@Calrekabooki: I've got aerospace guys in my family, but I can't see them doing that. He's special.

He was my husband's boss for a while, but we still don't need the F-22.

Hypercard! I thought I was the only person on earth who still remembers it.

You are an accommodating lot, Gizmodeers!

So having sex with a missionary won't necessarily help.

It's pretty gross, but every man should have one. And I mean that with the greatest respect.

Didn't I see something like that on the cover of 'Aladdin Sane'?

Jeffrey Steingarten has written lovingly of the vintage Roto-Broil personal rottiserie, the mid-century version of the technology

Tempting, especially when I consider what a wire farm I have in my office; 3.5 TB split among five drives. I've nearly strangled myself on cable a couple of times.

@gravityhomer: This was years before I hooked up with him. My field is always a little spasmodic.

World's creepiest pop star, too.

And 'cause he's the president, if the experiment goes wrong he can call in an air strike on those effing Persian ships and still save the day.

I wonder if you can run a PS3 on ferret power.

@uncle_jojo: You're quite right; he's at large in the Universe. He was spiritually advanced, though, so if anyone can be Out There, he can.

@Wilson: This one was.

@turbo steve: I feel your pain, especially since by DVD driver got corrupted.

@Zubieta: I looked at the enlarged photo and it does look tampered with, perhaps by an overzealous retoucher. It'd be bloody hard to reproduce those elements without a lot of time and trouble.

@gravityhomer: I saw a video of the charred capsule some years ago, and it has haunted me.

@Matthew Poat: In the late 70s, Disney was using the panels of an old Univac as props for "Return To Witch Mountain". They covered a good-sized mad scientist's lab, I recollect.

@anexanhume: Do you mean Neuromancer? Great book.