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  1. J.R. "Bob" Dobbs makes a million bucks... on Why Being Wrong Makes Humans So Smart · · Score: 0

    ...every time he makes a mistake. It's just one example of his divine imperfection in action.

  2. First people to be asked... on Where Does IT Fall Within Your Organization? · · Score: 0

    ...and the last to be told about anything.

  3. Charles Nelson Reilly did what? on Charles Nesson Ruled Jointly Liable To Pay RIAA · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How much trouble can he get in being dead n' all?

  4. Re:fp on Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark · · Score: 0

    What's brown and sounds like a bell? BUNG!

  5. Ferris F Fremont and the folks at Aramchek approve on Real-LIfe Distributed-Snooping Web Game To Launch In Britain · · Score: 0

    No need to worry about the Total Information Awareness program though as it was shut down as soon as people got wind of it... Pfft!

  6. Comes as no surprise.. on All Humans Are Mutants, Say Scientists · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...to the SubGenius and Devo fans in the house.

  7. The Illuminatus! trilogy slaps Dan Brown... on Tetraktys · · Score: 0

    ...upside down. The only good this hack has accomplished is shoving his friend John Langdon, ambigram designer and artistic genius ,further into the public's eye.

  8. Always Innovating on Asus Launches Eee PC T91, a Touch-Screen Tablet Netbook · · Score: 0

    http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/ 9.4" x 7" x 1.4" for 2 lbs (with keyboard) ARM Texas Instruments OMAP3 chip 1024x600 8.9'' screen Storage: 8GB SD card Wifi 802.11 b/g/n and Bluetooth 3-dimensional accelerometer Speakers, micro and headphone 6 USB 2.0 (3 internal, 3 external) 10+ hours of battery life

  9. Meanwhile, the English teachers lament... on A Mathematician's Lament — an Indictment of US Math Education · · Score: 0

    ...that Roget ever compiled his damned, accursed, infernal, confounded thesaurus!

  10. Re:This is how the gov't gets away with this crap on Karl Rove's IT Guru Dies In Small Plane Crash · · Score: 0

    Here's the thing about conspiracies... A - They're all totally real. (bullsh*t) B - None of them are real. (equally bullsh*t) C - Some are and some aren't, and we'll never know which are which until long after everyone involved is dead and there's nothing anyone can do about it. Nighty night everyone. Remember, if Santa brings you coal at least you can burn it to keep warm... "Thanks Santie." (SUCKER!)

  11. The ultimate mod? on Revisiting the Physics of Buckaroo Banzai · · Score: 0

    Installing an oscillation overthruster and a flux capacitor in the same jet car... Now I can drive though a mountain and get back BEFORE I'VE EVEN LEFT!

  12. The mark of the beast... on Face Search Engine Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 0

    Forget messy UPC code tatoos or clunky RFID implants.

    Everyone's already walking around with the mark of the beast, because IT'S THEIR FACE.

    Welcome to the end times folks, hope you sent your $30 to "Bob" or you're f*cked!

    www.subgenius.com

  13. Get right with "Bob" on Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President · · Score: 0

    www.subgenius.com If you're an 'abnormal', 'mutie' or just sick of all the pinkboys and mediocretins running the show here on the Planet of the Clocks, you'd better send your $30 if'n you know what's good for you? It's gonna be hilarious when all the Christians get vaporized from orbit by the X-ists for believing they were going to be 'first to post' in heaven... hahahahahahahaha

  14. And the yetinsyny yawn... on Did Humans Get Their Big Brains From Neanderthals? · · Score: 0

    Wake me up when X-ists arrive. That'd be 7 AM July 5th, 1998 - if not sooner. (snore)

  15. "You Make Me" on An Ode To Al · · Score: 0
    You make me wanna break the laws of time and space
    You make me wanna eat pork
    You make me wanna staple bagels to my face
    Then remove 'em with a pitchfork
    You know there's something quite unusual about you but I can't exactly seem to put my finger on it

    You make me
    You make me
    You make me
    That's what you do to me

    --

    Thanks Al! (Wanders off with a Swingline in one hand and bag of Noah's in the other...)

  16. "It's about the originals - YEAH!!!" on An Ode To Al · · Score: 0

    Any true fan will tell you, it's his original songs and 'style parodies' that keep us coming back for more. I've seen several folks complaining they couldn't keep up with the mainstream tunes he spoofs, but songs like "Virus Alert" and "I'll Sue You" off the new CD are my favorites anyway. "Mr. Popeil","Nature Trail to Hell in 3D", etc. may not ever see the same commercial success as an "Eat It" or "My Bologna" but they more truly reveal Al's real songwriting ability and playful sense of humor. He's the Spike Jones/Energizer bunny mutant hybrid of our generation and I'll never get tired of him. He's got more staying power and originality in his little finger than most of the artists he parodies, and they know it. Which is why I suspect some of those who've turned on him at the last minute did so. What are the odds anyone will care about Coolio 10 years from now? Do they care about him even now?! Meanwhile Al's fan base just keeps growing and growing...

  17. Quit your job for "Bob" on IT and Divorce? · · Score: 0

    Any yetinsyny woman worth her weight in yak hair will fully support you leaving your go-nowhere soul-sucking slackless Con job. A faithful and true Connietite will understand your duty in promoting patriopsychoanarchomaterialism being first-and-foremost the 'king of your castle'. If you're not subgenius, please keep toiling away as a miserable mediocretin. Pathetic pinkboys with the spines of jellyfish deserve every lingering lash of their demonic taskmaster's whip. If you want to know what you really think and to learn how to pull the wool over your own eyes - send $30 to "Bob" and "get right" with the only Man that matters, you schmuck. Sure you'll still get whipped mercilessly but it'll be a whip of your choosing, wielded by a smiling beacon of slack and not some middle-management goon. www.subgenius.com Eternal Salvation or Triple Your Money Back!

