Are you saying the strain in Spain was mainly due to lack of rain?

Minor correction: Jimmy Stewart flew bombers, not fighters.

Do you mean the jerry-rigging, or the posting by an ill-informed Grammar Nazi?

Better to have avoided such etymological confusion by saying "duck-taped solutions".

Same here. I wish I knew of a faster way to get from "The Internet is down!" to "Google Talk and Twitter were out at the same time." But I've become so reliant on the Internet for info that it's a chicken-and-egg problem to try and troubleshoot outages.

They were indeed the Vibram brand, not knock-offs. And happily, they weren't $100, either. I think I just have really long toes.

I recently bought a pair of those glove-like shoes (where each toe gets its own slot) that doesn't fit my feet very well. It got me to wondering if someone could use a 3D printer and some orthogonal pictures of my feet to make a better-fitting pair. The article suggests it's certainly possible, but doesn't give any sense of cost.

If average folks become aware of how many cookies get set (along with getting a user-friendly way* of turning them off), that could have a huge and entertaining effect on the world of Internet marketing**.

For example, right now, I can assume enough website visitors have JavaScript enabled to make it almost 100% (and not worth writing HTML for the case where they don't). But if I can only reasonably assume, say, 50% of my visitors/email through-clickers/etc. have cookies active, that plays havoc with my reporting.

* "User-friendly" defined as "something my dad can do without asking me for help".
** I spend all day every workday in this world.

That would make this hypothetical event a literal shitstorm.

I believe Santorum prefers to call it The Tenth Crusade.

Link?

Are you kidding? That would decimate the flying public!

That's an interesting point. I loathe the TSA, and their increasingly offensive gropings (now that I always decline their x-ray machines). But I'm trying to picture what I'd feel comfortable with as an airline traveler, on the spectrum from the current totalitarian overkill to no screening at all. Maybe bomb-residue sniffers and a check of luggage for guns?

I wouldn't hold my breath hoping for a worker-friendly, anti-Big Brother decision from the current Supreme Court.

I *am* on Facebook and Twitter, and I don't want either of them in my music player.

Ticketmaster wouldn't care, but the venue that makes its money from drink sales certainly would.