Equal you have...equilateral you don't.

I was closing the window when I saw your comment. Had to reload the page to recommend the post. Bravo!

Holy Shit! There's a way to get reruns of Mathnet!? Why did no one tell me this!?

So...he got rid of the scripturally appropriate Out of the Frying-Pan Into the Fire scene just after escapign from the goblins...cutting from the mountain side to Beorn's door...

I feel both have their merits (and issues). While I didn't like the lengthy dwarven acrobatics in a failed fight against him in the mountains...it feels odd that in the book with the build-up to this fearsome foe in the mountains not one of the dwarves ever actually sees him.

I have great nostalga for the Rankin-Bass version, but it rips through at such a pace as to seem ridiculous at times. As noted in another comment discussion on one of io9's many "why are the hobbit movies so loooong" whining-posts, RB's Hobbit covers the wood elves capturing the dwarves, all of the imprisonment and…

Future technology could possibly fix it. It's impossible to deny infinitely broad hypotheticals.

We've been easing into green for decades. I'm almost think that plan would work except for two things.

I can't speak for him, but my plan A is to never discuss climate change with friends of mine who have kids. I can't fault them for having kids, I just can't understand why someone would want to bring a child into what this world will be. Other than that? There's not more that can be done...barring, I suppose,…

I can't speak for him, but my plan A is to never discuss climate change with friends of mine who have kids. I can't fault them for having kids, I just can't understand why someone would want to bring a child into what this world will be.

We all have our pet peeves on this. Personally, it drives me insane when posters claim "we have a solid 20-50 years of technological progress before things are even going to start to get bad regarding climate change."

It took you this long? Hell, some of us knew 23 years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando_%…

I think you mean a young(er) man's Ralph Fiennes.

That's hardly the biggest defect in the "study". It's so small it doesn't even get the "this is not a scientific survey" disclaimer. It used 72 college students. A frat-house walking by wouldn't simply skew the results, it would account for them entirely.

Not that it weakens the statement much, but it's worth pointing out (as it's often overlooked with studies) that this is A. a very limited demographic (yet another survey run on only young affluent college age males) and B. a very small study. We're not talking about a few thousand, or even a few hundred. We're…

Two minutes a page is nothing! Finding a new article every day by someone at io9 bemoaning how long the movies are? Hell, that feels like at least an hour a page. That shit is getting real old. Real. Fucking. Old.

I expect the Guild Navigator also really liked the first one; hence the Face Palm.

Thank you for saving me the time. His claim was almost too perfect a set-up for invoking that.

I heard something to that effect elsewhere. Bifur had the axe in the middle of his forehead, and thus he was bifurcated. There was something similar for Oin being hard of hearing, but I can't remember what language it punned off of.

The New Orleans levees broke, in part, when a large barge crashed through them and, having seen them first hand, they looked sturdier (though much older) than these do. I'm sure these are great for just water, but they won't take a hit like that any better.