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  1. Meanwhile, a retired carpenter.. on Pyramid Stones Were Poured, Not Quarried · · Score: 5, Interesting

    is building his own Stonehege - BY HAND, ALONE.

    http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/

  2. Re:Lucky he wasn't hung.. on Student Makes a Million Online, Gets Deported · · Score: 1

    I'd hold out for the $10.

    In any case, this is perfectly legal in Monopoly, whatever is not forbidden in the rules is allowed (tournaments may differ).

    I have heard of one case where a player about to be bankrupted asked the landlord if he could just pay him with money from his wallet instead of getting eliminated. All the players at the table thought he was a complete idiot, so they laughingly okayed it. He opened his wallet, and pulled out a big wad of... MONOPOLY MONEY.

  3. Nudie Sony cams on Sony Finds Defect In Digital Cameras · · Score: 1

    Remember those recalled Sony cams that could see through clothes because they did not filter infrared properly?

    I, for one, welcome our manufacturing-error-filled-Nipponese overlords.

  4. Black IBM computers on When Beige Won't Do · · Score: 3, Informative

    For what, 10 years now?
    Plus, they're not all wonky-shaped, so they fit into a rectilinear desk.

  5. Pub. Date: June 2003 on In Search of Stupidity · · Score: 1

    Old news for nerds.

  6. I nominate Asia Carrera on Top Ten Geek Girls · · Score: 1

    Porn star, AND she's had a website since 1996, which is entirely written by her, using notepad.

  7. Thank you, Slashdot! on Google Used To Diagnose Disease · · Score: 1

    I'm just moments away from the answer.

    http://www.google.com/search?&q=Viagra+four+hour+e rection

  8. Re:Daft words.... on Carpenter Breaks Previous Scrabble Point Record · · Score: 1

    If by "bend the rules" you don't mean "play by the rules established BY THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE GAME", well, you are daft. Word.
    See what the tournament player in this thread had to say. And stay away from Gary Kasparov, he would kick your ass.

  9. I use GMail on What E-Mail Validation Tools Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    Works pretty well.

  10. Re:Daft words.... on Carpenter Breaks Previous Scrabble Point Record · · Score: 1

    "Serious" players play in tournaments, which you cannot possibly do with any hope of winning. You wouldn't use 'qintars' apparently, because you think it's a foreign word. Well, if I am going to refer to Albanian currency, this is a proper English sentence: "My pockets were full of qintars". If there is no English word to describe something, the foreign word becomes an English word. It's how we've acquired so many more words than other languages.

    Take your anti-foreign-word jihad elsewhere. :P

  11. Re:In the real world.... on World's Smallest Robotic Hand · · Score: 1

    fertilizes it with the help of another little hand

    The jokes just write themselves, don't they?

  12. Re:1 Watt Post! on The True Cost of Standby Power · · Score: 4, Funny

    /. could save some electrons by getting these first post guys off of standby.

  13. Re:I bet it doesn't work too well. on Real-Time Computer-Based Translation in Iraq · · Score: 1

    Oh, and IACL (I am A Computational Linguist).

    Ha! Ha!

    http://www.xkcd.com/c114.html

  14. Outsourcing? on Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot is outsourcing its +5 Funny to India now?

  15. Never read his books, so... on Illumninatus! Author Needs Our Help · · Score: 1

    Anyone have a torrent?

  16. Re:In Related News.... on Hubble Discovers Dark Spot on Uranus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Isaac Asimov pointed out that the pronunciation 'urinous' is not really an improvemnet.

  17. Re:Tranquility base on Computer Analysis Sets NASA History Straight · · Score: 1

    Where the hell do you get such amazing misinformation?
    Why would they shut down the engines before landing? To increase the chance of crashing?

  18. Re:Tranquility base on Computer Analysis Sets NASA History Straight · · Score: 1

    Everything you said is completely ridiculous.

  19. Re:Electrical code violations on Avoiding the Cube Farm - Effective Office Floor Plans? · · Score: 1

    You do realize that office is in New York City? Conduit is required, not armored cables. Don't you think the architect and the union electricians know their jobs better than you?

  20. Re:Violates Feng shui on Avoiding the Cube Farm - Effective Office Floor Plans? · · Score: 1

    Besides feng shui being nonsense, you fail to realize DOORS CAN BE CLOSED.
    I just close the door if I need to be undisturbed.

  21. Re:Tranquility base on Computer Analysis Sets NASA History Straight · · Score: 1

    The first words were "Contact light. Ok, engines off". Then, "Houston...".

    They even got is wrong on a Final Jeopardy once.

    "The name of this city was the first word spoken on the moon."

    Really? What did they contact, then?

  22. My grills! on Dell Launches Free PC Recycling · · Score: 1

    They got more metal than your puny peta
    flops...

    Nah, I got nothin'. I can't get a good rhyme for metal.

    At least I tried.

  23. Jason Scott rides a... on Tales from a BBS Junkie · · Score: 1

    SEGWAY.

    Made quite an impression at the last Defcon.

  24. Re:Hell yeah. Worst list ever on 10 Terrible Portrayals of Technology in Film · · Score: 1

    1200? Hah! I used to read at 9600, while watching TV!

  25. Re:MS as a home builder on Looking Back on Five Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Look for the hypercylinder of Charmin - the toilet is usually slightly just to the kata of it.