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LV — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:04:25 GMT

You're absolutely right about the movies, Will. Whether I watch them at home or at the theater, I buy my snacks at the grocery store. Ridiculous theater vending prices caused me to start getting creative. The only thing I've bought at the theater concession is a drink, and that's only because I couldn't think of a way to get one in successfully.

I don't feel bad for corn farmers, either. Corn provides almost no nutrition to humans, and the use of corn syrup in just about everything we eat has been a major factor in Americans' health problems and poor diets. I have a friend who's actually allergic to corn, and because it's so ubiquitous she has had a horrible time trying to avoid it. Whether shopping to cook at home or trying to eat out, most of the options are off-limits for her. And the incidence of corn allergy is growing. Frankly, the farmers - who these days are mostly corporations anyway - should be growing crops that will actually do us some good to eat.

I had to say something about the blue white supremacist too. I started out wanting to make a Smurf joke, but the fact that he inked himself calls to mind one of the funniest lines from the late, great "Arrested Development": "I'm afraid I just blue myself."

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Alex, Lawrence, KS — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:10:40 GMT

re: matchstick bomb

BORRRRRIIINNNGGGGG

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A Haunold — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:17:59 GMT

I can't say how grateful I am that we have such wonderful cops to save us from the evil teenage skateboarders. (Yes, that was sarcasm.) That kind of use of force on children was totally unwarranted and that policeman looked a complete fool. I hope that police department is suitably embarrassed and does some re-training. A well-trained officer could have handled that situation far more effectively.

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See At Alls Best — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:45:43 GMT

Them those corn farmers are making a killin' with ethanol. It's the theater folks that might get hurt the
most, for which they richly(NPI)deserve.
Guess if i put dried coffee grounds between my sheets at
night, i'd wake up with perfect skin tone and a tan, flealess and little elvis might have grown.

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bh, Detroit Mi — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:13:34 GMT

When some ass makes a 3500 dollar speeding ticket for 15 miles over the speed limit, it gets close to the point of people not putting up with it will OFF the said politician. This is disgusting, everyone might as well buy a Yugo. Big 3 get out your mouse powered engines. Next thing yiou know there will be a 3500 dollar ticket for farting.

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Sean, NY — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:34:36 GMT

I can only see the silhouette spin in one direction... I blame the nipples for that.

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Mary, Fort Myers, FL — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:51:52 GMT

For more sites like tv-links.co.uk, go to ovguide.com. If you discover a show that has been on the air for a few months but you missed the first 12 episodes, this is a great way to catch up (I know you can read a recap of previous episodes, but if I wanted to read I would get a book). Some networks show previous episodes on their web site, which they show with some commercials. However, the choices are limited. If the networks included more shows, they would get a better idea of how many people watch. Apparently, they were surprised by the response to the cancellation of Jericho, which was on the network web-site, but that was not included in determining how many people watch the show.

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JE, Detroit — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:03:29 GMT

LV, if you want to sneak in drinks to the movie theater, it's easy. Just tuck a couple of unopened cans of soda, juice, or whatever into your coat pocket. You can also do this with plastic drink bottles, although they take up more room. I usually have my hubby put the stuff in HIS coat pocket, since men's coats always seem to have those nifty inside pockets. He can put several cans of soda in his pockets (he's a big bulky guy anyway!) and no one has ever noticed. Of course, the coat trick only works when it's cold enough to wear a coat. But you could also tuck cans or bottles into a handbag.

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Dawn, Ohio — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:09:14 GMT

"There's a certain national disaster that would have been completely avoided had pilots kept their cockpits secure..."

Will, I'm a loyal reader and will remain so in spite of this comment. I even accept your overall point. Still -- how hard did you think about this comment before you posted it? It reads like you believe the pilots are to blame for 9/11, that if they'd just kept the cockpit doors shut nothing would have happened. Is there evidence that the doors were even open when those flights were hijacked? I haven't seen any, and in at least one case (Flight 93) the timeline suggests that warnings about other hijackings in process were given in time to close the door. It's much more likely that the doors simply weren't strong enough to withstand the assaults.

Pilots are not and have never been responsible for installing reinforced cockpit doors; airlines are. The Air Line Pilots Association advocated better cockpit security before and after 9/11. As a private pilot, I'm not ALPA's biggest fan, but it bothers me to see any pilots, especially those who died doing their jobs, take an unwarranted amount of hindsight criticism just because a couple of guys trying to keep delayed passengers happy made a questionable decision.

