"since all of my goals outlined since my hire date have been met and exceeded, I have a lot of down time" + "The application would streamline a lot of processes and take a lot of the burden off my team" = they have more hands than work already and you're trying to make it more lopsided. At some point they're going to look at chopping some heads.

Everyone involved in distributing X-Men: Origins: Wolverine deserved a year in prison, not just the pirates.

It turns out Kevin Costner really is the Soviet sleeper agent. Looks like the remake will be shorter.

Can I use one of these to power my Moller volantor?

Swing by Tosche Station and pick up some power converters.

That doesn't seem like enough. What will you do when those two characters are killed brutally and unexpectedly?

Don't get me started on the physics in The General.

If anything US grain and consumer product shipments helped the Soviet economy stay afloat longer than it would have otherwise. The Soviet Union bankrupted itself with it's poor centralized planning and its unsustainable military spend rate -- to 'fight' an actual cold war. Not that that's doing anything to slow down our unsustainable military spend rate.

I agree, the world can use more dreamers from all countries. But wait, cold war? With us? Damn them for shipping manufactured goods to us as fast as they can stuff them into the shipping containers! If the Chinese are at war with anyone, it's with their own people, and even then neither cold or war are really the right words. The term cold war doesn't seem to have any bearing.

I thought it was bad that the Blackberry tablet requires your phone to get email and function correctly. This Intel tablet requires a 32 core 'cloud' machine? Am I going to need a co-location service provider for my backend to ensure I can play a tablet based fps? Or is Intel planning to provide unlimited cloud capacity for each low power (and low cost) tablet processor they sell?

You miss Turbo Pascal? Commodore 64's flat, unprotected memory model? Clicky keyboards with the CTRL key where tab is now, because it's somehow impossible to hit one handed CTRL keystroke combinations with it in the lower left corner?

Was this written by Andy Rooney's sysadmin?

Since they're a Hong Kong airlines, the female stewardesses are looking to emulate Michelle Yeoh in the excellent movie Wing Chun. It may be difficult in an airliner -- the low ceiling leaves little room for a wire-fu harness. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111800/

Google's DNS servers at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are also good free, standards compliant DNS servers.

The worldwide road system, if counted as a country, would be the single largest emitter of CO2.

You're probably also not in the market for a $700 video card, which is about the same level of exotic and pricey as a 30" monitor. Or, better yet, a pair of $700 video cards and a 1200 watt power supply to feed them.