If 'pancake' is secret Canada code for coronary infarction, I'll buy it.

Amen to that.

I recite this every so often, but my last line is "She is the Missus."

While I think ginger beer is awesome, I fear that someone named pedantic-dick may worryingly, in fact, know how feet generally taste.

I think it's the Iranians. They're mortified that the monkey survived. Now they have to give it a space pension. And monkey pants.

I always loved this one from 2010, one of Aladair's - the idea that our universe was born in a black hole:

I'm reminded of the Robot Chicken classic

Hannibal Lector Kitty is not amused.

Annalee I know it's party night at io9 but... ah what the heck, go on with your bad self.

Awesome!

Whilst I agree – history is littered with examples of this – VCR’s, PC’s etc, without early adopters, they wouldn’t get to be mass market products. This sounds obvious (it is) but that’s why companies look for these people – why they have huge consumer electronic shows and engage with the tech / hacker communities so…

The fools they've doomed us all

Scene 1, Act 1: A huge lense flare passes overhead, chasing a smaller lense flare...

Bit of both. Thx for the explaination.

There’s an episode of BBC Horizon programme where the presenter eats a huge English breakfast and then an hour later they took a sample of his blood and centrifuged a lump of fat right out of it.

It's no coincidence I think that Opportunity shortened = Oppo. Hooning across Mars, the NASA way.

But what the monkies do ferrets have to do with this? Eh?

Brake fail!

Ha! This is (poor) redesign I did two years ago in Paint from a snap of the car configurator. I think it would look much better if they kept the Rapide grill with the vertical bars in line with the horizontal

I would like to see a Fringe team made up of M & P Curie, Nik Tesla, Ros Franklin, Leo De V and J Verne. They all get brought together by a time calamity in the first episode but as a result of repairing time, they end up stuck in the same time together. They then start to investigate what caused the time calamity in…