Apparently we can't edit anymore. I just looked it up, it's actually the other way around.

I thought Clear used Sprint for 4G?

That's not going to melt a plastic cup. The sparks cool down almost instantly, and if there's a spark big enough to melt an entire cup, you've got some bigger problems than worrying about a cup melting.

Not everybody can afford cotton furniture.

Wisconsin doesn't have great fireworks, in Iowa, people go down to Missouri to get their fireworks.

I agree, I've had a pair of fairly cheap HD 202s, the sound quality is very good for the price, and they block out noise fairly well.

You can still flash CyanogenMod to it. Then you have nice, cheap, Andriod tablet.

Laptop, 15.6": 1366x768

....aaaand there goes Gizmodo from my RSS feeds!

I doubt it was the privacy policy, that doesn't have a whole lot to do with a person's privacy, especially if they're as famous as Jobs was.

Don't see why not. You could also buy a battery case and some batteries for about $4 from radioshack.

I don't want to live (strike)on this planet(end strike) in this state anymore.

As an Iowan, I'm not sure whether to be sad that he's still on Twitter, or happy that he was hacked.

I wish everything used ssh keys.

Last tablet on Bestbuy is Pandigital, not Pendigital. Also, I can't click the links (am I supposed to be able to?) in Firefox/11.0a1

I still use IRC daily, always have it open.

Maybe it's just around where I live, because there's a nuclear power plant, but should there be some sort of nationwide emergency the sirens would probably sound telling people to turn to a radio station. I actually learned a few months ago that the sirens here have a weather tone, and an "attack" tone.

My dad has boxes of them down in the basement, just waiting to be recorded.

I've never seen one go very fast - I looked it up, and Wikipedia said one flash lasting 200 microseconds is pretty normal

Protip: LED strobelights don't work nearly as well as the Xenon lights, in my experience. the xenon lights can go a lot faster, probably 25 beats per second (excuse the music terms, I can't think of anything better), and the LED are maybe 5.