The Chronicles of Prydain books by Lloyd Alexander. It was a bit like Lord of the Rings for a younger audience and I loved Eilonwy. Plus, on the cover I had, Taran reminded me of Luke Skywalker. (I was 5 the year Star Wars came out, so pretty influential.) And a bad guy with a skull for a face and big antlers? Very…

Way to miss the point.

the point. You missed it.

That's not the point...

Because that's how people talk these days, adults included. They're writing blog posts about video games, they're not trying to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Agree. I can't help but think it could take D&D sessions to the Next Level tho.

This is the real reason Radio Shack shut down. It's a conspiracy!

Maybe I am missing something here, but why wouldn't all of those emails be public records under Florida's sunshine laws? In other words, maybe it was crappy of Bush to make it so easy for anyone to see them, but with a FOIA-type request anyone could have done that anyway.

Typical rhetoric from the Big Mars lobby! Of course you want us to believe there's no Martian military expedition being mounted to kill everyone who's been marked with radioactive tracers from the fluoride in our water. Next thing you're going to say is that the angel UFOs I see are only the result of me mot taking my…

While you're playing grammar police, maybe you can help us define "figure of speech!"

I assume bioluminescent snails would be escarglow?

The hololens can project virtual screens, right? I wonder if it could simulate a "multi-monitor" workspace. Imagine having nothing on your desk but a mouse and keyboard.

For sure. What did you not invent? Probably dozens of things, I imagine.

What changed in 1950?

This needs to stop.

Good thing a bot is driving, this blind spot is crazy

That's an argument ad nauseam. Part of my problem is that often all one sees being hurled at opponents are one logical fallacy after another and a healthy dose of contempt which leaves things looking very much like an attempt to silence dissent, which is what shunning is all about, isn't it? I know it's a wildly…

There several key claims by Intelligent Design including irreducible complexity (that some complex systems can't have evolved piecemeal and all parts must exist to be useful), specified complexity (the idea that information complexity may imply intelligence behind it — the likelihood that a Shakespeare play was…

Okay, that was awesome. Not sure what made me laugh more. Nimoy going <bleep> or him giving Quinto the nerve pinch to beat him inside. Both are a win.