I have a son who existed as a frozen embryo for a few months thanks to IVF. I wonder if we could thaw out an embryo that has been frozen for 50000 years...

What if you do it bit by bit... Replace each organ as it wears out. It wouldn't take too long to replace your entire body.

I suppose you could look at a bit like source code. Selling the MP3 is like selling the pre-compiled app. Selling sheet music is more like selling the source code. It allows users to re-brand it as their own and sell it again via live performances. Of course there's more to it than that, but I think it's a good analogy for this audience. Sheet music might be a less refined product than a neatly compiled app/mp3, but it gives you access to every little secret the author used to make their product so awesome.

You probably don't want to copy him directly, but I was impressed by Thomas Scovell's Obfuscated C Code Tattoo.

It's a Swept Surface Volumetric Display A friend and I actually built one in my shed. We removed the colour wheel from a DLP projector and replaced the bulb with a green laser. We projected from below onto a translucent spinning helix, which gave a better volumetric image than the flat surface used by these guys. We then animated a helical slice of a scene and interlaced the frames so that the red, green, blue, cyan, magenta and yellow projected sequential slices of the helix. It worked quite well, although with a pre-compiled animation we had some vertical sync issues - the scene would move up or down through the space like an old TV. I've started writing a graphics engine that will take a normal 3D model and slice it up it in real time synced to the rotation of the helix via a hall effect sensor.

That a dog will salivate when you ring a bell.
Pavlov...

The Open Source Hardware Bank is another interesting approach to raising money for an open source project. Of course hardware is very different from software, but I thought that someone might find it interesting.

Wow! That's great! I think I need one! Thanks for the link.

In some cases this is true. However, there are other factors that come into it.
I own a couple of arduinos. Even though I have the skills to build one and I suppose it would be a bit of fun to do so, I chose to buy them. Why? For me, the biggest limitation is time. I have so many crazy ideas, and there is so little time! I bought each of my arduinos for a specific project. I prefer to spend my limited time on the projects themselves rather than building an arduino. I can buy the parts for an arduino for around $15, or I could buy one fully assembled for around $30. It'd probably take me a 3-4 hours to build and test an arduino and I would save $15. I don't know about you but my time is worth more than $3.75/hr.
Also, as these projects evolve they will almost certainly become more and more complex. Small scale manufacturing may not be able to match the efficiency of full scale manufacturing.

You can get a replacement screen for a few dollars: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nokia+1100+replacement+screen

Agreed. I've counted votes. Writing on the ballot papers is not only useless, it increases the risk of your ballot paper being declared invalid.
If you feel strongly about this, or any other political issue then you might want to watch this TED talk by Omar Ahmad on Political Change with Pen and Paper.
He talks about the best way to get your voice heard by politicians, which turns out to be a hand written letter once a month.

Some researchers at Flinders Uni in South Australia did something similar in 2003. Their system used video to enhance the reliability of the speech recognition software. I'm not sure if they have taken it any further, but it's a great concept. Here's one of their Papers [220KB pdf].

Meanwhile, at the LHC a small group of physicists are shitting their pants asking each other? "What the fuck did we just do?"