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quote: Brad MillerI totally agree! They seem to have a monopoly on all the commercial services and force you into some lame high $$ monthly subscription service if you want to be able to even adjust the size or pic quality.
Real video? Oh please. The government should really step in and outlaw that format for the general good of mankind.
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quote:M'Kay! One random link to a QuickTime file coming right up!
Phil Hill: I'll take QuickTime ANYDAY!
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quote:I often think about this.
CREATION HAS TWO SEX POLES & 4 CORNER RACES OF HUMANS.
quote: Phil HillMine too. Shep Smith is just about the coolest news-caster on TV.
One of my favorite "Bloopers"
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quote: Randy StankeyYeppers, "Mah-na-Mah-na" was one of the most goofiest songs back in early 1969 from the Italian soundtrack composer, Piero Umiliani.
Been watching that Dr. Pepper commercial?
quote: Phil HillShep is so cool. Notice how he recovered immediately, didn't dwell on it, and moved on. That's a pro. He was only tripped up for a syllable or two.
Fox News BJ
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quote: James R. Hammonds, Jr..I thought it was a tribute to the Amiga computers.... - Monte
....The Ball That Started It All
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quote:VideoAwayMessages.com
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The only place that allows you to set VIDEO away messages for AIM. Search the away messages at the top or if you're feeling adventurous you could
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and when we did find them we got all excited and tried to capture them on video. Nothing against them, we just wanted to make it funny and stereotypical. Spent 15 minutes driving around to find the props and 10 minutes convincing Chris that it's just an awesome idea ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
while he accidentally made up the theme song for the show.
Can feel a rhythm in your cutting, too. Good job!
quote: James R. Hammonds, JrHuh?
Correct Price Is NOT 420
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quote: Jennifer PanJen... I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist:
BITCH! Pilot Episode
BITCH!... Redux. quote: Mike HeenanThanks, Mike! Didn't know that.
420 has something to do with weed
quote: Mike HeenanNothing to do with the cops. Everything to do with some Marin County [California] teens in the 70's...
I remembered that the number 420 has something to do with weed, I think the cops code for a bust or something?
Man... that was too cool. Thanks.
ROFL! Heh-heh... Thanks, Jen, glad ya liked it okay! I wasn't sure how you'd take that, messin' around with your stuff and all. But everything was there all along, in what you did when you shot it: the composition, staging, and taking care to maintain screen direction. That's what really makes it work or not. The cut was merely there for the taking. I'd be happy to help where I can, as time allows. (Only home about 3 days a week.)
Nothing remotely sexual, but may offend some do-gooders.
quote: Mike Heenanwrong
Nope, not something Phil Hill would like..
quote: Mike HeenanHow can a site with the name DICKCREAM be anything but? You were expecting maybe Richard's Diary Products?
Nothing remotely sexual
quote: Mike HeenanNothing wrong with doing good.
may offend some do-gooders
quote: Brad MillerOh, my lord! And my wife thinks I'm crazy!
For those of you who think that people are crazy for putting in screening rooms in their house, this is taking things a bit far.
quote:That's real good!
Damn those kids and their baggy clothes!!!
quote: Jeremy JorgensonNope. I wasn't too lazy to check my facts before posting...page 2 includes The Exorcist, Alien, The Shining, Titanic, Jaws and It's a Wonderful Life. Jeez, I think being unemployed is making me a cranky smartass.
Isn't that already on page 2?
this is the annual "fertility" festival held on the first Sunday in April at the Wakamiya Hachiman-gu shrine in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture (between Tokyo and Yokohama).
Where else can you find links to sites featuring GPS panties, ring-tone dancers, and people crying over their not-so-spilled milk, all in one place? Those sites and others are part of a contest that ends tomorrow, June 9th.
quote:Well, what the hell did they expect, with a domain like that?
We have received a number of complaints from people concerned with vulgar emails coming from our domain, PenIsland.net.
quote: Mark J. MarshallFor even more fun, check out their Forums. Total # of posts since February: 2 (including one from the moderator saying "Post away!"). They have a category, "Site suggestions." I think we should all join and hijack every topic into a film discussion.
Be sure to check out The Condiment Packet Museum.
quote:ROFL! Heh-heh-heh! That would be great!
I think we should all join and hijack every topic into a film discussion. [evil]
quote:Couldn't have said it better myself.
Humbug? Shecoonery? Useless truck or gum? Hornswoggling? Honey-fuggling? Not in this book, dear sir! I swan to mercy, a huckle- berry above anyone's persimmon. Some pumpkins, a caution, 100 percent certified by a Philadelfy lawyer. If not, dad-blame it, I'll hang up my fiddle, and you can sass me, knock me into a cocked hat, give me jesse, fix my flint, settle my hash, ride me out on a rail and have a conniption fit, you cussed scalawag. Now ain't that the beatingest language you ever did hear? Sure beats the Dutch! Pshaw! Do tell! Bully for you!
quote: Brad MillerBrad, where are you finding these things?
it is probably the most gayest thing on the internet.
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Yahoo news / AP
Wed Jun 29, 6:27 PM ET
ALBANY, N.H. - A 45-year-old man was arrested after a teenage girl found him staring at her from below an outhouse seat, police said. Police said they pulled Gary Moody, from Gardiner, Maine, from the waste tank under a log cabin outhouse on Monday.
