I want red pants but I am not entirely certain that I am capable of rocking them. However, my burgundy zip-up hoodie is certainly going to see more use.

Pretty much this. Come tee-shirt season, I will not be wanting for red articles of clothing.

The bit on FB's Instant Personalization feature is helpful, but what about the FB social plugin some websites have? It's disconcerting to post a link from The Onion to a friend's wall on FB and then go to the site and find it in that box on the right-hand side of The Onion's site, listing my action.

Not boring mundane, We Don't Need The Usual Vastly Implausible Space Opera Trappings To Be Entertaining mundane.

Saturn's Children pays off in the end— and Charles Stross published a short story set in the same universe in the sci-fi anthology Engineering Infinities that is just great. Optimistic to see what Stross does when he follows up the novel.

Charles Stross himself recommended Harry Connolly's Twenty Palaces series of urban fantasy/horror for a similar but unique take on magic, Lovecraftian horror, and having read the two that are currently out, I can say that they're stellar pieces of fiction. I especially recommend them to anyone who doesn't like Jim…

So glad to see some Charles Stross love going on on this site, I was wondering just the other day why he didn't get more attention.

This is amazing and I'm glad you shared it with us.

I think it's that certain combination of rigid, party-line visions of grandeur, and cold functionality that really defines a lot of Soviet remnants. Soviet monuments in places like Georgia— I think photos of them were linked on io9 months ago— have that same sort of thing going for them.

I get the unfortunate feeling that a lot of this year's, and next year's, tablets will be overpriced, as companies fight to just get a foot in the door and establish the concept of them selling tablets in the public's mind. I hope tablet prices will drop; certainly it's going to be harder to compete with Apple…

This is an ideal time to ask, what's a good starting point for getting into Reynolds' work?

This was an interesting idea derailed completely and violently, like a train full of orphans careening off of a bridge, by the pretentious nature of the post.

Walternate will quake in his more-morally-ambiguous-than-we-had-thought boots when he hears of our explosion-eating Blue Earth sheep.

I miss that show. It was as surreal as all get-out, but that's a prerequisite for the best of CN's shows. I'll always remember it for General Specific and Private Public's "I'll take Aruba and you play the tuba" musical scene, which sadly is nowhere to be found online.

I have to commend Fringe's makeup people, too, because they made Ourlivia-as-Fauxlivia adorable and I wanted to give her a hug, whereas Fauxlivia-as-Ourlivia didn't seem so friendly.

No, I get the impression that Walter deeply regrets his experiments now. Walternate, meanwhile, might have a degree of decency, but not enough that it keeps him from doing the horrible things we've seen him do. Peter's abduction may have led him to oppose testing on children, but it also broke him psychologically. We…

Let's not forget about "Earthling", or "August", or "The Bishop Revival", among others. Season 1, like a lot of people say, is good, but season 2 is just phenomenal because the show had found its footing by that point.

While I love the first season, and rewatched almost all of the episodes in it just a few months ago, I think that season 2 was better because the show was finally finding solid footing and cranking out winning episodes.

The sheep extinction wasn't related to the avian flu except in that the bugs that make the enzyme the doctor wanted to use for the vaccine lived in the sheep. As for the avian flu, I think it's one of those things that happen in waves on Red Earth, like crop failures or smallpox outbreaks.

Peter has a Boston accent? I live in MA and I can't recall him ever speaking with one.