@Hami83: If you're selected for a scan and you refuse both a scan and a pat-down, they will show you the door, but only after you get arrested and fined $11,000. Once you're fingered for a scan, you're gonna get scanned. Or felt up. Or arrested/fined. "Never mind, I think I'll just go home" is not on the table.

Just wait until a little kid gets randomly selected for the "special" TSA treatment, and his parents don't want him to go through the scanner because of the radiation (and that whole bit about a naked image of your kid getting sent to some slob in a dark booth somewhere). So instead of the scanner, the kid has to get…

@WestwoodDenizen: It'd be arrogant to say all this resource-depleting activity is going to kill the whole planet. Nature self-corrects. Not so arrogant to say it's going to kill our little species, though, which is the point I think wesfx was making. As usual, George Carlin said it best: "The planet is fine. The…

"Web advertising is worth a lot less than regular TV advertising."

@harrisonclong: Well, originally I did mean proportions - 1 arbitrary unit by 3 by 9. Anyway, I think you're right about the squares.

Aren't the dimensions supposed to be 1 by 3 by 9? This thing looks way too thin. Probably a counterfeit. Won't make no apes no smart, no how.

Why has Microsoft's advertising been so uniformly awful for so long? It's been going on for decades. That ridiculous Windows 7 Party nonsense last year was just another "laugh out loud, then feel kind of sad, then ill" experience, and these videos are mostly more examples of the same.

I guess I get where you're going with the Net Neutrality argument, but a case like this doesn't quite strike me as a clear slap in the face of NN.

Just means the chicken pinched it off a little early. Duh.

Woah-ho-HOOO there! Dec. 21? Last Dec. 21, there was no iPhone 4, and this Dec. 21 hasn't happened yet. Either the plane this magazine was spotted on was traveling so fast that it briefly skipped ahead in time ... or SkyMall is the one publication, out of all the publications in the world, that Apple trusts enough to…

Wouldn't the headline read "DON'T hold your breath" if it meant an LTE iPhone isn't coming any time soon? If I keep holding my breath and it's not going to arrive for a long time, that would be bad for my health, right? Unless ... I think Gizmodo wants me to pass out or something.

First: "Lazier than a Tennessee firefighter" should be added to the general lexicon of home-spunitudes. I know it's not fair to the other firefighters in Tenn., but if they don't like it they can tell Obion County's crew to shape up.

What's the room with the circular thing in it, just off the kitchen? Walk-in fridge? Sensory deprivation tank? Or is that just where the fan goes?

So, to be clear:

@WestwoodDenizen: You win the loudest and most forceful New Jersey-style "Oh!" I've said all week.

This thing looks cool, the ideas seem interesting and by all means, I think they should run with it.

As much as I loathe the idea of having to type out some company's crappy little slogan in order to get where I want to go, I gotta say it beats trying to make out the illegible garbage I'm expected to read in a traditional captcha. And when you fail at reading a captcha's chicken scratch, the implication is that you…

I just don't buy the idea that old dumbphones were better at calls than smartphones. Maybe we're coming from using different devices and networks, but in my experience, they're about equally crappy compared to a rock-solid landline.

Happens to me about once a month. Try to go to the Facebook, end up at the MySpace. Anyone else?

Range? Remote cursor and keyboard control? Couldn't get much info on this from the website (maybe I didn't look close enough). But to me, this looks like something you use when the laptop is right there in the room with you, which is way less attractive than something that would let you stream what's on the screen –…