Actually, scratch that--it looks like AT&T removed that option. However, a.) that's AT&T being a shitty carrier, and not the fault of Android; and b.) there's a way around it already.

> funny that my at&t android will only install items from the marketplace and not
> 'any app i choose' - i read a forum that said i needed to root the device to remove that restriction.

You need to read different forums. Go to Settings, then Applications, and check the setting that says "Allow install of non-Market applications". Done. No root necessary.

> I'm typing this post while driving up I-95 as we speak, and let me tell you, it's perfectly sa

Uh oh. Candlejack has taken up hitchhi

You might want to do some research before you start casually using the term "bug chasers". Hint: it already has a meaning, and it's almost certainly not what you think it is.

> One of the morning messages could be "having a morning coffee with satan" and late night message could be "man do I appreciate cold beer right now".

I've had sort of the same idea, only mine is an IM bot that will occasionally fire off messages to my friends at 3 AM saying things like "Look behind you" or "HE COMES".

> the state ought not to assume that I want to give away my body parts without confirmation of this wish.

Why? What exactly are you planning to do with them after you die?

> But where's the plagiarism? As far as I can tell the papers are original.

Yes, original papers...that people are then buying and passing off as their own work.

> Do you have children of your own?

The contents of my basement are nobody else's business.

> You pick up on a slightly misdirected interpunctuation (semicolon or even a colon would have been fine) but ignore the glaring grammar errors?

Not so much "ignore" as "refrain from correcting in disgust". I'm only dedicated to drive-by snark to a point.

> Chrome sandboxes individual tabs, crashes of one tab does not affect the running of the rest of Chrome browser.

Will Chrome also restart sentences in the event of comma splices?

> message queue that will spawn workers

You have no idea of my level of disappointment when I realized that the above didn't say "message queue that will spawn hookers".

> The Clink Prison Museum

  Avoid this. I was in London earlier this year (half-vacation, half-work; I was doing some stuff for my master's degree), and stopped by the Clink. It's basically several rooms full of mannequins in replica torture devices and a few small, sad plaques with information you could find on Wikipedia. It definitely wasn't worth the money, even after the student discount.

The internet doesn't weigh anything.

> Why does it matter if someone else gets an epic-quality item?

Because you can't entrust the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a noob.

> [...] the criminal justice system is like a slot machine.

Sit playing it long enough, and a scantily-clad woman will come up to you and offer you free drinks?