Number 5 looks like a highly customized Mii.

@ElephantFace: Yeah, I figured we were working from different years. Alpha just handed me 2009 data, so I rolled with it.

@protodad: Hey, hey. Either way it's empty: we're giving value to pieces of paper. Economics is the study of a curious collective illusion. :3

@Walking Eye!: Quick! US or UK hogsheads?

@ElephantFace: Weird. I've lived in Texas my whole life, and my fire thought was "Bullshit."

@cormack: It's not a gay tax, so much as a tax break that married couples have. Since there Cali no longer has homosexual marriages, they don't get exempted from the tax despite being a couple/co-dependent in a similar fashion.

Is there a point to a skiing jacket if it exposes your midriff? o__o;

@Adam: Hindenburg.

Is that the guy from FreedomWorks or whatever? (The Infomercial Stopper video).

@NorCalAngler: Screw carrier support. Go for custom ROM developers.

I don't know about any of you guys, but I started grinning like an idiot when I saw what the excursion tunnels did. The thoughts of what sorts of puzzles you could make, the ways you could solve them made me all tingly inside.

@Jafro: I was under the impression that the Cold War never ended in the same way that bad blood never quite does. Sure, you might share a cursory nod when you run into each other at gatherings of mutual friends, but you both probably share a mutual suspicion. Also, it's not like we went "k gais, cold war's over…

Are these nets strong enough to catch them, or just enough to break the fall so they don't die? If the former, you might see some people jumping from sheer boredom. Like bungee jumpers.

All very nice, but Live Messenger just ate my ability to set a custom display name! What gives?

@Hankisanerd: You do the oldschool google Voice setup. You use a GV service to call your Sipgate number, and then call the person you want to call.

@Merricat: Ah, that makes sense. I was wondering how they made the tube-y bit.

@rjp is protected: Man. I shouldn't have checked to see if people make a "Balls-ily" joke. It wasted the time I could have been using to post one before you. =P

@clervius: ADW is the app this article is about (I think, don't feel like checking again). It's an open-source launcher developed by AnderWeb and now a number of the other 'big'ish names in Android's Open Source ness.

Hah. I would probably stick a normal straw in one of these anyway, so I could keep drinking once the icy straw got shorter.

@mrmcarter: Before being in something that will normally found itself ruffled, bent and wrinkled wears out patches/ causes kinks in/flat out breaks the wire.