No parrots were involved in an accident on the M-1 today when a Lorry carrying High-octane fuel was in collison with a bollard. That’s a BOLLARD and *NOT* a PARROT. A spokesman for parrots said he was glad no parrots were involved.

Fun fact: I once ended an otherwise not awful date when, having seen six Sword of Truth books in her bookcase, I had to ask, “so, you a Goodkind fan? “

Hey, io9, congrats on showcasing two of my least fave geek things: fucked-up cluelessness and zombies.

Yeah, I know. I coasted down memory lane a bit there. Whatever works, works.

Shit, I miss the smell of limestone dust. Carcinogenic!

My grandfather, a literal master at his craft, would’ve partly disagreed. Not that he didn’t use power tools when applicable, but when doing mad skillz restorative work for cathedrals or suchlike he’d only use hand tools. Because there were issues with fissures and... things. As I vaguely recall.

I do know he didn’t…

It was plenty confident. It might be misplaced confidence of the kind usually associated with a cocaine binge, but one can’t argue that Snyder’s vacuous, tone-deaf ideas lack in confident execution.

Unfortunately.

No, no, it was just funny enough. Your comment too as it underscored the weary glibness of the original joke.

Well done, the both of you.

Subtle?

I always pictured her as more Siân Phillips-y.

Oh right, Pavane by Gabriel Fauré.

Is there anyone who can identify the music? I know I’ve heard it many times, but I can’t find it for the life of me. An Italian opera chorus?

Sometimes, when I’m feeling low, it seems to me that many, many geeks love genre because they love the structures of genre. It’s not the fantastical, the sense of wonder, but rather the recurring tropes that attract them. Spies behave in a spy-like manner, barbarians wear loincloth (and have a d12 Hit Dice), the Femme…

Would you have preferred “In a world of dragonheart-eating milfs and John Baueresque redheads with nice asses, one albino hero must run through the labyrinth...”

It's heartening to see that io9 will keep itself mired in banality. Please don't stop showcasing an endless stream of lazy, lazy mashups.

If I wasn't bored away from this site I would get less work done.

This is what keeps io9 from greatness: all the awful, lazy mashups. I know you have to push a certain amount of content, but couldn't you prettypleasewithsugaronthetop keep from publishing this talentless drivel. It hurts. It physically hurts. You're hurting me. Why are you hurting me, io9? Please stop!

I feel that we should keep using the common definition of steampunk where all the crappy, painting-by-numbers steamycoggytophatted potboilers are steampunk, and where anything remotely resembling originality or creativity is automatically disqualified from being steampunk.

You know, the way The Difference Engine or…

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Technological progress will happen regardless of the cautionary tales. It's only prudent to discuss the implications of the radical changes the world is going through, even if most of what we see is only an excuse to make things blow upp all pretty-like on the big screen. Also, tits.

You don't need cheerleading media,…