Dangerous little buggers, but it's not like they're being subtle about their scary ass poisonous nature, is it? Check out these blue rings! Watch as I darken them so they stand out - this means I am annoyed, and you should definitely leave now.

All they need to do now is to find a way to hold this, oh, let's say seven years ago, and people will actually care about it.

The Tories even had the chance to undo the error but decided not to spend the money, as though an ineffective carrier for slightly cheaper is somehow better than an effective one.

Some of the problems with Kickstarter for video games is that consumers are used to the pre-order system, and many of them think that they are preordering when they pledge their money. They're not - they're giving some money to someone to allow them to try to make the thing they've described. I think people need to be…

Got a 20mm cannon too - although there was some discussion on whether the RAF would actually use it, or just kind of have it in the plane but not put ammo in there or service it or fire it (removing it would affect the handling characteristics). Then I think they realised that was stupid, so now they're all "dakka…

It's never going to fit the metre though. I mean:

The really worrying thing is that we're not just talking about America's ramshackle, just-about-good-enough-most-of-the-time, power grid: even the power grids of countries with actual planning and oversight aren't designed or properly hardened to withstand such an event.

The Zuiderzee is probably why the North Sea has its name. It's not North of Britain; the name came to us from the Dutch, who probably named it in contrast to the Zuiderzee. The fact we use their name for it is a clue to what a dominant naval power the Dutch were at one point - we tend to remember the British Navy of…

You don't have to outrun something if you can outlast it, and bipedalism, once you get the hang of it, is a pretty efficient way to run down a large mammal; the earlier hominids more likely got the protein to grow their resource-intensive big brains by scavenging kills and smashing long bones with rocks to get marrow.

Conan the Barbarian is the only film I've seen where someone reads out their character sheet on introduction: "I am Subotai: thief, and archer". (He's obviously a dual-class).

They don't need to have travelled the same distance when they meet. They just need to meet - and they can't avoid meeting since one starts from the top of the path and the other starts from the bottom. When they meet it's the same time for both of them (since they both start walking at 7) and when they meet they are…

Having had time to think about it, this is the same conclusion I came to. They can't reach their destination without passing each other, and it doesn't matter where on the path they are, or how much time has passed, when this occurs. The same amount of time will have passed for both of them when it happens, because…

But that doesn't mean both "twins" reached that point at the same time in their day.

Aha! That explains my confusion. Wouldn't sterility have worked just as well for him though, perhaps even better? He could have Children-of-Men'd the world much less noticeably than killing everyone, and with a better chance of getting people in redoubts like Cheyenne Mountain. Maybe 'kill everyone' just seems more…

That's a very well-turned description - is "too little of real value won at far too high a cost" your own phrase? I rather like it. I'd argue that Smiley does eventually get rid of the Soviet plant inside the circus, clean up the mess and rebuild the agency, and eventually defeat his counterpart Karla. He's deeply…

Sam Rockwell just kills it.

It's also an important historical artefact, being as it is the only non-terrible Renny Harlin movie.

On the other hand, Sidney Poitier is Sidney Poitier.

So you're saying you're not back.

I do love his lines, and his delivery of them. I was under the impression the point of the flowers was that they caused sterility in humans, but maybe it was genocide - either way Drax was planning on keeping his breeding stock in space while he sterilised the human race, then restocking the Earth with his…