I thought it was a piece of comet that exploded over Siberia's Tunguska river in 1908 - I also thought it was common knowledge - go figure.

India Business Machines!

pfff I bet $20 we crack the 4th dimension in, say.. 500 million years. After that, none of this really matters.

They are probably still driving Pintos

It's kind of a do-nothing-well car for $40,000USD

He will end up being pardoned and sent back to Canada, thus showing Iran as having an enlightened justice system. We've seen this over and over again.

Rope is great, but reels are about 10 minutes max; so with a 80 minute film it's likely 10-14 long takes

Here is my solution, stop getting new laptops with less vertical pixels; it's not like you can't find them.

I bet in the next 1000 years humans could figure out how to make the trip at half the speed of light (40 years).

Water is still wet.

Really, anyone who is even moderately interested in history realizes that this has been going on in the USA since Washington left office (1797), maybe earlier.

I would put it to the readers that overall "the great experiment" has turned out better than one could have hoped. Secret wars, deals and shenanigans are generally less prevalent as the decades roll on (granted this is also evident world-wide). 100 years ago most of Europe was run by a dozen Emperors, Kings and Queens who were mostly all related (lol @ accountability). There are no more Rothschilds/Habsburgs.

Does anyone else this these wheels would look sweet on my 2001 Saturn?

Toss on a pair of smelly overalls, the volunteer to "harvest her crops".

I have two of these (WB HD Live) one wired and one wireless. I am very happy with the performance. Not many bells & whistles but it gets the job done. I would recommend it. However http://www.dlink.com/boxeebox Boxee Box seems to do all this and more (at about twice the price) but it's not available until November. I will probably get myself a boxee box for xmass :)

I wonder if BP execs will give themselves a bonus.

"Hey! It wasn't one of ours!" bonus.