Mercator himself didn't even use it for general use.

It was on i09 that I discovered that Spooks is called MI5 in other quarters.

We are procedurally generated.

I was thinking about this the other day, and the answer came to me: Corporate logos. They're *everywhere* — on buildings, on documents, on our clothing and toys. Some of them make no sense out of context. The most obvious explanation is that they're religious symbols for a dizzyingly-wide pantheon of gods. …

I guess they could just use this technology already existing:

First up on the docket, when does the milk go in?

Lynn Sherr – Ride's friend, and author of the recently published biography on the late astronaut – stopped by the Colbert Report to talk about Ride's role as a feminist, scientist, and role model.

It needs *at the very least* a GoT-sized budget.

Something about astronauts hurtling through space at tens of thousands of meters per second...while wearing Hawaiian Shirts and cargo shorts...It just makes me proud to be a human being.

"And I thought they smelled bad on the outside"

Testing footage:

Marmite's pretty awful. Vegemite, on the other hand, is AWESOME. Try the experiment again, this time with Vegemite

ah crap that's what I ment

It really is incredible. I specialize in disasters, particularly catastrophic-scale landslides. Even within the context of someone who regularly investigates multi-million cubic meter behemoths with improbably long runout distances, lahars and pyroclastic flows scare me. They are just so big, so fast, and so mobile…

Now THIS is the road to awe!

Fire guidance system

wow so they can get to the moon faster than I could get to California

Agreed. If they just make it Reds vs. Greens vs. Corporations without getting into the ideology, it won't be very good.

This is the book I'm most looking forward to reading. (Cannot think about Doors of Stone, must not give in to the Rothfuss) But man, that gender thing was hard to get my head around. By the end of the book I was fully on board. The gender language helped the characters feel foreign, and forced me to stop caring about…