@keymaney: Like you say, luck is part of it. Who's to say that if he stays with Apple, he doesn't influence a decision that ends up ruining the company in an alternate timeline. His leaving might be why Apple survived and thrived.

Ever notice how the Nasa logo and the PanAm logo from the 2001 space plane are pretty similar?

My first reaction was that this was a bad photoshop job to make somebody look like a giant swimmer off the shore of Singapore.

Overheard in the robot control room: Oh man! First I lose an iphone prototype in a bar, now this. I'm running out of industries to work in.

How to Change a Tire - and where. Never on the side of a busy highway (like 401 in Toronto) - it's an easy way of getting killed.

@StandardResponse: black polyester more likely

The 1st car I can remember my dad driving was a 1970 Chrysler Newport.. biggest trunk I can remember, and hot as h*** in the summer, thanks to blank nylon upholstery.

The only thing missing is the typist swearing when they make a mistake and have to fix it with whiteout.

@Lonesharkx: There was an article on the use of H2S in the body in last? month's Scientific American, if you're interested.

On the plus side, half the planet would get to party all night long without end.

Duct tape, it's like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

Lucky she wasn't on a diet, chucked it into the garbage and called him insensitive for sabotaging her.

@Electro Gyrocator: Yes, To Yoda... maybe the force fix their cars can.

From the outside, I thought it was the Cylon Resurrection ship from BSG.

Keep the math to yourself! Not because it gives people headaches, but because the minute you share the info, other commuters take advantage of it and completely invalidate your datasets, screwing yourself out of the benefits. (In other words, if you tell everybody about your shortcut, everybody starts using it, and…

I don't move large file around the home network much, so N-speed wouldn't make much of a difference on the surfing experence. My DSL connection speed is well below 802.11g speeds, so there's no advantage in upgrading.

Doesn't work so well if you have a ergo keyboard with the keys split along 'tgb' and 'yhn'.

This is why I love LCD screens that 'tilt & swivel' (for lack of a better description) - you can hold the camera down at your waist with the LCD facing upwards. It's especially useful for photographing babies on the floor, as you can hold the camera at floor level and still compose the frame.

@StandardResponse: Spy Party v61: you're a waiter, at the party, with a vodka martini (shaken not stirred). You have to identify the spy and serve him the martini. There's a sniper outside dying of thirst. If he identifies the spy before you, he's going to kill him so that he can have the martini. It just became…

Spy Party v2: you're an assassin, at the party, trying to identify the spy so you can kill him in person. There's a sniper outside trying to identify the assassin to protect the spy. It just became a 3 player game.