Perhaps the ~800K is the temperature in the storage tower, so it was higher when it was melted.

But the current title is cool because it does it without adding overly superfluous words.

Its a possibility, but you can shield radiation in other ways. Resilliance and high oxygen production would be more important. Ideally, breed plants for all of these things (and start ASAP).

I was thinking a giant yo-yo.

They put stuff like that (and first person controls, etc) into the engine, not the game.

It just comes downstream to the games, as it should.

In that case I could name my first born child the Mandelbrot set. Not "Mandelbrot" the string, not the equation, but actually use the resulting plot as a character.

Good luck pronouncing it, or writing it accurately.

What is 'two'? 10 states is enough for everybody.

Appreciation of grammar, spelling, context, and connotation comes from reading books.

People read less with movies, games, youtube, etc. available to fill their time.

The BLOWHOLE????

I remember overhearing someone at Uni bragging about their new Mac book.

"It only cost $1500, and it doesn't get viruses because its a Mac. And I put windows on it so I can run everything."

I was just sitting there laughing harder at each point. I considered explaining to him the stupidity here, but decided it would be a waste of time.

Build Underground Cities.
More constant temperature, heaps of extra space. If you begin deep enough you might be able to commence construction with the existing city above.
Although a dome might be easier at first, when they're not prepared to rebuild everything below. Still, I think we'll get there eventually.

Also IBM patented it for emails some time ago: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/24/2243209/IBM-Seeks-Patent-On-Digital-Witch-Hunts?art_pos=1

Hopefully it'll be similar to site: or url:

So you only get results on twitter if you search using:
tweet:query here

And normal searches don't include twitter results at all.

2009-10-21

ISO8601, logical and standard.

Maybe if someone could use the SSL exploit to hijack the windows update service and use it to replace everyone's windows installs with linux.