i'm so stoked for this. I've been an evangelist for my WP7 phone since i got it. It seems like Microsoft is really on a roll lately. They're not flawless (Siverlight, Kin, i'm looking at you) but they've really started to focus, not just on what is aesthetically pleasing, but also on distilling the proccess of…

corporations are not people, they have no morality. their only objective is to make money for their shareholders.

Even an actor (especially one with wealth like Clint) can have the moral fiber to not take roles he doesnt believe in.

i'm pretty sure that Comic Sans is the Comic Sans of fonts.

i remember that too.. i think they theorize it was his attempt at a camera perhaps? i dont recall.

The problem is, there are so few universes that are any good anymore, and people are afraid of making new ones. And in fairness, they're not entirely without reason. Audiences have grown so cynical and skeptical that i think its very difficult to get people to buy into a new Sci-Fi universe the way people have with…

Indy was great for 3 films. the problem now is that Lucas is toxic to anything he touches (not sure about RedTails yet, havent seen it, but) in the last 15 years, NOTHING and i mean -nothing- that George Lucas has had any creative say in has approached "remotely good" Indy was great but its done, theres no need to go…

may family is definitely in the Mercator group... not so big into maps.

i believe that is part of a series, including this one.

well, art is a pretty subjective thing, but theres several attributes that raise questions. some feel that DaVinci painted himself as a woman. Many are naturally drawn into it because of its composition, heavy use of the golden ratio (Fibonacci sequence translated into a curve or a rectangle, fascinating stuff ,…

While i see the importance of challenging perceptions, especially privileged first world ones, something about the Gall-Peters doesnt sit well with me. Personally, i'm a Hobo-Dyer kinda guy. Idk, something about it is just more aesthetically pleasing, though i will admit, i'd love to see or even have a Waterman…

For relevance, xkcd never disappoints

Africa is really really big, most maps mess with the scaling though so its hard to tell. This picture here is accurate for relating sizes however.

The scaling is accurate, its just the angle from which you're observing it. Africa really is *that big*. we're just seeing this image centered south of the Tropic of Cancer which is a rare latitude for this kind of image.

what happened to innocent until proven guilty?

yes, it does work on papaer.

Curious. What kind of throughput are you actually seeing on the LAN port? i run a 100Mbit connection and havent seen anything remotely close to handling that kind of throughput consistently for under $500

my personal favorite is this one.

PC LOAD LETTER WTF DOES THAT MEAN!?

no, i understand what you mean, i've just become really partial to the super slim form factor. i had a larger case and even though it too was smaller than the one you have there, it felt very bulky compared to having no case at all. I've settled on the smart cover and the incase mag snap case. the black strips are…