Is it really that big of a deal the wedding/marriage happens on panel?

I see petri dishes full of very mathematically inclined and highly organized bacteria.

Social situations, even the well defined ones, just exhaust me. I can shine for a few hours, impress people with wit and then—

Dammit, are you sure? Because I am really good at solitude. I'd bring home the gold if "sitting alone in my room" was an Olympic sport. I just can't even handle trying to be social anymore. I'd make an excellent hermit!

Here's an idea, Follywood, rather than spending a $100 million on one film, why not make 10 or 20 for 5-10 mil each? You spread the risk (though won't potentially won't make quite as much) and, IMHO, get far better films.

One way or another, I think it will require CGI...

Thanks to the power of GIMP (knock off Photoshop), Eric is reading Den llvarsamma leken by Hjalmar Söderberg. The title means The Serious Game and wiki tells us it's

Nope. I was thinking it too.

So... Tara's mom is a carrier for Hep V and got Tara to feed on her in order to infect her because crazy religious nutjob lady?

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Can we just for a second acknowledge that what people say on twitter is meaningless and if you're quitting your job because someone called you a name or said something mean to you're also a dick not just the guys on the other end?

I get that a threat can be scary, but they are only words. They shouldn't have this much of an impact, especially over the internet. I've been called plenty of things after getting one too many kills in what ever game. I even got rated aggressive after a fighting match in Naruto Ninja storm. Was I supposed to be…

My conspiratorial mind suggests that it was never broken in the first place. It continues to function within normal parameters, and has found exactly what it was looking for... and then some. Straight from the NASA Playbook, it's not the first time, and it won't be the last, in keeping with the Spirit of the program,…

I recently watched all of Hellsing Ultimate, the main bad guys motivation in that the entire time is simply that he loves violence and war and conflict and war, and basically just wants war for the sake of war - he goes on long diatribes about how much he loves it, it was pretty refreshing to have a bad guy that was…

Sea Pig?

AHEM....

Well now, kinda...

The strength of a "fridge magnet" is definitely a standard measurement for astronomers.

Why is io9 taking a step backwards in terms of design aesthetic? The larger photos were nice, and the immobile "sidebar" is simply distracting.

Agreed, why can't the villain just be a villain who is evil, a sociopath, etc...? It's more fun that way when you have a someone that is just evil, no reason, no big event, they're just pure and unadulterated evil. Makes they scarier because there is no glimmer to salvage what they once were.