Is there a full-time monitoring station available too (I don't see one with a quick search)? I'm in the market for a baby monitor and would enjoy a full-time unit in the bedroom, etc., but with all the trouble we've had with batteries and interference with even DECT monitors, it would be nice if I could tune into one…

There are some pretty great non-lethal weapons that immediately incapacitate (even more effectively!). Stop selling guns, and these non-lethal weapons will get even better. Any self-protection case I can think of would allow incapacitation to allow people to get out of harm's way.

I suppose my favorite dumbphone was my first, a Motorola Elite Series AMPS flip phone. It had a dot matrix display, which was big so I could store names in the phone and actually read them. It also was small enough that it could comfortably fit in my pocket, which was a novelty at the time.

In '02 I lived literally in the middle of Silicon Valley, but all I could get is IDSL (should be available everywhere, but expensive and slow). So, I went with DirecWay, which everyone should be able to get. Sure it's more expensive and not that great, but it beats 28.8k, which is all you'll get in a rural area that…

This is where books belong. Good riddance!

HDTracks here. Got the new Linkin Park album with a 20% discount in 24/44.1 the other day. Shoot me.

HDTracks here. Got the new Linkin Park album with a 20% discount in 24/44.1 the other day. Shoot me.