With Verizon at least there's the option to do this, you enter your voice mailbox (*86, or dial your own number) and after listening to all the 'skipped messages' in your box you'll have the option of sending a message. Enter your target's phone number, leave the message, hang up. Works great for when you want to leave bad news for the boss, without having to actually interact with him. ;-)

What a great use for all the black holes the LHC is going to create! Set them loose in orbit and watch as they clean up all our junk!

Hang on if I'm understanding what everyone is saying. We're going to take hundreds of tons of metal, people, and highly flammable liquid, hurl them into the air at high speeds, not just once but thousands of times per day all over the country, and not expect shit to happen?

Don't get me wrong, I understand we want to do everything in our power to make flight as safe as possible. But this is the first known incident of a dual flameout due to bird strikes in the history of commercial flight, right? I'd say in the 70-odd years we've been doing this, that's low enough to be acceptable risk.

I don't know about CDO/OCD/Whatever you want to call it, but it just seems like a normal geek thing. See Nerd Sniping for an example.

It's probably why geeks are so smart, we all have a curiosity about things we don't understand, rather than just shrugging and saying 'Oh well' we actively find a solution to a problem, or the reason things work the way they do.

Wow. Never thought I'd hear words like 'neurosurgery' and 'splosh' in the same paragraph. Remind me never to let you cut open my skull. ;-)