I find the Cryptonomicon Turing delightfully charming in that "I AM OUT HERE WAAAAY PAST ANYTHING YOUR BRAIN CAN DO" sort of neverland with Waterhouse.

Aww! The crowdhacking.com blog finally died. (speaking of humans-in-crowds)

There's a feedback loop, too, where designers want to evoke 'modern' design, and so they mimic fictional 'modern' homes, and then the designers for fictional homes look at what contemporary 'modern' design does.

There's an excellent documentary about some of the folks who were living in a train tunnel in Manhattan: "Dark Days"

No mention of the USS Indianapolis, the last US Navy vessel to be lost in combat in WWII? The bodycount wasn't as high as some of these, but the ordeal of the survivors was pretty devastating.

Very cool. I know someone who did a stint as support staff for them, and the whole experiment sounds wackily exciting. I'm glad to hear they're getting some solid excellent results.

I find pictures of undersea wrecks - particularly those of submarines - to be incredibly creepy.

That's often how I think about parking tickets - if I'm driving somewhere and parking in a garage costs me $X, and parking in a not-legal-but-not-unsafe (ie not blocking fire hydrants or fire lanes or something that's sociopathic, just, say, parking in a resident spot) costs me $Y, if the cost and convenience of Y are…

So many questions! Does it show up in other sterile environments? (Is there a similar sort of clean room in Baikonur?) Could it be something that exists elsewhere/everywhere but is very rare or short-lived in other environments because it gets eaten or out-competed or something, but in these sterile environments…

YES YES YES THIS YES.

Are there plausible/confirmed instances of any soviet manned craft leaving earth orbit? I'm not aware of any.

Wow. That is a semitic nose on that Uncle Sam. I'M SURE IT'S JUST A COINCIDENCE!

Wow. I finally watched this after letting it mature on my TiVo for months.

If you want majestic weirdness, you have to go for "Sleep No More", which is kind of like walking through someone else's dream of the Scottish play.

My main problem with this is that, well, even though SHIELD are the good guys, SHIELD are kind of the bad guys.

Ah, thank you. I saw the mediagenic headline earlier today and was all "WAT?" but hadn't had a chance to dig into it. yay io9, bringing the bucket of cold water where it's needed.

I thought this was just a straight-up thermodynamics question, and how much energy you lost (which translates to how cooler things get) over time - the speed of cooling - was related to the difference in temperature between the warm things and cool things.

Because when you have to list "Next of Kin" on a hospital intake form, "spouse" carries a lot more weight than "person I'm shacked up with".

I know! Carnivale was weird and awesome, and he was great as the crazy Father Coughlin analogue.