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"We had to decontaminate him," said Capt. Jon Hebert of the Carroll County Sheriff's Department, adding that firefighters hosed the man down before police handcuffed him. "We treated him as if he were hazardous material," Hebert said.
Moody was charged with criminal trespass. Hebert said he could face more charges.
Moody was freed on bail for a July 19 appearance in Northern Carroll County District Court in North Conway.
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quote: Phil HillThankfully you need to log in to see whatever page that link points to.
I stumbled across this ADULT Auction and of course immediately thought of Joe.
quote: Phil Hill..yea.. Dr.Emmett Brown has that patent (lol).
But I think someone else has that patent and supplies it.
quote: Jennifer PanIt's an angelina Jolie look alike named Lucy Davis. Go to the link above the picture and you will find other look alikes too.
I don't see the likeness... her boobs and lips are too small...
quote: Michael SchafferApparently, it's true... and apparently isn't the first time such a thing has happened.
Snake bursts after gobbling gator - is that real?
quote: Mark J. MarshallEasy.
Can anyone beat this game?
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I suggested using rope but since he had those we worked with that instead.
quote: Jennifer PanJen, you know if you post for criticism on the subject of filmmaking, I'm gonna put in my 2 cents worth... but you know I still love you, dear.
I needed that to give me motivation to work on it a lot more.
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I have this image of a computer virus taking over every computer on earth, then using our antennas and satellite to repeatedly broadcast the message "ENLARGE your COPULATORY TENTACLES! Tentaculis®, SAND WORM extract, and Dilithium Sulfide, it really works and without a prescription! Pills CHEAP from GalacticPharm@AlphaRegulonV.com" for light years around.
Then an armada of warships bearing atomizer rays and a bunch of very annnoyed aliens arrives...
quote: Michael SchafferThe glass is gimmicked. The people holding the paper are confederates.
How did he do that?
Stuff like this fails to impress me. It's not magic if you have to cover it up to make it work. That's why I really appreciate sleight of hand work like card manipulation. It's a more pure form of conjuring which relies solely on the skill of the magician to misdirect and work manual artifice, often right under the spectator's nose.
The girls don't look like that in mortuary school.
quote:Don't forget 'Our Mr. Sun'
How many of us remember seeing Dr. Frank Baxter and his colleague (whom I forget his name) with those Bell Science Films that came out in the mid 50's to early 60's.
Titles of: "Hemo the Magnificant(sic)", "Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays", .. and others.
quote: Monte L FullmerWhen I was in Jr High, I used to get those Bell Films (and many others) "free" in 16mm from the library and showed them to my very patient (AND I now realize very bored, but polite) parents and friends.
How many of us remember seeing Dr. Frank Baxter...
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Doesn't anyone get the point? It doesn't matter for squat that Joe Redifer weeps crocodile tears for those who suffer as a result of his actions. What's far more relevant is that everyone knows of the lust and driving passion that has caused this problem. Although my approach may appear a bit pedantic, by setting some generative point of view against a structural-taxonomical point of view or vice versa, I intend to argue that Joe thinks it would be a great idea to glamorize drug usage. Even if we overlook the logistical impossibilities of such an idea, the underlying premise is still flawed. He somehow manages to maintain a straight face when saying that cannibalism, wife-swapping, and the murder of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior. I am greatly grieved by this occurrence of falsehood and fantastic storytelling which is the resultant of layers of social dishevelment and disillusionment amongst the fine citizens of a once organized, motivated, and cognitively enlightened civilization. If Joe continues to twist our entire societal valuation of love and relationships beyond all insanity, I will be obliged to do something about him. And you know me: I never neglect my obligations. The moral of the story: It is difficult, if not impossible, for people to come up with an accurate conclusion if the only information Joe Redifer has given them is false.
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quote: Leo EnticknapActually, the ad predates that "cowboy" movie by about six years. Far and away the most amusing ad of SuperBowl XXXIX and also a pretty good metaphor for the data services the advertiser provided.
Mieow!
Inspired in part by Brokeback Mountain and the other part by Monty Python's lumberjack song, I'd guess...
quote: Paul Mayer[fingers in ears] UHHHHH-NUH-NUH-NUH-NUUUUH!!! No, I'm not hearing this!!! [grimace] Heresy!
Of course John Wayne and Walter Brennan did a Red River "Brokeback"
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Our beloved Duke!
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quote:Oh, that's cool!!
Cats talk!
quote: Joe RediferJoe, you have a good voice. Just work on your breathing a bit. Let it flow naturally from your diaphram and speak in a relaxed, confident, cadence. Don't hold back.
OK here are a few videos I've made
quote: Tim ReedI agree... I love his voice(so sexay... rawr...), and that video.
Joe, you have a good voice.
quote: Tim ReedI agree, Tim! I 1st saw Joe's work on that a few years ago when he sent me one of his compilation discs. Ever since I saw that short, I thought it very cleaver and well-done. I was after him to submit that cut to some of the festivals. It is really good!
I really, REALLY liked the chalkboard animation.
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Of course though Tim, me having to *explain* my smart-ass post takes all the ZING outta it!
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Arrrgh! Sorry, I was just tryin' ta be cute. The crowd's typical response with such events, and all...
quote: Paul MayerI hear NASA Are building the set as we speak
Hopefully the new manned vehicle NASA is working on will be Guttag-sized as I see a possible demand for such specs.
