So, let's say that a lot of facebook users are so ticked off at a company that they organize a campaign to spam the owner. The owner suddenly has hundreds of thousands or millions of facebook communications, all costing $1 to each sender. And yes, this can and has been done with postal mail, but it's a lot more likely to happen if it's a click of a button away.

In fact, I suggest we all write to Mark Zuckerberg right now and complain...

Yes... the innovative device that can sense its environment and make it better. Welcome to the 1880's IBM.

Actually, isn't lunar length a measurement of time?

You have no chance to survive make your time?

Without having read the article, it seems like this study might have a flaw. The brief description seems to imply an overlap in the two tasks: memorizing read words and hearing unrelated words. I'm not sure most types of multitasking are like this. I can context switch as long as there's enough switched. Besides, isn't real multitasking the ability to make progress on one task and then ignore it for a bit while making progress on another task? I hardly ever attempt to do *simultaneous tasks*.

iPhone
iPhone 3G
iPhone 3GS
iPhone 4
iPhone 4S ...

Why does this news story read like a resume?

This Axis of Evil term was one he used "describing governments that he accused of helping terrorism and seeking weapons of mass destruction." I think the whole reason they began pursuing nuclear weapons is that they already pursued WMDs and nukes are just the shiniest of them all. Blaming something Bush said is incredibly naive.

I can't help admit that my first thought was, who the hell is Majorana Fermion? I dunno, but I like her already! I'm glad they found her!

Master Blaster runs Bartertown!

Could be a great way to scoop up abandoned bits of technology and analyze them and/or profit from them...

Without speculating which category Jaffe falls into, I've noticed that there seem to be two types of people - those who go through life looking for meaning in it and those who go through life just trying to figure out how to get to the next [fill in the blank]. While meaning may not be strictly necessary for a challenge/reward based game, it certainly is appealing for some.

they need to figure out a way to synthesize Majel Barrett's voice based on current samples so that the Majel interface can respond with her voice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA

Why bother trying to re-invent the wheel?