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    @misat0
    omg I've seen that guy at Carnyville in Bristol!
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      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
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    • CommentAuthoricelandbob
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
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    At Robert Kennedy's Funeral....

    • CommentAuthorarchizero
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
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    quite poignant, neither funny nor bizarre, but very humane...
    • CommentAuthorDC
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011 edited
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    Robo elephant!!
    Edit: it's a Vimeo movie that I can't seem to find a way of embedding.
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      CommentAuthorgroonk
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011 edited
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    @DC: That NYC hack was fake. Just a marketing campaign for the new movie LIMITLESS

    @fookwit: what if you lie smack dab in the middle of Idealism and Realism?

    @archizero: thanks for making me cry

    More details on the fake iPhone hack video.

    We weren’t sure the video was real, our readers certainly weren’t buying it either.

    It has emerged that the video, uploaded by YouTube user BITcrash44, is part of a very clever marketing campaign for a new movie named “Limitless”, starring Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) and Robert Di Nero which will be released on March 18.

    Yesterday, a second video was uploaded to the same YouTube channel, this time with an extended introduction, and the films’ trailer at the end:





    snakes and boobs. boobs and snakes.


    this is old but I just learned about it
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      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
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    Do-it-yourself quantum spooky action
    How cool would it be not just to read about the craziness of quantum mechanics, but to see it—even better, do it—for yourself? Several years ago I asked virtuoso experimental physicist Paul Kwiat whether he could develop a simple demonstration anyone could do at home, and he and his undergraduate student Rachel Killmer came up with a "quantum eraser". This week I got to see another big step toward the era of quantum homebrewers. Tucked away in a booth in the exhibit tent at the German Physical Society conference, Munich-based start-up company qutools showed off the world's cheapest kit for seeing quantum entanglement: spooky action at a distance.
    • CommentAuthorDC
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
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    @groonk - DOH!
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      CommentAuthorgroonk
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
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    @DC: Just watched Robot Elephant. FUCK YEAH!
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    Friend of mine in Knoxville, TN took a picture at a gas pump there. God, am I glad I don't live there any more...

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      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2011
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      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2011
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    Arthur C. Clarke believed America’s smartest people were wasting their time on banking instead of the space program (Sri Lanka Guardian)
    While researching for this article I came across a searing indictment by Clarke on the American capitalist system. After observing that the structure of American society may be unfitted for the effort that the conquest of space demands he continued, "No nation can afford to divert its ablest men into essentially non-creative and occasionally parasitic occupations such as law, insurance and banking". He also referred to a photograph in Life Magazine showing 7,000 engineers massed behind a new model car they had produced as ‘a horrifying social document'. He was appalled by the squandering of technical manpower it represented.
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    The new Wonder Woman costume, for your viewing pleasure.

    New Wonder Woman
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      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2011 edited
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    @ Lemon Laser Betty

    I've JUST posted that in the On the Tee-Vee: January-February 2011 thread! (That outfit sucks a little, n'est pas?)
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      CommentAuthorFoamhead
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2011
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    @ Greasemonkey:

    I can feel a diabetic coma coming-on watching that KitKat vid...
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      CommentAuthorgroonk
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2011
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    @Lemon Laser Betty and Fookwit; The outfit sucks a lot. Looks cheap. While Adrienne Palicki remains hot let's compare with the classic Carter.



    Carter wins. No contest.
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    @Fookwit - I had visions of jumping into the tub and wallowing in the molten chocolate.