I try to make sure that the only clocks I have are connected to the internet other automatically adjusted sources - computer, cell phone, DVR, "atomic" radio clock, etc. If it's not connected to the internet or some other source for updating time zone data (because, not only do we need to change the time twice a year, we need to change when we do it, too, and differently depending on location), then I try to buy one that doesn't have a clock so I don't need to bother.

The only clock I still need to adjust that I don't just ignore is my car radio. Do new cars have internet-connected clock/radios?

Despite this great convenience of automatically adjusting clocks, DST is still stupid.

So, now they have to have special "summer" and "winter" hours, which they may or may not have needed to bother with without DST. Exactly what is the benefit of monkeying with everyone else's time?

Yeah, most people don't care. Or think they don't. They still have to waste time adjusting to it, though.

Only morning people actually like it, because they get to be extra smug for the following week while their co-workers, friends, and neighbors adjust.

Which is a good question to ask, completely separate from any global warming debate... Where can you go for statistics on how the normal weather percent-chance predictions match to the actual record?

Grape juice came with a warning that was also complete instructions for the thing it was warning against?

I'm not sure that that 20% is accurate. At least a few of them are really just wrapped in Wine, rather than actually made to run natively under Linux or OS X. This does, however, suggest some potential options that they could take when a vendor can't or won't offer a native version of their game:

• Some Games: Try to run the game under a vendor-supplied Wine wrapper
• Some Games, if vendor doesn't supply a wrapper: Try to run the game under a steam-supplied, somewhat optimized Wine wrapper
• All Games: Try to run game under a default/user optimized Wine instance

It's a great metaphor, as long as the context is dice gaming rather than leaf burning - you pick a bunch of components (or a complete machine where someone else picked a bunch of components), install SteamOS*, and hope that they all work well and work together well

*and a second machine with Windows installed on it so you can play windows games.

Looks like samsung solved the problem by convincing you to use a different device...

And yet, the War Room is the inspiration for overpriced conference rooms in bureaucracies the world over.

If they're selling them as realistic copies, then is there even a problem? Is there copyright on 100 year old paintings?

Why? Florida has only one Governor, not one for each party. After the election, people who didn't support whoever made it still have needs and opinions on policy.

You first edition kindle has wifi AND a cell phone....

If those are ideas that would've saved radio shack, then they're still good ideas after radio shack is gone...

"Xylem" sounds like a trade name. Was it called something else before it was patent-captured, or was it actually always patented, but the price went up after it was introduced?

They did however do bullet-time wrong. Tried to cheap out with far too few cameras, using "interpolated" frames to pad out the motion.