You do realize that you can close the find bar by pressing the Esc key, and that search next/previous is available as F3/shift-F3 or ctrl-G/shift-ctrl-G. It's a matter of taste, but I think the new search bar is an improvement. And that the find bar is now local for a single tab is more logical, IMHO.

There are some nice improvements but I prefer to be able to view all recent stories on the main page by scrolling a little bit, which works great with old design because it doesn't have a fixed width. Also I don't like the new fonts because the appear to take more space. And I miss the ability to filter the comments. Previously one could filter to only see, for instance, the insightful comments, or easily decide to view the -1 comments or not. Those controls are no longer available. Please remove the fixed width and bring back the old fonts. And consider making the images on the front page somewhat smaller.

True, but that is likely to be the same for any widely adopted solution. The best protection is probably just to have a question that is fairly unique and yet has a well defined or known answer.

Agreed. I've found asking a question like "What is five plus seventeen?" is much more effective at keeping spambots out than any standard CAPTCHA.

Sherry piking? Sure, but I was replying to the parent's message "Western European Country with the lowest population density". And yes its hard to make simple comparisons. For instance I think that transportation is just responsible for about 30% of the total energy consumption in the EU, and then one should probably factor in differences in climate and so on.

You have a point in that Europe has a higher population density than the US, but some European countries are less actually less dens.

Country Density Carbon efficiency
- - - - -
USA 35 pop/km2 1.77 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
Sweden 23 pop/km2 0.7 CO2 emissions/$ GDP
Norway 16 pop/km2 0.74 CO2 emissions/$ GDP

That said Sweden and Norway probably have an advantage in having plenty of waterpower.

The Crow Road was also made into a fine short TV series by the BBC. And don't miss The Bridge, a somewhat odd, but excellent novel.

Surely you can't fault the style in Lord Dunsany's The King of Elfland's Daughter.

Sure it can be. The debt as a percentage of GDP decreased under both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. I don't live in the US anymore, though I did, but in my country of residence the national dept was near 80% in 1995. At the end 2010 it had been reduced to about 35%.

It is the dominant economic theory today. "We are all Keynesians now." -- Milton Friedman

Inflation can be caused by an overly large money supply, but is more commonly caused a larger demand than supply for goods and services.

In Keynesian economic theory it is acceptable with relatively high levels of public debt in meager times, in order to pay for public investments which when good times follow (hopefully) can be paid back.

I'll second that. I have several Parker Jotters and I think they are the best ballpoint pens I have ever had.

Detailed temperature information exists since 1850 so that must be the time range referred to.

Sure, why not? I even converted my mother's desktop to Linux. Work great! I would even say that it works better than Windows for her.

Of cause they are working on making Firefox faster. There is even a site set up for tracking progress in Javascript performance improvements.

http://www.arewefastyet.com/?a=b&view=regress

Just checked www.amazon.co.uk, and The Incal is in print at least. Recommended.