"9. Turn Right onto ___ St."
"10. You are at Burning House, Sherwood, AR."

@Chris Gregory: people in "poor" countries _become_ unhappy once we in the West show them all the good "stuff" that they don't have . We tell them that our great things are the markers of success, power, and happiness.

As for us in relation to this post, we'll never learn.

My whole comment:

It’s not enough to say, “Well, my friends and I spent hours and days playing this stuff, and I’m not killing anyone, nor are any of my friends.”

What is important is *population data*, not individual anecdotes. "My grandmother smoke cigs and lived to age 94." Therefore, cig-smoking does not cause heart disease/cancer/premature death?

Not everyone who plays games with violent themes commits violent acts, for sure. We need *population data* and what we are looking for is the change in *likelihood* to commit violence. 3 in 100,000 IS three times more than 1 in 100,000, even if there are far more negatives than positives.

But, yes, I still want to see better studies.

It's not enough to say, "Well, my friends and I spent hours and days playing this stuff, and I'm not killing anyone, nor are any of my friends."

What is important is >>*population data*<>*population data*<<. What we are looking for is the change in *likelihood* to commit violence.

But yes, I still want to see better studies.

But, kdp, we buy more and more things that make us feel that we need to buy more and more security measures. If we stopped after supplying ourselves with necessities and a modest amount of leisure items, we would be just as happy as we would be with all the extra great stuff.

Let us secure these, and save what buying power is left over, and reap the peace-of-mind byproduct. To put it another way, it costs us less in mental anguish to secure a modest amount of money and material than to secure a large amount.

What is left is to spend our additional *spare time* in the company of loved ones in meaningful activity (which also, by the way, can be low-cost). Peace be with you, dj.

Looks cool. I'll take the elevator.

The this helical staircase and a DNA helix are both right-handed, so they spiral in the same "direction". Unless you meant that 3-prime is on the wrong end. Molecular bio humor. Ha. heh. ummmrr.

The Left Handed DNA Hall of Fame
http://www-lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/LeftHanded.DNA.html

What's this!? Neatorama asking readers to provide *content*? Is this what I'm paying for? Oh yeah. Right.

How about Stephen Colbert's _I Am America (and So Can You)? Very truthy, very funny.

Novels? OK, I go "Vonnegut" as well. Read, reread.

"Man Sitting on Rock" - only 2 inches tall, therefore, it's just "artifact", not Martian art? Don't we make art of all sizes, "small" and "very small" included? Cover-up! There's Martians in them thar hills!

RE: "naturally occur in nature" -- as opposed to synthesized, arranged, devised, created by a sentient being. When we say that a food contains chemicals, we don't mean water, which is chemically H20, but synthesized, engineered molecules like polysorbate 80. People occur in nature, but their creations do not (e.g. polysorbate 80, golf clubs, ball pens). That is what is meant, IMHO.

Now you can carry on.

Stupid? Stupid-cool! I'd get one for my dad.

What makes this really funny is that the guy throwing the rock TRIES AGAIN after taking out his accomplice.

"Because I can."

X-Files The First Movie was on our local FOX channel last Sunday. After one TV critic (yeah, yeah: citation?) suggested that although the Truth Is Out There, the X-Files series was doomed by the Laws of TV never to find It (it would mean the end of the series For. Ev. Er). The best that X-1 could do for entertainment with plot pertinence was to give Scully the up-shot opportunity when she slapped the bee bottle on the table at her disciplinary board hearing. BAM! Take that, Review Board. You've been X-Filed! Zzzz.

[Huh? "A bee in a bottle? Re-open the X-Files. We need to know how the bee got into the bottle."]

The bears were hear to have referred to the playground as "restaurant". Unfortunately for them, service was not to be had.

Similar to Chad's advice:

I used a Firefox mouse gesture to reduce the image size. At half-size, the words are apparent with no effort.

Cool! How about an app that can do this with any text you supply to create an image? I'd download that... freeware.