The best Star Trek novel ever - How Much for Just the Planet?
My god yes! That one was pure brilliance! [
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It wasn't simply a line drawn on the wall. The ball bounced off the railing just behind the actual wall (which has the yellow line on top) and back onto the field. In realtime it looked like it just bounced off the wall, but the replay clearly showed... [
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Issa seemed like a decent sort - one of the reasonable republicans - when the whole SOPA thing blew up. He's since proven himself to be an uber-partisan gobshite.... [
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They've had instant replay for home runs for a few years at least, but they still can't review plays on the bases so a Gallaraga-like call could still be missed today.... [
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I was actually pretty sure at first that this was an extremely well done parody or something. I'm less thrilled that it's a real movie. [
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Hypothesis:
"Adobe has been moving away from focusing on a "creative" audience for quite some time..."
posted by jeremias at 4:18 PM on May 6
Presented in Evidence:
"In case anyone else was... [
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Under no circumstances should Kristen Bell be allowed to see this video. [
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Yes, this is about right.
Roger Ebert Hails Human Existence as 'A Triumph' (The Onion ) [
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I saw this from Dawkins this morning, which had me rolling my eyes at the sheer disingenuousness of it
@RichardDawkins: If you think criticising Islam is racist, you must think Islam is a race. And if you think Islam is a race you are a racist.... [
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The Irish Coast Guard is a bit different to the US Coast Guard and we didn't do it as a living (it's a government department, and with the exception of a few full time personnel including the helicopter crews, it is staffed by volunteer search and... [
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That was actually one of the interesting things about the interview, that Prouty basically realised Romney was a bit of a dick when he started calling on the wait staff to hurry up and serve the food already.... [
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It's odd how Metallica, Europe etc majorised sound so bland but the Beatles minorised still sounds like a good (but not great) Beatles song.
Also y'all know this is the current challenge over at mefi music, right? Go take a listen over there... [
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2 months ago
The problem with the standard phase inversion and cancelling trick described in some of these links is that everything panned to the center - which often includes the bass - is cancelled, not just the vocals so that may not work for you.
A better... [
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3 months ago
I just shared this with my hockey team actually, as there is one other Irish guy (a fellow Dub) on the team, and we recently had an email thread that apparently only the two of us could understand - to the amazement of the rest of the team.... [
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When you get to know them though, it doesn't seem so much like magic anymore, (just really really cool).
They have inputs and outputs like any electronics. They push electrons around in a certain way, according to a set of rules and protocols to... [
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As a former lifeguard, it's next to impossible for me to stand on a beach or by a pool facing
away from the water. Even if I'm talking to somebody, I'd tend to position myself so that I would face the water (and they face the other way). If... [
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3 months ago
There's the 4th verse of Mr. Tambourine Man
Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
Far from the twisted reach... [
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3 months ago
Well that settles it, now I'm going to go watch everything Fellini's ever done. [
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Stagger Lee: *Randall Monroe must have a source on cheap wrenches, they're not five dollars where I am.
Heh, Randall Monroe acknowledges this in the associated/mouseover/hover text -
"Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his... [
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3 months ago
Holy flurking schnit! I don't know if I'm more impressed by the song or by the annotation! [
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I love that you have the big shiny 'staff' icon under the words "I don't like work" [
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4 months ago
I've heard two schools of thought on puns.
1) "A good pun is its own reword"
And
2) "Hanging alone is too good for a man who makes puns. He should be hung, drawn and... [
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4 months ago
I think it was Neil DeGrasse Tyson on twitter that pointed out that the baseball team from Anaheim's name is effectively "The The Angels... [
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Half twelve is always (in my experience I suppose to avoid being absolutist) 12.30 to a British or Irish person. I think it's a German (or maybe continental Europe in general) thing for it to mean 11.30.
Also Twinings + Irish breakfast tea = does... [
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I did some work on automatic transcription back in college (about 6 years ago) and it is not an easy problem to solve. I haven't kept up with current research/technology so I can't say how much improvement has been made since then, but efforts were... [
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And honestly, how did they not know that 'independents' seem to be just mostly embarrassed republicans these days? [
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My first thought for sad was actually 'Casimir Pulaski Day' also by the venerable Mr. Stevens. Mr. Blue Sky is the song I think of when I think happy songs.... [
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Don't be surprised if the networks call it for Obama by 8:15 EST. Seriously.
Aw, come on. It's not enough that you East Coasters get baseball and hockey playoff games to start before us West Coasters finish work, but you wanna call the... [
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God, I love that low G note in the arpeggiated bits in the prelude, don't know what it is about it, just the tone of that note stands out so nicely I guess!... [
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"Obama's chosen predecessor"
Is that a typo, or did he actually say predecessor? [
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6 months ago
What he does is
pretend to be the person he's portraying in the film or play. [
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@fivethirtyeight: FYI #2: Donated $2,538 to the American Red Cross this morning. Maybe some of you can help out too? http://rdcrss.org/SckTlA [
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Mr Romney has an economic plan that works only if you don’t believe most of what he says.
It sounds like a very reluctant endorsement but I kind of liked this line though.... [
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6 months ago
It's amazing that all these right-wing blogs and commentators have managed to write the
exact same story on the same day, citing the same Rasmussen and Gallup polls as their 'evidence', amazing!... [
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