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"The 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray and DVD of Say Anything came out yesterday, and to mark the occasion, numerous men with lots of free time dressed up in trench coats and hoisted boomboxes above their heads and marched throughout New York City serenading people with the strains of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes," and a cover version of the same song by The Lloyd Dobler Effect." - LogEx from Bookmarklet

"Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. on Tuesday agreed to buy Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., making a $34 billion bet on the future of the U.S. economy." - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from Bookmarklet

"It's here! Fox has finally debuted the epic 3 ½ minute trailer for James Cameron's Avatar in glorious high def today on Yahoo. This is the trailer we've been waiting for, the one that finally shows that there's more to Avatar than just giant blue Na'vi aliens, that it's a story about love and survival and the importance of life. And it looks absolutely incredible. I think this could be one of the best trailers of the entire year, it's truly epic, and truly exciting. Many of you may have seen this trailer in theaters over the weekend, but now is your chance to voice your opinion and see it again. Without further ado, watch the new trailer below!" - Amani from Bookmarklet

I got to see the video game in person this week too. Looked like a bland FPS. Wonder if the non-interactive version will be any better ;) - alphaxion

Didn't they just fix this bridge? - Andrew Leyden

Actually, there's no traffic at all on the bridge. - Glen Campbell from iPhone

çekmeceli merdivenler dahiyane ^^ - mayamisa

artık merdivenlere oturur bütün gün kalkmazsın cemilecim :))) - Hande Ünver

"Gay Wilkinson enjoys blowing anvils more than 100 feet in the air. So much so that is a world champion at the activity." (via http://www.boingboing.net/2009...) - Gary Burd from Bookmarklet

Wasn't there something like this in the movie "Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese Witherspoon? My daughter rented the DVD and I watched it with her. One of the characters had an eccentric grandfather who was always blasting something into the air... I don't think it was anvils, but something similarly "thud-worthy." Hilarious! - Mark Jepsen

They're "incredible" because they've finally caught up with the rest of the Intel-based computer world? I don't see much incredibleness in this announcement. - Kenton

+1 Kenton. I've been saying this for a while, now. When I'm able to order a Macbook Pro with a quad-core processor, 8 gigs of RAM and a 1-gig dedicated video card, then I'll be impressed that Mac is finally providing what I've been able to get in my Windows-based laptop for over a year. - Curtiss Grymala

just display nicer.The hardware specs r mediocre @ best.1can build a hackintosh for less, more powerful & performs better.WHY THE HYPE I DON'T get. - Baba

Super mouse with trackpad on top. Maybe a new keyboard that supports gestures too. - Cristo

We built WebTV into an RCA TV once, called eTV. I thought it was a terrible idea then. The only advantage you get is the remote only needs to control one device (assuming there's not a separate cable box), but the lack of ability to upgrade one component without the other is a huge minus for me. - Cristo

Woohoo!!! So glad I bought at $53! - Ha3rvey (Free hugs!)

Dang. Talk about an after-hours rally. 203 now. - Andrew Leyden

;) - Paul Buchheit

very punny. - winterismute

Leo, that is the coolest. I like this. GPS coordinates following you. - Bob Thomas

If you get lost, follow the Beatles' advice: Turn left at Greenland. - Andrew Leyden

I've heard you can just add a calendar named "Arsenal", and Google figures it out for you(?) Haven't tried it myself since I used the "official" site calendar - Uche Ogbuji

omg - polou/indigo_bow

LOL http://chakopaul.com "It should be noted that despite claims made, the Citadel has only ordered the deaths of a dozen or so individual males who entered the city without proper authority. Either you are known to our people or your life is forefit." - Gus

Love this post as mush as I would love to know where is there a village full of hot lesbians... - Eric Gagne

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, as their operations became increasingly industrialized--with onboard refrigeration, acoustic fish-finders, and, later, GPS--they first depleted stocks of cod, hake, flounder, sole, and halibut in the Northern Hemisphere. As those stocks disappeared, the fleets moved southward, to the coasts of developing nations and, ultimately, all the way to the shores of Antarctica, searching for icefishes and rockcods, and, more recently, for small, shrimplike krill. As the bounty of coastal waters dropped, fisheries moved further offshore, to deeper waters. And, finally, as the larger fish began to disappear, boats began to catch fish that were smaller and uglier--fish never before considered fit for human consumption. Many were renamed so that they could be marketed: The suspicious slimehead became the delicious orange roughy, while the worrisome... more... - Eric Logan from Bookmarklet

Calamari. I mean, who the F thought 'hey, look at that thing, it'll taste great'. - Andrew Leyden

"The Federal Communications Commission opened an inquiry Friday into whether Google Inc.'s phone-management service is restricting calls as regulators grappled with how to regulate new-media products. The service, dubbed Google Voice, allows people to link all of their phones to a common number and to manage calls and messages through a single Web site. The service can also be used to send and receive phone calls and text messages." - Judah Richardson from Bookmarklet

I'M BEING ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF SAUSAGE LINKS. - Akiva Moskovitz

Lulz ---> Akiva - Tony C

"Britain’s most popular music-streaming service could be out of business within a year unless it can make more of its users pay for music, industry experts claimed today. Senior executives said that Spotify could soon be “dead” if it continued to be available free and relied on advertising to fund the service." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

Something has to give, and someone will always lose out. If Spotify finishes, then people will go back to torrenting and fileshare sites. - Charlotte M

That's the problem with the drugs business model, you can give it away free and at some point start charging but in this case you can't intimidate the users with pay up or else. - James Robertson

Surf's up, dude! - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF) from fftogo

The gyrowheel would make it so that anyone learning to ride a bike — or just keep any ol' bike upright — wouldn't need training wheels to keep from falling over. The gyrowheel replaces the front wheel and contains a battery-powered, spinning disk inside of it, which in turn generates a gyroscopic precessional force and helps stabilize the bike. It should keep a bike upright in the face of wobbles, and the folks at Gyrobike claim that it teaches better riding practices, besides. A 12" version of the gyrowheel is due out in December, with a 16" version landing next spring. Check out a video on how the gyrowheel works after the jump. - Thomas Bøhm