Okay, the LOLcat bible was amusing until about halfway through chapter 2 of Genesis. Concerning the patience and commitment of the writers, I don't know if I'm shaking my head in awe or pity.

Burnett also created the Eco-Challenge adventure race, whose depiction of reality included horrible foot rot, urethra leeches, thigh-deep guano, and a guy on a bike getting a large tree branch lodged in his chest. Immunity challenges are for cowards.

Technically, total invisibility would leave you slightly visible, as a slight ripple in the shape of a naked dude. Like the hot air rising off a sun-struck street, a truly invisible person would have a different index of refraction than air. He'd look like the Predator; hard to see, but not invisible. To be truly…

I'm still holding out for the 90-minute theatrical version of "man getting hit by football."

Fictional Strumpet, it's a good thing you're not a fictional ornithologist. There are many species known to carry their poo, and that of their offspring, away from the nest. Sparrows, for instance. Some of them, notably the rock dove (or "city pigeon"), are willing to drop their poo off the edge of the nest, but…

Nesting birds do carry their poo away from the nest, as well as their kids' poo, except when they decide it's more convenient just to swallow it. It's true. I don't know if hiding their numbers, Tusken Raider- style, has anything to do with it, but marking their nests with a pile of poo is a bad idea. This doesn't…

For me, Dead Space stopped being scary when I figured out that the zombies die when you shoot them. Great use of sound, lighting, environments, etc. to make it scarier, but once you get used to it, it's just another shooter. For my money, I need to run and/or hide to be scared. I don't fear anything I can kill.

Mr. Belvedere, Capcom's entire staff was cryogenically preserved in 1992 and they get thawed out every few years to make a new game. I despised the shooting mechanics in Dead Rising, and this sounds like it has the exact same issue. I've heard so many good things about RE5, but I just don't trust Capcom to give me…

I'm just glad this came AFTER the last Futurama movie. Fox HQ would get burned down otherwise.

I forgot about Rax until just now. I forget why my family used to go there a lot when I was a young'un, but it wasn't half bad. Far worse chains have prospered.

Fellow Arby's apologist here. It's not as good as actual food, but among restaurants that are spaced at regular intervals along the interstate, Arby's is untouchable.

The issue with meat-based agriculture is that it takes something like ten pounds of soybeans to create a pound of beef, so you get the worst of both worlds.

"Dumbed down" is definitely harsh. There's some real strategic depth to the Halo series, although brainless run 'n' gun will get you through the easier settings. Frankly, compared with (the console port of) the venerated Half-Life 2, I say Halo is more cerebral.

X360 has USB ports, so explain to me again why I can't play an RTS game with a mouse. I'll probably try the demo anyway, but I just can't imagine a console RTS could ever work. And mind you, I like console shooters just fine. But hey, if they pulled it off, good for them.

Plot holes! I'm allergic to plot holes!
Nerd wants to know what kind of revisionist history puts the Flood into a 20-year prequel. The Covenant were caught off guard when they set the Flood loose on Installation 04; how did they forget so damn fast? The first game makes no sense if both sides already knew about…

See my comment in last week's Star Trek writeup. It's not just The Simpsons; Futurama and Animaniacs have given me plenty of moments like those, too. It's hard to top the time my clock radio woke me up with an account of the history of Atlanta, er, -is, as sung by folk-rock troubadour Donovan. The path from sleep…

Because someone had to say it…
More like Episode Nine, losers! Ha ha! Ha ha! Ha ha!

Summer knows about Futurama, right? Futurama. Futurama.

My doom-proof platinum vest absorbed most of the radiation! In retrospect I should have been wearing doom-proof pants, but…you know us nudists.

Agreed. ItWGY definitely did a good job of recapturing what made the original show great, at least by the standards of the DVD movies. I thought BBS was greater than the sum of its parts, but the parts were slightly better here. "Yonder" is at least a close second to BBS.