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NuclearKangaroo, user #768480 on slashdot

We give Apple a pass because where Microsoft just screws us, Apple cuddles with us before it leaves.

Anonymous

This is the worst history of vandalism, gleeful mayhem, and general recalcitrance we've seen in a nominee since Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

--- from a Senate subcommittee hearing

John Hodgman

For a period of time, I worked as a cheesemonger in London. It was a marvelous time in my life. If you are a 19 year old but you want to look like a fat 45 year old, here's a tip: try working around really amazing English cheese five days a week.

Sarah Palin, Republican Vice-Presidential candidate

This week, whenever I have been giving my stump speech or speaking with Katie Couric and there is not much to think about, I have been playing a little mental game. I select a continent at random and then try to recall three heads of state there who exemplify Arendt’s concept of “the banality of evil.” Today it was Africa. Omar Bongo of Gabon came to mind first, though he is probably too charismatic a figure to qualify. Perhaps Sudan’s Al-bashir is more appropriate. Meles Zenawi? Definitely a possibility.

John Dalbey

There was  a brief pause, then I heard the terrified cry of 'I'm falling!' and I saw all the tension go out of the ropes.   There was a muffled 'thump', then silence.  Horrified, I thought, 'Oh god, I've killed the poor bastard.'

-- from a Leaning Tower trip report

Anonymous

If the Zombies are super attracted to pregnant women because of the extra brain inside them?

Wouldn't pregnant women be like turducken for Zombies???

User "peepeepants" on Engadget

His #1 wish for a new feature for the iPhone:

"I want the accelerometer to detect when I move the phone in a 'G' configuration, which would make a Gatling gun roll out from the side, near the volume control."

wowthungsten on Youtube

The Large Hadron Collider is made of awesome wrapped around cool.

-- commenting on the video Large Hadron Rap

Matthew Woelk

On the observed decline in the percentage of Americans who are Matthew Woelk:

"Many scientists believe that the decrease is related to the accidental introduction of the green-bellied homing chicken into North America in 1947.  Other scientists strongly blame the French..."

Caleb Booker

Some people say that people who get dressed up and go to science fiction conventions need to get a life, but I just dare you to hang out with a “cultural sophisticate” for an afternoon some day. These people make fanboys look positively disinterested. Imagine Star Wars references in every other paragraph. For an entire book. That’s what it’s like to read this book for those of us who think of Homer as a fat stupid man from Springfield.

-- from a review of the novel The Magus by John Fowles