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FORT WORTH, Texas -- A fight between two brothers over a piece of chicken ended when the older sibling fatally stabbed the other in the chest and temple, police said.
Marcus Williams, 21, was arrested and charged with murder on Friday in the death of his 17-year-old brother, Michael.
The teenager had returned home with some chicken when his older sibling took a piece without asking, police said.
After the two fought, Marcus Williams allegedly retrieved a knife from the kitchen and stabbed his brother.
The victim died a short time later at a nearby hospital.
Three other family members were at home when the attack occurred, police said.
quote: Jonathan WorthingJonathan...after watching that video...I don't think I'll ever be able to look at your member photo in quite the same way.
your dumped
over the side of the boat i was on.quote: BBC Online'...was trying to move...' - yeah, right. I reckon he was turning his attention elsewhere after having got bored with the sheep...
Farmer is mauled by 47-stone pig
A north Wales farmer is recovering in hospital after he was mauled by a 47-stone (298 kg) pig.
Geraint Roberts, 49, was trying to move the Landrace boar into its pen in Brynsiencyn, when it attacked him. The pig pinned him against a tractor and bit him on the legs, back and left arm. One bite nearly severed an artery.
The farmer's wife Nerys stopped the attack by turning a hose on the pig. Mr Roberts has undergone seven hours of surgery at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor. He remains in hospital, four days after the attack on Sunday evening.
Son Gwyn, 19, said: "My father is lucky to be alive. I think if he had been on his own, or my mother had not thought to use the hose, he would probably be dead. I had a pitchfork and was trying to shout at the boar, to get him away, but it was no use."
"We've no idea why he turned violent. We've had him for about a year and he's normally quite placid, but you can never really trust a boar, just like you can never trust a bull." He added: "My father has worked with pigs all his life and this is the first time anything like this has happened. It was terrible, but it could have been so much worse."
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Loose donkey leads to fatal wreck
11:29 PM CDT on Monday, June 5, 2006
From WFAA-TV Staff Reports
ENNIS - One fatality was confirmed after a donkey escaped from a farm hand and found himself on an Ennis freeway, which led to two 18-wheelers colliding Monday afternoon.
Several people were chasing the donkey on foot when it ran onto a median at FM 879 and Interstate 45.
Ennis police said a northbound truck slowed down to avoid the donkey and the farm hand when a second 18 wheeler hit the truck from behind and both burst into flames.
The driver of the second truck, Roland Bunnell of North Carolina, died.
Interstate 45 was shut down in both directions in the area of the accident while rancher Russell Hornik and his partner Rick Langer, on horses and armed with lassos, chased the donkey through traffic congested roads.
Lavonne Elam said she witnessed the donkey, which escaped while on a trip to the vet's, running in the road after she returned to Red River Machinery from a lunch break.
"I saw him in the middle of the southbound freeway and then he was starting toward the northbound," she said. "By the time I just looked up in my rear view mirror, I saw all the smoke the black smoke and the flames. So, it just happened real fast."
Police battled the flames and smoke from the accident, and the donkey defied capture for three hours.
"Hard to rope a donkey," Hornik said. "They can run real fast and move real fast on you."
Police returned the donkey to owner William Worley of Farmers Branch, who keeps the animal on land near Ennis. Worley declined to comment.
) tend, already, to be higher, by volume, than even high octane gasoline these days. If the watercar were true, you just know that it wouldn't run unless you filled it with premium, distilled water with additives for higher performance. At the very least, distilled water would be required, wouldn't it? I suppose gallons of distilled water at the grocery store would work, and they, remarkably, are cheaper than GenericBottled(R) brand.
The Turd Twister
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July 21, 2006
Painter Tim Patch shows plenty of raw talent. Emily Dunn reports.
Former Brisbane builder Tim Patch was finding it difficult to crack the art market until he dipped his quill in the ink, so to speak.
Under the artistic pseudonym "Pricasso", Patch uses his penis to paint portraits, landscapes and female nudes.
"I dip it in the paint and then apply it to the canvas," says the 56-year-old who grew up in England. "I began doing it at a party around Christmas time. Now I videotape all my work, because sometimes people don't believe me."
When the canvas became too rough on his "brush", he switched to paper, but has switched to a "smoothed-back canvas ... for a better effect".
He has painted portraits of John Howard and Kim Beazley and plans to unveil a portrait of Lord Mayor Clover Moore at this weekend's Sexpo.
Patch will also paint your portrait at the adult-entertainment event for $50-$100, depending on time taken.
This year's Sexpo also includes the world's first sex train. "The gerbil" contains automated mannequins simulating sexual acts and a re-enactment of Lorena Bobbitt cutting off part of John Bobbitt's penis.
"It is like a ghost train for adults," says Sexpo organiser John Ross.
The four-day exhibition of sex products and performers started in Melbourne in 1996 and was first staged in Sydney in 1997 at the now-defunct Gazebo Hotel in Kings Cross.
Ross estimates about 10,000 turned up to the first show. This year he is expecting 55,000.
"The first shows were testers to see if anyone would turn up to something called Sexpo," Ross says.
The 2006 line-up includes some of the original exhibitors such as the mail order pornography company Adult Media Group and Body Bits, a stall allowing visitors to mould body parts - but Ross doubts any original strippers will reprise their acts.
