I am impressed with the Netflix service and would buy a Roku today, except, unlike youtube, it does not "cache" the video for you. So if you have a slow (

Time Cube is not impressed.

"Sealed Book" eh? Must be to keep out the "other" mental poisoning.

Yes, I initially read this as metal poisoning...

A great, easy read about all the crap that is in food:

Twinkie, Deconstructed: My Journey to Discover How the Ingredients Found in Processed Foods Are Grown, Mined (Yes, Mined), and Manipulated Into What America Eats

by Steve Ettlinger

(http://www.amazon.com/Twinkie-Deconstructed-Ingredients-Processed-Manipulated/dp/1594630186)

I would be too distracted by being able to roll around in it to meditate which is why I should just build this (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/04/howto-have-picnic-ge.html) instead (1d20).

In *my* day we sniffed Mr. Sketch.

Blue and green were awful and yellow, orange and brown were great.

Actually, U.S. patent law is written to consider space, probably part of the moon program as well as lobbying by the aerospace industry. See U.S.C Title 35, Sec 105

None of this has any bearing on the validity of the patent, but if it is valid, than space counts. If they think that the patent is not valid, then they should weight the risk of a successful lawsuit against them v.s., the cost of not performing the maneuver.

Actually, Nathan Moroney at HP Labs has been collecting data like this for years. He has built some cool tools from it like:

Color Thesaurus

Color Zeitgeist

Link to the research project

Link to non-English color naming experiment

#13 - Gold is sold in troy units. There are 12 Troy Ounces to the Troy Pound

This happened to me in PDX in the pre-TSA days. I was asked to put a bag on the x-ray belt. After inspecting their credentials and being informed that I did not need to recover the bag or admit ownership, I did it. After walking though, I saw the "trainers" reviewing something with the screeners on the display. I thought it was a little strange since the request to carry the bag through occurred well within sight of the X-ray machine.

However, in today's paranoia-laced security days, there is NO WAY I would participate in this. In fact, I would probably refer them to local authorities (as suggested above), just for fun, assuming I thought I wouldn't be delayed.

Finkbuilt has a cool lower-tech version suitable for younger kids: http://www.finkbuilt.com/blog/kids-art-bot/

I used it to teach "inventing" to my Daughter's Kindergarten class. I gave them the basic idea and let them experiment with the placement of the motor, the weight etc. For example, one of the kids suspended the motor with tape inside the cup.