Just getting the kinks out of the neck [pop, crackle] =o)

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

I have the opposite reaction in that the tone seems too much like LOTR. The Hobbit was a fairly cartoony book - much more of a classic kids adventure than a sprawling epic like LOTR. It should be lighter, funnier and more whimsical than its sequel. I'm guessing Jackson feels a need to unite these two books that take place in the same universe, even though the writing style varies so greatly between them. Either way, he can bank on my $24.


I've always thought of The Hobbit as being a book based on someone "finding There and Back Again" (in a fictional sense) and then making a book from *that*. Sort of a book within a book premise. So though The Hobbit takes place in Middle Earth, just like Lord of the Rings, it's narrative is based on Bilbo's writting (perspective).

This irons out all the kinks in my mind, as clearly the two stories *do* take place in the same universe otherwise. And anywhere there's a difference in tone, or what not can be attributed to Bilbo's perspective on how the tale is told.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Hmmm, OK - might be a kink for @lucky760 to look at.>> ^ant:

Thanks Dag. I just noticed that ant icon and posted about this in http://videosift.com/talk/Woah-I-got-an-ant-galaxy-award ...
Here's what is weird. Others' tiny crowns show ant too if I am logged in. If I disable cookies, then I don't see it.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Dan Savage, Savage Love, sex, sexuality, Texas, kink, gay' to 'Dan Savage, Savage Love, sex, sexuality, Texas, kink, gay, kessler theater' - edited by xxovercastxx

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Dan Savage, sex, sexuality, kink, robot, centaur' to 'Dan Savage, sex, sexuality, kink, robot, centaur, kessler theater' - edited by xxovercastxx

Up vote cuz the Kinks rock but especially for the Flying V that Dave is playing.

My favorite Kinks tune:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbdYuO9W1kU

First runner up:

http://videosift.com/video/Darjeeling-Limited-Tribute

Second runner up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvdBrbJnve8

I could go on and on.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Dan Savage, sex, sexuality, Texas, kink, gay' to 'Dan Savage, Savage Love, sex, sexuality, Texas, kink, gay' - edited by calvados

>> ^westy:

This is all good and fun , but really should we not be pioneering technology that caters to the pore and the majority of humans on the planet rather than a technology that will only cater to the super wealthy at first and then maybe the very upper middle western class in 30 years ?
As far as i understand the altitude for this craft would be to low and short lived for scientific use maybe some of the research from this will go into national space programs.
stuff like this is far better than war and entertainment is defiantly an important thing i still feel this for such a small section of privileged society that its just an insult to the majorty of people on earth.


Let the rich die and iron out all the kinks...

...seriously though, the cost of technology always decreases. Don't worry about being able to afford a space flight one day. Unless you're like 70 years old...

That's certainly interesting. But I suspect the effect has quite a lot to do with people just not being able to draw properly with a mouse. Also, since this was done without observation online, there's evidence of people just ignoring the instructions and screwing around, like the V that appears at 1:11.

I wonder what would happen if someone did the same experiment in person with tracing paper; throwing out any submissions where the subject wasn't making a good faith effort to follow instructions.

Here's more info on the methods from the original post:

A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals is an online drawing tool that lets users do just one thing -- trace a line. Each new user only sees the latest line drawn, and can therefore only trace this latest imperfect copy. As the line is reproduced over and over, it changes and evolves -- kinks, trembling motions and errors are exaggerated through the process.
A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals was first created as a tool to be used in conjunction with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk -- an online labor market. Mechanical Turk workers were payed 2 cents to trace a line.

Yes. Fire caused that. Really. The tell-tale central kink. Then down she goes at near free-fall speed right into her footprint.

EDD,you may want to repair that link
edit: will have to upvote later when I can actually watch the video without it constantly buffering...
edit#2: still some kinks to work out, but looks promising

>> ^dag:

The 10" MacBook Air is getting stellar reviews. Though you might want to wait a couple of months - as there seems to be a few technical kinks with the display.


Apple - It just works - except for when it doesn't.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

The 10" MacBook Air is getting stellar reviews. Though you might want to wait a couple of months - as there seems to be a few technical kinks with the display.