Mr. Scalzi, I very much enjoyed Redshirts in audiobook form - Wil Wheaton does a fine job.

I second ampersands' comment here. Accuracy in terms is key, particularly when discussing this kind of subject matter.

Because octopuses are introverts. ;)

I wonder why, since you're clearly so open and welcoming to the idea.

AWESOME.

Something that I've been noticing more and more, and I'm not sure if it's just me, is that people with unusual physical conditions or injuries are feeling more free to be open about them, and that the cruel "othering" backlash that you'd think would happen gets stomped out pretty fiercely. Maybe it's just on the…

Take that, supervisor and co-workers who make fun of my cubicle!

I shall! And I'll have another.

Sure, that's true. If by "worst" you mean "OMFG that was awesome!" XD

Oh, lookee. An article about breasts. This picture is my surprised face when I saw who wrote it.

Hey, Dr. Lizardo - isn't Kinja teh awesome, being so difficult to use that no one bothers to check to see if anyone else told you that this was a movie reference? ;)

I think that Lauren was referring to the phylum Mollusca, a class of which is Cephalopoda.

Indeed, Sherlock Holmes with mice is one of my favorite Disney movies ever. ;)

NO.

I don't know if that's accurate. There are biological differences between male and female brains - that's beyond dispute. However, the extent to which those differences dictate general or "gender-typical" behavior is something that is still being researched.

I think the people who train to participate are the only ones who get to define it.

I do care. But I'm not missing out. Don't have a peen.

Well, Mars is the RED planet, after all.

Rather than focusing all their time and attention trying to find benefits to male circumcision to justify this outdated religious/cultural practice, perhaps those resources could be better spent raising awareness of the importance of hygiene and knowledge of STIs.

So what this title really should have been was "17 Million Slave Leias and One or Two Other Costumes."