When I was a kid, my dad got his caught in his zipper. Pretty amusing for everybody but him.

"So I just happened to have my camera set up on a tripod in the middle of this field, when this guy stops right beside me with his tractor. I zoomed in, so I couldn't tell if someone got in the tractor to turn on the pump a fraction of a second after the guy stopped poking the outlet. Gee, wonder if I can make some money off this obviously non-faked video?"

Carlsberg beer had a swastika as a logo. I have one of their antique beer bottles (pre 1930) with a swastika molded into the bottom.
Also a picture of their factory with the swastikas on the elephants out front.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsberg

(friki - I think the bad guys reversed the swastika and rotated it 45 degrees)

gastronaut: Agree it's likely used for pot growers. Here (in Canada) they look for abnormally high electricity usage. I've had a few friends that use a lot of power (legitimately) getting a visit from the cops.

twodollars: You sure? I would think it's likely acoustic (like the ultrasonic distance measuring devices). Anyone know what the range is?

A Monkey Fist is easy to make, and makes a good throw toy for a dog. Or to throw a line ashore from a boat, their original purpose.

Seeing as how you'd have to be on the far side of Uranus to take a picture "where the sun doesn’t shine", a telescope in Hawaii won't do it for you.

Nothing new here. Popular Science (I think it was) had an article on how to make your own. Sometime around the early 60s, if I remember, using a mercury switch from a thermostat.

If they took the picture from any other angle, the shadow would be a dead giveaway.

Don't they mean gigabits, not bytes? A DVD is about 8Gbytes, and would only need around 0.2 seconds at the given speed.

Don't US-made vehicles use metric fasteners? How about military equipment?
And in Canada, Imperial usage is heavily biased towards "older" generations... ask a teen what a mile is, and see what response you get.
Wood is largely Imperial sized, though plywood thickness is metric. Officially, anyway, I believe.

Once the window breaks the air pressure is quickly stabilized. Going to a lower altitude just allows you to fly slower, which makes dragging your body back inside a whole lot easier. Plus it's a lot warmer; you'll quickly freeze to death at 20,000 feet, especially with the wind chill effect. Not to mention breathing is more difficult.

Stabilizing pressure has nothing to do with it.

But when it's cold out, the air conditioner would be off anyway, no? Not to mention dripping water when it's on. Think I'll stick to sleeping over a subway grate.

This spider's much cooler...
http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/ONTARIO/OttawaSpider.html
or
http://muc-central.com/gallery/ottawa/Ottawa_071

Both my Hitachi plasma TV and my DVR have a Linux shell to run everything, so I guess it should be possible. The plasma has 17 megs of firmware.