I was thinking that same thing. I have never heard a carbon fiber instrument, but I can imagine them having a real effect (for better or worse) on the sound produced.

You have to work backwards just a bit to find their connection. They are claiming that males have evolved to take advantage of the mother-child bonding experience. By fixating on breasts (and stimulating them appropriately because of this fixation) males can get some of that bonding behavior to stick to them as well.…

Avoiding size comparisons and budget constraints: California did just approve a high speed rail system to run from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Most people think it will be an overpriced boondoggle, but at least they are trying...

That was my thought when they first surprised everyone with their progress on this. It is just the kind of completely over-engineered solution you would expect out the sort of people they like to brag about at Google. Which is awesome.

I think it is nearly impossible to form intelligent commentary on the time travel in Primer. I feel I am better off just recalling it as a good time travel movie and never attempting to comprehend what happened.

I would still say she is out for this particular list. The raw materials involved in her work killed her, not anything she made. I think the difference from the Harry Daghlian example is that he actively made something that put out a bunch of radiation and killed him.

Are we sure that is an authenticator? Just having a chip in the voltage path is not a great indication of what it is meant for. It could actually be intended for some form of power regulation or for a feature of the connector that Apple has not implemented in a device yet. Seems a little hasty to get bent out of…

I have one big resume for a template, with way to much stuff on it. When I read a job listing, I go through and delete the stuff that does not apply, until it is short enough. Then I throw in some keywords that make sense for the job here and there and it is ready. Easier than trying to fully rewrite for each job; my…

That was my thought. I have a lovely set of Eneloop AAs that power all sorts of things. I suppose we might need a new battery size if we want to use them in phones, but the technology would be exactly the same.

I remember convincing my parents that we should add an 8 GB drive to our computer, and thinking it was the most ridiculous amount of space ever. Before that, it had 300 MB.

That is what I was thinking. If a firearm works, there is no way internal combustion would fail. Of course, it makes no sense that electricity and cars are linked. I can make a car run without electricity and I can make electricity without fire. The two are based on different bits of physics, and the more physical…

I fully support the high speed rail project if it means I can use the word boondoggle often.

That explains it! I moved to San Diego a year ago, and had just assumed that breweries here were trying to milk us by insisting they only fill their own growlers...

Keeping water, flashlights, and non-perishable foods around should do it. You should be able to estimate how long you can expect to be missing power, but in the US it is rare for power to be gone for more than 3 days. Use this to judge your supply of food, water, and batteries.

I have no plans to get a Wii U at this time, but a proper Crystal Chronicles using that controller might be enough to draw me in.

I believe he is referencing the sort of atheists who *do* enforce a dogma. The "I don't accept God, so I am going to insist that others don't accept God" atheist. There are plenty of those out there, actively proselytizing for the end of religions. I would say they meet most of the definitions of religion that people…

Actually, since commenting I have been doing some searching and found that. I do not know if I would go with "leaps and bounds", but it would certainly meet my needs. Too bad I have a bit of a problem with Verizon... Maybe it will be released for another carrier soon.

I am not saying call quality is unimportant. I am just saying that it is hard to find a high end phone without good call quality. And the iPhone 4 antenna thing was overwrought. I agree there was a problem, but it was not as severe as some people made it out to be.

I think the biggest concern was that a lot of automated systems would fail to initialize or corrupt data. It would be a shame if the air traffic control systems crashed at midnight on the 1st because they suddenly had a lot of data around that should not exist... Or maybe, if your bank had a problem and lost some…

I have thought about getting an Android phone often, but the lack of a good phone at a small size has cut off my desire every time. I will stick to my iPhone 4, which I wish was even a tiny bit smaller...