This is just good advice period. There is no nice way to say it. Pre-ordering things - especially tech items - is for morons. But hey - if someone really wants to give a big, faceless company a short term interest-free loan then you just go right ahead. Derp.

No hate here. It's good advice. As a general rule of thumb it is absolute idiocy to pre-order ANYTHING. Period. Full stop. I'm not in the habit of giving interest-free loans. You'd have to give me an awfully compelling reason to pre-order something. I don't care how wonderful you think a product might be. You…

Oh yeah - and the mask... It is a custom leather mask sold on Esty. I bonded black muslin on the back (you can see through it) to get rid of the eyes, because IMO a good mask gets rid of the eyes. Boom. Perfect Riddler. Not the crappy New 52 version. :P

It is surprisingly difficult to put together a good Riddler costume. The hat was easy enough as you can buy green Bowlers almost anywhere. But I had to comb a lot of men's clothing realtors in order to find a place that did a good green suit. You can't see them in the picture, but I also got question mark cufflinks…

Looks like an Esty mask, unless I miss my guess? Nice job.

That's some fine costumery. You have mastered the art of cos-fu.

"What runs, but never walks - Murmurs, but never talks - Has a bed, but never sleeps - Has a mouth, but never eats?"

Something like this is FAR more plausible than batteries suddenly, magically being able to jump from holding 0.74 megajules per kilogram to holding the 5+ megajules they need to be truly competitive with gasoline. Good for them.

A 10K solar system that includes all the panels, brackets, batteries, inverters, converters, and labor? This hypothetical 10K system does not exist on planet Earth where human beings have to deal with real-world costs.

Easy to say. Not realistic to do. The maximum theoretically possible level of efficiency for solar to electric conversion is between 75 and 80 percent. Current silica based panels are only 18%. The most exotic and expensive materials on the planet in the best labs mankind can boast have achieved a whopping 25%…

This. Modern mass-market solar panels are already operating at only about 18% efficiency. Transparent ones can only be LESS efficient. Even being generous, we have to assume they will only be maybe 12% efficient or something. Opaque cells are not worth it yet. How could these possibly be economical? And of course…

When it comes to 'subduing' people let's be honest. You mean that you have to dogpile the target, force them to the ground, and then slap on a pair of handcuffs. OR you beat them over the head with a night-stick until they collapse. OR you pull a gun on them and order them to surrender. OR you spray them in the…

I may be mistaken - but at 1:14 is that guy with the pet Kiwi TOM BOMBADIL?

"Pink slime" is a misleading name as well. So are hyperbolic blogs that scream about things being 'soaked in ammonia' and other complete untruths.

1. It isn't soaked. 2. It isn't ammonia. 3. It is approved by the FDA as GRAS (generally recognized as safe). 4. Because Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" and now food has to be processed in a way that is safe, clean, and healthy. This article is a typical drive-by media piece of garbage. Mr. Biddle should be…

I see nothing wrong with any of these phones. Don't like brown? Fine - buy the black, red, or grey one. This article is about as unprofessional as could be. People have all kinds of styles, tastes, likes, and dislikes. Just because one guy doesn't like the color brown does not mean that it isn't a color that a…

Why no mention of the huge albatross they hung around their necks by focusing so much on the over-priced piece of junk called the Volt? They put a lot of eggs in that basket - and it is Typhoid Mary to buyers. Couple that with handing over effective control to the union, and how could they possibly show a profit?

As a professional statistician and CRA, this article contains nothing about their models. There is no information that can be used to determine if they are 'scientific' or absolute junk. All we have to go on is their own statement that the models are biased, the data is incomplete, and that the conclusions are…

Read the article, and you'll see that the use of 'statistics' is this particular study is the equivalent of a juicy fart. They themselves admit, "the models we use are subject to bias", and "data records are too short to quantify absolute probabilities empirically" and "we cannot say that the 2011 Texas drought and…

Repair what damage, specifically? What evidence is there that there is any need - immediate or long term - to relocate "millions of people"? What farmland has become unusable? What proof is there that reducing CO2 emissions - even to zero - would either prevent or substantively alter such events as you are…