I don't know that I agree, at least not completely. In the movie, Jack is complicit in his own descent into madness. It is presented to him by supernatural forces to a greater degree than I recall it being in the book (which, admittedly, I last read a very long time ago), but there is no question that he embraces and…

Sir, the peasants are revolting.

I'm not sure that "Militarizing" these buildings is exactly what they are advocating. It's more a question of securing, since many of these features could be used by police or even ordinary security guards doing routine every-day anti-theft or crowd control work. And anyway, there is a very long history of this sort…

It's not reading, but for a good cheer-up, I listen to my tapes of the original BBC radio version of Hitchhiker's Guide. It is slightly better than the subsequent books and infinitely better than the later TV show and movie.

Gene Hunt. He's stolen the show in TWO separate series, Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, and I am still not tired of him.

Should Trek and Wars cross over? No, never ever ever. Starting with the fact that one is set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away and the other, well, isn't. The temporal and spatial problems of having them meet would defy even the most preposterous plot twisting mechanisms of either universe.

People will get tired of "cyber" the same way they got tired of "e-anything" after the 1990s. Other than the occasional return of "e-commerce," maybe the odd "e-book," the E has largely dropped out of use (e-money? e-shopping? only your grandmother says that anymore) as the E became more and more a part of everyday…

The picture from Dune was a poor choice. That movie didn't suffer from being overly long, but rather overly sucky. It would have been a terrible movie had it been one hour, two hours or 12 hours. It would have been a terrible movie and utterly impossible to sit through if it had been compressed to a mere 8 seconds. It…

Could be. I like Broccoli and Cauliflower, but Cabbage and I have a bit of an off and on relationship, though I more tolerant as I get older. Which also fits with your observation, since I know taste and smell become a bit flatter as we get older.

To each his own, but I have been treated to some very fine fresh recipes prepared by excellent cooks. That I didn't like at all, with one notable and never repeated exception.

Brussels Sprouts look even yuckier magnified 110 times.

29) Question: Why the fuck do you keep putting "quotation" marks around "words" when they are not in fact "Quotes?"

Darth Vader was super awesome, at least until Episodes I-III came out and revealed his pre-helmeted identity as a pouty loser emotionally arrested somewhere in his mid-teens. Suddenly, his later actions came off not so much as majestically terrifying, but rather as the saddest revenge fantasies of a pimply-faced pizza…

The "These movies all pretty much sucked" theory seems the most plausible to me. The hits = pretty good movies. The flops, at least the ones on this list I was unlucky enough to see = suck-o.

Fascinating article and quite thought provoking. And yet the fact remains that if you stuff yourself with a steady diet of cheeseburgers (or my personal vice - chicken wings and beer) you will gain weight when compared with a more balanced and portion-controlled diet. So the Berryeby may well be right that there is…

I think Joss must have missed a major point of the series, which was to pay tribute to the pulpy serial movies of yesteryear. It wasn't an accident that it ended as a cliffhanger - by that point, Lucas had decided to play up the Episode IV - V -VI business. The original Star Wars (quickly rechristened Episode IV) had…

At my age, Matthew, I'd settle for a beer and an early bedtime.

Oh, God, I HAD a bunch of these. Way to date me, io9. Now I am off to contemplate my own mortality.

Does including a '72 Charger really help in recruiting the younger generation?

In high school I never game much thought to Bill Simmons. My friends and I just assumed he was some kid we didn't know. After I graduated from college, I continued not to think much about him because, after all, I had never heard of the dude. But that all changed today, when I read a portion of an essay which was…