Small difference between losing $100mil out of a potential $3-4 BILLION compared to a few hundred out of your salary paycheck. One of these examples is obviously way over the threshold of what's needed for a comfortable lifestyle, let alone not having to live month to month.

One thing: Artist-curated radio could be substantially different from a typical artist radio station. Artist-curated usually includes music that influenced or inspired them, look at iTunes artist playlists for example. artist radio usually means similar genre or other artists that sound similar.

This is really a secret exploratory mission for that Dyson sphere plan from a few months ago right?

Hmm, I really like this idea but it seems like it could be pretty niche for big music enthusiasts only. And there are really only a few artists who I'd want to subscribe to and they're mostly big established artists already.

Yeah but wait until the new baktun begins, that's when they go on sale.

Looks like it was a time lapse? It took place over the course of four days. Still not much time though!

A few things. Don't conflate local weather with global climate! Local warming is NOT the same as global warming. One results in rising sea levels the world over. This is off the cuff but chaos theory disclaimers aside, a wind farm in Texas likely won't result in Arctic ice melting.

I was gonna say there's a definite population bias since it's college students and the basketball point is a good insight.

Yay for fragmentation! I have several Android devices, only one of which is supported but has a broken screen so it's essentially useless.

Meanwhile, my friend's son was put in ESL because he couldn't recognize a picture of a landline telephone. Who even has these anymore?

I was all set to buy one this morning and RadioShack gave me a call that if I ran down, I'd be able to get a 32GB one and I'd trade in my 1st Gen iPad and Toshiba Thrive. The only reason I was even looking at the new iPad is the 1st Gen is so hamstrung by lack of memory that loading more than a tab or two crashes…

Orrrr...mother nature realizes that the failed fruit fly probably just needed a little liquid courage before his next attempt.

Am I the only one who thought the first book was horribly written?

Seriously just had chills.

I've never understood why jumper cables don't come with dead simple instructions right by each handle, labeled with big numbers 1-2-3-4 and where to connect it.

Hmm, sounds like Amazon is the best option since you can download OR stream. And the whole "make em pay for storage, hell no we're not putting removable storage in" has been Apple's MO for years.

I remember hearing about that too. But it would be rather unfortunate if a future civiliziation found our monolithic warnings and mistook them as religious markings.

We should start encoding information in our nuclear waste dumps. And the bonus is that'll keep it secret until a civilization appears that can safely process the waste.

Wait a second, how are they verifying the age of these cartoon characters?

Wait a second, he felt the need to license the music and no need to license the photograph?