Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger.

What this article tells me is that wolves make shitty guard animals. If someone approaches my place/animal aggressively I want barking, not bemused sniffing the ground. An intruder will be inside my house stabbing me to death while my wolf wanders around scratching at interesting spots.

It reminds me a lot of the art of Jim Fitzpatrick, particularly the one of Nausicaä.

I remembered seeing a Noveau poster on Antiques Roadshow and I was able to find it pretty easily.

If the carpet pattern is copyrighted, then no, the company isn't required to defend it in order to maintain their copyright. Copyrights cannot be lost in that fashion.

It's a graphic, so I'm pretty sure it's copyrighted.

That's the notion of ideas vs. the representation of those ideas. It's not the carpet that's copyrighted; it's the graphic on the carpet. (Though I have to go back to my school notes on fabric patterns.)

It begins...

So that's how you clear out your brower's cookie cache!

How about in the office?

Adorable! If I was walking along and saw one of these it would probably make my day.

I could talk about what LOST got right and wrong for days. Months, even. Prometheus hit me the same way; I hated it, but I can't stop talking about it, because it's made up of all my favourite ideas.

Number 2 could be called "Cavil's Lament" as well.

I'd love to know the question that went with that answer. Bullshit may well have been correct.

"…Some of the more fringier elements of conversational English"

That, and they could have had Watson use Sean Connery's voice.

HAL 9000 reprogrammed with Samuel L. Jackson's voice and vocabulary. Total win.

I'm afraid I can't let you do that, motherfucker.