The Transportation Safety Act? Great! Another TSA to ruffle feathers the wrong way. :)

Yo dawg, I heard you like altoids and compact flashes.

@whatznext28: NP, there are knock off/clones of the Hakko iron, and they can be had cheaper, and are compatible with hakko tips. Just a heads up!

@Robusto68: "To veer is human"

@skierpage: EPA estimates for Diesel passenger vehicles was edited not-too-long ago, the way the EPA rates diesel vehicles is comically low compared to real world numbers. Check out fuelly.com and see what the real fuel economy numbers are for TDI cars. I drive a 2003 TDi (not the newest "clean" diesel), and I'm…

@whatznext28: Budget? I like my Metcal iron, but I am guessing it's not going to be in your price range ;)

@im2fools: I fail to see how this article falls into the visible spectrum of gadgetry. Maybe i'm just on a different wavelength today.

For apartment sharers: (college students, i'm looking at you)

TJ MAXXiPads

@nekowrites: That's actually... the PENGUIN.

@Z_Naught: If you are getting into a program with reasonable hardware refreshes, and plenty of funding, many schools have moved onto microcontroller based projects (such as the MAKE board, or Arduino). Schools still build with the above, but some professors think that it detracts from learning when plugging in stuff…

Looks like rappers' jobs just got way easier.

In the lead-in graphic, the author's about to do a t-spin.

@Deekle: Do yourself it?

Too bad all the compressed air that I've encountered has a bitterant in it, and i'd be PISSED if everything that I touched made my hands taste like shit, especially if it doesn't come off after several washings... (yeah, I bite my nails)

@pwheeler: Yeah, they sort of blazed the mini DP standard without getting it properly certified (as far as I know), they flew a flying F-U to the regular DP connector (which is larger than HDMI). I think internally they may have seen some net benefit, the DP standard is very useful for internal displays (laptops). By…

@minibeardeath: Ah, got it. I don't see this being a problem provided the filaments are thin enough, I imagine them to be extremely flexible, and shielded (padded?) well enough where the bend radius won't be an issue if used in a normal way. You never know, though..

@bdinger: Not a bad idea, it'd certainly make for some interesting usage models..

@minibeardeath: by design of fiber optics, you have a beam of light that ISN'T traveling straight down an optical fiber, it is reflecting at such an angle that it will never "escape" the fiber. You get total internal reflection: [communication.howstuffworks.com]

@bdinger: And then you'll have a device so fast that you're actually limited by the disk on your PC (if assuming you make any transfers?)