It looks to me like Microsoft's version of Blackberry, whose addicted customers just might be forced to seek an alternative shortly. Fairly brilliant move on their part to start leaking now.
Slavery is alive and kicking in many parts of the world! I am not going to come up with a link, since it is so obvious.
Here's a link to the American Anti-Slavery Group, where you can find information on where slavery is currently happening, and what you can do to help:
http://www.iabolish.org/
FYI, they're called "View-Master," and apparently they're no longer available in the vertical-wheel red/orange style I had as a kid.
You just needed to poke around that link a little deeper, and you'd find a model aimed at the nostalgia audience, for the reasonable suggested retail price of $20.
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He had become reclusive with the shock of finding out that real, live women DIDN'T have staples in their navels.
What porn have you been reading that still has staples in the centerfolds? Not only do the good magazines use glue bindings these days, but the stereotypical Coder is more likely to be reading his porn on the net.
At home, I use some giant mousepad I found at CompUSA. Unfortunately, they do not list the product on their website. It is about 4x the size of a normal pad and is the old school fabric over foam type.
You can get a big piece (about 3ft by 4ft) of wetsuit material from American Science and Surplus. It's fabric bonded to neoprene foam, and is pretty much what those old school mouse pads were made of. Scuba Do
In addition to the other sightings mentioned, Tom Baker appeared on a regular basis in a cultish British TV series called 'Randall And Hopkirk Deceased', a modern re-make of a 60s TV series of the same name.
BBC America has been running that lately as part of their "Mystery Monday" block.
Sweet keyboard layout too...I see they've ditched the standard qwerty setup for a sweet, sweet abcdef setup. That should make it MUCH easier for people to use....er...no.
For one thing, their keyboards are available in QWERTY or ABCD. For another thing, if you're a little kid just learning the alphabet, (one of their target audiences) abcd order probably is actually easier.
Recently, CN reran the first episode, and I noticed that you could actually see Nibbler's shadow before Fry falls into the cryochamber. If anyone has the first episode as originally aired, was the shadow always there, or did they edit that into the scene for syndication after they did the episode with the brains?
If it was always there, I'm seriously impressed with the planning that went into the story arc.
that sit-com about slavery where the main character was Lincoln's wisecracking servant (can't remember the name of that one, or whether it was UPN or WB).
UPN - The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer It starred Chi McBride, who most recently was on Boston Common which also starred 7of9. (In an attempt to make this slightly less off-topic)
Enterprise was sold on the principle of a "simpler, earlier Trek". Remember the exolinguist Hoshi? Remember the struggle to communicate? Wasn't that supposed to be a major theme of the series? It took precisely five episodes for the show to go from "omg omg omg the computer will take six hours to translate this so we know if this alien is hostile" to "I'm Captain Archer onboard an alien prison ship but apparently everyone speaks English or the Universal Translator is now small enough to fit invisibly in my ear".
That's the same reason I was never able to get into SG1. Stargate the movie was about how they had to find a guy who studied the right ancient language to be able to read the hieroglyphs, which eventually helped him talk to the natives on the foreign planet, although he even had to struggle to understand them. Stargate the series brings them to a bunch of worlds where everyone speaks English.
Some voyeur projectionist who likes to use night vision goggles to spy on couples making out during the movie is now justified by theoretically looking for pirates.
That's not to say that there are other companies out there who don't base their movies off of other people's content whom they haven't compensated for doing so, but that Disney in particular seems interested in preserving the status quo, and making sure that other people can't make a profit off of the work they've done, even though that's how they made it in the first place.
And that's why Winnie the Pooh came around and bit Disney in the butt - karma!
Their new "Mos Eisley Cantina" set, despite having a dewback-riding stormtrooper that wasn't in the original, has Greedo and Han sitting in their booth and they gave Han a gun, but Greedo doesn't have one. There's no way he could have shot first.
