Internet surfers are a crabby bunch.

The most promising aspect of open source software, even beyond being free of locked-down monopolies, is the opportunity for anyone with an interest in software to get their hands dirty and experience what it feels like to help develop a project they actually use and care about. Even if the coding experience isn't there, there may be other ways to get involved. Participating in OSS has the potential to be very gratifying, and can entice more people to consider computer programming by leaping over the barrier of "who cares about a stupid program that prints 'hello world'?"

More specifically, because the religious left or right care about information, but don't care whether it's scientifically verifiable or not. The thing is, religion, by it's very nature is conservative. Change contradicts 1,000-year-old scripture.

Some people argue that science fiction, apart from being set in some techno-future, is (or at least should be) about addressing timeless human philosophical conflicts and ethical challenges, such as the issues related to ruling over other people via technological superiority, or the extent to which society/government can/should mold/control human's physical traits, behaviors, thoughts, or very lives. For the most part, these types of Sci-fi stories mainly use fictional technology to remove the tedious technicalities that something can't yet be done, and instead jump right into whether something should be done. In contrast, your run-of-the-mill fantasy is about adventure and heroism. All engaging fiction needs some sort of plot-advancing "adventure," but wonder of exploration is more often tied with fantasy adventure then sci-fi conflict.

I'm a fan of Triglav , which is a Diablo-style RPG with surprising quality and game length. It's coded in JavaScript, but designed for IE6 (wtf?), but appears to work with IE8 (and doesn't appear to work with Firefox). There's a instant-play mode, or a registration mode that lets you save your progress. Check it out.

Prior Art? Here's the flash file from May 11, 2005: iparigrafika.hu at archive.org

Here's a perfect example, with the page corners dynamically pinned to your cursor's position: http://www.pageflip.hu/
The demo has been updated as recently as 2010, but it was linked to from another site in 2006, post

Seeing in color is also augmented reality. Chromatic information is superimposed over the vision of both of our eyes. If we close our eyes, no chromatic information is perceived.

I'd like an answer to the same question. I'm sure many people are in the same boat, leaving their computers on because the shutdown/reboot is annoying. I'd save a lot of energy use and battery life if I could be enticed to shut off my laptop. Anyone else have personal experiences with what would cost $200 to have an SSD system partition?

13-year-olds inventing things just for sheer awesomeness is always great, but this 13-year-old didn't invent anything. He just used the Bang Goes the Theory design.

In many ways, it's the sort of cherry-picked, onslaught of soundbites like Svartalf provided that shutdown all rational, independent thought in people who lack cynicism, eventually creating enough unintelligible rage that society reacts broadly by locking down freedoms and independence.

That's the perfect riddle to demonstrate the nature of the problem everyone's been discussing.

Nonsense. MOST (non-mathematical) word puzzles are based on challenging assumptions inherent in colloquial English. They are designed to be misleading.

• "Two halves make a whole, so you climb through the whole."
• "The doctor is the boy's mother."
• "His hair didn't get wet because the man was bald."
• "Bob and Jan are fish."

Whenever a puzzle is presented as a simple setup, the puzzler should always consider each word as a clue. With regards to the given puzzle, the puzzler naturally assumes in colloquial English that, if the speaker mentions a set of characteristics applying to a group, the speaker would not intentionally leave out members of the group that have those same characteristics. In my opinion, that's a typical assumption challenged by word puzzles.

Consider this statement: "I have two children with birthday parties coming up during the week. One of whom is a boy born on a Tuesday. The other is also a boy born on a Tuesday, but he's already graduated college so we don't need to get him a clown." It's not improper, just inefficient.

Even more to the point, the health risk for stereopsis from 3D is, according to the article, caused by the two separate images projected at each eye. Not all 3D technology works that way. Popular 3D in film and television use glasses, but 3D images can be projected or simulated without any eye-wear. I'm not sure about the effects of all competing 3D technologies currently being considered for consumer televisions, but true holographic video does not suffer from that problem.

Even assuming you're correct that exposing a high school physics class to CFD software will fail at teaching them anything about fluid mechanics, you are still ignoring the more important benefit such exposure will have: sparking interest. I would bet that more than a few students would see the computer model and think, "wow! I wonder how other shapes would interact with airflow?". That right there is where the river of knowledge springs from.

ZIP+4 can be more than enough information to identify residents in apartment buildings. In my building, each 4 digit extension covers exactly 2 apartments.