I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought Doofenschmirtz should be on this list.

Yes. That is one creepy-looking photograph.

I've always been interested in visiting Australia, but then I started seeing stories/photos about spiders as big as my face being common in urban areas. Aaaaaaand goodbye.

I can't tell if that person in the still shot is a random actress I can't identify, or Jared Leto.

I feel like I'm listening to the newest Owl City single.

Time Warner is an awful, awful company. Horrible customer service, ridiculous wait times, absolutely no flexibility or accomodations for long-time customers, and they're constantly moving the goalposts. In addition to the $3.95/month modem lease charge (which is patently ridiculous) I also got a letter yesterday…

My only issue with this PSA is that you're almost never going to make someone miraculously wake up by giving them CPR. Basically CPR is just to keep the blood flowing to their brain until the emergency room can wake them back up, or until you can get your hands on a portable defib machine. You're not going to revive…

I love it.

That article is complete baloney and almost everything the author asserts in the essay can be refuted. Let's pretend we live in the SW universe for a moment. "Needs a droid who can speak bocce". That makes Owen illiterate? No, it just makes him unable to understand binary computer code. Can you read machine code?…

The Star Wars universe has canonically retconned this as "High Galactic Alphabet" - http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/High_Galactic_Alphabet . It lends some, but not a lot, of weight to the idea that Star Wars actually takes place in our galaxy many thousands of years from now, and "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far…

"Stayin' Alive" is about 100BPM, but even that standard is changing. Now they're saying 120-140 compressions per minute, with no rescue breathing, is ideal. However that rate of compressions is extremely difficult/exhausting for all but the most in-shape of us.

That Luke Skywalker is a direct rip-off of Marty McFly.

That cheetah's tail movement would tell me he was alert to whatever was going on, and apt to get up and leave at any second. He didn't appear annoyed or nervous though. But his primary attention is definitely on something besides being pet.

The Bad Astronomer wrote a pretty good article about Starfish Prime. I think the most terrifying part for me was the revelation that with a large enough bomb, a hostile party could effectively disable the entire USA (or any large country) and send us back to the Industrial, pre-electricity age with a single…

The best part of this teaser is the Japanese hip-hop. The Asian-inspired dubstep was okay too. As for the movie itself...eh. Not very compelling.

That is a quite a prominent, er, codpiece on the Superman suit. Makes it look like he's called the "Man of Steel" for more than one reason.

Livermorium, 1st cousin to the forgotten element discovered in the 19th century in Baltimore: Nevermorium.

I rarely go into movies trying to guess the end/twist so I'm not totally surprised I missed Sixth Sense's. I was shocked, however, that my wife missed it. She usually guesses the twist 15 minutes into a show but that one blindsided her. That fact alone cemented for me that it was a great movie.

I thought this concept sounded familiar. I was about to accuse KSR of stealing the "Mercury city on tracks to keep it perpetually on the terminator line" idea from another sci-fi author, then realized he'd "stolen" it from himself. :)

I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed The Butterfly Effect (the theater release; never saw the director's cut) and how good Kutcher was in it. I'll have to check out Frailty and Fallen.