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PidGin128··on 4Food: Restaurant adds game mechanics to lunch
I believe "Wendy's" has a poster in some of their establishments explicitly mentioning that their burgers have 256 permutations.

How free form are the possibilities in ordering? (also naming...)

PidGin128··on Brilliant talk by John Cleese on creativity.
The next challenge then, is to remember it when the morning arrives.

(Also fun, if you think of too many altogether... Complicates the above even further.)

PidGin128··on Barefoot shoes try to outrace the black market
I haven't voted up or down here, but cam is correct. Maybe the tone was a bit rough?

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=129234... (found via images.google.com .)

This site also has an amusing comparison of crocs & vibrams.

PidGin128··on Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine
To split hairs, I imagine his signature could be found in most of the comics...
PidGin128··on CompassionPit.com, Share your feelings without fear of judgment
This site seems to face a similar problem, (hopefully) solved by a static link to a guidance hotline.

http://www.myuntoldsecrets.com/View.aspx?secret=102&topi...

(incidentally, I found that site originally via some spamming of the site in the picture, when I was reading the craigslist "best of" linked in it. I see the relevant drop.io page is pointing to another site. :\ )

PidGin128··on Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal
Wait, E-Ink is literally a magnadoodle?!

I must bring a magnet to barnes&noble...

PidGin128··on Kindle vs. iPad Displays: Up close and personal
This is bit of a deviation, but I am reminded of how my super Nintendo system has turned colors in part because of UV light.

I am curious if the kindle, in your use case, will- at the end of it's life- have distinct hand-prints where the original color is intact (if not physically smoother).

PidGin128··on Google Unveils Awesomely Fast And Accurate Voice Actions For Android
That is a novel solution to the issue of malicious, or at least irrelevant commands.

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-04-24/

(while searching for that comic, I found coverage of a MS speech recognition issue, whereby malicious sound recording could speak commands...)

PidGin128··on Facebook name extraction based on email/wrong password + POC
What did you find when you searched for the address in your conversations?
PidGin128··on Common Programmer Health Problems
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Door_jamb&oldi...

Depending on the context that inspired you to ask, the literal explanation may not help.

PidGin128··on The Politically Incorrect Guide To Ending Poverty
I dug through the guidelines and associated texts and couldn't find it, but I see it stated often enough that I don't mind sharing it:

_Resubmissions are allowed after a year or so._

[beyond paraphrasing, completely reconstituting the thought, still meaningful however.]

This solves all the problems in your first paragraph. Automatic re-posting is almost a guarantee if it's that good, so that's paragraph two handled.

PidGin128··on Coffee shops are taking Wi-Fi off the menu
You might try http://www.freesound.org/searchText.php . I couldn't link my searches, but try 'cafe', 'lounge', 'coffeeshop', etc. Longest I saw was ~20 minutes, and was a lounge, so music, but more than nothing. And you can always record your own and share them!

Originally saw the site accredited in the movie 'children of men' [title possibly mangled].

PidGin128··on TorrentReactor Buys and Renames Russian Town
And temporarily, topeka: (last paragraph of section)

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Topeka,_Kansas&...

PidGin128··on Hidden features of Google
"Discussions" results page, for a query of "discussion".

http://www.google.com/search?q=discussion&tbs=dsc:1

PidGin128··on Genetic testing mix-up reignites regulation debate
>http://mst3k.wikia.com/wiki/Radar_Secret_Service

>In this film universe radar is everywhere and can do anything - find valuable mineral deposits deep underground, locate large schools of fish underwater, etc, and all from thousands of miles away! Worship radar at the church of your choice.

I don't know if radar was developed first, but since sonar accomplishes these tasks I think it's fair to give it to them. Sound/Radio, pretty close.

Agree with people taking the results too seriously, especially with some labs not taking it seriously themselves by failing to handle samples carefully and contaminating evidence.

I like your example regarding souls adhering to photographs, not least because it's something I have chuckled to in my head before :\ .

Lastly, in respect to people's overreaction to results, I'm tempted to dismiss it as amazing that we made it this far, and that our genes carry any meaningful\beneficial signal. This attitude is tempered by my fortunate lack of fatal news, and a chance optimistic outlook [for today at least -- the mind if fickle].

PidGin128··on uTorrent Opens Up Apps, Starts Developer Challenge
µTorrent (many torrent clients infact) have long had their own web interfaces, for managing downloads thru a browser from afar.

It sounds like these Apps/Extensions are simply a tidier bundling of the long present webgui [webgui.zip ?]. Technically, I bet all this was possible already, but this likely makes the use more conventional, supported, & easier to setup.

PidGin128··on Tetris effect
Replace music with lawnmower, and I share your experience. Until the mower if off I think a mobile is ringing constantly.
PidGin128··on How Coca-Cola won the war
Also exists in the Internet Archive.

The previous paragraph mentioned the flavoring of cassia, and the following mentioned how sugar holds the flavor.

http://web.archive.org/web/20061031105033/http://theprimacyo...

