Irony requires some sort of lesson learned, as the character makes a decision or some deliberate action which inadvertently brings about their own downfall. If there is no self-induced lesson involved, it isn't irony, it's just unfortunate.

In this situation, for example, it would be sort of ironic if they got addicted to blogging about getting over their addiction to Facebook. Think about the classic example of irony, Oedipus. It wouldn't have been ironic (or nearly as good a story) if he didn't know his fate and actively seek to avoid it.

I think you lost about 90% of us right there...

For every Firefox, OpenOffice, or GIMP there are 1000 Wild Tangents or FREE Animated Pony screen savers. So, yes I would call that generally sucking. I feel comfortable in the fact that my doctor makes far more money than my mechanic. I've never taken my girlfriend out to a romantic dinner at the local soup kitchen. That's my logic, where is yours?

Let me explain it for you then. You see, whenever you get something for nothing, it generally sucks.

Great find, now everyone who can't afford a real toilet or the disposable toilet can just jump on their computers and download that PDF for free. I wonder if they have a mailing list..

It's an ordinance just like anything else. You have to have things like this or else you end up with people with old cars up on blocks in the front yard. The people in charge decided they want everything to look similar within a certain tolerance, and these people crossed the line. I can see their argument, and that's why they get to go to trial over it instead of the city just handing them a big fine. In my town we have ordinances too, and I'm sure most places do. When I first moved into my current house, I didn't own a lawnmower for a while and my grass got pretty unsightly. The city code enforcement officer came by and warned me about it. Did I complain? No, because I chose to buy this house in this town and so I have to follow their rules. If I had a farm out in the country, I wouldn't have to mow, and I could rip up the grass and replace it with woodchips if i wanted, but if you live somewhere with rules, you have to follow those rules! It's amazing how opposed some people are to this simple fact.

Still Pepsi, only in Soviet Russia, it drinks you.

More importantly, does he have a goatee?

Safety officials often use computer models to analyze fire exits and such in an emergency. I can see analyzing your office space for the survivability of a zombie holocaust as a viable safety measure.

There was a whole series of games based pretty much entirely on sex (or the pursuit of) back when I was a kid. I don't think I've had the simulated uncomfortable experience of purchasing a condom in a game since then...

I think either they were fed up with every good domain name being taken and mashed some random characters with a fist of rage, or their cat stepped on the keyboard. Either way, they compiled it in Perl and it output a classified site.

How much is this magic conductive PCB ink and printer going to cost though? If it is anything like the magnetic ink you need for printing checks, I think they just raised the entry bar a fair bit. BTW you can already print your own PCBs, you just need a regular laser printer and some acid to etch out the pattern. There are numerous guides on Google about how to do this on the cheap.

"turns video game sound into (literally) chest-pounding vibrations." I think normal speakers already do this. Granted you have to turn them up pretty high to do much chest pounding, but I'm pretty sure all sounds are indeed vibrations.

Nah we'll just change the rules again if we get too far behind. I seem to remember the Russians beating us to space and putting living things into orbit in the 60s, so we changed the rules to putting a man on the moon.

Russia: Mozltov, comrade we've made it to Mars! The space race is won.

US: Mars? Nice but the real goal was NEPTUNE, sorry guys.

US (aside): Someone call Spielburg...

But seriously, this is what we need to inspire some innovation within our own space program. I mean, if Apple had never released OSX then we might still be stuck with Windows XP. Oh, wait...

I pay about $30 per month for cable, and the only advantage it has over Hulu is that there is more of a selection. However, it isn't really fair to call it a selection when someone else has selected it for me, and decided what time I can watch it. Also at least 1/3 of it is commercial breaks. If Hulu can improve its selection for $30 or less per month, I'll drop cable like a hot rock. If they remove the 30 second ads for paid subscribers, I'd be a fool not to.