Comment Re:TV ain't broken? (Score 1) 839
I'm with you. Trouble is, most people assume I don't have cable because I can't afford it. I told my parents I was canceling cable, and they started buying groceries for me. Not that I'm complaining.
Comment Re:Marvel should sue (Score 5, Funny) 389
I'd ask you who "Nick Furry" is, but I'm afraid of what the answer might be.
Top 10 Things You CAN'T Have For Christmas 230
Zothecula writes "It's getting a little late for a last minute Christmas shopping list, but not to worry, most of us outside the Forbes Top 100 couldn't afford any of these anyway! Still, it's fascinating to look at what's possible if the word 'budget' isn't in your vocabulary, so here's a look at what you won't be getting for Christmas (CT: Warning, gizmag features really intrusive advertising) this year – the most outrageous examples of high-end overkill from 2010."
Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player 356
Tumbleweed writes "How to make Steve Jobs your mortal enemy: Smokescreen, a 175KB, 8,000-line JavaScript-based Flash player written by Chris Smoak at RevShock, a mobile ad startup, and to be open-sourced 'in the near future.' From Simon's blog: 'It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio, and turns them into base64 encoded data: URIs, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG. ... Smokescreen even implements its own ActionScript bytecode interpreter.' Badass!"
Comment Re:Leaving in a bit (Score 5, Informative) 338
Lots of Slashdotters have wives; what we don't have is girlfriends. The difference being that a girlfriend would probably let you have sex with her.
Comment Re:I can't wait to... (Score 2, Funny) 268
Stop poking me!
Submission + - American Bar Association's Lists Top 100 Blogs (abajournal.com)
dpille writes: The American Bar Association recently listed the editors' top 100 legal blogs, along with a call to "help (them) find blawgs worthy of note." With the notable absence of such slashdot standbys as groklaw or Ray Beckerman's blog, and with a preference for Patently O over my favorite Patent Prospector, the slashdot community might well be able to improve that list. What other law-related blogs do we read?
"Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores In Japan 241
Riktov writes "I came across this at a Tokyo toy store last week, and it's one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. Jigazo Puzzle is a jigsaw puzzle, but you can make anything with it. It has just 300 pieces which are all just varying shades of a single color, though a few have gradations across the piece; i.e., each piece is a generic pixel. Out of the box, you can make Mona Lisa, JFK, etc, arranging it according to symbols printed on the reverse side. But here's the amazing thing: take a photo (for example, of yourself) with a cell-phone, e-mail it to the company, and they will send you back a pattern that will recreate that photo.
This article is in Japanese, but as they say, a few pictures are worth a million words. And 300 pixels are worth an infinite number of pictures."
Comment Re:Logic Pro anyone? One less Windows product (Score 4, Funny) 131
Has the Windows version of iTunes aver lacked feature parity with the Windows version?
I would have to say no.
Submission + - When moderating, my primary goal is to:
VRisaMetaphor writes: When moderating, my primary goal is to:
* help the best comments float to the top
* make the worst comments sink to the bottom
* up-mod comments I agree with
* down-mod comments I don't agree with
* seek and destroy trolls
* slap moderation critics offtopic
* make metamods go WTF?
* annoy CowboyNeal
* help the best comments float to the top
* make the worst comments sink to the bottom
* up-mod comments I agree with
* down-mod comments I don't agree with
* seek and destroy trolls
* slap moderation critics offtopic
* make metamods go WTF?
* annoy CowboyNeal
Comment Re:This list is horrible (Score 1) 257
I admire your confidence in attacking his analysis when you clearly haven't read the article.
Comment Re:I would prefer... (Score 1) 183
I'm curious to know why you think Brienne is not a "good" character? I find her just as interesting and her story just as compelling as any other character in the series.
Comment Re:I would prefer... (Score 1) 183
I don't understand why people think Feast for Crows sucked. To me, it was just more of the same great stuff.
Submission + - Air Strike Tracker, visual record of US airstrikes (ourbombs.com)
Neil Halloran writes: "The Air Strike Tracker chronicles every reported U.S. air strike that has affected civilians since September 11, 2001. The visual interface (using Flash 10's 3D functionality) makes information about each incident from numerous sources highly accessible, often providing the ability to view online videos and other relevant media. You can browse incidents by location, date, or tags (e.g. unmanned drones, official investigations, local protest). Note that he Air Strike Tracker is an ongoing project, and we will continue to update the underlying data as new information is obtained."
Powering Restaurants WIth Deep Fried Fuel 148
Mike writes "Here's a brilliant idea for biofuels: rather than filtering used fry oil for use in vehicles, why not simplify matters and use it to heat and power the restaurant itself? The VegaWatt turns used vegetable oil into clean heat and energy for restaurants, eliminating the dirty and costly mess of oil disposal while producing 10-25% of the electricity needed to run a small restaurant. It also produces fuel free of chemicals or fossil fuels, unlike standard biodiesel."
