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  1. Oooh! on Lord Of The Rings Pinball Machine Announced · · Score: 2, Funny

    This would be especially cool if the pinballs were translucent crystal-looking and glowed like miniature palantiri. :)

  2. Re:Quick... on LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So do they wind up getting XP if they fail the saving throw? ;)

  3. Re:Bah on Canada Dismayed Over Quebec Terrorist Game Plot · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but there's a big difference between "widely reported" and "appearing in a video game that no one would have thought twice about if it weren't for the super-sensitivity about terrorism lately."

  4. Bah on Canada Dismayed Over Quebec Terrorist Game Plot · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A potential terrorist target is a potential terrorist target whether or not somebody says it's one. In fact, you're worsening the danger by *not* pointing out something like that, since likely not enough will be done about the problem otherwise. "...dangerous thing to do"? Bah. It's not like there's some Separatist at an underground cafe right now slapping his forehead and saying "Sacre merde, the subway! Why didn't we think of this?"

  5. Clunky... on Microsoft Raises Security Game, Notes Shortcomings Elsewhere · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course the clunkiest feature of Office is the part where you have pay several hundred dollars for it. I wish they'd get that bug ironed out already.

  6. Re:Slightly off topic on Flight Sims As Effective Pilot Learning Tools · · Score: 1

    Depends on the aircraft, since there are different sets.

    Austin (the guy that does X-Plane) has some recommendations on this page (scroll down), and seems to prefer CH Products line of USB products, although (as he points out), anything will do.

  7. With apologies... on Former Blizzard Staffers Announce New Studio · · Score: 1

    I guess they were tired of being left out in the, ah, "cold", as it were.

  8. Successful Character == Successful Story on What Defines Successful Game Characters? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You can't have a successful character without either a successful story or an aesthetic quality of some sort that overrides the lack of interest-holding narrative. Just like fictional characters.

  9. Re:Unixy? on The Art of Unix Programming · · Score: 2, Funny

    I blame the Smurfs.

  10. Re:Compression - WOW! wait, I mean HOW? on University Chooses Apple RAID for Linux Cluster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, you can store a lot of compressed pictures of polar bears in blizzards in 3KB!

  11. Gabe & Tycho are split on Max Payne 2 Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yesterday's Penny Arcade weighs in with its own review. :)

  12. Re:What's up with Slashdot? on Text Mining the Multiverse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is OT, but read this journal entry from CmdrTaco.

  13. ARCHAEOLOGY TODAY on Tall People Earn More · · Score: 1

    Interviewer ...Sir Robert Eversley, who's just returned from the excavations in El Ara, and you must be well over six foot. Isn't that right, Sir Robert?

    Sir Robert (puzzled) Yes.

    Interviewer In fact, I think you're six foot five aren't you?

    Sir Robert Yes.

    Applause from off. Sir Robert looks up in amazement.

    Interviewer Oh, that's marvelous. I mean you're a totally different kind of specimen to Professor Kastner. Straight in your seat, erect, firm.

    Sir Robert Yes. I thought we were here to discuss archaeology....

    (full skit here)

  14. Nice interview on Dungeons and Dragons Online Interview With Turbine · · Score: 1

    That was a cool interview, albeit short. In the discussion that followed it, I enjoyed the comments about the dragon hoards. Instead of it artificially disappearing after x amount of time, though, it would be cooler if a crapload of other monsters and/or PC/NPC adventurers started showing up to get a piece of the action. Epic battles ensue, and the original dragon killers are already weakened by their first fight -- do they stay and fight it out in their condition or grab what they can and jam? In any case, sounds like D&DO is at least being thought out well.

  15. Hmmm on Top 10 Ways To Lose Your Data · · Score: 1

    Laptop being shot in anger (naturally); laptop fell off a moped and was run over by lorry

    Wasn't this a scene in the last Matrix movie? ;)

  16. Re:Other updates today on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    I believe so, yes. Check this page for more info.

  17. Can't be said enough... on Project Gutenberg Publishes 10,000th Free eBook · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Come join the proofreaders that make Project Gutenberg possible!

  18. Re:Whoa. on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 1

    No flames here. Pepsi is teh suck. ;)

  19. Other updates today on Apple Releases iTunes for Windows · · Score: 4, Informative

    For Mac OS X users, check your Software Update, as QuickTime has been revved to 6.4, iPod software hits 2.1, and iTunes itself is now at 4.1.

  20. Re:Another book about style on The Substance of Style · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Avoid needless words."

    Or Mark Twain's original: "Eschew surplusage."

  21. Re:Bah on Internet Speed Record Broken (Again) · · Score: 1

    You know it's funny, but I can't seem to find an IEEE standard for "athakur999." ;)

  22. Re:Funny... on Wired Interview with Linus Torvalds · · Score: 4, Funny

    (now ex)

    Well that's a surprise. ;)

  23. Brave, brave people. on Largest Hubble Mosaics Ever Assembled · · Score: 2, Informative

    Very brave of them to make a 211 MB TIFF file available for download on this page. ;)

  24. Re:Let's see... on 50 Games Industry Figures To Watch? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe this is just like in Soviet Russia...

    In Soviet Russia, dead horse kicks you.

  25. Super Geek Connection on Flash-Freezing Squirrels · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A variety of the New Zealand weta (a cool cricket for which the LotR FX studio is named), has developed special proteins that enable it to survive through harsh alpine winters in a sort of hibernation with up to 80% of its body water frozen.