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• ba dunk dunk--chhhhhhhhh : SockMonkeh
• i laughed : impulse25
• Hahaha, I think that's pretty witty on your part. : SenorSpine
• hahaha, awesome : derelict515
• stealing that, thx : felicia
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  you should have just made it official and converted this to a chatlog. :( : biskits
  • you should stop pissing in everyone's kool-aid. : ra1n
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  Engish majors have no senses of humor : spiderfill
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    Not true. Most of us are perfectly functional. The problem is only with those specializing in experimen... : lechuck59
    • I remember many, many English classes in college where the surefire way to get an "A" would be to write n... : EvilDolemite
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    If english majors lack humor, going to the engineering classes must be like Auschwitz. : soggybagel
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      Haha...talk about taking everything literally. Like when posting a joke here. You misspell a word, and ... : EvilDolemite
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        I was just joking too...talk about people not getting my joke to your joke. : soggybagel
        • I guess now you should start appending explanations in parenthesis at the end of every post. : Bean
    • Engineering > English : SwiftyPants
  • you couldn't be more wrong : but why
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    I'm an English major :( : felicia
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      and you are one funny piece of snatch : jessipoo
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        oh, you lesbo <3 : felicia
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          It's Les Bos. : Mad Brahmin Disease
          • No, it's LESBOS. : SockMonkeh
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      Me too! w00t! : helvetica
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        I'm planning my thesis on internet speak and the evolution it has caused in the English language :( : felicia
        • you should do something on the internet subculture phenomenon. : ki11_viru5
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          I would consider it a de-evolution of the English language. : Derringer
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            No, that's the goal of prescriptivism. : sgtsanity
            • hehe I was joking, I just never got into the whole, "lol" and "rofl" things myself. Although I am addict... : Derringer
    • I'm an english minor. :(\s : sgtsanity
    • Three cheers for those that have an English degree. : gireal
  • Well, I suppose this is true sometimes. We take our work very seriously (but I still write goofy stuff a... : CrustaR
  • I was one once. I didn't fit in because I wasn't a hippy or a single mother. : DonkeyPopsicle
  • They better, cause they wont find the job market a very funny thing. : Tommy Toolbag
• What about a man who had bowel cancer and use no colons, just semi-colons ? : rosewood
• Hahaha nice. : Ojalo1982
• Reading this put me into a comma I love you period, do you love me, question mark. : Audhuml4
• Hahaha, that is too clever. : soggybagel
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  ah, english, literature, creative writing. for a class of mine i wrote a piece taking tori amos' boys ... : dahanese
  • Didn't she do something like this for one of her albums? : Grimp
• hahahah that's awesome. : Madwacker
• lol nice. : xxiv
• You should have then told her to use a bunch of made-up words to emphasize how irrational women are. : Bean
• WTF is experimental literature? Sounds stupid. : baronzemo78
• ahahahah that was clever. Women hate that. : Mad Brahmin Disease
• type it all in im/txt as well. : Slowtreme
• So you're the guy who writes all the jokes. Pretty good. : Albemuth
• U L Y S S E S ' d : sammyl
• That was funny. : TheArtMan
• ... and then Word's autocorrect destroyed her artistic decision. : walker270
• I just had a daydream about a world without (Periods) I snapped back to reality with a tear in my eye :... : chris.salyers
• Just the phrase "Experimental Literature" sounds so pretentious I want to barf, the no capital letters th... : SenorSpine
• Fucking hilarious. :D : Rice-Rocketeer
• Brilliant. : Sturm08
• I, for one, lol'd : action roommate
• I think that is brillant. Or at least as brilliant as experimental writing can be. : Zhaneel
• Pfft. I did the same thing, though simply didn't use any proper nouns. The lack of capital letters scream... : WaterSign
• fucking comedy gold. : chazums
• had to tag it : fleabug

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  how can that even be a question : oHnOES
  • Well, for starters, this: ? : EvilDolemite
• do you have any other hobbies? : naabster
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  What does 5 times a day for 29 years equal? : baronzemo78
  • tragedy : dopefish
