Look what you've done, Seth - you write an article about an interesting gadget, and all hell breaks lose whether the POTU is a good man or not...

The arguments for dropping out of college use mostly 'financial success' as criterion. If you get a substantial, well rounded education, you likely begin to see the limitations of this criterion...

...like the bang of a wang?

Brilliant! I'm sure the application went from 'exempt' to 'full board', just because everyone on the board wanted in on that...

Nobody here seems to appreciate the challenges that had to be overcome here: 1) your head needs to be perfectly still during the scan, meaning you really can't have a lot of body movement; 2) the machine is bloody loud (and it's not the moaning loudness kind...); 3) you can't use anything metal in there - so no…

That's why they need to go with a rectal electrode in the saddle - anyone whose cadence falls below a certain limit, gets zapped. Wheeeeee!

That's only mildly correct, too. The effects of and best approaches to high altitude training are not very well established. And: everybody responds in a different way to high altitude exposure - some athletes benefit very little from it, others more. EPO increases the hemoglobin count quite reliable in everyone (and…

To save this Friday, could you now please post a picture of dry bread? Otherwise I'll die of lipid-shock...

Ahh - you must be a true geek! Seeing the important stuff in a picture full of non-relevant distractors...

And, in case you haven't noticed, there's also the spinning beach ball of doom (right side of the mosaic). Stefanus Jobsus non est delectat.

And if the French call it habitable, there must be Calvados, good wine, long lunches with freshly cooked stuff, decent coffee, and, ahh, Gauloises brunes... Doesn't sound too bad!

As a beginning student I was kind of lost in the sheer amount of books around me in the library - it was basically the 'so-much-to-know-and-so-little-time' feeling. When I asked a prof how to know where to start, he smiled and said "just wander along these shelves, look at the titles, and when you find an interesting…

Exactly - why not bluetooth, even if it doesn't last 9 months (what's the point of that, anyway, except being impressive?). Just get two sets of rechargeable batteries, and swap them when one set is drained.

Huge hard drives. Windows.

True - the point is that with every form of energy there's a cost associated. But even if we built a new nuclear power plant every month now for the next few years, it would not suffice to cover the energy demand projected for the next 30 or so years. Neither coal, or the increasing use of renewable energies can help…

Is it safe to assume that basically anything 8-bit would give you this turgidity action?

What do you mean with 'inanimate' gadget?

Excellent point - seconded!

Let Team Six take care of it...