sometimes "dated" can refer to stuff that is so of-its-time that it just screams out at you though. Sure, Shakespeare was written in the 16th or 17th century but the themes of the plays still work; the fact that you can update them in modern dress proves that.

i too am old enough to remember the 5.25 inch floppy and playing with Apple IIs and "IBM clones".

I was thinking of a movie that I like, that at least one of my gay friends hates, while others are interested in it: The Boys in the Band.

yeah the weird thing is that the brain holds shape if you carefully remove the skullcap — after all, some types of brain surgery involve moving a big chunk of it (see: Ted Kennedy). I wonder if it's all about whether the tissue is a) alive b) in preservative and c) what happens to the connective proteins over time.

turns out that might apply to human brains too -animal brains are also pretty um, gooey. (Ah, bio class!) Anyhow when you get raw ones they kind of hang together but as I understand it it takes a good cooking to get the proteins to "gel". (I suppose it's not unlike how when you cook meat it gets more leather-like the…

I know they kind of have to do this for the sake of the show, but people forget the consistency of brain in your head is like "snot" as one neurologist put it to me. Or thin yogurt. They only stay together after they've been in preservative a while. It would look more like a baggie of pink goo (I suppose Liv could…

there's a whole list of subjects in the book, and two categories are "married females" and "single females" and neither does half as well as single men.

I have a lot of love for this show but there were some nagging logic questions.

But that's just it: single women fare worse than single men, evidently because women are just emotional, amirite? That's what I am taking about, and it's dumb .

The first Chrichton novel I read was The Andromeda Strain and I actually think that's stands as a stronger effort. I read Rising Sun and couldn't get past the Orientalism after a while. Timeline was in some ways a better novel but it wasn't anything fantastic, IMO.

I mean the interface on the phones. It's clearly MS, and I haven't seen many people use Windows phones at all — it's still a distant third in sales behind iOS and Android (I think the estimates when Microsoft announced earnings were around 3 percent).

I've been piping up "product placement!" every damned time I see a surface or other MS thing — they always prominently show the MS user interface, and everyone seems to have Windows phones. Which, of course, no real humans actually own.

The orientalist stuff is starting to grate on me a bit too.

I too get annoyed at that misunderstanding of how foreign debt (or bond debt for that matter) works. People always talk like we owe Chinese lenders money as though they were going to show up and reposess the White House or something. Actually, holding US bonds gives the Chinese a serious vested interest in a growing…

in all seriousness, the Hot 100 was a more manageable database. The guys doing this are working on studying the entire Lomax archive (really!).

One of the reasons New York (and Hell's Kitchen) look the way they do in the comic books is that they were written up in the 1960s.

I suspect so. In the books, honestly, the whole stretch with that seemed just a diversion, though we do get to see Tyrion at his most devious. And they are clearly cutting the whole Young Griff storyline.

AOL's problem is that the ad scripts at up a ton of bandwidth/processor time.

I have to say I am not on board with R'as and the whole "marry him!" thing.

Marvel used to write jokes about it all the time. I'm sure rule 34 applies.