Alexa and the Internet Archive were founded by the same guy way back when (Brewster Kahle). It makes sense that he would've used one of his company's services for the other one.

I'm not sure which is funnier -- that the sentence was left in the /. summary, or that it appears in the fourth paragraph of TFA.

These are the words of someone who clearly has zero concept of the planet's past and future timelines, where we currently are in that timeline, and mankind's own history in relation to the planet's timeline.

Hint: An event that's expected to happen in 6 to 7 billion years isn't something we should worry about at all, especially when you consider that mankind has existed for 1 to 2 million years at most of the planet's 4.5 billion year history.

These companies didn't send these warning emails. Epsilon sent them for them on their behalf. There is a difference.

You have a rubbermaid to what???

Doesn't it seem a bit irresponsible on the part of the museums to let those VW Bugs drive around their hallways?

You also have a problem when the cashier themselves are in the Type 1 category. This happened to me at a drugstore a while back. Everyone was standing in one line that was generally straight back from one of the cashiers. Things were going well with most of the other cashiers calling "Next". Then a few people noticed that one cashier off to the side was just standing there fiddling with her fingernails. When someone asked her why she wasn't taking any customers, she replied "Oh, you all are in her line," which naturally forced the breakup of the nice orderly queue. Ugh!

I also have two cats. Neither of them eat shit. Q.E.D.

Well, using your two data points coupled with the results of this study, I can only come to one conclusion -- eating shit makes you smarter!

In terms of racing humans, Gilder says the Lego robotics kits can only manage around 1.5 moves per second, whereas human players can make between 5 and 6 moves per second, amazingly enough.

So, if we could build an ARM-powered human, it could solve the Rubik's Cube in 2-3 seconds?

I'd say these articles at least demonstrate a history that indicates this product is in true development and why the company might have shifted direction so dramatically.

I'd argue the exact opposite. Every single one of those "supporting articles" was a press release issued by GoSolarUSA. You do understand what a press release is, right?

update - they're not actually 2 inches by 4 inches!!! oh the horror!

This is clearly just the lumberjack elite trying to rip us poor consumers off by selling us less than what we paid for. They call them 2-by-4s, but then they try to get out of delivering that by using technical terms like kiln, moisture, and shrinkage. We should launch a class action lawsuit against Big Lumber. Or at the very least they need to come clean and start calling them by what they're really selling us.

Since when is a helicopter crash surreal?

The helicopter crash itself isn't surreal -- the story is ("It's a surreal story...").

Just kinda underwhelming?

Maybe I've become a relic, but I don't enjoy reading for long periods of time on a screen.
If I do, I want a book, or at least, a printout.

That's where the whole e-ink thing comes into play -- a screen that uses reflected (instead of emitted) light. As much of a cliché as it is, the screen really does disappear once you get into whatever you're reading.

The Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III is from around 2007 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_EOS-1Ds_Mark_III [wikipedia.org]). So if this info is correct then 2001-03-06 is wrong.

This clearly is irrefutable evidence that they Photoshopped the '7' in 2007 to make it a '1'...

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.