With you there reffu. (Assuming the new commenting system doesn't drive me away first.)

"we are in fact dying of different things and less frequently"

Maybe I'm missing something here. The city is perpetually driven by the rising sun heating the track. But I thought Mercury is tidally locked which is kind of a big flaw in the concept that there is a rising sun and that the city needs to move in the first place.

That's right, its a common form of suicide.

One of my friends had the World Book, claimed it was better than F&W but if pressed he would concede that the F&W had the better name.

Something like that. As an adult it isnt that funny, but as a kid, hilarious.

My parents bought the Funk & Wagnalls instead. I pity the kids today, saying 'I looked it up on Wikipeadia' is no where near as fun.

It ends like this: doG saw ereht ginnigeb eht nI.

Ok then, All I have to do is figure out a survivable way to diffuse the excess energy when the negative energy bubble collapses and we're off this dirt ball baby!

Hear, hear!

Irony: Gizmodo comments reinforcing foreigner's prejudice that Americans are ignorant of the rest of the world by spouting ignorant prejudice that Asians are really small.

wait. less than 2600km is a short wavelength field?

Aren't are all the notes the same damn size and colour?

It's more because of the pre-eminence of the British Empire back when the standard was agreed.

I'm with you. Kat wouldn't have made that embarrassing joke about the £ and $ keys. Plus she gave me a star.

Finally an honest cat. All other cats just keep their true I-manipulate-you-for-my-own-needs face hidden.

Ha, ha. But seriously, this is 2011 and most places in the world have had coverage in subway stations and along subway tracks for over a decade.

Wait, What? how is it that there was not already coverage?

Greg made one of these ages ago [www.cablemap.info]

Neanderthals ate shellfish? Wow I mean I never would have thunk it /sarcasm