As a practitioner of "Eastern" martial arts (Judo, jujitsu, various Filipino and Chinese boxing), I've always really wanted to study Western martial arts. Bartitsu really interests me, as does medieval unarmed and dagger combat.

Great. Now Bono has even more money to hand off to African dictators.

I may have problems with the e-reader craze, but it's neat that short stories are making a comeback.

The rapidity of its adaptation reminds me a lot of the influenza virus, and why there will never be a universal vaccine for that.

"While those horrors are quite real, Munroe's flick suggests that the only thing worse is armchair commentary coming from rich people across the sea tut-tutting over how amazing it is that "those people over there" are happy to kill themselves working ten-hour days"

Hah, that is a great turn-around of a cliche.

The trend worldwide is a decrease in population - some slower than others. When looked at like that, and comparing Japan to countries like Italy and Russia, it's nothing unusual.

Thank god.

Hopefully it will won't have the xenophobia and bigotry of SM Stirling, however.

Still waiting on the link between this gene and My Little Pony fascination.

Actually in a lot of scientific labs the technology hasn't caught up, and it is too impractical/expensive to transfer over to a modern system.

To say that no ferrets died and thus it isn't "deadly" is rather ignorant. To truly judge the CFR rate you would need a lot more ferrets.

That was thoroughly insulting, great job.

Jimmy Wales needs to keep his grubby, corrupt hands off of anything that isn't fluff pop culture articles. He's one to talk anyway, keeping people who actually study in the pertinent fields off of Wikipedia.

Hathaway will single-pawedly ruin this movie.

Or it's just magic thrown in to a world that we are supposed to believe is "realistic".

I love this show, but it seems that they need an asshole every time in the group. Pierce, now Abed.

I've been following this project for a while now, very interesting. Hope they can raise enough money!

It becomes pretty noticeable if you spend any time where there are a lot of MLP fans. I offer that this is one of the reasons why their fans are so defensive - they have a harder time differentiating between criticism of their show versus criticism of themselves.

Something new for the Aspies to obsess over. God help you if you stumble across a hive of fans.