Having tried a number of clients, including Mailbox, I second @braf-d-log’s recommendation for Spark. It’s stable, attractive, and has a good feature set. And it’s just a regular mail client: unlike Mailbox, it doesn’t insist on routing all your mail through someone else’s servers (which was the deal-killer for me…

A movie producer friend for whom I’ve done occasional script-doctoring work once told me “I’ve been in contact with someone who currently owns the rights for a sci-fi novel called ‘The Stars My Destination’, and there’s a possibility that we might be able to buy the rights and make the film. Do you know anything about…

There’s a heavy dose of religious symbolism in the first “Tomb Raider” movie, with strong hints that Lara Croft is a divine being, if not actually Christ.

At one point, Lara Croft asks the bad guy, Powell, who sits in a particular chair at the Illuminati headquarters, adding “I don’t think you sit here.” Powell seats…

Fake Wombat Colon? I think I saw them at Coachella one year.

Paint is heavy. In WWII, the USAF stopped painting B-17 bombers because the paint served no useful purpose, added time to the manufacturing process, and made the aircraft slower and heavier.

What are the odds that some of the people whose data was stolen are people who were only in the Experian system in the first place because they’d been given free Experian credit monitoring after another hack?

All you need is the right kind of muse.

If I’m not mistaken, the Machinima video — “Pixels”, by Patrick Jean — is the indie short that actually inspired Adam Sandler’s feature film. The irony is strong in this one.

And the conclusion is that robots cannot trust humans. And the robots have taken note. Oh yes, the robots have learned from this little “incident”. And they have drawn their conclusions.

May God have mercy on us all.

I used to be a NetNewsWire fan, but lack of support for Feedly made me abandon it. I switched instead to ReadKit, which is a capable, full-featured reader. I briefly tried Leaf, which is prettier than ReadKit, but its poorly thought-out key bindings drove me back to ReadKit. I like to be able to step through my feeds…

No one’s suggesting that the flaperon is from an aircraft that crashed on Réunion. It is likely that it washed up there, having been floating in the Indian Ocean for months. The actual crash site is most likely thousands of miles away.

Weight loss idea: add lifting a neutron star to your workout. Start with a single rep, then gradually work up. As a bonus, the gigantic gravity of even a small neutron star will quickly attract all food items in the vicinity, helping you to maintain your diet whether you want to or not.

So, by screaming with rage and hurling the controller across the room?

Got it. Thanks.

“Breathe in, grow tall” sounds familiar. It’s how my yoga instructor begins every session. So perhaps this “indigenous wisdom” is more accessible and widespread than this article might suggest.

The title is a reference to a work by Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte, which showed a smoker’s pipe above the words “Ceçi n’est pas une pipe” (‘This is not a pipe’). The interpretation is left to the viewer: was Magritte being deliberately absurd by denying that what was very clearly a pipe was not, in fact, a…

“Many of us chipped in some cash to buy him a hooker to give him a BJ ...”

Correction: ‘jalousie’, not ‘jalouise’.

Guys, if you go home with a girl and she has a unicorn, do not be like “Hey, is that a real unicorn? Wow ... can we fuck on it?” For some reason, unicorn-owning chicks get really cranky when you do that.

Also, pro tip: if she owns a unicorn, she’s probably a virgin. Take it slow and be gentle.

For example, to reproduce the experience of being at the UK's Glastonbury Festival, set up a tent in your living room. Invite all your friends to set up their tents next to yours. Instruct some of your friends to come back late at night, shout loudly, and kick your tent repeatedly. Instruct others to have noisy sex or…

I have an aging Penguin paperback that reprints the 5BX plan. It also includes an "XBX plan for women". Women get 10 exercises (where men only get 5), and are expected to spend 12 minutes on it, instead of 11.