dougr

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1126493 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1125907

Dancing bears!

I like how they've slipped parallels to the current administration into the current season-I saw the first couple of episodes, didn't like where it was going-but now I'm back for the last 3 hours.

haha don't tell Anthony, I told him that it was going to be a tour of Oregon's finest amusement parks You know, you could combine the two in a Northern-Western massive roadtrip.

Good list, couple of things-Fun Forest under the space needle in Seattle has a kiddie coaster and a Windstorm. Don't miss Oaks Park in Portland! It has a Pinfari 42 with a 30 foot loop and "Screamin" Eagle" -a KMG Afterburner/Fireball. Plus if you get to Playland the two weeks before Labo(u)r Day, the PNE has some more cool flats! Windstorm under the Space Needle (taken by my wife, Mary) Looping Thunder at Oaks (RCDB)

I do love how the arch of the track on Xcelerator helps to support itself-it makes KK look so inefficient!

You know what this park or Playland needs? A rocket coaster! Imagine an Xcellerator clone shooting over I-5.

You know, I live about three hours away from the place, yet I've never been there. I think the Memorial Day weekend opening is pretty weeny, Oaks in Portland opens in March and Playland in Vancouver opens mid-April. I heard EV got a bunch of new rides a few years back and they did build Timberhawk, but I also wonder what they are going to do in the future. After seeing what happened in Houston when land values went so high Six Flags sold off Astroworld-the real estate market around here is pretty hot too...

Go to magic mountain website, click on the sign on the riight under the Tatsu flash animation, it'll open up a new window with interviews, pictures, and raw footage from media day. Included in one video is raw POV video...

Try this page: http://www.buschgardens.com/buschgardens/va/special_offers_home.aspx and this page: http://www3.paramountparks.com/kingsdominion/shop/shopping_general_admission.cfm and this page: http://www.hersheypa.com/attractions/hersheypark/guest_services/faq.html

You guys are missing the, as the PNE carnies call it-OrBITER? Ouch! It was rock hard, painful and felt dangerous, and not in a good way.

Just to throw in my two cents worth, if you visit Southern California, you can visit Los Angeles and Orange County. There's a Southern California Citypass that gets you 3 days at Disneyland/DCA, 1 day at Universal Studios, 1 day at SeaWorld San Diego and 1 day at San Diego Zoo or Wild Animal Park. Plus Magic Mountain is only a couple of hours drive away and there's other studio tours and you can check out the hookers at Hollywood and Vine.

Here's one of a guy trying to land at Boeing Field-he got stuck in the power lines, finally got rescued after four hours!

Having the peoplemover connect with DCA would be cool...for a theme park that's supposedly themed after California, DCA could use a couple more coasters.

Here, have a wine cooler...

All-Smigel episode on SNL tonight. 11:30 pm NBC http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=173071#173071

Coming up tonight on SNL is a special-all cartoons by Robert Smigel. 11:30 tonight on NBC. The hosts

I agree, we've got two million people around Vancouver with one old-school park, three million people around Seattle with one mediocre park; and two million around Portland with two tiny parks. Hmm, Seattle's less than three hours from either town...and if tiny Spokane/Cour d' Alene can support Silverwood...

Even though GhostRider is on a former parking lot, at least they put grass around it: http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=33.842276~-117.998017&style=o&lvl=2&scene=1038009

I guess someone figured out-"If we're going to extract $15 for parking and $59.99 for admission, maybe we should try to make them happy when they come in?"

Hand me my box of thinking grenades...

Check out this video of the traffic at an intersection in India.

The whole philosophy of Mozilla is standards compliance. Rather than have a browser take most of a market and get sloppy, having web pages built to a standard that ALL good browsers will present equally is what they are working toward. There's a few reasons to use Firefox rather than IE anyway: (From Mozilla site)

There once was a coaster on mountain Its dummies, water-fiiled became fountain Poor 'Lissa got splashed Which gave her a rash As it tested round and about'n

Oaks Park in Portland, Oregon. It has a Pinfari 42: and a KMG Fireball/Afterburner Not the Fireball at Oaks, but it's identical otherwise