  • 25 years (I didn't start the day I was born) X 52 weeks X 3 times per week = 3,900. I rounded up to 4,00... : ezanga
  • Genoicide? : exigence7
  • Lots of chaffing? : ezanga
  • Sores. Very painful sores. : mmogger
  • wtf242 : Afterglow
  • scores and scores civilizations destroyed. :( : burning eye
  • Dry heaves. : walker270
  • The R. Lee Ermey of prostates. : pigvomit
  • a lot of dead kittens : Clay
• amatuer. : Super Sparker
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  i dont keep count, but i keep a jar of the outcome. : g0nk
  • You said outcome. Out-cum, get it? :) : grover69
  • /cry : harbl
  • I lol'd : David Craddock
  • note: avoid merangue @ g0nk's. : Fyunch Click
• 4000? puh-lease. 4000 this year and that doesn't count the ones I made my girlfriend do. Oh, thats the ... : grover69
• eleventy billion? : mavmavv
• hmmm, twice a day + 3 extras on days that end in y + marriage (automatic 4 additional daily, 7 on rag day... : Fyunch Click
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  The calculation is much more interesting in gallons. : MaxPete82
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    How many ounces are in a gallon? : ezanga
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      128 fluid ounces in a gallon. : MaxPete82
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        7.8125 gallons. : ezanga
        • ugh, mental image not good : sixfoot6
• Private Cowboy: Tough break for Hand Job. He was all set to get shipped out on a medical. Private Joker:... : Thresher
• Is this asking for number of times, or sessions? 'cause if I'm going to take the time to set everything ... : walker270
• let's see at least once a day since I was 13 = 4748 times. Which that is probably not the actual count... : bRAINsick
• What the fuck is going on here, seriously? : pres589
• reminds me of this fantastic post: http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity737.html : kill9
• Why are they trying to pimp the face down self pump? : red2lucas
• holy shit lets see 11 years averaged out to once a day (some days it was more....much much more, some day... : donlo
• 7 : deKaf
• LoL... roughly 8112 times. : krym3
• 4715 or so.. : virus
• it's a lot higher than my post count : strider_
• Random stat: 99% of participants lied. I was the 1% remaining : pillzer
• INT_MAX : ZombieAcademy

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  PART1 So while I was on vacation my brother hooked me up with a late birthday present in the form of t : NoCopy
  • the audio update should be out in a couple of weeks. I believe it was confirmed on an AV forum by a MS e... : cltcprd
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    I have not been wowed by Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. You get some slight clarity from regular DVD it's not like wa... : Pettytheft
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      You get some slight clarity from regular DVD it's not like watching DiscoveryHD or anything like that. ... : Serpico74
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        I meant that the picture is a bit more crisp and things like explosions look a bit more vibrant (along wi... : Pettytheft
        • Arguing in an old thread is funny, but HD broadcast is more compressed than HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. So, in ess... : Fred Garvin
  • I run the 360 HD-DVD drive on a front proection system (Panasonic AE700) in 720p on a 120" diagnal screen... : trevis
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  PART2 Price: The player itself, at $199CDN is very attractive for obvious reasons but beyond that i : NoCopy
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    Clarifications on your HDMI comments: You do not (repeat: DO NOT) need HDMI 1.3 to hear TrueHD. Nor do... : jason bergman
    • Thanks for the Clarification. I assumed (and thought I read before) that what you posted was indeed the c... : NoCopy
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      Couldn't audio decoding be done in software? And couldn't they release a breakout cable that has 5.1/6.1... : exigence7
      • Maybe it can be done in software already, but the horsepower isn't there to do it? : Halen
    • the problem with the 360 is that the audio path isn't width enough for Lossless 5.1 PCM. So we are going... : cltcprd
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    just a note: for those of us *with* the high-end 1080p displays already, HD-DVD is outstanding. simply ... : dopefish
    • I agree, it looks fantastic. Huge difference. Stretching a DVD out on a 56" TV looks pretty sad. 1080p... : khaosman
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      yea agreed, hd-dvd looks awesome. its not going to blow you away if you were used to watching lots of hd... : smacknca
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        Yeah totally agree, you need the right TV (1.5 years old since he bought it or since the model came out?)... : peat
