"cyborg bronies"

Be honest, you don't really hate to nerd out, do you?

I'd rather Google have it than the DoD (Department of Defense). Google bought the tech just to piss off the government. I bet the heads at Google were like "So, you wanna snoop around our data centers and then gag order *us*?! Well, were going to develop a Metal Gear to fuck all that shit up!"

Mysterious barges surrounding the country, metal death horses, fiber optic landline connections...

It's exactly like Ghost in a shell, cause corporations here in America are people.

I for one welcome our... *CRUSHED BY ROBOT HORSE*

Probably the worst offender in this department is the famous barrel escape scene from the city of the woodland elves.... in the movie, it becomes an enormous, bloated scene with Kili flirting with Tauriel for what seems like an hour, and then a giant elf vs. orc vs. dwarf battle as we zoom through the CGI froth of the…

The fact is that Tolkien personally experienced WWI — so the events of LOTR may have been inspired by WWII, but the emotional power and hatred of warfare is something Tolkien learned personally, during his time as a soldier.

As great as the Lord of the Rings movies were (and yes, they were truly great), it never gave us anything like a believably ambivalent character, whose motivations are as murky as a real person's would be.

Not a big fan of Lord of the Rings, but I think Sean Bean's character fit this description quite well in the first…

Annalee, you're talking to sci-fi fans, here: there are a lot of movies we like even though they're not good. Still, this is a thoughtful, interesting review. FWIW, it had never occurred to me that although LOTR was transparently inspired in part by WWII, that Hobbit was also inspired in part by WWI and what led up to…

You mean mnemonic device. This is a pneumonic device:

I have the feeling that about a thousand people were planning to post this. Congrats on being the first :)

I am against this back-door approach to renaming planets.

Unfortunately the convention for naming planets after the Roman gods was, even then, cemented in place.

Rectum? Damn near killed'im!

How about going Greek? It would be Uranos, then, if you get people to pronounce it properly, you should get rid of the problem with no one else being bothered.

How about "Urectum?"

Any previously indicated benefits were probably a correlation vs causation thing — parents who have the time and money to give their kids music lessons (and, should they believe this, actively want them to be more intelligent) are probably more likely to be giving them advantages in many other areas. The kid in the…