Should we assume this post was not written by GawkerBot io9.Dvorsky?

I adore this guy and his imagination and spirit. Sacks wrote this touching remark about death:

Shaw isn't dead; we saw her (recovering) in a bed, with Greer nearby.

Once the war between AIs started to escalate in earnest and Samaritan had assembled an army or worker/assassins, it has to accelerate towards a denouement. Neither side is going to pause as time is always of the essence, especially in all out war. Thus, The Machine better well gets is assets in gear ASAP. Or else…

Wonder if the enormous cost of building this sucker, which might well exceed $1 Trillion over the decade, will cause the Kingdom to raise the price of petroleum.

How about a cat-proof fence? A century ago it worked so well with rabbits.

he's way too old — who'd hire him today?

So, scene we can have two Coles in one scene, it's possible that we can have an arbitrarily large numbers of Cole in a scene. Tatiana Maslany-style. Makes me wonder wheether Aaron Stanford can dance?

You read Investor's Business Daily? Really?

Better Faux than Foe.

I am enjoying the show, but wish they'd visit more years than the present and 2043. Maybe the cost of sets is why they're limited to just these two eras. Time travel to just one era is rather uninspired.

You should really start covering Fortitude. It's being broadcast on Sky in the UK and on Pivot, the US cable network. Last night's episode was the first of ten episodes.

Since languages continually evolve, how long might it take for today's "English" to appear as largely undecipherable as Old English does to most readers today. In other words, Future English may be, will probably be, quite different from today's.

Je suis ET.

So, compared with the way things are done in Europe and down-under, these shows are rushed through a way too-hectic process, with a resulting quality that often shows the haste. The funding in Europe is different, and the biz models of networks are often quite different.

Thanks for the reminder. I'll bring my darkest goggles and lots of that Infinity SPF Sunscreen.

Cool — does a shiny twinkly ball drop at Midnight? I'd like to be there.

460 feet of silk for one moth does not seem an especially efficient use of energy and time. surely, there's a lesser effort that will do.

I love it, that 40 years on, people are still quoting Gravity's Rainbow.

He looks exactly like a guy who was sitting in the balcony of St Marks Lutheran Church for last night's concert with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. Except the sweater was a brighter red.