Well... your women don't anyway.

Yeah, so the question is who exactly is obsessed with Angelina Jolie? Sounds like the Internet.

If a few people get rich over it, and that's all that happens, I don't think it counts as the singularity. I think that just means that you don't think the singularity will happen. If so, I figure you're probably right. The singularity, if it happens, makes our present socioeconomic paradigms obsolete. It's…

Well, I wouldn't say "ruled it." Bit of a stretch. Their government was, for the most part, far too centralized, much more than their primitive communications networks could handle. By the time any new pronouncement from the Emperorsaurus Rex Mundi reached the outer provinces by velociraptor courier, either the…

Man, if Schrodinger is actually Zentarr, then that means that omniscient clown knew the fate of the damn cat all along. Thought experiment my superpositioned ass.

I believe that Zentarr actually has a half-alive-half-dead Schrodinger in the box.

The dino booty don't stop.

Well said. I have no problem if other people fund Sony's r&d so that in twenty years when I upgrade my set, I can benefit from their ideas having trickled down to those colour-inaccurate rip-off artists at Dynex.

I look at a Dynex every day. I don't even notice the things you're complaining about. The extra money on the Sony would make me vomit. But my real point was that if it takes them a thousand extra dollars (and more, since Dynex apparently makes money) to allow you and other colour connoisseurs to keep your lunch…

Okay, so I just went to BestBuy Canada's site, and found their Dynex 46-incher for five bills. Then I found the same size Sony on sale for fifteen bills. If they charge three times the price and lose money, they certainly are doing something wrong.

Well said. It's a step forward. No point in wailing about how there weren't twenty steps.

Are we sure these aren't people pulling the researchers', uh, legs? Come on, if I lived in Chickenpoke, Brazil, and some fancy-pants college boy came along asking for the details of what my penis has gone into, I might just be tempted to point at the poultry and smirk as he dutifully took down notes. And if I could…

I know. It's true. And I used to be a supporter of my local bookstores. Really. Thousands upon thousands of dollars for decades. Amazon won me over bit by bit. They could get things my local bookstores couldn't — at first, that was all I used them for. Then their prices got better and better — so I used them…

True dat. Amazon, despite all their ridiculous success, doesn't get greedy and ask for 30% cuts from everything they sell. Their goal seems to be to take ever slimmer margins on ever increasing varieties and quantities of stuff. Every time I buy something from iTunes, I grumble about how much Apple is taking; every…

Agreed on both counts.

Okay, don't be mad at me, especially since I agree with your point. But here's the thing: the word you were looking for is moot.

So is the book good? I really don't like the idea of a restriction, because if I buy it, I'd like to switch between my Kindle, my iPad and my phone, but if that's off the table — well, the book better be really good. Is it?

Another typical evening in my home.

brijazz above is, however, correct. The way I recall it, it's been since the very early eighties that SNL detractors and comedy snobs have been saying that the show isn't as good as it used to be. By the time the early nineties hit, the detractors were young enough that they didn't even remember the very early days…

I don't think that I can genetically engineer it