I kept reading this "Step 1: find something long in the target language you really enjoy. Hopefully a book by an author you like with corresponding text." Understood in that is "find a long audio piece". I kept reading it as find something text based long.

It's not a "finite amount of shapes" per se, it's a finite amount of shapes with symmetry. If my daughter drew a pentagon. It would not rotate onto itself 4 times and a 5th time being coincidental (symmetrical, but ignored.) Nows, let's take the equilateral pentagon as an example. ( [en.wikipedia.org] ). We may…

w00t! +1 Internets for "Amatuers"

Remove the coffee rings?! Blasphemy! How does one mark the intestinal fortitude? How does one show their devotion to the java god?

WTF! That's crazy pants. I grew up on "boring" comics that were much more like WWF wrestling than death personified resurrects super heroes.

Too cool (or hot). I need to find the NASA phone number for Lost and Found satellites.

CaptXpendable said, "The link that's supposed to take you to Entertainment Weekly just goes back to this page."

From the link to the abstract...

Zombie aquaman, that's... cheating! lol

Of course you're right, but wrong. Also, your prescription is the same even if you don't like the label. Grab a shovel, clean your drive (get outside and exercise). Throw a snowball (Socialize). Stop being a pussy... well, that approach to mental health was also popular before the 1980s and was equally effective…

vote: pen and paper

Huzzah! This ^^^!!!

3rd paragraph, opening sentence...

Annalee Newitz is the editor-in-chief of io9 and has been for a very long time. The topic selection, look, feel and editor selection has had her influence for a very long time. Maybe a hat tip to her for professional restraint, she had it well within her power to loosen editorial guidelines and move the whole blog a…

I just downloaded and opened it. J and K work for navigation, but [ doesn't archive and go to next. I use my keyboard almost exclusively for google apps. I'm not willing to change for the offline until all keyboard shortcuts are in place.

I remember seeing a video long ago about mudskipper fisherman, they pushed a boat out onto the mud and used a treble hook to hook it's side.

oops, too many D's. It was a DoS, not a DDoS.

Trivia: The current Nuke is a compositor for mega production movies e.g. Avatar. Nuke on a 3.5" floppy was probably the old DDoS WinNuke program.

I like it, it's like a hive five for most hated software.

well played! +1 internets