I kinda' like the "Fashionably Geek" thing — looks like you could actually wash it. But the other stuff is just silly. Like most high fashion.

Yeah the really grody part is the 50% fat thing. I like me some chicken skin — when it's nice and browned and crispy — but that is just nasty. Fat and salt and sugar, oh yes and chicken by-products too. Really? Isn't that a simple list of what's wrong with processed food in general?

Well, no, but fast-food is mass-produced with an emphasis on consistency of product, unlike humans. Yes, I want to see a much larger sample. No, I don't think these results are irrelevant. I remember when McNuggets first came out — they were actually made of meat and tasted pretty good. Over time, fast-food…

Great book, that one. Gotta' read his newer one...

I hope you're right. And that the future has a place for people who would make it a career to ferret out the truth.

Most of the things you point to are aggregators, though. Not doing the leg-work it takes to go out and get the story themselves. They find a story/article/post that exists on the Web somewhere and share it. And the biggest loss so far: local news. If I see a big column of smoke somewhere in the valley here and…

Good point. I can't really believe any movie w/Jack Nicholson mugging through the whole thing, myself. ;-)

Hey Doc, I bet you and I have similar taste when it comes to these things... ;-) Anyone who gets his screen name from Buckaroo Banzai is cool in my book!

Ah, so I'm not alone! Yeah lately I find myself apologizing to my normal-sighted friends about going to movies together. "Um, you probably wanna' see the 3-D version, so... you should probably go with someone else..." Luckily my husband doesn't like 3-D movies (the luddite ;-) so he'll go with me to the old-school…

Re: #7... To be fair, I saw it when my age was still a single-digit number. And for months — nay, years — afterward, my older brothers would whisper my name in the dark to terrify me. So I can barely even look at the image you posted here without wanting to run away. Ah well, at least they didn't do that…

Cool, and my birthday just happens to be coming up... Hopefully the theater will put it into a 2-D slot as well...

Considering what happened w/the electric car, I don't imagine that's gonna' happen anytime soon. Asking auto mfrs to standardize would be hard enough, but standardize to an open-source OS? HAHAHAHAHAHHA-ohpuffpant-hahahaha-sigh...

Not for a whole lot longer... Problem is, most of the alternatives are pretty much simply aggregating what the old newspapers report. What happens when they're gone? We'll have to reinvent the reporter. Maybe he'll look like Spider in Transmetropolitan.

Wow, so another case of "If it ain't broke..." huh? Oh right, that's why solar, etc. haven't taken over yet. Efficiency. Doh.

Yep, well... Technically we're burning dinosaur food... ;-)

If it ain't broke, don't fix it... ;-)

From what I can tell, it seems to be a classic problem-solving sci-fi story in the tradition of those Golden Age pulp stories — which were awesome when done right. However, I have an important question. Speaking for an extreme minority of the audience here, 3-D does not work on me. Because my eyes don't align…

Congrats!

Hey yeah, that final image would make an excellent "Solar System" flag.

OK I'll admit it. After the circus trip in 1976, I wanted to be this guy: