What, "Clue" AGAIN?

Probability seems high.

Fair enough. It's simply the first time I've ever come across it used in a non-involuntary sense.

If "outing" is being used in the voluntary sense now, that surprises me. I thought the linguistic breakdown was:

Nature's recycling program!

I feel bad because I got to watch the pilot of "Precinct 17", which apparently was passed over in favor of Grimm? I think? And man, I would SO MUCH rather be watching that show. (Well. I am not watching Grimm at all now, to be fair. But that's my point. I'd rather they'd chosen the show that made me want to see…

Not so much, if you contemplate that if you die and your body lies there unseen, your remains are in very little danger of being pecked apart by pigeons.

As the article makes pretty clear, it's not only that we have stronger positive feelings towards owls — it's because it's incredibly newsworthy for a snowy owl to have flown to freakin' Hawaii (take a look at a map and consider the distance of the flight involved, over terrain that offers no resting place), and this…

Owls (certainly, snowy owls) are protected under the federal Migratory Species Act.

Ya got me. I suppose you do it by saying that the Skrulls already appear in too many Marvel storylines — they aren't a solely Fantastic Four villain, they're more multi-purpose villains, and thus you can say that since the license is only for FF-related stuff, they can't have ALL the Skrulls because the Skrulls are…

We keep hearing that FOX only owns exclusive rights to Super-Skrull, not all the Skrulls.

Hansel & Gretel got the same sort of bump, didn't it? Just an interesting parallel, given they're both fairy-tale projects that aren't Snow White-related.

My first thought. "Boy, is that homeowner going to be annoyed later, when the local mosquito population skyrockets". Seriously: Miami!

Well, bats are in trouble in some places. Did you see the story on io9 a few days about about the mysterious whitenose disease that is killing off bats in the northeast? It's a big problem.

The Holly Bible might actually be awesome, you never know.

+1 million. LOVE the Jhereg books. LOVE.

As someone who started out as a Sharpe fan, I really enjoyed his Warlord Chronicles. I've been meaning to reread those...

Aww! We were just talking about Voyagers this weekend, in the context of "shows/movies in which people died stupidly in the making of them". :(

Oh my god, QED! Quentin E. Deverill!

Huge fun. Still sad that it was cancelled. We really enjoyed the hell out of it.