So is dressing your own horse with the blanket, bridle, saddle and reins, but no one in their right mind considers riding a horse to work. McCloud doesn't count.

First you have to look around your immediate area. Then see if you can form a rudimentary lathe....

Blame it on the bossa nova.

Just after we got high speed internet but before there was crap like Flash and Java everywhere, and spam emails weren't yet typical, the internet was truly awesome.

Well, you can always rent the actual discs, plus these sorts of movies are exactly the kind of thing every library system in the country has in stock.

Interesting. I've never had cause to use such a feature so I had no knowledge of it. Thanks!

So it sends information directly to another phone? How's that work?

And in typical Google fashion, it will share all your data with everyone you know without your permission!

This is the thing I was talking about a week or so ago on the post about the largest ship ever built. Someone responded that it's technically not a ship because it doesn't have a means of propulsion, but I thought it did have engines. Maybe it's just for stability or something.

Also taking care of clueless workers. Baltimore is saving a TON on retirement benefits.

As opposed to the Antares rocket explosion, this crash really is tragic.

Sounds like they're just bored with swords and knives.

It's because Brandon Sanderson does all of these badly, isn't it?

Consider this, though: 107 million spiders are there because they're eating SOMEthing.

What do you guys DO with your time?

It's doubly mind-blowing when you realize that Orson Welles was only 25 when he made it.

You really haven't.

Um, Rocky Horror came out in 1975, the same year as Jaws and Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

A lot of people get scared of something that's called a classic. What they don't realize is just how funny Citizen Kane is. Plus it's fucking brilliant.

When you see Godfather, you suddenly realize that half of the shit you've seen in the interim has basically been ripping off Coppola.