Sorry, all I can think of when I look at the accompanying photo is a monotone voice saying, "Stay on target"...

Eh, Dr. Jason Woodrue did this research on plant tissue for the Sunderland Corporation way back in the early eighties.

Ditto! I loved the way Niven rewrote "The Soft Weapon" for TAS, with Spock as Nessus!

As far as I can recall, there were 0% space hippies in TAS.

There are no fnords in the infographic. Move along, now.

I'll take hot and dry over Tennessee humidity anytime. (Plus, she's worth it!)

Believe me, I know, I'm about 60-70 miles away.

Then I'm in good company! :)

My fiancee lives pretty close to Vasquez Rocks, and we are so going there after I finally get moved to SoCal!

It may be a bit cheesy, but Metropolis, Illinois has the Superman Museum and the giant statue of Supes!

Or maybe Garth Ennis would be more appropriate, what with that whole "cousin power" thing they had going...

YES, the genius that is Seanbaby! And speaking of Hostess Fruit Pies:

Wasn't that the formula for Ralph Dibny's favorite soda pop?

My mom's doctor prescribed a glass or two of red wine a day for her low blood pressure and iron deficiency back in the '60s. Bonus: he told her the cheap, fortified stuff like Mogen David's was best.

Thanks for all the effort in fixing the bugs, the blog view is definitely improved! (I still keep getting thrown back to the splash view whenever I click on a link, but that may have something to do with having Adblock Plus enabled on my Firefox 4.0.)

Yeah, "best thing in the world for ya!"

Bravo on Number 1!! The callback story ("Windfall") was pretty great, too, with poor old Chester agonizing about whether to drop yam or not.

Image fail. (It was "Bears Discover Fire" by Terry Bisson, for what it's worth.)

At least it's nice to know so many people on io9 are Colbert fans. I need to start getting online earlier.

He was the hot-dog vendor on the beach in the first one, in the scene where the senator walks out of the sea. Can't think of the others off-hand, if there were any (by the 3rd movie I was just going, "Please, God, let this damn thing end!").