Burt Gummer once called himself a "masterpiece of self destruction."

The remains of Scott's party wasn't discovered until eight months after their deaths. They were found in November of 1912, Amundsen learned of it in February of 1913, well after his return.

I accept as absolute truth the story that Amundsen was at home, in the bath when he learned of Scott's fate, and that he stood and cried out, "He beat me!", because he knew it would be Scott who was remembered.

Title correction, Rob: It isn't The Computer. It's Friend Computer.

In high school, I made a snap decision to jokingly lie about my national origins, and told someone I was British, but raised in the US. Somehow that made it all around the school, and for some silly reason I kept maintaining the story.

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At this point, I imagine that any changes to GoT are made strictly because they know they're going to outpace the books, so they're setting up the pieces for their own ending.

Actually, he's totally a doctor now: http://www.huffingtonpsst.com/2014/09/01/dr-…

I can think of an easy way to bring Shatner in: make the next film about the mirror universe, and let him be the villain. Rather than Spock traveling back, it will Emperor Tiberius. He could even grow a goatee.

I don't know about others, but I gave The Event and Flash Forward a few episodes each before dropping them. My decision was simple, and I hope I'm not alone: I'm not interested in another show like Lost, that will meander through the plot for several seasons trying to use a big mystery as a plot device.

A couple days ago I finished Echopraxia, by Peter Watts. The followup to Blindsight, it shows events occurring roughly simultaneously with those in the first work, though divided by such a vast distance as to be disconnected. Much more into the free will thing, near-post-humans, the Vampire subspecies. The flow of…

But the world is kind of crapspackle at the moment. Either they're ahead of the curve, or it doesn't always hold true.

That's actually...not terrible.

While I loathed I am Legend, I'd argue that it doesn't qualify as a remake any more than the current Hobbit trilogy is a remake of the original animated film: they're both just new versions of a written work.

It's slightly larger than a standard Rubik's Cube, but close enough that you could make your own: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Cardboa…

My theory is, it's a result of legacy code, written when Terminators were intended to serve under humans. Something to let their controllers drop in and see what the Terminator was seeing, including that information.

It's one of those odd discussions that I have no real solid opinion about. For the most part, I think people should be able to name things they control as they please. The guy who developed gif says soft g, it's a jif, whatever. But, sometimes, someone wants to apply a label that's clearly inaccurate, like the…

I don't know about the Star Trek example. They clearly do have such communication, and I'm picturing emailing someone ten feet away from you.

A lot of the anachronisms of that film were purposeful.

It's all part of Hollywood's liberal agenda to use autism to create a new race of savants who outnumber baseline humans so we can film a Rain Man sequel without being accused of mocking a disabled minority.