Why the facade? We know that they're going to keep raising the length of copyright every 10 or so years indefinitely, so why not just skip the trouble and say copyright ownership lasts forever.

Heck, they could make it retroactive. It'd be fun to discover you're one of Mozart's kin and get a little cash.

Austin is about the only city I could tolerate in Texas.

But the first thing I typed into the shell was:

man woman

Then I giggled.

I have a laptop that I bought a year ago that came preinstalled with Vista. XP wouldn't install on it (I'm sure there is some hack, but I don't have the time or energy to find it). When this laptop running this crummy OS is up for recycling, I'd be very happy to know that the next one I buy can run in XP mode and all of my software will run nicely.

My wife, now that we know that there's no grater risk of injury if she runs in her 6" stiletto heals.

Microsoft builds its house of dominoes out of playing cards. It's best not to ask how either one of them work.

Fresca has always been marketed as a "caloria-free soft drink", hence it never had sugar in the first place.

I never heard that word before so I did a Google search on it. What I found disturbed me a lot. Does it mean that my Dr. Pepper has a sorts of sea slugs in them?

Then I realized it was a spelling error and hit myself on the head.

They lose money on every product sold, no matter what. They make money by selling a lot of them (volume!)

And that's just it. It's a publicity contest. Really, a sort of novelty. If somehow they manage to get something really special they might start doing it every year. But no matter what happens nobody gets hurt, a bunch of people get a trip to New York, and get to perform at a world famous venue.

You can, but you can still see talent through crummy recording devices. That girl is talented (well, more talented than anyone I've known or seen live as an amateur), despite the 'computer on top of some books' recording studio.

Everyone dies. That and the 2009 Farm Dere tractors on the 5AM farm report.

NASA is a very closed system. You don't just "get" to become an astronaut because you want to. It's a long and involved project.

What surprises me is that we haven't seen foreign nations with a fair amount of intellectual capital but without a real space program attempt like types of trade with private space endeavors. It could eventually work out to being on a smaller scale, and could promote a more international, global interest in space.

Who needs invisibility when they don't need to leave the house; they can just be more interesting on their cell phone.

Yes, because there isn't any service out there that lets people share the pointlessness of their lives. Otherwise, so many of its users would see marked improvements over "Going to take the dog to the vet" and spreading this banality to everyone stupid enough to click 'yes' and be added as a friend.