Heisenberg is pulled over by a State Trooper for speeding. The trooper asks him : "Do you know how fast you were going?" And Heisenberg says : "No, but I know where I am!"

2001 was a long, boring movie? The beginning and end were good, but holy crap the middle.

Pfft, I've been shortsighted for 32 years now, and you're telling me I suddenly have to contend with a bunch of bandwagon jumpers? Right, that's it, I quit. It's just not cool anymore

Age. And in my case... more than one of Clarke's stories ultimately involves a higher intelligence than ourselves guiding us toward (if not some apotheosis, then) the next stage of our evolution. Yet here we are, still in the mud. I have to treat 2001 as ultimately a religious tale, which is... not what I look for…

Everyone seems to be using a different standard when they vote every year. Some vote for the work they think is the most important or influential, and others just vote for the one they like best, or because they hate whatever it's up against.

In the end, the Dominion just had too much trouble Keeping up with the Cardassians.

Dolph Lundgren is missing for some reason

That's not a puzzle. This is a puzzle.

Leaving aside the implicit assumption that 'great' writers will be likely to be white and male, exactly 0 people mentioned above are proposing anything vaguely like 'a Maoist style cultural revolution.'

But no one is saying "never read a book by a straight cis white man again." They are merely saying "focus on something else for a change."

I can just see the headlines tomorrow - Man on internet admits he's wrong! Shock! Horror!

ah, the irony of someone advertising a bit.ly blind redirect in an article about network security.

Microsoft offers free downloads of the Windows 7 and 8 and 8.1 OS's in ISO and even a tool to make a bootable USB.

Kaiju slapstick, you say?

The Emperor's Soul was quite good. I checked it from the library.....so, yeah, I don't have much else to add to this discussion.

+1 Fedora

Raze to the ground. Raise is an oxymoron here unless, of course, you meant the lifting of subterranean sites to ground level...? :)

"For security reasons, she's using four separate handheld devices, with various names and passwords." Because I guess four potential ways to hijack your accounts are better than one?