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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04:14 PM

    In reply to Our 10 Best of Popsci's 100 Best Innovations of the Year
    If you can nerd up that car a bit more, I may make it the Dorkmobile 2.0 when I get to SF #bestinnovations
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    Image of not a sailor boy not a sailor boy
    12/16/08

    In reply to Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
    well, surely Steve Ballmer destroyed his creator...


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    Image of Curves Curves
    12/16/08

    @not a sailor boy: I have to agree, Steve has always reminded me of "The Monster", only with a lot more sweat.
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    Image of Jkoenig96 Jkoenig96
    12/15/08

    In reply to Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
    Well the LHC has some interesting possibilities that could leapfrog it's inventors onto that list.
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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    12/15/08

    @Jkoenig96: My thoughts exactly.
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    Image of Jacob Hausler Jacob Hausler
    12/15/08

    In reply to Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
    Note that noone was ever killed by the cornballer.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/16/08

    @Jacob Hausler: "Note that noone was ever killed by the cornballer."


    The cornholer on the other hand has left plenty of damage in it's wake...

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    Image of LordGriffin LordGriffin
    12/15/08

    In reply to Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
    One of the original uses for Radium was as a health tonic. It emitted a "healthy green glow". No foolin'. (Just don't ask me to site a source, 'cause I'm lazy).
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    Image of lpranal lpranal
    12/15/08

    @LordGriffin: and there's still a lot of debate about whether or not there was a shred of truth behind that line of thought.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/16/08

    @lpranal:
    Well...a steady intake of radioactive chemicals would have the benefit of killing most of the parasitic organisms in your body.
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    Image of DeadWriter DeadWriter
    12/15/08

    In reply to Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
    The footage of Franz Reichelt testing his vertical egress outfit by jumping off the Eiffel Tower may be the earliest snuff film/news real.


    Nothing gory, but weird that it was filmed, edited and survives today on Youtube.

    .


    I suppose that times really don't change when it comes to media consumption.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking
    12/16/08

    @DeadWriter: Dude, you're in France in the early 1900's. Didn't they have people you could hire who you could push off to test this out?
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    Image of twistfunk twistfunk
    12/15/08

    In reply to Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
    cornballer?
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    12/15/08

    @twistfunk: Definitely cornBALLER. Chen just has a filthy mind.
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    Image of scarbrtj scarbrtj
    12/15/08

    @twistfunk:
    Real-life stuff similar to the cornholer on Arrested Development...
    Beavis was on Arrested Development maybe?

    + Watch video




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    Image of Jason Chen Jason Chen
    12/15/08

    @qbrad: Oops, my mistake! In my defense, Lucille also made the same mistake.
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    Image of qbrad qbrad
    12/15/08

    @Jason Chen: Lucille 2? Or a loose seal? Nice.
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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    12/15/08

    In reply to Ten Inventions That Freed Themselves By Killing Their Masters
    I felt like this was an assignment half way through. I gotta go take a break....
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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    12/15/08

    @1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons: I meant to say is "What a wonderful read and many thanks for their sacrifices..."
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    12/15/08

    @1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons: Yeah man, finals are taking their toll on me as well.
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    Image of William Gu William Gu
    12/15/08

    @admoseremic: Fuck, I got so distracted I forgot I should be studying...


    But Heroes is in 25 minutes...

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    Image of 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons 1350ft.in.a.Concorde.blow*ng.up.balloons
    12/15/08

    @William Gu: Holy sh*t, I forgot. Thanks! lulz


    'Pushes sleep button and walks away from the computer'

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    In reply to MSNBC's Jerk Gadget List is Condescending Even to the Mainstream
    "Linux


    Linux is great. It's a free, open-source operating system (OS) based on work done by Linus Torvalds in the early '90s. Again, it's free, powerful and easy to ...


    Oh wait, it's a pain to use. Let's get this straight: Linux is very good, and leads the charge in an ongoing revolution in free software. However, a lot of Linux users out there give the whole thing a poor name. They forget that most people don't know as much as they do about computers. Some people garden, write poetry, fall in love or ... er, bloviate about gadgetry.


    Please don't confuse your fanaticism with superiority and, for the love of Jobs, stop telling us we're sheep under the sway of Microsoft. No one likes Comcast either, but until it's convenient to string our own fiber optic cable we're sticking with it. (Msnbc.com is a Microsoft-NBC Universal joint venture.)


    Cool if: You're not heaping disdain on the rest of us, or maybe if you're in charge of a server farm.


    Not cool if: You feel your mastery of computers excuses your inability to control a neck-beard."


    Sounds like someone slipped of his meds..

