Living in Colorado, I thought everybody was used to the idea of great beer coming in cans by now. But I see from the comments that most of the rest of the country has not caught up to our* awesome beer technology. "Good beer in cans? I-I-Inconceivable! I had a Bud Light once in high school, Q.E.D."

@victoriasauce: I was raised to be deeply and proudly Southern (I got better), but it wasn't until I moved to Philadelphia as a young lad that I was taught by the other kids at school that Hispanic people weren't white.

@Methusalah: lala was so good.

Apple, thanks so much for arbitrarily buying and shutting down lala.com. I was spending far too much time and money on it, so I'm glad to see you apparently aren't even using their i.p. for anything. I'd hate to have a reason to switch back to iTunes, as it's relatively bloated and too resource-heavy for my old PC. …

@matt_mcmhn: I doubt he's making payments to Bugatti.

My answer is useless for this article's purposes: neither! I'll admit I've never used an iPad, but I just don't seem to need anything between a smartphone and a full-strength laptop. Maybe if I had some extra cash burning a hole in my pocket I'd feel differently, but I'm just not in the market for expensive toys…

Absolutely one of my favorite anime movies. Gorgeous, weird, and touching.

25" Hannspree 1080P LCD HDTV for $205 (normally $200)

@johnnyabnormal: That's a fine point, but on the other hand, go team Les! Woooo!

@Tycho Vhargon: Don't you have a "productainment" folder? Huh.

@Denver: I always figured 720 was older. I only know two or three CO natives, and out of all my friends and family who live here I don't know anybody who's ever had a 720 area code. Is it like... Commerce City or something?

Woah, PZ Myers is pissed. He's right, but he needs to work on his delivery.

@Mount_Prion: Well I didn't ask the producer, so I certainly could be wrong about how they did it, but even an old FFT algorithm could do 30% easily. Maybe you're thinking 300%?

@Mount_Prion: It's a technique called granular synthesis. A sound is broken down into tiny segments (grains) and rearranged. In this case, the individual grains were spaced out or repeated, or probably both, which produces a time-stretch effect without changing pitch.

@einsteinsquandry: He punched it. He freaking punched the laser to hell.

I think he was saying "MVP! MV fucking P!"

Great interview.

@Dezerus Richardson: No way! Simpler, maybe, but splicing tape was a pain in the ass. I only ever did it for "fun," but believe me, these days you can download freeware that'll run on a thrift store computer that does more than they could even imagine in 1973— including chopping and splicing sound files about a…

@sid9221: Terrible.

@chefgon: I started wearing a watch again recently after 6 or 7 years of relying on a cell phone (I'm 31), and I can't believe how much easier and more convenient it is. It just seems to be a matter of functional, focused design; there's really nothing better at doing what a watch does.