"It's not a career for longevity."
SEXPO
Thursday to July 30, 11am-9pm, Hordern Pavilion, Moore Park, 132 849, $25/$21.
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NO SEX TONIGHT!
I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart. FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me." I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!" So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear... "You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?" Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep. The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier." I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it." Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled WHAT?" I then said "honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?" Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either.
quote: Bobby HendersonNoticed that is included in the end credits of the video for the included modifications on the next jet wing prototype.
Would be even more cool if his wings were able to have some landing gear...
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quote: John WilsonI'd pay to see that
Good grief...what's next? Stroker Ace? [uhoh]
And I've always been a Gene Kelly fan.
quote: Monte L FullmerAnd the Disney/MGM Studios entrance is also modeled after the auditorium.
At least now there is a park dedicated to that auditorium
quote: Brad MillerThat's good to know.
iCrap
quote:At least the hacker had a sense of humor to send it to worthy cause.
The Top Gear host revealed his account numbers after rubbishing the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs.
He wanted to prove the story was a fuss about nothing.
But Clarkson admitted he was "wrong" after he discovered a reader had used the details to create a £500 direct debit to the charity Diabetes UK.
quote: Brad MillerI don't think it is, in this country. At least one of those pictures showed a poster on the wall that indicated it wasn't photographed in the US.
Ummm, and how is this legal???
I knew from right then this was going to be an awesome store if even the customers are this nice! quote: Sam GrahamGot quite a lot of press here, along the lines of British and European retail trying to break into the US market usually meets a sticky end. Tesco is also rapidly becoming the big bad bogeyman of the environmentalists here, because their out-of-town superstores promote unnecessary car use and squeeze independent retailers, racking up the food miles etc. etc. I have to confess that a weekly stop at my local Tesco sorts me out for food shopping, though!
Fresh & Easy is Tesco's entry into the US market. Sales have been WAY below expectations, and they've put a freeze on new store openings for the time being while they retool the idea.
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I was in Spring Hill, Florida visiting my grandparents, who have all the family pictures of great grandparents and great-great grandparents. Doing the good familial thing, I decided to take the albums and scan the photos so that the rest of the family could see them. I only had one day to do this, and the only place near them was Wal-Mart (the Supercenter by highway 19). So I take the (sometimes) 100 year old photos to Wal-Mart and begin scanning them on their machine.
After a while, a Wal-Mart employee accosts me and tells me that I can't do that because those images are "Copyright to the studios that took them." I look down at my pictures. The picture she is pointing to is one of my great grandmother, taken about 1925. She has been dead since 1998. The photography studio (assuming it was taken by a studio) is not marked, and is long out of business, and the person who took the photo is long dead, as are, likely, his children and all of his business associates. The only known copy of the photo is the one I'm holding, which is owned by my grandparents, who gave it to me to copy.
In disbelief, I point out that the photo is almost 100 years old and the people are all dead. Undeterred, the Wal-Mart employee informs me that "Copyright lasts forever. It's the law." My scans up to that point are deleted and I'm free to leave the store with my old photos unscanned. I guess I should be thankful they didn't have a portable shredder on hand to seize my photos and do away with them right then and there. Is that in the next set of magic federal laws?
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Photosynth is a potent mixture of two independent breakthroughs: the ability to reconstruct the scene or object from a bunch of flat photographs, and the technology to bring that experience to virtually anyone over the Internet.
Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of the subject and the vantage point each photo was taken from. With this information, we recreate the space and use it as a canvas to display and navigate through the photos. Photosynth was inspired by the breakthrough research on Photo Tourism from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research. This work pioneered the use of photogrammetry to power a cinematic and immersive experience
Providing that experience requires viewing a LOT of data though—much more than you generally get at any one time by surfing someone’s photo album on the web. That’s where our Seadragon™ technology comes in: delivering just the pixels you need, exactly when you need them. It allows you to browse through dozens of 5, 10, or 100(!) megapixel photos effortlessly, without fiddling with a bunch of thumbnails and waiting around for everything to load.
quote: James WestbrookCost. In my case, my friend needed two 4x6 prints of the photo. Buying a package of photo paper alone would have cost more than the 30 cents advertised at Walgreens.
Why would someone with a digital camera and a computer need to use the photo lab services of any retail outlet?
As for copying/restoration of older portraits, the all-in-one printer/scanners can do the job okay, some come with software that allows one to perform the restoration and then allow one to print the results on photo paper without having to leave the house or go online.
quote:Or, one could just use WAREZ!
One would have to have a friend who could do this kind of work and already have the programs,
quote: Kenneth WuepperEven better (worse?), you can buy a crystal-encrusted diva special version of a Sennheiser e835 mike, which makes those factory-bejeweled Neutrik XLRs seem a little lacking in the bling department. Proof that there is a market for just about anything, no matter how ridiculous it may be.
That set of connectors is just the ticket for the traveling "star" with the Gold SM-58 that is tuned to one voice.
quote: Mike BlakesleyI would have thought this part of Raiders Of The Lost Ark was pretty important. In fact, I can't think of any spot in Raiders where you could run for a pee and not miss something crucial.
This site tells you the best times to go to the rest room during movies.
quote: Joshua WaalandYes, but... Will it Blend? That is the Question!
