He was a real stand-up kind of guy

How do they know the alien will want to make first contact with a human instead of some other life form? Presumably its first instinct will be to reach out to a moving car as the obvious dominant life form.

Just check out the titles of her other blog posts, including:

• My 3D Love Affair
• Microsoft Office 2010 is Sexy
• What Women Want

It seems like she would rather be a VP of Marketing at a tabloid than a technology company.

By the way it appears that if you directly access the full paper, you may get a message that "Your current credentials do not allow retrieval of the full text."

To solve this problem try using this redirect link (which is the one found in TFA).

I want a battery that I can recharge by holding either end and shuffling my socks on the carpet.

You can also read the actual paper.

What kind of a protocol is hhttp and what kind of a URL is pubsacsorgdoifull101021nn1018158?

Actual link

You may want to use the RSS feed then.

Another interesting feature is the traffic graphs by country and service.

For instance, check out the usage of 'Google Groups' in China here (set the zoom to "Max"). I'm guessing the usage spike was due to the 10th anniversary of the banning of the Falun Gong belief system.

What's new is that there is now more detailed information available through the tool (see the BBC article for a better run-down).
For instance clicking on the USA results in:

United States
4287 data requests
128 removal requests, for a total of 678 items
82.8% of removal requests fully or partially complied with

* AdWords

o 1 court orders to remove content
o 1 items requested to be removed

* Blogger

o 8 court orders to remove content
o 45 items requested to be removed

* Geo (except Street View)

o 2 court orders to remove content
o 2 items requested to be removed

* Video

o 1 court orders to remove content
o 1 items requested to be removed

* Groups

o 7 court orders to remove content
o 394 items requested to be removed

* Web Search

o 30 court orders to remove content
o 2 non-court order requests to remove content
o 66 items requested to be removed

* YouTube

o 31 court orders to remove content
o 46 non-court order requests to remove content
o 169 items requested to be removed

full announcement (pdf)
New two-particle correlations observed in the CMS detector at the LHC

full paper (also pdf)
Observation of Long-Range, Near-Side Angular Correlations in Proton-Proton Collisions at the LHC

The Tempe Town Lake had a dam break, resulting in the lake being drained and a new problem with dead fish. Some people proposed bringing in alligators to eat the fish... of course the question comes up, what do you do with the new alligator problem?

Eventually they did end up using the alligator idea, although they brought the fish to the gator rather than vice versa.

What could possibly go wrong?

The article doesn't mention the fact that the organizers have yet to be granted a permit for the joint rally. Also it should be noted that if granted (which is likely), the "million moderate march" will be limited to no more than 25,000 people, per the permit application.

Some providers offer "virtual" credit card numbers (scroll down halfway) for online transactions - pretty useful when dealing with merchants you don't trust 100%.

Right, obviously I knew that ESX itself wasn't red-hat as my own post referenced the concept of the privileged guest. I misspoke, but the point stands.

Actually as I type this I am in the middle of deploying a new vCenter server since with 4.1 it now requires a 64-bit OS.