Thanks, picked up the Chinatown Wars. :)

Appreciated. I'm not really fond of the idea of that many USB tuner sticks, though; I suspect they're using a bit more integrated system here, especially with 30 in what looks like a half-1U sized box.

I'm not familiar with any tuners that can record multiple channels at once the way this can. Recording the last 30 days in a wrap-around fashion would be pretty nice.

Would it blow your mind if you were told that the window is actually made of "aluminium oxynitride" and is, then, the actual same material as described in the Star Trek movie?

For those not in the know: [bit.ly]

And this is what we got back... zomg! :)

for the tl;dr folks: He built a Farnsworth Fusor. Do a search on the PopSci article for "Farnsworth". Impressive for a 14 year old.

Obi-wan... now that is a name that I haven't heard in a very long time.

All of the stock from the $150 million assistance deal, sure, but they still own some AAPL. It looks like a private fund that MS owns still holds about .004% of Apple.

Oh good, I was going to mention that one myself.

Unrelated, but related.

It'll sell because it can bill itself as containing the hottest pepper, don'cha think?

Well, for the hospital and bloodwork lab, they have those red "if you park here we'll blow up your car and feed you to a woodchipper" zones, and I have to go in and get her... it takes a good ten minutes to find her and get her ready to go, not counting the walking time.

My grandmother is elderly and can't walk any sort of distance, really, but refuses to use a wheelchair.

The poison isn't the part that makes this work, it's the radioactive substance and its detection.

I've never researched it, but I do recall them mentioning the drills doing this when they were trying to cap the BP Gulf oil spill. Maybe that'll help your search?

I like the idea of reciprocity in laws. If you require the people give up some right, that's fine, but the persons that the law benefits should lose some protections in return.

Wouldn't sticking a hood scoop on a Camaro actually use more gas, since it'd increase the wind resistance? I suppose if it were a real one, you could claim that the forced aspiration makes up for it, but I assumed you were talking about the "ricer" fake ones.

Wallet in a back pocket, phone-convergence-device-thing in one pocket, keys in another. If you put two devices in the convergence pocket, it bulges. Put one with the keys and the keys scratch it up. Put it in a back pocket and you snap it on accident when you get in the car.

FTA: "For example, there was no increase in premiums when contraception was added to the Federal Employees Health Benefit System and required of non-religious employers in Hawaii. One study found that covering contraception lowered premiums by 10 percent or more."