I guess there is a limit to just how evil Mad Science is allowed to get on a government grant. :)

That's because they've already done a post about great opening sentences from science fiction novels. Read the introduction to this post to find the link.

Remind me to never let a physicist into my kitchen. :)
Anyone who knows cooking knows that there is boiling over low heat (slow boiling or simmering) or boiling over high heat (fast boiling). From a physics point of view, perhaps only the high-heat boiling is boiling per definition (100°C), but in a practical,…

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Yes! Why should the men have all the relish?

As a non-American viewer I can honestly say that a lot of the historical references fly right over my head, unless I've come across them in Kate Beaton's Hark! A vagrant and looked them up. But since I am not uninterested in history (or nice-looking men in historical clothing, *cough*) this does not matter in the…

Well, at least it was brief.

I guess to me the story was highly secondary to seeing McGann onscreen as Eight again. I guess I would have felt the same if they'd had him read books or play chess or yes, even knit.

I've been listening to those BFA stories too, and my mind was pretty blown. I guess it comes down to how much you like Eight and how much you've dreamt of seeing him on television, in-canon, even though you knew it would most likely never ever happen. AND THEN IT DID. If only for six and a half minutes. It made my…

Or possibly what wasn't going on, or not nearly enough.

Gathering Codpieces. (Sorry, that's a bit of an in-joke for early dancers.)

Oh, I don't know. Possibly because we like it? Nah, that can't be it. Damn, I'm stumped.

I you are going to bowdlerize something beyoind recognition, why do it in the first place? I've only read bits and pieces of Hellblazer, but even so I can tell that they really have no idea who John Constantine is.

I'm thinking perhaps his body never actually left the morgue. It could be just his spirit given powers to interfere with the world of the living. Just like the witch could walk around (well, teleport around) and burn people to death while her actual bones were still buried somewhere else. The scene where he is…

Especially if you happen to be a professor of history, specialising in "Treatises of civil government, with a focus on the American Revolutionary War."

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Yes — pretty much like any colonization process throughout human history. European countries sent colony ships to the Americas and Australia knowing that there were already people there, and they didn't even have the excuse that Europe was going to be utterly destroyed and unlivable. Anyway, I stopped watching after…

Actually, considering the budget constraints they had, I think they did pretty well. At least they were more creative than just putting some prosthetics on top of someone's nose.

The Mayor and the barkeep/prostitute were sisters, not lovers.

Interesting, I'll check it out!