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  1. Re:Help me gauge my happiness/sadness/outrage on Borders Books, Dead At 40 · · Score: 1

    If you were to blindfold me and place me in the middle of a Barnes and Noble or Borders it would be a 50/50 guess which store I'm in.

    Go by the smell. In my experience, after you get past the coffee scent, Borders has some undertones of cardboard, where B&N is more "plastic-y."

  2. Re:It's their own fault. on Borders Books, Dead At 40 · · Score: 1

    Not sure when they *had* a "mom and pop" look? By the time I got to Ann Arbor in 1982, they were already "snobby U of M rich guy in a turtleneck." But, in their defense, it was also the only place in town that stocked The Curse of Lono.

  3. Re:Zork! on How Do You Get Your Geek Nostalgia Fix? · · Score: 1

    Are they available as iApps?

    You've probably already looked it up, but there's a free Z-code interpreter called "Frotz" in the iTunes Music Store.

    Several Zork games were released by Activision as freeware a few years back, so the games are available here, among other places (I think there are a few links from the Wikipedia entry).

  4. Re:And GMail gets a pass? on Why Yahoo Should Abandon Email Scanning · · Score: 1

    About the closest you'll get to "free" is one bundled with something you already pay for (e.g. through your ISP).

    Where are the [irony] tags? My ISP (AT&T) bundles Yahoo for e-mail.

  5. Re:Only one way to fix this on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1

    Call me nuts, but what OS would that be?

    Mac OS 9.

  6. Re:Smart... on Glasses-Free 3D On iPad (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    But it won't be truly convincing (and thus headache-free) until we fully reconstruct the three-dimensional light-field that should properly be emanating from the virtual objects.

    I've seen that 3D box. It's called a "puppet show."

  7. Re:Tesla on Top Gear Fights Back At Tesla · · Score: 1

    That would be Nic Tesla.

  8. Re:Obligatory XKCD on WP7 Predicted To Beat iPhone By 2015 · · Score: 1

    (yeah, I know it's offtopic) the 3D actually works on this one. Cool!

  9. Re:Have you RTFA? on An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress · · Score: 1

    Yes, I have RTFA, and it's nonsensical. "An App That Turns Any Drawing Into a Dress" by deconstructing the dress into a series of triangular planes works great if your drawing is of a dress made up of triangles (as in the two examples shown). duh. Let's see how it handles a real-world example.

  10. Re:First Chapter on Best-Selling Author Refuses $500k; Self-Publishes Instead · · Score: 1

    The first chapter is rarely enough for me to determine if I like something.

    Well, it's usually enough for me to determine if I don't like something, and save me some money (I'm talkin' to you, Dan Brown).

  11. Re:Funny... on Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees · · Score: 1

    Earning 10 times the minimum wage doesn't make you rich. Here in Texas, you'd be upper middle-class. In California, you probably still couldn't afford a house in a decent neighborhood.

  12. Re:Production? on Volkswagen Unveils 313 MPG XL1, Slates Production For 2013 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it looks an awful lot like VW has either bought the design or stolen the talent form Loremo, which started out four years ago with figures like these for fuel economy. Like I said, it's four years later, they haven't built a car yet, and projected economy is doen to 120 mpg for the 2-cylinder turbodiesel.

  13. Re:Adventures not dead! on The Rise and Fall of Graphic Adventure Games · · Score: 1

    Myst and Riven have both been ported. I'm sure there are more.

  14. Re:Missing the Dystopian Batmobile on Evolution of the Batmobile · · Score: 1

    Best. Batmobile. Evar. Higher-quality image here

  15. Re:Use a real alarm clock on iPhone Alarms Hit By New Year's Bug · · Score: 1

    No international time zones would be helpful too; set everyone's clocks to the same time around the world. Sure it might confuse some, but I'm sure people would get the hang of it after a while.

    It's been tried, about a decade ago. They called it "Internet time." And no, it didn't catch on, in spite of being promoted by lots of heavy hitters (CNN included it in their online masthead.) I think the biggest problem was that Swatch let their ego go just a little too far, and they attempted to move the prime meridian to Switzerland. If they had aligned with Greenwich, it might just have caught on.

  16. Re:Stephenie Meyer is a talentless hack on 7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail · · Score: 1

    Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

    Ditto, great book, but I didn't really want to put it on a shelf in my house. I was able to check it out form the public library.

  17. old news if you use sidebars on Bicycles As a Gateway To Government Control · · Score: 1

    Those of us with the Salon sidebar aleady saw this in This Week in Crazy

  18. Re:This site describes the machine on Information On Philips' "Coffee" Machine? · · Score: 1

    I watched WarGames last night (It was on THIS TV)

    Which TV?

    Third base!

  19. Re:UFS. on Best Format For OS X and Linux HDD? · · Score: 1

    MacDrive does a good job of accessing HFS+ from Windows and HFSExplorer or Apple's Boot Camp driver gives read-only support. MacFUSE can access NTFS and ext2/3, but was slow and/or unstable when I last tried it.

    NTFS-3G offers excellent (and free as in beer) NTFS read/write support all the way back to OS 10.4 PPC. I've found it very stable.

  20. Re:Arrgh! on Tracking Down Wi-Fi Interference? · · Score: 1

    I mean, what are babies good for anyway?

    You're kidding, right? As early as the 18th century, many practical uses had been identified.

  21. Re:Accountability on Arlington National Cemetery's Many IT Flaws · · Score: 1

    volunteer labor for the data entry.

    Heck, for those of us who can't travel, we'll still contribute for free. Put up scanned pages on the Amazon Mechanical Turk.

  22. Re:Laser Cats! on Bionic Cat Gets World's First Implant Paws · · Score: 1

    So it's like saying 'it's nearly entirely entirely normal.

    Which is no problem for a society like ours, when you realize that the translation of "The La Brea Tar Pits" is "the the tar tar pits."

  23. DIY on One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms · · Score: 1
  24. Re:I felt it....ohhh wait. on 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England · · Score: 1
    'Football' is right there in the original name to distinguish it from the other form played at the same time and place--Rugby Football. So, to be pedantic, anyone who provides a correction of "football" to a statement of "soccer" should indeed be countered with "association football."

    And yes, our game has another name--American football, to distinguish it from Canadian and Australian rules for the very similar games (more similar than they are to rugby football or association football).

    They're all football. Can't we all just get along?

  25. I don't think it means what you think it means on America Versus the UFO Hacker · · Score: 1

    Are you talking about Coprolalia, which is one possible (but not the only) symptom of Tourette Syndrome?