I think the spirit of Winamp does live on today through VLC. A simple, efficient, free program that, frankly, works better than anything else. Winamp may be all but dead, but it lives on (successful, until Aol buys VLC) in spiit.

Yeah, that ending and the start of the following season was huge. I wouldn't be surprised if the BSG example cited was influenced by that finale. The end of the season, the station is taken over by the bag guys, and the next season opens with the bad guys in control and what few good guys remain trying to save…

So this isn't the launch of the original Microsoft Surface? Boo-urns!

I don't think I gave up on the first season, because I never really got into it. There were those Hallmark moments, and there were also those historical moments that made me wonder if the series was getting funding from the Department of Education or something. "The aliens are going to attack any minute! We need to…

Not to get all uppidy (and I'm sure I'm not the first), but Star Trek 1 came out in 1979, it was called The Motion Picture, and was directed by Robert Wise. Not sure if it hit its release date or not (tough to say, as it was originally a pilot for a new TV series). Star Trek 2 was, of course The Wrath of Khan, and I…

It applies to those lesser beings! People just can't use it to refer to us. Only we can use it to refer to ourselves.

Has that been proved? I was wondering what stones they were talking about, is that a common expression? I think I hear "stones" used to refer to what's between my legs more often than I've heard it used to refer to what's between the legs of clouds when there's hail...

That's actually a pretty cool idea and may have inspired me.

I think the invention of modern languages is a little more recent than the migration of one of our species' ancestors.

As a higher primate myself, I object to any classification that places monkeys among the higher primates. I demand a retraction. Don't make me sick the higher primate lobby on you. The orangutans will sue you in court while the gorillas break your knees out of court.

Yeah, I was kind of surprised to see this is one of the few sports that the UK fields one "national" team opposed to four (or three and a half, as the case may be).

To be fair, it's a pretty decent theory. I mean, it's either going to make you immortal or kill you, definitely one or the other.

Was the 16th century really "thousands of years" after the third century?

Yeah, being wayward is hanging out in an empty public park after it's legally closed for the night. Uh oh, trespassing tickets if the cops really want to be dicks! Any crimes are of the victimless variety (like you described) or of the lowest damage to society (stealing a chocolate bar).

Quite frankly, I don't see the problem with Google throttling organizations. Let's say Google gets take-down requests from ten organizations, on the low end one organization wants one thing taken down, on the high end one organization wants half a million things taken down. So, they take the first page that needs to…

Consider how much was changed between Star Trek (the movie) and Star Trek (the prime timeline original series), I think it's safe to say that things would be radically different by the time of TNG/DS9 in the Abrams timeline. Would Data have been built? Would Picard have been born? Would the Romulans have attacked…

"Cocaine psychosis" is exactly what they'd call it to hide the fact that the zombie apocalypse had begun.

Is that "nose-trode sex" or "nose-rode sex"? Either way, what is it?

This is a pretty ridiculous plan. I mean, if they had pull it two months ago, sure, whatever, the SuperBowl spot would be burned, but that'd be about it. But I have seen a trailer for this before two movies in theatres (and I've only seen three or four movies this year), I'm seeing the ad on TV, people are talking…

Ah fudge, I am not looking forward to a twenty-minute behind-the-scenes GI Joe promo during evey WWE program... luckily I doubt I'll still be watching wrestling by then (though the fact that it'll be the road to WrestleMania means I might be watching it again).