I was pretty sure they were around in the 1970s and Wiki confirms that.

I have fond memories of another boy (I swear) picking up a packed "motel" and showing it to the girls to freak them out. That was definitely in the 1970s when I was still in elementary school.

Your typical monster hurricane track starts off the west coast of Africa. It moves WEST in the tropics, then heads NORTH along the eastern US, often continuing some westward motion even well north of the tropics. It does eventually head east, but usually not until the damage is done. Think of it as a big C curve that is mostly over the Atlantic and/or Gulf of Mexico. If we're lucky, the left side of the C doesn't intersect land.

Another 3d printer. Everybody knows that capitalism is peace. This way, the 3d printer is just another form of money that creates its own interest. Eventually we'll be up to our necks in printers. We'll be so rich and it'll spawn fabulous new businesses like 3d-printer landfill operations, 3d-printer recylcing, and 3d-printer central banks to slow or speed up the production of 3d-printers.

You could get a very similar look years ago on Flickriver, Flickrhivemind, and probably a few other places. People have been using the APIs to create that look. The latter has infinite scrolling, and they both put your pictures on a black background and hide your comments.

Yes folks, Flickr's big innovation essentially takes something that 3rd parties have been doing, and forces it on users.

Hey here's an idea--maybe somebody can use the APIs to recreate Flickr's old interface, and save it from itself... at least until they take the APIs away. You know that's coming. As for me, I'm done.

It'll take a while to verify that I've extracted my 876 pictures and metadata properly. I feel sorry for the real professionals who have thousands of pictures up there.

As for making money, yeah sure. Budweiser sells a lot of beer; but they don't barge into your favorite brewpub, stick a funnel down your throat and start pouring.

Due to the aforementioned tilting problem, the North Atlantic is a bad idea. Too many swells. Going south allows them to use the Intracoastal Waterways

Point taken; but I've been in places where we went out (driving or walking) because we wanted to, not because we had to. Eating out, BTW, was a perk in some cases. It was the best of both worlds. As for the guy who prefers tea, that was available too. Done right, the person in charge of making purchases it attentive to what people want (can we get tea? This brand? Yeah sure, just ask Kathy she does the purchases).

Most perks wouldn't make a huge impact on your pay. Take the coffee, soda and snack budget. Spread it out over all the employees and you get... what? Not very much. Now without the coffe, etc. right there in the office, what do you do? Go to the same boring shop on the first floor of the building every day? Get in your car and drive or (if you're lucky) walk someplace and buy snacks at retail prices. You're right back to square one. You saved nothing. The company lost. You lost. Everybody lost. Penny-wise and pound foolish.

Reading this story makes me feel like a new man. Those bills? You'll have to track down the old guy if you want them paid.

If NHTSA can change DUI limits, maybe they can mandate yellow times and end this nonsense. Blah, blah, blah states rights whatever. This is one case where I'd be happy to see them use the denial of Federal funding club to smack these douche bags upside the head.

I won't argue specific points. I'll just say that I believe your view is out of consensus on some points, and that I'll concede that I've omitted some things and aren't perfect either.

This is a difficult problem because labels are never perfect. They're blunt tools. I've reviewed the Wiki articles on the Progressive Era and Neoconservatism. You might want to do that too.

I hate tabbed browsing. My operating system has a perfectly good way of opening multiple windows. I don't need the Web browser pretending to be my operating system. The trouble is, only IE feels good without tabs, and I abandoned it due to security and performance issues a while ago. So. I'm stuck with Chrome and tabs for now. It took a few months to get used to tabs rather than separate windows. I'm finally over the habit of clicking the X in the upper right because I think I'm closing a window. Instead of one intuitive move to get rid of what I'm looking at, it's one of several possible moves to get rid of what I'm looking at. That sounds like laziness; but it's not. It's muscle memory, and once it's wired into your neurons it's tough to change. I try to tell myself that it helps keep my brain pliable and prevents dementia; but it's still annoying.

Base your license on actual performance metrics that matter. In Virginia, I had to take a peripheral vision test to get my license when I was younger.

I never had to take that test anyplace else. What if we took that concept and extended it to the wide variety of skills that directly translate to driving ability: actual perception of events in mirrors, reaction to those events, etc. We could do it with simulators or something.

Now here's the revolutionary part. We've all known people that claim they can drive with a bottle of JD in one hand and a joint in the other while texting with the phone between their knees. Let 'em try it in the simulator. If they pass the test, give 'em a permit to drive with a higher limit.

The problem with this is that we'd also see a lot of seniors who are worse sober behind the wheel than young people with a few beers in 'em. We'd see 20-somethings that could never get a license because they are truly stupid drivers. We'd see a class of people that were allowed to do things that are currently not permitted; but the real outrage would come from all the intrinsically dangerous people we'd have to take off the road.

That's why it's an interesting idea; but it won't happen.

Amen. I hope they have the common sense to wipe every last trace of their mis-guided Apple envy from Windows. The Windows Store should be fully voluntary, and when the inevitable tumble weeds start rolling through it, they can shut it down and there will be a little 3-line blurb on some tech blogs.

You can't lobby the court, but you can vote with your feet. It takes time and effort though. This is just a battle that was lost, not the war.

Everybody knows that Liberal was redefined, and that formerly it was what we now call Libertarian.

People are less familiar with the fact that Progressive was redefined. People who call themselves progressives these days are more accurately described as socialists or leftists in most cases.

Those who bear the true standard of the original Progressive movement today don't carry a particular name.

The hallmarks of the original Progressive movement were a "muckraking" press exposing corruption and proposing solutions. This occured around the turn of the 20th century. At the time, industrialists dominated the country and factored in most of the corruption.

Today, it's a mixed bag. There are corrupt leftists as well as corrupt right-wingers in government and society.

The acid test for me is the public employee unions. If you're a real progressive, you want to disentangle both unions and corporations from government. When you say that, the reaction you get really separates the wheat from the chaff. There isn't a whole lot of wheat out there, but it exists. The true progressive, Neoprog, if you will, recognizes that there is just as much muck to rake from one side of the aisle as the other.