BREAKING NEWS: AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER SHOOTS BUSHES, MOUNTAINS. WORLD SHOCKED.

I spent a lot of my time growing up fighting in martial arts tournaments and I'm nearsighted. Not a lot, but enough that everything's a little bit blurry. When I had to learn to unfocus my eyes a little to fight, I got used to it very quickly. It's actually a very interesting thing - you think you have to focus on…

It's fun until you have to listen to sports radio. Then, trying to pick out poor Jason's 15dB words between the swaggering, 90dB jackhammering yobbing of the constantly interrupting announcers kind of grates.

I find it extremely unlikely that an adult rhesus monkey knows what a truck is, and can project that knowledge onto his interactions with lil' Rhesus Jr.

Because we are the heroes we've been looking for...or, at least, the chance to be those heroes.

I always thought the basic concepts were a little weird.

Aren't we pretending those books don't exist? I certainly am.

I will never, never get used to "psionic superman". It will always feel dumb to me.

I always wondered who staffed those phones.

You should know that Gary is actually a little bit gimmicky. I mean, it's the best portrayal of a very real and often difficult disorder that you're going to see on fictional television. But it's still not the real deal. So it's not like by watching Gary you're going to get insight into the real condition.

Next season we'll see Donald Sutherland's new show "Jerk", about a really socially awkward kid who's just kind of a dick, and the father who keeps trying to tell him that he doesn't actually have "low-level Asperger's".

Haha my favourite part is the Ra.One trailer, where you're like "YEAH okay computers, cars flipping. Great hollywood holiday movie", and then the trailer goes "THIS DWIALI" and you think "yeah Diw—what? Diwali?" And then you remember that it's not a western movie at all, it just resembles one exactly.

Well, this bodes well for my space opera epic "Star Balls: The Kickening"

"It's rare that you have a relatable character," says Sheril Kirshenbaum, a research associate at the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. That's why James Cameron created Avatar's xenobotanist, Grace.

I feel bad for Grimm, but it's really uninteresting. I watched my first episode yesterday. It's almost exactly a Supernatural remake, and there's no way it can survive.

You know, it's rather offensive when the first thing somebody says is "oh you don't like this, you must be STUPID". FYI I have a graduate degree in arts, so it's a safe bet I like words.

Yeah there's a strong right-winginess in this book. Mostly about gun control, and how it's the worst. And how only American militias can fight terrorism.

Hey I love the infodumps. I love Greg Egan books. And I'm totally fine with infodumps, although in this book it seems to have taken the form of excessive description of landscapes and settings.

See this was my FIRST, EVER Neal Stephenson and it basically read as a Michael Chricton novel.

Oh my lord, I was actually just about to offer to write a review for io9 in my actual job as an actual journalist/reviewer.