True, but he did say it in the Simpsons episode where Bleeding Gums Murphy (spoilers!) dies. =) He also said "You must avenge my death, Kimb—ah, I mean Simba," and "This is CNN."

Hi Benny - what's been your single best resource for learning a new language? Do you have a favorite method/course, or do you prefer to ad-hoc the process?

Honor Harrington, Starfire (okay, pretty much anything with David Weber's name on it). There are enough HH books in the main series alone to keep you busy for a while.

Seconded. And I would watch this, no matter how bad it was. D&D4: Summer Glau Slaughters the Orcs, anyone?

As I've been a little bit in love with the SKYLON plane since you covered it here a few months ago, I cannot describe just how happy this news makes me.

OHMYGOD that is the worst tripe I have seen in a LONG time. I think I threw up in my mouth a little. Hell, Aang makes a speech very similar to that in the show, but somehow it doesn't sound THAT bad.

So, you find it hard to believe that anyone would refuse a "cure" based on your own anecdotal observations. That's nice. I have my own anecdotal observations that say the opposite, so clearly we cannot make any declarations based on anecdotal observations, which we all should have known in the first place.

Rob, you did not answer the most important question: between the terrifying lows and the dizzying highs, are there or are there not creamy middles?

I read it as 'decimated' and then went back and saw that it was 'detonated'. Maybe somebody just picked the wrong word?

They actually do that as a play up in my area. It's called "Dorks Playing Dungeons & Dragons LIVE!!!" and it's apparently pretty hilarious.

Absolutely. D&D2 was actually okay, despite the terrible acting and CGI. It felt like they actually might have cared a little. This third outing, though, appears to be an atrocity on the level of the original theatrical release.

I'm pretty sure the "variation in semen temperature" was covered on How I Met Your Mother. It's an ancient Viking secret, as I recall.

My god, this looks... awful. Just awful.

Since this is the science site, I'd be interested to see an examination of this issue from a sociological standpoint, rather than a moral one. The biggest question: if the religious right finally gets their way, who's going to pay for the orphanages to house all of these unwanted and subsequently abandoned children?

Like Knuckles, right?

For the second time today on the Internets: please, please tell me this is an ill-attempt at sarcasm.

Oh, come on. If this became the new hipster trend it would be AWESOME. Just think of how much they'll have to suffer for this 'trend' (read: travesty).

If it does happen, I wonder who the first writer signed to Penguin House will be! (Don't they have one of those at the aquarium?)

That's it. If I ever get sick (like, seriously sick) I'm going to sign myself up for every damn experimental trial that comes on the map. I want to see some of this shit for myself! :D

And I'm thankful for that. I'm frightened sometimes by just how unimportant reason is to most of the people in my country, and how utterly irrational thought pervades every level of American society.