Comment: Re:short answer: you don't, go for slow, silent fa (Score 1) 229
Mac Minis; Blu-Ray drives: no. USB ports: yes.
just sayin'
just sayin'
Comment: no, but awfully close for someone not in the loop? (Score 1) 662
Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
Comment: 2 > 1 (Score 1) 260
Sure it's anecdotal, but I've heard and read more news stories from the Tevatron than the LHC in the past two years (if you ignore the non-science "This and That Broken!" news pieces). It's grievous; don't begrudge our actually grieving it.
Comment: Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 1352
You say that as if there was something wrong with a bias against stupid people.
yep, this is flamebait, rightly modded. who's idea was it to post a story with 'flamewar' in the summary to anything other than Idle? *sigh*
Comment: Re:We can dream. (Score 1) 409
So would dumping him in the ocean somewhere in the first 5 minutes
He's an aquatic creature. There would be little point.
To be effective, he needs to be sucked out an airlock...
Yep. Yep he does.
http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/jar-jar-returns.html
Comment: Re:Don't sit down = Immortality (Score 1) 341
Technology for a longer life; poop standing up.
[Should probably be posting this anon, what with that whole immutable internet legacy. Oops.]
[Should probably be posting this anon, what with that whole immutable internet legacy. Oops.]
State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor 574
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from the let's-vote-on-this-instead dept.
from the let's-vote-on-this-instead dept.
Everyone knows how boring a debate on a controversial abortion bill can get on the Senate floor. So it's no wonder that Florida State Sen. Mike Bennett took the time to look at a little porn and a video of a dog running out of the water and shaking itself off. From the article: "Ironically, as Bennett is viewing the material, you can hear a Senator Dan Gelber's voice in the background debating a controversial abortion bill. 'I'm against this bill,' said Gelber, 'because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida.' Bennett defended his actions, telling Sunshine State News it was an email sent to him by a woman 'who happens to be a former court administrator.'"
Salad Spinner Made Into Life-Saving Centrifuge 87
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from the kitchen-and-lab-equipment dept.
from the kitchen-and-lab-equipment dept.
lucidkoan writes "Two Rice University students have transformed a simple salad spinner into an electricity-free centrifuge that can be used to diagnose diseases on the cheap. Created by Lauren Theis and Lila Kerr, the ingenious DIY centrifuge is cobbled together using a salad spinner, some plastic lids, combs, yogurt containers, and a hot glue gun. The simple and easily-replicated design could be an invaluable tool for clinics in the developing world, enabling them to separate blood to detect diseases like anemia without electricity."
Comment: floaties? (Score 2, Interesting) 132
And nobody on the sub engineering team thought, "hey, maybe we should add a ballast balloon that floats it to the surface if it loses all contact with the surface." Wow.
Comment: Re:When this thread has ended ... (Score 1) 1255
I'd like to see an analysis of the instances quoted.
Ab-so-lutely. And frankly, I'll be more inclined to dive into said analysis when I can go to RTFA for its info, and not find it taking the form of a complaint--a whiny complaint containing heavy injections of prejudice in its own right, a la srlinuxx: "I accepted that's just the way men are. They've always been that way and they always would."