Awww, why couldn't that say NSA Contractor Indicted Over Theft of Classified Mammoth Data ?

At first I thought you were referring to the 80's movie Making The Grade "Exchange student from Lower Slobivia," but then stumbled upon the fact that Slobovia is used as a reference to any "non specific, far-away country." Wikipedia on Slobovia

Agreed. I used this very thing in keyhole to demo the agenda we had for a gathering a long time ago. It was cool to allow people to see what parts of the city we were going to. Flying up and around allowed them to see that.

... it also improves minigolf scores! ... and whitens your whites. ... and One Other Thing.

As in, Big Giant Turtle That Flies? You know, friend to children, Japanese movie monster, serious under-bite, shoots flames from mouth, extremity holes, etc.

I can't help wondering if multiple blades fastened to some sort of really thin but strong ring would be better? Like three blades would be a lot more stable? But what do I know?

PS Someone should take the footage, speed it up, make it black and white and play player piano music in the background.... :-)

Wait... So in the past people would:

• Hear a song on the radio, like it
• Weeks later when it is released, someone buys it, posts the torrent to it
• Pirate song weeks after it is released

But now, thanks to their brilliant plan, that has changed to:

• Hear a song on the radio, like it.
• Someone buys it That Day, posts the torrent.
• Pirate song on the day of release.

Ohhh kay then.

I wonder what codes you need to send the device to produce the proper mixture of Cotton Candy and Shame?

So, at roughly ten inches...

Android Honeycomb's big, yeah yeah yeah! It's not small, no no no...!

Honeycomb's got, well, some interesting features.

My new favorite phrase is now 'Number-memorizing Chinese people.' I may even add it to my list of potential band names. Thank you.

Ape? Ape is a verb now? I was just getting used to parrot being a verb. What's next, Coyote? I'd sure hate for Ubuntu to coyote Mac OS 15. And I'm not sure how I feel about the ipod Rigellian Bloodwoming the Palm pre.

Slightly on topic, I'm not a fan of the ribbon.

I am surprised that no one mentioned the theory of Nemesis? Oh wait, there was a Slashdot story (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/21/0338234) on it, or at least on the possibility.

According to this site (http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_nemesis07.htm) :

"Nemesis' existence was proposed in 1984 by American physicists Daniel Whitmire and Albert Jackson (The University of Southern Louisiana) and also by Richard Muller, Piet Hut & Davis M. in 1984 in order to explain an apparent 26-million year cycle in the occurrence of mass extinctions on Earth, like the one that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, as noted by Raup and Sepkoski."

So, simplified, the other sun rotates in and drags a whole bunch of crap out of the Oort cloud and wipes out (almost) everything. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I wish to subscribe to your newlsetter. Seriously, great post. I miss my Amiga.