I cancelled Netflix due to the huge overall price increase; Quickster was just adding insult to injury. In the last six weeks, I have not missed it all that much and won't go back under the current pricing.

@ITLawMan is right — it was in a checked bag.

Is this Apple's way of back-hand admitting that a phone made of glass is a bad idea in the real world no matter how pretty it looks in the box?

Is it a coincidence that on my last flight that the TSA inspected my bag and my Leatherman in said bag was stolen?

While I was was working for Kodak, up until 1999, I was told that a single-use camera which was sold for the seventh time, was the most profitable product.

Yes, Kodak has a poison pill which was implement in the last year, IIRC

I worked for EK 1980-1999. 1983 was the peak employment year for EK in Rochester with 68,500 people. It's now one-tenth that. I really hate to say it, but the days of Kodak=Rochester and Rochester=Kodak are long gone. Kodak has let go 7K employees in a year before and metro Rochester somehow still survives.

Kodak was first in digital cameras. Steve Sasson invented the first one in 1975 and awarded a patent 3 years later.

Someone posted four Adblock Plus filter rules a couple days ago, which I added. One or more of them made Facebook text-only for me, so I had to remove them. I hope these two do the job w/o messing me up.

This reminds me of the cider mill I visited many time while growing up in Middlebury, Vt. in the 60s and 70s. It was located on Cider Mill Road, of course, where it was built about 1880, IIRC. Chopped apples were spread on cloth-lined wooden racks and the racks were stacked upon each other. A big screw driven by…

Wow, how underwhelming. The only way to use Google TV is to own certain Sony TVs and Blu-ray players or to buy a Logitech Revue box.

You more likely to be attacked and killed by human bandits than get eaten by the pictured lion. Someone in a former company of mine was murdered by bandits while on a organized African safari.

I worked one summer on the evening shift on a production line which made the plastic needles for fake Christmas trees using steam heated extruders. The conditions inside the factory were routinely over 100F and probably 95%RH because it was best for the product — never mind the workers. I drank a half-gallon of…

Thanks for correcting that there were no spy planes. I don't know where Giz get some of their sensationalistic prose.

For a brief time, I worked for the VP of marketing communications for a company which makes thermal imaging cameras. This is precisely the sort of accident he could have caused.

The link for "10 promising pilots that weren't picked up." is wrong.

Coincidentally, I will be in Ro-cha-cha next weekend for the 1st time in 13 years. On one Facebook page, I asked for advice on what I should check out. Not one person had anything good to say; I keep getting told to be prepared for the shock of how much has changed, primarily due to the dramatic fall of EK.

I was at EK for 19 years, ending when Kodak "left me" in 1999. Between it's peak employment in 1983 and today, abut 90% of the company does not work there anymore. I cannot think of any other former Fortune 100 (IIRC) company which has fallen so far, so fast. Hmm, Enron?

My brother, a Revolutionary War reenactor, machinist, and the occasional cannon and mortar maker, made his own a few times but found it grossly inferior to modern powder.

The brand new September edition of Popular Science has right on it's front cover, "Make Your Own Gunpowder"