They don't contain much nutrition nor do they contain much of anything but hard seeds. There is a conjecture that the bright colour induces birds to eat them. They don't taste like much of anything because they're just packed with seeds but they'd be very crunchy if you tried to chew them. Their colour is due to the…

I have a kobo touch and I only use it for reading.

Facebook, for me, is for family and friends. Work colleagues are on Linkedin.

It would have value for someone if there were any way to retrieve it, which there isn't.

Well construction workers do wear helmets and cyclists do too. There are a lot of people that need a case because they work in dangerous or harsh environments that a naked phone would be silly just as not wearing a helmet would be silly. Taking a case off on putting it back on depending on the environment is a bit of…

Unless I'm still using an old device I get rid of it. In the province in which I live we have a recycling system that takes all these kinds of tech gadgets off your hands and pulls them apart for their useful parts or materials. The money is used for the benefit of people with special needs (e.g. disabilities).

"but if you're looking to align yourself to a bookstore, Kobo may be a risky proposition"

Other scientists are but not these particular ones. This is a much cheaper and easier problem to solve as it turns out than the tiny robot problem.

About $18 for this notebook. It's cute but impractical and very expensive (about $18). Perhaps as a gift for someone but I will have to go with the nays.

Is this abuse? They were not physically harmed even if they were confined for a few minutes and sprayed with dyes against their will. What if they had slaughtered them (humanely, of course) and then painted their remains? Would that have been more acceptable?

The reason most people eat organic is not for what's in it but for what's not in it. That is, they'd rather not consume any pesticide residue regardless of whether it is considered safe to do so.

You are an anomaly. Indeed if you take all screen time in the average is higher than that even. I'm an anomaly too since I don't own a TV at all and watch zero hours a year.

Most places when you pay your bill with a credit card have the ability to add a tip to it. It's interesting but I don't see the problem they're solving here. I'm also uncertain if people will be willing to swipe their card through a purpose built appliance designed only to take your money with no receipt (at least the…

There are many Christians who are not fundamentalists (indeed, most of them are not) but it's hard to tell in the USA where they seem to get the lions share of the airwaves. In any case for the majority of Christians evolution has no bearing on their faith per se. Look to groups like http://biologos.org/ for an…

Butt is also a family name of English origin.

But why should people pay for something that they don't have to? The economics simply don't work. Unless you actually increase the likelihood of prosecution or convince people that "piracy" is wrong in some way I don't think behaviours will change no matter how much you yell at them.

You're right. Smartphones are not really designed with the phone function in mind. I use my landline far more than my smartphone to make phone calls. My smartphone is far better as the little tablet that they've mostly become.

If 1 in 6 of my neighbours wants this I'm happy for them (or even 6 in 6 for that matter) but I couldn't be less interested in a hammock of any kind, let alone one that huge and space consuming in my yard. The impracticality of several trees or posts in a big circle to hold it up also renders it even less likely to…

I was just thinking how lakes and parks could be made even noisier because that's exactly what they need.