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  1. Re:Lookout! on Palm Before the PalmPilot · · Score: 1

    Which brings us to Bob the Angry Flower's griping about apostrophe abuse: http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif

  2. Re:Quick! Someone warn Eric and Linus!!! on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ummm, ESR has guns and uses them. I wouldn't break into his house dressed as a ninja.

  3. a few years from now on Next Version of Windows? Call it '7' · · Score: 1

    Their marketing campaign will simply state, "this one goes to eleven".

  4. Re:Stupid kids. on iPod More Popular Than Beer? · · Score: 1

    I still like the old adage, "drink 'till she's cute".

  5. pastafarians! on Pirates Promise Improved Version of DaVinci Code · · Score: 1
  6. They're made out of meat on Japanese Lab Creates 'Da Vinci' Voices · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Alternatively... on Store Your Own Juice · · Score: 1

    Please post links to the cheap wind turbines - I'm all over that if you're accurate.

  8. Re:OCD on Cooking Dinner From the Road · · Score: 1

    ...it is worth almost ten grand to not have to spend my entire day worrying if I did, indeed, leave the oven on.

    Yeah, but how many times have you received / made a "pocket call". Yeah, you know what I mean, when the celphone dials someone in your addressbook without you initiating it? Well now you can worry all day whether or not your pocket started your oven...

    By the way, your fly is open. :)

  9. Re:Right is not Right on Bill Gates Defends Google's Censorship In China · · Score: 1

    Worst case scenario: Google.ca is useless

    What's wrong with Canada? They're a fine country, and don't have anything to do with the censorship that's happening on google.cn, dammit.

  10. Re:Google has failed me.. :( on Apple Laptop Reliability Survey · · Score: 1

    Not for long... they'll index this page before long. Of course, this would be a great time to plant a seed for googlewhacking. You could use words like Succotash, conflate, and maybe even quean.

  11. Re:REALLY! It's not THAT obtuse. on Linux's Difficulty with Names · · Score: 1

    Every time I see that START button, I think of the marketing campaign that accompanied the launch of Windows 95...

    You can start me up
    you can start me up I'll never stop
    never stop, never stop
    You make a grown man cry
    You make a grown man cry
    You make a grown man cry...

  12. Re:Ugh. PHB-speak ahoy! on Virgin Galactic to Build Space Port in New Mexico · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oooh-ooh, maybe I should start to leverage my scientific vocabulary slightly incorrectly. Only then will we gain the amplitude to become managers.

    Let's torque these bugs

    I received a mole of spam this morning.

    I'm hoping my open source app will gain popularity through osmosis.

    I sent the UI to the usability lab for some titration.

    His technical knowledge lead him to become a singularity around the office.

    I could come up with more, but this topic is too volatile.

  13. Re:I hate to do it.... on The Unspoken Taboo - The Never Expiring Password · · Score: 3, Funny

    quick - what's the combination to the air shield?!

  14. Re:'Inflammatory' indeed. on EFF Has Outlived Its Usefulness? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is obviously a back-handed remark on the awful current occupant of the White House.

    Seriosly, if someone has this as their bio, and is writing this kind of trash about the EFF, then they're obviously trolling. Is sending several thousand hits his way via slashdot the way to reward this kind of trash?

  15. Re:Bah! Effort... on Born with Couch Potato Genes? · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's already hard enough to reach for the remote control!

    That's why they've invented the remote control which can be operated by remote.

  16. Re:Why bother? on Computer Associates Sells Ingres DB Tech · · Score: 1

    Why Bother?

    Imagine for a moment, that you've been stuck maintaining an application which heavily relies upon Ingres. You've found bugs, you've desired features added, but you've gotten no love for a long time. Opening the source has got to be a god-send for these people. No longer do they get stiff-armed when they have access to the code themselves.

  17. web based file manager on Ajax Is the Buzz of Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Gee - it would be nice to see them shower some of that capital down on open-source DHTML projects like filedrawers. Sure, it doesn't use XMLHttpRequest, but there's some hot javascript DOM manipulation action, and it's a rather cool web based file manager.

  18. Re:maybe, for now... on Cyborg Cells Sense Humidity · · Score: 1

    However, if artificial limbs become far superior to natural limbs, people will be able to choose whether they want their (perfectly healthy) natural limbs removed in favor of mechanical ones.

    No, I strongly doubt that. In that era, it should be just as easy to produce a removable exoskeleton as it would to fabricate a replacement limb. Imagine having 4 arms, or to have "go-go-gadget" pogo legs.

  19. Mayfly on Dinosaur Forces Rethink Of Flight's Evolution · · Score: 2, Informative

    "The mayflies are an order (Ephemeroptera meaning "but for a day wing") of insects that grow up in fresh water, and live very briefly as adults, as little as a few hours but more typically a day or two. About 2,500 species in 23 families are known. Other names for these insects include dayfly, shadfly, fishfly, and Canadian soldier."

    From Wikipedia.

  20. Re:Shortform of Canada on CND Government Demands Widespread Tap Access · · Score: 1

    Ever hear how they named the country? They got two guys together in a room, and one pulled letters from a hat, the other wrote the letters down.

    C - eh?
    N - eh?
    D - eh?

  21. Re:Well, it does work. on Google's Blog Search · · Score: 1

    I get 18,874 results for 'cat vomit | puked | threw-up'.

  22. Re:Damn Hippies on Oregon Is Growing A Mystery Bulge · · Score: 1

    It's where they stash their weed.

    ...and when it does turn into a volcano... there will be some happy times to be had.

  23. Bob, the angry flower says... on iTunes Might Lose Labels · · Score: 1

    I enjoy Bob the Angry flower's method of grammar instruction.

    However, you have to reference Strunk's Elements of Style to find the rule for this one. In this case, "it" is a pronoun, and with other pronouns, we don't change him to hi's or her to her's. It's just plain hers, his, and theirs. So a possesive it becomes "its".

  24. history of DSPAM on Ask Jonathan Zdziarski · · Score: 2, Informative

    I recall hearing a story that you created DSPAM as a response to the trashy emails that your religious leader was receiving. I also see that your religion plays a large role in your life. I'm curious, how a thinking, logical, Christian such as yourself feels about the "intelligent design" movement?

    Is this a misinterpretation of scripture? A reaction filled with fear against science? An attempt to distance ourselves from animals so that the atrocities occuring in modern industrial-meat production can be justified? Or is it a revival of much-needed spiritual values in our country?

    In addition, I'm curious what your take is on the Intelligent Falling theory?

  25. Re:Google tomorrow? on Google Talk Available Early · · Score: 1

    I guess that web design will be a snap, eh? Just "save as", and publish. :)

    No, there would be problems with that as well, since the site you're wanting to see will be optimized for FireFox Explorer 5, and your old-ass ghetto browser won't be able to render that shit.