Yup, it's too bad Gawker doesn't have the cojones to follow suit and at least 'go dark' enough to have some kind of clickthru page announcing their support.
You forgot to mention the best part. Rather than leap years, once every five years there'd be a whole extra leap week between December and January.
Still a nonsense idea, however.
Seriously? Autoplay video w/music that you CANNOT turn off, mute, or otherwise stop?
Bad Gizmodo! Bad! Go to your room! No dessert for you.
Bad Gizmodo! Bad! Go to your room! No dessert for you.
The two forgotten steps from the end of the article.
Step 5: Disable the GD-awful Metro UI if you're one of the majority using Windows 8 on a computer that has a keyboard and mouse, but no touchscreen.
Step 6: Realize that you're perfectly happy with Windows 7 anyways, and decide not to upgrade to 8. Maybe you'll wait and see if 9 is any better....
Step 5: Disable the GD-awful Metro UI if you're one of the majority using Windows 8 on a computer that has a keyboard and mouse, but no touchscreen.
Step 6: Realize that you're perfectly happy with Windows 7 anyways, and decide not to upgrade to 8. Maybe you'll wait and see if 9 is any better....
So both Amazon and Barnes & Noble are wrong when they say that eBooks are now outselling physical books?
I brew my own beer, and go through a surprising amount of honey in the process. Fortunately I live not too far away from "The Honeybee Centre." Guaranteed local, unfiltered, unprocessed, pretty much straight from the hive. Worth every penny. Gotta love buying locally.
Yes, that was absolutely the Alex Fraser bridge.
This will probably get me de-starred, but...
This month, instead of donating to breast cancer, I will be donating to prostate cancer. It affects more people (1 in 6 men vs 1 in 8 women for breast cancer), gets half as much funding, less than half as much public awareness, kills nearly as many men, and has yet to have a detection method developed that's anywhere near as effective as a mammogram.
And yet it's interesting that we have a post on IO9 about how Oct is 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month', while nothing was said in Sept, when it was 'Prostate Cancer Awareness Month'.
This month, instead of donating to breast cancer, I will be donating to prostate cancer. It affects more people (1 in 6 men vs 1 in 8 women for breast cancer), gets half as much funding, less than half as much public awareness, kills nearly as many men, and has yet to have a detection method developed that's anywhere near as effective as a mammogram.
And yet it's interesting that we have a post on IO9 about how Oct is 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month', while nothing was said in Sept, when it was 'Prostate Cancer Awareness Month'.
Love my Galaxy Tab and wouldn't trade it for an iPad. My primary use for it isn't to surf the web, however. It's to get my email, use apps, and double as a PMP. Since I can load just about any media format I can find onto it, and have it play, it's perfect.
This. Even just to get a photograph of them all together, in tuxedos.
Krääpenholden?
#tips
Metawatch shipping pushed back once again, this time to Sept 26.
Metawatch shipping pushed back once again, this time to Sept 26.
I'd suggest doing a '10 Best Fake Video Games', but honestly there's only one I'd really want to play, and that's Better Than Life, from Red Dwarf.
Unfortunately I feel they're trying to hard to make the audience feel horrified and revolted at the idea of burning the 'category 1' people, without fully exploring the idea first. Honestly, I have to agree with the concept. The horror isn't that they're burning people alive. The horror is the situation, and how many of us would agree and go along with such an idea. Don't show people being outraged by the news being leaked, show people rallying in support.
For those who say they wouldn't support the idea, and that anyone who does would change their minds if it was a family member: What if your family member was a member of the '45 Club', post-jump, yet still alive? Or the bomber from episode 1? Perhaps especially if they were in a state like the bomber from episode 1. Pain control there would be impossible, there's no circulatory system, yet since there was movement, I can only assume pain was still being transmitted. How about if you're in a freak accident and decapitated, your body crushed, yet you're still alive? Are you still sure you'd be against what seems to be the only exit possible?
Actually... why haven't we seen more cases like that among the 'category 1s'? Something to divide the viewer's loyalties, rather than unremitting "it's wrong, they're evil, bad, bad, bad"?
For those who say they wouldn't support the idea, and that anyone who does would change their minds if it was a family member: What if your family member was a member of the '45 Club', post-jump, yet still alive? Or the bomber from episode 1? Perhaps especially if they were in a state like the bomber from episode 1. Pain control there would be impossible, there's no circulatory system, yet since there was movement, I can only assume pain was still being transmitted. How about if you're in a freak accident and decapitated, your body crushed, yet you're still alive? Are you still sure you'd be against what seems to be the only exit possible?
Actually... why haven't we seen more cases like that among the 'category 1s'? Something to divide the viewer's loyalties, rather than unremitting "it's wrong, they're evil, bad, bad, bad"?
I have to agree with the last point. Even though just about every conceivable surface of those subway cars were plastered with American flags, there was a definite Canadian feel to them.
(Don't mind us, we're slowly taking over the world through the numbers of movies and TV shows filmed in our country. Just keep watching TV, and our plans will go much smoother.)
(Don't mind us, we're slowly taking over the world through the numbers of movies and TV shows filmed in our country. Just keep watching TV, and our plans will go much smoother.)
Nowhere near the 'hard boiled detective' idea, but it deserves a mention anyways:
[www.whatisdeepfried.com]
(You can paste that in yourself, you're adults.)
One of the most demented takes on both Calvin & Hobbes and Charlie Brown that I've ever seen.
[www.whatisdeepfried.com]
(You can paste that in yourself, you're adults.)
One of the most demented takes on both Calvin & Hobbes and Charlie Brown that I've ever seen.
My first thought exactly.
This is the one thing I keep hoping will have turned out to not be a throwaway line:
"Torchwood 4 has kinda gone missing, but we'll find it one day."
Want an intro to the next Torchwood season? Start with the reappearance of Torchwood 4. They don't know what's happened to the other bases, they've been fighting something of their own. From there, you can let things get seriously strange. (As per usual.)
"Torchwood 4 has kinda gone missing, but we'll find it one day."
Want an intro to the next Torchwood season? Start with the reappearance of Torchwood 4. They don't know what's happened to the other bases, they've been fighting something of their own. From there, you can let things get seriously strange. (As per usual.)
I've done this for years, actually. If you want to go one step further, rotate your food a half turn about halfway through cooking, even if you have a rotating turntable. It helps to even out hot spots on the inner/outer portions of the microwave even further.
Before everyone gets all outraged about 'how dare Canada', you should know we're not the only ones with laws like this. As mentioned in the article, the US has similar laws. What's not mentioned is that so do Australia, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Sweden... in fact, if you're in the western world it seems more likely that your own country has a law against it than not.
But it's all ok, as it's 'for the children.'
But it's all ok, as it's 'for the children.'
