My first time seeing one of those things was in Tron. True, they were attached to the suits, and the balls they threw deleted the floor, but the concept was the same. Still cool.

Bill Murray was my favorite actor growing up. Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, What about Bob, and the Man who Knew Too Little. I loved those movies, and my family will still quote them today.

@tw@t: I checked the video over, and I believe you're right. When he shoots, the spot that he shoots is right above a whitish slash. Then they zoom in, and it's the slash that has the bullet. FAKE!

@WalnutSoap: Thoroughbred of Sin: Agreed.

@Moser121: Bravo. If there's one thing I've realized about the green revolution, it's more about someone showing other people that they're green, rather than actually doing something helpful for the environment. What do you think costs more energy? A brand new Prius, or a car that was built ten years ago and still…

I had planned a trip to San Francisco this past weekend, and I didn't know it was Fleet Week. I got to see the Blue Angels perform as I was in traffic, creeping past the Marina. I drove thirty miles in downtown SF, trying to find parking, and it only took me four hours. Yeah, BART next time.

You know what text tone I would like? The little whistle that Willy Wonka does to summon the Oompa Loompas. Not the new one, of course. The one with Gene Wilder.

@DragonsDream: Well, it doesn't say how long they spent in the worm, could have been a few hours or a few days. And then, they didn't have a hyperdrive, so they would have had to fly to Cloud City at sublight speed. That journey could have taken them weeks or even months, thus giving Luke time to train.

Just make sure their GPS doesn't direct them into a lake.

I remember reading the book adaptation when I was young (probably around 12), and being freaked out from just the book. Granted, I had an overly-active imagination, but that really hasn't changed. I think I'll sit this one out.

@mr_mr: Me, too. I was playing a level, when it crashed my entire phone. Had to do a hard restore. Every time after that, angry birds would crash when i got into it, so I deleted it and reloaded from iTunes. I really hate some of those levels.

@WinterBoggs: Northern Utah, near the Idaho border. I just looked it up, and I think it was a cross spider, a type of orb weaver. Very large web, the spider itself 8-20 mm across. That sounds about right.

This is a photo taken outside my front door. If you look closely at the middle flower, you can see the friggin' huge spider, hanging right underneath the blossom. The web stretches from the tree on the left to a tree on the right (outside the frame), and you can see some of that ampullate silk against the backdrop…

@Justin: That happened to me as well. I had just passed a particularly hard level, when my whole phone crashed. I had to do a hard reset, and then I could never get back into Angry birds without it crashing on the home screen. So I deleted it, and restored it from iTunes. None of my stars had saved.

Hmm, I've been reading up on Monsanto and GM food, and they do use some questionable tactics. For one thing, they have introduced a suicide gene into their seed, so that farmers can't use any leftover seed to plant the next season. Farmers have to buy new seed each year, and since GM seed is patented, it's therefore…

@Benedinho: Especially now that they came out with netflix on the iPhone. Who doesn't like watching Tosh.0 on the can?

I've heard that a text costs a carrier about .02 cents to send, yet they charge 10 - 20 cents standalone, or $20/month for unlimited. You would have to send 100,000 text messages in a month to equal that $20 price tag.

@SpikeJnZ - Porkchop Express: "There has been a remarkable increase in consumption of high-fructose corn syrup," said Gerald Shulman of Yale University School of Medicine. "Fructose is much more readily metabolized to fat in the liver than glucose is and in the process can lead to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease," he…

@stre: I always thought it was glass. In fact, I will keep thinking of it that way until someone in authority proves me wrong.

@Chernobyl: If, when you die, they give you a choice between regular heaven and pie heaven, choose pie heaven. It might be a trick, but if not, mmmmm, pie.