This makes me homocidal. The internet is wonderful for folks trying to lead normal friendships despite crippling social problems, but it also allows folks with serious mental illnesses to sell their delusions to folks desperate for a cure.

Relevant.

No - cosmetic anal bleaching is a relatively harmless procedure (and by relatively I mean you're not taking a toxic, corrosive household chemical and shoving it up into one of the most sensitive portions of the digestive tract of a helpless child). It involves using a mild acid on the exterior of the anus to change…

Haven't you ever watched Firefly: Jaynestown?

You're obviously not from around here. We don't do personal insults and aggressive rudeness on io9. Your science is welcome, your attitude is not. Please consider apologizing to the community.

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Waiting around for guys = boring. Go find something to do. Invite a guy to come with. If sex, then yay! If no sex, still fun because you did something interesting.

What's interesting are the levels this movie has. He's snarky and horrid on the outside, but a fact of the publishing industry is that your books will not sell if you don't have a solid understanding of and sympathy for the characters you're writing. I like the fact that this is never explicitly stated in the movie;…

I've seen +1 here before. It didn't get shot at; I think we fed it cookies. :)

New favorite phrase. :)

Hang in there. If I can write male POV characters you can write women. The differences between genders have been the subject of much debate lately, and it seems to be making people *less* sympathetic to each other, not more.... something that, perhaps, we can change one story at a time just by showing it can be done.

If there were PTO enough on my schedule and money enough in my bank, it would happen.

Dagnabbit! West coast has the drinks with writers, east coast has story readings... no love for the middle of the country. You folks need to make a field trip! Although for the life of me I cannot think why anyone would visit this place, as lovely as it is to live here.

I think he's trying to say something and shortcutted most of the thought process that led to this comment. Possibly that a gay character wouldn't bother being out fighting crime as a gay character? I don't know.

I find his racism interesting because it forces us to confront racism in our history and in the present, in a way that encourages debate and thought instead of hatred and arguments. It forces us to look at the differences between writing and personality. Science Fiction has come a long ways, but we're still…

Niiiiice. :) I sincerely hope it's true.

Even the ones like Mrs. Smith's which have probably been sitting in the pie-warmer for, like 20 days straight aren't bad. Not as awesome as fresh hot out of the oven, but.... not lethal.

Seriously? I'm considering making the husband read this, then going out and getting some cupcakes. Which would definitely end in an excellent night in!

Please open your shop and bake meat pies, the Aussie way. There's a bakery called "Wicked Kneads" in Alice Springs that used to serve the most divine tuna casserole pies... then they stopped. I stopped going there. I think the recipe involved sharp white cheddar, tuna, onions, garlic, peas, carrots, and cream cheese…

That's as bad as saying one of the realities is a fake. It's the oldest dodge in the book. I want quantum superpositioning, not "it was all a delusion!"