https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjtiX4Gv6m4

Hint: It's fake

http://www.innerfidelity.com/content/innerfidelitys-wall-fame-ear-monitors

Scroll down for the $99 and under. Can't go wrong with any of them.

Note that Tigerdirect can be sketchy with their rebates and when you do eventually get your $50 back, it's in the form of one of those horrible expiring prepaid Mastercards. If you don't mind dealing with that, it's a solid deal.

What the hell? That's almost identical to the Skyrim giant smash epic meme bug

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Skyrim+thank+you+for+flying+giant+bludgeon+air+please+enjoy_424a34_4748721.gif

<tinfoil>what if they intentionally leave these bugs in their games for maximum viral memeability on release?</tinfoil>

A few things:

1) Ad networks did this to themselves. Pop-unders, flash ads, allowing arbitrary javascript execution, full-screen modals covering content, automatic app-store redirects on iOS/Android devices. Screw all of that noise. Facebook is one of the only categorically non-terrible ad networks because they only allow static images.

2) If I'm on a mobile device, accessing a site is also costing me money. Every megabyte transferred costs the user orders of magnitude more than the pittance of bandwidth it costs the website hosting provider. According to this article, one single page load of CNN costs 14 cents, and 9 cents of that is just for the advertising payload!

If blocking ads means a shift in the way the web is monetized, that's fine with me. At least it means websites won't be able to track my browsing habits, steal my bandwidth, and waste my time by loading and rendering junk I didn't ask for and don't want to see.

I would only do this on the condition that I got to choose where the money went (i.e. people I'm subscribed to that I want to support). Otherwise, you know that most of this money is going to cancerous "epic prank" content creators.

Based on the title, I was hoping to see something like this

http://www.theaudioroom.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nautilus.jpg

Obligatory

That being said, thanks for all you're doing for the community, and good luck.

I'm much more excited about sending a probe to Europa than a manned mission to Mars. At present, the former presents so many interesting possibilities regarding what we can discover about extraterrestrial life on a geologically active planet chock full of water ice; whereas the latter is a suicide mission to a barren, geologically dead planet.

Your hands need to float above the keyboard when you type to avoid developing carpal tunnel. I've found that a wrist rest allows me to be lazy and not keep my hands in the right position, so I don't use one. YMMV.

That being said, massdrop currently has multiple drops for wooden palm rests going on right now, you might consider one of those if you're so inclined.

It's not a popular opinion, but I totally agree that reds are a categorically worse switch than browns. The lack of tactile feedback means you have no real way of knowing whether you've actuated it until you bottom out. If the tiny bit of tactility in browns somehow makes your gaming performance worse, you have bigger problems at hand than your keyboard.

I killed myself with a rocket on a local server and it caused my client to crash.

I use a flashing crosshair for this purpose and it works just fine.

Immediately after the unusual raffle winners were posted (myself being among them), I got an add from a phishy-looking Steam level 2 account. This leads me to believe that the scammers are trawling the winner lists. Stay safe.

I don't know if it's just me, but I find the donation name visibility options really confusing. I filled everything out and selected the default "Use Existing (Anonymous if not set)" option, but the donation was anonymous. Again, it doesn't really matter (cause #4dakids), but some clarification on how the settings work would be nice.