The H.L. Hunley finally finds its niche.

Red October isn't completely wrong here. In the world of espionage, pinging for enemy subs broadcasts your presence, so there's every reason not to do so, and ever reason for your rival to listen for your prop instead.

Spongebob's creator is a marine biologist. True story.

Religion has its uses, especially if you're shooting for a cultural victory. The top-tier religious buildings (Hindu Mandir, Jewish Synagogue, etc.) give massive bonuses to culture produced, something like 100% per. It can strengthen alliances and opiate the masses, too.

Basically, if you center your skull in the middle of the "curve," every point on the screen is equidistant from your eyes. Potentially, it's slightly more like the real world than a flat screen. The idiocy here, of course, being that only one skull can fit at the center of the curve— it's totally unsuitable for…

"At the distances I normally watch television" is the crux here, the reason I'm calling 4K a gimmick. I mean, most of the crowd voluntarily sits at the back of the movie theater, at least two screen widths away from the screen. That's about as close as is comfortable if you're trying to watch the whole screen at…

Curved and 4K are both gimmicks. OLED might be worth something once they iron out the bugs.

Duck Soup flopped because it didn't have enough interminable dance numbers and Zeppo didn't get a pointless love interest.

Oh, the horrible things I would do to Henry VIII over all those monastery libraries he burned…

I can't wait for the movie.

Slimehead -> Orange roughy -> Overharvest
Patagonian toothfish -> Chilean seabass -> Overharvest

Walnut poaching is a problem that forest managers in hardwood country have to live with every day. Not making this up.

The $100 price is for the Limited Edition (that's the $30 deal listed), while the standard version is a sensible $40, marked down to $25 today.

The thing with "octopodes" is, octopus isn't actually a Greek word. Oktopous is a Greek word; the version we have is Latinized Greek, so "octopi" has at least as strong of a claim as "octopodes."

Ooh, now let's have a lengthy argument over whether "octopus" should be pluralized using Greek, Latin, or English grammatical rules! That'll be fun!

I had an overpriced blueberry Arnie with lunch today. I didn't know I was commemorating anything but it tasted pretty good.

4K is dumb, end of story. If you're watching a TV show or movie, you want your eyeballs at least two screen-widths from the screen, or you can't watch the whole thing at once. At that distance, 4K is basically indistinguishable from 1080. Most viewers sit further away from their screens than that. As you say, 4K…

Seconded. I don't mind ads, I certainly don't mind funding content providers like AVC, but I do mind noisy, obtrusive crap that gets in the way of what I came for in the first place.

I never had this problem watching Rossini's operas after watching the cartoons, mainly because Rossini operas are basically live-action Bugs Bunny cartoons to begin with.

From what I recall, if real celebs showed up in as toons, they were characters and not just one-off jokes. You can laugh as the perma-grimaced toon gang boss get his slapstick comeuppance, or get creeped out by the guy with the weird breathy voice and otherworldly demeanor, or understand that the extremely thin…