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  1. When the muppets sold out?? on Statler And Waldorf From the Balcony · · Score: 1

    You do realize they sold out back in the late 50s.. Jim Henson created muppet commercials for Wilkins Coffee starting in 1957, making over 300. http://www.kermitage.com/html/collectibles/rarestu ffnew/page1.html

  2. During hurricanes... on Who Cares if Analog TV Goes Dark? · · Score: 1

    Every year when a hurricane is bearing down, the news channels have a little piece on how to hook up an antenna to your TV set or adjust reception or whatnot. Regardless, when everything else is out you're glad for anything. Most people around here were just getting by on radio for weeks or even months afterwards...

  3. Miami-Dade files several hundered FEMA claims on Earthquake off Northern California · · Score: 1

    (reference to last summer, when Miami-Dade filed more claims for hurricane damage than the counties that were actually hit by the storm).

  4. Do what you want... just don't touch WASD movement on Advocating Dvorak · · Score: 1

    That's all that really matters.

  5. Re:Will not be a problem... on Tokyo's Geek Ghetto · · Score: 1

    Ah, but it could be a recessive gene...

  6. Intel: "AMD, I challenge you to a Duel" on Intel Readying Dual-Core Desktop Chip · · Score: 4, Funny

    best 2 out of 3?

  7. Second Mortgage Life more like it. on Second Life Virtual World to Get Firefox · · Score: 1

    I tried this out after one of the ads for it. Free to get into. Crappy graphics, at that level why bother being 3D, but hey, at least its functional. You get your choice of a few starter outfits and things, all of which are the equivalent of the starter n00b armor in WOW or some other MMORPG because they immediately label you as such. To improve your gear, or hairstyle, or whatever... you don't quest for it like in WOW, you have to pay, as in real $$. Not to a real account, but I mean for the actual items. I think they gave you a pittance to start with. I didn't stick around long enough, but I thought there might be some other way to accumulate money, such as selling things to other players (again for real $$).

  8. Lutefisk on The Worst Foods to Eat Over a Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny

    because it is also the worst food to eat period. (if you're not familiar with it count yourself lucky, it is fish reduced to a gelainous state by soaking it in Lye).

  9. ebay tickets for screenings on Second Round of Serenity Screenings Sold Out · · Score: 2, Interesting

    are up to over $250 dollars for a pair for the DC show.

  10. You call that a patch? on Apple Release Mega Patch to Fix 19 Flaws · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows patches more stuff in a couple weeks than other OS's patch in an entire year!

  11. Boot up sounds are pointless on Alienware's Star Wars PCs · · Score: 1

    You want to listen to a sound file, click on it to listen to it. All bootup sounds do is make you tired of a soundfile you used to like, while making it take longer to boot your system.

  12. Paul Murphy, 20-year IT veteran.... on The SCO Trial Through A New Lens · · Score: 1

    and one hell of a chess player...

  13. six rebels on the run... on Serenity Trailer Finally Released · · Score: 1

    THat was the blurb. Six rebels. I got a bit worried at first. In the trailer, the only ones I saw were: 1 - Mal 2 - Zoe 3 - Wash 4 - Jayne 5 - Dr Tams 6 - summer Now.. I know Kaylee is in the movie. She talked about it at Dragoncon last year (even noted how she was much thinner in the movie than in the TV show and was worried Josh would make her put it back on but he ended up letting it go). And I've read that Book was also signed for it. So I guess the six are Mal, Zoe, Wash, Jayne, Book and Kaylee, with that blurb not counting the other two.

  14. no Further installments on Serenity Trailer Finally Released · · Score: 1

    Don't know if anything changed since then, but at the Firefly panel at Dragoncon last year, Nate and Jewel both said that this was the final firefly project (said it wasn't up to them)...

  15. NASACAR on Space Station Crew Lands Safely In Kazakhstan · · Score: 1

    Combines the best elements of both? Seriously, though, we just lost a shuttle crew last time it was up and you're complaining that it focuses too much on safety?

  16. Overclocking in Space on Computers in Space Examined · · Score: 3, Funny

    I always wonder why you can't overclock the hell out of chips in the cold vaccuum of space...

  17. Undercarriage Airbags on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 1

    Patent it now

  18. Cheap way to get one on Flying Cars Ready To Take Off · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buy a piece of land. And wait.

  19. star wars biblical end of the world mini-series? on Star Wars: Revelations Available Online · · Score: 1

    crossover between a group of fanatical devotees with extreme zeal.... and the left-behind people...

  20. "I forgot my passport day" on U.S. to Require Passport To Re-Enter Country · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sounds like a plan for a series of protests against this policy, if people feel strongly enough about it. Pick a day, and a time, and forget your passport. Have literature on each of your cars... (I think it would work better at land crossings where you can tie up more people)...

  21. depends on what you mean... on Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps · · Score: 1

    They are way out of date for where I am as it doesn't have any of the post hurricane stuff from last summer.

  22. Re:Solution to silent cycle on World's First Fuel-Cell Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    I can already see having a thing which shift gears and moves to a different playing card to keep the sound appropriate.

  23. Does this include MMORPG exploits? on Publishing Exploit Code Ruled Illegal In France · · Score: 1

    Then I'm all in favor it. Dr. Twister will need to find a new place of exhile...

  24. jinx! on NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website · · Score: 1

    Cutriss, you are hereby found guilty of duping my comment! 30 days!

  25. Good thing that Slashdot... on NZ Business Fined For Out-of-Date Website · · Score: 2, Funny

    isn't based in New Zealand. Hell they'd have locked up half the crew by now....