I suspect that private first class Smith will have to clear the sensors when it comes back with no bombs in its dirt bin...

I also wonder if this thing will, when trying to find its home base, roll off into your laundry room, terrify your cat, and try to eat one of your sweaters.

Haha god I hate Roombas.

I wonder if they'll have to use military-grade compressed air to get rid of the mass amounts of dust this thing will collect. I mean it IS the Middle East we're talking about here. They'd have to change the filters like every five seconds.

Is that the dad from Malcolm in the Middle?

Wait a minute, so the day in which the last episode of Cheers aired is as important as the Beech Bonanza Crash and the goddamned Declaration of Independence?

"The total cost of wire-free 360 action is about $4000 if starting from scratch, but isn't that a small price to pay for the freedom to frag?"

...No?

Well, everybody get your shoplifting in while you still can.

Oh for gods sake, these are all games where you SWING YOUR ARMS. Can't people get that right?

Seems like the FTC is looking to cripple this kind of advertising. Thank God.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101389.html

The fact that almost all of these technologies that seemed relatively distant in 1990 are available everywhere today just shows you how effective this ad campaign was. I'd be willing to bet that the demand created from these commercials pushed such products out the door perhaps a couple of years sooner than if the ads never ran.

Thank you AT&T!

"The problem, of course, is that trans fats ARE making us fat, even if they cut costs and keep prices low."

I wouldn't say trans fats make us any fatter than more expensive fats. I believe that the main consequence is the risk of coronary heart disease -- the stuff likes to stick in people's arteries.

Trans fat is an interesting debate, though. Even more interesting and especially disheartening (no pun intended) is the number of people who think that legislation of trans fats is somehow trampling on their rights, and fear a slippery slope of subsequent legislation.