I voted for Ataturk.

I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it.

A. I'm learning Morse code right now, and this sort of functionality would be awesome. Another learning performance factor is how much time to spend on a learning task at each session. I keep thinking that I would like to do 30 minute sessions of Morse, but I fatigue sooner than that. Maybe the software could learn how I perform. I just might have to write an iPhone app to do this.

B. I'm in the early stages of developing medical record software. I envision it having a great many features, too many for the beginning user. I plan for the program to monitor how users use it, and to gently make suggestions for how they can take advantage of more advanced features.

...forcing passengers to check hand-bags that are less than an inch oversize...

Boo hoo. Why is it people who carry-on their luggage think they're God's gift to air travel?

I've read 27 books in 2007-2008; 4 of those are available for Kindle.

Meteors are very cold. If they had found this thing when it first struck, and touched it, they would know whether it came from space.

I have a mastadon tooth that my grandfather found. It's about the size of a football.

This is excellent.

When I would come home from medical school for a weekend, friends would ask what I'd seen lately that was "gross". My usual reply was that I had no concept of gross.

This post reminds me of the lecture on eye trauma. It was a slide show. People were running from the room.

"I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." Link.

FWIW, I'm a Christian and I believe in evolution. I believe that God created the universe about 15 billion years ago. It's really not hard to believe at all and not hard to reconcile with the Bible.

This book rocks:

http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-What-Fossils-Say-Matters/dp/0231139624

That's the time of day when people are the least sleepy. I couldn't fall asleep at 10AM if my life depended on it.

Wouldn't take me long to spend L15,000 on radios.

http://www.yaesu.com

"To get money from games/tv shows etc you need new models."

Some of us actually DON'T want to see ads.

"machine screw"

No busty space chicks?

The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin is an essential and fascinating history of the oil industry. The early history is especially interesting, as well as the cycles of boom-and-bust. And after decades of befuddlement brought on by TV news, I now understand a bit about why the middle east (from Iran to Egypt) politics is what it is.

I've been refusing to enter Best Buy for years. I tried it a few times, but the noise level was intolerable.

CountD, if you put the word "typewriter" in your post, you win by a landslide.

If there's one with just ()s, I'll bet Shrdlu buys one.

If you like SciFi, be sure to check out the "Escape Pod" podcast, available through iTunes. Contemporary stories, many be well-known authors, and quality audio.

I'm a physician who's been in practice for over 10 years and I have a particular interest in sleep medicine. I can assure you that Restless Legs Syndrome is a disease, and a disabling one. People who suffer from it have sleep deprivation, which can lead to depression, accidents, and poor work performance.

The diagnostic criteria are subjective. It's often said that people with it have a hard time describing the symptoms. Renal disease and iron deficiency should be ruled out. Some try iron pills as a first line of therapy, although its effect is probably that of a placebo.

The next line of therapy is the much older anti-Parkinson's drug Sinemet (generically levodopa/carbidopa), which is fairly effective for most people but has a tendency to cause "augmentation" in the majority. Augmentation is the development of symptoms earlier in the day.

The next line of therapy is Requip or Mirapex, which are similar. They are generally effective at doses below that which causes significant side effects. I.e., most people get relief of symptoms without side effects.

As with any chronic disease, you should work closely with your doctor to find the regimen that's best for you.

Oh, and BinaryLoop? You should read this book.

I've been using this shower radio for several months and I really like it. The MP3 is only 32mb, enough for about six songs, but as a radio (FM only) it's great.

Amazon has a great price on the book.

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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Clever, but not the kind of clever that I need. I have more than 6 books.

My wife bought the download. I haven't listened to it yet. The purchasing website is now broken.

So I have a couple questions:
(1) Was the site up front about the bitrate?
(2) How good/bad is 160 "Kbps"? I have my iTunes importing set at 160 "kbps", which iTunes refers to as "high quality". I surely wouldn't expect a CD-quality bitrate; that would take all day to download.