A good reason to wear a properly made bowler hat. [en.wikipedia.org]

I saw these on WebUrbanist where they posted images of a size such that I could not read the text. You have made it easy to view in a standard way. Good for you guys.

Takes a very long time to load at the moment.

I spend less time on Facebook than I do on Google+ because Google+ does not provide an RSS feed for my main view. Facebook doesn't either, but I wrote a feed generator for that when they killed it.

True, given the existence of The Simpsons, it's only *a* BART. Shoot, damned things come in six-packs.

Yes, the bits I've seen of previously made Inspector Spacetime bits were not entertaining.

Well, not like what I used to think of as an emulator, which means it takes everything and runs it through it's own virtual machine.

The real reason for bringing up Battle Royale whenever The Hunger Games is mentioned is to question the need for another story about children killing each other in some big game. They don't have to be super similar for you to say, "Oh, that again."

Which company is that again?

Sake can be very good indeed.

As I understand it, Lightsquared is not interfering with the GPS frequencies, rather GPS receivers are made to receive too far out of band. However, since they are the new comers, it is easier to tell them no than to expect every GPS receiver to be made to receive only the part of the spectrum they are supposed to…

Since the action happens mainly in a past that has not changed it is true that it doesn't count as alternative history. It's a magical time travel story with magical consequences.

Stephen King made the very odd decision that saving JFK from assassination would trigger world wide earthquakes of unexplained origin.

He has said in confidence that he would address the issue of the lack of confidence that the issue has been addressed.

With such thin material, does having individual toes matter?

Nope, that doesn't sound right. That 8 minutes is the time for light to make the trip. Generally the universe doesn't work at infinite speeds, it works at light speed. I would expect any effect of the sun blowing up would take that eight minutes to do anything to Earth.

Read the comments to the linked article. People who actually know something about these types of pistols explain the reasons behind this design decision.

Tolkein is likely to use the oldest meaning of a word and to avoid words that did not exist before the 1500s or so, by choice. He is more free with modern language in The Hobbit since it was meant to be a children's story.

You see, this is how Germans get drunk in Tokyo, mit sake. (Please, drink it cold mein herr.)

You've got a weapon that can slice through people or even metal like butter, why do you need to use two hands? I've always wondered by they bothered to use two hands in the movies.