Three point landing; Ghost In The Shell.

Let's see:

NFC payments at vending machines? So exciting, convenient, and new!

Not really a story, we've had tap to pay vending machines in our giant office for at least four years. Oh wait, it's Apple so it's "new"

Unfortunately, you're not going to get anywhere arguing that people have a right to privacy of their vehicle exteriors when on public roadways.

"make people THINK they heard something meaningful when you're just padding things out."

Facebook is definitely not a necessity, as witnessed by yours truly, who doesn't have one and never will.

I know a lot of people are pissed, but I'm beyond intrigued.

mommy, why are the black people grey?

I'll see your drum set and raise you an odaiko.

A lot of modern Christians reject traditional interpretations of Biblical stories and embrace ideas that have only been around since the 19th century, such as the Rapture. Totally a 19th century invention.

Bitcoin's problem is that it actually exists on the internet. The real security behind traditional "internet banking" is that the digits you see on your bank's website aren't actual money. They are just account tricks. If you send $100 from your Wells Fargo account to your friend's Chase account, the two banks have an…

I think this article could have used some even minimal discussion of what the invention and innovation actually was. You say the harpsichord and clavichord were instruments with keys that when pressed vibrated a string. Well, there's more to it than that. Harpsichords vibrate the string by plucking them (hence the…

Actually it is the quoted sentence before the sentence he "borrowed part of [his] dumb-ass comment" from that contains the information that clarifies the issue. If you are going to be that snarky, you have to be 100% right. Those are the rules.

Serious question- Why thank god for that? It isn't like the post-apocalyptic, the-future-is-going-to-suck thing that's en vogue now is all that great either.

If that "charity" it's being donated to isn't something LGBT-related I'm gonna be pretty disappointed in the world.

This one gets me every time

I remember reading somewhere in The Guardian that Alan was actually quite charming and confident, despite being a homosexual in Britain at that time. But in "The Imitation Game" he was portrayed as having pretty severe autism ("the peas mustn't touch the carrots"; or, him admittedly not understanding the nuances of…

"We'd have clean air and you could drink tap water again"