LoneScout
The Lone Scout
LoneScout

Hmm. Sometimes I get accuracy of two or three meters using the GPS app on my smartphone.

Yes, in the dashboard of their space shuttle.

/water buffalo trail

One man's poison is another man's food pyramid (or, in its updated form, "food plate").

I don't resent his bazillions, but I just wonder: Is this ecotourism or egotourism?

Pork. The Other Tofu.®

Looks like the local brigands rigged a Zucker-snare on the elephant trail.

I get the bit about not combusting the harmful chemicals in the ink. But, if a burning piece of paper flies up the chimney and starts a chimney fire, doesn't that mean that your chimney has problems (and should have been cleaned)?

/particulates

Neat idea! May I be directed by Spielberg, please? With an emotional, booming soundtrack by Williams?!?

Yes, you are right (despite whatever romantic or emotional or cultural angles one might take on the subject of fire).

Thank you for pointing out the surprising fact that, in the world of trees, carbon is a zero-sum game—trees absorb carbon and then eventually, one way or the other, release that carbon back into the environment.

I don't buy coffee in cans, but I scrounge the cans from recycling bins. They make terrific rocket stoves, cooking pots, dream lanterns, etc.

Bonus tip: Once the lights are wrapped around the can, plug them in, and it will start spitting out Higgs bosons—your very own small hadron collider to entertain the kids and neighbors!

All your dollar are belong to us!

Haha! With that image, you could have started your own meme:

Alive and kicking, and I think I've noticed some interesting turns in its history.

Magnets—how do they work?!?