It appears crowd funding removes greedy investors from a project, and in this case at least, not a good idea. At some point you have to shit or get off the pot. It’s absolutely easy as hell to just keep going as long as the money is there and nobody is slapping your wrists - you throw multiple ideas at a wall and see…

Good article. I lived and breathed Peanuts as a little kid (the 60s, you rapscallions!), I was always going around saying “good grief!”, and I actually have a few books filled with comic strips I had made of “Snoopy vs The Red Baron”, which was an increasingly scifi/James Bond influenced series of stories escalating…

Good article. Yup, it’s horrible. I think this has come about because it’s “easy”, nothing more. Movies track opening weekend sales therefore bums in seats before that first Monday becomes a driving force behind what projects get green-lit, thus you have endless rehashed movies with the same characters, and something…

Umm, Steven Spielberg? That’s how he got started - strolled on the Universal lot, found an empty office, set himself up, wandered around, talked to people, learned, started showing up at meetings...

The warboys absolutely were sympathetic. Most were sickly and weak, they’d been fed a constant diet of brainwashing since they were born and despite that, as the movie shows, they are capable of redemption. Being mad as a hatter, Immortan Joe squeezed out some tears halfway through. Even the worst villain has to have…

The movie was really good, too.

You're right - the notion this is the one brand you can aspire to is nonsense. Different pans for different tasks will get you closer to the mark, and you don't have to go crazy with 10 different pans. Certainly a quality cast iron pan is awesome for many different stove top tasks, and is perfect for searing a meat…

You're right - the notion this is the one brand you can aspire to is nonsense. Different pans for different tasks…

... unless you live in Canada (or just outside the US in general?), in which case it's basically useless unless you're playing whack a mole with proxies. It does YouTube and Netflix and is a medicore local streaming player at best (the positively ancient WDTV can still handle more codecs). I have a Minix android box…

... unless you live in Canada (or just outside the US in general?), in which case it's basically useless unless…

It's a great show, the acting is superb (I was prepared to not give Anderson an inch but dare I say it? She's reminiscent of Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect as far as multifaceted, enigmatic protagonists go) , but the subject is so distasteful we have to work ourselves up to watching a season. It's a great example of…

Saddens me how Blizzard could release a turd on a BBQ spit and fans would still freak out. I'm watching this and mentally remapping all the classes to TF2, minus all the charm and humour. Gawd, they take themselves *so* seriously!

I admit to not really "getting" the media-in-the-cloud thing, perhaps because I don't have unlimited mobile or at-home internet connections. It just seems like a crapload of bits being shuffled through a shared pipe just so you can stroll around with an sdcard-free phone and fire up your copyright-breaking movies…

WAY cool. These guys have been turning out some pretty amazing games and if anyone can do awesome here, they can. Incredible they've been able to keep this secret for this long. My cynicism has been trussed up and thrown in the corner as we await the results!

Apart from people who have a legitimate problem with a lot of smelly perspiration from their feet, "smelly shoes" are more about the shoe than the person. Basically some materials react with sweat and either smell bad, or encourage a lot of bacteria growth. I've had shoes stink after one week, and others that I've…

It's super important to have pre-determined methods of engaging in social intercourse so you can manipulate the room around you to get what you want. This is called "psychopathic behaviour".

It quickly devolves to a religious argument, for sure, but FWIW I've had to build and maintain hundreds of systems over the years(workstations and render nodes) and I have only two mantras: always Intel over AMD, and never ATI under any circumstances. This is simply based on how many hours of pain I've endured. Purely…

You people running out of things to bitch about? It's obviously meant to be a documentary process as opposed to "art". Of course, a seriously talented photographer could take some incredible, atmospheric shots, but why diss a picture that is showing you incredible amounts of detail? I have no idea where some of you…

I'm sure there are variables like where you live and breed of ant, but two words : diatomaceous earth. Get an ant killer with this as primary ingredient. Completely non - poisonous, it sticks to them, cuts the exoskeleton and they die, fast, of dehydration. Plus they carry it back to the nest. It's not a colony -…

Neither my wife or I watch sports, apart from the occasional hockey, and it was a no-brainer. *snip*. The one thing I thought I'd miss was the 2am can't sleep scenario where you can have fun watching godzilla and old film noir movies accompanied by cheesy commercials, but on reflection I realized I was remembering…

Here's another shocker - even in cold climes with lots of ice, people slip on ice every year, proper preschool training or no. It's the human condition, often we're in a rush, we aren't penguins, we walk faster than we should, and bam. Maybe a little story about flightless birds from Antarctica might plop into our…

Lots of good advice there. Ikea tends to get the short end of the 'cheap' lollipop simply because it's so stunningly successful in so many parts of the world. They target certain demographics and hit them right between the eyes. I used to have certain rules with them, such as never, EVER buy small office furniture…