I had an anthro professor who got into an “I’m with campus security. Is there a problem here?”-worthy screaming match with a student about which technology was oldest: fire, or “the outdoor-door” (meaning, any entrance to any sort of shelter from the elements). Prof’s argument was that methods of creating fire are a…

People who think Oregon Trail was hard were playing it wrong. My strategy was to start as a banker and run my party as fast as possible on as few rations as possible. The members of my party were named 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (or sometimes q, w, e, r, and t). I rarely bothered hunting or trading, and if somebody died we’d…

I spent the late 80s and early ‘90s paging through old issues of Byte and Compute! looking at ads and praise for M.U.L.E. Minutes into finally getting my hands on a copy I decided it was boring.

Patrick McGoohan and Leo McKern as Prospero and Roger Bacon (respectively) from The Face in the Frost.

The late Patrick McGoohan as Dumbledore.

Brain Donors-era Mel Smith as Dirk Gently. Unfortunately, its 23 years too late, and he’s two years too dead.

Ultimately, I got (most of) the time I asked for, and she got demoted for gross incompetence, so it all worked out.

“Yeah, the vacation you carried over for your wedding and honeymoon? I need you to shorten that. Your vacation now starts on your wedding day, and ends the day you arrive in Italy. Congratulations! Oh, also, you’ll lose the carryover hours.”

I want very badly for the BBC to do a miniseries of each of Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next novels.

And hey, don’t forget that Nick Offerman is a big Call of Cthulhu fan...

Re: Stine being funny IRL, I assume that most of Stine’s fans don’t realize that he started out as a humorist in the late ‘60s, and settled into a career as an author of funny books for children during the ‘70s. The public library had copies of a lot of his early works, including How to Be Funny, The Absurdly Silly…

Bellairs started a sequel but didn’t finish it. The surviving fragment of The Dolphin Cross is much darker and much weirder than Face, introduces a truly sinister villain, and begins to really flesh out the universe, but it stops just as it starts to get going. I’d give someone else’s legs for the completed book.

Awww man... Facebook doesn’t italicize words in headlines, so I thought this was going to be a juicy expose of Lars Von Trier’s nymphomania.

Dark Star is a great favorite of mine. I can see why it's not more popular (because it's cheap, mostly), but it's just so damn entertaining!

I would definitely be down to watch a GoT/GoT crossover.

Really? I wouldn't have thought so, but I was pretty well primed by my friends to enjoy Red Dwarf by the time I finally watched it.

Am I ro only one who misread the headline and wondered when the brontosaurus was declared not to be extinct anymore?

I keep trying hard to get people to watch Hyperdrive, and they keep missing out! Their loss!

You could discuss the difference between the metric buttload and the imperial buttload.

I use an extension called User-Agent Switcher, which does exactly what it sounds like. Other people tell me that it works most (not all) of the time, but the only site that has given me trouble is my employer's extranet.

I use an extension called User-Agent Switcher, which does exactly what it sounds like. Other people tell me that it…