A shocking number of inventors and engineers are using LEGOs for rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept models.

The "Everything that isn't you is trying to kill you" rant at the beginning was worth the $1.25 at Redbox. The rest of the movie was about as meh as it gets.

the minute you say Doom blogs is the minute it becomes impossible to take him seriously. Blogging just sounds inherently frivolous, and is completely unsuited to an evil mastermind.

There's just a general trend of public opinion being harder on Israel than on other countries doing similarly awful stuff.

The idea is that there needs to be a Jewish homeland since Jews have been systematically persecuted for thousands of years.

In my experience, there are never two sides to a story. If there's anything more than the sole objective truth, there are at least a dozen sides, if not hundreds.

I miss the Cold War. We had someone we could always cast as the bad guys whenever we needed a rah-rah-we're-number-one moment, and yet we knew they'd just as soon sit down with us over a beer than launch the planet-killers. It made the Olympics way more fun.

As much as I absolutely love the Ledger/Bale film, Burton's 1989 adaptation will always be the definitive Batman to me.

And this may be the thing I love most about the internet.

Was trying to figure out where I'd heard the music before- DILBERT!

the tech behind it could be used in robotics among other things its not a failure tech

Addendum: Find someone with vision and a track record of reinventing tropes. Someone like DelToro or Gaiman- And just give them free reign to take over and do whatever they want with the big picture.

Personally, I think the best thing they could do is really look at each individual monster for what it is. Don't let the overall concept of tying things together distract from really putting the character where they need to be.

I'm an excellent scrounger, craftsman, know how to build turbines and water filters, and hang out with a whole hell of a lot of SCA and homesteader types. I'm really not that worried.

I vote we bring back lions.

That is depressingly plausible.

Judging by the election results, I'm assuming it's already spread widely throughout the American South and Midwest.

Funding anything he wants in exchange for extending his contract? Very plausible.

Or you know, Dollhouse.