There was a study I read about a while back (In Malcom Gladwell's Blink, maybe?) where people were shown random faces and asked to rate that person's attractiveness. While the person was looking, one of three smells was wafted under a person's nose, a control which had no smell, a very slight lemony-fresh scent, and a strong(but still good-smelling) lemony scent. The subjects rated people more attractive with the slight smell than the control, but if the smell was strong enough that the person could consciously smell the odor, all of the attractiveness-boost was lost.
I'll let someone with more google-fu whore out for the +5 informative, if they wish.:-P
The Prime Minister of Madacasgar, Monja Roindefo, has ordered the ports of this African island nation closed. Advisors to the Prime Minister informed him of some instances of disease in Mexico. "Someone was coughing," they said. Mr. Roindefo is reported to have responded with an order to "shut down everything."
Sweet suitable response sent from your suite, you svelte suited sweetie.You suitably swatted that petite seated piece of meat. You're so cool, your sweet suite is probably off in far off Swetes!
I want to thank all of the noble Slashdot readers who tagged this story "Pronk," yet again proving their intelligence and foresight in picking a tag which I am sure will occur again and often in the future. Their brave efforts at usefully categorizing articles never ceases to astound.
Well that shouldn't be a problem, just create some sort of low-cost clone to do the grunt work on the off-world colonies... something that we can just pump out thousands of, replicate them somehow?
You know, it's for comments like these I wish the moderation system was more varied, because you deserve a "+2, Hilarious" mod.
In the event that Taco is reading, I also suggest "+3, Ruined my keyboard", "-2, You're an idiot", and "-3, No one should be able to hold their sphincter that far open" moderation options.
What you describe is exactly how Firefox works. Several times I have gone to view an image from Google and instead of displaying the image FF pops up a dialog box asking to download the image.
Seriously, editors, this is Slashfuckingdot. If there is a single place on the whole internet where you need to be more careful about throwing around the capitalized word 'Enterprise', point me there, please.
For future reference, this also goes for the terms 'Serenity','Falcon', and 'Nebuchadnezzar.'
Wow. You just turned a pretty hilarious geek joke about the most classic geek movie in history into a depressing and cynical commentary on the state of our society. You might be the most depressing person in history. Congratulations.
It is a shame that Huckabee is no longer in the media. while I never particularly agreed with what his policies or attitudes were when I read about them in the papers or online, when I had the opportunity to hear him speak in a debate or the time he was on Colbert's program I always found myself nodding along and liking what he said, even if after the fact I would do a double-take and realize he was arguing against abortion or for increased religiosity(which go as against my young-college-student mindset as anything can:-P). He really was a very persuasive speaker, and had the Clinton-esque(Bill, not Hillary.) demeanor you couldn't help but like.
I think something like 300, or the Lord of the Rings don't deserve to be criticized for being "simply a remake," because before them there wasn't really any TV show or movie that did the same thing. The transfer from something which is already in film is a lot easier than one from a book. The transfer from a comic book is slightly more tenuous in its category as "Original content," but it still holds, in my opinion.
I Am Legend was a mistake on my part, no argument there. Not only is it the remake of a movie based on a book, that book has been made into a movie three times now. Whoops!
1. Spider-Man 3
2. Shrek the Third
3. Transformers
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. I Am Legend
7. Bourne Ultimatum
8. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks
10. 300
11. Ratatouille
12. The Simpsons Movie
13. Wild Hogs
14. Knocked Up
15. Rush Hour 3
16. Juno
17. Live Free or Die Hard
18. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
19. American Gangster
20. Enchanted //Bolded all the iterative ones..
Any word on whether Bill Nye will be returning?(In classic slashdot fashion, I haven't read the article yet, but I figure something like that would be summary-worthy news...)
That was probably one of the few things they could have done to make a show with giant fighting machines any better, putting Bill Nye on.
I would think Adam & Jaime(the Mythbusters, for those who don't know) would make pretty good hosts too, if they didn't, you know, already have their own TV show...
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There was a study I read about a while back (In Malcom Gladwell's Blink, maybe?) where people were shown random faces and asked to rate that person's attractiveness. While the person was looking, one of three smells was wafted under a person's nose, a control which had no smell, a very slight lemony-fresh scent, and a strong(but still good-smelling) lemony scent. The subjects rated people more attractive with the slight smell than the control, but if the smell was strong enough that the person could consciously smell the odor, all of the attractiveness-boost was lost.
:-P
I'll let someone with more google-fu whore out for the +5 informative, if they wish.
