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.

I embarked on a small project to read a rather short untranslated medieval Latin text. I was not aware of Distributed Proofreaders, and they may not want to take on my test in any case. I've been able to glean a lot of meaning by using Google Translate, Blitz Latin, and William Whitaker's Words. I was able to use these because the text I was trying to read was fairly short, about 25 pages. Doing it yourself may not be an option for a much longer text, but think of it as a possibility should the need arise.

Best wishes on your continued endeavor!

A similar observation was made at the Palmerton, PA superfund site. The nearby Blue Mountain was the recipient of toxic fumes spewed from a nearby tin processing plant for almost a century. The resultant depositions killed almost all the vegetation on the mountainside, which furthermore, did not decay because of the dearth of micro organism capable of living there.

"...concentrations of cadmium, lead, and zinc in the soil were so high as to prevent regeneration. In fact, metals levels stopped all microbial activity, creating a biological desert where trees that had been dead for 20 or more years could not decompose. "

http://www.mabiosolids.org/upl...