I don’t suppose you could include Robert Greene’s Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, since it is explicitly about magic — although the creation of a talking head made out of brass seems to be a plot point.

They’re making Good Burger 2, so anything could happen...

‘exist’ as a transitive verb is pretty interesting. It calls to mind Nick Harkaway’s Gone Away World, where a substance called Stuff can turn thoughts into reality, with horrifying consequences.

You might have better luck with ‘Keep Trying’ by Brian Pern.

Yeah, and that inherently means giving more power over guns to the government. That seems to be where the problem is — many gun activists believe (or portray) that the main purpose of guns is to oppose/resist the government (even though doing so is practically impossible).

I wish more people who loved guns also respected them. If you truly care about having firearms and also have kids, lock the guns up -- they are dangerous and lethal. And if a shop owner threw a bottle at me and I responded by driving my car into their storefront, you bet your ass I’d lose my right to operate a motor…

Unfortunately, it’s time for me to sell my Miata RF and get a car with a back seat. I was depressed about the lack of something similarly special -- until I read about this. Time for a test drive...

Anno’s Shin franchise has really got legs!

That is very useful to know, thank you!

Not planning to buy either anytime soon — but all things being equal, I’d have to go for an Audi e-tron GT. A lot in common with the Taycan, but with actual buttons in the cockpit, and a fair bit cheaper.

Is there any point getting a lowish-mileage 2007 911 (manual) as a daily driver? Or will the maintenance costs and unexpected repairs be too much to make it worth considering?

The worst of it is how companies like Meta gave it legitimacy by adding platform features to support this nonsense. What other ridiculous trends do they plan to support at the API level?

He’ll fire anyone he has to in order to achieve his dream of building another Facebook, except it’s strapped to your face.

Did you hear about Chevrolet’s unsuccessful foray into home valuables storage? Ralph Nader wrote a book about it: “In Safe with Any Keys”.

I assume the highly experienced senior engineer in charge of driver authentication must have mildly pushed back on Elon’s unrealistic software development timeline — and Elon must have fired him immediately and revealed his private medical information on Twitter.

Was that whole Will Smith nonsense an entire year ago? That fact is crucifying my mind. I could have sworn it’s only been three or four months.

That’s really kind, thank you!

The twist is, it was all a collective mass hallucination triggered by tree pheromones.

Are they going to give Aang that intense, gritty voice he had in Legend of Korra? God, I hope not...

To a bus conductor who was delayed getting to work: “Why are you insulate?”