I would agree with this; better yet if you have an iPhone, get the London Tube app - it will tell you the nearest tube stop using GPS and plot the fastest route from one station to the other. Finally, changing at Bank for Monument and vice versa on the tube is to be avoided if at all possible, especially during rush hour!

There are dispensers where you can buy Oyster cards in a lot of the tube stations (think they're £3 or so). Some flights also sell them on the way in these days with pre-loaded credit.

The card will work on the tube, buses and a lot of the national rail services within London - national rail services going out of London are a bit of minefield pricing wise so you're better off asking at the station for the cheapest fair at the time you are travelling.

The cheapest way to get around London is to buy a 7 day travelcard and have it loaded onto the Oyster card at the machine/kiosk, you probably only need zone 1 depending on where you're staying.

(P.S. I would agree with visiting the British Museum and the Science Museum; the National History Museum is an amazing building and the dinosaurs are cool but the rest of the exhibits are a bit boring, however it's next door to the Science Museum and they're all free so you might as well stick your head round the door.)

If it's £50 in the UK it will probably be closer to $50 in the US. We always get screwed on the exchange rate (and quoted prices in the UK include tax).

An xbox game at launch is typically £35-40 over here (the RRP of Modern Warfare 2 was even higher, but I don't think that's a phenomenon unique to the UK).

AMD (formerly ATI) offer some kind of free tool to users of their graphics card that does the same thing.

I think it might be called Hydravision or something like that. I used it until I installed Windows 7 when I found that the new Aero snap and improved multi-monitor stuff was enough for my needs.

If it takes an hour to charge, it better cost far, far less than gasoline.

Build a low cost home brew computer. The N8VEM SBC is designed to teach basic principles of computer hardware and software. The hardware is cheap, readily available, all the information is free (beer/speech). It is designed for quick, easy, and reliable construction using simple tools.

The N8VEM project is open and all design information for hardware and software are freely and publicly posted. There are many N8VEM builders (>100) and an active community. The design is scalable from a single board computer with minimal parts and simple IO (serial & parallel) to a complete microcomputer.

mailing list http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem

wiki http://n8vem-sbc.pbwiki.com/

Citation required.

About the only dangers I can think of are dropping the CRT on your foot or maybe if you crushed up the leaded glass and ate it. A modern CRT doesn't shoot X-Rays out of the front.

If that is all it takes for you to believe they are outdated, then so be it. But two of those issues are tiny, I don't care about the weight of something that sits on my desk all the time. And compared to my PC a CRT doesn't waste much power at all, especially since I tend to turn a monitor off when I'm not using it but a PC is usually left running. (who wants to wait 30 seconds+ for boot-up?)

It's not so much contradictions as me trying to be honest about the issues. I can discuss the merits and faults of something at the same time, there is no law or convention preventing me from doing so.

This has already been around for a few years.

http://www.placeengine.com/en - developed in Japan. I tried it out when they first launched it. It works quite well. Most of the major Japanese cities are covered and they have a pretty good handle on major cities outside Japan. London, NYC, LA, Toronto etc.

And yes, it can estimnate your location inside buildings as well. Of course it needs somebody to go visit those places to feed it the relevant WiFi signal strengths in the first place.

Whereas I only get a theoretical 356 miles out of my 2009 Fiat 500 - it only has a 35 litre / 7.7 UK Gallon fuel tank though.

However the model with the 1.2 litre engine has a theoretical range of 427 miles and next year's models are rumoured to get the same if not greater horsepower from a 0.9 litre turbo charged engine which should increase the range even more

You don't know how right you are. Except romantic love relationships often end badly. From the divorce rate I'd surmise they end that way more often than not.

The modern military instead instills other kinds of love: brotherhood, patriotism, and pride.

I think we should take bets now. I've got five bucks that says the "beta" tag will be removed not before 5 years from today.