I've only read "pump six and other stories", his collection of short stories mostly from the same universe, and I thought it was amazing.
The creativity and originality of the world and ideas he packed into those short stories was astounding, so if "The Windup Girl" flags towards the end, I recommend you give pump six a look.

Nice anecdote.

I live in the UK, and generally accept a billion to be 1e12, but assume someone means 1e9 if they're on tv or it's in their interests to exaggerate.

Doing a physics degree, a billion is always 1e12 in the lab.

Actually, only athletic types seem to use kilograms for weighing people. Most of us in the UK use stones.

Foobar 2000 does this.

Until I tried to make rhythmbox do the same, I thought this was a fairly standard feature in media players.

Second the Independance Wars games... I only played Edge of Chaos, but that was one hell of a game, especially for the time it was made.

That game pretty much spoiled me WRT physics in space sims, and i never really got into many others as a result.

My friend's dad, Dr Newbold at Aberystwyth university has been working on this for years. Apparently adding garlic to the feed has a large effect on methane production too.

if explanation you seek, look elsewhere. I too am only here for the achievement.

I read about this (or something very similar) in new scientist a few weeks ago. If it's what I'm thinking of, the offspring were separated from their parents at birth.

I hear beating dead whores gets you in trouble in most pla

That's Allan, you tard :P

If welsh nationalists were more technologically aware, they'd be one of the biggest forces in the interwebs :)

That would work, but personally I wouldn't print directly. Being a perfectionist, I'd be painfully aware that 25 years underground and then through a scanner, will inevitably mean the pictures lose quality. It's more paper-friendly than my way, but lossy nonetheless.

I would propose converting the pictures into hexadecimal text, and print out those, quite small sized text. The reason being, optical mark recognition is already probably quite capable of reading that back out, and I doubt it's getting any worse in the next 25 years. Anyone should be able to see that it's hexadecimal, a note with the paper to explain wouldn't cause harm though.

Trusting in the capsule, the information could last hundreds of years if printed on the right paper, if disinfected and protected against moisture.