But does it do RPN and come with a vinyl belt pouch? It won't be fully geektastic until it does.

I really want to see the same thing done with ground-attack forces. You could have an entire bracket of Space Marines!

@kingmaker: The nook does handle both DRM and non-DRM sideloaded epubs and pdfs. What it doesn't do is handle graphics very well due to a lack of zoom. Hopefully B&N will provide that in a future software update.

I saw the photo and half-read the headline and my caffiene-deficient brain went "Oh. Autonomous GorillaPod. Cool."

I want a car with an autopilot that has the following three settings:

The Douglas Adams quote is the reason I stopped using the term "fool-proof" and started using "fool-resistant"

I learned to knap at Cahokia Mounds during a summer program on archaeology when I was a kid. The guy who taught the class made things out of those cobalt-blue glass Milk of Magnesia bottles. The chert (like flint) stuff was less prone to breaking, but not as cool looking.

There's some sort of convergence at work here that will allow the role of John Daly to be played by Tom Sizemore in Caddyshack IV.

@ggodo: You may have gotten a bit of overkill, but those are important things to remember. This is coming from an engineer who brought short a discussion of backing off the oversight of a contractor to help speed construction by pulling a COUGHhyattregencyCOUGH.

@nophilip: The more I see Nixon's head, the more I wish I had a headless Agnew to do my bidding.

In an alternate universe, I'm watching Top Gear USA host P.J. O'Rourke's review of the upcoming fuel cell powered version of the Fiero. And he likes it.

@LosDoyers: With their tightly-rolled AAU application?

See, when I go through passport control, I'm worried that I'm going to get some guy who's a dead ringer for Frank Oz at the beginning of "The Blues Brothers", I won't be able to keep a straight face, and will end up in a small room with a large box of latex gloves (soon to be "soiled"). I feel this is a legitimate…

One of my co-workers likes to ask about outside activities to see if the applicant does anything involving teamwork or collaborative effort (vital in our field), like playing in team sports, playing in a band or music group, working in a charity, etc. It's a particularly useful when interviewing new grads, where…

@Wisky and Coke: I think you meant to post that in the Gawker story on the California Primaries.

@ChanHoParkour: I have similar feelings but about flipping open the Sunday paper and seeing "Northwestern 17- Notre Dame 14"

No X-29? With the canards and the forward-swept wings? So inherently unstable that if the computer controls ever failed, you wouldn't live long enough to see the BSD.

I've been to Korea a lot and can't recall seeing a Kia Elan. I'll have to look for them, if there are any left on the road.

@AmishJohn: Watching one of those things move over rough terrain while the gun remains rock-solid on target is mesmerizing.

@Traveshamockery: Combine that with Clancy sidestepping the Farve mess by not buying the Vikes when he had the chance, and it gets really creepy.