My favorite bit was when Chloe drew the gun and stunned that guy - she has a great fast draw. Very smooth. Most dedicated action stars couldn't do that well.

Yeah- the frogs are dying from a fungus, which keeps mysteriously appearing everywhere people go to study frogs. Has anyone thought of spraying frog researchers with antifungals each time they come back from the field and before they get to go out to another frog habitat? I think we have a good case for what the…

Glau AND Dinklage in a funny movie with a budget of about $1.98? Oh, yeah. This thing's going to make a profit in the first day of release...

The pilot's on Hulu, so I'd think ep 2 will show up there eventually. It's also on SyFy six times again this week.

...except, of course, that the current sea level rise is pretty minimal. It's so trivial that when a recent measurement added 0.3 millimeters per year (because the continents are still rebounding from the last ice age), it added twenty percent to the current rate.

The most interesting theory is that they might be "quark novas," stars of just the right size (too small to become a black hole, too large to be a "normal" neutron star), which have a core dense enough to form a "quark soup" inside a large neutron star, which comes apart a few days after the main part of the star goes…

The people in 1960 already did this... and we (the grandkids) came up with a great place to store this stuff. It's called Yucca Mountain, and it's ready to store all sorts of interesting radioactive stuff right now. There's just a bunch of dim people who (for some reason) would rather have it stored in their…

So - you start out with a weak reference (Wikipedia, which nobody takes seriously) AND a direct ad hominem, then compound it with trying to pretend that my refusing Wikipedia as a source ( since it has a history of terrible editing in favor of AGW), then repeat the ad hominem.

Sorry, Trai, but you actually cited Wikipedia a while back - if you want "useful idiots," look in a mirror. You also seem to have decided that IPCC's predictions are useless... and if that's so, then pretty much the entire AGW theory goes out the window. Most of the "ohmigod, the ice is melting!" studies rely on…

Then you're going to have to take it up with the IPCC. Even those doom-mongers admit it's not going to be extreme - their bottom-end prediction is less than a foot, and no more than two feet. In ninety years. I think people can learn to cope with moving upshore until their knees aren't underwater any more.

The current IPCC prediction is more in line with observations than the bizarre fantasy of "7 feet" some suggest - from 38thsignals' own link, "the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (4AR) gave similar results, projecting sea level rise of 18 to 59 cm by 2100." Yes, even the IPCC won't claim more than 2/3 of a meter at…

Never mind, of course, that according to the ACTUAL predictions, the current sea level rise will be less than 1/3 of a meter by 2100 (the trend over the last half century has been about 3mm per year, and it's been slowing, not increasing for the last decade or so).

It's funny how the graphic for "collaboration Tools" shows three gears meshed together in a way that keeps them from working at all...

How to check for dropped screws and contact lenses:

"Chemical and flame free."

If you're at the stage where you own a drill and are going to be doing a lot of this sort of thing to justify the hack above, just buy a cheapie $7 set of allen/phillips/flatblade insert bits for it.

They built a gadget that (supposedly) aimed cellphone frequencies into people's heads. There's a lot of room for other things, like high-pitched sounds from the emitter that people "feel" but don't consciously hear (yes, some RF gadgets make actual audible sounds when running).

Of course, if you look around a bit, you'll find that an MBA is hardly the path to success nowadays - and that quite a few employers aren't really looking for them any more.

Unfortunately, some real sites also have spelling errors, and a lot of fake sites are 100% clones of real sites ("echo sites," which load in the actual web site and pass the results through to you with an intercept for username and password).