look - http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/byra_1919 _6268599

As you know, quantum computers require a recoding of applications to take advantage of the qubits.
As an example, our research group has beeen working feverishly on porting Q-Bert to Qubits.

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you would think the guy could buy a hair brush

I've blocked http://.yimg.com/*/jscodes/* in adblock as well as blocking the specific ad sites they use, which has stopped it from displaying ads without giving any delay on loadtime.
Thing is, they've got to run a script to see if ads are loading, if you stop that from loading, you can also stop the ads without giving the scripts delay.

ATM, the script I'm blocking on the main page is called ct_lrec_031016.js tho that of course would be suject to renaming.

Least I think this is what's going on & I'm blocking the correct thing, if someone else could confirm this it would be nice.

But can it see through womens clothes? THAT is what I want to know!

Sure - but only the ones that look like this.

While I'm disappointed that I have to wait to read the other two parts of this critique, I'm glad it's being posted at all. This is a game worth in-depth analysis.

One of my favourite aspects of video games is the representation of the real world. Many people are enthusiastic about this aspect of gaming but most don't share my take on the subject. I wouldn't be a Slashdotter if I wasn't wowed by pixel shaders and bump mapping and advanced AI, but what really fascinates me is the artistic representation of reality - the statement made about our world facilitated by creative use of limited resources.

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is one of the greatest contenders in this field as its depiction of a fictional California-esque state is totally astounding, replete with buildings, streets, varied geography, natural wonders, rolling landscapes, and all juxtaposed by a pissed-off populace. There's a great scene in Lucasarts' Grim Fandango where Manny Calavera, protagonist and reaper, travels to the realm of the living to collect the souls of recently poisoned fast food patrons, and the real world is quite a ridiculous caricature that is completely alien through the eyes of residents of the land of the dead.

Katamari Damacy is unique in that the protagonists are not human at all, but permanent residents of deep space. To The King of All Cosmos and The Prince, Earth is one planet of millions, but it is not just any planet. The Earth is populated by excitable little people who have absolutely littered their entire planet with stuff, and it is this stuff that makes Earth a suitable place to collect materials to repopulate space with stars.

Stuff here, stuff there, stuff everywhere! Not only can anything smaller than your katamari be rolled-up and added to the clump, but every collected item can later be examined replete with a concise but innocently baffling description in the limited omniscient of the space-faring royal family. Some such descriptions of the hundreds upon hundreds of ordinary objects and creatures include:

Coconut Crab -- "A crab with strong claws. It doesn't look anything like a coconut at all..."
Peach -- "A butt-shaped fruit that is more tasty than butts."
Faucet -- "Hot and cold water comes out of the same place. We are amazed."
Loud Momma -- "Her voice is loud and when she laughs, babies start screaming."

This is why the game is deserving of critique - because the game itself is a critique of urban civilization. It patently points out how much more complex and frivolous and ludicrous our lifestyle is compared to the orderly motion of the galactic ocean.

Furthermore, this analysis goes to show how effective the game is at alleviating stress! Consider all the things you worry about in a day - the cost of living, pollution, rush hour traffic, long lines, crime, the environment, the fact that you'll never visit all the places you want to see, etc. All these things become insignificant in Katamari Damacy. You needn't worry about any issues - any objects - larger than your katamari until later on because for now they are simply obstacles, and anything smaller is all but an insignificant bump. To The Prince, ignorance is bliss. All that matters is to keep on rolling. Put your frustrations aside, block out all unneccesary data, and just keep on rolling. Just push and push, your katamari grows and grows, and before you know it you're towering over people and cars and buildings and mountains until the very curvature of the planet is a minute detail of the great cosmic tapestry.

There are a million possible interpretations of this depiction of reality. One could argue that the game is an advocate of Buddhism, declaring earthly luxuries as mere white noise. Or pe

Think like a programmer! You can always improve the interface to be more user friendly.

Holy crap! (Pardon the pun). A few modifications and this thing could be your workstation chair. Really kick those coding marathons into high-gear!

"Buy 50 cases of Bawls and get a GreatJohn office chair for half off!" Coming soon to ThinkGeek.

