Very very scary, and not from an environmental standpoint, if you read the whole article.

"Which brings me to you, or rather to all of your soldered devices that are two years old or less. Most of these are now assembled using solder joints that have no lead in an effort to save our groundwater and our health. The fact that the lead has been ( Read more... )

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Well, my Rio Karma finally gave out. These are fantastic players, but Rio is no more, and there's no support out there for more modern services. It still works, but after you load about 8GB on it, there's a glitch on the hard drive inside and the poor thing goes into coniptions. (Wow, the spell checker doesn't like 'coniptions', and Google has ( Read more... )

"For best results, avoid doing stupid things."
-Acme Klein Bottles

If you missed #1, it's probably right behind this post.

Zomg. That's funny.

Thanks to Ken Lavine for this one.

This is still one of the best shows I've seen in ages.  The insert song was outstanding, and the plot, serious and real... I have nothing recent to compare it to.  The only thing that comes to mind is the original Macross television series, with Rick and Minmei and everyone.  Just, without all the science fiction, all that's left is very real ( Read more... )

The U.S. Mint has implemented a rule against melting down pennies and nickels which, at current metal prices, could be worth more as metal than as currency.

When I was young, my parents had separate wrapping paper for the gifts that arrived from Santa.  Since, of course, Santa wouldn't have access to our wrapping paper... his stuff would have to be different.  It's only logical.  The Santa paper was either used up or stored somewhere else, or discarded or something.  It wasn't with the rest of the ( Read more... )