"this light-trapping nanotechnology can absorb up to 99.95 percent of incoming light"

So the answer is 0.05% more black ;)

*awaits a special 'bird-feather black' edition of Smell The Glove*

Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
Oh oh oh oh....
At the late night double feature picture show.

The UK's largest sperm bank is apparently located at 51.157N 1.809W

So you say that he' a sociopathic, shameless, heartless profiteer with no human decency. I hear that the Republican party is looking for a new leader. He sounds perfect for the job.

I've read about a couple of cases recently where people have crashed their cars into ditches. They've been injured and unable to get out of the car, and have died *slowly* because no-one knew that they were there. A gadget like this might have saved their lives.

That's why the US is called "The Land of the Free".

Tell that to people often enough and they'll start to believe it. Even if the reality is completely the opposite.

That's the typical geek attitude that I see everywhere - "It doesn't meet my needs, therefore I can't see how it can meet anyone else's needs either."

I see plenty of people riding these around London. Whilst I'm not a bicycle rider (avid or otherwise), I can understand the convenience of just being able to walk up to a bike stand and rent one for a short journey.

The steam engine at the entrance of the Science Museum does run, but not all of the time. I go to the Science Museum frequently, as I have a 5 year old who love it. I've certainly seen the engine running several times recently.

Skype has been able to filter out the sound of cats purring for a long time now. I tell you that it's really useful when you're sitting in your island lair, plotting world domination, and issuing orders to your minions via Skype. The sound of the purring kitty on your lap is completely filtered by Skype. So when a suave British spy tries to infiltrate you, the minions can hear your voice loud and clear. I tell you, this is a great win for evil overlords everywhere.

You could equally argue that the the dangers of ecstasy are tempered by the health benefits of dancing.

My RSS feed truncated the title to exactly that. I was just about to post it.

Exactly. Why don't they just copy Apple's current system and call it 'The New Linux Kernel'?

Until recently you'd have been correct. I work for a large company which has always exclusively used Windows desktops (apart from some 'creative' people who had Macs for design or video). It was extremely rare to see a Mac anywhere. But in the last year or so, I'm starting to see them in large numbers, and on the desks of business people and software developers. In fact, there are now whole offices full of Macs, where once would have been Windows PCs.

A few weeks ago, I was at a software development conference, and more than half of the geeks there (and it was almost exclusively geeks) had Macbook Pros or Airs. They outnumbered Windows and Linux laptops combined. I was lugging around a heavy HP laptop (running Mint) and was really starting to see the appeal of the lightweight Air.

From what I've observed recently, Macs are making very strong headway into the traditional PC market.

Clone is a great word, F'rexample, "I didn't pirate that blu-ray movie, I cloned it"

What no Windows option? Oh wait, this is Slashdot. Nobody here's going to be running Windows Phone or Windows Mobile .