It's okay, they made the same mistake in the article =) I never thought of using Blender to break down my organic waste, but maybe a blender WOULD help...

I didn't say that anyone was using it. I said that there are people who want this sort of nonsense to be taught in public schools.

There are people pushing to use this kind of material in public school classrooms, either alongside or in place of actual facts. That's the concern.

It's Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden, if I'm not too much mistaken. Other than that, spot on.

I'm glad that Tor finally woke up and smelled the rotten DRM, but the fact that most of the publishers settled that lawsuit doesn't look good for Macmillan. It's just an opinion, but I'm pretty sure the publishers did collude on their agency pricing scheme. I'm not super fond of Amazon owning the ebook market, but…

Given that the number of stars in the universe is estimated at anywhere from six to three hundred SEXTILLION [that's 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000—300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000] stars and we haven't even explored ONE yet I'd say we've explored almost exactly 0% of the universe. =)

Wouldn't I want to focus all that pre-tax deduction stuff (IRA, 401k, etc etc) in TY 2013 to lower my effective income and thus avoid a higher tax burden in 2013 instead? Maybe I misunderstood...?

I like #5. It's one of my favorite things about reading the Vorkosigan series. The future is a backdrop, and while future tech has changed things significantly, the stories are never ABOUT the tech. They're stories about people who live in a different place, just as if you were telling a historical samurai tale or any…

Those last moments of disarmament would be like your standard film hostage exchange, except without the parties able to see each other as they counted down from three to one and pushing their hostages out at the same time.

I've got a middle-range Sony from a couple of years ago and its default 'Movie' mode is pretty much as good as it gets for almost everything, even with tweaking. (Sports mode changes it to its 120hz refresh rate, making things look REALLY weird.) My secondary Sharp set doesn't have quite the same experience, though.…

I would like to be first in line to be copied, please. I want to play chess or Monopoly or Catan (or, even better and more fitting, NetRunner!) against myself before I die.

Oh, so this must be where they got the idea for Vice President Noah Daniels' off-the-charts crazy in 24 Season 6.

I know. I'm going to have to simply fly or simply take a REALLY long boat ride or something. :/

I honestly cannot tell whether or not you're making this up. It's like a Poe's law corollary or something.

I simply must go to New Zealand.

Honestly, it sounds like you need a Bujold infusion. Go to baenebooks.com and spend five bucks on "Young Miles" or "Cordelia's Honor" (depending on whether you want a little more action or a little more romance, respectively). That's how you do science fiction without the boring.

My first thought when I read the synopsis for "Human Error". I mean, isn't that basically a description of "Automata" without the 30s aesthetic?

As far as SCOUT goes, it doesn't look like it provides a diagnosis, merely data. And as for the others, just like with a pregnancy test (for example) I highly doubt it's going to be marketed as the 'final word' on any of this stuff. It's merely another tool to help out. Hell, if you've got strep and ScanaFlu comes…

I seriously had the same thought. Man, he looks a lot like Mandy Patinkin did, doesn't he?

I read this with a look of incredible horror on my face the whole time. I was unable to locate an image which properly illustrated the horrifying disgust that I felt. OHGODNO