Yeah, I'm thinking two, maybe three steps before half the books start tumbling out the side of that thing. Not that you'd actually want to get in and walk around in a bookcase. Because, you know, it's stupid.

How is this even an idea, anyway? Take two completely unrelated things and cram them together with no regard for purpose or logic? Bookcase and walking, sure! I want to create a refrigerator I can do Pilates on. How about rain gutters I can brush my teeth with? We heard you like walking, dawg, so we put a hamster wheel in your bookcase so you can walk while you read!

Clearly the recession is not affecting some people as much as it should be.

As a huge Pomplamoose fan, I'm psyched to see them mentioned on Neatorama! And as a musician, I'm very interested in hearing about their new initiative -- of course I had to post this first. ;)

"Very unique" = fail

Wow, who knew that Alice Cooper was doing photography these days?

(Yes, I know, that's Furnier, not Fournier.)

Dude... next time you build something really cool? Don't ruin it by talking about it. Just let it be cool.

Sorry... *a* short story.

A Nice Morning Drive by Richard S. Foster is not a "vague book," whatever that means. It was an short story published in Road & Track magazine.

http://www.mgexperience.net/article/nice-drive.html

I received the awesomely gigantic M*A*S*H box set for Christmas three years ago. I come back to it fairly regularly, but I'm still only about half-way through it! At this rate, I'm hoping the time it takes me to watch the entire series is less than the duration of the Korean war. :)

Wow, I guess I've gotta call thirdsies, then. :)

(For those who might read this in future weeks and not know what we're talking about, I believe we're all talking about waking up this morning and discovering that, beyond all normal comprehension, Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. My very first thought was that the Onion had once again been taken for a legitimate news outlet.)

The idea of a space-time continuum is NOT just "the stuff of Star Trek." It is a fundamental model in modern physics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/557482/space-time
http://www.ws5.com/spacetime/
http://www.west.net/~ke6jqp/spacetime/spacetime.html

Nice... this is pretty much exactly how I sketch out melodies that pop into my head that I don't want to lose. I have countless scraps of paper in my office that look just like that.

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Still no cure for cancer.

S-Mode Oberon

The dropdown only shows IPB+WhiteLED, so if that's it, that's it. But I'd prefer the black one shown on their page.

Why will you think after needing more frosting?

Oh... you meant "you will need more frosting THAN you think". Got it.