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There was a bit here (URL) here (URL) Stacey ---...--- www.minifig.co.uk #925 - I'm a citizen of Legoland travelling Incommunicado "Mark Sandlin" <sandlin@nwlink.com> wrote in message news:sandlin-7DEC1E....net.com... (...) story (...) (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) used in an advertisement as long ago as the 60s. I'll see if I can find it. (22 years ago, 26-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I could argue that, but we're in the wrong place for it now. ;p (...) Don't forget the infamous Moller Air Car: (URL) the US Mil, in the incarnation of NARPA is funding exoskeleton research to the tune of mumble mumble million $$. In my fairly (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) GM may not be making hovercars, but the good people at Moller certainly are. (URL) know this link's been posted before, because somebody made a Lego version of the Skycar. Adrian (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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The following post of James's is off-topic for debate. :-) But it's neat anyway. XFUT geek Let's see, we have John Deere prototyping walker/spider timber harvesters, and Caterpillar prototyping mechs. What's next? GM showing hovercars? Turboprop (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Larry Pieniazek writes: <snipped stuff about the BBS scene and my game, Planet Busters> Well we are at an intergame point again, if you have an interest in playing this blast from the past (and possibly trouncing me at (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Possibly apocryphal, possibly not really the first but an interesting story of computer archeaology nontheless: (URL) got the URL from an old IBMers mailing list I am on) I don't think it has anything to do with MS other than that's where the story (...) (22 years ago, 25-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Robert L. Forward 1932-2002 Robert Forward, physicist, might be known to you as the author of Dragon's Egg (1987), a hard sf novel in which humans communicate with accelerated lifeforms on the surface of a neutron star and affect their history. SFWA (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Stumbled across this while reading my Mac news sites. Not hilarious, but amusing: (URL) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Now that's dissapointing...how can Hubzilla wreak havok upon the Disneyland Indiana Jones figure that lives on my desk? Still damn funny though. Matt (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Alas, Hubzilla does not have movable limbs. (...) (22 years ago, 19-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Yes, but how does it rate as an action figure? I emailed them to find out. (...) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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I don't recall any computer product ever actually making me laugh out loud before (unless you count Gateway trying to compare their lame Profile system to Apple's iMac...), but then this came along: (URL) (22 years ago, 18-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek) !
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(...) Well, back in the days when 40 column screens were common for BBS users (Commodore 64, Apple ][, etc.) the :) version was preferable, since :-) looked very much out of proportion. Interestingly enough I remember from my BBS days that -) was (...) (22 years ago, 16-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Its main benefit, of course, is that it doesn't smell so much! Cheers, - jsproat (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) (22 years ago, 14-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Wow: "The smiley :-) and its many variants are an important (and fun!) part of the worldwide online social culture -- allowing emotions to be conveyed in plain text. It has been in widespread use since the early '80s, when it was first proposed. (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Fret not, at least we're getting Roswell... --Electro-- (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Speaking of Friday nights...I find it odd that after building up the hype over the new Stargate (my show)/Farscape lineup (in fact, I just saw the cover of SciFi magazine at Barnes and Noble today, featuring Ben Browder and Richard Dean (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Dude, I'm still choked up by all this dren! Cindy and I are Frelling Farscape Freaks! We have all the alvailble DVDs! We're bummed! When Sandy called me the first thing she said was: "Are you sitting down?" Legomaster Friday Nights just got slimmer. (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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