NAVPAT — utterly useless in concealing your presence on a haze-grey warship, it's only effective in concealing you if you fall overboard or your ship sinks, thereby protecting you from being rescued. If you were really paranoid, you might theorize that this was an uncharacteristically subtle move by the Navy to rid…

"You know what they say — 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.'"

I brought a freezer home in the back of my Honda Accord wagon... but I'd done my homework ahead of time and what I bought was a 5cf tub freezer that, still in the packing carton, slid into the back (with the rear seats down) with about a half inch clearance on the sides and top, with enough space front-to-back to let…

Particularly, if you want to keep white sidewall tires, to get some tire paint and do the tires up with the tread-to-rim white sidewall, not the narrow stripe that the tire manufacturers call 'white sidewall', in keeping with how they would have looked in period.

You pays your money and you takes your frame of reference...

Recreational Equipment, Inc., a co-op out of Seattle, stocks a variety of the Keen sandals; that's where I got my Keen Newports. I'm really happy with their shoe designs, because they're wider across the toes to give your feet more room; other shoes feel like they're jamming my toes together.

The medical industry has long frowned on the assisted-Rapture facilities — look at what happened to Dr. Kevorkian...

And there's nothing in the picture to tell you that the watch is going to be horrible to read in practice — instead of having just the relevant words lit, in true Tokyo Flash fashion, all the words are lit, and you tell the time by reading the ones that are flashing, inflicting the horror that is the HTML 'blink' tag…

As far back as 1959, there were plans to vacuum manganese nodules off the ocean floor (Popular Science, July 1959), expected to produce $500,000 (in 1959 dollars) of manganese per square mile. The plans died under the technical issues of building a vacuum cleaner with an 18,000-foot hose between the vacuum's pump and…

use both plugs with long extension cords to start 1) the electric skillet cooking the bacon, and 2) A fan blowing air over the skillet and toward your bed, both of them safely located on the other side of the room.

And July 4th is the wrong day, anyway — the Continental Congress voted to approve a declaration of independence on July 2nd, 1776

Also, it's not obvious from the video, but from having watched a TV program that had a segment following a hog through processing at a small butcher shop, the swine coming through the head dropper have already been slaughtered, drained of blood, and been dehaired before being put on the line feeding into the device —…

Being band for life... What a horrible fate, particularly if you're condemned to the tuba...

Really. Costco stocks in packages that small?

Should be more like this...

I see. So what climatologists are saying is "Our climate models are sufficiently broken that we can't account for what actually happened to the planet in the past, but when we say that there is no doubt whatsoever that man-made carbon dioxide emissions will cause these climate effects, you should take it as gospel…

Not so much fail; I have to admit that my thought when the goon did his 'straightening his jaw' was "I am heavy weapons guy"... it's the same kind of deliberate simplification/stylization of the animation that Valve did for TF2.

The problem with the video is that it's misrepresenting the app; in the video, the iPad is resting on the mosaic, so the rear camera would only be able to 'see' a very small blacked-out area of one tile; therefore, everything you see while the iPad is flat on the surface is pre-generated from an earlier shot.

...except during monsoon season, when 80%-95% humidity strangles the swamp coolers; I remember that time during the summers I spent at my mother's place in Tempe.

It's not using technology, but using technology inappropriately — i.e., just for convenience. An Amish family might, for example, have a telephone — but it will be in an outbuilding separated from the house, where it can be used if there is an actual need for quick communication, like a fire, and not because you're…