Eventually all "regular" consumers will be buying laptops that look generally like this so we might as well get used to it. People who actually want to accomplish things on their computers will get computers with optical drives, more than 2 USB ports, and a larger screen, but these ultrathin systems will become a dime…

Where can I find this "derpette."

I think Navi just had more exclamation marks; she always sounded more naggingly abrupt. HEY!!!

I'm very glad I've always treated my credit card like a debit card. But until we start eating each other in the streets, I won't go back to my collegiate protesting ways just yet.

Poor iPhone users probably don't know what Cyanogen is, though. Unfortunately, although I tether for free whenever I want, it usually isn't worth bothering with as US Cellular's 3G isn't so hot in my area.

Do the 30 guys traveling in the helicopter get short-range parachutes? I don't know how low-flying chinooks usually are, but I'd think that maybe they could be smaller than the parachutes that fun-jumping civvies use, right? I mean, at least for the guys that aren't killed/unconscious after the impact, those who kept…

I'm kind of surprised that they bothered with the Jewish boy. It's not like the magic moonbeams transfer through the father's side. This particular story, however, makes perfect sense. Besides the obvious senselessness, of course.

You already know what this is going to lead to.

I'm no military guy. But you'd think that since choppers are so necessary for the world's various military groups, they'd be investing in full 360 degree tracking cameras as well as Air-to-Ground machine guns mounted in protective overlapping sectors around the chopper's hull.

Well, these guys captured a bunch of contrived poses and required a cameraman who obviously had to lug huge lights around, and probably shout "hold goddamn STILL" every couple of minutes in order for these pictures to look this good.

Since I lived there for 2 years, I know what they mean. Pure native-born Jordanians will wear red scarves in the support of H.M. Abdullah (and his smokin' hot wife) but the Palestinians that live in their country wear black, probably because they'd love nothing more than to overthrow the monarchy.

But then again, you're probably a Nutella fan and that's something I've never gotten off on...talk about differing childhood tastes being a basis for the rest of your life. When I lived in the middle east people were nuts about it, including the children of my fellow expat friends.

Oh man I used to love those Cookies & Cream bars. I would buy 4 of them at a time while grocery shopping with my parents (hooray $.45 candy bars!) and then eat them all over the course of 12 hours. Now, oddly enough, I don't really like the taste anymore. Not loathe it, but definitely prefer other chocolates. I've…

Is someone willing to define that....that word for the rest of us? I'm afraid to look it up at work as I feel like I may be instantly discovered and fired for it.

Interesting that you would say that a jagged, hard-edged building would evoke Lloyd Wright's architectural style. He was a master of trying to blend his buildings in with nature - like Falling Water, for example. I'm no expert on towers, but just saying al-Burij Khalifa is "rounded" seems to me that it would be more…

Wait, the internet stores information Forever?

I wonder how many die-hard Apple fans here at Gizmodo read the 19 page review of OSX 10.7 over on Ars Technica in one sitting. I'm no Apple fan, but I was curious and after spacing it out through 3 days at work, I got through it, even though some parts made me feel like my brain was imploding.

I'm always amused when I see people wearing Palestinian keffiyehs when portraying anything with guns. I wonder if they're as pro Palestinian nationalism as they're advertising.

I'm easily distractable, but I get really into TV shows and movies. I can't have multiple screens open if it's something I actually want to watch. I can't even listen to a podcast and browse the internet at the same time. People will try to talk to me during TV shows and I'll just casually pause it, or rewind it,…

I did a test like this for my actual birthday last week. I've had it removed from Facebook for this exact reason for years - I don't want people to mechanically wish me a happy birthday if they need Facebook to tell when it is.