"The Alvin consists of an inner pressure hull, machined out of a single sphere,"

As captain of a cruise ship, you're supposed to keep it upright and undamaged. Zipping around rocks at 19 knots is not a very good way to do that.

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Cue the automated bun-brailler from a bunch of creative hackers in 3 - 2 - 1- ....

Childish and obscene are what makes a memorable mnemonic (at least for a male engineer)

The new one that I can tell my female coworker (not that she will ever use it):

Here's one every 8th grade boy will remember for the rest of his natural life:

I prefer his machete flinger. Snowballs are for kids.

If the women don't find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy!

Stealing from Best Buy is its own punishment.

If I can be serious for a second (I know, it's not appropriate for the internet)...Google is absolutely frickin' great at finding:

I'm with you on not getting the troops home fast enough. There's nothing (including oil) in that part of the world that's worth one more American life.

The E Ink technology has been tremendously oversold. They originally promised poster-size displays for department stores. The largest displays you can get out of them 10 years later are laptop-size, and they're amazingly hard to get in anything but standard configurations. Want to do a custom display? Unless you're…

Oh, horse hockey.

this smells like overreaching political theatre as Obama shifts to the right to run for a second term

That's so he could watch Survivor and Dancing with the Stars. He may have been the most hated man in the free world, but he wasn't a savage.

Royal Wedding highlights video

Hard core goat pron.

They're not called the Greatest Generation for nothing. Those were times without computers, iPads or cell phones. Heck, even Long Distance was a big deal, and people collected scrap metal for the war effort. Everything was rationed and people did without. When you've got nothing, the only way to go, is up, and as…

Though I don't care for many of their styles, I have to admit that the Coach bags are pretty nicely made. I think they're missing a market by not making a Timbuk2 style leather messenger bag for upscale hipster guys.