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Book Depository has you covered. And they do free shipping to most of the world.

I loved that cover design so much, I had it shipped to me in Canada from Book Depository.

I loved that cover design so much, I had it shipped to me in Canada from Book Depository.

Yeah, that was a very doubleplus ungood thing Amazon did.

Yeah, that was a very doubleplus ungood thing Amazon did.

And they'll be invited to the Festival of the Fuck Bands.

My thoughts exactly. That is currently the law here in Ontario. Films are rated by the Ontario Film Review Board, a government body, so they have the weight of law. But under the updated Film Classification Act, ESRB ratings are accepted as having the weight of law. Therefore it is actually illegal in Ontario to sell…

Hmm, I hadn't realized. I'd only heard anecdotes from some indie musicians, but that was probably before this information became known. Thanks for helping clear up my misgivings.

Has anyone actually gone on to give money to an artist they discovered through Spotify? Buying music, merchandise, going to a show, etc.? I'm very critical of how much Spotify shortchanges artists, but maybe there's a huge dividend in terms of exposure I should know about.

5-6% of Italians are agricultural workers, compared to about 2% of Americans.

I just heard we have Rdio in Canada now, but I haven't tried it out yet.

Interesting. Yesterday my girlfriend and I went to Ikea to buy a desk (one we'd decided on weeks ago). I quickly checked their site on my phone to make sure it was in stock, and the mobile site not only confirmed it was in, it gave me the self-serve aisle and bin location. We were in and out on a weekend inside of 20…

The Chitauri weren't totally made up. They were basically the Ultimate Universe version of the Skrulls. It's actually pretty neat in their first team outing, the Cinematic Universe Avengers fought both the first enemy the mainline Marvel continuity Avengers faced in Avengers #1 (Loki) and the first real enemy the…

Yeah, this was me first hearing they were making a Battleship movie:

I wouldn't call either of those movies "really, really" good—but they definitely weren't really, really bad. Interestingly, I liked them more when they were both trying to be their own thing. I only disliked them when they tried to be like every other uninspired genre flick out there.

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Until they finally gave Samus' character development over to Team Ninja. And that went over swell.

In other words, the transition from Blade Runner cyberpunk black, chrome, and mirrorshades design to post-cyberpunk white and soft blue light IKEA-meets-iPod design is now complete with the assimilation of personal clothing.

The scientific issue is that a bunch of scientists travelled millions and millions of miles so they could act as dumb as a bunch of horny teenagers at summer camp.

Dammit, you're absolutely correct! I can't unsee it either!

Yeah, that gun that shot all those mini-cams into the room so the breaching team would have a heads-up before charging in was such a brilliant and plausible thing. The 3D car chases were also really nail-biting.

You reminded me of John Scalzi's "Flying Snowman" (http://whatever.scalzi.com/2011/12/11/the-flying-snowman/)—the thing in a genre piece which finally breaks your suspension of disbelief.