Helicopters are flown by PILOTS- People who have the training to know how to stay out of rescuers’ way, and BTW, also have access to the air traffic control system.

Yes, you are allowed to play ukulele without being a douchebag if you are from/in Hawaii.

Skylab falling, 1979. I was 6.

If it really had to make sense, I could imagine that the Kessel run was a very long, roundabout route to avoid a dangerous region of space. The wider a berth you gave it (the longer the trip), the safer it would be. Being able to go the short way would rely on a very fast, maneuverable ship and excellent piloting…

Fat free bacon?

If it were really a white people tattoo, it would be in Mandarin, which they thought was Japanese.

A depressed partner can cause stress in a relationship. So can a death in the family, money troubles, or disagreeing about whether Firefly is good or not.

Pirated versions of every “exclusive” trailer made their way online over the weekend.

...And is less filling?

If anything’s going to finally put the nail in Flash’s coffin, it’s HTML5. Everything you *actually* wanted flash to do is now built in.

We had to disallow all psionics after one guy decided the easiest way to win was to telekinetically cause aneurysms in his opponents....

My local game store used to have a GURPS fight club, where we used the advanced combat rules for miniatures. Not something I would drop into a campaign, as it took a good hour per fight, but as a standalone thing, it was pretty awesome.

3e GURPS Space, Magic, Religion, and Time Travel are the ones that really spring to mind, in that they give you tons of various explanations and possible mechanics (hyperdrive vs warp drive vs jump drive, for example) for worldbuilding.

Are you kidding? I sold off my collection when Homelands was still on the shelves.

You’re not the only one. As they’ve slowly grown more and more ubiquitous and widely reported, my feelings towards them have escalated from mild confusion (why the hell would someone buy those?) to extreme disdain. I suspect that I shall hit blind rage within the next 3-5 i09 articles dedicated to them.

Recording a Dropkick Murphys / Rumjacks style album of rocked out Irish folk songs, plus a new CD of original tunes: www.indiegogo.com/projects/release-the-music

I’m assuming the crying part was a specific reference. Where exactly, did he say that women don’t belong in a lab? I mean, the actual quote in context.

Except that he didn’t mock an entire gender. He made an autobiographical joke about how he met his wife. Not every woman he’s worked with- They’ve all been defending him- The one that he married and had two kids with.

Except that his views weren’t harmful and old fashioned.

The thing is, Tim Hunt’s joke was dependent on knowing it was autobiographical. He’s married to world-renowned immunologist Mary Collins, whom he met in a lab at Cambridge. She worked under him, and one of his many duties was checking her work for errors.