The supervolcano is in Yellowstone, Utah, not Yosemite, California. It's an easy mistake to make.

I'm hoping they were talking about fish stock levels. I mean, that's still hyperbole, but at least it makes a little sense.

Apart from Victoria it is the only part of Canada where homeless people don't die in the winter. If I was a drifter, I know where I'd go.

Avid, Final Cut and Premiere are the most common editing programs. If you're looking to do a mask and blend, you'd be better off using Autodesk, After Effects or Nuke.

I caught that too. Cribbing from Moore isn't the worst you could do as a writer.

Just give us Jeff Nichols directing with Michael Fassbender and Emily Blunt solving crimes and having the hottest sex on the planet. Boom, season 2.

If someone described this show as a pitch black crime drama with a streak of cosmic horror, that would not be inaccurate in the slightest.

More like 5 years.

It's clearly one of Stephenson's better predictions that people who wear tech that makes them look like an idiotic cyborg will be the most socially castigated individuals on the planet.

Also… the app is free.

Firstly, wow holy hell they are not messing around with that Yellow King narrative. I am beyond stoked that this is happening on an HBO show!

Someone in Vancouver screwed up. Badly.

A lot of those contract stipulations are actually employed by Steven Segal. I remember eye contact was expressly forbidden.

The best Seinfeld related thing on the net is unquestionably "Seinfelt" a series of fictional synopses of episodes that never existed. It's Borgesian to the extreme and hilarious and horrifying in equal measure. Plus the writer does a new one every day. Truly the internet is the miracle of our age.

Australians can be exceedingly racist and short-termist, but I'm not sure it's any worse than other places. Abbott certainly won partially, in my view, by successfully appealing to all the nation's worst selfish impulses.

There are a lot of greedy selfish racists. But I don't know if it's statistically more pronounced than in other countries.

Our new Prime Minister dissolved the department of Science, made himself the head of the Department of Women's Affairs and Indigenous Affairs (he was born in the UK), is repealing our Carbon Tax, doing a media blackout on all news related to refugee arrivals (he's mentioned using the military to stop them coming to…