@kumiab: "Give me cabbage! キャベジくれ！" http://t.co/TBChgB2w

@kumiab: Photo: やっとキャベジ、ブロコリすぷらうといらん #hamster #ハムスター (Instagramで撮影) http://t.co/kz6xOJ4n

This was to be Arthur Pendragon's coup de grâce, the culmination of a decade of war that followed King Uther's assassination. [Canon AU where Arthur conquers all of Albion before he meets Merlin, the Dragonlord] [up to part 3: 10,400 words]

So I downloaded the source of OpenJDK and extracted the relevant information. Please find here the complete list of every "product" JVM option.

These options are available as of Hotspot JVM 1.7.0_04.

When 24-year old Tony Stark goes out to distract himself from the fact that he has been put on probation by his company's board of directors due to his partying lifestyle, he bumps into (quite literally) a law student named Steve Rogers, who has recently lost his father and has been 'dragged out' by his best friend to "have some fun."
"Some fun" turns into shots, Vegas, and...marriage?
Except, someone on probation is not allowed to have a quickie marriage. The only alternative is to somehow continue the farce until the probation is over, but that's not as easy as it sounds when very real feelings start being added to the equation. [37,634]

Learn to Use This .NET Micro Framework-Powered Platform
By Simon Monk
Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Make
Released: May 2012
Pages: 90
Requires the Fez Spider Starter Kit (non-Arduino--typical MSFT).

Subtitle: Tools and Techniques for Assembling Electronics
By Brian Jepson, Tyler Moskowite, Gregory Hayes
Publisher: O'Reilly Media / Make
Released: May 2012
Pages: 52
This book is part of MAKE’s Getting Started with Soldering Kit.

"name one other thing in the world, he said, that is used by so many people and which is created entirely by hand?  Stuff that is made by hand is hard to make, and even more hard to make well, and tends to be less sturdy than things made by machines.  [Honestly, I had never thought of it that way.  In the "Etsy Era", when everybody wants authentic and local and handcrafted, what could be more hand-made than software?!] Plus, in the history of the world, he said, is there one thing you can think of that has been hand-made, and on such a large scale as software, that was as complex?" via Phil

"what the NYT/Greenlining calculation has done is compared the profits in 2011 not with the taxes paid on profits from 2011. It has compared profits in 2011 with the taxes calculated on the basis of 2010′s profits. Which is obviously clear and present nonsense, entire argle bargle of which at least the newspaper should be ashamed. Has Apple been doing other things with its tax bill? Oh yes, most assuredly it has been. But this specific calculation, this tax rate, is nothing at all to do with that. Any company that grows its profits quickly will have an apparently low tax rate with this method used. Because taxes paid actually in this year are always calculated from profits made last year. So what the NYT has really reported is that Apple’s profits have been growing quickly: something which I think we already knew."

[Engineerguy] explains how a CCD works, May 15, 2012 at 12:01PM, from Hack a Day http://hackaday.com

3d printing saves the day for time-lapse photography, May 15, 2012 at 09:01AM, from Hack a Day http://hackaday.com

Designing a self-replicating milling machine, May 14, 2012 at 12:01PM, from Hack a Day http://hackaday.com