Took me about an hour to be approved to log in to Space Track, but information on Phobos-Grunt's in there. Did a General Satellite Search for "Phobos", and was presented the last recorded tracking data, pre-re-entry.

Is it wrong to write an article about circumvention tools that can be used circumvent a protest against legislation that (among other things) further criminalizes circumvention tools?

Seconding the rice cooker. I've got a $20Black& Decker rice cooker. I've never used it on a timer, though. I just load it up with oatmeal before I get in the shower and it's done by the time I am.

MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) does.

Congratulations. You are now lost and on fire.

I vaguely recall a Techdirt story mentioning that, in the history of the DMCA, there have been less than ten instances where a bogus DMCA claim has resulted in legal consequences for the claimant.

You need to have Location Services enabled to get the discount. I'd guess it probably would still work, though. Worse comes to worst, Amazon cancels your order and you have to repurchase at normal price.

And Google Calendar, and Google Docs.

For four years, I sent "You contacted the wrong person" emails to people who sent emails to me thinking that I was the Indian gentleman they wished to contact. For the past year, I've simply decided to become a black hole for any message intended for him. Any message meant for him that gets sent to me is filtered…

I've been using Packagetrackr, myself. No iOS app, but the movibe site works fairly well as a home-screen bookmark. Autodetects carriers, supports forwading of shipping emails if you so desire, and can send email, sms, and twitter notifications. Also RSS and iCal feeds.

Perhaps if large numbers of people did this every single day, it might screw up data collection. For all the "good" hiring some kid to run around the mall with your cell phone will do, you might as well just take the kid out for ice cream. Takes less time, and you don't risk losing your cell phone.

Bought one last week for precisely that reason.

Because that would make a darned useful service useless. SSIDs aren't private information,as anyone who's ever connected to a wireless network in a populated area knows.

But does it keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool?

I read Moby Dick at a pretty weird time in my life, and wound up reading it online in a computer lab over several days. Didn't think much of it.

Thanks for the reminder on Nosferatu, which apparently is going off-streaming tomorrow. I'd not yet seen it, and have just started watching it. I'm enoying the heck out of it, mostly because of Hutter's crazy gung-ho attitude.

I'm guessing "You're going someplace where you aren't going to have access to an electrical outlet, but can bring batteries." Perhaps a bus, or an older airplane. Or you want an emergency charger in case the power goes out and you don't have a landline.

I saw a documentary that touched on that on TLC several years ago. It talked about a number of strange brain afflictions, including foriegn accent syndrome. There was a guy in Britain who had come to loathe his leg, and the documentary makers took him to speak with some doctors who had had some success treating it.

On your iPhone, go to "m.google.com/sync"

I Can't Believe It's Not Butter doesn't do well at room temperature. Or, at least, if your rooms get as hot as mine do in the high summer. The oil sweats out and pools on the surface.