@susie-bird: It is, by the aforementioned Cassie Clair... this is a different story by a different author, just shares the title.

@k4man: Somewhere out there is a cracktistic hogwarts/squid fic that i think you might enjoy... no clue how to find it though, happy hunting ;-)

@Sorcia MacNasty: obvious troll is obvious.

@Faren22: How do you know? If the soul exists, and is some sort of eternal, infinite energy, who says it doesn't anchor into the new "you"? I mean, who says twins don't share a soul? Personally i think the whole concept of a soul is a bit silly but if i'm wrong, and it does exist, i really doubt we have any ideas…

@Davina Spafford Stuart: I completely agree that fairy tales don't have to be light and simple, and i far prefer the originals that are darker and more twisted and i'm right there with you in thinking that darker children's stories are the way to go. But what i don't like about fairy tales, or at least what i don't…

More to the point, could you re-engineer these to work specifically on teeth and/or bones? I mean, doesn't this sound like it could lead to a fix for the bone calcium loss experienced in micro-gravity?

ENCAPSULATE!!! with this wrapping paper...

@Snake56: No love for Steve from Shoot to Kill? love that movie and Mr. Brown in it.

TRON was the first DVD i ever bought... took me a while to jump on the DVD bandwagon (it's not my fault, i was poor). I'm glad i already have it considering how scare it is now. As much as i love the movie i do understand why they're doing this. I took a person i was dating to see TRON in the theater in Seattle a…

@UberRob: Right there with you... and i can't even say i liked this last series all that much. The giant step into "it's all fun, it's a kids show, it's just about a madman in a box!" rhetoric that we're getting from the Moff really doesn't help my expectations much. The whole reason i liked this new series was that…

Ok, so i tried Tower Prep, i really did. I figured that, if i didn't like it, my girlfriend would, as she's more into YA and boarding school stories than i am. And you know, the Pilot showed some potential, but it has steadily been down hill from there. We're three (or four?) episodes in and i have no idea how the…

SteamPop (or TeslaPop) is such a better description, thank you for that. As for the genre getting too clichéd... That may be true in a sense, but only the same way most fantasy and sci-fi is clichéd; they're all coming from a similar place and there will be a lot of overlap. If the author isn't creative and doesn't…

Wow. I have had absolutely no desire to watch this show until now. I was not a BSG fan for various reasons (huge fan of the original show, and loved the mini-series, got through season one and stopped shortly after) and so i didn't think Caprica would be my thing. But you just made it sound like a Greg Egan short…

@PlaidNinja: Clone Wars is actually really good. Bit of a rocky start in season one, but it gets better, and season two was awesome. The opening of season three is really good too, though it's dropped off a bit in the most recent episodes... still totally worth watching though. And "Douche Obnoxious" is my new…

@Shayne: Newt Gunray was at least funny, but Savage Opress goes right up there with Grevious in the bad-name generator awards.

Yay Misfits! After being let down by Supernatural and Walking Dead (it's fine, but i was really hoping it would be great) this show is really making me happy.

"It's just important to do anything we can to find creative ways around inequality,"

@DaniFae is so into you but way too smart for you: my girlfriend got called over by an honest-to-god truant officer when she was 25... round faces get you every time.

@DepecheNode: Unlimited ammo? Check. Instant healing ability? Check. Lack of fatigue and weight allowances? Check. But no women, we want this game to be realistic!

I would say that she's Hard SF in all the good ways and very few to none of the bad. Her technology is amazing, internally consistent, and not too reliant on black-box type technology (certainly no more than Niven in the Mote series). And, on top of that, she brings in three dimensional characters, plot lines that…