Don't use a black background. I find bright cyan (#00FFFF) background with black foreground works well for my eyes. Other people think I'm crazy though. (My eyes have intra occular lenses in, due to early cataracts. I told my son I got robot eyes. 8-)

You have to wonder why they couldn't push the S/N from an awkward 19.49dB to a nice round 20dB improvement.

You're right: this would be the perfect oven for the budding serial killer. Set dial to "cremate" and you're done!

Have you researched an Aga? It's always on—solves both your problems.*

* You didn't list cost and controllability. B-)

Here's another good reason to use joe (jmacs for me).

$ ls -lF --si /usr/bin/emacs23-nox /usr/bin/joe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11M Sep 8 2012 /usr/bin/emacs23-nox*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 462k Oct 6 2011 /usr/bin/joe*

I snidely disparage your use of joe. I use jmacs! Much better*. B-)

* In the sense that my fingers are not lost when I come across a system that only has emacs installed. Otherwise joe's great.

C: jmacs

The series of Seeed oscilloscopes are a bit clunky, but otherwise reasonable.

Nobody needs to learn to drive any more. We can teleconference everywhere. If you need your body to be somewhere, just rent a taxi! It's all virtual these days.

Have you examined the pattern of misprints? Maybe they're there to uniquely identify your copy of the e-book. That way, if the text pops up on a torrent stream, you can expect a knockin'-at-the-door.

But I bet the "mostly guys" in your office don't steal your pink stuff.

I am continually surprised at how many different things my small kids can build out of even sub-100-piece sets. In the past, Lego kits came with pictures of alternate things to build, and maybe that's what you were thinking of. My kids (and friends') don't seem to need encouragement to use their imagination when it comes to building castles, spaceships, cars, monsters, robots, blaster platforms, robo-grandma, SuperPantsMan, and Frank Rock/Iron Man hybrids.

God could also have a really well defined momentum, and therefore the uncertainty inequality makes Him omnipresent.

"Reconnect the network or the milk gets it."

Just post your new password on /. and we'll figure this out for you. B-)