"Albums should have their own beginning, middle and end: shuffling an album should shuffle its emotional tenor."

You're my new hero. I loaded 'In Utero' onto my mp3 player the other day without putting the playlist in the directory and the album played in alphabetical order; I couldn't listen to it.

Woo-hoo!, HAARP is under my directorate! It's projects like HAARP that allow me to legitimately call myself a mad scientist.

But get ready folks, you ain't seen nuthin: we've got plans in the works to depopulate the inner radiation belt!

tl;dr

Breaking the law is not one of the perks that comes with being a public servant. If anything, cops should be held to HIGHER standards of conduct than everyone else.

And Picking up lunch isn't the same as responding to a call in any way, shape, or form.

Well over $1000 in batteries and chargers and the wont work for lack of a plug. This makes me think the robot apocalypse may not be so hard to thwart.

Sounds like the UK needs to start organizing giant photography flash mobs.

Something tells me a 10 KRPM hard drive in a laptop is a bad idea. A bad idea that I'm going to jump all over if will actually fit in my machine!

Seriously, awful power consumption, loads of noise, and I'm sure reduced durability have got to make this a poor choice for a laptop HD.

Woah, I had no idea that the kindle had free evdo for surfing wikipedia; that's actually pretty cool.

Unfortunately, now that it's actually in stock I have to add it to the long list of gadgets that I need to resist buying if I want to still have money for food. Ok, money for liquor.

The reverend Buck Naked would not approve.

For all of us who participated in the great schism I can only say that the New Shining Truth will ultimately prevail.

I'm with William S. Burroughs on this one: it's all a mind control plot.

That's just about the coolest camping/travel gadget I've ever seen. I might get one so I can keep my ever-worrying mother calm when I'm traveling in some 3rd world country.

Does it scare anyone else that William Gibson is spending his time staring deeply into the eyes of Dick Cheney? Is this the secret to his inspiration?

Think that's spooky, check out videos of forklifts using those wheels:

http://www.airtrax.com/video/

I joined just to get a Beeblebears.

Maybe this will spur a renewed interest in the Austin punk group the "Fuckemos". It's a reference to a club and not a style, but they're awesome anyway.

The smell is probably a combination of stuff that has been outgassed by the station or sputtered off of it redeposited on the suits. #5 has the idea, but it need not be sucked in or rubbed against to get the smell. The inside of vacuum chambers with plasma sources smells kinda like what the astronaut describes. Space is a pretty empty place, but the environment directly around the station is populated with all the crap that the station emits. I know that all the silicone that's on the station is constantly sputtered off and redeposited on things; that's why the station sucks for any kind of ionospheric instrumentation.

They're not really brown, it's an optical illusion. They're really the same color as the yellow square on the side.

That hair is real though and we should all be very, very afraid of it.