God how fugly was the kindle 1!!!! I had a K2, K3 (or keyboard), K4, Kindle voyage and now the 3rd gen oasis. Love my kindle and use it daily. For me the kindle got me back into reading, what put me off in the first place was actual physical books, I hate how new books are stiff and want to close on you all the time,…

Came for this. Left satisfied.

Going to add Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to this. It’s still a fun movie,and I always love Same Rockwell.

Yes, it’s great. Probably most of the e-books I’ve read in the past few years have been through Overdrive. The problem is we need to get these resources to rural and other underprivileged kids. I have not seen any rural library system with ebooks or downloadable audiobooks (ebooks being much better). I’m sure there…

To be fair, traffic there has been a shit show for longer then I’ve been alive. It also doesn’t help that the new tourist destination was built without any mass transit access. And drivers from sparsely populated areas don’t understand that we drive like NASCAR here and when you try to slow us down, we will send you…

This is a very similar device to Arthur Ganson’s Machine with Concrete, exhibited in the MIT Museum for over a decade:

I’m holding out for the flame thrower.

Love that song, but this would have been mine:

That thing you do

I mean, it’s War Of The Worlds radio.

Well, and the moon mission isn’t the best example of this, but a launch vehicle is basically an ICBM.  If you can put a guy in orbit you can drop a nuke on anyone, pretty much.  That had a lot to do with why Sputnik freaked us out so badly.

The entire space race from the 60's onward was about beating the commies to the High Ground.

I’m starring this because I loved the shit out of Cryptonomicon. I’ve read it through four times, but haven’t picked it up in years—is it anachronistic now? I hope not...

It is impenetrable.

The way the Shropshire Slasher says “Shropshire Slasher” in that cartoon has stuck in my brain for like 35 years.

One does not simply walk into Disneyland...

Is there a cat inside?

They share one.

They share one.

He’s not a legend

Nah...