Agreed, [DreamWorks] did a wonderful job. But as I mention a few posts down, no other studio can really claim to have a portfolio (for their type of work) of the caliber of Pixar. That is to say, they have multiple films that are of extremely high quality, both in technical aspects and in storytelling.
As well as the aforementioned Shrek, Antz was a decent story, and had some incredible images. I'd say DreamWorks is in Pixar's league for CG films.
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If they want a plant-based plastic, why don't they just bring back celluloid? It's a proven technology.
Or you can do a lost-wax casting by coating the plastic model in ceramic then melting out the plastic and refilling it with metal.
Will it help you track your WENUS?
So this is the effect of Snakes on a Brain?
If memory serves me well (and it often doesn't), Rad 6000 is something like $600000
Is it an essential component in making a bionic man?
It looks to me like Microsoft's version of Blackberry, whose addicted customers just might be forced to seek an alternative shortly. Fairly brilliant move on their part to start leaking now.
Any women out there who would like help practicing multiplying, I'm available.
How about a variety of nice hats for my lego people, so they aren't all bald?
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There's a set you can get that's just hats & hair:
http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=10067&cn=105&d
FYI, they're called "View-Master," and apparently they're no longer available in the vertical-wheel red/orange style I had as a kid.
You just needed to poke around that link a little deeper, and you'd find a model aimed at the nostalgia audience, for the reasonable suggested retail price of $20.
65 Years Through the Eyes of View-Master® Anniversary Collector Set
What porn have you been reading that still has staples in the centerfolds? Not only do the good magazines use glue bindings these days, but the stereotypical Coder is more likely to be reading his porn on the net.
Oh really. And can you name a good Vim[sic] Diesel movie except for Pitch Black?
Iron Giant.
At home, I use some giant mousepad I found at CompUSA. Unfortunately, they do not list the product on their website. It is about 4x the size of a normal pad and is the old school fabric over foam type.
You can get a big piece (about 3ft by 4ft) of wetsuit material from American Science and Surplus. It's fabric bonded to neoprene foam, and is pretty much what those old school mouse pads were made of.
Scuba Do
Don't forget the avacado-color appliances.
Or burnt orange
And taking out the best songs.
Yub-yub!
In addition to the other sightings mentioned, Tom Baker appeared on a regular basis in a cultish British TV series called 'Randall And Hopkirk Deceased', a modern re-make of a 60s TV series of the same name.
BBC America has been running that lately as part of their "Mystery Monday" block.
For one thing, their keyboards are available in QWERTY or ABCD. For another thing, if you're a little kid just learning the alphabet, (one of their target audiences) abcd order probably is actually easier.
"Hey Good Looking! We'll be back to pick you up later!"
Recently, CN reran the first episode, and I noticed that you could actually see Nibbler's shadow before Fry falls into the cryochamber.
If anyone has the first episode as originally aired, was the shadow always there, or did they edit that into the scene for syndication after they did the episode with the brains?
If it was always there, I'm seriously impressed with the planning that went into the story arc.
UPN - The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer
It starred Chi McBride, who most recently was on Boston Common which also starred 7of9. (In an attempt to make this slightly less off-topic)
That's the same reason I was never able to get into SG1. Stargate the movie was about how they had to find a guy who studied the right ancient language to be able to read the hieroglyphs, which eventually helped him talk to the natives on the foreign planet, although he even had to struggle to understand them. Stargate the series brings them to a bunch of worlds where everyone speaks English.
Some voyeur projectionist who likes to use night vision goggles to spy on couples making out during the movie is now justified by theoretically looking for pirates.
And that's why Winnie the Pooh came around and bit Disney in the butt - karma!
At least the folks at Lego got it right.
Their new "Mos Eisley Cantina" set, despite having a dewback-riding stormtrooper that wasn't in the original, has Greedo and Han sitting in their booth and they gave Han a gun, but Greedo doesn't have one. There's no way he could have shot first.
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As well as the aforementioned Shrek, Antz was a decent story, and had some incredible images. I'd say DreamWorks is in Pixar's league for CG films.