Not flushing toilet paper down the toilet is standard in many parts of Russia. Has nothing to do with Olympics.

And that's why Blockbuster is still in business while Netflix is floundering - because Blockbuster's ads were just so darn convincing. Meanwhile, Netflix's invent-a-superior-product-and-rely-on-word-of-mouth strategy accomplished nothing.

Is it fair to say that humans and other non-human animals exist on a spectrum*, much like male/female humans, rather than as discrete categories?

Great question.

If you believe that natural selection occurs, it has to occur to something. If you think it happens on a different level than the gene, or on multiple levels, that's defensible. But "it's more like a process" answers nothing. Of course it's a process! The question is what the process is doing, not whether or not…

Generally pretty good, except the new Who episodes are all extremely overrated as a group.

Sometime after io9 became Jezebel with science fiction.

The first Bubsy game was great! It's all the sequels that blew.

Grim Fandango

No love for lang-8? http://lang-8.com

I sense this special will have an insufficient amount of Paul McGann.

Sure, but there's a reason those two countries weren't used.

Now try this with Russia and Canada.

It sold me.

Also, I hope these villain biopics aren't restricted to the ladies. I would watch the Gaston sympathetic backstory!

Also, I hope these villain biopics aren't restricted to the ladies. I would watch the Gaston sympathetic backstory!

So that W cover is just a coincidence?

I'm sick of how all his episodes are the same. I used to complain about RTD not understanding Doctor Who, but at least he had a vision for the show, even if it was a gratingly radical re-think. Moffat's episodes are too often enamored of their own cleverness and re-cycling of classic Who motifs, without any actual…

Really? Because I'm pretty sure A New Hope is filled with political allusions

What is wrong with those people? Attack of the Clones is great. Even the lines about sand.