The key issue with solar has always been price. It seems forever on the cusp of having a positive ROI, but it never actually breaks through. Hopefully the use of plastic as opposed to crystals will bring the cost way down.

"Go cure hepatitis C!"

This is the UK. They came for their guns a long time ago.

n/t

You could almost say they duped it!

To each his own I guess. I loved Snow Crash, and Cryptonomicon might be my all-time favorite book. However, I gave up on the Baroque Cycle very early, as I found it too be too wordy and slow -- a tough slog.

"As with the iPhone and iPad, the MacBook Pro with Retina display was really rather unexpected." As far as I knew, EVERYONE was expecting this. All the key changes - no CD, no Ethernet, Retina display - had been leaked several months ago. What kind of lame journalism is that?

As a home-schooling dad of 5 kids, I can't agree more with this post. In my experience, the typical home-schooler is a voracious reader, and to a large degree teaches himself through reading. If this young man is 10 but is below grade-level or just plain disinterested in reading, then this is going to be a huge barrier in his schooling (home-schooling or not).

I just switched to Xubuntu with a simple "sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop", and now I'm perfectly happy. The XFCE environment is very much like the Gnome 2 we all used to love. Cinnamon will also install on Ubuntu, but frankly I like XFCE better than Gnome 2/3/Cinnamon now that I've tried them side-by-side.

Our apologies... We've scheduled a dupe for next week to rectify this problem. --The Management

The fact that you wrote Mac as MAC offended or confused an even higher percentage of Mac users.

And what would these missals contain? A harshly worded message from the Pope? I will grant you, though, that a missal travelling at some fraction of the speed of light would still do quite a bit of damage.

Except in the US, you pay minutes for received calls too. Many people from Europe don't realize this.

No, just as a floor wax at this point.

I have to assume that was a joke, or else you haven't used Lion yet.