99c spent on smut

A.K.A. a buck rogered.

But why would you?

All the real intel is on Wikileaks, after all.

"Facebook's OCP designs"

FB209: You have 20 seconds to comply... bitch!

Particle Man

Ooh, good shout. In fact, they could have just based their movie on that song, it would have lent itself very well.

Or do they?

It has a soundtrack, if you read the article.

That said, I would have gone with Before Your Very Eyes by Atoms for Peace.

Re: foraging @ Lester

This idea has merit, but why not expand it to a bit of hunting? IIRC, your donkey burial was made more difficult by a resident mutt pack with a taste for wild boar. Perhaps this could be a time to harness the power of man's best friend and get your pork on? Having freed up your fiver for a nice box of vino collapso, you could channel your recenlty discovered drunken caveman heritage by dressing in a loincloth, covering yourself in mud and running around in the moonlight brandishing a spear with a pack of howling dogs. All in the name of science, of course.

Re: NFC payment is pretty crap....

They're probably first time users getting the hang of it. I like using NFC because it means I can buy a sandwich in Eat without having to prod the keypad after all you nose-picking buttscratchers have had a crack at it. Dr Cooper would approve.

Re: based on the title...

Sadly not. It was in development, then Lewis found out how much the catapults were going to cost and it had to be scrapped for health reasons.

Re: Thanks BP!

If it was, he ain't tailfin.

Re: Curious fact

It's not odd, I was just checking to see if the big red "You Are Here" arrow is working yet. It never is though. Sometimes I can see a blue dot blinking in the vicinity, but that's not me, so where am I? Buggered if I can work it out... Google, Apple, Bing, throw me a frickin' bone here. Cheers.

Enquiring mind, really?

Hit no. 2 on Google, introductory paragraph:

"Antarctica, it has been discovered, is the best meteorite trap on Earth. Firstly meteorites fall onto ice rather than hard rock and so are damaged less. Then, being rock, they stand out from their background unlike those falling in the temperate zones which will mainly be not distinguished from the local rock. Then there is a curious concentration process by which ice flowing outwards and meeting a rock or mountain obstruction, shears upwards bringing the enclosed meteorites to the surface. In many regions where ice is trapped against a mountainside and with no easy path to flow away, the ice is slowly reduced in thickness by solar ablation and ablation by katabatic winds, eventually after hundreds of thousands of years leaving a surface littered with extra-terrestrial objects."

http://www.rosssea.info/meteorites.html

Re: Poo in the Sky

That name is the PitS. I think they should name her the Starshit Enterprise (or maybe the Scatellite of Love).

If for some reason they miss Mars and head out into deep space, they could rename her Sewager. That would be awful though. They'd be Colost' in Space.

WTF?

I didn't post that, who's hijacked my Reg account? Blooming kids, mucking around, want to get real jobs, they'd get the birch back in my day, nowadays of course you're not allowed, heaven help us if there's a war, etc etc...

Re: And yes

Quite. Whilst one can well believe that "social media types might call it amplification", personally I would suggest that regurgitation would be a better word. It's the internet equivalent of all the tedious clips-and-c***s talking-heads shows on the idiot box these days. Frankly, I'm surprised the apologetic intro isn't paired with a footer explaining that Simon Travaglia is on holiday. More please.

Re: Hang on...

I wonder how many consecutive columns you can write in 2013 with music lyrics in the headline before we start referring to you as El Reg's answer to Chris Packham and you top yourself.

Perhaps...

...it's all the playdoughnuts?

Hell yes

Much better idea to do your shopping whilst you're being paid for your time, if nothing else it frees up more pub hours.

Re: Jumpers for Goalposts

"The Register currently publishes almost 40,000 comments a month, and forum posts account for more than 10 per cent of site traffic."

Presumably the ultimate aim of the frequent flyer scheme is to get both those figures as high as possible so that you can all put your feet up and watch the ad money roll in. Kerching, trebles all round.

Rewarding volume is just going to encourage certain types to unleash a lot of dross, surely? Kinda sucks for those of us dumb enough to trawl through those comments. Hmmm...

Agreed

I wasn't sure at first, but now I concur. I four tit through.