        • I've got a Toshiba 57HX81 that I bought 5 years ago. It will 480p/1080i, no 720. I was SHOCKED at the di... : Buddy Jesus
    • My experience as well. : freqq28
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      Yeah, I bought my HDDVD drive for the 360 on Monday so I could watch Planet Earth, and it looks gorgeous ... : Vincent Grayson
      • If your TV has a good deinterlacer then you're getting true 1080p. The 1080i signal at 30 or 60fps conta... : Prozium
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    That future-proofing comment was probably made with people without HD-DVD players in mind. : ventro
    • I do realize that was the intended audience for that comment but the price I paid for the CoM HD Combo Di : NoCopy
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  what's the TLDR version? : oatmela
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    "meh" : skinlab133
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      but many of us dont agree. for 200 bucks your hard pressed to find a better option IF you own a 360 alre... : smacknca
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        You can actually pick up a first gen HD-A1 for about $200 on ebay. This has analog 5.1 output which the ... : Prozium
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          wow that fell quick. if not for this retarded format war we would all be enjoying hd quality dvds by now... : smacknca
          • I thought I would want to buy one now that the market has really cooled but without 1080p display I don't... : Lightzout
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  sams club has he player for $72 : deviantpaul
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    Is this in-store? : Halen
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      http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/deals/dealzmodo-sams-club-xbox-360-hd-dvd-drives-for-72-255161.php : deviantpaul
      • pretty much no one seems to confirm this in the discussion beneath. : sixfoot6
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        I am going to Sam's Club right now, will post when I get back : socksta
        • Its currently 181 at my local Sam's Club and they have 4 left. : socksta
• That must be some bullshit display you're using there because the difference is night and day for me. The... : Serpico74
• There are several very important factors. The type of display The display size your distance from t... : kraemer
• Couldn't agree with you less. I have tried my half decent progressive scan DVD player and my HD-DVD playe... : Fred Garvin
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  I thought that Children of Men was particularly unimpressive for an HD-DVD. The higher resolution was har... : scrooge
  • CoM was an easy test because it was a combo disc but I think some people are missing some of the finer po : NoCopy

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  www.xkcd.com : mmogger
  • i love this one : Flying h4x0r
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    always remember to mouse over for the extra punchline. once i discovered that, i had to go back and read... : smax
    • ahahaha... doing this right now. : Flying h4x0r
    • holy crap I never knew. How do you keep Firefox from cutting them off? : Caboose
  • Ahaha! http://www.xkcd.com/c149.html : melkore
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  i like that dinosaur comic : wtf242
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    http://www.qwantz.com yeah I dig it : skruff
    • f00k! i forgot that one. +5 : m0rfus
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  www.dieselsweeties.com : jasonepowell
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    meh... : m0rfus
    • WHAT? MEH?? http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=946 : jasonepowell
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  http://pbfcomics.com/ : Hoax
  • ^^^^ : pigvomit
  • agree with pig - that is teh funny shit. : m0rfus
  • one more vote : Mad Brahmin Disease
  • Only one I keep up with regularly ^^ : zuga
  • ^^^ my fav by a long shot : unlurker
  • It's the best <3 : Orange Pylon
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  http://drmcninja.com/ Fun premise and very good quality work, it's like a real comic book except it's ... : Nali4Freedom
  • i second dr. mcninja! 1.) he has a giant gorilla as a reciptionist 2.) his sidekick is a dude that ... : pukerat
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  www.sinfest.net : zanzaban
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    very nice. love the anime angle. : m0rfus
    • you'll grow sick of Sinfest once you realize he only has 2 jokes and repeats them over and over. : Bean
• http://www.lucid-tv.com http://indexed.blogspot.com : smax
• I read every comic that Phil makes : Degenerate
• I used to read www.machall.com but that's over now. They did start a new comic, www.threepanelsoul.com .... : skankcore
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  http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/ http://pbfcomics.com/ : MagicWishMonkey
