To soothe fears of the nonmajority horde

"I could have been a lawyer, but noooooo my parents said..."

"It was a good life, I suppose."

I really have to disagree, but it doesn't look like I can convince you otherwise.

Well that's just ridiculous. Most of the entertainment comes from, you know, watching the show.

They've gotten just a little hokey with all the exposition they do, and the redundancy (even omitting "after the break" snippets), but everyone on the show is aware of it, and have a very tongue-in-cheek attitude that kind of shares the giddiness with the audience. And so long as lies everywhere can still get around…

About the brainstorming and building: I've been catching up on the last season, and they actually seem to have shown more of that, like the ancient torpedo episode or the motorcycles vs. cars one. And I enjoy those a lot, too— Adam and Jamie love doing it, and the fun is infectious. I just wish Discovery would realize…

They don't get to show all of the work and testing they do, though, which gives the false impression that you're seeing the whole process on the show; and furthermore, every season they have episodes where they re-test old myths based on viewer feedback, and those occasionally lead to changing their previous…

And to think, just the other day I was lamenting that this site only ever occasionally discusses or mentions Charles Stross.

Well, he's doing a fair job turning one man's vindictive piss into another man's ambrose. Rule 34 is definitely a terrific science fiction novel, and there are a multitude of worse responses than guiding people's attention to the king's current state of undress.

I always enjoy reading things like this (both the article and your comment), because they provide a window into unique perspectives, memories, and facts.

A Hezbollah t-shirt would be an interesting souvenir, but it would be hard to bring back home if one were flying.

"to wish a couple of hundred trillion solutions into the cornfield."

My mother is from Ohio, and it used to be that whenever we would visit her family there, when we were driving to one place or another we'd pass this driveway with a van painted exactly like the Mystery Machine parked in it. Growing up on the reruns of the first handful of Scooby Doo shows on Cartoon Network, and…

Let's just celebrate good design for the sake of good design. I like this; it's clever without being, to borrow a term from David Bowie, "clever-clever".

Yeah, about 5.8 inches with bezel, apparently. I'm sensing a little indecision on Samsung's part— they seem to have plenty of promising avenues to pursue, but they risk following them at one another's expense.

Samsung kind of already pulled a fast one on themselves when they released the Galaxy Player 5.0 and 4.0, because those things are marketed as just media players, but in all truthfulness they're mini-tablets, and terrific ones at that.

I believe the following rejoinder most appropriate in these circumstances may be the reliable "BAM!"

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.