You are referring, IIRC, to the 'candiru'.

And all the personals looking for 'discrete' partners. See, that's what's messing with marriages today — you find a discrete partner and settle down with them, and never think that you're going to come to an abrupt end with them. And all the time you should have been looking for continuous partners, because they just…

Pity that it's QuickOffice Pro, and not QuickOffice Pro HD, which is what I need for my tablet, and is still, unfortunately, $14.99.

LoJack for Greyhound buses. You would think that, if remotely killing a vehicle's engine was so horribly unsafe, it would have been outlawed after the first massive wave of liability suits went through.

There are several websites for FLIP; the image gallery at the second link has pictures of the interior. Although operated by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, the platform still belongs to the Navy.

Not to mention the fact that the friction krypterband decries is how we're able to turn and stop our cars. A levitating car, assuming that you don't cut off the levitation and let it grind to a halt on the ground, can only decelerate as fast as it can accelerate, and it would have all the directional stability of a…

I am reminded of a cartoon I saw in Playboy many, many years ago, with Captain Hook in bed with a beautiful woman; he's leaning out of bed rummaging in a chest, and the cartoon caption is "Why, yes — it did come with a number of interesting attachments!"

I hate to break it to you, but meteorites get pretty hot coming in, that is why most of them burn up in the atmosphere. They do start to cool down in the denser part of the atmosphere though.

Taking the Hummer back to the 1950s and using it to kill the dream of the nuclear future wouldn't be as effective as taking a Dartz Kombat T98 back to do it with — not only do you get the same 'hulking military vehicle' vibe from what is an obviously heavily-armored passenger vehicle, but you've got the model name…

Precisely; by calling it 'Robotech', they've already conceded the Americanization and butchering that was necessary to get three completely separate anime series to pretend to be a single series.

You forgot that 90% of these patents seem to be of the form "[well-known activity] with a computer", which is where the issue lies. Once someone has taken the first previously-manual task and set a computer up to do it, it seems to me that the entire class of "...with a computer" patents all fail the 'non-obvious'…

If we're going after RIAA, do we really to resort to falsely accusing them of making up lies, when this might be an instance where they aren't lying?

It's definitely moved up into my short list of sig quotes.

Well, without any browning, it's going to be evenly-looked as well as evenly-cooked.

The P-39/P-63 was designed with the engine behind the pilot specifically to allow a large-caliber (37mm) cannon to be mounted on the propellor centerline without having to run the cannon through the engine. Also, Focke-Wulf implemented a through-engine cannon for the Ta-152H, and the French Dewoitine D.520 mounted the…

Yes, they do. What disturbs me from a design standpoint, though, is that — if Iran is telling the truth about spoofing the GPS to direct the drone where theywanted it to go — the aeronautical engineers didn't consider the possibility and put in countermeasures. Since GPS obtains a position by computing signal return…

There are barcode scanner apps that will read the barcodes; how well they will work will depend on the camera resolution and the size of the barcodes, but you have to figure that most barcode readers aren't going to be particularly high-resolution themselves.

Mine came in straight, but because I have a small jaw, the lower wisdom teeth were partially covered by the tissue at the back of the jaw on either side, and I couldn't keep them clean, so when they (inevitably) started decaying, I made appointments to have them pulled (left side, then right). My father's wife,…

Vischeck.com has a set of downloadable Photoshop plugins that perform the color-blindness transformation on an image, so you can see what it would look like to someone with a particular color deficiency. Mixiboi is wrong, though; the top two pictures should be different, although it's subtle — for a protanope, the…

I hope MegaUpload's lawyers have specific direction not to settle in order to get a clear precedent into case law that asserting copyright over something you don't actually hold copyright on is a prima facie declaration of "We want to pay you several million dollars because we're idiots".