I regularly read on my Kindle in the bath. I just double-bag with regular ziploc bags, and I've never had any issues.

There are plenty of countries where teachers are actually respected, paid decent wages and supported by their schools - my little brother ended up in Australia, and even though he's not currently in a particularly nice school (inner city...) he still says it's a massive leap above most schools in the US/UK...

...brain the size of a planet and they ask me to answer this poll...

Call this job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't.

The linked article is a good start - my personal preference would be a panasonic GX1 at the moment - it offers enough control so that you can grow with it and the panasonic G series cameras have generally been of fairly high quality for the field.

If I didn't have a DSLR, I would probably get one of these as in most situations (especially when size is an issue when travelling) these cameras can produce images as good as a similar level DSLR.

There was an Iron Man storyline (Stark Resilient) not too long ago that had a game app being released that pretended that real missions were actually part of the game, with the players controlling UAVs...

The UK Data Protection Act can force them to delete any data they have on you even if they won't reveal exactly what it is (as long as they're not the government or someone you owe money to)...

We get deliveries of the main city newspaper at the university we work at for the undergraduates (no deliveries during the holidays) so I read it then, and take it home for lighting the evening wood fire.

There's also a little free local paper that gets dropped in mailboxes even if you have a 'no junk mail' sign.

Macs get names from cowboys in Western movies (eg. Jake)
Linux boxen get names from star constellations (eg. Cassiopeia)
Windows gets names from horror story characters (eg. Igor)

External hard drives for my main machine get names from The Abyss (eg. Pseudopodia, Deep Core, DeepSuit)