I'll see your Paradigms and raise you my B&W's. I was the only kid in college with respectable speakers. I had (still have) some Paradigm Titan bookshelf speakers that blew away what most others had.

I don't remember where he was when that happened. But I don't see faking sick when you're at a cubs game, or screaming down the road in a 1961 Ferrari 250GT California.

Most bridges have decent height guard rails. That's how I justify it anyways.

Looks like it's time to store away my red barchetta up at my brothers farm. Maybe someday my son will get to drive it.

Huh, I have a Droid X and my version says 2.3.3. Granted I put an early release of Gingerbread on my phone, but it's a leaked release of a version that's coming out very soon anyways.

Or maybe an option to fly a plane in to the house and sort through the rubble. I mean that as payback, not as a slight against the 9/11 victims.

This looks stupid. If anyone needs me I'll be in my laptop privacy sweater. http://craziestgadgets.com/2008/04/16/laptop-body-sweater-wool-privacy-curtain/

Or redirect to Firefox, Chrome, or a newer IE.

That is false. I have my mac sharing itunes songs using Nullriver software's "connect360". It's awesome.

Nobody would expect it, much like the Spanish Inquisition.

Summary is misleading. I was confused till I read the article. I thought Ross Perot's foundation bought it for $1.6m. I didn't realize it was a Russian that bought it for 2.9 million until I RTFA.

During my brief stint in Chicago, that's pretty much a true statement. It's that, or god forbid, a cabby honks and yells at you. And you don't want that.

"And if probably in that sense Saturday Night Fever had more impact than Empire Strikes Back." I don't know about that. Saturday Night Fever was made after the disco era started. Has had no spoofs (Family Guy, Robot Chicken). And I doubt you'd find anyone who can recite more than one quote in that movie. The same can't be said about the Empire Strikes back, where any number of people could probably remember any given scene or quote from that movie.

I don't know if it's in the movie, but I played a few minutes of the new Tron video game and the corruption stuff is in there from the Tron 2.0 game.

Every few years I dig that game out and play it on whatever newer hardware I have. I think the tron universe is to me what Pandora is to Avatar fans. Neat lights, no insects.

Actually I thought the Xbox has been profitable for the past few years

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/24/xbox-goes-profitable-almost-like-a-grown-up-business/

I'm not saying overall they are ahead, but I wasn't sure what you meant by your post.