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    http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/default.aspx?id=3a07945f-db40-4d07-8683-3a3b733b969a oh shit.... : Mister Groin
    • LOL yea I love that one. : MagicWishMonkey
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      This is another great one, http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/default.aspx?id=7ba6d35e-4c8d-4041-9a29-0f941... : MagicWishMonkey
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        http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/pics/wallpaper/shark.jpg I love this comic. =p : Mister Groin
        • http://www.wulffmorgenthaler.com/default.aspx?id=dfa37070-160f-48ce-a292-a48b337b8f26 Ok they can be p... : MagicWishMonkey
        • Oh man it just finished loading, I've never seen that one before. Thats just awesome. : MagicWishMonkey
• Which web comic was it? (remeber seeing it awhile ago) Anime girl that's a Quadrupalegic. Twisted comic... : pobone
• http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html : reign27
• * http://www.duelinganalogs.com/ * http://www.myextralife.com/ * http://www.pressstarttoplay.net/ * ht... : scottythejock
• That donkeydingo comic is strangely similar to this post: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=14273188 : cokefiend
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  that donkeydingo was pretty awful :( : nukewinter
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    Haha ya. If yer gonna do a comic that's obviously not focused on the artwork (ala Qwantz) then you have ... : dante2010
    • i lol @ it. it reminds me of the my damn co-workers like The Office. : m0rfus
• holy crap press start to play is even worse than ctrlaltdel : Zibro
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  Girl Genius]y http://www.girlgeniusonline.net : woddemandred
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    crap, http://www.girlgeniusonline.com : woddemandred
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      ^^ lame. art is okie, it's the standard trendy web cell shit. : m0rfus
      • A white person drawing in animu style is something that I think should be generally forbidden - also she ... : SpaecKow
      • Haha, are you actually serious? That's Phil and Kaja Foglio... They've been doing nerd comics since th... : geedeck
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  No ones mentioned http://www.achewood.com yet? oh man. My favorite comic. : great-white
  • Yeah, you absolutely can't go wrong with Achewood. I think it's the best out there. : Syixxs
  • At this point, anyone who still doesn't read Achewood doesn't deserve to have Achewood in their lives. : Johnny Law
  • I have alot of friends that like it, and I get that the humor is working on a certain level but it just n... : geedeck
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  POKEY THE PENGUIN! and ImaNewbie of UO fame. : Edges
  • oh god, imanewbie brings back memories : oHnOES
• http://www.boltcity.com/copper/ is my favorite. : deviantpaul
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  I've always had a soft spot for Ctrl+Alt+Del http://www.cad-comic.com : melkore
  • Best comic by far : bninja
• http://yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index42.html : Ravenkettle
• Death to the Extremist, guys. http://www.dtecomic.com/ It's concluded, but still fantastic. : eldersveld
• http://www.wondermark.com hadn't seen it posted yet. : Spezzer
• I recently added these two: http://www.goblinscomic.com/ http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale... : hawke
• Achewood and Qwantz <3 : jessipoo
• http://www.pbfcomics.com/ : Jobos
• The Perry Bible Fellowship ftw http://pbfcomics.com/ : slacko
• http://sluggy.com - Sluggy Freelance. One of the first few webcomics on the scene. Running daily since Au... : RevRaven

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  Slick! What do you use for the cropping "plugin"? : Damodred
  • http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/javascript-image-cropper-ui-using-prototype-scriptaculous/ It's very c... : ThomW
• looks awesome dude. : wtf242
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  dude you sound like Andre the Giant. g { HULK SMASH! }g : bagelcc
  • http://peanut.ytmnd.com/ : Rag and Bone Man
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  if you're editing it all together anyway, edit out the "ummmm" ;p : cpt_gloval
  • ps: slick interface. your design chops >>>>> mine : cpt_gloval
• Very cool! The cropping is impressive. : suqur
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  holy crap, you sound nothing like what I thought you would. My illusionary world has been shattered. T... : Modulus
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    I expect Rosewood and get Thorw : kgargonmagrix79
    • wait, what? : rosewood
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    IRL, most of the time I'm laughing at my own jokes. Ask Patch-E, El Tigre, Evil Benius or StuMan. : ThomW
