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  1. Re:Touch Typing... on Review Of Upcoming Projection Keyboards · · Score: 1

    As someone who has learnt to touch type pretty successfully

    No knock on you, but I always get a little giggly when computer people talk about touch typists like they're left-handed or from the deep jungle.

    It's like: a mechanic that still doesn't quite know how to use a socket wrench, so they keep going for the crescents.

  2. Tomorrow's spam on South African Gov't Declared An Open Source Zone · · Score: 1

    I have a proposition that you may be interested in.

    My country has some very expensive source that needs freeing, but we need some initial capital in order to do it.

    We expect large returns, and you can be a part of it.

  3. Way I read it... on Peephole Displays · · Score: 1

    When I saw "peephole" I was thinking like a camera obscura -- like you look into a hole with a little projector and see a screen.

    Pictured all these people holding a PDA up to one eye like pirates.

    Then I got over it.

  4. Is it American fungus? on Fungi May Help With Asbestos Cleanups · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because I can see all the cancer-of-the-golgi-apparatus lawsuits a mile away...

  5. !Beanbags on Laptop Stands for Couch Potatos? · · Score: 1

    How about a Fat Guy Pillow?

  6. BASF on BASF Shows Off Some Tantalizing Nanotech · · Score: 1

    We make nano-things... Nano-er?

  7. It's so fast... on An Even Faster Browser? · · Score: 5, Funny

    It warps time, and reports itself again!

  8. idiots don't know what else to do on Sharks in Serious Danger · · Score: 1

    ...the dodo bird for feathers...

    Suddenly, you feel you are a Dutch settler on Mauritius.

    > EAT DODO

    The Dodo is not palatable

    > TAKE FEATHERS

    The Dodo expires
    [Your score has increased by: 0 points]

  9. SAS on DIY Segway-Style Balancing Robot · · Score: 1

    I remember October, do you?

    *sigh*

    Is halloween just this fuzzy "where was I?" feeling? I distinctly remember carving tux (onto a pumpkin).

  10. I'm keeping mine. on APC Recalls 2.1 Million UPS Units · · Score: 4, Funny

    When the lights go out - I don't know about you - but I want to huddle around the UPS, tell ghost stories, and roast marshmallows.

  11. Water and Pillows on NASA Announces Enviromentally Friendly Jet Fuel · · Score: 2

    I didn't read the article, but I need to know -- should I invest in goose down before the gov. contract goes through?

  12. Re:Rocket Fuel! on NASA Announces Enviromentally Friendly Jet Fuel · · Score: 2

    That's fricken hilarious!

    Man, reminds me of lazer malt. Do they still make that?

    Some wino once told me that "that s**t f**ks like water". He weren't kidding.

  13. Further reading: Francis Crick on Vision is a 'Reflex' · · Score: 2

    Just finished reading The astonishing hypothesis a while back, and while a tad patronizing, has some interesting ideas per vision and theories of same. Who knew finding your blind spot could be so educational?

    Yes, this is the same guy that co-discovered DNA.

  14. I thought this had been done already? on Proposed Set-Top MAME Emulation Console · · Score: 2

    Isn't this what Dreamcast Emulation is all about?

    Well, not all about. But somewhat. A large part. Mostly. Kinda.

  15. Bot Slashers on For Those Long Coding Sessions: The Food Patch · · Score: 2

    He said ./'ers, don't panic.

  16. Tech Specs on Linux-Based Bar-Monkey · · Score: 2

    Uses 16 windshield washer pumps run by a 12V adaptor.

    And when they're all running at once on graveyard(), man, you can feel it in your knees.

  17. The medicine cabinet of the future... on Vampire Bats Might Aid Stroke Victims · · Score: 2

    So, do you hang them on racks, or keep them in vacuum bags?

  18. That's not a web... on Australian Spiders Travel To Space · · Score: 2

    THIS is a web.

    ...And his name will be Bruce, obviously.

  19. Nurture lets authors keep copyright... on Nature lets authors keep copyright · · Score: 3, Funny

    Parenting declared illegal by Jack Valenti.

  20. While we're at it... on Mandated Regulation/Certification for Computer Repair? · · Score: 2

    Let's also lump in certs for posting to /. and querying google.

    Are we so lost we need to be told what to do?

  21. "man after man" on Slashback: Embed, Dougal, FireWire · · Score: 3, Informative

    He did finish it.

    My copy says (C) 1990

    It's not just creepy anymore.

  22. Unavailable for comment at the time on Nature's Timepiece Identified · · Score: 4, Funny

    were Nature's wallet, suspenders, and sock garters.

  23. As you well know, on Drilling For Magma · · Score: 2

    Hard rock kept breaking the bits.

    Thank you!

  24. Sass on Online Tutoring? · · Score: 2

    a digital pen

    I got one of those too. To XOR you click it.

  25. Please clarify... on Hollywood's DRM Agenda Moving Forward · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    or for tipping and Street Performer systems.

    Under your plan, street performers will or will not be hunted for sport?

    I need to know how to vote with my dollar, because one day I hope to vote with my lead.