Either that or someone written by Grant Morrison.

So this would make a fun game: match the biblical phrase with the superhero Americans would most likely attribute it to. Silver Surfer would get the 23rd Psalm, Punisher would get something from Job, and Mr. Fantastic would get one of those great biblical quotes supporting science and rationality.

To do this research right, wouldn't you have to compare the children of the same fathers? In other words, find very large numbers of men who became fathers at nineteen and then again at fifty? Then, you'd at least be trying to correct for such possibilities as, for instance, "men who become fathers at fifty are…

Nicely done. I really like your deck of cards analogy, though for me it only works if now and then we let the cards pick parters, get busy, and then have a new generation of card babies, after which we winnow them out the same way all over again. Oh, and also, in a few generations, let's change the survival trait to…

Matters of taste. "Magnolia" is one of my all-time favourite movies. On the other hand, during even just the trailer of "Eyes Wide Shut" mine drooped closed.

Isn't io9 famous redundant? What other sort of famous could there be?

... and based on what I've just read, the fact that you're around must mean your mom isn't a chick.

Seconded.

This article and "how to swallow a sword" both on the same day. Hmm.

I'm finding it a bit of a wasteland no matter how you look at it. Anyone want an invite? Message me your email address.

Next up: reading kills!

I believe that in your entry on anthropophagi, you are conflating two different peoples described by Othello in Shakespeare's play of the same name: "the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders." Pliny the Elder described the Blemmyes, the monsters who…

You're going to be turning 18 forever? Can you show me how to do that?

Thanks. Guess I could have just Googled that, huh? Anyway, fun to watch again.

Eyrie was excellent. Thanks for sharing. It kind of reminded me of a short called "The Hill Farm" that I saw a couple of decades ago and haven't seen since. Anyone know that one? Or am I crazy?

The iPad for me. Add apps by Comixology, Comics+ and Dark Horse, and I haven't visited a comic shop in a year. And I've read more. And I've paid less.

Yeah, this was good. I was too young in '79 to be allowed to see the movie, so the Alan Dean Foster novelization and this were my only options. I loved both, but man was I desperate to see that movie.

Vote: Kindle

That is correct.

Thanks, but as far as I've read, this will only work with my Kindle account if I get a credit card with a US address. If all I need to do is change my address temporarily on my account, I'll do it. Worth checking out. Thanks again.