looks cool but not practical.

if you think it's practical, ask yourself this question: would you want to mop up the mess this is going to splash all over your floor?

“the Web is designed to be fast, fresh and sloppy.”

if you think "correct" (meaning standardized) spelling is optional, here's a sample text from Chaucer from a time when "correct" spelling didn't exist (not as we know it today, at least):

Here bygynneth the Book of the tales of Caunterbury.
01 Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote,
02 The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
03 And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
04 Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
05 Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth
06 Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
07 The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
08 Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
09 And smale foweles maken melodye,
10 That slepen al the nyght with open eye-
11 So priketh hem Nature in hir corages-
12 Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
13 And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
14 To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
15 And specially, from every shires ende
16 Of Engelond, to Caunturbury they wende,

ALL HAIL THE ETERNAL VIGILANCE OF THE INTERNET SPELLING AND GRAMMAR POLICE!

is it wrong that i find the Flesh Eating Bacteria a little bit cute?

i'm here to defend all members of the Internet Grammar Police:

f u cn rd ths u prbly dnt nd the int grm plc

re. ted's comment:

very limited thinking in more ways than one. there are legitimate reasons why a "normal" woman may want to use this (and by "normal" i do not mean to brand other women as "abnormal" -- i'm speaking strictly speaking of normal meaning the majority population; anyhoo...). the reason why there is always an ungodly long queue at the women's CR is because of the mechanics involved in peeing for females. if the physical motions can be simplified (as it is for males, where they literally just need to whip it out) then there are obvious benefits ... but the current product seems a little unsanitary.

Bose speakers sound good but are horribly expensive.

There are cheaper alternatives out there that sound just as good (and some even better).

If you really want to get Bose speakers, that's your perogative; I just want you to know that there is a wealth of choices out there.

Enough said.

Like Neil said, Kenny Roger's Roasters is alive and well in the Philippines (although they came close to shutting down, I think).

When engaging in argument or debate, people tend to present their most compelling rationale first. In this case, they start off with:

"First of all, both names start with 'r'..."

The quality of the arguments pretty much goes downhill from there. I'm surprised they didn't include in their explanation something like "Well, if you down 3 shots of tequila, spin yourself dizzy and cross your eyes, you'll see the similarity..."

Loved 6th Sense but it was downhill for Shyamalan from there.

The plot twist in Signs was particularly absurd, so I'm kinda scared of what he'll do to The Last Airbender.

most writers of scifi already know about all the stuff listed in the article but they go ahead and violate these facts anyway. it's called dramatic license -- if the spaceship didn't make a huge grumbling sound the audience will have no way of relating to it as a large, powerful machine.

another reason why writers end up ignoring the small details that are "wrong" is simply because it isn't relevant to the story. if necessary, an explanation is added as an afterthought -- "retconned".

a very skillful scifi writer would know exactly what niggling details need to be justified and what needs to be ignored. for example, "Dune" was able to justify a planetwide dessert (via a biological entity) convincingly. it was also able to convincingly justify a medieval society in an apparent high tech future (fear of uncontrolled AI and technology that renders projectile weaponry useless).

a bad scifi writer would end up ignoring the wrong facts and causes the viewer/reader to think "WTF" and it ends up ruining the suspension of disbelief (see "Armageddon" and "Jurassic Park 3")

i've always instinctively used the mcdonalds exchange rate ... never knew economists had an equivalent measure.

i was very alarmed when i saw this on my favorite sites (dpreview.com and wikipedia of all places!). since i always search for sites and rarely type in a URL from scratch (i always forget if it's .com or .net or what) this was a big deal to me.

i guess it's a glitch. it was gone after about 30 minutes. i'm emailing security@google.com to let them know my displeasure about this.

you got it all wrong -- the babelfish is used to prove the NON-existence of God. from Hitchhiker:

'I refuse to prove I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'

'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'

'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

=)

damn stubborn thing. "i refuse to get off this, even if i am being bounced about like a pingpong." LOL

+1 on the klingon blade entry