Olympic National Park uses waterless urinals at a number of their sites. They smell fine. (I was actually surprised.) Given that they have to truck in water, it makes a lot of sense.

Street View is also broken on older versions of Safari and Firefox. I assume they broke these by accident when they figured out how to break the Android version.

Virtual page turn was first demonstrated back in the mid-1970s at MIT as part of the SDMS project. They used an eight bit graphics color map to make a smooth page turn transition from one page to the next or previous. They had a single point touch pad and a data tablet for graphical input, but I'm not sure which was…

@Awestruck: "wouldn't be surprised if the dearth of comp. sci. women professionals is due in part to the scholarly pressure women feel to be all-around "good" at everything without necessarily focusing on one discipline."

ZFS sounds like a solution in search of a problem for most people.

I can't believe that Consumerist recommending getting yet another bank account. This is like suggesting that you lie down across two lanes of traffic instead of one in hopes of not getting run over. We've been living in sin for 30+ years, and way back when we were young and naive we got a joint checking account. Wow.…