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  1. action photo in NPR story on Arm Wrestling Robots Beaten By A Teenage Girl · · Score: 0

    Better pic here of the girl in action: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=4527297

    Great. Now "Her name is Yoshimi..." running thru my head all evening.

  2. Crap, now the U.S. will need to take over another on Digital Life and Evolution · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    oil-rich nation in the middle east after dubya passes a law making it illegal to turn the damned things off.

    He will convince the American people using circlear reasoning.

  3. TODOs on Why MS is Not Opening More Source Code · · Score: 1
    $ grep -i todo library.perl
    library.perl:#TODO: grep for this, fix any problems...
    library.perl:# TODO: this MUST be updated frequently, or otherwise make sure that
    library.perl:# TODO: change numpages to be passed in directly as arg, instead of as a global
    library.perl:# TODO: (fix this to be a single, more general version that takes the link as an arg
    library.perl: # TODO: figure out what to do in this case...
    library.perl: # TODO: change responded color to CCFFCC (light green)
    library.perl: # TODO: change responded color to CCFFCC (light green)
    library.perl: #TODO: uncomment next line asap after testing
    library.perl:#todo: also need to add javascript code for functionality above somewhere...
    library.perl: #TODO: eliminate redundancy!...
    library.perl: # TODO: change responded color to CCFFCC (light green)
    library.perl: # TODO: the next couple lines ought to be in a sub...
    library.perl: # TODO2: argh...
    library.perl: else # TODO: get rid of code elsewhere that depends on these 'unknown' values for flags
    library.perl: # calculate totalcost. TODO: allow for taxes later/asap?
    library.perl: # TODO: moved out commented-out code to calculate fee (see waaaay below)
    library.perl: # TODO: improve auditing/logging of delete actions to prevent
    library.perl: #TODO: IMPORTANT!!! add error check on query execution result.
    library.perl: #TODO: this will someday be dynamic HTML?
    library.perl: #TODO (important for performance):
    library.perl:# TODO: finish...
    library.perl: # TODO: need to detect and show correct timezone info (EDT or EST)
    library.perl: # TODO: need to detect and show correct timezone info (EDT or EST)
    library.perl: # TODO: need to detect and show correct timezone info (EDT or EST)
    library.perl: # TODO: watch out/do some testing
    library.perl: # TODO: grab info correctly here
  4. AddressRank? on Google Launches Mapping Service · · Score: 1
    1600 pennsylvania ave - doesn't work
    1600 pennsylvania ave, washington - doesn't work
    1600 pennsylvania ave, washington, d.c. - bingo

    you woulda thought...

  5. Red Tide on Phone Numbers Go Locationless · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I thought that was from a Rush song. Funny how the mind works.

  6. Only selling them to governments on The Sub-$100 Laptop? · · Score: 5, Funny
    I heard that they are only going to sell them to governments.

    So it will be a day or two's delay until you can grab one off eBay.

  7. I want the implant that converts... on Patients get Solar Implants in Eyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    TCP/IP into neurostimulation. Preferably allowing two-way communication. Then I can finally assimilate Google.

  8. So... it was no accident on Household Emergent Behavior? · · Score: 1

    ...when the other day I was vaccuuming under the desk and my Hoover upright inhaled the loose end of an Ethernet cable and started googling.

    They're starting to wake up, folks. These warning signs are blatantly obvious. We need to do something before it's too
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