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(just for the picture) - ⓞnor

Direct link to img: http://i163.photobucket.com/albums... - Michael Leggett

Are you pulling a D.B. Cooper out of Torque's airplane? - Larry Hosken

Here: http://friendfeed.com/e... - Paul Buchheit

Yeah, sadly we couldn't find a vantage point on the actual quarry. And I wasn't about to go to Long Beach to continue the Torque Re-creation Tour... - ⓞnor

How come your camera is wrapped in a layer of blue saran wrap? - j1m

It lets me disguise a cloudy day like today as if it were nice and sunny. - ⓞnor

Oh invisible dagger! This is thy sheath! - Jeanette Bosman

My English major heart runneth over. - Steve C, Team Marina

even C (usually not much for the lol) had a giggle at this one. and yes, Jeannette FTW! - Elaine is trying to write

Courtesy Melinda. Includes pics! - ⓞnor

Oh I'm sure it's true, it's just that I demand only the latest information. - j1m

awwwwwwwww..thats such a tiny kitten !! - Peter Dawson

For Larry G.: "A penguin who was previously made a Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian Army has been knighted at Edinburgh Zoo. Penguin Nils Olav has been an honorary member and mascot of the Norwegian King's Guard since 1972." - ⓞnor

خيلي نازه :) - mhmazidi

Awesome. - Larry Greenfield

I'd always assumed that bike helmets were a safety no-brainer (so to speak) like seat belts, but according to this (extensively footnoted) wikipedia article, the evidence in their favor is sketchy at best. It's probably still a good idea to wear one, but... - ⓞnor

@Frederic, that the US for you. @Robert, "that's why I let my kids use chainsaws..." - j1m

I want a visualization like that for the last year, or better yet the last 5 years. This particular chart was from the switch from backwardation to contango in early 2005. This article in general, from three years ago, is painting a somewhat complicated picture of institutional investors being front-run by opportunistic traders. - ⓞnor

My version, 1986-present: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub.... I can't draw any conclusions from it. I can't help but think that guy on TheStreet is spinning a fairy tale out of random data. - ⓞnor

hedgepiglets++ - j1m

awwwww - niniane

heeeeeeeeeee! - edythe

People often say "I wonder who clicks on search ads, because I sure don't". Turns out search history records this stuff (if you have it turned on). I've clicked on 9 ads this year, and bought products from two of them: a junk hauling company, and a balsa wood supply house. You? - ⓞnor

I don't have search history enabled. I just enabled it, installed the toolbar, thought about the privacy implications, shuddered, and uninstalled it. When Viacom wants to know what I read, they'll have to sue my ISP and t-mobile. :-) As for ads, I honestly don't click on them. :-) - Joanmarie

"This table is made through rapid prototyping (3D printing) of branches that become increasingly more dense at the top to form a planar surface." How would you clean this? Seems like crumbs would tend to get stuck in the surface. - ⓞnor

Varun, Kevin, that reminds me of the old philosophical problem: in a race, every person has to cross half the distance before they can reach the end, and then half of that next a distance, and then half again and again.... so how do they ever reach the end? - Nicķ

"These cookies, made from contrasting colors of butter cookie dough, are a tasty realization of the Sierpinski carpet, producing lovely, edible fractals. As with our earlier project involving clay, you can make these by using a simple iterative algorithmic process of stretching out the dough and folding it over onto itself in a specific pattern." - ⓞnor

Here is a good song to listen to while looking at those pictures :) http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdet... - Frederic

via Slashdot (sorry) but this is the original source. The fishies are surprisingly cute in a steampunky sort of way. Check out the awesome plugboard-and-dip-chips electronics. - ⓞnor

"But then when we show it to a synesthe, he says, oh, I see a red triangle against a green background, and he saw it virtually immediately, in other words he saw it in a matter of two or three seconds instead of taking twenty or thirty seconds... so if he's crazy, how come he's better at it than we are? Okay, so this shows that in fact he's not confabulating, he's not making it up, he's literally seeing those things." - ⓞnor

why don't you think there are universal principles of art? - j1m

"This is my voice (west coast American English with hints of mid-west and Canadian here and there). This is a semantically plausible (not to say 'predictable'), declarative sentence containing no proper names." - ⓞnor

I made it up, but I really wanted to believe. - j1m

"Desperate Housewives essentially functioned as a kind of cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat." :-) - j1m

Oops, sorry! Yes, the "original" FF -- fast-forward. - Erik Dafforn

Wait, what? Did you create this? - Jim Norris

Well, a "noncorporeal chew toy" is a nonsense concept, and the notion of adding bacon flavoring to such a thing is ridiculous. The picture is obviously drawn in 3 seconds with Paintbrush. The $789.45 price is insane. It's some kind of strange fake entry, and I found it funny. But also, bacon is really tasty, have you tried it? - ⓞnor

Daily average spot bandwidth price at a NYC exchange, 2002 - 2008, down from ~$200 in 2002 to ~$20 (per Mbps-month) in 2008. For comparison, telegeography data shows a substantial (but lesser) drop in prices for transoceanic routes. - ⓞnor

Wow, fantastic, thanks for the update. - ⓞnor

Enterprise security software, eh. - ⓞnor

Ahhh, reporters. I was explaining to her what Reactivity did, and somehow that became what Jim and I were building. Oh, well... Just an innocent mistake -- at least it did not say FF was security software. - Bret Taylor

Fixed! I thought FF is security software. - YiWyn

Thanks for the quick response! - Bret Taylor