You may remember my inordinate fondness for Lovecraft's work from other discussions, but I never knew that about the production of Alien. Is there a behind-the-scenes book or a concept art collection or something somewhere where I could learn more about this?

Actually, they passed a law extending special protection to these kinds of systems— read the whole article.

When it involves price fixing, it's known as "racketeering".

"To loan" might be the correct vocabulary here, but "lent" is the past tense of "to lend".

Out of all the Animorphs books I ended up buying when the regional library system didn't have them, I regret that I didn't save a little of my cash for my very own copy of Ellimist. KA Applegate, ghostwritten as her work may have gotten, was one of my childhood science fiction heroes, alongside Bruce Coville, AKA one…

Well, if you didn't try beating him, you'd go nuts, anyways, because Father wasn't really that intelligent, just hijacking the brains of his victims.

Welp, I frickin' dug The Descent, which this seems to be in the vein of, so I will absolutely check it out.

Anybody remember the superorganism that covered the entire seafloor of that ocean moon in the Animorphs book The Ellimist Chronicles?

From the looks of it, it's made of some of Lego's favorite pieces, rather than just one huge one, so no. :)

Gosh, yeah, because kids totally do that. No imagination, them, nope, they just straight-up reenact the movies instead of coming up with their own play scenarios and making the parts and sets part of their own play universe. Golly gee whiz.

I was cream/sugar heavy in the beginning too, but oddly enough, only with light coffees. The darker the coffee, the less cream and sugar I like in it, but the lighter the coffee, the more stuff (including flavored creamer, which I never add to my dark coffee) I prefer to add.

I'd suggest FOOK, but I think Garth Ennis might have dibs.

This is, wholeheartedly, not only the first response to this article, but probably the most rational, too.

Well, the free WinAmp app is a terrific music player for the average song library, I'll say that. I repeat, though, Samsung's making a big mistake marketing this as 'just' a media player. I'd never take something as big as the 7" Galaxy Tab to the gym with me, but the Galaxy Player is smaller and lighter, and it's got…

Mm, reminds me of a similar Samsung Android product I own— one I've already commented about today, actually. It's the Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0, "5.0" standing for the screen size in inches. It's a great device, and since it's not a phone, while it's merely marketed as an mp3 player, it's basically a tablet that has…

Right now I have Samsung's Galaxy Player 5.0 media player running Gingerbread, and it's fantastic. It's basically being mismarketed as just an mp3 player when it's really a perfect compromise between portability and utility as a tablet. So I don't think Samsung's failing to hit the tablet sweet spot altogether; it's…

I basically buy more music today than I did before because of Grooveshark. I started using it a year ago, and it led me to explore so much more music, and that led me to buy the awesome media player I have now, and I started adding music to my library at a much faster rate, in part due to Grooveshark's "radio"…

I hope so; Grooveshark revolutionized my state as a musical human being. I actually buy music more regularly now than I did before I started using Grooveshark almost a year ago, and I listen to it on the awesome media player that I wouldn't have bought without becoming more engaged with music because of Grooveshark.

I want a hobbit house, now. It wouldn't hurt if it were a little like this as well: [www.futilitycloset.com]

I know ant warfare is a well documented phenomenon, but I wonder if there have been instances of ant genocide? IE, if these ants undertook some gruesome insectile initiative to destroy every termite's nest within the range of their territory.