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Well at least that's a proper description!

HAHA, great title, and so true. Angel has become a caricature, his own doing.

It really just depends on the type of performer and character you've created. Magic isn't one "thing." It's whoever the performer is. Penn, for example, is a juggler as well as a magician and he mixes that into the show. Flourishes are like juggling. They show a certain type of skill. There's no reason it can't be mixed with magic in the course of a routine.

It's entirely dependent on style, character, and what you want to portray. For me, I'd rather stay away from flourishes. I try to use everyday objects to show I have some real magical ability. That's ruined if I can suddenly do some amazing flourish.

But, there have been times that I've wanted to perform a poker routine. In that context it makes perfect sense that I come across as a master manipulator of cards. Flourishes would only add to that.

Context. It's all about context.

Nice cards to be certain, but I would never use them, preferring to use something spectators are familiar with, Bicycles.

how about looking at IMDB?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128305/

The movie "Life Sold Separately" (1997) is about four strangers who meet in a field for different reasons, but for the same purpose: to escape each one's respective life. How they are to escape their world is the key to the film.

His hand really got nailed, just like a steamroller really rolled over him and an Escalade really rolled over him...

Did people really think it was real?

OMG! I hope he's ok! I can haz injury?

Why is not enjoying this stunt or his show "hating" on him? That's ridiculous, childish, and ignorant. Grow up.

It's very possible to discuss Angel in a serious matter, to deconstruct his show or stunts, to talk about what we liked or didn't like.

There are a lot of different styles of magic because there are a lot of different styles of magicians. If everyone agreed on how to entertain there wouldn't be stage, parlour, closeup, mentalism, cards, coins, grand illusion, etc, etc, etc. There would simply be "magic".

We know that not to be true. We know people disagree or at least have a personal preference. That said, it's still possible to discuss the relative benefits and drawbacks of each as well as the relative quality of each.

In his TV show, Criss sucks IMHO. It's mainly setup, canned, edited, and not "real". I know he's a fantastic magician live and a great performer. To me, his show is a disappointment anymore. I can just as easily rig a video shoot like he did here. It's not impressive.

It was one of the worst episodes yet. They are getting worse all the time. It's all set up, stooges, and camera tricks with lots of video editing.

I can make lots of things happen if reality doesn't constrain me. That's all Criss does.

I do like his style and his original show. I think his live performances are very original and theatrical, something a lot of magicians can't do. But Mindfreak has grown old and silly.

It's "lose" not "loose."

I hate that.

Looks like you've just stumbled upon the reason hydrogen cars are bullshit too. You have to create, transport, and store the hydrogen to use it. There is an extreme amount of energy loss and that energy has to come from somewhere, most likely fossil fuels.

Electric cars have the most direct source of energy and the least loss. That's the way things need to go IMHO. Anything else is a storage medium and therefore a loss. Augment electric cars with solar panels on your house and you can provide some, if not all, of your own energy using just the Sun.

Amazing, huh? Seems a little too simple, that's why it's slow to take off.

Cisco doesn't own Netgear, it owns Linksys. And it bought Linksys in 2003, not 2000. And iPhone was not acquired in that purchase. It was a purchase of a different company. That's only the first half of the first paragraph. I stopped reading after that.

Well, I'm not sure it's been described as an "upgrade" just an "update". Besides, they did "upgrade" the Shuffle by including the new headphones.

Thin clients can catch a virus, it will just exist on the terminal server. Also, thin clients don't "process data". That's why they are "thin". They just present the data, the server does all the heavy lifting.

It doesn't do rtf even. And it's slow as shit. I uploaded a 1 page pdf and waited several hours before calling it a night and going to sleep. It took several hours to convert a simople 1 page pdf to a png and the quality was absolutely horrible.

Also, it can't even do rtf. No rtf? WTF?

Neat idea, needs a LOT of work.

Nice, but not so unique.

http://www.corbin.com/furniture/

This doesn't make a single car garage a dual car garage. It makes a dual car garage a dual car garage.

I HATE U3. It's so incredibly annoying. Luckily I found a nice way to remove it, a tool from the GeekSquad.

Not impressive in the least. It's an invasive way to do something that others are doing better. http://portableapps.com/

"most roomiest"?

Victor, personally I am willing to accept that Engadget screws up. But if that's the case then they certainly screw up a lot and quite often in regards to the same sites. So I guess it's either intentional or incompetence.

Vinny, you're an idiot.

Perform a search for "OhGizmo" on Engadget and on Gizmodo. Engadget has a single link while Gizmodo has several. I don't think that's coincidence. Weblogs, Inc is full of a bunch of jackasses. Not all of them, but as a whole the company sucks.

Why not just use the damn battery on board? I agree that the drag created would use more energy than if they simply plugged into the already available power onboard.

It's like sticking a wind generator on a diesel generator...what's the point?

There is nothing I hate more in Windows than the Office clipboard. I certainly don't want to bring that frustration to other applications.

Uh, guys, this is what is in the iPod nano...2 of them for 4GB.