The secret of Kentucky Fried Chicken's success, other than the secret herbs and spices, was the pressure cooker. It let them get consistently juicy chicken faster than pan-frying.

... and the production company is "Laser Unicorns." Nice.

99.9% of the themes on Cydia are crap. Of course, that still leaves hundreds to choose from, if you have the patience to weed through the chaff, which I don't. It's not worth installing something that worms its way that deeply into the GUI, with all the potential instability that entails, just to make the display…

With dollars, or rubles, or yen, or euros, can use them to buy goods and services without an intermediate currency. If you have to convert to dollars to do anything, it's a commodity, not a currency. You cn buy things with crude oil or beanie babies or S&H Green Stamps if someone will accept them. That doesn't make…

With dollars, or rubles, or yen, or euros, can use them to buy goods and services without an intermediate currency. If you have to convert to dollars to do anything, it's a commodity, not a currency. You cn buy things with crude oil or beanie babies or S&H Green Stamps if someone will accept them. That doesn't make…

That looks insanely inefficient, but de gustibus non est disputandum.

That looks insanely inefficient, but de gustibus non est disputandum.

WiFiFoFum and Veency.

I had something like this 3,000 years ago. I think it's called a rock, hammer and chisel.

"That's a pretty silly argument on cuntishness, seeing how both companies make money selling hardware."

I still have my Mac Plus, and as of a few years ago when I booted it to play Dark Castle, it still ran. I even snagged a couple of SCSI external drives that were about to be tossed. And I have an old G3 Powerook that has both serial ports and Ethernet that I can set up as a LocalTalk/Ethernet router, using an early…

It has nothing to do with cuntishness. Microsoft is a software company. They have no reason to give a damn where you run Windows once you've paid for it. Apple is a systems company that makes its money selling hardware. The flip side of that difference is that if you buy a Windows 8 PC, Microsoft isn't going to give…

Is that $45 is for real, really unlimited with tethering and without throttling? Add $30/mo. for a year to pay off the new phone, which is dropped at the end of the year, and it's a much better deal than the one AT&T supposedly can't afford to continue. It would, of course, completely eliminate any incentive to sign a…

Lucy Liu, Daniel Dae Kim, Ming-Na, Michaela Conlin, Kunal Nayyar, Mindy Kaling, Jenna Ushkowitz, Grace Park, Masi Oka, and Steven Yeun, just to list folks with a current big-four network series (plus The Walking Dead).

Tila Tequila and William Hung? Jeez, I could list off a couple of flavor-of-the-moment social media and reality show "stars" for every color of the rainbow. If you asked me to list notable Asian-Americans, and you gave me a week and an entire legal pad to fill, I might work my way down to one of them, but not both.

The ad says three days, Thursday-Saturday.

Automated carpooling could be pretty cool. You put in a request from your smartphone with your current location and destination, and a central dispatcher sends a car with an empty seat to swing by. Because they're fleet cars, they could be electric or CNG. It's somewhere between a taxi and a bus.

There are also less obvious benefits of self-driving cars. They can drop you off at the door and go park themselves in densely packed lots since no one has to get in and out of the doors. Like valet parking everywhere without the tipping.

Kill the person who administered the test, because he KNOWS.

I don't think Adams was speaking in terms of each individual's reactions, but he nails the pattern that societal and media reactions take; to the technologies he mentions, add jazz, computers, video games, and each new little wrinkle of the Internet. We can already laugh at "The Internet: Threat or Menace?" stories…