At first it looks shiny. Then the perspective shifts and it’s obviously paint. Nice effect.

Eh. It’s nice but the top started falling off mine resulting in a sphere of really icky lip balm that had mooshed into every edged item in my bag. I prefer stick shaped ones.

Eh. It’s nice but the top started falling off mine resulting in a sphere of really icky lip balm that had mooshed…

And Consider Phlebas is in no way the best of Bank’s Culture novels, or even the most action oriented. Just the first. A game set in the Culture might be the thing to finally get me to play through an RPG. Mostly I just want to explore a GSV and talk shit with a Mind and its mates though.

Why the hell is the once venerable BT acting like a patent troll? It’s not like they really need the money. Unless they plan to take down the entire internet and rule the world with these patents, in which case I suppose they do.

Because capitalism says cheap = good?

Arthur’s problem now isn’t so much is wife but his family. Linda is doing a great job helping him get over his PTSD and violent tendencies and substance abuse, but his brothers keep dragging him back in and pretending he’s the problem.

Reads a bit like a sub/dom relationship.

Haven’t I read this story before? On io9 or Paleofuture perhaps? Either way it’s still very amusing.

I agree, but you’re not really disagreeing with the article, or with Watterson. Calvin does stand up for himself, it’s just that in this case he couldn’t win.

Aren’t we all assuming that these are the same people who would have been hiding in the park waiting to flash pre-teens just a few years ago?

I was taught to leave the car in first when parking. Or in reverse if parking on a hill with the front downwards. Also to ALWAYS ALWAYS use the parking brake. That way you’re double secured from the car rolling off. Didn’t know you could start a car without pushing in the clutch. Is that an older cars thing?

Thanks for the info. Hope they figure out what happened. That’s horrible.

Not sure what the quality of this zoo is, but allowing staff to go into the enclosure with their tigers seems like a bad indication. Any serious zoo should have rules about that sort of thing as it’s stressful to the animal and obviously very dangerous to the human.

Fuck for-profit zoos. They’re aften terrible. Non profit zoos that are members of the international zoo associations and keep proper breeding programmes for their animals do a lot of great work for conservation and zoology research however. They’re also much more interesting to visit as they give a great learning…

Batman has to get places in big city traffic so unless the car can fly I don’t see how the 0-60 time is going to make much difference.

A friend of mine changed his name to hers when he married his wife. He felt his name was a bit boring and hers is quite rare and they wanted to pass it on.

So the Scarlett Johansson look is just a mass-market barbie type? I guess that could work, especially if they make a proper point out of it and not just a throw-away remark. They should still have more Japanese characters though, and there’s no reason why a beautiful mass-market model couldn’t be Asian looking.…

Seriously, this thing would have looked tacky even in 1985.

Fantastic! Thanks for the update, that’s really cool! Go see them live if you can. You won’t regret it.