I'm not sure I'm interested in this piece.

Not a chance: Fox wants their own franchise and would never allow Disney to take over, which is mighty likely if there were ever discussions between the two aboout an Avengers/X-Men crossover on film.

Come to think about it, considering that knights were mostly armed thugs between 850 and 1200 or so, when the idea of chivalry was adopted as a means to both keep these lugs in line and justify allowing people that heavily armed riding around the countryside, you could make the argument that they were *really* getting…

Wow, nice. Thanks for sharing that.

"And soon enough, the cops may have the ability to tell the future."

As much as I sympathize with Director Fury, the person with an even worse job in that organization has to be the head of HR; for every incident Fury needs to write a memo about, there have to be at least three more that are both more damning and stupider that the crud that drew the Director's attention...

"Kenneth Branagh ushers in that Industrial Revolution with some choice quotes from Shakespeare's The Tempest while dressed as engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel."

I'm not sure I'd use the word "evolved" in this case. The fact that they moved back from the original name when the initial outcry came up faster than a threatened lobster, I'd be more inclined to call this a "devolution" here...

And as we discuss this matter here, the folks at Metahsven seem to have done a bit more work on this with Facestate:

Ultimately, whether we become many or one when we go online depends on a simple cost analysis exercise. If there is a good reason for us to compartmentalize ourselves and we get (or perceive we get) more from such divisions, we will tend towards multiple personalities; if there is a greater benefit from being a being…

The bit on No. 1 there puts me in mind of a piece from this issue, where Spidey's adventures were being done in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts. You want to see a nutjob Spiderman, watch him here quote Spinoza as he talks the Thinker out of his latest scheme.

The only way I see alien contact being a challenge to religion is if we encounter aliens that prove that yes, they did visit us in our past, and yes, they can verify that members of their species were recorded in chapters of the Books of Genesis, Exodus, Numbers and Judges. Only then, after they verify that, yes,…

Which was probably also a lie; in reality all these folks were trying to access age restricted content (red band trailers, M-rated gaming add-ons, liquor ads, etc.) and kept feeding false birth dates to have access to this stuff...

OK, admittedly, as I typed it, a nagging voice in my head went off and said, "Yeah, but who*reads* these ToS agreements?" And yeah, I'm sure there's a large data pool that would leap like lemmings off the cliff given half a chance.

Is it too late to consider Terry Nation? Admittedly, his sojourn in the US came after his most creative period, but some of what he did on MacGYVER might possibly count, a little...?

I see a real, REAL big problem here: The methodology involved in the collection of data. If the sample did not offer any solid authorization involved in having their data collated and used by outside vendors for studies by parties other than the proprietors of the site, then there's a whole human-subject-usage-ethics…

Call me when he tries a few games of this...

I almost wanted to cut them a break; it's tough getting full on animation done on the cheap, and some of the action shots looked okay, enough to make you forgive a little the cheesy dancing that a lot of shows with kids in them in syndication seemed to go for.

Am I the only one who thinks the guy with the two guns to the right of the pic looks a lot like Isaac Asimov...?

Mine is to occasionally pick up THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. If nothing else, it's big business-friendly blather makes for a good instant cardio workout. And what makes it especially galling is that even a few years ago, before News Corp acquired the paper, I might not have been as incensed when I read it; since then,…