Most people would get more benefit from the Abs class. Even if they only remember how to do a plank afterwards. What good does one day do? If you need to learn programming, you need to spend more time at it than this. It might make for a good intro to something, but it won't teach a newbie how to do anything useful as it seems to claim.

Wilbur didn't go to Yale because of depression over a disfiguring injury, and to care for his sick mother. I don't see how this supports your argument.

Whatever they mean, it's a big step up from their previous motto, which was similar but missing the word 'epic'.

Damn, I could use a gun like that for my lawn. Anyone know what kind of TV he ordered?

I'm guessing that someone along the shipping route wanted a TV, took the label off this guys TV box and stuck it on the next available box- which happened to have this terrible WMD in it. They should be able to find the last location where the rifle box was scanned, and it won't be too many hops before they fund the culprit.

Excellent. Why just watch violence on TV when you can make your own?

When you split the asteroid in half, you are using a lot of energy just to break it apart. That energy would be better spent changing the vector of the asteroid. A surface blast would also waste a lot of the energy, as noted. One solution might be to detonate the bomb at an intermediate point between the surface and the middle. Ideally, it would break off a reasonable amount, and eject it at a decent velocity. If the asteroid is spinning, this would change the center of gravity and might cause more pieces to fall off. Also, instead of straddling the Earth with the pieces it might make more sense to speed up or slow down the asteroid so it reaches the Earths orbit before or after the Earth is where it crosses.

Maybe the class can figure that out next weekend.

Why would he have to land? I thought one glance from him would make the asteroid realize it had better places to be. If needed, a second glance could be used to quarter it (halves are for pussies).

I call BS. How would someone get into grade school, let alone MIT, without having a name?

Just curious- was it MS directly, or their hired thugs the BSA? Note that Apple is also a member of the BSA.
Also- did you consider any of the free, Linux-based alternatives?

My first thought was that April fools day would be appropriate.

I'm surprised they didn't throw in any Solar Thermal power generation. Especially at such a low latitude, it seems like it would really complement the PV. Are they too small to get a cost effective utility-size installation? The article mentions
  The solar power systems will be capable of providing 150 per cent of the annual electricity demand without increasing diesel demand.
so they're already building over current demand.

Maybe they should use a giant urn instead of a coffin, to represent the result of the giant flaming failure of the future ahead of us under proposed budget cuts to basic scientific research? It would symbolically include the future economy as we fall further and further behind other countries in scientific knowledge and capability.

Do you have a reference for that claim?

From TFA:

One of these phones (the bottom-right one) became the Samsung F700 - a product Apple once included as an infringing product, but later withdrew once it learned Samsung created it and brought it to market before the iPhone

It seems the F700 was a Samsung design. Is the article incorrect in this claim?
 

From the article again:

This is what Samsung was considering putting to market in the summer of 2006, six months before the unveiling of the iPhone.

It would seem reasonable to assume that if they were considering putting it to market in 2006, they would have had the design well before then. The article is lacking in enough details on the dates to determine who which was actually first, but the first quote above implies that Apple thought the F700 predated the iPhone