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  1. They always say it... on Hackers On Atkins · · Score: 5, Insightful
    ...but exercise!!! Most of us eat right, etc, but are actually fairly imobile people. Get up! Get out! Walk around!!!!!! Not just for weight loss or building muscle, but just to be healthy.

    Also, its good to eat a regular portion. If you stuffed yourself, you probably ate too much. Most restaurants will give you a dump-truck full so long as you hit their price point or $5~7 per person.

    IANAD, but that's just my thoughts.

  2. Re:What? on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely wonderful.

  3. Re:What? on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 1

    Most definately... I was commuting for some time 2 hours a day total, and yeah... you get to hearing the same shit. NPR was the only thing that was fresh every time I listened. Props to: The World Cafe, This American Life, Fresh Air, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered. They need a paypal link ;p

  4. Regional success on Who Needs Radio? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Spoke with a guy from a local band The Sun who recently got signed to Warner Brothers... I gave him the usual speil about them being glorified banks, and he basically said "well, our drummer had a baby... we kinda needed the money..."

    We went on to discuss, however, that *regional* bands with not much beyond their own PR machine can and do acheive success in a DIY way. The local music scene of Columbus, OH, where I'm from for instance, is very encouraging.

    A local band called Wigglepussy, Indiana is having so much success behind thier own marketing, that it spawned somewhat of a marketing-firm in and of itself.

    I think this is what we need to... music from us, and for us, from where we are.

  5. The #1 Article on Project Censored 2003 Underreported Stories · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I've been following this for some time... People may remember the "Truth behind 911" video that is available via Bittorrent at Suprnova (search for Suprnova mirrors via Google)

    Check out: http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmeric asDefenses.pdf

    This has been quite disturbing to everyone I've talked to about it... My wife flat out refuses to talk to be about it because it makes so much sense and is so upsetting... This has gotten a lot of press lately. Check out:

    911 and the Bush Administration
    The Guardian

    Those with Weblogs should contribute to the weblog project mentioned on Metafilter about this:
    WHO were you?

    Unfortunately, it just makes more sense that we provoked these arabic countries to either let us build a pipeline to feed China with Oil, or we would do it by force. "A carpet of Gold, or a carpet of Bombs..."

  6. Well with any hardware... on MSI's Home Theatre PC Reviewed · · Score: 4, Informative
    ... you can make an HTPC. There are lots of projects out there... (isn't there a linux distro for a media jukebox?)

    For Windows, check out myHTPC... I've been playing with that for some time. Its got a good community, getting ready for a second generation, and works well with my older ATI all-in wonder! Quite a fun thing to do, and my wife appreciates the outcome!

  7. Comics! on Old-school Nerdy Comics · · Score: 1

    Who doesn't love them... and radioshack was so much fun as a kid in the 80s.... you had the *potential* right smack dab in the mall.

  8. 97x... BAM... the FUTURE of ROCK AND ROLL on Discovering New Music? · · Score: 2

    WOXY (as recited by Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man) has been one of my favorites for hearing good stuff. Also, the world cafe on NPR.

  9. Women's Issues on Ask William Shatner · · Score: 2

    Your character often (if not mostly) found his way into the hearts of many women. How do you feel the portrayal of the female has changed? Is it better and more respectful now, or is it more subversive?

  10. Interesting Rigging for Stability on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Most interesting is the rigging! This suspention reduces flopping about as the whole thing would have to lift and spin to tip sideways. Ingenious! Although, a very old idea...

  11. Re:how about X10 on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yup! They do it too! ... of course not x10 specifically, but still cool. What is nice is using video through the view finder (or close thereof) to get better still photos from the camera on the rig.

  12. Re:We don't need no stinkin' kite! on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 1

    That is truely amazing! I've thought about balloons for days when the wind was not blowing. They could be just as easily controlled as kites. Every do much hobby at all, or you just mainly scientific? Either way, it sure it cool.

  13. Re:Estes Rocket on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I looked into these, radio controlled airplanes, and others. Kites are a) very cool b) very broad in design c) what spawned aircraft. It's also fairly cheap combined with the amount of control. You can go up to SLR cameras (any may do) and I've seen enough sadness in my dad's RC plane buddies to know that losing a plane *and* a camera would be devistating. Kites of course need wind, and in lack of wind there's always balloons, but I felt in my study of all of this that it was less risky than other low-altitude photography.

