"We're tracking you more efficiently to improve your experience."

You win. I now abandon science in favor of an immortal, all-knowing, all-powerful, yet strangely insecure and egotistical invisible man in the sky. I'll take "truth" over reality any day.

I dunno. If the corporate website is filled with a lot of BS power words and phrases and impressive-but-meaningless lingo, then you might not want to do this. The company P.R. people might think you are mocking them. :)

I didn't realize there was more than one type of space blob: [www.straightdope.com]

He missed a good product placement - he could have worked in the old Reese's "You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!" gag.

My first thought on seeing the picture was, "Oh, so that's what Sam Neill has been up to lately."

It's different; I like it. Plus, I could grip it securely with my clumsy fingers, which generally don't get along well with small, smooth objects.

Passing an amendment is not the same as a full-blown Constitutional Convention.

Every now and then someone floats the idea of a new U.S. Constitutional Convention, and the idea always makes my skin crawl. Given the track record of Congress lately, I want them to stay as far away from the Constitution as possible.

If you may be upgrading or adding hardware in the future, you are certainly better off building your own so you won't get burned by proprietary connectors, card slots, etc, that the big name manufacturers are fond of using.

I wonder how many of those indignant posters have every actually, y'know, contributed to their amazing, free resource. If you haven't paid, you can't bitch.

Hackers will find a way, or ways, but I'm not interested in Windows on tablets, anyway. I'd rather have a smaller, lighter OS which is better suited to the less-powerful hardware.

The ever popular Twirl-n-Puke.

Space has expanded tremendously between the time that light left those galaxies and now, so that the light has had to cross an ever-growing gap.

"This is medically impossible, Jim. The creature's brain is destroyed."

Nice. No need for a nearly 2 minute video to describe it though. A simple diagram or a couple of pictures would have worked just as well - that's why I normally don't click on instructional videos on the Web.

He could build his next one into a rolling suitcase.

Well, unless Google and the MPAA want to provide me with a tablet and pay me to use it, they have no right to dictate the hardware that I use. This nonsense will stop when enough people vote with their wallets.

I'd like to warn American Airlines customers of a scam, perpetrated by the company and intended to rip off flyers by putting fees on everything.

Are those Belkin brand? They sell respectable, moderately priced hardware, but absurdly overpriced cables.