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Larry C, Memphis, TN — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:12:37 GMT

Yep. Robert Englund was the "friendly lizard" for the V Series. One of many great Sci-Fi Made for TV during that decade. The Martian Chronicles was really good as well.

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Chris, Stillwater. MN — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:29:04 GMT

Will, please check out "John Lee, Supertaster" by They Might Be Giants. Its my four-year-old's favorite song. Its educational.

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Doug, Thankfully NOT in Virginia — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:26 GMT

$3500 speeding ticket? Amazing times we live in when they are brash enough to write the words right into the law. I guess Virgina should also apply for a grant to have the words "To serve and protect" removed from the sides of their patrol cars, and replace it with the truth - "To generate revenue"

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Will Femia — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:54:51 GMT

Alex, yeah, for the work it must have taken to cut all those match heads they could have had a much bigger bang for much less effort. I included it mostly because the other day I linked to that story about the tennis ball full of match heads. At least now we can imagine what that looks like when it goes off.

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Charles Few, Rockville, MD — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:09:00 GMT

One night, as a break from finals, I started clipping all the matchstick heads I had into a mason jar. Later in the evening I decided to light it. As a (laughable) safety precaution I was wearing an oven mit and holding it out a window.

A blue-white flame lept up past my visual range, so I dropped it into the alley below and ran to a friend's room. People were later talking in the dorm about the mysterious lightning.

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Will Femia — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:34:27 GMT

Dawn, given your background I think you view the matter more specifically than I do. I tend to think of the airline industry as one large greedy mass, so it's definitely not like I'm walking around wearing an "I blame Burlingame" t-shirt. I also recognize the argument that no one ever considered such an attack since hijackers usually just took planes to places and didn't take them over to crash them. And I recognize that pilots have to eat and pee so the doors would have to open at some point no matter what.

Having said all that, in my heart, and admittedly with no small amount of emotion attached, I look at an industry that leaves passengers on planes for hours, loses luggage, etc. and I can't avoid targeting them with "none of this would have happened if..." thoughts.

Regarding your question about whether the 9/11 cockpit doors were open, from what I understand, none of the 9/11 cockpit doors were broken through. The hijackers used the element of surprise on the pilots, so either the door was open, unlocked, or the hijackers were able to get the key, perhaps taken from a flight attendant.

It's not clear to me whether the Flight 93 door was secured, even with the warning, but the hijackers themselves apparently put the door to use in keeping out the heroic passengers who sought to retake the cockpit, so if they broke down the door to get in in the first place, it wasn't so broken that it couldn't be used to stall the passengers' onslaught.

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LV — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:30:58 GMT

I took the 9/11 comment as an illustration that pilots often don't employ the one security measure they do control, not as an indictment of the pilots as the single cause of 9/11. Of course there were many causes. But if an airplane manufacturer designs a perfectly secure cockpit door and all the airlines buy planes with those doors, and the pilots don't keep them it won't matter unless the pilots close them. From my view, the 9/11 point would serve well as a reminder to the pilot who was giving the lecture that he must do his small part to safeguard security as well.

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Dennis McClain-Furmanski, Dalworthington Gardens, TX — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:14:22 GMT

"The baby from the Nirvana album cover is 17." The baby from Grace Slick and Paul Kantner's "Sunfighter" album cover has been untrustable for 6 years (China Kantner; "Don't trust anyone over 30.") I remember buying this album. Not with allowance, but with my own income. Shouldn't I be retired by now?

As for tetrachromats, it's not quite accurate to say they can see "extra" colors. More correctly, they have better color resolution -- they can tell the difference between more than the 3.5 million shades us poor trichromats can. And the reason pigeon's don't watch TV has nothing to do with their pentachromaticity. They don't watch it because they don't see motion unless they move their heads. That's why they, and many other birds, jerk their heads forward with each step they take on the ground. We also require our movement to see external movement, but our eyes wobble around in our heads to provide for this (saccadic eye movement). If our eyes muscles are paralyzed (research in this was done years ago using snake venom, forerunner to Botox) and our head held still, it only takes us about 30 seconds to go blind.

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Bert, Waterloo, Ontario — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:20:01 GMT

That cop should be given an award. Those "kids" shouldn't have been skateboarding on a downtown city sidewalk that was meant for pedestrians.

