@Calcifer (Hawks): My sign is "Bridges freeze before roadway"

It's a nice idea and widely repeated, but there's no actual evidence that the Fibonacci ratio is aesthetically pleasing, whether in photographs or anything else. It's the urban myth of composition.

@Michael Li: Thank you for the junior high school math lesson. If you'd read the actual article you'd realize that this is completely irrelevant. The idea here is about predicting a *sequence* of coin tosses, and how you can construct a sequence that has a better chance to win if you know your opponent's chosen…

Does the EPA also have to account for the smug emissions from hybrid owners?

@screemname: That's why I love the Internet: People who are smarter than a self-made millionaire with a track record of successful inventions and the endorsement of every scientist and engineer who has looked at his specs *just know better*. Thanks, random Internet guy. If only you weren't too busy posting on Internet…

@Jeriba: This is why I told my wife we should have a teenager. But noooo, she had to go and have a baby, because they're so cute.

@Spikette: "Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"

@im2fools: Damn, that's where I've been going wrong. I need minions.

@joncoffee: I had the same thought. One of the funniest SG1 episodes ever.

@hawkeye18: Are you familiar with the concept of a "mistake"? Is it possible, in your tiny-minded little world, that somebody could understand grammar perfectly well but make a slip while typing and thinking about bigger things than apostrophes? Or do you know PZ personally to be able to deduce, from one slip of the…

@antiphoney: Ah, OK. I've only seen RotJ (and actually, anything beyond ANH) in the last year since my son got into SW. It's actually pretty depressing to learn that Lucas was so excited about that Muppet show scene that he actually *added it in* to the Special Edition...

@antiphoney: Not sure if serious? The scenes in Jabba's palace look like outtakes from the Muppet show. There's not one moment where you can believe that you're looking at living creatures.

P.S. how parochial is that Americans always assume that a black or brown figure must be an African American, rather than say an actual African?

@Milton Cantellay: For the same reason there are no white, hispanic or asian minifigs. With the exception of a few minifigs based on actual characters, e.g. from Star Wars, all the minifigs are bright yellow which, in case you haven't noticed, is not a color found in nature. (The closest I've seen to a minifig-colored…

@Shook-Yang: The synopsis is not the headline.

Despite the headline, she was not the "First Test Tube Baby". That distinction belongs to Louise Brown (1978). She's not even the first IVF-conceived person to become a mother: Louise Brown's younger sister Natalie, also an IVF baby, had a child herself in 1999.

Yes, so-called 3D is a joke, precisely because it ISN'T 3D. It's merely stereoscopy, and its about as convincing as a fast-moving View-Master. Stereo separation is just one factor in depth perception, and when — as in 3D movies and TV — it conflicts with other cues, you get a nausea-inducing presentation of…

@Metalface Eagle: First thing I noticed. Despite what Hollywood seems to think, you cannot fly a helicopter "hands free"...

@resisx: ITYM "more Troubles than it's worth". And yes, NI is to Britain what the South is to the US and Belgium is to Europe: next time there's a civil war, the loser has to keep it.

@LittleJon: No, no no! Pumidol is an Internet Genius who know far more about this than researchers at an actual world-leading military systems company who never thought to google the topic before spending years developing something. Obviously.