No no, they have elves, it's the fairies that they're missing. :-P
The Prime Minister of Madacasgar, Monja Roindefo, has ordered the ports of this African island nation closed. Advisors to the Prime Minister informed him of some instances of disease in Mexico. "Someone was coughing," they said. Mr. Roindefo is reported to have responded with an order to "shut down everything."
...modify it to suite this situation...
Sweet suitable response sent from your suite, you svelte suited sweetie.You suitably swatted that petite seated piece of meat. You're so cool, your sweet suite is probably off in far off Swetes!
Cue response taking offense at trivializing the Holocaust in three, two, one...
I want to thank all of the noble Slashdot readers who tagged this story "Pronk," yet again proving their intelligence and foresight in picking a tag which I am sure will occur again and often in the future. Their brave efforts at usefully categorizing articles never ceases to astound.
Well that shouldn't be a problem, just create some sort of low-cost clone to do the grunt work on the off-world colonies... something that we can just pump out thousands of, replicate them somehow?
A much better list, if only because it is presented on one page!
Though, I can't say I agree with the amount of Zoids or Transformers stuff on there. At least it has the Doomsday Machine from Start Trek.
Score:5, Insightful.
Oh Slashdot, how I love thee.
You know, it's for comments like these I wish the moderation system was more varied, because you deserve a "+2, Hilarious" mod.
In the event that Taco is reading, I also suggest "+3, Ruined my keyboard", "-2, You're an idiot", and "-3, No one should be able to hold their sphincter that far open" moderation options.
Completely incorrect. Fruit of the poisonous tree only applies to searches done by the police. Fruit from the poisoness applies only to Batman.
Am I the only one who thought that link would lead to some sort of gun that shot knives?
...
No one?
Only on Slashdot would this be considered "informative"...
Er... what?
That's actually a blog post by Wil Wheaton.
What you describe is exactly how Firefox works. Several times I have gone to view an image from Google and instead of displaying the image FF pops up a dialog box asking to download the image.
For future reference, this also goes for the terms 'Serenity','Falcon', and 'Nebuchadnezzar.'
I don't know who the hell modded you down as a troll, as your post is possibly the one most deserving of Insightful that I have ever seen.
*Crosses fingers* Oh, please don't be goatse, please don't be goatse, please don't be goatse...
A link to wikipedia, mcgrew? I am shocked, shocked at the lack of Uncyclopedia in that post! :-P
Wow. You just turned a pretty hilarious geek joke about the most classic geek movie in history into a depressing and cynical commentary on the state of our society. You might be the most depressing person in history. Congratulations.
It is a shame that Huckabee is no longer in the media. while I never particularly agreed with what his policies or attitudes were when I read about them in the papers or online, when I had the opportunity to hear him speak in a debate or the time he was on Colbert's program I always found myself nodding along and liking what he said, even if after the fact I would do a double-take and realize he was arguing against abortion or for increased religiosity(which go as against my young-college-student mindset as anything can :-P). He really was a very persuasive speaker, and had the Clinton-esque(Bill, not Hillary.) demeanor you couldn't help but like.
I think something like 300, or the Lord of the Rings don't deserve to be criticized for being "simply a remake," because before them there wasn't really any TV show or movie that did the same thing. The transfer from something which is already in film is a lot easier than one from a book. The transfer from a comic book is slightly more tenuous in its category as "Original content," but it still holds, in my opinion.
I Am Legend was a mistake on my part, no argument there. Not only is it the remake of a movie based on a book, that book has been made into a movie three times now. Whoops!
1. Spider-Man 3
2. Shrek the Third
3. Transformers
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. I Am Legend
7. Bourne Ultimatum
8. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
9. Alvin and the Chipmunks
10. 300
11. Ratatouille
12. The Simpsons Movie
13. Wild Hogs
14. Knocked Up
15. Rush Hour 3
16. Juno
17. Live Free or Die Hard
18. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
19. American Gangster
20. Enchanted
//Bolded all the iterative ones..
8/20? Ouch, worse than I thought. All those remakes and third-ofs must have slipped my mind, though I will confess, I really liked Bourne Ultimatum... (Source: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?yr=2007&p=.htm)
Any word on whether Bill Nye will be returning?(In classic slashdot fashion, I haven't read the article yet, but I figure something like that would be summary-worthy news...) That was probably one of the few things they could have done to make a show with giant fighting machines any better, putting Bill Nye on. I would think Adam & Jaime(the Mythbusters, for those who don't know) would make pretty good hosts too, if they didn't, you know, already have their own TV show...