My account pre-dates Kinja, and I’ve been grey since grey was invented. It has been at least 10 years. I don’t understand it.

Huh? Windows 8 is better than Windows 7?

When I was in elementary school there was a mass-inoculation for Rubella using an air injection gun. Man, did that really hurt.

He wants to drop a bomb on the La Palma volcano? The same La Palma volcano that was the subject of a 2001 study, which predicted that some day the unstable flank of the volcano will collapse, with the landslide triggering a mega-tsunami that will hit the US eastern seaboard with 165 foot high waves? That La Palma…

This is a variation of the Underhanded C Contest, where the goal is to write a program that appears to be innocent, but actually is malicious. The methods used in this study are using Unicode tricks, such are used in Punycode attacks to make malicious URLs appear to be legitimate domains.

I was very young when I saw The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T on TV.

The gom jabbar is the poisoned needle, the gom jabbar test is the humanity test using the needle. The gom jabbar is used in more contexts than the test.

The Splitting the Check skit wasn’t aired.

There was a fair chance that, in a world where politics is less insane, THE OSCARS COULD WIN AN EMMY...

Title says “Animaniacs Season 2 (November 5, HBO Max)” but the body text says Hulu.

Is it safe?... Is it safe?

Arrgh, I was expecting the article to explain how to actually verify that a show is being streamed in 4K. HBO Max in particular doesn’t appear to have any method to determine the show resolution on an Android TV. We’re just supposed to trust them.

Problem with this kind of comparison is that “running time” includes the credits.

Spoiler warning just in case ...........................................................................

How do you get io9 to display the chronological list of posts?

Biggest issue with the human element to these movies is that none of the previous humans—except the Russells—show up again.

Do you mean other than Scanners II: The New Order and Scanners III: The Takeover?

And before that there was Mann & Machine (1992) with Yancy Butler, and before that there was Holmes and Yoyo (1976).

The whine of a mosquito flying past your ear.

I’ve never seen so many big names leave a project in such a short time, and it continue to get pushed like nothing is happening. Do we have other examples of this in recent history?