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  1. For a great many lonely men on AT&T Stops 'Time', Ends An Era · · Score: 1

    this was their only way to get a woman to give them the time of day.
    Thank you, I'll be here all week!

  2. Re:This is stupid. on High School Students Forced To Declare A Major · · Score: 1

    My brother's suburban high school wouldn't let him take both drafting and shop. He had to transfer to the catholic school board. Now he's a tool and die maker, a job which requires both drafting and shop skills.

  3. Now there's an algorithm to fill in the blind spot on Algorithm Seamlessly Patches Holes In Images · · Score: 1

    you get if you unwisely follow the instructions on the other current front-page article about building your own high powered laser? That's uncanny.

  4. Here's another reason smart kids don't have sex on Smarter Teens Have Less Sex · · Score: 1

    "Timmy, you're thirteen. Isn't it about time you got laid?"
    "But dad, I'm reading The Fountainhead!"

  5. Re:Any consensus? on Blue Blu-ray · · Score: 1

    For a moment I thought you were demanding sample asses. Actually, I guess you were.

  6. Re:Seems there is need to update the design... on DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta) · · Score: 1

    The only alternative fuel it should use is Mr. Fusion, and it should be the alternative to Plutonium.

  7. What's so hard? on 360 HD-DVD Add-on Dropped to $179 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Everyone who ever told you Casablanca was a chick flick is an idiot. There's only so much time a movie can spend with guns being pointed at people (with or without them being fired) and still be considered a chick flick. Casablanca far exceeds that amount.

  8. Re:Coulomb-Volts per Farad-Ohm (and other dumb uni on Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to see lightbulbs rated in horespower. I wouldn't buy them, but I'd like to see them.
    The real problem is that 1h = 3.6ks, which is far too imperial a conversion factor to make it reasonable to extend metric second-scale units into (for daily life) more useful hour-scale units.

  9. Re:Protrade.com also down. on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1

    Baseball's dangerous enough without keen-eyed elven archers.

  10. Re:Protrade.com also down. on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1

    Indeed I do not. (If I did, I probably wouldn't have internet right now, amirite?)

  11. Protrade.com also down. on Multiple Sites Down In SF Power Outage · · Score: 1

    (That's the fantasy sports site that works like a stock market, if you didn't know.)

  12. Virgin Mobile on Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? · · Score: 1

    You can get a phone that's just a phone for $20. If you set up 'auto top-up', which charges your credit card every 3 months or whenever you're getting low on credit, it comes out to $5 a month if you don't call much. As long as you keep topping up your accumulated credit doesn't expire. Great if you want a phone for emergencies and such.

  13. Replace blood with rainbows for a T rating on Take Two Vows To Publish Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    I was thinking of an Aqua Teen episode where someone was decapitated and a rainbow poured out of their neck, because blood would have been "f***ing offensive." If they did this to Manhunt 2, it would eliminate all the gore from the game (and play into the insanity theme), despite making the violence even more casual. This would be similar to UK's Carmageddon having zombies instead of humans. I'd be interested in seeing what rating the game got then. For that matter, I'm interested in seeing what rating Grasshopper Manufacture's "No More Heroes" gets, since Suda 51 pretty much promised more gore than Manhunt 2.

  14. Forza on In Wake of Price Drops, Further PS3 Doubts · · Score: 1

    Forza may not be identical to GT5, but it's aimed at the same market and is already available on cheaper hardware. The GT-style experience isn't exclusive to the PS3, even if GT itself is, and ultimately exclusive experiences are better system sellers than exclusive games.

  15. What about the Canadian versions? on How Much Caffeine is Really in That Soda? · · Score: 1

    Under Canadian law, caffeine can only be added to dark beverages, which means that Canadian Mountain Dew (among others) is caffeine-free. It would be interesting to see the numbers for the Canadian versions of drinks that can have caffeine, and for that matter to confirm that the ones that can't are complying with the law.

  16. I am sorry, Mr. Homer on Some 7-11s Become Kwik-E-Marts · · Score: 1

    but no such product exists. You must have just dreamed it up.

  17. He says the movie doesn't age... on Blade Runner at 25, Why the F/X Still Matter · · Score: 1

    ...but in one of those detailed street scenes, the film shows its rings: There's a neon sign for Pan-Am Airlines.

  18. Explains what step 2 was on Nintendo's Market Value Briefly Tops Sony's · · Score: 1
    in the old nugget:
    1. Buy Nintendo stock
    2. ???
    3. Profit!
  19. Re:XBox 360 on Take Two Shelves Manhunt 2 · · Score: 1

    ...does Microsoft have an anti-AO game policy?
    According to some of the coverage of this story, yes they do.
  20. A million pounds? on When Does Technolust Become An Addiction? · · Score: 1

    How much silver could I buy with that?

  21. Remember Conker? on Manhunt 2 Banned In Britain · · Score: 1

    Conker's Bad Fur Day for the N64 had, as its box art, a gigantic (and well deserved) M rating.

  22. Re:The Pirate Bay on TorrentSpy Ordered By Judge to Become MPAA Spy · · Score: 1

    This was about the MPAA. Movie stars have gigs now?

  23. Gank my Power on MIT Wirelessly Powers a Lightbulb · · Score: 1

    While power outlets are inconvenient, they have the nice property that you have to be on my... well, property... to plug something into them. Since the barrier this is trying to overcome is the focused area of other wireless power systems, it seems like my neighbours might move their laptops to the side of their house that's nearest mine and run up my bill. Not sure how you encrypt power transmission.

  24. Re:But Wait... on FCC Indecency Ruling Struck Down · · Score: 1

    Fox (and Fox News) are owned by the Australia-based News Corp. While Fox News is regularly a right-wing mouthpiece, perhaps you noticed that at exactly the same time that an Australian citizen was going to be executed in Indonesia on drug charges, an episode of House aired where the doctors had to save a death row inmate who might legitimately have a medical case for appeal, and the series Prison Break, about a man saving his wrongfully-convicted brother from execution, started airing.

  25. This tells you what kind of geek I am. on Linus on GIT and SCM · · Score: 1

    GIT and SCM? You mean Geita, Tanzania, and Scammon Bay, Alaska, USA?