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  1. employee thought control on Sweet Dreams Are Made By This · · Score: 1

    "We are still experimenting, mainly with company employees,"

    what can they be doing? overtime work without overtime pay?

  2. flying car on Tech Predictions for 2004 · · Score: 1

    can i have an ipod cradle in my flying car?

  3. Lone Gunman time on Top Searches of 2003, A Dave Odyssey, Banned Words for 2004 · · Score: 2, Funny

    dammit! don't tell us it's the new year yet!

    think about us in the pacific time zone!

    you bastards!

  4. moonshine on Laptop vs. Small Desktop: Best Bang Per Watt? · · Score: 1

    you need to set up a still and make some moonshine so that you can charge your ethanol fuel cell laptop.

    of course you have to watchout for them thar revenuers!

  5. HeLa on History of a Famous Star Wars Scream · · Score: 2, Funny

    it's like the HeLa cell of the movie industry

  6. c. s. lewis and tolkien on Narnia to be Created in New Zealand · · Score: 4, Informative

    here's an interesting article on how the two authors and the the two sagas were intertwined.

  7. linux response to matrix spoof on Slashback: Matrix, Terminology, Topology · · Score: 1

    Lord Of The Rings!

    i can see linux the linux response by having Linus as Frodo, Alan Cox as Gandolf, Redmond as Mordor. SCO as Saruman.

  8. the wired article shows an older one wheeled bike on Bombardier's Embrio: Sexier Segway? · · Score: 1

    i noticed in the quicktime video from the wired site an old looking picture of a powered unicycle from the 1900's. has anyone seen it before?

  9. cremation on Billy the Kid Faces The Law... Again · · Score: 1

    this is good reason for a cremation. those bastards will never get my DNA now!

  10. Next;: Robot Dragonball Z on Martial Arts Robots · · Score: 1

    they also have a linklink to a robotic dragon. hmm, martial arts, dragons....

  11. Re:How long... on New 3D CPU Water Cooling Method · · Score: 1

    ...before someone at IBM notices their use of 'MicroChannel'?

    doesn't SCO own IBM?

  12. Nerds verses Geeks? on Geek Eye for the Average Guy · · Score: 1

    "These geeks--as different from nerds as orcs are from trolls"

    huh? I didn't know there was a difference.

  13. apple //e keyboard on Word Processors: One Writer's Retreat · · Score: 1

    i still find the apple //e keyboard to be the most typing friendly of them all. i remember many all-nighters in college working on term papers.

    i have to admitthough, that i need to start an essay on a piece of paper, with a rollerball pen.

  14. Re:#10 is postdoc? on Worst Jobs In Science · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i agree with you... that's why i got out and went to med school instead. now i earn almost as much as a plumber (per hour). Residency sucked big time though. i got paid less than minimum wage to get yelled at everyday.

  15. air taxies on Pilot a Plane with a PDA? · · Score: 1

    when can we see the development of a national air taxi system as described by James Fallow in The Atlantic monthly? i'd like to travel like Steve Jobs.

  16. justification for my games on Computer Game Improves Children's Hearing · · Score: 1

    now i can tell my wife that our 4 year old NEEDS his playstation 2 games to max out his SAT scores.

  17. ternary logic as kids on Beyond Binary Computing? · · Score: 1

    we used to use it all the time to make decisions:

    rock, scissor, paper

  18. how to avoid the bathroom while watching the movie on The Trilogy as One · · Score: 4, Funny

    teach your self how to self catheterize your self during the movie

    http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/ 00 3972.htm

  19. Re:Good grief on Solving a Wiring Mess? · · Score: 1

    "This is the reason a computer can stop working, too...sometimes you can just pop the lid, wiggle everything and cinch it down, and it works."

    the old apple /// had that problem.

  20. cubic zirconium on The Diamond Age · · Score: 5, Funny

    now i'll have to make sure the cpu is really a diamond before i can overclock it?

  21. Re:Two wheeled? Peshaw! on Two Wheeled Wi-Fi Sniffing Robot · · Score: 4, Funny

    how about modifying the aibo to pee on the wifi source instead?

  22. add palm os 5 and i'll buy it on Specs for Sony PSP Handheld · · Score: 1

    i think the next sony clie will be powered by the same processor. can i have my psp/clie please?

  23. Las Vegas on A Geek's Tour Of North America? · · Score: 1

    there are a few things that are worth looking at. hoover dam, Star Trek Experience at the Hilton, Cirque du Sole, cheap buffet dinners. huge expanse of water in the middle of a desert.

  24. LOX? on Making Ice Cream With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 1

    i wonder if i could borrow some of the liquid oxygen from the back of the hospital for this?

  25. apt-get in space? on Linux Rocket Blasts Off This Fall · · Score: 1

    how fast will the rocket be able to do "apt-get dist-upgrade"?