Thoughts:

1. Webster.com not only defines the words, but provides instructional audio of how to pronounce them. (The voice doesn't sound entirely robotic and perhaps it's just me, but it sounds as if it enjoys itself when it says "cocksucker" and "motherfucker".)

2. Makes me sad to think about that famous one-run Superbowl commercial Apple aired before the first Mac came out, the one with the tagline "See why 1984 won't be like 1984".

3. It also reminds me how much I really wanted to 'fuc' the blonde lady hammer thrower.

*sigh*

To all of the self-styled experts who have commented that the in-flight use of cellphones is safe, please take a look at the paper published in the IEEE Xplore:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1053019&isnumber=22473

The abstract:

The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) database was reviewed for incident reports involving interference to avionics from portable electronic devices (PEDs). There were 125 incident reports identified. Examination of these reports revealed a wide variety of affected avionics, predominately navigation. A diverse group of passenger electronics is mentioned, primarily cellular phones and laptop computers. Relationships between categories of PEDs and avionics were shown to exist statistically. Many aircraft models were involved in the incidents, but preliminary analysis showed that no specific model was more vulnerable than any other. There were safety critical avionics involved and events occurred at critical flight phases. Some incident reports clearly demonstrated the potential for catastrophe. This paper, the first published review of the ASRS data in close to a decade, serves as a reminder that attention to this topic is important and timely due to technology advances, proliferation of consumer electronic devices and aging aircraft.

Take particular note of the passage "There were safety critical avionics involved and events occurred at critical flight phases. Some incident reports clearly demonstrated the potential for catastrophe."

I understand the inborn trait to find a rationalization for doing whatever you want whenever you want, but try to resist the urge when the consequences could affect hundreds of passengers in the air and untold thousands on the ground.

You know what else would save energy? Shortening the name "Kanakasabapathi Subramanian"!

Holland Tunnel?! We don' need no stinkin' Holland Tunnel!

Right, the world isn't heating up enough with the solar energy already hitting our planet (and getting trapped inside or atmosphere, greenhouse-style), we have to go out into space and pull more in!

And if that doesn't kill the planet (and us) fast enough, under the rubrik of reducing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, we can use some of that extra energy to sequester the gas in big undersea bubbles! Can anyone say limnic eruption?

Isn't Blue Ice the stuff that falls from airplane lavatories?

I, for one, welcome our robot proctologists.

So now a clamshell phone really will smell like clams...

"simple politeness"??? Seriously?

A guy on a flight two weeks ago thought I was unreasonable when I asked him to turn off his blackberry until we reached 10,000 feet. The FAA and the FCC tell him to leave the goddamned thing off for the duration of the flight, but he's gotta break the law and check it every 20 minutes. Do you think the bozo is going to grant your polite request once the Feds tell him he can light it up?

I fly at least once a month, almost always in one of these tiny Embraer or Canadair pocket jets where the fuselage is about 8 feet in diameter and you spend the entire flight taking turns jamming your elbows into your seatmate or his/hers into yours. I am sincerely amazed that I haven't yet read of flights being diverted due to fistfights breaking out over seat space. If they make matters worse than they already are by allowing in-flight phone calls I cannot be held responsible for my actions.

(That said I wouldn't object to data/sms capability.)

Larry Craig could use these to (appear to) stare at pretty girls while he's really watching gay porn.