I honestly could not stand the shaky cam in hurt locker. I realize it was some pseudo documentary but the camera made itself a character in the film and I found that very annoying. Unpopular view I'm sure. If it were just shaking when there was action or other events on screen it would be one thing, but when people are just standing still and the camera is all over the place it just takes me out of the movie and reminds it's being filmed.

Avatar was great. Lived up to exactly the kind of film I thought it would be. Fantastically beautiful and entertaining.
Ditrict 9 was good but in a way felt like nothing more than a vehicle for a sequel. In some ways the original short was better.
Up was wonderful. I loved it. But in the end, avatar will probably be the movie I wind up watching again .. so there's my vote.

almost forgot ... Inglorious Basterds. Some of the most intense individual scenes in any movie I've ever seen. A few of them were posted here, and they were amazing, but the movie as a whole just did not gel for me. I might have been expecting too much.

I can't even begin to express the level of stupidity required to believe this crap. But let me point out that such gel packs can be implanted anywhere in the body (especially the abdomen)...which makes a warning of this kind not only useless, but actually counterproductive.

I just don't see the danger...unless you assume that the sort of idiots who burn their balls off could somehow manage to do such surgeries and actually detonate a device of this kind.

Ooooh! I get it! Now we have a reason to stare at female chests! Bravo!

A couple of DVDs a couple of t-shirts a sweater, shower gel and for some reason a scarf.

I got a pair of Dockers shoes, a new backpack, a fancy shirt with a tie, some bathroom stuff (deo, shower gel), and a nice thin sweater.

And waay too much food!

Cheap cologne will only take away from the K-Y/motor oil fusion that I normally reek of. It's either that or a mix of hair gel, axe, and gelato.

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
i collect sex toys. you are no match for any of them. and i can smell the cheap cologne dripping off of your pictures.


In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Don't let the exterior fool you...I'm more jew nerd than I appear. I like being prematurely judged because it makes me more secure about "premature" problems I have of my own. For best viewing effect of my pictures, turn you vibrator to level 8...it hurts so good, don't it?

In reply to this comment by peggedbea:
the rain finally stopped. i hope youre dead.

also, i smelled around your blog. you look like more guido douchebag than i would have expected.

The blocks of material some people might not recognize is ballistic gel (used a lot on Mythbusters because it simulates flesh). 4:55-6:18 (are those the shots you were referring to MilkmanDan?)

I think the ball striking the shot mid-flight was from a shotgun, they probably had to do hundreds or thousands of shots to get those few where there was an impact.

The main thing I was thinking, especially towards the end with all the rifle shots hitting steel where the bullet core completely disintegrates was, "I really hope they wore respirators." That amount of lead in the air cannot be good for you.

RadioShack bridge rectifier $2
Gel-cell lead acid golf batteries $200

Ruining or blowing up those batteries in high wind... Priceless

That doesn't gel with your 'government is too big' shtick. I think you're breaking character.

It IS too big, but even if it wasn't, the States and cities will always have police. The libertarian is in some ways as divorced from the realities of human nature as the statist. Expecting perfect police is one of those ways. If drugs and hookers were legalized tomorrow, you'd still get pulled over for speeding. (I wouldn't because I'd be sober at the local brothel)

It's good to be outraged at injustice, but this piece is simply a waste of time except as evicence in individual courtrooms. Something you may not have considered: other cops who have watched this may have been just as repulsed by the abuse, and I would think THEY have a better understanding of what's going on in these vids.

QM point about government is very similar. There are many in government who act out of their own self-interest and work to pad their own pockets at our expense. Still, referring to our government as a mafia-type organization is the same kind of exaggeration.

The term "federal mafia" can only be used semi-jokingly. Due to simply ignoring the Constitution the past 60 years (and at times before then) the feds are no longer kept in line by anything other than public opinion, which makes the USA a mobocracy.

Now, if we could only get QM to use this part of his brain more often when referring to us hippie, prius-driving, tree-hugging, atheist non-worshipping, liberal-knee-jerk-democratic-communists!

I have nothing against hippie, prius-driving, tree-hugging, atheist non-worshiping, liberal-knee-jerk-democratic-communists, except when they want NON hippie, prius-driving, tree-hugging, atheist non-worshiping, liberal-knee-jerk-democratic-communists to pay for their folly with others' $$$ and freedom above and beyond reasonableness.

^That doesn't gel with your 'government is too big' shtick. I think you're breaking character.

Yeah, I could have used that information about an hour ago. Instead, I was outside the shower, first giggling with a shit-eating grin, then quietly cursing after applying the tape without results, then cursing a lot more after being hit with a bottle of shower gel on the head.

Failure on my part yet again

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* Yum-E-Freez Eel Milk
* E-Z Go Spine Extractor
* Gel ("If you need gel, buy this gel.")
* Yu Wan Mei Loyalty Bracelet
* Broiled Shark Gums
* Taste Stick
* Yu Wan Mei Device
* Yu Wan Mei Miscellaneous Flavor Paste
* Metal Fun

>> ^doogle:
"Another cool application of knot theory is that the more knotted it is, the faster it moves during gel electrophoresis"
Really? But the bigger something is, the slower it moves... I don't get it.


Maybe it has to do with the reduced surface area that comes from knotting despite the extra width.

"Another cool application of knot theory is that the more knotted it is, the faster it moves during gel electrophoresis"

Really? But the bigger something is, the slower it moves... I don't get it.

interesting, but i have to believe that that cheap plastic folding table is absorbing a considerable amount of that force as well. probably much more than the gel itself. have him try that hammer bit on that cement walk and then ill buy it

Tags for this video have been changed from 'This American Life, Gel conference, Ira Glass' to 'This American Life, Gel conference, Ira Glass, narrative' - edited by kronosposeidon