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Wednesday, December 17, 2003 |
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Dept. of Holiday Cheer
Reindeer Dog Ash Grey T-Shirt
All profits go towards getting me out of Nebraska. And that's what I call cheer. |
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Current Editorials: The American Family Association wants your opinion!. AFA poll asks what you think of gay marriage. [Morons Dot Org]
Vote Now! |
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Dept. of Stuff, Right
Unlike the folks at Kitty Hawk today, the Rutans are oozing the Right Stuff.
SpaceShipOne Test Pilot, Brian Binnie then flew the ship to a stable, 0.55 mach gliding flight condition, started a pull-up, and fired its hybrid rocket motor. Nine seconds later, SpaceShipOne broke the sound barrier and continued its steep powered ascent. The climb was very aggressive, accelerating forward at more than 3-g while pulling upward at more than 2.5-g. At motor shutdown, 15 seconds after ignition, SpaceShipOne was climbing at a 60-degree angle and flying near 1.2 Mach (930 mph).
I think the Wrights would have approved- look forward, not back. |
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Dept. of Stuff, Wrong
Guess they didn't have the Wright stuff. |
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Current Editorials: Bush Declares War on Gays. First Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now law-abiding, tax-paying American citizens who happen to be sexually attracted to members of the same sex... [Morons Dot Org] Arrrgh.
Elections can't come soon enough. |
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Another good one from BoingBoing:
Anti-road-piss campaign from Washington State. 1:59:50 PM  leave/read comments []
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Washington State highway cops are sick of picking up the bottles of piss and poopie that truckers (and other long-haul drivers) toss out their windows, so they've |
Blockbuster prez calls for end to DVD region-coding. The President of Blockbuster has called for an end to region-coding in DVDs:
"I believe, in addition to the elimination of two-tier pricing, the studios should also make another significant strike against piracy with the elimination of regional coding," he said. "The extra time on windows created by regional coding is an opportunity that pirates exploit." His reasoning is a little mealy-mouthed. This isn't "pirates exploiting opportunities," it's more like "customers routing around market-failures," as when the product they demand isn't offered for sale, or when they discover that they can buy the same product for half the money in a different part of the world. (via /.) [Boing Boing Blog] Spot-on.
Another example of big entertainment's "punish the customer for our mistakes" policy. |
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