Good point. And it goes with out saying that Fox News would have been at DEFCON 1 if President Obama ever even looked at a flag wrong.

Another pro tip: I forgot that you have to stare at these head-on. I looked at the first one for a good to minutes while sitting at about a 30 degree angle and nothing.

That thing you thought you saw in the new Dark Phoenix trailer earlier this week? Yeah, that happened.

Hot Take: she’s not that attractive. At least as not as much as she thinks she is.

Disclaimer / confession: I’ve read more than one book on the JFK assassination. There’s usually a nugget or two of solid information, things that you didn’t know, mixed in with the wackiness. Harmless, basically.

Came here to say the same: most of the measures described are more or less standard practices for any workplace dealing with trade secrets. I work in boring old oil/gas/petrochemicals and this sounds par for the course.

FTFY

Interesting casting: not once did I watch the recent Sopranos binge on HBO2 and think, “now that’s who those new Avatar sequels need!”

What’s sad is I can remember when Whitlock was the voice of reason on the old “Sports Reporters” show. Every once in a while, he’d say something perfectly logical, but would cause Albom to stare off into space, Bob Ryan to start sputtering, and Lupica to turn absolutely beet red. Usually about baseball.  Fun times.

In a way, that... maybe makes it worse? “What a swell photo of my buddies! Let me capture it for posterity in the yearbook!”

A comic based on a theme park based on a movie... isn’t this how SkyNet became self-aware?

I mean, WTF possesses a grown man to (a) have opinions on semen, and (b) feel the need to share said opinions?

I mean I liked DiNozzo, too, and all, but in reality even 10% of what he pulled on the show would be grounds for dismissal in any real-world job.  (One would hope, at least.)

As a fellow child of the 70s/80s I’ve probably seen The Gauntlet more times than would be recommended (thanks NBC reruns!).

Captain Marvel pulses with stellar energy on a new poster, released ahead of tonight’s trailer.

I seem to recall watching (and taping) the trailer on a 30-minute show devoted to trailers. Of course they saved Phantom Menace for last — “oh by the way, while we’ve got some time left, here’s something you might be interested in” — JUST PLAY IT YOU HEARTLESS B*STARDS.

That teaser poster was pretty awesome, too.  A lot of promise and and foreboding in a single image.

Preach. So far all we’ve heard is Wendig’s side. I’m pretty sure if I weren’t so lazy I could search this here io9 and find hundreds of comments about Aftermath being one of the worst novels in existence, Star Wars or otherwise, but now this comic is turning into one of the great lost works of the 21st century.

Plus, I fear the Hammock District is a ghost town thanks to Amazon.