Anybody else notice this? On the download page for the Y!M Beta, there are three icons besides the msgr8us.exe one: Internet Exploder, Mozilla Firefox, and ymsgr7.exe.
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/msg/7/scr/d ownload_ns_step2_2.gif Here is the picture with the Firefox icon.

Just because it's got a window doesn't mean it doesn't have fans.

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Great, now how is this guygoing to afford his lifestyle?

heh, reminds me of this Tom Toles gem the other day.

Smoking does not cause cancer.
Okay, it does, but I'm addicted. ...

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The judge offerred his retort.

...allowing the sale of violent games, Arnold decided to have a few words with the judge

For some reason, the other photos of her have all but dissappeared. Nothing on Google. Perhaps the NSA could cough up the others?

I mean, just so we know who the enemy is.

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Believe it or not, some of us actually enjoy our lives every now and then.

I'm glad your enjoying all of this.

The following was excerpted from the NIMF Video Game Report Card:

Using data generated by PSVratings, a content-based ratings system measuring actual levels of profanity, sex, and violence, we found that games in 2004 were on average more violent, contained more sexual content and had more profane language when compared to games from the late '90s. In the '90s only 16% of the M-rated games contained any profanity at all and only 33% contained sexual content. By 2004 all (100%) of the M-rated games contained some level of profanity and sexual content. The actual figures shot through the roof. The games we analyzed from last year were 30 times more likely to contain profanity than those from the '90s, and the average prevalence of sexual content increased a whopping 800%. Kids are six times more likely to see nude or partially nude figures in M-rated video games today than they were in the late 1990s. Yet the ratings haven't changed. -- PSVratings Provides Crucial Data for NIMF's 10th Annual Video Game Report Card: Ratings Accuracy Plummets from 'B-' in 2004 to 'F' in 2005

This isn't loony Jack Thompson here, these are the people who are actually behind the current legislation. Why are they upset?

Well, here's what I believe happened. In the original crisis, the one that created the rating system, the two games that drove the rating system were Night Trap a pretty mild probably PG-rated vaguely interactive B-Horror movie and Mortal Kombat a game where poorly animated cartoon characters killed each other in humorously gruesome ways. (I can't give more info on how bad Night Trap actually is because even though I was one of 5 people in the US with a SegaCD, I didn't buy it. I'm going by the footage they showed during the hearings to damn it. Oh, and someone will probably argue that the characters in Mortal Kombat aren't cartoon characters. Well, then when Monty Python made cartoons using cutouts of photographs, those weren't cartoons either.) Huge amounts of hyperbole about these video games came out of Washington, and the games industry basically allowed Washington to get away with it (indeed the game industry itself was divided, with Nintendo being one of the causes of the crises trying to harm their competitor, SEGA. Nintendo sent the video tape to their friends in Congress that precipitated the whole thing.)

Well, those two games became the top of the ratings, the M-Rated games, but they were milder than what kids could see in an episode of Beavis and Butthead or indeed The Simpson's (really there is some gruesome stuff on The Simpson's remember the fog that turns people inside out?).

So, the games industry came out with a rating system, and I guess they figured they didn't need to try to license the movie rating system, so they created their own. While the system was roughly analogous to the movie rating system, the truth was that at least on the top end, an R-Rated movie could be much more graphic than an M-Rated game. Oh, and the wonderful full-motion video thing that people tried to foist on the game playing public collapsed, so you ended up with years of poorly animated cartoony games especially when polygons became big. (Really, go back and look at some of those old 3-D Playstation games. They didn't exactly have realistic imagery, did they?) Oh and no nudity or real profanity in the games at all.

So, people got used to defacto censorship in video games. Nothing really worse than Mortal Kombat was allowed. Really the 90's were a kind of golden age for the pro-videogame censorship people.

Why am I getting visions of Michael Jacksons jacket from the music video "Beat It"? :p

Copernicus ...looks strikingly similar to... Dr. Zefram Cochrane.

some of the games which i liked is spicetrade www.spicetrade.org as well as http://us.games2.yimg.com/download.games.yahoo.com /games/buzz/content/p/7/102757/food_force_installe r.exe which is a game where it's UN+food packets thing is happening. Don't remember the web url for the description & all but still a nice game. Spicetrade is better. I hope we see more of the earlier free as in beer as well as in souce games.

An image of one of these robotic patient training kits can be found here.

