I bought this book about a year after it came out, and was blown away by it. It's still one of my very favourite Le Guin books (the absolute favourite being The Dispossessed). I'm not really surprised that it's less known or popular than her other work, though, because it's pretty genre-defying, and people often don't…

I think that was pretty deliberate. :)

I think they should clone the jockeys, too.

I'm pretty sure those are supposed to be Doctor Who stories, not Cthulhu stories. Like "The Seeds of Death" and things like that. Or else someone has gone batshit crossover on the whole thing.

That's because "läderlapp" is an old Swedish word for "bat".

What I want to know is, how do you test for the parasite, and how do you get rid of it?

I tend to eat my dinner in front of the telly, and I always forget that this is not a good idea when watching Futurama — not only do you risk some choking and/or spluttering, but you also risk spilling food all over you since you can't take your eyes away from the screen for one second.

Relieved to see that discussions won't be closed daily — but could you then please repost the io9 Book Club post? There is really no point in having a book club post for a current book where the discussion is closed...

But why have you decided to close the comment sections of posts that are older than 24 hours or so? (I haven't figured out the exact number of hours, so I'm guessing). I don't live in the same time zone as you guys and some days I don't have the time to comment within that time frame, but I tend to get into some…

Needs the #corrections tag.

I'm pretty certain being around animals from an early age helps you develop your empathy circuits. Which may or may not be a good thing when you start school and have to deal with a lot of non-empathic human kids.

I usually add webcomics as feeds on my LiveJournal reading page, which works for all comics I've been reading so far except for Gunnerkrigg Court and Homestuck. So those are permanently open each in their own FF tab.

Amazing cake, thanks for the link! Almost worth getting married for, if I thought there were any chance of my mother making a cake like this... :)

Rocza mentioned a good selection below. I'd just like to add Fringe (Boston), Dark Angel (Seattle) and Due South (Chicago).

Yeah, that was my first thougt as well. Shows like, say, Eureka would be harder to place on a map since it's a fictional town, but Fringe is pretty clearly stated as set in and around Boston.

They do once they reach the light. But during the germination stage, the seeds are in the earth, where there is no sunlight. They still manage to send out sprouts in the right direction, though.

Yes, I read that sentence a few times before I could parse it properly. It's a bit like saying 'ten times smaller' or 'twice as cheap' — it's confusing and illogical to me.

I've been learning English as a second language in school from the age of nine, but not until I actually went to live in England for a while when I was 19 did I learn the proper pronunciation. For me it's all about immersion. I spoke good enough English when I came there, but it was kind of mixed up from all kinds of…

I first read that as "NASA has very long experience with crashes." Which, in a sense, is also true.

Actually, I think the movie company is trusting the movie to Ben Stiller, which is pretty stupid of them, in my mind.