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  1. I know where it is! on Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA · · Score: 0

    The universal law of dropped tools while working on one's own vehicle still applies, it's now just a matter of scale...
    The grease gun has rolled to the exact center of the underside of the solar system. Nasa needs to get one of those extendable grabber/magnet do-hickeys.

  2. Extinction on WETA Working on Robotic Lizard For Science · · Score: 4, Funny

    But what will happen if a female tuatara discovers that the robot is an impostor?

    Complete Satisfaction?

  3. Ninjas on Reflectivity Reaches a New Low · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I, for one, welcome our new "ninjas coated in this stuff" overlords.

    But only at night.

  4. Gotta be a Hoax! on Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board · · Score: 1
    C'mon now. Frosty doesn't like global warming? Of course he doesn't!

    Think of the snowmen.

    (One snowman to the other: "Do you smell carrots?")

  5. Re:Linfo.org Owned By Microsoft on 13 Reasons To Celebrate the New MS-Novell Pact · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Excuse my skepticism. I've never heard of you guys; I live in Seattle and go to the Seattle Java Users Group, PHP Meetup and a few others and have NEVER heard of the Bellevue Linux Users group.

    You live there? What are you doing December 12th?

    Barnes & Noble Downtown Bellevue 106th Ave. NE, Bellevue, WA (425) 451-8463

    Go check 'em out. Report back to us what you find. (One darkly clothed guy with a win XP laptop surreptitiously uploading photos of anyone searching for the Bellevue LUG?)

    See: http://www.bellevuelinux.org/meeting.html

  6. Re:"In the land of the blind, on A List of Linux Migration Stories? · · Score: 0

    What's more, he's a blind cyclops. But since it's the Land of the Blind nobody makes fun of him. Of course if he has a squeaky voice...

  7. Re:Stupid title, summary, and link... on A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules · · Score: 0

    I have often in the past wondered what all the Piquepaille hubub was about. The implication that the Pentagon (U.S. Military) is governed by mere "rules" while FIFA (soccer) clearly makes immutable "Laws"? Now it's clear and and y'all were right.

  8. Bud and Lou on Massives As Your Third Home · · Score: 0
    There seems to be some confusion. Let's review the basics (for the youngsters):

    Who's on first.

    What's on second.

    and

    I don't know.... THIRD BASE!

  9. Incomplete Quote? on Hacking the Governator · · Score: 0
    "I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am," she said.

    Hmmm, then shouldn't it be...?
    "I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am," she said with a completely unintelligible accent.

  10. Re:Sign of the future on Radio Shack E-Fires 400 Workers · · Score: 3, Funny
    If you don't check your email... you're not fired!

    (I'm unplugging my computer. There, now my job's safe.)

  11. Lise Meitner on Scientists Biographies for 5th and 6th Graders? · · Score: 1, Informative
    Hedy Lamarr has been suggested so here's another to inspire the girls:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

    Helped to invent Nuclear Physics but credit (and Nobel Prize) went a male. Her tombstone reads, "A physicist who never lost her humanity."

  12. Day-to-day activities? on Combating Harassing Use of Mosquito Noise Device? · · Score: -1, Troll
    my neighborhood has had to deal with an elderly neighbor who has displayed a slightly paranoid attitude towards myself and the fellow younger-adults of the neighborhood, believing us to be attempting to harass him in our day-to-day activities
    Ooooh, a neighbor is protecting me from West Nile virus! Ooooh, I must whine like an uber-post-working-class golden-child!

    I've never had a "day-to-day activity" that caused strife. What're you doing? Slinging vials of crack?

    Paranoid is as paranoid does. Perhaps you are actually and completely a pain in the ass?

    Ask Dear Abby ... leave Slashdot alone.

  13. Re:Whatever happened to... on Building Your First Cluster? · · Score: 2, Funny

    It all came to a halt when they had 27 boxes nicely stacked up... Some joker came along and painted primary colors on all the outside faces and this was irresistable to some other jokers who began moving the boxes around, making quite a tangle of all the cords.

  14. Re:$30 for something you can tape on 'Roll Your Own News' DVDs Now Shipping · · Score: 2, Informative
    I always wondered who the hell bought that crap.

    Wonder no more... It's The Public Library. And I'm glad they do.

  15. Schmouse Pad. on QPAD XT-R Mouse Pad Review · · Score: 1

    I hold my optical mouse quite still in one hand and move my other hand around underneath it.
    At first I tried moving the desk, but that just scuffed up the wood floors.

  16. Re:Uniquely identify? on A DNA Database For All U.S. Workers? · · Score: 1

    In a land where only twins have the same DNA, only twins will be criminals! ;-)

  17. Re:Cell phones in iraq on Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War · · Score: 1
    "I'd ask some hodgi ... "
    I believe your story. You are so obviously an American (rank most likely = Major). You can't even spell your perjoratives correctly.
  18. Frodereck Fronkonsteen on Favorite Film Scientists? · · Score: 1
    But that's only because Frau Blucher never went to medical school.

    http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/young.sht ml

  19. Re:Dupe? on Korea Unveils World's Second Android · · Score: 1

    At least this one is lady-like. "Knees together, girls, knees together."

  20. Rainbows==Pretty on Holographic Solar Collectors · · Score: 1
    Who cares if it works better or worse than existing technology?

    If we all installed these panels, everyone would have a 3D rainbow on the roof!
    Ooooo, aaaahhh.