Don't forget the allegedly smuggled "Moon Museum" etching on Apollo 12. Andy Warhol penis sketch FTW.

This somewhat bizarre story stems from research conducted by Colombia University historian Gwen Wright, whose PBS show History Detectives unearthed evidence that a tiny, penny-sized ceramic chip etched with six sketches – one each from Warhol, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain and Forrest "Frosty" Myers – landed on the moon with the Apollo 12 mission and is still there today.

Groundskeeper Willy with his pithy econ-politcal insight?

This 1000x. In read that info too after I saw it when it came out. I remember groaning through the whole movie. It felt like a betrayal.

I read Starship Troopers when I was 14-15 and it was awesome. You had rough military types in badass power armor with chicks flying spaceships fighting bugs on another planet. I honestly didn't focus much in the political aspects and was surprised when the movie came out because it was, as I felt, so over the top. That and the disappointing lack of power armor and addition of a literally brain sucking love story subplot. I'm sure if I reread ST no, I'd think it was a bit ridiculous but, as a book aimed at teenagers, I say it hit the mark when I was one.

That and Verhoeven just makes stupid, over the top movies in general. I recently rewatched Total Recall and had forgotten how dumb it was, flashy but dumb. If anything he's good at making things seem rosy that you saw as a kid ...

That Arudino kit *is* over the top. You're looking more for the original style Arduino Uno: http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno

Because Google Now utilizes an enhanced Qualcomm ARM chip with a "contexual computing processor" so the voice recognition is done largely in hardware on the phone (http://www.itproportal.com/2013/07/25/motorolas-new-x8-arm-chip-underpinning-the-always-on-future-of-android) :

> The CCP is billed as adept at processing sensor data from the device and using it in the always-on display features of the new Motorola handsets. L-NLP monitors > the microphone input, noise cancellation, and runs speech recognition to make the phone a hands-free device.

The new iPhone's don't have that, so they have to keep with the "record audio, send to server" method.

I'm pretty sure their DVD collection doesn't. Besides, last I checked, Linux could play DVDs just fine.

Sorry to see no mention in TFA regarding Harold Cohen's "Aaron" drawing program which has been doing this for decades: http://www.scinetphotos.com/aaron.html This appears to similar albeit with the addition of a plotter + penholder. The debate of "is it really art or not" gets replayed yet again ...

Even if your troll reality is true, I'm glad to see proprietary flash fading away versus HTML5. Sometimes it just takes a nudge ...

I took Bushman's Social Psychology class at ISU back in 2001 or so. He's genuine and persuasive on this topic. I didn't think he was explicitly anti-video games but more interested in reminding people about mediation and it's effects. That being said, we come back from class and blast each other on Counterstrike in the dorms ...

Nope. If he's going to make commercial space a reality, I'm all for hearing more from him.

after "According to pigrabbitbear" ... Is it just me or has the namespace of good available user / website names run out like IP4? CNN reporter floppypants456 bringing you breaking news!

Also, this smells suspiciously of manbearpig! He's real I tell you!

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Looking at the last graph, how much of the drop in Nokia is due to Windows Phone adoption versus the overall increase in people buying smartphones? The graph make it seem pretty clear, but dosen't part of Nokias loss/growth of rivals circa 2010 show more that smart phones are becoming cheaper, more accessible, and more people are buying them over Nokias bread and butter smart phones? If that's the case, it can be argued choosing an Android/iOS smartphone OS analog like Windows Phone was the only way to stem the loss of dumb phone sales.

+1 on this. Recently, I switched from an AT&T plan to an AT&T GoPhone account. I pay $25/month for 250 mins and unlimited text messages but no data with my iPhone (they want you to have a plan for the iPrivilege, bah). As the OP has an Android, he can get various levels of data as an extra if he wants. Nice to see a ridiculous $80-110 bill turn into a stable $25. Wifi is indeed everywhere.

The catch is that you have to put money on the account each month or you lose whatever leftover minutes you have. I agree this is not as flexible as a prepaid Euro sim card, but it's *far far far* cheaper/saner then a crap plan, especially if you're not getting the latest, greatest phone with it. Also, you can setup an automated monthly payment to top up the account.

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