No, I don't think you are. My reaction is similar. The piece shouldn't have been couched as "Psst! You can just buy another regular cable instead of an adapter," because that is plainly obvious. Maybe some people are stupid, though…

If this bothers you, you might not want to inquire too closely about what all is going on these days in particle physics research.

"This list will be updated if and when we discover better games. We will only ever list 12 games, at the most."

I bet there will be a 3rd-party adapter on the market *very* quickly and it will cost less than $5.

Also cool: Prof. Higgs is alive and well to enjoy one of the greatest "I told you so" moments.

They should immediately institute a quota system that disallows further changes from male editors — call it "cock-blocking" — on articles that do not yet have a verifiable feminine perspective, until the gender API senses a passable "woman's touch."

It's still hilarious to have a villain, standing over another character in distress, who says things like, "Remember that Greek yogurt you ate a few minutes ago? Now it's seeping its way into your lungs, choking you!"

I think this calls for Satan. Just pull out all the stops and write Lucifer into the movie.

You're probably right, and I definitely agree that Raiders is a better movie, but for me that trilogy is like the original Star Wars trilogy — I can't remember the first time I watched the movies on my father's Betamax machine, and I'm incapable of sober critical analysis of them.

What about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? To be completely fair, all of his genre films should be listed.

It's just corporate market-testing nonsense. They feel they have to have a recognizable celebrity attached for the show to do well. It's for the same reason that animated movies have to use big-name celebrities as voice actors, even if they don't have particularly distinctive voices. ("Keira Knightley as the voice of…

And already you can hear the class action attorneys howling from miles away.

Astronauts preparing for spacewalks currently sleep in airlocks "overnight" (so to speak) aboard the International Space Station. While in there, the atmospheric pressure is lowered relative to the rest of the space station. They do this in order to acclimate to the lower pressure environments they will be subjected…

Some of those things might have been the pet projects of groups of developers who were using their 20% time. Google devs are allowed to spend 1/5 of their paid time working on projects of their own — whatever they want. Several publicly available Google services come from this, like Orkut.

+1. Exactly what I thought last year with their Black Friday deals — their refurbs are even better deals.

Exactly. They could do exactly as Amazon did: they took Android and Amazon-ified it so that it's oriented toward buying things from from Amazon.

You beat me to saying pretty much the same thing.

You should be careful that if you blindly seek to acquire this movie, you don't get the older Jack Nicholson version, which is not very good, despite having Nicholson.

I shudder to think what might happen in the U.S. Capitol when Dennis Kucinich hears of this.

By focusing on post-colonial studies to the exclusion of the history of language.