I couldn't believe there was more than one of these on the market.
http://www.blenderblaster.com/blenderblaster/gxmodel.asp
http://www.gasblender.com/
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=379044
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True power fidelity
Spellman Powers from Edison, New Jersey
Excellent value for the money. I paid almost twice as much for two single channel outlets with monophonic power. Now I can get true dual channel stereo power out of ANY line cord with a full 60 Hz per channel. My only complaint is the leakage current in horizontal mode. Without a good set of power corks you can drain all the current out of your wires in a couple of hours. So mount the outlet vertically or if you absolutely need horizontal audio, get yourself a good sponge capacitor and mount between the ground plug and ALL! the speaker magnets.
quote:I personally wish the guy would win, to set a precedent. Then maybe we could get rid of some of these preposterous ads if the manufacturers knew they might be sued by thousands of people.
Man sues over lack of 'Lynx effect'
A luckless Indian romeo is suing Lynx after he failed to land a single girlfriend during seven years of using their products.
Lynx advert /Rex
Vaibhav Bedi, 26, is seeking £26,000 from parent company Unilever for the "depression and psychological damage" caused by the lack of any Lynx effect.
Court officials in New Delhi have agreed to order forensic laboratory tests on dozens of his half-used Lynx body washes, shampoos, anti-perspirants and hair gels.
Lynx - marketed as Axe in India - is famous for its saucy ads showing barely clothed women throwing themselves at men.
But Bedi says in his court petition: "The company cheated me because in its advertisements, it says women will be attracted to you if you use Axe.
"I used it for seven years but no girl came to me."
When contacted Unilever declined to comment on the case.
But India's leading compensation litigator Ram Jethmalani warned: "There is no data to substantiate the supposition that unattractive and unintelligent men don't attract women.
"In fact some of the best looking women have been known to marry and date absolutely ghoulish guys. I'd suggest that the company settles this issue out of court."
quote: Joe RediferI did a lot of Special Venue and Simulator Ride pre-shows using LCD Flat Screens and Projectors. They would ALL have a burnt-in image after a few months of service and have to be replaced.
And they say LCD has no burn-in issues.
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When a man in the UK was asked to be the best man at his friend's wedding, he was touched. So touched, that he promised not to pull any pranks before or during the wedding. After the wedding though, that's another story.
This man, who is choosing to stay anonymous, has set up this Twitter account for the sole purpose of automatically tweeting when the newlyweds are having sex. I'm not kidding. Read the entire tweet stream from the bottom up if you want the full story. But basically, this guy was watching his friend's house while they went on their honeymoon and he placed a device under their mattress. This device, which is similar to the one found here, is a pressure-sensitive pad that tweets out when sexual activity starts, when it ends, the force of the "action," and a "frenzy" rating.
quote: Brad MillerI don't get it.
Ummm, WTF?
quote: Yahoo NewsA national hero!! I hope there is a picture of the action over at the People of Wal*Mart website.
'Told you I would shut her up': Man found guilty of slapping toddler in Walmart
Tue Jan 19, 8:20 PM
By The Associated Press
ATLANTA - A Georgia man has been found guilty of second degree child cruelty for slapping a crying 2-year-old at a Walmart.
Roger Stephens of Stone Mountain was convicted Tuesday in a Gwinnett County bench trial, which is held without a jury.
Stephens, who was 61 when arrested, will spend six months in jail followed by six months of home confinement.
Authorities say the girl and her mother were shopping on Aug. 31, when the toddler began crying. The police report says Stephens approached the mother and said, "If you don't shut that baby up, I will shut her up for you."
Authorities say Stephens then slapped her four or five times.
According to police, Stephens said: "See, I told you I would shut her up."
A call to Stephens' court-appointed lawyer was not immediately returned.
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A national hero!!
Joe, you obviously don't have kids.
quote: Richard HamiltonI know, and I am so proud!
Joe, you obviously don't have kids.
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quote: Joe RediferHa! Are you talking about Mad Max? Surely not...
I don't recall the yellow/blue striped car
I may need to send you that bootleg after all.
quote:The Gloucester County Prosecutor should have added "because, as we all know, black people have no sense of humor about these things."
"This was an extremely disturbing event on many levels," Gloucester County Prosecutor Sean Dalton said at a news conference. "Any statements like these that can cause harm or grave concern must be addressed as quickly we possibly can."
quote: Brad Miller540 calories, 32g of fat and 1380mg of sodium, ouch! That sodium level will kill you alone.
KFC's Bacon Sandwich On Fried Chicken "Bread" Starts Killing People Nationwide April 12
quote: Mike BlakesleyThe Gloucester County Prosecutor would get charged with harrassment and bias intimidation right along with that 16 year old boy if he said anything like that. And that brings out the sad part of the story: the first amendment and freedom of speech is pretty much an illusion anymore. So many "special interest" groups of people have such a giant stick up their ass, ready to argue, fight or commit acts of violence over spoken words that we really don't have freedom of speech anymore. Well, the folks in the special interests groups can shoot off at the mouth freely as they stand behind their group label. Anyone else has to bite his toungue.
