TRS-80 with a cassette tape drive! Great for playing Adventureland.

A gun has one purpose: to kill. If you buy a gun designed specifically for hunting, then you can make the argument that you are going to kill game. Anything else, handguns, assault rifles, etc. have the sole purpose of killing people. Add an extended magazine, and it has the sole purpose of killing LOTS of people.…

That's what I was thinking! Nothing like a big rogue missile blasting into space to make you want to lean back and ask the world if it wants a smoke now that its been fxxxed.

As people are pointing out, people leave stuff on the street because they want someone to take it away (like old sofas and appliances). My guess on the folks who broke it up is that they wanted the metal frame to sell for scrap, and so took that part and dumped all the wood.

"Some hold with the theory"? I think anyone who held that theory died out about 100 years ago. I thought io9 came from the future? Wait, maybe the past is the future! Whooa!

Real problem: the music is off — big band swing music would not have been performed until about 20 years later. Clearly she is a time traveler.

Every time a person says "I don't believe in global warming," there's an oil executive somewhere that gets an extra $100,000 in his bonus.

His "system" reminds me of the old Steve Martin routine: How to be a Millionaire and not pay taxes. First, you get a Million Dollars. Second . . .

Can Santa send me The Prisoner? I am not a number!

Chomsky is a smart guy, but he's directly quoting David Marr:

90% of the time I am using Things. After that, Apple's built in Camera app.

In case you were worried about the robot apocalypse — don't be.

I think the key to it all is the looping aspect: the timelines are sequential. Each new loop makes a new future, but the past loop is still intact as the past events that lead to the new loop (though eventually forgotten by the characters as the new loop takes over). The first loop should be Old Joe is sent back and…

The west coast sits on the boundary between two tectonic plates, while the east coast does not (the closest boundary to the east coast is in the middle of the atlantic ocean. The movement of the plates on the west coast causes a sheer drop off from the coast into the ocean. There is no such movement on the east coast.

I love the soundtrack - here we are viewing the construction one of the most massive killing machines every assembled and yet when I close my eyes and listen to the music — I see sunshine and puppies.

Oh good, now we can finally ask Reagan what he was thinking when he authorized trading weapons for hostages with Islamic extremists in Iran so he could fund his private blood bath in Central America.

There is a 50/50 chance that the world will end tomorrow. Either it will or it won't. 50/50.

Hasn't anyone heard of the butterfly effect? Its the butterflies we need to kill! Drone strike the butterflies!

Cosmic Wimpout - nerdy and trippy.

Like everyone else, I'm still waiting for my jet pack!