Great work Sam! Both look good, especially Malcolm's.

@icelight: You are right, veins do have smooth muscle but just much less than arteries. They are more associated with the function of compliance than constriction.

Only arteries have smooth muscle so only they contract. Veins can't contract. Suppose they contract up to 50% max. They still only make up a small percentage of the overall tissue. Caffeine does not have a long half-life.

@Canon7D-Fanboy: To be fair, this powersafe connection is not just different, but is significantly better than all other connectors. To dismiss it as proprietary without acknowledging it is an improvement is just not fair to the technology.

@bobsarobot: I came here to say the same thing.

@Canon7D-Fanboy: I get more particular about grammar in the context of criticism. Also, isn't it a bit silly to complain about proprietary connectors while being a camera fanboy, when camera's lenses are a prime example of pointless proprietary connections? Just saying.

To add a little more chemistry to this, nitric acid adds nitro functional groups to a substrate. In this case the substrate is glycerin, for TNT you add nitric acid to toluene (adding some sulfuric acid helps). While nitroglycerin has more bang per ounce, there is an even more concentrated substance, hydrazine. It…

@ImSpartacus: PhD chemist here. Liquid nitrogen would cool the nitroglycerin and make it less reactive. So, I wish I could say something cool about it but I can't. See comment above on hydrazine for coolness.

@Canon7D-Fanboy: Using "lose" instead of "loss" for the loss.

@Sam43054: Thanks for looking that up. I was hoping they'd have some nifty way of doing all that with fewer pins. Perhaps have some pins serve different purposes in different scenarios. I'm no electrical engineer but it seems like USB gets as much done with fewer pins.

While we are on the topic, does anyone know why we need 30 pin connectors in the first place? Seems like a lot of pins and an unnecessarily large connector for a device that is obsessed with being small. Never understood it. Seems like one of the biggest glaring flaws of the iphone (save the antenna issue and the…

@designguybrown: I'm one for a good rant and that was one to be sure but let's be serious. Better than an Aztek, about as bad as a mid nineties Ford Taurus.

Same engine as the Ford Tudor Sedan but got better gas mileage and had a higher top speed. Turning radius was amazingly small. Makes parking easy. Nice and roomy inside.

I live in Palo Alto and this sounds about right. I've been pulled over riding my bike during a manhunt for someone "looking suspicious". Still, I only think you get this type of response if you are a Palo Alto VIP. If someone stole my bike I doubt I'd get a mall cop on a Segway to help out.

He probably looks "weird" because he now has to take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of his life after a liver transplant. We should show him some respect. Not because he in particular deserves it. Rather, I'd like to think that we as a people still think twice before making fun of the appearance of a dying…

@wild homes: Wireless handset snap!

@Beavertank: Ahem, is there no justice for the unstarred commenter?

That would help.

@Jakooboo: What is it doing? It is crashing.

@Glaiel-Gamer: I was trying to figure out a way to work that joke in.