I love my iThings, but I also use MSFT stuff a lot. This looks really interesting and potentially promising. I will want to get my hands on one for a test drive. Now, if you'll excuse me, I will now duck under my desk and wait for the fanboys and haters to hurl invective.....

It makes perfect sense if you were to imagine (it's a stretch, I know, but go with it) that ordinal numbers in English made sense logically, like oneth, twoth, threeth. It sounds horrible, yeah. It's not standard English. But it made sense in a sort of semi-charming way. It's a video on making a lame beer-can sleeve,…

This is so true—the airports are rife with open networks that seem a lot like honeypots to me. If it doesn't say something like att or tmobile or boingo in the SSID, I steer clear. Of course, these can be spoofed. But I travel enough to know which airports I use are one what networks. And there's usually several signs…

I've got it now on my VZ plan. I pay for 2 extra GB a month, but every extra 1 GB is only $10, which is a lot cheaper than using several paid access points. Of course, on VZ, 3G is pretty slow but works in a pinch.

Or one of those shiny metal ones that used to come with, I think, K rations.

Why? Paranoid? Anyway, my new WiFi router lets me create a guest network. But still.

Late to the party here, but couldn't one set the router to only allow certain MAC addresses to connect. and isn't there a way to track traffic by MAC address? I've never had to use the MAC address features in a router (well, once, it it was set and forget in an odd application).

Great stuff—thanks for sharing this! I can use this right away.

Velcro is pretty feeble, and looks cheesy. Yeah, this is fixed in place, but the assumption is that this is an older IPad you might want to use to look up recipes or play some radio, not something you'd want to grab and play angry birds on. But typing could be a drag. Solution: bluetooth keyboard.

I'd just see if one can get a proper replacement door to have without the hole. Or keep the original, get something that looks very close, and mod it for this. This is clever. I'd pair this with some bluetooth speakers in the kitchen, get a copy of TuneIn radio, and listen to crystal clear NPR with much better…

OK, yeah, the first few minutes I was thinking "dude's a total douchehat, gonna drink outdoors with his bros, kids today, yada yada yada." But I gotta say his narration skills are pretty good, and he might parlay this into a career in DIY vids on YouTube or something. Seriously, dude's got a good camera presence.

Umm, potential exception to the rule here to suggest that, yes, I and my pals did all sorts of stunts to drink in verboten places. And ya know, I flip no burgers at all now. But, since I am an academic, yes, indeed, I must frown upon this brazen tomfoolery.

Mine too. I thought, "what a dumbass," but think about it, —a sixteenth of an inch—a thirty twoth of an inch. Makes perfect sense.

You made me LOL, which is good.

She doesn't have a kid. See the discussion upthread.

NASA has made the rough, and as yet incomplete, transition from stunts to science. They still have a long way to go. The Chinese space program is cool, but like ours, it's also hella expensive. Not as expensive as ours was (engineering marches on), but the scientific value of putting humans in space, regardless of…

Oliver North. Q.E.D.

Airport security is no longer controlled, in any way, by the airlines. Before 2001 it was, which is why protoliterate knuckleheads, enabled by the airline industry, let you take damn near anything you want onto a plane.

Actually, I hear than anything bigger than 36C and cleavage below 10,000 feet interferes with the navigational instruments of the airplane. Below 10,000 feet, one must stow their ta-tas in the overhead bin, or under the seat in front of you. Please do not stow your breasts in the seat pocket in front of you, as your…

You can see boob skin. Alert the media. Or the FAA, as necessary.