Oyster shells are ground up and fed to chickens as a source of calcium. Chickens need a lot of calcium to keep laying eggs every day, and if they get deficient, they can lay the eggs with thin or even no shells.

Actually, I wouldn't be too surprised if they actually used them in human calcium supplements as well. (I have no idea if they do, but it would seem reasonable.)

I think it would be more appropriate to name a sea after him.

Yes, the human ear can distinguish vertical position as well. Ever wonder why the outer ear (the pinna) is shaped so weird? It's so it will distort sound coming from different directions differently.

Here's an demonstration I saw at the Exploratorium in San Fransisco, but you can easily reproduce this at home.

Close your eyes, and have someone standing beside you jingle a ring of keys near your ear, above, below, and adjacent. It's easy to tell where the sound is coming from.

Now bend the top cartilage over, so the shape of the ear is distorted, and repeat the previous experiment. Now the easy task of detecting direction becomes almost impossible.

I'm not claiming that you're wrong, I honestly don't know enough about the subject. However, I don't understand how Reagan could sign an executive order in 1989 since he was president from 1980-1988. Am I missing something?

Of course he's Homer the Great, haven't you see season 6 episode 12?

I used to indent parameters across multiple lines like that, but they're just too much of a hassle to maintain like that. I think it's just as readable and less work if you put each parameter on its own line, just give it normal indention:

if (AThing)
{
--->MyFunction(
------->parameter1,
------->parameter2);
}

or normal indention + 1 indent:

if (AThing)
{
--->MyFunction(
----------->parameter1,
----------->parameter2);
}

I once did a similar calculation for my city of 200,000, and came up with an answer of approximately 2. At that point I concluded I would never find either one of them, and gave up.

It's a budong.

Attributed to Lyall Watson:

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't."

Q: Why don't jokes work in octal?
A: Because 7, 10, 11

You make very good points about alternating between hands. The strength of the Dvorak keyboard is that a high percentage of English words are typed in an alternating pattern. In QWERTY there are a lot of words that require typing two consecutive letters with the same finger. In Dvorak, there are quite a few words which can be "rolled". In fact, my most common typing mistakes in Dvorak are hitting the keys in the wrong order because I can basically "press" the word, and it's a matter of the keystrokes landing in the right order. QWERTY typing has a much rougher rhythm to it.

No, they've already spent all the tax dollars you pay them, long ago. Any new program like this is just printing new money at the cost of diluting old.