Based on this video it's going to be Gossip Girl meets Mortal Kombat with lighting from Smallville. Points deducted for the one liners: "They thought wrong." and "What happened to you?" "A lot." Both delivered in the mandatory 3-day stubbled throat-gargle of would-be action heros. I'm sick and tired of these…

Not the point, but those are way hotter than the Red Sonja lookalikes.

@ Grglstr: It had better! If they cast Rhona Mitra again, I'll just quit and join the Republic. (replying is not working again)

Exactly, bad guys never say anything worth hearing in action movies. On the other hand… neither do the heroes usually.

Are you saying that America is or isn't a patriarchal and misogynist society?

I think you are right in that it's easier to switch the goal posts but that only works some of the time. Because of existing stereotypes "Who would make a better employee/executive?" would statistically most likely result in a male candidate. That's why there needs to be an aggressively vocal feminist movement to…

"There are such quantifiable things as means and medians and averages, and when properly processed, the output of that data equals... what? If not a stereotype, then what's the RIGHT word for something that all rational people do with no malice towards anyone? "

This post could as well be about evolutionary psychology. And I realise I'm stereotyping but I don't really think I need to have read the short story you are commenting on because you wrote something far more universal.

I can't believe nobody's said this yet, but you'd need some very special speakers to go below 20 Hz… Regular subwoofers don't really deliver. Plus the sound waves are so long that the room has to be fairly big for them to fit in it.

English as a 2nd or similar language. And yes, I know we are the majority, I was really agreeing with you but I guess I should remember that there are millions of crazy people on the internet who might say stuff like this and actually mean it.

"Touche. If this were a physics story, I'd be all over everyone that dismissed as I have here with this neuroscience story.

Yeah, but how many non-native english speaking people can there be that actually use technology? It's such a small minority in the mainstream tech audience…

Wow, they still let those X-Men 1st class guys write stuff? I mean when someone messes up that bad behind the wheel of a car, they take away his licence and give him a ticket.

But if that's his hand and his head, won't it become a problem in the long run?

I'm a heterosexual male and this is really off-putting. They're not reaching out to an audience, they're reaching out to a poorly made market research.

The sales of Catwoman went up because all the bad reviews also said the main character was Catwoman's boobs. There's a connection between boobs and short-term sales increases. After a few issues sales will start to wane, but the initial effect will have made the market analysts happy that boobs = sales. Longevity…

Just read the story and I have to say it went just like I thought right until the end. But Le Guin takes a well trod path and takes it just a bit further. Liked the story but it was definitely not new.

Oh, that's in the Changing Planes collection, I really need to finish that book. Not the most consistent of Le Guin's short story collections but has a lot of gems as usual.

That clip from The Incredible Hulk just proves one thing – you don't match models with actors in a movie and then expect chemistry. Replace Liv Tyler and the scene is still bad but the performance suddenly works. I don't get why Edward Norton is not one of the A-list actors.

Leslie Winkle NEEDS to get a spinoff series!