That will likely last for only a few minutes. Running simple DC motors in reverse will generate electricity. Modern chargers and DC motors have circuitry that prevents bad things from happening and that circuitry fails if the current flow is too high or gets too hot.

I have tried this sort of thing in the past and have ruined a few items with DC motors in the process.

My solution would have been to stick my hand out the window and hold it outside.

And here I thought it was that because Neanderthals never discovered agriculture. Silly me.

According to my sources (third hand, unfortunately), The Godfather, caused a sea change in Mob behavior. The public expected mobsters to talk like rude, Italian immigrants from the 1950's so they started talking that way.

At 30 Baht to the dollar, eggs and ham is only $2.66! The price of coffee is pretty average, however.

Living in Southern California, there are many Mexican restaurants which are labeled as not being authentic. The most derided is, of course, my favorite. So, when I took a native-born Mexican girlfriend there for the first time what was her reaction? She cried because the food was so good and declared the refried beans to be second best only to her mother's. Authentic does not equal good.

The restaurants in this article might be horrible *and* authentic.

I was going to let this pass, but since E Cheung asked the right question, I guess I need to answer him.

The effect likely comes not from diffraction as seen on a CD, but from thin film wave interference. The Naked Scientist (link below) has the best, quick description that I could find. Google "Oil Rainbow Effect" to get more information.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/questions/question/1708/

Good, 23 year-old artists have "something substantial" to offer other 23 year-olds.

I deplore people saying "In my opinion" or " ... to me." because everyone's words should be assumed to be referring to themselves and not prescriptive to others. I would concur that young artists do not have much to offer a mature and accomplished artist such as Stiller.

Jenna Marbles might disagree.

(Warning, strong language)

I wonder when someone will do this to bigfoot videos.

Am I the only one who wants to see what the guy on top looks like?

This country has "temples" built to honor all sorts of non-religious ideals: Knowledge (Library), Patriotism (Tomb of the Unknown Soldier), Justice (Courthouse). That some of these are practical is an added benefit.

For me, a temple exalting the virtues of nonspecific love (or any other emotion) is a bit stupid.