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@Channan: And on Windows.

VOTE: Mint

Those are some sinister posters.

@MonkeyT: The guy who said "I worked hard to make this film scientifically accurate" was Bruce Rubin, director of Deep Impact.

@The Squalor and the Fury: That the phone is stolen is a reasonable assumption to make. The old guy says someone gave it to him. If the original owner gave it to him, accidentally or on purpose, then no, it's not stealing. This is possible, but quite unlikely.

@Goof_Troop: Asking for any money at all is a bit of a risk on the author's part. It went well in that situation, but the phone's owner could have legitimately demanded the return of the phone for free (after all, it was stolen), and gotten the cops involved on a refusal. Could have gotten the author in a heap of…

Something's really weird with these numbers. This works out to $146.60 in royalties per download.

iPod touch 2nd gen. Not a smartphone, but with a Mifi, manages to play one on TV.

@Moonshadow Kati: Agreed that Rice Cookers are awesome. Out of curiosity, I'd picked up a $20 Black & Decker 3-cup rice cooker in September. Haven't gone too far afield with using it, but I routinely use it to make single-servings of quick grits or oatmeal in the mornings.

@Drummertist v.3: If you used the password on any other account that you even remotely care about, yes, you should. Twitter accounts have already been hacked through that path.

DVPR Remote is far better than the remote the Roku boxes come with, and lets me pipe my Roku's output to both of my TVs without worrying about line of sight for controlling it from the bedroom.

@El Guano: Indeed. Better to have either a completely secret moon mission, or secret landings on Apollo 8 or Apollo 13. None of which are particularly plausible, but being stupid about grade-school science gets your movie made fun of, and it's better to have that happen after the opening weekend.

@AgentCoop: You've never made an analogue of the Thing That's Really Popular, so you have no right to criticize it! Thing That's Really Popular has favorable qualities that I emphasize and unfavorable qualities that I consider negligible, or outright ignore!

@Dr. What?: I stumbled across the Epona Project after it was shut down. I stumbled across Specworld after it was mothballed. I found out about Snaiad after it was dismantled. It's nice to come across one of these things while it's still active.

An interesting experiment. I'll have to play more with it when I have time.

@Grindhouse Murders: Or like going to a Barnes & Noble and buying a book about Amazon.

@eagles500: If you use more than one browser (especially on more than one device), it's very useful indeed.

@James Eagle: Agreed. While the randomness can be nice, in practice, it wasn't very useful, throwing back articles I'd already read or ones that were several days out of date.