It's not called the dark side because it's dark. It's "dark" because that side never faces Earth. Thus, during a solar eclipse the "dark" side is completely illuminated by the sun.

One of the prevailing moon origin ideas is that it's the result of a massive object impacting Earth. That could certainly go a long way toward explaining the presence of water in lunar material.

Of course it would be extremely costly to consolidate any meaningful quantity of lunar water. Imagine the task of extracting a kilogram of extremely fine gold dust that has been dispersed semi-homogeneously throughout 1000 cubic yards of sand.

LOL! 'Boxen' ... as in geek speak plural for 'box'

There were many on the shelf - thus the plural reference.

As for the Circuit City... that is explained in a separate response.

Otherwise... ask your mom about that other activity with which you appear to be obsessed.

OK, So it was BestBuy but... the point still holds. You can still get ATSC to NTSC converter boxen for under US$100 at normal retail outlets.

The previous time I was in that particular location it had a Circuit City label over the door. Best Buy moved into the same location and I didn't care so long as I found what I was looking for at a reasonable price.

I was just in a Circuit City store this week and yes, you can still get the converter boxen. Set up a good, up on a high pole, huge ass aerial and there's even the possibility that you'll get those Champaign and Decatur stations too.

We purchased 2 new LCD boxen with included ATSC tuners, mounted a roof-top aerial and linked everything via the already present coax in the house and actually added to the channels we can receive. The aerial was off the shelf, old school hardware from Radio Shack. Not even one of those fancy, overpriced "digital" antennas.

No conversion box. No signal amplifiers. Just hooked the TV to the coax running up to the aerial on the roof.

The right aerial antenna mounted clear of other interference will give you the best chance of getting all receivable channels.

Careful... Once they start looking at syntax they'll start looking at common tools like sed, awk, and God forbid grep.

Ah! grep! Now there's a command that just sounds dirty.

If I had mod points I'd apply an "Insightful" here.

I know there were a couple of girls in my school who were devious and sexually adventurous and there were no boys involved.

They know it as the "#%&$ing off" button.

To make this show even more trendy... one of the people I follow on Twitter - purely for the humor value is.... @ShitMyDadSays.

I have no doubt that is the source for the entire show concept.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

I'm absolutely certain the highly advanced scientists in the PRK have succeeded in achieving fusion. Unfortunately for them the fusion they actually achieved was by patching together recordings of Dave Brubek and Dave Matthews.

The original developer learned coding methodology in BASIC. The concept of a separately available method is alien to them.

Actually, Yes. Although Apple is the one pushing for HTML-5 video there are still open options for much of the animated web.

SVG is one example of an under-adopted option. This may change with MS announcing that IE-9 will have native support for SVG - eliminating the requirement for a plugin such as the Acrobat reader/player. Think of SVG as an open source, jaggie free graphic format for the web - that is editable in your favorite text editor (Notepad, SciTE, emacs, vi, edlin, ...) and integrates into the DOM sufficiently enough that you can have event triggers and animations,

With the noted exception of camera captured photographic video SVG is a fully functional replacement for a broad range of web based graphics and animation. The folks over at Jib-Jab could really take advantage of SVG to reduce bandwidth requirements for serving a lot of bitmap based animations.

There are 10 types of programmers.

• Those who understand binary math
• Those who don't

And that is precisely the realization that Montgomery Scott had to make to be able to transport onto a ship traveling at warp speeds.