The "Gallery" view is a bit messed up - it only shows 7 of the 12 images.

My favourite English weirdness is "ough":

It is impossible to determine the size of the universe (finite speed of light and all that).

Enders Game is good (I've only read the first one), but spinning artificial gravity has its own set of problems.

I think of it like this:

"Voices of a Distant Star" is brilliant, in many ways. It is one of the most emotionally profound movies (of any type or genre) that I have seen, as well as using "communication at light-speed only" to great effect.

Ponderance: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ponderance

But your eyes are also trying to focus, using the depth information for that. Watching a 3D movie, the depth information is telling your brain a different distance than the actual distance to the screen that your eyes need to focus on. (I don't have a problem with it, personally; but that's the technical…

Assuming 16:9 displays:

Convenience, not efficiency. Many industrial sites are moving to battery-operated portable tools instead, as they are now comparable in power etc, and no hoses to drag around.

Seeing as it's a guy and a girl, it is the complete opposite of gay.

The "squaring the diagonal" is for comparative purposes only; as in the article comparing a 7" tablet to a 10" tablet. But the wording of the article is a little misleading.

Not this again.

There was an episode of Buffy that used this idea.

Nice reference - I haven't read that series in ages.

If you watch carefully, it's actually a master-slave system - you can see the "glove" part in the video. But I think the mixer is also part of the system.

Microfluidics taking 30 seconds? Have these people not heard of flexible OLEDs or e-paper?

Yeah, the DC Dual Boa is great (I have DC Allegiance), but the cable has bound up on itself inside the ratchet a couple of times.

The way I see it, it's not so much the time delay per se, but that the industry are purposefully doing stupid things. It's the same with planned obsolesence, non-backwards-compatibility, and deliberately excluding features that will be available on version 2 or 3 (I'm looking at you, Apple...).

It's similar with Samsung and "How To Train Your Dragon" 3D Bluray. I'm still waiting to buy that commercially. I WANT to give them my money for the movie, but as yet they won't let me. The no-backwards-compatibilty-glasses is a bitch; why can't the new TVs have a parallel system; it's not like an IR transmitter…