For those that remember Calvin & Hobbes from their childhood: http://www.coffeeandcigarettes...

...and the follow up

The saddest Calvin & Hobbes comic ever (a fake I know, but still clever).

Yea, I think I would prefer a Solowheel.

The gar costs $9.99, the mobile Google Play license is $5000 a year.

You speak wisely Kimosabe. There is a shortage of welders now.

I remember the first time I flew into San Francisco decades ago. I was looking out the window when I got a weird deja-vu feeling I had been there before (I hadn't). It dawned on me later that I had recognized the scenery from playing MS Flight Simulator and flying into SF from Oakland many, many times.

Horrors, hell, and damnation! Are they paying those senior citizens for their labor? I thought not! They have effectively outsourced Brazilian language teachers with unpaid labor from the US!!

I tell my wife, the baseball fan, that watching baseball games on TV costs us over $600 a year. Personally, I've been ready to cut the cord for a while, there are plenty of better quality on-line options that are cheaper. Since watching on-line, just seeing TV commercials makes me ill anymore.

A simple (but unfortunately short) list is provided at the following site. Rumor has it these parks actually enforce rules. If you show up with a flashlifght, you will be escorted off the premises. Support your nearest dark sky state park!

http://www.darksky.org/night-s...

I second the motion to nominate Nichelle Nichols. She's one hell of a public speaker and was responsible for recruiting Sally Ride as an astronaut (if we can believe Wikipedia. Can anyone confirm?).

Answer: No. At least not for anything of consequence. Just look at how many successful petitions came out of change.org.
Anyone that thinks a web based protest would be effective should read "The Revolution will not be Tweeted" by by Malcolm Gladwell, published in New Yorker magazine, to understand why.

http://www.newyorker.com/repor...

I have to wonder how/if this research translates into the games arena. Recently, there have been several attempts to make games playable by humans but which negate the computer's advantage of massive search. These games include Arimaa, Octi, and Havannah. One speculates whether it would be possible to design a game that is equally difficult, and a fair contest, between humans and computers.

I remember the film Spin which was made of out takes from wild feeds of politicians and church leaders appealing to their constituents for money. It showed them making outrageous remarks not realizing they were on the air at the time.