Slog - Comments on Good News/Bad News http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3 The good news is that you can now buy a hoverboard for $30,000. The bad news is that it's just the hoverboard from Back to the Future II, and it doesn't work. For a second there, during an inattentive scan of a blog post, I completely spazzed out, thinking that hover technology has finally arrived. Now that I know it's a movie prop, I am morose. Thanks a lot, SF Signal.... Copyright 2008 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:06:00 -0800 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:16:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER Dude, if I could buy that and actually go back in time to give it to myself as a birthday present in 1989, that would be frikkin sweet!

]]> UNPAID BLOGGER http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087167 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087167 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:27:30 -0800 Comment by mike nerd content assessment:

blog-related content - check
SF related content - check
vintage movie-prop collecting related content - check
credulousness - check
moroseness - check

I award this post FIVE nerd fatwa points. What is the score, scorekeepers?


]]> mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087191 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087191 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:38:54 -0800 Comment by I'm Black! Really! http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/hoverboard.asp

Lame.

]]> I'm Black! Really! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087193 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087193 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:39:27 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Don't forget: it doesn't work over water, or anything else for that matter.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087198 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087198 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:42:52 -0800 Comment by Dougsf So let's have it, who thought these were real once?

Even when I was a kid, I was kinda surprised how persistent those rumors of those actually existing, and working, were. The technology didn't make a bit of sense, even when I was 14.

]]> Dougsf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087224 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087224 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:52:15 -0800 Comment by Will in Sun-free Seattle Now if I could just buy some invisible aluminum, I could become the Silver Surfer ...

]]> Will in Sun-free Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087308 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087308 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:22:56 -0800 Comment by John D. >>Thanks a lot, SF Signal
Um...you're welcome?

]]> John D. http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087522 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087522 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:48:56 -0800 Comment by John Bailo
Want a hoverboard?

Play UT3.

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087607 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087607 Film Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:09:18 -0800 Comment by Sarah When I first glimpsed this blog post, I thought it said "Hoveround"....which is totally a different thing.

]]> Sarah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087652 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/good_newsbad_news_3#c1087652 Film Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:16:30 -0800