"The Vessel" looked good and seemed useful (I'd actually buy it), and the "JakPak" and "Refugewear" seemed useful, even though they look like crap. The rest were pretty lame, though.

Mod parent Awesome.

Wow. I never thought of it that way. Sorry guys.

Someone call the Nobel committee and tell them that the deal's off, and the teamsters who were planning to start work on Monday to tell them that Christmas is going to suck again this year. Kids need to learn that.

You're a hard man, doing hard things, the_bard. I respect you for making this decision. Could you break it to 'lil Barak Obama though? I just keep thinking about how his eyes lit up when I told him my plan... and I don't have the heart.

We clearly don't know enough about the sun. It's too bad no one's thought of a way to take core samples...

I've got it. If we could only place some sort of "rig" on the sun, with a kind of "pipe"...we could pump solar material to Earth for further study.

I know what you're saying. The Sun's really, really hot. We could pump the solar plasma to a place that was already used to warmth. Like, say the Gulf coast of the US.

Someone make me the president of something.

It's obvious to me that someone screwed up the tiling on that texture.

Why is that modded flamebait? It's probably not as funny as I thought, but I was just making a stupid joke about how the kid went to a lot of effort. I wasn't making light of the real kids who get kidnapped.

Yep. I did it.

The meanness in this thread hurts my feelings. I think that it hurts a lot of other Slashdotter's feelings too, which is why they aren't posting. And that makes me sad. OH LOARDY WHY DOES IT HURT SO BAD????

99 to 1 odds that this is in fact *another* Fox negotiating stunt. A few years back, when Family Guy went off the air, they held a "contest" to find a new animated sitcom. Like a moron I entered with a friend. Our submission wasn't epic or anything, but they quietly sent it back to us. No new animated show came from the contest and then Family Guy came back with American Dad bringing up the rear (Now THAT'S a sitcom title: "Bringing up the Rear". It could be a family friendly spinoff of Assy Mcgee). The whole contest was PHONY. YOU'RE A PHONY, FOX NETWORK! HEY GUYS... THIS NETWORK'S A PHONY! That said, I do a few voices, so let me review some old clips....

Microsoft is finally getting hip to the Pokemon/Magic card phenomenon- only about 12 years late. Features will be sold in randomized booster packs with commons like "Borked Registry", and rares like "Uptime: all day".

Dude, you're posting in Slashdot.

Sometimes when I look at web-based "MMOs", I feel like I'm in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.

No, no NO! We need to take our extra citizens, freeze them with an alcohol-glycol mixture, stack them around the volcano, THEN blow it up with H-Bombs. After that, we can trap their souls and brainwash them with movies to believe anything we want them to. They then get reincarnated, and the whole human race moves in whichever direction we choose. We're geeks, so we can brainwash them with ideas like "space travel is good" and "Knowledge wants to be free", along with some good stuff about geeks being the master race. Hell, this technique worked before, when it was used for Evil...