While these phones may very well scan for channels not being used at the moment by baby monitors and cordless phones, said baby monitors and cordless phones etc. aren't as accommodating, meaning your pseudo-cell call could presumably be interrupted at any moment by the sounds of a crying baby or a pizza order. Cheaper isn't always better.

(I'll stick with my modified 10-meter 1KW CB radio ...)

Stonehenge as we know it is a fairly modern structure, almost completely disconnected from what existed prior to what can only be called an "artistic" reconstruction in the early 1900s. Here can be found a fairly good summary of the story, which shows that "[Stonehenge] has been created by the heritage industry and is NOT the creation of prehistoric peoples." An online search for "Stonehenge rebuilt" brings up other articles, including (while they last!) photos, showing that commercial interests like English Heritage have a far better claim to Stonehenge than archeology or history. One more quote summarizes the issue: ""The instigators of the English heritage landscape were essentially amateurs, working by trial and error."

Here. Pictures and everything for the curious.

Eerily quiet. Someone had one around my Michigan home town; the loud muffler crowd I hung out with was quite disappointed. Hear a "close-up" sample here.

... what you're asking for sounds more like Dr. Strangelove.

John Leavers invented those machines in 1812 and they're still in use. If two hundred years isn't job security, I don't know what is!

I well remember punching decks of cards for my Computer Science classes, then "submitting" them to the guy behind the bank-teller window in the Mainframe Suite and waiting for my job to finish so another guy could hand me a thick stack of folded paper from the LinePrinter so I could see if my program had worked. I always got a laugh out of waiting an hour or more for my printout, which proclaimed on the second page that I had consumed .00058 seconds of CPU time -- talk about a responsive user interface!

The end product, stored in vast underground reserves, is then recovered by drilling and refining, transported in liquid form, and converted back to energy through a process referred to as "combustion." The developers are certain there can be no negative impact and envision safe, clean "filling stations" someday dotting the landscape.

Your local Goodwill will take it, clean it up and either find a good home for it or dispose of it responsibly. They might even come and pick it up if you've got enough stuff, and in the process you'll be helping the folks who Goodwill helps. I'd call it a Win-Win-Win if it didn't annoy the Mac users.

Red Light Linux -- shakes your booty.

Dude! That like totally happened to me! And then I told them how they really needed to handle the aliens, and they gave me a medal but some spies stole it when I was touring the secret warehouse.

Much of the area around Chernobyl was evacuated immediately; see the photos here of schools, businesses, equipment and homes abandoned on short notice and never reclaimed. A succession of workers continued at the power plant, both to reinforce the rapidly deteriorating "tomb" which had been hastily assembled around Reactor #4 and to keep other reactors operating as you've noted. While animals and even some people have returned to the area, it has not become "safe" nor will it be for many years to come. The Chernobyl reactors used an inherently unsafe design chosen primarily because it was cheap; the bills eventually do come due; it can be argued that Chernobyl contributed significantly to the collapse of the Soviet Union, due both to the enormous direct cost of the disaster and a desire by the government to divest itself of the very long term responsibility. Chernobyl is now Ukraine's problem; Russia simply walked away and moved on.

No, any kind of disaster is still a disaster. However, a disaster has to be an accident to be classed as an accidental disaster.

That's because of the long boot times; it's sort of an umbrella concept.

Agreed. The iPod is hardware with an associated (and optional) service; TiVo is a service with required hardware. It's like comparing apples and door-hinges.