Did you factor in the energy required for building and maintaining the wind turbines? Are they as green as you think?
14,000 Abandoned Wind Turbines in the USA Lays out a more comprehensive environmental cost of wind turbines including this:

Altamont's turbines have since 2008 been tethered four months of every year in an effort to protect migrating birds after environmentalists filed suit. According to the Golden Gate Audubon Society, 75 to 110 Golden Eagles, 380 Burrowing Owls, 300 Red-tailed Hawks, and 333 American Kestrels (falcons) are killed by Altamont turbines annually.

I was aware of wind turbine bird strikes. I didn't know the numbers.

I'm running FF23 beta on my personal system and NoScript is still working as before.

There had to be a port of Advent for the Cray.

Rat poison would be reckless endangerment. Like gun trapping an empty house. There are non lethal approaches.
A friend told me of a time at TPC where a plate of brownies laced with Ex-Lax was left in the fridge for the resident fridge thief. It worked well. Five brownies were missing. The suspected thief clocked out sick less than an hour into his shift and there was evidence that he didn't make it out of the building without shitting himself.

Wasn't all of this in "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" by Asimov?

These might be a bit much for middle school kids. I'm not sure what they're capable of these days. Both are available on Amazon.
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? by Leon Lederman
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife

That was my thought. Evolution requires selective pressure that causes certain traits to become assets or liabilities. The coelacanth fills an ecological niche and doesn't have much if any competition in that niche except from other coelacanths.

I don't disagree with you, but digging up citations to support your argument is your job, not the readers.

Ahhh .. Deluxe Liquor and Sporting Goods in Roseville, Ca. How I miss thee. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (Both rifles and handguns) in one convenient stop. Store closed years ago but the memories live on.

No so contrived. These are the phones that are entering the used market. The early adopters are getting the next great iPhone and selling their old one. A lot of these users don't want to spend time or money upgrading the OS of an old phone and may be blissfully unaware of the security issues of the outdated OS.

Anyone remember the tech advertisement "Lost the Dongle" that ran in just about every IT rag published back in the nineties. It featured a picture of a famous nude statue that was missing its "dongle".

Curious that so many want a built in lie detector. Anyone can learn to read facial expressions and other body language to detect deception.
Here's a start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System

This made me laugh and think about this defense of comic sans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCcObwIsOs

This really needs to be on the front page.