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    In reply to MSNBC's Jerk Gadget List is Condescending Even to the Mainstream
    "Apple's MacBook Air


    Oh you are such a sucker if you bought one of these.


    Apple's new MacBook Pro, meanwhile, is crafted from aluminum using a process code-named "Brick" that involves lasers and water (... and unicorns and David Bowie and trucker hats and whatever else is hip in places like Brooklyn these days).


    But the MacBook Air? No amount of breathless advertising sufficiently obscures the fact that you paid a premium for an elegantly designed, under-featured, overpriced laptop without an optical drive.


    What does it do? It fits in an interoffice mail envelope and it has rounded edges. Forward that junk to Frank in Design. After all, everyone already knows he's a self-indulgent boob.


    Cool if: You're a rich, self-indulgent trend-follower.


    Not cool if: You'd like to avoid looking like such a rich, self-indulgent trend-follower."


    He must be a PC....


    Seriously, who wrote this crap?

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    Image of Pi-face Pi-face
    12/13/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude: I'll admit that it's one nice piece of engineering, but it's still overpriced and underpowered for a laptop.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/13/08

    @Pi-face: I wasn't questioning his opinion of the MacBook Air. It was the writing that I had a problem with. I mean, "..and unicorns and David Bowie and trucker hats and whatever else is hip in places like Brooklyn these days" What the hell is that?
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    Image of Cankles Cankles
    12/12/08

    In reply to MSNBC's Jerk Gadget List is Condescending Even to the Mainstream
    I'd rather drive around with one of those airplane pilot looking headphones and a microphone coming out of my azz than be seen with a blue tooth.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    @Incognito: That's an interesting argument. Wear a BT earpiece and look like a DBag or wear pilots headphones and look like a psycho...
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    In reply to MSNBC's Jerk Gadget List is Condescending Even to the Mainstream
    I use bluetooth in the car only because it's required. Other than that I don't have a need for it.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/12/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude: I don't talk on my phone in the car, I just wear the bluetooth to look like a douchebag.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    @Lite: Most of the time I'm not on the phone. Wearing the earpiece also makes it look like I am on the phone during those times when I'm screaming at the idiot drivers around me.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/12/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude: I was remarking to the woman the other day. "It used to be that if you saw someone walking alone, talking loudly, and gesturing wildly to no-one you knew to cross the street as they were obviously crazy. Now you don't know if they're on the phone or just crazy.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/12/08

    @Lite: Or if they're crazy and are hallucinating that they're talking on the phone to someone via their shoe.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    In reply to MSNBC's Jerk Gadget List is Condescending Even to the Mainstream
    Are the new phone books here yet?
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/12/08

    @Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude: Do you have a short table leg, or did you just recently catch the how to rip one in half episode on Mythbusters?
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    Image of alexmetal alexmetal
    12/12/08

    @Lite: He doesn't have any of the gadgets on the list, and therefore cannot look up the nearest tattoo parlor to get a big Oracle logo tattoo on his left nut.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    12/12/08

    @alexmetal: At least it's not a zune tattoo.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/12/08

    @Lite: @alexmetal:


    "The New Phone Books Are Here! Page 73, Johnson, Navin, R.! I'm somebody now! Millions of people look at this book every day! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity, your name in print, that makes people. I'm in print! Things are going to start happening to me now."

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    Image of douchebagantics douchebagantics
    12/12/08

    In reply to MSNBC's Jerk Gadget List is Condescending Even to the Mainstream
    I see where your coming from, but cmon. There's no way you can condone bluetooth use.


    And those Dbag laws about hands free is only followed by Dbags and those who don't know better.


    Cant tell you how many cops ive seen here in California driving around with one hand on the wheel and the other on the cell phone.

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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    12/12/08

    @douchebagantics: I don't care what anyone else thinks; Bluetooth is the way to go for in-car headsets for sure, and even for street-talkin' while you're street-walkin'. I'd even switch to Bluetooth for stereo headphones if iPhone supported A2DP and the sound quality were a little better.
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    Image of Monty Monty
    12/12/08

    @douchebagantics: What is the Giz record for use of douche bag in a single post? We really need statistics for important questions like that.
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    Image of geowrian geowrian
    12/12/08

    @douchebagantics: Driving with a headseat is much safer than driving without one. Studies have shown this over & over again, and it's pretty common sense: one hand on the wheel isn't as good as two. That said, the hand-free laws aren't just a thing of CA. We have them in many areas of PA, and they are enforced as secondary offenses (they won't pull you over for it but will write a ticket if you are pulled over for somethign else).
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/15/08

    @geowrian:


    Also, you're forgetting that everyone who drives a manual transmission car drives with just one hand on the wheel a lot of the time. it doesn't make a difference.

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