The Gloucester County Prosecutor should have added "because, as we all know, black people have no sense of humor about these things."
quote: Alan GougerThe funny thing is you'll get more sodium than that in a can of soup. I've seen muffins, pastries, sandwiches and even salads with higher calorie and fat gram counts than that. I'm not saying that KFC "double down" fake sandwich is a good thing to eat on any sort of regular basis. What I am saying is unhealthy foods are everywhere. You have to watch out for more than just burgers and fried foods. Read the labels. If you don't want to do that then get plenty of exercise to burn as much of the fat, calories and sodium you don't know you're eating.
540 calories, 32g of fat and 1380mg of sodium, ouch! That sodium level will kill you alone.
quote: Brad MillerLe Petomane would be proud.
The Rectum Bar
quote:Ugh
She used Google Maps on her Blackberry to get walking directions from one part of town to another. Part of those direction included walking on a road without sidewalks called Deer Valley Drive, aka Utah State Route 224.
According to court documents, instead of finding a different route or walking safely away from traffic, she walked into the street and was (surprise!) struck by a car. Now she's suing Google for in excess of $100,000
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quote:Speculative story with doomsday scenario by methane
Hudson: That's it man, game over man, game over! What the fuck are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?
Burke: Maybe we could build a fire, sing a couple of songs, huh? Why don't we try that?
quote:Other than being barely grammatical, how do they know this?
Usage probability for this by women is more than men
quote: Jim BedfordBecause...it's shaped like a penis, Jim.
Other than being barely grammatical, how do they know this?
quote: "Jeremy Weigel "I don't see a birth date on that profile, only a date of death: 1990.
This guy wasn't even born when he started acting in 1960.
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Need Help in the Past (Brandon, MS)
Date: 2011-02-15, 11:21PM EST
Reply to: gigs-ns32b-2216990927@craigslist.org
I have a functioning time machine (I know it sounds unbelievable, but I assure you it works) that I need a 2nd person to operate with me.
I'm looking for someone who is adventurous and reliable. Preferable a male; or a female that can do heavy lifting.
I am leaving on February 21st, 2011, in the morning and plan to return February 22nd, 2011. I am going to November 1933 to handle some business.
If you are serious about time travel and are reliable, then please contact me. You do not have to pay anything, but you would have to provide someone to watch my cat for the time we are gone. The only qualifications needed are that you are reliable and that the circumferance of your head is no more than 64cm.
We will be leaving from Brandon, MS. Let me know if you want to go with me.
* Location: Brandon, MS
* it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests
* Compensation: no pay
PostingID: 2216990927
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I, like many people in this country, am a devoted Apple computer consumer. I mean, Apple must be superior for the common computer user who does like shiny, sleek packaging and does not like punching binary commands into the keyboard or having random code on their screen. That said, I had a disturbing visit to the Apple store earlier this week.
Let me back up. This disturbing visit was rooted in my workout (or lack there-of) regimen. Like many people in this country I will diligently jog everyday for a few months, only to have it slowly fade from my routine until one day I realize I haven’t hit the pavement in many moons.
Thankfully for my workout-averse brethren and I, Apple and Nike conveniently joined forces to create a market for something that really wasn’t necessary to begin with: the Nike+ GPS thing-a-majig. Somehow I convinced myself (or Apple convinced me, or Nike convinced me) that I could remedy my irregular jogging schedule with technology. Look! It tracks my workouts online. Look! It plays my “pump-up” song when I need that last little boost. Wow! Instant feedback relayed to me via a sexy voice. Lance Armstrong congratulates me after my workout!
I convinced myself this thing would make me run more often, thus get me in better shape, thus give me more energy, thus become motivated and get a good job, thus marry that beautiful girl, thus have great sex, thus live 20 years longer and die a happy, fulfilled, fit man. All this for just $29.99!
Not so fast. You need to have the compatible Nike shoe for this machinery to work. No problem- I just have to wait until the day comes when I needed a new pair of running shoes. After months of not running keep my New Balances in surprisingly good condition, I accidentally leave them out in the rain one night. The next day I sink eighty bucks into a pair of Nikes, then wander next door to the conveniently placed Apple store.
The first overly cheery employee sees me walk in and makes a b-line.
“Hello sir. Anything I can help you with today?”
“Yeah” I reply, “I just bought these shoes and I want to get the Nike thing for my iPod.”
“Perfect.” The employee spins around and grabs the Nike+ package as if he was anticipating this sale from the moment he saw my bright orange Nike shoebox.
“Cool” I reply. “So I just plug this part into my iPod and this part into my shoe and I’m set to go?”
“Pretty Much. What generation iPod do you have?”
“Um, I really don’t know. It’s black. It has the spinny wheel.” I motion little circles with my index finger.
“Oh the iPod classic.” He says with the smallest hint of condescension. Apparently my eighteen-month-old iPod had already achieved classic status. “Yeah, Nike+ isn’t compatible with that iPod.”
“Why? I thought you just need an iPod.”
“Well you see, how can I explain this…” He chooses his words wisely now, assuming I’m an Apple product luddite. “That iPod has a spinning hard drive (He mimics my motion), so Apple doesn’t recommend you run with it.”
“But I run with this all the time and I’ve never had any problems. So does Apple recommend I don’t run with this or will it really—“
The Apple punk interrupts me as if he has to stand up for his company. “No, no. It really won’t work. There’s no point in making an Apple product that will damage another Apple product.”
The conversation reaches a stand still.
“Okay…”
“But, do you have an iPhone?” He cheerily inquires.
