I'd like to understand if the star-filled sky is as bright and beautiful with the naked eye or if multi-second exposures make faint stars visible to the camera.

One of my uncle's entire career with with the old US Customs and Immigration Service, working the inspection booths between Vermont (USA) and Quebec (Canada). Fireworks were legal in Quebec but not in Vermont, so it was common for people to drive across the border in early July to get some Canada Day firework and…

Humanitarian projects such as this are usually "written off" as training missions. At least that's how they handle the Blackhawk helicopter flights which all too regularly pull wayward climbers off Mt. Hood here in Oregon. It's not without risk; they lost a Blackhawk on a rescue mission just a few years ago.

My dentist, who unfortunately moved to Wasilla, AK last year, used to compete against and beat Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut in various eating competitions including a rather gross food category — Rocky Mountain Oysters. He held the record for two consecutive years before "retiring".

For similar reasons I run uTorrent on a virtual machine and scan all downloads with two different AV apps before moving content to my real machine.

LG used to stand for "Lucky Goldstar". In the US, Goldstar was a brand of cheap, crappy consumer electronics, box fans, and other commodities which ran on electricity.

Briefly, I've been very happy with the $50 Samsung monochrome laser printers I've been buying.

* If he used a cordless power drill, there would be no issue.

I don't understand why there is a lawsuit. If a franchisee violates the terms of the contract with the parent company, all the parent company has to do is cut-off the supply of the flavoring syrup to the franchisee.

As a bored teen, we filled balloons with propane and popped them with a propane torch a few times. It was always outdoors and in the daylight. We never saw a fireball, which was the goal of course; we assumed that pure propane without air mixed in just caused the balloon to pop rather and release the gas rather than…

You called it right; give the man(?) a prize! I'll have to remember this next time I use a Giz tool.

Is anyone else getting no response from this tool using Firefox 5? I've tried it a dozen times over a half-dozen hours and nothing happens after hitting, "Check!" and waiting up to an hour.

I loved the animation.

@Alex Davis: Except to the jet engine sound for a prop-driven aircraft. The opposite of the movie, "Airplane!".

This is why when I travel cross-country to NYC, I bring my big suitcase and return with 2.5-3 dozen genuine NY bagels!

With all the great time-lapse-on-a-dolly videos lately, I'm planning to head 200 miles east of my Portland, Ore. home in July to central Oregon so I can experience one night with the sky utterly full of stars.

@Yazim: I think you are referring to the original Iomega Bernoulli Box, which was essentially an 8-inch floppy in a hard shell cartridge format. I had them at work in the later half of the 80s.

The SETI@home distributed computing project out of Berkeley can really use funding to keep analyzing the data from radio telescopes such as the ATA.

One of the closest hospitals to my house posts their ER wait times on their web page: [www.legacyhealth.org]

The Evergreen tanker was built from an old, worn out freight-hauling 747.