Examination of the example in the article suggests a heuristic algorithm that should provide near-optimal solutions and is suitable for real-time execution on neural wetware.

1. Start by mowing around the outside border.
2. Proceed going around, from the outside in.
3. When you reach a strip <= 3 mowers wide, clear it with short back-and-forths.

Proof of an upper bound on excess mowing vis-a-vis the optimal solution is left as an exercise for the reader.

If I click "Random Article" a few times, it'll soon come up with a village in Poland - a lot more often than France.

TI's lawyers will be after him for DMCA violation because he's bypassed their physical copyright protection mechanism.

But it's all the way in Australia!

Facebook has repeatedly changed their policies to publish various data that they had said was private or friends-only. But hey, no problem, they didn't charge money when they screwed people over so it's OK!

Uh, no, it's not OK.

Grizzly bears kill people, too.

The article says Pan-STARRS can "identify any potential threats to Earth", but it can only find asteroids and comets that are about to hit us. They don't claim to be able to spot other threats, such as:

• Dalek invasion fleet
• Berserker machines
• Chain reaction of supernovae
• Radiation front from the collapse of the galactic core
• Borg attack from the future
• Galaxy-wide iPhone recall

Stupid gadget blogs, over-hyping stuff as usual.

How many different explanations have we heard for colony collapse disorder so far? Five? Six? Is there any particular reason I should believe this one more than the others?