This drunken pirate says otherwise. Anything you post may be used against you, given the right circumstances.

There is a lesson in all this. Don't use social media. Anything you say there will last forever, and will be used against you.

And the flip side is that social media doesn't produce anything worth reading anyway. It is generally poorly written junk. If you want to contribute in a meaningful way, work on Wikipedia or write for Examiner.com. Look at me post junk on slashdot...ugh.

This is the only Khan I like on YouTube...

Khaaaaan!!!!

You clearly aren't a parent. Try convincing the kids they don't want McDonalds, especially if they are in a foreign country and miss home. Hell, many years ago I ate in a McDonalds in Hungary (back when it was behind the iron curtain) because I was homesick.

I have no idea why he chose McD's in France, but I do have kids, so this is remotely understandable.

And it would be cool to have gold fall from the sky. But that doesn't make the current machines useless. Remember, we are at the very start of this revolution.

As for printing a candy bar...huh? Why do that? Traditional manufacturing still has a role, at least for the foreseeable future.

On the other hand, I was playing with a RepRap printed herringbone gear yesterday. I thought it was pretty cool. They are very difficult to manufacture with traditional machinery, but not a problem with a 3D printer.

I think that's the plan. Google Maps now has a new mode called MapsGL which uses hardware accelerated 3d. Why add 3d to the browser if you didn't plan to use it.

I just discovered the joys of podcasting their shows, which is a great way to consume non-news radio. This is terrible news.

I'll really miss Tom and Ray. I even thought they were great in their Nova special on the car of the future

There were 243 million CFL's sold in the US in 2009. And there were 34 reports of smoke, and 4 reports of fire in a US consumer product safety database from March 2011 through December of 2011 (see this article for more information). Seems like a pretty safe product to me.

In terms of your supposition that CFL's actually cost more than incandecents? Here is a study that says no, In terms of the ACEEE.org study, I can't find specifics (unless you are talking about the 2006 study, which is hopelessly out of date). But electric cars top the ACEEE.org list of cleanest cars this year.

You can keep your "spaceship" at $60,000 / kg to LTO. I'm betting on the "non-spaceship", which costs $5,400 / kg to LTO. Read wikipedia for the consequences of demanding full reusability.

Elon just answered that they were off by a few seconds because of wind. He said that if it weren't for wind, they could land Dragon in someone's backyard.

Congrats to SpaceX. Amazing accomplishment, especially for the price.

This LA Times article has more information.

Soccer causes head injuries too.

I don't get your comment. I teach math to six year olds once a week. They "get" the number line, in that they use it as a useful tool for calculation, and can understand how numbers equate to divisions on the paper. Is it innate? Probably not. Is it something that many six year olds in the US culture have? From my experience, yes.

Where the article veers into the absurd is the suggestion that we should consider "bringing the human saga" into teaching math, and that math isn't objective fact, or black and white. Math is freaking math. There is right and wrong, black and white.

Hey....this is the entertainment industry we're talking about?

Louis CK fucked with the system. He wasn't thinking of the middlemen. He stiffed the studio execs. He gave the lawyers and his agent the finger.

Will you think of the poor entertainment industry for a second? Blow and hookers are expensive. Vacation house mortgages don't just pay themselves.