In my experience the conventional thinking is that the (really, really) best way to do it is to get a bunch of interns or independent study students from the closest library school and make them scan on a commercial flat-bed scanner until they're so mind-warped the scanner light initiates some kind of vision-quest. …

To be a huge and awful nerd, extinction is evolution. A change in allele frequencies in which all frequencies become zero is still a change in allele frequencies and is therefore evolution!

And this video has the lyrics (you have to turn on annotations).

Unacceptably Factual is my Symphony of Science cover band.

I'm tossing in my agreement here. It added a lot of character to your article, most especially knowing that it was you who did both the images and the writing.

Cetacean overlord? Perhaps you mean... Wailord.

I would totally make a deck based around a play-set of Yara-ma-yha-who cards.

Haha, I don't think I could convince anyone to do that! But I'm a sucker for a Blazing Saddles quote whenever I can get one in.

It's Hedley!

Cool video game hero. He's got sunglasses AND an attitude.

Better Off Ted. Gone, but never forgotten.

I see what you did there.

My first thought looking at the posters was "Why the heck is Pandora so blue?" Then I realized it was probably for the other Pandora and got sad.

I have that shirt! And I wear it all the time, too.

That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!

I like how Sunshine's soundtrack is now the standard in science fiction trailers. Don't get me wrong, it's an absolutely stunning piece of music, but I feel like I hear it all the time, and it makes me think about Sunshine instead of whatever I'm looking at.

Intended as a suggestion and not the snarky kind of comment one might expect to find on the internet: Wouldn't this be an excellent article (or at least type of article) to feature that image slider thing Gawker's been testing?

That should be a good thing.

The most honest answer I can give is that as far as I'm concerned: by all accounts it shouldn't be fun. It should be boring and repetitive and meh. I'm not hugely into the grind-style games, so maybe that's why I have this impression. Honestly I'm not even someone who really enjoys relatively crude humor or…

I love this song, thanks entirely to Borderlands, but I -adore- No Heaven. The way it starts up IMMEDIATELY at the conclusion of the primary campaign (like 3 seconds after your kill shot), continues to play after the credits return you to the game, and only fades out as you regain control just jives so perfectly with…