Burma shave.

I too, love my P90. Although mine has a 5.7x28mm cartridge and a 900rpm fire rate. Beats the heck out of staffs and zats.

The rare earth hypothesis has a lot of good points. But at the risk of being ad hominem, the author is the same guy who once supported the theory that planetary alignments could result in earthquakes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gribbin#Biography

You have a good eye! That's the first thing that struck me as well. Look at the top left corner of the nearest fence post at about 150% magnification. That looks like poor cropping. And the illumination on it doesn't match ambient lighting. The "graining" on the fence doesn't match the rest of the image either. AND look at the bottom edge of the photo. Looks like the image continues below the black line, but the fence doesn't. Why the heck would somebody bother adding it? Not like it contributes anything to the image.

Or, "Don't nuke me, bro"

No no no... have you any idea what happens when you mix light sabers and lens flares?

Someone please tell me this is not the case for computer science PhDs. Because I may be on a collision course with one.

Detroit, the near future. Anonymous Coward and his doctors fight to rid his decaying body of the disease element which infests it. Mortally ridden with stage IV melanoma, Anonymous Coward is outfitted by NIH with cancer-proof tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and supercharged immuno-capabilities. Beyond the resolution of current CT scanning technology, he has become.......

You may be thinking of a different robot and a different manufacturer:

1. Serve the public
2. Protect the innocent
3. Uphold the law
4. Classified

Sounds like a Parrot AR Drone with the indoor frame attached.

Those last two lines are not there in the book.

I wish I had mod points for this.

Howser himself has gone downhill since he changed his name a little and later developed a vicodin addiction.

Remember that time you got drops of it in your hair?

That kind of makes sense. If somebody pulled me out of what I do now and put a point-and-click interface between me and my work, I'd get upset too. They should hire people from the gaming community.