Until this stuff is installed on the Google Street View cars!

Do the CCD on the bottom of optical mice count?

I'd try to get my hands in a high-altitude weather balloon... The FBI might have an interesting day wondering what's my car doing at 100000 feet.

"I feel sorry for you, puny human, my future slave! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Yes, an evil plot from ex-communists to take the world hostage threatening to eat it with an artificial black hole. There you have it, a plot for the next James Bond Movie.

Shouldn't the successor to KGB be called LHC... oh!

There's a project called InfoLeg Trying to do exactly this... I'm not sure if they've been able to keep up, but they have a lot of content browsable in a way that resembles revision control a lot.

As an example you have here our copyright law passed in 1933. The three links there can show you the original text, the most recent text applying all updates (i.e. "HEAD" :) ), and a link to a list of laws/decrees that updated modified it later.

That's more or less what you were looking for? I know people who were close to the project in the past, I can get you a couple of names if you're really interested...

Microsoft has told skydivers that they don't recommend using parachutes, because a parachute adds to their weight.

This (as the advice stated by microsoft) is based on strictly true facts (greater attack area) but it is also strictly useless advice...

A lot of developers I've known had made their first game during Pyweek contests. Pyweek is a free and open game creation contest, using python. It has a very friendly and open community, so even if it is a contest there is a lot of people around wanting to help newbies and provide advice.

But the best thing of participating in the contest is that the rules help you to FINISH a game. Starting work on a game is easy, but it's too tempting to fall into scope creep and start adding characters, places, game mechanisms, enemy behaviour ad infinitum, and you are always starting new stuff but never getting to have something finished.

Try it. Most of the people I known to go into the contest have had a lot of fun.

I hope the power is enough to make all the food replicators work. Otherwise I don't know what we will eat when we cover every arable field (read: the places where we grow most food now, which are not forested, with ice, water, nor urban) with wind turbines.