surprised that there isn't a sharknado reference yet.

I wonder if Mr. Maxwell has ever tried to do any maintenance inside the fuselage of an aircraft... it ain't exactly roomy in there, especially in those places where airframe repair are typically required.

Pretty much any day is a bad day to fly.

But... if 17 meters is the thickest they can measure... that's a tad under 56 feet, no?

The finding suggests that vultures (and probably many other birds) have evolved a rather complex and intimate relationship with their gut bacteria.

Sorry, but that is the funniest thing I've read all morning.

The space station still exists in microgravity, so there is some amout of levitation required; but I think the magnetic field is more for containment (and actually heating the metal).

We can now measure ice in far greater detail and were excited to measure ice up to 17 meters thick... the SeaBED found ice sheets up to 56 feet thicker than previously believed.

—or do some Shelob cosplay—

Win.

I liked Pauly, though I recognize that he was more-or-less a one-trick pony.

I bet The Doctor knows how it got there.

I use a text editor to do most of my writing, then copy and paste into what ever program I need for final formatting.

Would that make MySpace the Detroit of the internet?

Anyone want to bet there's a handful of guys (probably the ones that have to pack the barrels) who've complained about that instruction off and on for the past year?

I need me a freakin' sammich drone.

ooh— artsy, fartsy, and cold...

Yes, even the overhead compartments come out, though there is a pretty tight schedule, and there's a lot of stuff that has to be done.

I, too, am looking forward to a career in writing, though I have decided to postpone until I can retire from my current career.

I have this one talent, which my wife finds absolutely amazing (well, one that's safe for work...): I can read a paperback all the way through without creasing the spine.