Why has noone speculated on a possible Pixel Qi screen?
http://www.pixelqi.com/
They have supposedly been ready to ship for a couple months now and plenty of prototypes are floating around. There's no way any of the PQ girls and guys would let it slip out, since this would be their first actual product launch. They wouldn't do anything to jeopardize their image, and the LACK of rumors of a Pixel Qi screen makes me think I'm on to something (in the sense that this rock keeps away tigers, as I haven't seen one since i've had this rock...).

Would you have typed-out that long-winded response on a virtual keyboard?

The Phillips head screwdriver is inferior to TORX heads any day of the week.
Standardization causes stagnation sometimes. Not everything needs to be a government controlled standard, and to do so would destroy research and development in too many segments of industry.
That being said, I appreciate Korea's stand on making all charges USB compatible. This is doing wonders for electronics consumers the world over.

A reminder to all you Hackintoshers out there... Apple CAN pull the plug on you anytime they want to. This was just Steve letting you know that he knows what you're doing.

Yo dawg, I heard you like, ah nevermind....

As a fan of the Chicago Bears, after watching what happened last night, FUCK YOU!
=)

The problem is that you are saying there is a line that gets crossed by the "public figure" making them fair game. Where is the lane? It's a fair question. Who isn't a public figure? If you smiled for a picture you're "modeling" and if that picture ends-up on Facebook are you fair game?
EVERYONE is a public figure.
Richard Daley, Mayor of Chicago, is a public figure.
Late retired Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Rober J. Quinn was a public figure.
My father was Quinn's right hand man... Is HE a public figure?
My father also helped organize the Chicago Firefighter strike of '78 ... we had hundreds of firemen in our house on any given night; does THAT make him a public figure?
What about the other firemen that were at my house? They're public servents, doesn't that make them public figures?
I was in a few plays and musicals in college, does that make ME a public figure? (or gay? no, definitely not gay!)
What about anyone who posts in a public forum? Are THEY public figures?
Are you catching my drift?

If it's not going to be a part of the OS itself, make it a part of the browser. Firefox could "reclaim the heart of the people" by adding this as a part of browser security. By default, the browser should encrypt all personal data, such as passwords and even file/URL history. Add a small option as a menu item in Tools/Privacy/Encryption/Personal History and allow you to create as large a file as you want (password protected of course) and use the browser to save to/browse the file.
This tool should also use a form of "hidden volumes" like truecrypt and it should save in the browser history folder, but give you the option to create it anywhere you want.
If 25%-plus of the population has it installed, it becomes much less suspicious.
Hell, if MS put it in IE 8.1 it would possibly even win-over the geek crowd.

I personally find Engadget to be my third visited site, daily; and I check it at night before bed as well. Their most obvious competitor is Gizmodo, which I'll check maybe twice a week. Both blogs are written with a tongue-in-cheek, sometimes actually funny, style; but Giz is pretty hard on the eyes. Engadget is actually probably the easiest, of my regularly visited sites, to read.
I don't want to miss out on that announcement that the next netbook in the pipeline gets 40hrs battery life on a 8-cell ARM chip with 512MB NV9600 dedicated. =)
That Engadget ends up on /. about twice a day is simply because they have the best coverage and deliver it well.
As a side note... the only time I can bare to watch Jimmy Falon(sp) is when he has on "what's his name" from Engadget...

OK, here's a part of my past I'd rather forget:
I was a waiter at TGIFridays in '97-'98. I had worked there for a year when a new manager came on duty, I'm 5'10", he's 6'4" and the first day I worked with him he "choked" me to the point where I fell on my knees in front of him in a particularly unnerving way. He had a fairly creepy smile on his face while this was happening. This was a "joke" you see? It was supposed to somehow be funny. I was "lovingly" abused as a child (by a Chicago cop, no less), and I didn't appreciate the "joke". I told the General Manager about it, including my own abuse, as if he'd somehow understand. I was told that they'd keep an eye on it and if anything else happened with this manager, that I should let the GM know.
This manager continued to be an idiot, and completely inappropriate; but not in a way that would cost him his job.
A few months later I left TGIF to work at my first DOTcom, a short-lived PeaPod competitor called OnCart(later changed to ShoppersExpress). Within about 8 months they closed their doors for good and it was back to waiting tables... at Fridays(mental images of Chad Lowe giving you the finger are common)...
Within ONE week this old nemesis of mine, the manager "Jeff", came walking-up to me on a Saturday lunch. I was at the POS entering an order when he said "Hey Bobby, let me show you what's been going on since you've been gone" and proceeds to punch me in the nuts. In the middle of the restaurant, in the middle of lunch. (apparently punching each other in the nuts is a joke)
I immediately yelled "What the FUCK?!" and had to go into the bathroom to puke. I went to the doctor and had a fucking lump on my nuts from where he hit me. Considering the history, and his creepy closet issues, this was set to be the first male v male sexual harrasment suit in IL. I never followed through with the suit, but i should have.
I know I've omitted several points, making this less than cohesive; but what happened shouldn't have, and there should have been a court decision to compensate me for my loss (couldn't work there anymore).