Comment: I think... (Score 1) 159
I have seen this movie. Or maybe this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woxgr_GtFnU
Comment: Darn you Id Software! (Score 2) 276
Who saw "Doom", "Mars", and "Phobos" and reached for your shotgun?
Comment: Re:a new business model... (Score 4, Informative) 153
I would send $100 to NASA right now if I knew it would reach their coffers.
Comment: Indeed (Score 4, Funny) 82
'Icelandic Rock' was ABBA's greatest rival in the late 70's. They did indeed bring much gold to earth.
Comment: Biblical Proportions (Score 1, Insightful) 288
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, Duke Nukem Forever released
Mayor: All right, all right! I get the point!
Comment: The Tides Foundation (Score 2) 1352
According to http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/about.php?nid=&id=#support, World Public Opinion is funded by the Tides Foundation, which is a pet project of George Soros and Al Gore, among others. There is no love lost between Soros and Fox. I'd take this survey with a block of salt.
Half-Male, Half-Female Fowl Explain Birds' Sex Determination 117
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from the fish-nor-fowl-except-fowl dept.
from the fish-nor-fowl-except-fowl dept.
Kanan excerpts from a BBC report out of Scotland: "A study of sexually scrambled chickens suggests that sex in birds is determined in a radically different way from that in mammals. Researchers studied three chickens that appeared to be literally half-male and half-female, and found that nearly every cell in their bodies — from wattle to toe — has an inherent sex identity. This cell-by-cell sex orientation contrasts sharply with the situation in mammals, in which organism-wide sex identity is established through hormones."
Kanan also supplies this link to some pictures of the mixed-cell birds.
Comment: One word: Passwords (Score 1) 442
ESPN needs to put a password on ESPN.com's content to "protect it". I swear to God I will never access their content nor any of the mouse's content.
Comment: Re:Real Age doesn't "sell" your details. (Score 1) 136
That quiz is something along the lines of "How smart are you?" When it asked me for my gender and my carrier, I continued thinking that there wasn't much they could get from that (not smart of me, huh?). When it asked for my phone number I relied on my wisdom to close it out.
Facebook is for the most part a waste of time. I gave in to peer pressure and signed up after some of my closest friends said it was the best thing since sliced silicon wafers. It's not a replacement for Real Life [tm].
Never give out your birthdate online. Ever. You address belongs in the shipping information for the hard drive or memory you just bought; nowhere else.
Comment: Re:assasination (Score 1) 137
It was a Fantasy Island episode. A hunter wants to stalk the most dangerous prey, so Mr. Rourke has him use a camera gun to take pictures of a dictator to prove he could shot him. Mind you, it was about 30 years ago, but I remember the camera gun to this day.