Fellow ham here: Would moving my shack into a chicken coop (i.e., Faraday cage) block all that pesky interference from switch-mode power supplies, LED fixtures, my RF-noisy-ass router, etc?!?

...as a 2025 IgNobel Award nominee.

The brown note?

Minor correction - we're a quarter way through the century, not the millennium.

Couldn't read the entire article (paywalled), but thread alone doesn't emit RF in the absence of power and circuitry. Presumably the threads would be woven into an RFID (or similar) circuit that would re-radiate a particular code in the presence of an RF field?

As far as I'm aware, access to vehicle plate databases is restricted to law enforcement and auto insurance agencies. Am I mistaken?

...Chrichton's "The Andromeda Strain"?

I recall (some years back) that next to each Google reference was a link to a cached version of the referenced page, which was really useful when the page was no longer extant. I realize that the feature was a far cry from the granularity that an Internet Archive link can provide, but I've long wondered why that useful feature disappeared.

I never was very creative - I need some of what this user is on!

Presumably sharing of documents.

A computer with Windows installed is no longer a "personal computer"; instead, it's more like a terminal. So what *should* we now call "personal computers" with Windows installed?

I hate carrying around that big, bulky driver's license

Is that measured in person-hours? Because they've been searching for Amelia Earhart's plane for 86 years!

Throwflame's press kit (https://throwflame.com/press/) explicitly details the legal status of their products in the U.S. (including the two states where sales are restricted or prohibited).

Wax? As in wax cylinders?!?