Would an old gamesave file count as something I "created"? If so, then I can probably go back to '86 or '87 on some old 5-1/4" floppies that are still around somewhere. Otherwise it's '91 or '92 for me.

The color inversion happens because e-ink screens are bistable -- the screen uses no electricity when it's displaying either the light or dark elements. In order to change what's shown on the screen, it needs to 'clear' what was displayed previously. This manifests itself as a brief 'flashing' of the screen. Incidentally, when it flashes is the only time that an e-ink screen consumes any energy. Conversely, your LCD monitor that doesn't require this flashing is constantly using electricity.

Also, the flash only takes about a quarter of a second. How long does it take you to turn a page in a paper book? I guarantee it's not too different. Certainly not enough to make an appreciable difference in your reading speed.

Because 90% of the population has no fucking clue what decibels are?

Are you serious? Do they not teach the Dewey Decibel system in school anymore?

I might not have a problem with that, but my town is small enough that my zip+4 uniquely identifies my family's PO box.

That's true of nearly any PO Box. At the same time, narrowing it down to a single PO Box really does nothing to help them since your 'location' is wherever the post office is located, which they could have figured out from the regular 5 digit zip code.

There's a right way and a wrong way to go about negotiating. I didn't say that he shouldn't negotiate. I'm just saying that taking the "give me what I want or else the project gets it" approach is most certainly the wrong way to handle this.

Of course my other thought is that I'd much rather go back to writing and working with marketing than getting back into IT.

Wrong thing to say to this crowd. Although, honestly, I completely agree with the sentiment and feel that you'll probably be better off in the long run if you do that.

And another bit of advice: don't even think of trying the pseudo-blackmail suggestions that have been modded up so far. You'll find yourself out of work before you know it.

Worked for me in Chrome.

I tried the demos on both Safari on a Mac and on Chrome under Windows with a User Agent string that identifies itself as the latest build of Safari. The Chrome version had considerably fewer options on a number of the samples (no 'rotation' option on the video sample, only about 1/3 of the transition effects for the image gallery, etc). Just pointing out that while some of it works, there's quite a lot that doesn't, and apparently it doesn't even let you see those incompatible options.

Here. I'll offer the simplest advice you can get: Stop clicking on stupid shit.

I can't wait till a link from the Idle section turns out to be serving up malware...

Technically, you just need to try a version of Windows that didn't come out before OSX came out... XP was a serious piece of crap.

Mac OS X 10.0 - March 24, 2001
Windows XP - October 25, 2001

Care to amend your statement?

Reading is fundamental....

Yes, reading IS fundamental. Now go back and reread the last sentence of the summary and tell me what it says.

FTFS: "Another impact structure in Siberia was created by an asteroid 100 km in size."

From what I could quickly find, the Popigai Crater in Siberia is 100km in diameter, but that doesn't mean that whatever created it was 100km in size.

Step 1: "Lose" prototype

I believe in this case the prototypes have been loosed.

I like going to regular 2D movies and whipping out my 3D glasses and ooohing and aaaahing at the "effect".

I wonder if something like what's described regarding Uranus and Neptune swapping orbits could also play a role in Uranus being on it's side.

That whole thing sounds kinda kinky.

There is a theory now that it once ate a super-earth in the outer solar system, and kept its moon as some sort of macabre trophy to make sure that Mars and Venus didn't get any big ideas.

Theories that anthropomorphize planets? Doesn't sound very scientific to me.