Great, a review of a review.

Government probably thought you were getting too powerful

or http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+meaning+of+...

I also like http://www36.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Why+did+the+chicken+c... and my wife found this http://www36.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=How+much+wood+would+a...

Here comes Skynet

If it walks like a duck....

I've been doing this for a while with git as a result of reading this post: http://www.cimgf.com/2008/06/03/version-control-makes-you-a-...

works good..

'I will send a torrent of undirected twitter/facebook spam on your behalf for $5'

boringgggggg - does anyone get new ideas anymore?

There's a fictional account of this experiment in one of Neal Stephenson's books - Quicksilver I think. It's good.

The chlorophyll in green vegetation reflects shit loads of near infra-red radiation but hardly any red so surfaces with a high infra-red to red reflectance ratio are likely to contain green vegetation. its called NDVI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalized_Difference_Vegetatio...) and its a very common way of detecting vegetation on earth from space. Don't know how well it'd work when you're just looking at a tiny planet billions of miles away tho...