Press the stop button and by the time the circuits have reacted, you're a few thousand light years beyond your target and have to turn around and go back.

That's ludicrous!

My PRS-650 was one of the few Sony products I've ever used that didn't suck.

Then again, I never installed the software that came with it -- only calibre.

I remember it by its full form: Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris

What does 22GW look like?

About 18.2 De Loreans.

but lense flares add atmosphere!

In Soviet astrophotography, atmosphere adds lens flare!

I've only ever had the online version. Apparently someone recently converted it to Markdown (hopefully the generated epub is better than the one I made from the PDF files a while back).

I believe the BBB cpu is 64bit

The processor in the BBB has a Cortex-A8 core. It's nicer than the processor in the RasPi in just about every way, but still only 32-bit.

I installed SlackwareARM on my BBB; I don't really think 'port' is the right word to use, as all I really did was compile a kernel. And even then, I could have copied one from another distro...

Well, it'd be a strange game if the only winning move is not to play.

Presumably the same one that designed the air shield for planet Druidia.

I can watch The Simpsons from 30 blocks away!

I watched all three films over the weekend. I even quoted Marty from the first film (admittedly a lesser-known line than the one in the subject) on Slashdot, but no one noticed :-P

What the hell is a jiggawatt?

I've got no time for blinking lights either. I'm too busy doing grown-up stuff like sequencing LEDs with an Arduino.