Yes, this seems like a bizarre oversight. He would be as rich as Bill Gates' ($76 Billion) in just over 15 years of business.

It is amazing. By John Steakley, here: http://www.amazon.com/Armor-John-Ste…

The Gmork confrontation in The Neverending Story was always the part that I couldn't watch without closing my eyes.

My favorite is East Germany's anthem. Titled "Risen from Ruins" (Auferstanden aus Ruinen), it is a somewhat heartbreaking yet hopeful song about putting things back together after the war. The line "let shine the light of peace so that no mother ever again must mourn her son" seems like a pretty good direction to…

One thing to consider in an estimation like this is that things like the Brooklyn Bridge are way more expensive now than when they were built. The $250 million figure is based on the original cost to build the bridge ($18 million) adjusted for inflation.

My most awkward Whedon line was Angelus' retort from the Buffy episode "Innocence."

Not exactly. The actual quote comes from a private letter Einstein wrote in 1942 to Cornelius Lanczos at Princeton. As quoted in the book Albert Einstein, the Human Side: New Glimpses from His Archives: "You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of…

+++MINE WHAAAAAAAAA

I am a bit partial to the salt ponds in the South SF Bay.

Hiram McDaniels for mayor of this contest!

Falkor isn't even the best dragon in The Neverending Story. Smerg is the best dragon from that story (the book at any rate). Smerg is created by Bastion as a way for Hynreck the Hero to have someone to fight to prove his worth to a lady. By the time he defeats Smerg, Hynreck has changed enough that he doesn't want the…

Naw man. Guys be like... but ladies be crazy. Am I right fellas?

I loved the old Cosmos and the new, and they are clearly doing a great service; I just wish that there were more science shows for the scientifically literate.

Yeah, I was impressed by the seeming intentional lack of understanding and empathy in some of those.

Seconded on "Private Internet Access." It is super easy and pretty fast, and I have it set up with Vuze for torrenting.

I would be hesitant to use that statistic unless you have better sources for it than I do.

Well, with the smallest square, it is likely smaller than the dart's cross-sectional area, so it increases the likelihood that you will hit it by... math... math...

This seems to ignore the width of the dart (treating it as a single point).

It was the music that made it though. I just listened to it again and I feel like I'm gonna have a heart attack.

And Lain doesn't even really follow a "brain upload" story line. There is nothing so direct in it. It is more like her presence online becomes a separate entity because of all the roles that it has to play. It has, at best, minor thematic similarities to Transcendence.