Actually, I believe all the veterans of World War I are dead; the last one having died in the UK in February 2012.

It is. I've been a paid user over the last couple of years, and I've been quite happy with it. Also, that 99.9% email uptime guarantee is coming in handy; no Gmail downtime for me!

It largely seems to me that, when faced with overwhelming complexity, the human mind tends to derail. That being said, civilization has largely advanced over the past 100 years because government and companies have divided that complexity into individual tasks for easily replaceable labour (whether that be…

I guess that would make Detroit Windsor's feces.

To pre-empt some of the outrage here, I'm thinking that if someone here believes in theistic evolution/evolutionary creationism, then stop now and realize that this article is not talking about you. "Creationism" is generally umbrella shorthand for young-Earth creationism/intelligent design, which rejects and/or…

These beasts are generally borrowed mythology from earlier Sumerian and Babylonian sources. As the Babylonians and Israelites are from a shared Semitic origin, and the Babylonians took over from where the Sumerians left off, it's not really a mystery as to where they came from. They're more curious echoes from an…

For the record, I was able to update to the latest version of the app last night with no error messages, nor did I have to uninstall anything, and it has been working as well as ever for me.

Hah...I was just there a month ago, and the machine was operating then too. It's a great place if you love old books!

Lions and tigers don't have an overlapping range, so this would never occur in nature. But if it did, it would be immediately obvious in the DNA.

There's nobody out there "breeding" lions like people did with dogs. This would be an isolated population that developed distinctively on its own over centuries—hence a distinct subspecies.

I'm not sure that Siri would ever indulge in such terrible spelling, though. She typed it out.

It seems to be standard fare from the Vatican—that is, conceding to "science" that which is unimportant to their theology, while maintaining its orthodox stance on what it deems essential doctrine/dogma. Mary's virginity is essential to maintaining centuries of church teachings, so it should not surprise anyone that…

It's the November sweeps period. U.S. local news will say anything for ratings. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

"Great writers" are always in short supply, and even then, it requires network executives (whose only job is to crunch numbers) to be in sync with them. Nowadays, that's about as rare as the Planetary Grand Tour alignment, and so most everything just gets watered down to the lowest common denominator. Why put your…

Well, I'm getting...

Well, the bad part is that the story is left unfinished, clearly to make room for a sequel that will likely never happen.

Funny enough, my name isn't terribly rare. I'm pretty sure there's even a local news reporter on the west coast with my name too, but none of them had even bothered to register the domain all those years. So I picked it up handily about six years ago, and it's been my web portfolio and permanent email address…

Fast food salads are like the lesser of two evils. The amount of preservatives they put on those vegetables (I'm guessing to make them crisp and prevent them from rotting) makes my stomach burn.

Haha...that's happened to me too!

I feel like I spend months playing two games at a time—both of which I really want to play, but when I get bored with one of them, there's always the other and vice versa. Yes, if only there was more time...