The summary says Hiroshima was on the 9th, followed by Nagasaki three days later, but the Hiroshima bombing was on the 6th of August, 1945, followed by Nagasaki on the 9th.

Sure, who wouldn't want a horrifying automaton of their favorite film star to haunt their nightmares?

ResEdit back in the System 7 days had a special "Pig Mode" dialog box that would pop up if you used the right key combo. I mean, I was like 9 or something, so I was easily amused; but I thought it was great.

What they have there are some old 600 cameras that work with film made by the Impossible Project, and a rebadged Fuji Instax camera that works with Fuji Instax film. Polaroid apparently has a rebadged version of that, too. The stuff they're talking apart in the article is what's generally referred to as peel-apart film or packfilm, for 100-series Polaroid cameras like the Polaroid Automatic 100, 250, 360 etc etc... They were a lot of them. Also, you can use the stuff on old press cameras, like a Graflex or Linhof 4x5. The pictures generally are of better quality than what you'd get from the Instax or 600-series integral-film. Obviously, I'm a fan, but this was a long time coming. They discontinued the 4x5 stuff years ago, leaving only the smaller FP-3000b (a great black & white instant film) and FP-100c (the color stuff in the article). Then last year, they stopped making FP-3000b. I was hoping that we'd get a few more years of FP-100c because of some sort of imagined manufacturing synergy with Fuji's Instax film (which remains very popular, it would seem), but alas! It wasn't to be. It's the end of an era, I guess; but film shooters like myself should be used to this sort of thing by now.

We all know there's no such thing as the Vulcan Death Grip.

Hopefully the other ones can go further than 38 miles. You'd have to fill up 3 times to use up a whole gallon, apparently. I think we can thank summary guy for that too, though.

Texting during movies IS annoying, but shooting people during movies is much more so. I mean, just discharging a firearm is likely to be much louder than even the most annoying ringtone.

There can be only one!

I was thinking someone grafted printed circuit boards to sparrows, then made an iPhone app that lets you control what song they're singing. Like, "I'm sick of chirping, let's get some warbling up in here!"

ALIENS DID NOT BUILD THE FUCKING PYRAMIDS. Erich von Däniken is still an idiot. The Egyptians just made something out of this cool space rock they found. It does not mean that ancient astronauts killed JFK.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure Apple could scare up a few billion to fix this problem. Rifling through the couch cushions, perhaps.

... it's still terrible. They could have made it with construction paper cut-outs and hired some decent writers instead of spending 70 million on fancy CGI and celebrity voices, and then making the same cliched shitpile we see every two or three months. Also, as is traditional on Slashdot, I am basing my vociferous opinion exclusively on the obnoxious 30-second trailers I've seen, and have not actually seen the movie.

The fact the war can't be won has never stopped them before: See the "War on Drugs", "War on Terror", "War on Poverty", etc.

"I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet." Sounds like Stephen has seen Wall-E too many times. Does he have a five-year-old? Anyway, I doubt we'll be conquered by a race of vacuous, immobile, milkshake-slurping space balloons who aren't interested in anything past their viewscreens.

I've been using Apple machines since I was about 6, and much of my geekiness today is due to the software and hardware tinkering I did with them over the years. I'm pretty disturbed by the direction I see Apple going. iTunes was, I think, the beginning of the end, and the iPad is an unsettling glimpse into the future. Since the iTunes store opened, Apple has gone from being a "computer" company to being a "media" company. The iPad is locked down because of Apple's need to keep the content providers at bay. Now, I know Apple makes a boatload of cash serving all this DRMed content, but really they should have just stuck to geekier pursuits like making nice computers with a slick OS, and left all the intellectual property bullshit to somebody else. I don't have an iPhone, but I wasn't too miffed to learn that it was locked down, because most phones are (I know, I know, the N900). But when I heard they were making a tablet, I pictured a MacBook crammed into tablet form with a cool multitouch version of OS X. So I was disappointed to find that it was this giant iPhone that I'll never be able to run X11 or MacPorts or even Firefox on. I'm hoping that people will realize that they don't need an iPad (despite the reality distortion field that undoubtedly surrounds it) and it will fail miserably, and Apple will go back to the way it was when I was doing Logo on my Apple ][c. Something about Apple's stock prices (like the fact that one share costs about as much as an iPod) tells me that this is unlikely to ever occur.