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Badsey, there are netphones already. they're called smartphones. and recently they're getting much better. even the iphone is a smartphoneso why double up? the iPad's way too big for pocketability.

i agree with Weasel, this is a big ipod touch.

Hmmm, iphone with no phone, camera, or USB. Is it a crippled iphone or a crippled laptop? both?

no matter how cheap the 3G service, you still need the cell phone and you still need the laptop. With those two, you can do everything that you can do on an Ipad, and more. you don't need this.

"We've got, you know, armadillos in our trousers. I mean it's really quite frightening."

I don't know which is more frightening, armadillos or lizards.

I'm curious. Since 90% of the debt is held by Japanese and J banks, what will happen when the gov't defaults?

Obviously, a lot of people will be upset, and poorer, of course, but I'm no economist, so I just have no idea beyond that.

HAL, open the door!!!

bobbafett, your opinion is excellent.

sitters sit. fitters fit. hitters hit. twitters tweet??? bunch of twits if you ask me.

geeze, it's a coverband, folks. these bands exist everywhere, and they're almost always fun as hell.

if you can't understand that very basic point, you need to relax. how this story gets turned around into a "sad state of affairs," only the JT gods know.

funny

I like her smock. The finger-paint job she did on her hair, not so much.

Muslim leaders of all tendencies have warned that a ban risks stigmatizing all Muslims

Too late. Muslims have already done this to themselves.

Yakiniku restaurant. Human body parts in freezer.

Not a good combination.

Sorry, there is no way to deny that appearance makes a BIG difference in a candidate's palatability.

Reid may have made improper comments, but they were exactly correct. Obama's oratory skill was probably the most important reason (among many) he was elected. And there is no way to deny that appearance makes no difference in a candidates palatability.

Nobody wants to admit these things, but they are true.

Rudy is an idiot. By his logic, Obama inherited a quagmire in Iraq... oh wait...

If Koyuki wore a kimono while preparing my high balls, I would be very happy.

cute photo

so, in other words, "report" now means "speculation." hmm

I'm more worried about Indo-Pak relations after reading that Scientific American article about the potential fallout of a nuclear war...

DM, too funny! That schtick never gets old.

talktotheclouds, yeah, it's amazing the number of crappy books out these days (facilitated by that industry unto itself, Amazon), and yet nobody ever says bad things about the entire book medium. indeed, anybody who did would be deemed anti-education. in fact there is a whole genre of "how to" books on making your crappy book a best seller on Amazon!!!

womanforwomen's opinion kind of exemplifies what the writer was saying. how are video games childish, and yet checkers, charades, monopoly and gin rummy are not?

the writer makes several good points. it is curious how the western bias against video games is not only restricted to violent games.

These good news stories seem to get the least comments. Geeze, I wonder why...

hmmmm

a brilliant non sequitur:

I think the important thing to recognize here is that once this incident occurred, everything happened that should have

kwatt, umm, if that were the case, i'd be aa really frequent flyer on Japanese domestic flights. especially since the issue does not carry so much "weight" here. in fact, a rule like that might just save JAL.

Pepin, no it shouldn't. It should have a pressure release valve. It may, however, start a fire if you leave it on for an hour on a gas stove...

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Still love my 10 yr old Bialetti, at less than 10% of the price of an OTTO.

Oh, and believe me, I've FOUND the sweet spot.

This kind of attitude is really sad. Oh for the good old days of food rations, gulags and a bleak, grey, meaningless existence.

his drive to industrialize the Soviet Union

That was started in the 19th century, not by Stalin.

his victory over the Nazis

whose victory? who died?