Weiss and Benioff have learned that Martin now thinks he’ll need nine books to finish.

Cool. Now when will Harlan finish “The Last Dangerous Visions”?

This is what I thought.

most notably Dame Diana Rigg (who you might be more familiar with as Olenna Tyrell on Game of Thrones) as Emma Peel.

Batman, Steed, and Peel? Sold!

I’ve no real desire to read Winds of Winter whenever it comes out. It’s been so long since I read AFFC and ADOD I can barely remember what happened in them so I'd probably need to reread them to understand what the heck is going on in Winds of Winter and I didn’t really enjoy those books as GRRM loses all the…

Yeah and i’ll bet you think that all those tornados in Twister weren’t trying to kill Helen Hunt out of spite and petty vengence. For a science blog you guys sure don’t understand the science of natural phenomenon with emotions very well.

This is really first principles stuff. Broadly speaking the use of any grinding powder in the lubrication system will wreck any internal combustion engine much more efficiently, and much more safely for the insurgent, than most of the alternatives, a fact that it might be useful to know for any readers facing the…

You’re not alone in noting the Castor/Leda asymmetry. But I can understand why they didn’t call it “Project Clytemnestra.”

Well, he did magically age a few years in a few months in order to not completely creep everyone out.

This is my choice for flop of the summer. Odd marketing campaign, and but three weeks after avengers is released. It's gonna make a BUCK, and then all the hipsters here on Io9 are gonna be like, "this is why we can't have nice things." This should have came out a month ago when there was jack and shit in the box…

Disappointed there wasn’t at least a tease of Wonder Woman.

Yes, because apart from the Big Two's events, there is absolutely nothing else worth reading in American comics.

Re: Glimpses, in a way, Brian Wilson did finish SMiLE, although neither we nor he will probably ever know exactly how it would have turned out.

As much as I love Gibson's books, the Johnny Mnemonic movie and his two X-Files episodes make me think he's...maybe not so good at other media. (Although the part in "First Person Shooter" where Scully puts on armor and goes into the game to save Mulder was golden. Especially when the Lone Gunmen are like "Scully's in…

Someone on Gawker started a "favorite celebrity encounters" thread many months ago. My favorite is still Phillip Seymour Hoffman:

"Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department."

WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH

But when I do my mom

I still remember reading a Readers Digest "I survived" type story (loved those at my dentists office!) where a kayaker got attacked and the hippo's tusk was through his thigh and he was tossed around like a rag doll. When gene splicing gets here, sign me up for hippopotamus! Hippo Man, Hippo Man, does whatever a…