There is actually a Far Side panel where a fish drives a fishbowl on land; this personally influence my subconscious.

I suspect you might be a victim of Verizon's firmware. They redid the software for their RAZRs and it exhibited all the symptoms you mention; the Motorola firmware is just fine were it's derivations. I know this because I spent 3 weeks flashing my Verizon RAZR to Altell's firmware. The difference is night and day (literally as well with the additional camera modes) well worth it for the number of years that phone lasted me.

I almost wonder if Adobe commissioned the trojan just so they can say "Look, it wasn't me this time"

Since we are talking commercial interest, why not give this sort of thing to the insurance companies? Instead of increasing rates for dangerous drivers we can route them away from confusing intersections, distracting billboards, cliffs, cities, other cars, and objects in general. Direct them around a parking lot for several hours if they've just left a bar, stop navigation if they're driving too fast, the possibilities are endless!

To think my original suggestions were directing people the wrong way over road spikes (sponsored by Joe's Tires) or through speed traps (courtesy your local government)

Why should nerds be concerned with regrowing muscles?

I am under the impression that the policy was up to the establishment, but they must make exceptions for service animals, which is fair on both counts.

For one reason or another it has just become custom to flex that right and restrict animals from most places. As long as this doesn't dissuade patrons of any particular establishment it just means fewer potential issues for the owner, so really it has less to do with people's concerns and more to do with convenience for the business.

It will be discovered that there is a secret fourth Directive which prevents the device from arresting any senior executive of Motorola Inc.

I think most of them are just exhibitionists since they've actually reported me for a nature documentary. (read: I've successfully trolled them) I suppose they could have been trolls themselves if my video annoyed them then they were rather 'weak'. You are right about it just moving onto the next thing though; that's just the nature of the environment. Penny Arcade summed it up nicely: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

Couldn't the church just have faith in the pupils' attendance instead of requiring notebooks with evidence? I mean, that is how this works, right?

Well, almost. In middle school, back in 2000 for me, I had a simple electrolysis project with a nail, penny, battery and jar of vinegar. My teacher set it outside for the weekend because of the hydrogen and told the janitor what it was so he/she wouldn't remove it. Despite this the battery and wires caught the attention of one of the administrators and the authorities were called in. (at a significant expense I'm told) Fortunately for me they had the luxury of learning their lesson quietly over the weekend and while I never got my $3 worth of parts back I did learn some about our society.

Fair point, but when the person in question volunteers to respond to children's Santa letters it should raise a red flag or two.

Everyone has to own the game and you can't play it at every LAN. The residential "high-speed" connection has been rendered useless at every LAN I've been to because of 20+ people and a tiny upstream. Steam's whimsical DRM still works, but good luck playing a fast-paced game online under those circumstances. I just hope they can't allow LAN support because of a gameplay element and not because they're afraid everyone will use that to bypass the DRM. I can dream, right?

I don't see anything in the article about how much one of these might cost, but I'm guessing it's not cheap. From the image it looks like anyone with an allen wrench could remove the device and pocket it. In it's defense it just looks like a light and I doubt many potential thieves would care, but it's something to consider. They could incorporate a quick-release but having to put it somewhere removes some of the appeal of the device.

The majority of my video game 'art' comes from Japan.

And by doing that you're (mostly) circumventing their advertising even if it's a movie with the game's name or just the cover art. We still have demos, games aren't movies and I imagine most welcome all the free publicity but I still fear any movement toward a similar structure.