@BookGirl: Thanks for the recommendation. I was avoiding that one simply because of its association with the movie, but maybe I should give it a chance.

@8x10: Allow me to recommend the long-out-of-print "Journeys of McGill Feighan" series by Kevin O'Donnell Jr. My eighteen-year-old self loved them, and leaned about angular momentum from them. I might be looking with rose coloured glasses, but I think they were awesome.

@Michael Ellis: Rant back atcha: In this economy, it's time to start investing more in schools. Smart investing, not just throwing money. I can only speak directly about Milwaukee where I taught for a year before fleeing back to Canada, but the States needs to invest way more in the infrastructure of the public…

@FishyFishyFishy: I used SMART board competitor Promethean for a couple of years in my classroom, and got great use out of it. This year I'm in a new school and have no access to such stuff, so I'm trying going it on the cheap and using the Wiimote/bluetooth/IR Pen combo I learned about at Wii Teachers.Com.

Oh, so the actor has a plan for the sequel to the crappy film based on the really entertaining novel? Does he know that the novel already has an excellent sequel? Did he read the novel? He certainly didn't act in the movie.

@lazyeight: Bradbury had a lot of respect for Burroughs. I remember him saying once something like, "I'm a better writer than he was, but he was a much better storyteller than I will ever be."

@Flike: I've heard analyses that suggest farming gave us less time rather than more, and that hunter-gatherers actually have the greatest amount of free time. Then again, I've also read that it depends which kind of agriculture you're talking about, western seasonal or Asian intensive. There's actually a good…

@Flike: A good book about the ideas you begin with is _A Brief History of Progress_ by Ronald Wright. He quite convincingly shows that if you take the long view from the holocene window to the present, civilization looks like a pyramid scheme. The _Sex at Dawn_ people seem to me (I've only read the first half of it…

@Dr Emilio Lizardo: What have I got in my pocket?

@bitchincamaro: From what I know of US "authorities" they needed the Bahamian ones to catch the kid who eluded them for more than two years. So, you know, glass houses, right?

I want you to know that just telling my wife about this article got me mad kissing. Turns out we're both left-turners, despite being right-handed. Also, this is a fun afternoon.

@Kogo: I know. If he's so skilled, why hasn't he put the red four on the black five?

@Arsnof: Kevin Bacon for me.

@dirtybacon: Yeah, I still can't believe Stan Lee made Fury white in the old comics. That's insulting to Samuel L. Jackson.

@Grglstr: I struggled through two thirds of that book before giving up. The first chapter is beautifully written. Aching and sad. The next couple of hundred pages reads like slow Stephen King, and after that, when it skips ahead a hundred years, it has all the believability and character of a mediocre young-adult…

@dlomax: Apple's that is. I thought I was replying to jinushaun and clicked wrong.

Not to mention that their selection is worse and their prices are worse. Can't get much worse...

@Nitesh Singh: Here.

@cletar: No, that's "Battle of the Network Stars," which was less awesome.

@gods-n-clods: That description would fit a considerable percentage of Spider-Man and Batman stories published recently.