That's because China objected to the original round shape, thinking that it looked a little too much like the Rising Sun on the Japanese flag. It was originally going to be round.

In the past soldiers were told that their guns were worth more than their lives, but in the future our clothes will be worth more than our lives...

And I thought they were going to stop at waterboarding...

And the next one to weigh is...

When I run out of ink with a Bic pen I pop the ink cartridge out and use that. It probably works about the same as a chopstick, if not better (at least I think, due to having a sharper edge). But either one should do the trick.

Growing an organic building? Sounds like someone in Puerto Rico just discovered "Earth: The Final Conflict".

The Secret Service does, but I have a feeling that the Tea Party has a few names for what's inside the Beast...

So the first thing the government will do is to make sure that this is illegal if it isn't already, then confiscate it, then improve on the design, and then build thousands more, each with a price tag 100x more than what they built theirs for.

And here I was thinking of someone yelling "You shall not pass!"

I love that, even if it is just a publicity stunt. But it just means that those asshats will go out and buy something even bigger.

Don't forget Darwin!

In New Jersey it would almost need to be an entire bus full of dead bodies for it to be noticed sooner than that.

The Beast

I think it depends on how hard she tapped him...

I was thinking Smurfs...

Camouflage like that serves almost no purpose in the urban landscape. Will Batman be going into the wild?

None of those people are really overweight. I would say that none of them would look as good as they do on the picture on the right if they didn't go through Hell and look like they do on the left. I think they would all look as good as they do on the right even the same day once they showered and had time to groom…

Come on, you have to already be a little nuts to go into outer space.

"Steer right until this reads three one five."

VW has made some large vans with small engines over the years.