These look...like a segment in very episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, described (on Gawker) here: http://tinyurl.com/lrjhwn7

Not a movie, but the Star Trek episode 'A Taste of Armageddon,' in which "... two planets have learned to avoid the complete devastation of war because computers are used. When a "hit" is scored by one of the planets, the people declared "dead" willingly walk into antimatter chambers and are vaporized."

ding, ding, ding, we have a winner....

Damn—this was in my inbox this morning:

"...what was going through the Viper's head during that scene."

Where's the dog? Max's Australian Cattle Dog was one of the best parts of 'The Road Warrior.' (guess what kind of breed I have....)

Excellent choice. One of the most striking opening sequences ever filmed.

'bout damn time somebody sang the praises of commando. In the past 40 years, I've probably worn underwear (briefs—boxers are just wrong) three times.

I was 12. Introverted, hard core sci-fi geek. My family didn't have a TV at the time, so we borrowed our neighbor's 12" black and white to watch Neil Armstrong. I remember thinking that we were on our way into the future—and I've been waiting for that dream to come true ever since.

You could have Buddy Hackett make it....

Ethel Merman slipping on a banana peel was a better stunt than anything Bay has done.

Sorry, but you're wrong—IAMMMMW is total genius. The cast, the cameos, the stunts.

"HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL…

Perhaps not exactly a mind-control machine, but Larry Niven's Tasp, a device that remotely stimulates the pleasure center of another's brain, (allowing you to "make someone else's day") always sounded interesting. Pierson's Puppeteers often had Tasps surgically implanted in one of their necks, to provide them with a…

and then she'd have wiggled her nose and I'd have been a frog...

Elizabeth Montgomery in a tight leotard? I'd have watched the hell out of her!

"11:13 PM (AKDT) Sunset in Talkeetna, AK."

Yes, we share flags...was at UAF while Dan was working on this book; have a signed copy around the house somewhere.

Dan O'Neill wrote "The Firecracker Boys," a fascinating examination of Project Chariot and its potential effects on the land and people of the northwest coast of Alaska, along with the efforts of the local Inupiaq to prevent it from happening. Excellent read on this subject.

Mia, from the TV show 'Hit & Miss.' From the IMDb synopsis: " Chloë Sevigny as Mia, a contract killer with a secret: she's a transgender woman. Mia's life is sent into a tailspin when she receives a letter from an ex-girlfriend dying from cancer revealing that Mia fathered a son eleven years ago. Faced with a…