"This enabled them, on ten occasions, to reduce the time it takes to recharge the battery."

(if that's even true. Didn't RTFPA)

"Nobody does it better."--so true! Thanks for helping me feel like I really had my finger on the pulse of the IT world... and other worlds besides.

If this topic has gotten you concerned about your personal stuff getting fried (if not by a CME, then by a nuclear EMP), you may want to look into constructing a Faraday cage. Here's a couple helpful links:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100211130814AAGmUNZ
http://forums.makezine.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=752

Good grief, Americans spend ~35 boullion dollars on health care products annually, and Europeans still think we're "dirty"? Have you even BEEN to London lately?

If it was necrotic, he would have lost all feeling in the tissue. Same deal with destructive frostbite.

http://xkcd.com/695/

Was the programming language LOGO?

If it weren't for Alfred Molina, there'd be no reason at all to see that movie.

I'm getting the D2 error too.

I hate that too! It seems like I'm deleting the Acrobat Reader icon and shortcut every other day. I've submitted a bug report to Adobe three times already about that.

And California sends in Tommy Lee Jones to take care of Will Smith.

You imply the methane is stinky; on the contrary, methane is odorless. The only reason you can smell natural gas (from your stove and whatnot) is because the utility companies put odorants in it. (one of which naturally occurs human mouths, helping to cause halitosis)

It is possible to harvest methane for storage and later consumption as an energy source.

You can expedite (and deodorize) decomposition by turning it from anaerobic into aerobic by mechanically churning the mass. Unfortunately, that greatly complicates the methane collection, if you were also going to do that. :-\

You may not be considering the right charities. Not every charity is a hand out; some are a hand up (tired old idiom not intneded). E.g. at my church we recently morphed the Benevolence Ministry beyond simply a food bank, since there are plenty of churches in the area that already do that. Now we're focusing on, as you would say, solutions. Job counseling, psychological counseling, finding temporary homes for those in need or victims of domestic abuse, and most importantly, spiritual counseling. The objective is "complete healing", not just fixing symptoms. It's because of that focus that I'm perfectly fine with donating four digits annually.

One of the main hindrances (the primary hindrance?) to adopting widespread flying cars or other airborne vehicles is safety, and helping to keep people from killing themselves in spectacularly Youtube-worthy ways. The development of an advanced "airbag" like this will really help accelerate the dawn of "highways in the sky", IMO. (Disclaimer: I work for NASA, albeit as an IT geek)