Someday, it will be possible to physically prevent yourself from downloading and installing software that you don’t need. Until then, all we can do is complain about their existence in Lifehacker comments.

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

King is notorious for not giving much of a crap about adaptations of his work.

It’s especially galling to me since people are always bashing King for writing terrible finales, and the ending of The Mist is one of his very best (except maybe for Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption).

I’m a fan of Frank Darabont, but his ending for the film totally ruined it for me. One of the things that made me love King’s novella was its haunting, ambiguous final passage, which is simultaneously hopeless and hopeful, and leaves you hanging in a way that, like the best open-ended stories, excites your…

It’s almost as if people have different needs and ideas of what constitutes value!

I’m conflicted about this, as an Asian-American who’s planning on submitting some work under a non-Asian pseudonym. My primary reason for doing so is that I don’t want to be pigeonholed as a “minority” writer, and it hadn’t occurred to me until now that this might be unethical. My theoretical self-defense being that…

I like your meaning better.

These magnificent weirdos have always been with us...who was the guy who looked at a snail and thought, “I wonder how that tastes?”

Counterpoint: my friend is engaged to a girl he met on a cam site. So I guess it's not impossible!

Right - whether or not Sid was even a villain was discussed widely when the movie was originally released. At no point afterwards has this argument ever been “original.”

You seem fun

Not so — my cats come out and greet me when I come home.

Not In My Pee Cee!

Um....

And no I am not an alcoholic. I’m from Wisconsin.

Doesn’t it kind of freak you out, though? The first time I saw a planet up close through a telescope, I wanted to vomit! I don’t know...something about the fact of these immense objects out there just blows all my circuits.

In this overpopulated world, anyone deciding to have children should at least be cognizant of the fact that they’re burdening society with their offspring. The time is long past when we should be treating new humans as precious miracles rather than the fruit of their parents’ narcissism.

That would describe many children in their 30s.

I think Man of Steel makes sense as an alternate history take on Superman — Clark Kent as he would have turned out if Pa Kent believed in “the good of the many over the good of the few.” This is the Clark who (was raised to) let his father die rather than reveal himself as superhuman. Unlike the traditional portrayal,…