Is it me or is an integral part of being "hip" and "trendy" also being oblivious to the fact that your idea is nothing new and you are really reinventing a wheel?

Yes. This one really does hook you.

The Army Corps of Engineers actually warned against people building there due to multiple previous slides, and yet people were allowed to build there anyway. I imagine the views must have been great, but it looks like people paid for those views in their own blood or that of their neighbors.

This is one of my favorites by Steve Martin. It is in the same vein of absurdist humor on which Monty Python thrived.

I've got a pill which will make your life much more interesting.

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I think that the term "black hole" has outlived its usefulness. There should be a new name to better describe it, like "dark dwarf" or "gravitar" (I prefer gravitar, a"gravity star", after the accepted term magnetar). After all, I am sure it is agreed that it is still - however small - a spheroid of incredibly dense…

It's only iOS, but here's an app that scans barcodes and interprets them as musical notation.

I just Bifrosted in from Asgard, and boy, am I Thor.

Because it's as close as they'll get to talking like our current president.

It has 14 sides. Round coins have 3. If you feel that I am wrong, please note that they use the "edge" for additional designs and text.

Matthew Bellamy's (of the band Muse) father, George was the rhythm guitarist for The Tornados. You can hear inspiration from this song in Knights of Cydonia.

The same thing can be said for pepper spray or bean bag bullets - among others. "Less lethal" is more appropriate, but people still treat it as "not going to kill at all". Also, the police's subduing and apprehension tactics need to be revamped. it seems like a lot of people are needlessly injured, maimed, or killed…

If it pleases the gentleman, I would beg to differ. If human Rubik's Cube masters could rotate their wrists 720°+ simultaneously, I would assert that humans would then be on an even playing field.

I'd say people are at a disadvantage because we only have two hands. This robot has four.

...and then there was Timberjack, a walking tree harvester. This technology needs to be revisited.