To be honest, after reading this I want to know when Girl Scouts will allow boys to join. Their organization sounds a lot better to me.

Huh? That's not short. Just a bit shorter. By the time he returns to set in summer it'll be as long as in the other pic. *shrugs* Jon of course isn't dead. Martin isn't an idiot.

It does look gorgeous. But it also look like the same boring fairytale I've seen over and over.

Strangely I love Foundation but I also feel Asimov writes good, interesting characters.

I would argue that our school systems currently teach equally incorrect versions of history in order to perpetuate certain ingrained national mythologies and to discourage unpopular ideas.

So to me the planet depicted here is definitely not earth, but maybe an early outpost? My feeling is that the craft landed thousands of years ago when the people were still very much primitive. The rocket served as shelter and object of worship, and when those first astronauts were picked up, the antiquated rockets…

I was going to say that the launch pad would be under 30 feet of water due to global warming, but if enough time has passed in a no-tech future, the water could have gone back down.

Guy, Jezebel has invaded all of Gawker, even Kotaku. You may as well accept that women are equal and are entitled to equal representation and opinion and media now.

"47% of Comics Readers Are Female, So They Clearly Don't Have Any Real Problems With This Stuff"

No word on what the wolves have planned for their next caper.

Point of fact: Utnapishtim and Atrahasis have never been together in the same room.

Utnapishtim is consulting his IP lawyers.

Frankly, I don't know why Hermoine would marry either of them. I'm probably going to get flame-cursed for saying this, but even by the standards of self-absorbed teenage boys they're both arseholes to her. Now, Neville — smart, reliable, good-natured, level-headed in a crisis, brave but not rash, and not terminally…

There was a 'mini-ice age' in a range from about the 12th century to the mid 19th too. Massive starvation and death from exposure in Europe and the drought caused end of the Anasazi people of the south western Americas are linked to it as well.

Interestingly, I picked up and read the entire LotR trilogy over the course of a single weekend back about 9 years ago. It was very enjoyable. I never really went back to it, though. It's a story you can 'get' right up front and doesn't leave much to chew on after its conclusion. On the flip, I've read through GRRM's…

900 years old and saved the universe more times than anyone can count, using nothing but his wits, and a power tool.