That reminds me, why does it take about an hour to travel to Vulcan, and then something like 48 hours to travel back to Earth, when it's about to be destroyed by a drop of red matter? Solar wind?

I think you missed a digit there; more like 16000 times.

On the other hand, Microsoft is about to launch a major campaign for Windows Phone 7. My inside source tells me they have a marketing budget of $1 Billion. I had to capitalize and spell that out, writing $1B doesn't seem to do it justice.

I wonder if this means that I can develop using Eclipse CDT and an iPod Touch, rather than having to buy a Mac.

I don't understand fishing metaphors! Seriously. What is that supposed to mean?

That should be, "Product could be used to build toy weapons".

I would be willing to bet that it is not increasing signal, but rather, decreasing the noise coming from the other direction. You could test my theory by trying (just keeping with the cooking utensils) a baking sheet, or a piece of aluminum foil.
I put a wire mesh behind one of these, and it improved my reception.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQhlmJTMzw
(coat hanger HTDV antenna)

Hey, maybe they could remove the 'k' first.

Oops I meant 220,000

I wish the graphic has a "By Cores". Wow, a computer with over 120,000 cores! Phenomenal.