Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jun 29, 2002 6:00pm PDTWe'll call this weekend peaceful so far, right? I think we're gonna spend the evening running around in gokarts or something goofy like that. The womans switcher box for her PC/Mac setup seems to have magically fixed itself, happy surprise of the day! Just close your eyes and act like nothing is wrong if you get an 'Internal Server Error' message when clicking on the comments. Sander is getting his jollies tweaking away over the weekend. Here's stuff:
- Looking for an armpit festival? Thanks Chris Johnson - Golden Gate bridge = $5 toll. Ouch. - Some more on those cell phone jammers - Some stuff on Minority Report technology more here - MSNBC ran this headline for a little bit. Thanks KeithLastly, search engines are getting in trouble with the FTC for not disclosing that some results are paid for. We get a few thousand refers from Google alone every day these days, I've got no complaints.
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
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Reading Foundation has me wanting to re-install Homeworld again.
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Brazil.... end with 'o'
Poland.... end with 'ski'
Croatia.... end with 'ic'
Uruguay... end with 'o'
Senegal... end with 'e' or 'a'
Denmark... end with 'sen'
China... end with 'ao'
Korea Republic... end with 'lee'
Portugal... end with 'o'
Nigeria... end with 'u'
Cameroon... end with 'a'
Turkey... end with 'u'
South Africa... end with 'e' or 'a'
Germany... end with 'er'
Saudi Arabia... end with 'al'
Ireland... end with 'ly'
Argentina... end with 'a'
England... end with 'am'
United States... end with 'is'
Costa Rica... end with 'ez'
Spain... end with 'o'
Sweden... end with 'son'
Italy... end with 'i' or 'o'
Ecuador... end or 'o'
Mexico... end with 'ez' or 'a'
Japan... end with 'a'
Belgium... end with 'en'
Slovenia... end with 'ic'
Russia... end with 'in' or 'ov'
Tunisia... end with 'i'
Conclusion: What a cool and diverse world we live in. Note: Only France is kept off the list because two players out of three with last names ending with 'e' are pronounced silent. More proof why the world hates Frenchies.
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What has two legs and flies?
Half a dead cat
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I can't believe how someone can buy a MS keyboard over a logitech one. The MS keyboards are just plain NOISY, the logitech ones are quite quiet, and they are less expensive.
The keyboard on the PS2 is the quietest one ever
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/me shakes head...
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Time for a SHACKPOLL or three...
What would be your reaction if you started seeing ANSI art on the shack? How much would you tolerate? And how badly would you want a jazzed up version of postbuilder, where you can experiment without using disk space on Steve's server?
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last time, I swear it's out of my system now
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"I'm scared!"
"This place gives me the creeps!"
"That's right, give it to me like that!"
Just STFU already and cast fireball at that group of monsters that's coming for us.
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http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/29/dead.kids.car/index.html
>:( I'd make harsh yet appropriate comments, but momma said "if you can't say anything nice....." ... I trust the ShackFamily will give the correct outrage.
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I really can't believe how good this game is. Still finding out more details every time I play.
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You can catch them if you feel them coming on during the day, not cool when they sneak up on you while you're sleeping :(
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where the 2 big guys who worked for the casino owner in on it? or where they follwing them to get back at them
I really didn't understand
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