Sean Pertwee would give the movie at least some credibility.

Naw. Sounds like a job for Will Smith.

Actually the folding feature was quite an old and mature technology by the time the SX-70 was released. Before consumers really took on to the 35mm format, medium format folding cameras were quite popular. The technology was pretty mature by the time my grandfather took his folding camera to WW2, and certainly by the 1950's when my own Zeiss-Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16 was manufactured.

Fuji still makes a medium format folding camera today, but it's priced for wealthy enthusiasts.

Pretty much any courier.

Poo to that! There are a ton of small shops on the 'net that cater to enthusiasts and will sell small quantities of components to you quite happily.

• http://www.sparkfun.com/
• http://www.makershed.com/
• http://store.fungizmos.com/
• http://www.adafruit.com/

Though for bread & butter components that I am going to use pretty regularly, I'll buy those on eBay. Mostly from Chinese sellers but sometimes there are some stateside sellers competing for your business. Most of the time I get my components in from China within a week or two. I've actually had them beat Sparkfun to my mailbox when I place orders on the same day. Sometimes things get held up and you can wait a few weeks. So don't be in a rush if you go the eBay/China route.

Last time I was there I picked up some solder, resistors, a couple of LED's, and a piezo. They still have it. Not to the degree that they did, say, 25 years ago. But they had everything I was looking for in a pinch.

When you put it that way, he sounds like a great guy with strong libertarian credentials. I think I'll send him a donation for his re-election campaign.

Yeah, I really wish he'd asked the White House or Pentagon for help in redacting these documents.

He did. They declined.

Apparently my subtle attempts at humor were missed.

You were the only one to catch it.

You, sir, get the cookie.

I don't know if you've ever checked out Magnatune's offerings or not, but you're a lot more likely to find what you're looking for there than you are to find anything resembling popular music.

I noticed that this article contains many single-sentence paragraphs.

My instructors back in school frowned upon this practice.

Did the editor not catch this?

Make it so.

Government approved monopolies are the problem. Getting the government more entrenched in broadband is not going to make it any better. Also get the ISP's out of the business of owning the last mile network and you'll see things improve dramatically.

Amateur radio encourages this sort of Ben Franklin level home lab discovery. Advances in RF science come out of ham shacks all the time.

Anyone who would describe a US$50K car as "affordable" has more dollars than sense.