#12: Please do.

In other news, the video seems to have been pulled ..?

#16 is wrong, in that the yo-yo changes the direction of its rotation every time it pulls up. Thus a stationary core would be out of phase w/ the rotating part, and that phase differential is where the power comes from.

However. Ever played with a yo-yo? Most of the time you don't do anything: your hand doesn't move up and down by much. You just give it a sharp pull when it's down, and/or a twist when it goes over your hand. (People who don't know that twist will get sore hands rather quickly, with a 100g yo-yo.)

However²: The energy calculations are wrong. You don't drop a yo-yo down and wait for it to come back up, that's just the first time. Instead, you spin it. Masters can do that _really_ fast.

However³: The energy still has to come from _somewhere_, ie. your hand. Given that most of the power, at high speeds, is required just to apply centripetal force without imparting any actual energy onto the yo-yo, this is really inefficient.

Go with a hand crank, or a pull cord. It's unsexy as hell, but at least it works.

Bah. Does anybody have a link to a copy that's anywhere but YouTube?

The fun's in the adventure.

Grabbing a toy on the way out (much less throwing the loot down the chute) is called "stealing".

Why run for maintenance? She got in, she can get out again the same way (and obviously did). It's not as if she was stuck or whatever.

IMHO the most fun part (from the FAIL point of view) was the parent grabbing at the chute when she was too far inside for that to be of any use whatsoever.

Welll... Doctrine of first sale. Plus an EULA which may or may not be as enforcible as Apple hopes it to be.

In other words, Psystar may actually have a legal leg to stand on. Whether that's enough to not fall over is anyone's guess.

Bah.

FWIW, I'm German, but this logo doesn't immediately evoke Nazi associations. For me, anyway. It's angled upwards, the letters are the wrong shape, ...

The old logo of the KISS rock band was much more evocative.

Fortunately this kind of nonsense has been removed by now.

"the Wachowski's". Ouch.

Lose the apostrophe!
You're a writer.
You should know better than that.

Dunno about Asimov; I know the concept from Heinlein's rolling cities. (In one short story, workers go on strike, stopping the fastest-moving belt, with predictable disastrous consequences since nobody thought to limit the speed difference in hardware.)

More to the point, most of the energy from braking a trains can be recovered easily, simply by turning the motors into generators.

For a concept like this to work, you'd need a whole new rail infrastructure in addition to present rail terminals. (Rail infrastructure in cities doesn't allow high speed.)

A bit of handwaving in the general direction of my calculator suggests that this will be WAY more expensive, in terms of both money and energy, than all of the power you'd be able to save with such a scheme in the next umpty-dumpty years.

You can't run Doom on one of these machines: you'd need a stack so large it'd implode into a black hole.

The thing does more magic (cf. Clarke's Law) than just sustain.

Also there's a lot to be said for emphasizing harmonics right at the strings, instead of post-processing the hell out of your guitar's sound.

In fact, this is one of the times when I really wish I'd have time for stuff like guitar lessons.

The ery idea that this audio triggers a bowel movement is so funny that I laughed so hard that I shit my pants.

(Not true, fortunately. But it'd be hilarious if it were. ☺)

You missed at least one "it's" that should've been an "its", a mistake that's become so ubiquitous these days that we tend to notice when that's done correctly. ☹

Bah. My favorite method of ice removal involves a bucket of hot water, poured over the windows. (Not all at once!)

That method also keeps the windscreen from immediately frosting over again, which in turn means that I don't need to sit there waiting with the motor running until it's hot enough inside to keep it ice-free. (Obviously (hopefully) driving with a frosted-over window is Not An Option.)

People keep warning me that this exercise will shatter the windscreen, but so far that hasn't happened yet.

(Why the hell did BB just log me out instead of allowing me to post?)

Yay, yet another book that splits calories into "good" and "bad" ones.

Bullshit. It's all energy. Calories, you know? The body can and will store any it can't use.

Granted that some are stored more easily than others. But the difference is not *that* large, and (more importantly) metabolic differences between people are way more important.

For instance, most people would look like blimps if they'd eat as much chocolate as I do. Yeah, you may all envy me. (NB: No, I don't exercise nearly enough to burn these off.)

Otherwise I'm with kyle armbruster (see above): "fibers" and "not sitting on a chair all day" are what's a good *general* recommendation that nobody can go wrong on. (Thanks for saving me from typing all that. ;-)

I have to admit that, as an enlightened German viewer (yeah, right ;-) I find your incessant blurring of perfectly normal parts of the Female chest offensive.

Seriously.

Please stop doing that.

(Some) icon sets for KDE and Gnome are resolution-independent too (SVG).

There's no r-i window manager and widget set as far as I know, but some of them scale their graphics with the font size.

It's not yet automatic in any way, and thus not really user friendly, but that'll probably change as soon as somebody donates a couple of high-res displays to a key developer or two. ;-)