It's nothing short of brilliant. The best work Mike Carey has done.

Spockly Ties

Because Poe wrote on both.

You should also mention that it would be too big to fit in his pocket.

Thanks. I'll try not to spend them all at once.

I want to agree with you about Demon Knights, but the story is taking so damn long to unfold. Every single issue, I think, well, I guess that army is going to get there this time. But it never does. So far, that comic is Zeno's paradox in narrative form.

Well said. Preferences are not facts.

Couldn't agree more about Prezi. I'm really interested to see how they will make this tool better and better in the next couple of years. Prezi has the wow factor that Powerpoint had maybe fifteen years ago.

A police officer finds a drunk man on his hands and knees under a streetlight. The drunk says he's looking for his keys and will the officer help. After a few moments of fruitless search, the cop asks if the drunk remembers where he was when he dropped his keys. The drunks says yes, and points to the far end of the…

What about the punchlines of jokes? Does one just walk into those? Or Scooby-Doo traps?

I feel this diagram would be clearer if there were some items inside the larger circle. What about "a bar" or "trouble" or "the Shire"?

In Soviet Russia, black hole carries you in...

That is correct. Naked and buggers I was fine with on my own. My favourite writer for sending me to the dictionary is Stephen R. Donaldson. I read him on my Kindle, and sometimes even that is confounded by his erudition.

Thank-you for sending me to the dictionary. It's one of the things I love coming to io9 for.

Yes, and if you paid him for sharing this perspective, suddenly he wouldn't be having so much fun, would he?

I think the solution is to do something you love, but to do more of it than you are paid for. I'm a high school teacher; if I did only the minimum that my job requires, I could be out of the building by 3:30 every day, and take no work home. As it is, with clubs, teams, committees, conferences, and so on, I'm out at…

Sorry to be unclear. I didn't think you were saying anything negative about the fab four. It was Randy Bachman's defense I was rushing to. He really gushes about this one chord; I listened to him talk about it and felt myself appreciate it all the more. The guy is a treat to listen to, partly because of his…

Not to put too fine a point on it, but you're not convincing me as well as Randy Bachman, whom I've heard rhapsodize on this before. Don't get me wrong, I don't know too much about the subject, but if the lead guitarist of the Guess Who says it's both a mysterious and perfect chord worth exploring, and then "coryd"…

While I totally want to agree with you here, I think you and others have vastly underrated the duration of that fourth trimester. Come on, "extremely fragile, have no day/night schedule, need constant feeding"? That fourth trimester lasts until approximately age twenty-four, longer in cases of graduate school.

But statistically speaking, new drivers and new teen drivers make more. And are most likely to believe that anecdotal evidence trumps statistical evidence. Or so I heard.