Or I could just dim the TV to half-brightness and hit myself in the forehead with a rubber mallet.

Beta dominated professional video for decades. It's just losing its grip on the market now as more video production goes tapeless.

I'm gonna guess that you don't frequent a lot of soul food joints. Roscoe's in LA pioneered the chicken & waffles combo, but it's become standard fare; Atlanta has Gladys and Ron's Chicken and Waffles (Gladys is Gladys Knight).

How about a wattage rating on this bad boy? I want to know just how much I can annoy the neighbors.

You've got the Internet exactly wrong. Radio and television are much more efficient means of conveying information to a large population. What the Internet adds is the ability to efficiently communicate to a small population, whether it's the Vermont Black Republican Caucus, or Hummel collectors, or people shopping…

How about this: Access is a right. Access to information, to education, to jobs, to markets, to the political process, to the whole flow of people and goods and ideas. At the bare minimum, governments should not obstruct that, and liberal democratic governments should facilitate it. In the past, that meant rivers and…

And how precise?

They're all harmless unless ingested. Don't eat the sign, and it's all good.

I would have voted the other way, but I can see the argument: What the Kindle Fire means to the tablet market is still up in the air, and depends on how it sells. The Macbook Air already has the rest of the industry scrambling to release Ultrabooks.

That's after it's been diluted with carbonated water. I would imagine it's more acidic at the pre-bottling stage.

I Feel Ancient moment of the day: There are people old enough to drink and young enough not to know what a cassette tape is.

No, but if you pound the contents fast enough, it does have auto-reverse.

There is no right or wrong answer. It depends on whether you're trying to take an unflinching, starkly realistic wrinkles and all photo, or you're trying to sleep with the model. Vogue and National Geographic have different ideas of what makes a great cover photo.

Like artificial intelligence, the Moller is about 5-10 years away, always has been, and always will be.

It's the DC-3 of phone OSes. Douglas built 16,000 DC-3s, none after the end of the war, but they remained the most popular commercial aircraft in the world into the 1980s. Obsolete tech doesn't just go away, but it does get more and more difficult to sell more of them.

Hell, if you're going to compare loss-leader pricing, the HP Touchpad was 80% less than the iPad, and sold all they made. That counts as a raging success, unless you're a stickler about making money and stuff. Or you have, like, shareholders who are.

"Assuming a similar level of indimidation/force is used ..." When American police skip the trial and go straight to the public beheadings, I'll make that assumption. Otherwise, not so much.

The Honda Civic and the Toyota Camry are getting bigger because they're becoming more upscale, chasing bigger profit margins. That original Honda Civic produced a whopping 47 horsepower, carpet and air conditioning were optional, and it had a ride unlike any car on the market today. Not in a good way. But it did get…

An expensive, slow system of mass transit that you can't use when the wind blows? Sign me up! At least for the ten or twenty years until the world's irreplaceable helium supply runs out.

Does the USB drive connect to the iPhone in any way, or is that just a fancy way to avoid losing it?