Mr Sun!

Exactly. If another aircraft/speck/light is stationary relative to you, and stays in a consistent position when you move your head (i.e. it's not dirt on the windscreen, and yes, just like Venus) then you are on a collision course and have an obligation to take appropriate action. At night, that can be scary shit, and…

If you ask any pre digital press photographer, you will learn that when photographed on black and white film, the color red appears as "almost blacker than black" black. And icebergs are typically light blues and whites in colour. So the very dark patches on the left hand side iceberg in the top picture could in fact…

That's got to be the easiest cross-eye stereogram I've ever seen! Normally I have to work to get it, but this just leaps off the page #nopunintended with hardly any effort. Fun to move your while viewing it too... Would love to know what makes this one so much easier than others.

Overall, I thought it was a very good adaptation and mostly loyal to the book. But the biggest "huh?" moments for me were early on - her precious bow was just stored in a hole with no protection and already strung? And then Gale scares off the deer. He. Scares. Off. A. Deer!! He's lucky he didn't get a arrow induced…

Let people know that they will be held legally liable for any accident, or for preventing authorities from reacting to an accident in a timely manner as a result of their use of these devices. 406 beacons, satellite tracking companies, etc all now place a significant reliance on GPS availability to reduce search and…

Good news everyone! They're putting an AppStore on the Moon!

..and for a teacher, an unfounded accusation is often enough to end a career. The fact that this teacher was cool enough to read them Enders Game, makes that possibility very sad indeed.

Replying to promote. Think you nailed it.

Dollars to doughnuts, this is what happened. "Dude, you won't believe what I saw on the internet last night - he was like uuh uh and she was like oh yeah, and then it was like, all over, I mean really all over her, and - OH SHIT, MOM!!! "

@Lawrence Paul Cockrill: You, Sir, get a heart.

I'm with this guy.

You don't. We're like herpes.

"The home is the new phone booth." Yeah, and it comes with a phone already installed! Get rid of those mobile phones, their convenience and usefulness is no excuse for you to go imposing your lack of simple common courtesy on others whose sense of indignant outrage is far more important than yours... wait, I've just…

How do you get rid of all the rats on the island? Easy. You call in the Kiwis.

That. Is. So. Cool.

"...Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"

Agree - in addition to "smoothing", it looks as if they have also deployed out some new imagery for the lower resolution tiles in their image pyramid. Smoothing algorithms don't create clouds.

From what's in the local press, the charges should include "being an asshole".

Add me to the list of people "who clearly doesn't quite get how Gawker Media per diems work." In every company I've ever worked for or owned, per diems are a "per day" allowance paid over and above a salary for the costs incurred in being away - having to buy breakfast as opposed to getting the cereal packet out of…