maybe is about efficient use of space? (I don't know, haven't read the article)

live in a tall-ish building, the quake was over 3-shindo, was playing halo... yeah...

jr east has mostly delays, you can check the details here:
http://www.jreast.co.jp/

I am still dizzy from the shake (living in yokohama), plenty of blurry images right now in http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/

The other one sold DOS and Windows.

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
  (ok, this might be a Special case...)

authentication?[/epileptic trees]

Of course they don't sell bears cans in vending machines... they are just too expensive.

Also, why bothering with vending machines?
you can just buy it online: http://item.rakuten.co.jp/foodsmate/kumacurry_01

Hey, hitting people with the floors sounds pretty badass!

And thanks to the allmighty FSM, he does not look anything like Tom Cruise.

It gives you insight, in, you know, raising kids (considering you do some parenting, anyway).
It will not automatically give you a higher ground or morals, but it surely teaches you a few things.

In the upcomming months plenty of companies will start offering DLNA DMR devices (https://coherence.beebits.net/wiki/MediaRenderer).
You can stream the music from your NAS directly to this devices, as long as you have the software (ushare, twonkymedia, windows 7 has it as 'Play To').
There are not many devices available as of now, but they will be in the next few months.
DMR software: foobar2000 (need a plugin), rythmbox (needs a plugin)

Just an idea, you can google the rest.

Sort of like "No human has ever encountered a sane Pierson's Puppeteer"?

Then the experiment can find if crazy people can be stable enough to not kill the rest of the crew and still do whatever they need to do in mars.