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      the best part about you laughing at your own jokes is that your laugh is one of those laughs that make ot... : Patch-e
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        It has been described as being an "infectious laugh". ;) : ThomW
        • dudes, Laugh AIDS :[ : Bean
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  Are you a friendly giant?? you sound like a giant :D : skitzo
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    He's bigfoot, it is. : Lawgiver
    • I can't even grow a goatee. : ThomW
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  I'm starting to get a pretty good picture of just how many people here listen to my stupid podcast. ;) : ThomW
  • I didn't even know you had a podcast! Adding to my list. : knitemare
  • you have podcast? : Slowtreme
• you got such a sexy voice, i want to have sexings with it : Korban
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  now THAT is fucking awesome. Mind sharing your parsing code for amazon? I'm really interested in seeing... : knitemare
  • I, too, would be interested in this if it's not your precious. : Ebu
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    I'm just using Amazon Web Services and PHP5 to parse the XML it returns. I could send you the PHP fil... : ThomW
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      I'll have to check out amazon web services. I have my own xml parser I wrote a while back. That's the k... : knitemare
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        PHP5's XML parsing is awesome. // parse xml $xml = simplexml_load_string($xml); SHAZAM! It's : ThomW
        • Sounds like I need to junk my parser and replace it with a single line :) : Damodred
        • What's the performance like on that? : FushigiDenki
        • @games.to_xml !!!! : wtf242
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      Wow. I had no idea Amazon had services to help you use their stuff. I always assumed people were just lee... : Entity
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        no way. they have tons and tons of tools : wtf242
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          They have a page describing these? : suqur
          • http://www.amazon.com/E-Commerce-Service-AWS-home-page/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2/102-8046502-4754533?ie=UTF8&node=1... : ThomW
• thom, that is really neat : fletch_
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  While I have your attention: someone post a list of PS3 games that are playable online! :) : ThomW
  • I think this lists them all: http://www.ps3multiplayer.com/forum/games/ : knitemare
  • ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PlayStation_Network_games : sharkII
• oooh can't watch until I get home : Patch-e
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  thomw: my pants are off!!! : askedrelic
  • pants off to ThomW! : Mansmells
• That's hot, mister. : Rice-Rocketeer
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  Wait, that's not your voice. Did you distort it? : Mad Brahmin Disease
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    It's just slightly lower in pitch. : FushigiDenki
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      Slightly? Dude, he sounds totally different from what I remember him. : Mad Brahmin Disease
      • It's like he just woke up and ate Barry White for breakfast. : Mad Brahmin Disease
    • He wants to sound like me :( : Entity
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  Hey, your voice isn't that low pitch! You cheated! : FushigiDenki
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    haha I gotta hear this : Patch-e
    • lol, it sounds like those TV shows where they distort the voice really low to protect the innocent : ventro
  • I hope he sounds like the narrator for the Thanksgiving trailer... I'll have to listen to this at home. : FormerHPB
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    I didn't do anything to it. I work at home alone and I haven't talked to anyone since 8:30 this morn... : ThomW
    • yea the pitch is a tad off, not that I know what you sound like when you wake up or anything though.. ... : Patch-e
  • Record yourself saying, "This feels so super good!" : ChibiJosh
• where is not work safe when you need him. : arizona bay
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  EYETHOTEYEDTHROW!!!! Awesome idea, way to make your non-job easier. :) : skankcore
  • As stupid as it sounds it DOES feel like a job sometimes and it really shouldn't. haha : ThomW
• Mmm Pancakes. : SlowMoFoe
• Impressive work. That looks pretty slick. : Turd Ferguson
• omg your voice is sexy : PapaBoo
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  Is that you Xerxes? : drbriefs
  • *Throws a spear* : DM7
  • lol definitely not. : ThomW
• so cool to see someone put their skillz and creativity together. : PumpRock
• Slick work ThomW! :D I wish I could think of a practical use of that javascript image cropper, as th... : DOOManiac