I'm not an expert — all I know is what I read on Wikpedia, after all. But as I understand it, TCP/IP protocols are written in UNIX, and TCP/IP is more or less the framework that keeps the series of tubes connected to each other. So, an oversimplification, yes, but all part of my constant struggle not to go on long,…

I'm not sure it's fair to criticize the quality of dissident writing when so few people were able to get their work out there. It's not like there was a thriving literary scene with writers pushing each other to improve. Most of these writers had very few other dissident writers to read, so I imagine each one had to…

Yeah, they moved me to Sunday, as Mondays are crowded and the column was getting pushed off the top of the page almost immediately. Plus, I think they're trying to beef up weekend coverage. Soon there will be nowhere on the calendar to hide from The A.V. Club!

If your 8-year-old is writing his own stories and is making stylistic choices, I'd call that a big win.

Yeah, my younger son likes to be read to, but has very little interest in reading on his own. But those books, he'll read over and over.

Sorry. Wikipedia's version of events was a bit confusing, and I was trying to summarize that. I should have double-checked. In hindsight, I also could have worded things more clearly given than referring to both Alan and Russell as "Davies."

Yeah, I only have so many hours in the day to write this stuff!

I also thought it was smart of the reboot to stand on its own first, and then ease back into the Time Lords, Daleks, Cybermen, etc.

It sounds like they intended to come up with a different explanation each time, and then realized that was too convoluted and settled on regeneration.

"is Mr. T a Teetoller or did somebody just put him there because his name is Mr T?"

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But you wrote the dictionary! You of all people should know! (To be honest, I thought the same thing for a long time)

There was a lot of anti-immigrant sentiment behind Prohibition. "We have to stop those drunken Irish from corrupting us red-blooded drunken German-Americans! Before clean water was piped into everyone's houses, pretty much everyone drank alcohol all the time, so it was pretty hypocritical."

Yeah, but there's that second half of water. I guess I wasn't thinking about their last few albums, but at the time, all of ?uestlove's Revolution 9-style studio experimentation made that album pretty damn adventurous by hip-hop standards. This was before Kanye had a solo career and the genre was just taking steps…

The How Did This Get Made? podcast took on Batman and Robin and Steel, and over the course of the two of them, put together the following scenario:

And after writing that, I had to check, and was reminded that Boyhood is famously the only movie with a 100%, white savior subplot notwithstanding. No movie has a zero, but four movies have a 1% — The Singing Forest, United Passions, Bio-Dome, and Chaos. Of those, I've only heard of Bio-Dome, and the users give it a…

What's worth mentioning about Rotten Tomatoes' system is that it boils every review to positive or negative, with no in between. So if every single critic in America gave Shame a 45%, then it gets a zero. If everyone gave Jack And Jill a zero, and Armond White called it a masterpiece just to be contrary, then it's got…

I'm honestly surprised Belushi starred in that movie and not Tracey Jordan.

One of the most remarkable things about Wikipedia is that virtually every page has some insane debate behind the scenes. It's why I love @UnexpectedDave 's look at the talk page every week.

These sound like the Amazon customer reviews they read at the end of "How Did This Get Made?"