@Bootknife-Jackson: But the eight legs do? And a girl in the desert wearing a string of christmas lights and a diaper?

@enteecee: Hmm, I'll be hard pressed to think of one...but then, I hate wide open spaces and empty rooms. I'm the nesting sort. :) Horror vacui!

They're ravens in the folk tale, but swans in H.C. Andersen's adaptation "The Wild Swans". Seven brothers (all princes) are turned into ravens by a witch (might be their stepmother, I can't recall). Their sister sits in a tree in the forest for years, veawing shirts out of stinging nettles which will break the curse.…

Looks more like a modern art museum space than anything you'd be comfortable living in.

If any Danish readers happen to be looking for an SF "antipasti", try an anthology called Faseskift with short stories by Ursula LeGuin, Robert Heinlein, Philip Jose Farmer, Philip K. Dick, Georg R.R. Martin and others, plus excerpts from Frankenstein. Some of the translations may seem a little clunky after 30 years,…

@Annalee Newitz: Mine too. Bradbury's short stories are really responsible for getting me hooked on "grown-up" SF, pushing me towards LeGuin, Dick, Herbert and many others...then I discovered theatre and didn't open a book for ten years. Teenagers.

@Eddard: Yes, the sum of bullshit is constant, apparently.

@Eddard: ...

@KillerBee: The nazis make this just a tiny bit improbable, don't you think? I mean, if they coexisted with the giant squirrels AND wookies, the creationists would have to be right.

Wow! There's intertextuality, there's meta-reference, and then there's this. Interesting.

@Denver_80203: Smashing human, Gromit!

@Eddard: I wasn't even completely sure it was satire until I read the coloring hints.

It is surely a sign of too much Red Dead Redemption that my inner voice read this article, AND the comments, with a cartoonish Mexican accent.

@Honu Harry: Spoiled rich teens jogging around New York with a DV camera, screaming for no reason?

Fascinating stuff! I really like the "organic Tetris" of nr. 18. And 10 answers a question I've been pondering for years: What would happen if Dobby mated with a pear?

So THAT'S why Cameron tried to talk del Toro out of directing The Hobbit. What a crafty sonovabitch he's turning into.

I didn't realize this was the director of Millennium Actress as well; now I'm very sad he won't be able to share any more of his visions with us. I caught Actress on a festival ages ago and it left an indelible mark on me. The DVD has been on my shelf for at least five years now, and honestly I haven't dared watch it…

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: What made me laugh heartily was "It cheapens the medium". But I guess the metaphor mixing makes this one even funnier. Now we can envision studio heads gasping while trying to draw blood from a turnip at the bottom of a barrel...in 3D. Which will be as worth paying for as anything I've…

@dragonfliet: Yes, I loved how the heavy (but elegantly handled) exposition of the central premise started exposing Cobb's layers of delusion instead. Especially the way he tries to justify it as experience.

@Handy Dandy: I'm sorry, that cast would spontaneously combust from awesomeness. Can't be done.