Fortunately, Lore Sjoberg has a helpful suggestion for anyone who genuinely wants to hang themselves and doesn't want to be wrongly identified as a hypoxyphilic after death: http://badgods.com/view/hangyourself/

I make a point of taking my medicine daily.

There should be an Honorable Mention for "Serenity", where Joss Whedon introduces the entire crew in one extended tracking shot. OK, if you'd seen "Firefly", you'd met them all before, but newcomers got a complete introduction to a half dozen characters (plus the ship) in one four-and-a-half minute sequence. That's…

"I have to admit I was worried when you said that we needed to drop the Ring into Mount Doom, Gandalf. Lucky you'd stayed in touch with those eagles. Admittedly, we had some nasty moments with the winged Nazgul, but at least we didn't have to walk across the whole of Middle Earth or anything. That would have been just…

Other titles being considered include "Batman Beneath", set entirely in the sewers and basements of Gotham and featuring the futuristic BatMole tunneling machine, "Batman Behind", in which Bruce Wayne has developed the irritating habit of popping up and tapping you on the shoulder just when you least expect it, and…

The whole "unnecessary minor character suddenly reappears and for no very well-explained reason starts wreaking zombie havoc" seemed to me like something that should have been cut from the script at an early stage. It added nothing to the story, didn't increase our understanding of Engineer biotech (aka Black…

xkcd has an answer to the deniers: http://xkcd.com/1074/

I foresee trouble. After all, isn't Curiosity known for killing cats?

And the lion's all "Pull over, pull over - I want to drive!"

I'm not sure I can watch a movie where the cactus dies. Severed human limbs is one thing, but poor innocent houseplants? That's horrific.

"Don't Miss the Great Snatch" is also the title of an excellent mash-up from the Evolution Control Committee. See http://www.dinosaurgardens.com/archives/343 for further information (scroll to the bottom of the page for an MP3 link). What I hadn't realized until I read that page just now is that the source of the…

Baen Books resells on behalf of Nightshade Books, who are the actual publisher, a pretty good small press. I don't know the breakdowns, but I'd assume that the closer you get to the "source", the more of the money goes to the author. Other things being equal, I'd expect authors would see more of the money on sales…

Can we start referring to the Rapture as "The Great Snatch" now? It has a sort of ring to it.

You can also get the electronic version at a considerably better price than Amazon's, in multiple DRM-free formats, from Baen http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1669-osiris.aspx

11. Humans having any useful function aboard a spaceship at all, either as navigators, engineers or gunners.

"Please don't screw it up, please don't screw it up, please ..."

The NOAA Severe Weather Advisory on that one is going to be worth hearing.

Does this mean that we have to start checking the labels on cans of tuna to see if they're 'mermaid-safe'?

Date a native speaker. You get immersion and reinforcement right there in one handy package.

It wasn't the nature of the job (which was simply computer science research), but that I and my colleagues routinely worked alone outside normal office hours. French law stipulates that if workers work "out of sight and earshot" of their colleagues for long periods (or for shorter periods in dangerous conditions), the…