How come it's not a GIF? Easier to get more hits on YouTube?

A rolled up newspaper might work, as well.
In *my* day, we got a leather strap across the palm, or a wooden ruler across the knuckles. We still managed to survive.

Dan, I think halon extinguishers are pretty much illegal now.

So why not put a leaky seal in the bag like they do on cans of coffee? A pinhole would suffice. (Hard drives do the same thing, BTW.)

Insurance companies could help. Get caught, double rates. Get caught again, stop coverage.

Will they be serving Freedom Fries in the Freedom Cafeteria?

Chef had a heavy cold?

Brings a tear to Bubbles' eye.

Amazed, you better stay away from the UK, then, with its one camera for every fourteen citizens.

Well, it saves all that energy walking from your car to the elevator.

Identical to the chamber we used at Nortel. First, anechoic (no reflections) is not the same as quiet (no external sounds leaking in), though anechoic chambers strive to do both. The cutoff frequency (below which the chamber ceases to be anechoic) is pretty much a function of the size of the wedges. IIR, ours was good down to about 50Hz. I spent some time in ours, it's not really a big deal, but the sensation is similar to having a stuffed-up head. And it's hard to talk to someone if you face away from them.
The chamber was in a huge brick cube mounted on rubber blocks. Pretty neat.

Oh, and the parody, already done:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840

I think "stumbling around like zombies" would be more reality than parody.

I put milk in the mug before adding coffee. A similar distortion on the bottom would be handy for estimating how much milk to add.

Observation indicates the usual position is coffee in left hand, cellphone in right, and steer with the knees.