I did that but it removes all the cr/lfs from the file. But what do you know it works fine here. Some of mine are redundant but it seems two work pretty well for me. YMMV

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Sorry, IMHO, any blame here goes from the bottom up.

The hurricane was still in Mississippi Tuesday morning. They certainly could not move in earlier than that. They arrived Friday. Is 3 days too long? Maybe. But considering they need to get men and equipment to a city that's flooded and nearly surrounded by destroyed bridges, it's not slow at all.

That aside, the blame really should be placed in the hands of the Mayor and Governor. They had since Friday night to begin getting food and water into the shelters and into the dome. They even had over 200 school buses they could have employed to help evacuate people, but they left them to get flooded.

You want someone to blame? Blame the Mayor and Governor. They should have been the most interested in protecting their city, but seem to have been the least interested until it was too late.

i'm not kidding

Actually, for the Final Fantasy movie, they took great care in making the skin very realistic (with defects, ...).
Aki's hand
Aki's face
Dr Sid
The problem was stiffness in the facial expressions.

No, it won't!

The Chinese aren't being left behind in the obesity wars either..

(Anyone else reminded of Thunder from Big Trouble in Little China?)

Damn, the RCMP has just shown up again and suggested that I am being anti-Canadian, or, as he non-threatenly held my nuts over a bear trap, suggested that I get my American ass back over the border.

"What are you doing in Canada?"

for an aging actor to get into Lori McCreary's pants. I can't blame him - she's easy on the eyes.

O'course, having seen his off-camera personality, I suspect he's more into the one he has his arm around.

Scene: (Playing in the background: Aretha Franklin, "Baby I love you")

If you want my lovin
If you really do
Don't be afra-aid bab-ay
Just ask me
Ya know I'm gonna give it to you...

I'm in a dark room somewhere in the holding cells of Guantananmo. It's dark, hot and moist. Both my feet and hands are handcuffed to the floor. I am naked and my ass is pointed towards the door. She enters with a couple of well muscled Secret Service agents. The agents laugh. She takes off her long coat, revealing a leather corset and high heel leather boots. She approves what she sees with a snort and picks up a whip from the nearby table. It looks like my mistress knows what she wants to do with me. The agents tie a strap-on dildo on her hips. It is 8" long, black and thick. It's nothing like any dick I've taken up my ass before. I shiver in fear. She lubes the dildo and gives me the "Ya know I'm gonna give it to you" grin.

She walks closer. I love the way her wide hips move. Jesus that hurt! She just hit me.... but now I know what's in store for me. And I love it.

Here's a few links to some photos of the phone I found:
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"We'll catch that wasc'lly Google! Huhuhuhuhuh...."

How sad... he's devolved from this to this and finally into Elmer Fudd...

aims to operate at a record-breaking 223 miles per hour -- faster than many propeller airplanes

The train only needs to be fast enough to outrun Godzilla the next time he decides to stomp Tokyo. Of course, they'd need some kind of shielding to protect against his breath which they can't outrun. I don't think those really cute Hello Kitty ears really help with aerodynamics.

Where did you find a Gnome with a built-in clock?

But since she's not that much of a payload, the pictures might as well be of a guy wearing a Stormtrooper costume doing deep knee bends.
It's not quite a stormtrooper, but it's close

It demonstrably helps the wearer pick up women.

Holy Crap! Michael Jackson is, uh, was, err, kinda... aw fuck it...

NASA is saying that they are using even more advanced designs and materials on th Phoenix mission.

Looks like it is true too, just check out the Robotic Claw they designed for digging!

I, for one, welcome our Software Technical Union Derivative Standards (Studs) overlords.

sorry

my favorite indy comic

Check out the screenshot of the hacked website... somebody is still using OS 9!

Imagine this, you have your father's office laptop (very costly IBM Thinkpad in 1999) on the coffee table running HellBender at a grainy 640x480 (I'm in that grotto with the ceiling guns). You have a small jar of payasam sitting there on the table. It was wrapped in a plastic bag with a couple of rubber bands (it was made the day before and kept in the fridge). I take the jar, open the plastic without looking up from the game. You know , the rubber band snapped and next thing you know the laptop keyboard is coated in sticky COLD payasam with vermicelli sticking to the padded keyboard bottom.