As I mentioned earlier, I do happen to own a lot of Apple products. I dig into my jeans pocket and slide out my iPhone.
He sees it and squints at the phone as if it were out of focus. The condescending tone returns. “Oh, Nike+ isn’t compatible with the first generation iPhone. Besides, who really wants to run with their iPhone?”
I wasn’t the one to suggest it, but okay… “So what are you telling me exactly?”
“I’m telling you if you only own those two “i” products you can’t use Nike+”
Serenity Now! I gather myself “Let me rephrase. What’s the least amount of money I will have to spend to use this technology.” I foolishly assume that maybe Apple makes a third-party attachment that an individual who doesn’t own any “i” products can buy and still get feedback while they run. I assume wrong.
With a sale on the horizon, the Apple employee reverts back to friendly mode. “That would be our new iPod nano!” He drags me over to the display and launches into the features of the iPod. “And, and, if it’s upside down you just go like this and the display—“
Now it’s my turn to do the interrupting. “And how much will this cost?
“$149.99” He says. “But then you still need to buy the Nike+ kit for an additional $29.99”
I mean, the thing does look cool. I look at the little MP3 player and start trying to rationalize the purchase, well it can play music and you can look at all of your photos. Then I realize: Wait, don’t I already own two Apple products that do that and more?
I walk out of the store, embarrassed that I was even considering adding another “i” product to my life. But therein lies Apple’s success. They create unnecessary products for markets that shouldn’t exist. “Oh you own an iMac?” Apple corporate says, “Well what if you need to check your email and stuff on-the-go? Surely you’ll need an iBook to do so. But what if you’re on-the-go and you don’t have wireless internet? Don’t worry! Just buy an iPhone and you can always have the internet, plus have all these cool, impractical apps that you’ll never actually use, but you’ll be able to show your friends how useful it would be in the hypothetical situation where you need to know where the nearest sexual predator is located.”
Here’s the real kicker, a product even Apple doesn’t know how to market: “The iPad! The coolest thing apple has ever released. It can, like, store all your pictures and music like your iMac but it’s smaller. For when you’re on-the-go and you need to check your email—er, wait iBook and iPhone do that. For when you want to relax and play with some apps—dammit, iPhone does that too.” Apple digs deep, “For when you’re like, um, on the couch, and your iBook is in the other room and your iPhone is charging and you really need to see who starred in Dunstin Checks In (Jason Alexander, right?) the iPad is going to be so convenient. You’ll never believe you lived without one.”
I write this as the girl sitting next to me on the plane rapidly switches between her laptop, her phone and her iPad. What a poor soul lost in a shopper driven, marketing heavy, capitalistic society, I think to myself. How lucky I am to be a rational consumer in this irrational world…
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Sport Colombia goalkeeper Quinonez Wilson redefines the meaning of going the distance with this booming 83-meter free kick.
Soccer being played in as many places as it is, it's certainly tough to say whether this is an official record or not. But watch the beautiful game for the next 10 years and you're not likely to see anyone score from as far away as Wilson did on this booming shot. [Via FanHouse UK]
quote: Jim BedfordWhy did he get a yellow card...because he took his shirt off?
Guy scores in 83 meter free soccer kick
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quote: Mark LensenmayerThat is pretty cool, although I would use a different technique than Theo Olesen's method of getting the type into the computer. He prefers using Photoshop. I'll use Photoshop to scan hand-drawn lettering. But then I'll place the scanned image into CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator manually trace clean, scalable vector-based artwork over the top of it. I can resize the vectors to any size I want without any loss of quality. They can be die cut out of vinyl or routed out of other materials. I can even paste them into Photoshop and apply other raster-based fills.
Hand drawn fonts. I think Bobby H. will like this one.
quote: Brad MillerYeah, true. Flash had good intentions. But as we all know, it has been abused.
MORE than flash??? I think not.
quote: Bobby HendersonNot really. Usually they download to my hard drive automatically. The few I have had open in a browser window operate slow and clunky. Again, form over function. Screw that. My choices on what to eat are not going to depend on what font the menu is written in.
I see zero problem with loading a PDF in a browser window. It downloads and displays the same way as a web page does
quote: Robert D HallRule #1 of the internet: There's a website for everything.
Must have been hot that day! By the way how did you find that?
me or just my wallet?quote:Oh dear...
Dear Audioholics.com,
I sent the following email to Audioquest regarding their FAQ article
I find your FAQ section to be misleading and misguiding to those who don't understand basic electronics. I question your business ethics if you can deliberately make such ludicrous claims as cables causing distortions, or cables requiring break in, etc. You have no proof for this, nor do you base your reasoning on any valid science.
I wish the FTC would step in here and force cable vendors to back up their bogus claims.
I would appreciate the Audioholics take regarding the Audioquest response below:
- Anonymous
Response from Audioquest
We totally understand that is very easy to be skeptical about cables. After all, you can't measure it, so how can you possibly hear it? In fact you can hear it - and it really is very easy to hear the differences. Far from making bogus claims, the principle of cable "break in" is very real. "Breaking in" a cable has everything to do with the insulation - not the wire itself. The insulation (or dielectric) will absorb energy from the conductor when a current is flowing (i.e. when music is playing). This energy-absorption causes the dielectric's molecules to re-arrange themselves from a random order into a uniform order. When the molecules have been rearranged, the dielectric will absorb less energy & consequently cause less distortion. The cable is now said to be "broken in" and sound quality is improved. To prove it, simply take 2 pairs of the same cable - one broken in, one new, and compare in the same system.
