Sea Cucumber do this in order to leave a snack for predators while they (slowly) escape. This is a non-destructive defense mechanism. Not sure about the urchin, but I would question whether it is actually in its "death throes."

Dashboard cam faces forward. Most likely the cruiser blocked her in perpendicularly.

Strange. A real Winter here in my part of Florida never gets below 32F, and even that low only rarely. What is this "snow" stuff?

Electric ovens are superior in that they hold a more even temperature, unlike gas. Now a gas range is more efficient than electric and I personally prefer one. Charring chili peppers on a spiral electric "burner"? Just say no.

Ah, okay. I have the Nexus One too. So my rule of thumb with Android is "stick with products backed directly by Google." The WiFi Xoom is effectively the first Nexus tablet. I have yet to see an Android implementation that can best a "vanilla" Google version with all features turned on and the ability to customize…

Ah, so we agree. Excellent!

If you stop long enough to be put on an ambulance, you'll lose a quart of blood to insects! Never - stop - running!

Tap water quality varies greatly by source. In Florida, where much of it is pumped out of wells, it can be amazingly good (Zephyr Hills is bottled even) to a terrible calcium/rust/chlorine extravaganza (what I get out of mine in Tampa.) The solution was a simple carbon filter system from Home Depot that I put under…

Ironically, the "Moms for Mitt" thing came directly out of a gaff by an Obama supporter—not even Obama himself.

ICS downloaded to my Xoom within weeks of its release.

#1 - That "waste" still has value. It's not garbage. It's just hot (both in degrees and rads).

Right. On a stick. Cool, huh?

True, but how is that vertical bundling that isn't allowed for others? All cell phones and tablets are consumer devices that are integrated hardware/software. Some allow for more openness than others, but generally they all operate that way.

Kinda like the "Aligator Pear".

The large thin-skinned avocados are a tropical variety whereas the black Haas is a "Mexican" sub-tropical variety. I have the tropical variety in my Florida yard and I am originally from California and have many years experience with the Mexican variety. The tropical avocados seem creamier but they have less fat and…

Water leaks on your wall would be a Bad Thing. There is a pot design with a built-in reservoir that would work better. IKEA sells a few cheap ones. This design is popular with tomato growers too. You don't water the plant; you just fill the reservoir and let the soil wick the moisture to the roots.

You have to allow for some amount of failure with creative processes or you don't just stamp out bad ideas, you stamp out good ideas along with them. If you are willing to accept only safe ideas, you aren't competing on the cutting edge and you don't produce products like the iPod, iPhone, or iPad.

I'm not really sure what you mean here, though I do see where you're trying to go. For example, I generally cannot buy desktop hardware (or a phone or tablet) from anyone without buying an OS. Dell sells me Windows, even though I'm going to install Ubuntu over it. Apple sells me OSX, even if I'm going to load…

Not at all true if you own a juicer. There are no digestible calories in fiber. It is darned easy to drink 5000 calories a day from raw, healthy foods and yes, most people would gain weight from that. This isn't rocket science. The core principle is energy in versus energy burned. There are a host of variables…

According to AT&T, 3G data is not available for these plans. So if you have a smart phone, an AT&T pre-paid plan is not really available for you unless you have constant wifi access.