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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:46:52 GMT

$3500 ticket.......IT IS ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Obviously, people feel entitled to travel over the speed limit, as clearly seen in the few comments above. Of course it is to generate revenue. There are SO many people in this state who simply drive as fast as they can regardless of the traffic or weather. These folks aren't going to change their habits until something forces them too, and a $90 speeding ticket won't cut it. When you are faced w/ a $3500 fine + taxes on your points, then you will give a 2nd thought to that extra minute you are getting by travelling so fast.
In the end, this new law is going to kill 2 birds w/ 1 stone: create revenue off the idots who just don't get it and continue to travel 15+ over the speed limit; and, give people good reason to slow the heck down.
The only part I don't like is how the lawyers will all be getting richer off this new law. I don't care that my state does, we need the money, but the lawyers don't.

I DO live in Virginia!!!!

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Steve, Arkansas — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:49:23 GMT

Some facts about the skateboarding incident. It occurred in Hot Springs, AR and I read about it in the local paper. Seems 10-12 "kids" (some over 20), decided to participate in an act of civil disobedience. Skateboarding is illegal on downtown sidewalks and the city has a skateboard park. The skateboarders were trying to incite a reaction and they succeeded. The officer first gave them a warning and told them to leave. When they came back, they ran several elderly pedestrians into the street and knocked one old lady down. The cop arrested one of the kids. While taking him into custody, one of the other kids (a girl) jumped on his back and started hitting him in the head. That part of the tape was edited out by the skateboarders who posted the video. Almost everyone in town is supporting the police department on this one.

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Michael T, Hollywood, CA — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:28:44 GMT

Love the cornfield shot. This is what happens when you combine Lindsay Lohan/Nicole Richie/Mel Gibson and agriculture...they get busted for FUI (Farming Under the Influence).

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Patrick, Greenville, SC — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:32:58 GMT

About the cop vs. the skaters: has anyone bothered to actually get the facts on this or is everyone just reacting to the youtube video? If you jump on a cop when his back is turned (as all the actual witnesses reported) because he tells you to stop skating in area that is clearly off limits to skateboards, I think he has the right to beat the living snot out of you...

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Russell in Maryland — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 03:15:37 GMT

The great Carsoni predicts --- the new fine system in Virginia will generate a huge corruption problem. The police will be getting solicited and unsolicited bribes and sexual favors. Clerks, prosecutors, sheriffs and judges will be fixing tickets. It will be selectively applied to certain ethnic and economic groups. It will be used to "get", punish and take revenge.

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Sam — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:02:35 GMT

In response to the color-blindness article:

http://www.vischeck.com/

You can download an application that allows you to transform any image and see what a colorblind person would see.

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Eric, Houston — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:14:26 GMT

Why do you even give the 9/11 "Truth" folks one second of your time? Everything they assert can be disproved by eyewitness accounts and science, and their ONLY argument in response is "You're a dupe for believing The Man."

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vmass20 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:11:03 GMT

I still find it Ironic that to this day Will, you have continued to throw the 9/11 truth info out there but never support it, even talk down about it. confusing... anyway, funny on how nobody comments on the most important incident, in our time, being a mass murder where our VP OBVIOUSLY knew and let it happen. Thats what that link proves. no, will?
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Francois, California — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:58:29 GMT

So, let's see now: one traffic screwup (and who hasn't gone a bit quickly at least once in their lives?) stays on your record for ten years and costs 3500 bucks? And the law was sponsored by a traffic lawyer to boot? Seems like a good reason to stay away from Virginia. There are 49 other states in the Union.

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Will Femia — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:22:44 GMT

vmass, that's well observed. It's a reflection of the conflict I feel in trying to report Web trends without necessarily endorsing everything I link to. I don't buy into most of the 9/11 Truth stuff, but I have to recognize that it's out there, and I do think it's worth at least being aware of the arguments those groups are making.

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KW — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:44:11 GMT

Sorry, Will, but now I'm confused. If you just misstated or I'm reading something into your last post that isn't intended (my apologies if this is the case), but "I don't buy in to most of the 9/11 Truth stuff"? Umm...would that be 20%? 30%? 49%? that you do buy into? You left a door kind of wide open there given the subject matter and where you live. Given that (supposedly) 45% of New Yokers buy into much of "the Truth", I'd like to believe otherwise, but it's hard to tell these days. I mean for myself it would be 1%, but I know I'm a bit daft. Again, I don't mean to jump on a little misstatement, and if you lived in some place like Kansas, I'd feel differently. And I definitely agree that they shouldn't be ignored, but on the other hand, "the Truth" is as close to truth as creation "science" is to science.

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KW — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:48:04 GMT

BTW, just re-read your post. Were you replying to "Eric" or was your response really intended for vmass, as you addressed it? Perhaps that's the confusion...

