@w1llk - Undoubtedly Cookies: There's hardly any recoil even in the barrel, though...

Next can we rail on Disney for making their Magical Kingdom employees wear stifling costumes and act happy for the mere entertainment of families?

@YellowRex: Hey guys, it's also possible $10 million is not an accurate amount.

Velcro.

So Playboy did a whole spread on dental surgeons?

@orangebluedevil: Similarly, Everest is not actually the tallest mountain in the world; it's just the highest, because it sits on a high plateau. Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, is about twice as tall as Everest but sits on the sea floor.

"You can just move." Wow, he actually meant move as in relocate to a new residence. I assumed he just meant you could step behind a tree as the camera drives by.

I was really confused about why Jobs thought Microsoft owed him anything on this matter, until I read in the source article that "Apple’s deal with Bungie [for Bungie to develop Halo for Mac] was flung aside when Microsoft bought the studio."

@negitoro: It sounds like it's not a strategic image management thing but a grudge. When she says, "Nothing crosses the threshold of our doorstep," I assume she means on the way *in*.

Why is Apple showing off its OS nine months before release?

@tomsomething: so subtle i can't detect any rotation in any of the shots. seems like a waste of a big rotating thingy.

@ryszard: It doesn't matter how far into the track it is. The diagonal line in Fig. 3A doesn't need to intersect with (0,0).

@OllieOllie:14KmissesMizJ: That's how I calculated it. It comes out to 91%.

Computing... You're saying that from the beginning of February 2009 to the end of December 2009, same-store sales dropped 91 percent? Is that possible?

When will these multitouch gestures be implemented? [www.patentlyapple.com]

Is AT&T worse on the iPhone than on other phones?

"Wow, just wow" by itself is wrong, but that's my subjective take. It's objectively wrong when the comment continues. It's like saying "Now here's someone who needs no introduction" just before providing an introduction.

Not every tattoo is about sex, but one study found that people with tattoos actually are more promiscuous and sensation-seeking:

By my calculation, 110,000 videos at 10 minutes each amounts to a million minutes, not a million hours.

[www.psychologytoday.com]