Honestly, I really wish Nintendo had just released a faster, HD-capable Wii without trying to stack extra gimmicks like that weird controller on top of it. If they had released an HD Wii capable of playing the games for Wii I already own IN HD (which we all know can be done - re: Dolphin emulator - despite what…

Actually it's not about the bride (hi, I was one not too long ago), it's about your families. You're hosting the largest and most important party of your life, and it's more of a tribute to all the people who've helped get you to where you are rather than being about YOU. Can it be insanely expensive? Yes? Does it…

Wow, this was a really touching read, as a recently married person (it'll be 2 years this year) it's amazing how much I can relate to the things described in here. We didn't have to sell things to pay for our wedding, but to move in together, and then later buy a home together? Many personal things had to be…

DA's print quality is excellent, I've ordered a number of posters through them. Nice, thick paper and great color.

Hello Mr. Musk, thank you for taking the time to answer our questions! A few months ago I saw an interview that you'd given and a clip was shown of a panel of veteren Apollo astronauts basically saying that commercial space was a bad idea for NASA to support, that it too dangerous and unproven. Since the success of…

This just happened this week at my work, someone had put a can of Dr. Pepper in the communal refrigerator's freezer, then someone else took it out and put it in the back of the fridge. BOOM, it exploded like a bomb all over everything in the fridge, it was nasty. Sharp aluminum shards and chunks of frozen soda…

Actually when it comes to movies with a lot of CGI effects (as so many have now) I'm not sure the difference in cost between 24fps and 48fps would really be negligible. With live action you just film a person moving; you increase the frame rate to create a "slow mo" effect of various degrees, but it's a matter of…

@Benny Gesserit: That applies in the States too, I always use the code on the sticker. It's quick, easy and most importantly accurate. Using the photo list is almost useless, it's too easy to pick the wrong thing.

The machines I use at Kroger and Giant Eagle in Columbus, OH, you can type in the 4 digit code on the apple's label and it identifies it correctly in just a few seconds. The codes seems to be consistent from store to store too; Gala apples are almost always 4135. There is an option to choose the apple visually, but…

@Llew: I think that's because most of Australia is desert outback where few people live, much less have internet access. The more human habitable areas are on the coasts.

@Aminpro: follow the "Facebook" link at the bottom of the article, it'll take to you the post on Facebook and there's a link to the hi-res version there :)

The Soyuz is only the "last physical link" after the shuttle retires for now; SpaceX already has a contract with NASA for the same sort of human/cargo ferrying service and just had their first successful launch, I'm really surprised you didn't link Giz's own article on it, [gizmodo.com]

@Y2KGTP: No, Apollo 11 was the name of the mission. The lander was Eagle, the orbiter was called Columbia. But no matter what was called what, there is no way Eagle would/could have landed on the far side of the Moon from Earth; they needed constant communication of telemetry from Houston, which would have been cut…

@farcedude: In fact it wouldn't flow at all because that requires atmosphere to surround each dust particle and "fluidize" it, like when sand runs like a little river out of your hands at the beach. I'm not precisely sure what that shot would have looked like in actual 1/6 gravity but it probably would have been a…

@triplecheeseburger: I knew it was only a matter of time until they shoehorned Alpha Trion and his impossible robot beard into the movies :P

@Zanzan42: I wonder how he arrived at that price, anyway, and where he bought the materials from. Obviously fossils are sold all the time, but in my mind there is a difference between a fossil of, say, a brachiopod (of which there are literally millions, especially here in Ohio) and that of a T-Rex. Scientifically and…

Wow, that actually ticks me off a little bit. It's not like you just find T-Rex teeth lying around every day, they're priceless fossils, and important to science! I can't believe someone would use them for something like this; ridiculous.

@HeroOfTomorrow is lonely: I think because he tends to be a bit negative and opinionated in his reporting. In this case he obviously feels this hack of Kinect is ridiculous, but quite a few commenters (myself included) think it's actually pretty cool. The fact that even his headline for this article is negative right…

Actually this looks pretty challenging, I can see the fun in it. Would be exhausting to play, but I'd give it a shot. Might get too frustrating in the long term though. I'd say Mario Galaxy would be an interesting one to hack, but that probably really would make my brain explode.

Great, now I'm all distracted from work, trying to figure out how you'd get 100,000 people to the Moon and back. And then I think of anime like Battle Athletes and picture an elite sports university in space...yeah, the future will be pretty awesome ;)