and based on a true story too! By which they mean that a little girl named Em may exist. Looks good though, I hope they dig in to Judaic mythology - I don't recall ever seeing a movie on that.

And it will be offered at a price point right around the Boxster. Right? RIGHT????

I owe the commentariat an apology. It was politically incorrect to mention political correctness. I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I deeply regret my comments.

I'm not reading into his statement what you read into it. He's referring to thuggish urban youth, not all blacks.

Freedom of speech in this country has died, murdered and dismembered by political correctness.

Obligatory. "oh. my. goodness gracious me. I'm a gay mans golden fantasy".

Meh. I don't see this as a "dirtbag racist" statement. I also don't think he's referring to Trayvon's parents as shitbags, but making a general statement that the parents of young urban thugs are generally to blame for bad behavior. That said, he's a captain of the fire department and should expect that making…

I'm really sick of seeing Johnny Depp in lots of makeup. And I haven't even seen a movie of his since the first Pirates, just trailers. He overacts and tries to be weird in a way that doesn't add anything to the movie. Last movie i liked from him was Edward Scissorhands.

Actually it's not to hard to imagine. Let's say Corsucant is basically like NYC ($1.4T GDP, 469 square miles). A planet sized NYC would have a GDP of $588 quadrillion. NYC is about 2.4% of global GDP, so say Corsucant is equivalently sized to the Empire. Empire GDP is then $24 Quintillian (?), so the Death Star is…

I've always wondered what impact wind farms have on the local ecosystem. Wiping out large swaths of natural landscape for a wind farm has never seemed all that appealing to me, especially for how little energy you get out of them. I especially hate wave generators - like the oceans don't have enough problems, now…

Heh yeah that guy at 1:28 was comical...like a bad guy from a bad Rambo movie. Ranting and shaking his gun like that - totally ridiculous.

In general I agree that using facts as the basis of decisions is of course the right thing to do. However, even if you have all the facts and a clear statistically correct solution, you can still have a problem. For instance, take the issue of abortion. The facts say that it reduces crime, by reducing the number of…

I think the problem with this thinking is that policy solutions are rarely a simple question of which fact is right. Almost all policies passed as law have those that benefit, those that don't, those that are negatively impacted, and a large set of consequences that are uncertain or unknowable, especially in…

Where's the link on the home soda fountain? I've been thinking of putting one of these in my home bar, maybe with one of those Wunder-Bar soda guns for diet coke, soda water, and something else.

Posters like this were part of a campaign in 1946 to help survivors emmigrate to Israel. They were on display at Tel Aviv airport...chokes me up everytime I see it.

*sigh* I just watched several youtube intros of the TV shows you listed. I blame you for my suffering.

Meh. I've had WP7 for over a year now after coming from an iPhone 3GS and then a Droid 2 Global. I find that I don't need tons of apps, i use the built in People app and Local Scout. The only apps I routinely use are Kindle and Netflix, the rest were just toys. My phone never crashes, probably more stable than my…

That and people don't understand universal coverage versus socialized medicine. For instance Germany has 100% private health insurance, but universal coverage. Much different system than say the UK or Canada with a 100% socialized system. France has a mix of private versus public payers similar to ours (private payers…

It's all about access. As a CEO with a family, he doesn't have time to troll strip clubs or the local community college for hotties. He takes what he can get when he can. Not saying that it's ok, if he can't practice a little self-discipline and fucking control himself deserves to lose it all.

Probably nobody wants to mop up the mess left by a North Korean collapse, least of all South Korea. Refugees everywhere, unpredictable military would likely fragment and have some sort of civil war backed by various other states trying to influence the outcome, starvation from collapse what little food delivery…