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Somewhere in the last year or two, a friend of mine brought up a popular conspiracy theory in an email thread (he is a birther). I simply responded that I was not interested in the question.

It was touched on in the article, but I would like to reiterate that cell phones introduce a detectable delay in the conversation. Two cell phones introduce more. Two cell phones on two different networks introduce even more yet. Smart phones seem to introduce more than dumb phones (my wife's phone is terrible…

The bare minimum you need to do such an incorporation is a cable that has a 3.5mm plug on one end and a pair of RCA plugs on the other. Line out from the computer goes to the Aux or Tape in on the receiver. Add a pair of similar vintage speakers and your computer sound comes out over a nice, vintage sound system.

For a limited time, as you suggested, but maybe not as limited as that.

If you are getting fumes from polyethylene, you are overheating it. You might produce an objectionable odour, but it will dissipate quickly. This is precicely the same principle used by a vacuum sealer, on the very same materials.

I think it would be more useful if you could get the computer to recognize the modified mouse as distinct from the main mouse. You could then code it to perform other functions than scrolling.

What do the asterisks on the chart mean?

Effectively, this is the same instrument that sailors used to use to navigate in the pre-modern era. I was thinking that a quadrant or sextant would be a good way to measure this, and, lo and behold, someone else thought the same thing.

Oh hell yeah. That bit about speeding up happens on all roads at all times with maybe 90% of drivers. It sucks very much bad. The only solution to that is overwhelming speed so that they have to make a conscious decision to continue that behaviour (which I think is otherwise unconscious).

Sulfur Hexafluoride for the win!

As for the lights: well, it's not my style, to be sure, but that doesn't mean it doesn't look cool. I don't have a problem with that.

I use my cruise control more often than not. My right foot is, however, as ready as ever to leap onto the brake pedal, just as it would be if it were on the accelerator. Granted, it is, as you suggest, useless below 25MPH, but it had a "cancel" button right near my right thumb, and I can, and do, hit it very easily…

There is a bridge in the Albany, NY area, specifically on I-87 crossing the Mohawk river. They call it the Twin Bridges, because it is two, three-lane bridges, though officially is is the Thaddeus Kosziuzko bridge (and I have probably spelt that name wrong).

I will second this notion. The on-ramp to I-90 from I-787 in Albany, NY currently has a lane closed for construction, and I have found that the easiest way to get going West toward Schenectady is to take the right-hand lane right away, which lane you would normally only take if you were headed east towards…

It should be noted that for some sites, you will need to put the IP address into your hosts file, because the site will not serve correctly when you just drop the IP address into the browser. This is because the browser needs to tell the server the name of the site it is looking for by using the Host: header, which,…

Unless I can find some way to dispatch them for something of worth to me, the $30 in iTunes gift cards I was given this past Christmas will likely go unredeemed.

The words "so what?" are pretty effective when carefully applied.

I'm going to counter that recommendation. The broadcast industry here in the US has been undergoing massive contraction, despite an explosion of channels, due to increased automation and consolidation of ownership.

Sure. Arduinos added to DIY projects are always good for blog cred.