$150 is the price of dinner (without wine) at a moderately expensive restaurant like Ruth's Chris. At the end of that, you've got nothing.

He speaks and even sings in their Vegas show during a bit about a "spirit cabinet" and Houdini. But you don't see him singing. And he was the voice of "Mofo, the Psychic Gorilla" an expose of "clairvoyants". And of course, they run to the back of the hall and stand on either side of the exist, and people can talk to either.

The pilot is very likely dead of radiation poisoning. Loads of abandoned helicopters around the plant.

Hey, he's a geek with too much money. But given a choice between $158 worth of gold, or $158 worth of aerogel, I'd go with the latter. It's very neat stuff. The reason it looks blue is Rayleigh scattering (same reason the sky is blue). Stephen Steiner, a high school student at the time, invented a revolutionary way to make this stuff, taking it from something that would take days, to something that could be done in seconds. Fast enough that, once he entered college, he build a machine to make this in zero-G, and has made a number of trips on the Vomit Comet to test it. Made in weightlessness, it has much less of a blue tint. The goal is to make one completely transparent that can be sandwiched between two panes of glass as the ultimate window. Imagine a window that someone could be heating with a blowtorch on one side, while on the other side someone could have their face pressed up against the glass, and be completely comfortable.

This is revolutionary stuff.

The main reason to avoid buying more pixels than you need is sensitivity. The smaller an imaging cell is, the less light it gathers. For concert photography that I plan to put on a web page? Give me a 2 megapixel camera with great sensitivity. Also, the smaller the cell, the more noise.

At this point, China doesn't even need to use tanks and planes to destroy the United States...all they'd have to do is call in their loans to us and they could completely destroy our economy. People have bought totally into the idea that American workers are lazy and overpaid. The truth is, companies do not outsource in order to survive. No American company outsources jobs until they are successful enough, with the help of American workers, to afford to export jobs. It's an expensive (though ultimately very profitable) move.

Upvote for finally understanding why the piano into to the Boomtown Rats' "I Don't Like Mondays" was so disturbing and sad.

My Dad was a magician (I was a ventriloquist - but I got well), and I would go to magic conventions with him. And there is magic that magicians have for each other, stuff that wouldn't impress the general public...kind of like how "The Aristocrats" is for comics.

Tragically, there are people in America, at this very moment, choosing to watch the lame, unfunny, failed satire "Blades of Glory", when they could be in a different theater watching this film instead. Good parody comes from knowing and loving the subject being parodied. These guys love cop buddy movies, and it shows.

The worst was the Predator drones being taken out of Afghanistan and sent to Iraq. They were the most effective weapon to try to cover the Afghanistan/Pakistan border, and their removal was one of the main reasons bin Laden got away.

I can think of two ways to do this with CGI. The first was already mentioned by Sylvester_Ink, pixel replacement. The second would be to write a "dice shader" in RenderMan (how things like the Sandman in Spiderman 3 was done). As this is entirely 2D, it's probably the former. Still cool.

If they were using a standard cell, it's no wonder. They have to press the same key as many times as the Morse code sender, but then they have to move to a different button. The Morse sender just has one button. Also, the Morse sender doesn't have to look at a display to see what he is typing - cell phone text messaging, you have to confirm each letter. The Morse guy has instant feedback from the sound of the dashes and dots.

Basically ripping off the far superior "Vader Sessions", even using some of the same audio clips.

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=5670

Beautiful voices are beautiful voices, never mind what era. Tragically, too many of today's pop stars couldn't just sing a song alone with a guitar. No, they have to have a bevy of background singers, dancers and an engineer running "Autotune" to correct the pitch.

48: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - "I will order your execution for high treason exactly forty-eight hours from now. Take her away."