I concur! There was even a secret underground base, if I remember correctly. What could be better than that!

I hear Kilgore Trout is due for a revival.

Henry Kuttner - he even has his own kickstarter project!

Don't forget the printable self-assemlbing printer bots, which print more printer bots, and so on. . .

This is well known as the "Disney" copyright act. Every time Mickey comes close to expiring, Disney opens up its checkbook and Congress magically extends the limits for copyright. Rather sad considering Disney's best work was all stolen from traditional fairy tales.

Your lips, hands, and sex organs have the most number of nerve endings in your body and so are overly represented in the sensory areas of your brain. No wonder, then, that hand holding and kissing are right up there with actual intercourse.

I use Things on the iPhone as a capture device/to do list. As a stay-at-home Dad and Author, I would go completely insane without it. I have lots of other apps, but 90% of my time on the phone is spent on keeping myself organized.

I think the short answer is that the best one is whatever you are used to. There is nothing worse than using a different operating system than what you are used to and having to stop what you are doing to look up and figure out how to do some small task that you would instantly know how to do on the other.

I think most people, and especially libertarians, tend to forget that humans are idiots. The founding fathers knew this and so they wrote something called the Constitution specifically to protect people from themselves. That is why the Constitution does not say "everyone should just do anything they want all the…

Typing in the basic code for an adventure game on a TRS-80 and then saving it to a cassette tape drive. Then a friend got a Sinclair 1000 and that was cool.

I find standing desks are great for doing "busy" work, such as emails, searching for stuff on the web, paying bills, filling in forms, etc. When I have to actually do a focused and/or creative task, though, I need to sit to think & concentrate.

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!