I thought of this after my post, this is also a good possibility.

Well, it says "in part" because he was a Muslim. Probably more in part due to the Japanese government knowing exactly where he was being held so they could apply pressure accordingly. It's not random that a guy goes missing on April 1st, makes a few help me tweets on September 3rd and is then released a day or so later.

I have a friend who's totally blind and is incredibly adept at technology. He runs his own web site, uses his iPhone daily, and compliments/complains daily to companies who don't have accessibility features on their apps and gadgets. He also plays video games and records himself playing and posts the videos on Youtube.

Here's his contacts if anyone is interested in reading stuff from him:
http://twitter.com/liamerven
http://www.youtube.com/liamerven

This is what I use my Sheeva Plug for, watches RSS feeds and downloads automatically, also acts as the NAS for the house. Great stuff, really simple to configure being Debian and all.

http://exogen.github.com/nose-achievements/

        *
            Instant Feedback
            A suite of at least 50 tests takes less than a second to run.
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            Coffee Break
            The suite takes between 5 and 15 minutes to run.
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            Take a Walk
            The suite takes between 15 and 60 minutes to run.
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            Take a Nap
            The suite takes between 1 and 5 hours to run.
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            Take a Vacation
            The suite takes at least 3 days to run.
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            Coming soon!
            Anticipation
            One test in a suite of at least 10 is slow, and all the rest pass.

Time

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            Night Shift
            Make a failing suite pass between midnight and 5am.
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            Punctuality
            Make a failing suite pass at 9am (give or take a minute).

Failure

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            Complete Failure
            All tests in a suite of 50 to 999 fail.
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            Epic Fail
            All tests in a suite of at least 1,000 fail.
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            Minor Letdown
            All tests in a suite of 10 to 99 pass...except the last.
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            Major Letdown
            All tests in a suite of at least 100 pass...except the last.
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            Happy Ending
            All tests in a suite of at least 10 fail...except the last.
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            Coming soon!
            Heisenbug
            Make a passing suite fail without changing anything.

Errors

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            Sausage Fingers
            Cause at least 2 distinct syntax errors in a single run.
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            To Understand Recursion
            Exceed the maximum recursion depth.
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            Coming soon!
            To Err is Human
            Cause all tests in a suite of at least 50 to fail with a single error.

Size

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            My God, It’s Full of Dots
            The suite has at least 2,001 passing tests.

Frequency

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            Coming soon!
            OCD
            Run the suite at least 5 times in the span of a minute without changing anything.

Coverage

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            100% Code Coverage Level x
            Cover 100% of at least 2x+7 statements with passing tests.

Libraries

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            Are You Mocking Me?
            Import a mocking library with at least one passing test.
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            Great Expectations
            Import the Expecter Gadget library.

Refactoring

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            Coming soon!
            Successful Refactor Level x
            Change at least 2x+5 lines of code between two consecutive passing runs.

Hell, Michigan?

In the novelization it was right after the prologue.

It was a cool scene in the book because of the tension on when he turned the lightsaber on for the first time. I remember Luke debating in his mind whether to have R2 turn it on first because if the crystals weren't positioned just right the saber might blow up.

Is there a reason an out of game object is stored within the game like this? Can you buy them in the game?

For values of N where N != 1

It seems last year I was getting a lot more lottery winning spams, but maybe Gmail has finally figured out how to consistently blocked those, because I see them a lot less, or the spammers have just given up on that method altogether.

Because Google is abandoning it.

Even Top Gear says MPG, and they're the authority!

Very cool, and while the video seems to touch on it and explain the system (don't understand Chinese), I'm still worried about the whole cars passing underneath it and tall trucks getting told to move to the side. The buses would need to be super communicative to avoid any kind of collisions.

Also not sure how much infrastructure would need to be modified to accommodate the buses, apparently they need two lanes and quite a bit of clearance that might currently be blocked by power lines and the like. I'd love to see it in action though, hope this actually materializes.

Of course they're biased, that's the whole point of their site. They have viewpoints they want to get out to the public.