Oh, come on, this is inspired. Clippy the MS Office Assistant as the new mascot for the Ballmer-owned Clippers? Perfection.

it's almost like you don't know world history or something. Humans are not peaceful creatures, go read a book.

Never forget that these men and women do a job so that you don't have to worry that your teenager will get kidnapped and murdered walking home from school.

The problem is, people don't know how to drive—and those of us who close up the gap don't want to be stuck behind those people.

Really? This is all completely unnecessary- you've never needed cables of any sort. It's so easy it's almost a joke, contrary to what this article tries to say. It's just 2-4 clicks to change 1-2 dropdowns.

i have never needed a cable to record audio from the computer. Just select the approriate source.

All meteor showers radiate from a single point in the sky. The reason this one is special is not the way the meteors will fall, but the predicted frequency that could be higher because this is a debris field Earth has never travelled through before.

Assuming that you just have one single computer acting as a server, I don't think it's that expensive. My computer's on all day every day already (stackexhange has this answer from a looooong time ago too http://superuser.com/questions/3204…)

"...but most of us in the U.S. are vaccinated for measles at a young age..."

this video is a bit different; but i hate when signs are posted to merge for like a mile, everbody is merging except a couple of jackasses who zoom past in the lane that will end, trying merge way further up. they are usually successful, but not if i can help it.

I think this speaks to a bigger issue: Perhaps we can't have SOME autonomous cars on the road without having ALL autonomous cars? Until all cars are able to make those impartial decisions we can't have some human-operated cars making these kinds of poor, antiquated choices.

I used my wife's jeans. I think I did it wrong.

Or you can flint nap obsidian for free into a straight razor and it will never dull.

I've found that any sharpening tricks tend to ruin the lubrication strip. Anyone else get this?

Because EVERYTHING is easier to drive than a Carrera GT.

Lipton is not shitty tea. It is iced tea. It is designed to be consumed cold.

Then by that measure the JAXA Hayabusa mission in 2005 was the first to land on an asteroid.

(Am I right in assuming that America just doesn't really do instant coffee?)

The real value in these documents is reading it before you need it. It might surprise you how much you might retain.

Also let me know when they post the Boy Scout Manual as the same kind of app. I've said this many times, if I get lost in the wilderness, I hope to have that book with me.