Does that "1 percent construction waste" include all the off-site fabrication of the pre-fab components?

1 percent waste is no big trick, if you've already done most of the construction somewhere else.

I don't think the military teaches code any more, and the new digital modes like PSK31 are very close to the efficiency of CW.

The advantage here seems to be that you can adjust the length of the antenna, thereby producing a quarter-wave vertical for whatever frequency you want, just by changing the height of the water column. The antenna tuner becomes a hydraulic device instead of an LC circuit. It's neat, but a little too complicated for land use where you don't have a large supply of salt water handy.

A commenter on one of the hyper-Calvinist church blogs wonders whether she'll need one divorce lawyer or two.

I suspect that the engineer, who knows perfectly well what "delta" means, said "delta" and then realized he was talking to a newspaper reporter who hadn't the slightest clue, so he immediately said "difference" to explain, and the newspaper reporter who hadn't the slightest clue didn't understand that the two words mean the same thing, so he put "delta difference" in his story and nobody at the newspaper caught it either.

Could be wrong, but that seems to be how newspapers work these days.

IIRC, the cellphone rule comes from the FCC: the cell system was designed to connect to ground-based phones, which have limited range. If you transmit from your cellphone in an airplane, you'll hit every cell tower for miles around and confuse the system quite badly.

That'll impress Mom and Dad, for sure.

But not positively.

"We're spending thirty thousand a year on that college you're going to, and you're hanging out on Facebook all the time? Y'know, we've got a real nice community college right here in town..."

It's got the right dynamic for the New Frontier.

Huge attachments. Attachments, period. HTML. HTML with Javascript. Anything other than plain ASCII text.

My church office recently sent a 6.4 megabyte file -- probably containing about five hundred bytes of useful information, but I didn't waste any time checking it -- to the mailing list of about forty people. I complained, pointing out that that big lump of whatever was about one-and-a-half times the size of the Bible. But they'll do it again, I know. They always do.

That would be Maslow's Hierarchy of Nudes?

I agree that the commenter was an a**h***, but there must be some better way to honor a man who valued his privacy than to publish the details of his life in a newspaper. There are people who want to be anonymous and forgotten; honor them by forgetting.

When I die, my final instructions will include "NO OBITUARY. ANYWHERE."

Long ago, in graduate school, I had a roommate who taught me a great lesson: "If you only have one of everything, you'll never have to clean up a mess."

This may have been the most useful thing I learned there.

"Up to 35.4 percent more offspring" ?

Somebody needs to review the chapter on measurement precision and significant digits.

It is a far, far better thing to learn to tie your shoelaces properly so they do not come untied (thus saving you the trouble of re-tying them at random inconvenient times during the day) than to save a few seconds tying them in the morning.

Fortunately, Mr. Ian Fieggen understands this, and he has posted a Web site containing complete shoelace-tying instructions.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/

How long 'til the Tea Partiers get wind of this, mistake it for an actual proposal, and make up six different conspiracy theories about it?

Probably quite soon, considering the satanic look of Steve Jobs up there.

Is this connected to the cargo cults that are waiting for the second coming of John Frum?