  14. Re:balloons? on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 2

    A lot of people use ballons (or blimps) for similar low-altitude pictures. Helicopters and remote control airplanes... whatever coincides with your other hobbies ;p

  15. I've done it... it's easy on Kite Aerial Photography · · Score: 5, Informative
    Check out my house! This was done with the LASS system... VERY satisfying hobby, and I encourage more to do it! Kite stability (an oxymoron for those who fly kites, as the fun is that they go all over) is really key. The line has a lot of vibration, and it can be scary seeing your investment bobbing around in the sky, or heading for the ground!

    Those along waterfronts know that daily patterns of onshore and offshore breezes can aid in getting good wind.

    Brooks Leffler pioneered the art with a magazine (!!!) that he still has back issues of. He even sells stabilizing tails. The most stunning pictures in my opinion have been by the vastly-experienced Chris Benton... he inspired my finally getting into this. $100 for the kite, $80 for the camera, $100 radio+misc, and you're up and going.

  16. Re:What I want on USB Key-Sized MP3 Player With LCD Display · · Score: 1

    This American Life!!!! w000000t! Most of these shows, of course, have some sort of online repository.

  17. What do we have today? on Living on Internet Time... Like Thomas Edison Did · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Headaches, and the careers of 1000's that we take for granted.

  18. Re:I gotta be honest... on Do You Like Your Job? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey man... keep up the work. I know its rough, and after almost one year I was able to find something.

  19. Can you smell the Vaporware? on Control Digital Audio With Turntables · · Score: 1, Troll
    This is such old vaporware that even Wired covered this a long time ago. I feel bad for submitting a story to slashdot when I first heard about it.

    It's really a nice idea, stratch some digital information to communicate how your scratching, and then let the computer scratch whatever audio. However, I think it's going to be vaporware for sometime as I think they're having problems with the hardware.

  20. What they do in the sticks! on Mobile IT Education? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Out here in rural ohio, the local tech school has a mobile lab of like 10 machines. They also have overhead projector I believe. Basically it's just an old mobile home stripped out, and they bill it out onsite at like $170 an hour.

    Works for them!

  21. MODERATORS - MODERATORS -MODERATORS -MODERATORS on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 2

    What the hell is wrong with you? This thread is highly informative, and I'm not a troll.

  22. Au contraire on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I would say it is almost the opposite. I think Linux is very stable for the server end, but what about the desktop?!

    I'll tell ya, I tried the preemptive patches, and all the -ac stuff naturally, and well, the desktop just isn't snappy ... I mean, Windows (follow me here) just feels better. I don't need a force feedback mouse or anything, it just doesn't not show me that it is rendering a window... and that's something that Gnome was doing even on 450 mhz machine.

    Also, even with the preemptive patches, I could hold down a key in, say, star office or abi word, and it would stutter! Hold down the arrow key, and it stutters.

    These are basic inferace issues that could use some due attention before Linux is ever ready for the desktop.

  23. Bad style on Rearranging Pixels For Performance · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I wish I could do this for my appearance... I need help I say! Perhaps I could rearrange my hair to something that at least *looks* like something I like, and perhaps it could turn my khaki's to courd's.

  24. Too little too late on Covad Set To Emerge From Bankruptcy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As someone who lost their job (and one that I really really liked too) because of the bankrupcy, I'd just like to say that this is nice and all, but what are we to learn about emerging markets?
    We were a reseller, and well, perhaps we jumped into it soon, but heck, we couldn't compete with cable, and DSL was the first to offer a sales chain so that we could keep our customers. We lost our customers, so they had to let me go (the reprovisioning person!!! hehe ah well).
    The big bells still have DSL by the balls (I mean, after all it is their stuff, and they get support/technical/installation priority), so is small business connectivity provisioning going towards the relm of the phone/cable companies?

  25. Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name on Microsoft Watching What You Watch · · Score: 4, Flamebait
    I'm sorry to be anti-anti here, but seriously, the #1 factor in business is Marketing!!!! Marketing! I mean, admit it, when ThinkGeek has something phat on the banner ad above the news, don't tell me you don't click on it...

    I think privacy went out the window a long time ago with marketing, but we have to consider that our privacy has two parts: our unique life, and our generalized interaction with this world. If you look at my mail, I bet you could guess that I work on computers. That's fine as far as I'm concerned, and I think privacy on a large scale is still very much in tact. Microsoft doesn't care that I went to Meijer this morning for coffee, and that it was exactly 3.5 miles from my house, and that I walked about 20 steps to get into my place. That's my privacy!!! Not the fact that I work in computers. Yes I would like less junk mail... no I do not want my government records available for download, but as far as everything else, I accept that this is what drives the money around.