The B-52, with modern smart bombs, has been used in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don't have any details on recent sorties, so the last time was some time between 2003 and yesterday.

Don't forget the B-52 — first shipped in 1954, last shipped in 1963. My guess is that we had the last B-52 crewman older than his airframe some time in the last 5-10 years, though there are probably some reservists or guardsmen in their 50s assigned to the BUFF.

How to read hard drive customer reviews:

In communist China, landscape inspects you!

A gadget geek who subscribes to a dead-tree magazine? Please.

"It's just a matter of cost" ... and size. My math is a little sloppy, but I think I have about 15,000 mAh; it's a car jump-starter with a 12V adapter. Handy for blackouts, but not all that portable. Someone better at math can figure it out, but I'd bet you can get 200,000 out of a lead-acid truck battery.

Vandalism is a physical act. The person who place the printer on the road and turned it on did that, not the person who provided the content. For that matter, if the police targeted this while ignoring other acts of vandalism that do more damage — like children drawing on the sidewalk in chalk or people posting yard…

$38 will buy 190 packets of ramen noodles. More seriously, if you leave out prepared food and meat, one person can easily eat for $38/wk. You can probably fit some meat into that budget, but that would take more careful shopping.

Some brands have "snack size" bags that are half the size of a Ziploc sandwich bag (as if you cut the bag in half parallel to the zipper). They're the perfect iPhone size.

How expensive could it be to keep cranking out something like a 2003 Motorola Razr? That was a spectacular little phone, and while it didn't do much by modern standards, what it did it did well. I borrowed one when I had a broken iPhone, and was able to pop in my SIM and even sync my contacts and calendars to it with…

Doing away with the Mac Pro would be tolerable if and only if they take the Mini beyond entry-level. A 16-core Mini (you're gonna need a bigger case) could sit inside or atop a Mac Pro-like case with all the card slots and drive bays you need, and Apple or third parties could offer minitower or rack-mounted options.…

I'm waitiing for a waterproof case with an innductive charger built in. Between Bluetooth, AirPlay and wi-fi synching, charging is about the only reason you need access to the ports.

The curse of Macaulay Culkin's career is being cast opposite stronger actors. One of his last kid roles was "The Good Son," where he was outshone by a kid named Elijah Wood. Wonder what ever happened to him. In "Party Monster," Seth Green steals every scene he's in.

Belkin is consistently bad about labeling its cases "for the new iPhone" (iPod, iPad, whatever). Thing is, a year later when Apple introduces another one, that doesn't disappear from the packages on the shelf. So the packaging always says that and it's never helpful.

If only there were a "You just got knocked the fuggout!" moment.

Yeah, I remember when I thought "1984" references were all edgy, in an erudite kind of way. It was called middle school.

"You hang up"

Better efficiency for solar is all to the good, but the most important challenge is to make them cheaper and more durable. When it's cost-effective to park on them or tile a roof with them, they can make up in sheer number what they lack in efficiency. The analogy I like to use is the old-fashioned water wheel:…

*A* beer? As far as I'm concerned, that man is never allowed to pay for a drink again.

It requires either AppleCare or the 1-year warranty. If you break your phone and it's not under warranty, it's $199 to replace — still not a terrible deal for a 4S upgrade with no contract extension. You're gambling that the Apple store won't get a 4 in stock before you get there, though.