  18. Meet the Feebles (up close and personal)? on Peter Jackson on the Future of Storytelling · · Score: 0
    Or how about an interactive version of Bad Taste?

    I'd love to roam about the house in space as psycho Derek wielding a chainsaw, searching for that head alien so I could drop on him from above, come out his rectum and utter, "I'm born again!"

    If more fans of LOTR and King Kong had any f*cking clue about the movies he used to make do you think they'd give him nearly as much credence? Personally, I'd prefer if he took about ten-thousand steps backward and returned to the kind of story telling he used to engage in before he had hundreds of millions and an army of CGI goons. The kind where a middle-aged momma's boy's momma gets bitten by a disease ridden monkey, dies, doesn't realize it and ends up commanding a zombie horde while her son tries to get a date. Pfft!

    "I'm a Derek. Dereks don't run."

  19. Re:The really disturbing part... on Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins · · Score: 0

    Training cats is easy! The secret is to find something it does already and then to associate a gesture or command with the behavior... Voila! Now you've got a trick you can make your cat do at will (the cat's will, that is).

  20. MWOWM... on NPR Looks to Technological Singularity · · Score: 0

    ...is nearly online. Only a few more nodes are needed.

  21. Re:That's SO surprising! on Toxic Toads Taking Over Australia · · Score: 0

    Why, just look at all the various breeds of dog we have these days. Not too long ago (in evolutionary terms) they were all wolves. Hmmmmmmm?

  22. Re:Missing the point on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 0

    The only people walking around claiming to "know" how and why any of this is the way it is are the religious folks who "know" it was God because some old geezers they'll never meet wrote it down in a book once, 'nuff said... Everyone else is actually trying to figure it out and not claiming the have the one and only answer you'll ever need, so please stop asking questions, thank you very much. That's kind of the ENTIRE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SCIENCE AND FAITH. Sheesh.

  23. I'll make you a deal... on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 0

    Everyone who believes "God made it that way and he works in mysterious ways" is a perfectly acceptable final answer to any and every question a human could possibly conceive of, please log off forever, right now. I'm not kidding. Turn off your computer. Turn off the lights. Take off your machine knitted fabric garments and run naked out into the woods at the edge of town and don't come back. Ever. In return, I promise I won't ever again pray to your diety to protect me (and you) from you. Oh, and leave those lighters and matches too - because they're technology, of the devil and not allowed in your 'faith is all I need' world. Go on... Go on... Nope, put that ashtray down! And the thermos... Just get out there... Out into the woods so you can be closer to God. In fact, if you sleep out in the open in January in some parts, you might get to meet him just that much quicker. If the whole point of living is jsut so you can meet him in the next one, please get on with it and quit wasting my oxygen! Those of us who care about this life and this world need it more than you.

  24. How much more obvious does it have to be? on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 0

    Religion has given humans (6) thousands of years of warm fuzzy feelings about our condition and has allowed small groups of very savvy monkeys to keep entire nations in check while dominating the course of our collective future (the crusades, jihad, immenantizing the eschaton). Science has given us just about EVERYTHING ELSE WE ACTUALLY USE EVERY MOMENT OF EVERY DAY. I can only assume you're reading this on a computer after you entered your modern home, turned on the electric lights and fired up your PC and broadband internet connection. The TV's on in the background as your mom calls you on the phone while a friend flies through the air in a new-fangled 'aeroplane' while a brain surgeon saves someone from an aneurysm while an engineer tests a new magnetic braking system for an elevator while a print shop prepares to run off a thousand more copies of the GOD-DAMNED King James version of a book that's been translated and mistranslated through a half-dozen different languages. Please! Let's have more monkeys arguing vehemently OVER THE INTERNET about which is more real and offers more value to the human condition, science or religion? They both play their parts people, it's just that we're talking about one USING THE DIRECTLY OBSERVABLE AND MUCH RELIED UPON RESULTS OF THE OTHER. You'd think that in and of itself might be a good first clue, but guess again/ What would you expect in a world that runs news headlines like, "Nation SPLIT on Bush as a uniter or a divider." Dark Ages - here we come! Only this time, we're getting there faster because OF ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY. /shakes head dejectedly and staggers off into the growing darkness, remembers to take CAPS LOCK off first though...

  25. Tomorrow never comes on Britons Unconvinced on Evolution · · Score: 0

    Ask yourself this question - are you better off spending all day Monday preparing to live Tuesday while not actually living Monday, or just living on Monday and dealing with Tuesday when it comes? If you have faith that it will put your money where your mouth is and get on with the HERE AND NOW. When you're on that deathbed and you look back at what you've done (not where you're going) what will you feel? Regret? As useless an emotion as worry, only in reverse. "Know thyself" - but that does actually require an open mind, open eyes and a willingness to accept what you observe and not just what you'd like to think you're seeing. Science: from Latin scientia, from scins, scient- present participle of scre, to KNOW. Religion: from Latin religi, religin-, perhaps from religre, to tie fast. See RELY. Knowing because you've seen and demonstrate (active), versus reliance because you've been told (passive). The only thing I'm sure of is that I'm adamantly unsure. The rest is anyone's guess?