At first I thought the article was about this guy, another teenager building a fusion reactor.

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I love the "What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?" Section:

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Take the same picture twice, 6 months apart. The picture are from positions that are 2 AU apart. You can gain perspective by comparing these in the same way your brain compares images from your eyes.
The red-shift tells you how far the star is. I'm not really sure on the details, but you should be able to compare the two images together with the red-shift derived distance to see if things don't quite add up.

High scores were made of this.

I would guess that they were referring to a figurative pipeline, however, part of the enrichment process for uranium is to convert it to Uranium Hexafluoride (UF6) which is a gas.

Do this, literally.
I took a similar laptop, flipped the screen and put a wooden picture frame around it. Now it is a digital picture frame. Of course, without USB, cd or network, it is a little painful to actually get the photos onto the computer.

Programming is a lot like Math, you can put the time in, but some people just don't grok it.

There is an interesting article here which holds up pointers and recursion as two things in programming that a lot of people never really understand.

That same idea is expressed in an article about why Wolfram-Alpha fails as a user interface.

Yes. From here:

The new ASTER data expands coverage to 99 percent, from 83 degrees north latitude and 83 degrees south. Each elevation measurement point in the new data is 98 feet apart.

Microchips may have been at the micro scale when they were first invented, but they've certainly moved down into the nano-scale in the years since then.

I would think that any individual that can afford the registration fee would simply register their name.

*.gates
*.obama

I have an original xbox running gentoo/XBMC that I use as a media center.

When booted to gentoo (I'm also running a torrent client) I use the mplayer CLI through an ssh terminal. There is no keyboard and the controller is an awkward replacement for a mouse, so I do everything in a terminal.

This is awesome. I rarely get to indulge my love of hammering any more, kind of sad really.

Call be paranoid, but something about the government providing free high quality drugs is a scary first step to "opiates for the masses".

My first thought was "Brave New World", and then "Equilibrium".