A friend of mine had a squirrel chew right through the plastic window screen in her kitchen and help himself to potato chips.

Wait, your missing the big picture. There is money to be made here. Have no friends, but still want to play air hockey? We have just the thing for you. Add a red LED some sound effects and cool Cylon graphics and people would line up to test their skill against the machine. It's all about presentation.

It's a shame polar bear are so expensive. I went at the pet shop to buy one last week, and they told me it would cost me an arm and a leg...

Crom laughs at your Fantasy movies

What is the point of having children if you can't force them to go to kid's movies you want to see? Ungrateful!

Beats the hell out of my sit right NEXT to some kids so people will just assume I'm with them plan. In hindsight, not very well thought out.

Most of these are giant Buddhas, and Buddha was not known for his martial arts skill. They would all be summarily executed by all the Russian women with swords.

There may just be some wiggle room between "universally known" and "obscure." Like, the majority of works in print for more than one edition probably occupy that space.

True in the past, maybe even a couple of years ago, but now? Your best bet of building up a big audience is to got for online coverage. If an appreciable fraction of a few tens of thousands (or maybe a couple of hundreds of thousands) of people see it and buy the book, then you are already doing better than many…

Awesome! I think more competition for Games Workshop is a good thing. Just because I am a corporate shill does not mean I want them to have a monopoly. To be clear, I have nothing against any of the up and coming miniature companies like PP and CMON, I just laugh when I see "GW is dead" and things like that.

He turned the last person to do that into a newt.

Toronto is where all transit solutions go to die.

The black holes are actually pretty small compared to the size scale of the galaxy. The black hole in the center of our galaxy is millions of times more massive than the sun, but it's gravitational effect is very, very weak out to any appreciable size. It's just there, and stars very near it are pulled into an orbit…

Each summer, the Ghez group uses the Keck telescope and some fancy adaptive optics to take very detailed images of the galactic center in an attempt to identify the positions of each of the stars identified in that video. They fit ellipses to each of the images in series, and then compute the orbital parameters from…

The Moomin troll and the Snufkin. Or Mumintrollet and Snusmumriken in Swedish. They go on adventures, they can talk about everything and can also enjoy long comfortable silences together.

The problem I have with the notion of "rationality" is that the standard for what is "rational" can be different depending on what one's priorities are.

When I was younger, for example, I prided myself on being more "rational" for buying a generic MP4 player when all of my other peers were jumping on the iPod…