True. And maybe that means it's time for something new and less inhuman.

That's what makes this somewhat worrisome to me, really- it seems as though that's becoming less and less obscured from the public at large. As though corporations feel they have nothing to fear anymore, and realize how easy it is to buy judgments in their favor. There isn't even a conspiratorial aspect to it anymore-…

So "I don't even go on the Internet!" is the new "I don't even own a television!" for insufferable people.

Exactly what I thought. Internet began to suck in the last years, and it continues to suck even more. I know, I'm on the internet right now, saying this. But it is true.

I'm crossing my fingers for net neutrality to prevail. But it's becoming harder and harder to maintain positivity while watching the world tear itself apart over cash in a general and extremely shortsighted way over every little thing that can have a price-tag affixed to it. I feel like nobody's even trying to pretend…

I think we're all down for intellectual debate, fella. It just always gets reduced to: "Look at all this evidence that every climate scientist in the world gets behind." "APPEAL TO AUTHORITY!" And repeat.

Repeating what I just wrote in response to someone else who sees this through a political prism...

Wait, wait, wait. The Doomsday Clock Letter is the newest delivery mechanism for the climate change propaganda?

Cops: Get out of the tree

That agency could have had a much cooler acronym if they simply rearrange the words: Agency for Japanese Aerospace Exploration (AJAX). Fuckin AJAX.

So one of the top three ways to combat a nuclear apocalypse is to combat climate change...really? This sounds inflammatory and ridiculous. Short of Iran or a terrorist organization getting a bomb we're just about as far from nuclear war now than at any point since the nuke was invented...

Seppuku Type R.

So what you're saying is that the U.S. has triumphed in the game of chicken I play with my roommates: let the junk pile up and wait to see who says "fuck it" and actually does something about it first.

Nice concept and Im sure it is necessary to implement this sooner than later. But I would hope that they contribute similar efforts on the Pacific ocean plastic gyre.

Disturbingly, Shukman explains that the operating theater is "not air-conditioned; nor is it particularly clean. Flies buzz around the pig's head."

"The team can do two [transplants] a [day], and [acheive]"

This is a great idea, but only two measures in common time at 100 BPM on endless loop pretty severely limits the potential of this little toy. Most music boxes can play an entire tune, but this one is so short and goes by so quickly that you'd be lucky to manage anything that wouldn't get really, really annoying…

This commenting system sucks!

Yeah about religious types. I am quite religious and I hold evolution as a fact.

Well, mostly it's all about the subjective or, so the spiritually inclined lurkers on IO9 all so often keep telling me. But basically: