Your figures are very interesting, but bad.

You state that a million electric vehicles, charging all at the same time, will take 3TW of power for an hour. When was the last time you saw a million cars fuelling up at once?

If we assume that the car charging times are evenly distributed, and that the cars all need fully recharging once a day, we get 0.125TW of power for each hour of the day. That's worst case, with the stipulations I've just given; a long-range EV isn't going to need charging once a day, unless it's constantly going transcontinental. With 1.08TW of capacity, I don't think we'll have a problem.

Of course, this neglects to mention the sterling work that members of the xkcd forums do to destroy and/or improve the comics, in the spirit of "Making xkcd Slightly Worse".

I'm currently building an archive of the xkcd/sw posts, and I'm looking to release a book of the "best" of the worsened comics. I will probably be buying Randall's book, if only to get ideas for layout and styling.

Obligatory xkcdsw: http://xkcdsw.com/279

For those who haven't seen it before, csh sees unmatched parentheses and gives you:

Too many ('s.

I had a similar problem when I was writing an "extended text-mode" (80x25) software driver for the C64, recently. Since each character is encoded into 8 bytes, and there are 256 possible characters, the character definitions span over a wider space than the 8-bit index register can fetch.

Simple to fix: just self-modify the instructions that handle the font buffer, changing the base pointer as you enter a new page. Since the C64 has a 6510 chip, you'll probably understand the code quite well.

I wrote an article on the code a few months back, might be an interesting read.

So, with the "breakthrough" a few months ago that three different dyes in a cell could capture 40% of light from the sun, does that make this more efficient than coal?

Could the ecomentalists finally have something to cheer about?!

No, I think that was his point. It's not "OVER NINE THOUSAND", since that was never said in the Japanese.

It's "OVER EIGHT THOUSAND".

What, you're not pining for a bit of Age of Empires on the train home?

To be honest, I can't see the point of running desktop applications on your phone. Anyone else?

The talking woman is not an ad, it is a site element, so adblocker comments don't apply.

And was adblock mentioned even once? No.

Flashblock blocks any Flash embed or object element, replacing it with a clickable button. If you wish to load a particular Flash element, you click the button and only then does it load. Hugely useful, especially in conjunction with Adblock.

They're not the same thing.