video moved here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sRQ7oea4VM

It's the extended (director's?) cut!

Sounds like on of these VNRs.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Video_news_releases

Is one side read by CD laser, and the other by the record player? Like braille on top of writing?

Check out this RadioLab podcast which has an awesome example of hearing voice as music.

It's the first one on the page: Musical Language

http://www.nyc.org/shows/radiolab/2006/4/21

Don't little people ostracize each other if they try to increase heir height? It happened on Seinfeld at least, but it sounds plausible.

I think the backlash is understandable. Deafness is a culture, just like being black, Jewish, or a little person. Trying to find a "cure" can be seen as turning your back on your culture and heritage.

http://files.telltalegames.com/strongbad/snakeboxer5.jpg

Can't find the link to it on the site any more, but this was on the Telltale Games site for the Strongbad game they're releasing.

Standard keys have a .5" x .5" face and are 3/4" apart on center. Are these keys 8% smaller, closer together, or some combination?

What #2 said. It's like they put the thing together without trying it in a bedroom test environment.

If this particular model has a flip feature, amen, but it's just the type of not-thinking-it-through you find in these gimmicky gadgets all the time.

http://www.spectrumatlas.org/spectrum/

Cool interface for browsing the spectrum. There's an FCC spectrum PDF out there as well.

mmmmm, flavor country.

The Hulk looks quite distressed at what Spidey and Ironman are pulling out of him.

Poor four-fingered, glowing, growling, farting Hulk.

Those Leia headphones were in Spaceballs, right? The gag where Princess Vespa takes off her buns.

Stickler Alert:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_blockquote.asp

I'm all for more intuitive stove controls (as per Don Norman's Design of Everyday things), but nothing instills fear of touch like a stove top!

Was this invented in Poland?

Most of Europe makes effective use of motion detectors in hallways and stairwells, which I'd love to see more of here in the States.