PidGin128··on Terminal Tips and Tricks For Mac OS X
I remember issues arising due to weird default permissions when I tried to use beep, or bell (don't remember if it was the command or character [ctrl+g]). I think festival or the command used to play the startup sound in ubuntu where the easiest alternatives, as getting beep/bell to work is weird.

Pre-Edit: /usr/bin/canberra-gtk-play , according to my Ubuntu's startup applications preferences.

PidGin128··on The Enemy Within
It may not be able to actively worm its way through a good firewall, but who's to say an infected USB stick, user downloading cursors or smilies, or other vulnerability would drop it in past it?

The issue then, is whether the botnet admin would recognize the luck\value of a select machine with inside access, or if it would go unnoticed.

PidGin128··on List of Common Misconceptions
It's almost as though some common myths are being busted. (less kaboom.)

On topic: Wikipedia's lists are usually fun. WP has become my search engine of choice for things apart from error messages, or when I think I know what I'm looking for (or close).

PidGin128··on I'm embarrassed for RIM: Blackberry 6 sneak peak.
Youtube.com/watch?v=DlO8KMv7Bx4

" Not available on Mobile " as seen from my BB8130 using opera mobile 5.

The native browser used to work with youtube, but then the site changed. Using opera on certain yt videos usually offers me a link to the rtsp:// feed that will open back in the native browser, then the media player (a part of the browser?) launches the stream. To say nothing of how bad the mitsubishi ad linked elsewhere played, when I got it to (likely youtube or the original uploader making a bad encoding decision, but it was all artifacts with no interpretable images).

Offtopic, but oh so relevant. I love to hate on this phone.

Pre-edit(ps?): The input system hates text fields on webpages, hates entering and leaving fields (cursor gets locked on the first word), hates text boxes bigger than the screen (seen occasionally in the horrible RIM FB app), the input system will crash occasionally, and it's predictive text refuses to acknowledge typos. Also, I kept getting a spurious double "e" ("ee") when I /pasted/ the youtube link above, and I've never seen that before.)

PidGin128··on Apple sells 3 million iPads in 80 days
I don't know why the above was downed, but I tryed upvoting it, an I'm not sure I succeeded from my phone. (Takes more than one to raise from 0?)

Could someone explain what stuck out in the above?

Insta-edit: I see it's -1 now, and I don't have that strength yet, so it wasn't a mis-click.

PidGin128··on Thoughts on OnLive
Which console lacks HDD storage and digital delivery? Xbox 360? PS3? Wii?

I'm surprised hotels haven't moved much past N64, which even the ones that have it are using emulation (I am suspect of this claim myself, but confident enough to post it). ---Actually I think I've seen at least NGC available from hotels. (Both thru the CATV & ordering system.)

Edit (Yay, I thought my comment had baked set already!): LodgeNet used their hotel PPV delivery systems for game rentals on demand, and they were run on console hardware, with the video piped over the CATV channel dedicated to that room. I have no evidence to support this, it was a PITA to search.

I got hung up on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_M82 , Which I knew wasn't the FAMICONBOX I was thinking of. http://web.archive.org/web/20071011234713/assembler.roarvgm....

My point is lost to me.

Edit2 (It's late): Anyways, I shouldn't have jumped so aggressively about your claim of no HDD & delivery, Since I also would like to see console aggregation.

PidGin128··on Nifty Freeway Interchange Design
Obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diverging_diamond_interchange

Makes it easier to understand, seeing it from above. I also suspect I have seen this on an infrastructure blog which I can't recall offhand.

Instant edit: Could the submitted title be made clearer?

PidGin128··on ContextFree.js & Algorithm Ink: Making Art with Javascript
This is poorly related, however: Knowing that I've been to this page ages ago, but without a sense of how long, I am reminded that pages without a datestamp are annoying. Even the comments are missing them. Am I alone here? [To justify the age somewhat, he comments on the release of firefox 3, where I believe 3.6 is current.]

More to the point, I was surprised that you can right-click-save the drawn output without any overhead on his part.

And [paraphrasing,] I equally miss being able to boot into an interpretor or programming environment when a machine has no boot devices. I imagine the overhead is low, so it's likely just licensing + apathy [irrelevance more likely].

PidGin128··on A HN feed with the article's content
Appendation: The feed link on the site's page didn't work, because of the unusual feed:// URI [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feed_URI_scheme... ]. Naturally my phone choked on this "resource".

Originally: feed://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss

Fixed: http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3...

PidGin128··on Where can I fly for how much?
http://www.kayak.com/feedback/form

I'm sure you've found that on your own already, but it answers the question.

I am curious why the submitted link wasn't truncated to /explore/, as it currently links a calgary based search.

PidGin128··on Ask HN: What are problems that need to be solved?
I don't think you need a reverse, just to reconsider what the alarm you're setting is for.

Try setting the alarm for when you should sleep, instead of wake.

I need to do this myself, and reading your thoughts made it clearer to me. (Doubt I'll actually do it though...)

PidGin128··on Pixar films don't get finished, they just get released
Frame it between two pieces of glass. More complicated if you want it on the wall, but a hinge shouldn't be too tricky.
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