Or Jessica Rabbit.

I prefer hypnotoads. Everyone loves Hypnotoad.

I should probably abstain from this, on the basis that my greatest temptation would be to cast every actor I absolutely hate as The Blob. Simultaneously.

The heck? I have a small stack of books upstairs that were written by one of the nominees for "Best Fan Writer". I'm very curious about how that works.

It's still part of the package, even if it is a lesser part.

And yet when Gawker implements a new layout that borks the experience, all other Gawker-family websites _also_ implement a new layout that borks the experience, because they don't have a choice. Well, short of seceding and trying to figure out how to manage the site coding on their own, which I think only one site…

They called it global warming, but that turned out to be too easy to disprove. But try to disprove "climate change" when it's been happening on a consistent basis since long before humans began walking the planet, and it should be obvious why someone would want to use it as a political catchphrase. It's the…

Not all shark-bite victims die. Some just lose limbs, or even just hunks of flesh. And some just lose blood and have a permanent chomp pattern stitched into their skin. I'm guessing hippo-bite victims are a lot less likely to survive, as hippos really do want you _dead_, where sharks generally just mix us up with…

Jacob was socially underdeveloped. I mean, he only really knew two people growing up, which doesn't sufficiently prepare you to potentially interact with every other person in the world as an adult.

That's actually been questioned in recent years. There is evidence that hippos are actually practicing omnivores. I can't remember for sure, but I think part of that came from witnessing hippos engaged in carrion consumption, which is clearly _not_ about protecting territory.

Think of it as an extremely stocky horse, with a mouth that's big enough to use as an easy-chair. Though I would _not_ suggest actually trying that out.

Fun fact: More people are killed each year by hippos than by sharks. Well, maybe not so fun for the hippo victims...but at least the shark victims can brag that they were attacked by something cool.

Okay, it turns out DCC is a trademark of the National Model Railroad Association, and it stands for Digital Command Control. You can read about it here:

I was practically parked, as was she. My light had just turned red, and she was waiting to make a left turn from my right. Otherwise I would have been paying more attention to the car and not the driver.

Having only been familiar with the TV series and the one short story in Legends (which deals with Baelor, so doesn't have much to do with the current generation), my impression was that the lack of an answer to Jon's question was the point of the question. The fact that he couldn't find a way to fit in with the…

I had the impression that what made Ben go off the deep end was that he _wasn't_ a great leader, and that he'd felt jilted by the fact that Jacob would talk to pretty much anyone but hadn't given Ben a face-to-face at any point in his entire life. The implication seemed to be that he was a great Number Two to Hurley…

The same law that makes it illegal to interfere with cel phone bandwidth also makes it legal to do so within your own home. This is what makes it legal to set up an internet-based signal switcher for your own cel phone. Step outside the house, use the carrier signal and expend minutes and data quota. Step inside,…

If he'd had a heart attack, the bus driver would have been able to call it in to dispatch over the radio.

You didn't need a price-checking app. All you had to do was look at a $25 basic DVD to know it was overpriced, along with pretty much every other DVD in the building. For books you could always peel up the Borders barcode to look at the MSRP printed right on the book underneath it to see if they'd jacked the price…