"And yet BP dismissed outright 908 potential solutions from InnoCentive, an online crowdsourcing community where 61% of all "solvers" have Ph.Ds or master's degrees."

@Whooped.D.Dew: Can you picture him with Bieber hair? Surreal...

@Island of Misfit Toys: A Western coach would have reacted with something like, "Punished? Lolwut?"

I know some people say covering your intakes with dryer sheets is bad for airflow, but since I did that I've had no more problems with dust, and it hasn't noticeably affected my temperatures at all. YMMV, but I recommend it highly!

@Mark Wilson: Ah, thanks. Had to ask— I can reproduce the shots I took, but it's a 5 mile walk!

So when you say "week of the contest," could that be something I took yesterday?

Oh god, all that asymmetry is making me twitch.

@SupaChupacabra: None of the groups I can think of would have any reason to attack a solar farm in the middle of the Sahara.

Whoever's best it is, here's Sony in 2006!

@SupaChupacabra: Which terrorists groups do you think would be interested in attacking solar farms?

In my dreams, Google launches a music store with the same pricing tiers and functionality as poor, dead lala, and my whole music collection streams to my phone over 3G.

Two million dollar speakers. Fuck you.

The world will end unless some Baldwins travel back in time with a hot scientist babe to stop prehistoric alien lava robots from eating the Earth's core!!!

@92BuickLeSabre: I was just commenting on the overwrite protection tab, and the potential for slick lines like, "this tape is permanent baby, just like my love."

@92BuickLeSabre: If you didn't break off the tab, your mixtape was meaningless.

@Killraven: I'll let you off this time, because I can totally see hating Dead Man, and because Dusk Till Dawn was awesome.

@Bootknife-Jackson: Remember keeping a blank tape ready just in case some tabloid news show was going to do a piece about this summer's shocking bikinis?

Wow, my Dad was pretty much the opposite of all those things.

@Pittsburghmuggle: Before the internet, a horny teenager had to take what he could get.

Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man got a sort of mixed reception, but I thought it was fantastic. Very weird and western.