I didn't realize there were that many female senators...

Thime to whip out yee olde CNC machine! I wounder how well I could make one of these in my college's machine shop.

I think your last paragraph nicely sums up all the problems with buying your way to become "carbon-neutral". There is no way to tell which groups are just scamming you, and which groups are legitimately offsetting your CO2 output.

I wouldn't care if I was the only one. I just got the phone rencently, and I already love it. Its dead simple to use, battery life is great (i can make it through about a day and a half without worrying about limiting my usage), the AMOLED display if freaking amazing, and most of the apps I've tried out look…

That makes sense. Because I may or may not be bringing a checked bag, I just stick with Southwest because almost everyone there is genuinely nice, and happy to be working at Southwest.

Why does the slideshow thingy always start on the second picture when clicking on the link from the stream?

I agree with you completely

I was under the impression that it was both. You could either use Microsoft's Azure farms, or if you had a big enough installation you could setup your own Azure cloud

Good point. I misread the article as saying this would result in $10 million total savings

Im not saying that its not worth shaving costs but its just frustrating that all the cost cutting measures we hear about are either cuts to education or pitifully miniscule cuts. I feel that time would be better spent trying to find the huge money sucks and plugging those, then going back and plugging the smaller…

hehe WP7 lets you do this straight from the camera :) its wonderful

Thats why you take the time before-hand to put the non-emergency number into your phone under "Police!". I've had it there for a while, along with the fire department number.

$10 million?!?! Thats it? Thats the best idea they could come up with? This is utter bullshit!!!! The government is not saving a significant amount of money by doing this! I wouldn't be surprised if it cost them $5 million to enact this initiative.

not quite sure about methane from cows specifically, but water is the "best" greenhouse gas, its just that we can't exactly control the level of water in the atmosphere. Well that, and everybody knows that paying $1 to offset the carbon from you iPhone is far more effective at saving the Earth than riding your…

That would only exist if it was news of Microsoft using Apple products for its back end. Azure is still a Microsoft product. It just happens to be used by Apple.

Doesn't the NASCAR track in the SF Bay Area have a right turn or something?

really it all depends on where you are going and what you are bringing. I use them to travel between Home and school because I never quite know how much baggage I'll be bringing each time, and they tend to have the shortest over all flights. Also, for the routes I fly they are withing $10 of the next cheapest (for…

NASA in its current form may be a waste of money, but that does not mean its full value can be replaced by the private sector. As another commenter pointed out, NASA is responsible for a huge chunk of human knowledge with regards to aeronautics, materials development, and leading edge (i.e. high risk) research that…

So which state do I move to to vote for you for Congress??? This blog comment is far more informed and persuasive than any speech I have ever heard from any politician on any issue. I have always said that nearly any scientist or engineer would be better than all the current legislature if only for the fact that the…

The problem isn't that the camera adds 10 lbs, its that none of us sees our ass from the perspective regularly (if at all), so the image we see on the CCTV screen is going to be fairly different from the image we have in our head of how we look.