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Paranoid in the NW — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:18:12 GMT

Hey, is that TV-Links site legal? I'm not gonna get a knock on my door by the FBI for illegeal downloads, am I?

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Heather Schlessman, La Grande, OR — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:27:58 GMT

Bloxorz is quite the game...check out this game...
http://www.fatbadgergames.com/
my son created it:) Heather Schlessman

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Will — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:47:21 GMT

Don't know why you felt the need to post the TV Links URL, we can look forward to that being shut down now.

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Will Femia — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:59:46 GMT

Heather, nice job!

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Will Femia — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:06:13 GMT

"Will," if "you" are shut down you should find a new host where what "you're" doing isn't illegal. It's been demonstrated a billion times, there's no such thing as "secret on the Web." Furthermore, if it found its way to Clicked, the secret was already out. I review trends here. I'm not a big news breaker.

Paranoid, I've never heard of someone getting a knock for watching streaming video. In fact, even for downloading it's not really common. The door knocks come to the big sharers - which is why "Will" is so upset. That said, I'm not going to be able to help you if you do get a knock, so only do what you're comfortable with.

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Will Femia — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:21:28 GMT

KW, I'm not sure the source of our miscommunication and since I don't really know ALL of the 9/11 Truth material I probably couldn't assign a percentage to how much of it I believe. There are two things that make me generally dismissive of the 9/11 Truth arguments: The first is that most of what I hear them argue is not fact but open-ended questions. They try to make it sound impossible for 9/11 to have happened but unless they're going to cook I-beams in jet fuel on video for me, "how could this be, how could that be" is not a convincing argument for me. The second reason I'm generally dismissive of 9/11 Truth arguments is that I was there and watched the second plane fly into Tower 2. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080804/ So when they start talking about missiles, etc., I tune out. I've also read the Popular Mechanics debunkings and find them more credible. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1227842.html

I can't find the link but I once saw a thorough debunking of the Pentagon/missile theory in which they show how little substance there is to a plane in the first place and then point out the plane parts in a photo in which conspiracy theorists claim there are no plane parts. If I find the link I'll add it in here. ADDING: I think this may have been it: http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagon/index.html

I don't know if that answers your question. As to vmass's point about Cheney's role or Bush's role, I don't really think about it, mostly because almost nothing about it that could turn out to be true would surprise me.

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Sean, NY — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:09:43 GMT

Will, not only is 'getting a knock' for downloading uncommon, it's nonexistent. I have no idea why the media keeps talking about people getting into trouble for downloading when every single lawsuit was about distribution. I think the general idea is that they don't want to even try to sue for that out of fear they might lose and set a precedent. Of course I don't include you when I say media, I'm talking about the other media, the "evil" one.

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Will Femia — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:08:18 GMT

Thanks Sean. That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure if there was some random case I hadn't heard of so I left myself room with "not really common."

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Still a bit paranoid in the NW — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:40:45 GMT

Sean, I disagree - check out this news link - local for me - http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/06/05/tech-riaadropstanyaandersenlawsuit-20070605.html

The knock for her didn't come from the Feds, but from the RIAA. This woman was sued specifically for downloading music.

I made the above comment in jest - but it does happen.

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John — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:31:03 GMT

Since getting an LCD big screen TV for Christmas, I've been hooking up my laptop to watch Friday Night Lights and Medium at NBC.com. The quality is every bit as good as watching it on cable. (Which probably shouldn't be a surprise, but it was to me as well as most anyone I've talked to.) Disclosure: I have no affiliation with NBC at all.

Will, I think I was one of the first to get on you about your er...attention to the 9/11 Truthers. (At least in the comments) I don't like them and I don't like that you do that, BUT I do like you, I respect you, and I realize that you do not agree with everything you post. Part of the reason I come here is to find different points of view. And that means that occasionally I'm going to see some things I don't like.

Keep up the good work.

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Sean, NY — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 20:41:00 GMT

That news story is exactly what I meant about media reports. Tanya Andersen was sued for distribution via the Kazaa p2p program, but the story repeatedly says downloading. Do a Google news search for her name to verify this.

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Will — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:15:08 GMT

Femia: I don't know why you think I am "so upset" about you posting the link, I was just pointing out that doing so is likely to hasten the site being shut down. I don't know that the media companies will tolerate such a site for long, even if it doesn't involve downloading.

And despite your insinuations to the contrary, I'm not a big sharer or distributor of copyrighted material.