I feel that the most effective gags were the ones where they actually showed video of talking heads. Just last night they had various commentators expressing their admiration for Jordan's king. One or more actually said that they wished Obama was more like him (a muslim king!? Really?). I imagine they could have been taken out of context, but sometimes the statement is the context.

Funny post. The replies, on the other hand, really flew off on a tangent.

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"There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em."
Yogi Berra

Excellent post, sir and/or ma'am. You've reeled in three and counting...

Ok, tell the truth now: From just reading the headline, how many of you had interesting/disturbing/funny/twisted mental images of how one would test HIV with a smart phone?

For a long time I've had the ability to turn off ads for /. I left them on because I didn't mind helping them pay their bills. I could just ignore it if I wanted, or I'd occasionally click on some interesting bit of geekery.

Today an ad started auto-playing a vid, with audio. I've turned off the ads now.

I should probably go back to usenet. Threaded readers that work.

Interesting thought. It reminds me of quantum mechanics and probabilities. Perhaps teh Big Bang was just another iteration of rnd(God).

We had a drinking game. Whoever figured out the commercial first won. Everyone else had to take a drink. Great fun was had by all.

Sounds like a legal, high-tech Ponzi scheme.

Passed 98-1. I wonder which clown *doesn't* believe that climate changes?

From ABC: "The Republican-controlled Senate acknowledged Wednesday that climate change is real but refused to say humans are to blame."

Votes are in. Most agree to the fact of climate change. Whether it is significantly man-made or not is contentious.

Bill A: "It passed 98-1 and read simply that "Climate change is real and not a hoax.""
Bill B: "that said human beings contributed to the problem fell one vote short of the 60 needed for it to be adopted". I believe this one had the poison pill attached to it.
Bill C: "The Senate was divided, 50-49, on another measure from Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, that claimed human activities "significantly" altered the climate."

Ah, yes, I remember that one. Good times. The game Portal gives me a feel for a tessaract house. H Bosch comes to mind, too.

TV: A rare medium that's done well

Anything it wants.

I got it.

We had one once. I haven't been to it in years, so I dropped by fuckedcompany.com and got this...

Fuckedcompany is... fucked.
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ask someone who was in the internet business during "round 1" to tell you all about it.