Your two thumbs cover up half the screen? Just how big are your fingers, man?

Has Eric Schmidt been wearing that flak jacket ever since the Google Wave debacle?

Meanwhile, back in the Secret Terrorism Cave…

@SEDAGIVE?!: If we arrest and torture one million photographers to prevent just one shoe bomber, it makes it all worthwhile.

@FriedPeeps: If it flies, shoot it with a Canon.

@medopal: I'm listening...

@starsoft: Indeed. And just where is he going to hit that ball? Onto some unsuspecting person on below?

But was it revolutionary?

@Pope John Peeps II: That's why you should only give infants moderate quantities of beer from cans.

@zenpoet: "what Charlie THOUGHT was H2O"

Vulcanized rubber. You forgot rubber.

Screw the camera. I want the goggles.

@stpierreluke: Here's a counter point:

For the record, I really like playing Lame Castle.

@Navin R Johnson: I think at the point, you'll be in need of the services of a mortician, not a lawyer. That's not the way it should be, but that's the way it probably would be.

@John Eusebio: You've listed some economic reasons why it makes sense for those in rural areas to have broadband internet access. I agree. But those are also reasons why they should pay for it. As an analogy, it makes economic sense to get a college education, so millions of people pay for their own, or their…

@John Eusebio: You're right, I don't expect they'd give it away for free, and that it it'd just be subsidized, perhaps so rural residents pay on par with what urban residents pay for similar speeds.

@stpierreluke: Oh I've read it plenty of times. It's popular fiction, but it's still fiction.

@Denver: Sniff. Sniff.

@John Eusebio: I'm not sure what the best route is, but then again, that's not my job. I think this is a bad idea, so I would choose not to donate. But to those who think "the government" should pay for this, again, remember that the government has no money. So that means that people have to pay for it, whether it's…