Pity that the 'miles per gallon' figure doesn't seem to account for the fuel oil or coal or natural gas burned to generate the electricity to charge the vehicle's batteries...

"...as a percentage of gross GDP,..."

If you pay attention to the specs, the interior of the cooler would not exceed 41°F for 36 hours at an external temperature of 70°F, so starting with food in the correct temperature range shouldn't cause problems in the couple of hours it takes you to get to the cook site and get the fire ready. For longer-term…

There are already RF-opaque covers for passports, so that they can't be pinged when the cover is closed; I expect that we're going to see someone clever producing cases for smartphones that incorporate a Faraday cage; turn the phone off (because it's not going to receive anything when inside), drop it into the case…

...in other news, researchers have determined that scientific research experiments cause cancer in laboratory test animals...

And not having to worry about whether the color of the lab coat is going to bleach out in the peroxide contributes to its suitability; unfortunately, in the real world, you're not going to get enough warning that you're going to bleed or be bled upon to change to a white garment.

Or the Casio Pathfinder watch line, with an LCD compass, altimeter/barometer, and thermometer, although it's only water-resistant to 100m (I have yet to get anywhere close to that depth in more than five years, though).

In order to not have the four-day memberships sell out at the con, the way it did last year, they are limiting the number of each class of membership sold each day at the con. This resulted in people staking out the pre-reg line since last night at 1800, and for myself, who only showed up an hour before pre-reg…

Not all handicaps are physical, and it looks to me that being convinced that you're entitled to not only park in a handicapped spot without an appropriate placard or license plate, but to take up two parking spots to make sure no one can park close enough to his car to even chance scratching it, certainly qualifies…

Actually, yes; suits of armor were made for the sons of the nobility while they were still relatively young, and replaced as they outgrew them. Because these smaller armors were rarely actually used in war, but only during training, they have survived where many of the armors worn by adults got beaten up in combat,…

Many of the sets of armor that survived were for adolescents who had not yet achieved their full growth, which is also why they're so pristine; with the exception of parade or 'dress' armor, the armor that a knight or soldier would have worn would get banged up in use, then beaten back into shape if the wearer…

The A-10 isn't the only plane that routinely made it back to base with damage that would have rendered other planes unflyable. See Battle Damaged B-17s for more pictures.

#20a — The 6,000-person line outside of Hall H is not the place to have brought enough of your limburger-and-durian tarts for the whole line.

And Keith Laumer's Imperium books.

What would make the Dragonriders of Pern stories hard to do isn't just the "riders mate when dragons do", but that the green dragons are female, and for most of the stories, only the gold dragons had female riders — dancing around the whole mating issue will be a lot touchier when all the riders of the dragons in the…

Bad-ass gaming setup? He's got a stick, but he doesn't have a throttle, and even though you can't see under the desk, I doubt he's got rudder pedals. How does he expect to chop throttle, pop a notch of flaps and kick in a touch of left rudder to get the deflection shot on the La-7 he's just forced into an overshoot if…

That's the crew chief; he owns the bird, he just lets the pilot fly it.

You should try The Field, an Irish pub which is genuinely an Irish pub — they disassembled the interior of a pub in Ireland and reconstructed it in its current location. Good boxty.

Star Trek:TNG, the episode where they visit the planet of scantily-clad compliant flight attendants and everything goes swimmingly until Wesley falls into a planter box when the enforcers happen to be there and becomes subject to the planet's death penalty for his action.

The comic book readers generally have other interests than comic books, so they're spread out across the dealer's hall, while the media junkies have no interest in comic books, so they're lined up for whatever SDCC 'exclusive' has caught their eye.