Presumably, some photons take a different - longer - path to reach his retinas; enough to at least reduce the flickering.

Heh. It'd certainly put the Daily Mail in a quandry.

As to the Puritans - IIRC, the lot you got were the moderates; the real killjoys stayed here.

Apparently, Amazon scan and OCR printed books, then convert them to AZW, with little to no human intervention.

Proper proofreading works out at something like 35-40 hours per book.

What about crowdsourced copy editing? I'm sure Amazon could push updated versions to kindles, and probably work out some sort of incentive system to get readers involved...

I meant to do the sums last time this came up...

£1.35/litre (the average cost of a litre of unleaded petrol in my town, according to petrolprices.com) in UK gallons, expressed as $num USD/US gallon?

$8.059, according to wolfram alpha

The '[...] and Smartphones' wasn't a clue?

True. Though there could be a loophole - whichever Geneva Convention ruled on 'blinding weapons' or their ilk (probably the same one that outlawed battlefield use of dumdums and the like) maybe meant _permanent_ blinding.

Ah, but you /can/, sort of.

I used a *box like interface (bblean, and litestep) on my XP machines for quite a while.

.rc files are somewhere between between a joy and a pain in the arse to fiddle with though...

No. It's a ring of invisibility, after all...

Whoosh. (See the works of Sir Arthur C Clarke for details...)

(that'll teach me to refresh before posting...)

the 'noob tube' is a reference to Halo's sniper rifle.

'n00b tube' and 'Nuketown'.

*snerk*

Yep. They handled it about as well as as is possible, I thought.

Nonsensical?

Possibly.

_Bucket_, surely.