As for causing distortion - absolutely! All cables cause distortion. Stranded cables cause the worst type of distortion, which is why we use solid conductors.
We sell millions of dollars worth of cables every year. Every week I receive an e-mail or a phone call from a delighted customer who has made a bigger difference to their system with a $100 cable than with a $1,000 component. We must be doing something right!
Of course, you can choose not to believe, but you'd be missing out on so much.
Regards,
Alasdair Patrick
AudioQuest
8710 Research Drive
Irvine CA 92618
Tel: 949 585 0111
Fax: 949 585 0333
E-Mail: alasdair@audioquest.com
Website: www.audioquest.com
Reprinted with permission of Audioquest
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Guy made $70K a week by crawling across filthy movie theater floors
Going to see the latest chick-flicks cost some Connecticut moviegoers tens of thousands of dollars, thanks to their open purses and a popcorn-scented thief. Anthony Johnson was convicted Monday after stealing up to $70,000 per week by crawling under movie theater seats and swiping credit cards from women's purses while they watched the film. Johnson used female accomplices to keep an eye on how the women stashed their purses, and then he "crawled around the theater until he was done." Johnson later made fake IDs matching his accomplices to the stolen cards. "I can't say I've ever been as committed to something as this guy," one Hartford Courant commenter wrote. Nor have we ever been willing to touch a movie theater floor. [Source]
It has been 1022 days since the last post.
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WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide moviegoers with the information they need to determine which films are appropriate for them to see, the Motion Picture Association of America announced Tuesday the addition of a new rating to alert audiences of movies that are not based on existing works.
According to MPAA officials, the new “O,” or “Original,” designation will inform viewers that a particular film contains characters with whom they are unfamiliar, previously unseen settings, and novel plots. The rating will also reportedly serve as a warning of the potentially disorienting effects associated with having to remember characters’ names for as many as two hours and the discomfort that can occur when one is forced to keep track of narrative arcs for an entire film.
“It’s simply a value-neutral designation intended to protect consumers, ensuring that they are fully informed about a movie and are able to make their own decisions about how much artistic and narrative originality they are comfortable seeing.”
“We recognize how distressing it can be when viewers go into a film and suddenly find themselves confronted with jarring scenes containing a protagonist they’ve never encountered before, which is precisely why we created this rating,” said Joan Graves, head of the MPAA’s ratings board, who said the new category was added in part due to the thousands of complaints the organization has received from moviegoers who were upset they weren’t given advance notice that they’d have to make sense of the scenarios unfolding onscreen. “It’s important that today’s movie fans are aware upon entering the theater that none of what they will see has been adapted from a well-known comic book, television series, novel, video game, historical event, previous movie, or theme park ride.”
“Ultimately, it will be up to the consumer’s discretion as to whether a film is suitable for themselves and their family, but the O rating will explicitly caution people that they will have to pay attention during the movie and follow the storyline on their own,” Graves added.
Though sources said films requiring the new rating are comparatively rare, a spate of high-profile movies over the past several years that do not stem from any previously existing source material—including The Kids Are All Right, Her, WALL-E, Birdman, and Nebraska, among others—have left many viewers angered and perplexed. Citing test audiences they have observed, MPAA officials said that many moviegoers spent the entirety of such films in a state of distress, waiting for the moment when the Incredible Hulk, Katniss Everdeen, Wolverine, or another recognizable character from an established franchise would appear onscreen and clarify the meaning and direction of the film.
“I never would have gone to see Sicario if I knew it was going to be so unbearable,” said filmgoer Mark Kemmer of Cleveland, referring to the recently released crime thriller set against the violent backdrop of the contemporary Mexican drug trade that, under the MPAA’s guidelines, would receive the new rating. “It was pretty much unwatchable. It seemed like in nearly every scene I had to figure out who the people were and where the story was going. And the whole movie was like that!”
“What a waste of money,” he added.
Others reported being viscerally repulsed by movies they attended that were not based on media that originated several decades or generations earlier, saying they had become so upset by what they had seen that they had trouble even sitting through the films.
“How does this trash even get made?” said Katherine Hubbard, a mother of three from Rockford, IL, who, after buying tickets for the Pixar film Inside Out, was incensed that her children had been exposed to original storytelling. “Within the first minute, some little girl character my kids have never seen or heard of walks onscreen, and then we immediately have to learn her whole backstory and how she navigates the world? I marched us all right out of that theater after about 10 minutes.”
While audiences have reportedly been receptive to the new rating, directors and distributors have already decried it as severely damaging in regard to box-office revenues and the number of venues that will carry their films. However, the MPAA was adamant that the new classification should not be interpreted as censorship.
“The O rating isn’t meant to be a punishment or a moral judgment of any kind,” Graves said. “It’s simply a value-neutral designation intended to protect consumers, ensuring that they are fully informed about a movie and are able to make their own decisions about how much artistic and narrative originality they are comfortable seeing.”
“If filmmakers want to avoid the rating and appeal to a wider audience, all they have to do is throw in a superhero or a hobbit or some other licensed property,” Graves added.